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This is the two-in-one soccer net that lets a player spend more time perfecting his or her game and less time retrieving balls. The trainer's sturdy steel frame is shaped like an X and draped on one side with a curved net. When a ball is kicked into this area, it follows an upward arc before it rebounds with spin and height, requiring the player to trap and control the ball before taking the next kick. The reverse side of the trainer is covered with a taut, vertical net that absorbs most of the ball's impact before returning it, providing an ideal surface for working on shots on goal as well as one-touch heading and passing drills. The lightweight device can be used at home for individual practice, or folded flat and transported to the field for team training. Includes stakes. Ages 5 and up. 4 1/2' L x 3 1/2' H x 2' D. (16 1/2 lbs.)
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Great Gift
By Tom
from central Illinois
Bought it for my 12 year old granddaughter who lives for soccer. She loves it. Well made and durable.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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(3 of 4 customers found this review helpful)
It works great - improves targeting
By commonsensical
from Gaithersburg, MD
The product arrived intact and performed as advertised.
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By Big Foot
from Olympia, Wa.
Tightness of net makes it very difficult to assemble. Style of hold down stakes is inadequate, impact from soccer ball pulls front stakes out of ground. Comments from player(s) is that 'sweet spot' should be higher off ground.
Works as advertised!
By Soccer Mom
from Northampton, MA
Seems to work well, though it won't get a good workout until spring (bought as a Christmas gift and snow is on the way). Assembly is not complicated once you decipher the diagram, but it takes a considerable amount of strength to attach the nets because they have to be stretched a lot.
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Granddaughter loves it.
By Pops
from Vero Beach, FL
Delivered much faster than expected.
Not the usual H-S produce
By Louise the Athlete Grandmother
from Philadelphia, PA
Instructions were very unclear and drawings almost unusable. While we were eventually able to get the frame together by trial and error, we could not get the nets to fit on the frame, no matter how hard we tried, and we're pretty strong people. Very small parts (screws, washers) were not in a separate bag, just loose in the net bag, and one washer was missing. We may try to put it together one more time, but if we don't succeed we'll be sending it back for a refund.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Disappointing product
By Ray
from Columbus, Ohio
Bought this product as a special gift for my grandson. After 3-4 hours of trying to figure out how to get the net on (impossible), finally gave up. screws strip easily and tools provided were ineffective.
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My granchildren love it!!
By MSU
from Dallas, TX
My grandchildren love it.A great family opportunity to share and practice soccer with their friends.
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I confess: I am not a natural presenter.
The first time I stood in front of the camera ready to film one of our video blogs I felt apprehensive, awkward and self-conscious.
If you're making your own video in house you'll most likely need some of your team to be in it. But, most companies are not made up of teams of presenters, to whom being on camera comes easy.
Sound familiar?
I've thought about it and I think the problem for me was that, in order to be lively and engaging on film, some exaggeration is required. You need to speak louder and with more animation than in normal, everyday life.
What looks good on camera can make you feel mighty stupid when you're doing it in real life. And if you're feeling stupid whilst you're making your video, it will come across to anybody watching.
Well, the good news is it definitely gets easier with practice. After a few attempts I did start to feel more comfortable standing in front of the camera.
But, before that happens there are a few tricks that really helped me out.
You're going to get it wrong.
(Music: Fluffing a Duck – Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com))
Accept this and move on.
Even the professionals don't get it right first time. Multiple takes are just par for the course. Trying to get it right first time puts too much pressure on you. And the more pressure the more apprehensive you'll feel.
Relax. Just make sure you've allowed enough time for reshooting and there's really no reason to worry.
When you're making your own video it's important to look happy about it. If you aren't enthusiastic about your product or service, your consumers won't be either.
Producing a natural smile is pretty tough, though, especially when you're already feeling nervous. People can spot a fixed, fake smile a mile away.
How did I get around it? Well it was actually fairly simple. I asked Terry who films our videos to smile at me while I speak.
I have found that when somebody smiles at me my knee-jerk reaction is to smile back at them. It's not something I think about; it's just automatic behavior. And, when I came to look into it, I found that most people are the same.
Research has shown that smiling is contagious. Sociability is so important to human evolution that our brains are simply hardwired that way. When someone smiles at you, you smile back.
Read through the script and listen to your intonation. Knowing which words you'll stress and what kind of tone you'll say things in before you hit record will stop your phrasing feeling stilted and unnatural.
Stumbling over your words? Stop. You're thinking too much.
Concentrating so hard on getting all the words right means you, again, put unnecessary pressure on yourself.
A bit of movement can help you to get out of your own head. It gives you something else to think about and you'll often find that the words flow more freely that way.
I first discovered this during the filming of our Dual Encoding video in which we asked for Beta testers. Unbeknownst to me Terry had hatched a dastardly plot to throw something at me at the very end of the video.
Now, you might find that this would distract me, throw me off and make me mess up the line. Here's what actually happened:
When I watched the footage back I realized that I had in fact remembered what I was supposed to be saying, even whilst I was reacting to the missile that had just been launched at my head.
Because I wasn't really thinking about it.
When you're making your own video it can help to have a basic script in place. You should put in place the points you want to make and in what order you will make them.
But, if you try to match that script word for word when you film the video you'll run into trouble.
So what if you say "also" instead of "and" or "video" instead of "video file"?
Seriously. Stop sweating the small stuff. If it makes sense run with it.
In fact, switching up a bit of the wording can be a good thing. You're talking how you would in normal conversation. It's much more natural and engaging to just be yourself!
Creating video in house? We put together a free guide to help you produce slick content – without huge production costs.
Every awesome video marketing campaign begins with an awesome video storyboard. So, where do you start in creating your own? We spoke with Han Lung of Vidaao, a video production marketplace that connects marketing teams with creatives, about his top tips for creating the perfect video storyboard….
"How can you build a house without a blueprint?" The answer is: you can't.
In the same way, a video without a storyboard is like a house without a foundation. It might look okay on the outside, but once you step through the front door and see that the floor's missing, you're going to walk right back outside. Similarly, viewers watching a hastily-made video that wasn't properly storyboarded are going to know someone was cutting corners, and they're going to stop your video at hello. The current business video landscape is saturated, and no one has time for anything less than the best.
Yet, for some reason, many marketing execs and creatives spend sufficient time on every step of the production process except storyboarding. All too often a script is written and a videographer just goes to town during a shoot so there will be a lot of b-roll to work with. A little jump cutting here, a little match cutting there…and – voila! Business video, right?
Wrong. Storyboarding is just as important as scripting if you want a video to have a professional look and feel (and not just be erratic and uninspired). More importantly, storyboarding is how you arrive at a vision for your video.
If you're not going to outsource your storyboard, then it's crucial that you learn the visual alphabet. It doesn't matter how good or bad of an artist you are – anyone can learn this alphabet because it's comprised entirely of shapes like triangles, squares, circles, and lines.
Ever looked at a drawing book? Anything, from a car to a dinosaur, can be simplified into basic shapes. And shapes aren't hard to draw at all. Once you get good at using the visual alphabet, you'll be able to storyboard with relative ease. Doesn't mean it's going to be a comic masterpiece, but it will serve its purpose.
This one really isn't a secret, but it bears repeating. Unless you're some sort of virtuoso videographer who can shoot by the seat of his pants and make perfect, polished video, you better be sketching your heart out. If you don't have the discipline of a professional artist and drawing stick figures rubs you the wrong way, then don't even bother erasing. Just produce as many versions of your frames as possible – until you're satisfied with your on-paper camerawork.
