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Despite having freshly arrived from a failed seminary and a parish that by Evangelical or Roman Catholic standards would be viewed as somewhat small, [Gary] Hall clearly has feelings of grandeur about his new office, seeing the National Cathedral as the center of American religious life.
Previous generations of liberal Episcopal clergy often spoke in layers of obfuscation; discovering the heretical teaching buried in their writing and preaching required hours of decoding. Hall represents a younger generation of liberal Episcopalians who resemble nothing so much as Unitarian Universalists decked out in stoles and surplices; they are quick to denounce those who advocate historic Christian teaching—especially moral teaching—as intolerant perpetrators of injustice who must be silenced.
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Why did my female die? I started my tank six weeks ago and brought 3 males and 1 female home from a breeder 4 weeks ago. They are fine fish, strong and healthy. I've been doing weekly water changes and testing the water quality once or twice a week. pH stays steady at 7.4 to 7.6, ammonia always at .5 ppm, and nitrites and nitrates both always at or near 0. The tank has a couple medium size plants in it, which are also doing well. 10 days ago, the female gave birth to about 25 fry, 18 or 19 of which survived the first couple days. I lost two in last Wednesday's water change (they dug themselves into the gravel and couldn't get out I guess; I freed a couple others from the gravel, too). The fry are doing rather well at this point - very active, eat well, pooping, etc. Growing for sure. I thought the female was doing well, too, and the males weren't bothering her anymore; except that in the last week she'd developed some redness around the gills. I was going to go buy another small tank tomorrow and separate her, maybe with some salt in the water. However, she started acting strangely this evening about six o'clock, floating vertically with her head up. She'd try to swim, but kept going vertical. And when I checked at 11 just now - dead. :( All the other fish are doing great as far as I can tell. Water tests have all levels pegged where they've been for three weeks. And I've double-checked that I'm doing the tests right. (API master test kit, if that matters). So what could I have done wrong? Or was it out of my hands all along? Thanks, Cris in Brooklyn |
I would like to start off by congratulating you on your fry :-) they are little miracles and will instill you with a lot of pride as they grow! Now I'd like to say I'm sorry for your loss...losing a fish is always hard. (Its remarkable how quickly you become attached to the little buggers) What kind of fish do you have? My male Molly once did the same thing, swimming almost vertical with his tail down face up. I've also seen the redness around the gills...it once accompanied Ich in my tank don't know what it was specifically though(sorry I can't be of more help). Ich is easy to spot because it comes with little white spots that look like salt on your fish, usually starts on their fins in my experience. Every time my fish start acting out of sorts in any way for more than a few hours (some examples would be pinned fins, laying on the bottom of the tank, swimming vertically) I automatically treat them with Jungle Lifeguard.(It saves lives!!) It treats quite a few different diseases so I never really know exactly what they have. But I can tell you that for the most part it works. Its really cheap online...but I also think walmart has it. As a relatively new tank owner(I'm assuming but Idk if youve had tanks before this) you will need to understand that this hobby has a steep learning curve and there will be some casualties along the way...I'm sorry to be the bearer of this news.(If you didn't figure it out already) BUT As long as you keep an eye on your levels and on your fish's behavior(and treat them when they are not acting normally) you will be fine. Tress |
Treating a fish for an illness which is not confirmed is never a good idea. The meds can do more harm than good. If you have fish acting different you need to find the route cause of it, not treat it before you know. There are times when we do lose fish but generally patience is also a key to this hobby. Ammonia and Nitrite are both toxic to fish and will effect their health long term. I am going to suggest that your tank is not cycled properly or you are overfeeding. The fact that you have ammonia readings is cause for concern. 6 weeks makes the tank very young. If you did not cycle the tank BEFORE adding fish then this could be the cause of your loss. Read an article here on aquarium cycling. The fish may also have succumb to aggression from the other males, a male obviously spawned with the female as you have fry BUT what about the other 2 guys, if they tried to spawn with the female after she gave birth....this could cause her early demise, reason being is she is a weakened state from giving birth and with being the only female, the other males have no one else to turn to, in their hour of "need". |
How does one go about finding the root cause? How can it do more harm than good? By messing with the BioFiltration? I've done this for years but am open to other ways...I just don't know them. |
Answers to any of these questions as posted by Lupin in the Diagnosis form of the tropical fish disease section of the forum. 1. Size of tank? 2. Water parameters a. Ammonia? b. Nitrite? c. Nitrate? d. pH, KH and GH? e. Test kit? 3. Temperature? 4. FW (fresh water) or BW (brackish)? 5. How long the aquarium has been set up? 6. What fish do you have? How many are in your tank? How big are they? How long have you had them? 7. Were the fish placed under quarantine period (minus the first batch from the point wherein the tank is ready to accommodate the inhabitants)? 8. a. Any live plants? Fake plants? b. Sand, gravel, barebottom? c. Rocks, woods, fancy decors? Any hollow decors? 9. a. Filtration? b. Heater? 10. a. Lighting schedule? What lights are used? b. Any sunlight exposure? How long? 11. a. Water change schedule? b. Volume of water changed? c. Well water, tap water, RO water? d. Water conditioner used? e. Frequency of gravel/sand (if any) vacuumed? 12. Foods? How often are they fed? 13. a. Any abnormal signs/symptoms? b. Appearance of poop? c. Appearance of gills? 14. a. Have you treated your fish ahead of diagnosis? b. What meds were used? 15. Insert photos of fish in question and full tank shot if necessary. |
There are many factors which can lead to a successful diagnosis and appropriate treatment associated with the illness the fish is showing. Think of it as this, you do not get prescribed medicines from a doctor who has no idea what you have...you go through a period of diagnosis and treatment is specific to your illness...because fish cannot physically tell us what is wrong, we have to research and offer treatment as appropriate based on the above factors. A simple change in pH can be enough to have fish scratching at rocks/ decorations etc, the change might be "burning" them if the pH lowers...this we can diagnose as a problem if the aquarists fish require a specific pH range, it can also be a symptom of ich..you can add as much ich medication as you want but that is NOT the root cause. |
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Furthermore, the installation is affected by those who watch it; when the audience moves it influences the compressions and decompressions of the rope's line. This return channel from a physical act into a graphic representation cuts through space with its own swooshing sound, further examining how we interpret our own position in a sonic landscape.
