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While there's been a lot of talk about the horrors of new health-care regulations, it's now time to stop the rhetoric and look at the opportunities for smart businesses and investors, notes Soula Stephanopoulos of Personal Finance.
Welcome to the brave new world of US health care, courtesy of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly called "Obamacare."
One of the major changes under Obamacare is that millions of lower-income Americans will qualify for Medicaid, the federal-state partnership that currently pays medical bills for the nation's most needy families.
It's estimated that up to 16 million Americans will be newly insured through Medicaid by 2016, with coverage fully paid by the federal government (states now pay roughly half). While Medicaid expansion will not officially start until January 2014, about 18 states expanded their Medicaid managed-care programs in 2012, and 20 more are expected to do so in 2013.
These millions of potential new customers represent a huge opportunity for Medicaid health maintenance organizations (HMOs). The two largest in this sector are now WellPoint (WLP) and UnitedHealth Group (UNH), each with an estimated 8% market share. Another three firms each have 3% to 4% of the market: Centene (CNC); Molina (MOH); and Wellcare (WCG).
As a group, these five account for just one-quarter of the US Medicaid managed-care market. There's lots of growth potential, as each state decides on a handful of firms to manage its growing number of Medicaid enrollees.
The catch? For at least the next year, Medicaid HMOs are in a bind, because they get paid a fixed amount for each new patient. While their revenue has already started to rise, profits are dropping even more.
However, starting in 2014, small rate increases combined with higher volume and cost controls are expected to boost profitability. In the meantime, their lackluster stock performance presents a buying opportunity.
Well Connected
Of the big five, Indianapolis-based WellPoint offers the most value. As one of the largest insurance companies in the US, serving about 33 million Americans, WellPoint owns the prestigious Blue Cross and/or Blue Shield franchises in 14 states, including California and New York. Here's a rundown.
Federal programs. In 2012, WellPoint doubled its presence in the Medicaid HMO sector by agreeing to buy competitor Amerigroup (AMG), with the closing expected this month. Amerigroup runs some of the highest-rated Medicaid HMOs in the US, and grew fivefold between 2003 and 2011.
Amerigroup will help WellPoint expand into what's likely to be a lucrative new business: the 9 million Americans covered by both Medicaid and Medicare, the federal health-care program for those over 65. These "dual-eligibles" are highly costly, estimated to account for close to 40% of Medicaid spending and 30% of Medicare. About half the states are preparing to launch special programs for dual-eligibles, and WellPoint is likely to capture some of this business.
WellPoint's CareMore subsidiary, bought in 2011, runs close to 30 Medicare Advantage clinics and has been recognized nationally for its quality care, including hospitalization rates that are 24% below average.
Private insurance. WellPoint's commercial insurance, the biggest chunk of its current business, caters to small companies (fewer than 25 employees), and it's losing subscribers to the tune of 850,000 people in 2012. However, this business might be revitalized by health-care reform.
In January 2014, all states will launch online exchanges, allowing consumers to comparison shop for health insurance. People whose income is below a certain level will be offered insurance-purchase subsidies, an option that's expected to create 16 million new customers for US insurers.
WellPoint's small-business focus and trusted Blue Cross/Blue Shield brand are likely to make it a strong competitor on the exchanges.
The fear factor. WellPoint recently confirmed it's likely to post flat near-term earnings: $7.30 to $7.40 in earnings per share (EPS) for 2012 (excluding one-time charges), and the same for 2013.
Mediocre earnings and fears of falling profitability have weighed on WellPoint shares, down some 20% from their 52-week high ($74.43). Recently trading for around eight times earnings and yielding 1.9%, they offer good value given the company's prospects.
While WellPoint might have overpaid for Amerigroup ($92 a share in cash), its finances remain strong. In fact, the company expects to return about $2 billion to shareholders in 2013, through share repurchases and dividends, leading to a potential 10% decrease in shares outstanding.
We also think WellPoint will be re-energized by a new CEO, likely to be named in the next three months. This past summer, CEO Angela Bray was forced out after a series of management snafus. A frontrunner for her job is James Carlson, now head of WellPoint's Medicaid division and former CEO of Amerigroup. WellPoint is a buy.
A more aggressive play is Long Beach, California-based Molina Healthcare (MOH), which runs mostly Medicaid HMOs in 15 states and also owns about 20 clinics.
We like Molina because many of its Medicaid HMOs are highly rated, it's somewhat vertically integrated, and it's expanding carefully. So far, it has avoided costly legal battles, such as Centene's lawsuit with the state of Kentucky.
For the first nine months of 2012, Molina lost 34 cents a share (vs. a $1.18 profit the year earlier), on a 33% rise in revenue. Medical costs ate up 90% or more of the new premium income.
But there's improvement. In Texas (now about 25% of revenue), Molina's business is up threefold in the past year, and it's about to break even thanks to a 4% rate increase in September. A rate increase is also likely in California.
Finally, Molina could be an acquisition target for larger insurers seeking Medicaid exposure. Molina Healthcare is a buy on dips below $25.
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Extended Language Support
The product of an ongoing research project into orthography, Gotham's character set includes extended variations of the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets, covering more than 200 languages worldwide.
Gotham Extended Latin
As an extension to the traditional Latin-1 character set that covers only the national languages of the largest Western European countries, fonts from H&Co include an additional character set we've developed called Latin-X, which helps reach another 200 million readers worldwide. Fonts with Latin-X cover both Western and Central Europe, as well as minority languages spoken by large populations throughout the world.
The Latin-X™ character set covers Afaan Oromo, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Aragonese, Arapaho, Arrernte, Asturian, Aymara, Basque, Bislama, Blackfoot, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Cheyenne, Cimbrian, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Dalecarlian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, Gallegan, Genoese, German, Glosa, Guarani, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hmong Daw, Hopi, Hungarian, Ibanag, Icelandic, Ilokano, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish, Irish Gaelic, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Japanese transliteration, Jèrriais, Kapampangan, Kashubian, Kiribati, Koongo, Korean transliteration, Kurdish, Ladin (Gardena), Ladin (Valle di Badia), Languedocien, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Lower Sorbian, Luxembourgeois, Macedo-Romanian, Malagasy, Malay (Latinized), Maltese, Manx, Maori, Marshallese, Megleno-Romanian, Míkmaq, Mohawk, Montenegrin (Latinized), Náhuatl, Naxi (Latinized), Norfolk/Pitcairnese, Norwegian, Nyanja, Occitan, Oromo, Pangasinan, Papiamento, Pedi, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Quechua, Romanian, Romansch, Rotokas, Rundi, Saint Lucia Creole, Inari Sami, Lule Sami, Samoan, Sardinian, Scots Gaelic, Serbian (Latinized), Seychelles Creole, Shona, Sicilian, Slovak, Slovene, Somali, Sorbian, South Ndebele, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tausug, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tongan, Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen (Latinized), Tuvalu, Upper Sorbian, Uyghur (Latinized), Veps, Volapük, Votic, Walloon, Walpiri, Welsh, Xhosa, Zhuang, and Zulu.
Gotham Greek
All Gotham packages include the modern (monotonic) Greek alphabet. Instead of imposing the structure of the Latin alphabet, Gotham's Greek characters reflect both their historical origins and the expectations of contemporary readers, and employ strategies to address the unique qualities of the Greek language itself. (Where Latin typefaces typically favor repeated forms in visually related letters such as b, d, p and q, three of the most common characters in Greek — α, ο, and σ — share easily-confused features that must be visually disambiguated.) Gotham Greek was designed by H&Co in consultation with Gerry Leonidas, Senior Lecturer in Typography at the University of Reading.
Gotham Extended Cyrillic
The number of letters in the Cyrillic alphabet depends on a reader's geographic and historic circumstances. The 45-letter alphabet developed by Byzantine missionaries in the ninth century lost eight letters to the reforms of Peter the Great, and an additional four under the Bolsheviks. While the remaining 33 letters satisfied the Russian language, the expansion of the Soviet Union brought the application of Cyrillic to unrelated language groups, including Turkic, Uralic, Tungusic, Caucasian, and Mongolic languages. New phonemes were addressed not only through the application of accent marks, but through the expansion of the alphabet itself. As a result, there are nearly as many Cyrillic localizations as there are languages: the alphabets of neighboring Russia and Ukraine differ by four letters, Bulgaria borrows thirty letters from the Russian alphabet (but draws sixteen of them differently), and the Azeri language of Azerbaijan — spoken by as many as thirty million people, and codified five different ways since 1918 — includes one letter used nowhere else in the world.
A survey into linguistic, cultural, political, economic, and technological conditions in the region, along with a review of typography created by native speakers, led to H&Co's Cyrillic-X character set, which is included standard in all Gotham packages. Consulting with H&Co on the project were two Cyrillists: Maxim Zhukov, former Typographic Coordinator to the United Nations, and Ilya Ruderman, creator of the Type & Typography program at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow.
