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Beijing has hot humid summers and dry cold winters. September and October are the best months to visit and from March to mid-May.
- Don't miss the Forbidden City, built in the 15th century during the Ming dynasty. It's one of the largest palace complexes in the world and one of astonishing beauty and historical significance.
- Take a photo of yourself on the Great Wall of China. The Great Wall was built over many centuries by various emperors and leaders to protect China from invasions from the north. The best-preserved sections that you'll see in Beijing today were built during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644).
- Indulge yourself with a Chinese banquet and discover why Chinese is considered one of the world's greatest cuisines. Beijing is home to perhaps the most famous Chinese dish of all, Peking Duck. Don't leave without tasting it in its hometown!
- See some Peking Opera, the traditional form of theatre and one of the greatest accomplishments of Chinese culture. It combines song, dance, mime and acrobatics.
- Walk around the massive Temple of Heaven, built in 1420 by a Ming emperor to symbolise the relationship between heaven and earth. It is a World Heritage listed site set in lovely gardens.
- Linger in the spectacular gardens of the Summer Palace, first constructed in 1750 under the Qing dynasty as a luxurious royal garden.
- Discover how Beijing's residents used to live with a tour of the hutongs (narrow alleys) and siheyuan (courtyard houses).
- Shop in one of Beijing's fabulous markets – get designer knock offs on Silk Road or a pearl in Hongqiao Market.


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Emerging Leaders/New Librarians (close to being a target audience of the video) were asked to suggest edits and provide direction on how ACRL could edit the content as well as how those using the video might provide additional information as either a kickoff or "post" discussion. Specifically, preliminary content/discussion before the video is shown could include a discussion on identification or profile of the audience to provide context, and expanded specific examples of how librarians work with constituents such as the public, students, and faculty.
That being said, Emerging Leaders provided constructive criticism on both technical aspects and content that includes:
Need to increase production value. More "action" scenes of librarians working with students and faculty. Include data and statistics about the profession. The video needs better production values (note – the DVD version was shown which is somewhat higher quality than the web version). Furthermore, the online version (in RealPlayer format) is not compatible with all systems/browsers. Unsure of intended audience: Undecided undergraduates? Undecided MLIS students? High school students? The video seems geared more to those already in the profession than to those who haven't entered an MLIS program yet. Everyone seems too upbeat. Does not present any downsides or negatives (there might be something to be said for inviting those new to the profession who have concerns – there is a lot to be said for giving an open honest picture). Shift perspective from librarians talking about what they do to students discussing how academic librarians have fundamentally shaped their college experience. Determine the appropriate audience for a single recruitment video; or, more appropriately, create multiple videos for multiple audiences (i.e. graduate, undergraduate and high school). Make the video available in a variety of formats (Quicktime, Flash, Real, etc) and for a variety of connection speeds.
Additional video information on libraries, librarians and information in general can be found at:
Squidoo http://www.squidoo.com/librarytricks
Library Boy http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2008/04/more-library-video-tutorials-on-youtube.html
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Dr. Cary Gross is a Professor of Medicine, and Director of the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale. Dr. Gross completed his residency in Internal Medicine at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and served as chief medical resident at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center the following year.His research addresses comparative effectiveness, quality, and population health, with a focus on cancer prevention and treatment. He is a founding Director of Yale's Cancer Outcomes Public Policy and Effectiveness Research Center (COPPER). His research has been supported by the National Cancer Institute, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the American Cancer Society, among others. As a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar, Dr. Gross has advanced training in biostatistics, epidemiology, research ethics, and outcomes research.
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Mid-Career Research Mentorship AwardSociety of General Internal Medicine (2012)
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Since the San Diego Audubon Society took the reins on the festival in 2005, the event has more than doubled in number of participants because of its popularity.
"Our Family Free Day will be in its second year, and we are expecting upward of 200 additional visitors on Sunday, March 3," he said. "We sold out nearly every birding trip in January, so there is clearly room for the San Diego Bird Festival to expand."
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Cindy Humiston never imagined the changes in store for her and husband, Mike, until after he had triple bypass surgery in 2008 and they both began a regimen of healthy eating and regular exercise.
"I was known as a bookworm while growing up," said Humiston.
Exercise and sports were not part of her lifestyle.
Her husband's surgery was a wake-up call and the beginning of a journey into triathlon training for Humiston that began simply with walking regularly with her husband. As winter turned to spring that year, the couple began biking together and Humiston's walking turned into running.
After a friend mentioned training for a marathon, Humiston, not interested in marathon training, started thinking about setting a goal for herself.
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"A few weeks later, I tried them outside and came home and died again but decided that would be my goal – to train and complete the Durango Triathlon."
Focusing on the sprint distance satisfied her for a few years, but then she got hungry for the Olympic distance. She ramped up her training and was shocked when, after three months, she had gained 20 pounds.
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This a travel guide to our Sound World – listing places where what you hear is an important part of the experience. I'm very interested in suggestions for possible places with interesting sounds and other acoustic phenomena. Find places either via this list of all sites, via a search or click on the Tag Cloud.
Sonic Wonders is authored by Trevor Cox, Professor of Acoustic Engineering at the University of Salford. The site has inspired the book Sonic Wonderland (UK) / The Sound Book (US).


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Located approximately 32 km southeast of Inverness, Grantown is a planned village, established in 1765 by the local landowner, Sir James Grant.
Grantown is one of approximately 150 planned villages that were established in Scotland between 1750 and 1850. Agricultural improvements that took place during the 18th century, especially the enclosure of farmland, meant that far fewer people were needed to work the land. This led to much social disruption, and many landowners in Scotland created planned villages as a way of promoting trade and industry in their area, and as a means of providing employment to those who had been forced to leave the land.
Sir James Grant laid out Grantown around a large, central square on a site that was well served by two military roads. Leases for building plots were put up for sale in 1765, and Sir James placed an advert in the 'Aberdeen Journal' stating that he would give "Feus or long leases, and all proper encouragement to Manufacturers, Tradesmen, or others, sufficiently recommended and attested, as to Character and Ability, who incline to settle there."
Sir James invested heavily to attract manufacturers of different kinds to Grantown, but by the late 1700s it was clear that these industries were failing to prosper. The settlement found success however as a service centre for the surrounding district, and from the 1860s onwards prospered also from an increase in the number of tourists visiting the area.
This growth in tourism was due in part to the arrival of the railway to Grantown in 1863, which enabled far greater numbers of tourists to visit the settlement. In September 1860 Grantown was also visited by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, whose purchase of Balmoral in the 1840s had significantly boosted the appeal of the Highlands to the British public.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
On Meal Planning with a Garden
What arrives in fall and stays through early spring is a measure of free choice in what I cook and what we eat. Sure, there are the harvested pumpkins, and squash, and potatoes to use up, but they too give me more latitude than summer's bounty. All summer long and into early fall I cook and preserve food in a race to keep up with what's coming in. That comes about from - and requires - a change in the way I think about cooking, and this was no small thing for me.
See, I trained as a chef. After mastering the fundamentals, we were taught to approach cooking as a creative challenge and as an expression of "personality." It was about sexing up a chicken breast to make it seem less trite, or assembling flavors in novel ways to tickle a jaded palate. We weren't taught to think about seasonality or regionality very much, unless it was something that could be translated into marketing text on a menu. And yes, we were very much taught to look at menus as marketing tools. Back then, the concept of local food was nowhere near the surface of national consciousness; it had only a small novelty value to a few menu-scrutinizing gourmands. Food miles never entered the discussion of my culinary training - not once.
