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-Such a price the gods exact for song: to become what we sing
-Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
-When the center of the storm does not move, you are in its path.
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
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ELIZABETH — Benedictine Academy in Elizabeth held its annual "Sports Awards Night" on May 17 at the all-female Catholic college prep high school. Players from the school's sports teams were recognized for their many talents and contributions during this past academic year. The "Athlete of the Year" Award went to three seniors for their outstanding accomplishments as members of Benedictine Academy's sports teams: Daniella Travesso of Newark- volleyball; Cheila Cardoso of Elizabeth- soccer; and Alyssia Hudson of Irvington- track.
In addition, senior Andrea Mendoza of Union was recognized as the Benedictine Academy Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Mendoza had been honored as a Scholar-Athlete on May 9 at the Union County Interscholastic Scholarship Conference (UCISC) dinner, along with other outstanding students from high schools around New Jersey. Mendoza was chosen by Benedictine Academy as the senior Scholar-Athlete who best exemplifies the mission and beliefs of the Academy, performs at high athletic standards, and demonstrates outstanding sportsmanship. Her contributions to the school's volleyball team during the 2011-12 season helped her win the award.
At the Benedictine Academy Sports Awards night, five BA students received awards for "Most Valuable Player": sophomore Ramira Mayse of Linden for Track; senior Martha Devia of Elizabeth for softball; Daniella Travesso for volleyball; junior Samantha Herrejon of Union for soccer, and, junior Tabitha Davis of Irvington for basketball. Davis, a five-foot-seven guard, finished the season with a county-high 493 points in 22 games, averaging 22.4 points per game.
Another highlight of the Benedictine Academy Sports Awards event was the recognition of senior student Dannah Laguitan, a Woodbridge resident, as the recipient of the U.S. Military Fitness & Sports Award given by the U.S. Armed Services.
Andrea Mendoza of Union (right), a senior at Benedictine Academy in Elizabeth, has been named Scholar-Athlete by both her school and the Union County Interscholastic Scholarship Conference (UCISC). Senior Dannah Laguitan (left) of Woodbridge, received the U.S. Military Fitness & Sports Award given by the U.S. Armed Services. Both were recognized at Benedictine Academy's annual Sports Awards Dinner held May 17. (Photo courtesy of Benedictine Academy)
Benedictine Academy junior guard Tabitha Davis (center) of Irvington finished the 2011-12 season with a county-high 493 points in 22 games, averaging 22.4 points per game. Davis received her school's MVP Award for basketball at a recent Sports Awards Dinner. (Photo courtesy of Benedictine Academy)
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Container giants launch joint China-U.S. West Coast services
CMA CGM, Maersk, and MSC the world's three largest container shipping companies, are reorganizing their services between China and the U.S. West Coast with the launch of two joint services in April 2008: the YANG TSE, serving Central and South China, and the BOHAI RIM, serving Central and North China.
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The new initiative allows three lines to rationalize existing services into what they say is a "more powerful customer responsive service offering." The two services will provide customers with extensive port coverage in China with twice per week direct calls between China (Hong Kong, Yantian and Shanghai) and California ports.
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Baroness David: My Lords, I expressed both at Second Reading and in Committee my wish to see children appear in the Bill. Although I greatly wish for that, I do not quite feel myself able to support the
Lord Burnham: My Lords, in formulating Amendment No. 9 my noble friend Lady Elles pointed out that she had taken the wording from the Children Act. The noble Lord, Lord Moran, expressed his surprise that there is so little mention of children in the Bill. However, the excellent Children Act remains extant and its terms apply, whatever may appear in the Bill. Is it not therefore reasonable that the amendments suggested by my noble friend should not appear in the Bill because they are not necessary? The legislation is already there.
The Earl of Onslow: My Lords, it seems to me that Amendment No. 7 could almost be classed as the Librum veto in the old Polish Parliament. In other words, it appears that one child in a divorce can veto the prospect of divorce by his parents. It is within the bounds of imagination or possibility that there could be five children in a marriage. It could conceivably be in the interests of one of those children that the marriage continues, and in the interests of the other four that it is dissolved. Is that one child to be able to behave like a Polish count? It strikes me as not being a very sensible approach.
We all agree that the interests of children must be looked at very carefully, as the noble Lord, Lord Habgood, said. Perhaps this consideration should be more important in conciliation measures than in mediation measures. The Law Society produced a brief on exactly that point.
I believe the noble and learned Lord has it right. The,
My parents divorced, and I did not want them to. It was probably a silly thing that they were divorced, and in the end they did not like it very much. But it would have been totally wrong for me (admittedly by then I was 21 or 22) to be able to stop that divorce. It would have been even more wrong to be able to stop it had the divorce taken place when I was 12 or 14. These amendments are well-meaning, but ill-thought-out.
Baroness Young: My Lords, I support both these amendments, so well introduced by my noble friend Lady Elles. In offering my support, I am well aware of the subsequent amendments tabled by my noble and learned friend in connection with the hardship bar and his new amendment, I believe tabled today, Amendment No. 137. Obviously, we shall have an opportunity to debate those matters, but both these amendments are very welcome steps in the right direction in regard to the importance of children.
It may well be wondered, therefore, why we feel it necessary to add anything further to the proposal. There is a difference between the considerations that
It does not need me to rehearse all the arguments as to the devastating effects of divorce on children. The noble Lord, Lord Stoddart, set them out, as did the noble Lord, Lord Moran. Although we pay lip-service to these matters all the time in this House, and did so in Committee, we now know that one in five children is from a broken home. One-third of the children in a class are from broken homes, as are one-third of the students in a university. I am told that, were we to look into the tragedy of people sleeping rough under the arches at Waterloo station, we should find that a lot are 16 year-olds, turned out of their home by dreadful step-parents of one sort or another, causing terrible social problems, all stemming from divorce. This is therefore an extremely important issue. We should not in any way gloss over it, but should see it as central to the Bill.
I understand the concerns about wording expressed by the noble Lord, Lord Habgood. It may well be that the wording is not quite right. However, I should be very loath to leave this matter to mediation. After all, nobody can be obliged to go to mediation, any more than they can be obliged to go to conciliation, desirable though it may be. Therefore, we need much firmer measures on the face of the Bill.
