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Traditional Chinese Medicine, including acupuncture, can support overall health and treat a wide range of conditions. Acupuncture (insertion of very fine needles through the skin) is recognized by the World Health Organization as an effective treatment modality and is increasingly applied in conjunction with Western medicine in the U.S. It is one aspect of Traditional Chinese Medicine, which treats health holistically and promotes optimal homeostasis (balance) in the body.
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Pitutary gland is a pea shaped gland present in the brain and is the master of human endocrine system(hormonal system). The procedure is used for removing tumors from the pitutary gland and from the sphenoid sinus of the skull. Your surgeon can either reach the are through nose using endoscope or might opt to do it under a microscope. This helps in restoring the normal hormonal control and balance of the body.
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My Bassetto I
Athanasius Kircher
Chelys major - Violone
Chelys major - Violone
Many experts have held Kircher´s description of the double bass tuned in fifths to be an error. They assume that he had confused the name "Violone" with "Violino". However, more recent research has shown
A further indication that speaks against Kircher having been in error is the depiction of a man-
size double bass in his work
- the resonant behaviour of the bowed string instruments tuned in fifths, the violin, viola and the violoncello is much better than that of the double bass tuned in fourths
- acoustical experiments have shown that the double bass is actually too small in relation to the lowest frequencies that can be generated with it. The corollary is that the relationships must be better with higher frequencies
- the solo double bass tuned F#-B-E-A does not combine well with the other members of the violin family
- in comparison with this tuning, using the tuning G-D-A-E would only result in losing one semitone at the bottom of the compass while gaining a fifth at the top
- for hundreds of years, the lowest string of the double bass instrument was tuned to contra G (for example on the "G Violone")
- modern solo playing takes place for the most part on the first string, which is disadvantageous for phrasing and intonation
- the upper end of the compass of the double bass tuned in fourths is restricted. Above the d' (sounding) the tonal spectrum is unsatisfactory on the greatly shortened string
- the main reason for tuning the double bass in fourths, namely to avoid over frequent changes of position, does not apply when the four-finger technique is used
- transpositions of works that were written for fifths-tuned string instruments are as a rule difficult to perform in the fourths tuning
- the tuning G-D-A-E would enable continuo playing in both the 16 foot and the
8 footregisters
- the gap between the violoncello and the double bass could be closed
- double stops that are unplayable with fourths tuning such as major sixths and sevenths could be executed with the fifths tuning
At first I used my ordinary 3/4 double bass as a bassetto. This was made in 1720 by Giovanni Grancino.
1 - Certainly the G, D and A strings could be assembled from the available offerings (G: solo F# string tuned a semitone higher, D: from the orchestral set, A: from the solo set). But there was no high E string on the market. Fortunately,
I was able to win the enthusiastically innovative Swiss company Velvet Strings over to my idea. They made a string of this sort available for me, which they were able to improve after a few test series. Velvet will soon be in a position to include a complete set of co-ordinated, matching strings in the
2 - It was necessary to find a legible system of notation, because the compass of the instrument, with four and a half octaves (stopped) is signifi-
cantly greater than that of the fourths-tuned double bass. After a few experiments, notation in the tenor and treble clefs (in octave transposition) proved for me to be the best.
3 - The very deep-seated read-and-stop experience (after all, I had 20 years of orchestral experience behind me) had to be masked out in order to learn a com-
pletely new stopping technique. Due to the fixation on the fourths tuning, this proved to be the most obstinate difficulty to be overcome.
Today, these initial problems have been conquered, and I am able to play both the fourths-tuned and the fifths-tuned double bass.
Admittedly, the "new" instrument is a normal double bass of average size, but it has completely different tonal characteristics and requires a modified way of playing. For this reason, I decided to introduce a new name for it. The historical instrument name "Bassetto" seemed suitable to me, because this expresses both the similarity to the double bass and the difference from it.
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- Alaska has the highest rate of reported rape in the nation
- John Sutter: Efforts to prevent rape should focus more on men
- "Victims aren't to blame for rape and domestic violence; offenders are," he writes
- Sutter visited Alaska as part of CNN's Change the List project
I spent a recent Saturday morning at a field house in Juneau, Alaska, where girls with pink hair and stars and rainbows drawn on their cheeks run 27 laps around a gymnasium track. That may not seem like international news, but it should be. Their race was part of the international "Girls on the Run" program, which is amazingly effective at empowering young women.
I watched most of the race from the sidelines with Andrew, a grandpa wearing a driver's cap, and Jennifer, the mother of one of the young runners.
"Good job! Keep going! Love you! You're awesome!"
"Remember to breathe!"
Encouragement is the hallmark of the program, which pairs girls with adult mentors who help train them to run a 5K -- and, more importantly, talk to them about what it means to be women in modern America. "You have to set a goal to become a powerful girl on the run," Ati Nasiah, the local organizer, with a feather stuck in her hair, told the girls before the race. "Each of us is unique, and that is what makes us so powerful. With every heartbeat and every breath, we are changing the world."
