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Volumes in the Irish Writers Series appeared between 1970 - 1978 under the general editorship of J.F. Carens, consisting of studies of more than 40 Irish writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Each volume is devoted to one writer, giving a full account of their literary career and major works, and considering the relationship of the writer's Irish background to their writings as a whole. Every volume is accompanied by a select bibliography. These studies bring to bear on their subjects contemporary critical insights, attitudes, and techniques.
Inspired by the success that this series enjoyed in the 1970's, Bucknell University Press sought to add to its reputation in Irish Studies. In 2009, the Press commenced a new series of books on Contemporary Irish Writers with John Rickard as General Editor. Read more here or visit the series page.
Volumes in the Irish Writers Series
Sean O'Casey, by Bernard Benstock
In this monograph, Professor Benstock treats in detail the best known and best loved of the Irish playwrights, bringing to bear on its famous subject contemporary critical insights, attitudes, and techniques. Included is an analysis of the plot, character, and action of most of Sean O'Casey's major dramatic works.
James Clarence Mangan, by James Kilroy
James Clarence Mangan details the life and work of one of the greatest-and least known-of the Irish poets of the early 19th century. Mangan, whose best-known poem is "Dark Rosaleen," is outside of Ireland remembered only for half a dozen "anthology" pieces. In this volume, the author analyzes the major works of the tortured poet, and also sketches in some of the biographical highlights of "The Man in the Cloak."
Standish O'Grady, by Phillip L. Marcus
Standish O'Grady is a short critical analysis of one of the most important but least known figures in modern Irish literature. O'Grady was a highly versatile writer who produced volumes of history, legend, romance, drama, and political theory. He also did newspaper leaders and edited a weekly literary review.
W. R. Rodgers, by Darcy O'Brien
W.R. Rodgers is a short critical biography of the Northern Irish poet-broadcaster who once ranked with Louis MacNeice, Patrick Kavanagh, and Austin Clarke among the finest Irish poets. Rodgers also served as producer, writer and broadcaster for the B.B.C., essentially becoming the oral historian of the Irish literary movement. In addition to the biographical information, Mr. O'Brien has provided an analysis of some of the poet-broadcaster's major poems, and has supplied a chronology.
Joseph Sheridan Lefanu, by Michael H. Begnal
Praised as a creator of suspense and of the supernatural, Joseph Sheridan Lefanu (1814-1873) was a novelist and Irish man-of-letters. His work is squarely in the nineteenth-century Gothic tradition, and his tales represent his fascination with horror and brutality. LeFanu has greatly influenced the development of the Gothic genre with his several poems and fourteen novels.
Seumas O'Kelly, by George Brandon Saul
Seumas O'Kelly was a poet, dramatist, journalist and editor, reviewer, and spinner of tales who, in his short lifetime, enjoyed success and influence. This monograph represents O'Kelly as a neglected but important contributor to the Irish Literary Renaissance.
Paul Vincent Carroll, by Paul A. Doyle
This study of playwright Paul Vincent Carroll, who was famous for Shadow and Substance and The White Steed, demonstrates that some of his other realistic plays have been incorrectly undervalued. Professor Doyle examines Carroll's ability as a writer of satirical comedies as well as his interesting experiments in philosophical drama and his concern with symbolism and allegory.
Somerville and Ross, by John Cronin
This volume discusses the life and works of Edith Oenone Somerville and Violet Florence Martin (who wrote under the name of Martin Ross). The two women cousins were both of old Anglo-Irish Protestant families. Together they wrote novels, short stories, and travel sketches.
J.M. Synge, by Robin Skelton
J.M. Synge presents a fine brief analysis of a major playwright whose influence upon playwrights and poets has reached far beyond itself. Professor Skelton brings to bear on his subject contemporary critical insights, attitudes, and techniques, and analyzes the language, plot, character, and action of Synge's plays. The author also considers Synge's verse, and supplies extracts from his diary, showing from the latter some of the major influences upon Synge's work.
Susan L. Mitchell, by Richard M. Kain
Susan L. Mitchell's light verse captures the flavor of Dublin's conversation-a brew of wit, malice, and learning. Mitchell was an intimate friend and editorial associate of George William Russell (the poet A.E.) and was a welcome guest at the many Dublin evenings. Susan L. Mitchell is a portrait of the artist as a woman of great personal charm, brilliant wit, and inner spirituality.
Eimar O'Duffy, by Robert Hogan
This volume discusses the work of little-known Dublin-born Irish satirist, whose best work is perhaps King Goshawk and the Birds. The author shows how O'Duffy's views on politics, Irish society, and especially economics influenced his literary career.
Mervyn Wall, by Robert Hogan
Mervyn Wall was a playwright, novelist, and radio broadcaster. He is perhaps best known for The Unfortunate Fursey, a fantasy-satire of contemporary Ireland set in the Middle Ages, and its sequel The Return of Fursey. He is also the author of the novels Leaves for the Burning and No Trophies Raise, and the plays, Alarm Among the Clerks and The Lady in the Twilight.
Peadar O'Donnell, by Grattan Freyer
This volume shows how life, literature, and politics were inextricably mingled in this flamboyant personality, whose gifts for friendship and political agitation did not prevent his writing six fine novels shrewdly mirroring life in remote rural Ireland.
Daniel Corkery, by George Brandon Saul
Daniel Corkery (1878-1964) was the author of several plays, short stories, poetry, essays, reviews, tracts, and one novel, as well as a painter in watercolor and Professor of English (University College, Cork). In this monograph, Dr. Saul considers Corkery's body of work. Although critics consider Corkery's novel his best work, Dr. Saul prefers the short stories. To Dr. Saul, it was in his short stories and few plays that Daniel Corkery "really honored Ireland and his heritage."
Sir Samuel Ferguson, by Malcolm Brown
This volume examines Sir Samuel Ferguson's career, especially in light of its impact upon W.B. Yeats, who had called Ferguson "Ireland's greatest poet," and the "most Irish" of all Irish writers. Ferguson was a great satirist and translator, and an important Protestant idealogue.
Brian Friel, by D.E.S. Maxwell
Brian Friel began his literary career as a short-story writer, with regular contributions to The New Yorker in the mid-fifties and two books of short stories, The Saucer of Larks in 1962 and The Gold in the Sea in 1966.
Maria Edgeworth, by James Newcomer
Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) was a prolific novelist who also published essays and illustrative stories for children. She is best remembered for Castle Retreat, a novel published in 1800.
Liam O'Flaherty, by James H. O'Brien
Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984), best known for his novel The Informer, also gained a reputation among Irish writers for his short stories and brief lyric sketches that dramatize the elemental instincts of man. He was also the author of fourteen novels about the traumas plaguing Ireland in the modern age.
Lady Gregory, by Hazard Adams
Long stereotyped as a writer for the Abbey Theatre, Lady Gregory (1852-1932) was also a re-creator of Irish myth and transmitter of folklore, especially in her wonder plays and plays for children. Lady Gregory wrote more than thirty-five plays and, according to Yeats, was the "founder of modern dialect literature."
John Butler Yeats, by Douglas N. Archibald
John Butler Yeats (1839-1922) is chiefly remembered as the father of genius; his son William was Ireland's leading modern poet and his son Jack its most famous modern painter. But he was himself a gifted conversationalist, a talented painter, and the author of essays, reviews, poems, a fragment of an autobiography, and hundreds of letters to family and friends in Ireland, England, and America.
