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Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (The) (NYSE: DNB) shares rose on Tuesday February 14 on lower trade volume than normal after a number of analysts weighed in on the investing value of the stock with a downgraded rating.
Meanwhile U.S. stocks opened slightly lower on Tuesday. The main three benchmarks retreated after touching the latest in a series of record highs on Monday, with the S&P 500 index SPX, -0.09% down two points, or 0.1%, to 2,326.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.02% fell 34 points, or 0.2%, to 20,381. The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -0.13% shed eight points, or 0.1%, to 5,756.
Shares of Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (The) (NYSE: DNB) were downgraded by analysts at Zacks Investment Research in a note to their investors today. With a rating of Strong Sell on the stock, Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (The) has a 52-week high of $141.57. The one-year price target of $110.29 is above the opening price of $102.40, that has caused a number of other analysts to issue statements on the stock in recent days. considerable and crucial digressions in the company's procedures, future ision or industry can cause downgrades as the analysts consider that the future prospects for the security have diminished from the original recommendation.
Shares of Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (The) (NYSE: DNB) opened at $102.40 yesterday trading between $102.10 and $103.20, and last traded at $102.90, which is a jump of $0.59 over the previous closing price.
Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (The) (NYSE: DNB) now has a market cap of 3.78B.
Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (The) (NYSE: DNB) Average Daily Trading Volume
153,667 shares traded hands yesterday, 40 percent lower than the average, out of a total float 36,695,000. lower than normal. Look for trading volume to pick up in the coming days as momentum traders often use increases in trading volume to identify heavy volume accumulation or distribution by institutional investors.
However, a single day of heavy buy side trading is not enough to assert a trend. As such, market traders will continue to watch for institutional sponsorship as a signal that financial institutions are moving forward.
Institutional sponsorship is defined by ownership of a stock by mutual funds, banks, pension funds and other large institutions.
Professional investors such as these retain substantial teams of analysts researching thousands of stocks, so it is good confirmation to see them buying a stock you are researching.
Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (The) (NYSE: DNB) Moving Averages
A moving average can also act as support or resistance. In an uptrend a 50-day, 100-day or 200-day moving average may act as a support level, as shown in the figure below.
This is because the average acts like a floor (support), so the price bounces up off of it.
In a downtrend a moving average may act as resistance; like a ceiling, the price hits it and then starts to drop again.
By tracking the activity of these professional investors—and the moving averages they affect—it allows for traders to make more effective decisions on trades.
Trades for Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (The) (NYSE: DNB) have ranged from $89.76 – 141.57, and the stock now has a 50-day MA of $120.75 and 200-day MA of $127.06. Today's last price is 27.31%% under the 52 week high of $141.57.
Indeed, earnings growth is among the most crucial things to look at in regards to stock investing and, accordingly, investors identify companies that have raised their earnings at least 25% or more for 3 consecutive years.
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How to get the bikes?
Use the Tron (ID: 483) item to spawn the two Light Cycles. You can get it by using the creative inventory or by using the SimpleCommands mod.
There is one yellow and one blue bike.
To mount the bike tap on it with the Tron item. The bike is quite fast and the only way to stop it from driving is to press the sneak button to get off the bike.

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Facebook Enters The Race To Build Next-Generation Wireless Networks
- Facebook has launched the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) to develop and deploy ultrafast 5G wireless networks.
- Inspired by Facebook's open source Open Compute Project (OCP), the TIP includes Intel, Nokia, and other top players.
- Facebook wants to enable the wireless telecom industry to carry its own future data traffic with high-bandwidth streaming video and VR.
Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) has launched the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), an initiative to bring operators, infrastructure providers, system integrators, and technology companies together to develop new technologies and reimagine traditional approaches to building and deploying telecom network infrastructure.
The prestigious MIT Technology Review notes that Facebook and its TIP partners are looking to speed up the development and deployment of ultrafast 5G networks by making the designs of wireless networking equipment open source. They hope companies will share information and speed up the rate at which new networks can be built and switched on.
A few years ago, Facebook started re-designing the hardware and software used in its data centers from scratch, and open-sourcing many design elements through the Open Compute Project (OCP). "As this OCP work was happening, we recognized that telecom infrastructure could benefit from the same innovations taking place in the data center," said Jay Parikh, Global Head of Engineering and Infrastructure at Facebook. "It was clear that the raw building blocks of what we were developing for our own infrastructure could be applied to telecom networks with great benefit. That's why we've co-founded the TIP."