The Cyrillic-X™ character set covers Abaza, Adyghe, Aghul, Archi, Avar, Azeri, Bashkir, Belarusian, Bosnian (Cyrillized), Bulgarian, Russia Buriat, Chechen (Cyrillized), Chuvash, Crimean Turkish, Dargwa, Dungan, Erzya, Ingush, Juhuri, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karachay-Balkar, Kazakh, Khalkha (Cyrillized), Kirghiz, Komi, Komi-Permyak, Kumyk, Lak, Lezgi, Macedonian, Hill Mari, Meadow Mari, Moksha, Moldovan (Cyrillized), Mongolian, Montenegrin (Cyrillized), Nanai, Nogai, Old Russian, Ossetian, Russian, Rusyn, Rutul, Serbian (Cyrillized), Southern Altai, Tabassaran, Tajik, Tatar (Cyrillized), Tati, Tsakhur, Tundra Yukaghir, Turkmen (Cyrillized), Tuvin, Udi, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Uyghur (Cyrillized), and Uzbek.
Cyrillic Localization
Three of the most widely-spoken languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet exhibit morphological differences in their alphabets, without which their host languages can look foreign. For Bulgarian readers who prefer greater consistency among their romans and italics, Gotham features a localization that imports a number of cursive italic constructions back into the upright roman: in applications that allow a language to be identified, Bulgarian text (tagged BGR) will use variants of the roman characters Л, Ф, в, г, д, ж, и, й, к, л, п, т, ц, ш, щ, and ю, and italic characters Л, Ф, в, д, ж, к, and ю. For Serbian and Macedonian, text tagged SRB or MKD will use variants of the character б.

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Chestnut Hill's 97th July 4th Celebration was held last Thursday at the Water Tower sponsored by the Chestnut Hill Bocce Club.
This year's events included a bike, wagon and float parade, pony rides, face painting, a moon bounce, and a petting zoo that included "Percy," an 11-month-old baby camel, and "Little Bit," a Coati Mundi.
No matter what your age, there was something for everyone.
John Cassidy, who is part comedian and part magician, performed a magic show that features a 6-foot red balloon that he climbs into to perform a card trick. Cassidy has performed at the White House and holds the Guinness World Record for balloon sculpting. Nine-year-old Owen Bols, of Oreland, didn't stand a chance of beating him in a contest to see who could blow up the most balloons. He did teach Cassidy a few tricks of his own.
Members of Chapter 590, Vietnam Veterans of America, also showed up with a "Huey" helicopter at the Chestnut Hill Bocce Club, 118 East Hartwell Lane. For some it was a chance to see a piece of history, but for others it was a reminder of the many young men – like Charles Buckley – who died fighting in the Vietnam War.


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Digital, AF/AE single-lens reflex, camera with built-in flash
Recording Media
SD/SDHC/SDXC memory cards
Image Format
Approx. 0.88 x 0.59 in. / 22.3 x 14.9mm (APS-C size)
Compatible Lenses
Canon EF and EF-S Lenses (35mm-equivalent focal length is approx. 1.6x the lens focal length)
Lens Mount
Canon EF mount
High-sensitivity, high-resolution, large single-plate CMOS sensor
Effective: Approx. 18.0 Megapixels: 5200 (H) x 3462 (V) pixels
Total Pixels
19.0 Megapixels: 5432 (H) x 3492 (V) pixels
Aspect Ratio
3:2 (Horizontal: Vertical)
Color Filter System
RGB primary color filters
Low Pass Filter
Fixed position in front of the image sensor
Dust Deletion Feature
(1) Self Cleaning Sensor Unit
· Removes dust adhering to low-pass filter.
· Self-cleaning executed automatically (taking about 2 sec.) when power is turned on or off. Manual execution also possible (taking about 6 sec.).
· Low-pass filter has a fluorine coating.
(2) Dust Delete Data acquisition and appending
· The coordinates of the dust adhering to the low-pass filter are detected by a test shot and appended to subsequent images.
· The dust coordinate data appended to the image is used by the provided software to automatically erase the dust spots.
(3) Manual cleaning
Recording Format
Design Rule for Camera File System 2.0 and EXIF 2.3
Image Format
Still Image: JPEG, RAW (14-bit Canon Original), M-RAW, S-RAW, RAW+JPEG, M-RAW+JPEG, S-RAW+JPEG
Video: MOV (Image data: H.264; Audio: Linear PCM)
File Size
1. Large/Fine: Approx. 17.90 Megapixels (5184 x 3456)
2. Medium/Fine: Approx. 8.00 Megapixels (3456 x 2304)
3. Small 1/Normal: Approx. 4.50 Megapixels (2592 x 1728)
4. Small 2/Fine: Approx. 2.50 Megapixels (1920 x 1280)
5. Small 3/Fine: Approx. 0.35 Megapixels (720 x 480)
6. RAW: Approx. 17.90 Megapixels (5184 x 3456)
7. M-RAW: Approx. 10.10 Megapixels (3888 x 2592)
8. S-RAW: Approx. 4.50 Megapixels (2592 x 1728)
Exact file sizes depend on the subject, ISO speed, Picture Style, etc.
Recording Functions
1. Card access indicator (access lamp blinking)
2. Read error warning (the respective error warning is displayed in the viewfinder and on the LCD monitor, and the shutter release locks
3. Card formatting (normal formatting and low-level formatting are possible
4. No card warning provided
Backup Recording
File Numbering
The following three types of file numbers can be set:
(1) Continuous numbering
* The continuous numbering of captured images will continue even after you replace the camera's card. (The numbering continues even when the folder changes.)
(2) Auto reset
* When you replace the camera's card, the numbering will be reset to start from 0001. If the new card already contains images, the numbering will continue from the last recorded image in the card.
(3) Manual reset
* Resets the file number to 0001, and creates a new folder automatically.
RAW + JPEG Simultaneous Recording
The image-recording quality can be selected in any combination of the three RAW and eight JPEG recording quality settings.
Color Space
Selectable between sRGB and Adobe RGB
Picture Style
Standard, Portrait, Landscape, Neutral, Faithful, Monochrome, User Defined 1-3
Auto (AWB), Daylight, Shade, Cloudy, Tungsten light, Fluorescent light, Flash*, Custom (Custom WB), Color Temperature
* Automatically adjusted by the built-in flash and EX-series Speedlite with color temperature communication feature. Set to approx. 6000K if the flash unit does not have the color temperature communication feature.
Auto White Balance
Auto white balance with the image sensor
Color Temperature Compensation
· Blue/amber bias: ±9 levels
· Magenta/green bias: ±9 levels
* Correction based on the current WB mode's color temperature.
Color Temperature Information Transmission
Eye-level pentaprism
Approx. 96% vertically and horizontally (At approx. 22mm eyepoint)
Approx. 0.95x / 27.0° (with 50mm lens at infinity, -1 m-1 (diopter))
Eye Point
Approx. 22mm (At -1m-1 from the eyepiece lens center)
Dioptric Adjustment Correction
-3.0 to +1.0m-1 (diopter)
Focusing Screen
Ef-A provided as the standard focusing screen (Interchangeable. Ef-D: Grid lines, Ef-S: Point of focus)
Quick-return half mirror (transmission: reflectance ratio of 40:60)
Viewfinder Information
· AF information
AF point, focus confirmation, AF status indicator
· Exposure information
Shutter speed, aperture, ISO speed (always displayed), AE lock, exposure level, exposure warning
· Flash information
Flash ready, flash exposure compensation, high-speed sync, FE lock, red-eye reduction light
· Image information
Highlight tone priority (D+), maximum burst (2-digit display), card information
· Battery check
· Electronic level (Horizontal only)
Depth Of Field Preview
Enabled with Depth-of-field preview button
TTL-CT-SIR AF-dedicated CMOS sensor
AF Points
All nine AF points are cross-type (center AF point with dual cross sensor for f/2.8)
AF Working Range
EV -0.5 to 18 (at 73°F/23°C and ISO 100)
Focusing Modes
(1) Autofocus
· One-Shot AF
· Predictive AI Servo AF
· AI Focus AF
(Switches between One-Shot AF and AI SERVO AF automatically)
(2) Manual focus (MF)
AF Point Selection
(1) Automatic selection
* With C.Fn III -2 to 1, the Multi-controller can be used to select the AF point directly.
(2) Manual selection
* Set automatically in Basic Zone modes.
Selected AF Point Display
Indicated by superimposed display in the viewfinder and on the LCD panel
AF Assist Beam
Intermittent firing of built-in flash:
Effective range: Approx. 13.1 ft./4m at center, approx. 11.5 ft./3.5m at periphery.
