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Nikon Coolpix S50 Exposure
Note: These results taken from the Nikon Coolpix S50c, which is identical to the S50 except it has WiFi connectivity added.
Saturation & Hue Accuracy
Generally good color, with good overall saturation, though some slight color shifts in the yellows and blues.
Saturation. The Nikon Coolpix S50 produced good overall saturation, though yellows are actually a bit undersaturated, while the cyan and blue tones are over saturated. Still, results are pleasing. Most consumer digital cameras produce color that's more highly saturated (more intense) than found in the original subjects. This is simply because most people like their color a bit brighter than life.
Skin tones. Here, the S50 did render skin tones a bit on the reddish side in some cases, but results are within acceptable limits. Where oversaturation is most problematic is on Caucasian skin tones, as it's very easy for these "memory colors" to be seen as too bright, too pink, too yellow, etc.
Hue. The Coolpix S50 produced generally accurate color under most of our test lighting, though it pushed cyan toward blue and some yellows closer to green. The camera also produced slightly warm color balances, but overall results were pleasing. The other important part of color rendition is hue accuracy. Hue is "what color" the color is.
See full set of test images
with explanations See thumbnails of all test and gallery images |
Exposure and White Balance
Indoors, incandescent lighting
Most accurate color with the Manual white balance setting, though
a hint magenta with pinkish skin tones. Average positive exposure compensation
Auto WB +1.0 EV | Incandescent WB +1.0 EV | Manual WB +1.0 EV |
Both the Coolpix S50's Auto and Incandescent white balance settings produced warm color balances indoors under incandescent lighting, though the Manual option produced more accurate results. Auto white balance is really poor for this class of camera. The Nikon Coolpix S50 required an average amount of positive exposure compensation here, at +1.0 EV. Though overall color with the Manual white balance setting is a hint magenta, with pinkish skin tones, it's still pretty good overall. The blue flowers in the bouquet do have a strong purplish tint, which is a common problem among digital cameras in this shot. Our test lighting for this shot is a mixture of 60 and 100 watt household incandescent bulbs, a pretty yellow light source, but a very common one in typical home settings here in the U.S.
Outdoors, daylight
Good overall color and exposure, though slightly warm color balance.
Auto White Balance, +0.7 EV |
Auto White Balance, Auto Exposure |
Outdoors, the Nikon Coolpix S50 tended toward a slightly warm color balance, though overall color was good. The S50 performed about average in terms of exposure, requiring the typical amount of positive compensation we're accustomed to seeing among consumer digital cameras. Contrast is a little high, though midtone detail is still pretty good. Overall a pretty good performance considering the lack of contrast and color adjustments.
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See thumbnails of all test and gallery images
High resolution, 1,400-1,500 lines of strong detail.
Strong detail to 1,500 lines horizontal |
Strong detail to 1,400 lines vertical |
Our laboratory resolution chart revealed sharp, distinct line patterns down to about 1,500 lines per picture height horizontally, and to about 1,400 lines vertically. Extinction occurred at around 1,800 lines vertically, but horizontal detail is still visible to 2,000 lines. Use these numbers to compare with other cameras of similar resolution, or use them to see just what higher resolution can mean in terms of potential detail.
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See thumbnails of all test and gallery images
Sharpness & Detail
Reasonably sharp images overall. Modest edge enhancement on high-contrast subjects, and a small amount of noise suppression.
Sharpness. The Nikon Coolpix S50 captures somewhat soft images due to noise suppression, and edge enhancement artifacts are visible on high-contrast subjects such as the crop above left. Edge enhancement creates the illusion of sharpness by enhancing colors and tones right at the edge of a rapid transition in color or tone.
Detail. The crop above right shows a small amount of noise suppression in the darker shadows, though there's a lot of fine detail visible elsewhere. Noise-suppression systems in digital cameras tend to flatten-out detail in areas of subtle contrast. The effects can often be seen in shots of human hair, where the individual strands are lost and an almost "watercolor" look appears.
ISO & Noise Performance
Low to moderate noise at the normal sensitivity setting, though big jumps
in noise with strong blurring at the higher settings.
Noise level is moderately low at the Nikon Coolpix S50's lowest sensitivity setting, though noise jumps with each increase in sensitivity. At ISO 400, noise is high and blurs fine detail, and the effect is even stronger at the 800 and 1,600 settings. At 1,600 ISO, noise pixels are so bright and large that overall color balance is affected as well.
Extremes: Sunlit and low light tests
High resolution with strong overall detail, but high contrast limits
shadow detail. Limited low-light performance, just capable of capturing
bright images under average city street lighting.
Sunlight. The Nikon Coolpix S50 produced high contrast with deep shadows under the harsh lighting of the test above. Detail is limited in the darker shadow areas, and noise suppression is evident here as well. Though the overall exposure appears slightly dim at +0.7 EV, the image at +1.0 EV was just a little too hot in the highlights and on Marti's face.
Note: Because digital cameras are more like slide film than negative film (in that they tend to have a more limited tonal range), we test them in the harshest situations to see how they handle scenes with bright highlights and dark shadows, as well as what kind of sensitivity they have in low light. The shot above is designed to mimic the very harsh, contrasty effect of direct noonday sunlight, a very tough challenge for most digital cameras. (You can read details of this test here.) In "real life," though, be sure to use fill flash in situations like the one shown above; it's better to shoot in the shade when possible.
Low light. The Nikon Coolpix S50 captured bright images down to the 1/8 foot-candle light level (about 1/8 as bright as average city street lighting at night) only at the highest ISO setting. At ISO 100, images were dim even at one foot-candle. Overall color looks pretty good with the Auto white balance setting. The camera's autofocus system was only able to focus on the subject down to about the 1/2 foot-candle light level without an AF assist lamp, which is slightly limited compared to its exposure capabilities at the higher sensitivity settings.
How bright is this? The one foot-candle light level that this test begins at roughly corresponds to the brightness of typical city street-lighting at night. Cameras performing well at that should be able to snap good-looking photos of street-lit scenes.
NOTE: This low light test is conducted with a stationary subject, and the camera mounted on a sturdy tripod. Most digital cameras will fail miserably when faced with a moving subject in dim lighting. (For example, a child's ballet recital or a holiday pageant in a gymnasium.) The longer shutter times necessary here absolutely demand the use of a tripod or other camera support to get sharp photos (anything slower than 1/15 second is very difficult to hand-hold without blurring). A useful trick is to just prop the camera on a convenient surface, and use its self-timer to release the shutter. For most low-light situations, you may have better luck with a digital SLR camera; but even there, you'll likely need to set the focus manually. For information and reviews on digital SLRs, refer to our SLR review index page.
Coverage and Range
Dim exposures at the default exposure setting; the camera required average
exposure compensation for flash exposures. Slightly limited range.
38mm equivalent | 114mm equivalent |
Normal Flash +1.0 EV | Slow-Sync Flash +0.3 EV |
Coverage. Flash coverage was uneven at wide angle, with strong falloff in the corners and edges of the frame, and splotchy coverage at the center. At telephoto, some falloff is noticeable in the corners, but coverage is a little more even. Indoors, under incandescent background lighting, the Coolpix S50's flash underexposed our subject a fair bit at its default setting, requiring a +1.0 EV exposure compensation adjustment to get bright results. The camera's Slow-Sync flash mode required less positive compensation at +0.3 EV, though the longer shutter speed results in a strong orange cast from the background lighting.
ISO 100 Range. The Nikon Coolpix S50's flash showed a very limited range, bright to only about eight feet at wide angle. At telephoto, it's never really properly exposed, even at 6 feet.