Francis Stuart, by J.H. Natterstad
In writing this critical biography of Francis Stuart, the first full study of Stuart's literary achievement, Professor Natterstad worked closely with his subject, interviewed friends and acquaintances, and had access to previously unavailable Stuart material. The author explores not only the novels, poems, and plays, but also Stuart's childhood in Ireland and England, his uneasy marriage to Iseult Gonne, his relationship with Yeats and Maud Gonne, the turbulent years he spent in wartime Germany, and the psychological forces that shaped his art.
Benedict Kiely, by Daniel J. Casey
Benedict Kiely (1919-2007) was Ireland's ubiquitous literary personality. To say that he was prolific or versatile is an oversimplification. Kiely was on the editorial staff of The Independent, and served as literary editor of the Irish Press and reviewer for the New York Times. He was also a frequent critic for Radio-Telefís Éireann.
Brian Moore, by Jeanne Flood
This volume examines the career of Brian Moore (1921-1999). It considers in chronological order the nine major works he published starting in 1955. The study focuses upon the way in which Moore's work expresses his attitude toward the creation of fiction and thus toward his own activity as a novelist.
Katherine Tynan, by Marilyn Gaddis Rose
Katherine Tynan was the author of more than eighty titles, including poetry, fiction, and journal articles. In her work, she wrote to women, about women, and on behalf of women. In this monograph, Professor Rose examines Tynan's role as father's girl and hostess, as wife and mother who wrote for "hearth and home," and as determined widow who made writing her life.
Douglas Hyde, by Gareth W. Dunleavy
Douglas Hyde (1860-1949) was a poet-folklorist as well as the first president of modern Ireland. Hyde also served as president of the Gaelic League, an organization hoping to revive the Irish language. This monograph draws on his letters, manuscripts, and documents and his place in the Irish literary scene. Incorporating information gained from personal interviews done in 1970 and 1971 with men and women who knew Hyde, this work sheds new light on Hyde's birth, his early education, and his relationships at the peak of his literary career.
Edna O'Brien, by Grace Eckley
Edna O'Brien is the author of nine books, four successful screenplays, and numerous television plays and short stories. This volume traces the development of the novelist through her background in Country Clare, Ireland, and removal to Dublin and hence to England. Dr. Eckley investigates, through the novels and short stories, dominant motifs of the search for and disillusionment with romantic love, the acquisition of independence and accompanying loneliness, and the inhibiting Irish parochial attitudes that conflict with self-development.
Charles Robert Maturin, by Robert E. Lougy
This volume discusses the career of Charles Robert Maturin (1780-1824), the author of six novels and three published plays; yet, he is remembered today only for the novel Melmoth the Wanderer. Throughout his writings, and especially in The Wild Irish Boy and in The Milesian Chief, he not only wrestled with the problem of Ireland's identity but also tried to educate his reading audience in Ireland's history.
George Fitzmaurice, by Arthur E. McGuinness
This volume discusses the career of George Fitzmaurice (1877-1963), author of seventeen plays and one of the Irish theater's most significant folk-dramatists. Fitzmaurice's best plays are his folk-plays and fantasies, plays like The Magic Glasses and The Dandy Dolls. In these plays he creates an unforgettable picture of the Irish countryman and the domestic, social, and supernatural forces that shape him.
William Allingham, by Alan Warner
William Allingham (1824-1889) is noted for his achievements in three fields: his long narrative poem on the Irish land troubles of the eighteen-sixties, his success as a lyric poet and writer of ballads and songs, and his prose that shows real powers of observation, imagination, and reflection.
Seamus Heaney, by Robert Buttel
Seamus Heaney, poet, playwright, and author, is a leading figure in the recent surge of poetry from northern Ireland. Heaney spent his youth on a farm in County Derry before attending Queens University, Belfast. His poetry is distinctly Irish in its concerns, and combines the earthy vigor of his rural origin with the literary sophistication of the Irish and English poetic traditions. Professor Saul treats Heaney's three volumes of poetry, and, along with its rich quotations from the poems, provides a perceptive analysis of this poet's art and development.
Patrick Kavanagh, by Darcy O'Brien
Patrick Kavanagh, a controversial figure who involved himself in social and political issues of his day, was a poet and novelist of astonishing vitality and power. His greatest achievements are the poem The Great Hunger (1942) and a number of beautiful lyrics. Kavanagh established himself as an individual writer concerned with his own perceptions about his life, his country, and the universe.
Iris Murdoch, by Donna Gerstenberger
Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin not long after the Easter Rising. Her work, influenced by her family life, early schooling at Badminton, employment with UNESCO, training at Oxford and Cambridge, and her interest in modern continental philosophers, is not especially definable as Irish. In fact, the main roots of Murdoch's fiction seem to be English, though the recurrence of Irish characters in her novels and her extensive treatment of Easter Rising in The Red and the Green make explicit a persistent consciousness of Ireland as a force in her fictional world.
Mary Lavin, by Zack Bowen
This volume includes a biographical account gleaned largely from the author's interviews with Mary Lavin and her husband, an interpretation of her vision as reflected in her themes, and an analysis of her style and outlook drawn from her short stories and novels. In her own statement, Mary Lavin alludes to the most striking characteristic of her work-her intensely personal and autobiographical approach to the art of fiction.
John Montague, by Frank Kersnowski
This monograph discusses John Montague's work-a volume of fiction, Death of a Chieftain and Other Stories, and several volumes of poetry-which examine the family, the community, and the experiences that shaped his character. Ireland is important to him as both man and writer; legend, archaeology, history, and contemporary life all concern him, their details becoming manifestations of patterns that are universal and mythic for him.
Elizabeth Bowen, by Edwin J. Kenney
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) was one of the few truly accomplished Irish women novelists and one of the most distinguished writers of her time. This study relates Miss Bowen's Anglo-Irish heritage and childhood experiences, as described in Seven Winters, Bowen's Court, and The Shelbourne Hotel, to her fascination with problems of identity in such major novels as The Death of the Heart, The Heat of the Day, The Little Girls, and Eva Trout.
George Russell (A.E.), by Richard M. Kain and James H. O'Brien
George William Russel (A.E.) (1867-1935) was the central presence of the Irish Revival. This volume treats in detail the life of this versatile and practical mystic who out of his visions constructed his poems, paintings, philosophy, and his ambition to work for the spiritual regeneration of Ireland.
Frank O'Connor, by James H. Matthews
Michael O'Donovan (1903-1966) was a rebel, born in the slums of Cork, a school dropout at 14, a member of the IRA who took his stand with the Republicans during the Civil War. He also taught Irish in rural schools, directed a theater group in Cork, served as a librarian, and managed the famous Abbey Theatre. Under the name Frank O'Connor, O'Donovan wrote two novels, a book of poetry, translations, three plays, a biography, and many short stories.
Oliver St. John Gogarty, by J.B. Lyons
Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878-1957), a doctor specializing in Ear-Nose-Throat surgery, was also an acclaimed poet. Though he took as models the Greek and Latin classics and the English Elizabethans, he was very much a national poet as he succeeded in wedding the ancient Mediterranean myths with those of ancient Ireland. Gogarty also produced numerous plays and works of prose.