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Training Camp Practice Report – 8/4
That's No. 77 NT Kelly Gregg getting his first taste of the Kansas City media horde after practice on Thursday.
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Sorry this is going up so late, but it's been quite a day. When you're a one-man band, the music slows down at times, but it never stops.
And, then Scott Pioli and his minions go crazy and get about a dozen contracts done in 24 hours.
Let's get to the news.
Restricted free agent CB Brandon Carr signed his tender offer and was on the practice field Thursday afternoon. Also signed on Thursday was veteran NFL S Sabby Piscitelli, a 5-year veteran who previously played with Tampa Bay and Cleveland. Plus, the team's last remaining draft choice agreed to terms, as OLB Justin Houston agreed to a 4-year deal for $2.786 million, with a $671,248 signing bonus.
And, let's address the three key players that had physical problems during Thursday afternoon's practice.
DE Glenn Dorsey left the field on a cart, after it looked like he injured his left knee in a defensive line-offensive line drill. Essentially what happens is three offensive linemen come off the ball and try to move the defensive lineman out of his spot. The defensive guy has to read the blockers and react to them, or hold his ground if they are coming right off the ball. Dorsey and rookie OT avid Mims tangled. Dorsey was off balance and Mims wheeled him to the ground and it appeared Dorsey's left foot stayed in the turf as his body was twisted. He walked away from the drill to the medical tent, stripping of his knee brace as he walked. Hopefully for Dorsey that brace saved him from a very serious injury.
First-round draft choice WR Jonathan Baldwin was in the rehab area during the afternoon practice with some sort of upper right leg injury. The leg was wrapped from his thigh to his knee. He rode the stationary bike but actually he was pedaling with his arms, not his legs. There was a hitch to his get along as he walked off the field.
And, then there was FB Le'Ron McClain, on the field for his first practice as a member of the Chiefs. About a half-hour into practice, McClain returned his lunch and appeared to be dazed as he was walked to the medical tent. About 20 minutes later, he walked back onto the field and got back into the drills with no apparent problem.
After practice McClain said it was the excitement of the moment starting with a new team (he really said that!), a bit of the heat and humidity and too much lunch that caused his problem.
Facts, observations and numbers from Thursday:
– The Chiefs now have 85 players on their roster, after practicing with 59 players most of the week they had as many as 81 bodies available at times on Thursday. TE Tony Moeaki (right knee) remains on the PUP list. Practicing for the first time on Thursday were the following 19 players by unit:
OFFENSE – RB Jackie Battle, WR Steve Breaston, WR Terrance Copper, FB Mike Cox, WR Zeke Markshusen, FB Le'Ron McClain, OT Ryan O'Callaghan, TE Leonard Pope, OT Barry Richardson and C Casey Wiegmann.
DEFENSE – CB Brandon Carr, CB Travis Daniels, DE Wallace Gilberry, NT Kelly Gregg, OLB Tamba Hali, S Reshard Langford, FS Jon McGraw, S Sabby Piscitelli and ILB Brandon Siler.
– While most off the linebacker were working in pass coverage drill, Michal Johnson, Gabe Miller and Amara Kamara were rushing the passer.
– The passing game was a bit off in the early going as QBs Matt Cassel and Tyler Palko had their problems connecting with receiver. Cassel finally broke free when he hooked up with WR Chandler Williams on a long completion down the sideline.
– In the teamwork segment near the end of practice, S Donald Washington picked off a pass from Palko that was thrown late.
– Wiegmann at center and Richardson at RT moved right back into the No. 1 offensive line.
– Here's how the O-Linemen lined up for drills:
- Starters – LT Branden Albert, LG Ryan Lilja, C Wiegmann, RG Jon Asamoah, RT Richardson.
- Backups – LT Butch Lewis, LG Darryl Harris, C Rodney Hudson, RG Bobby Greenwood, RT Mike Ingeroll.
- Third team – LT David Mims, LG Lucas Patterson, RG Chris Harr, RT Ryan O'Callaghan.
– As it went on the field Thursday morning, here was the starting defense: Tyson Jackson and Glenn Dorsey at DEs, Anthony Toribio at NT, Andy Studebaker and Pierre Walters at OLB, Jovan Belcher and Derrick Johnson at ILB, Brandon Flowers and Javier Arenas on the corners with Eric Berry and Kendrick Lewis at safety. By Thursday afternoon Gregg replaced Toribio, Hali replaced Walters and Carr was in for Arenas.
