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Padma Kaimal
Department/Office InformationArt and Art History, Asian Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Middle Eastern Studies and Islamic Civilization
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- BA, Art History, Swarthmore College, May, 1979
- MA, Indian Art, University of California Berkeley, June, 1982
- PhD, Indian Art, University of California, Berkeley, May, 1988
"Stone Portrait Sculpture at Pallava and Early Cola Temples: Kings, Patrons and Individual Identity," with honors, University of California, Berkeley, 1988.
- Tenured Professor (7/2012-present); Tenured Associate Professor (7/2004-7/2012); Associate Professor (7/2001- 2012); Assistant Professor (7/1988-6/2001); Lecturer (2/87-5/87), Dept. of Art & Art History, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York.
- Director, Asian Studies (Fall, 2006; Fall, 2007-Spring 2010), Colgate University, Hamilton, New York.
- Robert H. Ho Associate Professor of Asian Studies (2006-2009), Colgate University, Hamilton, New York.
- Visiting Lecturer, Dept. of Fine Arts, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1/88-4/88 (Art of India).
- Teaching Assistant, Dept. of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley, California, 9/83-12/83 (Survey of Asian Art), 9/82-12/82 (Survey of Classical Art).
The Kailasanatha temple complex in Kanchipuram, Tamilnadu, India; The history and ideologies of museums and collecting; the history of goddess worship in India; architecture and sculpture of the Pallava and Chola periods in India; history of the art of Asia; India (post-colonial studies, general education); art theory; cultural studies.
Sculpture and architecture of early India, portraiture, the impact of patronage upon style, semiotics and critical theory, the iconography of Shiva's dance, gender
In the winter of 2012 I helped lead a trip for 27 faculty members to India. The goal was to confront questions of identity, culture, and knowledge across intellectual boundaries, and to challenge all of us who teach in the Core to stretch beyond our academic specialties. Read more about our experiences on the blog we kept, Reflections from India.
- Tamil (3 years)
- Sanskrit (2 years)
- Hindi (1 year)
- Italian (2 years)
- French (2 years)
- Latin (7 years)
- Classical Greek (2 years)
- Russian (1 year)
- Louise and John Steffens Founders' Circle Member and The Starr Foundation East Asian Studies Endowment Fund Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, "Gender and Other Metaphors at the Kailasanatha Temple in Kanchi," in residence 2010-2011.
- Summer Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, "Collecting and Scattering," 2007.
- American Fellowship, American Association of University Women, "Learning to see the Goddess," 2001-2002.
- Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, "Learning to see the Goddess," 2001 (January – December).
- J. Paul Getty Post- Doctoral Fellowship in the History of Art, "Patronage & Style in Early Cola temples," 1990-91.
- Fellow, "Patronage & Style in Early Cola Temples," Center for South Asian Studies, UC Berkeley, spring,1991.
- American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Fellowship, "Patronage & Style in Early Cola temple," summer, 1990.
- American Institute of Indian Studies, Junior Fellowship, Dissertation research in India, 1984-85.
- Major Grant, Colgate University Research Council, "Gender and Other Metaphors at the Kailasanatha Temple in Kanchi," 2010-2011.
- Major Grant, Colgate University Research Council, "Goddesses in their homes," fieldwork in India, 2006.
- Picker Fellowship, Fieldwork on medieval south Indian temple patronage, 1999-2000.
- Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis (Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 2013).
Edited Volumes
- Themes, History and Interpretations: Indian Painting: Essays in Honour of B. N. Goswamy. Co-edited with Mahesh Sharma. Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing, 2013.
- Ruins: Fabricating Histories of Time. Third Text (Special Issue) 112 (September, 2011). Volume co-edited and introduction co-authored with Janice Leoshko.
- "'To my mind': Essays for Joanna Gottfried Williams," Artibus Asiae 69.2 (2009) and 70.1 (2010).
- "Lakṣmī and the Tigers: A Goddess in the Shadows," in The Archaeology of Bhakti. Edited by Charlotte Schmid and Emmanuel Francis, 142-176. Pondichéry: Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient/Institut français de Pondichéry, 2014.
- "The Inverted Gaze," in Themes, History and Interpretations: Indian Painting: Essays in Honour of B. N. Goswamy. Edited by Mahesh Sharma and Padma Kaimal, 12-16. Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing, 2013.
- "Interpreting Sculpture from the Tamil Region," in Interpretation and Reflection: South Asian Art Historians Engage Vidya Dehejia. Edited by Annapurna Garimella with Molly Aitken, Debra Diamond and Dipti Khera. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 2013.
- "Yoginis in Stone: Auspicious and Inauspicious Power," in Yoginī – History, Polysemy, Ritual. Edited by István Keul. Trondheim, Norway: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2012.
- "About Ruins," with Janice Leoshko as an introduction to Third Text (Special Issue), Ruins: Fabricating Histories of Time 112 (September, 2011).
- "Shiva Nataraja: Multiple Meanings of an Icon," in A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture. Edited by Rebecca Brown and Debra Hutton, pp. 471-485. Blackwell Companions to Art History, series editor Dana Arnold. London: Blackwell, 2011.
- "Color and Sculpture in South Asia," Source: Notes in the History of Art 30.3 (Spring, 2011): 33-39.
- "'To my mind': Essays for Joanna Gottfried Williams," introduction to a 12-essay Festschrift, Artibus Asiae 69.2 (2009): 7-11.
- "South Indian Sculpture in the Ackland Art Museum," in Fashioning the Divine: South Asian sculpture at the Ackland Art Museum, ed. Pika Ghosh, pp. 139-148. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum, 2006.
- "Learning to see the Goddess," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 73.1 (2005): 45-87.
- "Seductive and Repulsive: The deceptive contrasts of a South Indian goddess," Rotunda 36.1 (2003): 28-35.
- "A Man's World? Gender, family and architectural patronage in medieval India," Archives of Asian Art LIII (2002-2003): 26-53.
- "The Problem of Portraiture in South India, 970-1000 CE," Artibus Asiae 59, 3/4 (2000): 139-179.
- "The Problem of Portraiture in South India, 870-970 CE," Artibus Asiae 59, 1/2 (1999): 59-133.
- "Shiva Nataraja: Shifting Meanings of an Icon," Art Bulletin 81.3 (1999): 390-419.
