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NSA: Anatoly S. Chernyaev Diary, 1973 – Brezhnev Elevated Detente over Class Struggle — to the Dismay of his Politburo Colleagues
25 May 2013 — National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 430
Soviet Internal Politics and Decision Making from Anatoly Chernyaev's "Remarkable Diary"
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Washington, D.C., May 25, 2013 — Today the National Security Archive is publishing — for the first time in English — excerpts from the diary of Anatoly S. Chernyaev from 1973, along with edits and a postscript by the author.
As in the previous installment of the diary, for 1972, Chernyaev, deputy head of the International Department of the Central Committee (and later a key foreign policy aide to Mikhail Gorbachev), continues to marvel at the contradictory and enigmatic person at the pinnacle of the Soviet leadership — General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. On the one hand, Chernyaev is sharply critical of Brezhnev's primitive pompousness, his inability to express himself, and his ossified ideological dogmas. On the other hand, in one instance after another, Brezhnev shows himself as a real champion of peace and detente with the West; a man capable of dispassionate realpolitk. Chernyaev identifies the General Secretary's two irreconcilable driving desires — to preserve the Soviet system intact and to cooperate with the West in order to prevent a world war and develop trade and investment.
Several key members of the Soviet leadership emerge from the pages of the diary looking quite different from their official portraits, described in merciless detail by a very astute observer. The series of diaries donated by Anatoly Sergeyevich to the National Security Archive represent an invaluable source, a keyhole through which we today, forty years later, can look back at the internal politics and decision making of the Soviet Politburo and its supporting apparatus.
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Self-medicating at Olympus
Traffic moves through haze in Beijing Monday. (Wire Photo)
My Olympic drug bag is bulkier than usual this time. Jammed in among the various antibiotics, painkillers, antacids and sundry unguents are two inhalers and some industrial-strength Visine. When Dr. Kim, my modernly thorough internist, noticed during my annual physical that I had a bit of lingering congestion in my lungs, she promptly wrote out prescriptions for Fluticasone and Albuterol. Fluticasone is a corticosteroid used to treat asthma (which hundreds of Olympic athletes suddenly discover they have when the Games are nigh). Albuterol is a bronchodilator for folks who have trouble breathing.
Athletes aren't the only ones who self-medicate at Olympus. The media people do, too, just to stay up and running for nearly a month. Those of us who've been to a few Games in places like Sarajevo and Nagano, learned through sometimes painful experience to bring our own stash of remedies just in case we can't find a doctor or a CVS. In 1980, I arrived in Lake Placid with a nasty strep throat, when every breath of the February air felt like a blowtorch. All of the village doctors apparently had rented their houses and jetted off to the Caribbean. So I ducked into a package store on Main Street, bought a large bottle of Russian vodka and did the numbness cure until I could get to the Olympic village and bum a handful of penicillin pills from the US team physician.
Now I bring my own, left over from the prescription that Dr. Pickett, my painless dentist, once gave me after I'd had a root canal on the eve of another Olympics. I'm sure that the pills are well past their use-by date, but it comforts me to have them in my Ziploc. Also in my bag are bottles of Omeprazole and Lansoprazole for acid reflux, Fexofenadine for allergies, a handful of tablets of Oxycodone, Hydrocodone and Roxicet (in case a tooth abscesses, as one did at 32,000 feet en route to Moscow), a tube of Erythromycin for conjunctivitis, Bacitracin for cuts and scrapes, Cepastat lozenges for sore throats and a supersized box of chewable Pepto-Bismol for the kind of gastrointestinal rumblings you don't want overseas.
All told, there's enough stuff in my stash to get my medals taken away. The only thing I'm missing is a few Chinese herbal remedies. If I'm feeling a bit droopy, I might drop by the night market, pick up one of those monster ginseng roots as big as your forearm and gnaw on it twice daily. There's always room for another cure-all at the Games.
Why is it that Scott LaPierre's time-lapse video shows pristine blue skies through the whole day and your picture shows gray skies? Biased versus unbiased reporting? Hmmmm........
Boston's haze on Friday was so gray and heavy that I thought I was in LA which is also gray and heavy everyday. My grandma has trouble breathing in LA too. Did you check out the air quality of LA in the 1950s?
I'm not saying that you're hypocritical, I'm just saying that you're unfair.
How the heck did you get all of that through customs?
Also, how could the IOC ever give the Olympics to a place that looks
to be in a perpetual eclipse of the sun?
i'm heading to Beijing tomorrow and am pretty much bringing a pharmacy too, but of all chinese herbs, with the exception of CO-Q10 and melatonin. i'm a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist here in MA, and would love to visit a pharmacy and/or practitioner while i'm there. hope you enjoy your time in beijing!
Olympics bloggersLook for updates, news, analysis and commentary from the following reporters:.
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The Earth Was Satan's Home Before It Was Man's
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The Earth was Satan's Home before the Creation of Man
Before the earth was created, before even angels there was God Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Everything else is of the created order, the angel, we know from scripture was created before the earth and man. They were there at the laying of the foundation of the earth. So creation had existed before the earth and man in the form of angels for them to be their when the Lord laid the foundation for the creation of the earth for its inhabitants. The bible does not go into great detail about how many years or even millions of years had elapsed between the time He created angels and the time He created the earth and its inhabitants. We don't know how much time had elapsed between the time God created the earth and the time He placed the man there. But there is evidence in the opening verse of Genesis that something caused the earth to become a chaotic mass of darkness. God brought order out of chaos, now we know form the rest of the bible that all of God's works are perfect. So if the earth was a chaotic mess and covered in deep darkness, then something must have happened to cause it to be in that state. Would God create a chaotic world shrouded in darkness? The bible says the Satan is the author of chaos and confusion, since the earth was in that chaotic state when the Spirit of the Lord hovered above it, Satan must have played a role in it being in that chaotic state, since he is the father of chaos.
You probably guess that I don't agree with the traditional creationist view of the young earth theory [the earth being only six or seven thousand years old.] Now I'm no evolutionist, I am most definitely a creationist but I do believe from taking a real close look at Genesis that God originally created a paradise like earth which fell into a chaotic state because of the sins of Lucifer [who later became Satan.] The time between the original creation and the time it fell into chaos may have been hundreds of thousands of years. Before man was created there were a whole lot of things happening in the universe, in fact the creation of man was the result of Lucifer's rebellion against God's right to rule his created universe. Mankind, created to replace Satan and the one third of angels who fell, their post are vacant and is to be filled by the new creation, man! A creature created lower than the original inhabitants, this new creature would be tried and Baptist in the fires of a corrupt earth. This new inferior creature will prove to the all the on looking universe of angels that Satan and his angels are without excuse. The angels created in splendor and beauty, brilliant and powerful, they stood in the presence of God, guarded His Holiness, had no need of anything, yet they rebelled against His Love and holiness. Now the man created from dirt, whose beauty in comparison is like the difference between the sun and a fifty watt light bulb, have never seen God the Father's face, this new creature who is born in iniquity and shaped in the sins of their parents never lived in paradise as the angels did, they face death daily and yet stayed true to the Lord where the perfect angels rebelled.