These girls are changing the world and Alaska, the state FBI crime estimates rank as having the highest rate of reported rape in the country. Teaching young women that they can be whoever and whatever they want to be is an important part of preventing rape and abuse. I visited Alaska in December because you voted for me to cover rape in the United States as part of CNN's Change the List project, which focuses on bottom-of-the-list places like Alaska.
Jennifer, the mom I watched the race with, and whose last name I'm not using to protect her privacy, was a victim of domestic violence. Her husband beat her, she told me, and she got together with him when she was 13 and he 22. One reason Jennifer brought her daughter to Girls on the Run, with the help of a scholarship and free sneakers, is that she doesn't want her daughter to accept violence against women. "Instead of me just sitting back and taking it, (my kids) see me standing up," she said. "And that's what they need. Otherwise, they will grow up and think it's OK."
That's hugely important. But the largely unspoken reality also remains: Victims aren't to blame for rape and domestic violence; offenders are. So, while they are essential, programs like Girls on the Run aren't enough to end what Alaska's governor has termed its "epidemic" of rape and violence against women.
To stop the violence, men have to stop raping and battering.
That seems like common sense. But it's still controversial.
For evidence, look no further than Zerlina Maxwell, an attorney and rape survivor who went on Fox News last year to make that very point. Other pundits argued that women should carry weapons to protect themselves. No, Maxwell said. Men should stop raping, and that would solve it. For those remarks, she received death threats. On Twitter, one person wrote, according to a news report, "I hope you get raped and your throat slit."
This same pro-gun sentiment came up in the comments sections of other Change the List stories published earlier this month about rape in Alaska. "Time to arm and train the women to defend themselves," one person wrote on my op-ed about a lawless village at the far edge of the state, where troopers fly in by plane. That's wrong-headed. Instead of putting the burden on women to defend themselves, the state should continue to expand its Village Public Safety Officer program. I hope it soon will include that village.
"What we have been doing for the past 100 years hasn't been working," Maxwell told me by phone from New York. "Focusing on women's behavior isn't working."
Andrew, the adoptive grandpa who I spoke with during the race in Juneau, gets it, too. "They need a program for boys, that's for sure," he told me. "They've got this program to rebuild the confidence and self esteem in the girls, and keep them going. But where is the support structure to stop it in the boys? You know, break the cycle."
Alaska has more of a jump-start on that than some states. It was encouraging to see members of a local men's high school basketball team acting as cheerleaders for the Girls on the Run event. Those players, from Juneau's Thunder Mountain High School, are participating in a program called Coaching Boys into Men. It's designed to teach young men about safe relationships and respect for women. Gov. Sean Parnell, a Republican, has requested $12.4 million to fund his "Choose Respect" initiative, which also is aimed at preventing violence and helping survivors.
That's progress. But such programs should be expanded.
We have to keep encouraging girls, but always remember offenders are to blame.
Some of that should happen through formal training and programs. It's also on all of us to call out inappropriate behavior when we see it.
The family I sat with as we watched the girls sprint by understood this. When Jennifer's son reached out to give his sister a whopping high-five, his mom told him that he had to remember to be gentle -- to support her, not hit her.
"Hands are for high-fives and hugs, not hitting," she said.
The next time his 9-year-old sister came around, he gave her the softest of bear hugs.
"Good job!"
The young runner seemed grateful for his support.


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The FBI and Springfield Township Police Department are seeking the public's assistance to locate and identify two suspects responsible for the armed robbery of the TD Bank branch located at 1240 Bethlehem Pike in Flourtown on August 24.
At approximately 3:07 p.m., two males entered the bank and proceeded to a teller station. Suspect #1 showed a black handgun and demanded money from the teller. The subjects obtained an undisclosed amount of cash and placed the money into a canvas bag and fled the bank on foot towards Jones Avenue. It is possible the suspects fled Jones Avenue in a grey or gold car.
Suspect #1 is described as a black man in his late 20s, 5'08" to 5'10" tall, medium build, with a short beard or goatee. Suspect #1 wore a blue hat with "KC" on the front, a white shirt, and dark pants. This is the suspect that brandished the handgun. Suspect #2 is described as a black male in his late 20s, 5'08" to 5'10" tall, medium build, wearing a red hat, a Nike shirt, and tan pants.