The result of Facebook's OCP was a massive acceleration of cheap, efficient networking infrastructure that now counts giant firms from Microsoft to Goldman Sachs as adherents, notes the MIT Technology Review article. TIP could have a similar impact on 5th-Generation (5G) wireless technology, a protocol that could be around 100 times faster than the current 4G wireless telecom standard.
The TIP website has an impressive - and growing - list of technology companies and telecom operators that are joining the project.
"Through TIP, we will collaborate on the development of new technologies and explore new business models that will not only improve people's lives via better connectivity, but also breathe new life into the telecommunications industry," said Henri Tervonen, Head of Architecture and Technology at Nokia (NYSE:NOK). "TIP's model of transparency and open architecture can lower the threshold of deploying network infrastructure and is an excellent platform to broaden the ecosystem."
"Connecting the billions of unconnected is a big vision, one that can't be undertaken by just one company which is why we're excited to be participating in the TIP," said Lynn Comp, Director of Market Development at Intel (NASDAQ:INTC). "Through the increased efficiency and scalability that will be made possible by TIP, we can reach and improve the lives of people across the globe, bringing everyone into the connected family."
"Our goal is to accelerate sustainable growth of telecommunications infrastructure in underserved areas by bringing the industry together to reimagine how we build new networking solutions," added Comp. "This will enable solutions optimized for remote and urban areas that can reach more people than ever before, laying the path to future network transformations."
In fact, one of the goals of the TIP is to improve connectivity around the world, including rural and developing regions. "In collaboration with Facebook, Globe recently launched an initiative that aims to connect millions of Filipinos based in far-flung and geographically-isolated areas with no cellular coverage," said Ernest Cu, President and CEO of Globe Telecom, a major provider of telecommunications services in the Philippines whose investment in network infrastructure is considered as one of the highest in Asia. "The learnings from the TIP ecosystem will definitely add value to our network deployments in the coming years as we provide basic connectivity services to each and every Filipino."
Other TIP partners include Deutsche Telekom and SK Telecom.TIP intends to apply the Open Compute Project open models to accelerate development of 5G technologies that will pave the way for better connectivity and richer services, in both cities and rural areas.
Facebook's real intent is likely to be that of enabling the wireless telecom industry to carry Facebook's own data traffic, which is expected to require more and more bandwidth as the social networking giant starts deploying new technologies such as immersive video and Virtual Reality (VR). "The company's focus is moving to telecommunications as it builds products for live-streaming video and virtual reality, which require fast, high-bandwidth connections," notes Bloomberg Business.
It seems likely that Facebook will continue to attract important players in the wireless telecom industry to the TIP, which - besides making the world a better place - would boost Facebook's services and stock value.


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The NFL's Cleveland Browns fetched a 1 billion purchase price, the Dodgers went for 2.1 billion. What would John Henry get for the Red Sox?
It doesn't matter, says CSNNE.com Red Sox insider Sean McAdam. Henry and his fellow Sox owners could double their original investment of 660 million, but with the team in disarray both on and off the field, Henry & Co. couldn't afford the PR hit if they sold right now, McAdam says.
"They're not going to sell right now because their ego and PR investment would not allow it," McAdam tells his fellow panelists on "The Baseball Show."
"They can't leave town with the franchise where it is now," McAdam said.
Counters Bob Neumeier, "If they don't sell it proves to me that they're making money here."


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My family usually spends summer in our ancestral house in Batangas where my grandparents from my father's side lives. The house is a typical old house with capiz windows and an azotea (terrace). It has four bedrooms, a spacious living room, a dining room with an antique table with matching chairs that can accommodate twelve persons, a kitchen, though filled with modern appliances, the old furnace wooden cabinets are still intact. Staying in our ancestral house always makes me feel that I'm wrapped in the Spanish area.
The house is mysterious especially the fourth room. No one wants to stay in that room because there are weird noises at midnight coming from the old cabinet there. One summer, my grandfather told me a story about our old house.
According to my grandfather, before his family bought the house, a rich and prominent family owned it. Don Emilio Legaspi was a rich merchant. He and his wife Constancia had two daughters and a son. After the tragedy that happened to the family, the death of the second daughter, Don Emilio decided to sell the house.
Don Emilio's daughters Laura and Lucia were always the talk of the town. The former because her beauty and the latter because her peculiar behavior. My grandfather told me that Laura was always the Reyna Elena during Santacruzan. No one could match her beauty except her sister Lucia. But because Lucia was an introvert, she didn't go out of the house and didn't even socialize with family friends. Lucia often sat by the window of her room and looked above the sky.
