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"This is for you Kings' players and Kings fans wherever you may be. All the frustration and disappointment of the past is gone. The 45-year drought is over. The Los Angeles Kings are indeed the Kings of the National Hockey League, the 2012 Stanley Cup Champions!"
-The call of Kings Hall of Fame TV broadcaster Bob Miller during the final seconds of Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final
It took 45 years, 592 players and just over 3,600 games, but the Kings finally accomplished what the franchise first set out to do in the fall of 1967. On June 11, 2012, the Kings were crowned Champions of the NHL for the first time.
Not bad for a team that struggled to live up to expectations for much of the 2011-12 regular season. Not bad for a team that endured a mid-season coaching change and finished 29th out of 30 teams in goals-per-game average. Not bad for a team that needed to win nine of its last 14 games just to get into the 2012 postseason as the eighth seed in the Western Conference.
The Kings began the season with a record of 5-1-1 but soon after that the team endured a team-wide goal-scoring slump that had everyone, including President and General Manager Dean Lombardi, mystified. By mid-December Lombardi knew that a change at the top was needed to save the season. On December 12, the Kings announced that Head Coach Terry Murray had been relieved of his duties. Assistant Coach John Stevens served as Interim Head Coach for four games before Darryl Sutter officially took over as the Kings new Head Coach on December 22.
The one constant throughout the regular season was the performance of Kings' goaltender Jonathan Quick, a Second Team NHL All-Star and a Finalist for the Vezina Trophy. Quick set franchise single-season records for shutouts (10), save percentage (.929) and goals-against average (1.95) in 2011-12. He also set a club record with three straight shutouts while posting a franchise record scoreless streak of 202:11 in October. Without him, the Kings season would certainly have been lost.
The Kings started to show signs of improvement under the guidance of Sutter. They became a more aggressive team and things really began to come together in February when the Kings acquired Jeff Carter at the NHL trade deadline and brought up young prospects Dwight King and Jordan Nolan from the Manchester Monarchs of the American Hockey League. Still, the Kings weren't assured of a playoff spot until April 5, just two days before the end of the regular season.
The Kings were simply at their collective best during the 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs as they never faced an elimination game during their postseason run to greatness. With every game, a new hero emerged. Along the way they became the first eighth-seeded team to ever win the Stanley Cup and they also tied for the second best record in NHL playoff history, going 16-4 overall and 10-1 on the road. Outstanding goaltending from Quick, a dominant penalty kill and timely scoring were all main ingredients for the Kings, who set a new Stanley Cup playoff record with 10 straight road wins and became the first NHL team to ever go up 3-0 in all four series in one playoff year.
"The long wait is over…after 45 years the Kings can wear their crown! The Los Angeles Kings have won the Stanley Cup!"
-The call of Kings veteran radio broadcaster Nick Nickson during the final seconds of Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final
LA vs. Vancouver – Game 1
Dustin Penner scored the winning goal with 3:14 left in the third period to help the Kings beat the top-seeded Vancouver Canucks 4-2 in the opener of their Western Conference Quarterfinal series in Vancouver on April 11. Mike Richards and Willie Mitchell added power play goals and Dustin Brown scored into an empty net. Richards finished with three points (1-2=3) in his Kings playoff debut and Jonathan Quick recorded 24 saves to preserve the victory.
LA vs. Vancouver – Game 2
Dustin Brown tied an NHL playoff record with two short-handed goals and Jonathan Quick made 46 saves as the Kings beat the Canucks 4-2 in Vancouver on April 13. Jarret Stoll and Trevor Lewis added third period goals for the Kings, who killed off all five Vancouver power plays they faced in the game. Quick was at his best in the third period, collecting 22 of his 46 saves with the game in the balance to give the Kings a 2-0 series lead.
LA vs. Vancouver – Game 3
Jonathan Quick made 41 saves and Dustin Brown scored on a long rebound with 13:30 to play in the third period as the eighth-seeded Kings posted a 1-0 victory over Vancouver at STAPLES Center on April 15. Brown sparked the Kings with a crushing second period hit on Vancouver captain Henrik Sedin, and his fourth goal of the series put the Kings one win away from their first playoff series victory in over a decade. Quick finished off his second career playoff shutout with 16 saves in the third period.
LA vs. Vancouver – Game 4
Cory Schneider made 43 saves in his first career playoff victory, Daniel Sedin sparked Vancouver's power play in his return from injury, and the top-seeded Canucks avoided a first-round sweep by the Kings with a 3-1 victory at STAPLES Center on April 18. Anze Kopitar scored a first period goal, and Jonathan Quick stopped 27 shots for the Kings, who were trying to close out their first playoff series victory since 2001.
LA vs. Vancouver – Game 5
Jarret Stoll beat Cory Schneider at 4:27 of overtime to give the Kings a 2-1 victory over Vancouver, knocking out the top-seeded Canucks in five games in their Western Conference first-round series in Vancouver on April 22. Stoll scored from the left wing after a turnover at the Vancouver blue line. He skated in on a 2-on-1, but took the shot himself, picking the top-left corner above Schneider's blocker. Brad Richardson tied the game with a third period goal for the Kings and Jonathan Quick made 26 saves.
LA vs. St. Louis – Game 1
Matt Greene scored his first career playoff goal short-handed late in the second period and rookie Slava Voynov also picked up his first goal of the playoffs as the Kings beat the St. Louis Blues 3-1 in the opener of a Western Conference Semifinal series in St. Louis on April 28. Jonathan Quick, who shut out the Blues twice in the regular season, made 28 saves to improve his record to 5-1 in the postseason. Dustin Penner also added an empty net goal for the Kings who improved to 4-0 on the road during the 2012 postseason.
LA vs. St. Louis – Game 2
Anze Kopitar scored twice in a four-goal first period as the Kings embarrassed the Blues from the opening faceoff in a 5-2 win at St. Louis on April 30. Mike Richards and Jeff Carter had a goal apiece and Dustin Brown and Dustin Penner each had a pair of assists in the opening period for the Kings, who improved to 5-0 on the road during the 2012 postseason. Jonathan Quick turned aside 27 shots to help the Kings take control of the series and Justin Williams added a second period goal.
LA vs. St. Louis – Game 3
Drew Doughty had a goal and two assists and Jonathan Quick made 18 saves for the Kings in a 4-2 victory over St. Louis at STAPLES Center on May 3. Justin Williams, Dwight King and Mike Richards also scored for the Kings who opened a 3-0 series lead over the Blues with their seventh victory in eight playoff games. Richards also fought in the game and later chipped in with an assist to record a Gordie Howe hat trick, and Anze Kopitar finished with two assists in the game.
LA vs. St. Louis – Game 4
Dustin Brown scored two goals, Jonathan Quick made 23 saves, and the Kings swept the Blues out of the postseason with a 3-1 victory at STAPLES Center on May 6. With the win, the Kings advanced to the Western Conference Final series for just the second time in club history. Jordan Nolan also scored an early goal for the Kings, the first No. 8 seed in NHL history to eliminate their conference's top two seeds in the same postseason. The Kings held the Blues to just six total goals in the series while killing off all 17 Blues power play opportunities.