That way of thinking took hold strongly in me. I've lived in areas where high quality ingredients were available to me at any time, irrespective of food miles or season. For years just about any exotic ingredient you could imagine was at my fingertips, ready tools at the service of my artistic vision in the kitchen. When thinking about meal preparation, it was routine for me to thumb idly through a cookbook, looking for a recipe that caught my fancy. Or I might simply sit back and ask myself what I felt like eating that night, and then proceed to acquire the necessary ingredients from the store. This was a deeply ingrained habit of thought, and it's one that runs counter to the realities of a food garden. This meant that when I gardened back then, I was a dabbler, and the food I produced myself was always adjunct and secondary to the "real" source of food - stores and farmers' markets. If I didn't feel like eating what was ripe in my own garden, I didn't. And I did no preserving in those days. I'm ashamed to say that (while some of it got eaten and some given away) too much of that homegrown food simply went to waste.
When I became more serious about producing my own food and frugality in general, the harvests soon collided with my habits of thought around cooking. It was no longer about what I felt like cooking; wasting home grown food was no longer acceptable. The game had changed, and the challenges were now based in real life and not the creative life of a "culinary artist." It took a while, but I came to consider the garden and my pantry my primary sources of food. Purchased food, from any source, is now secondary. The differences are significant. I now understand the value in single-ingredient-themed cookbooks. When you're getting upwards of 25 eggs per week, or have just harvested 100 pounds of potatoes, cookbooks devoted entirely to egg or potato dishes seem like a really good idea. I used to find such cookbooks boring. Not any more.
Now meal preparation begins with an assessment of what needs using up, whatever the season. That's not to say my cooking is a constant state of triage in which I find ways to salvage food that's beginning to go off. No, I'm talking about staying ahead of the curve and eating or storing foods at their peak. I still have plenty of range for creative expression in my cooking. But now I start with the given of the foods we have, and I take pleasure in finding interesting things to do with these high-quality building blocks. I still use cookbooks, but I'm much more likely than previously to substitute ingredients based on what we have.
Even in winter, the food put up in canning jars, the freezer, or simply hanging out in cool storage needs to be tracked and eaten. Those foods have a shelf life like any other (natural) food. Even if they aren't about to go off, I need to know what I have on hand in order to plan the next year's garden crops and how they will be eaten or preserved. We got almost no tomatoes in 2009, so this year I'll try to put up two years' worth of sauce, just in case we get hit with blight again. On the other hand, we made enough jam to last us a couple of years. So we'll use up the fruit we produce in other ways.
Another difference is that for most of the year we eat fresher, more nutritionally dense food, and we eat in the seasonal sequence of produce gluts. During the winter, we eat food that was processed (by me, at home) at optimal nutrition and freshness. I'm working on making fresh foods more available in the cold months through season extension with cold frames too.
Here are a few ingredient-themed cookbooks I've found useful in helping me cook from both the garden and preserved or stored foods.
Simply in Season
The Compleat Squash
The Bean Bible
The Good Egg
One Potato, Two Potato
If you can recommend any other cookbooks that help use up garden gluts or commonly stored foods, please let me know in the comments.
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- The Mom said...
I'm not a trained chef, but do consider my self a bit of a foodie. The one channel on tv that I watch regularly is the food network. What has been very encouraging to me, is that they seem to be focusing more on the in season, 100 mile sustainable foods.
- January 27, 2010 at 10:58 AM
- Patricia Neal said...
This post mirrors my journey recently. I too used to thumb through cookbooks and then buy what matched the recipes. Now, what is regional, what comes in my CSA box and what is in season dictates what dinner is. One of the biggest changes for me is more repetition. Thank goodness my DH doesn't care. But I love variety and having the same thing or things made out of the same thing often is a new concept for me. Actually, it has brought me more in touch with the reason for food - nourishment rather than entertainment.
However, I still love to puruse cookbooks!
- January 27, 2010 at 10:59 AM
- Jennifer said...
Isn't it a better way to cook though - with fresh foods that you grew? I can't wait to start planting!
- January 27, 2010 at 4:08 PM
- Amy @ River Rock Cottage said...
Great post, Kate. I think I had forgotten you were trained as a chef. My own Kate has considered that as well. This topic is one that I've been thinking about a lot lately. I posted on this earlier today.
Besides amassing a collection of cookbooks that focus on a single ingredient, the idea of storing two years of crucial items such as tomatoes is a great idea. Last year it was squash for us. No one I know has yet to identify what it was that hit all of us on the mountain.(And I thought squash was fool-proof!)
Personally, I find eating in-season a wonderful challenge and not restricting. It requires the best of creativity.
- January 27, 2010 at 4:20 PM
- Aimee said...
Very very interesting.
I would say I have come a long, long way when it comes to seasonal and local eating (all of our meat, milk, cheese, and eggs comes from our own farm; I trade for fruits and veggies and preserve by canning and freezing, we all go to the U-pick farms in season and pick enough to preserve for the year, etc) but I certainly have not become a total convert.
Tonight, for example, I am making Mexican - style shrimp (farmed from thailand - ick, but I couldn't find either wild or local and I had a craving) sauteed with veggies and wine (at least the wine is local), rice, refried beans (leftovers) and corn tortillas (probably GMO - have you TRIED to source and price organic tortillas????) The only truly local element in tonight's meal is the lard in which I am frying the beans. That is from last year's pig.
I would like to claim that this meal is atypical, even in the dead of winter. For breakfast, for example, we would probably have something like oatmeal with our own cream and blueberries. And in the summertime, I cook whatever I can create from the avalanche of fresh produce that my trade network throws up. Ratatouille, caponata, salad after salad,, tabouli, and of course, anything that uses up eggs.... quiches, souffles, etc.
Hopefully, and this is what I like to believe, eating nearly 100% locally and seasonally during 2/3 of the year buys me a little slack in the winter.
- January 27, 2010 at 7:35 PM
- Leigh said...
It's a different sort of creative dilemma, isn't it? Even though we had a small garden last year and don't have a lot put by, I've been trying to cook with more of the foods we'll be growing and have available next year. I think most of us are accustomed to eating what we want, no matter the time of year. It's a change of thinking as well as eating habits, but still, the natural rhythm of it seems more natural.
- January 27, 2010 at 9:17 PM
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- January 27, 2010 at 10:36 PM
- Karen said...
I have and like Simply in Season very much. Two others that I also turn to often are The Practical Produce Cookbook by Ray and Elsie Hoover. (See it here: http://www.amazon.com/practical-produce-cookbook-Ray-Hoover/dp/0965684296.) It is widely available at Amish and Mennonite markets as well as some garden seed catalogs such as Jung's.
The Market Fresh Cookbook by Taste of Home magazine is good too. (See it here:http://www.amazon.com/Taste-Home-Market-Fresh-Cookbook/dp/0898215196)
Please excuse my use of Amazon. It is not meant as an endorsement of them but they are great for seeing pictures and descriptions of most books.
- January 27, 2010 at 10:46 PM
- Kate said...
The Mom, that's good to hear. I don't know how much cooking shows really influence eating/cooking/purchasing behavior. But it can't hurt to have these ideas circulating.
Patricia, yes, this idea is even more applicable with a CSA box. At least with my garden, I choose what to plant and sort of know what to expect at harvest. With a box, you get what you get, and sometimes without much notice. I still think of cooking as enjoyable, but I see your point about nourishment too. Good point.