Now Lucifer did not just up and decided that he would dethrone God, Lucifer was full of wisdom he stood in the presence of God. He knew there was no way he could dethrone God, his desire was to be like the Most High, he lust after the throne that Jesus occupied. There was war in heaven, if what I believe is true, than earth was already in existence and indeed part of heaven when this war took place that war that started in heaven continued on earth destroying the original earth. Remember that during that war the faithful angels of the lord imprisoned many of the angels of Satan. Now, ask yourself where is that prison that the rebels are locked away in? There's no doubt that prison is in the heart of the earth! Those in prison in the heart of the earth are prisoners of war [POW's.]Now in order for there to be prisoners jailed in the heart of the earth before man was created, there must have been war in the earth before man was created. This war is what destroyed the original creation and caused the earth to be formless and a chaotic mass of darkness when the Spirit of the Lord hovered above the earth to recreate and prepare it for his new creation, man. God did not created this world as a chaotic mass, it fell into that state as the result of war between the angels of Satan and the angels the Lord. That war in the earth never ended it continues to this day, a new combatant was just introduced, the man.
Now after the earth was recreated for man the fallen angels was still imprisoned in the jail cells of the earth, the earth was theirs and now this new lowly creature made from dirt have invaded their domain. Ever thought about how Satan was already in the earth when God placed the man there? The man seems to have been a strategy on God's part to show the devil his true self. Who knows, may be God may have forgiven Lucifer had he repented, but there was no repentance in Satan. Not only does Satan corrupts the original creation he now corrupt the new creation!
Having failed at occupying the throne of Christ and having been imprisoned in the earth he now hatches a plan to be lord over the new creation, man and especially that woman! Now at some point Satan must have witness the man and woman having sex or making love. Even though Lucifer was created as a sexless being, in his now fallen state there is no limit to what he might be capable of. Now in the garden Satan approaches the woman, not the man, surely Satan notice the beauty of this new creature and how she and the man found delight in each other arms and the ecstasy of the sexual experience. Satan being a spiritual sexless being had no way of truly experiencing what these creatures were experiencing without a physical body, so began the lust to experiencing sex and the need to inhabit a physical body. Let's try to clear some things up, Jesus said that the angel of heaven do not have sex, that' important to remember. Now all angels are not in heaven some angels are in the prisons of the earth, they are fallen angels, but still angels and are sexual being once they inhabit a physical body, whatever the demonically possessed person experiences so does the demon, so on some level that angel is having a sexual experience, but this is not an angel of haven. There seems to be another order of angels that are not of heaven, this other order of angel seems to be closely similar to man in genetic make-up. The bible clearly teaches of a group of angels who left their rightful abode and came to earth and mated with the daughters of men. Not only did these beings have sexual relations with the women of the earth they even produced offspring's. So there is scripture evidence of spirit beings having sexual relations with people of the earth, but not the angels of heaven.
You see why Satan and his angels lust after a physical body either by inhabiting an earthling or like the demons that inhabit the air, [flying saucers] and kidnap people and do DNA testing on them trying to create their own physical man that they can inhabit at will. Thissexual lust of Satan and his angels is just another reason for them control mankind, the lust to be worshiped plus the lust for sex is the power that drives devils.
Angels were created to serve and love the Lord period! We do know from scripture that the angels were created before man because they were there when the Lord laid the foundation of the earth. What we are not so sure about is how much time had elapsed between the original creation of the physical universe and that of man. If the recreated earth is only six or seven thousands years old, then the original earth before Lucifer' rebellion could be millions of years old. Before the rebellion and war in heaven the earth was part of heaven, all creation was heavenly because there was no sin in the universe. Everything created was in it's perfect state including earth, it is only after the war in heaven and Satan and his angels were kicked out of heaven down to this earth that the earth became separated from heaven and became the home of Satan and his angels and hell. Now this war and the separation the bad angels [earthly angels] from the good angels [heavenly angels] all took place before man was created, by the time the man was created this world had already been through a devastating war with heaven, and most of its most vicious citizen imprisoned in the earth, their home [before the man was created.]
When God placed the man in the earth He picked a section of the earth and planted a garden and called it paradise. That part of the earth that became paradise was the garden and not the whole earth. How could the whole earth be called paradise when most of its citizens are imprisoned in the jail cells of this earth? Paradise would have no jail cells! When God prepared a section of the earth for man Satan was right there as an observant, he was already in the earth before the man. This was his home, the place where he took his stand against the Lord before the man was created. Man was the result of this war between heaven and hell. From the very beginning God placed the man right in the middle of the combat zone. God could have put an angel in place with a fiery sword to protect the man and woman form Satan, but He didn't! The man was put in the middle of the war as a warrior for Christ and the armies of heaven. To Satan this newly created being [the man] is an invader; remember this earth with all of its jail cell and chambers of horrors [hell] was still Satan's home. Now this newly created inferior being would prove to the on looking angels and the whole universe that Satan and his angels are without excuse.
As we look closer at Genesis 1 there is the phrase "was" the earth was formless and void." This word "was" is very important in this study of the recreation of the earth. The word "was" is translated from the Hebrew word hayah, can be translated as was, but in many cases it is translated as become or became.In Genesis 1 [ hayah]was translated to [was] but in many other places in scripture that same word is translated as become or became:
"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became [hayah] a living being." [Gen 2:7]
"But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, l know. He shall become [hayah] a people, and he also shall be great; but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become [hayah] a multitude of nations." [Genesis 48:19]
"Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became (hayah) four riverheads." [Genesis 2:10]
"And I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become (hayah) a flood to destroy all flesh." Genesis 9:15
"Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become (hayah) like one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lesthe put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever" Genesis 3:22
"Since Abraham shall surely become (hayah) a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?" [Genesis 18:18]
"But his wife looked back behind him, and she became (hayah) a pillar of salt." Genesis 19:26
"But indeed she is truly my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became (hayah) my wife." [Genesis 20:12]
"Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent; and he took Rebekah and she became (hayah) his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death." Genesis 24:67
"I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which You have shown Your servant; for I crossed over this Jordan with my staff, and now I have become (hayah) two companies." Genesis 32:10
"So God was with the lad; and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became (hayah) an archer." Genesis 21:20
"Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent; and he took Rebekah and she became (hayah) his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death." Genesis 24:67
"Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us; and we will dwell with you, and we will become (hayah) one people." Genesis 34:16
"Come therefore, let us now kill him and cast him into some pit; and we shall say, 'Some wild beast has devoured him.' We shall see what will become (hayah) of his dreams!" Genesis 37:20
"Then Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe upon them. So the land became (hayah) Pharaoh's." Genesis 47:20
"And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have one-fifth, except for the land of the priests only, which did not become (hayah) Pharaoh's." Genesis 47:26
All of these examples of the Hebrew word [hayah]being translated became or become is found in the opening book of the bible, Genesis. There are many more examples of this word hayah being translated to become or became throughout the bible. When we come across a verse of scripture that is hard to understand we need to look to other verse to help clear up the one that's hard to understand. Example: The way hayah is translated in Genesis 1 would lead one to believe that the God whose works are perfect would create a world in chaos, a world engulfed in darkness, a world that came from the perfect hand of God as a chaotic ball of confusion! We know that all of God's works are perfect:
"As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the Lord is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him." [Psalms 18:30]
How would a world created with jail cells [hell] built into its interior to hold vicious demons who are out to destroy God's creation be called a perfect work? The original created universe, including the earth was perfect when it first came from the hand of the perfect God. Before the creation of man and the rebellion of Lucifer this earth and all of creation was perfect. This original earth had no jail cells became there was no crime in paradise. Somewhere between the creation of the perfect earth and the time it became a dark chaotic mass of confusion a terrible war had marred God's perfectly created earth. So Genesis 1 properly translated would read:
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The had become without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over face of the waters." [Gen 1:1-2]
Now it begin to make sense since we know that God created the earth perfect and it fell into chaos even before man was created. Remember, when God recreated the earth and prepared it for mankind He took a section in the east and planted a garden there, that part of the earth was called paradise, not the whole earth! How could the whole earth be called paradise when Satan was already in the earth? When God drove them out of paradise [Garden of Eden] they would have just left the garden and entered another section of paradise, but that did not happen, they enter an earth that was full of hell and demons, paradise was guarded by an angel so that they would never enter paradise again until led there by the seed of the woman [Jesus Christ.]
