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Coping With Day-To-Day Life During Relationship Troubles
When you have a difficult romantic situation to deal with but you still need to get on with your day-to-day life, what can you do to clear your head and get focused again?
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The following strategy is designed to help you clear the thoughts in your head and do some damage control in your relationship so that you can get more practically focused on what you need to do next.
What You Need: You'll need a pen and paper, a quiet space where you can be completely alone and a smartphone or audio recording device.
1. Make A List Of The Issues
The first thing you're going to do is make a list of all the things that are upsetting or worrying you in this situation, e.g. it feels like you are jealous when I pay attention to my friends or it never feels like I'm good enough for you.
The point of this part of the exercise is to get your inner voice to quieten down so that you can focus on what it is you need to do. By putting everything down on paper you get it out of your mind, and you don't have to worry about forgetting it.
Very often, when our inner voice is running riot, it's because the points are important to us and we carry an emotional charge around them. By putting the points down on paper, you no longer run the risk of forgetting your important arguments, and your mind can rest a little bit – if not most of the way.
2. Turn It Around
Now we're going to take each of the statements you've listed above and reframe them in a positive manner, so that you are clearly expressing what it is you want to say or do in that moment when it arises. For example:
- It seems like you get jealous when I'm with my friends can become:
- I love spending time with you – this affirms to your partner that their emotion is valid and that their needs matter to you
- I love the fact that you want to spend time with me – this affirms to your partner you want them around
- I have so much love to give you – this affirms to your partner that you love them and there is always enough love for them
- I can't wait until you know my friends and experience how welcoming and warm and loving they are – this affirms that your partner belongs in the circle of friends and is welcomed
3. Record The Script
Using your smartphone or recording device, you now take all your positively framed statements and record them in one long audio loop.
So a sample script could look like:
I'm always happy to receive your calls – it always brings a smile to my face when I get a message from you during the day too. I love being around you and just sharing space with you. You are so much fun to share time with. I always get excited when I know I am going to see you again.
However the script will be tailored to the unique needs of your relationship.
Once you've completed the script and recorded it, listen to it to make sure you're happy and rerecord if you need to. Once you have a copy that you're happy with, send it to your partner.
Firstly, this will enable you to tell your partner what your intentions are and what you mean, and you can do it uninterrupted. Secondly, because it's framed positively, you are less likely to do damage to your relationship, and you don't run the risk of getting caught up in the moment and responding emotionally because it's prerecorded.
Your partner can also use the positive audio framing as a nightly track for a period of a month or more so that they can reframe their thinking around you, and install new ideas using your voice. This can be a very powerful technique if done correctly.
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Can We Expect Peace Between Nations When Our Most Basic Relationships Fail?
To say that I'm tired of hearing about politics is an understatement. I've pondered wearing earplugs to muffle the pundits. I've considered using Google glasses to program "Trump" and "Democrats" and "Republicans" out of my visual spectrum.
Perhaps there's one issue that must come before politics…
It's marriage.
Our romantic relationships are the basic unit of civilization. Men and women have children and build families, which make up neighbourhoods, communities, cities, states, and nations. Basic logic, right?
And it takes civilized people to make a civilization. So how can we expect to have peaceful nations when our most basic relationships are downright crude? We have missions to Mars and particle colliders that are rumoured to open portals to new dimensions. But, when it comes to love… we're dragging our knuckles on a flat Earth.
Our version of love is a cycle of insecurity
We can't stand to be alone. But rather than learning to love our lives and find meaning alone, we place impossible standards for fulfillment on our lovers. We get a little security, and a lot of pleasure. But when the chemicals wear off, we're left with the truth: We don't know anything about our lovers.
And when we do get to know each other, we hate what we find. Then we split. But each split tears a thread in the fabric of our society, because family is our foundation.
We can thrust ourselves into heady political conversations, and pretend that our red (or blue) rage is going to build a better world. But those political solutions aren't addressing the root cause of our pain. We just need to fix how we love first.
Foundations of love
Foundations are, well, foundational to success. So we pave them for our houses, we practice scales before learning a difficult piece of music, and we learn the fundamentals of math before going on to algebra and calculus. We know that we need a strong foundation for successful relationships, too. But who actually takes the time to build one?
Loving responsibly is hard. It seems outdated or religiously nonsensical by today's standards (getting to know someone inside and out before you take them to bed?), but if you don't have a strong foundation, you've got a house of cards. Just like every one of my previous relationships.
From age 12 I trained myself to objectify women by watching porn. And until my early twenties, I was more concerned about my next sexual fix than my career. I hooked up with girlfriends not because I wanted to love them with all my heart, but because they were my key to security and satisfaction — which I got, for a time. But the net result was an increasingly lonely, unfulfilled, and depressed version of me.
By the end of my last relationship, I seriously considered taking my own life. What was I doing wrong? After picking up reflective habits like journaling and meditation, I figured it out.
I wasn't fulfilled alone. I was bored alone. And I was unsuccessful alone. But in my mind, relationships were magical things that would wash all the bad stuff away and make me happy — kind of like a drug. In reality, for each desire that I lacked on my own, like joy, or security, I was strangling my relationships with conditions.
I'd "love" a girl until I was no longer joyful with her, or until she bored me. Then, for each condition that she failed to meet — no one can be perfect 100% of the time — I withdrew my love from her, bit by bit. The withdrawals happened on her side, too.
By the end of my relationships, whether they were six-month flings or two-year engagements, the end was predictably uncivil. We abused each other with our language. We cheated on each other, and betrayed each other's trust. We blamed each other on and on for what the other had failed to do. Almost sounds like our relationships with other countries…
But the real failure was in choosing each other as romantic partners. It was in pursuing love without getting to know each other's values and character traits first — before we built a foundation. We gambled on placing our faith in each other. And, like most people, we lost. Big time.
Rather than castrating myself, or settling for an endless string of heartaches — somebody shoot me — I worked on the foundation of my next relationship. I worked on me.
I learned to lean into my insecurity
Instead of running for another girl when I got lonely, I leaned into my insecurity and learned more about me. I developed a prayer life and a relationship with God. And I stuck to my new habits of journaling and meditation.
Through mindfulness, I channeled my sexual desire into my goals and self improvement. I felt the urge to ogle gorgeous women, of course, and at 27, their beauty moves me now more than ever. But I trained myself to move in a positive direction, to express healthy emotions at a woman's beauty — like gratitude, inspiration, and awe — instead of imagining how she could please me.
Then I took it a step further.
I disciplined myself to think of a woman's future husband. Would he respect me for the way I was thinking about her? And then I'd think of my future wife. If I couldn't expect myself to view other wives with dignity and respect, how could I expect that of other men in looking at mine?