Jennifer, I agree. I've got my seed orders in and will start planting very soon. Gonna stock up on motivation at the PASA conference coming up next weekend. That'll carry me through till late spring, at least.
Amy, that was a good post. Far more organized than I'll ever get. But I'm sure some of your readers will be inspired.
Aimee, I have found organic tortillas, but only the whole wheat variety, not the corn. I am half-tempted to buy a tortilla press. Then we could grow our own flint corn, grind it, and make our own. But we eat tortillas only occasionally at this point, so it doesn't seem like a very cost-effective way to go. I think making "good" decisions about diet is the way to go. "The perfect is the enemy of good." I keep reminding myself of this. It's a journey, not something we arrive at by clicking our ruby slippers together.
Leigh, I agree. It really does become a rhythm. There are certain dishes that only seem to happen once or twice in the year now. But I kinda like that. It personalizes and punctuates the calendar.
Karen, no apologies necessary for Amazon links. I use them myself even though I prefer to shop at Powells. Thanks for the book recommendations. I'll check them out.
- January 28, 2010 at 9:51 AM
Two thumbs up on this post. I couldn't agree more about eating local (my garden) and in season. We've been doing it for the past year and a half and haven't felt deprived in any way. It helps that we live in CA and anything (in season) we can't grow (or is slow to grow, darn spinach and chard this year) is available. I'd like to recommend the Greens cookbook by Deborah Madison- it's vegetarian and outstanding. Every single recipe I've made from there has rocked. And it's organized in a subtle way by season/ingredients.
- January 28, 2010 at 4:21 PM
- Kate said...
Anon, California is indeed blessed with a mild climate and excellent foodstuffs. Thanks for the recommendation on the cookbook.
- January 29, 2010 at 7:08 AM
- Tamar@StarvingofftheLand said...
Kate -- That's a very interesting take on just what training as a chef trains you to do -- start with the recipe you want to make, and work backward to procure the necessary ingredients. I think that, somehow, American cooks have internalized the idea that that's what cooking is. Find a great recipe, make a list, go to the market, follow the instructions.
You have turned the order on its head -- start with the ingredients, and work forward to the recipe -- which is what I think our mothers did. Dinner doesn't start with a cook and a book, but with a cook and whatever is growing in the garden and what was put up from last year and the leftovers from yesterday, and you keep the process going by growing, freezing, canning, and cooking every day. (In a book I wrote many years ago I called this 'pantry momentum.')
I think more people would cook if this is what cooking was thought to be -- not the special-event cookery of a recipe, but the daily-craft cookery of using what you have, and using it well.
- January 29, 2010 at 1:04 PM
- Kate said...
Tamar, that's the general idea, yes. I think we'd be better off as a nation if people had their own garden produce and felt compelled to eat it up. We'd be better cooks, less dependent on industrial food, more confident in our own skills, and probably would weigh a bit less on average. I'm mighty impressed you wrote a cookbook. That's quite a notch in your belt!
- January 30, 2010 at 8:01 AM
What a great post! It's taken me a long time to get my thinking right on using what I have instead of running out to buy all the extra ingredients. I couldn't understand all the people commenting on recipe blogs--they'd make substitutions to ingredients the recipe called for and it wasn't the original recipe anymore! I thought, "Why bother?" Now I'm doing the same thing by trying to use what I have. So many times the additional ingredients aren't things in season with the main ingredient.
I got a few good recipes out of "The Big Book of Preserving the Harvest" by Carol W. Costenbader.
- January 31, 2010 at 10:51 PM
- Kate said...
Jeri, I'm quite guilty of substitution in recipes. I think I always have been, but now I actively go looking for ideas that I know I'm going to change. I think that's fine. Most people who offer recipes do so in order to share the love of cooking, and not out of some weird authoritarian or proprietary drive about "their" recipe, or how things "ought" to be prepared. Of course, when it comes to method, there are a few rules based on a lot of trial and error. But with ingredients there's usually plenty of room for variation from the original, except with the more science experiment types of preparations such as souffles, and consomme, etc. But how often do we prepare those things?
- February 1, 2010 at 7:07 AM
- Dea-chan said...
I was going to link to you the Potato Cookbook (which I love) but saw in the header notes that it was also published under the name "One Potato, Two Potato" :-P
I love the fact that it has DESSERTS using mainly potato. Or potato water from boiling them. Or whatever!
- February 9, 2010 at 1:35 AM


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Area events in honor of St. Patrick�s Day will offer an opportunity to wear a green, sample traditional Irish delicacies, or help raise money for charities.
Area events in honor of St. Patrick�s Day will offer an opportunity to wear a green, sample traditional Irish delicacies, or help raise money for charities.
The Town of Emerald Isle is celebrating it�s 22nd St. Patrick�s Festival this year, set for March 16 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Emerald Plantation Shopping Center.
Presented by Transportation Impact, the popular event will feature more than 75 arts and crafts vendors, food vendors, Oak Grove Stables petting zoo and rides, clowns and static displays along with amusement rides, face painters, and a full schedule of live music featuring local and regional acts.
�One of the things we�re really excited about is bringing in the Transportation Impact
Ford Fusion #43 car, part of NASCAR along with the Petty Family Foundation,� said Event Coordinator Alesia Sanderson. �They will be available at the festival that day to make us aware of what the foundation does to provide opportunities for children with illnesses.
Adults can enjoy a beer garden, and the little ones will have a chance to compete in The Little Ms. & Mr. Leprechaun Contest on the main stage at 11 a.m. Each participant will be judged on the originality and creativity of their costume and overall stage presentation while answering questions or performing on stage. The contest is for boys and girls ages 2-3 and 4-5 and requires pre-registration by noon on March 15.
On March 17,Carolina Ale House will host the first St. Baldrick�s event for all ages. The rain or shine party begins at noon and continues through 10 p.m.
The event will include a photo booth, cornhole, and Irish inspired food and drink. Live music will be provided by No Hallows at 4 p.m. and will be followed by Shameless Prophets at 6 p.m.
Anchoring the occasion will be St. Baldrick�s signature fundraising initiative � having volunteers shave their head in support of finding a cure for children�s cancer.
�I think everyone is affected by cancer in one way or another,� said Mindy Stroupe, Corporate Communications Manager for LM Restaurants. �When it comes to curing childhood cancer, our philanthropic priorities fall in line with St. Baldrick�s mission and this was an easy fit for this time of year.�
Stroupe said that a dozen participants have signed up to help raise funds toward the overall goal of $10,000. Among those brave participants are two of Jacksonville�s finest. Detectives Len Condry and Dave Miltier of the Jacksonville Police Department decided to join in the celebration to show solidarity with children who are undergoing cancer treatment. Condry, who has been with the JPD for 14 years, made a personal goal of $1,000 to raise for St. Baldrick�s. He has pledged to shave his head and beard if the goal is reached.
�As a police officer, you get a soft spot for kids and it�s an important issue for us try to support and hopefully help bring to an end,� Condry said. �My wife is a cancer survivor and I have a dear aunt who had cancer and this brings us closer to hope. You realize how quickly things can happen, so we will do our small part to find a cure.�
Shavees can pre-register at StBaldricks.org/events/CAHJacksonvilleNC or sign up the day of the event for minimum donation of $20. Participating parties will receive a souvenir T-shirt while supplies last.
