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Holland The Original Cool
The Netherlands Board of Tourism & Conventions, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Amsterdam Marketing and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol are running "Holland: The Original Cool", an advertising campaign aimed at the North American travel market. The campaign focuses on well established aspects of Dutch life that have only recently become trendy in the USA. Online at holland.com/cool, the campaign includes a video featuring Pim de Koel, ambassador of the Netherlands' greatness, and chief of cool.
Original Cool Credits
The Original Cool campaign was developed at Mustache Agency, New York, by creative Gavin Bellour, executive producer John Limotte, account director Todd Griffin, digital project manager Jeff Cambron, associate producer Jennifer Kachler, working with Rosina Shiliwala, the North America director for the Board of Tourism.
Filming was shot by director Gavin Bellour with director of photography Felipe Soares and editor Will Bystrov.
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Tagged: Felipe Soares, Gavin Bellour, Mustache Agency, Will Bystrov
Location: The Netherlands


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Checking in on… the Big TenPosted by jstevrtc on January 23rd, 2010
Jason Prziborowski is the RTC correspondent for the Big Ten Conference.
Three things from the past week:
- Purdue's slide stops – After getting knocked off by Wisconsin on the road, Ohio State at home, and Northwestern on the road, Purdue stops the slide against Illinois on the road. It was Illinois' first loss at home on the road. The big key in the victory was JaJuan Johnson, who poured in a 24/12 game against Illinois after struggling in their previous losses. Will Purdue continue its ascent in the Big Ten?
- The Buckeyes are back – The main reason why the Buckeyes are back isn't only due to them knocking off Purdue, Wisconsin, and Northwestern in successive games, but more with the way they won. True, it was the Evan Turner show against Purdue, but with him in foul trouble against Wisconsin, the rest of the team stepped up in his absence to win the game. That's why they are not only back, but I believe they are better than before Turner went down.
- Iowa gets first win in the Big Ten – I was giving Iowa a bit of a hard time scheduling Tennessee State in the middle of Big Ten play, but it looks like it paid off. They not only won a close one at home against Tennessee State, but then they captured their first victory in the Big Ten against Penn State, both nail biters. I will talk more about that game when I talk about each team.
Now four Big Ten teams are in the top 25: Michigan State #6, Purdue #13, Wisconsin #18, and Ohio State #21.
Power Rankings
- Michigan State 16-3, 6-0
- Purdue 15-4, 3-3
- Wisconsin 15-4, 5-2
- Minnesota 12-6, 3-3
- Ohio State 14-5, 4-3
- Illinois 12-7, 4-2
- Northwestern 13-5, 2-4
- Michigan 10-8, 3-3
- Indiana 9-9, 3-3
- Iowa 7-12, 1-5
- Penn State 8-10, 0-6
Coming Up
- Michigan State @ Minnesota – January 23rd – 12:00 ET – CBS – The scheduling gods don't have much of a sense of humor for Minnesota, as they just played Michigan State on the road last week, and lost by seven. Minnesota suffered another bruise against Indiana on the road, but Minnesota is tough at home, and I think they will give the Spartans a run for their money in this one. The Spartans are still undefeated in conference and playing very well, but the Gophers might be able to catch them off guard. Big game for both teams for different reasons. Plus it's the first of a Big Ten double header on CBS, so how much better can this get?
- Ohio State @ West Virginia – January 23rd – 2:00 ET – CBS – OK, so this isn't totally a Big Ten double header on CBS, but both games feature at least one Big Ten team. That counts right? West Virginia just lost a nail biter to Syracuse at home, so you know their fans are going to be hungry to take down a Big Ten opponent, especially after losing to Purdue on the road earlier in the season. Evan Turner wants to show just how well the Buckeyes are playing right now, and this will be a great game to show it. This is assuming that Ohio State takes care of Northwestern prior to this game.
Breaking It Down
- The Spartans take control in the Big Ten. The Spartans are sitting atop the Big Ten conference with a 6-0 record, and have been able to win both at home and on the game, a rarity in this conference. In watching the Illinois game, it was clear that even though Illinois started off hot, once the Spartans gained momentum they never let go, and didn't let Illinois back in the game. Kalin Lucas led the team with a 20/4 assts game, but had quite the supporting cast, with Raymar Morgan coming off the bench for a 14/10/4 assts game. I was impressed with the unselfishness and physical play of the Spartans. They completely shut down Mike Tisdale like I thought they would. They get to feast on Iowa before traveling to Minnesota, which should be a battle.
- Purdue starting to turn it around. I have already talked about Purdue's woes earlier, so I won't focus too much on it here. I guess the most surprising thing is the rebounding, though. Purdue is getting outrebounded by a margin of six in the Big Ten, and the Northwestern game had a 19-board differential. Rebounding is purely heart and effort, so that's not a good sign for Purdue. They turned it around against Illinois, so I look forward to seeing if it continues. If you want to check out more on the Northwestern game, RTC was there: RTC Live: Purdue @ Northwestern
- Wisconsin missing Leuer – Wisconsin stumbled a bit last week losing to a much improved Ohio State team. Wisconsin thrashed them at home earlier in the year without Evan Turner, but not this time. Both teams are different. Wisconsin is no longer at full strength and they're without an inside presence, whereas Ohio State is a full strength. The reason why Wisconsin is missing Jon Leuer so much is because of what he does for the Badgers inside. They only shot five free throws against the Buckeyes, making four. Contrast that to their Duke game earlier in the season, when they shot 19 free throws and made 13. Jon Leuer shot eight of those free throws. Wisconsin did turn it around against Michigan, but still had troubles on the inside.
- Ohio State has a huge week. This past week was supposed to be the week that took down Ohio State. Instead, this was the week that will most likely define the turning point in their season. The task of taking on Purdue at Mackey Arena is more than most teams could handle, but the Buckeyes staged a late rally that Purdue couldn't stop. Wisconsin at home is more realistic than at the Kohl Center, but put Evan Turner in foul trouble and that would spell a loss. Not this time. Evan Turner decided to go for another triple-double against Northwestern, and came up just a bit short with 20/13/8 assts.
- Minnesota stumbles on the road. It's no secret that Minnesota would rather play at home, especially in the Big Ten, as they stumbled on the road this week against Michigan State and Indiana. The Michigan State game was expected to be close, but I am not sure many people expected Indiana to lead through much of regulation before staging a very late comeback to win in OT. Lawrence Westbrook and Blake Hoffarber weren't even a factor in the Indiana game, so they will need to step up if Minnesota should reach their potential. This is a super-talented team that just isn't quite getting it done. I expect that Tubby Smith will have a heart-to-heart with his team, and they will give Michigan State a run for their money on Saturday after a tough week of practice. If you want to see more about the Minnesota – Indiana game, RTC was at the game (shameless plug alert): RTC Live: Minnesota @ Indiana
- Illinois runs into the Spartans, literally. I talked a little bit about Illinois when mentioning the Spartans, so I will try to keep it a little brief here. Illinois apparently loves being on national TV, as they got off to a hot start against Michigan State, but couldn't hold on once the momentum shifted. I kind of laughed when the announcers were wondering why Mike Tisdale wasn't a factor in the game, because he was averaging 20 PPG in the Big Ten. He wasn't a factor because he has done well against Big Ten teams without height in Indiana and Penn State, and once he finally had to muscle up against some true big men in the Spartans, he just got pushed out of the way. The same thing happened against Purdue. If Illinois wants to win against physical teams they are going to have to get it from someone other than Tisdale. The big bright spot for Illinois is Demetri McCamey, who had a 28/9 assts game against Purdue.
- Northwestern gets board heavy. The big story for Northwestern was how they dominated the boards against Purdue, so it will be interesting to see if they can keep it up. Purdue has some physical and tough big guys like JaJuan Johnson, so I think they should do well against Illinois on the boards. Northwestern got manhandled by Ohio State, down by 21 points at half. They will have to keep from thinking about that game too much, or they will have recurring nightmares throughout the rest of the season.
- Michigan takes two, and knocks out UConn. The great story for Michigan really is knocking UConn out of the Top 25, and finding a third player beyond DeShawn Sims and Manny Harris. They introduced the national television audience to Zack Novak, who made his only trey at a very crucial time. This was actually the first game I have seen where Sims and Harris didn't lead the team in scoring. The same couldn't be duplicated against Wisconsin, who held off the Wolverines' late charge.
- Indiana has a down then up week. Watching the Michigan game was disappointing, as everything that could be done wrong late in the game was done. The Hoosiers threw away the basketball at will, and turned what was a semi-close game into a 20+ point blowout. That was the 'down' part…now for the 'up' part. Indiana did a ton of maturing between the Michigan and Minnesota game. They continued to build on that maturity by winning their first road game of the season against Penn State. Indiana was lights-out in the first half, and then, unlike past games, they didn't fade midway through the 2nd half. They took it to OT, and even when they started down six, they battled back and forced Minnesota to take a three with seconds remaining to tie. Verdell Jones stepped up with a career high 23 point effort, with Devan Dumes and Christian Watford rounding out the scoring. The usual suspects carried the load for Indiana as of late: Jones, Dumes, and Watford. If you want to see a more in-depth view of the Indiana-Minnesota game, RTC was there: RTC Live: Minnesota @ Indiana
- Iowa's scheduling pays off. Aaron Fuller had a career night against Tennessee State that got him ready for a big game against Penn State. He was good for a 24/10 night against Tennessee State and a 20/10 night against the Nittany Lions. Things are looking up for the sophomore, and for Iowa. Both games were nail biters, so if they get another W this year, expect it to be close. They are in for a rough haul though, with upcoming road games against Michigan State and Indiana.
- Penn State is still winless. I feel bad for Talor Battle because he continues to put up big numbers, and almost all of their losses have been close, but they just can't seem to finish one out. Battle had a 31/7 game against Iowa and a slight disappointing 9/4 game against Illinois in a low-scoring close one. Unfortunately for Penn State, their comeback came up short against Indiana. They will have to keep up their confidence at this point, or else it will be a long road ahead.


