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Canon EOS 5D Mark III Full-Frame DSLR Camera Body
Product Code: 641161002
Availability:Out of stock
Canon EOS 5D Mark III Full-Frame DSLR Camera Body
Product Code: 641161002
Availability:Out of stock
- Brand new 22.3 megapixel full frame CMOS sensor
- Newly designed reticular 61-point AF system
- ISO range of 100-25600 (expandable to 50-102400)
- Tough magnesium alloy body, tested for 150,000 cycles
- Full HD videos with manual exposure
- 100% viewfinder coverage
- 3.2 LCD screen with 1,040,000 dots display
The Canon EOS 5D Mark III is one of Canon's most anticipated models. With high resolution, full-frame quality and modified EOS performance, the EOS 5D Mark III was built to perform. It's packed with a powerful 22.3 megapixel Full frame (36 x 24 mm) sensor. It also has a 100 – 25600 ISO sensitivity range that can be extended to 102400. Take clean, high quality action shots with its 6.0 fps capability. The Canon EOS 5D Mark III has 61 focus points which assures fast and precise focusing, even when subjects are moving. Shoot videos at 1920 x 1080 (29.97, 25, 23.976 fps) resolution for the best video quality. Its fixed 3.2? 1,040,000 dot Clear View II TFT LCD makes reviewing videos and photos and shooting in live view a breeze.Sensor
Inside the EOS 5D Mark III body, you get a newly developed 22.3 Megapixel CMOS full-frame sensor. It's specifically designed to create high resolution, detailed photos with clarity and speed. The Digic 5+ processors eliminates lag and keeps the system preforming fast. The processor also reduces noise, giving better low light performance.Focus
With a new 61 point auto focus system, the EOS 5D Mark III delivers high accuracy in all situations. The wide-angle, multi-zone auto-focus has better tracking for moving subjects. It's sensitive even in dim lit situations. The dedicated auto-focus tab allows for better control.Intelligent Metering
Canon's iFCL Metering has a 63-zone dual-layering metering sensor which keeps photos perfectly exposed. This function takes account the luminosity and color of the surrounding and delivers better accuracy.Image
At auto, ISO sensitivity ranges at 100 - 25600 in 1/3 stops. Because of the large sensor, photos taken at high ISO levels are clean and have little noise.Shutter
At 1/8000 sec max, moving subjects stay clear and focused. This makes the EOS 5D Mark III ideal for sports and action photography, or settings where subjects will be in constant motion.Viewfinder and Screen
The Optical Intelligent Viewfinder has 100% coverage at 0.71× magnification. It's large 3.2? screen work amazingly well in daylight. The Clear View II TFT LCD 1,040,000 dots fixed screen let you see your photos vividly. Live view option is also available for those who prefer to use the screen to compose their photos.
Digital, AF/AE single-lens reflex, camera
Recording Media
CF Cards (Type I); Compatible with UDMA CF cards; SD, SDHC, and SDXC Memory Cards
Image Format
Approx. 36 mm x 24mm (35mm Full-frame)
Compatible Lenses
Canon EF Lenses (excluding EF-S Lenses)
Lens Mount
Canon EF mount
Image Sensor
High-sensitivity, high-resolution, large single-plate CMOS sensor
Effective pixels: Approx. 22.3 megapixels
Pixel Unit
6.25 µm square
Total Pixels
Total pixels: 23.4 megapixels
Aspect Ratio
3:2 (Horizontal: Vertical)
Color Filter System
RGB primary color filters
Low Pass Filter
Fixed position in front of the image sensor
Dust Deletion Feature
(1) Self Cleaning Sensor Unit
·Automatic Sensor Cleaning
·Removes dust adhering to the infrared- and ultraviolet-blocking glass.
·Self-cleaning executed automatically when power is turned on or off. Manual execution also possible.
·Low-pass filter has a fluorine coating.
(2) Dust Delete Data acquisition and appending
·The coordinates of the dust adhering to the infrared- and ultraviolet-blocking glass are detected by a test shot and appended to subsequent images.
·The dust coordinate data appended to the image is used by the provided software to automatically erase the dust spots.
(3) Manual cleaning
Recording System
Recording Format
Design Rule for Camera File System 2.0 and EXIF 2.3
Image Format
Still Image: JPEG, RAW (14-bit Canon Original), M-RAW, S-RAW, RAW+JPEG, M-RAW+JPEG, S-RAW+JPEG
Video: MOV (Image data: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC; Audio: Linear PCM)
File Size
(1) Large: Approx. 22.10 Megapixels (5760 x 3840)
(2) Medium: Approx. 9.80 Megapixels (3840 x 2560)
(3) S1 (Small 1): Approx. 5.50 Megapixels (2880 x 1920)
(4) S2 (Small 2): Approx. 2.50 Megapixels (1920 x 1280)
(5) S3 (Small 3): Approx. 350,000 Pixels (720 x 480)
(6) RAW: Approx. 22.10 Megapixels (5760 x 3840)
(7) M-RAW: Approx. 10.50 Megapixels (3960 x 2640)
(8) S-RAW: Approx. 5.50 Megapixels (2880 x 1920) Exact file sizes depend on the subject, ISO speed, Picture Style, etc.
Recording Functions
1. Standard
* Records to either the CF card or SD card.
2. Auto switch card
* When the current card becomes full, the camera switches to the other card automatically.
3. Record separately
* The CF card and SD card record the same image at a different image recording quality (L, M, S1, S2, S3, RAW, M-RAW, S-RAW)
4. Record to multiple
* Both the CF card and SD card record the same image at the same image recording quality. (Also applies to RAW+JPEG, M+JPEG, and SRAW+JPEG)
Backup Recording
Images recorded in a card can be copied to the other card
File Numbering
The following three types of file numbers can be set:
(1) Continuous numbering
* The continuous numbering of captured images will continue even after you replace the camera's card. (The numbering continues even when the folder changes.)
(2) Auto reset
* When you replace the camera's card, the numbering will be reset to start from 0001. If the new card already contains images, the numbering will continue from the last recorded image in the card.
(3) Manual reset
* Resets the file number to 0001, and creates a new folder automatically.
RAW + JPEG Simultaneous Recording
The image-recording quality can be selected in any combination of the three RAW and eight JPEG recording quality settings.
Color Space
Selectable between sRGB and Adobe RGB
Picture Style
Auto, Standard, Portrait, Landscape, Neutral, Faithful, Monochrome, User Defined 1-3
* Scene Intelligent Auto will set [Auto] automatically.
* [Standard] is the default setting for [User Def. 1-3]
White Balance
(1) Auto (AWB)
(2) Daylight
(3) Shade
(4) Cloudy
(5) Tungsten light
(6) White fluorescent light
(7) Flash
(8) Custom (Custom WB)
(9) Color temperature
* With an EX-series Speedlite having the color temperature information transmission feature, the color temperature setting changes to match the color temperature when the flash is fired. Set to approx. 6000K if the flash unit does not have the color temperature communication feature.
Auto White Balance
Auto white balance with the image sensor
Color Temperature Compensation
Blue/amber bias: ±9 levels
· Magenta/green bias: ±9 levels
* Corrected in reference to the current WB mode's color temperature.
Color Temperature Information Transmission
Eye-level pentaprism
Approx. 100% vertically and horizontally (At approx. 21mm eyepoint)
Approx. 0.71x / Angle of view 34.1° (with 50mm lens at infinity, -1 m-1 (dpt))
Eye Point
Approx. 21mm (At -1m-1 from the eyepiece lens center)
Dioptric Adjustment Correction
-3.0 to +1.0m-1 (diopter)
Focusing Screen
Quick-return half mirror (transmission: reflectance ratio of 40:60)
Viewfinder Information
·AF information
AF point, focus confirmation, AF status indicator
·Exposure information
Shutter speed, aperture, ISO speed (always displayed), AE lock, exposure level, exposure warning
·Flash information
Flash ready, flash exposure compensation, high-speed sync, FE lock, red-eye reduction light
·Image information
Highlight tone priority (D+), maximum burst (2-digit display), card information
·Battery check
·Composition information
Grid, electronic level
·Warning symbol
Displayed if any of the following is set: Monochrome, white balance correction, One-touch recording quality switch, expanded ISO speed, or spot metering.
Depth Of Field Preview
Enabled with Depth-of-field preview button
TTL secondary image - registration, phase detection
AF Points
61-point (up to 41 cross-type points)
* One to five cross-type AF points at f/2.8, 10 to 20 cross-type AF points at f/4, and 15 to 21 cross-type AF points at f/5.6. (The number of cross-type AF points will differ depending on the lens.)
AF Working Range
EV -2 - 18 (at 73°F/23°C and ISO 100)
Focusing Modes
(1) Autofocus
·One-Shot AF
·Predictive AI Servo AF
-For automatic AF point selection, the AF point to start the AI Servo AF operation can be selected.
-For automatic AF point selection, the active AF point can be displayed.