- "Early Cola Kings and 'Early Cola Temples:' Art and the Evolution of Kingship," Artibus Asiae 56, 1/2 (1996): 33-66.
- "Passionate Bodies: Constructions of the Self in South Indian Portraits," Archives of Asian Art 48 (1995): 6-16.
- "Playful Ambiguity and Political Authority in the Large Relief at Mamallapuram," Ars Orientalis 24 (1994): 1-27; reprinted in Asian Art: An Anthology, Rebecca M. Brown and Deborah S. Hutton, eds., London: Blackwell, 2006, pp. 43-56.
- Review of La création d'une iconographie śivaïte narrative: Incarnations du dieu dans les temples pallava construits by Valérie Gillet, Journal of the American Oriental Society 131: 3 (July-September 2011).
- Review of The Great Penance at Mamallapuram: Deciphering a Visual Text, by Michael Rabe, CAAReviews (2003) (http://www.caareviews.org/).
- Review of Temple Architecture and Sculpture of the Nolambas, by Andrew Cohen, Journal of Asian Studies 59.3 (2000): 76-77.
- Review of Lives of Indian Images, by Richard Davis, Journal of Ritual Studies (1997).
- Review of Art of the Imperial Cholas by Vidya Dehejia and Rajarajesvaram: The Pinnacle of Chola Art by B. Venkataraman, Journal of Asian Studies 51.2 (1992): 414-416.
Accepted for Publication
- "Muttaraiyar, Irukkuvel, Paluvettaraiyar and the Colas of Tanjavur," in Art and Architecture in India, ed. M. A. Dhaky, in History of Indian Science, Philosophy, and Culture. New Delhi: Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2010.
Scholarly Work in Progress
- Many Paths to the Divine: Rereading the Kailasanath Temple in Kanchipuram (book ms. in progress)
- "Mapping Artistic Space: The Kaveri Style" (essay)
- "The infamous 'Head Sacrifice to Durga'" (essay)
- "The Sculptural Program of the Triple Temple in Kodumbalur: Two Missing Sculptures Rediscovered" (essay)
- Search committee for the Dean/Provost, 2011-2012.
- Search committee that hired President Herbst, 2009-2010.
- Asian Studies Program, director, 2006-2010; member, 1988-present.
- Advice and Planning Committee, 2006-09.
- Search committee for Vice President for Communications, 2004-05.
- Executive Committee, implementation of the Diversity strategy of the Strategic Plan, 2004-2007.
- Women's Studies Advisory Council, 2004-present.
- Middle East and Islamic Studies, 2006-present.
- Strategic Planning Steering Group, 2002-04.
- Faculty Affirmative Action Oversight, chair, 2002-2003
- Editorial Advisory Committee, Colgate Scene, 2002-2003.
Presentations at University Events
- "On linking Core courses," White Eagle conference on the Core Curriculum, 2009.
- "Religion and Art: Seeing and Believing -- Re-imagining Ritual from Architectural Remains," Religion Department's luncheon series on Religious Literacy at Colgate, October 16, 2008.
- "The Prefocus/Focus exercise," White Eagle conference on the Core Curriculum, 2003, 2005.
- "Dispersing the Kanchi Goddesses," Reunion College, June 2005.
- "What Makes a Temple Tantric?", Brown Bag lunch series, Women's Studies Center, February 3, 2004.
- "What I wish I had known during my first five years," panel presenter, Women's Studies Center, November 2004.
- "Teaching literature in Core Cultures as a non-specialist in the field," Core Cultures Faculty Seminar, 2002.
- "Learning to See the Goddess," Humanities Colloquium, September 25, 2001.
- Co-leader with Eliza Kent of a two-week study tour of India for 25 faculty who teach in the Liberal Arts Core Curriculum, January 2012.
- Colgate liaison to the New York State Independent College Consortium For Study In India, 2008-2010
- Year of Chinese Art in 2009
- "Asian Art Study Day" at the Picker Art Gallery, April 12, 2008, co-presenter with Steve Greenberg of Hamilton College
- Study tour of study options in India for Colgate students, August 2008 and December 2011.
- Designed and served as first leader of the 2004 when ARTS study group in London, 2004-2006
- Consulted on selection and exhibition of Chinese sculpture from the Sackler Foundation, Picker Art Gallery, Spring 2004.
- Search for Intern for the Sophomore Year Experience, summer, 2003.
- Search for tenure-track specialist in Hinduism, Department of Philosophy & Religion, non-voting consultant, 2003.
- Advisor, Honors Project in Women's Studies (Jaime Warsavage), 2003.
- Affirmative Action Interviews with job candidates, 2002-2003.
- Consulting with Colgate Development Office, fundraising, 2002-2003.
- London Study Group (History), teaching and logistical support, 2002.
- Search for Director of Research for Case Library, non-voting participant, summer, 2002.
- Editorial Board, Archives of Asian Art, 2010-present.
- Advisory Committee (on manuscripts for publication), Institut Français de Pondichéry and École française d'Extrême-Orient, Pondichery, India, 2006-present.
- Executive Committee Member (2006-2008) and Trustee (2004-present), the American Institute of Indian Studies, Chicago.
- President, American Council on Southern Asian Art, 1999-2004
- Fellowship Selection Committee, American Institute for Indian Studies, 2001-2003
- Dissertation committee member for Preeti Bahadur, Chandigarh University, 2003.
- Mentor, Career Development Workshop, College Art Association, 1998, 2000, 2005.
- Reviewer for submitted manuscripts; Artibus Asiae, Art Bulletin, Ars Orientalis, South Asian Studies, AIIS Dissertation Prize/Indiana University Press, Oxford University Press, Simon & Schuster; 1996-2009.
- Reviewer for fellowship applications to: Getty Fellowship Program (1997); Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2000); National Endowment for the Humanities (2003).
- Board of Directors, Earlville Opera House, 2003-2006.
- Chair, Gallery Selection Committee, Earlville Opera House, 2003-2006.
- Education Unlimited, 2001, "Reading The Meanings In Indian Art: Sculpture And Architecture In South India, 600-900 C.E.".
- High School Seminar, 2002, "Temples, Caves and Tombs: Highlights of Indian Art".