Manufacturer-Specified Flash Range | |
Wide Angle | Telephoto |
11.4 feet Auto ISO 320 |
9.8 feet Auto ISO 200 |
Manufacturer Specified Flash Test. In the shots above, the Coolpix S50 performs close to Nikon's specifications, producing reasonably bright exposures at the rated distances with its ISO set to Auto. These are pretty good figures, though the camera does boost ISO to get better performance.
Note: Our standard test method for flash range uses a fixed setting of ISO 100, to provide a fair basis of comparison between cameras. We've now also begun shooting two shots using the manufacturer-specified camera settings, at the range the company claims for the camera, to assess the validity of the specific claims.
Output Quality
Print Quality
Good print quality, oversaturated color, good 11x14 inch prints. ISO 400 images are soft but usable at 8x10, ISO 800 and 1,600 shots are usable at 5x7 and 4x6, respectively.
The Nikon Coolpix S50 delivered enough quality at ISO 100 for good looking 11x14 inch prints. At 13x19, its prints were softer looking, but probably fine for wall or table display. ISO 400 shots are usable at 8x10, ISO 800 shots are better kept to 5x7, and ISO 1,600 shots are still decent at 4x6, though there's a lot of noise at the two latter settings. ISO 1,600 has a lot of chroma noise, making it a last resort with the Nikon S50.
Color across the ISO range is way oversaturated, even more than it appears on the monitor. Most folks will like it just fine, though those who prefer accurate color will be disappointed.
The images above were taken from our standardized test shots. For a collection of more pictorial photos, see our Nikon Coolpix S50 Photo Gallery .
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Such silliness.
I hope this is all just hysterical rumor…any one know anything about this?
'Solid Curtain' And 'Citadel Shield 2007'
Military Drills Raise Spectre Of Imminent False Flag Provocation And Attack On Iran By WASHINGTON, DC —
US military bases in the continental United States (CONUS) will go on special lockdown between September 17 and September 21 under the auspices of Solid Curtain-Citadel Shield '07, a reliable source reported today. Under these exercises, US installations will institute enhanced anti-terror force protection measures, with increased security at all gates. The increased security was so elaborate that base personnel were being warned to expect significant delays at all base entrances.
According to William Arkin's 2005 directory of military code names, Solid Curtain is a US Navy Fleet Forces Command anti-terrorism/ force protection exercise. In Solid Curtain '03, Arkin reports, the drill scenario involved 15 simultaneous attacks across the country including the Corpus Christi naval air station, the Ingleside naval station, local shipyards, and other targets of attack in the coastal bend of south Texas. In earlier versions of Solid Curtain, the Newport Rhode Island naval station was featured in the scenario.
Smaller local news outlets near US bases have begun to report on these drills. One such account can be found in the Ridgecrest, California Daily Independent, site of the Sierra Sands Naval Air Weapons Station.
(see http://ridgecrestca .com/articles/ 2007/09/13/ news/news02. txt )
Other reports concerned the Naval Support Activity Panama City, Florida,
( http://www.wmbb. com/gulfcoastwes t/mbb/news. apx-content- articles- MBB-2007- 09-13-0004. html )
and the Goose Creek Naval Weapons station near Charleston, South Carolina
(see http://www.charlest on.net/news/ 2007/sep/ 12/briefly15607/).
No further details concerning Citadel Shield could be ascertained.
These drills cause acute concern because they occur before the backdrop of widely reported preparations by the Cheney clique to manufacture a new 9/11 and/or a new Gulf of Tonkin incident to be used as a pretext for a US sneak attack on Iran, with an included option for martial law inside the United States.
On Friday, September 14, the US Air Force has instituted a stand-down for the alleged purpose of reviewing procedures after a B-52 transported six nuclear-armed cruise missiles from Minot AFB North Dakota to Barksdale AFB Louisiana.
Intelligence community sources have pointed to the fact that Barksdale is the jumping off point for US air assets moving to the Persian Gulf, suggesting that US nuclear weapons are being readied for a strike on Iran. Another option might well be that one or more of the cruise missiles was destined for use in a false flag attack on an American city, a scenario alluded to by Cheney on April 15 in an interview on CBS New Face the Nation.
Solid Curtain and Citadel Shield will be taking place within the same general time frame as Vigilant Shield '08, scheduled to be held October 15-20, 2007, with a scenario that calls for the detonation of three radiological dispersal devices within the purview of USNORTHCOM (continental US) and the US Pacific Command. Vigilant Shield is supposed to be centered in Oregon, Arizona, and Guam. The drill is slated to include multiple homeland defense, critical infrastructure protection, and aerospace events. Linked to Vigilant Shield is another drill called National Level Exercise 1-08. In addition to the US, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom are scheduled to take part. Concurrent with these drills is TOPOFF 4 (Top Officials 4), the main yearly terrorism preparedness exercise sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security. The boss of this agency, Michael Chertoff, announced earlier in the summer that he had a "gut feeling" that a terror attack on the US was about to occur. This is another drill that lends itself to going live.
Also relevant to these events is Noble Resolve '07, a drill organized by the Joint Task Force Command (JTFCOM), Northern Command (NORTHCOM), J9 Joint Innovation and Experimentation Directorate, FEMA's command bunker, the Department of Homeland Security, and Virginia police. According to false flag drill expert D.L. Abrahamson, Noble Resolve '07 represents a four-day marathon of "simulated" terror attacks across the US and Europe, including a simulated detonation of a "loose" ten-kiloton nuclear weapon Virginia harbor, smuggled in by a "foreign nation."
Drills like these, if flipped live, would give Cheney the pretext to put the entire world on a catastrophic slide towards general war.
Recent terror events, such as London July 7, 2005, have occurred when drills and exercises went live or were flipped live by military and intelligence factions supporting the War of Civilizations, which such actions are meant to stoke. Most significantly, the original 9/11 coup d'etat by these same aggressive US military and intelligence factions was preceded and accompanied by installation security clampdowns of the type now imminent at the military bases in the Washington DC area and elsewhere.
These exercises can be summed up as follows:
BASE ISOLATION AND COUP PREPARATION Forts Hamilton, Meade (NSA), Belvoir, Ritchie, Myer, and McNair Starting August 15, 2001, Army limits public access to bases near Washington DC, supposedly as part of nationwide security clampdown because of terrorist threat Fort Meyer, VA, Fort McNair, DC, 3rd US Infantry
http://www.cooperat iveresearch. org/context. jsp?item= a090501fullacces scontrol# a090501full access control
September 5, 2001: US Army bases near Washington DC implement "full access control." Fort McNair is HQ, Army Military District of Washington DCFort Meyer, Virginia"Force protection exercise" scheduled for week after 9/11 Fort Belvoir, Virginia On September 11, 2001: second Tuesday of "garrison control exercise," allegedly to "test the security at the base in case of a terrorist attack."
Persons of good will in the United States must demand that elected representatives and presidential candidates act to expose, denounce, and shut down these reckless and highly dangerous drills.
Countries outside of the US must demand explanations from the US Embassy as to whether the US is indeed preparing a nuclear aggression against Iran, under the cover of a false flag war provocation. Countries not wishing to be drawn into the abyss of such a catastrophe must take steps now to assert their national independence.
Such silliness.
more than a little paranoia on the part of Sir Robin when it comes to the actions of our military. I'm sure when a private hiccups he dives for the fallout shelter!
Does that phrase mean anything to either of you?
If not, google it.
If so, then you know what you wrote is crap.
Only Kennedy's grace stopped a bombing of NYC by our own military so that we could blame Castro.
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Util_TableSearch Mk2
By Jesse Roberge - email@example.com
Searches for tables who's names contain the search string. Gives Aggregate Size, Rows, Index, and Column information as well.