Laura was embarrassed by her sister's behavior. She had a deep hatred for Lucia because people often compared them. People used to say that Lucia was more beautiful than her. She didn't like to be second best and she always wanted the attention of everybody.
When they reached marrying age, Laura was betrothed to a son of rich haciendero. (Shop owner.) Laura liked Miguel instantly because he was a good-looking gentleman. But conflict arose when Miguel met Lucia. He was captivated by her reserved personality. Instead of marrying Lucia, he asked for Lucia's hand.
Laura was enraged; she was humiliated because the man she liked had chosen her sister over her. Her hatred pushed her to hurt Lucia. One night, when their parents attended a dinner party, Laura entered Lucia's room. She pulled Lucia's long hair and banged her head on the cabinet. Lucia was unconscious and her head bled profusely. Laura thought that her sister was dead. She was afraid that her parents would find out that she was responsible for her sister's death so she asked the help of her brother Antonio.
They hid the body inside the huge cabinet in Lucia's room. They put wood in the handle of the door so it would not open accidentally. They cleaned the room until the pieces of evidence were erased. When their parents arrived late that night they didn't check if Lucia was in her room.
The next day, their parents wondered why Lucia didn't join them for their breakfast. Laura made up an alibi and Antonio supported her. Constancia decided to call Lucia for lunch. Lucia was not in the room. They searched for her, but they didn't find her. There was a rumor that Lucia eloped with someone. Constancia came back to Lucia's room to check if Lucia's clothes were still in the cabinet. When she opened it, Lucia's body came out.
Don Emilio and Constancia didn't find out who killed their daughter . They decided to move to another place and sell the house for a very cheap price. After the family moved out, the neighbors started noticing a lady who sat by the window at night. The family who bought the house before my grandfather 's family didn't stay at the house for long because they often heard sounds coming from inside the cabinet. The loud banging would be followed by soft cries. My grandfather also witnessed those things. He even claimed that he once saw the ghost of Lucia in the window when he was in his early 20's. But my great-grandfather refused to remove the cabinet in the room. He just makes it a point to offer prayers for Lucia's soul.
The banging on the wall and the soft cries still continue, but we are not that scared. My grandfather said that Lucia is just asking for our prayers. But sometimes, freaky things are hard to accept, the weird noises give me the creeps so I'm trying to avoid the fourth room as much as possible.


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The Typhon Heavy Siege Tank is a super-heavy siege tank that was used by the Space Marine Legions during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. The Typhon is a variant of the super-heavy Spartan Assault Tank also used by the Legions, and both were developed simultaneously using the same hull, armour, and chassis design. While the Spartan Assault Tank was developed by the Mechanicum in response to the Space Marine Legions demanding a vehicle as powerful and versatile as the Land Raider Proteus yet also having the ability to carry Terminators into combat, the Typhon was developed at the request of Perturabo, Primarch of the Iron Warriors Legion, who wanted a tank that could rival the great batteries of the Imperial Army in firepower, but maneuver and deploy at the speed of a Space Marine force. The Typhon Heavy Siege Tank was used in small numbers by many of the Space Marine Legions during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy, and in much larger numbers by the Iron Warriors and Imperial Fists who specialised in siege warfare. After the Legions were broken down into Chapters during the Second Founding, it is unknown if any of the newly-formed Space Marine units retained any of these powerful vehicles in their armouries. It is also unknown if the Adeptus Mechanicus is able to build new Typhons in the late 41st Millennium or if the technology has been lost like so much else from the Great Crusade era.
The Typhon, named after the Great Beast of ancient Terran myth, is armed with a single, massive, forward firing cannon known as the Dreadhammer Cannon. This massive weapon was designed in part by the Iron Warriors' Primarch Perturabo himself and is a modified version of an unknown class of static siege gun that was used to pound cities into dust. The weapon fires massive, multi-tonne shells that are powerful enough to liquify flesh and bone and destroy even the most well-fortified bunkers and strong points. The Typhon's structure is so densely constructed and heavily reinforced to withstand the force of its main weapon that it has the side effect of being able to completely pulverise anything smaller than itself, allowing the tank to cross through difficult terrain, such as rubble, wrecks, ruined buildings, or barricades with little difficulty. Other than the tank's main weapon, the Typhon is only lightly armed compared to the Spartan Assault Tank or the Land Raider Proteus, featuring only two sponson-mounted Lascannons or Heavy Bolters, one on each side. The tank was always outfitted with a searchlight and smoke launchers. The Typhon could also be outfitted with a Hunter-Killer Missile Launcher for extra firepower or an extra armoured layer of ceramite for better protection from enemy fire. The tank could also be equipped with a variety of pintle-mounted weapons including a twin-linked Bolter (Combi-Bolter) or other Combi-Weapon, a Heavy Bolter, a Heavy Flamer, a Multi-Melta, or a Havoc Missile Launcher.