In my new way of thinking, I shed my selfish ways and became a man — and a neighbour, and a lover. A year into the habit I became independent for the first time in my life. I discovered my writing career and found success in it. And I became a role model for other people.
My dramatic life change happened because I figured out how to harness my sexual desire in an uplifting way. And in learning how to love civilly, I became a functioning part of civilization. *But people still call me out for not voting…
How you can love civilly
The way we think about each other determines how we act: civil, or uncivil. So you've got to train yourself to think respectful and positive thoughts — especially when it comes to beautiful men and women.
No matter how much we hope, the magical love chemicals can't erase reality: We either love each other with respect, or we don't. And if we don't, our relationships will degrade, and our families will degrade. And as our broken relationships pick up steam down the social gradient, our communities degrade, and our cities degrade. And if the cycle of uncivil romance continues, states and nations will degrade as well. It's basic logic.
So, you can talk about what these morons in office are doing to feel important and keep you occupied… or you can do something that actually makes a difference. You can learn to love like a human-fucking-being. Pardon my crude language.
Learn to love for the long term. Build faith in yourself. Quit porn and casual sex. Become so joyful and inspired by your own life that you couldn't imagine expecting anyone else to be responsible for your happiness. Channel your sexual desire into your highest self. Use those urges to remind yourself of the things you haven't done yet to become the person you want to be. Direct that energy into a future you would admire, and a person you'd be proud of.
And when you've changed the way you live and think, you'll change the way you love. You'll love civilly.
By your example, you'll inspire others to take the harder path and to love civilly themselves. And when enough people do that… I won't ever have to hear another political pundit for as long as I shall live. And I'll thank you.
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Are You Sure You Want To Cancel 2020?
In Brief
- The Facts:
Many people have been wanting to cancel 2020 given all of the challenges that have arisen this year, but are these challenges not what we need to wake up?
- Reflect On:
Is humanity living in a way we are truly capable of? Are we really going to change and create a world where we can thrive if we all remain in 'normal' with our heads down just getting by? Perhaps we need a shake up!
A massive evolution in the way we think and live is long overdue, and now the environment is perfectly set for it to happen. Many call this process 'raising collective consciousness.' It's no secret, 2020 has been a intense year, and you may have noticed that many are creating memes calling for the cancellation of 2020. This comes from the idea of 'cancel culture' which is an ideology whereby anything we don't like, even if it's only some of us, has to be shamed into cancellation as opposed to dealing with what it truly says about us and why we're triggered by it. But more on this in a moment.
Deep down I imagine you feel it. What we are doing on a day-to-day basis in our lives feels limiting and it feels like we are capable of much more. This feeling comes from an innate desire within the deepest aspect of who we are, our soul, to continually evolve and expand as a being. It's almost as if we begin to feel uncomfortable when we become stagnant and stop evolving or growing.
Right now, our current way of living societally and our current mass unconsciousness is causing us to push away that deep desire. We do this because we have become so identified with thought, that if a desire to shift or change comes up, and we cannot rationalize nor see how we can change, and in turn, we push that desire away to hold onto what we have grown comfortable with.
Thus, intensity and chaos have ensued in our world in an attempt to wake us up. Perhaps it's time to embrace this desire for change. Do we really want our world to simply go back to normal? Was normal truly allowing us to thrive?
Ridding 2020?
A lot of people have been sharing the idea that we want to get rid of or cancel 2020 because it has been such a 'bad year.' I understand what train of thought can lead here, and I understand what way of being can lead here, but regardless, I feel it's an important time to embrace what's going on and ask big questions about what we're doing as a collective – living life so disconnected from anything that deeply resonates with us. What we call 'chaos' has always been a potent tool for evolution, only, we often get in the way of that evolution by remaining asleep to what's really going on around us, and continually pushing away that knowing that we can create meaningful change.
Most of what is rising to the surface right now, in terms of truths regarding current events, are all realities that people have been telling others about for years – and yet most of us just went on our merry way, heads down, living life as if none of it was happening. For example, elite child sex trafficking is one collective trauma being faced right now by many, and every day I hear of more and more people facing this reality, unsure of what to do about it as they feel despair. I cannot blame anyone for wanting to hide from this information. Life can be tough and very demanding simply to get by, so questioning our reality and why it is the way it is may not be at the top of our priority list. It may feel easier to just go on with our lives as if it's not real, continually voting, putting these 'corrupt' individuals in power and accepting life as it is.
But if life is providing experiences that give us a chance to evolve beyond this old paradigm, is it perhaps time we listen? Can we truly just keep our heads down as we watch our collective uncomfort rise and mental health decline as our world no longer resonates with our being?
Just because the truth makes us uncomfortable, doesn't mean we don't need to address it, it just means we are avoiding it, and if we continue to choose not to look, it will 'blow up in our face' – just as it is right now.
May years ago people would ask me 'Joe, do you think people will one day know about all that is going on behind the scenes?' I said yes, there are collective truths and traumas people will HAVE to face, there is no avoiding it. This is why so many people are doing their inner work and becoming helpful members of the global community who will be able to help others through their emotional upheavals when more of this truth continues to come out, just like it is right now.
The human race has been oppressed for centuries. At the core, is the suppression of human consciousness. The less we know who we truly are and what we are truly capable of, the more we can be coddled and controlled into living lives that serve a few. The reality of this is coming to the surface.
So should we cancel 2020? Or embrace what it's trying to bring up on a deeper level, and choose to focus on inner work, personal transformation ad collective transformation? This, as opposed to mentally and emotionally running around trying to say why everything is wrong and bad, will this truly bring about meaningful change?
We're All Playing Roles
With that said, instead of looking at who the good guys are and who the bad guys are, I challenge others to think of it in terms of roles. What role are people playing for one another that allows us to question what's going on, learn a lesson, and change? Do you want the world as it is today to continue in this manner? Do you feel we are capable of harmony and thrivability? What do you want the world to look like?
Viewing it in this manner will bring us to solutions as opposed to arguing about what the problems are from our political point of view. Staying within the paradigm of our current world, where we create sides, argue, and remain in a political landscape, will always create more separation and will limit our potential, won't it? It's time for a new perspective, a new way of looking at things, and in order for that to happen we must come to terms with what not paying attention has created in our reality.
When we live in this manner, are we living life fully? Or are we just getting by? Are we caught up in the future or the past, trying to live in those states? Or are we fully living now? Are we ready to move from a state of being where we are identified with our thoughts and ego constantly, and move to a state where we are truly who we are, our awareness, living fully?