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Thirty nine million people in the world are blind, but 80 per cent of them do not have to be. ORBIS Canada is part of an innovative non-aligned, non-profit global development organization dedicated to saving sight and eliminating avoidable blindness worldwide. ORBIS responds to the needs of developing nations—where 90 per cent of the world's blind live—by strengthening the capabilities of local health care professionals to prevent and treat blindness.
Since 1982, the keystone of ORBIS's work has been transferring sight-saving skills and educating eye care professionals in countries where continuing medical education is an uncommon privilege. ORBIS works carefully to ensure that it is a catalyst for long-term improvements in each program country's eye care capacities, as well as its government's commitment to addressing the problem of preventable blindness.
From the time its programs first launched 29 years ago, ORBIS has benefited people in 89 countries, enhancing the skills of 88,000 doctors and over 200,000 nurses and other medical professionals. Medical and eye treatments have been provided to 15 million patients, of which 4.7 million are children.
One of the recipients is Kitonsa Kasozi who was born with misaligned eyes, or a condition called bilateral strabismus, in a village inUganda. From birth, he had double vision from close up and difficulties judging distances. He also had some refractive error and his family saved for a year to pay for his glasses (120,000 UGN shillings). Due to his condition, he could not play outside because the bright sun hurt his eyes and he often bumped into things. Teachers also told his mother that Kitonsa was at risk of falling behind in school because he could not see the blackboard clearly.
In 2010, seven-year old Kitonsa was brought to Mulago Hospital, the largest hospital in Uganda and a partner of ORBIS. There, his mother learned about ORBIS's sight-saving programs that were helping children like Kitonsa. Kitonsa had a squint in each eye and his condition was common inUganda, so his treatment made an excellent training case. On board the ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital, a volunteer ophthalmologist assessed Kitonsa's condition and determined that if it went untreated, he would have suffered from permanent vision loss.
In less than an hour's time, Kitonsa's life was changed forever. An ophthalmologist from Mulago Hospital worked alongside an ORBIS Volunteer Faculty to correct the muscles in Kitonsa's eyes so that he could see straight for the first time in his life. After the surgery, Kitonsa was all smiles. The successful operation was expected to have an immediate impact on Kitonsa's vision and local doctors were trained to continue his post-operative assessments.
In school, Kitonsa's favourite subject is science and he dreams of one day becoming a doctor. With the help of ORBIS and its Volunteer Faculty, Kitonsa has now had his eyes opened to a world of possibilities.
ORBIS's international faculty of volunteers
ORBIS volunteers join an internationally renowned cadre of experts in ophthalmic care. Driven by their mission to transform lives by providing quality eye care to prevent and treat blindness, ORBIS draws upon an international faculty of more than 500 volunteer ophthalmologists, nurses, anesthesiologists, biomedical engineers, and other critical support personnel to deliver eye care training and treatment in the most underserved regions of the world.
There are currently approximately 45 Canadians who volunteer their time to participate in ORBIS's global sight-saving missions. "I am grateful for the selfless contribution and commitment that my Canadian colleagues have demonstrated abroad," says Dr. Francis Law, ORBIS Volunteer Faculty. "Without the support of our Volunteer Faculty we would not be able to teach, train, treat and transform lives in remote parts of the world." Based inVancouver,British Columbia, Dr. Law has dedicated his surgical expertise and time to ORBIS Canada on several occasions. So far, he has travelled toHaikou,China,AngelesCity, thePhilippines, andSanto Domingo,Dominican Republic, both as a volunteer and visiting faculty member.
Roles of ORBIS Volunteers
ORBIS volunteers donate their time, knowledge and energy to enable learning and improve the quality of patient care around the world. ORBIS recruits trained and certified experts with teaching experience in ophthalmology, anesthesiology, nursing, orthoptics, eye banking and other related eye care fields. Volunteers are matched in accordance to requested subspecialty skill areas. Typical activities include hands-on training, surgical demonstration, diagnostic and post-operative consultations and lectures.
Different training activities are integrated with ORBIS's year-round country programs and play an essential role in its work to build eye care infrastructure in five priority countries:Bangladesh,China,Ethiopia,India and Vietnam. Regional programs are also underway in Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Small acts go a long way
It does not take a lot of time to make an immense impact through ORBIS. Most ORBIS volunteer faculty opportunities are short-term, averaging seven days total. A typical week-long program consists of an initial focus on screening and selection of patients followed by hands-on training, consultation and lectures. Additional volunteer opportunities can extend the impact of a one-week visit. Volunteers can elect to participate in ORBIS's telemedicine initiative, Cyber-Sight®, or choose to host an ORBIS sponsored fellow in their home institution.
Raising awareness of avoidable blindness—and gaining support for programs to prevent millions more from needlessly losing their sight—is another important function of being an ORBIS volunteer. Upon completion of a program, volunteers often share their experiences with the media and participate in fundraising events.
Climb Aboard the ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital!
To recognize the instrumental support of Canadians in the implementation of ORBIS's global sight-saving programs, the ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital will be making goodwill visits in Toronto and Ottawa this November 17 to 19 and 22 2011, respectively. This is a rare opportunity for health professionals and the general public to get an exclusive on-board tour of the state-of-the-art surgical and teaching facility, meet ORBIS volunteer eye care professionals and pilots, and learn more about ORBIS's sight-saving missions in 2011 and 2012. To pre-register for the event or get more information, please go to www.orbiscanada.ca/FEH
"Volunteering with ORBIS has been one of the most challenging and rewarding experiences of my life," says Dr. Brian Leonard, ORBIS Volunteer Faculty and President, Board of Directors, ORBIS Canada. "I believe I have a responsibility to help my fellow eye care professionals in developing nations to improve the delivery of eye care services, and to ultimately assist in the elimination of avoidable blindness."
Without the support of its Canadian and international volunteers, ORBIS would not be able to continue working towards its vision of a world in which no one is needlessly blind, where quality eye care, education, and treatment are available to everyone. Help eliminate avoidable blindness and learn more about ORBIS Canada and its Volunteer Faculty at www.orbiscanada.ca or call toll-free at 1-877-672-4722