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|Typhon Heavy Siege Tank
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Also SeeEdit
- Imperial Armour Volume 2, Second Edition - War Machines of the Adeptus Astartes, pp. 108-111
- Imperial Armour Volume 13 - War Machines of the Lost & The Damned, pp. 62-63
- The Horus Heresy - Book One: Betrayal by Alan Bligh, pp. 46-47, 225, 249
- The Horus Heresy - Book Two: Massacre by Alan Bligh, pg. 130
- The Horus Heresy - Book Three: Extermination by Alan Bligh, pg. 127
- Forge World - Typhon Heavy Siege Tank


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The much-delayed Australian-made horror/sci-fi film I, Frankenstein has finally lumbered into cinemas in America but has failed to wreak havoc on the box office.
The CGI-heavy film, starring Aaron Eckhart as a modern-day version of Mary Shelley's mashed-up monster, has taken just $US8,275,000 ($9.5 million) on its opening weekend despite a wide release in 2753 cinemas.
The last time Frankenstein stalked cinemas was in 1994, when Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, starring himself as the titular scientist and Robert De Niro as the monster he creates from scavenged human cadavers, opened with $US11.2 million in 2177 theatres. In adjusted terms, that is worth roughly $US17.6 million today – a result that casts the latest release even further in the shade when you bear in mind that Branagh's film was rated R (meaning children under 17 could only see it in the company of a parent or guardian) while I, Frankenstein is rated PG-13 (meaning those 13 and over can legally view it on their own).
The result will be a disappointment for Stuart Beattie, whose career as a director has not met with the same stunning success as his outings as a writer.
This is Sydney-raised Beattie's second outing as a director. His first, the 2010 adaptation of John Marsden's young adult novel Tomorrow, When the War Began, was reasonably well received by critics and performed well at the Australian box office – taking more than $13 million locally – but failed to ignite overseas, and a projected trilogy has yet to eventuate.
By contrast, Beattie's work as a screenwriter has been a long list of successes, including the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, the Michael Mann-directed thriller Collateral and Baz Luhrmann's Australia.
I, Frankenstein was shot at the Docklands Studios complex in Melbourne in early 2012 on a reported budget of about $35 million. However, recent reports put the budget at $65 million, a figure that is likely to include a significant spend on post-production in Hollywood.
The film was originally slated for a late-2012 opening before the decision was made to convert it to 3D. It has since bumped around release schedules – rarely a sign that a studio has complete confidence in a film – before receiving a berth in the US winter, a season generally dominated by Oscar hopefuls.
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There is no hotter issue than gay marriage in the culture-war debate, and Dan Savage, one of America's most outspoken and beloved columnists, takes it on and makes it personal in this rollicking memoir of coming to terms with the very public act of marriage. What he discovers will make readers gay or straight, right or left, single or married howl with laughter as well as rethink their notions of marriage and all that it entails.
Dan Savage's mother wants him to get married. His boyfriend, Terry, says "no thanks" because he doesn't want to act like a straight person. Their six-year-old son DJ says his two dads aren't "allowed" to get married, but that he'd like to come to the reception and eat cake. Throw into the mix Dan's straight siblings, whose varied choices form a microcosm of how Americans are approaching marriage these days, and you get a rollicking family memoir that will have everyone—gay or straight, right or left, single or married—howling with laughter and rethinking their notions of marriage and all it entails.


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jwinberg1: Andy:
SO glad you like your EM-1 so much, so do I, for similar reasons.
ANY chance your sharing your configured button settings???
Jack Winberg
Hi Jack,
here's my settings (and reasoning):
I don't much like the 2x2 controls, so I have the lever either 'Off' or 'Mode 5', which makes it an AF/MF switch.
I do want quick access to ISO control, so I have that set on Fn1.
Fn2 as default.
Front Fn buttons - 'Focus Peaking' on upper (for manual focus), DOF preview on lower.