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-4569?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12583205#action_12583205 ] Tim Ellison commented on HARMONY-4569: -------------------------------------- > That's unbelievable. What? > I'm grateful for your effort. Could you please help me to understand why you > restored unreadable localization identifiers? With this change my removal > of explanatory comments around them made code less understandable. Because we don't all go off inventing our own idea of how the code should be designed. You may disagree with the use of unreadable identifiers, and if so you should suggest they are changed throughout. Having the mixture of styles makes the code less understandable IMO. > [classlib][performance] Ineffecient manifest parsing results in slowdown when debugging java code > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HARMONY-4569 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-4569 > Project: Harmony > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Classlib > Reporter: Gregory Shimansky > Assignee: Tim Ellison > Attachments: ByteBuffer.java, ExposedByteArrayInputStream.java, methodee-stack.cpp, methodee.cpp, remove_writes.patch, remove_writes_25032008.patch, remove_writes_todo.patch, remove_writes_todo_1.patch, remove_writes_todo_completed.patch, ThreadLocalCache.java > > > I've reported this already some time ago [1], but since it wasn't noticed I decided to create a bug report. > To run a hello world class which contains only 1 method takes 319046 method calls on Harmony. Out of them 291637 method calls are the calls that happen when Java class loader tries to find Hello.class and 27409 are what it takes for classlib to startup. > I've found these numbers using two simple JVMTI agents that I wrote some time ago. First one [2] counts all MethodEnter events and outputs method names to log file. Second one [3] monitors a particular method and writes down a stack trace to the log file. It should be noted that MethodEnter event according to specification is sent by VM only in LIVE phase, that is after classlib startup, so to find out the overall number of method calls I've used debug version of DRLVM with an additional argument -Xtrace:jvmti.event.method.entry:log which wrote down *all* of the calls to Java method while executing the application. > Parsing the logs for statistics can be done with the following command: > cat method_entry.log | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr > method_entry.log-sorted > It creates a file with the number that each method was called. The absolute champion since my post in [1] still remains the method Ljava/io/ByteArrayOutputStream;.write(I)V, it is called 131114 times. Using second agent [3] I've found out that the most popular stack trace for calling ByteArrayOutputStream;.write looks like this (please note that numbers at the ends of the lines are not line numbers, these are the bytecode numbers): > Ljava/io/ByteArrayOutputStream;.write(I)V:0 > Ljava/util/jar/InitManifest;.nextChunk(Ljava/io/InputStream;Ljava/util/List;)[B:308 > Ljava/util/jar/InitManifest;.<init>(Ljava/io/InputStream;Ljava/util/jar/Attributes;Ljava/util/Map;Ljava/util/Map;Ljava/lang/String;)V:385 > Ljava/util/jar/Manifest;.read(Ljava/io/InputStream;)V:18 > Ljava/util/jar/Manifest;.<init>(Ljava/io/InputStream;Z)V:43 > Ljava/util/jar/JarFile;.getManifest()Ljava/util/jar/Manifest;:90 > Ljava/net/URLClassLoader;.createURLJarHandler(Ljava/net/URL;)Ljava/net/URLClassLoader$URLHandler;:141 > Ljava/net/URLClassLoader;.makeNewHandler()V:64 > Ljava/net/URLClassLoader;.getHandler(I)Ljava/net/URLClassLoader$URLHandler;:24 > Ljava/net/URLClassLoader;.findClassImpl(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/Class;:82 > Ljava/net/URLClassLoader$4;.run()Ljava/lang/Class;:8 > Ljava/net/URLClassLoader$4;.run()Ljava/lang/Object;:1 > Ljava/security/AccessController;.doPrivilegedImpl(Ljava/security/PrivilegedAction;Ljava/security/AccessControlContext;)Ljava/lang/Object;:79 > Ljava/security/AccessController;.doPrivileged(Ljava/security/PrivilegedAction;Ljava/security/AccessControlContext;)Ljava/lang/Object;:16 > Ljava/net/URLClassLoader;.findClass(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/Class;:13 > Ljava/lang/ClassLoader;.loadClass(Ljava/lang/String;Z)Ljava/lang/Class;:80 > Ljava/lang/ClassLoader$SystemClassLoader;.loadClass(Ljava/lang/String;Z)Ljava/lang/Class;:65 > Ljava/lang/ClassLoader;.loadClass(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/Class;:3 > This stack trace occurs 123029 number of times, about 8000 times ByteArrayOutputStream;.write is called from InitManifest class with a bit different stack trace, but all of the calls to write occur from this class. It seems that InitManifest code copies memory by bytes and there is quite a lot of the memory that is copied. This may not be a big problem in the normal execution of Java application because JIT usually inlines such hot methods. Although it is still inefficient, it may be not a big performance hit (actually this should be checked). > But when trying to debug Java code, DRLVM uses JET, which doesn't inline any methods. It has to execute all of them and all of those calls to ByteArrayOutputStream;.write are executed on startup of the application. It takes several minutes to get to the point of executing the actual user program. > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.harmony.devel/21104/focus=21133 see also messages posted in this subthread by me > [2] http://people.apache.org/~gshimansky/methodee.cpp > [3] http://people.apache.org/~gshimansky/methodee-stack.cpp -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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The Boston Celtics are set to host their second game seven of the playoffs, having successfully defended home court in each game of the post-season. If the Cleveland Cavaliers are going to buck the trend it's going to take a special performance from LeBron James, or at least some help from the referees. Boston is favored by eight, but Kevin Garnett will settle for anything that keeps their incredible season going. Continue after the jump for updates on the action once the game is underway.