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A mobile social gaming company, Playsimple Games which is behind the game 'GuessUp', has raised an undisclosed amount from IDG Ventures India with participation from an angel investor Yezdi Lashkari, a former executive, at Zynga.
Playsimple Games was started by co-founders Siddharth Jain, Preeti Reddy and Suraj Nalin, also the team has previously worked at Zynga, Bain, Walmart Labs & Yahoo.
As per a YourStory report, the new funding will be used to build a portfolio of casual mobile games, increase its team from 6-20, by hiring game designers and UI experts. With this new funding the company is also planning to unveil multiple games in early 2015, while looking for a next round of capital.
IDG Ventures had made this investment from its seed fund program, which was launched earlier this year. The firm has also invested in recruitment startup Mynoticeperiod and mobile ad retargeting firm SilverEdge through the program.
IDG's China fund has invested in 6 gaming and animation firms and its USA fund also has about 8-9 gaming firms in its portfolio. Playsimple is IDG's first mobile investment in India.
Apart from this, in November, Flipkart founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal had invested USD 1 million in a Bangalore based offline games startup, MadRat Games. In June this year, mobile gaming company, Octro had raised USD 15 million in series A round at a valuation of USD 70 million from Sequoia Capital. The gamification market is expected to reach USD 5.5 billion by next four years, and looks like the investors are all set to ride on it.
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For the last decade, as wireless networks have grown in popularity, so has the number of hot spots around the globe.
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The computer will not kill the book, but liberate it. By relieving the book of its lexical responsibility, the computer will do for the book what photography did for painting two centuries ago; allow it to become a self-reflexive discipline, an investigation of medium and format and content and history whose resonance deepens and complectifies, spawning experiments and arguments, contradictions and unanticipated pathways to entirely new artistic possibilities.–Peter Frank from The Last Vispo.
For a few decades, I have asked myself, over and over, like a daffy automaton: where the hell is literature/writing going? Where are the innovations? Was modernism, with a capital M, the last gasp of innovation?
Of course, the so-called mainstream–and my friends–were quick to disabuse me of the notion that "literature is dead." But wherever I looked, I didn't see much innovation going on. Indeed, whatever could be done with narrative ( the potentiality of narrative, so to speak) had happened a very long time ago. Joyce basically killed traditional literature with Ulysses, but a lot of folks can't see it. The same thing happened to poetry with the advent of free verse and the L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E poets. And I totally understand. Who wants to admit you've hit a proverbial dead-end, and that, heaven forbid, ART IS DEAD? It's damn depressing.
We've been scrambling ever since to prop up the corpses of prose and verse (literature), but to no avail. The traditional word-on-the-page narrative looks, well, so antiquated compared to the new vibrant electronic technologies that are developing now.
And that's why, I think, the quote above by Peter Frank makes so much sense. Let's admit, finally, that traditional word-on-the-page narrative has been pushed to its logical end, and that we must find other ways to resurrect it. Or, even, destroy it! It may be a different art form altogether. It may not resemble what we have come to accept and recognize as "literature."
Whatever the outcome, I, too, believe the computer is the key to our dilemma. It offers us so much. It points the way forward. It's a tool we can use to innovate. And that can't be bad.


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So you have a far flung enterprise network that requires care and feeding to keep things up and running. You know you can't do it alone and your personnel resources are stretched thin already. You need to start working smarter and not harder. During the last meeting with your HP networking team you find out about a great new network management solution called IMC, Intelligent Management Center.
You like what you see. A network management application that not only let's you monitor and manage network products from HP, but many other vendors as well. You also discover how IMC can help with network services like AAA, its ability to do compliance checking, and position you to take advantage of Software Defined Networking (SDN) all from a single pane of glass.
After getting IMC up and running, things start to get a little simpler. You like simple. Need to push out a new set of SNMP community strings to 500 switches and routers; you easily finish the task in fifteen minutes. Need to verify you didn't miss any default community strings? You can set up a compliance check and run it against all the devices in your network with very little effort.
Now that you have IMC doing the heavy lifting for you, taking care of the day to day tasks of backing up all the configurations on your network, base lining software revisions, and keeping an eye on everything else, you deserve a Rest. Not like a siesta, but more like a new innovation to take you to the next level.
RESTful API's are what I am talking about. With the release of IMC 5.0, HP opened up the eAPI's for third party applications to integrate with IMC. This results in the ability to have scripts that run outside of IMC get information stored in IMC and push changes into IMC. That's a lot of IMC! The first time I heard of this I thought, "Hey, I have a new use for my Python chops" and I started to think about the possibilities.
RESTful API's are basically HTTP calls in the form of PUT, GET and POST. You have probably seen them a thousand times in the top of your web browser and never even noticed them. By using the RESTful API's you can use a POST to the IMC server to make a change. Perhaps you want to move a single device from one vlan to the next by simply entering the device's MAC address and a vlan number. Wrap it up in RESTful API script and the job is done. There are multiple client languages that are supported. Java and Python are my personal favorite.


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Top 5 Caregiving Stories This Week
Happy Friday! I hope you have had a mild week and had the opportunity to practice self-care. I overdid it earlier in the week so am trying really heard to practice self-care to get back on track.
Did you know May is Older Americans Month? Older adults are a growing and increasingly vital part of our country. The contributions they make to our communities are varied, deeply rooted, and include influential roles in the nation's economy, politics, and the arts. From 69-year-old NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Jr. to 84-year-old actress Rita Moreno to 83-year-old Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who took her seat as a Supreme Court Justice at age 60, older adults are blazing trails in all aspects of American life. Let's celebrate older Americans this month!
Here are my five favorite articles for caregivers this week.
How to Care for Yourself as an Unpaid Caregiver: Caring for yourself is difficult when you are caring for others. This article shares 9 ways to care for yourself. I particularly like the tip to connect with other caregivers and to take time for yourself. For more caregiver tips, you can check out my tips on caring for the caregiver and self-care on a time budget.
7 Ways to Respond to Mean Dementia Behavior: Fantastic reminders that there may be an underlying cause to mean behavior in dementia patients. From overstimulation to hunger or health problems, there are a number of possible causes for angry behavior.
Medical Alert Systems Reviewed: I am a big fan of medical alert systems. Many of my clients who lived alone had a system and I have seen them in action on several occasions. In every situation where a client fell, the fire department arrived quickly and handled things professionally and there was no long-lasting damage. I had one client who refused to use hers and she fell in the middle of the night, broke her hip and wasn't found until her caregiver arrived in the morning. It breaks my heart to think of her lying in pain for hours before being found.
Americans' Estimates of Long-term Care Costs Are Wildly Off: This article was eye-opening. American's don't just underestimate costs of long-term care by a few dollars, they are underestimating the cost by 50%, in some cases, a few thousand dollars. If you don't know how much long-term care costs, how can you plan for the future?
Four Daily Habits That Will Make You Happier: I see a lot of self-care articles that can be unrealistic for caregivers, who are already strapped for time. The habits in this article are easy to implement into daily life. Even if you care for someone else, you can squeeze in a walk – you can include your caree so that both of you get exercise and fresh air. For more quick self-care acts, check out my three minute acts of self-care and ways to bring joy to your life post.
That wraps up my roundup for the week. In case you missed my blog posts for the week, here are my newest posts:
Relationship Challenges When Caring For A Spouse
Engaging Someone With Limited Mobility
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|No, not this kind
However, being the sceptical old sod that I am when it comes to internet wisdom, when running Iron Hands I never leave home without at least two of them in my army list.
Apparently, like many other units, they're no longer the super dooper paratrooper, be all and end all when it comes to close combat.
Hello. They are.
What has happened is that it's harder to get them into close combat, which is mainly due to the undeniable shift that 6th edition has given us towards shooting and the introduction of overwatch which puts its charge against haywire grenades and meltaguns etc.
Nonetheless, if one of these baby monsters gets close enough to get a hold of your troops, it's either going to make a mess of them, or tie them up.
However, I'm not going to prattle on about using them in close combat, instead I'm going to offer my thoughts on using them as most people now think of them, as a drop pod suicide unit, and not in the manner you're thinking of.
|Recognise this?
'But I has to has an Ironclad as a suicide unit'.
'An Ironclad with a flamer and multi-melta doesn't cost much more points wise than a Venerable with a flamer and multi-melta and you get slightly more armour value and I want my Ironclad to survive'.
|No extra armour here.
No doubt some really good history buff will prove me wrong, but I'll hazard a guess and say none. And Kamikaze pilots and your drop-dread share a common purpose; they're bloody suicide units that aren't expected to live much past initial impact.
The reality is that the interceptor rule and new rules on drop pod assault aside, you're hoping to plonk it behind your opponent's bestest ever unit or most dangerous piece of armour so that it can shoot the shit out of it.
If it dies having managed this; and there's a very good chance that it will pop its clogs in your opponent's next shooting phase even if it is an Ironclad; your Kamikaze has achieved the glorious end that all good servants of the Emperor so dearly crave.
|Did you see what I did there?
Another benefit, is that being Venerable allows you to make your opponent re-roll penetrating hits. Are these good enough reasons to take consider dropping the Ironclad for?
Well I think so. Over to you.


