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We interviewed Pavel Stepanchuk and Gabriella Sabler from USA, after they won the Amateur Rising Star Latin in Blackpool 2016. They live and dance in Brooklyn, New York.
[Pavel]: Yes, we are very happy and very surprised. Pleasantly surprised I must say.
[Gabriella]: Yes, it was not expected at all!
[Gabriella]: Of course, but ...
[Pavel]: It was a dream to win Blackpool but you never know. It is one of the hardest competitions, I believe, to win. But definitely, the most enjoyable to win.
[Pavel]: Well, I started at the age of 13, in New York City. I was originally born in Russia, in Kamchatka, but I lived in Ukraine. When I was 9 years old, my family immigrated to Brooklyn, New York and I went to a dance studio together with my brother and my cousin. We were relatively the same age so we did everything together. We even did kickboxing for some time along with dancing!
[Pavel]: Why? Because his Mum sent him there (laughing).
[Gabriella]: A lot of kids of that wave of immigrants were sent to dance classes... Most kids that either moved here with their families at an early age, like Pasha, and many that were born in the U.S like me... It was a very popular thing to do in the Russian speaking community actually...
[Gabriella]: When I first started dancing, I only did Latin, but then I had to partner up with a boy and he insisted on me trying 10 dance, because he was a 10 dance boy. I never thought it would be possible to start from scratch at the age of 14 and compete with open routines against kids that were so good and have been doing it their whole life... but it was an amazing learning experience and quite successful too! Actually, after him I could not find another good 10 dance partner, so I continued with only Latin, it was a difficult decision because I really found a love for Ballroom dancing as well.
[Pavel]: When I started, I did both, but it was short lived and I finished with Ballroom after only a couple of years, never danced open level Ballroom... so almost all of my partnerships, I danced only Latin. I had a couple of partners before Gaby and...
[Pavel]: Yeah! But finally found the perfect one.
[Pavel]: OK, nobody is perfect, but you just have to find a person with whom it clicks. Actually, you need to understand that nobody is perfect and accept it and learn from that. I felt like I was able to connect with Gaby and accept her imperfections. I think it is very important to be on the same page, only then you can make room to grow together and individually.
[Gabriella]: Yeah... someone who you share the same priorities with... someone that strives for the same goals and dreams as you...
[Pavel]: Yes, exactly!
[Gabriella]: Well I didn't have so many changes of partners... But, I did go through different studios before I started to dance competitively. I was lucky enough that my parents would listen to me when I told them that I no longer felt I could improve in that studio.I remember always wanting to be better and my parents saw this determination in me at such a young age. I guess that is what drove them to always help me find the right studio.
So I moved to Brooklyn Dancesport club with my second partner, that is when I seriously started to compete, competing at the nationals and eventually the worlds… This was actually, when I first started working with my current coaches Eugene Katsevman and Maria Manusova.
[Pavel]: This is when I first saw Gaby actually, at that studio. I remember the day she came in for a try-out with this boy that she is talking about. He was already a student of Eugene and Maria.
[Gabriella]: I remember you too!! Actually I used to buy dresses from the partner of Pasha's brother... funny... so I knew of him, but not directly. We had a big age difference.
[Pavel]: It is not that big (laughing)
[Gabriella]: Now it isn't... 7 years felt like a big difference back then. He was 18 and I was still very young. I came to Eugene's and Maria's studio when I was 11. He was already a "cool" eighteen year old so he did not even look my way (laughing). Now when we are partnering and dating, it is funny to look back at those times because we never thought of each other like that.
[Pavel]: When I saw Gaby for the first time, she made an impression on me. She came for a try-out with this boy and she had so much fire.
[Gabriella]: He still reminds me of that try out (laughing)… that I had so much personality.
[Pavel]: Yes, she already had that personality and I guess, you can teach certain things in dance but that comes from somewhere inside you- that individuality and musical expression. Gaby had that from the beginning.
[Pavel]: First we were dating for two years ...
[Pavel]: Yes, we had separate dance partners.
[Gabriella]: We competed against each other.
[Gabriella]: (laughing) Yes! I was 18 when we started dating...
[Pavel]: Basically, after Gaby split with this boy, she had to leave to a different studio for various reasons...
[Gabriella]: Yes, my new partner at that time was Austin. Actually, him and his partner Nino, our good friends, were interviewed last year as well! Anyway, I changed to his teachers, a different school but after we split, I felt it was an opportunity to come back to the people I felt really inspired by. It was almost like fate. I came back to what is now Brooklyn Dancesport Club and that's when Pasha and I met. Then, I found a new partner and I continued my training with Eugene and Maria because I knew those were people that I felt a strong connection with.
[Pavel]: And then we started talking more to each other from then on and we just clicked. We began to date shortly after that... at the same time still being in competition with each other.
[Gabriella]: I think this was the most challenging thing for us. It was interesting.
[Pavel]: Yes, of course (laughing).
[Gabriella]: We feel like we are now one team. For us it is very important. In our personal life, we always believe in the idea of a team, that we are in it together so before when we danced with other partners, it definitely felt like there was a separation of our team. It was challenging because we wanted each other to succeed yet competed against one another. So when we had an opportunity to dance together it just felt that our team was now complete.
[Pavel]: Most of my friends don't dance. Honestly, the friends I hang out with on a regular basis, they don't dance. But I have a bunch of friends, who're actually supporting us. We owe a big thank you to people who were cheering and were there for us, even though they are our competitors. So I am going to say, thank you for that! I met most of my friends through dance but they don't dance anymore while I still continue to dance. But they are doing something else.
[Gabriella]: Why does everyone keep saying that (laughing)!
[Pavel]: We would like to think that we have some Brooklyn in us when we dance... it is a big part of who we are, where we come from... you can say Brooklyn style!
[Pavel]: Well, I started with kickboxing and then I got into dance. I love being active and dancing is something I'd rather be doing, I found it more enjoyable than getting kicked in the head! I like that dancing is physically demanding and intense as any other sport, and of course the art component makes it more special. My non-dancers friends always try to come to competitions to support me, if we dance a competition close to home. They get that what we do is serious and respect our commitment to dancing, so yes for sure they more then accept it!