·AI Focus AF
-(Switches between One-Shot AF and AI SERVO AF automatically)
-Automatically set in A+ Auto Mode
(2) Manual focus (MF)
AF Point Selection
1. Single-point AF (Manual selection)
2. Auto selection 61-Point AF
3. Single-point Spot AF (Manual selection)
4. AF point expansion (Manual selection, 4 points: Up, down, left, and right)
5. AF point expansion (Manual selection, surrounding 8 points)
6. Zone AF (Manual zone selection)
Selected AF Point Display
Displayed in viewfinder with transparent LCD and on LCD panel
Active AF Point Indicator
AF area used in horizontal/vertical (grip up or down) shooting and the manually-selected AF point position can be set separately
AF Assist Beam
(1) Enable
With an EOS-dedicated Speedlite, AF-assist beam is emitted automatically when necessary.
(2) Disable
(3) IR AF assist beam only
* No AF-assist beam with flash bursts.
Exposure Control
Metering Modes
Max. aperture TTL metering with 63-zone SPC with the following selectable modes:
(1) Evaluative metering (linked to all AF points)
(2) Partial metering (center, approx. 7.2% of viewfinder)
(3) Spot metering (center, approx. 1.5% of viewfinder)
·AF point-linked spot metering not provided.
(4) Center-weighted average metering
a. The selectable metering modes can be limited with a Custom Function.
Metering Range
EV 1-20 (at 73°F / 23°C with 50mm f/1.4 lens at ISO 100)
Exposure Control Systems
(1) Scene Intelligent Auto
(2) Program AE (shiftable)
(3) Shutter-priority AE (Safety shift possible)
(4) Aperture-priority AE (Safety shift possible)
(5) Manual exposure
* The metering mode can be specified with a Custom Function.
(6) Bulb
(7) E-TTL II autoflash program AE
* Evaluative metering, Averaged metering
ISO Speed Range
For Stills:
ISO 100-25600 (in 1/3-stop or whole-stop increments)
·ISO speed expansion possible to ISO 50, 51200, and 102400.
·For [Highlight tone priority], the settable ISO speed range will be 200-25600.
·ISO speed safety shift possible with Custom Function.
*If fill flash will result in overexposure, minimum ISO 100 is set.
?For bounce flash, ISO 400-1600 is set automatically depending on the light level.
ISO Speed upper and lower limits:
(1) Manual setting range
* ISO speed expansion is set with this option.
(2) Auto ISO range
* ISO speed expansion not settable.
Shutter speed and automatic ISO speed control in P and Av Modes:
In the P and Av shooting modes with Auto ISO set, the ISO speed is set automatically so that a shutter speed slower than the one set with [Minimum shutter speed] (1/250, 1/125, 1/60, 1/30, 1/15, 1/8, 1/4, 0"5, 1") is not set.
Exposure Compensation
Manual: ±5 stops in 1/3 or 1/2-stop increments
AEB: ±3 stops in 1/3 or 1/2-stop increments
* Indicated up to ±3 stops on the LCD panel and in the viewfinder.
AE Lock
(1) Auto AE lock
·In the One-Shot AF mode with evaluative metering, AE lock takes effect when focus is achieved.
(2) Manual AE lock
·With AE lock button. (AE lock is updated each time you press the button.) Enabled in all metering modes.
Vertical-travel, mechanical, focal-plane shutter with all speeds electronically-controlled
Shutter Speeds
1/8000 to 30 sec., bulb (Total shutter speed range. Available range varies by shooting mode.)
X-sync at 1/200 sec.
Shutter Release
Soft-touch electromagnetic release
Self Timer
10-sec. or 2-sec. delay
Shutter Lag Time
1) During SW-1 ON, time lag between SW-2 ON and start of exposure:
- Approx. 0.059 sec. (With the shutter-release time lag is shortened with the Custom Function, it will be approx. 0.036 sec.)
2) Time lag between simultaneous SW-1/SW-2 ON and start of exposure: Approx. 0.2 sec.
- Time lag with the aperture stopped down by 3 stops or less. Excludes AF operation time.
External Speedlite
EOS Dedicated Speedlite
E-TTL II autoflash with all EX Series Speedlites
Zooming to Match Focal Length
Flash Exposure Compensation
±3 stops in 1/3- or 1/2-stop increments
FE Lock
External Flash Settings
The camera can set the following with Speedlite 600EX-RT, 580EX II, 430EX II, 320EX, 270EX II, or 270EX:
(1) External flash control
* Flash mode, sync setting, FEB (not possible with 270EX II/270EX), flash exposure compensation, E-TTL II, zoom, wireless master flash (not possible with 430EX II/ 270EX), and clear settings.
* With the Speedlite 600EX-RT, radio wireless control is possible.
(2) Flash Custom Function setting
PC Terminal
Provided (no polarity)
Drive System
Drive Modes
Single, High-speed continuous, Low-speed continuous, Silent Single Shooting and Self-timer (10 sec. self-timer/remote control, or 2-sec. self-timer/remote control)
Continuous Shooting Speed
High-speed: Maximum approx. 6 shots/sec.
Low-speed: Maximum approx. 3 shots/sec.
Silent continuous shooting: Maximum approx. 3 shots/sec.
Maximum Burst
·JPEG Large/Fine: Approx. 65 shots (approx. 16270 shots)
·RAW: Approx. 13 shots (approx. 18 shots)
·RAW+JPEG Large/Fine: Approx. 7 shots (approx. 7 shots)
*Figures are based on Canon's testing standards (ISO 100 and Standard Picture Style) and a 8 GB card.
*Figures in parentheses apply to an UDMA mode 7, 128 GB card based on Canon's testing standards.
Live View Functions
Shooting Modes
Still photo and video recording
(1) Autofocus (One-Shot AF)
·Live mode
·One-point, contrast AF. Switching to another AF point possible.
·Face detection Live mode
·Face detection, contrast AF. Face selectable.
·Quick mode
61-point, phase-difference AF, same as normal shooting.
(2) Manual focus
* Magnify the image by 5x or 10x and focus manually.
Metering Modes
Real-time Evaluative metering with the image sensor
Metering Range
Real-time evaluative metering with image sensor:
·Metering range: EV 0 - EV 20 (At 73°F/23°C, 50mm f/1.4 lens, ISO 100)
·AE lock possible
·The active metering time can be changed.
Grid Display
Three grid display provided
Exposure Simulation
Silent Shooting
Provided (Mode 1 and 2)
Video Shooting
File Format
Variable (averaged) bit rate
File Size
Recording Sizes:
1920 x 1080 (Full HD), 1280 x 720 and 640 x 480
Frame Rates
[1920 x 1080]: 30 fps / 25 fps / 24 fps
[1280 x 720]: 60 fps / 50 fps
[640 x 480]: 30 fps / 25 fps
Continuous Shooting Time
Based on 8GB Card:
[1920 x 1080]
30 fps ALL-I: 11 min. (685 MB/min.) / IPB: 32 min (235 MB/min.)
25 fps ALL-I: 11 min (685 MB/min.) / IPB: 32 min. (235 MB/min.)
24 fps ALL-I: 11 min. (685 MB/min.) / IPB: 32 min. (235 MB/min.)
[1280 x 720]
60 fps ALL-I: 12 min. (610 MB/min.) / IPB: 37 min. (205 MB/min.)
50 fps ALL-I: 12 min. (610 MB/min.) / IPB: 37 min. (205 MB/min.)
[640 x 480]
30 fps IPB: 97 min. (78 MB/min.)
25 fps IPB: 97 min. (78 MB/min.)
* If the recording time reaches 29 min. 59 sec., the movie shooting stops automatically.
* Movie shooting does not stop when the file size reaches 4GB.
Same as focusing with Live View shooting
* During movie shooting or if movie cropping has been set, the image cannot be magnified for manual focusing.
ISO Range
·P, Av, and Bulb: Automatically set within ISO 100 - 12800, expandable to H (equivalent to ISO 25600)
·A+ and Tv: Automatically set within ISO 100 - 12800
·M: Auto ISO (automatically set within ISO 100 - 12800), ISO 100 - 12800 set manually (in 1/3- or whole-stop increments), expandable to H (equivalent to ISO 16000/20000/25600)
* If Highlight tone priority is set to enable, the settable ISO speed range will be ISO 200 - 12800.
Exposure Control
(1) Program AE for movie shooting
* For shooting modes other than manual exposure and bulb.
* Shutter speed (1/30 - 1/4000 sec., signal accumulation time), aperture, and ISO speed automatically set.
(2) Manual exposure
* For manual exposure.
* Shutter speed (signal accumulation time), aperture, and ISO speed (auto/manual) manually set. The shutter speed (signal accumulation time) is limited to 1/4000 sec. at the maximum and to 1/30 sec. at the minimum for 24/25/30 fps or 1/60 sec. or higher for 50/60 fps.