– When the Chiefs went to nickel in the morning, they brought LBs Cameron Sheffield and Demorrio Williams on the field with Donald Washington and rookie Jalil Brown. Going off were Toribio, Belcher, Studebaker and Walters.
– The No. 2 defense in the morning was: Brandon Bair and Dion Gales at DE, Jerrell Powe on the nose, Sheffield and Eric Bakhtiari at OLB with Williams and Justin Cole inside. Brown and Quinten Lawrence are the CBs, with Washington and Ricky Price on the back line.
– Here's the No. 1 FG/PAT team with Ryan Succop kicking, Dustin Colquitt holding and Thomas Gafford snapping. The blockers from left to right are: Jake O'Connell, Jon Asamoah, Butch Lewis, Darryl Harris, Rodney Hudson, Branden Albert, Ryan Lilja and Andy Studebaker.
– During a special teams segment, NT Jerrell Powe was off to the side getting extra instruction from defensive line coach Anthony Pleasant.
3 Responses to "Training Camp Practice Report – 8/4"
August 5, 2011 - ED says:
Good to see everyone in camp now. Now its time for this team to begin preparation to repeat as division champs and get a couple playoff wins.
August 5, 2011 - bigdaddyfan says:
David Mims, the rap on him coming out of Virginia Union was competition. I guess with him taking out Dorsey that song has been answered.
August 5, 2011 - SO says:
Bob – thanks for the reports. You're the best one-man band in town. Does this mean Rudy Niswanger is through with the Chiefs? That would be 3 for 3 on NFLPA executive committee members (Waters, Vrabel) and player reps (Niswanger).


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The lithium-ion batteries that competitor Boeing uses in its Dreamliner jet are at the center of ongoing investigations into the safety of the plane, after two fires on different aircraft last month.
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Country | Qatar |
Availability | Worldwide |
Owner | Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer al-Thani |
Key people | Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer al-Thani, Chairman Wadah Khanfar, Director-General Ahmed Sheikh, Editor-in-chief |
Launch date | 1996 |
Official website | aljazeera.net |
Al Jazeera (in Arabic: الجزيرة al-Jazi'yra) is an Arabic-language television channel from Doha, Qatar. Al Jazeera means The Island in Arabic. It is named that way because it claims to be the only independent news network in the Middle East. At first it was a satellite TV channel which broadcast in Arabic only. Now there is also a channel in English, a sports channel, a conference channel, a documentary channel and a children's channel.
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the original international Arabic-language 24h news channel started in 1996
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a global English 24h news channel started in 2006
an Arabic documentary channel started in 2007
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The first Al Jazeera channel was created in 1996. This was made possible with 150 million US$ from the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa.
In April 1996 the BBC World channel, which operated in Arabic, was shut down. This channel was partly owned by Saudi-Arabia. Many of the journalists from this station started working with Al Jazeera. The channel started broadcasting at the End of 1996.[1] Because Al Jazeera was available in the whole region via satellite, it changed the television landscape of the region. Before that people could only watch channels that were censored by the different states. Al Jazeera brought a new level of freedom of speech in television to the Middle East. Al Jazeera has always broadcasted controversial on many governments in the Middle East, for example Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar. It also was critical about Syria's relationship with the Lebanon and of the judiciary in Egypt. For example, on January 27, 1999 Al Jazeera had critics of the government of Algeria on their live program El-Itidjah el-Mouakass (Arabic for The Opposite Direction). To stop people from watching this program in Algeria over satellite, the government of Algeria cut the electricity in large parts of the country.[2][3][4] At that time many people outside the Middle East did not know about Al Jazeera. Those people who knew it said generally good things about Al Jazeera.[5] Because of good reporting from the Lebanese Civil War in 2000-2001 Al Jazeera got even more viewers. However it only became know worldwide after it broadcast statements from al-Quaeda leaders in 2001.
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Most people think that people that live in the Middle East are given little information and that what they get is biased toward the government.[3] Many people in the Arab world see Al Jazeera as a good and true source of information. Some scholars use the word of contextual objectivity,[2] which means that Al Jazeera shows both sides of a story, but still manages to be popular with the audience.[6] Because of this it is probably the most watched news channel in the Middle East. More and more channels, for example BBC and CNN, are using material from Al Jazeera.
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The first Al Jazeera can be watched all over the world with several different satellite and cable systems.[7] In the U.S. Al Jazeera can be watched on DVB-S on the Galaxy 25 and 23 satellites. In Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East it can be received via DVB-S on the Astra and Hot Bird satellites. In Australia Al Jazeera can be watched via the Optus C1 satellite and in the United Kingdom it can be watched via Sky and Freesat.
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- ↑ Qatar's Al-Jazeera livens up Arab TV scene BBC News - Monitoring; published Thursday, 7 January 1999
In defense of al-Jazeera MSNBC; by Michael Moran; published 18 October 2001 - ↑ 2.0 2.1 El-Nawawy and Iskandar. Al-Jazeera: How the free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East. Westview. cf. Further reading
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Books of our Time: Al-Jazeera at Google Video; TV programme feat. Lawrence Velvel, Dean of the Mass. School of Law, interviewing author Hugh Miles who reveals a lot about the channel (a, c: 48:30, b: 55:00)
- ↑ The Rise of Al JazeeraPDF (502 KiB) by Nicolas Eliades; Peace & Conflict Monitor; University for Peace
Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV: The Power of Free Speech - ↑ E.g. in 1999, New York Times reporter Thomas L. Friedman called Al-Jazeera "the freest, most widely watched TV network in the Arab world." – Friedman, Thomas L. (12 February 1999). "Fathers and Sons". New York Times: A27.