I also have the Super Control Panel enabled to give touchscreen access to other settings (Settings D - Camera Control Settings - enable 'Live SCP' in all modes).
Hope this helps,
Tonio Loewald: Aside: before recommending cameras in shopping guides or featuring them in "gear of the year" articles, how about posting an actual review? If you're saying you haven't got the data to complete a review, how can you be recommending it?
[Here's our full review of the Olympus OM-D E-M1 ](http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/olympus-om-d-e-m1)
birdbrain: Isn't the Lens Baby the cheapest tilt shift?
No; LensBabies are 'selective focus' lenses which tilt, but don't shift as such. 'Proper' TS lenses also offer graduated, locking tilt and shift movements - Lensbabies are designed to be moved around freehand. Most of the optical units are deliberately uncorrected, too, so tilting the lens is used to move a zone of sharp(ish) focus around the frame, rather than control depth of field.
The exception to this is the [Edge 80](http://www.dpreview.com/articles/6353634878/lensbaby-edge-80-quick-review), which is reasonably sharp across the frame and can be used more like a conventional tilt lens.
Lawrencew: "It appears that the EOS M2 won't be sold in either the European or US markets."
is that because you know it won't, or just speculation on DPR's part because there has been no European or US announcement yet?
Canon EU says the EOS M2 won't be sold in Europe. We haven't had a response from Canon US (timezones and all that), but as they didn't brief us about the camera in advance, and don't even carry the 11-22mm lens, it seems most unlikely they'll offer the M2 either.
munro harrap: Sigma's three new lenses all seem good, but I have serious doubts because they cannot focus manually on Nikon bodies. Can any company so uncaring make a good lens? I ask myself. I would certainly be very interested in their products if I could use them on my camera, and I am absolutely certain that I am not alone in this. Tamron can manage it, Tokina can manage it, Samyang manage it, but Sigma refuse to be bothered.
Furthermore I have read other reviews using APS-C as the reference AND I note from Sigma's website that they use their own Foveon sensors to design and test these new Art lens designs. As no full-frame Foveon sensors are known to exist, who would want a machine designed for an APS-C sized camera (or smaller as they claim they used their SD1)?
Are these tests for real? and is a company that sells Nikon fit lenses a serious proposition if they simply cannot be bothered at any price to make them compatible with the focusing systems of the host bodies?
Almost nothing in this post is correct.
1) Of course Sigma lenses can focus manually on Nikon bodies. Which ones do you think can't, and why? Are you simply getting confused by the fact that the focus ring turns the opposite way, which obviously isn't the same thing?
2) Plenty of reviews - including our own - have tested Sigma's DG lenses on full frame and found them to be excellent. Your claim that they are designed for APS-C is entirely wrong. (The DC lenses are, of course, designed only for APS-C.)
3) The size of the chip used in Sigma's proprietary 'A1' testing system (note: not the SD1) is almost irrelevant. It's entirely possible to test the whole of the full frame image area using either multiple chips or multiple measurements.
4) Incidentally, the size of the current 15MP X3 Foveon APS-C sensor is the same as most others - 1.5x crop, not 1.7x as you appear to believe.
ysengrain: And what about somme incredible Zeiss lens ?
There are no Zeiss lenses in this roundup simply because it had to stop somewhere. I had some on the original long list (Otus 55/1.4, Touit 12/2.4, and the 100mm macro), but decided to leave them out of the final selection mainly on the grounds of price.
Rbrt: DXO doesn't seem to be too impressed with Olympus lenses. Can anybody comment other than to slag DXO in some way?
Thank you
DxOMark's tests are system tests of the lens and sensor, and this means that lenses will score better for resolution (Perceptual MP) when tested on higher resolution sensors. This is why Nikon FX lenses tend to score highly - they get tested on the 36MP D800.
The overall DxOMark lens score is a system metric which is influenced by sensor size - lenses for larger sensor systems score better. So again this places Micro Four Thirds at a disadvantage.
Micro Four Thirds lenses are also based around software distortion correction, which DxOMark doesn't take into account. As a result, DxOMark ends up with high measured distortion which presumably knocks down the score a bit, but most users will never see this in normal shooting.
On the whole Micro Four Thirds lenses are pretty good - but of course, some are better than others. The best are truly superb; at the other end of the scales the kit zooms aren't really any better or worse than other manufacturers'.