[Pavel]: All those are great aspects (laughing). But, I think, what I like about dancing the most is the nonstop learning process. We never stop learning, you can really become better and better if you have a clear direction and a good team . It is like wine, the older it gets, the better it! I also love music and to be able to express myself, together with my partner, is pretty special.
[Gabriella]: Music (laughing). Like Pasha said, music is a big part of it. It is something intangible, I can't put my finger on it. But the music, it makes me feel and I am definitely a feeler. Also, I like the competitive environment because it gives me a rush: the movement, music, and adrenaline together is a combination like no other. Actually, when we started our partnership, we found out we have something in common. We both like competing, we feel like we strive in that environment. It really drives us to become better. And in our industry, Pasha and I believe in the idea that you cannot only be the best dancers to be successful, but you have to the best competitors.
[Pavel]: Yes, I think thats why we were able to do well right away... we are both very competitive.
[Gabriella]: And not in a negative way of course, we still respect all of our competitors , many of whom are our friends.
[Pavel]: We enjoy those special moments on the floor together.
[Gabriella]: We get very excited about that.
[Pavel]: Pressure is good, we like pressure.
[Gabriella]: It's tough to admit, but in reality I think we work a little bit better under pressure, so we need it...
[Pavel]: You've got nowhere to go but straight on, try to do your best, to your best ability.
[Gabriella]: Sometimes you don't know how good you can be.
[Pavel]: Unless you are put under that stress situation.
[Gabriella]: So we accept it, we don't try to resist it. Yes, there are a lot of expectations but we need to focus and keep doing our job. Actually, we are excited to see how we will be able to handle it.
[Pavel]: It is like a new journey, a new chapter.
[Gabriella]: I guess you can call that, I have some of my things at his place, but most of my belongings are still at home with my parents (laughing).
[Pavel]: Her parents don't live far so we often drive over there to get her things and pay a visit to her family.
[Gabriella]: Pasha is lucky enough to have his own place but it still next door to his family, so he sees them every day.
[Gabriella]: The guy at the Chinese take-out (laughing). We are in the studio all day, so during the day we have no choice but to order some sort of food thats around.
[Pavel]: But after a long day, I must say we are very lucky to come home to nice meal, my Grandma, Gaby's Mum, my Mum... they try their best to feed us.
[Gabriella]: Of course, they help out.
[Pavel]: We come from a Jewish family and Jewish Mums love to feed their kids. So we still have a chance to get some nice healthy home food. We get treated by our Mums!
[Gabriella]: Sometimes we come past 11, tired after rounds and my Mum stays up to make us a meal. It is awesome. We have really great parents that support us a lot.
[Pavel]: It wouldn't be possible without them. They continue to give us the opportunity to follow our dream. A lot of dancers don't have their parents so close and we are really grateful for our situation... A lot of parents would also say no, and tell you to become a doctor or go to law school.
[Gabriella]: Especially in our case, where our parents who immigrated to America for a better life. To tell a Russian parent that you want to have a career in dancing is not so easy... (laughing). But Pasha actually has a 4 year college degree which is rare to come across... its difficult to be a serious competitor, work and go to school.
[Pavel]: Child Psychology.
[Gabriella]: Now everything makes sense!!! (laughing)
[Pavel]: I always liked teaching and seeing how kids develop. When I was going to school ,I was always thinking what I can do that would benefit my teaching and dancing. I always liked psychology, so I went into that field.
[Pavel]: Sort of... I teach mostly kids in Eugene and Maria's studio, so it helps a lot.
[Gabriella]: Actually, after high school I went to college for a year. I was a very good student.
[Pavel]: She got scholarships to really good universities...
[Gabriella]: Throughout my years in school I was always very committed. When I started dancing with him, everything went very serious and we needed to travel a lot and really focus on ourselves... and I felt almost bad that I couldn't devote myself 100% to school so I put a stop at my record which means, basically, I accumulated all my credits and now they are frozen...
[Gabriella]: Yes. And I do want to come back as I love learning and school. I miss that environment actually. I wish I had a little piece of that educational feeling from dancing but...
[Gabriella]: Psychology as well. Its really a part of everything! This is also what we have in common.
[Pavel]: Honestly, I don't like putting on make-up.
[Gabriella]: Oh yes, he gets very irritated during that process. Are we done, are we done?
[Pavel]: No, it doesn't irritate my skin. I don't enjoy the process of having it put on. I understand you need to look a bit darker because of the lights but I don't like it.
[Pavel]: Yes, and its not easy! Its an art skill.
[Gabriella]: Something that can be approved about the industry is a sense of community. I feel like there are not enough ways in which people can get together to express their concerns and opinions. A safe place where regardless of who you are, a competitor, judge, organizer etc, can discuss ideas and issues. It's important that we find ways to work together to create a better future for our industry... everyone would benefit.
[Gabriella]: I am thinking... I don't know. Maybe what I don't like about him is a reflection of myself... He pushes me a lot, to do things I may not want to do. But at the end of the day I see why he does it. He is just stronger than me. I feel that, both mentally and emotionally, that makes me more mature. Maybe that's what I don't like about him is that he is stronger than me (laughing).
[Pavel]: She is stubborn, she can say no, just no. But I don't accept that from her, you have to at least try. But she's gotten better with that (laughing).
[Gabriella]: He wants everything on demand, now.
[Pavel]: Dancing costumes or street wear?
[Pavel]: We have a sponsor.We wore their costumes for the first time, Flashdance. They are great because we give our idea to them and they execute is perfectly. Just like Gaby drew.
[Gabriella]: I love designing our costumes. It is fun. This is also what I love about dancing, getting to design the costumes and the look. And once again, this whole idea about the team, we always want to express ourselves together as a team in our costumes. So we gave Flashdance our idea and they worked with us on that.
[Pavel]: They did an amazing job
[Gabriella]: Definitely teachers
[Pavel]: Eugene Katsevman and Maria Manusova. They are our coaches.