- ↑ The Minotaur of 'Contextual Objectivity': War coverage and the pursuit of accuracy with appeal
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Trig Review
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Objective: SWBAT contribute to a class review of trigonometric concepts through comments, questions and/or responses.
Big Idea: If you hate reviewing for an exam, maybe this lesson is for you. Let your students take charge of their review and see how much more you all get out of the process!
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I begin this review by asking my students to reflect for two minutes without talking about the concepts we've studied in this unit. I tell them they should be particularly mindful of those lessons they struggled with. Reflecting for two minutes is actually much longer than it sounds…try it with your students! After two minutes, I ask my students to write a word or brief phrase on the board describing the lesson they had the most difficulty with, but not to duplicate anyone else's posting. When everyone has had an opportunity to post to the front board, I summarize the topics into five or six categories. You can see photos of my whiteboard before and after the summaries. I tell my students that they will be helping each other review and will each get a chance to work on each category before the end of class.
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You will want to have copies of the topics handout and make sure students bring their graphing calculators to class. I also keep an assortment of graphic organizers available for my students to use as they choose. I've included copies in the resources section of this lesson if you want to use them. I begin this part of the lesson by having my students number off one through six. I ask them to group their desks in sets of three "around the clock". See "Rotating Review" in my strategies folder. I assign one student number to each set of desks and have students seat themselves according to their number then assign one topic to each group. As we move through the review, these groups of three will continue to mix it up until everyone has had an opportunity to work with each topic. I give each team copies of the handout and tell them to complete the section for their topic. (MP2, MP6) I can usually anticipate pretty closely what areas they'll need/want to work on, but this is flexible enough to allow students to tailor the review to their needs. As my students begin working, I walk around answering questions, making notes of areas of misunderstanding, and encouraging them to help each other. I allow approximately seven minutes for each review session then have the students rotate as indicated earlier.
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There is a video narrative that accompanies this section, explaining some of the pedagogy. As we finish the final rotation, I ask my students to be thinking of one thing they feel more comfortable about and one thing they still have questions about. (MP2) I hand out notecards to write their questions on, collect them, and spend the remaining time discussing those questions. I remind my students as class ends that they will need their calculator for the exam and that it will be an independent activity, rather than a team assessment. Since I use both team and independent assessments, I let my students know in advance which they'll be facing.
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The Loudoun County Sanitation Authority (LCSA) has been cleaned up with the loss of Steve Snow and Eugene Delgaudio from its board (Leesburg Today story here). Dimitri Kesari is going to be a little lonely I think. John Rocca, who was deposed as Chairman by the Sultan of Sh*t himself, Steve Snow, is back on the board along with Patti Psaris, who is an environmental engineer with (surprise!) relevant experience. Both Rocca and Psaris received eight votes (I can only imagine who the no vote was!), while additional new board member Chuck Harris received six votes for his slot.
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The summer of 1967 had been long and hot. From Buffalo to Newark to Detroit, African-American rage at injustice had exploded into fiery riots. Though edgy, Houston, with Dixie's largest urban concentration of blacks, seemingly had escaped the worst. Still, as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stepped onto a downtown stage on Oct. 17, it was clear that Houston was not a city of peace, but of paradox.
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text: The Indian cricket team will arrive in Dhaka on June 13 to play thee one-day-internationals at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur. The ODIs will take place on 15, 17 and 19 June. This will be Bangladesh's first series ever since the formation of the International Cricket Council's (ICC's) new Future Tours Programme. India are likely to send a weakened side with both captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and top order batsman Virat Kohli unlikely to be in the team. While India has played a number of ODIs in Bangladesh in various tournaments, the last time they played a bilateral ODI series was back in 2007, immediately after the World Cup in which India lost to the Tigers and exited from the first round. After the mega tournament, Bangladesh lost the three-match ODI series 2-0. The last time India played a bilateral Test series against Bangladesh was in 2010 when they won a two-match Test series 2-0. So far India have played 16 ODIs in Bangladesh and won 14 of them.


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The successor to Fuji's FinePix S3 Pro made its first, fleeting appearence at Photokina in September 2006, though it didn't start shipping until the spring of 2007 - keeping in line with Fuji's approx two-year gap between SLR models. The S5 Pro may have the same sensor (well, almost - more about that later) as the S3 Pro, but as a camera it is a quantum leap forward over the models that preceded it, being based on the highly-regarded Nikon D200 (all the previous models were based on consumer level Nikon film cameras).
Being essentially a D200 with a Super CCD sensor and Fuji processor means the S5 Pro enjoys all the benefits of Nikon's superb 'semi pro' body; weather-sealed body with a magnesium alloy chassis, latest generation focus, flash and metering systems, better shutter, better viewfinder and expansive lens compatibility. It is also the first Fuji SLR to be a truly 'integrated' digital camera; previous models were based on film cameras (supplied by Nikon) which forced Fuji to use a clunky 'camera of two halves' design, complicating control (and in the early models meaning the 'digital' and 'camera' parts had separate batteries). Finally there are some changes under the hood, including a tweaked sensor, new processor and a host of minor (and a few major) feature upgrades.