* With an EOS-dedicated Speedlite attached, the Speedlite's AF-assist beam is emitted instead.
Metering Modes
Max. aperture TTL metering with 63-zone SPC with the following selectable modes:
(1) Evaluative metering (linked to all AF points)
(2) Partial metering (center, approx. 6.5% of viewfinder)
(3) Spot metering (center, approx. 2.8% of viewfinder)
(4) Center-weighted average metering
Metering Range
EV 0 to 20 (at 73°F / 23?C with 50mm f/1.4 lens at ISO 100)
Exposure Control Systems
(1) Program AE (shiftable)
(2) Shutter-priority AE (Safety shift possible)
(3) Aperture-priority AE (Safety shift possible)
(4) Manual exposure
(5) Bulb
(6) Full Auto
(7) Flash Off
(8) Creative Auto
(9) Programmed Image Control modes
* Portrait, Landscape, Close-up, Sports, Night Portrait
(10) E-TTL II autoflash program AE
* Evaluative metering, Averaged metering
ISO Speed Range
ISO 100 - 6400 (in 1/3-stop or whole-stop increments)
· ISO 12800 can be enabled with a Custom Function.
· With [Highlight tone priority], the ISO speed range will be automatically set within 200-6400.
1. In Creative Zone modes, the maximum settable ISO speed (400-6400) will vary within the automatic ISO speed range.
2. If overexposure would occur with fill flash, ISO 100 will be the lowest set.
3. In the
and Basic Zone modes (except Night Portrait), bounce flash will be set automatically within ISO 400-1600 (or maximum ISO speed limit).
Exposure Compensation
Manual: ±5 stops in 1/3 or 1/2-stop increments
AEB: ±3 stops in 1/3 or 1/2-stop increments
* Indicated up to ±3 stops on the LCD panel and in the viewfinder.
AE Lock
(1) Auto AE lock
·In the One-Shot AF mode with evaluative metering, AE lock takes effect when focus is achieved.
(2) Manual AE lock
·With AE lock button. (AE lock is updated each time you press the button.) Enabled in all metering modes.
Vertical-travel, mechanical, focal-plane shutter with all speeds electronically-controlled
Shutter Speeds
1/8000 to 1/60 sec., X-sync at 1/250 sec.
1/8000 to 30 sec., bulb (Total shutter speed range. Available range varies by shooting mode.)
Shutter Release
Soft-touch electromagnetic release
Self Timer
10-sec. or 2-sec. Delay
Auto pop-up, retractable, built-in flash in the pentaprism
Flash Metering System
E-TTL II autoflash
Guide Number
43/13 (ISO 100, in feet/meters)
Recycling Time
Approx. 3 sec.
Flash Ready Indicator
Flash-ready icon lights in viewfinder
Flash Coverage
Up to 17mm focal length (equivalent to approx. 28mm in 135 format)
FE Lock
Flash Exposure Compensation
Up to ±3 stops in 1/3- or 1/2-stop increments
EOS Dedicated Speedlite
E-TTL II autoflash with all EX Series Speedlites
Zooming to Match Focal Length
Flash Exposure Compensation
±3 stops in 1/3- or 1/2-stop increments
FE Lock
External Flash Settings
The camera can set the following with Speedlite 600EX-RT, 580EX II, 430EX II, 320EX, 270EX II, or 270EX:
(1) External flash control
* Flash mode, sync setting, FEB (not possible with 270EX), flash exposure compensation, E-TTL II, zoom, wireless master flash (not possible with 430EX II/ 270EX), and clear settings.
(2) Flash Custom Function setting
PC Terminal
Drive Modes
Single, High-speed continuous, Low-speed continuous, Silent Single Shooting and Self-timer (10 sec. self-timer/remote control, or 2-sec. self-timer/remote control)
Continuous Shooting Speed
High-speed: Maximum approx. 5.3 shots/sec.
Low-speed: Maximum approx. 3.0 shots/sec.
Maximum Burst
JPEG (Large/Fine): approx. 58
RAW: approx. 16
RAW+JPEG (Large/Fine): approx. 7
· The number of possible shots and maximum burst apply to a 4GB SD card based on Canon's testing standards.
· The image file size, number of possible shots, and maximum burst will vary depending on the shooting conditions (aspect ratio 3:2, subject, memory card brand, ISO speed, Picture Style, etc.).
· The "F" after the number indicates that continuous shooting is possible until the card becomes full.
Shooting Modes
(1) Live View shooting
(2) Remote Live View shooting (with a personal computer installed with EOS Utility)
(1) Autofocus (One-Shot AF)
· Live mode
· One-point, contrast AF. Switching to another AF point possible.
· Face detection Live mode
· Face detection, contrast AF. Face selectable.
· Quick mode
9-point, phase-difference AF, same as normal shooting.
(2) Manual focus
* Magnify the image by 5x or 10x and focus manually.
Metering Modes
Real-time Evaluative metering with the image sensor
Metering Range
Real-time evaluative metering with image sensor:
· Metering range: EV 0 - EV 20 (At 73°F/23°C, 50mm f/1.4 lens, ISO 100)
· AE lock possible
· The active metering time can be changed.
Grid Display
Two grid displays provided
Exposure Simulation
Silent Shooting
Provided (Mode 1 and 2)
File Format
Variable (averaged) bit rate
File Size
Recording Sizes:
1920 x 1080 (Full HD), 1280 x 720 and 640 x 480
Frame Rates
[1920 x 1080]: 30 fps / 25 fps / 24 fps
[1280 x 720]: 60 fps / 50 fps
[640 x 480]: 30 fps / 25 fps
Continuous Shooting Time
[1920 x 1080]
30 fps: 22 min.
25 fps: 22 min.
24 fps: 22 min.
[1280 x 720]
60 fps: 22 min.
50 fps: 22 min.
[640 x 480]
60 fps: 46 min.
25 fps: 46 min.
· The file system limits the file size of a single movie clip to 4 GB. If the movie clip reaches 4 GB, the shooting will stop automatically. This translates to around 11 min. for 1920 x 1080 and 1280 x 720, and around 22 min. for 640 x 480 and Cropped 640 x 480.
· Even if the file size of a single movie clip is within 4 GB, movie shooting will automatically terminate when the movie time reaches 29 min. 59 sec.
Same as focusing with Live View shooting
* During movie shooting or if movie cropping has been set, the image cannot be magnified for manual focusing.
Exposure Control
(1) Program AE for movie shooting
* For shooting modes other than manual exposure and bulb.
* Shutter speed (1/30 - 1/4000 sec., signal accumulation time), aperture, and ISO speed automatically set.
(2) Manual exposure
* For manual exposure.
* Shutter speed (signal accumulation time), aperture, and ISO speed (auto/manual) manually set. The shutter speed (signal accumulation time) is limited to 1/4000 sec. at the maximum and to 1/30 sec. at the minimum for 24/25/30 fps or 1/60 sec. or higher for 50/60 fps.
Exposure Compensation
Up to ±3 stops in 1/3-stop increments
* For movies, even if exposure compensation has been set beyond ±3 stops, exposure compensation up to only ±3 stops will be applied.
* For still photos, exposure compensation up to ?5 stops can be applied.
TFT color, Vari-angle LCD monitor (3:2)
Monitor Size
Approx. 1.04 million dots
Approx. 100%
Approx. 160° vertically and horizontally
Brightness Control
Adjustable to one of seven brightness levels
Interface Languages
25 (English, German, French, Dutch, Danish, Portuguese, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Spanish, Greek, Russian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Ukraine, Turkish, Arabic, Thai, Simplified/Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese)
Display Format
Single image display (Two types of single-image full display and two types of shooting information display), Index display (4-image index and 9-image index), Jump display (1/10/100 images, shooting date, by folder, video, stills, rating), AF point display, Histogram (1. Brightness 2. RGB), Magnify zoom display (1.5x to 10x enabled in 15 steps), Rotated display (Manual, Auto) Slide Show (Image selection: Playback according to All images, Date, Folder
Movies, Stills, or Rating; Display time: 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, or 20 sec.; Repeat: Enable/Disable; Transition effect: Off, Slide in, Fade 1, Fade 2)
Highlight Alert
With single-image display (Info.) and single-image display, overexposed highlight areas will blink
Erase protection can be applied or canceled for a single image, all images in a folder or all images in the card
Erase a single image, selected images, all images in a folder, all images in a card or erase only unprotected images
Compatible Printers
PictBridge-compatible printers
Printable Images
RAW and JPEG images complying to Design rule for Camera File System
·Movies cannot be printed
Version 1.1 compatible
Compatible Images
JPEG and RAW images and movie
For RAW+JPEG, only the RAW or JPEG image or both images can be transferred
Custom Functions
20 Custom Functions settable with the camera
Camera User Settings
Current camera settings can be registered to C1, C2 and C3 on the Mode Dial (Automatic registration update is possible)
My Menu Registration
Up to six top-tier menu options and Custom Function settings can be registered
USB Terminal
For personal computer communication and direct printing (USB 2.0 Hi-Speed)
Video Out Terminal
(1) Video OUT terminal: NTSC/PAL selectable
(2) mini-HDMI OUT terminal
One Battery Pack LP-E6
AC power can be supplied with the AC Adapter Kit ACK-E6
Battery Life
1) Camera body only
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|Shooting Conditions (Approx.)