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• That intro music makes me want to drown puppies.
• I hope Ben Wallace doesn't pass out. Finally, basketball.
• I'm pretty sure the big Brazilian just took nine steps.
• The first quarter is wrapping up and, hey, Damon Jones!
• Boston controlled much of the quarter, but the fightin' LeBrons came right back at them. 18-13 after one...FEEL THE EXCITEMENT!
• LeBron leads the Cavs with nine points, while Pierce scored eight for the team that isn't losing. Garnett added six rebounds in the quarter.
• Thanks to Mike Breen we now know that Mr. Potato Coach's son is the reason Damon is getting court time.
• Eddie Fucking House! Boston's lead is extended to 10.
• When KG is fouled from behind while in the air he gets up and goes to the line, as opposed to LeBron, who acts like he's stabbed. He and Drogba must be related.
• Jesus finally got off a shot, good for him.
• Hey another push in the back on the break. Paul Pierce just got stanchion'd.
• Heading into halftime and the Celtics are still up double digits.
• Piece and LeBron are the leading scorers, but Eddie House is getting all of the Leslie Visser love.
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- Fedorapackager requires Java 8 now.
- Allow users to clone multiple projects at once.
- Fix changelog parsing for Bodhi
- Make use of /etc/rpkg/fedpkg.conf
- Modified Fedora Packager Koji properties page
- Reduce logging noise.
- Enable rpmlint and rpm natures by default.
- Tagging is no longer used with Git.
- Shorter menu labels.
- Fixed JsonNull error when pushing bodhi update
- Eval NVRs when Bodhi updating
- Eval the name to not fail on sclized packages.
- Bodhi authenticate when pushing review fix.
- Bodhi dialog cleanup.
- Make perspective switch remember previous choice.
- Let the console name has the package (srpm) name in it.
- Remove expectation of the existance of an ssh key.
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Eclipse Fedorapackager 0.5.0 release
After a bit more than 2 years it was high time to do new release to adapt to current Fedora and Eclipse releases. Most of the changes in this release were towards cleaning and simplifying the codebase hoping for faster releases but there are some important feature changes like:
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Since many of you have asked, I wanted to provide an updated Table of Contents for my upcoming book, The Practice of Network Security Monitoring. The TOC has only solidified in the last day or so. I delayed responding until I completed all of the text, which I did this weekend.
You can preorder the book through No Starch. Please consider using the discount code NSM101 to save 30%.
I'm still on track to publish by July 22, 2013, in time to teach two sessions of my new course, Network Security Monitoring 101, in Las Vegas. I'll be using the new book's themes for inspiration but will likely have to rebuild all the labs.
I expect the book to approach the 350 page mark, exceeding my initial estimates for 256 pages and 7 chapters. Here's the latest Table of Contents.
- Part I, "Getting Started," introduces NSM and how to think about sensor placement.
- Chapter 1, "NSM Rationale," explains why NSM matters, to help you gain the support needed to deploy NSM in your environment.
- Chapter 2, "Collecting Network Traffic: Access, Storage, and Management," addresses the challenges and solutions surrounding physical access to network traffic.
- Part II, "Security Onion Deployment," focuses on installing SO on hardware, and configuring SO effectively.
- Chapter 3, "Stand-alone Deployment," introduces SO, and explains how to install the software on spare hardware to gain initial NSM capability at low or no cost.
- Chapter 4, "Distributed Deployment," extends Chapter 3 to describe how to install a dispersed SO system.
- Chapter 5, "SO Housekeeping," discusses maintenance activities for keeping your SO installation running smoothly.
- Part III, "Tools," describes key software shipped with SO, and how to use these applications.
- Chapter 6, "Command Line Packet Analysis Tools," explains the key features of Tcpdump, Tshark, Dumpcap, and Argus in SO.
- Chapter 7, "Graphical Packet Analysis Tools," adds GUI-based software to the mix, describing Wireshark, Xplico, and NetworkMiner.
- Chapter 8, "Consoles," shows how NSM suites like Sguil, Squert, Snorby, and ELSA enable detection and response workflows.
- Part IV, "NSM in Action," discusses how to use NSM processes and data to detect and respond to intrusions.
- Chapter 9, "Collection, Analysis, Escalation, and Resolution," shares my experience building and leading a global Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT).
- Chapter 10, "Server-Side Compromise," is the first NSM case study, wherein you'll learn how to apply NSM principles to identify and validate the compromise of an Internet-facing application.