This is what this transition is about. This is what 2020 is helping to bring forth: the necessary events and revelations that push us deeply to question our lives and society. Start dreaming again, start thinking outside the box. Whatever world you choose to plug into is the one we will actively create. If you feel humanity is capable of something different, or better, beyond just the changing of a president, then now is the time to truly put your intention and action into that.
It's a potent time for change. Perhaps we don't want to wish normal back into existence?
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Full Moon In Aquarius: Erratic Progression
We are having a Full Moon in Aquarius on August 3rd/4th, it will appear the fullest on night of the 2nd in Western North America. This is the peak of the Lunar cycle that began with a New Moon in Cancer on July 20th/21st, as some of the themes mentioned in that article are still in effect.
The energies of a Full Moon are strongest in the days surrounding it yet its astrological configurations also play a part over the following two weeks. You may start to see its effects slowly build up after the New Moon prior to it.
Full Moons are a period in which we feel a push-pull between two opposing signs, in this case being the Moon in Aquarius and the Sun in Leo. It can play out as either a conflict, an integration, or some sort of dynamic playing out between the energies of both signs. The Moon reflects the expression of feeling and emotion while the Sun reflects the expression of ego and conscious self.
We may feel this opposition happening individually within us and/or we can also experience it play out around us with some people (or circumstances) expressing the Aquarius side and others expressing the Leo side. In some cases, Full Moons can also reflect/trigger some sort of change or release.
Full Moon In Aquarius Opposite Sun In Leo
We have been in Leo season since July 22nd and will continue until August 22nd/23rd. This is the sign of self-expression, creativity, love, affection, children, courage, vitality, passion, leadership, generosity, and playfulness. Ruled by the Sun, it is also about shining in our power and being in alignment with what really lights us up and gets us excited.
The negative expressions of Leo can be egotistical, self-absorbed, authoritarian, dramatic, stubborn, jealous, and hot-tempered. As it is associated with seeking praise and attention, it can be demanding of respect and be boisterous without considering or caring about how others respond to that.
The Full Moon highlights and brings the energies of the opposing sign of Aquarius into this Leo backdrop. This is the sign of friends, networks, social dynamics, the group, the team, humanity, and being in the best interest of the collective. Associated with Uranus, it can be unconventional, idealistic, innovative, progressive, original, inventive, technological, reforming, and even revolutionary.
Negatively, Aquarius can be overly detached, aloof, unemotional, and very invested in the mind at the expense of the heart. Traditionally ruled by Saturn, it can also be unyielding when it comes to the ideas and perspectives that it has already decided on.
Both Leo and Aquarius have some similarities. They are 'Fixed' signs and therefore can both be determined yet stubborn. They are also both associated with originality and authenticity. In Aquarius, this comes from its unconventional and innovative Uranian attributes while in Leo it comes from being inspired by its Solar heart centred self-expression.
Full Moon Square Uranus, Sextile Chiron
The Sun and Moon are in a T-square aspect with Uranus bringing its energy strongly into the equation. This planet is associated with Aquarius and viewed as a modern ruler of this sign, therefore it emphasizes some of the Aquarian themes mentioned above.
This can also reflect an energy that is disruptive, unpredictable, erratic, nonconforming, and rebellious. It can be hard to focus and more prone to sudden changes, accidents, loss, or separations. However, it can also reflect liberation, breakthroughs, excitement, and is a good time to shake things up and try new approaches to things.
This Full Moon is in a supportive sextile with Chiron which shares unorthodox and innovative qualities with Uranus. Chiron is also about bringing healing and wholeness to a situation and is associated with personal growth. It brings a potential for integration, learning, problem solving, finding solutions, purpose, and the elevation of consciousness.
Full Moon Sextile Mars, Squaring Jupiter & Pluto During Pre-Retrograde Shadow
The Sun-Moon opposition is in a harmonious aspect with Mars which can bring an active, asserting, energetic, sexual, or even a competitive or fighting energy. Mars is also in its own sign of Aries as it slows down to go retrograde on September 9th/10th. We will be experiencing a period of adjustments over the coming months in how we apply Mars in certain areas of our lives depending on our personal birth charts. Some of the things that are happening this month, leading up to it, will contribute to that process.
At the time of this Full Moon, Mars is also in a tight square with Jupiter which has been building up in the days prior. It also moves towards a square with Pluto over the following two weeks. We may overextend ourselves during this time or do things in an excessive, overconfident, compulsive or obsessive way.
Conflicts around beliefs, perspectives, hidden matters, or abuse can also arise. As we get closer to mid-August the energy becomes more intense with an increased potential of power struggles. This aspect can trigger passion and is good for strategic actions. All of these factors mentioned in this section are cranking up Mars energy overall. I will be writing a separate article on the upcoming retrograde as we get closer to it, join my mailing list here to ensure that you receive it.
Mercury & Venus In Hard Aspects With Saturn, Venus Conjunct North Node
Mercury is in a tight opposition with Saturn. This can reflect thoughts or conversations that are cautious, hesitant, pessimistic, or limiting. We may experience delays or obstacles around commuting or communications with others. The need to be realistic around certain issues may also come up.
Like Mercury, Venus has social qualities and is also in a hard aspect with Saturn, this one being a frustrating quincunx. It can be hard to integrate or juggle Saturnian areas of responsibilities, commitments, boundaries, discipline, and structures with Venus areas of friendships, love, pleasures, sensuality, values, money, attraction, or other things that are aesthetic related. We may need to be extra adaptable or make adjustments.
Venus is also moving towards a conjunction with the Lunar North Node in Gemini in the days following this Full Moon. New relations, or developments around past relations, could have a fated quality that can bring growth and help us to move forward in a better or constructive way. Our perception or approach to Venus ruled areas (mentioned in above paragraph) may evolve in a helpful manner.
Things To Consider
In what areas of your life should you try new approaches? What can you do to shake things up? What are some potential solutions for issues you are facing? How can you use your creativity in an innovative way? What are your relations with others pushing you towards? How can you be more of a team player? How can you better balance needs of self with the needs of the group? What parts of your life are calling for originality and authenticity?
These are just some examples of themes that could come up during this period; however, there may be other variations of this energy playing out as well. If you wish to do any sort of intentional release connected to what has come up at this Full Moon, it is best to do so anytime over the two weeks following when it is waning. The exact moment of this Full Moon is on August 3rd at 3:59pm Universal Time. You can click here to see what that is in your time zone.
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Customer Service Best Practices Increase Customer Satisfaction & Decrease Costs
This White Paper is a summary of Customer Service Best Practices from the following three authority sources: Customer Care Institute, Purdue University Center for Customer Driven Quality and the Service & Support Professionals Association (SSPA).