The S3 Pro - despite a hefty price tag - carved out a niche for itself amongst wedding and portrait photographers willing to sacrifice speed and durability in order to take advantage of the extra dynamic range offered by the SR sensor. On paper the S5 Pro (which has a smaller $400 price premium over the Nikon D200) seems to address most of the issues we - and many potential purchasers - had with the S3 Pro, so let's find out if it delivers...
Improvements of FinePix S5 Pro over FinePix S3 Pro
Where the original S1 Pro and S2 Pro did well because they offered high resolution at a low price (the S1 was the first 'affordable' digital SLR in the days before the consumer DSLR even existed), by the time the S3 Pro surfaced it looked expensive and under-powered. This was due in no small part to Fuji's reliance on Nikon for the 'photographic' part of the camera, and Nikon's obvious reluctance to give them anything too good. That's all changed with the S5 Pro, which is the most significant upgrade the FinePix Pro series has ever seen. Based on a Nikon D200 it really is a totally different kettle of fish. The key improvements (adapted from Fuji's press release) are listed below:
- Improved Super CCD SR Pro features an optimised low-pass filter to reduce moiré
- Newly developed RP Processor Pro features two cycles of noise reduction with a claimed reduction in noise at higher sensitivities (camera now allows shooting at ISO 3200)
- Users can now choose from up to six preset Dynamic Range settings between 100% and 400%
- Three new variations of the original film simulation mode (F1) have been added (five modes in total
- Improved Nikon lens compatability (including manual focus AI lenses)
- RAW+ jpeg (4,256 x 2,848 pixels, 3,024 x 2,016 pixels, 2,304 x 1,536 pixels) dual-save mode
- Robust lightweight magnesium-alloy body with moisture- and dust-proof seals
- Durable shutter unit stands up to approximately 100,000 cycles
- Adoption of high-precision i-TTL flash control
- 11-point AF sensor with faster autofocusing than the FinePix S3 Pro
- Supports 1/3, 1/2, and 1 stop lens aperture control
- Shutter speed 30 sec. to 1/8000 sec, maximum flash sync speed of 1/250 sec.
- 3 levels of custom function locking with password protection
- 2.5 inch LCD with 235,000 pixels, gives 100% frame coverage.
- Colour and monochromatic 30 seconds live view function to check focusing
- Li-ion rechargeable battery
- Face Detection Technology for post image verification
Compared to the S3 Pro, major feature and specification differences
Fujifilm S5 Pro |
Fujifilm S3 Pro |
Body | • Magnesium alloy • Body seams sealed |
High-impact plastic (metal sub-structure) |
Image sizes | • 4256 x 2848 (12.1 million) • 3024 x 2016 (6.1 million) • 2304 x 1536 (3.5 million) |
• 4256 x 2848 (12.1 million) • 3024 x 2016 (6.1 million) • 2304 x 1536 (3.5 million) • 1440 x 960 (1.4 million) |
Raw + JPEG mode? | Yes | No |
Auto focus | • 11/7 area TTL • Multi-CAM 1000 • TTL phase detection • Detection range: EV -1 to EV 19 (ISO 100, 20°C/68°F) |
• 5 area TTL • Multi-CAM 900 • TTL phase detection • Detection range: EV 1 to EV 19 (ISO 100, 20°C/68°F) |
AF area mode | • Single Area AF • Dynamic AF with Focus Tracking and Lock-on • Group Dynamic AF • Closest Subject Priority Dynamic AF |
• Single Area AF • Dynamic Area AF • Closest Subject Priority Dynamic AF |
Metering | • 3D Color Matrix Metering II • 1005 pixel CCD |
• 3D Matrix Metering • 10 segment sensor |
iTTL flash? | Yes | No |
Sensitivity | • ISO 100 - 3200 | • ISO 100 - 1600 |
Shutter speed | • 30 - 1/8000 sec • 1/250 sec X-Sync speed |
• 30 - 1/4000 sec • 1/180 sec X-Sync speed |
AI aperture ring | Yes | No |
Continuous | Standard dynamic range • JPEG 12 MP / Fine: 3.0 fps, up to 21 frames * • JPEG 6 MP / Fine: 3.0 fps, up to 21 frames * • RAW: 3.0 fps, up to 21 frames * Wide dynamic range (Auto DR) * Before slowing down significantly |
Standard dynamic range • JPEG 12 MP / Fine: 2.5 fps, up to 12 frames * • JPEG 6 MP / Fine: 2.5 fps, up to 12 frames * • RAW: 2.5 fps, up to 7 frames * Wide dynamic range (Auto DR) * Before slowing down significantly |
White balance | • Auto • Nine presets • Manual preset (five) • Kelvin temperature • Fine tunable |
• Auto • Six presets • Manual preset (two) • Fine tunable |
Film Simulations | • F1 • F1a • F1b • F1c • F2 |
Dynamic Range | • Auto • 100% (Std) • 130% • 170% • 230% (W1) • 300% • 400% (W2) |
• Std • Auto • Wide 1 • Wide 2 |
Shutter speeds | • 30 sec - 1/8000 sec • Bulb |
• 30 sec - 1/4000 sec • Bulb |
Flash Synch | 1/250 sec | 1/180 sec |
Exposure control: steps | 1/3, 1/2 or 1 | 1/2 or 1 |
LCD monitor | • 2.5 " TFT LCD • 230,000 pixels • Removable protective cover |
• 2.0 " TFT LCD • 235,000 pixels • Removable protective cover |
Live View | • Color or mono |
• Mono • 30 secs max |
Interface | USB 2.0 Hi-Speed | • USB 2.0 (Hi-Speed) • IEEE 1394 (Firewire) |
Remote | • 10-pin remote terminal • USB 2.0 remote control using optional software |
• Mechanical release socket on shutter button • IEEE 1394 remote control using optional software |