What's your upfront cost at this point? What's your overhead? That's right. Nothing at all, except for the price of that printer paper you're using and maybe a few Ticonderoga #2 pencils. You can afford to spend a few hours on this.
Alfred Hitchcock was notoriously stuck on storyboards. In fact, he considered them the most important creative step in the entire filmmaking process (to him, shooting was just a necessary evil). And look where it got him.
Yes, you need to buy one. Older storyboarders will always swear by their pencils, and some people just love drawing in moleskin notepads, but at the end of the day a digital drawing pad is going to be your single best storyboarding investment.
Digital drawing pads are easy to setup and easy to use. They come with every drawing feature you would possibly need to flesh out your storyboards, don't leave a mess on your desk, and are automatically saved on your computer so that you don't have to deal with taking pictures or scanning images.
In recent years, digital drawing pads have also become more tactile and sensitive, so they're almost as true-to-life as pencil and paper. It's important to choose a highly-rated one, however, because cheaper pads have lower sensitivity and precision. A decent drawing pad for the purposes of storyboarding will cost around $50 to $200 (and you'll never have to buy a #2 pencil again).
A 30-second video has 720 distinct frames that the human eye can perceive (we see at 24 fps). Granted, you don't have to storyboard all those frames. In fact, you don't even have to storyboard each of the 30 seconds – you just need to hit the keyframes.
What are keyframes? Frames of particular significance in the context of the script or camera direction. For example, the jovial executive shown above is walking from point A to point B. Let's say that, at point A, he suddenly realizes he wants a hot dog, and a thought bubble pops up next to his head. That's a keyframe. Then, at point B, he buys the hot dog and starts to chow down. That's point B. Anything that happens in between are transition frames, and they don't have to be drawn out until after all the keyframes are drawn.
Keyframes are like plot points in the outline for a script. It makes sense to get them down first before filling in transition frames.
Chances are you don't know how to use your video editing software as well as you already know how to use Powerpoint. That's totally fine, because as it so happens, Powerpoint is a great barebones storyboarding tool.
After you have all your frames drawn and ready, popping them into Powerpoint and inserting comments for dialogue and direction is easy. Printing out each frame and laying them side by side on a giant corkboard is important, but when it comes time to "preview" your video, Powerpoint's slide show feature is the perfect, low-budget storyboarding option.
I don't know about you but we never have enough hours in the day.
And when you're running around on the shoot the sands of time seem to fall particularly fast. And that's not to mention the hour after hour spent stitching it all together post-shoot. But actually it's relatively simple to shave a big chunk of time (and stress!) when you're making your videos. Now, we can't guarantee you a stress-free shoot: hurdles inevitably arise and you have to deal with them. But hopefully these tips will help you have some non-grey hair left at the end of the day…
Now, there are thousands (probably, we didn't actually do the math) of ways you can compose a shot. As your experience grows you can experiment more and get some interesting results. But, before we get ahead of ourselves, it's worth understanding the rule of thirds and then you can decide whether you want to break it.
The theory goes that if you break an image down into thirds, the eye is naturally drawn to the intersection of each line. If you place points of interest there, rather than dead center, you'll get a nice balanced shot.
This is pretty much photography 101. And there's a reason this rule is so ubiquitous – coz it works!
Tripod. The end.
Ok I'll explain a bit more.
Handheld can (sometimes) yield some good results. It depends what effect you're trying to create. For something tense and nervy (think The Blair Witch project) it can work well. But all too often tense and nervy turns into motion sickness. Sure it can work well, but unless you're pretty experienced it probably won't.
Take a look at these examples of handheld vs tripod:
You can see that sticking your camera on a tripod just makes everything much cleaner and simpler.
If you don't know what you're doing don't introduce an extra element to think about. You're already juggling a million and one things during the shoot. Why make it harder for yourself? Keep it simple.
This is kinda like the tripod vs handheld debate. Pan and pull can be effective. With emphasis on the "can".
The problem is, used in haste you'll mess your focus up. Instead cleanly cut each shot.
Clean cut
The difference is amazing. It keeps it snappy, keeps the pace up. You really are much better of keeping it simple. Believe me.
No, not that kind of tail. What I mean here is give yourself a few frames breathing room between each take. In the video below you'll see there's a few seconds space before and after the subject (in this case, me – hello!) talks. You don't want, for instance, to cut too soon and miss a syllable of audio.
Ok so the next two tips are more about making your life easier in the edit, rather than the shoot. But it's things you need to be doing while you're on the shoot. So listen up :)
Let's take a look at a video in the editing suite:
See the green bit? That's the audio. What you need to do is match up the audio with the visual (unless you're going for the badly dubbed effect). The camera itself will generally take a bit of audio (although the quality probably won't be high enough for you to run with this version). So what you're aiming to do here is match the audio from the external mic, with the audio taken from the camera mic (the bit in blue under the thumbnail).
This can be a bit of a painstaking process. But you can make it easier for yourself simply by clapping at the beginning of the take. This will give you a nice big peak and you can use this to match the two tracks up.
It's the same thing a clapper board is used for. But free.
Back to the editing suite. This is how a typical 60(ish) second video clip looks:
That's a whole lotta thumbnails.
Let's say you filmed 5 takes of one shot. And you know the third take was the one you want to use. You know it's somewhere in all those thumbnails, but where?
Rewind back to the day of your shoot. If you'd simply waved your hand in front of the lens after the good take, you'd now have a "bookmark" for where that take is.
Bad day on shoot? We've all been there. It's ok. It happens. But the important thing is to learn from what happened. That way each and every shoot you run should get smoother and smoother. These are just some of the way we've found to iron out the creases during our video production process – hope they help you out too!
Over the last year or so we've been on a bit of a quest to learn more about how to make business videos that work. And we've tried to share that with you all via our various blog posts.
I thought this week, I'd pull all those various tips, tricks and bits of advice into one post. So here is your go-to guide to the video production lessons we've learned the hard way – so you shouldn't have to!
If you're using a video production agency then it's really, really important that you brief them properly. Both parties should be crystal clear on what type of video you need for your business – that way there's no surprises when the end product comes through. We chatted with video pros TNR Communications on this back in October; they told us there's 7 questions your brief should answer.
Answer those questions and you'll have a pretty decent brief from which to create a business video that will meet your goals.
How To Brief A Video Production Company (Properly!)
When you've got a great idea for a video often it can be tempted to just *do* it. Don't. You'll wind up reshooting sections because you haven't got the footage you expected. We use a 4 stage plan that works pretty well for us:
Essentially, you need to brainstorm some ideas and ask a few key critical questions (do I have the budget for this, is this relevant to my audience…), test the concept, give your brain a chance to digest and rest, and then reassess your plan with a fresh pair of eyes. Rinse and repeat this as many times as it takes until you've got a video plan that you're satisfied with.
Video Retrospective: Learning From Our Mistakes
Really, this falls into the planning section of your video campaign. But it's important so I wanted to pull it out into a separate point. Think about all the assets you need for your video. Want some nifty graphics? Tell your designer. Want a colleague to star? Make sure they know about it.
The point is, everyone is busy with their own work. If you need something from them it's best to make sure they've got plenty of notice. That way you're not springing a job on them right at the last minute. That's just stressful for everyone. Not cool.