To improve, an organization must assess its current practices against those used in other organizations, or "best practices." Simply put, a best practice is the most effective way to get something done. These practices, processes, and procedures have emerged as proven models for the majority of organizations.
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Conley wrote that the law still allows workers to assemble and lets them speak; it simply doesn't allow employers to listen. As for the equal protection argument, the judge said the government can treat represented and non-represented employees differently.
"This case proves, once again, that Act 10 is constitutional in all respects and that the challenges to the law are baseless," state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said in a statement. "I appreciate decisions like this that follow the law, and I look forward to bringing the remaining state court challenges before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, where we expect Act 10 to be upheld once again."
Katy Lounsbury, one of the workers' attorneys, disagreed with the ruling but said she'd have to consult with her clients about an appeal.
"This is a disappointing ruling for all workers in the state of Wisconsin. In America, workers have the right to join a union and with one stroke of his pen Gov. Walker decimated that right," said Wisconsin State AFL-CIO President Phil Neuenfeldt in a statement. "Act 10 always has and always will infringe upon a worker's right to collective bargaining and democracy in the workplace.


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NEWTOWN -- Tricia Gogliettino was driving to Sandy Hook Elementary School Friday morning to deliver a gingerbread house she and her first-grader had made as a school project.
She was about one mile from the school on Riverside Road when she saw five young children running up the road. She stopped the car and asked them what they were doing, said Gogliettino's brother, Ridgefield state Rep. John Frey. They told her, "Someone is trying to kill us. We were told to run," said Frey, recounting the episode Gogliettino had related.
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In one of those "I can't believe I'm saying this," moments, I'd just like to say that you are not old. You still have a few more years of being a grasshopper, but then again, it's never too early to be an ant.
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As for grasshoppers, isn't it amazing how many people have no concept of saving money? When I lived in New York, I didn't know a single person who saved money, but boy did they live the good life.


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Baker earns title of 'Colonel' from Missouri Auction School
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There is a song by LeRoy Van Dyke about a young man who hears the
auctioneer chant and is enthralled with it to the extent that he
decides it is the career he will choose for himself.
The lyrics include:
There was a boy in Arkansas
Who wouldn't listen to his ma
When she told him he should go to school.
He'd sneak away in the afternoon,
Take a little walk, then pretty soon,
You'd find him at the local auction barn.
He'd stand and listen carefully.
Then pretty soon he began to see
How the auctioneer could talk so rapidly.
He said, "Oh my, it's do or die.
I've got to learn that auction cry.
Gotta make my mark and be an auctioneer.
Change the Arkansas to Illinois and you have in a nutshell what
motivated young Cole Baker of Emden to go to auctioneer school.
"There is a song called 'The Auctioneer' by LeRoy Van Dyke. Ever
since I was little I have wanted to become an auctioneer. Also I
really enjoy public speaking and working with people. So what could
be better than pursue a career as an auctioneer," Baker said
In January he attended the Missouri Auction School, the world's
largest auction training center, for a six-day course learning the
tricks of the trade, as well as some of the business aspects. The
course, which is entitled "Auctioneering and Auction Sales
Management," involves attending lectures and workshops featuring
prominent auctioneers from throughout America and participating in
selling at numerous public auctions in nearby communities.
Courses of study also include antiques, livestock, furniture,
business liquidations, real estate, auto, machinery, general
merchandise and all types of estate auctions.
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At the end of the training, Baker earned the honorary title of
"Colonel," a title that dates back to the days of the Civil War,
when troop colonels were responsible for auctioning off the spoils
of battle.
Baker says that now that he has his title, he hopes to soon be
putting it to good use, gaining experience working for some of the
local auctioneers.
In the meantime, as a Hartem senior, Baker still needs to
graduate, and he also has plans to go on to Lincoln Land Community
College. When finished there, he plans to transfer to Illinois State
University in Normal, where he will complete his degree in
agricultural education.
Baker is the son of Randy Baker of Emden and Jerry and Dara
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14 FFA president and serves as the president of the Hartsburg-Emden
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The Taliban achieved a central aim ahead of Afghanistan's presidential election on April 5 – instilling fear – when two suicide bombers and three gunmen attacked a Kabul election office this week, killing five.
Today, the Taliban struck the capital again in their bid to disrupt the crucial vote, sending a suicide car bomber and four militants to attack a guesthouse used by a US-based aid group. An Afghan girl was killed, though more than 20 foreigners escaped and several were held hostage during a four-hour siege – the third such high-profile strike in barely more than a week.
The spike in violence has increased fear among Afghans and foreigners. But for some, it has also prompted new defiance in the face of an insurgency that has only grown bolder as US and NATO forces prepare to withdraw later this year and President Hamid Karzai steps down after 12 years in power.
Officials are striving to conduct an election that rises above the dismal standard of the last presidential poll in 2009, in which widespread fraud and months of delay in reaching the final result left an unsavory taste. Security has been stepped up in Kabul and across the country, though insurgent attacks take place daily.
For Afghans and the Western donors who see better governance as a key to continued support, the stakes are high as Afghanistan negotiates its first democratic transition of power since the US military pushed the Taliban from power in late 2001.
The Taliban "are weak because they do such actions, but they are also strong because they can do it – and we are stuck in the middle," said an election worker outside his ruined office, its ornate façade pockmarked with shrapnel and riddled with bullets from the Tuesday attack.
"We should work hard, it's our country," he said, after asking not to be named. "Our homeland is like our mother, and we would die for our mother. So let them come: 5, 10, 12, 1,200 attacks, I don't care. They will die like dogs."
As he spoke, staff wearing surgical masks kicked at the remains of the bombers and swept up broken glass and spent bullet casings. The attack was effective at disrupting the vote by destroying many registration documents for thousands of party poll observers.
Tonight a similar reckoning took place in the same area of town, where the Taliban attacked the office of the California-based Roots for Peace. The nongovernmental organization runs de-mining and other programs, and in its walled compound was a church, Reuters reported. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
"For the Taliban, the main hope is violence," says Fabrizio Foschini, an Afghanistan politics expert with the Afghanistan Analysts Network in Kabul. "The only game-changer for them [is] unrest, protest, a prolonged state of institutional crisis which originates from a completely messed up election. Right now the blackest cloud is insecurity, and the possibility that big attacks really mar whatever achievements these elections could bring."
That is a change from much of the previous year, when popular fears focused on fraud worries and concerns that some government scheme would postpone the vote, says Foschini. Instead, as the recent violence shows, the threat has come from the insurgency, in contrast to failed past efforts by the Taliban to disrupt elections.
"We can probably take the Taliban claim as realistic: There is the will to put a lot of effort that the insurgency can put up in targeting these high-profile areas," says Foschini.