|Viewfinder Shooting
|At 73°F/ 23°C
|At 32°F/ 0°C
|Live View shooting
|At 73°F /23°C
|At 32°F/ 0°C
|Shooting Method
|Shooting Conditions (Approx.)
|Viewfinder Shooting
|LP-E6 x 1
|Same as (1)
|LP-E6 x 2
|At 73°F/ 23°C
|At 32°F/ 0°C
|Size AA/LR6 alkaline batteries
|At 73°F/ 23°C
|At 32°F/ 0°C
|Live View shooting
|LP-E6 x 1
|Same as (1)
|LP-E6 x 2
|At 73°F/ 23°C
|At 32°F/ 0°C
|Size AA/LR6 alkaline batteries
|At 73°F/ 23°C
|At 32°F/ 0°C
Battery Check
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If you call out the name "John" at any of my family's gatherings, you're likely to see more than a half dozen men turn around to respond.
"John" was my father's name, the first name of both of my grandfathers, and the name also shared by several of my uncles, cousins, and plenty of my male ancestors. The English version derives from Latin, Greek, and originally, from Hebrew (meaning "YAHWEH is gracious"–see Behind the Name).
On December 27th, the Roman Catholic church celebrates the feast day of St. John the Apostle.
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John is a popular name thanks two significant figures from the New Testament (later saints): John the Baptist, and the apostle, John.
John was the son of Zebedee and Salome, and the brother of James (also known as Saint James, the Greater). John, a fisherman, was a disciple of John the Baptist, and then a devoted follower of Jesus. He stood by Jesus at the foot of the cross, and upon hearing of Jesus' Resurrection, John was the first of the apostles to reach the tomb. Before he died, Jesus appointed John the guardian of his mother, Mary. John is also known as: "Apostle of Charity; Beloved Apostle; Beloved Disciple; John the Divine."
In addition to preaching, John is traditionally regarded as the author of the fourth Gospel, three Epistles, and possibly the Book of Revelation. Therefore, it seems only fitting that he is the patron saint of writers, editors, typesetters, bookbinders, booksellers, Asia Minor, and more. It's been noted in the Christian tradition that John was the only one of the original twelve apostles to live into old age and not be killed for his faith.
I think that it was fitting my father was named John. Although not much of a writer, Dad was a devoted son, brother, husband, father, and friend. He also had a deep faith in the Lord.
In celebrating the feast of St. John, I remember my father and other family members who were named for him.
Also, as a writer, I often turn to St. John for guidance. For example, I asked for his help so I could finish this post! 🙂


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July Unemployment Rate Down to 7.4%
Polya Lesova takes a look at today's market action, including July's unemployment report and three stocks to watch today. Photo: Getty Images.
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... the the ... welcome back ... to check on the market's reaction to today's unemployment data are just review that for you the unemployment rate ... ticked down to seven point four percent from seven point six percent ... nonfarm payrolls I came in at one hundred sixty two thousand verses expectation of a hundred eighty three thousand ... Polya Lesova for MarketWatch joins us now what do the markets think ... more than before the jobs that the U S stock futures point to slightly higher and that that's when you are taking a while ago when at last check ... Seoul the deal is a fairly new to the accident east and the stock market I so far to the date that ... appears to have a cold trading day ahead ... and it's worth remembering that yesterday just felt like it had the second baking atheists in the fat content ... and that the buyout of ... the seventeen hundreds ... for the first time ever ... I've that doll up and ... closer to record high ... um so ... I so far this morning kiss the kids are still pointing slightly upbeat and delicate eco was sound ... you know ... of fuel expectations okay let's move on to three stocks were looking at the first is ... Dell ... yes bullet and this had only Dell continues south Michael Dell and Silver Lake I'm dying to laugh ... to kneel down Another Deo Antti that meets on the basis of the swiping be surprised if after posting ... that changes to the fourteen goals as well as a special dividend ... on Sunday said the latest reports coming in this morning ... I did deals so far it isn't done yet so I go on ... a sour one pointing out the Lugosi as set out above five percent in the market dates and names like investors like ... I'll what they getting ... so far I ... aam and that it will be interesting see ... just how long it takes for all of this to be ... on ... the now famous ... ok and of course will have a lot more ... on the Dell situation ... on MoneyBeat ten thirty so come back for that jumping over or next awkward at AIG yes with a bit of a milestone yes I'm the announced last night If with capital is going to shareholders since the financial crisis since two thousand the ... so the announced a dividend as well as sell one billion dollars share buyback program ... aam and the forest AET has gone to ... ALM ... that such exits the massive transformation since two thousand and eight ... after getting back to a massive government bailout ... aam and I ... and and being back ... on my and and so now I'll receive this milestone with family decapitation to shareholders this is out ... ALM so ... I it's it's good news for investors okay last only about twenty seconds link in the eye Lincoln says juggernaut that them up ten percent the market is ... expected to sell its fifty nine percent rise in that the new Lincoln has consistently delivered stonewalling inks ... did it yesterday ... and insisted that he acted we just such monetary for their feet I recall correctly the IPO at forty five dollars the rate that Sheehan of ... Stone has canceled a play Lesova for MarketWatch thank so much for joining us from Atlanta


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The Area Service Committee is a group of recovering addicts created to provide common services for Narcotics Anonymous groups in a specific locale. ASC is composed of Group Service Representatives or GSRs (Trusted Servants of the Groups), ASC Officers (Trusted Servants of the ASC) and Subcommittee Chairpersons (Trusted Servants of the ASC). An ASC is usually part of a region, to which it sends Region Committee Members (RCMs).
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In his first chapter John the Evangelist develops an overture or prologue to his account of Jesus public ministry as well as his death and resurrection. He gives special attention to the various titles applied to Jesus, ranging from Word of God to the glorious Son of Man; taken together these titles highlight the decisive importance of Jesus. Todays selection devoted to the testimony of John the Baptist focuses on Jesus as the Lamb of God, the bearer or vehicle of the Holy Spirit and the Son of God.
John testified that Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. This imagery evokes the Old Testament rituals of sacrificing an animal to God as a way of atoning for sins and restoring right relationship with God. For early Christians the image of Jesus as the Lamb of God expressed the conviction that Jesus died for us and for our sins and made possible a right relationship. Theologians call this justification. Through the Lamb of God we can hope for forgiveness of our sins and right relationship with God.
John also testified that at the baptism the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus, and that Jesus became the primary bearer or vehicle of the Holy Spirit. This in turn qualified Jesus to baptize with both water and the Holy Spirit. In his Last Supper discourse Jesus promises to send the Holy Spirit upon the community of his followers. He calls the Holy Spirit the Paraclete, a word that combines the Spirits roles as consoler, guide and defender. Through the Spirit of Jesus we can hope for the gift of the Holy Spirit and the possibility of living in the spirit.
John testified that Jesus is the Son of God, a title that evokes the figure of the Servant of God described in Isaiah 49. There the servant has the mission to proclaim Gods saving power not for Israel alone but for all nations. As the Son of God, Jesus addressed God as his loving father. And Jesus invites us to share his own unique relationship of intimacy with God. Through the Son of God we are Gods children now. We can stand alongside Jesus and call upon God as our father too. What did John see in Jesus? What can we hope for from Jesus? Through Jesus we can hope for forgiveness of sins, right relationship with God, the guidance of the Holy Spirit and permission to approach God with confidence and even boldness as befits the spiritual brothers and sisters of Jesus. This is what Paul means when he describes Christians as sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy.


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February 23, 2018 - March 11, 2018 @ Clear Creek Community Theatre
Clear Creek Community Theatre continues its 53rd season with Neil Simon's "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" opening on February 23rd. Inspired by the playwright's youthful experience as a staff writer on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, this Neil Simon favorite depicts the harried writing staff as they frantically scramble to top each other with gags while competing for the attention of star madman Max Prince. Laughter on the 23rd Floor performances begin at CCCT on Friday February 23rd and continue through March 11th on Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM and Sundays at 2:30PM. Tickets information is available online or call 281-335-5228 for reservations.


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The four bandits you listed killed on page 15 are in fact the same two bandits. Notice how they look and have arrows in the same areas.On page 63 I count 5 Koka Cavalry killed.
I count 5 guards killed on page 193Also, Guts cut off the hands of a guard to save Puck in 197 who is last seen bleeding heavily in 198.
