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The interesting thing about Toto Wolffs comments though, is he says he would change either of his drivers if their actions is damaging to the team. The thing that l am trying to fathom is what sort of actions that may have transpired this year by either driver, may be construed as damaging to the Mercedes team? Of course we don't know what happens behind the scenes in the garage. On track, l wonder if questioning the pitwall decision is perceived as damaging or what is said at driver press post race interviews.I agree with you, Bagwan, in that if the guy writing the check (sort of) says that there is a problem, then there is a problem... within the team, at least. But I think it's more likely that Mercedes and Wolff are playing the long game here, looking ahead to 2017 and beyond, when the gap to Ferrari, and maybe Red Bull and others, will have probably closed. Both Hamilton and Rosberg scored enough points individually this year that even with Susie Wolff in the second car, Mercedes would have still captured 3rd place in the Constructors Championship. With this dominant monster of a car, either one of them, paired with a roughly competent second driver, could have probably delivered a Constructors trophy, which is what Mercedes really cares about. But once the gap closes (and it will), the question becomes, what driver lineup can still deliver the big annual trophy at the end of a season? Against a Vettel (or whomever) in a strong car, we know from past history that Hamilton can go wheel to wheel. We don't know that about Rosberg. We only know that on occasion he can deliver the goods. So despite his season ending form, if I'm looking at the long game, and also knowing the Nico's contract is up at the end of next season, I don't think that I'd be too confident, if I were Nico.
Hamilton's deal runs through the end of 2018, if I'm not mistaken. And while they could play with whether or not Lewis is on track in a silver car, Mercedes will still be writing him a $50 million (or whatever) check every year. IMO, they could just as easily find another, more obedient second driver to pair with Hamilton... unless Nico learns to sing "Don't Worry, Be Happy". My guess is, as Nico starts negotiating his new post-2016 contract in a few months, there will be terms in his new deal which will "encourage" him to sing along to that old Bobby McFerrin album. However it pans out, I think Mercedes is going to have to find a way to quieten things down between these two before the heated battle of 2017 and beyond begins.
It just smacks of overreaction to me and a clear frustration with managing an equal status driver lineup. This year has on occasion looked like Merc were fostering someone else's unruly children and have had enough. Abu Dhabi was pretty ugly. The pitwall were quite heavy handed with Hamilton. The business with engine level seemed like Hamilton and his pitwall engineers were not on the same page. One can deduce from Monaco 2014 that Hamilton has some level of doubt of his pitwall engineers. The seemingly fractured relationship seem to have reached a point where it has spilled over into the public domain. This maybe what Wolff is uncomfortable with.
So if we say Toto has a situation where their star driver is losing or has lost faith in his engineers, how does he deal with that situation? Does he fire his star driver? or does he change his star driver's engineers to ensure he gets the best performance from him? I think Toto's comments reveals that Mercedes have a bigger internal problem besides the rivalry between Hamilton and Rosberg. It also reveals the Hamilton's drop of performance since Singapore is more than just changes to the car. It hints at operational issues on the Hamilton side of that garage that may underline the dramatic loss of form witnessed in Hamilton.
If this is the case, we could speculate that Mercedes' view on approach to the season has moved from that of Hamilton, there may be a misalignment that could result in Hamilton being dropped from the team. This of course would depend largely on what the Mercedes aspiration is. We can assume that they would still want to win both championships in Hamilton's absence if they decide to go in this direction. And they would need to retain Rosberg for his experience within the team and how close he was able to get to Hamilton. And they are hoping that Ferrari turn up with a car that is still less competitive to the Mercedes in 2016. And Rosberg can keep it together for the entire season without mistakes to secure both championships by the end of the 2016 season. This, l think would be an unneccessary risk, and l am not implying that Rosberg is unable to win a driver championship with the Mercedes. But objectively, a proven driver would be the way to go and parity status aside. l think it is time for Mercedes to wake up to the fact that, they cannot have parity status between a triple world champion and a driver yet to win a driver title, it is simply ridiculous. They need to win two more championships to match Redbull at least for the Mercedes return to F1 to achieve a status of a great modern day F1 team.
As far as dropping Rosberg is concerned, l don't see the point. They have a dream driver lineup. They need a driver that can deliver if the other driver is not. Having a driver that can push Hamilton, beat him on occasions or be within a tenth of Hamilton is where Rosberg is indispensible. A change of one of their driver lineup would mean having someone who would be learning the Mercedes in their first yeas hence would most likely be about half a second down from Hamilton or Rosberg, which would put Vettel closer to the hunt for the title championship. This is a very risky proposition. My guess is they would not change a winning formular, but tweak it by keeping both their drivers but change their internal composition. I agree with you that equal status may be thrown out as it is not working and distracting for the team. I also agree that a triple world champion is not going to be made a number 2 driver within Mercedes. Which begs the question, how is Rosberg going to react to a number 2 status?
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Maggie pulled up to my house around 9:30am on Thursday and we added all my gear to the stuff she had already loaded in the car. After everything was finally stashed in the car we headed off to Saxbys to grab some ice for the cooler, stock up on free pastries for the weekend, and start the day with some caffeine. We had just gotten on the road when I realized I hadn't asked Maggie to grab the orange sweater I was borrowing from LeeAnn. I'd meant to call her before she left her house but quite obviously forgot. Since we had to head past the house anyway we stopped in real quick and I grabbed the sweater. Good thing. Can't dress as Velma without an orange sweater.
The trip down was pretty uneventful, as our vacations tend to go. Usually when it's just Maggie and I traveling somewhere together all kinds of interesting stuff happens. This trip was a bit different.
Of course, there were a few things that made us giggle along the way. The first was a sign for "Squirrel Level Road." We both saw the sign and immediately had visions of bands of squirrels wearing tiny yellow hard hats and carrying little squirrel-sized levels, trying to make sure the road was level and getting squished in the process. I don't know about Maggie but I was also picturing them in little reflective vests.
The second thing that happened along the way didn't inspire giggles so much as a creepy feeling. Since we were traveling with the windows rolled down in lieu of having the AC on full blast, Maggie and I had tied our hair back with bandannas. Believe me, if I hadn't done that my hair would've whipped me to death and I'd never be able to get a brush through it ever again. Anyway, there we were driving along and an older gent pulled up to the side of the car. And when I saw "older gent" I'm not talking about someone in their 30s or 40s. I mean someone who was probably mid-60s. And very definitely a biker. He kept trying to shout something and motioned back. I rolled down the window, thinking he was telling us that the tire was flat or something similar. Finally, I realized what he was saying. He pointed to the back of his bike and asked if I wanted to hop on.
Ew. Just ew. Ew ew ew. No thank you.
He just smiled and headed off when I shook my head.
We got to Atlanta without anything extremely strange happening. I believe we made the trip down in about 9 hours, whereas it's supposed to take around 10 1/2. The hotel we had booked on Hotels.com was located a short drive from the host hotels. When we pulled off at our exit we ended up in kind of a swanky end of town. Many of the apartments and houses we passed were inside little gated communities. I had seen pictures of the hotel where we would be staying – the Buckhead Hotel – and it looked pretty nice. When we pulled up to it, I noticed it didn't look exactly like its picture.
Turns out the hotel was undergoing a pretty big renovation. We were worried that, due to the renovation, our stay was going to be filled with lots of construction noise. That wasn't really the big problem. Well, apart from the piledriver that started banging away around 8am on our last day there. The big problem with the hotel came from the guests. One night the halls were filled with undergrad-age college students who were clearly gathered for a night of boozing and bad choices. The halls smelled like frat boy cologne (even the girls drenched themselves with cologne), cigerettes and alcohol. The smell even lingered on into the next morning. After the college party (which, in retrospect, probably had something to do with the big Virginia Tech – Atlanta football game that was going on that weekend), we had to contend with even more people running up and down the halls, screaming and carrying on.
After a short nap, Maggie and I woke up nice and early for our first day of DragonCon. Maggie and I brought five costumes overall for the weekend – four for wear during the regular day and a fifth costume for the masquerade. For our first day at the con we wanted something that wasn't going to be terribly restrictive but would still fit into the spirit of the weekend. I wore my Velma costume. Maggie opted for her Rorschach costume from the Watchmen. We wanted to get downtown early enough to guarantee a good parking near the hotel and to get in line to buy our passes for the weekend. I've yet to be in danger of getting to a con only to find that the passes have been sold out but, if it were ever to happen, I'd put money on DragonCon as the place that changes that.
We got to the hotel around 9am. We actually ended up getting a spot in a parking lot right next to the Marriott Marquis (one of the main hotels for the convention). We were directed towards the registration area, up the street at the Sheraton.