Now let's make one thing clear, whether one believe in the young earth or old earth theory has nothing to do with salvation, it has to do with us trying understand the infinite with a finite mind. The only thing that matters when it comes to salvation is the blood of Christ!
I do believe that this earth could be millions of years old, yet I believe God created it whole and complete and no need to evolve from a lower state to a higher one, nor I believe man evolved but was created as man in God's image from the day of his creation
Proof that there was sin in the earth before Adam.
Many Christian claims that it is through Adam that sin entered the world; this is just another miss-reading of scripture. Sin entered this world even before Adam was created; the creation of Adam was the result of that sin in the earth before Adam was in the earth. If the whole earth was paradise and there is no sin in paradise, how do we account for Satan in the Garden of Eden before Adam sinned? Satan who is the very definition of sin itself is in the garden calling God a liar! So if there was no sin in the world before Adam sinned how could the evil Lucifer be there in the earth and yet the world is without sin? This world was full of sin before Adam was created! If the earth was without sin, it would be without Satan!
The lust to be worship was Satan first down-fall, the second came after Satan witness the man and woman making love than the lust for sexual gratification pull his and his demon deeper into hell!
The young earth theory just does not fit with the evidence!
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This old colonial house has been lovingly renovated and decorated by the owners--an antiques dealer and painter. Each room has its own personality and offers a feast of interesting books, original paintings, furniture and views. The house is set just above the river on a large and private lot. It's only minutes from Camden so it offers a perfect peaceful country getaway. The owners couldn't be more pleasant and helpful and the house is very clean and well maintained.
We were delighted to stay here on our way up to Acadia. Truly a home away from home for those who want to get off the beaten path but still be close to Camden and Rockport restaurants and shopping.
The house is roomy, comfortable and has a great kitchen. Upstairs the bathroom offers a jacuzzi along with two sinks - so you can brush your teeth at the same time as your partner. It was sooooo nice to
soak after a chilly day hiking up Bald Rock Mountain in Camden Hills State Park. If you come definitely check out the park, the views of the coast from the mountain are phenomenal.
We loved hanging out on the deck in the back yard, reading books next to the water fall and small fish pond. A short walk down the road is a lake where you can fish and picnic. There is a propane grill to barbecue out doors, which we did two nights instead of driving into Camden to eat, which can be expensive.
The owners are artists and collectors and the house is filled with antiques, curios and art work so it's not your typical vacation rental. We loved our stay and will certainly come again.
Our hosts Richard and Paul made our week in Camden, Maine an amazing and luxurious vacation! They helped us with tips on what to do, where to go, and all the beautiful sites not to be missed, as well as all the great antique stores in a 50 mile radius! These two are professional hosts! their kitchen was well stocked to host a gourmet dinner for 12, and plenty of cereal, coffee, etc. The bathrooms are beautful, and the second floor bathroom is huge, with a soaking jacuzzi tub and double marble sinks. The house is spacious and welcoming, we are looking forward to our next stay!
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Dr. Marian Fowler is a celebrated biographer renowned for her intimate portraits of individualistic women of style and substance. She herself collects vintage costume jewellery and has written about such fashion icons as Marlene Dietrich, Wallis Simpson, and Jackie Kennedy. Although she has many passions, Marian is inspired in particular by the ROM's outstanding international collection of textiles which illustrates extensive transformations in design and manufacturing over 3,000 years.
"When I was three years old I was already a 'fashion freak,'" she says, laughing. "I think it's in your genes because my grandmother was the same way. If you asked me 10 years from now what a friend wore to an event, I would remember."
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Four more episodes of the early 1990s live television series of Mr Bean.
Back to School Mr. Bean:
Original Air Date—26 October 1994
Mr. Bean goes back to school for an orientation day while he sees the different projects and activities in which he gets into mischief.
Tee Off, Mr. Bean:
Original Air Date—20 September 1995
Mr. Bean goes to a laundromat where he washes his clothes and other various items and ends up causing trouble with the other people and their laundry. Afterwards, he heads off to a mini golf course where he plays but ends up following the ball everywhere it goes and continues to play even when it's not on the course.
Goodnight Mr. Bean:
Original Air Date—31 October 1995
Mr. Bean goes to the hospital to have a tea kettle removed from his hand, and while trying to get in faster ends up with him getting in much later. Afterwards, he decorates a British guard so that he can take a picture. After he has insomnia, Mr. Bean finally finds the solution and falls asleep.
Hair by Mr. Bean of London:
Original Air Date—15 November 1995
When Mr. Bean has to wait a few minutes for the hairdresser who's called away by the telephone, he starts playing barber, so three consecutive costumers have their hair done by him, but his inverse Midastouch strikes again: woe their hair and the real hairdresser they complain to! Next he goes to a pet show, starting of by cheating at a dexterity game by unplugging the fault-detection and next deciding to play 'hit the headmaster' not just with the provided wet sponges, but wit anything not too heavy for him to lift; then he enters his teddy-bear for the obedience test (meant for kids' dogs). In the train station he stops at nothing to get on without a ticket, and succeeds as a crawling sack of post - but on which train is he carried?
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Series: Printing Digital Photos
Alex Hoffman evaluates online photo print services...and they're a mixed batch
Article 1 of 2 in series
Printing Digital Photos, Part 1
by Alex Hoffman
I recently bought a new Nikon Coolpix 775 digital camera for my wife. We were about to get married and I thought we'd enjoy taking lots of pictures of the wedding weekend and the honeymoon weekShow full article
I recently bought a new Nikon Coolpix 775 digital camera for my wife. We were about to get married and I thought we'd enjoy taking lots of pictures of the wedding weekend and the honeymoon week. I was right: we took more than 1,000 pictures over nine days.
Although I'm most interested in putting together a CD showing off most of our pictures (hundreds, I tell you) for our guests and friends, my wife prefers old-fashioned photo albums and wants to print some of the pictures.
This situation prompted the question of the best way to print digital photos. While we might want to print only 50 to 100 pictures now, eventually we'll have many more. Should we buy a photo printer, or should we send them out to be printed by a photo service? If the latter, which one? Since these aren't just everyday snapshots, I decided to investigate both options.
Buying a Printer -- Although I had no doubts about the quality of prints coming from digital photo labs, I wasn't so sure about the photo quality of any printer we could afford. I've used inkjet printers for years, and have never been truly happy with the quality of their photo output.
However, I've never owned a "photo printer," a printer whose quality is supposed to be good enough to approximate a photographic print. I've also never used real photo paper, which is specially coated to make such high resolution printing possible. Unfortunately, this paper is expensive: around $0.30 for a 4" x 6" piece, and $0.50 for an 8.5" x 11" piece. I also know that while inkjet printers are relatively cheap, ink cartridges are expensive and printing photos uses an enormous amount of ink per page (text covers about 5 percent of a piece of paper, but photos typically cover 90 to 100 percent of the page).
Expensive ink cartridges, plus the cost of photo paper, made me rule out buying a photo printer. I didn't see any monetary savings, and I am still distrustful of the quality. This doesn't mean you can't get good results, especially if you plan to print relatively few pictures. But since we already own a black-and-white laser printer, we didn't see a compelling reason to add a photo printer.