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BRIAN FLYNN highlighted the Manchester United connection as Swansea got their promotion show back on the road at Rochdale.
Old Trafford loan signings Alan Tate and Daniel Nardiello both proved their worth in a tense game decided by United old boy Mark Wilson's 16th-minute strike.
"We had the boost of bringing in the two young lads (Tate and Nardiello) and that showed," said Flynn. "It just gave us that little bit of spark after the defeat to Cambridge on Tuesday night.
"I thought Alan was close to man-of-the-match but the important thing is that he knows all about us. He slotted in superbly but I was very pleased with Danny's debut as well.
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For web server's SSL subsystem (NSS) to use external PKCS#11 tokens, you have to configure NSS with the modutil command to make it aware of the tokens. The Solaris libpkcs11 softtoken is a PKCS#11 compliant token which can be used with NSS. As an additional benefit on UltraSPARC-T1, systems using the Solaris 10 libpkcs11 task will make use of the platform crypto acceleration support.
Run the modutil command without any arguments for usage information. For example, to add the Solaris 10 libpkcs11 task as a PKCS11 token in NSS.
Ensure that SSL support has been initialized for the web server instances.
Run the following command:
% modutil -dbdir $ALIASDIR -dbprefix $PREFIX -add libpkcs -libfile /usr/lib/libpkcs11.so -mechanisms RSA
$ALIASDIR is the path to the alias directory in the install root where the NSS database files are located.
$PREFIX is the prefix used by the key3 and cer8 database files in the alias directory and is of the form https-$INSTANCENAME-.
The -mechanisms flag makes this token the preferred initial provider for the given algorithms.
Run the modutil command without any arguments for a list of all possible mechanisms.
Initialize the libpkcs11 provider's password with pktool.
% pktool setpin
For further details on configuring NSS, see the libpkcs11(3LIB), pkcs11_softtoken(5), and pktool(1) man pages. For more information about modutil, see http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/tools/modutil.html.


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An Offer to Buy
A buyer makes an offer by submitting a written and signed offer to purchase. This document becomes the sales contract when signed by all parties involved.
Presenting the offer begins when the selling agent registers the offer with Iowa Realty's Real Estate office and notifies the listing associate of the offer. The listing associate then arranges a presentation appointment with the home seller and the selling associate. The buyer does not attend.
As the seller, you will be given a sample net proceeds sheet. The calculations on this sheet are done to let you see the "bottom line." Part of this presenting the offer meeting also includes determining that the buyer is financially qualified to make the purchase.
You now have three options:
When both buyer and seller agree to all terms (including changes made in any counteroffer) and indicate agreement by their signatures, the contract becomes "firm." With signatures and notification to all parties, a sales contract now exists.
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It is possible to receive more than one offer to buy. All offers that are registered before a final acceptance must be presented to the seller. As the seller, you should hear each offer and ask questions. You do not need to act until you've heard all offers. If more than one offer is accepted or countered, an order of precedence must be established, such as primary, first backup, second backup and so on. Your listing sales associate will answer your questions as they occur.


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- Same piece of equipment had malfunctioned 23 times in 12 months, report says
- Pilots were unable to handle the plane after it became upset or tilted more than 45 degrees
- Crash highlights weakness in pilot training which focuses on takeoff and landing
(CNN)The way pilots responded to a technical malfunction resulted in the crash of an AirAsia flight into the Java Sea, killing all 162 people on board, investigators said Tuesday.
AirAsia Flight 8501 was en route to Singapore from the Indonesian city of Surabaya on December 28 last year when it crashed.
It was one in a string of aviation disasters that occurred in Asia in 2014, including the mysterious disappearance of MH370 over the Indian Ocean and the crash of TransAsia Flight 222 on a Taiwanese island.
In the AirAsia disaster, the system that regulates the plane's rudder movement kept malfunctioning because of a cracked solder joint. Aircraft maintenance records found it had malfunctioned 23 times in the year before the crash, and the interval between those incidents became shorter in the three months prior to the crash, Indonesia's National Transport Safety Committee said in a report.
"Subsequent flight crew action resulted in inability to control the aircraft ... causing the aircraft to depart from the normal flight envelope and enter a prolonged stall condition that was beyond the capability of the flight crew to recover," the report said.
In other words, "it's a series of technical failures, but it's the pilot response that leads to the plane crashing," CNN's aviation correspondent Richard Quest said.
Pilot training weakness
The investigation, a joint effort involving Australian, French, Singaporean and Malaysian authorities, points to weaknesses in pilot training in dealing with upsets, or when an aircraft is angled greater than 45 degrees.
"Our recommendation to AirAsia is to train their pilots flying the Airbus plane on how to make an upset recovery," investigator Nurcahyo Utomo said.
The AirAsia pilots had not been trained for that scenario, he added, because the manual provided by the plane's manufacturer said the aircraft, an Airbus 320, was designed to prevent it from becoming upset and therefore upset recovery training was unnecessary.
AirAsia has since required upset recovery training for its pilots, Utomo said.
Utomo also said the cockpit voice recorder showed confusing instructions from the captain to the co-pilot who was manning the controls at the time.
"The most interesting part that could be heard from the CVR is that whenever the plane went up, the captain said 'pull down.' ... To go down, the captain has to say 'push,' while to go up, the captain has to say 'pull' in reference to moving the side stick handle."
Cruising involves such high speeds, CNN's Quest said, that pilots responding without complete precision can often be disastrous.
"A huge amount of training is done on takeoff and landing and traditionally, of course, is 70-80% (of when accidents take place); only 10% takes (place) in the cruise phase of flight. But if something does happen in the cruise phase of flight, it does typically end up fatal."
Plane ascended rapidly before crash
Preliminary findings from Indonesia's NTSC earlier this year said roughly 35 minutes into the two-hour flight, the pilot asked air traffic control for permission to climb to avoid stormy weather.
The plane went from cruising at 32,000 feet, ascending steeply to 37,400 feet in about 30 seconds -- something commercial planes are not designed to do. It may have been climbing at a rate twice as fast as it could and should, one analyst told CNN.
Minutes later, the plane disappeared from radar.
Although the area was experiencing turbulent weather patterns, seven other planes flying nearby landed safely.
Malaysia-based AirAsia did not have the clearance to fly the route on that particular day.
Indonesia's NTSC issued several recommendations to AirAsia and Airbus as well as Indonesian, U.S. and European aviation regulatory bodies, but the statement did not detail what they are.