LIKE wildcards are not automatic, which allows for easy 'begins with', 'ends with', and 'equal to' queries.
Improvements from Mk1: Added PartitionCount, IndexCount, ColumnCount, TotalMaxColumnLength, HasPrimaryKey, and HasClusteredIndex.
Requires the VIEW DATABASE STATE database permission.
Update 2009-01-14:
Fixed Rows Output - Was being erroneously multiplied by (1+#NonClusteredIndexes)
SUM(Rows) Should be SUM(CASE WHEN index_id BETWEEN 0 AND 1 THEN row_count ELSE 0 END)
Update 2009-09-21:
Added HasUniqueIndex, ClusteredIndexIsUnique, PrimaryKeyIsClustered, and NonPKUniqueIndexCount.
Added searching of indexed (materialized; has a clustered index) views
Added searching of system tables
Update 2009-10-01:
Fixed system object searching (Catelog views do not have sys.dm_db_partition_stats entries)
Added optional output of non-materialized virtual table objects
Size and index output columns will be NULL for these.
All system catelog views and DMVs are non-materialized.
Required Input Parameters:
@TableName sysname Filters tables. Can use LIKE wildcards. All tables if blank.
Optional Input Parameters:
@SchemaName sysname='' Filters schemas. Can use LIKE wildcards. All schemas if blank.
@VirtualTables TinyInt=0 Search virutal tables (views, table-valued functions) - Size and Index output will be NULL for these
@UserOjbects TinyInt=1 Search user objects
@SystemObjects TinyInt=0 Search system objects
EXECUTE Util_TableSearch '%mpi%'
EXECUTE Util_TableSearch @SchemaName='dbo', @TableName='%order%'
Licensed under the L-GPL - a weak copyleft license - you are permitted to use this as a component of a proprietary database and call this from proprietary software.
Copyleft lets you do anything you want except plagarize, conceal the source, proprietarize modifications, or prohibit copying & re-distribution of this script/proc.
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In the first half, four separate guests offered commentary and analysis on the superstorm, Hurricane Sandy, which hit landfall in New Jersey earlier in the evening. Researcher Nick Begich spoke about the technology of weather modification, and how weather control could be used as a weapon that has a kind of built-in 'plausible deniability.' While it's possible a technology such as HAARP might have been involved with Hurricane Sandy, it would be impossible to say for certain without independent monitoring, he noted. Author Whitley Strieber discussed how the Arctic melt this summer was extraordinary, and this has led to warming waters and bringing the Gulf Stream further north, which contributes to extreme storms further north. He also compared the storm to the one he and Art Bell wrote about in their book The Coming Global Superstorm.
Next up, physicist and author Stan Deyo shared details about an intriguing coincidence. In 1997, a practice drill related to a huge hurricane hitting the Northeastern US was conducted, and they used the name Hurricane Sandy. Deyo also called attention to a HAARP signal status chart from October 28th, which showed an intense hotspot in the northeastern US, and offered preparedness tips. Prophecy expert John Hogue related the storm to the astrological event of Neptune returning to Pisces in 2012-- Neptune is the ruler of floods and quakes, he noted. Hogue believes we are in the midst of a "climate cascade," which may really be set into motion by 2016-2017.
In the latter half, naturopathic physician, and the founder of the Institute of Applied Energetics, Rita Louise, shared her most recent work researching the genetic origins of humankind, through the study of various ancient mythologies and cultures. She and her co-author Wayne Laliberte found that there were concepts and storylines which paralleled across cultures that you could line-up and create a chronology from, starting with the formation of the Earth. According to her thesis, a group of ETs first came to Mars, and then relocated to Earth after a destruction occurred on the Red Planet.
"We were most certainly engineered by the gods. Mythology is very clear that there were a number of attempts to create mankind. Some were successful because we're here, but many of them were unsuccessful," she stated. In contrast to Sitchin's theory that the Annunaki created humans as a slave race, Louise suggested that our creation could be viewed more like a "domestication," such as how we have domesticated certain animals. She also did not find a consistency in the idea that the ETs were here to mine for gold, but there was some evidence that ochre was mined 40,000 to 90,000 years ago. Louise further speculated that the ETs may still be here, but they aren't able to survive under normal conditions, thus they live in their ships, or subterranean or underwater environments.
News segment guests: Mitch Battros, Lauren Weinstein
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Anthony (Grabbe) of New York
His Grace, the Most Reverend Anthony (Grabbe) of New York was a retired bishop of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church during the latter part of the twentieth century, having earlier served with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia and a Greek Old Calendarist jurisdiction.
Count Alexei Georgievich Grabbe was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia on June 22, 1926, the son of Count George Pavlovich Grabbe, the future Bishop Gregory of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. The Grabbe family was in Yugoslavia as refuges following the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Alexei attended a Russian cadet school in Serbian town of Bela Crkva until it was closed by the invading Germans early in World War II. He then attended a Russian grammar school in Belgrade, Yugoslavia until he was conscripted into the pro-Nazi, anti-bolshevik force of the former Soviet General Andrei Vlasov.
Sent to a prisoner-of-war camp at the end of World War II awaiting reparation to the Soviet Union, Alexei was rescued by his brother Dmitri before his deportation. Reaching Munich, Germany, which was under American control, the two brothers joined their father George Grabbe who had move the headquarters of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia to Munich from Yugoslavia to escape the communist takeover of Yugoslavia.
In Munich, Alexei joined the Monastery of St. Job of Pochaev in Munich that descended from the monastics who were originally from Pochaev Lavra and had taken refuge in Czechoslovakia after the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. On December 30, 1948, Alexei was tonsured a monk with name Anthony at the church belonging to the monastery of St. Job of Pochaev in Munich, Germany. Then with other monks from the monastery, he moved to the Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, New York. From 1949 to 1954, he studied at the seminary resident at the monastery after which he entered the Holy Orders and was ordained a priest.
Over the years, Fr. Anthony was secretary to the monastery abbot Archbishop Vitaly Maximenko and priest of the diocesan cathedral in New York City. There, he founded the St. Sergius High School, which he headed for nearly three decades. In 1962, he was awarded a Jeweled Cross.
In 1968, Archimandrite Anthony was appointed head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem and the Orthodox Society of Palestine. For the next 15 years he was in charge of the key properties in the Holy Land in the care of the mission that was founded during the late nineteenth century. Fr. Anthony faced serious challenges trying to maintain control of property in the face of encroachments by the Israeli and Soviet governments. He won a court case against the Israeli government that had illegally transferred ownership of St. Mary Magdalene convent on the Mount of Olives and other property to the Moscow Patriarchate, forcing the State of Israeli to pay compensation of $7,000,000. In 1962, Fr. Anthony was raised to the dignity of archimandrite.
After his return to the United States in the 1980s, Fr. Anthony was forced to resign his position as church secretary due to rumors associated with a financial scandal. After a disagreement with the ROCOR hierarchy and failed attempts to regain links with the Serbian Orthodox Church, Fr. Anthony joined a Old Calendarists jurisdiction in 1985. In 1996, he was consecrated a bishop in New York. However, he was scarcely active as a bishop and soon retired.
In 2001, he joined non-canonical Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church, that was led from the city of Suzdal in Russia by Bishop Valentine (Rusantsov). This group had broken away from ROCOR in mid 1990s. The Valentine group recognized the validity of Anthony's consecration as bishop and at his death he was its oldest bishop.
Bp. Anthony died in New York on September 12, 2005. He was buried at Novo-Diveyevo Convent in Spring Valley, New York.


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I feel like I've been neglecting Infovore a bit in recent weeks, and so thought I'd begin my return to form (as it were) with a semi-obligatory year-end post.