Ah. The Sheraton. I kind of felt sorry for that hotel. As I believe I mentioned in one of my earlier posts, DragonCon takes place throughout four hotels in downtown Atlanta. Now, all four hotels are relatively close, but three of them are located more centrally than the fourth. These would be the Marriott Marquis (what I would say is really THE main hotel), the Hyatt Regency Atlanta and the Hilton Atlanta. These three hotels are actually connected to each other. Well, the Marquis is connected to both of them. I don't actually remember a way to get to the Hyatt directly from the Hilton without going outside and down the block. I don't remember a little walkway connecting the two of them. Instead, you could travel to one or the other by way of the Marquis.
The Sheraton Atlanta, however, is not connected to any of these hotels by anything other than a long uphill climb on a sidewalk. I'm almost sorry to say that this is the main reason we didn't voluntarily spend time in the Sheraton. We only went into that hotel to purchase our con badges. As soon as that was done we abandoned it for the other three hotels. In fact, I recall a point in our weekend when we were planning on going to an event until we found out it was being held in the Sheraton. Rather than trek up the hill to the other hotel, we opted to find a different evet.
Anyway. Back to registration. As I mentioned, we got to the hotel around 9am. We then proceeded to wait in a huge, long line. Now, anyone who's been to a convention before can tell you that waiting in a queue is part of con life. It's just something you do. Usually I don't complain, either. You get to check out people's costumes, it's fun to listen to the conversations people are having all around you, and sometimes you can make new friends while you wait.
The way they set things up was kind of wonky, though. You came in, waited in line to get the registration papers, filled those out and went to stand in the line to pay. They had things divided so you could pay either cash or credit, but the line divide for the payment options didn't happen until the last 50 feet of that particular line. People who didn't necessarily have to wait for the pain-in-the-ass credit card machines still had to wait because they couldn't get past to go to the cash line. After we paid, we got to wait in another line. This one was the queue for the data entry part of the con. We were supposed to take our little registration slip (stamped with the message that we had already paid) to the data entry place. Here, someone would type in our information – address, contact phone number, our primary interest in the con, etc. We wouldn't get our badges there, though. Oh no. That would be too easy. After we finally got through data entry, we were directed to walk down another path to the side of the huge crowd waiting to pay, to a small section at the back of the room (right were we had come into the room in the first place). There was no line here, though. Nope. This time we milled about aimlessly as they called the names of people whose badge information had printed out. It was hard to hear the exact names they were calling, and it was kind of just a little mob standing around.
After two hours of standing in line Maggie and I got our badges. Near the end of our long wait people finally started to realize who I was supposed to be. We grabbed some pocket schedules and headed outside to see if we could get our bearings. Since we had traveled to DragonCon with the intention of competing in the Masquerade we knew we needed to register for that event as well. Luckily, masquerade registration was in one of the three main hotels. We headed back out into the smelly Atlanta air (I don't know if you've ever been to Atlanta, but it really does smell. Quite literally. Like raw sewage), down the street, and up the poorly planned staircase of the Hyatt. Somewhere around there Maggie lost one of her gloves.
It didn't actually take us very long to register for the masquerade. There were two little forms to fill out and we had to hand over the cd with our sound on it. Unlike the other masquerades we've been to, the sound files for entries into the DragonCon masq have to be screened prior to being allowed in. They check it mainly for language. Who knows if they actually check it for length. Lord knows there were a couple of groups that went over their alloted time on the day of the masq.
After we finished all of our registration tasks we stepped to the other side of the Hyatt lobby. Maggie took a couple of photos of our respective costumes. While I was sitting down a young girl and her even younger brother came over to take pictures. She wanted a picture of the person sitting next to me – I couldn't recognize the costume – but he seemed in awe of me. He came up to me and whispered "I know how the mystery begins," referring to the new live action Scooby-Doo movie that's coming out soon on Cartoon Network. His sister held up the camera to take a picture and I asked if he wanted to hold the magnifying glass. The whole thing made the costume worth-while.
Next it was time to grab some food. We headed over to the Marquis – spotting Waldo along the way – and tried to get our bearings. There were two restaurants inside the Marquis – one was a sports bar (High Velocity), the other a regular sit-down restaurant (Sear). There was also a pretty cool bar (Pulse) in the middle of the open space on one of the lobby floors. Yes, the lobby essentially had three floors. In addition to the two restaurants in the Marquis there were also walkways to two different food courts. Originally we planned to grab stuff at the food court but, unfortunately, everyone else seemed to have that idea as well. The place was completely packed. Instead of waiting in yet another long line and then still having to look around for a place to sit down to eat, we opted to go back and try the food at Sear.
The food was alright but wasn't really worth the price. Luckily, the waitress was pretty good about making sure our water glasses were filled. We had only been at the con for a few hours and were already parched.
By the way, want to know my #1 piece of advice to newcomers to the con scene? Drink LOTS of water. Even if you're usually pretty good about keeping hydrated, you probably need to drink even more. Despite the heavy AC that most hotels tend to blast during large events like conventions the place tends to get pretty warm.
After lunch we headed downstairs to check out the dealers room. In addition to the main dealer's room in the bottom of the Marquis there were a couple of rooms off to the side of one of the floors that were originally listed as exhibitor halls. I thought the exhibitor halls would be more along the lines of fan tables and such. Nope. They were selling lots of merchandise in those rooms as well. I was actually kind of surprised (pleasantly, of course) by how many Firefly-centered dealers there were. I had come across one or two of the vendors before, at Polaris, but that's usually it as far as solely Firefly vendors tend to go. In contrast, there had to be at least five or six at DragonCon.
After checking out the dealers and exhibitors we headed over to the Hilton. According to our pocket guides that's where the "Walk of Fame" was located.
What is the Walk of Fame, you ask? Simple. It's where all the film and tv guests who were booked to come to DragonCon sit and hang out. They've each got a table or two and folks can line up for autographs. Now, most of the guests at DragonCon were located inside the Walk of Fame but there were a couple of specialized lines out in the hall for the biggest names. For instance, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, Patrick Stewart and Kate Mulgrew all had lines that queued up outside of the Walk of Fame room. I think it was mainly because DragonCon staff realized that their lines would have taken up all the free space inside the Walk of Fame.
I want to take a moment here to say a little something about the Walk of Fame at DragonCon. In short, it was fantastic. I've been to three other con locations before (FanExpo, Polaris, and Shore Leave) and the way DragonCon was set up is, hands down, the best out of all these in terms of autographs. There were no long waits, where the lines block dealer booths and cross into other autograph line territory (FanExpo). There were no confusing maps of how the lines need to move forward (sorry, Polaris, but those lanes aren't always necessarily user friendly). And, most of important, I didn't have to worry about having to listen for my badge number to be called before I could even line up for an autograph, and risk not getting one at all (Shore Leave, you know I'm talking about you). Despite the fact that DragonCon sees several thousand people every day, my wait for an autograph was really short. I was also able to walk around the rest of the room and just enjoy the environment without worrying about getting in the way of other people. The vibe in the room was really laid back.
So. I can hear you asking "Who'd you get an autograph from?"
It's a valid question. After all, there were a bunch of guests at DragonCon that I was excited to see. Was it Felicia Day? Malcolm MacDowell (who, incidentally, didn't have a long line at all)? Gareth David-Lloyd? (::sigh::) Joe Flanigan? John Billingsley? Karen Allen?
I knew I was only going to get one autograph since I was on a fairly limited budget this con go-around. Most autographs tend to run about $20, with the picture included in the price. I really didn't forsee getting any other type of souvenier while I was at the con – although there were a number of really awesome t-shirts that I really wanted. I ended up parting with another $1.50 for a funny pin later on, but kept to my self-imposed one autograph rule. With that in mind, there was only one choice…
Paul McGillion.
Did you just say "who's that?" For shame! He was only the best character on Stargate: Atlantis. I'd actually met him briefly during my very first convention, up in Toronto. When Mag, Mel and I went to FanExpo Maggie lined up for an autograph. She also got a picture with him. He commented on our horns at the time and later, in the Q&A session, he mentioned them again. It was the first time I ever saw Maggie melt into a puddle. It was actually his behaviour at FanExpo that got me watching Atlantis. The show was already into its second season, with a bit of a delay between when it aired in Canada and when it aired in the U.S.
Money in hand, I stood in a rather short line at Paul's table. There were a bunch of pictures laid out on top of the drape. Most of them were of him in Stargate costume. One was the same as the one Maggie had. There was actually a really good one showing off his bright blue eyes, but I opted for one that was kind of a candid shot. The guy who was handling the photo section of the table liked that one.
Paul chatted a bit with the fan in front of me and then it was my turn. He shook my hand and made sure he had the spelling right for my name. I usually have them make it out to my nickname, rather than have them spell the whole name. There are so many alternate versions of the spelling of my name that people would be bound to get it wrong. He liked that it was an easy one to remember and complimented my sweater. I thought that was interesting, as I don't think orange looks good on me, but I pointed out that the sweater was a necessity when paired with the socks. As soon as he saw the socks he figured out I was wearing a costume.