Page 173 is hard to tell. There appear to be more than 5 being killed, but some of the flying body parts may have been from the first swing. The Spearman missing a portion of his face may count as 6.
Vol. 4Guts kills a mercenary on pg 21
Vol. 7Guts kills 2 mercenaries on page 47
kills 3 on pg 55
I'm really starting to wonder... should the bees in Lost Children count?
And shouldn't the sceletons count as well? (The ones Guts "killed" after cleaving Colette)
YES! If you don't count them you can't count any Apostle spawn, and even Apostles come into question at that point. What, are you wussing out?
You can't kill what's already dead. Guts just destroys the bodies that the ghosts possess.
Doesn't that apply for Colette too?
That includes Ghosts, Possessions (skeleton, snowmen, etc.), Apostles, Succubi, Ogre etc. It's the only way this list will be complete. Miura included other species and types of life, I should respect both his and Guts time in this whole series. Time to recount!
Can you technically "kill" the ghosts?
This is the best...idea...ever. But man is it going to take a while if you're now including everything Guts has destroyed "on-screen." Should make for a fun read.
Just thought I'd mention this one, since it's pretty easy to overlook IMHO.
Don't worry, I'm watching out for animals.
Argh... fine fine. Hey Knight o' Skeleton, got some free time?
Sure do. Also why were the assassins that were holding Foss's daughter captive counted (since we don't actually see Guts kill them, they just appear dead in the next frame)
Well, we've always counted those. "If, in the next panel, there are a display of bodies, each one with blood, or an identifyable injury, count." Anyway, the rules have changed a bit to be more flexible. Now, anything Guts was responsible for killing goes in.
Well, I'm doing the Lost Children chapter right now and it's a fucking holocaust. Guts easily kills over a hundred kids alone in this arc!And then he kills their ghosts. =)


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The pornography premise for 'Middle Men' will be a main attraction for many male moviegoers who enjoy a good dose of sex plot to their movies with a touch of humor. It chronicles the rise and fall of three entrepreneurs who create the first legitimate porn website.
The film is "inspired by a true story" and that tagline held my interest throughout most of the 1hr and 45 minute duration. Part of my interest stems from its dramatic and almost absurd incidents about ludicrous business decisions that took place with copious amount of sex and drugs passed around. The acting by the cast was very good, in particular, Luke Wilson, who showed a dramatic presence absent from his previous roles. Giovanny Ribisi, delivered an interesting character, but I felt a bit over the top.
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In August of 2008, thanks to the hard work and dedication of many individuals and organizations, Mayor Coleman's vision was finally achieved as Bridges to Safety celebrated its grand opening.
Bridges to Safety is a new comprehensive, centrally-located domestic abuse service center in the City of Saint Paul that offers victims, including children, access to protection, culturally relevant services and support from the criminal and civil justice system, advocacy, legal aid and social service providers. Through Bridges to Safety, victims experience respect, safety, and security, and perpetrators are held accountable for their actions to the highest degree possible. This center connects and leverages the myriad of services available for adult and child victims of domestic violence, increases provider capacity, and closes existing gaps in service.
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Bone broth is a staple of my family's diet. As with healthy fats, heirloom vegetables, grass-fed meats and a good old-fashioned cod liver oil, we consume a lot of bone broths – usually aiming for one quart per person per day, at the recommendation of our nutritionist. Broth, you see, is a nutritional powerhouse. It is extraordinarily rich in easy-to-assimilate minerals, amino acids and goodies like glucosamine chondroitin. Its gelatin helps to heal the gut, which is why it plays such an integral role in the GAPS diet, and it provides powerful medicine – particularly in combating colds and flus.
And, you did read that right: we do aim for one quart per adult per day (the little one of the household gets at least a pint). That's a lot of broth. Let me do the math for you. That's between two and three quarts per day, averaging to about four and a half gallons of broth each week for our family. Yes, as you might imagine, soups and stews are a big part of our day, more so in the winter than in the summer. When I serve breakfast, I serve it with a mug of broth and another mug of broth sits at my desk as I work.
It's a beautiful thing, really, and I credit good broth, cod liver oil and of fermented foods with the resilient immunity my family enjoys each flu season. We also use these unconventional techniques to fight the flu and build immunity.
So how do we make enough broth?
So if you're wondering just how I manage working at home full time, homeschooling our 6-year old with making four and a half gallons of bone broth each week, I'll tell you. I slow cook it. I call it perpetual soup. You see, my six-quart slowcooker (kinda like this one) is my cauldron. That is, it is always on – bubbling away and ready to nourish my family with the bounty of the bones that stew away every hours of every day.
Once a week, I place the frame of a roast chicken into the slow cooker, cover it with filtered water (We use a Berkey to filter our water, and you can find them online.), toss in a few bay leaves, black peppercorns and vegetable scraps, turn it on and call it good. As I pull broth from the slow cooker, I filter it through a reusable coffee filter which helps to strain out any floating herbs, chicken skin or pieces of bone and results in a beautiful clear broth. As I remove broth, I add water and continue the process throughout the week – ensuring that by the end of the week every bit of goodness has been pulled from that chicken frame.
And, in case you're worried about the cost of keeping your slow cooker on twenty-four hours a day, every day of the week, the estimated cost of running your slow cooker is about $0.01 to $0.03 per hour – for a total cost of $1.68 to $5.04 for the week. Undoubtedly worth it. Learn more about energy-wise cooking here.
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- After twenty-four hours, you may begin using the broth. As you need broth or stock, simply dip a ladle or measuring cup into the slow cooker to remove the amount of stock you need. Pour it through a fine-mesh sieve or, preferably, a reusable coffee filter which will help to clarify the broth. Replace the broth you remove from the slow cooker with an equivalent amount of filtered water. If you're using a whole, fresh chicken, you may also remove chicken meat from the slow cooker as desired for stir-fries, in soups or in
- At the end of the week, strain off any remaining broth and discard or compost the bones. The bones from your chicken should crumble when pressed between your thumb and forefinger. Their softness is an indication that much of the nourishment from the bones – minerals, amino acids – have leached from the bones and into the broth you've enjoyed all week long. Wash the insert of your slow cooker and start again.


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The Malicious Hacker's Ever-Sharper Eye
May 7, 2012 6:00 AM PT
Targeted attacks on organizations and Web-born infections like the recent Flashback outbreak on Macintosh computers will continue to poison the security landscape in 2012, according to John Harrison, Symantec group product manager for endpoint threat protection and security technology and response.
Targeted attacks -- attacks aimed at specific individuals within an organization -- were a "rising tide" last year, averaging 94 a day by November, according to Symantec's annual Internet Security Threat Report for 2011, released last week. And that will continue in 2012, Harrison said.
A target growing in popularity among denizens of the cyber underworld are human resources departments, he noted.
"The education that we give end users is don't open attachments from someone you don't know," he told TechNewsWorld. "But people in HR or recruiting for a company, their job is to process every resume that comes in and to process those attachments."
Web attacks will also continue to be a key vector for hackers and malware authors, he added, "because it works.
"Many enterprises, organizations and consumers are not protected against some of the basic vulnerabilities that these toolkits exploit," he explained.
Attacks on Macs will also grow in 2012, he added.
"Whatever platform, if it becomes popular, the bad guys will target it and monetize it," he said.
All Ages Concerned With Facebook Privacy
Facebook members -- regardless of age -- are concerned about privacy, according to a survey released last week by cybersecurity software maker Webroot.
The survey of more than 1,600 adults worldwide revealed that more than 87 percent of them were "somewhat" or "very" concerned about the privacy of information they posted to their Facebook profiles.
That level of concern appears to cross age categories. For 18-29 year olds, 90.3 percent were somewhat or very concerned about privacy; 30-39 year olds, 90.6 percent; 40-49 year olds, 86.5 percent; and 60-plus year olds, 85.8 percent.
"A lot of people say, the younger generation doesn't care at all about privacy, and they do just what they want, and the older is more concerned, but that didn't seem to be the case with these numbers," Webroot Chief Information Security Officer Jacques Erasmus told TechNewsWord.
Pollsters also found that the respondents were less concerned about the privacy of information they stored in their Google accounts, with more than 82.5 percent saying they were somewhat or very concerned about privacy there.
New Biometric Protocol
A new protocol makes it easier for biometric devices -- fingerprint readers, iris scanners and facial recognition devices -- to communicate with computers, tablets and smartphones.
The protocol, developed by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is called "WS-Biometric Devices" (WS-BD), and it uses a common Internet technology to add a device-independent layer in the protocol used for communication between the biometric devices and other devices.
The web services technology used by the new protocol is similar to what's used to stream video from the Net to devices like smartphones and tablets.