[Gabriella]: We trust them, for sure.
[Pavel]: They have a lot of experience with that and Eugene is a genius in making routines.
[Pavel]: I think you should have a small team that has the same focus as you. That's very important. If that small team believes in what they do, you can go very far.
[Gabriella]: The team needs to somehow work together. The information has to work with each other, it can't contradict one another... and its important that you find people who each specialise in something clearly and then use each person's information as tools to help your dancing. In our case, we have two main coaches that we trust we can come back to, and figure out what we keep and what we get rid off... they are good at helping us in that sense.
[Pavel]: I would try to do something athletic... sports.
[Gabriella]: I think I would like to learn how to draw. Maybe go to fashion school.
[Pavel]: I would like to play soccer or basketball. It was another dream.
[Gabriella]: Yes, he plays basketball all the time.
[Pavel]: Not tall?
[Gabriella]: He is very good, he's good at a lot of sports.
[Pavel]: Well, you asked what I would do if I couldn't dance. Basketball is my other dream. Soccer or basketball. I like all the physical activities, sports.
[Gabriella]: I would go to a fashion school.
[Pavel]: Not really.
[Gabriella]: We love going to the gym. We have stages when we eat very clean and stages when we kind of relax and eat what we want..Usually before the competition we try to be relatively healthy.We try not to eat too much fried food, drink a lot more water. We are actually very lucky with our bodies and metabolism.
[Pavel]: Yes, we have a fast metabolism.
[Gabriella]: So we eat quite a lot, we don't restrict our portions.
[Gabriella]: Not really, we both don't enjoy drinking.
[Gabriella]: We would drink for occasions, some wine maybe.
[Pavel]: We have fun without alcohol.
[Pavel]: We work in the studio. All the money we make, we put towards our investments.
[Gabriella]: There is an envelope for the dancing (laughing).
[Pavel]: To become better.
[Gabriella]: At the moment we are Amateurs, and we have a very strong Amateur final back home for the nationals.
[Pavel]: I don't know whether you have seen the results yesterday. Six of the finalists in America, from the nationals, made at least the quarter final in Amateur Latin here.
[Gabriella]: So we have a very strong competition at home. Definitely we want to be in that circle for a while and climb up the ladder.
[Pavel]: And win the Amateur Latin one day here.
[Gabriella]: Yes, that would be crazy. It's a dream. But at home it just as tough!
[Pavel]: One step at the time.
[Gabriella]: In the US we have a lot of competitions and we usually stay one day more, one extra day after or come one day earlier. We are really lucky to go to really amazing places. Miami, Florida is awesome. We try to stay after the competition there. We get to go to Montreal, there is a beautiful competition in the winter. We try to make the most of it.
[Pavel]: Around the world too, we've been to Germany, Paris, Amsterdam, Italy. All experiences were really fun and memorable.
[Gabriella]: Sleep (laughing). I love sleeping.
[Pavel]: Yes, she likes to sleep! I like to relax, maybe play some video games.
[Gabriella]: He likes to spend time with his family. I like to spend time with my family as well. We rarely get. chance to see them because our days follow different schedules. They like to get up early in the morning and by 10pm everybody is falling asleep.
[Pavel]: And we can be in the middle of practice.
[Gabriella]: Our days are shifted a little bit. And on the weekend we also work. Sundays we try to spend with our families.
[Pavel]: I have a dog so I like to spend some time with her. I like to go to the park with her, I train her. She is a good Frisbee catcher (laughing).
[Pavel]: We went to probably every museum you can find in Amsterdam. Museums are interesting , we enjoy them...We like to read books. Gaby just finished a cool book and passed it over to me.
[Gabriella]: I like reading about things that you can mentally relate to dance, because I like to improve my mind, I feel like that helps me improve faster. This book that I just finished is one of many on spiritual
Enlightment... It was very interesting.
[Pavel]: No, not religious. More psychological I would say.
[Gabriella]: Speaking of books, Ruud Vermeij plays a big inspiration in our team and he has a great book that we just started reading, totally related to Latin dancing.
[Gabriella]: I guess find a connection to dancing because it really plays a big role in our lives.
[Pavel]: No, no. Of course, we have life outside of dancing. We have friends who don't dance, we go to parties with them.
[Gabriella]: My older sister is dating his best friend. So we have a nice group, there is the four of us. We like to watch different television series with them. We've just finished watching "OJ Simpson case". It is based on the real life case, we really got into that one. It was educational too, it touched upon a lot of problems that were occurring in the US during the trail.
[Pavel]: The timing (laughing).
[Gabriella]: Actually both (laughing)! Because he is always late. My father was in the army so he raised, I wanted to say me and my sister but also my Mum, to be very punctual. So there was a lot of stress in the house growing up if we left 5 minutes later (laughing). His family is quite the opposite, more laid back. So he is like that's OK, I will be fashionably late.
[Pavel]: Yes, you could say fashionably late
[Gabriella]: No, this time it was my fault (laughing)! I think we have got smarter and understood that we like similar things but we voice it differently. We use different words to express it. So sometimes, because of the communication, we fight. But then, when we talk about it, and we realize that we are asking for the same thing. So we have to listen more to each other and have more patience.
[Gabriella]: But it is true! I think it should be like that.
[Pavel]: We are just telling the truth!
[Pavel]: Like she said, it would be good for me to...
[Gabriella]: ... to listen more
[Pavel]: No, to be on time!
[Gabriella]: More organised...
[Pavel]: OK, more organised, and for you to listen more (laughing).
[Gabriella]: And relax! Sometimes I am too serious, but I am getting better now.
[Pavel]: Because I infected her with my laid back style.
[Gabriella]: Yes, I started to enjoy life more.
[Gabriella]: Yes, a lot. Dancing with him changed me. At first we thought it was going to be so magical and it was, but through time and working, you know... nothing is perfect. Things get tough, somebody gets tired, somebody gets upset and it is not always a good day. So I think, he helped me to be able to accept that, to find something good in even in a bad day. That helped me grow in a healthy way because I am finding more things to be happy about myself, my dancing.