Digital Photography Labs -- In the past, I've read about different digital photo labs, but I never paid full attention. I understood a few of their major issues and that their services cost a lot more than normal film developing. But one of the major benefits of digital photography, in my mind, is that you print only a small percentage of your pictures, which leads to overall savings. So I decided to try some of the photo labs listed in Yahoo, the most popular of which were Shutterfly, Club Photo, ImageStation, Ofoto (owned by Kodak), dotPhoto, Snapfish (owned by District Photo), PhotoAccess, eFrames, and searsphotos.com.
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I added Walmart to the list, since it has such a huge retail presence, and I also added Apple's iPhoto-based service, which uses Kodak's Ofoto for prints. After a quick run through their sites, I developed some criteria for comparing the services: cost, ease of uploading, quality of the Web site, and range of products offered. I naively assumed that quality would not be an issue, thinking at the time that their output would be highly similar.
I should have known better. First, working in information technology (including supporting ad agencies) drilled into me a long time ago that color correction is a huge issue. Second, I know that traditional photo labs aren't identical (a roll of film that comes out poorly is not necessarily your fault). I knew better, but my optimism about the possibilities of digital imaging blinded me at first. I quickly learned.
Cost - All of these services offer the same basic print sizes, 4" x 6", 5" x 7", and 8" x 10". Some offer wallet and larger sizes as well, but for price comparisons, I stuck to the three basic sizes. For the most part, the prices are roughly the same as well (most also offer 3" x 5" prints at the 4" x 6" price.)
Size Cost ----------------- 4" x 6" $0.49 5" x 7" $0.99 8" x 10" $3.99
However, there were few standouts on price.
On the negative side, searsphotos.com charges three times as much for 4" x 6" prints if you want to do even the simplest of image manipulation (including cropping and red-eye correction). Snapfish charges 20 percent more than the others ($0.59), and both are clearly set up for film developing. Although I did send a few samples to Snapfish to be developed, both companies failed the price test and were eliminated from competition. The searsphotos.com price was so out of line that I didn't even include them in the quality test. (The searsphotos.com service also limits files to 500K, clearly hurting their print quality, while Snapfish's ordering Web pages are horrendous.)
On the positive side were PhotoAccess ($0.45, $1.09, and $2.95), Walmart ($0.26, $0.96, $2.98) and dotPhoto ($0.29, $0.95, and $2.95). Though Walmart also offers packages (one 8" x 10", two 5" x 7" prints, and 16 wallet-sized prints for $9, for example), dotPhoto beats everyone on price and pricing options, offering subscription and bulk pricing. For $5 per month, you can order up to 26 4" x 6" prints ($0.19 per print), or you can pay $10 per month for 60 prints. Both plans offer lower prices on other sizes as well. Amazingly, any prints you do not use in a given month do carry over to the next month. The only downside is that dotPhoto requires one year subscriptions. dotPhoto also allows you to purchase prints in bulk, where you pay up front for many photos, and have two years to use up your credit ($70 for 400 4" x 6" prints, $35 for 50 5" x 7" prints, and $50 for 25 8" x 10" prints). If price is your main criterion, no one comes close to dotPhoto.
Shipping costs vary by the size of your order and your chosen transit method. There wasn't much variation here, other than from Club Photo, which offers free standard shipping using the U.S. Postal Service. Walmart offers the option of picking up prints at a Walmart store free of shipping charges, but takes an extraordinarily long time to make them available if you do. Apple seems to be at the high end here, but not by enough to eliminate them from the running.
Ease of Uploading -- The most obnoxious part of using online digital photo labs is uploading multiple photos at once. Every site allows you to select files to upload manually, but this process involves clicking a Browse button and locating the files on your hard disk. The process gets old fast when repeated more than a few times.
Fortunately, most of these services offer alternatives. For some, a standalone application can send multiple image files. Others use a plug-in for the Windows version of Internet Explorer. Requiring easy uploading from a Mac knocked a few of the services out of the running including eFrames, Walmart, dotPhoto, and ImageStation.
The remaining services - Apple, Club Photo, Ofoto, PhotoAccess, and Shutterfly - each have a Macintosh application onto which you can drag the photos you want to upload. Apple is the only service to offer a Mac OS X-native application, but because iPhoto runs only under the new operating system, Mac OS 8 or 9 users are out of luck. Of the others, only PhotoAccess even mentions that they're working on a Mac OS X version. All four of the other companies' applications do run under Classic.
Web Site Evaluation -- Each of these sites relies on the picture album metaphor for organizing pictures. You can name photos and add new ones as often as you wish. ClubPhoto charges customers more to keep their photos accessible online, with two packages ($25 and $35 per year) that also include discounts on all orders. Regardless, charging to keep photos from disappearing after just 30 or 90 days seems out of line.
A great thing about digital photography is that you can edit and crop your photos before you print them. Any digital photo lab for consumers must make this process practical, especially for users who lack image editing software. The remaining contenders differentiated themselves in this round.
PhotoAccess offered the most minimal editing capabilities. Its upload application can rotate pictures, but the Web site offers no further editing possibilities, most notably no red-eye reduction. ClubPhoto also lacks red-eye correction, although its Web site can brighten or darken each picture.
Ofoto's image uploading program can fix red-eye and crop images. Their Web site offers further capabilities such as adding borders to your pictures; however, this becomes Ofoto's most distressing feature, because the border covers most the image, rather than resizing the image to fit within the border. Ofoto can also print the images in black and white, sepia tones, or sepia-like tones (in red, green, or blue). Last, it can "fix lighting," which lightens dark images and darkens washed-out images.
Shutterfly's Web site offers the most options, though its software does nothing but upload photos. At Shutterfly, you can add borders to images (which are automatically resized), fix red-eye, switch to black-and-white, change the color saturation, soften or sharpen the focus, or change the color tone. Shutterfly's site is also the easiest to navigate, especially when looking at albums with many photos in them.
Apple uses a completely different model, with iPhoto handling all the organization and editing of your photos. Its editing capabilities are limited to rotating images, performing red-eye reduction, cropping (with a nifty aspect ratio tool), and conversion to black-and-white, although all Macs now ship with Caffeine Software's free PixelNhance, which extends iPhoto's editing capabilities nicely. There are no tone controls (for sepia-like prints) or any of the other effects offered by the others. Although iPhoto is far easier to use than any of the Web sites, it doesn't offer as many features, and nothing at the level of Adobe PhotoDeluxe. That said, I expect that future versions will address most of my concerns in short order.
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Finally, although I didn't test this feature, each Web site lets you share your photos so that other people can order their own copies of your prints. Apple's solution here is that iPhoto makes it extremely easy to turn photos into a Web-based photo album at homepage.mac.com, but the free space Apple provides limits the number of high resolution photos you can share. Services which remove photos after a short amount of time limit the usefulness of their sharing functionality.
Range of Products -- Most of these services don't stop at printing photos. A few also sell digital camera and digital video equipment, though not at competitive prices. Mousepads, customized greeting cards, and mugs are the rule, and most offer picture frames as well.