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- All rooms are suites with wet bars, mini-fridges, and microwaves
- Free breakfast and free evening reception
- Free shuttle to and from the airport (5 minutes away)
- All rooms have flat-screen TVs in the bedroom and living room
- Good-sized basement fitness center
- Large indoor pool, Jacuzzi, and a sundeck
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- Fee for Wi-Fi
- Room decor is bland
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The Embassy Suites in Charlotte is a large hotel less than five minutes from the airport. The decor is typical of a chain hotel -- the 274 suites, all of which have separate (and blandly decorated) living areas, wet bars, mini-fridges, and microwaves, are centered around a kitschy atrium with a small waterfall and plastic-looking plants. Families may enjoy the indoor pool, the free breakfast, and the laundry facilities, but this hotel is geared toward business travelers who will be staying in Charlotte for a short trip. Those who want to be close to the action and the city's many attractions may consider staying in Uptown Charlotte.


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What is Wide?
June 27 (commentary)--Lens questions tend to be at the top of the list this time of year, as many of you are trying to figure out your lens kit for upcoming vacations. I'm not going to exactly answer the "what lens" questions in this series of short articles, but instead try to give you some background information to consider. Today, we start with wide angle.
What exactly is wide angle?
To answer that question we have to answer another: what is normal? Some people think that this is the focal length of the eye. That would be wrong. Technically, the focal length of the eye is somewhere around 22mm (FX equivalent). That would be what we generally consider a wide angle lens. No, "normal" usually refers to an aspect of perspective, not angle of view. A normal lens is usually defined as having the same focal length as the diagonal capture (DX: 28mm, FX: 43mm). This produces a "normal sized print" that has a "similar perspective" to what we'd see in real life if we were standing there.
Wide angle lenses for DX currently fall in the 8mm to 24mm range, for FX we have 12mm to 35mm available. Here's the thing to think about with wide angle lenses:
Most beginning photographers try to use a wide angle lens in the first manner. Most pro photographers use a wide angle lens in the second manner. A few really pro photographers will sometimes use a wide angle in the third manner, because it emphasizes what they're trying to show with the composition.
The problem with the first use is that it tends to remove depth relationships in order to show more "width." But photographs are two-dimensional when presented (at least the vast majority at this point in time). "More width" in a 14" print doesn't really help to make the image more involving; it tends to have the opposite impact. Removing depth clues makes an image look very "flat" and tends to make the viewer feel distant (which is what the pro attempting the third use is probably trying to emphasize).
What I've long taught at workshops is this: the wider the lens you use, the closer you probably should be to the nearest thing in your scene. And there should be a nearest thing in your scene! The classic landscape shot is something like: near flower, middle lake, far peak. How far do you think the photographer is from the flower? The lake? The peak? How about 1 foot, 10 feet, 1 mile+? Yep, there's almost a logarithmic nature to near/middle/far in most pro landscape shots. In most amateur shots, it's more like middle/far/far (10 feet, 100 yards, 1 mile). And the image feels "flatter" when hung on the wall in a frame because of that.
This is not to say that you always frame a wide angle with near exaggeration, but I'd want to hear a clear plan on what you're trying to achieve by removing depth perspective if you're going to try something else, like standing back.
Is there a sweet spot? Yes. Though it has tended to move over time. Back around World War II it was probably enough to use a 35mm lens. The difference in perspective (when used correctly) was enough to distinguish such pictures from those shot at 50mm and 55mm. ("Normal" was a bit longer than it should be during that period because longer lenses were easier to make sharp.) Over time, that has changed, though. By the time Galen Rowell became one of the preeminent 35mm landscape shooters in the 80's and 90's, 20-24mm was where things stood for "wide angle." I'm not sure they've moved beyond that, though. That's because it gets more difficult to find things you can photograph at <6" with things that are near infinity that make any sense. 24mm (FX; that's 16mm DX) is good, when used properly. 20mm (FX, or 14mm DX) produces a bit more perspective exaggeration, but is trickier to get right, and starts to be a problem if there are people in your shot outside the central area. Wider than that generally needs a very specific set of near/middle/far relationships and someone who is clearly manipulating those.
So, let's break this out for DX and FX users.
First, FX: you need a 20mm or 24mm lens to get strong depth perspective changes. Anything wider than that gives you some flexibility in really close or tight quarters (e.g. indoor shooting). So we've got plenty of great choices for wide angle: 14-24mm, 16-35mm, 24mm f/1.4G, and 24mm f/3.5 PC-E come to mind. Just make sure that you have a way to get to a very usable 24mm. Unfortunately, the 18mm and 20mm lenses Nikon produced don't do very well on the digital bodies, so we end up going to zooms in that range over primes.
DX users need at least 16mm. That really only gives us zoom lenses: 16-85mm, 16-35mm, 12-24mm, and perhaps the 14-24mm. The 14mm f/2.8 isn't all that great--I'd rather have any of the three zooms. This once again points out the fact that we don't yet have any usable DX wide primes. Surely someone at Nikon must have noticed that, which means that Nikon thinks you don't need a wide DX prime. That would be a wrong decision, and surveys of Nikon users tend to prove that point.
You can certainly go wider (14-24mm on FX, 10-24mm on DX). But make sure you know how to frame for depth with these lenses and that they're really what you need. I find 14mm on FX and 10mm on DX a much more conditional use than a basic use. On FX most of my wide landscape work would tend to be 20-24mm, on DX 14-16mm.
I should point out that we have some "fun" wide angles, too. The fisheye lenses (e.g. 10.5mm DX and 16mm FX) definitely provide a completely different perspective. They are a bit tricky to master, but using them is almost like playing a game, trying to figure out how to "score" with an image using them.
Almost everyone reading this certainly has a wide angle lens of some sort. Even the kit lenses on DX give you a 28mm equivalent, which is within the wide realm. But here's the thing. Learn just one thing and it might open up a new wide angle world for you: get closer. That's it. Get closer. If you're a wide angle newcomer, just try this: move two full steps closer when you're at 18mm on your kit lens. Resist the temptation to move backwards to "get everything in." (Uh, if you're standing at the edge of a cliff, cancel that move two steps closer order. But you'd find me laying on the ground and hanging a bit over the cliff. ;~) If you're photographing people in front of things, moving closer is going to mean you have to move the people out of the center of the image, too. And note that "get closer" may also mean you need to get closer to the ground. You're not going to get depth perspective enhancement from eye level if the nearest thing is at your feet.
Trust me on this: just try moving closer when you zoom out or change lenses to a wide angle. You'll discover your images are suddenly different, and have depth to them they didn't have before.
Convenience Zooms
June 30 (commentary)--Returning to our focus on lenses this week (yes, intentional pun), today we want to look at what most of you use most of the time. And that's mid-range zooms and superzooms, the so-called convenience lenses.
Nikon has a long history at trying to perfect the mid-range zoom, and it dates all the way back to things like the 1963 introduction of the 43-86mm f/3.5 zoom (technically that would be a normal-to-modest-telephoto zoom). In the film autofocus era that got started in the early 1980's, some variant of 28 or 35mm to 70 or 85mm gained popularity, as this was within the design capabilities at the time and satisfied the "three in one" aspect most mid-range zooms have to deliver. Almost every maker ended up with more than one variation on this: just enough wide at the one end to be called wide angle, just enough telephoto at the other end to be called telephoto, with lots of "normal" in between ;~).