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Neil Saccamano is Associate Professor of English. He has published on eighteenth-century British and French literature and philosophy as well as on contemporary theory that addresses the legacy of the Enlightenment. Most recently, he has written on aesthetics and property in Hume and on faith, reason, and Enlightenment in Derrida, and he has co-edited a collection of essays on Politics and the Passions from Machiavelli to Bentham. He is at work on a critical study of force—as both affective transport and violence--in relation to political and aesthetic community in the eighteenth century, and has most recently focused on Rousseau's ambivalent critique of cosmopolitical humanity.
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Financial Finesse is blazing a trail as the first full-service financial education firm providing unbiased advice to its client companies' employees on everything from retirement planning to credit card debt. The Manhattan Beach, California-based firm employs a stable of CFPs nationwide who field calls from a toll-free help line, as well as provide workshops to employees in their regional areas. The CFPs "develop an ongoing relationship with employees and provide ongoing unbiased support as they tackle different financial issues and goals," says Liz Davidson, CEO and founder of Financial Finesse.
Davidson, 33, started Financial Finesse in 1999 after getting her feet wet running educational workshops for a hedge fund. The hedge fund workshops were initially a marketing strategy, she says, but they grew in popularity because of her educational approach. People "trusted me, and knew I wasn't going to try and sell them" something, she says. After "falling in love" with providing education to consumers, Davidson abandoned her post at the hedge fund and launched Financial Finesse. She admits it was tough going for the first couple years because the concept of providing financial education was in its infancy. "You couldn't call people and say you did financial education–nobody would understand what that was," she says. As scandals like Enron and Worldcom came to light, employers "recognized that they are liable for what type of job they are doing as a fiduciary," and providing financial education to employees started to take off.
Interest in Financial Finesse has hit a fever pitch within the past couple years as more CEOs and CFOs are considering "financial education to be important for both liability reasons and also as an employee benefit," Davidson says. "Employers that get it, really get it." Business is so good that Financial Finesse has abandoned its "outbound sales efforts to the corporate market," she says. Financial Finesse now provides services to 350 firms, the majority of which are mid-sized firms with 2,500 to 5,000 employees.
Financial Finesse employs five CFPs spread across the country, and Davidson is looking to hire more in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and "opportunistically" in Atlanta and Chicago. "If we found the right person in Atlanta or Chicago, we would hire them." The CFPs are salaried employees of Financial Finesse, which means they've given up their securities licenses. "All of [the CFPs'] compensation is coming from us as an education company, so they have no conflicts of interest," she says. Davidson says the CFPs still maintain a certain amount of independence in that they "are very much involved in the development and delivery of the services." In addition to a base salary of $80,000, CFPs receive a bonus, which is based on how well they coach employees. Davidson gauges employee feedback on whether the CFP gave clear information that motivated the employee "to take action." With the bonus, the salaried CFPs can earn more than $100,000 annually. Davidson says if a CFP wasn't hitting the $100,000 mark, she'd "question whether they belonged" at Financial Finesse.
To be considered, planners must have at least 10 years of experience in the financial planning field. Planners now working for Financial Finesse come from varied backgrounds. "Some have come from the high-net-worth private client experience where they may have had a lucrative income, but they felt they wanted to help people that weren't wealthy," Davidson says. Others hail from owning their own shops and from wirehouses and brokerage firms. Besides requiring planners to be veterans in their field, Davidson also prefers to hire planners who have built relationships with clients and put their clients' needs first. She also assesses the planner's public speaking experience and their counseling history. "Planners aren't going to have education experience in the traditional sense," Davidson says, "but we're trying to judge their capability when they make this change" from a selling environment to an educational one.
Working at Home
The majority of Financial Finesse's CFPs work out of their homes, including Jeff Dunkel, who lives in Madison, Wisconsin. He was a trust officer for Wells Fargo for eight years before joining Financial Finesse four years ago. Dunkel says he joined Financial Finesse because he was ready for a change. "I found out about Liz and what she was doing–how she was educating consumers–and I wanted to be part of that organization," he says. "There really isn't anyone who goes in with an unbiased standpoint to not only talk [to employees] about retirement planning, but also different types of financial education."
Advice on All Sorts of Issues
In a typical day, Dunkel fields from three to 20 calls through the toll-free financial help line. The help line "works like a virtual call center; advisors can be anywhere because we have the software to route the calls," Davidson says. Callers seek advice on all sorts of issues: debt-related problems, questions about financial planning, investment allocations for their retirement plans, or whether to take a loan from their retirement plan. "We deal a lot with debt and credit issues because many employees, even at the executive and manager levels, are facing significant debt levels, which prevents them from investing for retirement," Davidson says. Employees also call "looking for an unbiased opinion when they feel the plan provider is going to push certain funds" in their retirement plan.
The CFPs also get a large volume of what Davidson dubs "crisis calls." The help line works best for the "at-risk" employees, she says, who, for instance, may be losing their homes in 48 hours or are going through a nasty divorce. "We get a lot of crisis calls where people are struggling and it's affecting their work performance." Employees who use the help line tend to be repeat callers; the first call is a crisis call, and then the next calls will progress into other financial matters, Davidson says. Dunkel says the crisis calls give him a chance to exercise his accredited financial consultant skills that he acquired while studying to become a CFP. Callers are "very stressed when they first call," he says, "but by the end of the call they are a lot more calm because they know what their next steps are going to be." After talking with the employees, "I've hopefully educated them enough that they can not only resolve their current situation, but help protect them from it happening again."
Dunkel also assesses corporate clients' summary plan documents and visits with the companies' human resources departments to become well-versed on the ins and outs of their retirement plan offerings. That way, when employees call in, "we will have the knowledge" about their plans, Dunkel says. For instance, some corporate clients require employees who want to take a loan from their 401(k) to first consult with a Financial Finesse CFP. "We let them know the consequences of taking out such a loan," he says.
The typical employee who seeks help from a Financial Finesse CFP–either through the help line or via the workshops–is a middle-income employee who isn't impoverished but doesn't earn an executive-level salary. As Davidson puts it: "An investment advisor typically wouldn't be interested in serving them."
Financial Finesse is in the early stages of enhancing its help line through a financial coaching program. Repeat callers now want to talk with the same person, so Davidson tracks their call history to see how the CFP/employee relationship is progressing. The new financial coaching program would be "more formal," she says in that the CFP would be accountable for placing calls to employees on a monthly and quarterly basis. During each call, the CFP "would say, 'This is what you need to do by the next time we meet,'" she says. "It's almost like a personal trainer for your finances."
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Teeth Whitening in Suffern, NY
Teeth Whitening brightens smiles in Suffern.
There have never been a greater number of effective methods for getting brighter, whiter teeth from your dentist. Whether you're looking for convenience, dramatic results, or something simple to use, our Ramapo Dental Care professionals in Suffern offer all the latest whitening products to keep your smile absolutely glowing.
Which whitening method is right for me?
Whiter teeth have become the top aesthetic objective of most dental patients. This quest for whiter teeth has led to many new, effective, and convenient ways to get noticeably brighter results. The whitening experts at Ramapo Dental Care will help you choose just the right product to ensure the results you're hoping for. If you're looking for fast, reliable, safe, and effective in-office whitening, we'll help you get a noticeably brighter smile in as little as one visit.