Exposure Compensation
Up to ±3 stops in 1/3-stop increments
* For movies, even if exposure compensation has been set beyond ±3 stops, exposure compensation up to only ±3 stops will be applied.
* For still photos, exposure compensation up to ±5 stops can be applied.
LCD Monitor
TFT color, liquid-crystal monitor
Monitor Size
Approx. 1.04 million dots
Approx. 100%
Approx. 170° vertically and horizontally
Brightness Control
Auto: Brightness adjusted automatically by the light sensor
* Adjustable to one of three levels: Darker, Standard, Brighter
Manual: Adjustable to one of seven brightness levels
Clear View LCD II
* Glass surface has an anti-reflective AR coating.
Interface Languages
25 (English, German, French, Dutch, Danish, Portuguese, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Spanish, Greek, Russian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Ukraine, Turkish, Arabic, Thai, Simplified/Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese)
Tilt Display
On LCD Monitor
Electronic level indicates up to 360° roll and ±10° pitch in 1° increments.
In Viewfinder
The AF point display is used to indicate up to ±6° horizontal tilt and ±4° vertical tilt in 1° increments (During vertical shooting, up to ±1° horizontal tilt and ±6° vertical tilt).
Display Format
Single image, Single image + Image-recording quality/shooting information, histogram, 4- or 9-image index, magnified view (approx. 1.5x-10x), rotated image (auto/manual), image jump (by 10/100 images, index screen, by shooting date, by folder), two-image comparative display, slide show (all images/selected by date/folder), star rating
Highlight Alert
With single-image display (Info.) and single-image display, overexposed highlight areas will blink
Quick Control Function
The following functions can be set:
Shutter speed, aperture, ISO speed, exposure compensation, AEB, flash exposure compensation, AF point selection (including AF area selection modes), Picture Style, White Balance, WB Correction, metering mode, Auto Lighting Optimizer, recording function switching, image-recording quality, AF mode, drive mode, and Custom Controls (camera controls/buttons customization).
Image Protection and Erase
Erase protection can be applied or canceled for a single image, all images in a folder or all images in the card
Erase a single image, selected images, all images in a folder, all images in a card or erase only unprotected images
Direct Printing
Compatible Printers
PictBridge-compatible printers
Printable Images
RAW and JPEG images complying to Design rule for Camera File System
·Movies cannot be printed
DPOF: Digital Print Order Format
Version 1.1 compatible
Direct Image Transfer
Compatible Images
JPEG and RAW images and movie
For RAW+JPEG, only the RAW or JPEG image or both images can be transferred
Custom Functions
13 Custom Functions settable with the camera
Custom Controls
The following camera controls can be customized by assigning the desired function: Shutter button halfway pressing, AF-ON button, AE lock button, Depth-of-field preview button, lens AF Stop button, Multifunction button, SET button, Main Dial, Quick Control Dial, and Multicontroller
Camera User Settings
Current camera settings can be registered to C1, C2 and C3 on the Mode Dial (Automatic registration update is possible)
My Menu Registration
Up to six top-tier menu options and Custom Function settings can be registered
USB Terminal
For personal computer communication and direct printing (USB 2.0 Hi-Speed)
Video Out Terminal
(1) Video OUT terminal: NTSC/PAL selectable
(2) mini-HDMI OUT terminal
Extension System Terminal
For connection to WFT-E7A (WFT) and GP-E2 (GPS)
The RJ-45 jack is not built-in and is only available via the Wireless File Transmitter WFT-E7A
Power Source
One Battery Pack LP-E6
AC power can be supplied with the AC Adapter Kit ACK-E6
Battery Life
1) Camera body only:
2) With Battery Grip BG-E11:
Based on CIPA testing standards
Battery Check
Automatic battery check when the power switch is turned on:
Displayed in 6 levels:
·Battery level displayed on LCD panel and in viewfinder.
·Battery information can be checked with the [Battery info.] menu
·If Battery Grip BG-E11 is used with size AA/LR6 batteries; the battery level is displayed in four levels instead.
Power Saving
Power turns off after the set time (1, 2, 4, 8, 15 or 30 minutes) of non-operation elapses.
Date/Time Battery
CR1616 lithium battery
Start-up Time
Approx. 0.1 sec
Dimensions and Weight
Dimensions (W x H x D)
Approx. 6.0 x 4.6 x 3.0 in. (152.0 x 116.4 x 76.4 mm )
Approx. 33.5 oz. / 950g (Based on CIPA standards)
Approx. 30.3 oz./ 860g (Body only)
Operating Environment
Working Temperature Range
Working Humidity Range
85% or less
o EOS 5D Mark III Body
o Eyecup Eg (not shown)
o Battery Pack LP-E6
o Battery Charger LC-E6
o Wide Neck Strap EW-EOS 5D Mark III
o Stereo AV Cable AVC-DC400ST
o USB Interface Cable IFC-200U
o EOS Digital Solution Disc
o Software Instruction Manual


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Incidentally the same day as the Epsom Derby. The couple missed the first day of the Jubilee celebrations because Prince William was undertaking flying exams for his captaincy, which he is expected to achieve in the very near future.
|Richard Palmer Twitter
Kate looked chic in a dark green dress with a ruffled hem teamed with a matching belt and waterfall cardigan. (I will update with ID's if they are confirmed) The Duchess wore her hair scraped back in a bun and accessorised with a white handbag with black stripes and pearl earrings.
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Conference attendees who arrived from around the country were touring our school, Reading Memorial High School, to check out our teaching practice and technology integration. I had visitors in an out of my classroom all morning. The students, teenagers who LOVE to show off, were their animated, out spoken, fun loving selves in front of our guests. (I'm sure the fact that those morning classes were the last in-school hours they would spend before a nice week long April Vacation was a factor in their restlessness.) Teachers, administrators, and education leaders from as far away as Houston, Texas were walking in and out of my classroom at about 10 minute intervals.
What Did They See?
They saw everything from...
...an analysis of the interactions between the British Regulars and American Patriots during the Battles of Lexington and Concord...
...to an introduction to the Romanov family and Czar Nicolas II.
These are actual images that appeared on my SMART Board at the front of the room, and while these topics may not sound riveting, it is the integration of technology that made the lessons interactive and engaging for both the students and our visitors.
How Does Technology Integration Make History More Fun?
In the Lexington and Concord lesson, students read through short passages about the different phases of the battle, and then turned their attention to the front of the room and watched short video clips from Discovery Education. Then we discussed the information from both the text and the documentaries. This is the short clip they saw about Concord.
Did the facts in the text and in the video match up? If not, why does that happen when we study history? Which provided more detail: text or video clip? What facts did they need help remembering? Ask each other! The students really ran the discussion and in the end everyone understood what happened. The integration of the video clips and groups discussions made the lesson more interactive and more interesting than a typical classroom where the teacher is up front and the students are dutifully taking notes at their assigned seats.
In the Romanov Dynasty lesson, I was simply introducing the information, but the students would be charged with learning the content on their own and then sharing it with their classmates. In this case, the technology integration came into play with the assignment. Students were going to read and research various suptopics related to the Romanovs (like the Crimean War and the emancipation of Russian serfs) and then create a quiz for their classmates to take and help them learn the content for themselves. The quizzes will be published on Google Documents for their classmates to access and take. I even made and showed a video tutorial with SMART Recorder, which is part of the SMART Classroom Suite all teachers at my school have in their classrooms, that explains how to create, save, and share documents on Google Docs.
Yesterday was truly a typical day in my class. I didn't do anything special because the tours were coming through. These were simply the next topics I had planned to cover based on my curriculum. Perhaps the lessons were slightly tweaked from last year, but they were not specially made for the Blue Ribbon occasion.
Since there were about 40 educators from around the country who got the opportunity to peek, I thought, "Why not give my blog readers the same opportunity?"
I hope you enjoyed it!
Image and Video Citations:
"Battles of Lexington and Concord, 1775." Map. World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 15 Apr. 2011.
"Nicholas II and family." Image. The Illustrated London News Picture Library. World History: The Modern Era. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 15 Apr. 2011.
Battle of Concord. Discovery Education, 2006. Video Segment. 15 April 2011.


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Guanethidine is available only with your doctor's prescription.
In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this medicine, the following should be considered:
Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.
Although there is no specific information comparing use of guanethidine in children with use in other age groups, this medicine is not expected to cause different side effects or problems in children than it does in adults.
Many medicines have not been studied specifically in older people. Therefore, it may not be known whether they work exactly the same way they do in younger adults. Although there is no specific information comparing use of guanethidine in the elderly with use in other age groups, dizziness, lightheadedness, or fainting may be more likely to occur in the elderly, who are more sensitive to the effects of guanethidine.
There are no adequate studies in women for determining infant risk when using this medication during breastfeeding. Weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks before taking this medication while breastfeeding.
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. When you are taking this medicine, it is especially important that your healthcare professional know if you are taking any of the medicines listed below. The following interactions have been selected on the basis of their potential significance and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is not recommended. Your doctor may decide not to treat you with this medication or change some of the other medicines you take.