Tamron was the first to popularize something that went beyond the mid-range zooms, the so-called superzoom (lots of focal length range). Their original 28-200mm was compact and provided pretty much all the focal lengths a user might want most of the time. The lens was so popular, it was the first lens to sell a million units (though I believe that was across a couple of minor model changes).
Most of us called the mid-range zooms and superzooms "convenience lenses" when they first arrived on the scene, and I'd say the same thing today. Most people tend towards mid-range zooms (or superzooms) because it's convenient. You end up with one thing to carry (camera plus lens). You don't have to worry about how to carry more lenses, keeping track of lens caps, worrying about different filters for different lenses, the list goes on and on.
But with convenience comes compromise. Early on that compromise included image quality, though that's largely a thing of the past. Today's convenience lenses (again, mid-range zooms and superzooms) are pretty competent in terms of image quality. But you have to watch out for several types of compromise that sneaks in on your images when you use such lenses:
One of the reasons why people gravitate to the f/2.8 mid-range zoom (currently the 24-70mm) is the first bullet, above. Some do so also for the second bullet. But the third bullet isn't being addressed as long as you stay put and zoom instead of move. So if you're going to get a mid-range zoom or superzoom, be careful this doesn't make you lazy in your shot selection. If you're zooming instead of moving, you're getting lazy. One thing you can do is to consider your zoom a multi-focal lens, not a zoom. Pick three focal lengths (e.g. 16mm, 35mm, and 85mm for the 16-85mm DX) and only use them. Think of your zoom as a wide angle (16mm), normal (35mm), and telephoto (85mm) and pick the type of lens you want before trying to frame the shot by pre-zooming to that focal length. Then bring the camera up to your eye and use your feet to help frame, not the zoom ring.
A lot of those switching from film to digital did something interesting: they kept using their basically FX mid-range zooms on DX bodies. Thus, I notice a lot of 28-70mm, 28-85mm, and 28-105mm lenses ending up on DX bodies. That makes them really 42-xx lenses, or normal-to-telephoto, not midrange. But this also means that those users don't often have any wide angle capability. Funny thing is, they didn't miss it because they didn't really know how to use a wide angle lens. If I could break photographers from any bad habit it is this: shooting only at eye level and only using a zoom to get closer. These folk are doing both those things. They never shoot at anything other than eye level, and they think that the purpose of the zoom is to simply get the shot without moving their feet. All of you who did my homework assignment during You Week know what I'm talking about here, so I won't belabor it.
Am I against mid-range zooms? Not at all. I've got a few myself, and they are very useful in a lot of situations. For photo journalism and sports, for instance, you often get stuck in a single position, and then the only way you can vary the shot is by zooming. That's not what I often want to do in that situation, but it's all I can do. There's a difference.
And mid-range zooms and superzooms are indeed convenient. All of us like convenience. Just make sure that the convenience doesn't take precedence over everything else. When it does, your images will start to suffer. Note that almost every pro has a convenience camera (usually in their pocket). That's why we all want better, larger sensor, compact cameras. Give me a 24-70mm, DX-sensor, competent and well thought out compact and my convenience camera problems probably get solved once and for all, and I might not need the convenience lens at all.
I am a little more against superzooms than mid-range zooms these days. As good as the Nikkor 18-200mm (DX) or the Tamron 28-300mm (FX) are, their image quality compromises do start to show up when you put them up almost anything else that covers less focal length range. And they aren't as long in the telephoto end as anyone seems to think they are as you start bringing focus closer than infinity.
I'd argue these days that if you want a versatile all-in-one lens that it needs to be something in the 24-105mm range (FX; that's 16-70mm DX). Why? Because, as I noted in the wide angle discussion earlier, as we've started printing larger and as we've been accustomed to the 28mm and 35mm perspective, it really takes 24mm to have full impact for wide angle work these days. An all-in-one lens has to take you from useful wide angle to useful telephoto. 105mm at the telephoto end is starting to get into the detail isolation realm for close subjects. If you go much beyond 105mm, though, the lens itself starts to get a bit long physically, and I think you're just better off getting a dedicated telephoto of some sort (zoom or prime) to get closer.
So what does Nikon have for us? Well, DX users are in luck: the 16-85mm is not only a great lens optically, but it pretty much defines a very useful mid-range. Its only real drawback is the f/5.6 aperture at the long end, but that's the price you pay for convenient, light, and small. We don't really have a great f/2.8 DX candidate, though the 17-55mm comes close. It's just a little too little at each end. The Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8, ditto, though it too is a very fine lens for what it covers.
FX users are out of luck. Nikon hasn't given us what we need. The 24-70mm f/2.8 is wimpy at the long end, and it's big, heavy, VR-less, and a host of other things that make it less the slam dunk than it at first looks. The 24-120mm isn't optically up to what we need these days.
The one good thing about mid-range zooms is this: if no one makes the one you really need, just buy three great primes. All you need for FX is a 24mm, 40/50mm, and 105mm (some might prefer an 85mm if they've got other long telephoto options). Not as convenient maybe, but optically better. Realistically, you probably don't use all the focal lengths of your mid-range zoom, anyway. DX users have less luck here, as they don't have a 16mm prime available or anything that's even reasonably close. But what I'd do is use the 12-24mm, 35mm f/1.8, and 60mm Tamron f/2 as my three "primes."
The thing that's important to realize in these last examples is this: you can build a small, relatively convenient three-lens kit that gives you more performance in most aspects (low light, image quality, focus choices, etc.). The "convenience" you lose by not using a mid-range zoom instead is simple: you have to change lenses from time to time, and you need to move your feet. That really doesn't sound all that inconvenient to me, especially since I'm moving my feet already even if I'm using a zoom.
Lenses--Going Long
July 1 (commentary)--Today we consider the sore spot of most photographers' existence: the telephoto lens. Why is it a sore spot? Because there's a good chance that what you need is big, heavy, and expensive, or that Nikon doesn't make it (or you can't get one because it's out of stock). Yuck.
Let's start at the extreme. Probably the most extreme telephoto use is for birding. Short of being in a blind (and sometimes even then), bird photographers tend to gravitate to the longest lens they can afford and handle. Generally wildlife photography doesn't fall much behind the birding photographer: you don't want to be shooting a grizzly bear with a 105mm lens, unless it's at the zoo and there's something between you and the bear ;~).
Unlike wide angle, where a small difference in focal length number seems to make large differences in angle of view, at the telephoto end the opposite seems to happen: large jumps (100mm or more) of focal length seem to garner only small changes in angle of view. That "little bird" viewed at distance with a 600mm lens seems to look only a tad bigger than it did with the 500mm. Hmm. Maybe an 800mm?
Someone recently asked me how to calculate subject size to angle of view. Your geometry instructor was right: that knowledge is useful in real life! (Off the top of my head--I'm traveling at the moment and don't have my usual desktop sources to verify--I think it's tan(A) = a/c where a is half the subject width and c is the distance for the subject. A is then half the angle of view, so use the table above. I'm sure there's a better calculation than that, though.)