Thomas Davis, by Eileen Sullivan
Thomas Davis (1814-1845) is generally known as a nationalist writer and a journalist who wrote poems, songs, ballads and essays for The Nation, a newspaper he founded with Charles Gavan Duffy and John Blake Dillon. With a poet's soul, he sought to play the role of nation builder, and often used the newspaper to communicate his ideas.


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1. Re: Monitor profile is defectivessprengel Feb 11, 2012 10:46 AM (in response to Tafflad)
Before you delete the profile, click the Add button at the lower-left and scroll down a little ways choose the one with Name: sRGB IEC6196602.1, Filename: sRGB Color Space Profile.icm
Then delete the Samsung profile and select the sRGB profile and set it as the default.
2. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveNoel Carboni Feb 11, 2012 11:21 AM (in response to ssprengel)1 person found this helpful
Actually, just make the sRGB IEC61966-2.1 profile the (default) using the OS color-management dialog and you don't need to delete anything.
And yep, monitor profiles are often defective. It's a real wonder that monitor companies don't know more about this - what an embarrassment to release such a profile!
3. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveTafflad Feb 11, 2012 11:30 AM (in response to Tafflad)
Guys ... it worked ....
Do you know why the Samsung profile does not work ? ....just an eductaion thing for me?
I even downloaded latest version, it installed , and even detected correct GPU etc.
4. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveNoel Carboni Feb 11, 2012 11:45 AM (in response to Tafflad)
A color profile can be quite complex. There's a good chance Samsung either crafted the profile with software that a) didn't generate a properly formatted or populated profile or b) created a profile using the very latest new standards, which your Adobe software does not yet know fully how to deal with.
It's a bit surprising that Samsung would not have tested it with Adobe Photoshop, however. That's pretty much THE preeminent color-managed application.
Would you be willing to send me a copy of the profile, or post the link from which you retrieved it? Edit: I've just been over to the Samsung.com web site to try to get a copy of that profile and it's maddening! They really need to get their act together regarding how to design a web site. I was unsuccessful.
5. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveTafflad Feb 11, 2012 12:10 PM (in response to Noel Carboni)
happy to send copy of profile .. I agree not easy to find the download file took a while ..
I have loaded it at this link.
6. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveNoel Carboni Feb 11, 2012 12:38 PM (in response to Tafflad)1 person found this helpful
Thank you. I was able to get the SM226CW.icm file out of that. I like to collect questionable profiles to test my own software with.
On examination, the Samsung profile doesn't appear corrupt, per se, though it does seem to be missing the CMM type field (it's blank; all the profiles I recall say ADBE, or APPL, or Lino, etc.). The curves also appear to have a gamma of 1.45, which is pretty low.
Perhaps Adobe is picking up on these irregularities. Note that Photoshop gives you the opportunity to use it anyway.
I'm happy that when the "use anyway" option is chosen, my own color-managed software performs identically to Adobe's, so the content is interpretable after a fashion.
Since this profile seems pretty different than the standard sRGB profile provided with Windows, and if color accuracy is important to you, you might want to consider getting a measurement device which can calibrate/profile your display. On the other hand, if consistency amongst the various apps you use on the display is most important to you, the use of the sRGB profile for the monitor may be a good way to go.
Thanks again.
7. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveTafflad Feb 11, 2012 1:07 PM (in response to Noel Carboni)
I have also raised a tkt with Samsung ... I'll update this is they advise anything.
8. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveChris Cox Feb 11, 2012 2:11 PM (in response to Noel Carboni)
More likely the matrix is non-invertable or doesn't match the white point, the white point not D50, etc.
ACE does a lot of error checking on profiles, because we've seen so many that ignore the spec.
9. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveNoel Carboni Feb 11, 2012 2:18 PM (in response to Chris Cox)
Yeah, it's not too new... This profile is dated 2007.
Funny thing is Samsung knows about this - a search for the error leads one to their site, among others.
10. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveTafflad Feb 11, 2012 2:41 PM (in response to Noel Carboni)
Should I use the Samsung Profile, and choose ignore at the error ?
Or use the profile mentioned above.
Can I change or adapt either to get a correct profile.
Before I posted here I Googled and a few sites had fixes using Adobe Gamma?
But that is not installed as part of CS 5.5
11. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveNoel Carboni Feb 11, 2012 3:10 PM (in response to Tafflad)
I personally wouldn't want to use a profile that caused the software to emit an error every time.
How would you rate the relative importance of these things (i.e., if you couldn't have both, which would you prefer)?
- Having Photoshop display things on your monitor that are showing correct color, so that you can send an image off (e.g., to a printer or for display on the web) and have the color come out as expected.
- Having Photoshop's display of colors match what you see in most other applications on your system. What you see in one app more often looks like what you see in another app.
Depending on your monitor, because of the current state of the art these are actually mutually exclusive.
Unfortunately, the decision on how to set one's system up for color-management has to be a personal one. Only you can know what your image editing needs are, what color spaces you prefer to work in, and how you want your graphics work with color-management to fit in with the rest of the things you do with your computer.
One easy answer is to purchase a color measurement device and use it to create your own custom calibration and profile. Yes, that costs money.
12. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveTafflad Feb 11, 2012 3:31 PM (in response to Noel Carboni)
This probably explains why all pictures viewed with standard W7 pic viewer had a white balance error.
Whites were decidedly off.
13. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveNoel Carboni Feb 11, 2012 3:36 PM (in response to Tafflad)
When I tried your profile all the whites turned orange.
14. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveTafflad Feb 11, 2012 3:53 PM (in response to Noel Carboni)
Threat is what I see, a if someone has used a warm filter.
So for now I'll use the'new' profile, and wait to see what Samsung respond with.
If there is any additional 'tech'explanation of what is wrong with profile, please feel free to tell me, I'll add it to Samsung tkt.
15. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveHudechrome Feb 11, 2012 8:17 PM (in response to Tafflad)
Have you actually tried to use a calibrator like i1 pro to calibrate/profile the monitor?
16. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveEhemaliger Kunde Feb 12, 2012 12:09 AM (in response to Tafflad)
The canned monitor profile provided by Samsung may have been defective from the beginning, or the corresponding file may have become corrupted over time, or (less likely) some hardware component(s) may have broken down in the electronic circuitry of the monitor itself. Can you use some kind of eyeball calibrator that may be available for Windows until you procure a hardware calibrator puck?
17. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveTafflad Feb 12, 2012 2:30 AM (in response to Hudechrome)
No... I assume this is a hardware device.
18. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveD Fosse Feb 12, 2012 3:13 AM (in response to Tafflad)
I googled SM226CW and came up with a model that appears to be wide gamut.
In that case you shouldn't use sRGB as replacement for the Samsung profile - Adobe RGB would be a closer match.
But with wide gamut monitors you buy into a different paradigm (so to speak) than the traditional one. The only sensible thing is really to use a calibrator, use color managed applications whenever possible, and ignore what you see in those that aren't (because it just won't be right no matter what).
19. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveTafflad Feb 12, 2012 3:26 AM (in response to D Fosse)
A few years back on different ver of Photoshop (and different monitor ) I used Adobe Gamma to set the profile ... are there any free utilities that will allow that, as Adobe gamma no longer installed with CS.
I'll admit I don't even know what wide Gamut means
The manual for the monitor is attached - if that provides any information that may help... it is connected via digital DVi connection ... when you install driver it asks which you want .. analogue or digital.