2006 has been really quite a year, on many levels. Certainly one of the most eventful so far. The most obvious change it brought has been a change of job: after two years of working for the New Statesman, I left for a change of scenery. I haven't mentioned where I am specifically, up until now, but given that most people who know me know, I'm happy to say that I'm working at the Nature Publishing Group, known best for their flagship title Nature. I'm a front-end developer there, writing markup and front-end code to build interfaces and sites. It's been a great experience so far; after an inital unsettled period I've slowly managed to find my feet and am enjoying it a lot. It's also given me a chance to work, full-time, in Ruby on Rails, which has proved most enjoyable – and at times eye-opening.
It's also been a year of travel. Between leaving one job and starting another, I went to the USA for the first time – to speak at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. That turned out to be fascinating, exciting, and terrifying in equal measure; I poured perhaps a little too much of myself into the talk, but was very pleased with the results and had a great time at the conference – both in terms of what I learned and the relationships I made and solidified. A shame not to be going again this year, but I'm glad to have been once.
I also travelled to Denmark for Reboot 8 in the summer, again to talk. Less terrifying, this time around, and perhaps my favourite work of the past year – lots of lateral thinking and answering of what-ifs in that talk. Do check it out if you haven't already. A very different environment to ETech – creative, artistic, and holistic in its approach to technology; really wonderfuly to attend something truly European. As long as it's on this year, I'm definitely going again.
There was also travel that didn't so much resemble work. Alex and I went to Barcelona in the autumn for a wonderful holiday – lots of food, sun, reading, and art. A really lovely city, and an excellent holiday. Just the rest I needed, really. Lots of photos of it are up in my Flickr profile.
Life is slowly becoming more settled, really. I'm feeling more confident daily in my work, in my play, and in the city I live in; London is really beginning to feel a little like home. It'll never truly be home, but it's great to live somewhere with so many good friends, and so much to do with them.
And what does 2007 hold? No idea, really, though I'm beginning to have some thoughts. I'm seriously considering a fortnight's holiday – I usually stick to just a week. And I think it could well end up being spent in San Francisco – another trip to the US, to a city full of friends (and, seemingly, more of them every day), and a summer in the sun.
2007 should also be a year of making. I've got at least one project to launch very early in the year, and several more on the go. And I mean "making" of everything: making more words, more music, more photographs, far more cooking – more stuff. I'm always wrestling to create, but I plan next year to really make stuff happen. I hope to share more of it here.
I've really loved 2006 – ups and downs, for sure, but so many opportunities, so many new friends, so many magic moments – from watching the sea roll in at Barcelona to being mesmerised in the cinema, from late nights talking with friends in far-off hotels to many happy memories in the kitchen.
I hope your 2006 was good; I hope your 2007 is even better. Do keep reading.


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In 1905, a committee of the Pennsylvania State Bar Association considered the creation of a comparative law society and recommended to bring such large project to the American Bar Association. The ABA created such entity at its 1907 annual meeting, as a new section named the Comparative Law Bureau: the Bureau members would meet annually at the ABA's summer meeting and publish an annual bulletin.
The Bureau's officers included: Simeon E. Baldwin (as director, 1907–1919; ABA co-founder and president, later Governor of Connecticut) and William Smithers (as secretary, also the chairman of the Bulletin's editorial staff). The Bureau's managers included: James Barr Ames (dean at Harvard), George Kirchwey (dean at Columbia), William Draper Lewis (dean at Pennsylvania, later the founding director of the American Law Institute), and John Henry Wigmore (dean at Northwestern).
Addition (often signified by the plus symbol "+") is one of the four basic operations of arithmetic, with the others being subtraction, multiplication and division. The addition of two whole numbers is the total amount of those quantities combined. For example, in the picture on the right, there is a combination of three apples and two apples together; making a total of 5 apples. This observation is equivalent to the mathematical expression "3 + 2 = 5" i.e., "3 add 2 is equal to 5".
Besides counting fruits, addition can also represent combining other physical objects. Using systematic generalizations, addition can also be defined on more abstract quantities, such as integers, rational numbers, real numbers and complex numbers and other abstract objects such as vectors and matrices.
In arithmetic, rules for addition involving fractions and negative numbers have been devised amongst others. In algebra, addition is studied more abstractly.
Addition has several important properties. It is commutative, meaning that order does not matter, and it is associative, meaning that when one adds more than two numbers, the order in which addition is performed does not matter (see Summation). Repeated addition of 1 is the same as counting; addition of 0 does not change a number. Addition also obeys predictable rules concerning related operations such as subtraction and multiplication.
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Mix 102.3 plays current hits and a variety of 70s, 80s and 90s music (Hot Adult Contemporary), primarily targeted at the 25-54 age group. Adelaide's Mix 102.3 is part of the KIIS Network with sister stations in other major Australian cities - KIIS 106.5 Sydney, KIIS 101.1 Melbourne, 97.3 FM Brisbane and Mix 106.3 Canberra.
The station known as Mix 102.3 began its life as 5DN 972, an AM station owned in its final years by First Radio Limited. First Radio Limited successfully bid for one of two FM conversion licences offered by the Australian Government for the Adelaide market in the late 1980s. 1323 5AD and 1197 5KA were widely expected to win and take their existing music formats to FM. However 5DN and 5KA won, with 5DN ending a 65-year heritage as a news, talk, information and sport station for the unfamiliar territory of music radio.
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A United Nations-run school sheltering civilians in Gaza came under attack Thursday, the U.N. says. More than a dozen people have been killed, according to Palestinian officials.
Reuters quotes Chris Gunness, a spokesman for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, the main U.N. agency in Gaza, as confirming that the shelter in Beit Hanoun was hit.
The Associated Press reports that "Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra says the dead and injured in the school compound were among hundreds of people seeking shelter from heavy fighting in the area."
Reuters says:
"Laila Al-Shinbari, a woman who was at school when it was shelled, told Reuters families had gathered in the courtyard expecting to be evacuated shortly in a Red Cross convoy.
" 'All of us sat in one place when suddenly four shells landed on our heads ... Bodies were on the ground, (there was) blood and screams. My son is dead and all my relatives are wounded including my other kids,' she wept."
Israel says it's looking into the incident. In a statement, the Israeli Defense Forces said militants opened fire at Israeli solders from the school area. The statement continues:
"In order to eliminate the threat posed to their lives, [the soldiers] responded with fire toward the origins of the shooting."
A Hamas spokesman accused Israel of "committing massacres."
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the attack, calling on Israel and Hamas to abide by international humanitarian law and respect "the sanctity of civilian life.
"This is wrong," Ban said. "Why are you continuing to kill people?
"There are many other ways to resolve this issue without killing each other," Ban said. "I'm angry about what they are doing."
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the U.S. was "deeply saddened and concerned about the tragic incident" and "the rising civilian death toll in Gaza."
"This also underscores the need to end the violence and to achieve a sustainable ceasefire and enduring resolution to the crisis in Gaza as soon as possible," Psaki said.
In 16 days of an Israeli offensive in Gaza, at least 788 Palestinians and 32 Israelis have been killed. Israel launched the ground operation in response to cross-border rocket attacks by Hamas.
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Melville, NY, September 29, 2017 –(PR.com)– Eclipse WiFi Corp., a global leader in WiFi solutions, has just launched their Quick Network Case, a means of quickly connecting entities back to the rest of the world. The QuickNetCase® is a complete wired and wireless network solution built into a waterproof Pelican Storm Case™ that will run off 12VDC or 120VAC.