- Chapter 11, "Client-Side Compromise," is the second NSM case study, offering an example of a user being victimized by a client-side attack.
- Chapter 12, "Extending SO," covers tools and techniques to expand SO's capabilities.
- Chapter 13, "Proxies and Checksums," concludes the main text by addressing two challenges to conducting NSM.
- The Conclusion offers a few thoughts on the future of NSM, especially with respect to cloud environments and workflows.
- Appendix A, "Security Onion Scripts and Configuration," includes information from SO developer Doug Burks on core SO configuration files and control scripts.
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Tomorrow in Oxford – a panel discussion on circumcision. The event is organised by Oxford Atheists, Secularists and Humanists.
John Dalton: John Dalton is the lead researcher at NORM-UK, whose mission statement is, "To advance the education of the public in all matters relating to circumcision and other forms of surgical alteration of the genitals, including alternative treatments and offering information and advice on such matters." The organisation has a very informative website at http://www.norm-uk.co.uk/ . Mr Dalton will speak about Principles of Consent and Autonomy in Relation to Circumcision.
Dr Antony Lempert: Dr Lempert is chair of the Secular Medical Forum, http://www.secularmedicalforum.org.uk/ "Our main objective is to limit the harm done to patients by the imposition of other people's religious views on them. We seek to present a secular opinion on present-day medical and health care practices throughout the UK." Dr Lempert will present the medical case against circumcision, "The Secular Medical Forum believes that genital surgery (such as male circumcision) should only ever be performed on children where there are compelling medical indications."
Rabbi Eli Brackman: Rabbi Eli Brackman is Oxford University's Rabbi. Rabbi Eli's blog at http://www.oxfordchabad.org/ his frequent speakers, events and discussion groups, and his (unusual amongst non students in Oxford) ability to use Facebook, have very much made him a recognisable feature of the wider Oxford scene. Though the majority of Oxford's circumcisions are carried out by Muslim practitioners, Judaism is the faith most closely associated with circumcision and is also most likely to suffer persecution and stigma.
Brian Earp: Brian Earp is an Oxford Philosopher, Psychologist and Ethicist, who writes for the Practical Ethics blog, including posts about circumcision. Brian Earp can also be found on YouTube, challenging Sam Harris and US Ethics Professors, as well as impressive musical theatre performances.
I would go to that if I could.
Update: more information on the event's Facebook page.
Tuesday 27th November, at 7.30pm. Exeter College, Saskatchewan Room


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At present it is possible to order birth, marriage and death records in Ireland from 3 sources. From 1845 to the present day you can obtain records for what is now the Republic of Ireland from the Irish GRO in Roscommon (www.groireland.ie). This also offers records for the north from 1845-1921. The beauty with this site is the fact that you can order photocopies for genealogical research for just four Euros each, if you know the details of when and where an event happened. You can also get records for the north from 1845 to the present day from the GRO for Northern Ireland in Belfast, but at a whopping £15 per certificate.
There is a third way to obtain records, if you wish to do so online, and that is through the Republic's Health Services Executive site at www.hse.ie/eng/services/find_a_service/bdm/certificates_ie. Coverage is partial however - all Ireland births from 1864-1921, and from the Republic from 1922 onwards; all Ireland marriages from just 1920-1921, and for the Republic from 1922 to the present day; and deaths from 1924 for the republic only.
Unfortunately, both the HSE and the GRO in Roscommon have just DOUBLED the costs of their official certs to 20 Euros each. In Sterling that is £16.94 each - even higher than Belfast's costs of £15, the highest in the UK. However, the GRO's 4 Euro charge (£3.39) for an uncertified and photocopied extract remains the same.
Is this just blatant profiteering to coincide with the launch of the Irish indexes for such records on FindmyPast? Who knows - but never has a photocopy looked so beautiful...
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Trip Report: Farley's Coffeehouse
Posted by TheShot on 12 Feb 2006 | Tagged as: Local Brew
Farley's Coffeehouse benefits from coffee-obsessed local clientele and a community that's largely closed off from the rest of the city in Portero Hill. As a result, Farley's boasts many loyal patrons who helped vote it into third place in CitySearch.com's 2005 Best San Francisco Coffee. Farley's is clearly a decent place for a shot of espresso in any neighborhood. But one of the city's finest?
Last week I revisited Farley's to make sure I gave them an even shake.
The space is rather like a giant wooden cube with a wooden barn feel — if not for the DayGlo® colors generated by an overhead bank of fluorescent light. In the rear corner they sell a variety of magazines, offering some decent reading opportunities for the many locals who lounge here among the dozen or so tables like it's a local library branch. The young and eclectic clientèle seems to have a lot of time on their hands — and reading seems like one constructive way to pass the time.