Active residents can also take part in two upcoming races on Saturday:
� The St. Paddy�s Day Engineer 5 Mile Challenge will take place March 16 beginning at 8 a.m.at CourthouseBayaboard CampLejeune. The St. Paddy�s Day Engineer Challenge is a grueling off-road, five mile course that will that test the strength and determination of all participants. The course will include a variety of obstacles that will challenge levels of physical and mental endurance. For more information, call 910-450-1342. Events are open to the public. For a full schedule of events, visit mccslejeune.com/grandprix.
� The first Annual Shamrock Run will take place March 16 at 9 a.m.on the Beaufort waterfront. The event includes 5K and 1 mile runs. Entry fees are $15 for adults, $7 children under 6-13, under 5, free. $40 for families of 4 (2 adults, 2 kids under 13). Registration begins at 8 a.m.at First Citizens Bank (Corner of Turner & Front Streets). All proceeds benefit the Carteret County Domestic Violence Shelter. For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Contact Max Magazine Features Reporter Aniesa Holmesat 910-219-8473 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
-The Emerald Isle St. Patrick�s Day Festival will be held March 16 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Emerald Plantation shopping center. Admission and parking are free for the festival. Call 252-354-6350 for more information, or visit emeraldislestpatricksfestival.com.
-St. Baldrick�s will take place March 17 at Carolina Ale House, located at 1649 Western Boulevard. The party begins at noon and lasts until 10 p.m., rain or shine. Pets and strollers are prohibited from the main tent. For more information, call 333-8941.


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Dave Barry
Can Joe Biden possibly compete with Clint Eastwood?
Now the eyeballs of the nation turn toward this vibrant, proud, ambitious city in North or possibly South Carolina as the Democrats gather here to present their message of hope for America, namely that the Republicans are fascist, racist women-hating scum.
In the days leading up their convention, the Democrats have been enjoying Charlotte, which is often called "The Tampa of the Non-Florida South" because of its many attractions. The NASCAR Hall of Fame is located here, but that is only the beginning: There are also roads, buildings, trees, sidewalks, several restaurants, literally dozens of traffic lights and a modern taxi fleet consisting of three modern taxis.
On top of all that, right now downtown Charlotte boasts a huge sand sculpture of President Obama. It bears an uncanny resemblance to what the president would look like if he were made out of sand sculpted by somebody who had never actually seen him. The sculpture weighs more than 15 tons and cost $30,000, which was paid by the visitors bureau of Myrtle Beach, S.C., as a way of sending the message: "We have a great deal of sand."
It is only fitting that this sculpture has been erected here. Its looming presence serves as a reminder that no matter how many politicians take the stage, this convention is really about just one person — a person whose name will be evoked countless times over the next few days; a person who, whether you love him or hate him, has come to dominate the political discussion in this nation as few others ever have.
I refer, of course, to Clint Eastwood.
I have been observing political conventions since the Sixties and I have never seen a speaker captivate the nation the way Clint did that night in Tampa. It was mesmerizing to watch: Clint would stare into the lights and launch into a sentence, and as he spoke, you could almost hear his brain shouting "Mayday! Mayday!" as it became increasingly clear that he had no earthly idea how that particular sentence was going to end. Plus, while conducting a pretend dialog with a chair, he made TWO references — a modern political-convention record — to an anatomically impossible reproductive act.
It was, quite simply, the best speech ever given, and I am including the Gettysburg Address in that statement. When I left Tampa and returned, between conventions, to the normal human world, Clint's speech was pretty much the only thing anybody wanted to talk to me about. If the Democrats want to really boost TV ratings for this convention, they should have Clint speak here, too. Unfortunately, it appears that our best hope for entertainment is going to be Vice President Joe Biden, who is scheduled to deliver his remarks during the coveted 4:37 a.m. Friday slot.
But the most anticipated speech here will be delivered Thursday night by President Obama, who will be making the case that he deserves a second term in office, based on his solid record of taking on some of the most difficult problems this nation has ever faced and unflinchingly blaming all of them, including sunspot activity, on the previous administration. The president will also speak about his plan for improving the economy, which continues to be a pesky problem despite the many hard-hitting speeches the president has made about it.
A big concern for the Democrats is whether the president can rekindle the passion and excitement he generated in the 2008 campaign. Back then he was a superstar who exuded world-class celebrity glamour, the kind you saw with JFK or the Beatles; whereas today, after three and a half years in office, he is more in the William Shatner bracket.
So the president is hoping to get a boost from this convention. It definitely has the potential to be exciting. There are a lot more protesters here than there were in Tampa, reflecting either a sudden resurgence in social awareness on the part of America's youth or nice weather.
Also there are more celebrities here. Minutes after I arrived, I saw Jeff Bridges, in person, sitting at a table mere yards from the giant sand Obama. The Charlotte Observer is authoritatively reporting that George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Oprah either will, or will not, be attending the convention. Vermin Supreme, on the other hand, is definitely here. So am I, and you can rely on me to keep you informed. Although that would be a huge mistake on your part.


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INDIANAPOLIS -- USA Track & Field remembers the life of long-time Millrose Games meet director and USATF Hall of Fame Inductee Howard Schmertz, who passed away Thursday evening.
Schmertz, 88, served as Meet Director of the Millrose Games from 1975 to 2004 and was inducted into the Millrose Games Hall of Fame as the sole inductee in 2007, the meet's 100th year.
"USA Track & Field and our sport have lost a great friend," said USATF CEO Max Siegel. "Howard was a Hall of Famer and someone who was respected and loved by many in the sport, from athletes to officials to fellow meet directors. Indoor track & field, and especially the Millrose Games, will always reflect his influence. On behalf of USATF, we send our sincere condolences to his family and loved ones."
Howard was named assistant meet director of the iconic Millrose Games in 1950, and assumed overall meet responsibilities when his father retired in 1975. Howard's father, Fred, was a delivery boy for the John Wanamaker Department Store and served as meet director from 1934-1975. The elder Schmertz was eventually head of Wanamaker's legal department. Howard was named Meet Director Emeritus in 2004.
Eight-time winner of the Wanamaker Mile at the Millrose Games, Bernard Lagat tweeted, "R.I.P Howard Schmertz, Millrose Games director emeritus. You were the 1st one to welcome me into the Millrose Games family. I'll miss you."
Howard Schmertz graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx in 1941 and served in World War II as an Army infantryman, during which time he missed his only two Millrose Games in 73 years. Upon his discharge, he earned his undergraduate degree at Columbia University and in 1948, graduated from Columbia Law School and went to work for the firm Dean Magill & Huber, which later became Huber Lawrence & Abell. Schmertz worked days as a partner in his law firm while devoting nights and weekends, assisted by his wife, Judy, to his unpaid post as Meet Director.
Funeral services for Howard Schmertz will be held Sunday, March 30, at 2:00 P.M at Gutterman's Memorial Chapel, 8000 Jericho Turnpike, Woodbury, NY 11797.


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You're right that it totally depends on what you're satisfied with. I shoot a lot of fast subjects in wide angle. Would a G11 or S90 have worked for my last two trips? Absolutely not. Chaining a wide-angle adapter onto existing optics degrades image quality, and shutter lag and small buffers would make it hard to capture the action as necessary. Having a small camera would have been great for swimming, though. Some of my best dolphin shots were taken when I took a tiny Seatool housed Digital Rebel. Those images were better simply because I could keep up with the dolphins and position myself properly, whereas I could not when I was lugging a Seacam with SuperDome.