Shutterfly offers only the basic items that they all share. Ofoto adds a huge range of frames and photo albums, along with Archive CDs priced starting at $10, based on the number of photos). Club Photo offers $8 Album CDs, which contain up to 60 photos, and Archive CDs (also starting at $10, based on the number of images), which contain all of your photos. Other products from ClubPhoto include frames, food (really!), checks, stamps, Post-It note pads, puzzles, posters, stuffed animals, aprons, t-shirts, jewelry, and even a night light. PhotoAccess extends the basics with t-shirts, sweatshirts, hats, puzzles, aprons, playing cards, canisters, tote bags, slides, and even customized wrapping paper. Most interestingly to me, PhotoAccess is the only service to offer "digital prints" whose proportions match that of most monitors, televisions and cameras.
Only Apple's service offers an impressive hardcover book (measuring 11.5 by 9 inches). The linen cover comes in your choice of black, burgundy, light gray, or navy, and you can choose six formats when designing your book and laying out the photos. Unfortunately, the price is high ($3 per page with a 10 page minimum and a 50 page maximum) and the paper/print quality isn't amazing (something like magazine quality). That cost quickly adds up, especially for larger books, even though you can have multiple photos per page. Although others haven't experienced the same problems, I had troubles - particularly when rearranging pages in book mode - building books larger than about 12 pages. Rearranging photos in organize mode and designing the book left-to-right worked better.
iPhoto is actually a front end to a Web service called myPublisher. Although ordering directly from myPublisher offers a few more options, including leather covers and dust jackets, iPhoto makes the process of building and ordering a book vastly easier. For all the trouble I had with iPhoto, I can't imagine trying to use myPublisher's Web site for a real project, which requires uploading photos individually from a browser.
Shutterfly also offers a book to its customers, albeit a very different one. The Snapbook is a spiral-bound book with a translucent plastic cover containing up to 40 pages, available in a 4" x 6" or 5" x 7" size (priced at a maximum of $25 or $30, respectively, depending on the number of photos, up to 40). You can choose from a handful of designs, but unlike Apple's books, they offer only one picture per page. Although I like Shutterfly's Web site, I had a few problems putting my book together. Still, the Snapbook's price is compelling, especially given that the largest Snapbook costs less than buying the pages individually, and is the same price as a 10-page book from Apple.
After examining all of the companies' Web sites and ordering prints from each, I couldn't name a clear winner. Different services had different strengths, whether price, variety of products, site design, or ease of use. However, as soon as I received my first set of prints, I realized that there was a lot that I hadn't considered properly. In the next installment of this article, I'll detail my mistakes and the surprising final result.
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Printing Digital Photos, Part 2
by Alex Hoffman
After buying a new digital camera and going on my honeymoon, I have more than 1,000 pictures, about 100 of which my wife wants to put in photo albums. Therefore, I decided to investigate which online digital photo lab was the bestShow full article
After buying a new digital camera and going on my honeymoon, I have more than 1,000 pictures, about 100 of which my wife wants to put in photo albums. Therefore, I decided to investigate which online digital photo lab was the best. In part one of this article, I evaluated 11 different services in terms of cost, ease of use, and range of products. When I began this project, I thought I could look at the companies' Web sites, order some samples, and see which services were better than others. That was enough to eliminate a number of the services from the running, although I included almost all of them in the quality tests that came next.
I initially thought the print quality from the different services would be roughly the same. Not only did that not prove true, examining the prints afterward revealed a few flaws that I could have corrected before sending off the files. Pay attention to the areas I failed to take into account, and you'll get better results.
Cropping -- My first mistake was to ignore the issue of cropping. Most digital photographs use an aspect ratio that matches computer monitors and televisions, featuring a 1.33:1 ratio between width and height. Standard photograph sizes, however, don't match that aspect ratio, taking their cue instead from 35mm film, which uses a 1.5:1 ratio. Prints measuring 4" x 6" (1.5:1) and 5" x 7" (1.4:1) are wider and shorter than digital images; 8" x 10" (1.25:1) and 11" x 14" (1.27:1) are narrower and taller than their digital counterparts. Only PhotoAccess offers prints whose ratio matches that of most cameras and monitors and do not have to be cropped, but of course they may not fit properly in traditional photo albums and frames.
There are three solutions to this problem. The first is to resize the picture disproportionately, but that's unacceptable in almost all cases, as it would make people look as though they were reflected in fun-house mirrors. The second is to shrink the photo proportionately, which works fine, but means the image won't completely cover the paper. The picture ends up looking like a letterboxed movie, not using the very top and bottom of the print for narrow sizes, or putting white borders on the left and right for wider sizes. That's the safest option. Third and finally, you can crop the photo, which eliminates some of your image. That may be fine if you're doing the cropping yourself, but it can be disastrous if a service does it automatically and gets it wrong.
Naively, I assumed that the first photo service I used would be smart enough to compensate for the aspect ratio differences. But because the process is automated, the results weren't great. I should have manually cropped each photo. Most sites offer cropping tools, and I also had the option of cropping the photos before uploading them. If done on the services' Web sites or with their uploading software, as they recommend, cropping takes less than 30 seconds for each photo. Had I taken the time to do this, I would have been much happier with my initial prints.
Shutterfly and Apple stand out as having the most versatile cropping options. Customers get total control over what is printed. Other services feature less control, with Ofoto simply offering the option to print extra borders to fix the shape, or to crop the image automatically by keeping the center and cutting off the edges equally. Shutterfly's upload application and Apple's iPhoto let you crop your images to a specific aspect ratio to fit the different photo sizes perfectly. Once a photo is uploaded to Shutterfly, you can change the cropping even if you cropped earlier.
Cropping also affects how large you can have a photo printed. When you remove portions of a photo, you're reducing the image's overall number of pixels. If you crop too much of the image, there may not be enough information to make a picture look good at larger sizes. Cameras with more than two megapixels of resolution can produce decent-quality photographs at sizes up to 8" x 10", but if you crop too much, you may not be able to print at the size you want. Fortunately, all of the services I tested give some kind of warning about which images will print well at what sizes, though some are more obvious than others.
Gamma -- Digital color is tricky to do right. Different monitors display colors differently, as do different cameras, scanners, software applications, and operating systems. This happens because they all have slightly different assumptions about which combinations and intensities of red, green, and blue should be used to represent any given color for each pixel. One aspect of this situation is gamma correction, which controls the overall brightness of an image.
Macs are usually set to a gamma of 1.8, and PCs are set to a gamma of 2.2, which explains why an image created on the Mac will look darker and will have more contrast when viewed in Windows, and images created in Windows may look washed out on the Mac. Since most computers run Windows, photo services seem to try to match their output to a 2.2 gamma setting to provide what most of their customers expect. Unfortunately, that meant almost all of my test prints came back looking darker than I expected, and pictures where the color was just right on my computer weren't as good in print.
Apple's ColorSync technology helps resolve the variations in colors that result when an image is reproduced using different devices, applications, materials, and printing processes (and is used by iPhoto when printing directly from your Mac), but it doesn't help with any of the photo services. I learned from the president of Ofoto that they often try to achieve a similar goal by examining a JPEG image's EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) information. Ironically, iPhoto strips out EXIF data whenever you modify an image, preventing Ofoto (which prints pictures for iPhoto) from using this technique when printing from iPhoto.
This area is where Apple has the opportunity to stand out, and part of why Apple was wise to introduce its own photo printing service. Because Apple knows that all the photos it gets are coming from Macs, it alone has the potential to calibrate the output to match typical Macintosh monitors. Unfortunately, this isn't yet the case, although there is hope for the future: Ofoto's president seemed receptive to the idea of applying a common correction to all prints ordered through Apple. Right now, however, the only way to do this seems to be editing the images in a separate application such as Photoshop or GraphicConverter, which realistically is more than what most users want to deal with. And even using Caffeine Software's free (and utterly cool) PixelNhance to edit every photo may be more trouble than most people want to take.