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3 charged; furniture, antiques, jewelry recovered
Traci Albertson, B.J. Carrano, Ravyn Kelley arrested
After a 93-year-old woman spotted an intruder in her home, an investigation led to the arrests of three people and the recovery of thousands of dollars worth of stolen goods, according to the Anderson County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies said they were called to the Piedmont woman's home June 13. Detectives arrested Traci Lynn Albertson, and her boyfriend, B.J. Carrano.
Investigators said they learned that Albertson, Carrano and Ravyn Kelley were involved in several burglaries in the Powdersville and Piedmont area.
Deputies said so far 17 arrest warrants have been signed on Albertson, Carrano and Kelley.
Detectives said several thousand dollars worth of stolen furniture, antiques and jewelry was recovered, most from a home on Wilson Way in Piedmont.
Investigators said they identified and notified the burglary victims that their property had been recovered.

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Kadampa Buddhist Centers worldwide offer year-round programs of meditation classes, courses, retreats, and major gatherings.
These events are suitable for all levels from complete beginners to experienced practitioners.
Local classes & courses
All local centers offer drop-in classes, day courses, and weekend courses; and most offer retreats of varying durations.
These classes are open to everyone. You do not need to be a Buddhist to attend them, or to derive great benefit from them.
Use the Find a Meditation Center search at the top of any page on this website to find a center near you that offers these classes, or visit the centers section to find out more about Kadampa Buddhist centers.
International Festivals
The highlights of the year for Kadampa Buddhists are the annual International Festivals with Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, which provide an opportunity to receive teachings and empowerments directly from the Founder and Spiritual Director of the New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union.
National Festivals
Each year there are also a number of National Festivals with the General Spiritual Director of the New Kadampa Tradition, Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong.
Dharma Celebrations
Besides these, there are also national and regional Dharma Celebrations given by the National Spiritual Directors.
Diaries and reviews
To see videos, photos, and reviews of previous International Festivals visit the Festival Diaries section.


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JPA doesn't specify support for persisting fields of type java.lang.Object, however DataNucleus does support this where the values of that field are persistable objects themselves. This follows the same general process as for Interfaces since both interfaces and java.lang.Object are basically references to some persistable object.
java.lang.Object cannot be used to persist non-persistable types with fixed schema datastore (e.g RDBMS). Think of how you would expect it to be stored if you think it ought to
DataNucleus allows the following ways of persisting Object fields :-
The user controls which one of these is to be used by specifying the extension mapping-strategy on the field containing the interface. The default is "per-implementation"
Let's suppose you have a field in a class and you have a selection of possible persistable class that could be stored there, so you decide to make the field a java.lang.Object. So let's take an example. We have the following class
public class ParkingSpace { String location; Object occupier; }
So we have a space in a car park, and in that space we have an occupier of the space. We have some legacy data and so can't make the type of this "occupier" an interface type, so we just use java.lang.Object. Now we know that we can only have particular types of objects stored there (since there are only a few types of vehicle that can enter the car park). So we define our MetaData like this
public class ParkingSpace { String location; @OneToOne @Extension(key="implementation-classes", value="mydomain.samples.vehicles.Car,mydomain.samples.vehicles.Motorbike") Object occupier; }
This will result in the following database schema.
So DataNucleus adds foreign keys from the ParkingSpace table to all of the possible implementation tables for the occupier field.
In conclusion, when using "per-implementation" mapping for any java.lang.Object field in a class to be persisted (as non-serialised), you must define the possible "implementation" classes that can be stored there.
If we use mapping-strategy of "identity" then we get a different datastore schema.
public class ParkingSpace { String location; @OneToOne @Extensions({ @Extension(key="implementation-classes", value="mydomain.samples.vehicles.Car,mydomain.samples.vehicles.Motorbike"), @Extension(key="mapping-strategy", value="identity")}) Object occupier; }
and the datastore schema becomes
and the column "OCCUPIER" will contain strings such as com.mydomain.samples.object.Car:1 allowing retrieval of the related implementation object.
You can have a Collection/Map containing elements of java.lang.Object. You specify this in the same way as you would any Collection/Map. DataNucleus supports having a Collection of references with multiple implementation types as long as you use a join table relation.
By default a field of type java.lang.Object is stored as an instance of the underlying persistable in the table of that object. If either your Object field represents non-persistable objects or you simply wish to serialise the Object into the same table as the owning object, you need to specify it as "lob", like this
public class MyClass { @Lob Object myObject; }
Please refer to the serialised fields guide for more details of storing objects in this way.


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It seems as though the College Football Playoff selection committee is starting to come together. Days after word broke out West Virginia athletics director Oliver Luck could be involved in the selection committee, supposedly to replace the retiring DeLoss Dodds of Texas, there is a report suggesting two more names could be added to the list to represent the Big Ten and Pac 12.
According to a report by CBSSports.com, Wisconsin AD Barry Alvarez and USC AD Pat Haden are expected to join the new selection committee, which will be charged with choosing the four college football teams to participate in the new College Football Playoff. The new system goes in to place starting in the 2014 season. Both are highly respected within their respective conferences, and both look like the best potential candidates to represent each conference.
Alvarez has previously expressed interest in the committee and has not been one to shy away from sharing his opinions on the state of college football since leaving the sidelines as Wisconsin's coach to take over as athletics director in Madison. Haden is one of the more visible ADs from the Pac 12 as well. It has been a busy week for Haden as well, between meeting with the NCAA to discuss a possible reduction in sanctions to firing Lane Kiffin and beginning to search for a new football coach.
The committee is expected to consist of anywhere between 12 and 18 members, and it is likely each conference will have at least one representative on the committee. If Luck, Alvarez and Haden are going to be a part of the committee, then the hopes look pretty solid for an honorable committee being put together.


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- All SKF steel/steel rod ends, with the exception of small-sized E and ESA design rod ends, can be relubricated via a lubrication hole (fig. 1) or grease fitting in the rod end housing as well as via the pin and the inner ring (fig. 2).
- All SKF steel/bronze rod ends can be relubricated via a lubrication hole or grease fitting in the rod end housing (fig. 3 and fig. 4).
The general recommendations for steel/steel radial spherical plain bearings also apply to steel/steel rod ends as well as steel/bronze rod ends.