How fast is fast, how high is high, when does it no longer matter--for me---we crossed that threshold this year and I no longer care. I now care about small size, low impact, small footprint, versatility, minimal travel size and weight. The IQ benchmark for me has been passed and exceeded as the printing equipment, projecting equipment and display equipment I have at my disposal is the greater limiting variables than my choice of camera format.
Are They Pro quality image wise???
Posted 17 February 2010 - 11:36 AM
Posted 17 February 2010 - 12:09 PM
One thing that I find interesting, many stock agencies will not accept submissions from compact cameras, even those with 12mp and higher, yet will accept those from a 6 or 8mp SLR.
So for those of us who submit to certain stock agencies, we have no choice but to use an SLR.
Excellent point, if a person were to be dealing with, sharing or selling images to an agency then it makes sense to comply with their standards, like them or not, good point.
Swim down, swim around, swim back up.
Posted 17 February 2010 - 12:11 PM
You're right that it totally depends on what you're satisfied with. I shoot a lot of fast subjects in wide angle. Would a G11 or S90 have worked for my last two trips? Absolutely not. Chaining a wide-angle adapter onto existing optics degrades image quality, and shutter lag and small buffers would make it hard to capture the action as necessary. Having a small camera would have been great for swimming, though. Some of my best dolphin shots were taken when I took a tiny Seatool housed Digital Rebel. Those images were better simply because I could keep up with the dolphins and position myself properly, whereas I could not when I was lugging a Seacam with SuperDome.
Exactly, different tools for different things, coupled with expectations and goals. I was happy when I went to dSLR for UW after holding out for a bit. As all things, a bit of bigger pain to carry and set up, but it made shooting more enjoyable. (One of the big things was RAW with decent buffer/write speeds and shutter lag.) The only big game changer lately, for me, is how video has been added. Being able to carry just one camera for some things has been nice. I have done that on a couple of non-diving trips and was able to get the video and stills I wanted. Now if they can only make a nice, light, weatherproof 17-200 or 17-250 EF lens that performs reasonably well. I am not asking for too much, it doesn't have to be faster than f-4
Posted 17 February 2010 - 12:26 PM
Funny, I don't see any PRO QUALITY images being shared in this thread! OK, there are a couple images, but not from those who purport to be hooked on vision and art.
Shots I might like you would find disagreement with and rest assured, until there is some universal yard stick, and there isn't and never will be, your vision might be pedantic and tired to my eyes, no insult intended at all, just fact, we all have different tastes and MP count or even IQ is not my defining criteria.
I am so tired of technically correct images that say nothing to me and an SLR is not the determining factor to the relevance of a photo. Art is another undefined concept, perhaps that is what makes it art but I don't think it is the brush or the camera. The Mona Lisa would have been superior had it been painted with fingers and sticks on burlap, some exaggeration allowed.
The thread asks are they pro quality, since aside from the excellent point made concerning stick trade, words like "pro" and amateur and pro quality are without value. If your statement is that only a dSLR can take pro quality photos or capture the art of human vision, you are wrong, and, I will just tell you so.
This is a P&S/Compact forum, BTW, if we are happy with our substandard equipment, why does it matter.
Swim down, swim around, swim back up.
Posted 17 February 2010 - 12:28 PM
And laptops now struggle with the raw power that desktops provide. My 8 CPU, 16GB memory, 4TB disk, dual graphical card desktop can run circles around my laptop. I do serious image work on my desktop, not on my laptop. This is a cycle that will continue for many years to come.
A few years ago desktop computers (dSLR) were the go to machines, when clock speed (Image Quality) got crazy beyond the point of using it as a comparison tool (the human requirement) then miniaturization (lap tops) will be the next move (EVIL and Micro and HQ P&S). Lap top computers run programs today that a desk top a few years ago would struggle with
You seem to think that camera manufacturers will simply lie down and give up on innovating (and making money). In 5 years time maybe 40MP will be the default, and all cameras will have that. But then maybe they will have added quantum storage to my SLR, and it can hold 18 hours of 4096p video. Camera manufacturers will do whatever they need to do to make more money, and that will include differentiating their product portfolio so they can cover the market from 'cheap' to 'expensive'. While the big fad now is video on SLRs, some other fad will be available on cameras in 5 years that make it impossible for pros to move to cheap cameras because someone will demand the output of that latest fad. Just like clients now are starting to demand HD video along with images.
Will we be having this argument, which I guess it is, five years from now when the dSLR has 40MP and the whatever other class there is of camera has 38.5MP and both are fast as lightening with low noise and easy handling?
There will always be a market for the whole customer range.
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Posted 17 February 2010 - 12:45 PM
This is a P&S/Compact forum, BTW, if we are happy with our substandard equipment, why does it matter.
The original post in 2005 was asking to compare dSLR & P&S. Nothing had been posted since last July, then you mentioned the G11 etc and that DSL is going to die. Of course that will lead to discussions I do not think people are trying to say you (or anyone) is using substandard equipment, and alot of the people responding also carry P&S and use them. But there are still some differences that can affect shooting.
No one is trying to dismiss how important the person handling the camera is to the whole process nor are people trying to say a P&S cannot be a perfect choice. And if your (meaning any of us you) camera does what you want it to do in terms of performance, printing and the rest that is fine. But measuring and answering the pros & cons so that people making a decision when asking for advice is needed and to not do so would not be in the best interests of people looking for information. If you go through other threads on the subject there are countless examples of the discussion.
Posted 17 February 2010 - 01:49 PM
As mentioned several times in this thread, there are technical definitions and requirements made by agencies for reproduction on print etc. It is not some individual arbitrary level set by individuals, but by professionals for professionals as a guideline for submission to the print publication arena, based on many criteria such as pixel density/sensor size, lenses, resolution etc. That is why "professional quality" is set, since those are the criteria set by the requirements of the publishers.
Again, I guess we don't read each others post. I clearly stated that "pro quality" was an ill defined concept. If you can define it for yourself fine, what if I don't agree with your definition?
That said, if you have an image that captures a special moment (eg: the picture of the jet which crashed in DC for national newspapers were taken from an iPhone), then obviously it will be printed in newspapers and magazines. However as a guideline by stock agencies and even publishers, they want APS-C DSLR. Now you can argue till you're blue in the face that's not right etc, but so it stays.
I have a friend who owned one of the bigger underwater stock agencies and he use to tell me that 4-6mp from a DSLR was all that was necessary for most print in reality. Then the agencies and publications changed the minimum from 6 to 12mp DSLR, so even he had to upgrade his cameras to follow suit.
There are always exceptions and compacts certainly have a place for the professional. Take Alex Majoli, who shot for newspapers with 4-6 P&S in hand for the Iraq war coverage, yet he has DSLR gear for his other photography needs. A few companies have made APS-C sensor compacts like the DP1/2, and Leica even went all the way with a 35mm sensor X1. Do they believe in the hype or you think there's some truth in what is expected from cameras?
The internet has changed how certain publications can function, and the demands on image quality is very different for that media. Take the ViDSLR which has taken the PJ/newspaper roles and shaken it up. Now the local PJ can cover the story in stills, shoot a newscast with a reporter for the web and even broadcast in 1080p (look at Dan Chung at the Guardian UK website for eg.) Now I think even a few compacts offer 1080p H.264 but the quality is mush and again unacceptable for anything more than a 320p low res internet reel. And don't get me started on broadcast video and those requirements
That's just part of the professional grind as it were. Art and vision are subjective, the guidelines for professional print quality are not. Then you have to realize that much of the visionary art we see in publications are taken by those same cameras which have to adhere to those rules.