[Gabriella]: Yes, we love all music besides just Ballroom music (laughing).
[Pavel]: House, hip-hop, rap
[Gabriella]: Reggae music
[Pavel]: We like beats, as long as it is good music.
[Gabriella]: We like strong beats, percussion and rhythm. In New York, house clubs are very popular, they play house music. There are certain DJs, that when they come to New York, we always go to see them. We like to dress casual and just dance.
[Gabriella]: No, just casual dancing. We try to stay away from Ballroom dancing when we are outside the studio, dance freely.
[Pavel]: Sorry, yes.
[Pavel]: When I started dancing in New York I was 13 and all the kids in the club were Russian or Ukrainian in origin, many immigrants, I guess it is more seen in the European culture.
[Gabriella]: Others are not exposed to it. I got exposed to it because I went to a Russian private school. It was owned by a Russian owner and he was in charge of the extra activities he was putting out for the kids. Kids in public schools in America don't have opportunity to dance like that. So they are not exposed to it...
[Pavel]: And the dance world is still a very small world for other people to find out about it. For us we feel like it's a big industry, but I don't feel that everybody knows about it.
[Gabriella]: Only recently Ballroom and Latin dancing gained more popularity through shows like "Dancing with the Stars". So now it is a little bit more on the mainstream media. People are getting famous, becoming celebrities like Max Chmerkovsky. Previously he was just a Latin dancer like us but now he is a celebrity and people who don't dance know about him.
[Pavel]: As I said, we are really a small world, I think we need to spread more awareness about ballroom dancing . Now, the industry is split into different parts, so we are really not making it better and stronger.
[Gabriella]: I think we already have the numbers but we need to work better together. Stop splitting things apart.
[Pavel]: Stop fighting for power. It doesn't make the industry stronger.
[Gabriella]: At the end of the day, nobody wins...
[Pavel]: They are evolving in different directions.
[Pavel]: Yes, maybe... but dancing is still moving to the music and ballroom and Latin dancing has always evolved, and whether you put emphasis on the sport aspect or the art to develop it, is OK, as long you stick to the fundamentals and good mechanics. What way your style develops should be up to the dancers. But I think that it is combination of the two which makes it perfect.
[Gabriella]: It must be a complete package. Athletic abilities for sure... you need to be able to do certain things and definitely you should look like an athlete... a dancers medium IS the body and then of course you must be able to create and perform, be an artist.
[Pavel]: It has to be both. You cannot just one or the other.
[Gabriella]: Facebook. I love it. I love getting touch with friends, we have a lot of friends around the world. So it is good to be updated with their daily lives without actually seeing each other . Because we only see them at competitions, when we are home it is good to have contact with them and see where they are, what they are up too... as if we never separate.
[Pavel]: I use internet to download music.
[Gabriella]: Yes, for dance practice. From iTunes. We are Apple fanatics (laughing). I have an IPhone, and even when it freezes or battery life runs out, I still go for the new IPhone (laughing).
[Pavel]: Dancesportinfo.net and also we have one in America called dancebeat.com.
[Gabriella]: YouTube (laughing). For dancing videos.
[Pavel]: Netflix.
[Gabriella]: Yes, we like to watch different movies and series.
[Pavel]: Gaby just finished watching "Orange is the New Black".
[Gabriella]: I watched all the seasons, starting from the first one.
[Pavel]: I finished it, Gaby didn't get to watch the last few episodes.
[Gabriella]: We also like to watch all sorts of conspiracy theory series, about aliens and stuff. Just for fun, really! There is a lot of funny stuff on YouTube. Crazy stuff!
[Gabriella]: I wish there were more videos.
[Pavel]: They have videos
[Gabriella]: Yes but not connected to the person or to the couple.
[Pavel]: Oh yeah. It would be great to be able to click on the couple and, as now you have pictures, have videos.
[Gabriella]: I like that you are able to see the person's history and see who they danced with.
[Pavel]: It would be great to be able to write about yourself and send it to dancesportinfo.
[Gabriella]: Like a biography.
[Gabriella]: Wow, that's amazing.
[Pavel]: Yes, it can help a lot of people. I think you are the only site that has all the recordings of past results and history.
[Gabriella]: That's cool!
[Gabriella]: We are so used to it. Don't change anything because I know exactly where everything is.
[Pavel]: It is user friendly already.
[Pavel]: You have to zoom in.
[Gabriella]: Yes, but we are OK with that.
[Pavel]: It comes up small, but when you zoom in it is fine. Some websites have mobile friendly versions but not always the same functionality as the normal versions.
[Gabriella]: So far, with dancesportinfo, we don't have problems on our phones.
[Gabriella]: We are going back home and will take few days off to recharge.
[Pavel]: We are looking forward to that.
[Gabriella]: Then we will go back to work. We will have a competition in Boston in June and right after that, a competition in Florida.
[Pavel]: We have shows with our studio too.
[Gabriella]: We dance the competition basically, and in the evening we perform. Eugene and Maria have a performance company and competition organisers invite us to do the show.
[Pavel]: We do the show with other members of the studio.
[Gabriella]: So we have three competitions coming up.
[Pavel]: In America summer is very busy with competitions.
[Gabriella]: In June and July.
[Pavel]: For the International.
[Gabriella]: We try our best but it is hard financially.
[Pavel]: It takes time to travel and it is not like a thirty minute flight. And it is not like a ninety dollar ticket either (laughing).
[Gabriella]: We usually arrive early to dance other, smaller competitions as well, so it means two weeks off work. It is hard.
All photos taken on the day by Tony Eng


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Rear controls are similar to most enthusiast cameras with the inclusion of discrete buttons for white balance, RAW capture and exposure lock. A rotating thumb wheel doubles as a four way cursor control although I found this quite fiddly to use, mainly due to its size. A 2.8in LCD monitor with 460k dots sits below a high-quality glass optical viewfinder which zooms in tandem with the lens. While a panel with double the resolution would be a nice touch, if you're really old school you'll be using the viewfinder mostly, which has 85 per cent coverage, and using the 100 per cent view screen for checking shots.