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is usually not recommended, but may be required in some cases. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines may cause an increased risk of certain side effects, but using both drugs may be the best treatment for you. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
Certain medicines should not be used at or around the time of eating food or eating certain types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also cause interactions to occur. Discuss with your healthcare professional the use of your medicine with food, alcohol, or tobacco.
The presence of other medical problems may affect the use of this medicine. Make sure you tell your doctor if you have any other medical problems, especially:
In addition to the use of the medicine your doctor has prescribed, treatment for your high blood pressure may include weight control and care in the types of foods you eat, especially foods high in sodium. Your doctor will tell you which of these are most important for you. You should check with your doctor before changing your diet.
Many patients who have high blood pressure will not notice any signs of the problem. In fact, many may feel normal. It is very important that you take your medicine exactly as directed and that you keep your appointments with your doctor even if you feel well.
Remember that guanethidine will not cure your high blood pressure but it does help control it. Therefore, you must continue to take it as directed if you expect to lower your blood pressure and keep it down. You may have to take high blood pressure medicine for the rest of your life . If high blood pressure is not treated, it can cause serious problems such as heart failure, blood vessel disease, stroke, or kidney disease.
To help you remember to take your medicine, try to get into the habit of taking it at the same time each day.
The dose of this medicine will be different for different patients. Follow your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following information includes only the average doses of this medicine. If your dose is different, do not change it unless your doctor tells you to do so.
The amount of medicine that you take depends on the strength of the medicine. Also, the number of doses you take each day, the time allowed between doses, and the length of time you take the medicine depend on the medical problem for which you are using the medicine.
If you miss a dose of this medicine, take it as soon as possible. However, if it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule. Do not double doses.
Store the medicine in a closed container at room temperature, away from heat, moisture, and direct light. Keep from freezing.
Keep out of the reach of children.
Do not keep outdated medicine or medicine no longer needed.
It is important that your doctor check your progress at regular visits to make sure that this medicine is working properly.
Dizziness, lightheadedness, or fainting may occur, especially when you get up from a lying or sitting position. This is more likely to occur in the morning. Getting up slowly may help. When you get up from lying down, sit on the edge of the bed with your feet dangling for 1 or 2 minutes. Then stand up slowly. If the problem continues or gets worse, check with your doctor.
The dizziness, lightheadedness, or fainting is also more likely to occur if you drink alcohol, stand for long periods of time, exercise, or if the weather is hot. While you are taking this medicine, be careful in the amount of alcohol you drink. Also, use extra care during exercise or hot weather or if you must stand for long periods of time.
Do not take other medicines unless they have been discussed with your doctor. This especially includes over-the-counter (nonprescription) medicines for appetite control, asthma, colds, cough, hay fever, or sinus problems, since they may tend to increase your blood pressure.
Before having any kind of surgery (including dental surgery) or emergency treatment, tell the medical doctor or dentist in charge that you are taking this medicine.
Tell your doctor if you get a fever since that may change the amount of medicine you have to take.
Male patients: This medicine may interfere with ejaculation.
Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.
Check with your doctor as soon as possible if any of the following side effects occur:
Some side effects may occur that usually do not need medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your body adjusts to the medicine. Also, your health care professional may be able to tell you about ways to prevent or reduce some of these side effects. Check with your health care professional if any of the following side effects continue or are bothersome or if you have any questions about them:
Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you notice any other effects, check with your healthcare professional.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Portions of this document last updated: Aug. 01, 2020
Original article: https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/guanethidine-oral-route/description/drg-20067754
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The following is a from a letter that almost a dozen prisoners at Sampson CI in Clinton, NC have drafted and asked outside groups to help distribute. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit, Parker vs. Sampson CI, are six prisoners at the facility hoping to change the work conditions and punish the guards responsible.
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing you in regards of the mistreatment of racial, sexual, and demoralizing acts that are being forced upon us by the Correctional Staff at Sampson Correctional Institution overseeing Road Squad duties…
Officers at Sampson CI have forced other inmates, including myself, to ingest "exotic hot sauce" by the spoonful. This particular sauce can only be purchased on the internet or at specialty stores. The label reads, "Extremely dangerous for daily consumption. May cause, death, burns, throat ulcers, and stomach blisters."
Only after consumption of this 'hot sauce' are we permitted to work, to receive gain time of nine days and daily pay of 70 cents. Most if not all of the workers need this small income. While at work the officers are continuously forcing us to do racist, homosexual, and demoralizing acts to ourselves and each other, for payoffs such as cigarettes, beers, food, and drinks.
This detailed list is only a few of the incidents that have occurred; there have been numerous. Some of the following are:
- Officers forcing three white men to force down a black man and grab his testicles and make him scream and swear that, "HE IS WHITE AND PROUD OF IT," as we sit in a church parking lot.
- Forcing inmates to pull down their pants and boxers so the officers can witness us applying hot sauce directly on our rectums and testicles, which leaves blisters on the skin and in some cases leaves the skin raw for days.
- Forcing a black man to grab a white man from behind and initiate homosexual gestures of pleasure, while biting his back.
- Forcing us to catch deadly snakes and kiss them in the mouth.
- Forcing us to catch rabbits and field mice for the sole purpose of throwing them in front of on-coming traffic to see them killed.
Please understand, that these are just a few of the many things we are forced to do (on road squad)…
We are currently afraid of being around these officers for fear of retaliation of some sort. The facility may ship us to different locations across the state to keep us from being close to our families, to 'sweep' this under the rug.
They have been trying to deter us from seeking legal assistance, but this is our only hope of correcting a major situation of injustice; while violating our religious and civil rights. Our families are standing behind us but there is only so much they can do.
We feel that the media should know about this in efforts to help others in the future. Once again we are seeking legal assistance as a group. This is not a crime against Blacks, Whites, Indians, or Hispanics. These crimes are against all of us and we all need your help to put an end to these types of actions.
In closing, we thank you for you help.
the Road Squad inmates
Sampson CI
700 N. West Blvd.
Clinton, NC 28329
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Standard Room At Los Frailes
The Hotel los Frailes (Friars' Hotel) owes its name to its proximity to the Basilica and Monastery of St Francis of Assisi in the nearby Plaza de San Francisco. It is a very pleasant little hotel despite a few idiosyncrasies, principal of which is that all the staff members are required to dress as Franciscan friars. It feels faintly sacrilegious to drink a mojito mixed by a monk, but no odder than seeing that same monk later, still in his habit, lurking outside the hotel entrance with a huge cigar between his teeth.
Another little peculiarity of the place is that the majority of the rooms have been laid out in the style of monastic cells. This actually sounds far worse than it is, for the rooms are air conditioned and so comfortable that one hardly notices the lack of a window. The first floor suites are definitely the best option, though, as they do have windows which overlook Teniente Rey Street; these rooms are thus very light and airy.
The ground floor bar with its tall windows is cool and has lots of comfortable sofas, and the woodwind quartet that regularly plays there has a very soothing effect on the nerves after a day spent in the noise and heat of Old Havana. An interesting design feature of the hotel is that the original aljibe, the central limestone cistern of the type located under the courtyard of every colonial mansion in Old Havana, has been glassed over so that one can see the deliciously clear water below.
Please note: Los Frailes has no restaurant, so its guests usually take breakfast in a corner café about a minute's walk from the hotel.
© 2010 Nigel Hunt
Not Reviewed By Nigel Yet
Reviewed on 12 Dec 2011 by William R from Canada
This is a nice hotel in a well kept area of Habana Vieja.

I actually arrived a day late for my reservation, and the hotel honoured my complete prepaid stay, although I had to wait a couple of hours for a shift change in the management to okay my lateness. Clean, well appointed room, with breakfast at the corner restaurant. Standard amount of hustle and bustle in and around the hotel.
Average rating from 1 review(s) of this hotel
24 hour reception
Air conditioning
Breakfast - à la carte
Cafe / snack bar
Daily newspapers
Elevators / lifts
Hotel was recently renovated
International cuisine
Internet on hotel's PCs
Laundry & Ironing Service
Lobby bar
Luggage storage
Malecon max 5min walk
Mastercard & Visa (not USA bank issued) accepted
Nightclub nearby
Nursery services
Old building restored
Reception staff speak Spanish, English, French, German, Italian
Safety - uniformed security personnel 24hrs
Shoe cleaning
Shop(s) with basic supplies, souvenirs & gifts
Shops max 2min walk
Telephone - national & international calls
TV room/bar (international channels & videos)
Voltage 110/120
We'll come right out and say it (again): there are no windows in the 18 standard rooms at the Hotel Los Frailes. Before you shriek with horror, please believe us when we say that the rooms are really attractive and we promise that you hardly notice the absence of fenestration. The thinking behind the hotel's design is that it should be somewhat reminiscent of a monastery - and monastic cells don't always have windows. But we think any monk or nun occupying one of Los Frailes standard rooms would be seriously tempted to renounce their vows of simplicity and chastity too: the beds are inviting, the furnishings attractive and the bathrooms are sinfully luxurious. All of the standard rooms are twin bedded.