For organizations that use biometric systems to accomplish their missions or for authentication, identification and other security purposes, the protocol can greatly simplify setting up their biometric systems.
That's because the protocol will make it easier to build a system with interoperable components and avoid systems with proprietary device-specific drivers and cables.
Breach Diary
- May 1: A group calling itself "The Unkowns" posted to the Internet information it claims it gathered from NASA, the U.S. military, the European Space Agency, the Thai Royal Navy, Harvard, Renault Company, the French Ministry of Defense, the Bahrain Ministry of Defense and the Jordanian Yellow Pages.
- May 2: ICANN revealed that a glitch in its TLD Application system created 455 instances where a file name and its associated user name may have been viewed by another applicant in the system. The agency is in the process of notifying applicants who may be affected by the flaw.
- May 3: Belgian credit provider Elantis acknowledged that information on 3,700 customers may have been compromised by hackers who are demanding $197,000 for not posting the information to the Internet.
- May 3: The Wall Street Journal reported that as many as 7 million credit card accounts are now being considered vulnerable due to a breach at Global Payments which was made public in March.
- May 4: British military's head of cyber security Jonathan Shaw acknowledged that cybercriminals have hacked into Ministry of Defense's top secret computer systems and that some of the attacks had gone undetected.
- May 8: Patch Tuesday. Microsoft will issue three critical and five important bulletins which will address 23 security vulnerabilities in Office, Windows, .Net Framework and Silverlight.
- May 11: Spring Into IT. 8 a.m. - 1 p.m., ET. Ann Arbor, Mich. Sponsored by Online Tech. Presentations will focus on data security and compliance.
- May 14-16: FS-ISAC & BITS Annual Summit. Turnberry Isle Resort and Club, Miami, Fla. Sponsored by Financial Services-Information & Analysis Center. US$1250-$1750. Registration deadline April 20.
- May 23: Code Red to Zbot: 10 Years of Tech, Researchers and Threat Evolution. Webcast. 2 p.m., ET. Sponsored by RSA.
- June 29: Third Suits and Spooks Anti-conference. Bel Air Bay Club, Palisades, Calif. Sponsored by Taia Global and Pacific Council on International Policy.


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5.0 Mustang & Super FordsEvents
NMRA Maryland - Fast Track
The stars of the NMRA were flying on one of the East Coast's quickest racing surfaces
Maryland is a hotbed for drag racing. We've been to enough test-n-tune sessions at Maryland tracks to know there must not be a whole lot else to do in Maryland but drag race, eat crab cakes, and watch football. All that sounds really good, and evidently it sounded great to the NMRA as well.
The NMRA's parent company, Promedia, had an NMCA event at MIR in 2012, and the group obviously liked what it saw—in 2013 the NMRA added an event at the hallowed track. We've been to MIR a few other times for different Mustang events, and couldn't wait to come to town the same time as the NMRA crowd.
Further amping up the MIR event, the NMRA decided the event would be perfect to hold an SVT Anniversary celebration, including the VMP Tuning GT500/Terminator shootout. The MIR show field was full of SVT vehicles, while the shootout competitors battled it out on the track for SVT supremacy.
We enjoyed it all, and what follows are some of the highlights.
Renegade racer Valerie Clements is a quick learner. While brother Alton was out unsuccessfully skateboarding for chicks at MIR with Brent Weston, Valerie was putting the boys on the trailer. For the rained-out Atlanta final, she beat AJ Wyce. Moving onto the MIR event, she qualified Third with an 8.41 at 163 mph, and once again had to face older brother Alton in Round 1. In 2012, this match-up meant Valerie was on the trailer, but she has turned the tables in her favor these days. After trailering big brother, she took out Tim Matherly even though Tim knocked her over the head with the Tree. Her 8.36 was too much for Tim to overcome. Unfortunately, since you're reading about her here, you know at some point she lost, and at Maryland it was Brian Mitchell who did the deed in the semi-final round.
This is something you don't see too often—a Fox Mustang on VMP Tuning's mobile Dynojet. VMP's expertise is in the Shelby GT500 and '11-'13 Mustang GT market. VMP's Justin Starkey was a busy man at MIR, and Dez Racing's Mike Dezotell stepped in to help get the Fox running the way it should. Justin hauled the mobile Dynojet to MIR from his hometown Deltona, Florida.
Being a photographer at Maryland International Raceway means keeping your head on a swivel to look out for MIR's Jason Miller. The man's a track-prepping machine on the tractor—we're sure if anyone on the planet could drift a tractor, it's Jason. The event ran smooth in part to the efforts of Jason and the MIR track staff.
If there's anyone that can make working on a racecar resemble kickin' back on the couch, Tim Matherly is that guy. Here you see Tim with his feet kicked up on the trailer while working on his Renegade car. Tim's been first-round fodder since he's made the step up to Renegade from now-defunct Real Street, but at MIR an 8.49/162-mph hit against Jim Breese shows Tim is making progress. Tim runs a Four-Valve with a ProCharger supercharger and a Liberty transmission in the tunnel. As you know, Valerie Clements beat Tim to the stripe at MIR to end his weekend.
It's been a bit since we saw Jim Coger at the track. The Massachusetts school teacher stepped his former Real Street coupe into the NMRA's Renegade class, but we're sure he wished for better luck. He was in the thick of things with an 8.46 qualifying time, but he also grenaded a transmission in the process. Jason Gatlin from ATF helped get Jim back in the game, with help from Mike Dez and the gang and a mystery converter from John Urist. Jim, Mike, and the crew weren't totally sure what the car was going to do in Round 1 of eliminations, but the attempt was over before it started when the car pushed through the lights.
Street Outlaw
Thankfully, the revamped Street Outlaw class flourished under the new rules implemented for 2013. One thing that hasn't changed is John Urist—he's still at the top of his game. Switching back to a turbo for the 2013 season, John found there was a short learning curve to get back in the groove, but at MIR he showed why he has 97 NMRA championships. OK, so that's a slight exaggeration, but it seems he has that many. He qualified at the top of Street Outlaw with a 7.154, but he had to rely on quick reaction times to get the event win. John's slowest reaction time during eliminations was a 0.434 light, which was in the final against Phil Hines. Both in the semis and the final round, John used holeshots to outrun his opponents and get the win.
Phil Hines is having quite a year. He was able to eclipse the 6-second zone earlier in the year, and he got the event win at the NMRA Bradenton opener. At MIR, his ProCharger-motivated machine looked to be on a mission. He qualified right on the heels of John Urist with a 7.156. He was the model of consistency in eliminations, running a 7.14 in Round 1, a 7.15 in the semis, and a 7.12 in the final against John Urist. However, it wasn't enough—John had gotten the jump, and Phil ran out of pavement to get the win.
Brian Mitchell has his '13 program working really well. Earlier in the year, he struggled with e.t.'s, but it seems he's found his Renegade car's sweet spot. As has been the case the past couple years, Brian is again the one to beat. He's got a tenth on the field at almost every event, and at MIR it was more of the same. The only other car in the neighborhood is one Brian helps out on—Adam Arndt's Fox racer. True to form, Brian and Adam were the last ones racin' on Sunday. If we have learned anything since following the NMRA, it's that Brian Mitchell is one of the most consistent racers in its history. That consistency led to the win when he was able to show Adam the student has much to learn before beating the teacher.
Having missed a couple races due to body, chassis, and cage overhauls, Renegade racer Adam Arndt was ready to put his '88 GT in the thick of things. That's exactly what he did, too. He qualified right behind Brian Mitchell with an 8.36 at 162 mph, but he wasn't able to duplicate that performance, especially when it mattered in the final against Brian. Adam runs a HD Performance-built, 310ci small-block with a Vortech YSi-Trim supercharger. Adam tunes the car with a lot of help from the guy he met in the final, Brian Mitchell.
Coyote Stock
It was a really good weekend for Coyote Stock racer Shiftin' Shane Stymiest. First off, he won the rained-out Atlanta race against Jacob Lamb, and in the process, qualified at the top of the list with a mind-bending 10.38 at 127 mph. Shane's 0.38 was the talk of Coyote Stock qualifying, leaving his fellow racers scratching their heads. With night qualifying at MIR, Shane looked like he best took advantage of the cool air. He came back to the pack with consistent high-10.40s/low-10.50s on Sunday, which was good enough for him to take the win to garner two event wins in the same weekend.
No one had a better weekend than Shiftin' Shane Stymiest, but Jacob Lamb's wasn't too bad either. He runner-upped to Shane for the rained-out Atlanta race, and again played second fiddle to Shane. It's not lack of trying on Jacob's part, that's for sure. He's right there on the cusp of victory, but so far this season, victory is just outside his grasp. Jacob tried new stuff all year. He switched transmissions in the off-season, and even experimented with smaller rear wheels and slicks to reduce rolling resistance and rotating mass. The smaller rear wheels and slicks didn't offer any gains, but the other changes have shown incremental improvements. He hasn't tasted victory yet in 2013, but after three races, Jacob's been to two final rounds.