While he made out the autograph, I let him know that he was the reason I started watching the show. In particular, it was because I was impressed with the way he interacted with fans when I first met him up in Toronto. I've had experiences with people before that were less than pleasant, but he was very gracious and friendly with everyone there. I mentioned that Maggie and I were the ones who had been wearing the horns (he still remembered!). He seemed very touched by what I said. We chatted for a little bit longer – I won't bore you with the details – and he shook my hand again before I left. He is still the nicest actor I've ever met.
After I got the autograph Maggie and I wandered through the rest of the room. The guys from Ghost Hunters were over at their booth. Neither Maggie nor I could afford to buy anything at the table but she wanted to know if we could take a picture. Unfortunately, her shyness started to get the better of her so I had to ask. I went up to the table where Steve and Tango were sitting and asked Tango if I could take a picture. He said sure and even agreed to hold my Velma magnifying glass. Unfortunately, you can't really see it in the picture. I also don't think he realized who I was supposed to be. Of the two, Tango is definitely the more outgoing when in a crowd. You can tell that Steve isn't really comfortable with all the attention.
We left the Walk of Fame and headed outside to see about lining up for the TAPS panel that evening. We had to head back over to the Hyatt and learned that, at 6:30pm, the line had already started for the 7:30 panel. It started at the doors to the Hyatt and went across the little plaza, stretching towards the stairs. For safety reasons, the line broke off there and started back up again at the base of the staircase. The woman at the doors to the Regency ballroom (where the panel was scheduled to be held) said the line was already stretching around the corner of the building. When we went downstairs, though, we saw that it hadn't actually gotten that long yet. We figured we had a pretty good chance at getting a good spot inside the panel.
The people running the con had clearly thought that the room would fill up completely when they let us in at 7:30. In fact, there turned out to be a LOT of room left. Maggie and I ended up sitting in the front row, off to the side of one end of the table. We were on the end closest to Dustin and Joe Chin. I took a little video (which probably won't be up online for quite some time) and Maggie hauled out the papperazzi flash for her photos. I ended up sitting next to a woman who had a very rum-filled Rum and Coke, which made for an…interesting experience. She was rather giggly, though I'm not sure if this was due to the alcohol or the presence of the TAPS guys.
Again, Steve wasn't all that talkative during the panel, but Dustin really seemed to come to life. He was funny without dominating the entire panel, which can sometimes be a problem. There were a bunch of cameramen walking around during the panel. Some of them were filming for the DCTV stuff – taped panels that air over a special channel in the four convention hotels, in case you wanted to go to an event but couldn't get in. The other cameramen were filming for the show. I'm looking forward to seeing all the DragonCon stuff on the actual show.
Throughout the day Maggie's big goal was to search out all the characters from the Watchmen. She actually did a pretty good job. The first we came across was a woman dressed as Silk Spectre I. I saw one or two more over the course of the weekend, but this one had the best presentation of the costume. There were a couple of Rorschach's walking around that day, which was kind of interesting. Ever seen the Pierce Brosnan version of The Thomas Crowne Affair? You know the scene near the end where all the guys in suits and bowler hats are walking around? That's kind of what it was like from time to time. Of course, I was with the only Rorschach who could actually see where she was going when she had her mask on. I believe I was also with the only female Rorschach walking around that day – there was another woman later that weekend with a Rorschach costume, but not on the first day. Apparently the other Rorschach's were all having difficulties seeing through their masks. Maggie and I, however, already have plenty of experience with vision-limiting masks, so she knew to make it so she could see out of hers.
Anyway, she managed to get most of the main Watchmen characters. There were a couple of Comedians walking around (though she didn't get a picture with the first one we saw, who happened to be wearing a bathrobe). The best looking Comedian was actually walking around the next day, but we took a picture anyway. The best find was when she spotted Silk Spectre 2 coming down the sidewalk while we were standing in the TAPS line. When she stopped for a photo I noticed she was carrying a beach ball with a little Dr. Manhattan figure inside it. Genius!
Maggie actually came across two Ozymandias costumes that day. The first one was in the area of the fan tables in the Hilton. The other also happened to walk down the sidewalk while we were in line for TAPS. As he walked by, he reached out and bumped Maggie on the shoulder with his fist. We both thought that was hilarious.
Originally Maggie and I had planned to hang around for the Dr. Horrible Sing-Along Blog event and the zombie walk that were scheduled for that night. After we got out of the TAPS panel, though, we both came to the conclusion that we were just too tuckered out from the day's exertions. We decided to call it a night and headed back towards our hotel to change and find food.
There was a Ruby Tuesday's right around the corner from the Buckhead and we settled down in a booth to start recuperating from the day. The place was rather quiet, which gave us an opportunity to start our little end of the day debriefing session. I had taken a few notes throughout the day, to make writing the con reports a little easier.
During our little debriefing session we mainly discussed costumes. Obviously I'm naturally going to be drawn to them in the first place, but even I was sort of overwhelmed by the costumes I had seen that day.
It's hard to determine the ratio of costumed to non-costumed attendees, simply because there are a number of people who, upon first glance, don't appear to be wearing a costume. I fell into this category on the first day. Although the bright orange knee socks tended to clue people into the fact that I was dressed as Velma it wasn't as obvious as Maggie's costume. When she had her mask down, it was quite clear that she was in costume. I think I mainly looked like a handler who made rather bold choices in regards to color.
Another thing that made it difficult to figure out how many people are in costume was the sheer number of people who were attending the convention. FanExpo was huge but it didn't feel anywhere close to the size of DragonCon. Sweet dixie minis, there were a lot of people!
The number of costumes wasn't the only thing that struck me on that first day. It was also the level of the costuming. Although there were a few costumes here and there that were obviously thrown together at the last minute or were constructed by less skilled hands, the majority of the costumes were mind-blowingly outstanding. The level of detail, the craftsmanship…all sorts of things.
During our evening debriefing (quit giggling, sickos) Maggie and I awarded our own little costume awards for Day 1.
Funniest: This was actually a tie between a guy who was wearing a giant costume that I simply referred to as the "Fire Chicken" and a guy wearing a hat with the Geico money stack (and eyes) on top. He had things hooked up so he could play the song "I always feel like…somebody's watching me." Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of either one at the moment. There wasn't even an actual reference for the fire chicken. Someone asked the guy what he was supposed to be and he responded "I don't know." I thought that was hilarious.
Ballsiest: (male) Aquaman. All he was wearing was a green Speedo-like thingy and sandles with wings. (female) Aeon Flux.
Creepiest: The nurse from Silent Hill. Apparently she was in character the entire time she was in costume. She was scaring little children when this picture was taken. And me, I'll admit. She was scaring me.
Most Common General Category: Steampunk – I think this had a great deal to do with the fact that the Time Traveler's Ball was being held that night.
Most Common Specific Type of costume: Ghostbusters. One or two had the name Venkman or Stanz on their overalls, but most had their actual last name on their suit. And every one of them had a proton pack that lit up.
Best Worksmanship: STEAMPUNK! Hands down, no doubt about it.
Most surprising to see more than one of: Clockwork Orange costumes.
Alright. That's it for now. It's actually just taken me about five hours to write this up and add in the photos. All that after a long day starting out my internship downtown. I'm ready to pass out in my bed now. I must really like you guys, considering I really wanted to be in bed about halfway through this thing.
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The jitterbug is a variant of swing dancing, and derivative of the Lindy hop and East Coast Swing. It became popular in the 1940s. Several suggestions for the origin of the term jitterbug exist. Since the dance involves jerking movements, and may resemble the jitters of alcoholic recovery, it may have derived its name from such. Cab Calloway once remarked that the dancers looked like a bunch of "jitterbugs."
Another possible origin for the name jitterbug is that it was originally intended as a derogatory or ethnic slur. Most dance schools in the late 1930s did not want to teach the Lindy Hop. However, as the popularity of the dance grew, the jitterbug began to be taught, and any slur to ethnicity has since been forgotten.
Some people use the term jitterbug to refer to all types of swing dancing. This is technically incorrect by the strictest definition of the dance. As well, jitterbug can be used as a verb: Do you jitterbug?
The jitterbug places emphasis on the six-count move. The very basic move of the dance is a back, step, forward, touch, step, and touch. The man would begin this dance on the left foot. The footwork for the leading partner is left-right-left-right-right-left. The following partner duplicates the steps on the opposite foot.
There are multiple turns, lifts and spins associated with the jitterbug. Often the partners may dance side by side, instead of in a face-to-face partner hold. This is characteristic of many variants of swing dance.
Once basic steps and spins are mastered, some of the lifts are fun to learn. These can include lifting and swinging the following partner from one side to the other, swinging the partner through spread legs, and various other complicated maneuvers. The dance is quick, so most of the tricks take some skill to acquire.