How do whitening treatments work?
Most teeth whitening and bleaching products are fairly straightforward methods that change the shade of your tooth enamel in a noninvasive, in-office dental procedure. They are an ideal way to improve the look of your smile without excessive costs or spending excessive amounts of time in the dentist's chair.
Even better, some whitening treatments available from your Ramapo Dental Care dentist can be used at home. Whatever the choice, you may see teeth up to six shades whiter after only two weeks of treatment. In-office whitening is another popular option that produces fast results.
Will whitening harm my dental work?
While whitening is generally safe–even for those with fillings, crowns, and other restorations–it only works on your teeth's natural enamel. Therefore, if you're planning to have any type of replacement work done, you should do so after, rather than before whitening. This way, your Ramapo Dental Care dentist can more closely match your restorations to the current shade of your brightened teeth.
How long do whitening treatments last?
Although teeth whitening treatments last for a reasonably long period of time, none are permanent. Most will require touch-ups after several years. The need for touch-ups may be even greater if you smoke or drink coffee, tea, or wine.
Why do my teeth need whitening?
The reasons for whitening vary by patient. Some of the most popular reasons for whitening include fluorosis, the spotting of teeth caused by excess fluoridation during their development. For other patients, teeth simply loose their natural glow from normal wear and tear on the outer tooth surface. Some patients complain of staining from medications like tetracycline. While others simply have naturally yellowed or stained teeth.
How can I be sure I'm getting the best whitening method for my teeth?
Your Ramapo Dental Care dentist will advise you based on your objectives for whitening, discussion of any medications you take regularly, and your daily habits such as smoking or drinking coffee. Your answers will help your Ramapo Dental Care professionals determine the most effective whitening solution for your needs. Regardless of which regimen your dentist recommends, you can count on a noticeably whiter, brighter smile after only a few treatments.
Which whitening treatment is best for my needs?
Your Ramapo Dental Care office offers a number of whitening alternatives. We will help you find the right one based on your individual goals and needs. Much will depend on how deeply stained your current enamel is and how fast you hope to see results. Let us help you get the brighter smile you've always dreamed of.
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There's nothing like a whiter smile to brighten your day. Whiter teeth are not only more pleasing to the eye, they can also boost self-confidence and make you appear more professional. Your Ramapo Dental Care dentist will help you choose an effective and affordable solution that delivers the greatest impact with the least amount of time spent in the dentist's chair.
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At Ramapo Dental Care, we've found that many patients can't afford to spend time at our dental offices for professional in-office whitening treatments. Take-home whitening products offer a convenient, but effective alternative. Used as directed, these take home kits help patients achieve dramatic results under the professional guidance of our Ramapo Dental Care dentists—and with far fewer trips to our offices.
Get a noticeably brighter smile at home.
Your Ramapo Dental Care dentist knows your oral health and thoroughly understands the whitening process. She or he will also be aware of any possible sensitivities that may occur. Under our expert guidance, you can achieve the results you desire in far less time than with most over-the-counter whitening products, such as toothpastes or strips. Your dentist will closely monitor your progress to ensure you get the greatest results in the fastest and safest way possible.
There are two types of stains that whitening products address. Surface stains, called extrinsic stains, appear only on the outer layer of your teeth. Deeper stains, known as intrinsic stains, are buried deep within the dentin underneath your tooth's surface. These deeper stains live within your teeth's tiny cracks, making them more difficult to reach. Your Ramapo Dental Care dentist will recommend the whitening product that best addresses the specific type of stain affecting your teeth.
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You can trust your Ramapo Dental Care dentist to recommend the best whitening product for you needs, whether it's an in-office treatment, over-the-counter one, or take-home whitening kit. To be effective, all whitening products must contain some form of active ingredient. In most cases, this means hydrogen peroxide. When oxygen causes the whitening agent to react with the discolored molecules that cause staining, the stain molecules break apart, leaving behind whiter, brighter teeth.
Over-the-counter whitening vs. take-home whitening.
Although there are many products available at a retail level, the whitening experts at Ramapo Dental Care know your teeth. They will take into consideration your current stain level, any known sensitivities that might occur, as well as the whitening level you hope to achieve. You'll get improved whitening results in less time with guidance from a professional dentist who understands your needs.
Feel good about your smile again.
When you're confident about your smile, people notice. The teeth whitening experts at Ramapo Dental Care understand how to help you regain your whiter smile and the greater self-confidence that follows. Ask us to recommend the most suitable whitening method for you and your teeth.
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Philips Zoom® professional whitening treatments have quickly become the number one requested brand choice for dental patients throughout the U.S. There are many good reasons why.
For starters, Philips Zoom® gives patients a variety of whitening options that fit their lifestyles and best achieve their whitening objectives. At Ramapo Dental Care, you'll get professional-strength Zoom® whitening products from a qualified dentist who knows how to use them.
Make your smile an asset.
When you feel good about your smile, it shows. You're more confident and ready to face the world. People will be drawn to you, and you'll get noticed as a result. Whether your teeth are stained due to genetics, from habits like smoking or drinking caffeinated beverages, or from medications you take regularly, Zoom® products can give you a brighter smile by targeting both the surface stains on your teeth and the dentin that lies beneath.
Types of whitening options.
There are many different types of Zoom® whitening products, from toothpastes to rinses, to strips and professional whitening treatments. Many are available only at your dentist's office. Ramapo Dental Care offers both Philips Zoom® in-office and take-home whitening products. Our dentists will advise you regarding which will be the best solution for your particular needs.
How the products work.
Some products remove stains by working on the surface of the teeth using abrasion. Most whitening toothpastes use silica molecules to polish the tooth's enamel. Whitening products with peroxide actually create a chemical reaction to break down the stains that produce a yellowing effect.
Can whitening be harmful to the teeth?
As long as you or your dentist uses the product as directed, you should not have a problem. When misused, however, some products can cause gum sensitivities, particularly if they are used too frequently. Your Ramapo Dental Care dentist will examine your teeth and gums to assess their condition before recommending a whitening product. Let him or her know if you have had any past issues with sensitivities. With the right care and formulation, you should get noticeably whiter teeth without irritation or other problems.
How long do whitening treatments last?
Most whitening treatments will last a reasonably long time as long as your teeth are properly maintained. It really depends on your personal habits and lifestyle. It's best to refrain from coffee, tea, wine and cigarettes to keep your smile bright. There are also a number of Philips products your dentist may recommend designed to prolong your whiter smile.
Discover which whitening solution is best for your needs.
Like most whitening products, Zoom® products are designed for use by a professional. Your Ramapo Dental Care dentist will recommend the right Zoom® product for your needs after a thorough examination of your teeth and gums. He or she will also discuss your goals and your budget for whitening. Costs start at just under $100 for a basic Zoom® treatment, but vary based on the level of whitening results you hope to achieve.
What to expect from Zoom® whitening products.
Results will vary based on your natural tooth color and your teeth's current condition and shade. In most cases, a difference of even two to three shades will result in a noticeably brighter smile. Zoom® offers a wide range of whitening solutions. You can count on your Ramapo Dental Care dentist to recommend the best option for you.