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Video Retrospective: Learning From Our Mistakes
A 90 second business video which is just one long take can be pretty boring (not to mention hard to pull off without your talent fluffing their lines!). Our advice is to vary the visual to keep your viewers interest – especially if you've got a longish story to tell.
Video production agency Casual Films shared with us their top tip, "Vary the visual. You could, for example, use hand drawn illustrations which will bring the benefits of animation, without the associated costs of computer generation.
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How To Make The Most Of Your Video Budget
Having a two camera set up makes the edit *so* much easier. It gives you with a bit of extra footage so that you can vary the visual, for a start.
But it's also great if you find that you have an unusable take. You can just cut to the b-roll until the a-roll can kick in again.
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Making Great Business Videos: The Benefits Of B Roll
One thing we've struggled with when filming outdoors is the Great British weather. You may think that to combat poor lighting conditions you need a fancy lighting rig. Not so. You can make your own light reflector fairly easily. You just need a big piece of white card, some tin foil, some sticky tape and voila.
Another great tip is to steady a flimsy tripod by weighting it with a brick on a piece of string. There's all sorts of little hacks you can try out that mean you don't need to spend a fortune, and we're looking forward to experimenting with some more this coming year – so stay tuned for more on that.
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Here at vzaar we always use real team members in our business videos. It lends an air of authenticity and shows the human side of our business. Of course it can be tricky. Not everyone is at home in front of the camera, but there's a few ways you can help put your talent at ease:
1. Get them to practice in front of the camera first. Nothing prepares you for being on camera, like being on camera.
2. If you're behind the camera make sure you keep smiling. It's contagious.
3. Accept mistakes – they happen to everyone. Laugh about it. Make sure they know it's not a big deal.
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The Secrets To Getting Comfy On Camera
It's surprising how much footage you'll amass just for a 90 second video. And come editing time it can be a real nightmare to sift through it all. We save time during the edit by using a few different techniques during the shoot itself:
1. Tails on takes give you a bit of room to play with.
2. Mark a good take with hand swipe in front of the lens so you can find it again easily.
3. Clap to mark audio to help you sync the audio by providing a big peak to work from.
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6 Stunningly Simple Ways To Destress Your Video Shoot
It's a lot easier to shoot extra footage while you've got the camera set up and everyone you need is in the room. It's better to have too much to play with, rather than find out later you need an extra shot and have to set everything up all over again.
We've found this holds particularly true whenever we try to inject humour into our videos. What's funny on paper isn't always funny in real life. It's better to film a few different alternatives so you can work out what works best for your particular business objectives.
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Our Video Mistakes (And How We Fixed 'Em)
Making great business videos means you need to be constantly improving and thinking critically. Always, always look back on what you did. All of the insights listed here have come from taking the time to analyse our processes. In fact we've started to share a lot of that process with you in our video retrospective blog posts. Making notes during all stages of your video process is a good habit to get into. That way you can look back through and question why you did what you did, and whether you can improve on anything next time.
Because of these video retrospectives, we've made lots of changes in the past year. For example, we:
1. Bought a second camera to allow us to capture B roll
2. Formalised our planning process
3. Allowed more time for planning, shooting, editing
As always, we hope that's useful. We like to share our video making process in the hopes that when we mistakes, it means you don't have to.
Until next time, bye for now.
You may remember last month we wrote about our video mistakes and how we fixed them. Well, I'm (err kind of) pleased to announce that on our latest video shoot for Tinypass Integration – we made a few more! But it wasn't all doom and gloom on this video shoot – we also tried out some of the techniques we learnt from our last video efforts (you can read about those here). Here's what went right, and what we can do better next time…
Avid blog fans will remember that the last time we made a video we wound up having to reshoot huge chunks of it. Once we saw the actual footage we realised it just wasn't clear what on earth was going on.
We didn't fall into this trap again. Instead, we added a pre planning phase to our video process. The aim of this phase was to sort the wheat from the chaff. I'll admit it; sometimes we're guilty of becoming fixed on an idea and then just going with it (hence last month's heavy reshoot). If you go straight into planning you often don't realise the silly ideas – until it's too late. The pre planning stage helped us to get over that, simply because it *wasn't* the planning stage. We went through 4 stages of pre planning:
– Video Conceptualisation
Throw a few ideas around and discuss how they work. You're looking for *any* idea – no matter how crazy it sounds – so don't create a hyper critical atmosphere. Everyone involved should feel comfortable to share. Jot all the ideas down and move on.
Ok, now you can criticise. And when I say criticise I don't mean "that would never work!" or "that idea is a load of rubbish". Take each one in turn and simply ask questions about it. Start off with some higher level questions:
Simply by asking the right questions you can often weed out which ideas you should scrap.- Test Your ConceptSometimes it's difficult to see on paper how something actually looks in real life. Having the footage in front of you brings things to life in a way that words on a page can't. It makes it easier to tell if something is a particular idea is a non-starter. We used an iPhone to just walk through a few of the shots.- Do Nothing
Seriously, take a break. Enthusiasm for an idea can sometimes get the better of you. When we went back to review our test footage we scrapped the initial idea and went in a different direction. If you'd asked me before the break I would have told you I loved the idea and I was really excited to get going on the video shoot. Not so much when we went back and reassessed. If you give yourself a break and you STILL love what you've come up with, the chances are it's not half bad!
– Reassess
Our initial idea was "cash for clicks". Our lovely video star Virginia would set up the Tinypass integration on her vzaar videos (with a few clicks of a mouse button) and in the cash would roll. To demonstrate, we decided we would show people watching various videos. Virginia would click, and cash would appear. Still with me? If that sounds confusing, it may explain a little about why we scrapped it.
The problem was, the cash really appears when your viewers click to pay. So in that case shouldn't the viewers be the ones clicking? But then, we also want to show that it's really easy to set up the pay wall so we kind of need Virginia to click as well. Maybe everyone could click? Or maybe no-one…? Or maybe…?
We were tying ourselves into knots to try and make the clicking for cash work. This is a bad sign. If we couldn't understand the link between the clicks and the cash, how could we expect everyone else to?
Despite our initial enthusiasm we realised we were just forcing the concept to work. So we just came up with a new one. And then we went through our questions again until we were confident it could work: "Does it achieve our goal?", "Does it make people feel something"…
We may have learned from past mistakes, but that didn't stop us making a few new ones:
1. Plan For Bad Weather
For this video we decided we'd shoot outdoors. In the UK. In November. Perhaps not so surprisingly, on the day of the shoot we were met by very dull, gloomy skies.
This gave us the chance to learn something new: how to brighten a shot – even when the conditions are dull. We added extra bits of colour and interest to the shot and used all the light available. Then in the edit we experimented with a bit of color grading. You can watch our in house video producer Terry explain the specifics here.
I'm not saying that we'll never make this mistake again. Even in the Summer it can be pretty hard to predict the British weather. But, if this does happen to us again, we know exactly what to do about it (and now so do you!)
Take Away: if something goes wrong don't panic. Fixing it gives you the opportunity to learn something new.Tweet this
2. Collaborate Earlier
In this video we decided to overlay some graphics as a way of showing what was going on on the computer screen. We spent quite a lot of time trying to fashion a good looking set of graphics to use. And then we asked our designer and she did it in less than half the time.
It's always great to learn new skills, but since we were editing to a deadline it would have been better to get our designer in from the get go. We would have saved time, and given her longer to prep. Lesson learned.