You guys, some of you, are hooked on numbers and specs and not vision and art.
"Journalism is what someone else does not want printed, everything else is public relations."
"I was born not knowing, and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
Posted 31 May 2010 - 07:30 AM
This thread started 5 years ago but I'll try to add some current info about P&S cameras that are being sold today and a few that have been made in the last 4 or 5 years.
The best digital cameras for UW allow manual control of exposure so you can set shutter speed to sync with the flash and set aperture for distance. Without manual settings most cameras shoot in auto mode. The typica; P&S camera sets ISO, SS and f-stop for the available light. Because there's often enough available light for a simple P&S pocket camera to take a picture without flash the camera won't fire it's flash much. In Auto mode with any camera you get slow shutter speeds with blurred fish because you need a faster SS to stop action. You also get a bluish tint to everything because the primary light source is available light, which is mostly blue below about 10 feet.
With only about 2 or 3 exceptions (Olympus EPL-1, Canon G-11 and Nikon P9000), the best P&S digicams for UW photography aren't being made anymore. Whatever you get make sure it has manual controls so you can control the on-board flash, not just auto exposure, aperture priority or shutter priority. With that control you'll be able to get color back into the UW scene, within the distance limit of the built-in flash or a slave strobe for more powwer. With that kind of control you can add a slave strobe later when you're ready to add more light and more range to the camera.
People buying the current (2010) P&S UW cameras try to add a decent slave strobe to them for more true colors and enough flash to stop fish action. But no matter what they do they can't get enough light into their UW photos because the auto mode adjusts exposure for the available light and shuts the flash down early.
Here's an example. A good friend of mine took one of these typical inexpensive P&S in a plastic housing on a dive club trip to Curacao recently. Those of us with exposure control got good results. His photos, with his bargain P&S in Auto mode and a $1000 Inon slave strobe, weren't nearly as good as a what people got who had the same strobe because his camera doesn't allow manual control of exposure and flash. Another buddy has a better camera, the Olympus C-5060. That's a 5 year old P&S camera that still outperforms everything on the market today (except the EPL-1). But for a long time his photos were mostly blurred fish shots and filled with blue light (no red, yellow or orange). Once he understood UW flash he got great results by taking the camera out of Auto mode. He set ISO to the minimum, stopped down the aperture to f/5.6 and set the shutter speed at 1/125th second. That forced the camera and slave strobe to provide more flash and fill the frame with light.
With few exceptions, most of what's being offered today by Canon, Olympus, Nikon or Panasonic are simple P&S with no manual exposure or flash control. The best off-the-shelf UW camera and housing sold today may be the new Olympus Pen EPL-1 micro 4/3 camera in a new Olympus UW housing. The Canon G-11 in a Canon housing, or much better, the same G-11 in the Ikelite UW housing is one of the few P&S cameras that will allow you to get decent photos using an UW strobe. And there's also the Nikon P9000 that offers manual control of flash. Even if you're not buying a fancy UW strobe now, you want to be able to control the built-in flash and have the option to advance to a more powerful UW strobe in the future.
I have what is probably the best UW P&S camera ever made for UW, the Olympus C-8080 P&S bridge camera in an Ikelite housing. The lens is super bright and sharp, the sensor is a decent 2/3" CCD, the camera will record images in RAW and it offers complete creative control of exposure and flash. Cameras in a rugged Ikelite housing allow using Ikelite strobes in direct connection to the hot shoe and TTL camera control of the strobe for correct UW exposure.
Another UW P&S option with manual control that is still available used is an Olympus C-5060 or the C-7070 in an Olympus housing. Or the slightly older Olympus C-50 and the Olympus C-5000 in Olympus UW housings. The Canon A610 or 620 in a Canon housing offers manual exposure control too. Of all of the great Olympus Camedia C-series cameras, the C-8080 is the best P&S camera Olympus made. At least until they released the new Olympus Micro 4/3, EP-1, EP-2 and EPL-1. The Olympus C-8080 compares well to the Nikon Coolpix 8800 and the Canon PowerShot Pro1. A good friend has the C-7070 in an Ikelite UW housing and that's probably as close as it gets in image quality to the C-8080 in an Ikelite housing. The Ikelite housing is still better than all of the UW housings offered by any of the camera makers because it's rugged, some of the models offer a dome port for wide angle, Ikelite offers great service for all of their housings and if the camera has a hot shoe you can add Ikelite strobes to them with direct, TTL control of the strobe. If the camera has manual controls but no hot shoe you can still use slave strobes from Ikelite, Sea and Sea or Inon.
The C-8080 has worked so well for me that I have a hard time letting go of it, but I've recently upgrade to an Olympus E-330 DSLR with real-time Live View in an Ikelite housing. So I'm selling the C-8080 (June, 2010).
Olympus E-3, E-330, C-8080, Olympus Zuiko Digital lenses: 7-14, 11-22, 14-54, 50 f/2, 50-200, Pan/Leica 25 mm f/1.4
Ikelite housing for C-8080 and E-330, dual Ikelite DS-125 strobes
Posted 01 June 2010 - 04:41 PM
With only about 2 or 3 exceptions (Olympus EPL-1, Canon G-11 and Nikon P9000), the best P&S digicams for UW photography aren't being made anymore.
Do you mean the Nikon P6000, not P9000? I cannot find the P9000 on the Nikon product list. I have a P5100, the earlier version of the P6000, and it has full manual control as does the P6000.
Posted 06 June 2010 - 08:11 AM
Dual Ikelite Strobes
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Posted 06 June 2010 - 10:02 AM
The current crop of "super" P&S may soon be a thing of the past with the new EVILS looming over the horizon and the M4:3 and newly announced M4:3 fisheye lens. But at this time the Canon S90, G10, G11 series cameras pack a lot of capability into a travel friendly package and frankly, having shot a EP-1 for a day (surface only) my S90 renders equally fine images, perhaps better color and is actually a more responsive camera and as small as the new M4:3 are the housing that Oly made (for the ELP-1) does not really take advantage of the full potential of the small format--yet.
Take the S90, if you are shooting with one of several wide angle lenses or fisheye lenses the DOF is so great you can go to manual focus and preset, this speeds the camera shutter response up since there is no auto focus lag, I notice a similar result with the new ELP-1. I can shoot in continuous mode with manual focus as fast as my D2000 strobes can cycle for example tracking a turtle or other marine life or action.
For professional use by photographers who make their living with a camera and publishing or projecting at large scale the dSLR is still king, for everybody else, they could do just as well and possibly better with an advanced P&S. It is really the image and the story the image presents, not the sensor size or the MP count or other technical aspects.
The future of dive travel or any travel is going to be very restrictive on the amount, size and weight of luggage and gear. It is not just the small footprint in the water, more important is the ability to carry on, here is an S90, FIX90 housing, all cables, butterfly clamps, arms, two D2000 strobes, batteries, charger, fisheye lens , tray with two handles, ready to shoot, all in a small carry on case:
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All of the "pro-quality" in the world will do you no good if you cannot get it to the dive site or have to wrestle with a huge, unwieldy case full of heavy, large gear. I have noticed also several ex-professional photographers now use advanced P&S, of mind is the Jerry Greenburg statement from the article in Alert Magazine where it specifically states he prefers the S&S DX-1 which he has had a custom rear door made.
Are they "pro quality" and I think my answer is that I don't care any more, the threshold beyond which I can tell the difference for normal, casual, amateur level photography has been crossed. More important is versatility, portability, footprint in the water and during transport, price etc.