Samsung have now responded to ticket .. "profile must be corrupt, please download new version from website" which is what I have already done.
20. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveD Fosse Feb 12, 2012 4:01 AM (in response to Tafflad)
The type of connection (DVI or VGA) has no bearing on this.
Wide gamut means the monitor can reproduce a wider range of colors - more saturated - than a standard gamut monitor. The difference is similar to the difference between the sRGB and Adobe RGB color spaces.
Here's one way to illustrate it:
A monitor profile will take this into account and remap the colors accordingly so that colors that fit into the display gamut will display correctly in either case. Colors that are outside the display gamut will be "clipped" to the gamut boundary. But if you use the wrong profile this remapping breaks down, and things will appear either over- or undersaturated.
Does this make any sense?
21. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveD Fosse Feb 12, 2012 5:18 AM (in response to Tafflad)
As for software calibrators similar to Adobe Gamma, there is this: http://calibrize.com/
But you would have to start by pinning down the RGB primaries, which these solutions won't do for you. Adobe RGB won't be far off, so if you make the profile based on that it should work reasonably well.
Still, it's a halfway solution. I'd like to repeat what I wrote above for emphasis: Wide gamut monitors introduce a whole new playing field. A lot of things one could previously take for granted are no longer valid. A calibrator should really be included in the deal (which it usually is for the more high-end units).
22. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveTafflad Feb 12, 2012 6:32 AM (in response to D Fosse)
Thanks for that.
I don't have a calibration device, I'll download the s/w one mentioned,
23. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveHudechrome Feb 12, 2012 8:49 AM (in response to D Fosse)
This is crazy making, for me, anyway. What you are saying is that, lacking a proper calibration procedure which ignores the color space in which you work to correctly map the test color to the output of the monitor, one simply employs the color space of your choice. Well, let me tell you that even in a calibrated environment the results may still not be right if the job done is not correct.
A case in point:
I decided to re-calibrate my new Dell. Since I had run, several times, the Advanced procedure, using the i1colorimeter with X-Rite software and found the results consistent, I was satisfied that the procedure was correct. Prints matched beautifully, except those whose gamut range exceeded the gamut range of the monitor, which were very rare. So this time, I decided to use the Easy version. After all, my calibration points were set manually the lat time in Advanced, and Easy does not allow for resetting those.
When I finished and did the before/after check, there was a noticeable shift. Hmmm. So the monitor drifts. Crap! I ran the Monitor validator. Average dE was 0.36. Good. But wait! the Average last time was almost identical, 0.4. Why am I seeing this shift?
So I went back and did it again, this time using Advanced, but, like in the Easy run, I did not touch any of the manual adjustments. When I finished, again the before/after showed a shift but the shift was back to the original calibration a month ago. Average about 0.45.
Well, I knew without even looking what the problem was. Easy did not hold to the tolerances that Advanced did, and when I examined the shifts from target values to actual, for each of the colors employed, I found several colors that were out significantly from their target values, some between 1 and 2. Further, these same colors were off in both Easy and Advanced, but were far closer in the Advanced run; none over dE 0.9 and the cluster around the average value was tighter.
I did a substitution of last month's profile against the current. The image showed the barest shift, almost unnoticeable between the two profiles.
I was much relieved.
Simply put, I cannot see or agree to the notion that you can substitute a color space for the calibration profile and achieve accuracy. I t might work if the monitor had no errors at all; then you are simply limiting the output of the monitor to that of the color space, assuming the monitor will reproduce it.
In short, if the colors aren't right, you are not correctly profiled. Profile the instrument with a calibration device, then set the color space in the app, if allowed, as it is in Photoshop.
One final note, and that is about those colors that are significantly above the average. If you look at a specific patch, it comes with a set of L*A*B values, and the chart shows the variation from those values that constitutes the error for the corrected output.
That error is also an average, quantifying the individual L*A*B error as an average. However, it is possible to have a consistent dE value for that color, yet the actual color be very different, if the numbers are different. From this I conclude that what I see is the relationship between the colors themselves having as much to do with what the eye sees as the error (too red etc) as the dE value itself. Applying a color space will not fix that.
24. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveNoel Carboni Feb 12, 2012 10:35 AM (in response to Hudechrome)
In short, if the colors aren't right, you are not correctly profiled.
Therein lies the problem, Lawrence.
Not only do tolerances figure here - for one person, it might be good enough that "red" is subtantially reddish, while for another measurements in excess of 0.4 with an accurate colorimeter are unacceptable. Consumers of imagery may have different tolerance for error than producers of imagery. Thus there is no one definition of "right". Some monitors can't even be made "right" at all positions on the same display.
BUT... Even image producers can vary in their requirements. Simply put, not everyone has the same needs and goals.
For one person, having prints match Photoshop display is paramount, while for another having color-managed apps most often match non-color-managed apps may be more important. It kind of depends on what you do and what you need.
I'm not saying anyone's wrong or right here - just the opposite: We should not be using the terms "wrong" or "right" or "correct". Trying to determine the "best approach for the stated goals" might be a better way to discuss color-management. For that we need to get people to state goals.
In the end, education is the key: Virtually everyone who finally "groks" color-management - and it's not really that difficult to understand fully - can make the best decisions about settings and methods for them.
Waiting is.
25. Re: Monitor profile is defectivePECourtejoie Feb 12, 2012 10:06 AM (in response to Tafflad)
I've seen several similar threads on feedback. It seems that Windows pushes monitors profiles, and most of them are rejected by Photoshop/elements.
26. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveTafflad Feb 12, 2012 11:09 AM (in response to Tafflad)
Guys ... I'm pretty new to all this side of things.
I don't have hardware color comparator.
I had swapped to using sRGB Color Space Profile.icm on the response above.
Following posts suggets using ADOBE RGB ... I just went and tooka look tahere are 2 ADOBE profiles
ADOBE RGB (1998) and
ADOBE RGB (1998) D65 NP 2.2 gamma
Which of these should I swap to using. ?
The monitor was supplied with "Samsung Color Pro - Color Management system" on a CD, but I have not used that.
27. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveD Fosse Feb 12, 2012 11:30 AM (in response to Hudechrome)
Hudechrome wrote
Let's not overcomplicate this.
The main point I was trying to make re calibration and wide gamut monitors, is that you don't have an immediate reference for the colors if you're inexperienced. It's like free fall, there's nothing to hold on to. All the basic stuff that with a standard gamut monitor displays more or less right, is suddenly wrong.
A calibrator gives you that reference. But you need one more thing: you need to know that with that monitor only color managed material will look right. Anything that is not will simply be wrong and there's nothing to do about it. This is why these monitors aren't for everyone.
So who needs to calibrate? I think it depends on what environment you're in, and what your end product is.
If you're in a production chain where you rely on others and others rely on you, there's really no choice. You just have to be on the same page as everybody else; if you're not the whole production line stops dead. Wasted time and money.
If you control the whole process yourself things are different. As long as the end product, like a print, comes out right, it doesn't really matter how you got there.
If you work for web or other types of networking, you're somewhere in between, but mostly because it's uncontrollable anyway. When color management becomes mainstream on the web, standards inevitably tighten.
28. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveD Fosse Feb 12, 2012 11:39 AM (in response to Tafflad)
Tafflad, in your situation I would try Calibrize, but make sure you start with Adobe RGB. Use the plain one, I've no idea where the other one comes from.