"Our QuickNetCase® automatically connects to a cellular network, and then provides a wired connection as well as a WiFi hotspot directly from the case. The amount of bandwidth to each WiFi user is then controlled through our network appliance and different bandwidth limits can be set through login codes. The case can be powered through multiple available power options including a 12V battery, 120 VAC, or 220VAC power. Additionally, a solar and 12V wind turbine options are available," explained Don Davis, President of Eclipse WiFi Corp.
"I have owned property down in the Caribbean since 1998 and have been to many of the islands affected by the hurricane several times per year for work as well as for pleasure. To see the extent of the damage the islands received is very upsetting and my heart goes out to those affected by the hurricane. I wanted to do something to help in the efforts and knowing our QuickNetCase® would help regain some form of basic communications, we moved the release of our new QuickNetCase® up from our planned November release." The QuickNetCase® is available to all those affected by the recent Hurricanes such as hotel and resort owners, business owners, rescue entities, local and state governments, relief effort teams (such as the American Red Cross) and any other entity that requires an Internet connection. "In speaking with entities on the various islands, just getting basic communications back would mean so much to them and would help in the rebuilding and recovery efforts," Davis noted.
The Eclipse WiFi QuickNetCase® will also be shipped free of charge through special programs set up with companies transporting relief supplies to the islands whenever possible. For information on the QuickNetCase® please visit http://www.eclipsewifi.com/quicknetcase.aspx
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Headquartered in Melville, NY, Eclipse WiFi Corp. is one of the leading providers of turnkey wireless solutions to hospitality, retail, and education, as well as federal, state, and local governments. The company has been providing wireless solutions to its customer base since 1991. For more information on this press release or the company, contact Don Davis at 631.465.2110, fax 631.794.2400, email [email protected], or visit http://www.eclipsewifi.com.
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"I guess I'm a lot more confident... "
When Lil Nas X first dropped "Old Town Road" at the end of 2018, the country-rap banger broke the internet. In the process of wrangling viral fame, Lil Nas X's trajectory sparked debate over the racial boundaries of genre. While some might have thought this was just a teenager's 15 minutes of fame, three years and two Grammys later, Lil Nas X is rewriting the rules of unlikely stardom again.
Not only has Lil Nas X broken Billboard records, he's breaking barriers. The rap-pop star is openly gay and, through his lyrics, music videos like "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)" and comedic clapbacks to critics, he's using his platform to generate new conversations about representations of Black queerness and dismantling homophobia in hip-hop. It's a position the 22-year-old doesn't take lightly, but he's not trying to let his entire artistic narrative be defined by it, either.
"My intention was always to be as entertaining as possible," he says. "I'm not like trying to comfort anyone, or their children."
On Sept. 17, Lil Nas X dropped his debut studio album, Montero, a project that has been two very eventful years in the making. The artist joined NPR's Sidney Madden to discuss the road to this release and how his approach to music has changed over the years.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. To hear the broadcast version of this story, use the audio player above.
Sidney Madden, NPR Music: What's one song on the album that we can hear that went through a change?
Lil Nas X: I feel like all of them – but especially, "Lost in the Citadel." I went back and rewrote that one a million times, because the situation kept changing. [That song] is about this relationship that I kept going back to and expecting a different outcome, when it was going to be the same situation over and over again. It's called [that] because [that situation] is like a place you can't get out of... a maze.
You have so much confidence – but it's clear that you analyze your own output and creative process a lot.
As soon as I moved into my new house I spent the entire day writing – I'm still getting used to writing personal stuff in songs, and being open to people about things happening in my private life. But I really want to be honest with fans, remind people that I'm a human being and we all have the same situations in different forms.
What allowed you to be more personal?
I thought about the people I look up to the most – Kanye, or Drake, or Nicki – what really connects is when they're saying the things that are happening internally. They're letting you get a peek into their life, [which] humanizes them. People a lot of the time see celebrities or anyone famous as just... a being existing.
... not a real person. Do you ever feel like you've been put into a box so far in your career?
Yeah and I feel like it's going to happen over and over and over again. We unintentionally say people are exactly our first thoughts of them – whatever I'm saying right now I may not agree with in a year, you know? Or things I'm doing right now, I may say 'Ah, I should've done that differently.' We change as people, over and over and over again.
Has there ever been internal pushback on what you want to do and how you express yourself?
Yeah, absolutely. A lot of times if I'm saying something in a song, like the second verse in "Call Me" or even the first verse, or just talking about guys in music. Even you know, going to these pole dance classes, or going to the BET Awards and performing all, you know, sensually. It's a lot of pushback internally – but that's actually my guide to do exactly what I'm doing. A lot of times, when you're afraid to do something, that's when you should really do it.
Hip-hop has historically been very homophobic, in some respects. How has that affected your relationship with the genre?
I wouldn't be here without hip-hop. I understand how things have been, and I let go of it. There's a long build of homophobia, not even just in hip-hop but in the world. It's something that has been molded for a very long time, and I understand that it takes a lot for people to unlearn. I've thought that way in one point in time – it's the reason that there's still a lot of people who are extremely racist. It's gonna take some time to calm it down, I guess...
Can you give me an example of when you did that, and that you had to unlearn?
When people would say 'Oh my God I love you, you're not like the other gay people.' I thought that was like, a compliment. But in reality those people are just against feminine men, and the only reason they hate that is because they've been taught over time 'This is now how this specific person or thing is supposed to be.'
At the end of the album, you're talking about leaving a legacy – I'm trying to have you forecast what that legacy is going to mean, when the fan hearing who's hearing it starts their own music career. What boundaries are they going to break, and what boundaries won't they have to worry about?
I feel like they won't have to worry about being a queer person in the industry. Or being stifled by whatever somebody has to say about you on the internet. I feel like that's a big difference between artists nowadays and 10 years ago – we're open to hate from millions of people around the world. It's harder to block out. But I feel like that will be easier for them.
Maybe we'll have like a mainstream trans artists or something... just something different. Something new.
I love that. And then they're going to be the first artist to headline on Mars, and they could be a trans artist and [that aspect] would not even be part of the narrative.
Let's hope I'm the first artist to headline on Mars.
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Stem cell researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have made an advance toward having a long-lasting "repair caulk" for blood vessels. The research could form the basis of a treatment for peripheral artery disease, derived from a patient's own cells. Their results were recently published in the journal Circulation.
A team led by Young-sup Yoon, MD, PhD developed a new method for generating endothelial cells, which make up the lining of blood vessels, from human induced pluripotent stem cells.. When endothelial cells are surrounded by a supportive gel and implanted into mice with damaged blood vessels, they become part of the animals' blood vessels, surviving for more than 10 months.
"We tried several different gels before finding the best one," Yoon says. "This is the part that is my dream come true: the endothelial cells are really contributing to endogenous vessels. When I've shown these results to people in the field, they say 'Wow.'"
Previous attempts to achieve the same effect elsewhere had implanted cells lasting only a few days to weeks, although those studies mostly used adult stem cells, such as mesenchymal stem cells or endothelial progenitor cells, he says.
"When cells are implanted on their own, many of them die quickly, and the main therapeutic benefits are from growth factors they secrete," he adds. "When these endothelial cells are delivered in a gel, they are protected. It takes several weeks for most of them to migrate to vessels and incorporate into them."
Yoon is professor of medicine (cardiology) at Emory University School of Medicine and in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory. The first author of the paper is postdoctoral fellow Shin-Jeong Lee, PhD, now at Yonsei University School of Medicine in Seoul, where Yoon has a joint appointment.