Take Away: when you're in the planning stage ask yourself who from the rest of your team needs to be involved to bring your vision to life. Tweet this
Analysing what went wrong in our video production efforts is helping us to make or whole process much smoother, and hopefully resulting in some much more interesting videos! I highly recommend adding an evaluation stage after you've created the finished product. You'd be surprised how much clarity it brings, you can really see the crinkles that need to be smoothed. By sharing our own successes (and failures!) we hope it helps you too.
Here's to our next video! In the meantime you can check out the final version of our Tinypass video here. Enjoy :)
Here at vzaar we want to unlock the power that online video can have. We are firm believers in the awesome conversion rates it can generate, the personality it gives your brand and the sense of community and relationship it builds with your consumers.
In our quest to make sure our own videos live up to their full potential we managed to grab David Sington, Principal Film Maker at Dox Productions for a chat about just how to do it.
What does video do that text alone can't?
This was the first thing that David asked us and we readily reeled (pun intended) off all the virtues of video:
And all of those things are very true. Video DOES add that extra layer of information, with visual cues and implicit communication that text alone could never convey. It DOES add context and deeper meaning to complex concepts. And yes it DOES help us to bring our personality to the forefront and remove the barrier between business and consumer
But, as David pointed out to us, simply knowing that video CAN do all those things doesn't mean it does do all those things by default.
Now, you may have noticed in last week's blog we took a slightly different direction with the video, interspersing our classic head shots with some more visually interesting images. This was in an attempt to apply some of David's advice – what do you think?
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One of the key benefits of video is that we can add visual information to demonstrate our point. We could just TELL you we have a new feature – but by SHOWING it we can explain it much more effectively and that is where the value lies.
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Leave in all those introductory statements and you run the risk of viewers becoming bored and moving away. Cut them and your video instantly becomes less clunky and more engaging. The sooner you can get to the real story the better.
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Currently when I open my form, it has a big spread with like 20 or 30 rows that users sees. Like a big empty spreadsheet....well it looks "too white" to me, do you think is it a better UX design if I color alternating rows in the spread? And more importantly if this is what you suggest, I am also looking for some "documentation" from a big source like a text book! that can support this idea of coloring alternate rows in the spreadsheet...
Though the question question To use or not to use "Zebra Stripes", or Alternating Row Colors for Tables does throw up some interesting points whether to use alternating rows or zebra rows for tables,(This article : 9 Useful Techniques for User-Friendly Tables does highlight some benefit for using striped or zebra tables)
I dont believe that it would serve much use in a blank spreadsheet.
The reason being while alternating rows help in providing a differentiation to the user as he scans from row to row and would help to perhaps zero in upon a specific point or row as needed, they might be particularly useful if there is content available in the rows.However having stripes in empty rows will convey no real information for the user and a differentiating color will not serve a purpose unless you are trying to help him determine the number of even numbered rows.
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I made a mistake and as result I think I shot one image rotating only 45 deg instead of 90 + zenith at 60 and nadir at -60. My LRS and URS are exactly as you recommended unless I'am reading wrong LRS setting (picture would be worth a 1000 words). I'm reading of left edge of column support.
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What is nadir adaptor. Where can I see it?
Thank you!
Despite the odd yaw increments, the images stitch perfectly fine with PTGui. The optimizer report gave the average distance as 0.5 and a maximum of 1.6. I would recommend that you give all the images the same exposure in manual mode for ease of blending. You should also be careful of the position of your shadow in the shots so that hopefully most of the shadows can be easily eliminated. There didin't seem to be much point in shooting the nadir at pitch -60. If you are going to take nadir shots on the tripod, take two pointing directly down with the head rotated by 90 or 180 degrees between them.
The details of the nadir adapter are in this thread.
as John a got a fine stitch in PTGui. But I get crazy about the stops, "odd jaw increments". Once again, you need 4 shots around, you have to set the detend plunger to 90º. When you use pitch, you have to move the upper rail up and down. Sorry to ask, but why do you take a shot with 45º in between? How can this happen with the detent plunger set to 90º, because it should only click in at 90º. What do you do,just try to explain, we just want to help you.
I stitch 4 of your shots, and the seems show different exposures, which means once the sky is lighter than in the other shot. So 4 shots have four different blue colors of the sky, which will end in different colors of the sky and the rest of the pano at the end.Basic : set aperture, shutter speed, white balance and focus to manual. Otherwise you will get a puzzle of everything, besides problems in stitching cause of a wrong set up in your own case.
Sorry, cause I still can not delete my pics from advanced mode attachments, I can not send a pic right now. I send a link tonight. Derek is working on this.
You take nadir shots to be able to get rid of the feet and the tripod and replace it with a "true pic of the ground below your tripod". Now have a look to your nadir shot: feet and tripod in one shot. Easy to avoid your feet: take a remote control, walk aside, and take the shot, a shot without feet. Walking aside, have an eye on it to avoid your own shadow in this picture. Take the sun in front of you behind the tripod than in your back taking a nadir shot with your shadow added on the ground.
Now the main point of a nadir shot system: think about your nadir shots without feet: the tripod covers the ground below it. But a panorama with a good Nadir solution should show this area. What can you do? With only one shot, the only solution is to "clone stamp" = to copy the areas around the tripod which seem to be similar to ground below the tripod, and paste them in this area. In Photoshop. There are different ways to to get a good bottom below the tripod. To cut it short. I use the NN nadir adaptor. Added to NN5 or NN3, this is one shot -90º down after the 4 shots around, open up the adaptor, move the tripod sideways, second shot. And then you mask the tripod in PTGui advanced mode with mask function in the two nadir shots and then you stitch all together.
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You got excellent result then with my images. It was just a test, so I didn't care about the shadows or anything else, but setup for NPP. Will shot on manual in the future. Nadir is a big problem for me. Have to learn how to do it.
Can put to rest NPP settings and leave it as it is?
Thank you so much!
I shot 45 deg, becase I have only 45 deg detent ring and made a mistake. 90 deg detent din't come with my set of NN5. I'm buying 90/120 deg detent ring soon. Thank you again!
Freezing rain today, but will try soon.
Adamo, I have uploaded a copy of my stitched panorama (DxO.jpg) to http://sharesend.com/qw01r. I would say you should be happy with your NPP settings - at least until you have shot a more challenging subject with things close to the camera.
You're the master. It looks 1000x better than what I can do in PTGui. Which images did you stitch?
Where did you learn how to do it?
John is a very experienced guy, since years, very precise. Sometimes you do not like his comments on your own work. Be sure, this is no personal comment. He personally likes to be very precise, so he trained himself a lot, reading a lot, trying to get into the depth of software by try and error.
John is one of the most experienced guys in this theme, his comments and tutorials help newbies to get on the next floor.
Concerning questions about the nadir, just ask, I will try to send pics or another info on how to solve it.
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You got it wrong.
I appreciate yours and John's critic as harsh as it may seem. Please, be frank with me.
My photography experience goes back 40+ years, but in pano photography I am novice.
I need all the help I can get here.
Thank you both.
Adamo, I used all the images that you supplied for my stitch. There were no particular difficulties, but I did use the mask facilities in the latest V9 beta version of PTGui Pro to help the blending process. As Heinz says, I've been doing this for some years now. I began with the first versions of PTGui in the year 2000, but I have dabbled with panoramas using traditional wet chemical photographic processes since the 1960's.
here. As I said, it's for the V9 beta that's available for download. It should be compatible with earlier versions though.