And also keep in mind what I wrote above: anything that is not color managed, like Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer, will be over-saturated and wrong on that monitor. But Photoshop will display correctly.
One alternative approach is to look for the monitor's sRGB preset in the OSD menus. This will effectively turn it into a standard gamut monitor, and will solve some of the more immediate problems, and will also allow you to use sRGB as the monitor profile.
29. Re: Monitor profile is defectivePECourtejoie Feb 12, 2012 11:46 AM (in response to Tafflad)
Keep in mind that if Adobe Gamma was retired, it was because it could also create bad corrections, as our eyes "lie" a lot (they adapt to the surrounding conditions).
Make sure you have a very neutral lighting in the room, have a neutral grey surrounding for your image. Some use a hood, other create black cardboard frame around your monitor.
If you are on windows, use the old user interface (windows classic) with grey title bars. On a Mac, prefer the graphite theme.
A Hardware calibrator analyses only the pixels they see, and are not tricked as our eyes can be.
30. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveHudechrome Feb 12, 2012 12:39 PM (in response to D Fosse)
Actually, I'm trying to uncomplicate it by insisting on calibration first, and offering reasons why.
Look, I have long experience with calibration issues, from nuclear physics audio to primary instrumentation, even electron microscopes. One gets into trouble, no matter your needs, if the devices are not calibrated and traceable.
Pierre's comment about Adobe Gamma hits it squarely. It is the reason I invested in hardware calibration in the first place. A few days pulling my hair out sent me to my supplier where I plunked down $250 (in around 2001) and never looked back.
31. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveD Fosse Feb 12, 2012 2:04 PM (in response to Hudechrome)
Hudechrome wrote:
Actually, I'm trying to uncomplicate it by insisting on calibration first, and offering reasons why.
Yes, that's a good approach
This should put it all in perspective: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_constancy
Looking at the monitor you essentially have no context to judge color by, and that's when color constancy kicks in: a fresh green apple will look fresh green even under a strong overall color cast. Put that image on a white piece of paper, however, and the apple is suddenly not so tempting. Color constancy is broken with the context.
This is why we use calibrators. They don't suffer from color constancy. It doesn't really matter if they're not perfect, they still perform much better than the eye and brain do, even under the most favorable circumstances.
32. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveD Fosse Feb 12, 2012 2:17 PM (in response to D Fosse)
Incidentally, this is why camera calibration is a totally different meal than monitor calibration. The mechanism works in reverse.
33. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveLundberg02 Feb 12, 2012 2:21 PM (in response to D Fosse)
Hudechrome made this point (at length): You can't use a device independent color space profile as the profile of a device (for ******* 's sake). The whole purpose of profiles is to NOT DO THAT.
Read. Understand. See.
34. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveLundberg02 Feb 12, 2012 2:32 PM (in response to Lundberg02)
colorwiki.com Please go there before you post again, Tafflad.
35. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveD Fosse Feb 12, 2012 2:41 PM (in response to Lundberg02)
Lundberg: Dont "for ******* 's sake" me.
And don't "Read. Understand. See" me.
I know perfectly well how this stuff works. I know perfectly well what happens when you use this type of profile for that and vice versa. It's so basic I didn't even comment on it.
I'm trying to be pragmatic in a situation where the OP does not have and is at present not able to get a calibrator. I'm just trying to keep him floating in the meantime.
36. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveNoel Carboni Feb 12, 2012 3:29 PM (in response to Lundberg02)
Lundberg02, please try not to make this discussion of color-management confrontational, and understand that what you might feel is wrong in your world view (and given your needs) might not be wrong for everyone. As I said before, there is no "wrong", there are only intelligent choices.
I can easily cite reasons why using a document profile for a monitor can be useful and even preferable under some conditions, but I won't. That's not the point. It's unhelpful, in color-management discussions, to tell people what to go do, as though your way is the only way. You have to understand that there is not just one right way to do things, which is why we have configuration options we can all change.
Color-management discussions, for some reason, are prone to degeneration into conflict. Let's not have that happen here, okay? It's a complex subject, when you factor in individuals' needs, and everyone has good things to contribute.
Understand that D Fosse could teach university courses on the subject. He knows his stuff and his advice has been perfectly sound here.
37. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveLundberg02 Feb 12, 2012 4:11 PM (in response to Noel Carboni)
I was not talking to D Fosse and he does know his stuff. Tafflad needs to get the picture. We go on at length here when an OP doesn't know color management basics. Calibrate, calibrate, calibrate are the first three rules.
38. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveNoel Carboni Feb 12, 2012 4:20 PM (in response to Lundberg02)
Rules? LOL
We agree encouraging understanding is best, but throwing out advice as "rules" is a bit strong. You don't know Tafflad's color needs and you're already talking about rules.
Oh, and it does matter whose [Reply] button you push.
39. Re: Monitor profile is defectiveD Fosse Feb 12, 2012 4:27 PM (in response to Noel Carboni)
Yeah, I know the practical side of it, how it behaves, but I have no clue about the rocket science behind it . That's more up your alley. Luckily, the functional concepts are beautifully simple and logical. Anyway, I'm flattered.
I still don't understand why color management discussions are so inflammable. They always tend to get the blood pressure up - yes, mine too, I'm no better. As witnessed above. I promise to behave


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Help me fix the table! He is succeeded by Archbishop +Seraphim of Ottowa and Canada. I'm sleepy now so I didn't finish the update. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Authiodionitist (talk • contribs) .
- It looks like he never actually served as the OCA Archbishop of Ottawa, but received that title in retirement as he changed jurisdictions. I'm a little confused, but tried to get the gist of things into the succession box. I'm not sure that he should have a succession box for that title, as he wasn't really part of the succession of bishops to carry it actively... —magda (talk) 17:07, September 11, 2007 (PDT)
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I've made some changes to the text at the request of Archbp. Lazar's secretary. We need better documentation on this various jurisdictions. I'm afraid the repeated use of the word "schismatic" does not do justice to the complicated history of these groups due especially to Communism. Additionally, I've seen no evidence of deposition from any of these groups. It is unfair to make this disputed claim without adequate documentation here. — FrJohn (talk) 17:36, December 21, 2007 (PST)
- The free serbs did not separate from the Serbian Patriarch until the 70's, and so communism was not the primary issue. They were also not recognized by anyone as being anything other than schismatic. I'll see what I can find about the depositions... but did Lazar's secretary have any evidence that he was released by the Free Serbs? That should be fairly easy for them to prove, if true. Frjohnwhiteford 18:32, December 21, 2007 (PST)
- I didn't push for documentation. Let's go with "innocent until proven guilty" here. Better to assume the best of people. About the Free Serbs, aren't they now the New Gracianica diocese and in full communion with the Patriarchate? If so, it would seem, at least, that a fuller discussion is needed and that the situation is more complex than straightforward schism, no? — FrJohn (talk)
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Investors don't seem to be losing much sleep over the unfolding of yet another lackluster earnings season. Steven Russolillo has details on MoneyBeat. Photo: Facebook.