Farley's knowledgeable and relatively skilled baristas pull an espresso with a mottled, dark brown, thick crema (occasionally with lighter "heat spots") and a pungent-to-smoky flavor. It's actually quite good, even if it doesn't quite live up to its looks (ignoring for a moment that the pour size tends to be a tad large). The resulting cup is short on complexity (it has no real sweetness or depth of flavor) and body to be a truly great cup.
Their espresso probably could be great if only they cut down on the size of the pour. That and their three-group, economy Astoria machine (it's commonly found in cafés that like to skimp a few bucks on a decent machine) and cheap Delco cups aren't exactly aspirational.
Farley's alternates between Mr. Espresso and Sunrise Coffee Company beans. Their milk-based drinks tend to be fine, but not necessarily noteworthy; they don't produce much microfoam.
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> I probably have a lot of explaining to do, seeing as I abruptly stopped posting in regularly in January and haven't actually written an article since February. But I'll get to that later on; first let's recap what became a pretty wild game for the Brewers.
> Since I wrote about the Brewers' spring opener, more than a lot has gone wrong for the team. Since a nine-game winning streak in late April, the team has fallen apart at the seams, as shown by their May record (which I'll also get to later). But, today, they held on to defeat the Phillies, 4-3.
Logan Schafer, who has torn it up when given the opportunity to start, continued to do that today. He got the Brewers on the board in the second inning with a two-RBI single. In the fifth, Jean Segura- who happens to be leading the National League in hitting- notched an RBI triple. The last Brewers run turned out to be an important insurance run, which was a Jonathan Lucroy solo blast in the eighth.
But there's no doubt a lot of Phillies fans- and anyone else who strongly wants to expand instant replay- will put an asterisk next to this Brewers win because of what took place in the ninth inning. Francisco Rodriguez was on for the save and promptly gave up a solo homer to Freddy Galvis, then Jimmy Rollins reached on a single. A few plays later, K-Rod attempted to pick off Kyle Kendrick, pinch-running for Rollins, at second base. The throw beat Kendrick, but the shortstop Segura dropped the ball before applying the tag. However, second base umpire Mike Estabrook had the wrong angle and didn't see the ball, so Segura sold it and still got the out. You can watch the play for yourself here, but the Brewers got a break any way you look at it.
> And it was a break the Brewers needed. They're coming off what ended up tying for their worst month in season history: a 6-22 record in May. But it's not the offense's fault, or even the bullpen's: it's been the starting pitching. Yovani Gallardo and Wily Peralta have struggled to make it beyond five innings before being yanked because of pitch count in recent days, and even Marco Estrada and Kyle Lohse haven't been too sharp over their last few starts or so.
Peralta broke out of his slump today, however, firing seven strong innings against the Phillies. He struck out six while allowing just two runs for his best start of the year. It was also the first time he finished seven innings on the year; his previous high was 6 2/3, which he accomplished in two starts against the Cubs.
> On a day when Ron Roenicke decides to field the correct lineup, these are the averages of the Brewers' 1-5 hitters:
- Norichika Aoki: .298
- Jean Segura: .352
- Ryan Braun: .300
- Aramis Ramirez: .300
- Carlos Gomez: .321
That might be the most consistent 1-5 in baseball. For a while, Yuniesky Betancourt could have been thrown into that conversation as well, but he's cooled back to his old self over the past few weeks. Lucroy could be paving his way back, though: after coming into yesterday's game with an average below .230, he's brought it all the way to .259 after going 5-for-5 and 2-for-4 yesterday and today, respectively.
> The bullpen has been lights out as of late as well. Burke Badenhop's ERA is 2.66, Tom Gorzelanny's is 2.37, and Michael Gonzalez's is 2.61. Jim Henderson had been stellar in the closer's role (John Axford lost the job- again), but he hit the disabled list last week with an oblique strain. K-Rod, who was doing well at the time, earned the job while Henderson is gone.
> The Brewers will look for the sweep of the Phillies tomorrow, but I'll say now that the odds don't look very good. Mike Fiers (1-3, 5.66 ERA) will face Cliff Lee (6-2, 2.34 ERA). Interpret that how you want.
> So the reason I haven't posted in four months is basically because I thought I was over my head with more important things. I decided to leave Reviewing the Brew a short time before so I could decrease my writing workload a bit, but I wound having to completely shut it down. My grades were slipping a bit in school, and I decided to play high school baseball this year, which turned out to be a huge time commitment (but also one of the best experiences of my life).
Anyway, hopefully I'll be able to write consistently over the summer. I won't make any promises, but I'll have a bit more time on my hands.
Once summer is over, though, I'm not completely sure what I'll do with this site. I'll be going into my junior year, so my time to write will probably decrease even more. But we'll see what happens once that time comes.


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peter k
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Location: Sedona Az
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 8:10 pm
Post subject: Take 3: I'm confused: Carl Zeiss, Protarlinse Vll f 35cm
Need some clarity, trying to grasp and learn, lenses, image circles, focal lengths ect.