Philly: @ Andy Westlake
Andy, do you have any opinion of the 12-40mm vs. the 12-60mm SWD? I just got the E-M1 and will be trying it out with my 12-60mm. Do you think 12-60mm owners gain much by going to the 12-40mm (other than the smaller size and the faster focus)? Thanks, if you can offer any comments.
The 12-40mm can refocus during movie recording, the 12-60mm can't. The 12-60mm also has quite pronounced and complex 'moustache' distortion at 12mm (i.e. barrel distortion recorrected at the corners), which can be a problem with some shots; the 12-40mm is designed around software distortion correction, so will produce straighter lines at the edges of the frame in normal use. But neither lens obviously 'beats' the other - they're just different.
ThomasSwitzerland: The Oly Fanclub is hard to convince. What does mean the prior quote from Andy Westlake: "But, at a whisker under $1000, quality like this doesn't come cheap." This is technical Nonsense Jargon and bad language.
Where is dprewiew heading to? Where are the fundamental replies to - that Oly might run into a corporate problem of consumer optics? No substantial reply from an Amazon company, filling online pages like these. We need constructive contributions to support our future decisions. The present state of dpreview is of no further help. They need a revival.
Don't blame me - that's a quote from DxOMark's review of the 12-40mm. I didn't write it.
Rbrt: DXO doesn't seem to be too impressed with Olympus lenses. Can anybody comment other than to slag DXO in some way?
Thank you
Quote from that review: "The Olympus M. Zuiko Digital ED 12-40mm f/2.8 PRO is a good lens, very good in fact, easily challenging the optical performance of the rival, and slightly dearer Panasonic model as well as high-grade APS-C lenses. But, at a whisker under $1000, quality like this doesn't come cheap."
The Photo Ninja: There's no way his last name is Westlake. That's an area of downtown Seattle.
Seattle's a lovely place.
Elderly: Andy, Are dpreview going to publish a useful 'user Guide' for the EM-1, similar to what you did for the EM-5?
We might. To be honest though, the two cameras are so similar in terms of their hidden quirks that almost everything in the E-M5 guide applies just as well to the E-M1.
The Photo Ninja: There's no way his last name is Westlake. That's an area of downtown Seattle.
Luckily I don't live in Seattle.
Corkcampbell: "The E-M1 takes the E-M5 and improves on it in almost every imaginable way."
C'mon...it still has abysmal video capabilities, although Oly did add a mic port. Wonderful camera, but not improved in every way from its predecessor. Do appreciate the personal review, though, and this series.
"*almost* every imaginable way"
bbodruzic: Thank you Fujifilm.
You are creating brand loyality with theese improvements.
I love the sharpness, details and colors of my photos, and everything about my camera.
I like the speciall feel that I have when using your products.
I like your customer care.
Good job Fujifilm guys.
@Graham Hill: thing is, there's not a lot Fujifilm could have got more right with the X-E2. But here's a FW update adding a couple of new features anyway. Not many camera makers do that.
drewski70: Interesting not one standard zoom for aps-c...I love my Tamron 17-50 f2.8, and I have heard good things about sigma 17-50 f2.8 too. If you are gift shopping for a photographer get them a fast standard zoom, and they will never take it off there camera.
The Sigma 18-35/1.8 is a standard zoom for APS-C.
FrankS009: Might you not give us more information in your headline?
Third party lenses for Full Frame and APS-C cameras, perhaps.
You do not include M4/3rd third party lenses and it would be better to say which ones you do include.
There are some Micro Four Thirds lenses included in this article - the Voigtlander Noktons and the Samyang 7.5mm fisheye.
eastvillager: Where's the GM1? Am I missing something?
The GM1 is an entry-level mirrorless camera, so will be covered in the upcoming 'Entry-level mirrorless cameras' roundup.
christiangrunercom: Why is the Ricoh GR left out ? It would have nuked all the others...
We've reviewed most of those cameras in detail. The only ones missing are the Sigma DP Merrills (which we struggle to recommend for most users, as they're highly reliant on Sigma Photo Pro for Raw conversion, which can produce great output but is painfully slow and clunky), and the Leica X2, which is pretty much eclipsed by the X100S.
If you're buying in this class, I'd say the choice looks pretty simple. Pick whether you want a 35mm-equiv or 28mm-equiv lens. If 28mm, buy the GR, unless you have Nikon accessories which you can (and will) use with the Coolpix A. If 35mm, buy the X100S, unless you have a really good reason to pick the RX1.
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- Michael J. Mand said...