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... ay ay mm mm ... Jones Industrial Average getting off to a slow start will you read start your Monday morning ... after Friday another rally into debt of thirty five ... was down a little more than sixty earlier the Nasdaq down also all the major indexes ... are starting off the week in the red not so ... severely in the red investors don't seem to be losing much sleep over earnings season which continues on and talk about it here on the market MoneyBeat show ... I'm Paul vignette to him but Steve Russolillo ... euro to earnings for your money your morning MoneyBeat yes here on Monday morning email goes out ... next ... to the head to head match for the president get my sewing net earnings ... there are not particularly strong sectors of the market doesn't seem to care ... was going up market share though it's often driven right now that's really the big takeaway is that gets this earnings season has been lackluster but ... really if you just look at how the markets react people don't really care that's the five hundred was up five percent last month that some twenty percent for the year above seventeen hundred are now trade around record territory ... saying makes you wonder why is the market doing so well ... and earnings really aren't and so I'm basically that the takeaway is that ... is the Fed driven rally rate now it has been for quite some time and will continue to be an ... insulin is a ... good profit growth in second-quarter odd and end up less than five forgets about foreigner half percent or so the revenue growth doesn't look good idea ... on basically flat with a quarter ago ... you look at a quarter over quarter on quarter to the trajectory is deftly slow ... the other chains in the you bring up though is that even companies that myths are not being so severely punished exactly guess Missouri wrote about my comes as we look that companies that had five percent swing either up or down after their earnings from Winston so ... if the company did well had a five percent move up ... that about for the fourteen percent of these that have reported ... that stocks that have moved more than five percent upside that's roughly in line with previous the ... average is that we've seen over the past four years nothing new there ... but on the other side ... investors are not punishing companies that are doing not doing so well on the earnings front so the numbers about nine percent of companies overall ... I have seen their stock prices drop by more than five percent after earnings report ... that nine percent number is the lowest number since two thousand I it's amazing to take away from that is ... in difficulty doesn't do so great the market is saying this one is cutting getting a pass for now to saying and you know ... it's ok for now the thing and then NFF so this is a great quarter to take it is a great way to get excited and that that's the big simply because it you are to have sort of like the kitchen sink were just a bad quarter whatever ... your stock may not be hurt as much and so we look to some of the covers of the remains ... at sea where some of earlier three names that have done very well ... Facebook is one of them obviously the size of had a really geeky looking at ... the chart that that that the lovely straight up ... that was after hearing stock was up thirty percent ... back to the IPO price on Friday it finally closed over and was a four hundred and forty days later were forty days later tests ... and so the good news quite a long time to come back to break-even so yeah for four days of Facebook ... so then is that we look that way guilt and Under Armour of both of them at the same said the similar stories are the reason very well ... and investors rewarded those and so ... the the the examples of companies that don't well and Cyprus the big moves the upside ... so ... you know it's been a it's it's been one of those times that people go on to this earnings season you know it's been sort of mixed but it's all good but people are not solely a reading of the local earnings season is as old as the seller has gone on this week ... still a big names over a ballot to third a little more than two-thirds of the leads on with earnings season so we have in of this week is can be said of the rest of the big names that are to come ... green Mountain is one that's reporting after the vine before Cervantes has a momentum stock yet Tesla reports this week as well as SolarCity one ... on the Comcast nominal outlining a lot


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DENVER—Michael Cuddyer has extended his hitting streak to 27 games with an RBI single in the eighth inning Sunday of the Colorado Rockies' game against the San Francisco Giants.
He hit a 2-1 pitch from Sandy Rosario up the middle, and later scored on a double by Willin Rosario.
Cuddyer's streak is the longest in Rockies' history and in the majors this season. He has reached base safely in a franchise-record 46 straight games.


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Blindness looms, but life full for Ledyard girl
One week before the spring recital, seven young ballerinas stand in formation, awaiting their cue.
In the back, Sofia Priebe - at 4 feet, 8 inches - is the second-tallest girl in her class at Mystic Ballet. Where the others stare measuredly ahead, doe-eyed, Sofia squints in the 5:30 p.m. light reflecting dimly off the mirrored wall at the back of the studio.
Their instructor presses "play" and the first string swells of the waltz ring out. The girls leap forward, row by row. Sofia moves last, as gracefully as can be expected of a 10-year-old swathed in taffeta. When her downbeat arrives, she nods her head slightly, moves her outstretched arms stiffly downward in one short pulse, and she's off.
Four minutes and 50 seconds of prim three-quarter time later, Sofia finishes, chin up, arms over her head, fingertips centimeters apart.
She's been practicing ballet for six years now. She is legally blind.
At age 4, Sofia was diagnosed with Leber's congenital amaurosis, a rare genetic disorder that occurs in just 3 out of 100,000 births, according to the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. In its most basic explanation, the eye's photo receptor cells, the so-called cones and rods that detect light and color, deteriorate over time. Eventually, they stop working.
While many LCA babies are born completely blind, Sofia can make out shadows, shapes and some detail up close, though her peripheral vision is next to none. Her depth perception is faint. Colors have faded over the years. Dim light makes it easier; too much light washes everything out, sometimes painfully so.
"If it's a bright light," says her father, Charles Priebe, "or if it's a bright, sunny day, she's lost."
Sofia's eyesight dropped off drastically between the ages of 2 and 4. While for years she has plateaued, her colors have been going. Darker colors especially - reds and browns, Sofia says - muddy together.
"When she was first diagnosed at 4, we were told the best we could expect was that she'd have some perception of light through the end of high school," says Laura Manfre, her mother.
That prognosis has varied since. It could be the end of high school; it could be her late 20s or 30s. One day, Sofia will be completely blind. It's just a question of when.
Sofia was born on Valentine's Day - 8 pounds, healthy, a headful of hair - in 2003 just outside of Atlanta, 2½ hours northwest of where her parents met while working for Habitat for Humanity International.
Her disability revealed itself incrementally, in symptoms often easily chalked up to a toddler's clumsiness.
At her day care program, when the staff would dole out palmfuls of Cheerios, Sofia would pat her hand around aimlessly, unsure of where to grab. Toddling down the stairs, she'd miss a step or two. And crawling over the carpet, where the fabric ended and the floor began, Sofia would pause, unsure whether the color change meant the edge of the carpet or the edge of the ground, nowhere to go.
Her parents figured she was nearsighted and bought her a pair of tiny white-rimmed glasses.
Then the strabismus began, one of her eyes lolling inward. And finally, the nystagmus - the rapid, involuntary oscillating of her eyes, pupils flitting fast, left to right and back.
"It was always a series of different things that then sort of added up," Laura says.
When the doorbell to her family's house on Chriswood Trace in Ledyard rings one evening, Sofia is the first one to answer. She tilts her face upward into the fading sunlight, squeezing her lids shut.
When she opens them again, there is nothing cloudy about her bright brown eyes, nothing to suggest they are anything but functional. Her shoulder-length hair is brown and wavy, center-parted, tucked behind her ears. Her blue nail polish is chipped, her hands stained with red marker from an earlier art project.
She takes the stairs two at a time, just grazing the banister with her left hand. In jeans, threadbare at the knee, and a blue T-shirt, she makes her way up to give a tour of her room, one that speaks of a 10-year-old beginning to outgrow a childhood of floral-patterned dresses.
On her desk, there's a heap of Legos with which she and her brothers build houses, and a closed-circuit television that resembles an old-school computer monitor. Using its magnifying lens, Sofia can curl up in her chair, press some buttons to get the right light saturation, put her face up close to the screen and read her books.