Thanks for the help!
Use with a
(light tight and fully functional) 4x5, reassembled 1950 Pacemaker:
Both lenses are VII 35cm lenses. Can focus with both, or just one on front.
1) 350mm = 13.75+" ... How the heck is this 35cm lens,
in focus
appox. 12" from the surface of the ground glass?
2) Missed this the first time it was posted, if both are 35mm lenses, wouldn't they both have the same focal length, not just one 290mm, and the other 350mm?
Both of them together would in fact be close to 180mm.
states that the combined combination of a 350 & 350 = 200mm
Reference from original post: 03-22-2012,
"Your lens is a double Protar composed of two "Protar lenses" (Zeiss parlance). With both cells in place, its focal length is is around 180 mm. Each of the two cells can be used without the other. One has a focal length of 290 mm, the other 350 mm." ... "No Graphic has enough extension to focus a 29 cm non-telephoto lens, let alone a 35 cm. Protars are not telephotos."
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Dan Fromm
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Location: New Jersey
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 1:12 am
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Let's start all over. You are confused and your have given conflicting information.
Do you have one cell engraved 35 or 350 and another engraved 29 or 290?
If so, you have a Double Protar with unequal cells. Each cell can be used by itself and the two can be used together, mounted in a shutter.
The cell engraved 35 or 350 is a 350 mm f/12.5 lens.
The cell engraved 29 or 290 is a 290 mm f/12.5 lens. Your Graphic can focus lenses with focal lengths up to around 12 1/2 inches (317 mm) to infinity. If you mount the 29 cm (or 290 mm) cell in the shutter I think you have, it will focus to infinity on your Graphic.
The cell engraved 35 or 350 is a 350 mm f/12.5 lens. Your Graphic can't focus it to infinity, it is too long.
The two cells together make a 180 mm f/7 lens. Your Graphic can focus it to infinity.
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peter k
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Posts: 203
Location: Sedona Az
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 3:24 am
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Ok.. clarity:
Let's start all over. You are confused and you have given conflicting information. Do you have one cell engraved 35 or 350 and another engraved 29 or 290?
Good idea, and in that process found out that question 2) answered!
The conflicting information, came from the original post, giving a link to E-bay as an example of the type of lens I had, and what was so special about it.
It consisted of a 29mm & 35mm lens.
Mine consists of two 35mm, which I related to later in the same post.. on:
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 5:10 am
Where did you get that from... from the e-bay item?
I didn't post any serial numbers? But here they are..
Compur Lens.. # 258646
# 493451 what is now the outer lens
# 461454 inner lens
but did not state they were both 35mm ... continuing the conflicting information. Guilty as charged!
The cell engraved 35 or 350 is a 350 mm f/12.5 lens. Your Graphic can't focus it to infinity, it is too long.
Well, there's something going on ... with one 35mm lens on the front, it focuses at about 12", either one. So first question remains..
1) 350mm = 13.75+" ... How the heck is this 35cm lens, in focus appox. 12" from the surface of the ground glass?
( I've got an image on Postimage.org, that shows both 35mm lenses, but see no add image link here.)
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Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 3:58 am
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When you click on the post reply or new topic on the left there is a section called options of which BB Code is one and is a highlighted link, click on it, follow the instructions for adding an image to your post.
Throughout your post you refer to the cells as 35mm and 35cm. Do you have both 35mm and 35cm cells?
The best camera ever made is the one that YOU enjoy using and produces the image quality that satifies YOU.
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Dan Fromm
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Location: New Jersey
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 1:56 pm
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Charles, he's a little confused or an exceptionally sloppy typist. 35 cm, 350 mm, not 35 mm.
Peter, thanks for the clarification. So you have two 35 cm/12.5 Protar Ser. VII cells. According to this
the two together make a 205/6.3.
Where are you measuring from?
I ask because with the lens focused at infinity, the distance between the film plane and the lens' rear nodal plane is 350 mm. The rear nodal plane need not be close to the glass elements. Just accept this, use your lens and be happy.
By the way, Zeiss recommends that when a single Ser. VII Protar cell is used it be mounted behind the shutter, not in front of it.
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peter k
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Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 3:38 pm
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Lets see if this works..
Thanks 45pps.. yes ... sigh... they are 35cm,
Dan.. or
a note: I grew up 4 miles, on the same Jersey side you live on, from de GW Bridge.. and ur bringing up the old NYorker... Ha.. (New York Sarcasm), that my poor native Arizona born wife, is trying diligently to cure me of. But its hard, and yes I'm a little confused, that's why I'm asking de questions. Your very qualified in answering them, and I appreciate your help, experience and expertise, from the past, now, and hopefully in the future. But please use your hankie and blow the
'I can't suffer fools gladly'
comments into it, and stow it in the back vertical pocket.