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) can be generated by reprogramming skin or blood cells using a combination of genes or proteins known as the Yamanaka factors, named after 2012 Nobel Prize winner Shinya Yamanaka. Yoon's lab began with iPSCs, steered them into becoming mesoderm, the embryonic cells that become muscle and blood, and then used growth factors to direct them into becoming endothelial cells. The researchers used a magnetic sorting system to separate pure endothelial cells, which had a "cobblestone-like" appearance under the microscope and could form tubular structures in culture. For more information about the technology that they are using, consult with the experts from Bioshare to figure out whether it is needed for your organization or not.
"Other groups had done this type of thing before, but the main point is that all of the culture components we used would be compatible with clinical applications," Yoon says.
The scientists also designed a gel to mimic the supportive effects of the extracellular matrix. When encapsulated by the gel, cells could survive oxidative stress inflicted by hydrogen peroxide that killed unprotected cells. The gel is biodegradable, disappearing over the course of several weeks.
The scientists tested the effects of the encapsulated cells by injecting them into mice with hindlimb ischemia (restricted blood flow in the leg), a model of peripheral artery disease. After 4 weeks, the density of blood vessels was highest in mice implanted with gel-encapsulated endothelial cells. The mice were "nude," meaning genetically immunodeficient, facilitating acceptance of human cells.
The scientists found that implanted cells produce pro-angiogenic and vasculogenic growth factors. In addition, protection by the gel augmented and prolonged the cells' ability to contribute directly to blood vessels. To visualize the implanted cells, they were labeled beforehand with a red dye, while functioning blood vessels were labeled by infusing a green dye into living animals. Implanted cells incorporated into vessels, with the highest degree of incorporation occurring at 10 months (see figure).
Next, Lee and Yoon are experimenting with gel-encapsulated lymphatic endothelial cells (like those described in this 2015 Scientific Reports paper) as a potential wound repair aid or treatment for lymphedema, a common side effect of cancer treatment. Yoon's lab is also testing the potential benefits of endothelial cells plus gel in a heart attack model.
Yoon adds that whether autologous (the patients' own) cells, which could avoid the need for immunosuppression, or an "off the shelf" option will be commercially viable depends on more clinical testing.
The research was supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL127759, R01HL129511, 1R01HL125391), the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (DP3DK094346, DP3DK108245), the Korea Health Industry Development Institute, and the Korean National Research Foundation.


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I'd this recipe from some of the blogger and also from the book of 孟老师的100道面包. At first, it looks like a bit complicated but after a trial, I think I would do it again as it's not that complicated as I imagine and it taste really good! I think children definitely will like this bread as the cocoa flavour and chocolate chips really boost up my appetite in the morning.
The edges of the bread a bit chewy whereas the crumbs are supper soft. I toasted the last two slices on the 3rd day, that is another special texture which is incredibly crispy and cholatey.
(A) 1 piece of cheddar cheese kraft
70g fresh milk
20g bread flour
(B) 260g bread flour
40g sugar
1/4 tsp salt
4g yeast
130g water
(C) 20g butter
(D) 25g chocolate chips
2 tbsp cocoa powder
2 tbsp water
- Melt the cheese kraft with the milk in a pan at low heat. When the cheese completely melted, add in the flour and keep stirring until it become a dough. Let the dough cool down on a plate and cling wrap it then tuck it into the fridge for about one hour.
- Knead the ingredient (B) with the cheese mixture (1) until a smooth dough then add in the butter. Continue the kneading process till a smooth and elastic dough.
- Weigh 200g of out of the dough for the plain dough and the rest for cocoa dough.
- Mix the chocolate chips into the 200g plain dough and shape it into a smooth dough. For the cocoa dough, mix the cocoa powder the water until it foam a small cocoa dough. Knead the cocoa dough with the rest of the dough until the whole dough become chocolate dough. Shape it into a smooth dough. Let the doughs proof for 80 minutes.
- Roll out the cocoa dough into 20cm square in shape and 16cm for the plain dough. Place the plain dough on top of the cocoa dough. Roll it up and place it into the bread tin. Let it proof for about 60 minutes till the dough fill up to 90% of the bread tin.
- Lid on the bread tin and bake at the 190'C preheated oven for 30 - 35 minutes.


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The Geekocratic Tendency
By Jon Agar, on 25 May 2012
A new social movement in science is gathering, and it is time to give it a name. It's a mutation of an older tradition of scientific lobbying, but it has new features and deserves some analysis.
What is it?
Let's describe its components and features. We would include organisations like Science is Vital, which formed to campaign against cuts in science during the present austerity. There are campaigns, such as Simon Singh's anti-libel wars against the chiropracters.
There is a cultural wing – we are thinking of the spectrum of mutual regard that spans Ben Goldacre, Brian Cox, Wired magazine in the UK, and the comedians Robin Ince and Tim Minchin. These are the geek-tastic "skeptics", all with an immense following via social and other media which extends now into real world grassroots events such as Skeptics in the Pub.
But the geekocratic tendency is not just about love of the values of science, or protecting the resources and funds for science, or even securing greater respect for science or worrying about public understanding. None of these features are especially unique, indeed we can identify many as having long historical roots tied up with the professionalisation, and popularisation, of science. The novelty is partly a stronger political focus (and especially a fetishisation of evidence-based policy-making), but presented as an 'outsider' view while being articulated in fact by well-connected 'insiders'.
The key text is Mark Henderson's Geek Manifesto, published this month. It not only serves as a rallying cry for all these groups but also as an attempt to reappropriate the term 'geek'. Yet, Mark is no DIY science activist. He is Head of Communications at the Wellcome Trust, one of the leviathans of UK science funding. 'Geek', as Steve Cross has pointed out, has changed its meaning quite radically.
This social movement has other features. It has its own heroes (teenagers bravely standing up against anti-vivisectionists) and villains (homoeopathists, creationists, politicians who don't 'get' science). It is self-policing – the criticism of the recent 'death of British science' campaign is an interesting example. The embarrassment and derision stemmed from the fact that this is a social movement that is much more politically savvy than some of grassroots.
A social movement needs a name so that it can be tracked, discussed and perhaps supported or criticised. Hauke Riesch has described "science activists". Proposals kicked around included "grabby geeks", "science botherers", the "SciNet" (a la SkyNet of Terminator fame), and the "Geek Establishment". We like the "Geekocracy".
So how do we account for this social movement? Is it merely, for example, a manifestation of a network? Certainly social media have provided older science lobby networks with a visibility and an immediacy of communication which is new. Perhaps without social networks the constituency of this social movement would remain local or individual and largely invisible. We in STS@UCL will be watching with interest.
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Mary Anning (May, 21 1799 - March 9, 1847)
English fossil collector who made her first significant discovery at the age of 11 or 12 (sources differ on the details), when she found a complete skeleton of an Ichthyosaurus, from the Jurassic period. The ten-meter (30 feet) long skeleton created a sensation and made her famous. Anning's determination and keen scientific interest in fossils derived from her father's interest in fossil hunting, and a need for the income derived from them to support her family after his death in 1810.
She sold large fossils to noted paleontologists of the day, and smaller ones to the tourist trade. In 1823, Anning made another great discovery, found the first complete Plesiosaurus. Later in her life, the Geological Society of London granted Anning an honorary membership.
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Is Eli Lilly Being Wise About YZ?
It's now more than halfway through the period that Eli Lilly has called its "years YZ," a term describing the years spanning from 2011 to 2014. The company knew that this period would be particularly challenging as several of its top drugs lost patent protection.
In April 2011, Lilly CEO John Lechleiter laid out the company's plans to navigate the difficult period. How have these plans worked out so far? Let's look to see if Lilly is being wise in how the company is handling years YZ.
Controlling costs
One of the first things that Lechleiter pointed out in his 2011 speech was Lilly's efforts to control costs. He noted then that the company was well on its way to achieve cost reduction goals set a few years earlier. How has Lilly done since that point?