In here, her mother has to fight the urge to flip on the light switch. Sofia doesn't do well with the quick transition from dark to light.
Sofia's parents first took her to have her eyes tested just before she turned 2. An ophthalmologist in Atlanta slipped a patch over one of her eyes, to no response. But when he patched the other, Sofia - normally an easygoing baby, Laura says, the kind who sleeps through the night - suddenly began to scream and cry.
"And he looked at me and goes, 'Oh my gosh. I don't know how much she can see at all out of that eye,'" she says.
The family moved to Ledyard shortly thereafter, and Sofia saw several doctors in Connecticut. The diagnosis came after a referral to a specialist at Boston Children's Hospital, where an electroretinogram - like an EKG, but for the eye - showed that things weren't firing the way they should. The bloodflow to her eyes had ceased, the nerves deadened from disuse.
In Sofia's ballet class - save for the yellow "Mystic Ballet" decal ironed onto his track jacket - the instructor wears all black.
For those with 20/20 vision, the contrast between him and the pale pink walls is striking. To Sofia, it makes all the difference.
Ballet works for her, Laura says, because of the structure - strict positions and confines for Sofia to work within, voiced directions she can follow. The dark silhouette demonstrating at the front of the room helps, too.
Sofia takes several measures to amplify what eyesight she has, and uses a number of tools to work around it. She has sunglasses to wear outside at recess at Ledyard Center School, and a habit of breaking them. They buy cheap ones now.
At home, for writing, there's the Brailler, a heavy, silver typewriter contraption with noisy keys and the tinny brrring sound of the carriage return, its keys corresponding to the six-dot matrix of the Braille code.
On the higher-tech side, Sofia uses her closed-circuit TV or enlarges a TV screen or text with her iPad. But reading print is laborious. Each word must be magnified many times so Sofia may make it out, scrolling along one by one.
When her eyes are tired at the end of the day, she resorts to Braille to read her favorite books - fantasy, dragons and mythical creatures, Harry Potter.
When she grows up, she says, she wants to be an author.
The move from Atlanta to Connecticut when Sofia was 3 came when Charles got a job building Navy housing in Groton and Newport.
He was laid off in early 2008 when the construction industry crashed. Laura works for a mobile technology company in Rhode Island.
The job market has been tough, but they've chosen to stay in the area partly because of the state Bureau of Education and Services for the Blind, which has provided Sofia with a Braille teacher to work with her at school and with all the technology she uses at school and at home. A paraprofessional works with all of Sofia's teachers to make sure the materials are prepared in Braille, large print or an otherwise tactile way that allows her to participate.
More than 70 percent of blind people are unemployed, according to most sources. They are among the most educated of people with disabilities. They sit home and read or write, Laura says, but then they don't go out and get jobs.
Sofia won't be a part of that statistic, she says. "She's brilliant, and she'll do whatever she wants to do," she says.
Sofia doesn't own up to it outright. But sometimes something will set her off - a frustrating school assignment, a ballet step she can't master.
"She doesn't like to be different," Laura says. "She doesn't like to be told she can't do things."
The best time of day is dusk. The best place is around the house and in the yard, where the corners and furniture are familiar, and Sofia doesn't have to think much about what she might bump into or fall over.
Still, there are incidents. She's walked into trees; she's fallen down stairs. Three months back, she bruised her nose when an unseen door slammed in her face.
Sofia doesn't like to use her cane. Strangers will walk right up to her, Laura says, and just stare.
"People are rude," Charles says. "They are horribly rude."
Once, a group of chattering kids all quieted at once when Sofia walked up to pass through them - a gauntlet of cruel silence. It was indoors, the light low enough for her to register that all eyes were on her.
"She's definitely self-conscious, just like any other 10-year-old," Laura says.
The daily physical exchanges made while walking down a crowded hallway - those slight, almost unconscious shifts made to accommodate someone else's trajectory - are all lost on Sofia.
In these situations, the cane is a signal to others: Maybe move aside, maybe hold the door.
For the most part, people are kind. But acceptance and encouragement are one thing; understanding is another.
"She doesn't feel sorry for herself. So when other people feel sorry for her, I find it difficult," her mother says.
Last July, at an LCA conference, Sofia and her parents sat in a room full of blind people and their families. They were told that things are moving so quickly, every blind person in that room could expect to see someday.
For the last few years, Sofia's parents have searched for a genetic diagnosis to match the clinical one - the key to a cure.
Each clinical trial is associated with the specific gene culprit, so half the battle was determining which was causing Sofia's LCA. In 2008, she met the team responsible for the first successes at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
After a few years of unsuccessful testing, Sofia and her family got the preliminary results three months ago. The responsible gene was identified as IQCB1.
Sofia understands that, save participation in a successful clinical trial, her future is one without sight. She'd be fine with it, she says, as long as she has a seeing-eye dog.
And if she could see?
"That would be cool," she says hesitantly.
Now that she has her genetic answer, Sofia doesn't often ask why anymore. But there are the harder days when she's looking for a perhaps more philosophical explanation.
"I don't know why you have it. And we're not really sure what's going to happen, so we're just gonna prepare for you losing all your vision, but we're gonna hope that someday you won't. And meanwhile, you're doing great," Laura will say. "So who cares, right?"
Even if a cure were available today, Laura isn't sure Sofia would be interested. She's happy now, Laura says, exactly the way she is.
If you want to help
To donate to the Foundation for Retinal Research, visit sofia.kintera.org. Proceeds go to funding gene therapy research for LCA patients with Sofia's gene type, IQCB1.
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No injuries were reported, however the falling bricks crushed two vehicles parked along 79th Street at around 6:30 p.m. on Friday.
"It sounded like a big boom," said Gary Gonzalez, owner of a minivan parked next to the building that was pummeled in the collapse. "The building was shaking a little bit, but I didn't think it was nothing crazy so I left it like that."
Gonzalez later came out to find bricks strewn across the street and his van destroyed.
The owner of building at 78-19 Jamaica Ave. would not comment as he walked around the debris, assessing the damage with the Department of Buildings (DOB).
According to Assemblyman Mike Miller, the emergency exit to the neighboring Woodhaven-Richmond Hill Senior Center, located in the Woodhaven Richmond Hill Volunteer Ambulance Corps at 78-15 Jamaica Ave., was also compromised in the collapse and will have to be closed until neighboring building is secured and rubble is removed from the emergency exit.
"Bricks can still fall on people, so until they take care of that situation, the center is going to be closed," Miller said.
Miller explained the front 18 feet of the building that collapsed was not damaged, however the rest of the second floor has to be repaired. He added that only minor damage occurred at the senior center and Ambulance Corps.
"There was no structural damage. This building is fine," he said, walking out of the senior center with State Senator Joseph Addabbo and DOB representatives following an assessment of the site on Saturday. "The kitchen has a little water damage because there was water on the roof that caused it to collapse."
As for the vacant building now in need of repair, Addabbo said there is no structural damage to the front, however there are still roughly 30 violations that building's owner must address.
Addabbo recalled visiting the location several times over the last year since the building first became vacant to address structural concerns and rodent infestation problems.
"We were concerned about this, and it is the fact that it is attached to the senior center that raised our concerns," Addabbo said. "We can't get seniors back here until the demolition and the cleanup because their back entrance, the fire exit, is compromised by that."
In an effort to reopen the center as fast as possible, Addabbo said he is hopeful the repairs will be expedited.