The jitterbug requires brisk 4/4-time music. It can be danced to rockabilly, 50s and early 60s rock and roll, some modern rock songs, swing music, and some jazz predating swing. A variant of the jitterbug may be danced to quick time Country and Western music as well.
Since swing dance has risen in popularity, many clubs offer swing dancing with instruction for beginners for a half hour prior to open dancing for all. This is a fun way to get an introduction to dances like the jitterbug. As well, many dancing schools, community colleges and recreation centers offer introductions and more advanced classes in swing, which can soon have one tripping the light fantastic in classic jitterbug style.
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I saw a swing dancing exposition a few years back and I was amazed at the skill, precision and speed of the dancers. I had always thought of swing dancing as kind of a silly fad but seeing it with my own eyes is like watching a combination of jazz, rock and gymnastics.
It was clear that the dancers practiced relentlessly and that they had woked with each other for years. It was like they had one mind and two bodies. And the athleticism! They could rival a lot of professional ball players in grace and strength.
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I took swing dancing lessons a few years back and the jitterbug was one of my favorite steps. It is simple but active. You do not have to try very hard to feel like you are really dancing.
Plus, it has amazing swing. Most swing dances are pretty upbeat and frenetic but the jitterbug really stood out for me. I do not swing dance much any more because how often do you really have the chance but I always enjoy enjoy being able to jitterbug when I can.
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Last week was my grandparents' 40th wedding anniversary and they had a big celebration to commemorate the exciting occasion.
Both of them love to dance and they actually met at a dance when they were much younger. There was a band and a dance floor at the anniversary party and grandpa and grandpa were burning it up. They could dance better than just about anyone there even with their old knees and shaky legs.
You could see when they danced together what a bond they still had. It was like they were dancing on the clouds and no one else in the world existed. I was pretty moved by the sight of it all. I hope that I can find a love like that sometime in my life.
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From the fast-paced streets of major American cities to the tranquil islands of South Asia, the past decade of Becca's professional wellness journey has spanned across the globe. Highly skilled and holding an array of diverse certifications, Becca mindfully infuses her expertise with humor-spiked compassion to create fun and safe programming for her group classes and unique prescriptions for individuals in private sessions.
Becca holds certifications from the National Academy of Sports Medicine, Antigravity Fitness and Yoga FUNdamentals 1 & 2, STOTT Pilates, AFAA Group Fitness and AFAA Kickboxing. She's also spent a substantial amount of time training and working abroad, graduating Distinctive First in her class and earning two diplomas in Yoga Education and Yoga Therapy from Yoga Vidya Gurukal and the Bihar School of Yoga in Nasik, India; RYT-200 from Anna Sugarman Vinyasa Flow in Koh Samui, Thailand; and Therapeutic Thai Massage from Thai Massage School of Chiang Mai in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Her passion for healthy living led her to start her own wellness business, where she had the opportunity to connect on a deeper level with her clients by helping them make overall changes to lead cleaner, healthier lives, as well as develop a team of individuals to successfully grow their own sustainable businesses. She is continually sought after to share her knowledge by collaborating with some of the most respected teachers in the industry on retreats and workshops throughout Asia, Europe and the United States. Becca's passion is to inspire others to live their fullest life through heightened physical awareness, mental peace and deeper consciousness, both in and out of the studio.


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Amazon (s AMZN) has signed agreements with Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group as well as various publishers and indie label distributors, the company said Tuesday. These new agreements allow the company's cloud player to scan a user's hard drive, identify songs and then make them immediately available online and on mobile devices.
Songs will be upgraded to 256 kbps MP3s, even of the source is of lower quality. Users will be able to transfer up to 250 songs for free, while a premium version with access to a whopping 250,000 songs will cost $25 per year.
These new features as well as the pricing essentially mimic Apple's (s AAPL) iTunes in the Cloud offering, but represent a shift in strategy for Amazon: The company initially launched its cloud music locker without licenses from the labels, which made it necessary for consumers to upload…
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For the second year in a row, Project MANA as been awarded honorable mention in the Best Non-Profit category in the 2017 Best of North Lake Tahoe & Truckee. Thank you!
Food insecurity DOES exist in our community. One out of 7 locals in North Lake Tahoe and Truckee experiences food insecurity and hunger, and over 30% of them are children. Our clients – your neighbors - have many different reasons for needing food assistance: Some are seniors living on a fixed income; some have multiple jobs that don't pay enough to cover the high cost of living in our region; some are laid off for a period of time due to the seasonality of work; and others have an abundance of medical bills and have to choose which bills WONT be getting paid this month. As Truckee/Tahoe is a resort-based location, hunger looks very different than other parts of the country, and is not often seen by the naked eye.
Last year, Project MANA distributed over 232,000 lbs. of food through our mobile weekly food distribution program, our home food delivery program, and our emergency food box program. - that's 193,200 meals in one year to our community, feeding nearly 2,100 individuals at a cost of $2.08 per meal.
Project MANA has been serving the North Lake Tahoe and Truckee communities, working to eliminate hunger, for over 25 years through our weekly food distributions (Tahoe City, Truckee, Kings Beach and Incline) our Food and Compassion Exchange and our Emergency and Cooking Compromised Food Bags. Learn more about our Programs & Services.
You can learn even more about our food distribution by watching the video PSA below created in partnership with Truckee Tahoe Community TV.
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Because Orphanage Support Services Organization (OSSO) is a U.S. nonprofit 501(c)3 charitable organization, you and your sponsors are eligible to receive tax deductions*, motivating many companies to match your donations.
Federal Tax ID #82-0507523
For U.S. residents, your personal donations to our organization may be tax deductible—consult with your tax advisor to find out how these donations can benefit your tax planning.
Receipt stating tax deductibility of your contributions for that year will be sent by January 31 of the following year.
*Donations must be made to OSSO directly from the donor to receive a tax receipt. All those who donate through the fundraising webpage we set up are eligible.


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Up2Us Landcare Alliance facilitated a workshop on Saturday where 12 people gathered at the High Country Library Mansfield to think about their future property plans in a realistic and value based manner.
It was attended by a wide age range of people from a variety of backgrounds. People who were well on their way in production on small acreage sat beside people who were still contemplating the type of property which would suit their needs. All people in attendance contributed to a lively discussion about their future whilst taking the opportunity to think about the why and how.
The atmosphere was one of respect and a mutual interest of producing food within the Mansfield region. Stay tuned to the Up 2 Us facebook or Up2Us website for a calendar of events for the next 6 months. All people who are wanting to gain knowledge and skills in order to produce marketable food and manage their small acreages properly are welcome.
We would love to see you there next time!!
Any further queries please contact Kerstie Lee 0400 613 344 [email protected] or Rowena Ellis [email protected].


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HTC may buy its own operating system, giving it a new alternative now that Google owns Motorola, according to TNW.
Nothing is final, but HTC execs told Taiwan's Central News Agency that it has had internal discussions about purchasing a new OS.
It's doubtful anything will happen soon, but a likely candidate for HTC would be HP's WebOS. HP is still iffy on the future of WebOS, but many think it will inevitably sell.
Buying WebOS (or any other OS) would help HTC remain competitive if Google decides to double down on the mobile hardware business if the Motorola deal goes through. (As we've said before, we think it's highly likely Google will make Motorola its flagship Android hardware brand.)
HTC reaffirmed that it supports Google's acquisition of Motorola. But if Google decides to change its mind on its Android strategy, HTC will need a strong alternative like WebOS.
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The Camel Towing Company has had a significant amount of success with our rides in residency at other businesses. We have found that the ideal places for ride installations are public zoos and trade shows.
Having Camel and Pony rides at your zoo, animal park or event can be an attractive addition even if it's only seasonally or annually. We have found this synergy attractive and beneficial for all of the stakeholders that are involved in our C2B partnerships.
We welcome further dialogue from all interested businesses and upon inquiry will provide you with our program materials and references.


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I've been watching Frasier on Netflix this weekend while painting. I'm already on season 3. I had seen many episodes while I lived in Sweden but my English was pretty nonexistent back then so it's nice to revisit the show now that I understand more than just "yes", "no", and "shit".
The show is from the '90s which makes me appreciate that we don't wear such boring, monochromatic, boxy suits anymore. There are pops of color here and there but for the most part it's dark browns and beiges everywhere. I do love the high-waisted pants and big hair that the women wore, however. Love high-waisted pants. I've been looking a for a good pair.
Speaking of shows from the '90s....here's a watercolor painting I just finished of my favorite Sailor Moon character: Sailor Saturn. She's the coolest ❤


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Crime - Sacto 911
Safety meeting at South Sacramento's Bethany Church
South Sacramento residents can learn safety tips and perhaps be lucky enought to get Sacramento Kings tickets during a "Neighbor Night" at Bethany Presbyterian Church.
The free event occurs from 7 to 8:45 p.m. Wednesday at the church, 5625 24th St. Free refreshments, free flashlights to the first 50 attendees, and door prizes, including the Kings tickets, are planned.