Already some foreign election monitors have pulled out for security reasons, including members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the National Democratic Institute – whose mission lost an observer in an attack on the fortified luxury Serena Hotel last week. And after today's attack, the American University of Afghanistan instructed more than 60 foreign staff to leave the country. The two most recent attacks took place in upscale neighborhoods very close to the school's campus.
Disruption taking a toll
Election officers conceded that the Tuesday attack had been effective in disrupting their work. Already 20,000 people had registered as observers, for example, for hundreds of candidates in local races across Kabul Province.
Those numbers were ideally to top 30,000 next week. But the destruction of documents and rising level of fear mean only 10,000 are likely to show up on election day.
"How can we do the election?" asked a second election worker, after giving those figures. "If there are no observers it will not be a clear election. It will be full of fraud and [the results] not acceptable."
He said "all normal people are afraid" because of the Taliban attacks. The same day the election office was hit, this worker said 100 family and friends came to his house, and 100 more the next day. He received hundreds more phone calls, asking if he was alright.
"We were waiting to die, and not for help," said the election worker, about being trapped in the basement during the firefight. "I'm safe now, but all this [visits and calls by friends] has an impact on people."
One candidate for local office, Jumagal Aryobi, was dismissive of the Taliban as he surveyed the wrecked election office. "This is the work of the enemy of Afghanistan, that does not want it to develop," he said. "It shows weakness."
Wake-up call
Analysts say the Taliban may not be able to disrupt the voting process, and the refrain from many Afghans after the attacks is that they illustrate desperation. Still, the violence is being taken seriously.
The brazen attack last week on the Serena Hotel, in which nine were killed – including the NDI observer and well-known Afghan journalist Sardar Ahmad, his wife, and two young children – was a wake-up call.
"Life is not important for them," said local police director Ruhollah Amin. "They hit the Serena near the presidential office, so if they can attack there, they can attack anywhere."


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Restoring the Right to Vote
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By Marge Baker, OtherWords | Op-Ed
Last year, the Supreme Court decimated one of the civil rights movement's crowning achievements. Now, it's time for Congress to pick up the pieces, put it back together and make our laws strong enough to protect our most important right: our vote.
Many folks who lived and fought through the civil rights movement weren't just frustrated by the Supreme Court's decision in Shelby County v. Holder, which undermined a core provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
They were heartbroken.
The ruling gutted the Voting Rights Act provision that required the Justice Department to pre-approve changes to voting laws in areas with a history of discrimination at the ballot box. For nearly half a century, the Justice Department used that authority to block some of the country's most egregious attacks on voting rights.
The Supreme Court's decision didn't eliminate the Justice Department's preclearance authority itself, but it removed the formula that determined where it could use that authority, rendering the entire preclearance provision useless.
In doing so, the Court opened the gates for a flood of new laws that restrict the right to vote through a range of methods. Since Shelby, states and municipalities have pushed through legislation making it harder for millions of people to cast ballots. States have cut back on early voting, made it harder to register, and begun requiring specific forms of identification — documents that many eligible voters don't have and can't easily get.
From shortening the hours the polls are open to moving polling locations, these restrictions fall heaviest on people of color, the elderly, students, and the poor. Now it's up to Congress to solve the problem.
The Supreme Court's ruling left room for Congress to repair the damage and put the law's protections back into effect. And a bipartisan group of representatives have been working to do just that with the Voting Rights Amendment Act (VRAA). It is a flexible, modern, nationwide solution to combating voting discrimination. And it would provide new tools to stop voter suppression and ensure that any proposed election changes are clear and fair.
Unfortunately, after a bipartisan process in which members of both parties had a hand in drafting the new legislation, House Republican leaders and the chair of the House Judiciary Committee have decided to block the fix and refuse even to hold hearings on the legislation.
That's very bad news for voting rights and very bad news for our democracy.
Voting rights shouldn't be a partisan issue, and representatives from both parties should be applauded for doing the hard work of repairing one of our nation's most important laws. Now it's up to ordinary people across the political spectrum to take a lesson from the civil rights movement and call out the lawmakers standing in the way of an important bill.
With grassroots pressure, there's no reason the Voting Rights Amendment Act can't become law this year, restoring and strengthening our civil rights protections.
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The Iron Crown of Lombardy is both a reliquary and one of the most ancient royal insignia of Europe. The crown became one of the symbols of the Kingdom of Lombards and later of the medieval Kingdom of Italy. It is kept in the Cathedral of Monza, in the suburbs of Milan. The Iron Crown is so called from a narrow band of iron about one centimeter (three-eighths of an inch) within it, said to be beaten out of one of the nails used at the crucifixion. The outer circlet of the crown is of six segments of beaten gold partly enameled, joined together by hinges and set with twenty-two gemstones that stand out in relief, in the form of crosses and flowers. Its small size and hinged construction have suggested to some that it was originally a large armlet or perhaps a votive crown; for others, the small size of the present crown was caused by a readjustment after the loss of two segments, as described in historical documents.
9. Veil of Veronica
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The Veil of Veronica, which according to legend was used to wipe the sweat from Jesus' brow as he carried the cross is also said to bear the likeness of the Face of Christ. Today, several images claim to be the Veil of Veronica. There is an image kept in Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome which purports to be the same Veronica as was revered in the Middle Ages. Very few inspections are recorded in modern times and there are no detailed photographs. The most detailed recorded inspection of the 20th century occurred in 1907 when Jesuit art historian Joseph Wilpert was allowed to remove two plates of glass to inspect the image.
8. Blood of Christ
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The Basilica of the Holy Blood is a Roman Catholicminor basilica in Bruges, Belgium. Originally built in the 12th century as the chapel of the residence of the Count of Flanders, the church houses a venerated relic of the Holy Blood allegedly collected by Joseph of Arimathea and brought from the Holy Land by Thierry of Alsace, Count of Flanders. Built between 1134 and 1157, it was promoted to minor basilica in 1923. The basilica is best known as the repository of a venerated phial said to contain a cloth with blood of Jesus Christ, brought to the city by Thierry of Alsace after the 12th century Second Crusade. Although the Bible never mentions Christ's blood being preserved, one of the apocryphal gospels asserts that Joseph of Arimathea preserved the Precious Blood. The daily making present of the Blood of Christ during the Mass was central in the religious life of the Middle Age in Europe. If genuine, a relic of the Blood of Jesus would be of utmost significance, a uniquely important witness to Jesus' Passion and a perpetual reminder of the historical character of the Christian Gospel.