I noticed from this PTS that you put for FOL 8.55 and for conversion factor 1.6. Is there any reason for this? Also, you used fullframe for lens type. I used circular.
However, after optimizer I got max distance 15.xxx
Thank you!
I just took the first 4 pics, aligned, optimized with lens shift and heavy in advanced mode, del worst control points and ended up with max 1.2. In the preview you can see the seems with different colours. You have to set focal lens to 8mm, and full frame. After the first alignment PTGui sets the own focal length and factor , that's why we get 8.55 etc.


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Beard was born in 1926 making him 83 when he died.
However, you're inaccurate on several counts. Beard was offered a place in the Sadlers Wells Touring Company, (now Birmingham Royal Ballet) which he declined he wanted a position in the Sadlers Wells Ballet (now Royal Ballet) based at Covent Garden. Although Ashton kept promising to get him a spot in the main company De Valois wasn't ameneable to this.
It was actually far far easier for Americans to work in the UK and vice versa back then and it's far harder now for foreign artists to achieve work permit status, let alone full residency status in the UK. Indeed with the current political climate and the UK's increasingly stringent policies regarding foreign nationals taking up qualified positions within the UK, the Government recently amended their criteria allowing highly trained ballet dancers to not have to submit to the university qualification criteria.
Also back then the company was composed of New Zealanders, Australians, South Africans, Russians, Rhodesians, Lithuanians, Canadians etc (to name a few nationalities off the top of my head) the only difference real difference was that the majority had been trained at the Sadlers Wells Ballet school (now Royal Ballet school) as opposed to coming to the company fully formed in other schools and companies as is now the case because the school can't seem to produce viable stars.
Also Dick Beard was never a principal with American Ballet Theatre, (then simply called Ballet Theatre) he was a corps de ballet dancer, who was elevated to certain roles because Anthony Tudor was sexually attracted to him, ditto Ashton when he saw him in 1946 in Pillar of Fire. If anything the consensus was that his physical beauty detracted from his becoming the dancer he had the potential to be.
Thanks for this information. And your corrections. You seem to know lots about the U.K. policies regarding foreigners. I read Secret Muses when it first came out around early 90s I believe. so must have forgotten many details about Dick Beard. In the mid 1960s I joined a small touring ballet company in London and had to, as American, go to the Home Office for a work permit as a 'foreign artist'. That was the title though I was little more than a youngster with experience only in Summer stock. It was quite easy to get at that time and I had no trouble for nearly a year until British Equity kept after me to join. As this would have cost a fortune (I was making 15 pounds a week, girls made 5) I decided to quit. Actually I had planned on going to the Soviet Union anyway for study, and did.


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My eight-year old daughter is playing soccer. She's not terrible but she is just slow compared to all the other girls. Any ideas on exercises or drills that can help her run faster? Never been much of an athlete myself so I have limited knowledge in this area.
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She's probably just not as developed neurologically as some of the other kids. Drills for quick foot work is what she'll need to work on the most. She'll need to practice with lots of repetition on a daily basis to show marked improvement if other girls her age seem to be preforming above her skill set right now.
If you have a wall she can kick the soccer ball against over and over, she'll be able to get a lot of practice in that way. You can play with her sort of like racket ball, with a soccer ball. That's probably the easiest way to get her interested in working on it.
Of course any old school foot ball drills would be the number one way to improve footwork. Ball and Chain, Karaoke, high knees, but kicks, skipping, and bounding. They're tough to explain in words, but they're pretty standard drills that you shouldn't have trouble finding video of on line.
To increase running speed, you'll want to target the "posterior chain", which includes hamstrings, glutes, lower back and abdominal muscles.
Since this question pertains to your daughter, I will avoid any weightlighting exercises since weight training at such a young age is controversial and is generally not advised.
Instead I will try to focus on body-weight exercises. I would use a mix-and-match the following exercises:
This is just personal experience, over the past few months I started doing a large number of squats three times a week.
I play soccer all year round.
I have an increase in take-off speed, I can run at higher speeds later in a game and I also feel my thighs aren't as sore during recovery.
Disclaimer: You will need to figure out personally what a reasonable number of squats your child should be doing or if this is suitable for someone her age.
Some kids' motor skills develop at rates different than the other kids their age. This is a somewhat tricky area since in order to develop them, she needs to engage in some repetitious activity, and young children are often not fond of repetitious activity that isn't their idea.
The earlier answer that mentioned kicking a soccer ball against a wall and making a game out of it is a pretty good idea. Other things that will help are (oddly enough) things like playing hop-skotch, skipping, and jumping rope. Anything that requires balance shifts, direction changes, and exact foot/hand placement will work, as long as it's fun for her.
Keep in mind that if it's not fun she won't want to do it enough for it to help her motor skills. And keep in mind that some children simply develop those skills slower than others. I was unable to jump rope until I was like 10. But I went on to play JV basketball, take 5th in the State Wrestling Tournament, 8th in the 100m dash, and 5th in the 400m dash in high school.
I used to play basketball. We had to work a lot on having explosive starts and fast sprints. We did "suicides" to accomplish this. The image below illustrates how it is done in the basketball field. Of course, you can do similar exercises at home by running on the pavement or in the lokal park.
This exercise will not contribute to endurance, and its sole purpose is to enhance explosive, short sprints.
Ever seen movies where the character gets a new body, and needs time to get used to it? That's what growing up is like, and if you don't have enough practice "using" your body, you will handle it incorrectly.
Best advice: find a similar skill level for her to play with, until she develops the skills Natalie talks about. If you can't, then yeah, any level of practice will help develop those skills.
Important: nothing's wrong with her, just needs practice.
"Speed is often confused with anticipation. Players who start to run earlier appear faster." Johan Cruyff quote, European Soccer Player of 20th Century.
Research documents that in soccer and other "invasion games" like basketball, lacrosse, field hockey, etc. almost all players stare at the player in possession 54 out of every 60 seconds and see teammates, opponents and open spaces for less than 6 seconds. As a result most players are so slow to decide they need to run that they are almost always late and appear slower.
The responses in this post are based on the father's comment that his daughter appears slow. And while the right running exercises that don't bore a child and/or cause overuse injuries are fine, they may do nothing at all to improve her playing speed.
Scan rate and anticipation are easily taught in a simple sequence. The first exercises are eye movement exercises to improve eye muscle strenght and eye teaming. (left/right, up/down and eye rotation in circle exercises). The second exercises are periodic eye scanning exercises using visual and/or audible cues. The third exercises are 3 verus 3 player games where an audio cue is used to instruct all players to scan for opponents, teammates and spaces and as they do they yell out who is where and by color. Colors in this exercise need to wear very high intensity colored shirts because players react faster and passes to teammates in bright colors are more accurate. Colors that should be used for teaching and learning are 00FF00 neon green, FFFF00 bright yellow, FF00FF bright pink, 00FFFF bright light blue and FF3300 bright orange.
Research documents that watching SSG (small sided game) videos also improves speed of anticipation in "invasion sports". In soccer the best videos for girls are watching videos of the Women's Futsal and Futbol Sala World Championships. The game is 5 versus 5 in a very small area and is very fast which forces players to focus and learn. Have player pick one team and each time a player on that team receives the ball hit the || to stop the video. They look and decide what happens next. Repeat start and go through video until it ends. Repeat with same video until player starts to see what will happen next. Both the 2011 Women's Futsal World Cup and 2010 Womens Futbol Sala World Championships can be found on YouTube.