For steel/bronze rod ends in the SIKAC .. M and SAKAC .. M series, SKF recommends SKF LGMT 3 grease (table 1). Lithium based greases with a normal consistency without solid lubricant additives can also be used.


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Ignoring any discussion about the singleton as anti-patterns, the question comes down to how Node.js caches modules.
The Node.js docs for Module Caching & Module Caching Caveats state:
Modules are cached after the first time they are loaded. This means (among other things) that every call to require('foo') will get exactly the same object returned, if it would resolve to the same file. Multiple calls to require('foo') may not cause the module code to be executed multiple times.
Modules are cached based on their resolved filename. Since modules may resolve to a different filename based on the location of the calling module (loading from node_modules folders), it is not a guarantee that require('foo') will always return the exact same object, if it would resolve to different files."may not" and "not a guarantee" bother me -- under what circumstances will require('foo') not return the same object?
Turns out to be pretty simple: If the foo in require('foo') resolves to the same file in the filesystem (excluding hardlinked files), the same object is returned. If foo resolves to different files, in different directories, then each would be loaded/executed/cached individually.
Under the hood, fs.realpath is used to resolve the canonicalized absolute pathname to the file -- this means that symlinks to a file all resolve to the same file.


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OCEAN CITY – The federal
Army Corps of Engineers is moving forward with a plan to dredge several canals
in Ocean City, but with no funding source for the project, it remains uncertain
when work will begin.
Residents along the
canals included in phase I of the resort's long awaited maintenance dredging
plan last week received an inches-thick report from the Army Corps of
Engineers, outlining many aspects of the proposal including the requisite
environmental impact statements and disposal plans. What was not included,
however, was timetable for the massive dredging project, which will cover over
18 acres of canal in the resort and remove over 49,000 cubic yards of material.
"Currently, there is no
funding source, so the timetable is up in the air," said City Engineer Terry
McGean. "Once the permit is received, it is good for three years, however."
The long-range plan
calls for systematic maintenance dredging for the vast network of canals from
one end of the resort to the other. The first phase includes dredging
designated canals from 24th Street north to 143rd Street
to a depth of four feet below mean low water.
When the first phase is
completed, roughly 49,000 cubic yards of dredged material, primarily made up of
sand and silt deposited from other areas over time with the changing tides and
natural migrations of the barrier island system, will have to be disposed of in
other areas around the resort.
Most recently, material
dredged from the navigation channel in the bay was pumped over land and under
Coastal Highway before being deposited on the beach at 32nd Street.
Some of the material dredged from the canals in the first phase of the Corps'
plan could also end up on the beach, depending on its quality.
"The disposal plan
includes three areas depending on the quality of the material," he said. "The
very best material will be deposited on the beach. Material with some silt or
organics could be disposed of in the lagoon at Northside Park, which is the primary
disposal site."
Not all of the dredged
material will be suitable for the beach, or even the Northside Park lagoon, and
might have to be disposed of elsewhere, according to McGean.
"Tests have not shown
any, but the material will be monitored as it is dug and it will be disposed of
as required," he said.
Having done its due
diligence in terms of potential environmental impacts and dredge spoil disposal
plans, the Army Corps' is currently accepting public comment on the proposal.


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American Idol topped yet another repeat-riddled Wednesday.
The two-hour Top 10 performance show drew 13.1 million viewers and a 3.6 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, down two-tenths from last week.
TV scorecard: What's renewed? What's canceled?Survivor (9.5 million, 2.5), which dipped a tenth, took second place for the night.The only other two shows to air fresh episodes, NBC's Whitney (3.4 million, 1.2) and ABC's The Neighbors (4.7 million, 1.4), were both down as well.


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Amina Wadud's Breakthrough
Dr. Yusuf Qardhawi, the Egyptian Muslim scholar and TV preacher, has criticized Wadud for violating 14 centuries of Islamic tradition. Similarly, the Grand Mufti Abdul Aziz al-Seikh, has declared Wadud to be an "enemy of Islam" who has "violated the law of God" (Associated Press, 19/3). In addition, Egyptian and Saudi newspapers published reports about the service on their front pages and referred to Wadud as a "deranged woman" who was collaborating with Western infidels to corrupt Islam.
These reactions are distressing as they show how Muslims are both closed to change and are paranoid about modifying religious tradition. In particular, their reactions are extreme, for in addition to derision and criticism, Wadud has received death threats for 'corrupting' Islam.
While Muslim scholars have been debating issues such as wearing headscarves, the un-Islamic nature of bank interest, euthanasia and interfaith marriage, the reaction to Wadud supercedes all these debates in that she is the first woman who has been bold enough to actually put into practice an issue of such dispute in Islamic law.
Historic progress is inevitable
The excessive reactions on the parts of Muslim religious leaders, intellectuals and others, indicate that they simply refuse to learn from history. Similarly, almost all Muslim scholars since the start of the 20th century have prohibited bank interest, criticized working women and family planning, and banned certain technologies – all in the name of religion.
However, historical progress necessarily outweighs such conservative views which always work to prevent change. In my view, despite the paradigmatic resistance to change in Islam, the acceptance of "woman imam" is just a matter of time.
For example, though Egyptian scholars criticized Muhammad Abduh, a Muslim reformist figure, for allowing bank interest, and criticized Ali Abd al-Raziq for arguing that the caliphate system is not Islamic, many Muslims now accept their formerly controversial views.
Prohibition of women imams not part of religious doctrine
Today, certain Muslim intellectuals and scholars agree that the prohibition against the idea of woman being religious leaders is a consequence of male domination in patriarchal Arab society. In other words, it is not an element of religious doctrine given by God but a socio-cultural construct.
Thus Dr. Khaled Abou el-Fadl, an expert in Islamic jurisprudence from the University of California in Los Angeles, asserts that there is no actual prohibition in the Koran which forbids women from becoming imam.
Meanwhile, in Indonesia, Sheikh Husein Muhammad from Cirebon believes that woman can indeed lead mixed gender prayers. In fact, the objection to mixed gender prayer ultimately has no basis since in the most sacred place in the Muslim world, the Masjid al-Haram of Mecca, men and women pray together.
Muslims must learn to accept different views
What we unfortunately learn from this case is that Muslims are, in the main, rarely capable of accepting different opinions – particularly in terms of religion.