Factory Stock
Matt Amrine's ritual is to make a pass, come back to the pits, do a little routine maintenance, ice the engine down with his custom cooler setup, and look over data with crew chief Brandon Alsept. Then it's time to kick back and prepare for the next round. Maybe in between he'll catch a few bites made by his wife, Danielle, and hang with her, Brandon, and Brian Campbell. Then he, Brandon, and Brian go over the plan for the next qualifying pass, or elimination round, then it's all up to Matt once he's buckled in. Matt was still in the hunt for the rained-out Atlanta race, but John Leslie Jr. was able to get past him in the semi-final round for that event. However, Matt was able to exact a little revenge in the final for the MIR race, getting the win.
Being at the track is like a family reunion for John Leslie Jr. You can pretty much find his whole family at every NMRA race. Bad thing is, sister Sondra also races in Factory Stock, and just like Alton and Valerie Clements in Renegade, they have to race each other pretty much every race. At MIR, that was again the case. After John won the rained-out Atlanta race, he had to face Sondra in Round 1. Since John was in the Maryland groove, he was able to move past Sondra and back into a rematch against Matt Amrine in the final. Unfortunately for John, he was unable to duplicate his previous times, handing the event win to Matt.
GT500/Terminator Shootout
If you want an 8-second Terminator, Harold Horton has done all the work for you. His simple recipe is a stock long-block, a Whipple 4.0-liter supercharger, 27 pounds of boost, a Frank Lupo Proformance C4, a Team Z Motorsports 9-inch rear, Strange Engineering shocks and struts, a Wolfe Racecraft anti-rollbar, Mickey Thompson ET Drag slicks (Stiff sidewall), and E85. That simplicity works out to consistent 8.70s and a win in the VMP Tuning GT500/Terminator shootout at MIR. Joe Cool of JWC Performance did a lot of the work on the car, while Dave Guy handled the tuning. Sean Wiley of Frank Lupo's Dynamic Converters did the transmission, and, of course, Dave Zimmerman is the main man at Team Z Motorsports.
Modular Muscle
Donnie Bowles is another racer able to double-up by winning both the rained-out Atlanta final and the MIR event. Final-round opponent and fellow Roush racer Susan McClenaghan would rather not see Donnie in the other lane anytime soon. Donnie bested Susan at the Atlanta race, and again in the final at MIR with a poor-attempt-at-a-redlight 0.004 reaction time. Susan had to stay in the gas to chase him down and broke out in the process. Donnie was right on his number, anyway, so he wasn't going to be denied at MIR.
Super Stang
Our boy Pete Espeut was a busy man at MIR. He was the only person to sign up for the SVT Bracket showdown, racing his '95 Cobra R to victory since no one else showed up. "I'll take it any way I can get it," Pete says. He wasn't done, though. Since Pete has about 12 Mustangs, he brought his '10 Shelby GT500 to race in Super 'Stang. Running a 10.60 index, Pete did his work at the Tree when it counted, getting the win.
Open Comp
Randy Conway has one of the more sinister-looking Mustangs in the NMRA. With blacked-out headlights, exhaust out the front fender extensions, and a mini-tubbed rear full of tire, his '89 coupe looks like it's in a bad mood. In Open Comp, Randy put in work at MIR only for Tony Murray to hand him the win in the final with a redlight. Randy also raced Truck and Lightning, but didn't fare as well as he did in Open Comp.
Truck and Lightning
In Truck and Lightning, it's really easy to tell who wins when Johnny Lightning is matched up with someone. If Johnny wins, the victorious screams of his wife, Sue, tell the story. At MIR, Sue was holding her breath just before Johnny crossed the line against Jimmy Cantrell and his big-inch-Windsor Ranger in the final, but she didn't know Jimmy strapped a 0.501 reaction time on her husband, which was too much for Johnny to overcome.
Horse Sense: Since the Atlanta NMRA event was rained out when many of the classes were down to either semi-finals or final round, those match-ups were decided during qualifying rounds at MIR, except for the Street Outlaw class, which was decided July 12-14 at the NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street Legal Drag Racing in Joliet, Illinois.


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Kendrick's HR in 11th lifts Angels over Rangers
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Howie Kendrick hit his second home run of the game in the 11th inning and finished with four RBIs, leading the Los Angeles Angels to a 5-4 victory over the Texas Rangers on Tuesday night.
Kendrick, who hit a two-run shot in the sixth off Alexi Ogando and an RBI single in the first, drove a 1-1 pitch to left-center against rookie Joe Ortiz (2-1) for his third homer of the season.
Dane De La Rosa (1-0) pitched two perfect innings for his first major league win.
The Rangers tied it 4-all in the eighth with an unearned run against Scott Downs, following a couple of costly errors by the Angels — one physical and one mental.
Andrew Romaine, who replaced Brendan Harris at shortstop to start the inning, allowed Nelson Cruz's grounder to skip between his legs for an error after Adrian Beltre's leadoff single. That put runners at the corners for A.J. Pierzynski, who hit a routine grounder to first base.
Mark Trumbo saw Beltre break for the plate and immediately threw to catcher Chris Iannetta without looking the runner back to third, and Beltre alertly stayed put.
With the bases loaded, David Murphy grounded into a double play as Beltre scored the tying run. Downs minimized the damage by striking out Mitch Moreland after an intentional walk to Craig Gentry.
The Rangers had a runner at third with two outs in the ninth against Ernesto Frieri, but left fielder Mike Trout robbed Beltre of an extra-base hit with a full-out diving catch on the warning track.
The Angels had a golden opportunity to win it in the 10th with the bases loaded and one out, but Beltre turned Albert Pujols' grounder to third into a force at the plate and Josh Hamilton grounded out to second.
Jason Vargas, winless in four starts for the Angels, allowed three runs and seven hits over seven innings. The left-hander, working on six days' rest after giving up five runs in each of his previous two outings, pitched with runners on base in each of the first six innings and gave up a three-run homer by Cruz in the sixth after getting staked to a 4-0 lead.
Ogando allowed four runs — two earned — and six hits in seven-plus innings.
The Angels took the lead in the first with two-out RBI singles by Trumbo and Kendrick. It could have been worse for Ogando had it not been for a sensational catch by left fielder Jeff Baker, who raced full speed toward the corner on Hamilton's slicing drive and caught the ball as he slid across the foul line. But he bruised his left knee crashing into the short wall fronting the grandstand, and was replaced by Murphy.
Kendrick made it 4-0 in the fourth with his first home run since a solo shot against Cincinnati's Mat Latos in the second game of the season. Kendrick drove a 1-0 pitch to center field beyond a leaping Gentry, after a double to the alley by Trumbo that right fielder Cruz just missed catching on a diving attempt.
Elvis Andrus led off the Rangers' sixth with a single, Lance Berkman walked and both runners advanced on a groundout before Cruz drove Vargas' 3-2 pitch to left-center for his 23rd career homer against the Angels. It was only the second by the Rangers against a left-handed pitcher this season, along with Baker's solo shot off Seattle's Joe Saunders last Friday.
NOTES: Baker, who has played four positions this season, made his second start in left. When Murphy took over for him, Texas' batting order had three players who were a combined 4 for 51 against Vargas entering Tuesday — Murphy (1 for 19), Beltre (2 for 21) and Moreland (1 for 11). … LHP Charlie Leesman, claimed by the Rangers on release waivers Friday from the White Sox, declined the assignment to become a free agent. He had five days to make the decision. … The Rangers, who won Friday's series opener 7-6 on a ninth-inning homer by Pierzynski, are the only team that has yet to lose consecutive games. They will attempt to extend that distinction against Jerome Williams in Wednesday's series finale.


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Oxybutynin Chloride Gel In Packet
COMMON BRAND(S): Gelnique
GENERIC NAME(S): Oxybutynin Chloride
This medication is used to treat an overactive bladder. Oxybutynin improves your ability to control your urination by relaxing the muscles in the bladder. It helps to reduce leaking of urine, feelings of needing to urinate right away, and frequent trips to the bathroom. This medication belongs to the class of drugs known as antispasmodics.
How to use Oxybutynin Chloride Gel In Packet
Read the Patient Information Leaflet provided by your pharmacist before you start using oxybutynin and each time you get a refill. If you have any questions regarding the information, consult your doctor or pharmacist.
Wash your hands and the area of skin where the gel will be applied with a mild soap and water. Allow the area to dry completely before applying.
Apply the gel from 1 packet (about the size of a nickel) as directed to an area of skin on the shoulders/upper arms, abdomen, or thigh usually once daily or as directed by your doctor. Do not apply the gel to open sores, areas with a rash, recently shaved, irritated, or oily skin, or to where lotions or powders have been applied. Gently rub into your skin until it dries. Do not continue rubbing after the gel has dried. This medication may be used before or after applying sunscreen.