Learning to read patterns in game play, teammate's body language, opponent's body language and to assess opponents strengths and weaknesses can all benefit players ability to scan the field and anticipate. Also picking up tips on what happens most often in game helps. For example most right footed, right handed and right eye dominant players will almost always turn to their right to try to get away from opponents.
Reserach citations and additional information on scan rate, anticipation, reading the game and learning to make good decisions very quickly is available on request.
The father's observation his daughter appears slow in games may simply be not having learned to read the game, anticipate and to make decisions. Also many girls know what they should do but don't because their parents or coach yell when they make a mistake. Few parents can focus and do their job when interrupted . . . few choldren can focus and learn well when well intentioned adults constantly interrupt them.
There have been a number of suggestions on how to improve running speed in this post. I might add a couple hints
Please excuse the wordy reply but all too often players are slow because the decision to actually do something comes too late.
Maybe her muscle performance is (genetically?) more suited for long-term endurance sports like marathon running for example.
Simple experiment. Just observe what happens:
Tell her that -although she might not be the fastest in the first half of the game- she can still be the fastest in the last 15 minutes of the game when the other players are more exhausted than her.
Maybe she can simply outrun the defenders in one of the last attacks. It's possible to score key goals that way. She must still be willing to perform well at the end, it's difficult after being slower for 80 minutes (or if the other players aren't exhausted at all). Maybe you can still motivate her?
Increase pure top speed? Short change of speed drills are best. Recommend these ideas for your daughter.
1) make it fun. Whatever you do, make it fun with positive reinforcement anytime she performs a desirable action. Regardless of talent or speed increase, positive reinforcement will hopefully allow her to enjoy exercise for her life and find personal value in being active. Way more important than speed.
2) 2-3 times a week conduct speed workouts with her. Use short distances and have her run close to top speed with 3 minutes rest between reps. An example progression would be... 4 x 40 meters at top speed 6 x 40 meters 4 x 60 meters 6 x 60 meters 2 x 60, 2 x 100, 2 x 40 respect the bowerman principle of hard day followed by an easy or rest day
3) once a week run short hill sprints. Sprints should be 10 seconds up the hill followed by a jog down and then followed by a 3 minute rest. Start at 4 or 5 and add one a week until you are up to 10 or so.
Hope this helps.
It was briefly touched on in another answer, but it really comes down to fundamentals. Too often we think we can just throw a kid into a sport and expect a certain level of performance when the reality is they'll still be developing neuromuscular movement patterns.
The number one thing you could do for your kid is focus on fundamental movement patterns. Marching, skipping and bounding are going to do more for your child than anything else in this developmental stage. If they can't march well, whether that be laterally or linearly, then we can't expect them to run well either.
And stay away from fast footwork. Agility drills are notorious for making soccer players move their feet fast but not their bodies.
At 8 I would not worry about it. She hasn't even hit her growth spurt yet. If she is still slower than others by 11, then worry about it. Many parents had their kids doing all sorts of speed training at 4-8 and by the time the kid is 12, are out of sports due to injury.


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Anyways, so I have a 5D Mark II, the 17-40 and a battery grip on the camera. It's been stuck on there for two years now, and I use it all the time. But have been thinking of removing it. In any case, without the grip, do I still need an adapter, or will the camera (without grip) work just fine with the Nodal Ninja 4?
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The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz chaired the Cabinet meeting at Al Salam Palace in Jeddah today, during which he briefed the ministers on his latest contacts with foreign officials, including two telephone calls he received from Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Addressing the Middle East peace process, the Cabinet once again stressed the danger posed by Palestinian in-fighting, calling upon the leaders of the various factions to resolve their disputes and work together to achieve an independent Palestinian state.
Regarding Lebanon, the Cabinet expressed confidence that the Lebanese will successfully form a national unity government, which will lead to national security, stability and prosperity.
The Cabinet lauded the arrests made recently by Kuwaiti security forces of members of a terrorist network. In addition, the ministers extended their condolences to Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti people and the families of the victims of a fire in Al-Jahra province that killed over forty women and children on Saturday.
Moving on to domestic issues, King Abdullah directed all officials to exert their utmost efforts to ensure the comfort and safety of visitors to Saudi Arabia during the Umrah and Hajj seasons. The King urged health officials to strictly abide by his directives that all government and private hospitals treat cases of swine flu in accordance with the guidelines of the Ministry of Health and international standards. Citizens, expatriates, and pilgrims will all be provided the necessary medical care at the expense of the state, he added.
After reviewing its agenda items, the Cabinet approved raising the organizational level of the two municipalities of the provinces of Taif and Ahsa; approved the linkage of the municipalities of Al-Khormah, Raniah, Trobah and Al-Moaih and the transfer of two village complexes in Misan and Bani Saad from the municipality of Makkah to the municipality of Taif province; approved the linkage of the municipalities of Al-Hafoof, Al-Mobaraz, Alo'yoon, Alo'mran, Al-Jafr, Yabreen to the municipality of Ahsa province; approved the establishment of a joint stock company named "The Al-Ameen Balad Company for Development and Construction Development;" authorized the governor of the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation to sign a draft memorandum of understanding in the field of technical and vocational training with the Ministry of Education in Ireland; and approved the final statement of accounts of the Grain Silos and Flour Mills Corporation for fiscal year 1427/1428 H.
The Cabinet appointed Mohammad Al-Rafeeq as Advisor for Secret Affairs at the Interior Ministry (15th rank); Khaled Al-Angari as Minister Plenipotentiary at the Foreign Ministry, Hamad Al-Milhim as Director General of Private Education at the Ministry of Higher Education (14th rank); Abdulraoof Al-Qaedi as Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry for Inspection and Work Relations at the Ministry of Labor; and Ahmad Al-Homaidan as Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry for Saudis' Employment at the Ministry of Labor (14th rank.)
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The young Italian striker's representative says that his client is "liked by a lot of clubs" and will leave on loan with the option to buy as his contract expires in June 2014Stuttgart are in "advanced talks" to sign Manchester United striker Federico Macheda, according to the player's agent.
Serie A and La Liga sides are also said to be interested in the Italian, whose contract expries in June 2014, but the German club are in pole position to sign the 21-year-old.
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If I want to show the comparison between rate in 2010 Jan and 2009 Jan, which of the following should I use?
- Comparison of rate between 2010 Jan and its prior month.
- Comparison of rate between 2010 Jan and its previous month.
If I want to show the comparison between rate in 2010 Jan and 2009 Jan, which of the following should I use?
In my opinion, neither previous nor prior work in this context for what you want to express, because both expressions imply December 2009.
Also, 'between' is a bit vague, because while the context implies you are comparing the rates of the two months, 'between' carries the idea of comparing the rates for the whole period between those two months.
Why not simply 'Comparison of rates: Jan 2010 and Jan 2009'? It is not especially clever, but it is shorter than the two phrases you propose.
Neither "previous" nor "prior" are correct here, because they would refer to December 2009.
If you want to use a business analysis buzzword, you could use "year over year", as in
If you are addressing normal people, however, I'd suggest simply
The Oxford Corpus of English lists several example sentences for prior:
For previous:
Both prior and previous have similar definitions: 'existing or occurring before in time or order' and 'existing or coming before in time, order, or importance' respectively.