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To Kill a Mockingbird is an American classic, taught in schools across the U.S. and in other countries too, yet Harper Lee never wrote anything else. Perhaps she was afraid anything else would be a disappointment in comparison.
Finally, though, Harper Lee has another book coming out.
I hesitate to call it a second book, because it was actually written before To Kill a Mockingbird. In fact, it was this first book that brought about Mockingbird: The earlier book is about Scout as an adult, and the flashbacks to her childhood were so intriguing that Lee's editor encouraged her to write a book about the childhood instead.
In other words, it turns out To Kill a Mockingbird was actually more of a prequel, albeit to an unpublished book that most people didn't even know existed until now.
I am really excited to read the new book, called Go Set a Watchman, and I may even reread Mockingbird in the meantime, as I haven't read it in decades. I even have it now in electronic format, as I bought the ebook as soon as it came out last year.
What about you? Are you excited for Harper Lee's new book?


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I use my Canon SD1100IS digicam to take pictures and video clips. When I upload to my computer, the folder has a bunch of IMG_nnnn.jpg, MVI_nnnn.AVI and MVI_nnnn.THM files.
The AVI files are in MJPEG format so the size is riduculously large. So I would like to use tools like VirtualDub to combine and compress the AVI files and it helps if all the AVI files have the same prefix and a running sequence number (MVI_1.avi, MVI_2.avi and so on)
How can I rename the AVI files in this fashion but at the same time preserve their original order so that things stay in the correct order when they are combined?
I looked at a few of the file renaming utilities out there but couldn't quite figure out how to do this easily. And if I can save the steps and apply them to a bunch of folders that would save a lot of time.
Thanks for any tips.


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Tea Tree Oil: A Medicine Kit In A Bottle
Ebury Publishing, Aug 31, 2011 - Health & Fitness - 88 pages
Tea Tree Oil is one of the most marvellous healing resources that Nature has to offer. This book presents, in a very readable and accessible way, not only the history and harvesting of Tea Tree Oil but also an overview of its practical medical uses.
Tea Tree Oil can be used to treat:
Discover how to effectively use Tea Tree Oil to safely treat a variety of ailments with this practical straightforward advice.


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According to Esri "the Infrastructure Network Editing template is an ArcGIS 10 editing map and toolbar for managing water, sewer and storm water utility data. (http://bit.ly/bQONZD)
It is an editor that can be used by mapping technicians in a water utility, sewer authority or public works department. You can configure the Infrastructure Network Editing Template in your environment and in doing so, you'll learn how to update and maintain water, sewer, and storm water data using ArcGIS Desktop and your organization's data. To complete the configuration, you will need experience with editing workflows in ArcMap.
This template includes the following:
- An editing toolbar, reporting toolbar, a set of constructions tools, and an editor extension that is added to your ArcInfo or ArcEditor installation
- A multi-scale ArcMap document designed for editing
- The Local Government geodatabase with sample data from the City of Naperville, Illinois
The Infrastructure Editing toolbars contain a series of custom editing and reporting tools that improve the editing experience for ArcGIS users working with infrastructure data. For example, there are tools that:
- Automatically connect service connections to laterals and their mains
- Report tracing results along the utility network
- Graph the profile of a sewer main"
According to Esri, these tools require an ArcEditor or an ArcInfo ArcGIS Desktop License. A multi-user GDB is required if there is more than one editor. If you want to publish services of your water utility data, then an ArcGIS Server Standard or Advance is required.


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Samsung, Apple, Google Big Q2 Winners in U.S. Smartphone Market
There may have been a lot of jostling among the major mobile players in the second quarter of 2012 but it didn't result in much shifting in the U.S. markets for smartphones and smartphone platforms, according to comScore.
The research firm on Monday released its comScore MobiLens report for the three months ending in May, revealing that not only wasn't there any swapping of spots among the market share leaders, but only Apple increased its share by more than 1 percent.
Samsung remains the top handset manufacturer in the U.S. with a 25.7 percent share of the market, according to a comScore MobiLens survey of more than 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers. That's up just a smidge from the 25.6 percent share the South Korean tech giant enjoyed from December through February.
The total U.S. market includes some 234 million Americans age 13 and older who are mobile device subscribers, the research firm said.
LG Electronics followed Samsung with 19.4 percent of the handset market, down 0.3 percent from its share for the previous three months, while Apple was the biggest gainer with a 1.5 percent increase for its iPhones, resulting in 15 percent market share in the second quarter. Motorola (12 percent) and HTC (6.1 percent) rounded out the top five, each dipping less than 1 percent in terms of market share from the previous period, according to comScore.
Looking at mobile platforms, Google's Android remained the market leader and again owned better than half the U.S. market. In the three months ending in May, Google's OS clocked in with a 50.9 percent share, up from 50.1 percent in the December through February period.
Apple's iOS retained its second-place spot with 31.9 percent of the U.S. marketa 1.7 percent market share gain, making Apple the only company to have a greater than 1 percent market share gain in either the smartphone device or smartphone platform categories.
Research in Motion, however, was the only firm to see its market share shift by as much as 2 percent in the second quarter. Unfortunately for the beleaguered company, RIM's 11.4 percent share of the U.S. smartphone OS market was down from the 13.4 percent share it had in the previous period.
Rounding out the top five smartphone OS vendors from March through May were Microsoft (4 percent) and Symbian (1.1 percent). Microsoft's Windows Phone had an 0.1 percent sequential share gain in the quarter while Symbian's dropped by 0.4 percent.
Meanwhile, Net Applications released its data on tablet platform market share in June. Apple's iOS had a 65.3 percent share of that market for the just-concluded month while Google's Android clocked in at 19.7 percentrepresenting yearly highs for both operating systems.
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Happy Days is a process for finding the happiness in every day and is something that I enjoy doing with Katy and Sian each week, I really feel it adds value to my life. It allows me to make the most of each day and leave it on a positive note.
I'm writing this after a cuddly day on the sofa with the Robot. Bless him he woke up not in the best mood, sleepy, not eating and just generally whingeing. I'm always amazed at the desire to be well though because his cheeky playful nature has been breaking through the sleepy naps all day. Thankfully he's gone to sleep now and I'll hopefully get a cheerful boy in the morning.
It's not all bad though, lets take a look at my happy moments from the week:
– My first blog linked up to Candid Cuddles got featured last week which made me smile.
– Dave took the weekend off and we took the opportunity to go for an adventure or few. We took the Robot to The Baby Lab at Lancaster University to visit their play group, it's nice for Dave to see the Robot in a playing with other kids setting as he doesn't normally get too. We topped the day off with a muddy walk down a part of the Lancaster Canal that we've not walked before.
– The next day we did the usual weather watch and saw it was going rain by mid day so we set off out by 9am for a walk up Warton Crag, our local hill. It was beautiful up there but by 10am we were done so we took the Robot to the park and if you check out this post you'll see some puddles splashing fun!
– After a busy sling meet at Morecambe Bay sling library we caught the train home and the Robot walked all the way home from the station with no pick ups. It amazes me how far he can walk when he wants too!
– I had a bath. I fell asleep in the bath. Need I say more?
– We've had a few sunny days this week and that is such a soul lifter. We have made the most of it by playing at the park a lot. Going to the park alone is always a tad boring but we've lucked out this week because The Robots play group buddy has been out playing too. He's 6 months older and it's always fun to see them play together. We go to the park a lot regardless of the weather and we normally have it to ourselves, it's been great to have other kids kicking about. Roll on the Summer.
The weekend is forecasted rainy and I figured this is a good opportunity to leave you with this quote that I am sharing with Candid Cuddles with Becky and Prabs this week:
I have got rubbish at taking photos recently so I am going to take the time to empty my camera so there is space and try harder this week! Have a lovely week… K