LLY Total Operating Expenses TTM data by YCharts.
Operating expenses continued to climb through the end of 2011, but then began to come back down. That's the good news. The bad news is that operating margins have steadily declined so far in the YZ years.
Staying the course
In his 2011 speech, Lechleiter took a swipe at other pharmaceutical companies by stating that some of Lilly's "peers are shifting direction, moving away from innovative drugs or staking their future on consolidation." He emphasized that "this is not our path at Lilly."
Lechleiter's comments about consolidation likely referred to Pfizer's acquisition of Wyeth and Merck's buyout of Schering-Plough. The remark about peers "moving away from innovative drugs" perhaps was an early hint at Abbott's spin-off of AbbVie as a separate business, which was publicly announced several months later. How have these moves by Pfizer, Merck and Abbott paid off for investors compared to Lilly's stay-the-course approach?
Judging by share price appreciation since 2011, Lilly's approach has worked out pretty well for shareholders. Pfizer won overall in stock performance, but just barely. Abbott isn't too far behind Lilly. (Note: Abbott's price dropped in 2012 in connection with the AbbVie spin-off.) Merck's performance wasn't so great.
Lilly's stick-to-your-knitting philosophy didn't totally rule out smart acquisitions, though. The company announced just weeks prior to Lechleiter's April 2011 speech that it was buying Janssen Pharmaceutical's animal health business. However, true to his word, Lechleiter has not led the company to any major acquisitions so far in the YZ years.
Growth areas
In early 2011, Lechleiter pointed to three growth areas for the company: Japan, emerging markets, and animal health. How have these panned out for Lilly so far?
As for Japan, growth numbers look all right. Lilly reported volume growth in the country of 14% for 2012. One important factor is that the company still retains patent protection for Zyprexa in Japan. However, lower prices for several drugs translated to total Japanese revenue growth of 7%.
Lilly's international growth outside of developed nations isn't as strong. The company reported zero volume growth in these regions in 2012 with a 5% decline in total sales. However, Lilly expects solid growth in 2013, particularly in China.
The biggest success story has been animal health. Total revenue in 2012 was up 21% -- helped by the acquisition from Janssen. Lilly sees continued double-digit growth for the coming years. The company has no plans to spin off the unit as Pfizer recently did with Zoetis.
Much of Lechleiter's 2011 speech focused on innovation and the company's pipeline. He voiced confidence that Lilly's continued innovation would help it overcome the difficulties of the YZ years.
The company certainly has plenty of drugs in the pipeline, with 13 candidates in late-stage trials and 49 drugs in phases 1 and 2. Some drugs approved over the past couple of years appear to have good revenue potential, particularly Tradjenta for patients with diabetes.
However, Lilly has also experienced setbacks. In December, the company discontinued one of three late-stage studies of experimental rheumatoid arthritis drug tabalumab due to disappointing efficacy results. A few months earlier, Lilly announced that solanezumab failed to meet primary endpoints in a phase 3 study targeting treatment of Alzheimer's disease. However, the company is moving forward with another late-stage study of the drug in treating patients with a mild form of the disease.
Getting there?
The theme for Lilly's 2010 annual report and its CEO's early 2011 speech was "Getting There." Can the company legitimately claim to be getting there now that it is halfway through the YZ period?
If we only look at the stock performance, we would probably answer affirmatively. Lilly's shares have done well so far. However, I don't think the company's YZ strategy will be enough over the next couple of years as it loses patent protection for Cymbalta and Humalog in 2013 and Evista in 2014. The three drugs combined for sales of $8.4 billion last year.
Lilly's pipeline could pay off, but not quickly enough to cushion the blow of these coming losses. My view is that the company needs to modify its stance on acquisitions somewhat. I don't think Lilly needs a megadeal, but spending some of its $6.9 billion in cash to buy a smaller company seems to make a lot of sense. That would be a wiser approach for the remaining years YZ in my opinion. And it would be fairly "EZ," too.
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Saturday, July 28, 2018
The Universal Prayer of Pope Clement XI
O my God, I believe in Thee; do Thou strengthen my faith. All my hopes are in Thee; do Thou secure them. I love Thee with my whole heart; teach me to love Thee daily more and more. I am sorry that I have offended Thee; do Thou increase my sorrow.
I adore Thee as my first beginning; I aspire after Thee as my last end. I give Thee thanks as my constant benefactor; I call upon Thee as my sovereign protector.
Vouchsafe, O my God, to conduct me by Thy wisdom, to restrain me by Thy justice, to comfort me by Thy mercy, to defend me by Thy power.
To Thee I desire to consecrate all my thoughts, words, actions, and sufferings; that henceforward I may think only of Thee, speak of Thee, refer all my actions to Thy greater glory, and suffer willingly whatever Thou shallt appoint.
Lord, I desire that in all things Thy will may be done, because it is Thy will, and in the manner that Thou willest.
I beg of Thee to enlighten my understanding, to inflame my heart, to purify my body, and to sanctify my soul.
Grant that I be not puffed up with pride, moved by flattery, deceived by the world, or duped by the devil.
Give me grace to purify my memory, to bridle my tongue, to restrain my eyes, and to mortify my senses.
Give me strength, O my God, to expiate my offenses, to overcome my temptations, to subdue my passions, and to acquire the virtues proper for my state.
Fill my heart with tender affection for Thy goodness, a hatred of my faults, a love for my neighbor, and contempt of the world.
Let me always remember to be submissive to my superiors, condescending to my inferiors, faithful to my friends, and charitable to my enemies.
Assist me to overcome sensuality by mortification, avarice by alms-deeds, anger by meekness, and tepidity by devotion.
O my God, make me prudent in my undertakings, courageous in dangers, patient in affliction, and humble in prosperity.
Grant that I may be ever attentive at my prayers, temperate at my meals, diligent at my employments, and constant in my resolutions.
Let my conscience be ever upright and pure, my exterior modest, my conversation edifying, and my life according to rule.
Assist me that I may continually labor to overcome nature, to correspond with Thy grace, to keep Thy commandments, and to work out my salvation.
Help me to obtain holiness of life by a sincere confession of my sins, by a devout reception of the Body of Christ, by a continual recollection of mind, and by a pure intention of heart.
Discover to me, O my God, the nothingness of this world, the greatness of heaven, the shortness of time, and the length of eternity.
Grant that I may prepare for death, that I may fear Thy judgments, that I may escape hell, and in the end obtain heaven, through the merits of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
* Prayer recommended for after communion, but not limited to that moment.


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Evolution, A Book That Turns Science Into Art
See examples of these beautiful photographs of animal skeletons in our image gallery
Scientists have long used the skeletons of animals to study the relationships among different species. French naturalist Pierre Belon in 1555 included an engraving of a human skeleton beside a bird skeleton in his History of the Nature of Birds to emphasize similarities. Nearly 200 years later another French naturalist, George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, compared the skeletons of humans and horses. He wrote in 1753:
Take the skeleton of a man. Tilt the pelvis, shorten the femur, legs, and arms, elongate the feet and hands, fuse the phalanges, elongate the jaws while shortening the frontal bone, and finally elongate the spine, and the skeleton will cease to represent the remains of a man and will be the skeleton of a horse.
Charles Darwin also used skeletons of living species–along with live and taxidermied specimens and fossils–as he developed his theory of natural selection.
It would appear that skeletons, then, would be a great tool for teaching evolutionary theory. But I wasn't expecting them to be so beautiful.
The first thing you notice when you see a copy of Evolution by Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu are the photographs. One of my magazine colleagues called these stark black-and-white images of animal skeletons, by Patrick Gries, "science porn." An artist friend drooled over the beauty in the imagery. (See four examples from the book in our photo gallery below.) It could be incredibly easy to own this book and never read the text.