Another point was raised in relation to the definition of "a child" in Clause 7. That is defined in law, and covers the age of a child. We are not talking about someone who is 19 or 20.
These amendments need very careful consideration. I very much hope that if my noble and learned friend feels he cannot accept them today he will take them away and perhaps redraft them where necessary. It seems totally inconsistent to have a Children Act that sets out what we believe is best for children, and which we all supported, and then, five minutes later, have another piece of legislation that is different. That is inconsistent. It is part of the general confusion today as to what we mean about marriage and bringing up children that we have inconsistent views. When it becomes inconvenient to consider the interests of children, we drop the matter. Nothing is mentioned in the Bill. We need to be consistent.
As my noble friend Lady Elles made absolutely clear in her opening remarks, this proposal does not mean asking children to put a veto on divorce. Obviously that would be an absurd proposition. However, it does mean that when the court considers the matter, the interests of the children ought to be
Baroness Carnegy of Lour: My Lords, I have not spoken before on this Bill. I did not want noble Lords to tell me that I had not been married and divorced and therefore knew nothing about it. However, I have done a lot of work with children. When I read in the press that my noble and learned friend the Lord Chancellor wanted children to be asked whether or not their parents should be divorced, I was absolutely horrified. I examined the Bill and the amendments, and found that he was not doing any such thing. But that is precisely what my noble friends--with whom I agree about so much in relation to the importance of children--suggest in subsection (5)(a) of Amendment No. 9 which refers to,
The noble Lord, Lord Habgood, spoke about how children are consulted in mediation. With respect, that is completely different. I know a little about it, as I took a Private Member's Bill on mediation through this House last Session. Asking a child about the arrangements that will be made for him or her is quite different. Amendment No. 9 suggests that we ask a child: do you, or do you not want your parents to divorce? I cannot possibly go along with that, and I hope that my noble and learned friend will not.
Lord Meston: My Lords, I am concerned as to how this amendment would work in practice. I ask myself, "How would a court take an objective view as to whether or not dissolution of the marriage is in the interests of the child?", and examine that question case by case. I suspect a confusion of thought in this debate between dissolution of the marriage and separation of the parents. It is very important that that distinction is kept at the forefront of our considerations.
At least a year before the matter comes before the court, as it would under this amendment, the parents themselves probably will have already confronted the question of whether or not they should separate and will have asked themselves the question which parents in that situation must ask. It is a question to which I do not feel there is ever a satisfactory answer. It is whether to struggle on; try to stay together in conflict and unhappiness; or stay apart in relative peace (if not harmony) possibly to spare the children further distress but meaning that the children, unhappily, do not have two parents under the same roof.
So far as concerns the wishes of the children, most children would say, if asked, that the one thing they really want is for their parents to be back together. But in case after case that is the one thing the children cannot have. Whether that is then translated into a reason for holding up or preventing the dissolution of the marriage is a different question altogether. However, I fear that one side effect of these amendments would be to involve the children more than they already inevitably will be involved. I subscribe to the view--it is the view of very experienced family lawyers--that in many cases children have the right not to have to decide these difficult questions.
As a matter of drafting, it seems to me that the amendment may well be in some ways inconsistent with Clause 2(1)(c) of the Bill. The other thing with which the courts will have to be concerned in any event is whether the arrangements required to be made for the children have been met. It is certainly right, if there is an issue about what is best for the children, that any question concerning the upbringing of the children is properly considered under the provisions of the Children Act, to which reference has already been made and of which the provisions set out in Amendment No. 9 are but part. Therefore, I have reservations about the amendments.
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By Giordano Bruno
Neithercorp Press - 07/18/2010
In the financial life of every culture built upon faulty monetary policy, there are points at which the thin thread of economic faith; the thread that ties the entire failing system together, the thread made tangible by the hopes (and sometimes ignorance) of the general populace, finally snaps. From Ancient Rome, to
Today, we face an atmosphere in which the fundamentals are fiercely opposed to the publicly promoted perception of the economy, and it is moments in history like this that present a clear primer for total collapse. Financial disaster is bad enough when it is at least partially anticipated. When the masses are caught completely unaware and unprepared in the midst of misguided conviction, this leads to the worst kind of tragedy: the ironic and Shakespearian kind. To avoid this brand of tragedy is one of the primary reasons why we in the Liberty Movement do what we do. We may not be able to stop the current crisis from developing, but we can create awareness, and through this we can lessen the cultural shock, and thereby lessen the impact.
Mainstream economists crowed about the "invincible" rise of globalism and the unstoppable
I suppose we should not be surprised by the continued lifespan of MSM parrots and puppets. They may not be helpful to the average American, but they are very helpful to international banks and the globalist companies that pay their salaries. They distract and confuse us. They comfort when they should caution, and contradict when they should pay heed. Our financial house is burning from the bottom floor up, and they assure us that the warm orange glow is just the dawning of a new and beautiful day. We are told to "look to the future", a return to normalcy is "just around the corner". Never would they dare to weigh the cold hard factors of the present, or the ruse would be up. Whether they are aware of it or not the lies media pundits perpetuate set the stage for even greater upheaval, to the detriment of most, and the benefit of only a handful.
In this article, as we have in so many others, we will examine those lies, as well as the truths they are meant to hide. The most important truth of all being, that not only are we not in the middle of a recovery, but that the final phase of the economic meltdown is about to commence…
"We will not have any more crashes in our time."
- John Maynard Keynes in 1927
"I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism… I have every confidence that there will be a revival of activity in the spring, and that during this coming year the country will make steady progress."
- Andrew W. Mellon,
"[1930 will be] a splendid employment year."
- U.S. Dept. of Labor, New Year's Forecast, December 1929
"While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed through the worst — and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover. There has been no significant bank or industrial failure. That danger, too, is safely behind us."
- Herbert Hoover, President of the
Most of us were not alive to witness the throws of the Great Depression, but for many, the quotes above sound strangely familiar. Pundits and government officials of our fateful era have taken to spewing the same kind of nonsense on a daily basis, and one begins to wonder if they are TRYING to top the ridiculous statements of their forebears in an attempt of ultimate mockery. Today, not only are we told that "green shoots" abound, but that if those green shoots fail, it will only be because we did not "believe" hard enough in their existence!