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I've spoken with a few of the services, and none of them yet have an answer for this problem. Shutterfly was also responsive to the issue, and is considering offering a setting for platform in the customer's profile. Unfortunately (a word that pops up a lot with this topic), they can't promise anything.
The Most Important Test: Quality -- I sent the same six files to every service so I could examine the results. It turns out that for any given picture, these different services sometimes deliver rather different results. And none of them quite match what I wanted to see, in part because of gamma issues and in part because the brightness of my PowerBook G4's beautiful screen simply cannot be duplicated on paper.
After I received the first (less than satisfying) set of prints from the services, my goal became to figure out which service delivered the best results. With all these prints, surely I would be able to compare the quality of the different services! To help, I enlisted my wife, my mom, and a few friends. I simply asked everyone to select the best version of each picture, and tallied the rankings using broad categories of good, medium, and bad.
Every service delivered prints which offered plenty of detail and were printed on glossy stock, just like the ones I've received from the drugstore all these years. The problem was always the color in the prints. In addition to being darker than what I expected, some came out a little more golden (making everyone look like Oscar statuettes), or a bit more brown (giving my palest friends a nice tan, and my Indian wife and in-laws a dark muddy complexion). One horrible set from dotPhoto (which lacks a Macintosh application for uploading, but which I've left in the competition because of its inexpensive pricing plans) made everyone green (or, to use iMac colors, a sage that's somewhere between seasick and Kermit the Frog). Still others looked washed out. In every set, details of my wife's black coat and our friend's tuxedo were lost due to color problems.
As surprising as I found this to be, there was a greater surprise in store. For the same picture, with the same digital file, prints from Ofoto, Apple, and ImageStation (all of which are actually printed by Ofoto) are often quite distinguishable from each other. It wasn't just Ofoto - I accidentally placed the same order twice at dotPhoto, and the two sets of results couldn't have been more different. One was by far the worst set overall, while the other came close to being the best set. Why was this? Even though the original files are digital, most of the processes used by these services are chemical and analog (the same RA4 process used to develop and print conventional pictures). Plus, although at least Ofoto recalibrates its equipment multiple times each day, temperature and humidity variations lead to slight, but noticeable, differences.
In fact, the big problem was that print quality from all the services varied widely. Each service had its share of good, medium, and bad results. None of the batches clearly stood out as being the best. Having finished what felt like our one millionth examination of the results, my wife asked which service I planned to use for my next order. Based on the vast range of quality, I couldn't give her an answer. No service was definitively the best.
Overall, I am rather disturbed by these results. I truly wanted someone to offer the best pictures. I even wrote a draft of this article assuming that Apple's service through Ofoto would take care of the gamma issues, but the prints did not show that. The only results that matched the color I saw on screen were in the book I printed from iPhoto (which uses a laser printing process which does not bring out the detail that the photographic process shows off so well). I wanted Shutterfly, with its beautiful Web site, to be the best, but its results were no better than the others. I was also rooting for PhotoAccess because it offered prints in sizes comparable to the images' actual ratios, but it too failed to offer consistent quality.
No One Is Picture-Perfect -- No single service stood out. Apple's iPhoto makes ordering the easiest, but offers the fewest additional products. dotPhoto offers the best price, but is a pain to use and delivered the worst results. Ofoto prints the quickest. PhotoAccess offers 1.33:1 aspect ratios and the widest range of merchandise, but its output (like the others) ends up too dark. Shutterfly has the best Web site, great customer service, and has supported Macs the longest, but they suffer the same color problems as the other services.
Almost every service offers free prints when you sign up, leaving you to pay only for shipping. That certainly makes it worth trying multiple services. Due to the ease of ordering prints through iPhoto, and because I think the Apple/Ofoto combination is most likely to adjust its output for Macintosh users, I plan to order most of my prints from Apple in the future. However, when I need a product that Apple does not offer (such as mousepads, mugs, or other extras), I won't hesitate to order from Shutterfly or PhotoAccess.
Despite the uneven results I experienced, I still think it's worthwhile to use an online service to print your best digital photos. The alternative, which I touched upon in part one of this article, is to print the photos yourself on an inkjet printer. I received a lot of feedback from TidBITS readers about this topic, pointing out the cost savings for large prints plus the capability to produce comparable results in image quality. With some help from a reader who has a lot of experience printing photos at home, I intend to explore printing at home in a future article.
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Riding in Cars with Kids: Car Seat Safety
May 1, 2017 12:45 am
Driving has a myriad of distractions, from traffic to pedestrians, what's playing on your radio, and the to-do list running through your mind. But when you have kids in the back, the distractions multiply, and safety becomes priority. Luckily, car seat safety need not be a worry, so long as you do a bit of legwork.
"Studies from AAA have shown that nearly three out of four car seats are installed incorrectly," says Chuck Shotmeyer, Chairman of AAA North Jersey's Board of Directors. "Taking the time to properly install child safety seats can save a life and drastically reduce injury."
"The national AAA's Safety Seats 4 Kids initiative found that car seats reduce the risk of injury by 78 percent to 82 percent and reduce the risk of death by 28 percent," says David Hughes, President of AAA North Jersey. "These statistics underscore the need for parents to understand how car safety seats work and the best way to utilize these important safety devices in their vehicles."
Hughes and Shotmeyer offered these safety tips for using child safety seats effectively:
Do your homework.
It is important for parents to purchase a car seat for the right age group. Make sure the child safety seat fits the size of the child and meets national transportation standards.
Install the seat correctly
. Read and understand the car seat instruction manual carefully. Additionally, parents should check the integrity of the seat and clear loose objects that might hinder or harm the child.
Understand your vehicle's design.
Parents should understand their vehicle's safety features. Knowing how to enable child locks and the location of airbags in the vehicle will helps drivers place the child seat in the safest spot.
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You appear to have reached a point where you need to do in-depth research that requires more than looking at published sources. Fortunately many of Virginia's early 19th century are available on microfilm through interlibrary loan at your local library. Or if you live near a Mormon research center, then you can access/rent and view microfilm at their center.
You need to do more analysis on the information gathered from the census records and whatever other records you have. John Ack appeared in several censuses, one of which gave him the 1833 birthdate in Delaware. The other censuses gave him a birth year in or after 1845 and birth place in Virginia. This is a twelve to sixteen year discrepancy in his age. Why do you believe the 1900 census (showing 1833 & Delaware) is more accurate than the others? Do you have other records that support the Delaware birthplace and date? Have you considered that there may be an area in the Prince George county named Delaware or something close to it?
Also consider that John Ack's father and mother may not both have been free or enslaved. Perhaps his father was enslaved, thus this might explain why he doesn't appear in pre-emancipation records.
Finally consider also that John may have been enslaved in Delaware at some early point in his life, and the person who provided the information may have known that he was "from Delaware," and assumed that John was not only from there, but born there.
Before further launching into the Delaware research, you need to locate your family in records as far back as possible. Since John consistently appeared in Virginia censuses, this points to Prince George county as the place where you should focus. Attempting to link a 1768-1800 Delaware family to the 1870 Virginia family is a major jump, one that may lead you far off-track, wasting considerable time and money.
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2008 Michigan Football: The Program That Really WasNovember 27, 2008
So many journalists and fans alike clamored after the 3-9 season Michigan suffered this year.
"They have too much talent!"
"Rodriguez wasted it!"
"They never should have gone 3-9!"