Battery | Lithium-Ion NP-150 (7.4 V, 1500 mAh) | 4 x AA batteries (2300 mAh NiMH supplied) |
Storage | Compact Flash Type I/II | • Compact Flash Type I/II • xD-Picture Card |
Vertical grip | MB-D200 | Built-in |
Dimensions | 170 x 113 x 74 mm (6.7 x 4.4 x 2.9 in) | 148 x 135 x 80 mm (5.9 x 5.3 x 3.2 in) |
Weight (no batt) | 830 g (1.8 lb) | 835 g (1.8 lb) |
Other | • New version of 'Real Photo' processor and 'improved' Super CCD SR Pro sensor • GPS and barcode reader compatible • Function locking (password protected) |
Compared to Nikon D200
Unlike its predecessors the S5 Pro isn't just 'based on' a Nikon body, it is essentially the same camera with Fujifilm innards. It's got a different sensor and a different processor (at the very least), and it doesn't have Nikon's 4-channel readout or amazing buffering capabilities (so the continuous shooting is a lot less impressive), but there's no doubting the S5 Pro's pedigree - it's as close to a Nikon as you'll get without actually buying one. Feature-wise there are some minor differences:
- Separate 'setup' menu for custom functions (and no shooting banks to store custom settings)
- No White Balance bracketing
- No interval timer
- No 'Shade' white balance setting but extra Fluorescent presets
- S5 Pro's ISO and flash compensation can only be changed in 1/3 EV steps
- No 'basic' JPEG mode, missing D200's JPEG compression options
- No Raw compression option
- The two cameras have totally different menu system
- Several buttons on the rear have different functions
- Face Detection (playback mode)
- Film simulation modes and D-range options
- There are slight differences in image parameters and only one Adobe RGB option
- Slower continuous shooting speed, smaller buffer
- Slightly different (and incompatible) battery
- Not compatible with WT-3 wireless transmitter (and no Fujifilm alternative)
- S5 Pro has option to attach a barcode reader (inserts data into EXIF)
Lens compatibility
Thanks to its new AI aperture ring connector the S5 Pro supports A / M modes and metering with AI manual focus lenses (essentially anything made since 1977) - as well as the majority of AF-G, AF-D, AF-S and AF-I Nikkors, bringing the Fujifilm DSLR series in line with the Nikon semi-pro and pro cameras for the first time. The full lens compatability information is available in our Nikon D200 review (click here).
Fujifilm SuperCCD SR II
Like the S3 Pro before it, the S5 Pro utilizes Fujifilm's unique "extended dynamic range" SuperCCD SR sensor. This features two photodiodes at each photosite (a single 'input pixel') and is designed to overcome the inability of standard CCD sensors to capture the full range of tones in scenes with a wide dynamic range (from deep shadows to bright highlights).
The 'S' pixel has normal sensitivity and captures the same range of light as a conventional CCD photosite, the 'R' pixel is smaller and has a lower sensitivity and is designed to capture detail above the saturation point of the 'S' pixel (in other words the brightest highlights). The 'Real Photo Processor Pro' can then combine the information from the 'S' and 'R' pixels to produce an extended dynamic range and avoid the loss of detail due to over-exposure.. (click here for more information).
Like the S3 Pro the S5 uses some nifty processing to turn what is effectively a six megapixel capture into a twelve megapixel output image (in its earliest incarnations Super CCD always came with a healthy dose of interpolation). This is despite the fact that the S and R 'pixels' are in fact dual photosites that are combined to produce a single input pixel.
Although details from Fujifilm are rather thin on the ground they have confirmed that the Super CCD sensor in the S5 Pro is not the same as the one used in the S3 Pro, but is a refined/improved version. It would appear that the difference is fairly minimal, there is mention of a stronger low-pass filter (to reduce moire), but that's about as much as we can get. We think it's safe to presume that if there were any really fundamental differences Fuji would be making more of a fuss about it. Any image quality improvements over the S3 Pro are as likely to be a result of the new Real Photo Processor PRO (the image processor) than of tweaks to the sensor itself.


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Craig A man was found dead Friday in west Moffat County and Moffat County Sheriff's Department investigators said he died from an accidental shooting.
Sheriff's deputies responded to a call on County Road 95 near Skull Creek, 2 miles west of Massadona, Friday evening and found 61-year-old Robert Lee Witherell of Skull Creek dead from a single gunshot wound.
Witherell's wife came home about 4:20 p.m. and found her husband lying near their residence and called authorities. After Rio Blanco County Sheriff's Department deputies and Town of Dinosaur police secured the scene, Moffat County Sheriff's Department detective K.C. Hume investigated the incident. The investigation determined the incident was an accidental shooting.