A presentation from a representative from the Sacramento Police Department will highlight the evening. Participants can get tips on how to be safe on the road, at home and while shopping.
Free child care for youngsters under age 9 will be available.
Call The Bee's Bill Lindelof, (916) 321-1079.


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If you'd like Steve to speak or provide customized one-on-one coaching, please refer to the packages offered below:
1. Strengths Finder +
Steve is a certified Gallup Strengths Consultant and will provide a comprehensive overview of talent discovery, compelling research that supports the philosophy of living from one's strengths rather than investing energy in overcoming one's weaknesses, and a solid and insightful construct based on understanding complex variations of strengths that helps to increase a person's effectiveness, impact, influence, and healthy team dynamics.
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Steve is a certified Myers Briggs Consultant and will facilitate self-discovery and discussion related to the MBTI assessment, analyze the results, and offer practical application of understanding one's own personality type, as well as other's personality types. In half day and whole day workshops Steve will guide the conversation into deeper learning around interpersonal communication styles, responding to change, self-management, decision-making, and navigating one's priorities with increased wisdom.
3. Team Dynamics and Conflict Resolution +
This package addresses obstacles that block team development and innovation as well as offer tips on how to catalyze team cohesion, efficiency, resourceful problem solving, and creativity. Teams will come away with increased relational and emotional intelligence, as well as have established clarity of roles and responsibilities on the team.
4. Leadership Development +
Steve will provide essential pathways to cultivate a more effective and intentional leadership culture, as well as cast a solid vision emphasizing the value of leading from a place of integrity. This package includes learning how to develop a leadership pipeline, grow people through guided goal setting and strategic reinforcement, and cultivate environments for leaders to live with increased clarity of vision, mission, and values.
Steve is a certified DISC consultant and will facilitate learning and dialogue related to this assessment, offer analysis and insights about how one's DISC profile affects and informs their work and relationships, as well as guide people towards practical applications in their personal and professional life. Steve uses the DISC primarily to help people focus on improved individual performance and to build healthier team dynamics.
6. BLUEPRINT: Discovering God's Design For Your Life +
Every human being was designed uniquely and originally by God, handcrafted as his masterpiece. We are created to do good, and most importantly, to carry out a unique God-given mission and purpose in this life. Perhaps you find yourself on this quest as well. Maybe you have deeper questions about who you are, where you're going, and who you are becoming. Discovering your calling and purpose is so important, and that's why Steve Saccone has developed a learning process for individuals and groups that helps facilitate self-discovery, increased intentionality, and practical application for everyday life. In essence, this experience involves discovering God's dreams and designs for your life. It centers on how you can discover how to live an original life, one that honors God and impacts the world around you. If you're interested in learning more about this weekend experience or to receive customized coaching with Steve in a group setting, please contact Steve Saccone.
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1. Spiritual Formation Emphasis Package +
Steve will lead the group through a time of renewal, reflection, and interactive exercises, all designed to accelerate inner growth as well as group connectivity, and to help people solidify a collective and individual identity rooted deeply in Christ. Within this package, Steve can customize according to the group needs and objectives. For instance, it could be a weekend specifically focused on prayer or it could be more broadly designed around how to foster authentic spiritual transformation, delving into a variety of spiritual practices.
2. Leadership Development Emphasis Package +
Steve will lead the group through exclusive content that's specific to effective, innovative, and courageous leadership, facilitate vital discussions and interactions necessary for individual as well as group leader development, and offer customized counsel as it relates to specific organizational and group areas of growth needs. Within this package, Steve can customize according to the group needs and objectives. For instance, there can be emphasis in relational leadership, missional leadership, self-leadership, or team leadership.
3. Customized Package +
Steve leads retreats around specific topics that include Living a Missional Life, Preparing for Hardship, Disappointment, and Heartache, Building a Strong Prayer Life, Living an Original Life, The Art of Disciple-making, Hearing God's Voice, Optimizing the Impact of Spiritual Gifts, and Relational Intelligence: Mastering What Matters Most. These retreats are typically built around 3 talks but can have the option of a 4th talk.
1. Spiritual Formation Coaching +
This package provides potent and relevant assessments related to emotional and spiritual growth (the primary assessment, interpretation and application is derived from the Enneagram construct), will facilitate vital discussions based on prevalent growth needs and areas of struggle, and will address varying dimensions of character as well as offer concrete applications toward greater character formation.
2. Leadership Coaching +
Steve will provide coaching regarding interpretation and application of substantive assessments such as the Gallup Strengths Finder, Myers Briggs, and DISC, facilitate self-discovery and discussion with focus on one's personal dreams and vision of the future, as well as provide a customized growth plan that's based on comprehensive analysis and evaluation. This package focuses on clarifying and maximizing what style of a leader a person is, as well as determining a growth plan for ongoing intentional development.
3. Personal Life Coaching +
This package brings attention to the strong undercurrents of one's life: personal challenges, handling conflict, interpersonal communication challenges, gaining wisdom in significant relationships, love languages, and other current personal struggles. Steve will guide the conversation as he addresses these varying aspects that profoundly impact the quality of one's spiritual, emotional, and relational life. He will also offer counsel based on decades of counseling experience both in ministry and leadership contexts.
4. Church Planter Training +
The sobering reality of church planting is that many churches don't make it past the first few years. With such high turnover, dropout, and burnout rates among church planters today, we need planters who are well equipped to execute God's call on their lives. One of Steve Saccone's passion areas involves developing strong, healthy leaders who live and lead well. His development process involves a unique and proven approach to training church planters using 12 leadership competencies identified by Multiply. The process is highly relational, which means a coaching and mentoring approach is at the heart of the process. If you are interested in exploring more, please contact Steve Saccone.
The Protege Training Experience (PTX) is a leadership development training program designed for an array of visioneers and leaders who are committed to integrating their skills and talents into their Christ-centered mission within their chosen vocation. This includes emerging church leaders, pastors, church staff, business leaders, non-profit visioneers, ministry interns, and other faith-based entrepreneurs. PTX offers a platform of learning to the leader who recognizes the value of ongoing personal development as it relates to not only external effectiveness, but more importantly, internal growth that paves the path toward healthy leadership.
For each hour, the cost is $250. When booking 5 or more hours, discounts are available. When travel is necessary, expenses are assumed to be covered.
Hour-by-hour workshop options
*Adding multiple topics in one-hour segments is also available to create a customized package geared toward your team or organizational needs.
To book Steve for a retreat, that includes speaking 3 times (a 4th talk is an option), the cost is $3,000. If you would like to further customize the content to meet your team or organizational needs, please email us and we can discuss this.
For each one hour session, the cost is $100 (typically Steve works on a 2 times per month, or alternatively a 1 time per month rhythm). Coaching is paid for in 6 session increments, and discounts are available when purchasing 12 sessions at once.
$1000 for 6 months, $600 for 3 months.
One-on-one coaching is provided through one, two, or all three packages as outlined above. Each package consists of 6 sessions. Two packages consists of 12 sessions, three packages consists of 18 sessions. This can be done online (video Skype or google hangout) or in person. Steve also does group coaching (i.e. 1 on 3, or 1 on 4).
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Apple Now Has Its Own Sound Barrier
Have you ever picked up your iPhone to ask Siri® a question and wondered if those familiar iOS beeping sounds are protected by one or more federally registered non-traditional trademarks? Of course you have. Well, wonder no more—as the iPelton® blog reports, Apple owns numerous non-traditional trademark registrations for product designs, icons, screen displays, store layouts, and yes, sounds (see an earlier post on sound trademarks here). For example, the soothing, synthetic sound of Siri's voice is invariably accompanied by the sounds of U.S. Registration No. 4689043, for "a synthesized bell tone playing a G#5 sixteenth note, followed by another G#5 sixteenth note," and its companion No. 4689044, for "a synthesized bell tone playing a C#5 sixteenth note, followed by another C#5 sixteenth note."
Lest users of Mac OS computers feel unprotected (or worse, slighted), Apple also took the trouble of federally registering its venerable Mac OS startup chime as No. 4257783, which, for the curious, "consists of a synthesizer playing a slightly flat, by approximately 30 cents, G flat/F sharp major chord." Since these sound marks were in use long before Apple became the most valuable company in the universe, it is possible to conclude that the three registrations for these marks are almost single-soundedly responsible for the company's meteoric rise and vaunted position in the annals of capitalism. Or maybe it was mostly product design and marketing. In any event, anyone who tries to use Apple's registered sounds without authorization is likely to receive a sonic boom from the company's lawyers. Hear the registered sound marks below, and see the three registrations here, and here, and here. Reposted from the iPelton® blog.


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Last December I transitioned from AT&T to Sprint and the main attraction at the time was the price point and unlimited data and at this point I'm learning it was a terrible mistake. Although Sprint did officially roll out LTE in Portland the bad news is that the LTE coverage is slow, and a good number of their towers are still not upgraded.