In fact, Wadud was only able to lead a Friday prayer because she was in America, and even there she had a difficult time finding a venue due to the threats from other Muslims.
It would have been impossible to organize such an event in a Muslim country. And again, even in America, the prayers had to be conducted in a church and protected by security guards because of the threats of violence from fundamentalist Muslims.
Hence, what we discover, yet again, is that Muslim's are prone to use violence or threats of violence as a means for expressing religious beliefs. We urgently need to change this combination of intolerance and extremism.
Wadud deserves our support. Her case is ultimately not about gender and prayer, but about religious tolerance. In order to appreciate the fundamental values of liberty and democracy, Muslims need to learn to accept that specific visions and interpretations of religion are open to change – that religious traditions are not static.
Luthfi Assyaukanie
© Liberal Islam Network 2005
Luthfi Assyaukanie is author and lecturer at Paramadina University, Indonesia. He is also a member of Liberal Islam Network, an Islamic organisation that promotes religious tolerance and a liberal Islam.
The Koran's Spirit of Gender Equality
Lily Zakiyah Munir, Head of the "Center for Pesantren and Democracy Studies", Indonesia, argues that it is not the Koran, but social convention of patriarchal cultures that women in Islamic countries are deprived of equal social status.


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Things are still not looking good for Oscar Pistorius. A South African newspaper is reporting that a bloody cricket bat was found in the home of the athlete, and was used to smash the skull of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
Pistorius was arrested for the murder of Steenkamp, allegedly shooting her four times from behind a bathroom door. Police had not yet announced that a bat was found but sources close to the investigation said the motive of Seeva being mistaken for a burglar has been completely ruled out. There is also said to be a strong case built against Pistorius.
The police are also investigating two more possibilities: that Steenkamp may have used the bat in self-defence, or that Pistorius used it to break down the toilet door behind which Steenkamp was hiding from him.
We can further reveal that police specifically requested that Pistorius' blood be tested for drugs and steroids.
Steenkamp's skull was "crushed" and police tests on the cricket bat and her body will reveal if the injuries were caused by blows to the back of her head.
"There was lots of blood on the bat. Forensic tests will show whose blood it was," said a source with inside knowledge of the case.
City Press spoke to three sources close to the high-profile investigation, which has gripped the world's imagination. They all ruled out the possibility that Pistorius could have mistaken Steenkamp for an intruder. The police found no evidence of forced entry.
On Friday Pistorius appeared at a hearing to formally face murder charges. He broke down crying in his hands.
According to his lawyer, the Paralympic champion has been distraught over the incident, but conflicting reports paint him as a monster. Trish Taylor, mother of the 26-year-old's ex, Samantha Taylor, alluded to Pistorious's dark side. "I am so glad that Sammy is safe and sound and out of the clutches of that man," she wrote online. "There were a few occasions where things could have gone wrong with her and his gun during the time they dated. My condolences to the family whose daughter has passed away. My heart breaks for you."
Samantha dated Pistorius last year, and publicly bashed him after the split, saying in part that he was "not what people think he is."
Photo: EPA


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Arun necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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We are an independent feature film production company specializing in intelligent entertainment-oriented genre films. We are looking for a logo that can be used on business cards/letterheads etc. and also on screen at the beginning or end of films.
Digitalis or Digitalis Entertainment International or DEI or dig.ital.is
We're looking for an all purpose logo that will draw attention to a small company in a crowded marketplace. We're just a startup now but are very ambitious and we would like to project an image that is professional, high-end and dependable, but also intriguing, classy and edgy.
There are several elements that could be included in the design. The full name of the company is Digitalis Entertainment International Ltd. but you could build the logo around just Digitalis, or just the initials DEI, or just Digitalis Entertainment.
We use the URL dig.ital.is for our domain so you might like to incorporate that into the design, or make it the main focus. Our mentality is as much inspired by tech startups as by conventional film companies so we don't mind something a bit "techie".
We have local outposts in London, Los Angeles and Mumbai so you could also include those city names in the design.
- To be honest we don't really know anything about design, so please feel free to be creative and explore your own interpretation of the elements above. However, some possibilities we had thought about include:
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A route through Spain's medieval towns and cities
Romanesque cloister in the church of San Pedro de la Rúa, in Estella
Sigüenza Cathedral
Here we suggest a route in Spain which is original and unconventional, but very interesting and attractive: it runs through our medieval towns and villages. The itinerary covers close to 1,500 kilometres across Spain from the north to the southwest, passing charming places surrounded by a variety of stunning countryside, with cultural heritage dating back to the Middle Ages.
If you are thinking of a cultural trip in Spain, then take note. The Medieval Towns and Villages Route goes from the Basque Country to Extremadura. Here you have the chance to explore Spain from the very shores of the Cantabrian Sea to beautiful rural, inland areas, and to enjoy the country's natural and cultural diversity. All along the way there are towns and villages with stunning heritage and monuments, perfectly conserved over the centuries. You will love their medieval atmosphere.
The full route comprises nine stages. You can do it all or choose the stages that interest you most. The route is ideal to follow by car, and the destinations along the way are well worth visiting. They all have shared history which can be seen clearly in their streets, packed with medieval palaces, churches, monasteries and castles. Nevertheless, each one has its own personality and attractions. You'll notice this as soon as the journey starts.
You can get underway in the Basque Country, in Hondarribia (Guipúzcoa province), right on the Basque coast. Amongst other things, you will love its maritime atmosphere, its nearby beaches and its internationally-renowned gastronomy. In the same Region, now inland in the province of Álava, you will find Laguardia. Make a stop to stroll around its old town and sample the local wine with the internationally prestigious Rioja Alavesa Designation of Origin. Just 60 kilometres away, another vital stop is in Estella or Lizarra. At this town in Navarre you will probably come across pilgrims, alone or in groups, with rucksacks on their backs. Don't be surprised. The Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route runs through here. It is the first European cultural route and also has the UNESCO World Heritage designation. Barely 100 kilometres further on, close to the Pyrenees, in the province of Zaragoza, it is well worth making a visit to the historic monuments of Sos del Rey Católico.