It is this kind of idiocy that led us to the state of affairs we are in now, and it is the same idiocy that will leave millions of Americans in extended financial ruin in the near future. The absurd idea that prosperity is driven merely by blind optimism must be put to rest if we are ever to rebuild. Transparency, the pure and unadulterated truth, must be present in every aspect of government and finance without question for a culture to succeed. No longer can we operate in a system built upon the premise that the American people must be kept in the dark "for their own good".
The essence of the recovery argument lay in unsubstantiated rhetoric, skewed statistics, and the over-promotion of news items that in reality are very minor economic indicators. Wall street reform has been heralded as a fix-all, yet the language of the legislation does little to nothing in reigning in the toxic derivatives trading practices that fomented the housing bubble, nor does it take any measures against the root cause of the mortgage crisis; the private Federal Reserve Bank, which artificially lowered interest rates and lending standards during the 1990's knowing full well that this would amass pockets of poisonous debt securities throughout the economy. International banks have not been truly punished for their practices of market rigging and faulty accounting, nor will they be. The recent and laughable lawsuit settlements of AIG and Goldman Sachs prove that no bankers will be held accountable, only penalized with fines that amount to little more than pocket change to these monstrous global corporations:
This means that the conditions which triggered the initial collapse have not been mended in any way. Absolutely nothing has changed since 2007. Americans have only been temporarily shielded from the effects and the particulars of continuing financial corruption. For instance, it has been revealed that the SEC itself has known since at least April that Citigroup has been hiding assets and debts on its books by counting Repurchase Agreements as actual sales. For those of you not familiar with such slight-of-hand, this is the same kind of accounting trick that led to the fall of Lehman Brothers:
Citigroup claims, of course, that these Repurchase Agreements are only a small part of their operation and will not affect their ability to function. The problem is that like Lehman Brothers and Citigroup, it is probable that most global banks have used false accounting procedures to hide the true measure of their leveraged capital. It certainly is not in their best interest to reveal the whole truth, so why would they? Due to the continuing dilemma of hidden and unreported bank debts, it is only a matter of time before we witness yet another credit implosion, followed by even more taxpayer funded bailouts, and even greater stress on the stability of the U.S. Dollar.
While empty promises of reform and the hidden accounting practices of banks have kept markets malleable for the moment, it is really the exaggeration of consumer spending and retail gains, along with rigged unemployment reports from the Labor Department, that have kept the false recovery wheel spinning for over a year. Any profit or production increase by almost any company has been held up as a rallying cry for a bull market, even though in most cases these companies increased profits by cutting their labor force, and increased production by forcing their remaining employees to work harder for the same amount of money. They did not expand profits because the
Retail stocks are beginning to shed value as they take hits from decreasing sales and profits, meaning, the cost cutting strategy has run its course and retailers are still losing money:
Service sector employment has remained stagnant. The excitable talk that started at the beginning of this year of a hiring resurgence has now faded:
The bottom line; the TRUE unemployment rate of around 20% has become perpetual, and some economists are even suggesting that we accept it as a standard. The American public is now coming to realize that healthy job creation is a very distant goal, one that the government alone has no ability to achieve, bailout or no bailout:
On the international scene, news from
The mere mention that
And, the IMF and the EU have suspended a review of
Most European countries are in the same predicament as
What is this leading to? A situation we have been warning about for years; either the default of numerous EU member nations, or the inflationary collapse of the Euro. In each case, the EU will eventually be forced to turn towards the only avenue left available to them; the IMF and full austerity measures. This, of course, was the plan all along….
We have just covered the broader problems in the world economy that have been obscured by the establishment media in order to perpetuate a false sense of security in the masses. However, these are simply ongoing problems that some may dismiss as "par for the course", troubles that could go on for years without causing immediate damage to
The Signs Of Final Phase Collapse
It is difficult to write about economic indicators of collapse for many reasons, but the primary issue is one of relativity. Most Americans alive today have never suffered through an extended depression and few if any have ever witnessed a full fledged meltdown of a country's finance and infrastructure. Therefore, many people in this country have no point of reference with which to compare and contrast the events of the new millennium. The unfortunate reality is, when a society enjoys an extended period of affluence, they often become conditioned to take prosperity for granted. They become unable or unwilling to interpret warning signs of a collapse until the event is already near its end, and they have lost everything.
The signals listed below I believe are truly the last straw, the final alarm before the global financial system spirals completely out of control. It is impossible to say exactly when this larger secondary breakdown will occur, however, when one studies the economic disasters of the past, these same primers tend to appear preceding very fast moving financial decay.
Secondary Real Estate Bubble: If you think you've seen a catastrophe in the real estate market so far, just wait another six months. Now that the government home buyer tax credit has ended, we are starting to see how much the real estate market really was being propped up by taxpayer dollars. Mortgage bond yields have plummeted to their lowest level on record while bond sales have slumped, all in anticipation of another massive round of mortgage defaults:
Sales of new
And, nearly 1 in 3 homes sales in the first quarter of 2010 were foreclosures at rock bottom prices:
Home foreclosures are on track to reach 1 Million or more by the end of 2010, and home seizures have risen 38% as banks process a backlog of mortgage defaults. This is despite efforts by banks to reduce foreclosure numbers by modifying loans and attempting short sales of properties:
This is nothing compared to the nightmare that is brewing in the commercial real estate market. Commercial real estate transactions have collapsed by 90% as many people are aware:
However, most analysts tend to overlook retail land occupancy rates. Commercial property vacancies have hit a ten year high:
In the past, owners of commercial real estate have enjoyed extra credit and loan extensions from banks because financiers hope that by supporting the commercial market through the downturn they might retrieve profits once the economic uncertainty has ended and businesses start making money again. But what happens when the downturn does not end? Banks are only going to extend loans for so long before they pull the plug, even on commercial borrowers. It would seem that the time has come for the commercial real estate bubble to finally burst.
Why are these recent problems in the real estate market an indicator of a final phase collapse in the near term? The issue is one of prolonged instability. The recession / depression that we face today should have transpired sometime in the early 1990's, but the engineered low interest rates supplied by the private Federal Reserve during that decade created the property value boom. Any American could buy a home regardless of whether or not they could actually afford it, and anyone with a home could then use it as collateral for enormous credit lines. This new artificial debt bubble prolonged the collapse for around fifteen years. As of the second quarter of 2010, though, this credit source has been exhausted completely. There is officially nothing left to support the general economy (except, of course, fiat inflation). The effects of this lack of national capital should become very visible by the end of this year.