7. Scala Sancta
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The Scala Sancta (English: Holy Stairs) are, according to the Christian tradition, the steps that led up to the praetorium of Pontius Pilate in Jerusalem, which Jesus Christ stood on during his Passion on his way to trial. The stairs were, reputedly, brought to Rome by St. Helena in the 4th Century. For centuries, the Scala Santa has attracted Christian pilgrims who wished to honor the Passion of Jesus. It consists of twenty-eight white marble steps, now encased by wooden steps, located in a building which incorporates part of the old Lateran Palace, located opposite the Basilica of Saint John Lateran. They are located next to a church which was built on ground brought from Mount Calvary. The stairs lead to the Sancta Sanctorum (English: Holy of Holies), the personal chapel of the early Popes in the Lateran palace, known as the chapel of St. Lawrence.
6. Holy Lance
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The Holy Lance (also known as the Spear of Destiny, Holy Spear, Lance of Longinus, Spear of Longinus or Spear of Christ) is the name given to the lance that pierced Jesus's side as he hung on the cross in John's account of the Crucifixion. " … but one of the soldiers pierced his side with a lance, and immediately there came out blood and water". —John 19:34. There have been three, or four, major relics that are claimed to be the Holy Lance, or parts of it.


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ARLINGTON, Texas - A week ago, Florida Gulf Coast University was just another overlooked No. 15 seed - a longshot at best to nearly everyone eyeballing their NCAA tournament brackets.
Now the Eagles are the high-flying show from "Dunk City" in the round of 16, the darlings of the South Regional and a bracket-busting team everybody is talking about even when surrounded by former national champions Michigan, Kansas and Florida.
"Things have changed dramatically," FGCU coach Andy Enfield said.
"The way we looked at it, we did make history. ... We feel like we shocked the world," said Brett Comer, the guard with 22 points and 24 assists in two NCAA games. "Nobody picked us to beat Georgetown, or San Diego State, for sure. We're going to prepare for Florida the same way. We're going to try to win again."
Florida Gulf Coast (26-10) plays the Southeastern Conference regular-season champion Gators (28-7), the No. 3 seed in the South, tonight. The improbable intrastate showdown is magnified even more at Cowboys Stadium, where the court is on a raised stage and below giant high-definition screens that had the players' attention on Thursday.
"Even if you make big plays, it's hard to get a good angle on that TV, you have to stand right on the edge (of the court)," Eagles forward Chase Fieler said. "We'll have to run more toward the sideline to see it."
This group doesn't need one of the world's largest HD displays to appear larger than life, though any highlight dunks sure will look good on the big screens.
How about a few shots up there of their sun-soaked campus in Fort Myers, Fla., with its manmade lakes and a beach? The school's first classes were held in August 1997, making FGCU younger than the players who have put it on a national stage.
"I never heard of Florida Gulf Coast until actually I started to visit the school and to attend it," admitted Sherwood Brown, the dreadlocked showman who leads the Eagles in scoring (15.6 points per game) and rebounds (6.6 rpg) and is their only senior starter.
After their two NCAA tournament victories in Philadelphia, the Eagles arrived home early Monday morning. All the players were in back in class a few hours after that, though the atmosphere had certainly changed on the campus with an enrollment of 13,468.
"It was a busy week, just with the attention and the media being around. And the students were excited about what's going on and talking to us," Fieler said.
"But now we're in Dallas, we can feel the game starting to get closer and closer," Enfield said. "Just like the Georgetown and San Diego State games got closer and closer. And they're very, very focused."
While Florida Gulf Coast was back home getting accolades and trying to prepare among a pep rally-type atmosphere, the Gators spent the entire week in Texas. They stayed in the Lone Star State instead of going back-and-forth after beating Minnesota last Sunday in Austin, about three hours away.
The Eagles are in the round of 16 in only their second season being eligible for the NCAA tournament. Florida, a state school with nearly 50,000 students, has a roster loaded with NCAA experience.
It is the first time that two teams from the same state have meet in this round of the NCAA tournament.
Florida, which won consecutive national titles in 2006 and 2007, has been to regional finals each of the last two years. But this is the last chance for seniors Kenny Boynton, Erik Murphy and Mike Rosario to get a championship of their own.
"We remember the pain it caused for us last year," Boynton said. "I think we used it to learn. ... We've been close. And our goal is to get further this year."
The Gators, Kansas, Marquette and Ohio State are the only teams in the NCAA round of 16 for the third season in a row. It is the first time Florida has done that.
Yet, most of the attention is going to the smaller school about 250 miles away that the Gators have played only once before. That was a 94-60 Florida victory at home in 2008, when Florida Gulf Coast was in only its second season of Division I competition.
Florida Gulf Coast did play this season against the third Florida team that made it to the round of 16. The Eagles won 63-51 at home Nov. 13 against Miami, the ACC regular-season and tournament champion and No. 2 seed in the East Regional.
Florida presents quite a challenge, ranked second nationally allowing only 54 points a game. But neither Georgetown or San Diego State allowed much more than that.
FGCU scored 78 against the Hoyas, including a 21-2 run, and scored 17 in a row in the second half against the Aztecs on the way to 81 points.
"We're playing against a really, really good team that's playing as well as anybody in the country right now. And they've had some incredible runs," Florida coach Billy Donovan said. "I know there are a lot of nice stories out there. But we've got focus on the stuff that we need to do going into the game."


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The PowerShot A2500 makes highly advanced imaging technology fun and easy to use, so you'll capture beautiful stills and video. The camera's 16.0 Megapixel sensor and DIGIC 4 Image Processor capture a wealth of detail and natural color, so even your enlarged images have impressive resolution. With the 5x Optical Zoom with 28mm Wide-Angle lens, everything from close-up snaps to breathtaking landscapes is within your reach. Smart AUTO recognizes 32 shooting situations and automatically chooses the proper camera settings, and Digital IS keeps even dark scenes and fast-moving subjects sharp and steady. Preserving memories in rich, lifelike 720p HD video is as easy as pressing the dedicated movie button, and Scene Modes like Fisheye Effect, Toy Camera Effect and Monochrome give you new ways to shoot more creatively. Plus, you can shoot longer with new ECO Mode, which reduces power consumption. A Help Button makes the PowerShot A2500 perfect even for beginners, with one-touch access to helpful instructions and advice.
16.0 Megapixel sensor
With the camera's 16.0 Megapixels of resolution, your images are rich and clear, with textures and tiny details faithfully reproduced even at the long end of the 5x Optical Zoom. This high level of resolution is ideal for creating the largest prints, and allows you the flexibility to blow up and crop any section of an image to express your creativity. The DIGIC 4 Image Processor powers the camera's advanced systems and features, ensuring fast, reliable performance with low battery consumption.