But that would be a shame. The book, brilliantly translated by Linda Asher from the original French, is organized into 44 easy-to-read essays about various topics in evolution, from history to modern theory, each illustrated by a set of skeleton photographs. The co-evolution of predator and prey species, for example, includes images of a leopard skeleton attacking a screwhorn antelope, a golden eagle swooping down on a rabbit and a red fox pouncing on a common vole. The text is full of details and stories that will be new even to readers who are familiar with the topic of evolution. But everything is explained well enough that those who have not read much about evolution before will not be lost.
Evolution may seem familiar; in 2007, the book was released in large format and quickly sold out after a selection of its images ran in the science section of the New York Times. This new version is a much more shelf-friendly and reading-friendly size, and it includes a handful of new images. The book would make a great last-minute holiday gift for the science or art lover on your list or just a fine addition to your own library.
(I can hardly bring up the topic of evolution without mentioning Smithsonian magazine's January issue, now online. With it, we created something called Evotourism–a new type of travel focused on evolution. We've started off with 12 destinations, from the Jurassic Coast of England to Australia's Kangaroo Island. You can learn about evolution by digging for your own fossils, viewing some of the world's weirdest species ever to evolve, even helping scientists study the co-evolution of a predator and its prey. And if you've got your own Evotourism suggestions, we want to hear them.)


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Online Music Camps in Penfield
Bach to Rock online music camps are a perfect choice for campers who want to attend music camp from home. These exciting and interactive virtual camps offer tons of fun for kids. Plus, they're a great introduction to playing an instrument or learning new musical skills!
All of our online music camps take place over Zoom, allowing campers to learn from the comfort of home. Please note that students may need their own instrument or a second device for some of our online camps.
Early Childhood Music Camps
Our early childhood online music camps are perfect for younger campers who love music. These fun-filled week-long camps can introduce your child to core musical concepts or help them choose which instrument they want to play!
Rock City World Tour Camp (Ages 5-6)
Rock City World Tour Camp takes students on a world-wide musical adventure! Over the course of five 45-minute sessions, students journey from Africa to South America and finally to outer space – learning about musical concepts and fun instruments along the way.
Rock City World Tour Camp is a great introduction to our Kids n Keys piano program!
Fun with Music Camp (Ages 7-9)
Fun With Music Camp introduces students to the drums, guitar, piano, ukulele, and singing! This camp is perfect for any student unsure of which instrument he or she would like to play. Students do not need any musical experience or an instrument to participate. Students learn the parts of each instrument and the basics of playing each in five 1-hour sessions.
After taking this camp, students may want to choose an instrument and participate in the Drum, Guitar, Piano, Ukulele, or Voice Camp! Students may also choose to enroll in private music lessons.
Online Music Camps for Beginners
Our online music camps for beginner students are a perfect introduction to learning a new instrument. Each camp includes five 90-minute group lessons, where students learn foundational skills. We also provide each camper with two 30-minute private lessons, where they get direct feedback and instruction from a Bach to Rock music teacher!
Please note that students will need their own instrument to take part in our beginner Piano, Guitar, Ukulele, and Drum Camps. If you don't already own an instrument, we can offer suggestions on where to buy or rent one!
Piano Camp for Beginners (Ages 7+)
Our online Piano Camp helps new musicians learn the basics of playing the piano. Students will learn the fundamentals of piano and keyboard playing. Topics include finger and hand placement, basic rhythms, beginner chords, and how to form chords into a song.
After completing Piano Camp, students can enroll in our Songwriting Camp or in private piano lessons!
Guitar Camp for Beginners (Ages 9+)
Guitar Camp gives students an introduction to playing the guitar — one of the most powerful, popular, and versatile instruments in modern music! Students will learn how to tune their guitar, how to hold and strum their instrument, and how to play basic chords. By the end of the camp, students will be able to play their first songs.
Following Guitar Camp, students can take our Songwriting Camp or sign up for one-on-one guitar lessons!
Ukulele Camp for Beginners (Ages 7+)
In our online Ukulele Camp, students will learn the basics of the ukulele. Students will learn how to tune, hold, and strum the ukulele, how to form basic chords, and fundamental techniques like the shuffle strum. By the end of camp, each student will have learned how to play their first song.
Graduates from Ukulele Camp can continue learning in one-on-one ukulele lessons at Bach to Rock! We also encourage campers to sign up for our Songwriting Camp if they want to make their own music!
Drum Camp for Beginners (Ages 7+)
Our online Drum Camp is a beginner-friendly introduction to drumming! Students will only need a drum pad or snare drum to participate in this camp, instead of a full drum kit. Students learn basic rhythms, sticking patterns, and drum rudiments. By the end of camp, each camper will be able to play a basic groove and can play their first songs.
Campers can sign up for one-on-one drum lessons after completing this camp or join us for our online Songwriting Camp!
Voice Camp for Beginners (Ages 7+)
Over the course of Voice Camp, beginner vocalists can discover the power of their own voice! Our students learn how to care for their voice and beginner techniques for vocal tone, pitch, and rhythm. We also teach students how to listen to their own voice and adjust their technique as needed.
After taking this camp, students can sign up for weekly singing lessons or join Songwriting Camp to learn more about writing their own music!
Songwriting Camp (Ages 8+)
Over the course of Songwriting Camp, students learn the basics of writing their own music. Campers will learn about song structure, key, tempo, genre, and lyrics, with instruction from experienced songwriters. To participate in this camp, students only need a desire to learn – you do not need to play an instrument!
After taking the Songwriting Camp, students can sign up for private Songwriting 101 or our Beat Making Camp, which gives students an introduction to music production software.
Band Promo 101: Music Video Camp (Ages 8+)
Designed for existing bands, the Band Promo 101: Music Video Camp can help bands create their first music video. Over the course of this camp, you and your bandmates will choose a song and perfect it with help from a Bach to Rock music expert. Our instructor will then work with your band to create your first-ever music video!
Each student needs a device to record their performance, such as a phone, tablet, or a computer with a webcam. Students submit videos to the school and, during class, the band helps the teacher produce and edit their video.
Online DJ Camps
Want to become the world's next great DJ? Bach to Rock offers a pair of online music camps for DJs through Beat Refinery®. These camps will help you build skills and learn the basics of modern DJ software.
Beat Making Camp (Ages 8+)
Using BandLab for Education, a free online recording platform, students learn the basics of recording, editing and mixing in five 90-minute sessions. To participate in this camp, students need a computer with Google Chrome installed to access BandLab for Education, which is available for free online. Students will also need a second device to view the lessons. No musical experience is required!
After taking this course, students may want to enroll in the Songwriting Camp to learn more about creating their own music.
Intro to DJing Camp (Ages 10+)
Intro to DJing Camp teaches students what it takes to be a DJ! This camp teaches students the basics of Serato DJ, the world's most popular DJing software. Students will learn Serato software concepts like building song crates, making cue points and looping. Other DJ fundamentals like basic scratching, beat counting and song structure are included in this camp.
To participate in this class, students need a computer with Serato DJ Lite, which is available as a free download. Students will also need a second computer or mobile device (a tablet is suggested) to view the lessons. No musical experience or DJ hardware is required!
Sign Up for Online Music Camps!
Ready to enroll in a Bach to Rock online music camp? Students can sign up for online music camps through our website or call us for information about upcoming camps!
All of our online music camps require a phone, tablet, or computer that's compatible with Zoom. Please note that students may need an instrument or a second device to participate in some of these camps.
Sign up for online music camps today! Register online or contact Bach to Rock for details on camp schedules and pricing.