Unemployment Visibility: It did not come as a surprise to this researcher that the jobs market began to crumble once again in June and July, but it did come as a surprise to some. We've talked on numerous occasions about how the Labor Department hides the true level of unemployment from the public, and I won't beat that poor dead horse any further. Suffice to say, real unemployment counting the U6 measurement is around 20%. The length of the average American's unemployment has reached incredible levels. Many millions have remained jobless for 6 to 12 months. In response, the Federal Government has extended unemployment benefits several times over the past year. While this has been painted as a necessary action to save the livelihood of jobless citizens, it is less about "compassion" from the government and more about obscuring the effects of unemployment until they are ready to let the cradle fall. That time has come.
Congress has not renewed extensions of benefits as of this month, and it looks as though they do not plan to do so again. Barack Obama (or his handlers) have tried to turn this issue into another false left / right paradigm argument, claiming that it is the Republicans that are to blame for the loss of unemployment benefits. This is a distraction from the real matter at hand. The truth is, the ENTIRE government is responsible for the disruption of benefits due to the unchecked and insane deficit spending BOTH parties have enacted over the years. Extending benefits again would add billions if not trillions to the already unsustainable
Unemployment benefits hide the visible scars of national job loss. Now that millions of Americans have run out, expect to see those scars in all their terrible glory. Expect homeless numbers to skyrocket. Expect crime to skyrocket. Expect suicides to skyrocket. Expect all the problems that were once muted and hidden to now parade across the street where you live. Expect things to deteriorate from the comparably nice, polite, and civil situation we have currently. Expect things to get ugly.
Municipal Debt Implosion: As we have been warning about for the past couple years, municipal bonds are in dire straights. Cities and some states are ready to implode and they are ready to implode now. Look for city defaults to rise to record levels in the next year.
Municipal Bond Defaults now continue at triple the typical rate:
This not only sets the stage for statewide bankruptcies, it also threatens to bring down large holders of municipal securities, such as Citigroup and U.S. Bancorp:
Usually, muni-bonds are used by investors as a tax haven and hedge to weather credit storms like that which we are seeing now, yet, investors in the past few months have begun dumping their municipals like a bad date. I believe we will begin hearing about state defaults before the end of the year.
The Dollar? Stick A Fork In It, It's Done: As we recently predicted, the dollar has broken its traditional relationship with the stock market. Usually, when investors pull their money out of stocks, they then place it in dollar based securities as a safe haven. This causes the dollar to increase in value. In the past few weeks, though, the dollar has plummeted at the same time as stocks! This means investors no longer trust the dollar as a safe haven investment during a market crisis. As we have said for years, when this signal happens, the dollar is ripe for meltdown.
Central banks across the world are beginning to abandon the U.S. dollar:
Despite the uncertainty in
In 2008, I predicted that
The Yuan is now being globalized by the Chinese in an effort to strengthen its base and make it viable as a reserve currency:
Some analysts have suggested that the globalization of the Yuan could take years, however, this is not necessarily so. If the U.S. dollar were to collapse, or the Euro, or both, the Yuan suddenly would look extremely viable as a reserve currency. I believe this is exactly what will happen, and, I believe
Interestingly, some in
Set aside the fact that others in
Now would be the perfect time considering the dollar's recent rise due to the problems in the EU. A bond dump at this time would mean
The final key to the coming Chinese treasury dump, I feel, is in the relationship between
A Chinese / German financial alliance could create a core economic "shell" which might withstand an anticipated disintegration in the
The Line Has Been Crossed
I have never seen so many indicators of total meltdown, when compared to past economic collapses throughout history, as I see today. Not to sound melodramatic, but I'm really not certain if I will be writing these financial analysis articles for much longer. I suspect that before the year is out there will be no more need, being that every facet I have laid out over the years will become glaringly obvious to everyone.
As I have stated so many times, we may not be able to stop these events from unfolding, but we can determine their final outcome. Prepare for the worst, because I have no doubt you are liable to see it before the next few years are done. Stand by your principles. Never compromise your conscience. And above all else, survive. No ending culminates without the graces of a new life, one full of possibility. It is up to you, the staunch and independent American individual, to see that that possibility is realized regardless of any obstacle or enemy. A fiscal catastrophe will not stop us, it will not break our spirits, it will not enslave us. It will only strengthen our resolve to remain forever defiant, and forever free.
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Greenhouse fans whir at Mike Calhoun's hydroponic lettuce-growing operation while workers harvest the four varieties grown at Stover Shop Greenhouses in Churchville, Virginia.
Calhoun's farming operation is certified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) program, an initiative that requires an internal audit of bookkeeping, growing, and production operations. Once growers pass the audit, they can apply for a GAP logo to display on packaging.
Virginia Cooperative Extension's Fresh Produce Food Safety Team can help growers earn the certification, which sends a message to consumers and big box store clientele that they use practices that reduce the risk of contamination within the supply chain.
Annually, about 750 Virginia growers train through Virginia Cooperative Extension in GAP and more than two dozen growers obtain GAP certification or recertify, said Amber Vallotton, Virginia Cooperative Extension's fresh produce food safety coordinator. Additionally, Virginia Cooperative Extension's fresh produce food safety initiatives, established in February 2014, provide assistance for GAP certification audits and other food safety training, she said.
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Calhoun has been vertical farming green leaf, two types of red leaf, and romaine lettuce with his wife and two sons for about three years. He already has hit production milestones. In 2013, he said he grew about 17,000 heads of lettuce per month, and he plans to increase that to 50,000 once three additional greenhouses are ready for production.
Calhoun sells to the local school system and several food cooperatives. In 2014, he was in the process of becoming a regular grower for the high-end chain grocer Whole Foods.
"We couldn't have accomplished what we did without Virginia Cooperative Extension helping us to get GAP-certified," he said. "It's been kind of a breath of fresh air to deal with people like this who have something in common, that want to help you. That goes back to the agricultural value system."
Farmers don't need GAP certification to sell produce, but most large retailers and big box stores require it. The GAP seal of approval means that the audit farmers pass for record keeping and on-farm compliance are agricultural practices specific to each farm. For Calhoun's operation, GAP requirements include keeping regular planting and harvest records to ensure traceability of his product, water testing, worker training, and developing written procedures and logs for the planting, harvesting, packing, and storing of his lettuce.