"We've pretty much surmised that it was a gun accident," said Hume. "It looks like he was out target practicing when it happened. We have ruled out suicide and we do not suspect any foul play."
The man was found leaning against a four-wheeler all terrain vehicle that he was apparently using as a bench rest while shooting, according to Hume.
The Moffat County Sheriff's Department has sent items from the scene to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation for forensic analysis and will wait for the results before closing the investigation.


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January 17, 2013 Focus Acquires High Grade Phosphate Project in Colombia and Signs Strategic Agreement | |
January 17, 2013; Vancouver, Canada: Focus Ventures Ltd. (TSX-V: FCV) is pleased to announce that its Colombian subsidiary, Agrifos Colombia Corp ("Agrifos"), has signed an option agreement with a private Colombian company for the Luisa Maria Phosphate property located in the Department of Boyaca, Colombia, and a strategic agreement to acquire additional phosphate concessions in Colombia. The Luisa Maria property comprises approximately 1,651 hectares of titled mining concessions located in the Department of Boyaca, some 3 hours drive by asphalt highway from the Colombian capital, Bogota. Sampling by Agrifos has identified at least 2 high grade phosphorite beds. Sampling has shown grades from 7.9% P205 to 29.2 P205 (10 samples averaged 19.4 % P205) with the phosphatic units mapped over at least 12 km. The beds are between 1 -- 3m thick, with widths up to 7m locally occurring in calcareous mudstones and siltstones belonging to the Cretaceous Guadalupe Group. Under the terms of the Agreement, Agrifos can earn a 70% interest in the property by investing a total of $750,000 in exploration and development over 5 years, including a payment of $50,000 on signing (paid). Agrifos must spend $100,000 during the first 18 months from the signing of the Agreement and $300,000 in cumulative expenditures during the first 36 months of the Agreement. Focus can purchase the outstanding 30% interest by paying the owner 1% of the value of each tonne of phosphatic rock defined in Measured and Indicated Resource categories and averaging 20% P205 or more based on the price of Bayovar FOB* rock phosphate. (For resources averaging below 20% P205, payment will be calculated based on the following formula % = X/20, where X = average grade). Agrifos has also signed a strategic alliance with the titleholder to acquire additional phosphate claims in Colombia, under the same terms, for areas currently under application with the Colombian National Mining Agency (NMA). The NMA declared a moratorium on new claim applications in February 2011 in order to overhaul its cadastral system and deal with a large backlog of new claims applications. The new system is expected to be operative by June 2013. * Free on Board Background Meeting future demand for phosphates will remain problematic due to the scarcity of resources, particularly in the Americas, and given the small number of producing countries. Phosphate is a key raw material for chemical fertilizers, which are part of the Food Supply Chain. Given the current global food crisis due to the world's growing population and economic development, demand for worldwide fertilizers is expected to grow. Approximately 75% of global phosphate resources are from marine sedimentary phosphate deposits which are typically amenable to beneficiation to produce marketable phosphate rock concentrate or chemical grade fertilizers. With the growth of new markets such as Brazil, India and Indonesia and scarcity of resources, particularly in the Americas, there will be increasing demand for alternative sources of rock phosphate. Focus is acquiring phosphate projects in Latin America. Other projects acquired to date include the Machay and Quebranta phosphate properties in Peru. For further information, please call 604-688-5288 or visit our web site www.focusventuresltd.com. Sampling Quality Analysis and Quality Control Rock samples were prepared at ALS Chemex's preparation facility in Bogota, Colombia and analyzed in Lima, Perú. Phosphate was determined by X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy (XRF), the sample is fused with a 12:22 lithium metaborate -- lithium tetraborate flux, and then poured into a platinum mould; the resultant disk is in turn analysed by XRF spectrometry. ALS Chemex's quality control system complies with International Standards ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 17025:2005. Analytical accuracy and precision are monitored by the analysis of reagent blanks samples. Quality control is further assured by Focus's own QA/QC program which involves the insertion by Focus personnel of blanks into the sample stream at regular intervals in order to independently assess analytical precision and accuracy of each batch of samples as they are received from the laboratory. Qualified Person The scientific and technical information in this release was prepared under the supervision of Mr. David Cass, Focus's President, who is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia, and a "Qualified Person" in accordance with NI 43-101. About Focus Ventures Focus Ventures is developing a diversified portfolio of quality silver, gold, copper and phosphate properties in Peru, Mexico and Colombia. 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I haven't tried this one but your description has given me fair warning!
MCM Twenty Four Evening. That's right. This overlooked citric civet bomb has the kitchen sink and even borrowed ingredients thrown in for good measure.
This isn't one everyone can pull off.......but for the ones that can, it's a very overlooked masculine that has some real merit. I'm wearing it now for the first time in a LONG time and have to give it some props.
They truly don't make juice like this anymore.
I haven't tried this one but your description has given me fair warning!
Just woke up and I still have a lingering civet-cumin combo going on 12 plus hours later. YOWZA.......
Man alive, where do you come across these strange amazing bulldozer scents, Aromi? You make me think Montana must be filled with hidden shelves of masterpieces in old dry goods stores frome the frontier days.
And what a name: twenty four evening. Talk about daring, imagine when they picked it.
"How about Twenty Four Evening"?