"Now the idea is working with the owner here to work as quickly as possible to get the seniors back," he said. "You look at something like this and you could say that it might take four or five months, but it can't. We need to move this along."
The J-line subway and Q56 bus service, which had to be suspended, was resumed on Saturday morning.


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Michele and I are in the City of Angels for the birthday celebration of our dear friend Jude Weng (seen here during her days as a tiger trainer), the Executive Producer and Co-Founder of Brand New Entertainment.
If that name sound familiar, it's because BNE was the company I signed a deal with a few years ago to develop a series of unscripted food-related television shows. There have been no major deals yet, but those efforts are still being shopped around, so you never know.
The theme of the party is the "Fugly Prom." You all know what proms are, but just in case you don't know, "fugly" is a combination of the words "f*cking" and "ugly." The pictures should be something, so stay tuned for those! We'll be back in San Francisco, Sunday night.


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This will come as a shock to no one who has been paying attention. Glenn Greenwald reports that the Obama administration is seeking quick and uncontroversial passage of a bill extending the FISA amendments passed in 2008, a bill he originally promised to filibuster and then dutifully voted for.
Even though multiple federal judges eventually ruled the program illegal, that scandal generated no accountability of any kind for two reasons: (1) federal courts ultimately accepted the arguments of the Bush and Obama DOJs that the legality of Bush's domestic spying program should not be judicially reviewed; and (2) the Democratic-led Congress, in 2008, enacted the Bush-designed FISA Amendments Act, which not only retroactively immunized the nation's telecom giants for their illegal participation in that spying program and thus terminated pending lawsuits, but worse, also legalized the vast bulk of the Bush spying program by vesting vast new powers in the U.S. Government to eavesdrop without warrants (in his memoir, President Bush gleefully recounted that the 2008 eavesdropping bill supported by the Democrats gave him more than he ever expected).
It was then-Sen. Obama's vote in favor of the FISA Amendments Act that caused the first serious Election Year rift between him and his own supporters. Obama's vote in favor of the bill was so controversial for two independent reasons: (1) when he was seeking the Democratic nomination only a few months earlier and needed the support of the progressive base, Obama unequivocally vowed to filibuster "any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies," only to turn around once he had secured the nomination and not only vote against a filibuster of that bill but then vote in favor of the bill itself; and (2) the bill itself legalized vast new powers of warrantless eavesdropping: powers which the Democratic Party (and Obama) had spent years denouncing (as Yale Law Professor Jack Balkin put it at the time: "Through the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, Congress has legitimated many of the same things people are now complaining about"). When Obama announced his reversal, his defenders insisted he was only doing it so that he could win the election and then use his power as President to stop warrantless eavesdropping abuses, while Obama himself claimed he voted for the FISA bill "with the firm intention — once I'm sworn in as President — to have my Attorney General conduct a comprehensive review of all our surveillance programs, and to make further recommendations on any steps needed to preserve civil liberties and to prevent executive branch abuse in the future."
The only positive aspect of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 was that Congress imposed a four-year sunset provision on the new warrantless eavesdropping powers it authorized. That sunset provision is set to expire and — surprise, surprise — the Obama administration, just like it did for the Patriot Act, is demanding its full-scale renewal without a single change or reform.
And he offers some of the many reasons to object to it:
First, even Senators on the Intelligence Committee — such as Democrats Ron Wyden and Mark Udall — have made repeatedly clear that there are basic facts about how this law affects the communications of ordinary Americans which even they have not been provided, including even a rough estimate of how many Americans have had their emails read or calls listened to by the NSA under this law.
Second, the Director of National Intelligence, in response to the inquiries from those two Senators, has claimed that "it is not reasonably possible to identify the number of people located in the United States whose communications may have been reviewed under the authority of the [FISA Amendments Act]."Note that he cannot even identify the number of Americans whose communications have been actually "reviewed," not merely stored, by the NSA (The Washington Post previously reported that "every day, collection systems at the National Security Agency intercept and store 1.7 billion e-mails, phone calls and other types of communications"). How can Congress even think about renewing these warrantless eavesdropping powers when even the members on the Intelligence Committee are deprived of the most basic information about how they are used and how many Americans have their communications invaded without warrants? …Fourth, and perhaps worst of all, the Obama administration is aggressively seeking to block any efforts to have federal courts rule on the constitutionality of this new FISA law. Immediately after its 2008 passage, the ACLU, on behalf of journalists, activists, and writers, sued to invalidate the law on the ground that it violates the Fourth Amendment rights of Americans by subjecting them to warrantless eavesdropping. As they always do in such cases, the Bush and Obama DOJs demanded dismissal of the suit on the ground of "standing": namely, they asserted the definitively Kafkaesque claim that because the list of Americans who have their conversations intercepted is kept secret, the plaintiffs cannot prove they were eavesdropped on under the law, and thus lack "standing" to challenge it.
This warped argument — along with the "state secrets" privilege — is the one that the DOJ has most frequently invoked to place their War on Terror conduct beyond the reach of the rule of law. But in the ACLU lawsuit, something unusual happened: a federal appeals court panel refused to dismiss the ACLU's lawsuit on this ground, holding that the plaintiffs' reasonable fear that they would be subject to the warrantless eavesdropping powers conferred "standing" entitling them to challenge the law. The full Second Circuit Court of Appeals (by a 6-6 vote) refused to reverse that ruling, creating an important precedent that would allow citizens to challenge an unconstitutional law even when the Government's secrecy prevents them from proving that they were personally subjected to it (it was this Second Circuit precedent that a federal judge recently relied upon in ruling that various writers and journalists could challenge the constitutionality of the NDAA even though they were not yet indefinitely detained under it, and after finding standing on that basis, she then halted use of the NDAA's detention powers on the ground that it is likely unconstitutional).
But rather than let that ACLU standing precedent remain — and then proceed to defend the constitutionality of the 2008 eavesdropping law on the merits — the Obama DOJ urged the Supreme Court to review and overturn the Second Circuit's ruling. This week, the Supreme Court announced it was accepting this case for review, and many legal experts believe they would not have agreed to review the ACLU ruling unless they intended to overturn it. So as the Obama administration pressures Congress to renew this eavesdropping law without a single reform, they simultaneously act to block courts even from ruling whether the law is constitutional. And in the process, they threaten to obliterate one of the very few judicial precedents that results in government leaders being subjected to minimal accountability under the law for their secret behavior.
Fifth, the Obama administration has perfectly adopted the standard tactic used by Bush officials to coerce approval of any surveillance power they want and to smear anyone questioning those powers. Namely, they insist that the Terrorists will get us all if they do not get their way, and that anyone opposing their demands will have the blood of Americans on their hands. Recall Harry Reid's attacks on those urging reforms to the Patriot Act last year ("'When the clock strikes midnight tomorrow, we will be giving terrorists the opportunity to plot against our country undetected,' Reid said, referring to the law's expiration this week. 'The senator from Kentucky is threatening to take away the best tools we have for stopping them'"). Similarly, Holder and Clapper warn that rapid, reform-free extension of their eavesdropping powers is necessary "to avoid any interruption in our use of these authorities to protect the American people": because, apparently, just like Bush officials insisted, it's impossible to Keep America Safe if you first have to obtain warrants before eavesdropping on them.
Just more of the same.


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