I'm crying with Mr. Martinez because he is absolutely correct - his loss could have happened to any one of us. There are many issues to which I've decided to stop beating my head against the wall, realizing that nothing is going to change. Gun control/gun elimination is not one of those issues.
The problem goes beyond the NRA and weak-willed politicians of both parties. It is the underlying fabric of American society to which the President alluded at West Point last week. Violence is believed to be the only "macho" solution to most problems, and diplomacy is looked upon with scorn as a sign of weakness.
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Do not give up, Mr. Martinez, this is a battle that needs to be won!
Sorry for the rant...my eyes have not yet dried.
- June 1, 2014 at 7:25 AM
- Jeff Tone said...
Your eloquent comments are quite welcome.
Regarding the Second Amendment, there is no individual right to bear arms. To state otherwise is to ignore the proviso contained in the first clause regarding "A well-regulated militia..." The amendment refers to a collective, a militia–and, in referring to a militia, it is also anachronistic. I agree with Justice Warren Burger, who said that the Second Amendment "has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud...on the American public by special interest groups." By the way, Burger was a Nixon-appointed conservative.
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To think I should not have to tell the dr's receptionist what's wrong.(52 Posts)
So I rang for an emergency appointment yesterday as suspected ovarian cyst had ruptured. Most appointments are now emergency ones, you have to wait at least two weeks for scheduled ones, often three weeks.
I rang yesterday morning:
Me: can I book at appointment today please?
Receptionist: is it an emergency?
Me: well Id like to be seen in the next couple of days.
Her: but is it an emergency?
Me: well if I say no when can I actually get in with a dr?
Her: 1st November
Me: I'd like to be seen before then please.
Her (snootily); ok well what's the problem?
Me: I have a large ovarian cyst which is now causing a lot of pain.
Her: so how much pain would you say you're in?
Me: not as much as in the night but it still hurts enough that I'm taking painkiller every few hours.
Her: so it's getting better? So is it really an emergency?
Me: I don't know! Ideally id like to be seen in the next couple of days. I'm worried about it and I don't know if it can cause further problems.
Her: nor me, I don't know anything about ovarian cysts.
Argh! So why am I having this conversation then? It annoys me that I have to discuss this sort of thing with the receptionist, I suppose they are told to ask by the dr but seriously it annoys me. One of the receptionists is a parent at ds's school. I know she can access my information anyway but I just don't want to be having these sorts of conversations.
You don't have to, they may ask but you can decline to tell them.
I don't mind as they need the info to pass onto the doctor but I do mind when I start feeling like they are trying to diagnose me themselves!
You don't have to.
I just answer "I'd prefer to tell the Doctor" and they've never pushed it after that.
YABU to think that they shouldn't ask questions at all. Unfortunately it's become necessary because of the amount of time wasters there are, and I think most people would rather be asked a few questions than be asked to pay for their appointments to weed out the ones that don't really need them.
Your receptionist does sound like she was being overly intrusive though, and unprofessional in the answers she gave you.
If you don't tell them they won't let you have an appointment.
I wouldn't mind but when you can't get in for over two weeks if booking in advance it leaves little choice if you are unwell. I didn't think it was an emergency in that I was likely to die but on the other hand I wasn't happy to leave it.
It's difficult. I have worked in surgery management. We had a lot of feedback about not wanting to have to tell the receptionist what's wrong. So we set up a telephone triage system.
If people come in for emergency appointments then rather than the receptionist making a call they are rung by a trained doctor from the surgery who will offer them an appointment following the triage if they deem it an emergency.
However a lot of people don't like this and see being called by the doctor rather than getting to see them is being fobbed off. There was a thread on here recently where a woman's daughter had a rash and she'd taken her to the doctors for an emergency appointment and refused the telephone triage and insisted that her daughter saw a doctor right now. It turned out there was no emergency, and this probably could have been ascertained through the telephone triage as she was not unwell, it clearly wasn't anything sinister.
But anyway, on that thread somebody who said she should have taken the telephone triage got roundly castigated and the general consensus twas that telephone triage by a doctor was dreadful and a fob off.
So you can't really please everybody, Drs appointments are finite, you have to give them to real emergencies, so they have to be assessed somehow. But whichever way you do it people would complain, it's impossible to suit everybody.
see my thread fom earlier.
I have the same appointment problem. not a bleeding emergency but need to be seen before November 4th.
waiting for a dr to phone me.
I did see Cervix
The trouble is so many things fit somewhere between an emergency and being needed to be seen within a few weeks. I would have been fine with a telephone consultation. I just didn't like being questioned at length by the receptionist.