I have one suggestion to those who are into true wildlife photography, especially where smaller animals are concerned: just bite the bullet and get as long and as fast a lens as you can afford and handle from the start. It's sort of like my tripod article suggests, only with a twist: you can buy a series of lenses hoping that you can sneak up on the goal and maybe find something "usable" that's less expensive and smaller, but it ain't going to happen. You'll buy a 70-300mm VR. Replace that with a 300mm f/4. Replace that with a 200-400mm f/4. Replace that with a 500mm f/4. And eventually decide that maybe the 600mm f/4 is what you really need (all the while wondering how it performs with teleconverters ;~). By the time you're done, you'll have spent a small fortune on lenses and still wonder if you have the right one. Since the exotics keep going up in price, trying to sneak up on the final answer has a cost penalty, too: what you can buy today for US$11,000 used to cost US$7000 back when you bought your first 70-300mm. While you might be able to get most of your money out of the telephoto lenses you bought as you work your way up the focal length ladder, it is by no means assured.
Yes, I understand that not everyone can afford to just go out and buy the "right kit" from the start. Plus spousal buy-in is usually necessary. But trying to sneak up on "the right lens" is just an exercise in frustration and perpetual credit card abuse. The problem with wildlife photography, and especially bird photography, is that the same opportunity you saw this morning might not occur again. So if you didn't have the right lens this morning, you'll never get that shot.
If you have to compromise at the extreme end, compromise on features, not quality and focal length. It's long been my suggestion that if you can't afford a 500mm f/4 VR, for example, that you look for a used 500mm f/4P. Yep, you lose autofocus and VR, but you'll pay US$2500-3000 for a lens in excellent or like new condition versus $8500 for the latest and greatest version. And as I note in my article on VR, you're already turning VR off when you're on a tripod or shooting at over 1/500. Are you really sure that autofocus and VR is worth US$6000?
So, for those of you thinking you have to save up for or sneak up on the exotics, consider these options instead:
Three other things you can consider if you don't have the extreme focal length requirements of the birders and dedicated wildlife users:
These options still delivery decent image quality. Though not quite at the level of the dedicated focal length exotics, these last three options tend to be better than the 80-400mm, 150-500mm, and 50-500mm options that tempt the "long shooter." But they're also bigger and more expensive than those popular telephoto zooms. Still, I put image quality at the top of the list always when it comes to sports, wildlife, birding, and the other types of uses you need these lenses for. Again, that's because many times the "great picture" opportunity you encounter only occurs once (or at least rarely). You won't be able to duplicate what happened today a few years from now when you can afford the exotic telephoto. Thus, always buy image quality first and foremost for very long telephoto lenses. All features are window dressing.
Of course, you can also consider renting. You can rent a 500mm f/4 for a week's use for about US$500. If your budget is US$2500 and you're only shooting three weeks a year where you need such length, you might be able to get by with just renting for a couple of years. Of course, you won't own anything at the end of that period (other than great pictures, that is!). .
So, if you need a really long lens, don't compromise the wrong thing. You need a long focal length with high image quality. You may not need a zoom, autofocus, or VR.
But most users just need a solid telephoto lens that's a little more modest. The 80-200mm range is something almost every photographer needs covered. Nikon has several reasonable choices here: the 70-200mm f/2.8 VR, the 80-200mm f/2.8, and the 70-300mm f/4-5.6 VR. All are quite good lenses (and you'll find reviews of them elsewhere on this site). Even the 55-200mm f/4.5-5.6 VR is a pretty good lens, and a real bargain, at that. Every Nikon user should have one (or more) of those four lenses in their kit, in my opinion.
Better still, with a CU lens set (usually the Canon 500D) or the right extension tube, the above four lenses can also provide some reasonable macro capability. For the 70-200mm, any of the TC teleconverters can give you an impromptu focal length boost without sacrificing much, if any, performance. (That's true of the VR II version of the lens with the latest TCs. The older 70-200mm is a little less capable with TCs, especially the older TC-20e.)
More on Angle of View
July 2 (technique) updated--Several of you just wanted angle of view calculations for a focal length, not for a subject size (remember, a table of this is in all of my digital eBooks and in the ToGo Guides). While there are plenty of calculators on the Internet you can't always see the formulas behind them. The formula you probably want to use for simple angle of view calculation is 2*arctan (half capture dimension/focal length), then convert to degrees.
Believe it or not, Google can do the heavy lifting for you. Let's say we have an FX sensor, 50mm lens, and want the horizontal angle of view. The sensor is 36mm wide, so half that is 18. The formula is therefore 2*arctan (18/50). Just type that into a Google search bar (plus the words "in degrees" at the end [otherwise you get the answer in radians, which you probably don't think in]) and you get your result (~40°). So far, so good.
Now how do we get the distance to a fixed size subject or the size of a subject at a fixed distance? That's the tan(A) = a/c formula I gave earlier in the week. We now have calculated angle A, which will be half of the value Google generated. So if the distance to the subject is 20m, we want to be calculating tan(20) = a/20, which gives us half the subject size. Google will give you "tan 20 degrees" as ~3.6. So now we multiply both sides by 20 and get 20*3.6 = a. If instead you wanted the distance to a subject that's 20m wide, take half the 20 and you get 3.6 = 10/c. Divide each side by 3.6 and multiply each side by c and you have c = 10/3.6. (Previous versions of this made the common mistake of converted tan(20) as radians, not degrees. Also, for these distance calculations, you can use any units, as long as they are consistent. Thanks to those that pointed out my errors.)
Or you could have asked your teenager who's taking geometry ;~).
A Couple of Lens Week Followups
July 2 (commentary)--Some of your responses to this week's articles are worth elaborating on:
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I decided not to think about that mysterious girl for the meantime. This day is just full of surprises to begin with. I need a break. So I began thinking of other things. That's when my mind drifted to my childhood friend. Even though Phin is a school dormer, he still prefers his favorite sports car to be with him all the time. It is his most precious thing and he even considers it as his 'best friend' aside from my older brother. By the way, his car's name is Sunny - even though it's bright red in color. Phin's family is wealthy. His father's a businessman and his mother's an accountant. As the only son, naturally he'd be forced to take up business administration as his bachelor's degree in order for him to inherit the family business but he persuaded his parents to let him take up the course of his dream - that is, B.S. Chemical Engineering. I don't know how did he do it - must be really hard for him - but I didn't bother to ask him the details about that. I'm not fond of meddling other people's family life. Anyway, for taking such a difficult path, Phin is a real genius. He has aced all of his subjects in spite being a school varsity player in basketball. He's even a consistent Dean's Lister. I have no idea how does he balance all these things. He's just undeniably great and worth emulating. No matter how rich he is, he still wanted to be a college scholar so he took up scholarship exams in different schools and, of course, he passed them all. I just don't know why he preferred UCLA of all universities here in California. Knowing all these, I was deeply inspired by Phin so I also took a scholarship exam in UCLA and thankfully passed.