I spoke with someone at Sprint Corporate HQ this week who confirmed that their are still many towers in the Portland Metro Area that have not been upgraded and that the remaining legacy 3G towers may not see upgrades till Q4 of 2014. The Sprint rep acknowledged that their existing 3G towers are running on antiquated equipment that does not perform optimally with the level of subscribers and building density that exists today in most metro areas.
Apparently Sprint has assigned a different vendor to certain regions while Samsung is doing upgrades for the Pacific Northwest other vendors are upgrading towers in other markets and apparently the upgrades in Portland are on hold.
Despite Sprint acknowledging the below par service they offered no solutions other than just waiting and if their recent shareholder report is an indicator it would seem subscribers are jumping ship at an unprecedented rate.
I encourage people in the market for a carrier to check sites like OpenSignal, Sensorly and RootMetrics before getting struck in a contract because the carrier's coverage maps are almost never honest or accurate.


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THE WILLOWTOWN ASSOCIATION is a volunteer-based neighborhood organization with a longterm commitment to stewardship in the southwest corner of Brooklyn Heights whose mission is to address issues impacting the quality of life for the residents and to serve as their collective voice and advocate. We strive to share and protect our neighborhood's history and architectural heritage while communicating with like-minded organizations and individuals on key issues. In addition to supporting the A.T. White Community Center and guided walking tours of the neighborhood's architectural and cultural history, our main annual events are a vibrant spring fair held in May and a festive fall potluck community meeting. The Association's Willowtown Community Garden adjoins the Adam Yauch Dog Run and nearby Adam Yauch Park, which all came about when Atlantic Playground was redesigned and rebuilt in 1999. In 2010 we established The Alfred Award to recognize residents who have made a notable contribution to either the immediate or wider community.
FORMED IN 1953 as an informal gathering of residents, the association was incorporated in 1997 as a not-for-profit organization with bylaws, quarterly meetings, and an annual public meeting. The association is represented by its president on the Community Advisory Council of Brooklyn Bridge Park on the waterfront to the west of Willowtown, and by its Board of Directors.
THE BOUNDARY OF WILLOWTOWN is from Joralemon Street to Atlantic Avenue and from both sides of Hicks Street to Furman Street between Joralemon and Atlantic. Membership is open to all residents of this area, long-standing and new.
Share Willowtown's history and architectural heritage with the community.
Protect Willowtown's historic district and encourage stewardship.
Convene meetings for public engagement and discussion about the planning, development and restoration of particular buildings, blocks, streets, and storefronts - both within and adjacent to Willowtown.
Communicate with like-minded organizations and individuals on issues that affect Willowtown and other similar neighborhoods.
Provide opportunities for residents of all ages and backgrounds to participate in various aspects of the mission, and raise funds for activities as needed.
Engage in any other activities consistent with the association's mission.
In 2010 the Willowtown Association established The Alfred Award to recognize residents of Willowtown who have made a notable contribution to either the immediate or wider community. The award is named for Alfred T. White, 1846-1921, known as "the great heart and mastermind of Brooklyn's better self" and a lifelong resident of Brooklyn Heights. His main legacy in Willowtown is the innovative Riverside apartment complex built under his leadership at Joralemon Street and Columbia Place in 1889-90. The complex was designed to make life more pleasant, safe and healthy for the working poor. From 1876 to the end of his life the present Alfred T. White Community Center on Willow Place housed a kindergarten of which White was the founder and superintendent. An addition built in 1905 provided more classrooms as well as space for a clubhouse for the children who lived in the Riverside apartments.


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| Voigtländer Vitessa L
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The Vitessa was an innovative 35mm folding rangefinder camera made by Voigtländer in the 1950s. The folding bed was replaced by a barn-door assembly, the focusing was operated by the user's right thumb via a wheel on the back of the top plate, with a distance dial (and depth-of-field scale) set into the top plate. The film advance and shutter cocking were operated with a large plunger rod pointing out of the top plate, that could be retracted when the camera was folded.
It suffered a number of small variations during its production. The very first models did not have strap lugs nor automatic parallax correction. The most expensive models had a 50mm f/2 Ultron lens, the others a 50mm f/3.5 or f/2.8 Color-Skopar. They all had a Compur-Rapid or Synchro Compur shutter to 1/500. The later models had an uncoupled selenium meter.
Vitessa shows a superb, almost Leica M3 quality fit and finish, uses Exposure Value settings, a system popular in the 1950's. Its design and mechanics are unique in its class, like Voigtlander Prominent's unique design. Voigtlander Vitessa L is the most elegant 35mm Folder camera. The Vitessa range has several versions and models. There are several nicknames of Vitessa, eg. in German it was called the Leuchtturm, means The Lighthouse named after the unique plunger rod.
The unique front covers are usually referred to as the "barn-doors".
At the end of the 1960s, Zeiss Ikon / Voigtländer produced a series of compact 35mm cameras called the Vitessa 500, and some 126 film cameras called the Vitessa 126, that are both discussed elsewhere.
Voigtländer Vitessa modelsEdit
There are four principal Vitessa models.[1] [2]
Voigtländer Vitessa AEdit
- Produced between 1950-54
- There are 5 versions
Vitessa A version 1Edit
- Shutter: Compur-Rapid 1-1/500
- Flash PC socket on the lens, old type
- Back cover: not fully removable, film pressure plate connected to body, not to back cover
- Removable accessory shoe
- Strap lugs: none
| Voigtländer Vitessa A version 1
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Vitessa A version 2Edit
- Filter: screw thread
- Manual parallax correction
- Shutter: Compur-Rapid
- Flash PC socket on the lens, old type
- Back cover: removable and with pressure plate connected to it
- Cold shoe: none
- Strap lugs: none
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Vitessa A version 3Edit
- Parallax correction become automatic
- Flash PC socket on the lens, old type
- Shutter Synchro Compur
- Cold shoe: none
- Strap lugs
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Vitessa A version 4Edit
- Removable accessory shoe
- Synchro-Compur leaf shutter, 1-1/500
- Flash PC socket on the barn door, modern type
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Vitessa A version 5Edit
- Synchro-Compur leaf shutter, 1-1/500
- Back cover: removable
- Strap lugs
- Cold shoe
| Voigtländer Vitessa A version 5 (c.1956) early model without meter, w/Color-Scopar 50mm f/3.5
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| Voigtländer Vitessa A version 5 w/ external light meter on the accessory shoe (1954)
Image by Leif Skandsen
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Voigtländer Vitessa N Edit
- Introduced in 1954
- There are 2 versions
- Filter: bayonet mount
- Synchro-Compur LVS shutter
- Self-timer
- Flash PC socket on the barn door
- Automatic parallax correction
- Strap lugs
- Fixed accessory shoe
- Lenses Ultron 50mm f/2 and Color-Skopar 50mm f/3,5
Vitessa N version 1Edit
- Speeds ring & aperture ring not coupled
- External rangefinder window square
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Vitessa N version 2Edit
- Speeds ring & aperture ring coupled
| Voigtländer Vitessa N version 2
Image by Matt Phillips
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Voigtländer Vitessa LEdit
- Produced between 1954-57
- There are 5 versions
- Bayonet filter mount
- Synchro-Compur LVS shutter 1-1/500
- Self-timer
- Flash PC socket on the barn door
- Automatic parallax correction
- Strap lugs
- Fixed accessory shoe
- Incorporated meter ABCDEF ASA 6-200 (last models BCDEFG ASA 12-400)
Vitessa L version 1Edit
| Voigtländer Vitessa L version 1 (1955) w/Ultron 50mm f/2.0, with meter
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Vitessa L version 1 specificationsEdit
- Lens: Ultron 50mm f/2.0, six element, screw filter mount
- Aperture: f/2 - f/22, setting: dial and manual setting lever on the lens-shutter barrel
- Focus range: 3.3 - 60 feet (1-18m) +inf
- Focus distance and DOF scale: a rotating dial when focusing, on the top plate
- Focusing: match the rangefinder images in the finder
- Via a thumb wheel on back right side of the top plate
- Shutter: Synchro-Compur leaf shutter, speeds: 1-1/500 +B
- Aperture and speeds are coupled and turning the speeds ring also turns the aperture setting
- Exposure meter: Selenium cell
- Flat chequered (square) window
- Based on the Exposure Value, needle window on the right of the top plate
- Metering range 6-200 ASA (EV 2-19)
- Exposure setting: after reading your film's ASA's corresponding letter from the plate which shows A to F letters near the needle window
- Set this letter to EV number dial in the window turning the knob on the back far right side of the top plate,
- Then read the EV that matches with the needle and apply this EV number to the EV numbers dial by turning the speeds ring for the correct exposure
- If the EV is out of the speeds range, turn and set again the aperture manually by lifting its lever to fit exact EV
- EV numbers dial: accordig to combined aperture-speed settings is on front of the lens-shutter barrel, aperture setting lever points them
- Cocking device: a long Combi-plunger rod, also winds the film, on left side of the top plate,