Vallotton helped Calhoun prepare for his GAP audit. "GAP certification presently is market-driven, yet even if a farm doesn't need to get certified, implementing good agricultural practices on farm are important to ensure a safer food supply in Virginia," Vallotton said.
Not all farms need to be GAP-certified to employ good agricultural practices.
Sally Walker and Jason Pall of Blacksburg, Virginia, own and manage Glade Road Growing, which is not GAP-certified. But they have employed good agricultural practices as they expanded. Glade Road sells directly to consumers at farmers markets.
"Because we sell direct to consumers, it's important that our produce remain fresh after it's picked," Pall said. For example, once spinach is triple-washed and spun in an industrial-sized salad spinner, the bins of dark green spinach leaves go into cold storage where they await the trip to the farmers market.
Other practices at Glade Road Growing include testing well water to ensure it is safe for washing spinach and making sure that shoes worn for feeding and tending to chickens are not worn where produce is grown.
Walker and Pall said they have attended numerous workshops, collaborated with fellow farmers, and also consulted Virginia Cooperative Extension to gather ideas for implementing food safety practices related to picking and packaging their fresh produce.
Virginia Cooperative Extension is leading the effort to educate all Virginia growers about food safety risks and good agricultural practices that can be implemented on their farms.
"Virginia Cooperative Extension is fostering a fresh produce food safety culture in Virginia from farm to fork," Vallotton said.
- Written by Amy Loeffler.
- For more information on this topic, contact Lori Greiner at 540-231-5863.
Video: On the farm
Virginia Tech alumnus Jason Pall gives a tour of Glade Road Growing as he harvests spinach.
Video: Good Agricultural Practices
Mike Calhoun of Stover Shop Greenhouses talks about his relationship with Virginia Cooperative Extension and some of the ways his farm demonstrates Good Agricultural Practices standards.
A history of the Good Agricultural Practices program
President Bill Clinton announced the Food Safety Initiative in 1997 to improve the nation's food supply. Part of the initiative directed the secretary of health and human services and the secretary of agriculture, along with the agricultural community, to issue guidance on Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and Good Manufacturing Practices for fruits and vegetables.
In 2011, President Barack Obama enacted the Food Safety Modernization Act, considered by many to be the most sweeping piece of legislation to affect U.S. food safety laws in 70 years. The act builds on the Clinton administration's work to make food safety a priority and enabled the Food and Drug Administration to establish science-based, minimum standards for the safe growing, harvesting, packing, and holding of produce on farms to minimize contamination that could lead to serious health issues or death.
Though food safety laws have become more stringent, it's still not a requirement for every farm to obtain GAP certification. Farms such as Glade Road Growing in Blacksburg, Virginia, that do not have GAP certification can consult key resources such as FamilyFarmed.org for training in fresh produce food safety, farm financing, and marketing.
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An Virginia Cooperative Extension publication details how the organization leads the way in fresh produce food safety training and assisting farmers in acquiring Good Agricultural Practices certification in the commonwealth.


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As a backpacker, one of the ways you get around is by bus. I have ridden so many types of buses it is crazy. From luxury to school buses, I have been on them. Some may ask, "Why ride a bus for hours when you can just fly?" Well for two reasons: You are a backpacker, so you are all about saving money. Why pay $200.00 for a one way plane ticket when you can spend $50.00 on a plane ticket and put the rest of the money towards traveling longer. You're a backpacker, you're supposed to be roughing it! The other reason is that when riding a bus or a train, you get a chance to see the country its self. Riding the bus to Nicaragua, I was able to see how beautiful the countryside was. The wonderful landscape, cows in the street, people working the fields, serene lakes, the hills, and more cows in the street. While riding, I hung out with two girls from the UK. All of 18 and 20 years old, they spoke in an English accent and had an exciting energy. It's something about travel that brings strangers together.
After a couple hour ride, the girls and I were dropped off at a gas station in the middle of nowhere (see the trend?). We were like, "I thought we were getting dropped off in Leon?" The bus driver said, "This is Leon.." See this is a classic example of a transportation issue when traveling in Central America. You have to be very specific in where you are going. The girls and I dashed to the gas station to grab some cash and snacks when we spotted a taxi advertising for a hostel. Cheap stays and two free drinks for each day? Sold American!
Arriving at the hostel, it was a party vibe. Young cats walking around sipping on drinks, people playing pool, and listening to music. It was a pretty cool place. We checked into our rooms and then headed out for dinner before the pub crawl.
Walking around Leon, you can see the Spanish influence. The architecture definitely leaned towards Spain. The buildings, although some damaged and under-construction, were these beautiful structures. The streets were filled with vendors selling different types of food like chicharones and fresh pineapple out of wheelbarrows and carts. Donkeys and horses freely walk down the street leaving their waste behind and overall everyone has a good vibe. Leon is mainly a college town, so many of the stores catered towards young folks and travelers, so there were mad internet cafes and places selling memory cards. The weather, while overcast, was very cool, unlike many places in Central America which were crazy Humid.
The first night, the English girls and I grabbed dinner and went on a hostel sponsored pub crawl around the neighborhood. One bar in particular we went to was this lively place with live Spanish music, people dancing on the bar, and everyone at tables drinking, "Flor De Cana," the rum of choice. It was such a cool time talking with different travelers about their experiences while we drank and listened to the great music. Good, good times.
The next day in Leon was spent wandering around the city, eating more street food, drinking more with the group, and just hanging out. As much fun as I was having in the city, I wanted to get to beach or an island, and one city kept coming up – Poneloya. There were so many things that I had heard and it just stoked my imagination. I had to go.
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The patient is a woman who has been paraplegic from an accident for more than 19 years. (Complete paraplegia of the 10th thoracic vertebra.) She had surgery and also an infusion of umbilical cord blood stem cells.
Note the stunning benefits: "The patient could move her hips and feel her hip skin on day 15 after transplantation. On day 25 after transplantation her feet responded to stimulation. On post operative day (POD) 7, motor activity was noticed and improved gradually in her lumbar paravertebral and hip muscles. She could maintain an upright position by herself on POD 13. From POD 15 she began to elevate both lower legs about 1 cm, and hip flexor muscle activity gradually improved until POD 41."