The route now enters the Region of Castile. First to Almazán, in Castile-León, with the Duero River and its huge fields of crops. The village of Pedraza (Segovia) is in the same region, and has a number of large mansions and an interesting historic quarter. The route continues on into the region of Castile-La Mancha . In Sigüenza (Guadalajara), you can discover what life was like for medieval knights. Almost one thousand years ago, El Cid Campeador, a legendary hero of Spanish history, passed through this town. Further south, in Consuegra, in the province of Toledo, you can see, amongst other things, the windmills that call to mind the imaginary giants from the story of Don Quixote, the immortal creation of writer Miguel de Cervantes.
The route finishes in the Region of Extremadura, in the towns of Coria (Cáceres province) and Olivenza (Badajoz province). They are very close to another, highly-recommended route –the Silver Route– that runs across Spain from south to north. There's loads to see, don't you think? Enjoy this cultural adventure in Spain. In each of these towns you will take an exciting trip back to the Middle Ages, learning about their history and traditions, and admiring the countryside that surrounds them. And if you don't have time to see it all, don't worry. We will be awaiting you on your next trip.
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Hi, we think we've solved the problem with Irish Addresses (no postcodes!) now we need to launch our product and convince everyone else! The product, Autoaddress, requires a great logo to help kickstart our website re-branding and get our message out there.
Web sites that want address validation for Irish addresses. This is a product that is aimed at business, rather than consumers.
We have a concept (feel free to give us something better!) The idea is that Autoaddress as a product helps people enter their address easily, so we envisage a hand coming out of a PC monitor that is taking hold of an stamped, addressed, envelope and will bring that back into the PC. Could be taking it directly from a users hand (instead of them typing on a keyboard).
We would like Autoaddress to be in the logo, with the emphasis on "address".
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Drop the Soda, or Else!
Government is busy trying to protect us from ourselves. It tosses nearly a million people in jail every year for marijuana offenses. City councils, state legislators, and Congress all add ever more restrictions on cigarette smoking. Legislators demand action to stop steroid use by athletes. And the Senate Finance Committee is considering a "fat tax" on sugared drinks.
This isn't the first time legislators have considered trying to squeeze a little money out of us while micro‐managing our lives. Editorializes the Boston Herald:
Earlier this year Gov. Deval Patrick proposed a 5 percent tax (more if the sales tax is raised) on sweetened drinks and candy bars under the pretext of battling obesity (while thinning out our wallets). Happily we haven't heard much about it lately. But yesterday on Capitol Hill the Senate Finance Committee heard testimony about helping to fund President Barack Obama's massive health care expansion in part with a similar tax.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that a 3‑cent tax per 12‐ounce sweetened drink — including sports drinks and iced teas — would bring in $24 billion over four years.
"Soda is one of the most harmful products in the food supply," said Michael Jacobson, head of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which gives you some idea of the mindset here. Jacobson would also like to raise taxes on alcoholic beverages.
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This Fall's Sava and Danica Andjelkovic Endowed Lecture brings Rick Turoczy '93 back to campus. Rick is a integral member of the Portland start-up scene and is the founder of the Portland Incubator Experiment and Silicon Florist. This event is happening on Wednesday, November 11th in the Reid Ballroom from 7 – 8:30pm. You won't want to miss this one!
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Schools and students are targets worldwide
- China has seen more than a half-dozen school attacks in the last three years
- Mass killings serve as inspiration and blueprint for other potential killers
- Experts say access to mental health and firearms restrictions are keys to reducing victims
BEIJING (AP) — A half-day before a young gunman committed one of the deadliest school attacks in U.S. history, a Chinese farmer took a kitchen knife and hacked at more than 20 children as they entered their rural elementary school.
Though the outcomes are different — 28 dead in Connecticut, and 23 injured in China — the Friday attacks show how disturbingly frequent rampages against children and schools are. Attackers often seek out the vulnerable, hoping to amplify their outrage before they themselves often commit suicide. News of one mass killing often serves as inspiration and blueprint to other potential mass killers.
"It's these disaffected people who are angry at the world, who plan to take out as many people as they can, and there's some element there of notoriety," said forensic psychologist James Ogloff of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. "It's a way of becoming infamous."
Mass killings, when an individual tries to kill as many people at one time as possible, have occurred in places as far away as Switzerland, where 14 people died in a shooting spree by an unemployed man who then killed himself in 2001, to South Korea, where a police officer killed 56 people before he blew himself up in 1982. Distinct from acts of terror that have political or collective aims, other mass killers act out of personal grievances.
Attacks against schools are a bleak subset, offering easy targets for taking down large numbers of victims. Shootings at schools have periodically occurred in Finland and Germany as well as the U.S., though the American attacks have been more frequent.
China has seen more than a half-dozen school attacks in less than three years, though the death tolls have been mostly in single digits, largely because knives have been the most-used weapon. China largely prohibits private ownership of guns.
"They choose to attack school students who are weak in defending themselves and are easily assaulted," said Zhu Zhuohong, an associate researcher in psychology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Ogloff, the forensic psychologist who has studied both spree and serial killers in the U.S., Canada and Australia, said that a break-down in a relationship or a humiliating experience often acts as a triggering event for mass shooters. After Thomas Hamilton killed 16 kindergarteners and a teacher at an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, in 1996, reports said that he had been suspected of inappropriate behavior with boys he oversaw in a youth group and that letters he wrote talked of persecution by police and authorities for forcing him from taking part in boys clubs and for causing a business he ran to fail.
While police in Connecticut and in China have so far not given motives for Friday's attacks, both began with single assaults. Twenty-year-old Adam Lanza first shot his mother in their home in the New England town of Newtown before driving to the nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School; armed with two handguns, he shot into two classrooms, killing 20 people and six adults and then apparently shooting himself.
Min Yingjun, a 36-year-old resident of Guangshan, an area of tea and rice farms in central China, burst into the home of an elderly woman and stabbed her with a kitchen knife, the government's Xinhua News Agency reported. Min then went to the Chenpeng Village Primary School, slashing at 22 students, ages 6 to 12, as they arrived for class. Seven of the students, some with severed fingers and ears, required hospitalization, Xinhua said.
Though Min did not die — he was grabbed by police at the scene and is under arrest — Zhu, the psychologist, said many mass attacks should be seen as "expanded suicide." The attackers, often in a state of depression, believe society is malicious or unsafe and wants others to die with them, said Zhu.