© 2010 Nigel Hunt
110 volt outlets
Air conditioning
Baby's cot (on request)
Bathroom (ensuite)
Hot & cold water
In-room safe
Minibar / Fridge
Room service
Satellite TV
Twin beds
The 4 Junior Suites at Los Frailes are very civilised indeed with high ceilings, attractive faux Colonial furnishings including huge wooden chests, generous bathroom spaces and inviting seating areas preceding the main bedroom area with tall French doors crowned by traditional stained glass fanlights opening onto their own balconies.
© 2010 Nigel Hunt
110 volt outlets
Air conditioning
Baby's cot (on request)
Bathroom (ensuite)
Hot & cold water
In-room safe
King size bed
Minibar / Fridge
Room service
Satellite TV
Terrace or balcony
More Hotels in Old Havana:
UK Sales :: Audrey :: +44 20 7498 8555 or 0800 298 9555
USA & Canada Sales :: Jeffery or Bastien :: Toll Free 888 361 9555
Havana Tourist Center :: Idelsis :: +53 7 863 9555
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$ is not defined error – jQuery error
I was working with jQuery for the menu and got the error "$ is not defined". And after finding it through firebug, it was the bug due to jQuery.js file included after javascript code.
So if you include the jQuery.js file, first before any of the jquery script, this will go away…
Learning jQuery is Fun : jQuery Quick Tutorial – Part 2-Attributes
We have seen Selectors in first part of the tutorial which is referenced at Learning jQuery is Fun – jQuery Quick Tutorial – Part 1 – Selectors. Now we are moving on with second part and that is Attributes.
Attributes section consist of functions which are used to do actions on attributes of the HTML Tag. for example, if you wanted to get the href of the link tag which has 'Manish' as id. You can do it like $("a[id='Manish']").attr("href") and you get href of the anchor tag. Let's look at Attribute in bit/byte detail.
Attributes Related Functions
There are around 5 function ( in next version if it increases, don't write comment about that as i already has low disk-space in wordpress account :)). All function somehow do interact with element's attributes.
- attr(name) returns the attribute passed to the function for first element selected by selectors. That means var title = $("em").attr("title"); returns title of first matched em tag into the title variable. all parameters are in string value in jQuery so please please don't forget quotes unless specified. I have said this in first part also. Isn't it ? Ahhh… Memento effect :).
- attr(key,value) sets the value to the attribute passed by key. So $("button:gt(1)").attr("disabled","disabled"); will disable buttons which are greater than 1.
- Sometimes we don't have direct value to set in some attributes. And we need to use functions to set the value. Wow!!! you are genius. Let me tell jQuery guys. And yes, they have implemented within the second. They added function attr(key, fn) for the same as you thought of. Thanks for your contribution :P. This is used to set function value to set specific key's attribute. Following example will clear it out. $("div").attr("id", function (arr) { return "div-id" + arr; }). Here function always get the element position in the jQuery object. So if page has 3 div, above line will result their id into div-id0,div-id1,div-id2.
- One more complex but useful function is attr(properties). It will set the propertie(s) passed into the function to selector's elements. e.g. $("img").attr({ src: "/images/hat.gif", title: "jQuery", alt: "jQuery Logo" }); This will set src,title and alt tag for each img tag in the page. Power of one line.
- Last is simple one and that doesn't need any description removeAttr(name)
CSS Class Releated Functions
There are simple yet helpful routines for working with class attribute of the page elements. Following are 5 functions and their description. They are really easy to understand 🙂
|addClass (class)
|add provided class to selected elements.
|$("p:last").addClass("selected"); last paragraph will be assigned selected style.
|hasClass( class)
|Whether selected element has the class or not. return bool value.
|$("p:first").hasClass("selected").toString() Return 'true' or 'false' according to first para contain selected class or not.
|remove class from the selected elements
|Don't wait everytime for example. Use your mind too sometimes
|toggleClass(class) & toggleClass(class,switch)
|toggle the class into selected elements. That means if present then remove it and if it's not there then add it to the element
see this for example. I am not explaining it as it's bit late and i need to get dinner fast man!!!.
HTML/Text/Value Releated Functions
Now, last functions are related to working with HTML or Text or value of particular element. The working of all are almost similar.
|Get the html (innerHTML), text, value respectively. The point to remember with text is that it will return combined text of all selected elements. While html and val only returns data for first selected elements.
|var htmlStr = $(this).html();
var str = $("p:first").text();
var singleValues = $("#single").val();
|Set passed value to the innerthml, text or val as per called function. Here once again with text the difference is it escapes the '<' and '>'. So if you pass 'manish' as text, it wont show bold manish. Instead of it shows the same passed text.
|$("div").html("Hello Again");
$("p").text("Some new text.");
Huh!!!. Attribute finished. We have learned here ( me too has learned :P. seriously ) how to work with attributes with selectors. It was great experience to work with such a library.
$("Person[ name= 'Manish']).val('Go to home').attr('timepass','Counter-strike game').
Bye guys!!!


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It's the first official day of annual pop culture preview fest Comic-Con. Want to know more? We've created this helpful flowchart showing what most people are doing here. Bonus: We include some tips on getting laid and/or meeting Joss Whedon.
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Dance the blues away: Doobie Brothers keep the music rolling
At this point in their career, the Doobie Brothers have two interrelated sets of fans– the gracefully aging rockers who remember lazy summer days in the 1970s and '80s frolicking by a river, strumming a guitar, and enjoying life, and Generation Y, who grew up on their father's classic rock tapes and experimenting with their own "funky Dixieland."
Even if they've been relegated to classic status, the 2010 release of their first album in ten years, World Gone Crazy, the Doobies remind us they've never lost touch with their rock roots. According to longtime– though not original– guitarist John McFee, the album was a return to the traditional Doobie songwriting and producing, enabling the band and fans to remember that it's not over until the old black water stops rolling and we stop listening to the music.
The Hook: For the fans who weren't around at the time, can you remind us how the Doobie Brothers came to be?
John McFee: It started out around 1970 or so, with Pat Simmons and Tom Johnston getting the ball rolling. Going into the '70s, a lot of us had been influenced considerably by a group called Moby Grape who came out of the Bay area around the time the Grateful Dead were playing. They took it to their own place– combining blues with country with jazz.
The Hook: How do you keep challenging yourselves to create something new?
JM: We've been through a lot, and we broke up back in late '82, '83, and the real thing that broke the band up was burnout– in the road and in the studio. When we got back together and started doing shows, we decided to play enough to keep our chops up, but not to where we couldn't stand to be on the road. It's always been about the music and not about being rock stars or getting a bunch of adoration. We like to go out and play music– it's pretty simplistic, ultimately.
The Hook: Does it bother you that you're now often labeled "classic rock"?
JM: We feel lucky that people consider us classic rock, that they listened to us once and we're still worth listening to. But we do have a new record out and what we're doing is as solid as the next guy that's out there making noise.
The Hook: The new record, World Gone Crazy, is your first in 10 years. Tell me about its conception.
JM: We hooked up with the band's original and longtime producer, Ted Templeman, who produced most of the music the world knows the Doobie Brothers for. I decided not to contribute songs and instead said, "Why don't we go back to when Pat and Tom wrote the songs?" It's a classic Doobie Brothers album.
The Hook: One of the songs I grew up on was "Listen to the Music," a song that propelled you to mainstream fame in the early '70s– what was the inspiration?
JM: The band had done the first album, which wasn't a hit, and there were no hit singles. They were signed to Warner Brothers and there was a little bit of danger of being dropped. Tommy wrote the song and felt he had something, so he called Ted [Templeman] in the middle of the night, and played it over the phone. When they got into the studio, it was clearly a hit song. It was pretty much a very optimistic sentiment about people simply enjoying life, make love not war– a really well-done version of that kind of hippie concept.
The Hook: The Doobies have been known in the past to alter their image to appeal to certain audiences– leather jackets in the '70s, for example. Are you doing anything to appeal to younger generations now?
JM: I think we kind of always wore skinny jeans to some extent, although we're not quite as skinny as we once were. In our age bracket, we've got to be realistic.
The Doobie Brothers perform at the nTelos Wireless Pavilion on Thursday, April 28. $36-$68, 6pm.Read more on: Charlottesville Paviliondoobie brothers


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Let's hear it for the ladies! HBO's freshman comedy series Veep, from In the Loop writer and director Armando Iannucci and starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Girls, written, directed by and starring Lena Dunham, have only aired a handful of episodes between them, but EW reports each of the series has just been renewed for a second season. Both hit completely different comedic styles and tones, but they have each found their own audiences and seem to have quality writing, directing and performances among them.