From these two points (examples of usage in English and dictionary definition), I can see no evidence that either word is more or less appropriate in your context. However, I would say the following sound better:
That is, I would use the rather than its, although your sentences are grammatical.
EDIT: Now that I understand that the OP was talking about comparing January 2009 and January 2010, I offer these suggestions:
I also agree that it would be easier, and perhaps better, just to say 'Comparing the rates of January 2009 and January 2010.*
In general for comparing corresponding periods across years you use the expression year on year
Neither prior nor previous are words necessary to convey the meaning of the statement. The clearest way, so that no one misunderstands the question, is to delineate it completely:
This "statement" implies that there is a list to follow with the said comparisons indicated. It is not meant to convey all of the actual comparisons. It seems to be more of a heading.


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Pronounced: PEN-toe-stah-tin
Classification: Purine Analog
About Pentostatin
Pentostatin is a purine analog, which is a type of antimetabolite. It inhibits the enzyme adenosine deaminase, interfering with the cell's ability to make and replicate DNA. DNA is critical to cell division and growth. Since cancer cells generally divide more often than healthy cells, medicationss that target DNA-related processes are more toxic to cancer cells than healthy cells.
How to Take Pentostatin
Pentostatin is given by intravenous (IV, into a vein) infusion. The dosage and schedule is determined by the person's size and type of cancer. Intravenous fluids will be administered prior to and after the infusion of pentostatin. Pentostatin is infused over a few minutes to up to 30 minutes.
Possible Side Effects of Pentostatin
There are a number of things you can do to manage the side effects of pentostatin. Talk to your doctor or nurse about these recommendations. They can help you decide what will work best for you. These are some of the most common side effects:
Low White Blood Cell Count (Leukopenia or Neutropenia)
White blood cells (WBC) are important for fighting infection. While receiving treatment, your WBC count can drop, putting you at a higher risk of getting an infection. You should let your doctor or nurse know right away if you have a fever (temperature greater than 100.4), sore throat or cold, shortness of breath, cough, burning with urination, or a sore that doesn't heal.
Tips to preventing infection:
Low Red Blood Cell Count (Anemia)
Your red blood cells are responsible for carrying oxygen to the tissues in your body. When the red cell count is low, you may feel tired or weak. You should let your doctor or nurse know if you experience any shortness of breath, difficulty breathing or pain in your chest. If the count gets too low, you may receive a blood transfusion.
Low Platelet Count (Thrombocytopenia)
Platelets help your blood clot, so when the count is low you are at a higher risk of bleeding. Let your doctor or nurse know if you have any excess bruising or bleeding, including nose bleeds, bleeding gums or blood in your urine or stool. If the platelet count becomes too low, you may receive a transfusion of platelets.
Nausea and/or Vomiting
Talk to your doctor or nurse so they can prescribe medications to help you manage nausea and vomiting. In addition, dietary changes may help. Avoid things that may worsen the symptoms, such as heavy or greasy/fatty, spicy or acidic foods (lemons, tomatoes, oranges). Try antacids, (e.g. milk of magnesia, calcium tablets such as Tums), saltines, or ginger ale to lessen symptoms.
Call your doctor or nurse if you are unable to keep fluids down for more than 12 hours or if you feel lightheaded or dizzy at any time.
Your oncology team can recommend medications to relieve diarrhea. Also, try eating low-fiber, bland foods, such as white rice and boiled or baked chicken. Avoid raw fruits, vegetables, whole grain breads, cereals and seeds. Soluble fiber is found in some foods and absorbs fluid, which can help relieve diarrhea. Foods high in soluble fiber include: applesauce, bananas (ripe), canned fruit, orange sections, boiled potatoes, white rice, products made with white flour, oatmeal, cream of rice, cream of wheat, and farina. Drink 8-10 glasses on non-alcoholic, un-caffeinated fluid a day to prevent dehydration.
This medication can cause a rash, which can become severe with continued use of the medication. Let your healthcare team know if you develop a rash or other skin changes. Your skin may also become dry. You should use a moisturizer on your skin and lips, but avoid moisturizers with perfumes or scents. Your doctor or nurse can recommend medication if itching is bothersome. If your skin does crack or bleed, be sure to keep the area clean to avoid infection.
Decrease in Appetite
Nutrition is an important part of your care. Cancer treatment can affect your appetite and, in some cases, the side effects of treatment can make eating difficult. Ask your nurse about nutritional counseling services at your treatment center to help with food choices.
Fatigue is very common during cancer treatment and is an overwhelming feeling of exhaustion that is not usually relieved by rest. While on cancer treatment, and for a period after, you may need to adjust your schedule to manage fatigue. Plan times to rest during the day and conserve energy for more important activities. Exercise can help combat fatigue; a simple daily walk with a friend can help. Talk to your healthcare team for helpful tips on dealing with this side effect.
Mouth Ulcers (Sores)
Certain cancer treatments can cause sores or soreness in your mouth and/or throat. Notify your doctor or nurse if your mouth, tongue, inside of your cheek or throat becomes white, ulcerated or painful. Performing regular mouth care can help prevent or manage mouth sores. If mouth sores become painful, your doctor or nurse can recommend a pain reliever.
Other Side Effects
Be sure to let your healthcare provider know if you experience any of these, less common, side effects:
Some patients will have an allergic reaction to this medication. Notify your nurse right away if you experience any difficulty breathing, itching, chills, fever, or dizziness. You will be monitored during the infusion.
This medication can affect your liver function. If you develop any jaundice (yellowing of the skin or eyes), abdominal pain or easy bruising, notify your healthcare team.
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I wonder if the exact consistency strength of "All projective sets have the Ramsey property" is still open. In Solovay's model, all sets have the Ramsey property, so the consistency strength of this is below an inaccessible. As far as I know, there are some implications under forcing axioms. And all sets up to a certain level of the projective hierarchy having the Ramsey property is still do-able from just ZFC. But I can't seem to find anything which shows Solovays inaccessible is really necessary in case of the Ramsey property (like Raisonnier/Shelahs result for Lebesgue measure), or oppositely, that you can get a model where "All projective sets have the Ramsey property" from just ZFC (like for the Baire property).
Hi David,
This is my first foray onto MathOverflow as well, so this answer is an experiment to see if I can get things to work, rather than an attempt to convey a lot of serious information.
As Andres said, the problem is still open as far as I know. I worked on this with Shelah a bit in the late 90s and we generated many things that led nowhere. Some related material:
1) Roslanowski and Shelah investigated "sweetness" and "sourness" (properties of ccc posets motivated by the constructions in Shelah's "Can you take Solovay's Inaccessible Away") in a series of quite technical papers early in the 2000s. This was partially motivated by the problem of getting all nicely definable sets to be Ramsey without using an inaccessible.
2) CH + "every set of real in L(R) is Ramsey with respect to every Ramsey ultrafilter" is equiconsistent with the existence of Mahlo cardinals. Mathias got the consistency result assuming a Mahlo, and the other direction is in a paper of mine from 1999 or so. The trick I used didn't seem to shed any light on whether or not the inaccessible is needed when we drop the reference to ultrafilters.
Hi David.
This is still open, and I don't know of any strategy that would result in a model with the property for all projective sets but not in a model with the property for all sets in $L({\mathbb R})$.
Carlos Di Prisco has worked on this problem, you may want to contact him. Other than Carlos, the person to contact is Andrey Bovykin. He has been working on a project involving Harvey Friedman's "Boolean relation theory" whose goal is to establish the consistency strength of the Ramsey property. Unfortunately, I do not have any additional details on what his approach involves, and am curious as well.