Edited by crawdad, 06 June 2010 - 10:07 AM.
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Posted 06 June 2010 - 04:08 PM
The Sony Nex5 shoots at iso 3200 as well as my G10 can does at iso 200. The body of the Nex5 is the size of the Canon S90.
This tread should be saved for its historical value.
Edited by renep, 06 June 2010 - 04:08 PM.
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Posted 06 June 2010 - 07:24 PM
Presumably, your "pro" is being paid for his work, which means that he or she can afford to get equipment to a particular destination. I see a lot of people paying thousands of dollars for gear and thousands of dollars for a trip somewhere, and it confuses me that they then make such a big stink over trying to get 100 lbs of gear to a destination.
The future of dive travel or any travel is going to be very restrictive on the amount, size and weight of luggage and gear. It is not just the small footprint in the water, more important is the ability to carry on
Pick the system that has the right image quality for your requirements! It isn't a weight issue.
Posted 07 June 2010 - 04:01 AM
The Sony Cameras are APC sized, larger sensor than 4/3.
With the new 4/3 coming (Sony nex5 for instance) the mention of mirrors will soon make us nostalgic.
The Sony Nex5 shoots at iso 3200 as well as my G10 can does at iso 200. The body of the Nex5 is the size of the Canon S90.
This tread should be saved for its historical value.
For me the main issue with P&S and present mirrorless systems is shutter lag. I'm not attached to mirrors for their own sake, but until the responsiveness of P&S cameras equals my DSLR, my DSLR will always be preferred over my P&S for any serious shooting. The other thing I cannot do without for serious shooting is a viewfinder, again for giving me the ability to track and frame action far more responsively than a screen.
Camera size and weight is important for travel and convenience, but small size can also become a disadvantage with regard to the number of control buttons and access to controls. For speed of use it's often a disadvantage to delve into menus - for example the EV and Focus Lock buttons on DSLR's.
I don't think DSLR sized cameras will be going away even if their mirror is removed.
Edited by loftus, 07 June 2010 - 04:08 AM.
Posted 07 June 2010 - 05:38 AM
I think this is a debate about "one size fits all" vs. "specific tool."
A digicam is great because it does "one size fits all" meaning you can shoot macro and fisheye on the same dive. But we all know that in the end, one size fits all really only fits the "regular" sized people :-)
DSLR's or whatever you want to call them - are a specialty tool, and if used as intended an image from an SLR will beat the pants off an image from a digicam.
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Posted 07 June 2010 - 11:51 AM
Presumably, your "pro" is being paid for his work, which means that he or she can afford to get equipment to a particular destination. I see a lot of people paying thousands of dollars for gear and thousands of dollars for a trip somewhere, and it confuses me that they then make such a big stink over trying to get 100 lbs of gear to a destination.
Pick the system that has the right image quality for your requirements! It isn't a weight issue.
Not entirely the cost issue but carry on goes with me, stuff in a baggage compartment who knows where it may wind up or when.
We can fabricate issues on both sides of the coin forever and as mentioned, for historical regard, the EVILS will in time make the whole argument obsolete.
BTW, the Canon S90 is quite a bit smaller than the proposed (and very appealing) Sony EVIL products. And, right now, in side by side shooting, the S90 is just as responsive as the Oly ELP-1 for all practical purposes so the promise of these new formats is yet to be achieved, one step at a time they will get there.
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On a recent fall day, Darlene Armstrong watched with wonder as the Shedd Aquarium's white-sided dolphins turned somersaults and splashed spectators.
The 17-year-old disabled girl's life had changed dramatically since she was rescued from her Chicago home, where she weighed 23 pounds. The Tribune first reported her plight in June, months after she arrived at a hospital curled up on a stretcher.
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By Jeremy Begbie
On my office wall I keep two photos together in a single frame. They show two teachers who inspired me more than any others—my first theology teacher, James Torrance (1923–2003), and next to him the American conductor, composer and pianist, Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990). The former gave me an unforgettable vision of what to teach. But the latter (whom I met only once) gave me a vision of how to teach, of what teaching could be.
Composer of the ever-fresh West Side Story, music director of the New York Philharmonic for many years, prolific to the point of manic over-activity, and prodigiously talented, Bernstein's influence on the twentieth-century musical world was incalculable, a seismic impact whose reverberations are still being felt. His letters have just been published, and demonstrate well what he always insisted himself: that before anything else he was a teacher, an educator par excellence. As his son once said, "his brain was on fire with curiosity," and there seemed to be nothing he learned that he didn't also teach.If you went to see him conduct, it was as much an education as a performance, a kind of sonic seminar. You simply had to listen, as detail after detail was meticulously delivered to your ears. It was as if he was constantly prodding: "Do you hear this…?" But it was when the music was intertwined with words that his real uniqueness as a teacher shone out. When put in front of a TV camera (and he was made for television), most striking of all was the sheer breadth of sources that he could effortlessly sweep into a lecture: every kind of music, poetry, art, linguistics, anthropology, Baudelaire and Beethoven, the Psalms and Freud, Lewis Carroll, biology, Russian literature, astrophysics. The range was breathtaking. The focus was musical, undoubtedly: as a musician, few could touch him, then or now. But the wider vision was an intellectual feast which—like the symphonies of his beloved Mahler—seemed to have no limits.
It is tempting to think of Bernstein as an extreme exception, the ultimate "one-off," the kind of multi-gifted phenomenon who appears only once in a lifetime, comet-like across the sky of history. But that would be too easy. For he poses a discomforting challenge to any who dare call themselves educators. He seemed to be driven not simply by an ability to relate disparate topics, but by a tacit conviction that apparently unrelated fields of knowledge could and should be related. To him that was obvious. In the contemporary educational climate, it is not. Why not? At root, we can only assume, because the view that things are or can be connected, that Mozart might actually have something to do with politics, that solar physics might throw some light on Plato, depends on believing at some pre-theoretical level that we inhabit a universe and not a multiverse, that human culture is not the accidental conglomeration of zones of interest but is capable of at least some measure of unity. Could a teacher like Bernstein ever appear today? It is hard to imagine how, given that our schools and universities so often present a sorry picture of fracturing and specialisation which seems to mask a deep despair of ever believing that our lives together on this planet could have any kind of coherence.
Inevitably, this pushes us towards the realm which my other teacher inhabited, theology, whose place in the modern academy is, at the very least, to keep the question of the unity of knowledge alive. I don't know what Bernstein would have made of that suggestion. But I do know that he stares at me from my office wall as a disturbing witness, testifying to a vision we are losing at our peril.
Jeremy Begbie is Thomas A. Langford Research Professor in Theology at Duke University and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge. He specialises in the interplay between theology and music. He is author of Music, Modernity, and God: Essays in Listening.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
a few Public Service Announcements :)
I recently came across this fantastic campaign called Green My Lunchbox. They are wanting 15,000 families to pledge to packing waste-free lunches in order to save an estimated 1 million pounds of trash!