There's been a lot of buzz round Girls (both good and bad as the female sex tries to figure out whether they love or hate the depiction of their particular demographic) and Veep, while not as divisive, certainly brings the laughs (read my review of the series premiere right here). HBO now has a strong slate for their female audiences again for the first time since Sex and the City, so that's something to be happy about. Maybe people will stop complaining about all the nudity on Game of Thrones now?


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British rocker Morrissey halted his performance at California's Coachella music festival on Friday (17Apr09) to protest against members of the audience who were eating meat.
The former Smiths frontman, a staunch vegetarian, was disgusted by the smell of barbecued meat wafting over the crowd at the Indio, California event.
And halfway through his set, the star stopped mid-song and walked off stage, telling the audience, "I can smell burning flesh and I hope to God it's human."
A few minutes later the star returned and re-started his performance, adding, "The smell of burning animals is making me sick. I just couldn't bear it."


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Like heroin, cocaine and caffeine, sugar is an addictive, destructive drug, yet we consume it daily in everything from cigarettes to bread.
–William Dufty, author of Sugar Blues.
Top five tips for beating the sugar blues:
1. Chew More! Saliva breaks down food into simple sugars, creating a sweet taste. The more we chew, the sweeter our food becomes, so we don't crave those after-meal sweets. Chewing also reduces digestive distress and improves assimilation, allowing our bodies to absorb maximum nutrition from each bite of food.
2. Eat more grains, beans, vegetables and fruit. Unprocessed, sugar contains a variety of vitamins, minerals, enzymes and proteins. When whole grains are cooked, chewed and digested, the natural carbohydrates break down uniformly into separate glucose molecules. These molecules enter the bloodstream, where they are burned smoothly and evenly, allowing your body to absorb all the good stuff.
3. Be aware of hidden sugars. The recommended daily intake of sugar is 10 teaspoons. There are many "healthy" foods that contain massive amounts of sugar for example a lemon poppy seed Clif Bar has 21 grams of sugar, or 5 teaspoons. The worst part is that a chocolate-glazed cake donut from Dunkin' Donuts, has less sugar at 14 grams/3 teaspoons than its "healthy" counterpart. Additionally, don't forget about your morning or afternoon Starbucks run that Grande Frappuccino actually contains 44 grams of sugar, or 10 teaspoons- a full days allowance!
4. Eat balance foods and find balance in your life. If you focus on eating foods that make us feel balanced you can naturally reduce cravings and feel healthier and happier. Balanced Foods include: Brown rice; Whole grains: brown rice, millet, quinoa, buckwheat, oats; Vegetables: squash, carrots, parsnips, onions, broccoli, mushrooms, etc.; Dark, leafy greens; Beans and legumes. Along with eating balanced foods you also need to take time to make sure you are finding balance in all other aspects of your life including your relationships, physical activity, spirituality and career. When you have balance in all of these you will then find that your cravings will start to disappear.
5. DRINK WATER! One of the primary causes of cravings is dehydration. Dehydration can manifest as a mild hunger, so the first thing to do when you get a craving is drink a full glass of water. However like everything else you need to find a balance because excess water can also cause cravings; don't over hydrate.


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Prideful week-end
I managed to get a press pass for Pride London again this year. This gave me access to a loo in a nearby hotel at the end of the parade(!) but more importantly to the pit at the front of the main stage where my arms got thoroughly burned by an unusual appearance from the sun. The dwindling number of fundamentalists protesting the parade (there weren't even 20 of them this year!) would probably remind me that that's one gets from pride: the burns of hellfire...
I'm glad to report that no debacle like that of last year with Boy George took place this year and that the artistes with whom I shared my images on Twitter have been very gracious about it. Some have even asked for permission to use the images.
On Sunday, to finish a gay old week-end in style, I was at Tate Britain for Queer Britannia, a mellow and relaxing tour of the newly hung galleries, highlighting some of the gay-friendly pieces on display. Again pictures were taken... (full flickr set)
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Captain Kirk might want to avoid taking the starship Enterprise to warp speed, unless he's ready to shrug off interstellar hydrogen atoms that would deliver a lethal radiation blast to both ship and crew.
There are just two hydrogen atoms per cubic centimeter on average in space, which poses no threat to spaceships traveling at low speeds. But those same lone atoms would transform into deadly galactic space mines for a spaceship that runs into them at near-light speed, according to calculations based on Einstein's special theory of relativity.
The original crew of "Star Trek" featured as unfortunate examples at a presentation by William Edelstein, a physicist at Johns Hopkins University, at the American Physical Society conference in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 13. The physicist showed a video clip of Kirk telling engineer Scotty to go to warp speed.
"Well, they're all dead," Edelstein recalled saying. His words caused a stir among the audience.
Edelstein's personal interest in this thought experiment began 20 years ago, when his son Arthur asked him if there was friction in space. The father responded that yes, there would be hydrogen bumping off a spaceship. But he soon realized that the stray atoms of hydrogen gas would actually go right through the ship traveling close to light speed, and irradiate both crew and electronics in the process.
More recently, the physicist and his now-grown son calculated the scenario of a spaceship trying to travel halfway across our Milky Way galaxy in just 10 years. That's doable in theory, because special relativity states that time slows down and distances shrink for travelers approaching light speed.
Edelstein's work showed that a starship traveling at just 99 percent of the speed of light would get a radiation dose from hydrogen of 61 sieverts per second, when just one tenth of that number of sieverts would deliver a fatal dose for humans. And that's not even the 99.999998 percent of light-speed necessary to make the journey to the center of the Milky Way in 10 years
At the higher speed, the human crew of a starship would experience something like getting struck by the high-energy proton beam from the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. On top of killing the crew, such powerful levels of energy would also likely destroy the starship electronics.
"I'm not claiming this is a brilliant new discovery or anything," Edelstein told SPACE.com. "I'm just saying that it's interesting."
Some audience members at the American Physical Society event protested that Kirk, Spock and the "Star Trek" crew would all still live because of the starship Enterprise having shields. But Edelstein noted some of the existing difficulties with creating an electromagnetic shield with any resemblance to "Star Trek" technology.
Solid shields seem even more hopeless. A starship might need anywhere from a 4.4 -meter to 4,400-meter thickness of lead shielding to deflect the hydrogen radiation — added mass that would make travel at near-light speed even more impractical.
The physicist concluded by suggesting that extraterrestrials might not have visited Earth because of all the problems in traveling at near-light speeds, including how to deal with deadly hydrogen space mines. But for the record, he does believe that alien life exists.
"Getting between stars is a huge problem unless we think of something really, really different," Edelstein said. "I'm not saying that we know everything and that it's impossible. I'm saying it's kind of impossible based on what we know right now."
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As often as 40 times a day, "Stephen L." has a sense that everything he is doing, he has done before. Once, to disrupt the constant drag of this déjà vu, he lurched into a wild dance in front of a washroom mirror. That was something he was sure he'd never done before.
"Zelda," a historian, watches as her great-granddaughter ascends to the ceiling and disappears. Another time she encounters horrible witches with protruding chins, and still another, she sees a teenage boy leaning on the hood of the car she rides in, his legs in the air. He balances unperturbed for five minutes as they travel down the road.
Both a man and his son hear voices. The son finds the voices' constant trivial instructions — move this glass, take that subway turnstile — annoying. The father takes a lighter view. Once he tried to follow their advice at the racetrack. It didn't work.
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In his newest book, "Hallucinations," Oliver Sacks manages to make something beguiling of the many ways our brains trick us. Sacks presents a field guide to our quirky operating system's powers of deception with storytelling that makes readers feel like medical insiders.
The book does not discuss the hallucinations most of us think of when we hear the word: the frightening voices and delusions that accompany severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. Sacks focuses, instead, on hallucinations far more common, those without the underlying menace of psychosis. His interest is the fleeting phantasm that can come before sleep, the strange creatures some see upon waking, the delirium of fever, the unusual visual symptoms that can precede migraines, the odd occurrences that for some presage epileptic seizure — such as Stephen L.'s déjà vu — and the voices some hear in moments of crisis.
Through the stories of patients and friends, Sacks can make his hallucinating subjects seem like the lucky ones, not so firmly shackled to pedestrian senses.
He apparently saw some advantage to their perspective. Throughout the book are Sacks' stories of his own hallucinations, some unbidden, but many sought through a surprising amount of drug experimentation in the 1960s. (Only surprising, perhaps, in light of the fact that he's Oliver Sacks, for Pete's sake!) At one point, he actually set aside Sundays for hallucinogen use. One psychedelic Sunday, he swallowed 20 tablets of the synthetic drug Artane. Then he made breakfast for people who were not there. Moments later, he grew excited to realize that his parents, who lived in Great Britain, were on a helicopter, and would in minutes be landing right beside his home in Topanga Canyon near Los Angeles. His disappointment when he realized the anticipated visit was a hallucination reduced him to tears. When he began seeing patients in a migraine clinic in 1966, he would schedule amphetamine weekends. That's when he read the 500-page, 100-year-old "On Megrim," in one weekend. It was the inspiration for his first book, "Migraine."