Originally, my brother suggested that I'd take a scholarship exam in California Institute of Technology (CalTech) - that's where he took up his pre-medical course (pre-med Biology). Realizing that he'd already be in a different school (Stanford University) once he finishes his pre-med course, he allowed me to take the scholarship exam in UCLA so that I could study there and Phin could look out for me in his place. My brother is two years ahead of me so I'm still in my third year and Phin in his fourth year. I took up the course of my dream as well - that is, B.S. Chemistry. Both Phin and I share the same sentiment of liking Chemistry as a subject. It is our favorite subject indeed. I may not be a real knack unlike Phin, but I can still manage to maintain good scores in class. Motivated by him, I also managed to be a consistent Dean's Lister. Whenever I have some difficulties with my classes, I have an instant tutor and that's no other than Phin.
Phin and I arrived at the school premises. This time, it's already eight in the evening. But before his car entered the school portal...
"Hungry?" He asked.
"A little." I smiled warmly.
"Okay then. Let's go somewhere you'd surely like - my treat this time." He winked. He really knows a lot of facts about me. Then he drove the car straight the driveway instead of going in the school portal.
"Aye sir!" I replied motioning a salute-like gesture in my seat facing him. He laughed hard. I'm grateful he doesn't mind me doing weird stuff like this even if people around think that I'm an idiot or so.
Phin was just quiet as he drove towards our destination. I didn't bother asking him where anymore 'cause I'm convinced he won't tell no matter how hard I persuade him. But what amazes me is his stamina. Like what? Doesn't he know how to get tired after what we had been through this day? Does he have a body like that of superman? Haha! That's ridiculous.
Meanwhile, the car slowed down. I looked outside the window and saw the sign Bandera. Wait. That's a seafood restaurant! Phin remembered that I love seafoods too?! Great! I haven't tasted such delightful cuisines for a long time! He parked the car at the parking lot.
"Like what you see?" Phin beamed.
"Of course Phin! Thank you." Then I leaned on to hug him. He slightly winced at first but later hugged me back. He's such a sweet friend to me.
"C'mon before the food gets cold." He patted my back and I nodded. I moved away from him and we both went out of the car. We entered the restaurant and a waitress led us to an empty table. I noticed the girl's flirty actions and I can't help but giggle a little. Phin simply frowned at me. After our orders were served (not to mention my favorite Grilled Scottish Salmon dish), the waitress left still eyeing at Phin.
"Hey, she seems to like you Phin." I whispered teasing Phin.
"Quit that Ava." He focused munching his Lamb Sirloin dish. I chuckled. I'm really sincere when I said he looks adorable when he's annoyed. Then we silently ate our food. A few minutes later, more customers arrived. I glanced at them while chewing my yummy Salmon when I saw a lady wearing a stunning red dress. She's holding the arms of a man next to her - her date most probably. I paused and instantly remembered that beautiful girl I saw earlier with that awful-looking eyes. I'm sure that girl has been in trouble right now just by merely examining her eyes. I'm pretty sure of it. I don't know how long was I spacing out when Phin abruptly held my attention.
"Hey." He scowled looking at me.
I was taken aback at the sudden snap of reality. I formed a crooked smile in my lips not knowing what to say and swiftly took another piece of my dish. I hope Phin's not going to think that I was just looking at that customer wearing a red dress. Please Phin! Let your genius brain freeze even just for this moment. Or else we're going to talk about that disturbing 'homo' (short term for homosexual) topic thing again! My tiny bit of hope vanished when Phin's head turned towards the direction of that red-dressed lady. I sighed softly. Gosh! I really can't escape him at all. Then his attention finally went back to mine. As expected, he'd give me that doubtful look. I leaned both my hands forward to grab another slice of Salmon with my fork and knife as calmly as I could.
"Ava, don't tell me you're really a ho-"
"I'm not Phin. No matter how many times I have to repeat this, I'll always tell you that I'm not a homo." I uttered these words with conviction, not even letting him finish his sentence.
"Then why were you just gazing that lady?"
"Oh Phin. Do I always have to tell you my reason? Are you jealous because I just drifted my attention to a girl?"
"C'mon Ava. Don't complicate things. I'm just worried about you being a homo." This guy is surely persistent. He does not know how to listen. It'll take forever to deal with him sanely. I sighed at the thought.
"If that's the case, then I should also worry about you being a homo since you clearly disregard that waitress who's been eyeing you ever since we entered this place." I stated pointedly. He froze a few seconds, obviously surprised of what I just said, before he spoke again.
"So you're saying we're a couple of homos then." He leaned back in his seat staring at me. I paused for a brief while thinking that his logic is right. It's quite funny but agreeable only because of our reasoning and not because we really both are homosexuals. Please, that's far from reality.
"Must be." I shrugged and stared back at him. It took a while before a smile formed across each other's lips and we both laughed together. Now I could say we really look like a pair of idiots. After that, Phin asked again.
"So why then are you gazing that woman?" I frowned and he continued. "Please don't get me wrong this time, Ava. I'm just curious. Trust me." I didn't reply. I was still doubting him.
"Is it because of the red dress? Don't worry. I'll buy you lots of those. I promise." I shook my head in disbelief. Poor guy. He really didn't notice it after all so I decided to tell him.
"It's because I remembered that gorgeous girl in red dress we saw earlier in the street."
"So?-" His eyebrows raised in confusion.
"Listen to what I have to say Phin." I looked intently at Phin seriously. "Her eyes Phin. There's just something about her eyes. Those eyes were horrifying. Any sane person would not possess those pair of eyes as long as nothing is wrong with that person."
"Ava, you might just be overthinking things." He replied
"Yes Phin. I'm aware of that but I can't stop worrying. It seems not normal to me."
"So what do you plan to do now? Research about this person and do some kind of detective stuff? C'mon Ava. Don't meddle in other people's businesses or else you'll end up regretting. You have your own problems to deal with. Your own problems are enough." He expressed in a conclusive tone. I pondered at these words. What he just said is also true. Maybe I'm going too far. I sighed in defeat.
"Yeah, maybe you're right Phin."
Our conversation ended a few minutes after Phin paid the bill. We went out the restaurant, gone straight to the car and proceeded towards our school dormitory. Phin accompanied me inside the girl's dorm lobby. The lobby was empty. Everyone else might have went inside each respective rooms already, preparing for tomorrow's class. It was already ten in the evening.
"Thank you so much for today."
"You're always welcome Ava." He smiled warmly.
"You must take a deep rest now Phin. I'm sure you're drained from our long trip today."
"Yeah. I guess you're right...but don't I deserve a good-night-hug?" He winked. I chuckled as I leaned forward to hug him once more and then pulled back.
"Okay. Good night. Off you go." I said sincerely. Then he walked towards the door and I waved my hand. I continued waving until I could no longer see him and went upstairs to my room.