Police described Min as possibly being "mentally ill," Xinhua said, and a law enforcement official briefed on the Connecticut shooting told The Associated Press that Lanza was believed to suffer from a personality disorder. But overall, said Ogloff, very few mass shooters are mentally ill.
Most perpetrators are young men, and their common traits — an interest in the military or violence — are so widespread as to make it impossible to identify potential killers, said Ogloff. Spree shootings, he said, are increasing and becoming deadlier because each killing leaves a blueprint for others to follow.
"Imagine you're a kid and you're 20 years old, and you're angry at the world and you're fascinated with the military and you're in a situation where you want to end your life. ... You're influenced by all the ones who've gone before you," said Ogloff, who has overseen the treatment of Martin Bryant, who shot 35 people at Port Arthur, a former penal colony and tourist site, in Tasmania in 1996.
The spate of school attacks in China — six in a seven-month period in 2010 — have raised concerns about copycats. News media in China, all of which are state-controlled, gave wide coverage to the Connecticut attack. But they ran the same brief Xinhua report about Friday's knifings in Guangshan, and local officials refused to provide more information, signs that authorities want to restrict the news either to prevent encouraging others or to play down the crime to keep blame off the government.
If identifying possible perpetrators is difficult, providing better access to mental health services and restricting the availability of firearms are key to reducing the numbers of victims, experts said.
"It's interesting that you have two individuals entering schools but because of the means of their attacks — one with firearms, one with a knife — there's an extreme disparity in the casualties," said Christian Chan, a professor of psychology at Hong Kong University. "It's the means that we can control, not necessarily the psychology of people. Throughout history there will always be people who might lose it."
Tight controls mean that gun crimes are rare in China and make knives and sometimes explosives the weapons used in mass attacks in China. Even so, violence is on the rise as people grow frustrated with a corrupt and often indifferent officialdom and seek other means to address grievances.
"The social environment is a factor behind attacks in China," said Ku Jianhui, a lawyer with the Beijing Xindong law firm. "A person who chooses extreme acts to voice his or her grievances usually believes that his or her cases were unable to be handled fairly through normal channels or legal procedures."


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18 HASKINS & SELLS March South America Notes on a recent trip by R. C. REIK, of the firm AS the economic demands of the world compel the searching out and development of new fields for the use of capital, so must public accountants follow and be available to serve business, first, with the "shock troops" of capital in the investigation of investment possibilities, and later, in safeguarding the employment of capital and in verifying the accounting for its use. The extent and continued growth of the practice of our firm requires our presence (either through our own established offices or through the representation of and affiliation with other public accounting organizations of world-wide reputation), not only in South America but practically in every country on the globe. In the fall of 1928 the firm considered that the time had arrived when we should become better acquainted by first hand knowledge and information with the development of certain of the South American countries. Hence, my visit to Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile, with port calls at Barbados and Trinidad in the West Indies, covering the period of approximately three months from October 27, 1928, to January 23, 1929. At the mere suggestion of a trip to South America, involving days of passage through the equatorial region, one naturally thinks of a number of handicaps. But life is replete with compensations, and, in spite of its "ups and downs," travel in the tropics (on land as well as sea) is not necessarily a hardship. Travel facilities between the Americas, North and South, are very good and are being constantly greatly improved, sailing schedules are ample, and the steamer accommodations are more comfortable than might be expected, although facilities for railroad travel on land are not as extensive as we are accustomed to find at home. Nevertheless, to the extent to which rail facilities are available, and that covers a great many of the most important points, the service does not suffer from the lack of modern and comfortable equipment. If a trip is prescribed for business or pleasure purposes, especially during the Northern winter season, let us say from the snow and ice-bound region of Niagara to the warm sunshine and the glorious moonlight of the tropics, can one say that the "medicine" should be a subject for complaint? Some there were who considered me lucky to have the opportunity of making this trip, and they and others considered me luckier still to have safely returned, and numerous inquirers have asked if I carry a rabbit's foot for luck. Admittedly, I was fortunate in my travels to have missed by one trip being a passenger on an ill-fated vessel which sank during my voyage south; to have crossed the Andes Mountains westward by train on the last trip immediately before and returned eastward, on the first trip immediately after a serious washout and landslide which caused a suspension of all rail transportation on that line for nearly one week; and not to have suffered any physical injury nor to have entirely succumbed to fright during a series of earthquake shocks in Chile, in which I was an unwilling participant. I am not particularly reliant upon tokens of good luck and do not carry a rabbit's foot, because, for one reason, I cannot overlook the fact that at one time such a talisman must have belonged to an animal which had four of them, and certainly it did not bring him any good luck. Whatever the element of luck or fortune, the trip will remain a never-to-be-forgotten event. The lesson in geography itself was almost worth the trip. With apologies to Ripley, but in true "Believe it or not" style, how many of us know that the distance is
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Reik, Raymond Carlisle
South America -- Economic conditions -- 1918-
South America -- Description and travel
Haskins & Sells Bulletin, Vol. 12, no. 03 (1929 March), p. 18-24
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Gennady Golovkin (above) will defend his middleweight title against an opponent to be determined on Jan. 19 in New York at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. (AP)
Some quick jabs ...
• I'm told HBO is now considering two possible opponents for Gennady Golovkin's Jan. 19 middleweight title defense: Fernando Guerrero, a one-time prospect who is represented by Al Haymon, and Gabriel Rosado, a rising junior middleweight who is currently the IBF's mandatory challenger for Cornelius "K9" Bundrage's title. To me, the decision is an easy one: Guerrero -- who beat Rosado in a controversial eight-round middleweight fight in 2009 -- has done nothing recently to warrant this kind of opportunity. Rosado, meanwhile, beat three quality opponents in 2012, all on NBC Sports Network, all by knockout. Rosado is the definition of a television-friendly fighter. A matchup with Golovkin would be a war.
• Super featherweight Teon Kennedy's injury forced Main Events to find a new opponent for undefeated prospect Jerry Belmontes in the co-feature of the Dec. 8 card on NBC Sports Network. On Monday they announced that Eric Hunter (16-2) would step in. Hunter has been on the shelf for most of the last two years, fighting once (last July) since December of 2010.