Often, Sacks' subjects talk about enjoying their nonthreatening hallucinations, especially when they recognize them as such. "Gertie C." was among the postencephalitic Parkinson's patients Sacks wrote about in "Awakenings." For years, she told him, she experienced pleasant hallucinations of sunlit meadows and childhood idylls. When she was prescribed L-dopa to control the Parkinson's symptoms, her hallucinations took on a sexual quality. "You surely wouldn't forbid a friendly hallucination to a frustrated old lady like me!" she told Sacks. She had enough control over these visions to permit herself one every evening. If a family member's visit threatened to delay her scheduled tryst, she would tell them she was expecting "a gentleman visitor from out of town," and she didn't want to keep him waiting.
But for others, hallucinations can be frightening and revolting, from the torment of reliving terror in post-traumatic stress disorder, to repellent hallucinatory smells before an epileptic seizure, to hearing voices that seem to bring on the seizure itself.
"Mrs. B" reports: "This is not like hearing a voice in a dream. It is a real voice." She would hear it off to the right, calling her name. She tries to ignore it. "[I]f I turn towards the voice I have a convulsion," she says. Still, she could never resist it.
Although Sacks couldn't have intended it as such, "Hallucinations" makes a substantial counterweight to the recent best-seller "Proof of Heaven" by neurosurgeon Eben Alexander. Alexander's near-death experience during a coma landed him on the cover of Newsweek. He employs his scientific and medical credentials to lend credence to his claims that he visited heaven while in a coma for seven days. And even the most convinced atheist may acknowledge that coming through this kind of ecstatic vision without some sense of the divine would be near impossible. But Sacks' book, by presenting the many ways in which our brains routinely produce miracles, create ghosts, invent alien abductions and generate ecstatic religious feelings, suggests the logical explanation that the much-publicized neurosurgeon explains away. And Sacks isn't even arguing the point.
In Charles Bonnet syndrome, for instance, the brain fills in imaginatively when visual impairment reduces what one sees. Depending on the nature of the hallucination, Sacks writes, these visions can be frightening, comforting or fascinating. The late acclaimed poet Virginia Hamilton Adair found inspiration in them when glaucoma took her eyesight, referring to "the angel of hallucinations."
The human brain can pull a similar stunt with prisoners in monotonous confinement, sailors long at sea, long-distance truckers traversing the interstate or pilots during long flights (Talk about frightening hallucinations — for the passengers).
So-called ecstatic seizures can completely alter religious belief. Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky lived with ecstatic seizures of this nature, as did some of the characters in his novels. Sacks relates the story of a bus conductor who had an ecstatic seizure while collecting fares. A 1970 paper on the subject relates "He collected the fares correctly, telling his passengers at the same time how pleased he was to be in Heaven. … He remained in this state of exaltation, hearing divine and angelic voices, for two days." Afterward, he remained religious. Three years later, however, three seizures in three days brought similar elation, only this time he was converted to atheism.
And maybe this malleability is the most astonishing thing. That our beliefs, our worldview, and even what we think of as our immutable selves, are all subject to the legerdemain of our very clever brains.
Jenni Laidman is a frequent contributor to Printers Row Journal.
By Oliver Sacks, Knopf, 352 pages, $26.95


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WASHINGTON — The Atlanta Braves have run far ahead of their NL East foes this season. Now they're stumbling to the finish.
The Washington Nationals broke open a one-run game with three a three-run eighth off reliever Jordan Walden and defeated the Braves 4-0 Tuesday night for a sweep of the day-night doubleheader.
In the makeup of a series opener postponed by a shooting rampage a day earlier at the nearby Navy Yard, the Nationals scored three time off Atlanta closer Craig Kimbrel in the ninth for a 6-5 win in the first game.
"We need to start playing a little better baseball and start swinging the bats," said manager Fredi Gonzalez, whose hitters collected just five singles in the nightcap. "I like where we are, our position, but there's still baseball games to be played, and we've just got to get back on a roll again."
Atlanta has lost nine of 13 and the magic number remained at four for clinching the NL East for the first time since the Braves' streak of 11 consecutive division titles from 1995-05. A sweep of the day-night doubleheader would have sealed the division, now Atlanta's lead over Washington is eight games, the smallest it's been since July 25th.
Washington's Tanner Roark (7-0) allowed just two hits in seven innings, struck out six and retired the final 13 batters he faced. Roark has yet to allow a run in 13 innings against the Braves.
Veteran right-hander Freddy Garcia (1-2), making his second start for Atlanta, allowed a run on seven hits.
"He threw the ball real well," catcher Gerald Laird said. "I remember facing him a lot with Detroit, when he was with the White Sox, and he's one of those guys who keeps you off balance and doesn't make mistakes in the middle of the plate."
After allowing Steve Lombardozzi's RBI-single in the second, he worked out of trouble in the third and fourth, and retired the last eight men he faced.
Washington, which began the game 4 «games behind Cincinnati for the NL's second wild-card berth, added three runs, including a Ryan Zimmerman homer, off Walden in the eighth.
"You want to keep it a one-run ballgame and you bring the guy in you want in that situation and it just didn't happen tonight for us," Gonzalez said.
The Braves wasted a two-run, ninth-inning lead in an opening 6-5 loss.
Shortstop Andrelton Simmons' error on Denard Span's grounder ended Kimbrel's first blown save since May 7.
Atlanta trailed 3-0 in the first but took a 4-3 lead in the eighth on Evan Gattis' two-run homer off Tyler Clippard on an 0-2 pitch, which stopped an 0-for-18 skid.
The Braves added a run in the ninth when Elliot Johnson singled, advanced on a throwing error by left fielder Bryce Harper, stole third and came around as Ian Desmond allowed Freddie Freeman's four-hop grounder to shortstop to bounce off the heel of his glove for his 18th error this season.
In the bottom half, Adam LaRoche walked on a full count, Wilson Ramos reached on an infield single and Anthony Rendon walked on a 3-2 pitch. After Tracy's grounder, Atlanta elected to pitch to Span with first base open, and he hit a three-hopper over the mound that rolled past Simmons into center field. Span was given an RBI, with the second run scoring on the error.
"With Craig, it can be bases loaded no outs and we still feel like we're going to get out of it and he's going to strike out the side," starter Mike Minor said.
Simmons began the day with second-highest fielding percentage among NL shortstops.
"I just didn't do my job. I didn't catch the ball," he said
Kimbrel (3-3), who leads the major leagues with 47 saves, had converted 37 in a row but blew a save chance for just the fourth time this season.
Ian Krol (2-1) faced two batters in the ninth, giving Washington its first win in seven home games against Atlanta this year.
Before the games, both teams stood in front of their dugouts, heads bowed, and a color guard was stationed behind home plate during a minute of silence to pay tribute to the people killed Monday and those affected by the shootings.
Span picked up a single in each game, extending his hitting streak to 28 games, passing Colorado's Michael Cuddyer for the longest in the major leagues this season.
NOTES: With a sacrifice fly in the first game, Freddie Freeman became the first Atlanta player with 100 RBIs in a season since Chipper Jones and Jeff Francoeur in 2007. . Adm. James Winnefeld, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, greeted players in the Nationals clubhouse before the game, handing out blue and gold Navy caps to wear during warmups.


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Believe it or not, there's news happening in the world of college football that doesn't involve Penn State today.
Unfortunately, it's more bad news for yet another Big Ten school.
In a statement released Monday afternoon, Michigan head coach Brady Hoke confirmed that running back Fitz Toussaint has been indefinitely suspended after making a "poor decision." That poor decision apparently stemmed from a drunk-driving charge over the weekend.
"Fitz made a poor decision and has been suspended indefinitely because of that action," Hoke said in a statement. "There are expectations that come with being a football student-athlete at the University of Michigan and those responsibilities were not met in this instance.
"We will use this as an opportunity to educate Fitz and make sure he understands the high standards that we have established within our program."
It's unclear if the suspension will bleed into the season opener against defending national champ Alabama, although that's a very realistic possibility.
According to SalinePatch.com, Toussaint was arrested late Saturday night in downtown Ann Arbor and charged with operating a vehicle while impaired. The initial stop, part of a joint drunk driving detail, was due to a traffic violation, with a subsequent breathalyzer revealing the back was over the .08 legal limit.
How far over the limit was not divulged.
In starting 11 games last season, Toussaint led all UM running backs in rushing yards (1,041) and rushing touchdowns (nine).


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Are you one of the 70? Is your spouse? How about your children? Your teacher?
Any of those could be among the 70 people in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties whose lives were saved since Target Zero Teams hit the streets one year ago. The $6 million demonstration project was launched July 1, 2010.
"We expected to see a reduction, of course. But this exceeds our expectations for the project," said Lowell Porter, Director of the Washington Traffic Safety Commission. "70 lives in just three counties, in just one year."