I opened the door and saw my roommate sleeping soundly in her bed. Poor Audrey. She must have waited for me. I'm sure she was dying to know every bit of what happened in my trip today. I closed the door silently. Our room was dimly lit by a yellow lamp hanged in a wall. I went inside the bathroom, took a quick half-bath, brushed my teeth and changed into my pajama outfit ready for sleep. But before I lie in my cozy bed, I packed my things ready for the next day. We just finished all our pre-midterm exams last week so I didn't have any homework to deal with this weekend. At last, after the exhausting trip I had for today, I could finally take a peaceful nap and sleep with my cushy pillows.
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Patent leather overlays and a smoked outsole finishes the stealthy look. The Reebok Question Black/Gold has a release date on December 24th. It'll also be available in men and GS sizes as well.
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'Energy Landscapes' photographer's love letter to West Texas
Published 7:15 pm, Saturday, May 24, 2014
Oil rigs are center stage in most of Robert Flaherty's works in "Energy Landscapes," on display at Midland College. The exhibition features grand photographs that pull together both the industry of West Texas and its environment. The exhibition will be on display through Aug. 8 at Allison Fine Arts Building McCormick Gallery.
The Midland native took time to talk about his work at his opening reception earlier this month.
MRT: The clarity of your works is so clear. How do you achieve that?
Flaherty: Things are different with the high-resolution photography and it's very deliberate. The need for that resolution started when I did a large piece last year in Houston. I liked it so much that most all of my work is high-res now.
MRT: What's your process like?
Flaherty: This type of art is what you spend on your equipment. My lenses are the highest quality and tilt-shift. That allows me to get everything into focus even though it takes me 15 minutes to focus. I've developed that focusing process to a fine degree. And sometimes in lower light, I use a laser to calibrate.
MRT: How does that work for your lightning photographs?
Flaherty: One of the things I'm starting to work on with that is using an array of three different cameras. Usually my pics are taken in different panels and fused together to up the resolution. You can't do that with lightning because it's instantaneous. I put together my own system to take those pictures.
MRT: How do you describe your photographic voice?
Flaherty: I always wanted to be a meteorologist but I didn't want to work for the government. This is an expression of my love of the weather and environment. You'll notice in every picture, there is a forecast.
MRT: With the weather and the landscape, most of your photographs center on an oil rig. You do photography full time now but did you work in the industry?
Flaherty: Only a bit as a summer job in college. My work is about the landscape and I'm fairly experienced at this point because I've spent so much time around it. I typically don't get that close to what I'm shooting because some principles dictate that it's better to be further away. I typically don't get that close to what I'm photographing.
MRT: Are your photographs ground level?
Flaherty: Typically when you're photographing a rig, you're standing on ground but mesquite trees would be poking up all over. With my photography, my shots are taken from the top of my vehicle on a platform. Up there, the camera sensor is about 14 feet above ground and that gives a different perspective and much more horizon.


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Posh and Becks sons former teacher held for grooming girl for sexMarch 15th, 2008 - 3:54 pm ICT by admin
London, Mar 15 (ANI): David and Victoria Beckhams son Brooklyns former trampoline teacher has been held on suspicion of grooming a 12-year-old girl for sex.
Peter Gledhill had taught Brooklyn somersaults and spins before the family moved to Madrid.
A woman complained to the cops that Gledhill was making sinister approaches to her 12-year-old daughter, after which he was taken in for questioning.
However, there is no evidence that he ever targeted 9-year-old Brooklyn, who is living with the ex-England skipper and the Spice Girl in Los Angeles.
Brooklyn had been 4-years-old, when he began his six months lessons at the Phoenix Flyers Trampoline Club in Cheshunt, Herts, in 2003.
Peter was always anxious to take personal charge of Brooklyns training, The Sun quoted a mum whose child was also there, as saying.
He was a bit star struck and took every opportunity to talk to David and Victoria.
Peter was very hands-on and supported kids when they were learning to do twists in the air. Its a shock to everyone who sent their kids there, she added.
The police confirmed on March 14 that a woman had accused Gledhill of grooming her daughter for sex and that the 34-year-old man had been arrested and bailed.
Police have taken away computers and hard discs from Gledhills home in Walthamstow, East London and possible evidence is also thought to have been found on the girls home computer.
Gledhill has refused to issue any comments regarding what has happened.
A spokesman for the Beckhams has also refused to comment on the matter.
It is not appropriate for us to comment at this stage, the spokesman said. (ANI)
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Pictured here is the beginning of the Gospel of John in the "Codex Bezae." This version of John contains the oldest copy of the story of the adulterous woman (John 7.53-8.11) — the biblical episode is where the phrase "let him who is without sin, cast the first stone" comes from.
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Marijuana and Parents: Yes, No, Undecided
On Nov. 4 2008 voters in Massachusetts will get to decide if people caught with an ounce or less of marijuana will still be charged as criminals. The penalties for a first offense are mild. The crime is a misdemeanor, but there can be a fine of $500 and six months in prison. Since many users are among the young, parents will take a particular interest in this question.
The good news for those of us who toil in the fields of troubled kids and their parents is that in the last ten years the percentage of high school seniors trying pot has drifted downward from 50 to 42%. The bad news is when your kid is nailed with a pot rap. The current law appears stiffer than its application. The usual first timer gets off with probation, drug education, and community service. But in rare cases a pot offense can stand in person's way out of proportion to the crime. As crazy as it sounds, a web of Federal and state rules prevents a person from adopting a child, driving a car, getting food stamps or a loan for school. That means even if a user gets treatment and remains in recovery our marijuana law can keep punishing.
But for most parents, the practical question is at home. What are the kids using, and besides criminalization, while bad enough, what are the consequences? It's encouraging that kids' negative attitudes about pot have increased in the last ten years. But regarding stopping the flow of pot into this country, the War on Drugs and the $200 billion spent in the last ten years have failed. Essentially the same number of high school seniors in 2007, 84%, reports pot is easy to get, compared to kids in 1997.
Is pot dangerous? An old joke went, "Sure, marijuana is dangerous. A ton of it can crush a man." But for the majority of kids a ton of dope is never at play. Saturday night adventurers are likely to be at no greater risk than abstainers. Far greater dangers await a kid using the gateway drugs tobacco and alcohol. The problems from pot arise in daily smokers, half of whom will move onto the felony drugs of cocaine, heroin, and the like. And pot should never be used by vulnerable persons, such as the mentally ill or addicts in recovery. If a kid claims to need pot as self-medication, he needs professional care, not backwoods chemistry.
So what's a parent to do? Straight talk with your child is a start. You can set the limit of zero tolerance, but short of locking up your Rapunzel in a tower, a parent can't control every choice of a teenager. Neither can schools. This is where openness and good sense at home can rule the day. Parents need to live and teach that there are better things to do with a mind on Saturday night than parking it.
Parents can't control everything in a kid's life, but they can control a lot. Finding tobacco or weed in a kid's room and saying nothing is practicing a dangerous form of denial. Fighting tooth and nail the battle over teen smoking is probably the single healthiest thing a parent can do.