Ladies and gentlemen, the truth is, Michigan was not the program we all thought it was. Michigan did not have the depth and talent that we all thought they did.
For example, of the 2004 recruiting class (fifth-year seniors this year), nine players either transferred or quit the team before Rodriguez came. Five (Henne, Hart, etc.) graduated.
Of the 2005 class, eight players transferred/quit, two left the team (Bass—5* who ruined knee, Slocum—Academics), and one (Zirbel) became unavailable after Rodriguez came.
Still with me? That's 25 players. That's 25 "premium" recruits we supposedly had. Let's continue.
This year, players like Artis Chambers, Zion Babb, and Justin Boren either transferred, planned to, or were kicked off the team.
Other players haven't panned out as we thought they would. Kevin Grady has turned out to be a bust, Carson Butler is a pain in the ass, and players like Patterson, Criswell, Savoy, Logan, Panter, and many more have rarely seen the field.
Now a lot of teams don't have "successful" classes, or at least where 50 percent of their classes eventually see the field or are deemed "successful recruits."
But Michigan has lost a significant portion of its talent through attrition and graduation. Many players never panned out, some quit, and some simply graduated, not taking a fifth year of eligibility.
With Manningham and Arrington, the truth is there wasn't a lot of talent behind them after they departed. Mathews was solid, but Stonum was unproven. Junior Hemingway was out for most of the season with mono/injuries, Zion Babb was a bust, and Odoms turned out to be a surprise.
Lloyd Carr can be partially blamed for the quarterback situation, as he typically only went after a single quarterback recruit each year. And if you think Ryan Mallet left because of Rodriguez, you are wrong. He hated Ann Arbor, was generally disliked by the team, and probably wouldn't have fit well.
Part of the theory behind Rodriguez's theme is to build strength with competition, and that won't start to take place for another year or two. With strong recruiting classes, the Wolverines will finally have the depth that so many believed they had.
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Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) is a rightly legendary record, begetting a nine-deep lineup of MC assassins, a revolutionary production aesthetic (lo-fi kung fu crate-diggers) and the beginnings of a New York City gangsta-rap renaissance (Nas, Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z). But it was the fissuring of that 1993 nucleus that sent atomic shock waves throughout hip-hop, via a series of solo outings that ultimately made the Wu umbrella little more than window dressing. A potent combination of cinematic production (by the unleashed RZA) and verbal intercourse (with regular foil Ghostface Killah), Raekwon's sprawling, La Cosa Nostra-romancing Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... set the standard upon its release in 1995, one even he was unable to meet on RZA-less LPs Immobilarity (1999) and The Lex Diamond Story (2003). Fourteen years is a long time between sequels — particularly when they have little to do with one another — but Corey Woods makes like Doc Brown on 2009's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Part II, finding his art of storytelling intact with an even more ambitious sprawl (22 tracks over 72 minutes) that somehow coalesces despite a cacophony of A-list beat-makers, from the return of the RZA to Dr. Dre, Pete Rock and the late J Dilla. Stirring it all together is the Chef, still chewing on his lips, spitting chilling premeditations, watching dead-eyed from the inside of his cocaine empire as the walls start to crumble. "Cuban Linx 3 comin'," he warns on Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang (Ice H2O/EMI), March's capitalizing yet still-killer placeholder. A blunt premonition for sure, but don't hold your breath. Dee-1, Lyrikill and Truth Universal open. Tickets $13 general admission, $20 VIP access. — Noah Bonaparte Pais
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WWU drove down to Sacramento, California to compete in the Western Intercollegiate Rowing Association (WIRA) Championship. The team brought their top Novice 4 and their Varsity 4 with hopes of claiming the West Coast Championship. Saturday was the Heat Races where most boats had to place top two or three to advance to sunday, the Grand Final. The Novice 4 took off first from the team, racing early Saturday morning. The Novice 4, coxed by Mackenzie Popovich, took first in their heat with a time of 7:10.4 , beating out UCD (2nd), LMU (3rd), Willamete (4th), UCSB (5th), UCLA (6th), and Pacific (7th). They posted the 3rd fastest heat time in the Novice 4, closely behind OCC and SPU. The Varsity 4 launched later in the day and rowed up to the starting line for their heat. The V4, coxed by Zac Johnson, took 1st in their heat, pushing past LMU (2nd), UCLA (3rd,), and UCSB (4th). They tied Lewis and Clark for the fastest time in the heats posting a 6:54.0. Both WWU boats advanced to the finals, held on Sunday.
Again, the Novice 4 headed out first, lining up next to OCC, SPU, LMU, UCD, and SMC for the grand final of the Novice 4 event. After a slower start that normal, WWU pushed hard through the entire race, sending their boat closer and closer to the front of the pack, finishing in 3rd place with a time of 6:54.0 behind OCC and SPU. The Varsity 4 launched shortly after, lining up next to LC, LMU, Cal, UCLA, and LBU for the grand final of the Varsity 4 event. Pushing hard off the line, all boats were even, WWU slightly behind. After a powerful "Lengthen 10" WWU was in first place. Giving it everything they had and sticking to the game plan, they gave a powerful 40 stroke move at the 1000 meter mark, pulling further and further away from all other crews. By the 1500 meter mark, WWU had open water on the trailing crews and began sprinting for the finish with LC charging up hard on their stern. WWU stroked through the finish line, winning the WIRA Championship with a few feet of open water on second place, Lewis and Clark, a fast crew the team has been battling with every race. They posted a 6:49.4, racing with a slight head wind.
Both WWU boats performed well, coming home with a WIRA Varsity 4 Championship, which hasn't been accomplished by the team since 2006. Thank you to everyone, friends and family, who support our team and give us these opportunities we seek to compete in. All of your support is greatly appreciated and makes us a closer knit team. We will be posting about our Varsity 8 rowing at UW's Opening Day shortly.


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Age: As old as humanity's primal need to relay to one another the likelihood of a horse running in a circle faster than some other horses.
Appearance: Known as "Top of the Head" in tic-tac, the bookmakers' sign language, 9-4 is inventively signalled by a bookmaker touching the top of their head. But no more. Odds expressed as fractions are on the way out, and the secret language of bookmakers with them.
Why so? Horse racing is being dragged kicking and screaming into the digital age. The organisation Racing For Change plans to trial a weekend of decimal odds this spring as part of a host of measures to make betting on the horses more accessible to today's youth.
Because kids these days can't even work out basic fractions? Put it this way: what do you get if you place a winning bet of £50 on a horse with 9-4 odds?
Extremely confused. Precisely. But we can all use the calculators on our phones to work out that £50 multiplied by 2.25 is £112.50. Many online bookmakers have already gone decimal.
So what else are they doing? Racing For Change want to place more emphasis on horse racing's "drama" moments, such as photo-finishes, ie the moment when you realise you've lost a tenner.
What about the bit where a horse loses and they take it round the back and cut off its head? Like in Black Beauty. That doesn't actually happen in horse racing. Or Black Beauty.
Then my copy of Black Beauty is faulty. Can we get back to the decimal odds debate?
Sure, what's the debate? To quote racing pundit John McCririck, "Bookmakers are the most reactionary bunch and they won't change unless there's a mechanism to force them."
Looks like imperial versus metric all over again. Indeed. It's the age-old struggle between the British way and the way that actually makes sense.
Do say: "Yay! The horse races have stopped using fractions!"
Don't say: "But they're still just horse races."


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Conor Corr, from Cookstown & Western Shores Area Network, has been elected as Lough Neagh Parternship's (LNP) new chairman.