Dedicated buttons take care of the usual suspects
The X10 comes with an impressive, though non-interchangeable, 7.1- 28.4mm zoom lens equivalent in 35mm terms to a 28-112mm zoom. It's impressively bright, with a maximum aperture of f2 in wide angle at f2.8 at the telephoto end. This is a versatile lens with a very close minimum focusing distance in super macro mode. As you can see from the sample pictures, a five pence piece very nearly fills the frame height.
Unlike most electronic push-button zooms it's manually operated, as on a traditional SLR. This makes it smoother and more accurate while providing a stronger physical connection with the camera and silent operation while shooting video, which the X10 can provide in up to 1080p resolution at 29.97 fps. You also get to capture in slow motion at up to 200fps although at ever-decreasing resolutions.
Its unashamedly retro styling leaves you somewhat unprepared for the huge amount of technological wizardry within. Despite its hands-on manual control aesthetic, it's packed with advanced image-enhancement options and methods of tweaking the exposure absent on even the latest professional DSLRs.
Internally, the X10 uses Fujifilm's 2/3in EXR CMOS image sensor. This is no SLR-sized device but it is considerably larger than the sensors you would usually find in a compact camera, affording the camera greater sensitivity and a little bit of a head start when attempting to create shots with a narrow depth of field.
A traditional hotshoe enables external flash use – there's even a cable shutter release provision
The EXR technology in the sensor allows the camera to optionally devote half of the available twelve megapixels to averaging out image noise in low-light situations or to capture a shorter exposure simultaneously with the main exposure, enabling greater dynamic range to be captured. This can bring back shadow and highlight detail that might otherwise have been lost. These modes are selected using the dedicated EXR position on the mode dial. There is a catch though, these EXR modes use the sensor to combine pixels, the final image in both cases is 6Mp in size rather than the maximum 12Mp the X10 can deliver when EXR is inactive.


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Fairway priced its initial public offering of stock at $13 per share, above expectations, with shares of the New York grocery store chain set to begin trading Wednesday.
The company says it plans to use the money it raises from the offering to fund its expansion plans.
The company's shares rose $3.89, or 30 percent, to $16.89 in afternoon trading.
Fairway is well-known among New York shoppers for offering relatively low prices and cramming its shelves with a wide assortment of groceries. The company began as a fruit and vegetable stand in 1933 and has since expanded to a dozen locations in the region, including in Connecticut and New Jersey.
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Fairway Group Holdings Corp. said its research shows there's room for more than 300 additional locations in the U.S. That would put it on par with organic grocer Whole Foods, which has 346 locations in North America and the United Kingdom.
But Fairway is looking to expand at a time when the supermarket industry is facing greater competition from big-box retailers, drugstores and even dollar stores. And Fairway notes that its competitors have greater marketing resources, along with more experience operating big chains.
The chain has been growing since Sterling Investment Partners bought an 80 percent stake in the company in 2007. The investment firm will continue to control the company after the IPO. Howard Glickberg, who is the grandson of the company's founder, remains on the board.
In the fiscal year ended April 1, 2012, Fairway had revenue of $554.9 million, up 14 percent from a year earlier. But it booked a loss of $36.7 million last year, and a loss of $39 million a year earlier, due to the cost of opening new stores.
Last fall, Superstorm Sandy also flooded and damaged its location in Red Hook, Brooklyn and the store was closed from late October to late February.
Fairway will trade under the ticker "FWM" on the Nasdaq. The company, which previously said it expected the stock to price at $10 to $12 per share, expects net proceeds of about $158.8 million.


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This may be useful if you have an infected PC which will no longer start, for instance. Or if you suspect your PC has contracted something nasty, but your regular antivirus tool hasn't raised any alerts, then the Antimalware CD may give you a better chance of finding and removing the threat. (By booting from the CD, not your own perhaps compromised Windows installation, you should bypass many of the mechanisms which stealthy malware uses to protect itself.)
The Antimalware CD works much like most similar tools. Burn its ISO file to a CD, boot from it, and the program will load. If there's an internet connection available then the tool will update its signatures, and you can then begin a scan of all your hard drive partitions with a click.
And as a bonus, the CD also includes a copy of TestDisk, an essential free tool which can detect and fix partition-related problems that might prevent your PC from booting normally. So if your PC won't start and the antivirus scan reveals nothing, try that instead (it's the File Recovery shortcut on the desktop), but be careful - poorly judged partition tweaks can cause more problems than they solve.
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Select Sires' Holstein Committee Tells Industry to
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PLAIN CITY, Ohio, April 12, 2012 - On March 19-20, 2012, the Select Sires Holstein Sire Committee met in Columbus, Ohio to review Select Sires' breeding programs. They were updated on the latest genetic research and discussed current industry issues, such as the Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding efforts to improve the national dairy data base. The committee unanimously supports the Council's formation of a formalized industry structure to operate genetic evaluations, and build industry consensus and implement in 2012 in a manner that serves the best interests of all U.S. dairy producers.
The Select Sires Holstein Sire Committee is comprised of 10 of the most respected breeders from across the country. These breeders are nominated and elected by the dairy producers from Select Sires farmer-owned and farmer-directed member cooperatives. At the March meeting, Randy Nigh of East Central/Select Sires was elected chairman. Other committee members in attendance were: Tom Alexander, Select Sire Power Inc.; Terry Eick, Prairie State/Select Sires; Brad Groves, Select Sires MidAmerica, Inc.; Chris Lang, COBA/Select Sires Inc.; Randy Schweer, Select Sires MidAmerica, Inc.; Robert Sheehan, Minnesota/Select Sires Co-op Inc.; Mark Van Mersbergen, All West/ Select Sires; David Whitehill, Southeast Select Sires Inc.; and Mark Ziel, NorthStar Cooperative.
Neal Smith, CEO of the American Jersey Cattle Association, provided an update regarding the current efforts of the Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding to establish a new cooperative agreement with USDA/AIPL to gather the necessary data and compute the national genetic evaluations. Smith presented reasons why a change is needed. General budget details and proposed genomic testing costs were shared. Smith also compared and contrasted the Council's proposed framework to the one proposed by the Holstein Association.