Oxybutynin gel is for use on the skin only. Avoid getting the gel in the eyes, nose, or mouth. Wash your hands with soap and water after applying this medication. If the gel gets in your eyes, rinse your eyes right away with warm, clean water. Discard the used packet safely away from children and pets.
Apply the gel to a different area of skin with each dose. This will decrease skin reactions.
Allow this medication to dry completely on the skin before getting dressed. Cover the area to prevent spreading the medication through skin contact. If contact occurs, immediately wash the area with soap and water. After applying the gel, wait 1 hour before exercising, bathing, showering, swimming, or getting the application area wet to make sure all the drug is absorbed. This medication contains alcohol. Avoid smoking and open flame until the gel has dried.
Use this medication regularly in order to get the most benefit from it. To help you remember, use it at the same time each day.
Tell your doctor if your condition persists or worsens.
Side Effects
Skin redness/itching/swelling at the application site, dry mouth, constipation, dizziness, drowsiness, or blurred vision may occur. If any of these effects last or get worse, tell your doctor or pharmacist promptly.
To relieve dry mouth, suck on (sugarless) hard candy or ice chips, chew (sugarless) gum, drink water or use a saliva substitute.
To prevent constipation, maintain a diet adequate in fiber, drink plenty of water, and exercise. If you become constipated, consult your pharmacist for help in choosing a laxative (such as a stimulant-type with stool softener).
Remember that your doctor has prescribed this medication because he or she has judged that the benefit to you is greater than the risk of side effects. Many people using this medication do not have serious side effects.
Tell your doctor right away if you have any serious side effects, including: difficulty urinating, signs of kidney infection (such as burning/painful/frequent urination, lower back pain), mental/mood changes (such as confusion, hallucinations), signs of stomach/intestinal blockage (such as severe stomach pain, persistent nausea/vomiting, severe constipation).
A very serious allergic reaction to this drug is rare. However, get medical help right away if you notice any symptoms of a serious allergic reaction, including: rash, itching/swelling (especially of the face/tongue/throat), severe dizziness, trouble breathing.
This is not a complete list of possible side effects. If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist.
In the US -
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or at www.fda.gov/medwatch.
In Canada - Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to Health Canada at 1-866-234-2345.
Before using oxybutynin, tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are allergic to it; or if you have any other allergies. This product may contain inactive ingredients, which can cause allergic reactions or other problems. Talk to your pharmacist for more details.
Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist your medical history, especially of: blockage/slowed movement of the stomach/intestines (such as severe constipation, gastric retention, paralytic ileus), stomach/intestinal disease (such as acid reflux, hiatal hernia, ulcerative colitis), problems emptying your bladder (such as urinary retention, obstruction, enlarged prostate), certain eye problem (glaucoma), liver disease, kidney disease, certain muscle disease (myasthenia gravis), Parkinson's disease, a certain nervous system disorder (autonomic neuropathy).
This drug may make you dizzy or drowsy or blur your vision. Alcohol or marijuana can make you more dizzy or drowsy. Do not drive, use machinery, or do anything that needs alertness or clear vision until you can do it safely. Limit alcoholic beverages. Talk to your doctor if you are using marijuana.
Before having surgery, tell your doctor or dentist about all the products you use (including prescription drugs, nonprescription drugs, and herbal products).
This medication can cause decreased sweating. Avoid becoming overheated in hot weather, saunas, or during exercise or other strenuous activities since heatstroke may occur.
Older adults may be more sensitive to the side effects of this drug, especially drowsiness, confusion, constipation, trouble urinating. Drowsiness and confusion can increase the risk of falling.
During pregnancy, this medication should be used only when clearly needed. Discuss the risks and benefits with your doctor.
It is unknown if this drug passes into breast milk. Consult your doctor before breast-feeding.
Drug interactions may change how your medications work or increase your risk for serious side effects. This document does not contain all possible drug interactions. Keep a list of all the products you use (including prescription/nonprescription drugs and herbal products) and share it with your doctor and pharmacist. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicines without your doctor's approval.
Some products that may interact with this drug include: pramlintide, drugs that can irritate the esophagus/stomach (such as potassium tablets/capsules, oral bisphosphonates including alendronate, etidronate), drugs that can cause dry mouth and constipation (including anticholinergic medications such as atropine/scopolamine, antihistamines such as diphenhydramine, other antispasmodics including dicyclomine, belladonna alkaloids)..
Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you also take drugs that cause drowsiness such as: certain antihistamines (such as diphenhydramine), anti-anxiety drugs (such as diazepam), anti-seizure drugs (such as phenobarbital), medicine for sleep (such as zolpidem), muscle relaxants, narcotic pain relievers (such as codeine), psychiatric medicines (including phenothiazines such as chlorpromazine or tricyclics such as amitriptyline).
Check the labels on all your medicines (such as allergy, cough-and-cold products) because they may contain ingredients that can cause drowsiness, constipation or blurred vision. Ask your pharmacist about the safe use of those products.
This medicine may be harmful if swallowed. If someone has overdosed and has serious symptoms such as passing out or trouble breathing, call 911. Otherwise, call a poison control center right away. US residents can call their local poison control center at 1-800-222-1222. Canada residents can call a provincial poison control center. Symptoms of overdose may include unusual excitement, agitation, fast/irregular heartbeat, hot/flushed skin, fever.
Do not share this medication with others.
Missed Dose
If you miss a dose, use it as soon as you remember. If it is near the time of the next dose, skip the missed dose and resume your usual dosing schedule. Do not double the dose to catch up.
Store at room temperature away from light and moisture. Do not store in the bathroom or near an open flame. This medication is flammable. Avoid smoking and open flame until the gel has dried. Keep all medications away from children and pets, and throw out used gel packets in a secure trash can. Do not save opened packets for later use.
Do not flush medications down the toilet or pour them into a drain unless instructed to do so. Properly discard this product when it is expired or no longer needed. Consult your pharmacist or local waste disposal company.Information last revised July 2017. Copyright(c) 2017 First Databank, Inc.
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CorelDraw Graphics Suite X6 126.96.36.1997 by Krokoz (2013/English)
CorelDraw Graphics Suite X6 126.96.36.1997 by Krokoz (2013/English) | 1.03GB
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 a new graphics package that allows you to confidently move forward any graphic project. Sharp tools, the best on the market compatible files and updated content to help bring creative ideas into professional results, from the colorful logos and signs to the extraordinary marketing materials and attractive web graphics. It consists of vector graphics CorelDRAW X6, raster graphics editor PHOTO PAINT X6, a program for transforming raster images into vector Corel PowerTRACE X6, a program for creating screenshots Corel CAPTURE X6, as well as e book to work with the package CorelDRAW Handbook. This package combines the full range of excellent design capabilities, speed and ease of use.
Additional Information:
The package provides a complete set of tools for creating illustrations, logos, brochures, newsletters, advertisements, booklets and publicity boards and is the best graphics solution. This software package is perfect for creating new trends in the fashion industry and the development of designer clothes. Create intricate designs and distribute them over the image field will help you a powerful arsenal of tools. CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO PAINT significantly expanded its capabilities over previous versions, and analogs of the software industry.
To install and activate:
To install the package CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 is required in the system established by Microsoft
. NET Framework 3.5, 4.0.
In cases of absence. NET Framework 3.5, 4.0 in the system at the beginning of the installation will be offered to their installation.
Installation requires an internet connection. In cases of refusal to install. NET Framework 3.5, 4.0,
installation of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is released.
Note: I recommend pre yourself download and install packages
Microsoft. NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) (full package)
Microsoft. NET Framework 4 (standalone installer)
Insert the recorded disc into the drive, or download an image to a virtual drive.
Installation will begin automatically. If Autorun is disabled, manually run the Setup.exe file in the root directory.
Run the crack (keygen.exe file in the folder _CORE) and do not close it until okonaniya installation and activation!
Follow the steps sequentially, as shown below: Next, choose your option to install After installation, launch CorelDRAW and opened the window, choose Other Activation Options
The basis of the assembly taken the original English version of the distributions:
The installation begins immediately, without first unpack the distribution on the disk C.
No additional free space on drive C to unpack.
You do not need extra time to decompress.
After the installation is still not the desired folder is empty, which was preliminary unpacking, ie does not remain an extra garbage.
32 bit version:
SHA 1: 7ED225CFD0791E657152D3AB97787992B9AF2043 64 bit version:
System requirement
Windows 7 / Vista / XP
Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon 64 or AMD Opteron
512 MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
1.5 GB hard disk space
Screen resolution of 1024 x 768 (768 x 1024 on a Tablet PC)
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