Mr Corr, who has worked within the community for the development and protection of Lough Neagh over the past 16 years, succeeds Shane O'Neill in the role.
Based at Ballyronan Marina Centre, Mr Corr will head a committee of representatives from bodies that have an interest in Lough Neagh and its waterways.
The committee will work alongside seven councils (soon to be five) to promote Lough Neagh as a visitor destination.
On his new role, Mr Corr said: "I am looking forward to taking on the challenging role as Chairman of Lough Neagh Partnership, particularly in light of the new government focus on Lough Neagh."
LNP recently secured Heritage Lottery funding for the development phase of a Lough Neagh Landscape Partnership which, in the implementation phase, could be worth £2.58m.
As well as managing the Lough Shore Cycle Trail and Canoe Trail, the charity is also working on an integrated development programme with various government departments, including DARD, DCAL, NITB and Heritage Lottery.
Welcoming the Executive's recent agreement to her proposals for the future public management of Lough Neagh, Agriculture Minister, Michelle O'Neill has said: "An effective development of Lough Neagh presents real opportunities for rural tourism and economic progress in its surrounding areas and indeed beyond. I want to exploit these opportunities to the full.
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"My gut feeling is, yeah, if it comes down to it somehow, someway, you can get creative to keep me around here for another three or four years. I don't think it's that difficult," Modano said. "If the money situation is not that big of a difference [to another offer], yeah, I'll stay. If it's big-time, then you are making a hard decision." Although the 35-year-old Modano prefers a four- to five-year deal, his hinting at three years leaves a middle ground. Modano said he expects his agent, Brian Lawton, to speak with Stars general manager Doug Armstrong by the middle of the week, and again at the NHL Draft on Saturday. Modano can become an unrestricted free agent on Aug. 1. Club sources said the Stars gently floated a two-year offer. Modano, who made $9 million in 2003-04, will probably be offered a salary between $4 million to $5 million to start, but the salary could de-escalate after the first season. There was remote hope Modano would go for a one-year offer loaded with incentives. Under the new collective bargaining agreement, players 35 and older qualify for one-year agreements loaded with performance bonuses. "I don't know a lot of guys would do that," Modano said. "Someone is going to throw out a four-year deal. Three or four teams could."
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Comparison of intermittent and continuous chronic deep brain stimulation of the Ncl. Subthalamicus (STN) on seizure activity in a rat model of absence epilepsy
Vergleich chronisch-intermittierender mit -kontinuierlicher Tiefenhirnstimulation des Ncl. Subthalamicus auf die Anfallsaktivität im Absencenepilepsie Modell der Ratte
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Experimental data and case reports of patients suffering from epilepsy treated with STN stimulation (HFS) suggest an anticonvulsive effect. An anticonvulsive effect of acute high frequency stimulation (HFS) into an ongoing absence seizure has been reported in the generalised absence epileptic rat from Strasbourg (GAERS). In the present study the influence of two chronic stimulation paradigms on seizure activity in a rat model of absence epilepsy was investigated.
Bilateral chronic intermittent or continuous STN HFS was conducted to rats of the WAG/Rij strain (n=12/n=10), suffering from well- defined absence seizures. Bipolar, concentric deep brain electrodes and screw-skull electrodes were implanted by stereotaxy. A stimulation frequency of 130 Hz with an single-impulse duration of 60 µs, with current strength 20% below the motor threshold was given as train of 30 sec. every 5 min. for one hour in the intermittent stimulation group and continuously for 10 minutes in the continuous stimulation group. The procedure was repeated after one week (intermittent stimulation) or three days (continuous stimulation). Effects were evaluated by cumulated seizure duration (CSD) and seizure frequency (SF) in the EEG during a baseline period (B1 and B2 à 1h/10min) during stimulation (S1 and S2 1h/10min) and immediately after stimulation (P1 and P2 à 1h/10min). For statistical analysis, the non-parametric Friedman-Test followed by the Wilcoxon-Test was performed.
After the first stimulation period, the chronic intermittent bilateral HFS of the STN resulted in a decrease of cumulated seizure duration (B1: 119 sec; S1: 61 sec.; P1: 38 sec.) and in a further reduction also during baseline measurement on the second experimental day one week later (B2: 20 sec; S2: 13 sec.; P2: 3 sec.). This reduction in CSD and SF was statistically significant (CSD: B1 vs B2 p=0,006, B1 vs. P1 p=0,008; SF: B1 vs B2 p=0,006, B1 vs. P1 p=0,013). The continuous stimulation design revealed no anticonvulsive effect.
This study provides evidence for the anticonvulsive properties of chronic intermittent bilateral HFS of the STN in absence epilepsy. Ineffectiveness of chronic-continuous stimulation suggest dependency of anticonvulsive effects on stimulation paradigms. In addition, a long-term anticonvulsive effect lasting at least for one week was assessed and was boosted by the second stimulation.


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Huge Suggestion for the NBANovember 29, 2007
My cousin watched A-Rod and Jimmy Rollins win the AL and NL MVP. So he called and asked me "How come there isnt an Eastern and Western Conference MVP, 6th Man, or Rookie of the Year awards in the NBA"? At first, I didnt pay it no attention. But after a couple of days, the question stayed in my head. So I figured I have some fun with it.
In Major League Baseball, the National and American League play with different sets of rules so I understand having two different award winners for both. Obviously, that is not the case in the NBA. Also, like ordering an adult beverage at a bar, the awards would become watered down if it is for only half of the 30 teams instead of the entire league.
So just for the hell of it, let's see who the East and West award winners would have been for last year going by the official results.
27.3Pts, 6.7Reb, 6.0Asts
24.6Pts, 8.9Rebs, 3.4Asts
NBA Sixth Man of the Year
18.1Pts, 4.0Asts, 1.2Stls
David Lee, Knicks (East)
10.7Pts, 10.4Rebs, .600FG%
Most Improved Player
16.5Pts, 4.1Asts, 1.7Stls
18.8Pts, 7.1Rebs, 1.2Stls
Defensive Player of the Year
11.2Pts, 11.7Rebs, 3.3Blks, 1.2Stls
Ben Wallace, Bulls (East)
6.4Pts, 10.7Rebs, 2.0Blks, 1.4Stls
Rookie of the Year
Brandon Roy, Blazers (West)
16.8Pts. 4.4Rebs, 4.0Asts, 1.2Stls
Andrea Bargnani, Raptors (East)
11.6Pts, 3.9Rebs
Coach of the Year
Sam Mitchell, Raptors (East)
47-35 Record
Avery Johnson, Mavs (West)
67-15 Record
If this was to happen. There would be more individual players than ever. The only player I feel sorry for is Kobe Bryant. He is going to be one of the only Hall-Of-Famer without an MVP award. But I dont think he cares because 3 championship rings speak for themselves. Im not really for this one, but I think it would make the players play harder and more better. Plus, you will find out the REAL NBA players who want to win a ring mor than awards every year.
I have a huge favor for all the Bleacher Report Fans. Read this, and give me your East and West trophy winners for the last 10 years. Including the other awards also. And tell me if the league should follow the suit of MLB and split awards for the East and West......


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The closure of an obscure food court eatery might not garner much interest, but Si Roo was unique in that it provided a set of Korean foods not found elsewhere in Orange County.
While the food court at Garden Grove's H-Mart (on Garden Grove Blvd. and Magnolia St.) has everything from
ice-cold dongchimi noodles to chlorella dumplings, from kimbap to nakji bokkeum, Si Roo specialized in medicinal foods, particularly those from
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