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Cute Neck Tattoos for Women
Trying to find the perfect Tattoo for you? What about a Neck one?
This pictures show fun and cute designs of neck tattoos.
Remember, choose carefully, there are some really simple one to more elaborated ones. Would you do a long or a short one? Colorful or just in black?
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Friends ask me what lens he should get for portraits. In normal situations, you want to get the sharpest image as possible. Also, female models will complain if you make them looks fat. Under those conditions, you would like to get a sharp lens with at least 50mm or above (longer focal length can make models looks skinny :p ).
If you have a Canon camera, I suggest to get a Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM for around $400.00. It is a very sharp lens and didn't cost you much for taking good photos of pretty models.
Click "here" for the full size image. You can see her in detail and find out how sharp the lens is.
If you are Nikon user, Nikon 85mm f/1.8D AF Nikkor Lens maybe what you should look for.
Message from a Nikon Pro: Nikon 105mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR Micro or Nikon 105mm f/2.0D AF DC should be better for Portraits.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Whats Make a Good Portraits Lens?
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Australia Post has been delivering more of the components I've purchased for one of my projects. Many of the components are coming from China via eBay. I did look at sourcing the same items in Australia, however it didn't take long to realise the cost usually increased by approximately 500%. We frequently hear the expression "Purchase locally and buy your children a job!" But, like me, the local sellers are purchasing from China and then adding a massive margin. I'll buy local when it's value for money or the quality is superior.
This particular project is to add a number of components to our new Isuzu 4x4. They include:
- Tyre pressure management system
- CB radio
- Trailer electric brake controller
- LED light bar
- Dash camera
- 2nd battery charging system
- 12V charging power to a camper trailer
- Additional usb charging ports
The power supply for the trailer electric brake controller must be directly wired to the vehicle starter battery without a fuse. Not having a fuse is unusual, but the logic is you don't want the brake controller to fail when towing a heavy trailer because a fuse 'blew'. The purpose of any fuse is to protect the cable from overheating or failing, so I'll run a high capacity cable between the battery and brake controller in an effort to ensure there are no safety issues.
Apart from the dash cam, the remaining components will only be able to be turned on if the engine is running or the ignition key on and turned to Accessories. The dash cam will be powered 24/7. This is because the dash cam has an automatic 'bump' recording mode. (ie, it will automatically start recording if the parked and unattended vehicle is bumped or knocked). It's unlikely the dash cam will draw enough power to flatten the started battery during the time the vehicle is unattended. However to avoid the possibility any of these "accessories" might flatten the vehicle starter battery I am going to fit a voltage sensitive relay (VSR) between the starter battery and these additional components.
Essentially the VSR is an automatic switch which engages when the starter battery voltage reaches 13.3V and then disengages if the starter battery voltage drops below 12.8V. So the VSR serves two purposes. It ensures the starter battery is charged first and then it protects the starter battery from being discharged below 12.8V. So using the VSR will prevent my accessories from inadvertently draining the starter battery. Obviously I don't want to be stuck in the middle of the Great Sandy Desert with a flat battery.
The TPMS and dash cam arrived from China last month. I have yet to buy the CB radio, LED bar and brake controller. However the plan is to install all the wiring and then fit these three items later.
So what items have I received.
From top right clockwise
- 125A circuit breaker which will fit between the starter battery and the VSR
- Two 20A circuit breakers for the main power supply to the accessories
- Voltage Sensitive Relay (VSR)
- Soldering jig and magnifying glass (old eyes and shaky hands)
- 1m of flexible curtain cable to act as a 'draw cord' to feed the wiring through the back of the dashboard
- Range of cable terminals.
- Switch holder (below VSR) which will hold four switches.
Yet to be received
- 12V fuse panel
- Switches
- Cable and lugs
I remember the first car I owned. It was a 1967 Vauxhall Viva and there was oodles of free space under the bonnet. After looking under the bonnet of our Izuzu I can see it's going to be interesting trying to squeeze in some of the above components.
My tools haven't yet arrived so at least I have time to think through this problem!
The media server project has also come to a halt whilst we wait on our UK boxes. One of these contains the computer hard drives. The boxes also contain my woodworking tools which means no progress on the bed project.


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I'll be honest. I'm having a really hard time waiting a whole day between songs. There are still a lot to go and I'm really anxious to share them all with you. But at the same time, I want to make sure each song gets its just due. I'll just have to keep myself occupied by listening to the whole soundtrack over and over again in the meantime.
P.S. Don't forget about the contest. That Kindle is starting to look pretty sweet :D.