Select Sires' Holstein Sire Committee unanimously supports a more formalized industry structure to operate genetic evaluations, build industry consensus and implement in 2012 in a manner that serves the best interests of all U.S. dairy producers. Following the sire committee meetings, the Select Sires Board of Directors met. The Board voted unanimously to support the recommendations of the Holstein Sire committee.
According to Randy Nigh, sire committee chairman, "This issue is important to U.S. dairy producers. We appreciate the work of those serving on the Council and feel it is imperative that the industry solve these issues now and implement these measures in 2012 for the good of all dairy producers!"
Based in Plain City, Ohio, Select Sires Inc. is North America's largest A.I. organization and is comprised of nine farmer-owned and -controlled cooperatives. As the industry leader, it provides highly fertile semen as well as excellence in service and programs to achieve its basic objective of supplying dairy and beef producers with North America's best genetics at a reasonable price.


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B2B CFO's Founder Jerry L. Mills brings top concerns of Small Business Owners and discusses Free Enterprise with members of Congress and Press
B2B CFO, the nation's largest CFO and Exit Strategies firm for growth-oriented, privately held companies, was honored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce with the prestigious Blue Ribbon Award. Selected from a record number of applications, B2B CFO was among 100 businesses in the nation, and the only Arizona-based company, honored by the U.S. Chamber at the 2015 Small Business Summit held in Washington, D.C. June 8 – 10. The Blue Ribbon Award winners were selected for their dedication to the principles of free enterprise, especially their contributions to restoring jobs and prosperity.
"As the business community has worked hard to do its part in moving the country forward economically, small businesses have continued to be the driving force responsible for much of our progress," said U.S. Chamber President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue. "Our Blue Ribbon Award winners are the best of the best—growing and succeeding despite significant challenges."
Jerry L. Mills, B2B CFO's Founder and CEO attended the Small Business Summit to receive the award and participate in congressional meetings to discuss the importance a political climate that supports small business and free enterprise.
"We are honored to receive this award in recognition of the 200+ Professionals in our firm who work hard each day to empower owners of privately held businesses around the country with strategies to grow and prosper," said Mills. "It is their dedication, experience and knowledge that helps business owners around the country sleep better at night and wake up to make educated business decisions."
During his brief visit to Washington, D.C., Mills held multiple meetings to discuss pressing legislative issues that impact small business with Washington-based members of the media and Congress, including Congressman Matt Salmon, Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick, and David Cole from Senator John McCain's office.
"The vast majority of American companies are actually small businesses and they employ over half of the entire American workforce," said Mills. "Our economy depends on the success of these businesses and Congress must understand this."
Since 1987, B2B CFO's Professionals have worked to assist America's privately held businesses with Chief Financial Officer Services. In 2014, B2B CFO added a new division designed to meet the growing need of owners looking to sell their businesses. In April of 2014, the company introduced B2B Exit dedicated to providing owners of privately held companies with complete line of transition and exit strategies through proprietary software and process. The firm's Professionals receive exclusive training to earn the designation of Certified Business Transition Experts™.
"As an organization dedicated to furthering the success of America's small businesses, we were so pleased to honor B2B CFO at the Small Business Summit this year," said Giovanni Coratolo, Vice President of Small Business Policy at U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "B2B CFO Professionals play a major role in strengthening the economy around the country as they strengthen the small businesses in their communities."
To find out more about B2B CFO, B2B Exit and The Exit Strategy Handbook please visit online at https://www.b2bcfo.com/ and https://www.b2bexit.com/.
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Berkeley Bike-Pedestrian Safety Remains Consistently Poor
Records from the state Office of Traffic Safety show that Berkeley has consistently been one of the least safe—and in some cases the most unsafe—places in California for bicyclists and pedestrians for the last several years.
When the Berkeley Police Department announced last week that it was launching a month-long pedestrian safety campaign in honor of Zachary Michael Cruz, the five-year-old who died in a motor collision while walking to an after-school program Feb. 27, 2009, Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan cited a OTS study which ranked Berkeley as the most dangerous city of its size for pedestrians.
However, a little more digging by the Daily Planet revealed that the situation has been just as bad since 2003.
"Berkeley has been very bad for the last five or six years," said Chris Cochran, a spokesperson for the Office of Traffic Safety. "But the good thing is it seems to have identified its problems and is working toward fixing it. If you do something high profile for a month, it lasts in the public mind for a longer time. But the longer you do it, the more effective it becomes."
According to the Berkeley Police Department, officers will concentrate on violations that place pedestrians at risk, especially dangerous driving behavior such as speeding, cell phone use and pedestrian right-of-way violations. The department will also provide additional training to officers which will help them spot problematic driving habits.
Calls to Sgt. R. Rittenhouse of the Berkeley Police Department for comment were not returned immediately.
Meehan told the Planet that the police department was "putting more and more attention" to pedestrian safety.
"Zachary's death was a wakeup call—pedestrian safety is important now and will become more important over time," he said. "We don't want to treat people as numbers. This is something we will be looking at in more detail and devising strategies to address it. There's a feeling that if you arrest enough people then that solves the problem but the world doesn't work that way. Along with enforcement, engineering and education is what counts."
Last year, 106 pedestrians were injured in collisions in Berkeley. All three of the city's fatal collisions in 2009 involved pedestrians in crosswalks.
In 2008, Berkeley was listed in the second highest population category—between 100,000 to 250,000—for California cities.
A report prepared by the Office of Traffic Safety showed that on any given day people drove an average of 950,000 miles inside Berkeley city limits.
There were a total of 634 collision-related deaths and injuries, making Berkeley fifth among 55 like-sized cities in its category when ranked by daily vehicle miles traveled. It was fourteenth when ranked according to population.
"Shows Berkeley isn't doing too well," Cochran said. "It's not doing very well for speeding, nighttime or hit and run injuries and collisions."