- Always depress the Combi-plunger as far as it will go and then let it come out completely, could be retracted when the bellows-doors closed, push down until it clicks
- Frame counter: advance type, manual setting when the back cover removed
- The frame count is in a window on left front of the camera,
- Shutter release: on the top plate, right side, w/ cable release socket
- View finder: coupled viewfinder/rangefinder, Parallax corrected
- Re-wind: a folding lever on the bottom plate, right side
- Its shaft has a small red line on it., and must rotate once when advancing the film
- Re-wind release: a small knob, on the bottom plate
- Flash PC socket: on the left side of the bellows-door, synchro. all speeds,
- X and M settings via the MXV lever and dial on the lens-shutter barrel
- Self-timer: setting via MXV lever and dial on the lens-shutter barrel, V for the self-timer
- Opening the bellows-doors: pressing the shutter release, cocking plunger will raise also
- Closing the bellows: pushing simutaneously onto the red semi-lunar pressure marks on front of the lens, on 12 and 6 o'clock
- There is a small folding supporter piece for standing straight of the camera, just beneath the right door
- Back cover: removable, completely detaches with bottom plate and front plates of the body, opens via a folding latch on center of the bottom plate, turns 90 degrees
- Others: Memory dial; Cold-shoe; Tripod socket 1/4inch; Strap lugs
- Body: Metal; weight: 691g
| Voigtländer Vitessa L version 1 (1955) w/Ultron 50mm f/2.0
Images by Süleyman Demir (Image rights)
Vitessa L version 2Edit
- Shutter: Synchro-Compur 1-1/500 (on all versions of Vitessa L)
- Light meter's window texture: bubble
- Metering range: 6-200 ASA (EV 2-19)
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Vitessa L version 3Edit
- Light meter's window texture: bubble
- Metering range: 12-400 ASA
Vitessa L version 4Edit
- Lens: Color-Skopar f/2.8
- Light meter's window texture: flat chequered
- Metering range: 6-200 ASA (EV 2-19)
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Vitessa L version 5Edit
- Light meter's window texture: flat chequered
- Metering range: 6-200 ASA (EV 2-19)
Voigtländer Vitessa TEdit
| Voigtländer Vitessa T w/Cassarit lens
Image by David Broglin
(Image rights)
The folding Vitessa was replaced by the rigid Vitessa T. It was based on the folding Vitessa models, and retained their basic body but without the barn-door, their rangefinder, uncoupled selenium meter and the plunger rod advance mechanism. But the Vitessa T had a rigid body, and interchangeable lenses in front of a Synchro-Compur leaf shutter. Focusing is by a ring around the lens, as usual but unlike the folding Vitessa that have a wheel operated by the right thumb.
- There are 3 versions
- Introduced in 1957
- Lenses: Interchangeable, Vitessa T original lens range was quite limited
- Color-Skopar 50/2.8 standard lens
- Skoparet 35/3.4 wide angle lens
- Dynaret 100/4.8 medium tele lens
- Super-Dynaret 135/4 tele lens
- But all the lenses made for the Braun Super Colorette can be used on the Vitessa T, like Steinheil Cassarit 50/2.8
- Shutter: Synchro-Compur leaf shutter 1-1/500
- Self-timer
- Flash PC socket: on front of the camera
- Automatic parallax correction
- Sometimes with strap lugs sometimes not
- Cold shoe
- Incorporated meter ABCDEF ASA 6-200 (last models BCDEFG ASA 12-400)
| Voigtländer Vitessa T w/Color-Scopar 50mm f/3.5
by Lightshaper (Image rights)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ In this page Vitessa series classification, typing and info are according to Massimo Bertacchi[1]
- ↑ These Vitessa models are also called type 125, 133, 140 and 134 in p.964 of McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 12th Edition, 2005-2006. USA, Centennial Photo Service, 2004. ISBN 0-931838-40-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-931838-41-X (softcover).
Links Edit
General links Edit
In English:
In German:
- Vitessa and Vitessa T pages at Dietrich Drescher's Voigtländer website
- Vitessa at Peter Lausch's camera site
In French:
- On www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand :
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Glyburide (DiaBeta, Glynase, PresTab, Glycron, Micronase)
Unlike some anti-diabetic drugs which have been on the market for only a few years, glyburide has been approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration since 1984. Many diabetes patients find glyburide to be a safe and convenient way to maintain their blood glucose within their target range.
Glyburide overview
Brand names: Glyburide is marketed under the following brand names:
- DiaBeta
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Drug class: Glyburide belongs to the sulfonylurea class of drugs. Other drugs in this class include glimepiride (Amaryl) and glipizide (Glucotrol). These drugs stimulate insulin production by the pancreas and can lower blood sugar levels by helping the body use insulin more effectively.
Dosage: Glyburide comes in an oral tablet, generally taken once each morning.
Side effects: The federal Agency on Healthcare Research and Quality reports glyburide can cause stomach problems such as heartburn and nausea, as well as weight gain. It is also associated with a three-to five-fold increase in the risk of unsafe low blood sugar levels.


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Available exclusively for BMW 6 Series Coupe, BMW 6 Series Convertible and BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe, BMW's latest equipment options emphasise the dynamic character of the three luxury-class models.
BMW 6 Series
The BMW6 Series model range is welcoming a number of attractive new items to its optional equipment roster for spring 2017. The options available exclusively for the BMW 6 Series Coupe, BMW 6 Series Convertible and BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe bring striking exterior and interior flourishes which vividly showcase the sporting character of the three luxury-class models.
The M Sport Package
Customers can now plump for the body paint variant Sonic Speed Blue metallic, which is new to the selection of finishes. If the M Sport package – which is individually configured to each of the three model variants – is specified, the BMW 6 Series Coupe, BMW 6 Series Convertible and BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe can now also be ordered with new bi-colour 20-inch M light-alloy wheels which feature an M-specific double-spoke design and are fitted with mixed-size run flat tyres. Furthermore, the Carbon Fibre interior trim strips likewise available as an option with the M Sport package create a spine-tingling sports-car ambience inside the cockpit.
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For 40 years now, the number 6 at the start of a BMW model designation has been shorthand for the combination of dynamic excellence and luxury. The first-generation BMW 6 Series Coupe made its debut in 1976, turning heads with its trailblazing innovations. The direct successor to the original 6 Series hit the roads in 2003, while the premiere of the BMW 6 Series Convertible a year later added, for the first time, open-air thrills to the promise of driving pleasure in a luxurious sports car.
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The luxurious aura of the BMW 6 Series is accentuated by interior design of grand style and a comprehensive spread of standard equipment. Customers seeking to bring an extra dose of focused individualisation to their car can take advantage of the Design Pure Experience and Design Pure Excellence equipment lines. The BMW Individual options available for the BMW 6 Series models tailor the design of the car even more precisely to the owner's personal style and stand apart with their exclusive design, exquisite materials and sublime workmanship.
The carefully coordinated design features for the exterior and interior combined with the M Sport package configurations particular to each of the three model variants provide them with a bespoke dynamic profile. Now that's what we call – driving like a boss!


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We look at the evolution of the server operating system, and how the next generation is moving into the cloud
Microsoft's new Windows Server 2016 operating system (OS) is just being launched. Linux is celebrating its 25th birthday. IBM has its mainframe operating system and its Power operating system, Oracle has Solaris – and that is just a few of the OSs that still abound in the market. But what is the role of an OS in the modern world?


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Musician's Practice Planner: Take a look inside
Weekly Lesson Plan Page (The Left Page):
Plan what to do for the week. The secret to making this page effective is deciding on your Specific Goals and writing them down. With specific, attainable goals in place playing music becomes much more productive. During lessons, this page gets filled in by the teacher or parent.
Daily Practice Log Page (The Right Page):
When you decide your priorities before you practice, you'll know exactly what you need to get done today. You can track your current metronome setting on this page too. If you're taking lessons, this is the page you'll fill out on the days in between lessons – when you're practicing on your own.
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Categorizing student's to-do lists helps them remember everything they need to learn in between lessons. Giving specific goals motivates students because they know exactly what to do and exactly what you expect at the next lesson.
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Jason Stoddard of Schiit Audio on Being Green (pt.2)
Part 2 of my interview with Jason Stoddard, co-founder of Schiit Audio, about ecologically-friendly solutions in manufacturing HiFi equipment.
Last week, I posted part 1 of my email interview with Jason Stoddard of Schiit Audio, a California-based manufacturer of award-winning headphone amps & DACs. What sets the company apart, according to Jason, is that they don't take themselves too seriously, they manufacture the products here in California, and their amps can drive even the most inefficient headphones, all at a very competitive price.