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We have to be cautious. One patient does not a treatment make.
Also, the authors note that the lamenectomy the patient received might have offered some benefit. But still, this is a wonderful story that offers tremendous hope for paralyzed patients.
Typically, it has been completely ignored in the American media (although it has gotten some foreign press attention). (Can you imagine the headlines if the cells used had been embyonic?)
One last point. This is a patient with a very old injury -- making the results even more dramatic.
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The greatest comics of all time don't appear on bestseller charts or canon lists or big-box bookstore shelves. They are the property of the back issue bins and thrift store crates and swap meet hawkers of America, living like the medium itself in the unremembered crags and pockets of publishing history…
Zen Intergalactic Ninja: Tour of the Universe Special – The Airbrush Art of Dan Cote, by Dan Cote with an introduction by Steve Stern. Cover dated 1995. Published by Entity Comics/Express Publications.
How acquired: A flash of shiny pink and silver caught my eye midway through a box of "special stuff" at the legendary, trash-strewn, dust-encrusted, Indian food-smelling SuperSecret Comics Warehouse in Brooklyn. The pink was the comic's own holographic foil cardstock cover (I love '90s comics), but the silver was a faded glint of metallic Sharpie tracings. Yes, folks, this is a signed copy — albeit one signed by the dude who wrote the comic's introduction, with ink that's made more moves toward fading off than staying on since. This thing smells like Sharpie too, so overwhelmingly that I have to hold it at arms' length when I read it — probably the result of the no doubt extremely hazardous chemicals used to produce such a shiny cover. Which, as you'll come to understand, is perfect.
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The history lesson: Zen, the Intergalactic Ninja, is a classic late-20th century comics success story. Creator Steve Stern (the dude who signed my copy of this comic) and his brainless-but-charming alien warrior were lucky enough to capitalize on the success of not one but two wider movements in comics. Zen came out of the gate in 1987, surfing high on the wave of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-inspired black-and-white independent action comics, imbued with just enough artistic competence to survive when so many other forgotten properties bit the dust as the market for such material collapsed. A few years later, Zen's fortunes rose again, as Stern switched up the look of what was already an action-packed, dynamically drawn book to correspond more closely with the white-hot Image Comics aesthetic. There were Zen videogames, Zen toys — hell, I had a Zen T-shirt as a kid — and in 1995, nothing less than a comic book-format artists' monograph dedicated to the work of Zen's sublimely talented cover artist, Dan Cote. The story of Stern's decision to tap Cote to work on his book is one that demands retelling, so here it is from the horse's mouth, as seen in Stern's introduction:
"My first acquaintance with him was via the finely detailed pen-and-ink artwork his mother had on display in her office at Cote's Old-Fashioned Ice Cream. It had a captivating, Tolkeinesque quality to it that spoke volumes about its creator. …
"I was totally unprepared for the portfolio of astonishing airbrushed art that Dan displayed. The visions contained therein, combined with Dan's enthusiasm for the comic book medium, rekindled my own love for comics — a field I had left many years before. Thus Zen Intergalactic Ninja was born."
There's comedy to the story, and plenty of it: The guy not only first saw his future collaborator's work because his mom had it on display in her ice cream shop, but in the office of said shop! How did he get back there? But there's a strange kind of truth to it as well, something that's been lost to comics' move toward corporate control and mass-media tentpoling. How many successful comics get thrown together by two dudes who randomly meet at the ice cream shop, and how many by disinterested editors plugging email contacts together like mathematical formulas? Stern's story is a fascinating piece of comics-specific Americana, a fragment from a bygone era.
In today's more conservative publishing climate, an art special like this one would undoubtedly just reprint Cote's published covers; but thanks to some cosmic miracle, Cote was given free rein to exorcise his deepest inner visions. The result was something that exudes a corrosive beauty all its own. Not to mention that smell.
Why it's the greatest comic of all time: Given the trash culture origin of this comic, I can't imagine any modern reader coming to it prepared for the high intensity of the work contained within it. But the straight-ahead force of Cote's visual imagination and his nuanced, idiosyncratic way with the airbrush are enough to put his work on par with the kind of noise imagery that would set the world of art comics on its ear a decade later when it was collected in editor Sammy Harkham's seminal anthology Kramers Ergot. The outer-space setting of Zen's adventures is the perfect environment for an artist with Cote's visionary qualities to play against, allowing him to create a world with absolutely no ties to our own, full of colors and shapes and beings that this reality will never play host to. The color-seared deep-cosmos backgrounds Cote creates are highly accomplished abstract art in and of themselves, more than worthy of the gallery circuit, and it's indicative of Cote's sense of restraint that he often leaves them alone (as seen above) rather than plopping characters and action down on top of them. When those characters are allowed to enter the picture, however, it's just as impressive, fever-dreamed dragon men and chrome starships drawn with minimal linework and meticulous color detailing clashing up against backgrounds whose new-age visual power threatens to swallow them whole. It's pure imagination set down on the printed page.
No less engaging is Cote's unique way with sequencing a page of comics. Most of this issue consists of full-page pictures or double-page spreads, but when it goes sequential, it does so in a grand, painterly manner that matches the style of the drawings perfectly. Each individual panel is composed with the forethought and work ethic of a full painting, and rather than flow together in an uninterrupted stream like more conventional cartooning does, these pages expand the scope of the world they depict with every new panel. Hyperkinetic fight scenes are inset against full-spread backgrounds of bleeding suns or neon galactic mists, and space cruisers take on the completely abstracted quality of the starscapes they speed through.
The overall impression is one of a barely-glimpsed, senses-shattering world that this comic provides page-sized portals into. It's enhanced by the only words in the comic, which come not in the form of balloons or narrative captions, but typescripted sci-fi mantras hovering in blue chrome boxes over the pictures, giving abstruse hints at what the world of Zen comics is all about. A line credited to "THE MASTERS OF OM" (all caps) tells us to "move through space and time with the swiftness and purity of thought", while more "official guide to"-type text segments like "THE RYGULIANS… Among the fiercest warriors in the universe, this all-male race of cold and relentless killers replicates in vast cybernetic hives" feel more like surrealistic snippets of lost radio transmissions when they're put up against the lysergic vacuum of Cote's imagery. This is the real triumph of Cote's work: even in the context of a Zen Intergalactic Ninja comic, of all things, it makes an ironic, "look at this reading" the least interesting way to confront its content. Such is the uniqueness and grandeur of the visions this comic contains that we're forced to take them as serious statements. For 23 pages, airbrush art sheds its corny, nerdy points of origin to become something pure and beautiful Zen's world is made to look like the vastest and most compelling one in comics. If this book is the only tour of that universe you choose to take, there's no reason why you should ever think differently.