DIGIC 4 Image Processor
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5x Optical Zoom with 28mm Wide-Angle lens delivers stunning images
The 5x Optical Zoom (35mm equivalent: 28-140mm) in the PowerShot A2500 digital camera delivers outstanding optical performance and versatility. It gives you a great range of potential images from a single location, which is perfect for sporting events and other occasions when your shooting stance is fixed, or times when moving in too close might disrupt the action you're trying to capture. The lens' 28mm wide-angle perspective puts more image in every frame for dynamic, exciting shots.
Smart AUTO
Photographers of all levels appreciate a camera - especially a go-anywhere compact digital - that takes the hassle out of capturing beautiful images. The PowerShot A2500 gives you Smart AUTO - sophisticated Canon technology that makes getting that great shot as simple as pressing the shutter button. Smart AUTO automatically detects scenes by assessing various factors in both the background and the subject. Detected scenes are analyzed using 32 predefined shooting situations. The camera then makes optimal settings to ensure the best possible image capture when shooting still images. Smart AUTO also includes Advanced Subject Detection, which allows the camera to detect and track non-human moving subjects like animals and vehicles. With Smart AUTO, all you have to do is frame your shot and capture away.
Shooting Modes/Special Scene Modes
Smart AUTO - The camera automatically selects the best shooting settings for optimal quality based on subjects and environmental factors to provide point-and-shoot simplicity.
Program - The camera automatically and intelligently selects the aperture/shutter speed combination based on the shooting conditions.
Live View Control - Enables Brightness, Color, and Tone adjustments to your images using easy-to-understand controls.
Digital IS - The camera digitally corrects image blur by analyzing the subject prior to choosing the best correction method.
Portrait - Brings the subject into focus while beautifully blurring the background.
Face Self-timer - The camera waits for a face to enter the frame before releasing the shutter.
Low Light - For high quality image capture in an amazing range of dimly lit situations.
Fisheye Effect - Now you can get the fisheye effect - a classic photographic distortion - without a fisheye lens.
Miniature Effect - Give images a miniature look with an effect that emphasizes perspective by blurring the top and bottom of the image.
Toy Camera Effect - Simulates photos taken with "toy" or pinhole cameras, darkening the image at the edges to create a vignette effect.
Monochrome - Choose from three single-tone effects: Black-and-White, Sepia, or Blue.
Super Vivid - Super Vivid intensifies existing hues, saturating the scene with bright colors.
Poster Effect - Poster Effect combines several similar shades into one color, turning subtle gradations into eye-catching, scene-popping contrasts.
Snow - Shoot clear snow scenes without darkened subjects or an unnatural bluish tint.
Fireworks - Create brilliant images of skyrocketing fireworks.
Long Shutter - Use to blur moving subjects for artistic effect, ideal for urban night photography.
Movie - Record video; unwanted scenes can be deleted in playback mode.
Actual results may vary from examples shown above.
Final image may vary depending on picture composition.
Shoot brilliant 720p HD video
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*Actual frame rate is 29.97 fps.
Dedicated movie button for easy video capture
It's never been easier to shoot videos with a PowerShot digital camera. To make shooting video as natural as snapping pictures, the PowerShot A2500 has a dedicated movie button. No need to plan ahead, no need to search through menus on the LCD screen; when you feel a moment would be best captured in 720p HD, simply press the button and recording begins. The camera is always ready to shoot stills or video whenever you want.
Digital IS reduces the effect of camera shake and subject movement
Digital IS beats the blur that mars many shots by recognizing the main subject, then automatically applying the camera shake correction that best suits the situation. If the subject is a person, blur reduction processing is performed. For landscapes, cityscapes and other still scenes, the camera takes three quick successive shots and composes them into a single clear image. If the subject is moving, the camera takes three successive shots, then automatically saves the clearest image.
New ECO Mode helps reduce power consumption for longer battery life
The PowerShot A2500 takes energy conservation to the next level with ECO Mode, which provides more shots per single charge through LCD monitor and camera power management. ECO Mode can be activated via a dedicated button for easy power preservation when an outlet is unavailable or the moment is too exciting to put the camera down. ECO Mode quickly wakes the camera from sleep when a button is pressed so you won't miss the moment. When the fun with family and friends runs late into the evening, ECO Mode on the PowerShot A2500 makes sure your camera keeps up.
Scene Modes
Scene Modes are fun, easy ways to give your shots a distinctly artistic feel without the need for any extra lenses and filters. Super Vivid heightens and saturates colors for eye-popping intensity. Poster Effect eliminates gradations between colors for an illustrative feel. Miniature Effect enhances perspective in a scene, blurring the top and bottom to make it look as if it were created with miniature models. You can also make a quirky portrait using the Fisheye Effect or add a beautiful single-tone effect with Monochrome. Toy Camera Effect simulates a vintage look as it capturing the photo using a "toy" or pinhole camera.
Help Button
The PowerShot A2500 digital camera is designed to be fun and easy to use, even for beginners. A Help Button on the camera's exterior brings up the help menu any time you need it, right on the LCD screen. From here, you can scroll through a variety of topics that answer your questions with clear explanations, offer helpful shooting advice, and show you diagrams highlighting the position of any buttons you'll need.
Compact digital camera with built-in flash, 5x Optical, 4x Digital, and 20x Combined Zoom
16.0 Megapixel 1/2.3-inch CCD
Total Pixels
Approx. 16.6 Megapixels
Effective Pixels
Approx. 16.0 Megapixels
Focal Length
5.0 (W) - 25.0 (T) mm (35mm film equivalent: 28 (W) - 140 (T) mm)
Optical Zoom
Digital Zoom
Focusing Range
Normal: 1.2 in. (3cm) - infinity (W), 3.9 ft. (1.2m) - infinity (T)
Macro: 1.2 in. - 1.6 ft. (3-50cm) (W)
Autofocus System
TTL Autofocus
Optical Viewfinder
LCD Monitor
2.7-inch TFT Color LCD with wide-viewing angle
LCD Pixels
Approx. 230,000 dots
LCD Coverage
Approx. 100%
Maximum Aperture
f/2.8 (W) - f/6.9 (T)
Shutter Speed
1 - 1/2000 sec.