My new surgery has the system of a doctor calling you back if you think you need an earlier appointment.
I really like it! They ring usually within a couple of hours.
I dunno, I don't really see the problem. They're just doing their job and if they found the whole thing massively embarrassing then they're clearly in the wrong profession. It's a bodily function. It wouldn't (and hasn't) bothered me.
If you can't get the service you need, I suggest you insist that it is an emergency and then tell the Dr about the obstructive treatment you have had. The GPs will get the message and change their appointments system if enough people complain or circumvent the arrangements they have in place.
The thing is it's quite off putting.
Say someone with mh issues or depression rang up and felt they needed to be seen. The questioning could potentially put them off. I think it could stop people being seen when they need to be but other people will still go to the dr's for a cold.
As a GP it's helpful to know. When you have a screen full of callbacks I would prioritise pain, unwell child, very low mood to call first, and leave medication queries, sick lines etc until later.
We were at a doctors like that and hates it everyone you rang for an appointment they wanted full details of why you needed an appointment.
In the end we left the surgery and was very lucky to find a surgery were you don't need an appointment.
Their are teo doctors that run surgery at two places.
8.30 -10 then 4 - 5.30at one
10-11.30 5.45 - 6.30 at another
It's great it's never busy as people know they can just turn up when they need an appointment you might have to wait a while 20 max is all it's ever been
Many GP's do get the reception staff to triage on the telephone, there's nothing the staff can do about it assuming they want to keep their jobs. if you have a problem with the system take it up with the practice manager, they're the best ones to deal with things like that as they have the direct ear of the senior partner.
It generally saves the appointment system from the cold and flu brigade and the general time wasters who want an appointment for simple things like a repeat prescription. If people actually thought about whether they need to see the doctor or not it would make genuinely ill patients lives a lot easier.
I won't discuss it with a receptionist.
Actually at our last surgery, they had a great system - pretty much all the appointments were same day, hardly any were bookable in advance. So it was really easy to get an appointment, it didn't have to be an emergency.
It did mean you had to ring at a certain time (one morning slot, one afternoon) and wait in a queue, but that was not really a problem. I
My gp reception staff ask just because they feel like it, my Dr stated that he does not require information from them before appointments. I was once treated appallingly when I phoned my gp surgery with a suspected miscarriage. Arrghh. YANBU.
Oh I know what you mean, some Dr's receptionists round here have such a blunt manner that when they ask questions I feel like they think I'm lying or something. I would much rather just talk to a Dr but I guess they do have a lot of time wasters etc.
I've changed Dr's surgeries recently and now the receptionist screens you and a Dr calls back. I cared for the receptionists sister for years so I don't mind talking to her. Anyone else I would probably clam up and just insist on talking to a Dr.
At our surgery the receptionists would always ask if it was a medical emergency. I always replied that I couldn't possibly say, as I was not medically qualified, but I would like be seen that day.
However, they now have an online booking system and you don't have to speak to anyone. Bliss.
I always feel our GP reception staff ask because they really care about their patients and would hate for e.g. an asthma patient to end up with the GP who has no specialist training in asthma when they have a very good and well trained asthma nurse, or for somebody's appendicitis not to get an appointment because the doctor is held up by a series of basic cuts and bruises.
No doubt it is to do with the manner in which they ask.
Fine for her to ask what the problem is to allocate appointment accordingly
NOT fine to ask about your pain levels and comment on whether its getting better or not. I would advise what the problem is but I would not discuss severity or otherwise with a receptionist.
A lot do this now. You dont have to tell them.
Do agree with poster who said you cant please everyone. My doc now has the phone back system.
I do sympathise though, smallest wait iv had at mine is 2 and half weeks!
The problem has always been there is nothing between an emergency and the next two or three weeks.
All sorts of things aren't emergencies, but you don't want to worry about/be in pain with them for weeks.
Ending up using 3minutes of an emergency appointment to get a physio referral that could have been done by Email.
Our Doctors still use fax and going up to minor injuries on foot in the pouring rain, it's barking.
My doctor's surgery has telephone appointments, when you phone up the receptionist asks if it is something that can be dealt with over the phone, if you say 'no' then you get given an appointment for that day. So physio referrals, medication checks etc are done over phone.
They also don't have many prebookable appointments- you phone for all appointments the day you wish to be seen. Only once or twice have I not been able to get an appointment that way, but have got one the next day instead. And I have had a lot of appointments!
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