Cover price: Three dollars and ninety-five cents.
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Genre: Action
Publisher: Atari
Developer: Melbourne House
Release Date: May 11, 2004
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Like a lot of other guys who were kids in the Eighties, I grew up watching the old "Transformers" cartoon, now generally referred to as "Generation One." I can remember quite a few conversations back in the day about how "Transformers" would've lent itself really well to a video game, but nothing ever came of it. There were a few notoriously bad titles that stayed in Japan – where the Transformers were frequently unrecognizable, and almost always renamed; my childhood hero Optimus Prime was suddenly "Fire Convoy" – but other than that, nothing. It's the most underutilized license in video game history.
Now, we've got "Transformers: Armada," and quite frankly, the cartoon sucks. There are just too many annoying kids, too much focus on collecting the PokeMiniCons or whatever they are, and not enough giant robots punching each other. It's all kid-friendly or something, with smiles and laughter and a lesson at the end.
Weirdly, though, "Armada" has now spawned a video game from Atari, Prelude to Energon. Doubly weirdly, it's actually a pretty good game; it is that rarest of properties, which overcomes the gravitic suck of its license to provide the player with a satisfyingly destructive experience. It reminds me a bit of last year's Metal Arms; Armada is a third-person shooter, with lots of weaponry to choose from, plenty of extras, and three selectable, customizable characters.
The plot is simple: Megatron has detected the presence of power-boosting Minicons on Earth, grabbed his buddies Cyclonus and Starscream, and set off to capture them. Because Megatron figured this out while he was in the middle of a fight with Optimus Prime – why is Megatron considered a tactician, anyway? – Prime immediately takes off after him.
As Prime, Hot Shot, or Red Alert, you'll be battling across Earth, and eventually back to Cybertron, to collect the Minicons before Megatron can. This is complicated to some extent by the army of Decepticlones that Megatron has pulled out of nowhere; these smaller, unnamed robots present the majority of your opposition in any given level. They run the gamut from blaster fodder to serious threat, as you might expect, and are usually supervised by a powerful Decepticon.
The Autobots, by comparison, have three guys, and, unlike the cartoon, are not inexplicably hindered by the presence of small children. Prime's the offensive fortress, capable of crushing Decepticlones under the tires of his truck form, while Red Alert is heavily armored and Hot Shot, with his greater speed, makes a decent scout.
Each starts the game equipped with a basic blaster; you have a high rate of fire, but if you run the blaster out of power, you'll have to wait a second before it can recharge. You can also transform into your vehicle mode by simply pressing Triangle, which trades in your weaponry for higher speed, smaller size, and the ability to crash through entire platoons of Decepticlones like a steamroller.
Each level has several Minicons hidden within it, which you need to track down before the Decepticons capture them. Each Minicon has a name and an additional capability, which can transform your Autobots from large but somewhat weak soldiers into one-robot engines of destruction. A given Minicon will fit into one of four categories: primary weapon, secondary weapon, defensive option, or a secondary, automatic enhancement option.
Not all Minicons can be used on all three Autobots, and you only have a set number of "points" to spend on installing Minicons, each of which have a specific value. That being said, with the right Minicons, you'll find the Autobots become very customizable. You can play it sneaky with a stealth field, go on the offensive with heavy blasters or rocket launchers, deflect enemy fire with a reflective shield, or close to melee with a Minicon that boosts your close-range hand-to-hand combat damage. (Watching Hot Shot backflip-kick a Decepticlone into pieces is just comedy platinum.) There are at least forty Minicons to rescue and play with over the course of the game, and none of them really repeat each other. Sure, there's the big gun, bigger gun, biggest gun progression you might expect, but various force fields, scanners, modifications, and missiles also add to the destructive hilarity.
There're hours of fun to be had figuring out how best to configure each Autobot to maximum effect, while simultaneously wrecking dozens of pleasingly-explosive Decepticlones. When one of the 'clones goes down, it doesn't just fall over; it detonates in a satisfying shower of robot parts, accompanied by a nice big explosion.
You'll be seeing that a lot, because Armada is not a terribly easy game. On Rookie difficulty, it'll take a while to get going, but eventually, things will get tricky. The larger Decepticlones can take an astounding amount of punishment, and there are usually quite a lot of them. From the first level on, you can comfortably expect to be outnumbered a dozen to one in an average skirmish, and fighting enemies who're smart enough to set up crossfires and dive for cover. In later drop zones, when the Decepticlones develop heavy armor and rapid-fire blasters, you'll need every bit of efficiency you can wring out of your Minicon configuration to stay intact.
The Starship level, for example, is kind of like what would happen if a plasma rifle and a gravel crusher had a kid; entering the stage exposes you to a withering rain of gunfire from a two-hundred-seventy degree angle, while several heavy-armor Decepticlones mount a frontal assault. Win past that, and you'll have to fight Starscream, who is something of a cheater.
Armada is a strange contradiction like that. The television show it's based upon is definitely a child's program, but the game is clearly meant for older players. It's violent, full-contact Pokemon, if Pokemon were, in fact, a selection of highly lethal weaponry meant to shred robots. It's not a "Generation One" game, but Transformers: Armada will make an adequate substitute for anyone else, like me, who's been waiting for the Transformers to show up in a decent video game.
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While you probably won't run into David Hasselhoff when you stay at Baywatch Resort Myrtle Beach, you can count on having a relaxing time in these very comfortable top-notch accommodations. Located in the Crescent Beach area, Baywatch Resort Myrtle Beach sits oceanfront offering you outstanding views of a white, pristine beach and the blue Atlantic Ocean.
When you choose to stay here, you'll have your choice of one, two or three bedroom units. The amenities are really what takes it over the top and sets it apart from other resorts in the area. Baywatch has an indoor and an outdoor pool, indoor and outdoor lazy river, kiddie pool and splash area, hot tubs and a seasonal outdoor Tiki bar. You'll enjoy the convenience of an on-site restaurant and lounge.