• Kudos to Seth Mitchell for accomplishing a lot in boxing despite not picking up the gloves until he was 24. But this experiment is probably over. You can't teach a chin and in his last two fights Mitchell has been buzzed by Chazz Witherspoon and knocked out in two rounds by Johnathan Banks. There are things Mitchell can do to improve -- he still has no idea how to hold when he gets hurt -- but if light hitters like Witherspoon and Banks can wobble him, he's a sitting duck for one of the Klitschko brothers.
• Speaking of Banks: I'd like to see him face one more quality opponent before looking for a fight with Wladimir or Vitali Klitschko. A matchup with Tyson Fury, David Price or his preferred choice, Alexander Povetkin, next year could make Banks some money and, if he wins, give him some momentum heading into a major title fight.
• I'm looking forward to Miguel Cotto-Austin Trout on Dec. 1 at Madison Square Garden, but that undercard is horrendous. Jayson Velez and Danny Jacobs -- questionable choices for a televised undercard to begin with -- will fight separately on Showtime's broadcast in fights that do nothing for me. Velez (19-0) will face Salvador Sanchez II (30-4-3), nephew of Mexican legend Salvador Sanchez, while Jacobs (23-1), the former prospect and cancer survivor who will fight for the second time in three months, gets Chris Fitzpatrick (15-2).
• I don't know what has gotten into Carl Froch, but after another impressive knockout -- this one over handpicked challenger Yusaf Mack -- I just don't know how Lucian Bute can beat him. Froch is just too strong.
• Bring on Adrien Broner-Ricky Burns.
• Thank you, Fred Sternburg, for sending out 400 emails letting everyone know that Manny Pacquiao gave away free turkeys last week. My overflowing inbox extends its regards.
• Hey British promoter Frank Maloney: Your comment that Wladimir Klitschko would be happy not to have to pay Emanuel Steward his 10 percent after a one-sided win over Mariusz Wach last week was disgusting and classless. Steward, a longtime mentor and trainer for Klitschko, lost a battle with cancer last month. Maloney should be ashamed.
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Mentoring Part. needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 24 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
Update to existing, information based, antiquated and stale website with goal of exciting potential mentoring program coordinators, donors and mentors about mentoring and our services.
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Look and feel to be emotionally appealing and representative of the work we do with/for youth.
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Nikon 1 J1 and V1 First Look
Yesterday marked the official unveiling of the Nikon 1 V1 and J1 compact system cameras. Today we spent some quality time with these new mirrorless offerings. We've got first impressions and sample images to share.
The J1 is sleeker, more streamlined. Without the accessory port and viewfinder, the top panel is smooth and flat. Markings on both of the cameras are modernist and minimal – a mode dial on the back panel of each has just four icons. Nobody will feel overwhelmed picking up a camera with four modes.
The V1 has a weightier feel with an ever-so-slight grip built into the front of the camera. There's also a slightly larger thumb grip on the back panel of the V1 than is found on the J1. Either camera can be turned on via conventional methods or by unlocking the kit zoom lens (if one is attached) by pressing a button and twisting the lens barrel. The J1 and V1 accept SD card media.
I spoke with Senior Product Manager Lindsay Silverman about the concept. He pointed out that nowhere has Nikon advertised the 1 system as being equal to DSLRs, noting that Nikon already has a line of top-shelf DSLRs. Instead, he sees the 1 user as someone who wants to take a lot of great pictures spontaneously without the fuss of a big DSLR body and set of lenses.
The J1 and V1, instead, are easy enough for a beginner to use with enough advanced functionality to entice more advanced users. He also spoke about how important it was to create a balanced camera – balanced in terms of feel, performance, and features.
Beginners will have no problem with camera operation, but I was concerned that more advanced controls would be difficult for seasoned shooters to access. I am happy to report that if you choose to shoot in full manual mode, changing shutter and aperture speed is easily done. Shutter is assigned to the zoom toggle near the shooter's right thumb and aperture is controlled by the sub-dial on the back panel.
Shooting stills during movie capture is also a breeze. Movie start/stop is (obviously) controlled through the one-touch movie button on the top deck. Pushing the shutter button during movie capture will record a full-resolution still image – an on-screen camera icon will confirm that an image was recorded.
Regarding the new Motion Snapshot mode – I wasn't completely sold on this feature yet. This is a shooting mode that will automatically record a portion of video for every still image that is captured. The resulting video plays back in slow motion with music overlayed. It seems like a neat value-add (many apologies for using a jargon phrase like 'value-add'), but I'm unsure how often real world shooters will use it. It takes a moment of processing after the image is captured before the camera is available for shooting again. It's not much, but it's enough that you'll notice it (and potentially get tired of it) after a while. In any case, the results are fun to play with and Nikon provides a few different music options for in-camera playback.
The Nikon 1 V1 on display this afternoon was not up to sample image analysis yet. Initial image quality from our full-production J1 review unit (that's right, stay tuned for the full analysis) looks promising. Sharpness at the center of the frame and out toward the edges using the 10mm (27mm equivalent) pancake looked very nice.
Will shooters warm up to the new 2.7x crop sensor? Will the Nikon 1's key demographic even care? To them, it may just be a sleek, lightweight camera that affords much more creative flexibility than the point-and-shoots that they're used to. We'll be putting our little review unit through the rigors of a full review, to be sure, but consumers will ultimately call the shots.
Take a look at some more full-resolution Nikon 1 J1 sample images below and then click over to our image gallery (link at the bottom of the article) for even more photos of the J1 and V1 in all of their mirrorless glory.
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Third-person shooter Gears of War looked set to get the Hollywood treatment until the movie's director Len Wiseman (Live Free or Die Hard) decided to focus his attention on another motion picture.
Wiseman's take on Gears of War was budgeted in the US$100 million neighborhood. As website Cinema Blend points out, the movie's R-rating and lack of a love story made it a hard sell.
At this year's Comic Con, Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski said the goal is to make the Gears movie "more like District 9". That doesn't mean Bleszinski wants Gears of District 9, but rather, he most likely is referring to a smaller budgeted, effect-heavy film. According to Bleszinski, the script that Wiseman was working from was more akin to the big budget disaster film 2012.
Lots of money doesn't make a good movie. A good script, good actors and a good director do. District 9 proved that. Maybe the Gears of War movie can, too.
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