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?"
"I don't know, and who cares?"
"Yeah, that's just the ticket!"
That girl, that bottle, that mattress and me.
Aromi, thanks for the tip.
As I enjoy Narcisse Noir (civet), SL Fleurs d'Oranger (cumin) and Kingdom (cumin), I will have to look this one over.
"...her fragrance all in my keeping; softly she comes in the night." Lyrics, Gordon Lightfoot, "Softly."
LMK. I could always send a few samples out.
Searching through old threads and found this...sounds very interesting! Sure would like to sample this one. Any opinions on this from members?
1. Epic Man by Amouage (29 wears)
2. Leather Oud by Christian Dior (27 wears)
3. M7 by Yves Saint Laurent (22 wears)
4. Oud Imperial (black) by Perris Monte Carlo (21 wears)
5. Russian Tea Ritual by Masque (17 wears)
6. Fate Man by Amouage (17 wears)
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Just thought I'd bump this and see if there's any additional opinions.
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Urban inequities are dividing our young 'city-zens'
LSHTM research published as part of UNICEF report that highlights how cities are failing children
Urban poverty is excluding hundreds of millions of children from vital services, UNICEF warns in its flagship publication, State of the World's Children 2012: Children in an Urban World.
Carolyn Stephens of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine was commissioned to conduct research in urban inequities as part of the UNICEF publication. Her findings have also just been published in the Journal of Urban Health.
The research highlights the divide between children from wealthy families who grow up in private enclaves and attend private schools and universities, in stark comparison to children living in poorer urban areas or on the streets. This pattern is true now internationally, and in cities as diverse as London, Kolkata, Rio de Janeiro, Jakarta or Buenos Aires.
Dr Stephens states that in many circumstances, the only social contact these children will have with one another is through violent confrontation.
More than 50% of the world's population now lives in urban areas, and this number is rapidly increasing, with two thirds of the world's people expected to live in towns and cities by 2050. With such rapid population growth in urban areas, the research emphasises the importance of putting children at the heart of urban planning and giving them a voice in the policy arena that will see their needs being supported whilst preventing people in the same city from living in fear and isolation of each other. In some cities levels of intra-urban violence are so high that they rival death rates in war zones.
Argentina-based Carolyn Stephens, Reader in Ecology and Global Health of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, says: "It is essential that all levels of government, civil society groups and international agencies such as UNICEF, work with disadvantaged urban children and their families to make policy decisions.
"Cities will also be the key to social and environmental sustainability and urban young people are the future of our planet. The concept of citizenship originated in a city, and it is urban citizens, particularly our young City-zens, who will hold the key to supporting people to live in equity."
(Image: Children playing in the street in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. Credit: Sarah Bandali.)


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Developmental Gene Regulatory Networks and the Control of Embryonic Patterning
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Redfield Auditorium - 12:00 noon
Dr. Joel Smith
MBL, Josephine Bay Paul Center
How do cells acquire their identities as the embryo develops from a single cell? This must certainly be the oldest question in developmental biology, and it lies at the heart of many other fields as well, not least regenerative biology (how do adult cells acquire new identities?) and cancer biology (what makes them lose it?).
The simple answer: cell identity is driven by the set of genes that are expressed, or not, within a given cell. Thus, cells acquire and maintain distinct identities by the genes that are either active or inactive inside of them. But then, how are specific genes activated or repressed? Genes are turned on or off according to the combined action of the products of other genes. And what about those? Yet other genes control their expression, and so on and so forth. It does not take long to see where this leads. In other words, our simple answer disguises a far more complex situation. To understand our original question we must understand an entire network of regulatory interactions underlying the genomic control of cell identity and function.
I describe the basics elements of an analysis of genomic regulatory networks, for developmental and other systems, based on functional genomics screens, assays, and analyses. A thorough description of the control network explains how complex regulatory interactions, though based around inherently noisy mechanisms of gene expression, lead to the reliable and reproducible expression of pattern formation genes in a model of early embryogenesis, the sea urchin. As our group is interested in fundamental animal control systems, I then describe ongoing efforts to understand the mechanisms driving body axis specification, a central function of animal development and the wellspring of animal diversity. We use the sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis, due to its phylogenetic placement, which makes it highly informative as a model of the deeply conserved elements of the animal axis formation program. In addition, the exceptional experimental tractability of this model system will place it at the forefront of molecular development studies. I conclude by pointing to applications in the areas of regenerative and cancer biology.


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One of the smallest engines of any car is posting some of the biggest gas-mileage figures.
Ford says its Fiesta with a three-cylinder, 1-liter engine has been rated at 32 miles a gallon in the city, 45 mpg on the highway for a combined 37 mpg.
By comparison, a Honda Fit, another small, non-turbo, non-hybrid car, gets 28 mpg in the city, 35 on the highway for a combined 31 mpg.
The Fiesta 123-horsepower 1-liter engine is so small that Ford says the block fits in a suitcase. Yet because it is turbocharged, it produces plenty of pep.
"We're pushing into fuel economy numbers only seen on hybrids and diesels," said Joe Hinrichs, president of the Americas for Ford. "Coupled with the new Fiesta ST, Fiesta covers the performance-efficiency continuum in the subcompact segment better than any other nameplate in the market."
The 1-liter engine is coming to the Fiesta as an option in 2014.