There were a total of 93 pedestrian deaths and injuries the same year—the most in any similar-sized city, with eight fatalities under the age of 15, a phenomenon Cochran described as "worse than average." Berkeley also ranked number one for pedestrian deaths for age 65 or above.
"These are numbers I am looking at," Meehan said. "Berkeley is a complex moving place and we are working to reduce the number of people getting hit by cars. We are looking at when and why and how things are happening."
The only place where Berkeley didn't come out looking so bad was alcohol-related deaths and injuries. Berkeley hovers somewhere in the middle for this category.
In 2003, Berkeley was ranked at the very top in numbers of both pedestrian and bicycle-related deaths and injuries and has showed little or no improvement in all the categories it has been ranked in since then, Cochran said.
Cities comparable to Berkeley within Alameda County include Hayward and Fremont. While Hayward has its share of problems, they are not as bad as Berkeley's. Its main problem is pedestrian safety for young people. Fremont ranks in the middle for most categories.
Although the Office of Traffic Safety carries out these reviews periodically, cities are not penalized for their poor ranking.
"The penalty is that people are dying," Cochran said. He added that the OTS published the rankings "so that cities can look at them and see how they can improve either on their own or with help from the Office of Traffic Safety."
"If you are in a position like Berkeley, we encourage the Berkeley Police Department to come to us," said Cochran
The Office of Traffic Safety, which is federally funded, regularly provides grants for DUI checks and seat belt and red light enforcement, among other things.
UC Berkeley also carries out a free pedestrian assessment for cities.
Alameda County Safe Routes to School Director Nora Cody said discussions with the City of Berkeley's Bike and Pedestrian Planner Eric Anderson revealed that "even if it's true" that Berkeley ranks highest among comparable cities when it comes to the number of pedestrian injury collisions, it is important to remember that the city has "one of the highest rates of pedestrians and bikers" on its streets.
"If you have many more pedestrians walking, you will have more injuries," Cody said. "It should be looked at by injury per pedestrian rather than injury per capita."
Cody said that although Safe Routes to School—which launched a traffic safety campaign in the Berkeley public schools after Zachary's death—had not been contacted by the Berkeley Police Department about the March campaign, they were happy it was taking place.
"And of course I want it to be more than a month," she said. "It's going to be a great challenge next year because of all the budget cuts. Both the city and our school district are going to be devastated by the cuts."
Anderson said that Berkeley's first pedestrian master plan is scheduled to go before the Berkeley City Council in April.
"It's not a legislative document—it's mainly going to outline safety for all those people who walk for recreation and transportation," he said.
Zachary's father Frank Cruz said his family proudly supported the BPD in their effort to make the city a safer place for all pedestrians.
Cruz has been sharing his experience with the Berkeley Police Department as part of the campaign.
"We hope that through these efforts we can raise awareness about the dangers of distracted driving, and perhaps save other families from having to go through the kind of loss our family lives with everyday," Cruz said. "I hope that Berkeley Police Department's focus on enforcement, engineering and education this month will make a positive difference in Zachary's honor. Zach's seventh birthday is coming up [on March 12], and I think a safer city would be a nice gift for him and all the other kids of our community."


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November 11, 2012
Flush with electoral capital, President Barack Obama is spending it like mad in pursuit of his radical power consolidating agenda. Over the past few days we have chronicled the fast-tracking of a UN gun control treaty, the prosecution of another alleged espionage case, another deadly drone attack, approval of a planned UN invasion of Mali, etc.
The latest stop of the Barack Obama Worldwide Tour of Tyranny may be the issuing of a long-awaited and regularly leaked executive order exerting control over the Internet in the name of cybersecurity.
Of course, there remains the chance that Congress will pass some version of a cybersecurity bill before the president can issue his edict. Congress will be back in town on November 13 and Republican leaders have already telegraphed their intent to "reach across the aisle" and accede to the president's mandate, including the touting of ObamaCare as "the law of the land."
Then again, the president famously declared that "we can't wait" for Congress to act, and given the fact that there are a few other pretty weighty items on the legislative schedule, a cybersecurity executive order isn't out of the question. The decree would take that topic off Congress's plate and allow the president greater control over the scope and severity of the regulations governing the "protection" of the nation's cyberspace infrastructure.
Promises of the White House's imminent issuing of the edict have been coming for months. The Associated Press (AP) obtained a leaked draft version of the order, but indicated that the source of the document didn't disclose when the president would sign the order.
Greater evidence of the imminent issuing of the order came on September 19, when Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the executive order granting the president sweeping power over the Internet is "close to completion."
In testimony before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Napolitano said that the order is still "being drafted" and vetted by various high-level bureaucrats. But she also indicated that it would be issued as soon as a "few issues" were resolved. Assuming control of the nation's Internet infrastructure is a DHS responsibility, Napolitano added.
"DHS is the Federal government's lead agency for securing civilian government computer systems and works with our industry and Federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government partners to secure critical infrastructure and information systems," she informed senators.
Napolitano's report on the role of DHS squares with the information revealed in the seven-page version of the order the AP has read. According to the report of their findings:
The draft order would put the Department of Homeland Security in charge of organizing an information-sharing network that rapidly distributes sanitized summaries of top-secret intelligence reports about known cyberthreats that identify a specific target. With these warnings, known as tear lines, the owners and operators of essential U.S. businesses would be better able to block potential attackers from gaining access to their computer systems.
The new draft, which is not dated, retains a section that requires Homeland Security to identify the vital systems that, if hit by cyberattack, could "reasonably result in a debilitating impact" on national and economic security. Other sections establish a program to encourage companies to adopt voluntary security standards and direct federal agencies to determine whether existing cyber security regulations are adequate.
The president's de facto re-routing of all Internet traffic through federal intelligence officers deputizes more than just DHS as cybertraffic cops. The AP reports that "the Pentagon, the National Security Agency (NSA), the director of national intelligence, and the Justice Department" will all cooperate in the surveillance — in the name of national security, of course.
Corporate employees will be authorized to snoop, as well. Per the AP's reading of the draft executive order, "selected employees at critical infrastructure companies would receive security clearances allowing them to receive the information."