15 - 1 sec. (shooting long exposures)
Auto, ISO 100 - ISO 1600, 1-step increments
Light Metering Method
Evaluative, Center-weighted average, Spot
Exposure Control Method
Still images: AE Lock, FE Lock, AF Lock
Exposure Compensation
+/-2 stops in 1/3 stop increments(Not available when shooting movies)
White Balance Control
Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H, Custom
Built-in Flash
Auto, On, Slow Synchro, Off
Flash Range
1.6 - 9.8 ft. (W), 3.9 - 6.6 ft. (T) / 50cm - 3.0m (W), 1.2m - 2.0m (T)
Recycling Time
10 seconds or less (battery voltage: 3.7 V)
Flash Exposure Compensation
Shooting Modes
Auto, P, Live View Control, Digital IS, Portrait, Face Self-timer, Low Light, Fisheye Effect, Miniature Effect, Toy Camera Effect, Monochrome, Super Vivid, Poster Effect, Snow, Fireworks, Long Shutter
- Shooting movies is possible with the movie button.
Photo Effects
Self Timer
Off / 2 sec. / 10 sec. / Custom Timer*
* Delay time (0 - 15 sec. (in one-second increments), 20/25/30 sec.) and number of shots (1 - 10 shots (in one-shot increments)) can be specified.
Wireless Control
Continuous Shooting
Approx: 0.8 shots/sec. (In P Mode)
Approx. 2.9 shots/sec. (In Low Light Mode)
Storage Media
SD Memory Card, SDHC Memory Card, SDXC Memory Card
File Format
Design rule for Camera File system, DPOF (Version 1.1) compatible
JPEG Compression Mode
Still Images: Exif 2.3 (JPEG)
Movies: MOV (Image data: H.264; Audio data: Linear PCM (monoaural))
Number of Recording Pixels
Still Images:
[Large]: 4608 x 3456
[Medium 1]: 3264 x 2448
[Medium 2]: 1600 x 1200
[Small]: 640 x 480
[Widescreen]: 4608 x 2592
* 2304 x 1728 when in Low Light mode
HD 1280 x 720: 25 fps
640 x 480: 30 fps (29.97)
Miniature Effect HD 1280 x 720: 5 fps*1, 2.5 fps*1, 1.25 fps*1
Miniature Effect 640 x 480: 6 fps*2, 3 fps*2, 1.5 fps*2
*1Playback frame rate is 25 fps
*2 Playback frame rate is 30 fps (29.97)
Image data
*When in Low Light• The approximate number of images recordable on memory cards other than the above can be calculated by using the above figures as a reference and extrapolating accordingly.
Movie data
*1 Playback frame rate is 25 fps.*2 Playback frame rate is 30 fps*3.*3 Actual frame rate is 29.97 fps.• The approximate number of videos recordable on memory cards other than the above can be calculated by using the above figures as a reference and extrapolating accordingly.
Playback Modes File
Still Images and Movies:
Auto Rotate, Rotate, Search (Date, Movies, Still Images)
Still Images:
Single, Index (4-100 Thumbnails), Magnification (Approx. 2x-10x), Information Display (Histogram, Overexposure Warning), Resume Playback, Transition, Red-Eye Correction, i-Contrast, Resize, Photobook Set-up
Normal Playback*1, Pause, Slow Motion, Skip Backward*2, Previous Frame*3, Next Frame*3, Skip Forward*2
- Displays playback position and shooting time
*1 Audio settings available in 5 levels
*2 Approximately 4 seconds
*3 Rewind and Fast-forward are also available
Erase Modes
Single Image*, Erase All. The image data in the memory card stored with the design rule for camera file systems format can be erased (however, protected images cannot be erased).* Movies can be erased individually.
Computer Interface
Hi-Speed USB (Dedicated connector (female) with unified type of digital, audio and video)
Video Out
NTSC/PAL (dedicated connector (female) with unified type of digital, audio and video)
Audio Out
Monaural (dedicated connector (female) with unified type of digital, audio and video)
Memory card slot; direct connection to Canon SELPHY Compact Photo Printers, PIXMA Inkjet Photo Printers and PictBridge-compatible printers via camera's USB 2.0 Hi-Speed cable
Power Source
Rechargeable Lithium-ion Battery NB-11L
Shooting Capacity
Normal: Approx. 220 shots
ECO Mode: Approx. 300 shots
Playback Time
Approx. 5 hours
Operating Temperature
Operating Humidity
Dimensions (W x H x D)
3.85 x 2.20 x 0.82 in. / 97.7 x 56.0 x 20.9mm
Approx. 3.88 oz. / 110g (Body Only)
Approx. 4.41 oz. / 125g (CIPA Standard)All data are based on Canon's Standard Test Method. Subject to change without notice.
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Compatible Supplies & Accessories
Canon offers a wide range of compatible supplies and accessories that can enhance your user experience with you PowerShot A2500 that you can purchase direct. Scroll down to easily select items to add to your shopping cart for a faster, easier checkout. Visit the Canon Online Store
AV Cable AVC-DC400
The AVC-DC400 Video Interface Cable is used to connect your Canon PowerShot SD Series Digital Camera to most televisions via the RCA type video-in terminals. It allows viewing of recorded images from the Canon Powershot Digital Cameras.
Adapter ACK-DC90
Adapter kit for the NB-11L.
Battery Charger CB-2LF
Charger for the NB-11L batteries. Compact and lightweight, the CB-2LF plugs directly into an AC outlet.
Charger for the NB-11L batteries. Compact and lightweight, the CB-2LF plugs directly into an AC outlet.
Battery Pack NB-11L
Lithium-Ion rechargeable battery ( mAh).
Battery Pack NB-11LH
Battery Pack for selected ELPH and SX-series models.
Deluxe Leather Case PSC-600
Deluxe Leather Case designed to fit the PowerShot A series digital camera safely and securely.
High-Power Flash HF-DC2
Powerful slave flash, fired by the camera's pre-flash. Effectively doubles the flash range of the camera. Comes with mounting bracket.
Interface Cable IFC-400PCU
The Canon IFC-400PCU USB Interface Cable enables you to transfer your camera pictures to a computer fast. The cable connects to your camera and to the USB port on your PC or MAC Computer. Comes standard with the EOS 1Ds Mark III, 1D Mark IV, 1D Mark III, 1Ds Mark II, 1D Mark II N, 1D Mark II, 5D Mark II, 7D, 5D, 50D, 40D, 30D, 20D, 10D, Digital Rebel XTi, Digital Rebel XT and Digital Rebel. Please see Compatibility tab for compatible models.
PowerShot: CarePAK PLUS (2YR)
CarePAK PLUS offers protection from accidental damage such as drops, spills, power surges, and more, including normal wear and tear, beyond the standard warranty period. It also includes Image Recovery (included with Cameras, Camcorders, and Printers with a memory card slot only), priority repair service, free return shipping, $0 deductible, genuine Canon factory service with only genuine Canon parts, and is transferable if you sell or gift your product. With a CarePAK PLUS, a damaged product will be repaired to good working condition or replaced with an equivalent product.
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