Join them on Facebook and by sharing how you are greening up your life you will have a chance to win a cool waste-free lunch item. A winner is chosen every single day! Spread the word to your friends! You can invite your Facebook friends to join the campaign by clicking the "invite your friends" linky under their logo on their Facebook page. I sent an invite to all of mine! :)
In other news, did you all watch Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution? Did you love it? I think I might have a wee little crush on that cutie. I tried with all my might to get Jamie to tweet to me on Twitter, but he didn't return my affections. Sigh. Anywho, I think you can still catch the episodes on Hulu if you missed the series. It was only a six episode run, but it packed a great message about the state of school food in America. Definitely a must-see. :) If you believe in healthier lunches for our kids, and who the heck doesn't?!, and if you haven't done so already, then you must head over and sign his petition. Right now. Do it. :)
Another must-see? Food, Inc. This Academy Award nominee film is an expose on the food industry. There an no scare tactics of sensationalistic views, just the cold hard facts about where our food is coming from. Some of it may make your toes curl, and some of it may really tick you off. PBS ran this documentary last week and it is still available to view on their website here, but only through April 29, so don't wait!** Do what you will with the information. In my opinion ignorance may be bliss, but knowledge is power. :) Being informed is never a bad thing.
**Many thanks to Frosty of My Love/Hate with Packing Lunches, who urged me to share this info with all of you. :)
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- Mrs. Ed said... [Reply to comment]
I love Jaime too! Michael Pollan's book Omnivors Dilemma is a great read for anyone who enjoys reading about this. There are so many nutrients either no longer in our diets or greatly depleted due to modern farming techniques. If more people were aware maybe healthier ag. practices will come back. Omega-3 and CLA is an example, these are present in grass-fed ruminant fats and very protective and helpful for us. By grain feeding we remove those and make it higher in inflammatory Omega-6, and we sure can attribute inflammation to so many things now. And that's just the tip of the iceburg!
I have not seen Food Inc yet but I really want to.
- April 27, 2010 at 12:14 PM
- Nicole and Robert said... [Reply to comment]
I have not seen the green my lunch box, but the other two shows and your blog are what really got me into the bento's for me and my 2.5 yr old. She is at a daycare AT my work, which is great and now we eat 2 or 3 of the 4 lunches she has at daycare together! Yeah
- April 27, 2010 at 7:33 PM
- Cowboy Ninjas said... [Reply to comment]
What a coinkindink - I just watched Food, Inc ysdy, and was just disgusted and horrified. EW. I think everyone should watch it. My relief was in knowing we use and love the Stoneyfield products. Otherwise, I felt like I wanted to take on a cleanse - lol!
As always, love your blog! Toodles.
- April 27, 2010 at 8:17 PM
- frosty said... [Reply to comment]
Thanks for the shout out Melissa! Have a great day!
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Hijab or ħijāb (حجاب) is the Arabic term for "cover" (noun), based on the root حجب meaning "to veil, to cover (verb), to screen, to shelter." It is chiefly a reference for Islamic covering for women.
- In ancient Iran, aristocratic women used to wear hijab. Women from lower classes did not bother. But when Islam came, it rejected such instances of discrimination. It said that all women must wear the hijab. In other words, it wanted to honor all women....they blame us by saying: You have made hijab compulsory. They themselves have made lack of hijab compulsory. They do not allow girl students to enter university, if they wear a headscarf.
- Khamenei, Iran's Ayatollah: West Abuses Women, Islam Honors Them (January 14, 2008).
- Women who do not respect the hijab and their husbands deserve to die.
- Hojatolislam Gholam Reza Hassani, representative of Khamenei in eastern Azerbaijan, "For This Season Of Joy, A Reminder Of The Peaceful Intentions Of The Religion Of peace", Gather Inc., December 24, 2007.
- By problemitizing and forbidding hijab, a favorite fetish of Muslim fundamentalists and the Western press alike, the French government has forced a reaction from those forces that includes sworn proclamations that the head scarf is a mandatory religious duty for women, and that banning the scarf is tantamount to interfering with the fundamental practice of Islam itself.
- SARAH ELTANTAWI (February 14 / 15, 2004). To Wear the Hijab or Not. CounterPunch.
- I just wish I felt supported by the image-makers of the West, who seem to have a veil fetish. They are doing the exact opposite of what the European politicians suggest: They're imposing the veil on women.
- [S]ome Islamist men...claim to find the veil sexy; Shabbir Akhtar, a British writer, sees it creating "a truly erotic culture in which one dispenses with the need for the artificial excitement that pornography provides.
- Daniel Pipes (August 8, 2001). Shakespeare with Shari'a. Daniel Pipes's personal website.
- Shakespeare with Shari'a. WorldNetDaily.
- The veil can be erotic but in a political context it is not; it is a kind of seal on property, a mark of submission.
- "Two Views of the Veil", PrintCulture, June 21, 2006.
- On the issue of the hijab, all religious scholars are in agreement that if revealing a woman's face might lead to temptation and other things, it is forbidden. In addition, even when they permitted the revealing of the woman's face, they placed restrictions on this. Even Sheik Al-Albani did so. They stated that only the face and the palms may be exposed. The woman is not allowed to expose her neck or her hair. She is not allowed to appear with make-up or jewelry. The religious scholars have all agreed upon this.
- Saudi cleric N. Al-Huneini
- Saudi TV Newscaster Buthayna Nasser Slams Islamists over Initiative to Prevent Women from Appearing on TV (March 2005)
- I want the whole world to know that they oppress us and all we can do is put up with it.
- A teenager's remark on the compulsory hijab, Crackdown in Iran over dress codes, 27 April 2007
- Despite this surge of the hijab and of religious clothing, the state of moral values in Egypt is at its worst...What kind of man is sexually aroused by a little bit of hair and needs to be protected? The Mufti of Australia said that a woman who does not wear the hijab is like a piece of abandoned meat, and that cats should not be blamed if they sink their teeth into it. I say to him: No, this is a disgrace. I'm not an abandoned piece of meat, and men are not hungry cats.
- Our colleges and universities are not recognized in the world. The universities of Cairo and Ein Shams are ranked below 3,000 in the world. We do not have education. Look at the universities today – all you can see is the hijab and niqab.
See also
External links
- Why Islamic Hijab, May 2007
- Veiled Babes
Video clips
- Saudi TV Newscaster Buthayna Nasser Slams Islamists over Initiative to Prevent Women from Appearing on TV (March 2005)
- Feminist Iranian Girl Protesting Dress Code is Arrested
- The Hijab Checklist
- Vent Love Your Burka
Further readings
- The Veil Unveiled: The Hijab in Modern Culture by Faegheh Shirazi discusses, inter alia, the "erotic" and "sexual" side of the Islamic hijab; ISBN 0813026989 or ISBN 978-0813026985


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'The kindest neighbor I've ever had:' Young mother shot, killed while with her baby
A young woman was shot and killed while she was with her 7-month-old child in Pittsburgh's Perry South neighborhood late Sunday night.
Authorities said Nicole Dailey, 26, was found with multiple gunshot wounds in a grassy area near the intersection of Strauss and North Charles Streets, just across the street from her home. She was pronounced dead after being taken to Allegheny General Hospital.
A Good Samaritan picked up Dailey's baby, who appeared to be uninjured, but was taken by paramedics to Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh to be checked out.
"It is unclear if the victim was getting into or out of her car with her child. There is no suspect information available," the city's Public Safety Department said.
Dailey had lived in the home for less than a year and mostly kept to herself, according to neighbors, who also said that she drove for Lyft and that the baby was her only child.
"She's the kindest neighbor I've ever had, always smiling," said one person.
Anyone who has information is asked to call Pittsburgh police at 412-323-7800. Callers may remain anonymous.
Dailey's death was the second fatal shooting in the Perry South neighborhood this past weekend.
Authorities said Craig Summers, 47, was found shot on the porch of a vacant house on Maple Avenue late Friday night. No suspects have been identified in that case.


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