Thankfully, Amen ...
Now where were we, oh yes clarity!
I'm measuring from the front of the lens to the front surface of the Ground Glass, its about 12", focused on infinity. So:
The rear nodal plane need not be close to the glass elements.
Ok did some research on nodal points, and have a very beginning understanding.. but could you give me some references to grok, how the heck it can still work!
Meanwhile, I will accept this, and use the lens happily, but not to the extreme extent of using by cell phone to take pictures, at forty miles an hour as I tour through a scenic wilderness, being conceptually dead.
That's why I love film, its complexity, and simple rendition of light into a physical seeing reality, without instant gratification.
Thank you both for your help and input,
, even with a twist of NYorker, thrown in, as it can add jest to the comments at times.
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Dan Fromm
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Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 12:51 am
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Peter, I'm sorry, you're mistaken again. Although I live in the state of exits and abrasion I grew up on the midwest's eastern fringe and was formed there. I was grumpy before I moved east.
I don't understand why, but photographers who post on the Internet seem to be fascinated by optics. I've done a lot of closeup work, and there knowing the rules helps know what just won't work. Otherwise what I know about optics has had little impact on how I work as a photographer or on the pictures I've taken.
Nikon taught me most of what I needed to know about taking pictures that come out as I want. My first real camera was a Nikkormat; a little pamphlet, that I still have, for beginning photographers came with it. It described the controls, explained what effect the settings had on the results, gave examples -- series of pictures taken at different settings -- and gave homework assignments. I did the homework, I tried things out.
In those days there was no Internet. Knowledge was in books and magazines that lived in libraries. Also in gurus, but they're hard to find. I had one self-proclaimed guru, a leicanut, ready to hand but, as I've already said, he was obviously nuts.
Instead of listening to him I went to the library and discovered that Modern Photography and Popular Photography magazines ran a two year cycle of educational articles. So I absorbed two years of MP. And I tried things out.
If you want to read a book that might help you learn to control the photographic process from start to finish, buy a copy of A. A. Blaker's Field Photography. I bought mine shortly after it came out, still consult it occasionally. I used to give copies of it to beginners I saw as promising and sunk in ignorance.
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peter k
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Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 2:13 pm
Post subject:
Thank You very much for the reply... and loved the quote of
"... exits and abrasion",
... it fits Jersey and NY city, well. But there are times, when those character traits, twist into incredible forgiving and spontaneous combustion, that can put the rest of the whorl of the world into amazement! And there is nothing, anywhere, or anyplace that can match it! ... When it does take place!
Yes, I have become fascinated by optics! Blame it on the speed. You can't take it for granted anymore, in and out goes the lens. Optics!
Similar to you, I cut my teeth, also on, a Nikromat, also a Photomic ftn, but that came about as I became retarded, I mean, a retiree. MAKING ME VERY MUCH A NEWBIE. With the 35mm its still just change lenses, hardly a thought or effort, free as a bird on the wire.
Never thinking of it, just using it.
But it was the Speed 3x4, at first, and now with the 4x5, that I can use two of the three combinations of this crazy lens, that has made me go deep into my annal analytical temperment. Wanting to know why?
Your right!
So what!
Use it an enjoy it! Get to know what you can do with the two lenses, and the then just compose the darn picture. That's what your here fer you idot!
Sigh.. soooo...
Well your my lens Guru, and obviously nuts, so I'll take your advice.
Thank you..
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Dan Fromm
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Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 4:54 pm
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Peter, I'm not a guru. Al Blaker is a guru, and a good one. Buy a copy of Field Photography. You should be able to get a copy inexpensively through, in alphabetical order, abebooks.com, alibris.com, amazon.com and other sites that give access to on-line booksellers.
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Location: Allentown, Pennsylvania
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Somewhat off-topic, but on the periphery. New Yorkers are great! And much nicer, overall, than they used to be. "Some of my best friends",...etc. I graduated from Ft. Hamilton High School, class of '59, and though I lived but a scant two-and-a-half years in the city altogether (Manhattan and Brooklyn), I cherish the memories. I wouldn't live in NYC today if you paid me, but back then it was great. Then I married a New York girl from way upstate, St. Lawrence County, different country entirely, and finally settled in e. PA (43 years and counting)---close enough to visit the City, but even closer to my beloved Philadelphia and its wonderful sports fans (
). NJ is nice, too, the closer you get to PA, but still an inconvenient obstacle to getting into the City. But I wouldn't live anyplace but here!
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The international airport serving French Guiana is at Rochambeau, 17 km from Cayenne, with regular Air France flights from Paris. Transport between the airport and Cayenne or Kourou is usually by rental car or taxi; you must book rental cars in advance. Heavy transport is by sea to the port of Dégrad des Cannes.
Mailing address:
ESA Station Kourou (Station Diane)
Boite Postal No. 396
F-97381 Kourou Cedex
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