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6 Reasons the Irish Aren't So Lucky
#3. The Life and Ridiculous Death of Wolfe Tone
Wolfe Tone (1763 - 1798), besides being the proud owner of one of the most kick-ass names ever to grace a history book, was an Irish-born lawyer and the father of the Irish Republican independence movement. Some have even called him the Irish George Washington. Of course, since this is the Irish George Washington we're talking about, he didn't valiantly lead his forces to victory, founding an independent nation that would go on to become the most powerful in the world. Instead, Wolfe Tone stayed true to his roots and was repeatedly kneed in the testicles by ol' Lady Luck.
Irish Washington co-founded the Society of United Irishmen, whose goal was to get the Catholic and Protestant factions of Irish society to unite their powers Marvel Team-up style to defeat their Dr. Doom-esque English overlords. Unfortunately for the fate of a free Ireland, Wolfe decided to ally himself with ... the French.
Thus, they formed a true dream-team combining the rotten luck of the Irish with the military incompetence of the French. When Tone launched an invasion from France to free Ireland from the English, the luck of the Irish kicked in immediately, sending gales and fog to meet the French fleet whose ships of course all promptly sunk or turned sail and ran away.
Tone and the French made a few more attempts to invade Ireland with a similar lack of success until finally Wolfe Tone was taken prisoner when the English captured his ship. Tone's captors didn't even recognize him and he most likely would have gotten away if Lady Luck hadn't, in a last ditch effort, managed to deliver a flying dropkick to his nuts yet again. By sheer shit luck, while stepping off the prison boat he happened to be witnessed by a lawyer he had faced off against several times back when he was practicing law, who still held a grudge and ratted him out.
Tone was charged with treason and sentenced to death. All Tone requested was that he be given what he considered a more honorable death -- firing squad instead of hanging. The English, presumably just to be pricks, insisted that hanging was the only way to go. So Tone, in a ballsy but perhaps strategically ill-considered move, countered by cutting his own throat. English plans to get the last laugh by dressing Tone's corpse in women's clothes and shooting it out of a cannon were fortunately called off when they couldn't find a gown in his size.
#2. The Freaking Potato Famine
Even by their standards the Irish were going through a bit of a rough patch in the mid-1800s. The people were dirt poor and almost all Irish land was owned by Englishmen (most of whom would never even set foot on Ireland lest their boots be sullied by inferior non-English soil). The English made sure the best land was used to graze cattle for British consumption, and only the leftover scraps were left to grow food for the apparently somewhat unimportant purpose of actually feeding the Irish.
But wait, not all is lost! Enter the potato, that most manly of vegetables. It can be grown nearly anywhere in large quantities, is full of energy and nutrients and is pretty freakin' tasty baked with a nice cheese sauce, bacon bits and chives. So to sum up, through a unique and twisted set of circumstances the survival of the Irish people was entirely dependent on these edible roots. What could possibly go wrong? What, haven't you been paying attention so far? This is Ireland we're talking about here.
Not only did the potato crop completely fail, but it failed for seven straight years, from 1845 to 1851. Before the famine Ireland had a population of around 8 million. After the famine it was less than 6 million (half of the 2 million died, the other half wisely got the hell out of Ireland). To this day Ireland's population has still not come close to regaining the number of people they had back in 1847.
Oh and if there are any Irish people reading this, in the interest of full disclosure we Americans should tell you that the potato blight that killed your crops was most likely sent over the Atlantic on American ships. Sorry. And when you immigrated to the United States in droves to avoid starvation caused by the blight we sent you, you were often discriminated against or beaten. Then we wrote this article making fun of you, so, sorry again.
#1. The Easter "Rising"
Americans have nothing to brag about when it comes to the American Revolution. It's likely we would have lost if France didn't bankrupt and starve themselves to help us out (in order to spite England. What, you thought French pettiness was something new?) But the Irish, no doubt due to their impetuous and rash nature, didn't really plan this particular revolution very well.
The plan was to take over Dublin from Great Britain. It was the week of Easter in 1916 and English were busy with some "World War I" business or something, so perhaps we can only assume the Irish rebels imagined they would be too war-weary to bother with a few freckle-faced malcontents. On paper it sounds like not a bad plan.
What the Irish hadn't counted on was that the English are never too war-weary to put them back in their proper place. Stomping down the Irish is as well-loved a British pastime as watercress sandwiches over a ripping game of croquet.
The rebels didn't have enough men, a breakdown in law and order led to widespread looting, and, yeah, the British sent in the troops. Lots of troops. Like 16,000 of them to fight off the 1,200 or so Irish renegades.
The Irish did what they had already done in the Irish Rebellion of 1641, Irish Rebellion of 1798, United Irish Rebellions, The Nine Years War, Desmond Rebellions and a half dozen more we've no doubt missed, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. The American Revolution might not have been perfect, but at least we only had to do it once.
So, is it all doom and gloom for the Irish? Actually no, it's not. The Irish would eventually gain their independence and in the last decade the Irish "Celtic Tiger" economy has been booming, with quality of life in Ireland among the best in the world. So this Saint Patrick's day raise a pint to Emerald Island and enjoy it while it lasts, because given the Irish people's unerring ability to get bitch-slapped by fate just as things are looking their brightest, it's probably only a matter of time before Godzilla rises from the ocean to devour the island whole.
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Recent and archived news articles by Janon Fisher of The New York Times.
As Spitzer Pursues a Comeback, His Wife Chooses to Stay Offstage
Silda Wall Spitzer has so far been all but invisible as her husband, former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, runs for New York City comptroller, a stark contrast from his earlier days in politics.
July 17, 2013, Wednesday
City Farmers' Markets Lose a Turkey Pipeline
When a New York City financier and a Vermont farmer teamed up, court records and a bankruptcy filing indicate the result was not "Green Acres."
November 25, 2010, Thursday
Bronx Restaurant Owner Dies After a Dousing of Lye
No suspect has yet been identified in an attack that burned a 48-year-old man's face and arms and melted pieces of his clothing.
May 22, 2006, Monday
Woman, 18, Is Fatally Shot on Bronx Street, Police Say
The shooting might have been provoked when the teenager and her friends interrupted a group of young men who were beating someone, the victim's family said.
May 15, 2006, Monday
A Picturesque Visit to the Bronx Turns Horrific for 2 Deer
It has been a bad year, so far, for wildlife in the New York region.
May 12, 2006, Friday
Brooklyn Art Exhibition Comes Down Amid Protest
A dispute between Brooklyn College and a group of its graduate art students deepened as the college sent trucks to remove works of art that some officials found objectionable.
May 9, 2006, Tuesday
Two Masked Gunmen Chase Down and Kill Man on Busy Street in the Bronx
A man was fatally shot on a busy commercial street corner in the Bronx yesterday by two gunmen who chased him through a parking lot, firing repeatedly, the authorities said.
May 4, 2006, Thursday
Union Leader, Out of Jail, Vows to Fight No-Strike Law
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Police Link Death of Girl, 9, To Problem With Shower Hose
A Brooklyn girl may have been accidentally hanged by the hose of an adjustable shower head on Thursday night, officials said.
April 29, 2006, Saturday
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Quashay Everett's life ended in brutal anonymity, her body found stuffed into a black garbage bag in tall weeds near Kennedy Airport.
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