As for those companies considered less critical to our national cybersecurity, "the government would ask businesses to tell the government about cyberthreats or cyberattacks. There would be no requirement to do so."
Given the history of the federal government's penchant for vague language, however, it is likely that despite the denial of compulsory cooperation with the government, there will be a loophole just large enough to mandate private cooperation with the federal government.
Although the president and officials in his administration portray the attack as imminent, Congress isn't persuaded, and on several occasions lawmakers have rejected measures calling for greater government control over the Internet and the communications infrastructure.
As mentioned above, however, that legislative lassitude may be a thing of the past in light of recent electoral events. Perhaps GOP congressional leadership might see "protecting our nation's cybersecurity" as a politically safe expression of bipartisanship.
Regardless of any renewed spirit of cooperation, President Obama is unlikely to set his watch by Congress's timetable. The president, in fact, has been anxious to seize control of the Internet since his inauguration in 2009. As The New American reportedthat year:
The president pointed out that shortly after taking office he directed the National Security Council and Homeland Security Council to thoroughly review the federal government's efforts "to defend our information and communications infrastructure" and to recommend improvements. He mentioned that National Security Council Acting Senior Director for Cyberspace Melissa Hathaway led the review team, and that the 60-day review included input from industry, academia, civil liberty and privacy advocates, every level and branch of government, Congress, and other advisers — even input from "international partners."
To that end, the White House proposed legislation in 2011 and has ordered one after the other administration official to testify at no fewer than 17 congressional hearings on the subject.
In a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece penned by the president, he did his best to instill in the American people fear of the consequences we would suffer should someone launch a successful cyberattack on the critical infrastructure networks of our nation.
National Security Council spokesman Caitlin Hayden was quoted parroting the president's party line on the urgent need for action, however: "Given the gravity of the threats we face in cyberspace, we want to get this right in addition to getting it done swiftly," Hayden told the AP.
The same sense of urgency is being stirred up in other places around D.C. As described in an article published by FCW:
Combined with the increasing public awareness of the cyber threat — and subsequent pressure on lawmakers to take action — the end of election season sets the stage for action on cybersecurity, according to a panel of insiders speaking Nov. 7 at the Symantec Government Symposium in Washington.
"There's the trifecta of knowing who controls the Senate, knowing who the President is and the fact that there's not an election. That, combined with the executive order looming, has to change the calculation of the people, organizations and stakeholders that sought to and did obstruct legislation," said Clete Johnson, professional staff and counsel for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
"I think it's difficult to put where on the scale [of legislative priorities] cybersecurity will be. I think both [Speaker of the House John Boehner] and [Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid] have the realization of how important this issue is, and certainly the White House does too," said Michael Seeds, legislative director for Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas). Still, "anything with the word 'regulation' tied to it is going to be difficult to get through the House. I'm not sure how much of that has changed since the election or under the threat of the executive order. I do think a lot of the work we've done over the past year is laying the groundwork for continuing the conversation into the next Congress.
That pace probably isn't fast enough for a president with a full tank of gas and a lead foot. The announcement of a cybersecurity executive order with all the necessary protections for safety and the requisite disregard for constitutional separation of powers is probably more imminent than we think.
Despite the uncertainty of the timetable, what is certain is that once President Obama signs his name to that edict and assuming compliance with its mandates changes from voluntary to involuntary, he will possess powers only dreamed about by the most ambitious dictators of history.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. >> The Rhode Island attorney general's office is warning Red Sox fans to be wary of possible scams when looking for World Series tickets.
Attorney General Peter Kilmartin's office on Monday warned that there may be unscrupulous people out to take advantage of the team's first appearance in the World Series since 2007.
He says fans should be on the lookout for counterfeit tickets or inflated prices.
He recommends people buy tickets directly from a broker approved by Major League Baseball and use a credit card rather than paying by wire transfer or cash.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, has died. She was 48.
Publicist Kristen Foster said Saturday that the singer had died, but the cause and the location of her death were unclear.
At her peak in the 1980s and '90s, Houston the golden girl of the music industry and one of the world's best-selling artists.
Among her hits were "How Will I Know," ''Saving All My Love for You" and "I Will Always Love You." She won multiple Grammys including album and record of the year.
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Did you guys know that if you're eating too much, you'll gain weight? Even if the food you're gorging on has healthy buzz words like "trans-fat free" and "organic"? Well, apparently folks in a new study conducted by New York Times science reporter John Tierney were easily distracted by shiny ad-speak and that's why health professionals think they're not losing weight. Tierney refers to the "lite" terminology as the "health halo."
Our collaboration began in a nutritionally correct neighborhood, Brooklyn's Park Slope, whose celebrated food co-op has a mission statement to sell "organic, minimally processed and healthful foods." I hit the streets with two questionnaires…Half of the 40 people surveyed were shown pictures of a meal consisting of an Applebee's Oriental Chicken Salad and a 20-ounce cup of regular Pepsi. (You can see it for yourself at TierneyLab.) On average, they estimated that the meal contained 1,011 calories, which was a little high. The meal actually contained 934 calories — 714 from the salad and 220 from the drink. The other half of the Park Slopers were shown the same salad and drink plus two Fortt's crackers prominently labeled "Trans Fat Free." The crackers added 100 calories to the meal, bringing it to 1,034 calories, but their presence skewed people's estimates in the opposite direction. The average estimate for the whole meal was only 835 calories — 199 calories less than the actual calorie count, and 176 calories less than the average estimate by the other group for the same meal without crackers.
You know what's rich (besides, apparently, those Fortt's crackers)? The French Doctor who helped Tierney conduct the experiment then turns around and accuses Americans of being joyless fatties who are nonetheless obsessed with nutrition. "Being French, I don't have any problem with people enjoying lots of foods," says the Frog. "Europeans obsess less about nutrition but know what a reasonable portion size is and when they have had too much food, so they're not as biased by food and diet fads and are healthier. Too many Americans believe that to lose weight, what you eat matters more than how much you eat. It's the country where people are the best informed about food and enjoy it the least."
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