Of course it's impossible to know exactly who wasn't killed. But it is possible to say how many weren't.
In each of the five years prior to launching the Target Zero Teams, an average of 203 people died in traffic in the three test counties. In the year immediately following launch, the number dropped to 133.
The Commission also found that deaths in King, Pierce and Snohomish compared favorably to two similar counties that were pre-designated as control counties for the Target Zero Teams demonstration project. Finally, while traffic deaths are trending down statewide and nationwide, the drop seen in the Target Zero counties is steeper than the general trend.
"We now believe this high-visibility enforcement strategy is impacting all crashes, not just DUIs," Porter said. "When police are out in force, drivers tend to slow down and buckle up. That saves even more lives."
At the core of the teams are 21 Washington State Troopers and sergeants, augmented by local sheriff's deputies and city police officers as time and funding permit. The teams patrol in very specific places: areas where drunk drivers have killed in the past.
During the past year, Target Zero Teams from all agencies have arrested more than 3,400 impaired drivers. But State Patrol Chief John R. Batiste is quick to add that Target Zero is about much more than just making arrests.
"From day one we've said we would measure success by a reduction in fatalities," said State Patrol Chief John R. Batiste. "These interim results make us think we're on the right track, and we look forward to final results after another year of hard work."
Patrols are not limited to freeways or state highways. Troopers, deputies and officers go where the data leads them. That means state troopers might be patrolling city streets, or city officers on the freeway.


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The Twenty First Star Chapter of NSDAR (National Society Daughters of the American Revolution) is pleased to announce its winners in this year's American History Essay Contest with the topic: "Forgotten Patriots Who Supported the American Struggle for Independence." Students were to focus on the often-unrecognized people and groups, including African-Americans, American Indians, French, Spanish, German and others, who provided military, patriotic and public service in support of the American Revolution. They were to explain why it is especially important to honor the unsung heroes and often forgotten Patriots. This year's winners both attend Our Lady of Destiny School in Des Plaines:
8th grade: Christiana von Aulock.
7th grade: Anna Blackburn.
Christiana wrote about Salem Poor who was an African American who served at Bunker Hill. He volunteered to serve in the Revolutionary War in 1775 in a Massachusetts Militia company led by Benjamin Ames. Anna wrote about African American women slaves who played an important role in supporting their families during the Revolutionary War. She also wrote about women slaves who helped out under Lord Dunmore's Proclamation and those women who lived in Lord Dunmore's "Ethiopian Regiment" camp and about Elizabeth Freeman who left her owner in 1781 and asked the Massachusetts courts to state that "all men are free and equal." Both essays were forwarded to the NSDAR District competition.
In addition to receiving a "Winner Certificate", each student read her winning essay and received a 21 Star American flag pin, presented by Twenty First Star Chapter member, Linda Andrews of Park Ridge, during an assembly at the school. Each of the seventeen students who submitted an essay for the contest received a Certificate of Participation.
Judging was based on historical accuracy, adherence to topic, organization of material, interest, originality, spelling, grammar, punctuation, and neatness. All grade 5, 6, 7, and 8 students in a public, private, or parochial school, and those who are home schooled were eligible. This contest is conducted without regard to race, religion, sex, or national origin.
The topic for next fall's contest will be announced later this spring. For further information, please contact DAR Twenty First Star's incoming Historian Jeanette Frye at (847) 692-3718.
Any woman age 18 and older, regardless of race, religion, or ethnic background, who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution, is eligible for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution. Our Twenty First Star Chapter provides genealogy research assistance. Please contact Dorothy Wilson at (847) 328-6946 for more information.


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Sgt. Brandon Morgan, right, is embraced by his partner Dalan Wells, in a helicopter hangar at a Marine base in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, upon returning from a six-month deployment to Afghanistan in this photo taken in February 2012.
Updated at 5:40 p.m. ET: The repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy in 2011 has not had a negative impact on force readiness, recruitment or retention, contrary to predictions that it would, according to a new study published Monday.
The policy, implemented in 1993 while then President Bill Clinton was pushing for openness in the military, was repealed on Sept. 20 last year. Before its enactment and the repeal, service members had said having openly gay troops would harm the military.
But the study by the Palm Center, which conducts research on sexual minorities in the military, determined those concerns were unfounded. The research by nine scholars, some professors at military academies, began six months after the policy (known as DADT) ended and wrapped up near the one-year mark.
The scholars said they interviewed opponents and advocates of the repeal, as well as active duty service members who are gay, and conducted on-site field observations of four military units, among other research. They also reached out to 553 of the nearly 1,200 generals and admirals who signed a 2009 letter saying the repeal would undermine the military and eventually got interviews with 13 officers.
"Our conclusion, based on all of the evidence available to us, is that DADT repeal has had no overall negative impact on military readiness or its component dimensions, including cohesion, recruitment, retention, assaults, harassment or morale," according to the study. "Although we identified a few downsides that followed from the policy change, we identified upsides as well, and in no case did negative consequences outweigh benefits. If anything, DADT repeal appears to have enhanced the military's ability to pursue its mission."
Their research also showed that the repeal hadn't been responsible for any new wave of violence or physical abuse among service members and appears to have enabled some gay troops to resolve disputes around harassment in ways that were not possible before.
Related: Four Marines accused of beating man in possible gay hate crime
However, there were two "verifiable resignations" of military chaplains due to the repeal, which also triggered a drop in individual morale for some service members who were opposed to it, the study said.
Implementation of the repeal was "proceeding smoothly" across the Department of Defense, said a spokeswoman, Eileen M. Lainez.
"We attribute this success to our comprehensive pre-repeal training programs, continued close monitoring and enforcement of standards by our military leaders, and service members' adherence to core values that include discipline and respect," she said in an e-mail to NBC News. "Defense department leadership and the services remain engaged in implementation, and a formal monitoring process ensures continual assessment."
The Center for Military Readiness, an independent public policy group specializing in the military and social issues, has previously questioned success of the repeal.
"From the standpoint of a small minority of LGBT personnel, repeal certainly was a 'success' on September 21, the first day after repeal implementation," the group said in a May 16 blog on its website. "It is too soon, however, to draw conclusions about the consequences of LGBT law (formerly DADT) and related policies for most people in the military. The poor economy will continue to mask potential recruiting and retention problems for years to come."
The group did not immediately reply to a request for comment by NBC News on the Palm Center study.
Since the repeal, the Defense Department has held a gay pride event and allowed service members to march in pride parades in uniform, according to reports.
During a May 10 briefing, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the repeal was "going very well" and was not impacting morale, unit cohesion or readiness.
"And very frankly, my view is that the military has kind of moved beyond it," he said. "It's become part and parcel of what they've accepted within the military."
The Palm Center is part of the Williams Institute, an independent think tank conducting research on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy, at the University of California Los Angeles, School of Law.
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Pie seems to prompt a number of my blog posts on here, actually good that someone can initiate activity and spur me on to provide comment! Anyway, his latest prod has been on how we got involved in Content Management.
I actually started my IT career developing a set of workflow components based on Oracle technology, both Forms and some server side procedures. One of the implementations of this 'product' was in a pharmaceutical company within the manufacturing division. We implemented an application for tracking incidents in the plant to ensure they were fully investigated and any corrective action taken. As part of this various parties in the process would produce reports in the Document Management system they used, Saros Document Manager. I was very loosely involved in tha area of the system as I concentrated on the process design and implementation, nevertheless it was a start. (N.B. for those that don't know FileNET acquired Saros).
I then worked on an eCommerce project for an online music store, well before Amazon! Whilst not Document Management this taught me the need for some of the basic Web Content Management services such as staging, approvals and content expiry…in effect we were building this functionality into the eCommerce application.
Anyway a change in career left me joining a company who specialised in Document Management implementations, amongst other things. To integrate me into the company I was sent to Sweden for 6 months where I learned an awful lot under the tutelage of some very knowledgeable, and patient, experts. The product they used the most was Documentum, and welcome to the world of RightSite…oh how life has moved on.
Interestingly I was asked to look at a new concept, this was in 2000/2001, Microsoft had released a product named Tahoe and I was asked to look at a new offering for the company called 'Webben som Arbeitsplan', or Web as a Workplace. We even built some integration between Tahoe and Documentum which we achieved through Web Services and the, at the time, emerging SOAP standards. Funny that 8 years later I'm still speaking to customers about the best way to achieve that!


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In the end of the day, it's about becoming a better fisherman. There is this other aspect too, that the day matters not the end of it. That precious fishing day that only a few of us have plenty. And of course it's about the journey and not any specific goal.
Think about the end of a fishing day. Was the fishing any good? If it was - or for that matter, if it wasn't - why was it the way it was? Did you read the water well? Did you spent time fishing a spot that probably had no fish. How about those minor changes in the weather? Did you notice them? How fish reacted?
And finally, were you happy? That's the pursuit. The only goal there ever will be.