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A Gentler Future for Knowledge Work, January 5, 2017The French law really struck a personal note for me. The reason for that is when I was younger, it's less over the last few years, but when I was younger I was basically working 17 hours a day.
I would be spending a little bit of the time with family, but even when I'm there the email's going and if something important comes in I'm going to respond to it. There's someone who I worked with for a long time, worked very closely, and certainly email was a big part of our communication. Probably more so for me, I've always been a heavy email-er, I'm introverted, it just email as a medium suits me pretty well. There came a point his wife wrote me and said, "Dirk, you can't send emails on the weekend anymore." She said, "All weekend emails flow in from you with all these big initiatives, requests, things to do, and my husband gets more and more stressed. More and more anxious. More and more unhappy, because your emails keep coming in." She said, "You just, you just can't do it anymore."
I was in my 30s at that point and so you know I had been emailing my way, which is 24/7 essentially for many years. Just oblivious to the possibility that for another person, that flow of communication in certain times, in certain volumes, would be a negative. Would be something that had a deleterious effect on them, because at that phase of my life I was just sort of wired to be always working, always going, it wasn't, it may have been subconsciously and internally stressful for me in ways I wasn't in touch with. Consciously when emails would come in I didn't feel stress, I just attacked them, I just took them, I just went right to them. The metaphor I've used for email is tennis. It's like playing tennis. I would run around the court making sure the balls were always in the other people's court, basically.
Fast forward now to today, and France is identifying the fact that email, receiving email, feeling the compulsion to respond to email, the requests that email may contain that spur someone to other action at certain times, in certain proportions, isn't good for you. It's unhealthy in ways large or small. I think that's an important recognition. I don't think that the French law, you know, you said the sort of- we don't know yet, is it just one little thing, is it visionary. It's probably one little thing. France has been a trailblazer in affecting labor law that basically no-one else adopts, right? France famously did the 30 hour work week I don't know how many years ago, but sometime this decade. You know, nobody else is doing that, or maybe there's a few small countries. But, the main pillars of the economy certainly are not. They're going by the old rules, and the old modes.
I'm happy that this law is sort of making us think more about the impacts of modern technology on human life. First world life to make it more specific. But, I don't think that this law in and of itself is going to amount to a sea-change of any sort.
I think things are going to get on differently now then in the earlier industrial revolution and there's a few reasons why. Number one is at that time, the worst part of your life was work. You would go in, you'd lose fingers, you wouldn't be able to sleep, it was human slavery, human torture, human- I mean it was really, the worst part of your life was the work experience. Now, the worst part of your life is not the work experience. So yeah I know, using email as the example, it can be stressful to get email at night. It can be stressful to get email on vacation, on the weekend, yadda, yadda, yadda. But, that's not the worst part of our lives. The worst part of our lives is not the work part, it's the life part. It's the fact that we're addicted to sugar. It's the fact that we're addicted to salt. It's the fact that we are addicted to the call of the new. It's the fact that we are in this broken capitalist paradigm that makes us fat, that makes us inattentive, that makes us feel unfulfilled.
There were enormous reasons why the industrial revolution needed to be reformed, and the inhumanity of work needed to be brought more in line with what's appropriate. But, it's so much farther down the list now. The issues we have, or rather some of the personal things that I said, or some of the more systemic things around global warming. Like, the fact that email stresses us out is just not a big deal on the list, whereas child labor laws and some of the things that didn't exist over a 100 years ago, like the absence of those, were more sort of at the fulcrum of what was wrong with civilization.
The things that are wrong with civilization now are really far removed from the plight of the digital worker. Which, is not to say that those aren't negative things, but it's going to be a lot harder to coalesce around that as the rallying cry in this environment of plenty, and where the real issues and the real things that are killing us are happening at a very different level.
When I walk into a store, they have a sensor that records the person walked into the store; is that inclusive in my data? When I'm out on the street there are cameras filming, and some of them can make out my face and could come in tight on my face, and that's data out there. Is that my data? To me that's the trickiest, because it requires a crisp definition of what, quote unquote, your data is. I haven't seen a good thesis for what that should be, and I think getting to the bottom of it is going to be tricky.
Why Companies Become Bad, October 22, 2015When I think of CEOs who, big company CEOs who I find admirable. I mean one of them who I would have said in the past was Jeff Bezos. Started a book selling company. Seems like a nice geeky guy. The way Amazon behaves now, if you had Jeff Bezos sitting in his garage 20 years ago, he would have said his company would never behave that way, but here it is. Here's Amazon freezing out competitors with bullying business tactics if people don't do things exactly the way they want they get shut down and shut out with strong-arm strong-handed crap. That guy before he was the CEO of this conglomerate never would have stood for it, and now he's presiding over the company that's doing it. I mean you name for me a big company that's really doing it differently, that really is, because I don't think they are. I think that once a company gets to a certain size it goes down the path of evil. Evil is probably too loaded of a word. It goes down a path of badness. Even if your motto is not do evil, right?
I can only guarantee it's financially driven. They're saying, "Uh-oh, we're starting to see a drop off in customers, and we're getting these reports of all these pissed off customers about this customer service thing." ROI-wise, if we are not losing these customers we're gaining more if part of it is this on-shore call center. Those are the kind of … There's nobody saying, "You know what? I went through our system and it sucks. I went through it myself four hours, miserable, we're not putting our customers through this. We're going to do a better way because it's the right thing to do and it will make us a better company ultimately." That's not it. It's all the accountants, the bottom line, that's the problem. Darkness comes from that mentality. Darkness comes from the bottom-line mentality because it strips out the empathy, it strips out the compassion, it strips out the service for the consumer and it focuses on the profits for the organization.
The Mainstreaming of Cyborgs, December 28, 2014I think what will happen in 2015 is the media coverage is going to become really more extensive, that we're going to see stories in mainstream media as well as certainly more technical media. We'll see a lot more of it in things like Fast Company, of course, but even in mainstream media of the emerging class of cyborgs.
When I first thought about this when I was doing my predictions a few months ago, very shortly thereafter I saw a story on CNN where they were talking about a cyborg. It was just ridiculous where they had this guy and he had this thing attached to the back of his neck and this hoop came over the top of his head, right in front of his face. I go, oh, my God, they're calling this a cyborg. This just in: it's ridiculous. I'm sure there's some functional benefit from it, but the usability and the unrealistic nature of the device is just goofy. But they were calling it a cyborg. There is a mainstream media example of a cyborg, and it's just going to increase. The devices are going to be less goofy, they're going to be more useful, they're going to be more integrated. That word cyborg and examples of cyborgs are going to become more and more and more common.


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The Prostatic Urethral Lift Procedure involves "pinning" back the side lobes of the prostate, thereby opening the channel for passing water, without the need to remove any tissue. Often it can be done under local anaesthesia, though at this stage, it is also often done with a general anaesthetic. The "pins" are placed using a specifically approved device, called "UroLift", and remain in the prostate after the operation. The operation has not been carried out extensively in the UK, however this may be an option for men wishing to preserve ejaculation.
For the right patient, the preliminary results have been very promising, improving urinary flow, bladder emptying and quality of life. This procedure does not suit men having a prostate with a very prominent middle lobe or excessive enlargement, and the durability of the benefit in the longer term (i.e. after 5 years) is not yet known. Typically, there is no need for a catheter, and men are back to everyday activities within a week.


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It's hard to decide what's best about Reserve at Pine Tree in St. Cloud. Its location is five miles from 192, just off Old Canoe Creek Road, which means you have easy access to all of the area's employers and attractions, as well as great shopping and dining.
Its Energy Star 3.1 Certified Homes are designed to save both energy and money. In fact, they average 30% savings on utilities every single month. And because M/I Homes has every house inspected and tested by a third party, you can rest assured that the energy savings are real.
Then, there's the affordability. Designed especially for small and growing families, the single-family homes (some situated on ponds or cul-de-sacs) are an incredible value, starting in the $200s. There's even a neighborhood pool, cabanas, and a tot lot.
The best thing is that when you live here, you don't have to choose what you love most because at Reserve at Pine Tree, you get to have it all.
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Do you really want to feed your children Lucky Charms and Coca-Cola? I doubt it. These "foods" have no nutritional value.
As a professional marketing expert who specializes in food marketing, I wanted to tell you all about the Food Marketing Workgroup. According to their website,
The Food Marketing Workgroup is a network of more than 200 organizations and academic experts who are concerned about the proliferation of marketing of unhealthful foods and beverages that targets children and adolescents. This national network, convened by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and Berkeley Media Studies Group (BMSG), is dedicated to eliminating harmful food marketing — particularly marketing aimed at those who are most vulnerable to obesity and other nutrition-related diseases — by actively identifying, investigating, and advocating changes to marketing practices that undermine health.
I'm all for an organization that serves to showcase what is nutritional – and what is not – to parents. When you check out their website, make sure to visit the "Wall of Shame," which pinpoints some serious food offenders. Such as:
1). The new movie, Free Birds, in which a turkey persuades the early Indians to take turkey off the first Thanksgiving menu and replace it with – you guessed it – Chuck E. Cheese pizza
2). Coca Cola, which apparently is training restaurant servers to "cap the tap" to push customers to order soda instead of water. Doesn't this simply promote obesity?
3). A school in rural Missouri features four – count 'em – four Pepsi vending machines containing both diet and full-calorie sugary drinks for sale to high school kids.
4). Cap'N Crunch Oops! All Berries is anything but – it ought to be called mostly sugar and food dyes, and should probably be named "No Berries."
Is it me – or are you infuriated with Big Food and the way that they shove horrible food advertising – and food – down our throats – and also down the throats of children and young adults? Remember, people, that there's a serious obesity epidemic in this country, and eating junk isn't going to help the situation.
Bad Food Marketing To Children
Do you really want to feed your children Lucky Charms and Coca-Cola? I doubt it. These "foods" have no nutritional value.


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Saturday, November 17, 2007
Venetian Snares - 7 Sevens Med EP
Although everything the man has ever created is relatively flawless, I miss the sound of Venetian Snares' older material, and fear that many new fans will never get a chance to hear his early work as it slowly dwindles in the depths of the internet. This four track EP is one of my favorites from Aaron Funk. Carries the same abrasive and snare-heavy breaks heard on almost every Snares release, but there's just something about it that sets it apart from the rest. Blasting this shit as loudly as possible in your vehicle while cruising down the road during the wee hours of the night is a absolute must.
- Dan
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Paid $75AUD for this record. A must have.
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All-Star Blake Griffin says his left knee is healed after last month's surgery that forced him to miss the London Olympics, when he worked on his shot and free throws while his U.S. teammates were winning a gold medal.
Griffin said Tuesday that he used the down time to work on becoming a more complete player and that he's ready to play now. The Los Angeles Clippers open training camp on Oct. 1.
Griffin says he spoke to gold medal-winning teammate Chris Paul, who plans to return to Los Angeles next Monday to recuperate from the surgery he had last week to repair a torn ligament in his right thumb. Griffin says they discussed the team's new additions, including Jamal Crawford, Grant Hill and Ronny Turiaf.