I should also mention that I was rather impressed with Jason's candid answers. I was also impressed with the fact that the manufacturing does indeed follow the kind of green thinking that this website believes in. After some more discussion with Jason about the headphones I own, the music I listen to, and my interest in keeping things green, he recommended I try out one of his amps. I decided to purchase the Asgard, their entry-level amp. Even though it is their least expensive product, Jason assured me that I would be impressed.
So I ordered the amp through a third-party vendor and paid full price for it, just so there isn't any bias. It will go straight up against my beloved, tube-based, Chinese-made, little $67 Quinpu Q2, a small 2.5 watt integrated amp. Aside from the modest power rating, the Qinpu is about as non-green as they come and the polar opposite to the all-American Asgard in every way. The Asgard also costs a whopping 3½ times as much, so will it also sound 3½ as good? Will it be greener? Well I will write about it as soon as I can get them side-by-side: review coming soon.
So on that note, onto the rest of the interview.
Jason, where does Sschiit source parts?
Depending on the parts, we either buy direct from manufacturers or through distribution. They come from all over the world. The majority of our cost stays with US manufacturers, but there are definitely Japanese and Chinese parts in our products.
Do you have any checks in place to ensure that parts quality meets standards?
Absolutely. All suppliers are qualified through product testing, and any changes are re-qualified. We have not one, but two Stanford Research SR-1 audio analyzers—one optimized for analog, and one optimized for digital. In addition, all products are "burned in"--left on for 24 hours--to catch any early failures before shipping.
Are your amplifiers sold in Europe?
If so, do you need to modify them to meet stricter environmental standards?
Do you check if the companies you purchase components from treat their employees fairly and follow environmental laws?
I think that's a little outside the scope of a small manufacturer. The major parts suppliers we've all been on-site with and I'm confident they're cool, especially seeing as how they're in California. The smaller parts must be RoHS compliant for CE certification, so we're covered there.
How do you dispose of electronic parts and possibly toxic materials at your manufacturing facility?
We don't really have much in the way of waste, since our PC boards are assembled by a contract manufacturer in Simi Valley. We don't use any chemicals stronger than Windex. Bad metalwork and stuff like that goes back to recycling. To be honest, we haven't thought about it much yet.
I haven't ordered a product from you yet, although I certainly intend to. Are there any measures taken to use recyclable materials in the shipping boxes and packing?
Everything's recyclable, and we don't use any color printing or toxic inks.
Would you consider adding a statement on your website mentioning ecologically-friendly manufacturing, shipping, and recycling.
Perhaps in context--I'd much rather key on the "buy it and use it forever" argument than simply lip-service. We have a different philosophy, based on the long view, rather than short-sighted profit chasing and endless obsolescence. That's where I think the value is.
Let's end this with a thought exercise: Which is the most environmentally conscious decision...(a) Buying a new Prius and reducing emissions, while commuting 60 miles each day down the 405 to your job, and requiring the global infrastructure necessary to make and ship tens of thousands of components all over the world for its manufacturing and maintenance, or (b) Driving the same old 1968 Mustang for 40 years, 2 miles back and forth to your job, and eliminating the whole new car thing entirely? Hint: there's no necessarily "right" answer. Or it's "get a bike." Or "convert the Mustang to biodiesel." Or something like that.
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Why is there no crib? It is the question many have when they enter our bedroom or the nursery, and find this normal childhood furniture absent (not that I am in the habit of bringing all of our house guests into our bedroom!) I had always planned on co-sleeping as my mom and mother-in-law both did it with their kids, and it seemed to make sense.
Yes, there is no crib.
We are co-sleeping.
Then I started reading those free baby magazines that continually tell you why co-sleeping is can be very dangerous, and with this new enlightenment, I changed my mind. Peter was born, and he slept in a cradle next to the bed. I was constantly waking up to check on him, even when he was peacefully sleeping. I regretted that he was so far away. The arrangement didn't sit quite right with me. Every time I woke up to soothe my crying baby, I second guessed myself. Then I reasoned that at least for naptime, it would seem to be safe. So I did, and I immediately realized how aware I was of his breathing and of his needs, and before he was a week old, we began bedsharing at night. I got a lot more sleep this way, and Peter seemed to be more happy too. I finally had the energy to be alive again. For me, bedsharing was the defining moment for my recovery from childbirth.
"This must be right," I told myself, "there must be something very right about this." I searched for research to validate my decision. I didn't have to look very far. William Sears, one of Americas leading pediatricians, has always been a proponent of co-sleeping. Here is an article by Dr. Sears about co-sleeping. If you do any research at all on co-sleeping, you are bound to find the name of James McKenna, a man who has extensively researched bedsharing and whether or not it is safe. This website shares many articles and videos sharing his research. I also read his book, Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping , and found all of the validation I needed to be confident in my decision. So now, I'm very happy to be co-sleeping, and I think it's a very good choice for our family.
Breakfast in bed? The benefits for breastfeedingThere are three different kinds of mammals, and nature provides special milk for each. There are nesting mammals like puppies and kittens who can be left for hours as the mother gathers food. They are often born blind, hairless, and quite helpless. A nesting animal goes to the nest, not the mother, when danger arrives. Then there are animals who walk from birth like horses, elephants, and cattle whose needs are different. Thirdly there are "parent clingers", those who are carried, who stay close to their mother and are highly dependant on their parents for safety. They nurse often.The truth is that mankind are part of this last category, and our babies need constant physical touch and nourishment. Co-sleeping is very conducive to meeting our babies needs. A breastfed baby will eat three times as much at night when they bed-sharing is practiced. We are more quickly able to pick-up on our babies cues when we are close by. Crying is one of the very last cues a baby will give when hungry, but it can be the last one we register when the baby is in a crib, especially if the baby sleeps in another room. The baby is upset and needs to be calmed down, in addition to being fed. When a baby sleeps next to its mother, other cues are given first, and mother and child go back to sleep much more quickly. I have a personal story to share that reflects this truth. My husband took a nap with our little daughter once, and as I worked in the other room I heard my husband call me. She was snuggling up with him, smiling, and playing with his face, which, in spite of the annoyance of his interrupted slumber, was quite endearing. After all, she is a cute little girl. "What does she want?" he asked, and I replied that she was hungry. "Really?" Indeed she was, and I learned to appreciate my ability to respond to he needs so quickly.
I have never had a sleepless night with Helen. From the beginning I recovered quickly as I got that precious sleep I needed, and I have a very happy baby. The only sleepless nights I had with Peter were the first few nights before I brought him into bed with me. Much of that is because of the security my children and I have knowing that we are in close proximity, but much of it is also because when they are hungry, they are fed faster, and neither of us have to fully wake up in order to meet those needs.


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YORK, Pa. – York (Pa.) jumped out to a 14-0 lead before staving off a second half McDaniel rally to notch a 71-56 non-conference women's basketball victory on Tuesday.
Lindsey Nichols (Wilmington, Del./St. Mark's) led the Green Terror (4-1) with a career high 14 points while Steph Perez (Harrisburg, Pa./Central Dauphin East) and Emma Wingerd (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Hills) added 11 points each.
Kristin Haley led a balanced attack for the Spartans (5-0) with 12 points.
Wingerd hit the second of two free throws with 14:20 on the clock to snap a 14-0 run by York.
Baskets by five different Spartans keyed the game-opening run.
York extended the advantage to 25-7 before the Green Terror tallied four of the next six points to make it a 16-point game.
Two Nichols free throws in the final 10 seconds made it a 36-21 game before Brittany Hicks hit a layup just before the first-half buzzer to make it a 17-point game at the break.
McDaniel tallied the first six points of the second half to close to within 11 before Jess Selby canned a 3-pointer with 17:17 to play for the Spartans' first points of the stanza.
A Lauren Ballenger (Silver Spring, Md./Our Lady of Good Counsel) three-point play with 14:56 showing made it a 43-34 game, cutting the deficit to single digits for the first time since the first three minutes of the game.
A Stephanie Fish (Brick, N.J./Brick Memorial) three-point play with 10:15 to play closed the margin to 50-42 but McDaniel could muster only a Perez 3-pointer – the 99th of her career – over the next 5:58.
In the meantime, York methodically extended the lead back to 16 before Perez hit the first of two free throws with 4:17 on the clock to make it a 61-46 game.
Allie Eader (Ijamsville, Md./Linganore) chipped in four assists and four steals for McDaniel.
The Green Terror returns to action at home against Dickinson on Tuesday. Game time is 6 p.m.


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My 100 Miles For Tanner Project, with its inauspicious start, just got the most wonderful boost: Tutus. For Tanner.
My heart might just burst from the love. Having learned yesterday that Tanner is declining ever more quickly, too quickly, such that he might not be able to live at home for much longer, our hearts – mine and my sister's – were in need of such bursting.
We will wrap them in tutus, and run with them. You could join us.