A more subtle problem lurks in reducing pot penalties. That policy falls between two extremes, each of which brings its own problems. The first is prohibition, which describes our current laws. Prohibition as we know from Hollywood and police reports is very good for drug dealers and the prison industry. The greater the police work, the greater the street price. Prohibition is very bad for those scientists seeking better answers through research to the questions of drugs, disease and medicinal possibilities. The other extreme is drug freedom without limits. Decriminalization isn't legalization, but it's not far away. And if it is, isn't that a slippery slope to commercialization by Big Tobacco? And what about pot dependence? Surely those numbers will go up, and at what cost? The vote on November 4 will be a test to see if we can keep our balance as we move between the extremes of prohibition and license. The former has fed the coffers of drug gangs the world over. The latter has led to the fall of empires.


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Line Seeks Honorary Godparents for Ocean Princess' Unique Online Ceremony
With Each Participant Donation Made to Renowned New England Aquarium
Princess Cruises is celebrating the new name of its ship Ocean Princess (formerly Tahitian Princess) by extending an open invitation to anyone wishing to become an honorary godparent for the vessel, with the first-ever virtual christening.
In a new twist on the time-honoured tradition, the naming ceremony will occur completely online, at
Each new godparent will trigger a $1 donation from Princess to the New England Aquarium, a global leader in ocean exploration and marine conservation, up to $25,000.
One of the small ships of Princess, Ocean Princess – fresh out of a two-week drydock – departed Singapore on the first voyage with her new name. The virtual christening will run throughout the ship's 16-day Southeast Asia cruise, ending on Dec. 18.
"At the end of her current cruise, we hope to have a huge group of honorary godparents for Ocean Princess," said Jan Swartz, Princess executive vice president. "In this digital age, we wanted to design a way that all our fans worldwide could be part of the celebration. But not only do we want to entertain people with this fun approach, we also want people to think about our oceans, and in doing so support the important work of the New England Aquarium."
In addition to virtually christening the ship and becoming an honorary godparent, participants will be able explore the following areas online:
• Honorary Godparents – Real-time collection of the names of Ocean Princess' honorary godparents
• Ocean Princess Webcam – Live web cam from the ship
• Ocean Princess Itineraries – Link to Ocean Princess' extensive list of itineraries
• About the New England Aquarium – Information about this renowned non-profit conservation and research organization
• Ocean Princess Drydock Photo Journal – Pictorial of the ship's drydock in Singapore
• About Ocean Princess – Details about Ocean Princess and her offerings
• The Small Ships of Princess – Information about the small ships of Princess
In addition, people will be able to share their virtual Ocean Princess experience with friends and family, and encourage them to participate through send-to-friend and Facebook functions.
"We are delighted to be honoured by Princess Cruises in this innovative and exciting programme. Like Princess Cruises, the New England Aquarium strives to inspire and entertain people of all ages to the beauty and wonder of our world's oceans," said Bud Ris, president and CEO, New England Aquarium. "We hope this online event will introduce new audiences not only to the spectacular beauty of our oceans but also inspire new ocean stewards."
During the ship's recent drydock at the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore, the Ocean Princess name was placed on her bow and throughout the vessel. The ship also received new fuel-efficient silicone paint on her hull, and interior enhancements including new upholstery, carpet and flooring. The ship was renamed Ocean Princess to more accurately represent her global range of itineraries.
Ms Swartz added, "As this ship begins her life with its new moniker, we would also like to congratulate Ocean Princess Captain Stefano Ravera and his crew, as the re-naming celebration is the cornerstone of our contribution to the important work of the New England Aquarium."
Following her inaugural Treasures of the Southeast Asia cruise from Singapore to Shanghai, Ocean Princess will offer a season of unique Asia, India and Africa sailings, followed by a summer of European voyages.
Ocean Princess is a part of Princess' fleet of small ships, which also includes Royal Princess and Pacific Princess. All these vessels were originally built for Rennaisance Cruises. Offering a classic and intimate cruise experience, each small ship carries around 680 passengers and travels to more remote destinations around the world.
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The 70th anniversary of D-Day has brought military re-enactors and enthusiasts from across the world to the beaches of Arromanche in Normandy. Getty images photographer Peter MacDiarmid has been photographing them in a stunning series.
David Cook, from the United Kingdom, wears a replica uniform of member of the British Army Ox and Bucks 6th Airborne DivisionPicture: PETER MACDIARMID/GETTY


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By Graham Chalmers
An Leeds artist whose work graces some of the greatest venues in club culture is showing his new paintings at Major Tom's in Harrogate for the next month.
Entitled Labyrinth, the show at this cafe bar on The Ginnel off Parliament Street is Nicolas Dixon's first since he returned from Ibiza.
This self-taught artist's colourful , abstract paintings and designs can already be seen at the likes of Urban Spaces, Ibiza's first boutique art hotel, and Pacha, the infamous Ibiza nightclub.
Formerly a DJ in the 1990s. Dixon's large-scale murals can also be seen in The Garage nightclub in Leeds,


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Halfling bounders are expert fighters of the halfling race who use their own unique physical qualities to form a particular fighting style unique to the hin. Unlike most fighters, halflings use their natural nimbleness and quick wit as their primary methods of survival, making halfling bounders unusually daring warriors.[1]
Halfling bounders are the elite soldiers of halfling society, protecting the nomadic caravans or halfling towns and villages from external harm. When on the offensive halfling bounders focus on hit-and-run tactics to draw out enemy forces, fighting in small "packs."[1]
Halfling bounders are trained to use their physical power and agility in conjunction, being swift while maintaining the capability to deal strong damage. Halfling bounders excel at staying mobile during combat, shifting around their opponents, moving into position to deal bold strikes when the odds seem set against them and luck seems to fortune halfling bounders even more than it does most halflings. Experienced halfling bounders also excel at moving their enemies around the battlefield, forcing the battle into favorable terrain.[1]
The exploits learned by halfling bounders are daring and almost rogue-like in their execution, with the bounders keeping on their enemies' heels throughout combat. Quicksilver lunge, a technique known by experienced bounders, allows a bounder to make a deadly strike from a full run, with more effectiveness than less sophisticated charges allow. This heavy focus on dealing damage does not leave the bounder's job as a defender of others forgotten, however, and bounders often take the blows of imperiled allies, so as to give their comrade a chance to escape or strike back.[1]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Rob Heinsoo, David Noonan, Robert J. Schwalb, Chris Sims (November 2008). Martial Power. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 28. ISBN 978-0-7869-4981-6.


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No Bad Vibes Brushed Drop Yoke Top
A tee so soft that you'll never want to take it off! This drop yoke top is constructed with soft brushed knit in a color block design. "No Bad Vibes" is printed across the heart and "Fresh" at the back.
- 92% polyester, 8% spandex
- Machine wash
- Model wears size Small
- Imported