Located minutes away from the night life in the area you'll have plenty of opportunities to enjoy live theatre, shopping galore at both specialty shops and malls including an the Tangier Outlet Mall. The Grand Strand region has over 1,800 different restaurants where you can enjoy anything from casual fare to fine dining.
Local events include the 4th annual "Champions of Magic" show at the Gilmore Auditorium, home of The Carolina Opry. Champions of Magic will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, January 19 at The Carolina Opry in Myrtle Beach. Rudy Coby, "The Coolest Magician on Earth," will perform live along with other top magic acts. Others include David and Dania, seen on "America's Got Talent," World Champion Magician, Julian Chen and many others. Tickets start at $30/person.
Don't miss Ben Vereen Steppin' Out with The Long Bay Symphony live at 7:30 p.m. Friday, January 25 at the Alabama Theatre. Vereen, Tony Award and Drama Desk Award Winner, has performed on Broadway in Wicked, Fosse, Pippin and many others. The special concert will benefit the Pardue Family "Children in Need" Fund. Ticket prices start at $42.95.
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Here's a photograph I made of my favorite tree. This is a Bur Oak, the Missouri State Champion Bur Oak, in fact. It is 84 feet tall with a spread of 116 feet. It has a circumference of 272 inches at 54" above the ground. The big tree is located on the Williamson farm, about a mile from McBaine, Missouri, in the Missouri River floodplain. There are no other trees near it. It's about 350 years old. There were some fears locally that it would not survive the Great Flood of 1993, but despite standing in six feet of water for awhile, the tree survived without problems. (I can send you a gif of the tree underwater, or you can see it at http://www.wmwoods.edu/glen/images/TREE2.GIF, if you're interested.) The big tree has been a favorite local destination for generations. It's a great spot for picnics, or just to visit. It's also very photogenic, surrounded by open fields. I try to visit the big tree every few months. I've often thought of climbing it, but that would require bringing out ropes or a ladder, which would really be cheating. Besides, the big tree is too big to be climbed by mere humans. Regards, Glenn P. Rice
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Have you ever been the recipient of a random act of kindness?What is a Random Act of Kindness? A random act of kindness occurs when someone helps someone else just because.
It can be a very simple act – like someone letting you borrow his or her cell phone when you need to make an important call, or the act of a person who lets you cut in line because he or she has a full cart and you only have a few items. It's unexpected, usually unplanned, and always done without expectation of receiving anything in return.
Committing Random Acts of Kindness A random act of kindness doesn't take very much time, money or effort - just an awareness of the oppotunities we have each day as we work, shop, go to school or play. By paying attention to the little things, you can help others on a daily basis. Best of all, connecting with strangers in these small but meaningful ways helps us to recognize the beauty in humanity.
Examples of Random Acts of Kindness Here are some simple random acts of kindness to get you started. Let this list inspire you to do much more!
- Hold the door for someone
- Donate food to a soup kitchen
- Rake leaves at an elderly person's home
- Tell a child a story
- Give a compliment
- Send a warm baby blanket or cuddly toy to a family crisis shelter
- Give money to the homeless
- Give someone change for a dollar or another bill
- Donate old books to the library
- Pay for the coffee of the person standing behind you in line
- Leave the waitress or waiter a big tip
- Tell someone important in your life how much he or she means to you
- Give someone a hug
- Plant a tree
- Adopt a pet from an animal shelter
- Spend time with residents of a nursing home
- Send a care package to a soldier overseas
Making Random Acts of Kindness a part of your life If you don't have time to volunteer for large projects, consider making it a habit to commit random acts of kindness. Deciding to make one small gesture each day is a great place to start. You'll find yourself looking for opportunities - soon one or two a day little things each day will become a way of life!
To help you with ideas, the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation sponsors a Random Acts of Kindness Week – typically held every February. Planned random acts of kindness (and yes, that is an oxymoron, but for such a wonderful cause, we'll let it go) - are held throughout the nation. Learn more by visiting their website.
The Results of Random Acts of Kindness You will be amazed at how many people you can touch with these small gestures. Your small kindness could change that person's day and attitude, causing them to treat their family, friends, co-workers or even other strangers in a kinder, more loving way.
You never know what's going on in someone's life, or how your words and actions might affect them. By choosing to reach out with a kind act, the ripples from your thoughtful deed or gentle words could stretch out to affect entire communities. Isn't that a wonderful thing to be a part of?


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Canon, leader in photographic and imaging technology, is pleased to announce the hybrid PowerShot S1 IS compact digital camera. A fully featured and well specified 3.2 Megapixel digital still camera with a 10x optical zoom, the PowerShot S1 IS is also a quality digital video camcorder, with capacity to shoot clear and natural video clips with 30 frames per second VGA resolution and high quality sound. It has an optical Image Stabiliser that limits blur in digital stills and keeps video footage steady. The 3.2 Megapixel sensor and Canon's image processing algorithms allow enlargements up to A4 in size without image degradation.
"This camera represents a significant development for Canon," said Malcolm Hills, Head of Canon Consumer Imaging in the UK and Ireland. "It has digital still capacity to rival many single purpose digital cameras and digital video quality that will delight many camcorder users. Canon's strengths in these two markets has driven a convergence of technologies to deliver an exciting new product concept".Powerful lens
Optical Image Stabiliser
The PowerShot S1 IS features an f/2.8 - f/3.1, 38-380 mm (35mm equivalent) zoom lens. Optional wide and tele-converters are available to extend the lens range from 26.6 mm up to 608 mm with the zoom being driven by a tiny ultrasonic motor (USM). The motor uses ultrasonic frequency vibrations to drive a tiny rotor that is fast, powerful and highly responsive. In digital still modes it drives the zoom at maximum speed, while in video mode it slows for a smooth effect and runs virtually silent, avoiding interference with video sound recording.
True Movie Capability
The PowerShot S1 IS features Canon's shift-type optical Image Stabiliser (IS) technology. IS significantly reduces the effects of camera shake, important with cameras such as the PowerShot S1 IS that have high magnification lenses. Tiny movement detection gyros and a correcting lens element counteract the effects of lens shake to deliver sharp images. The resulting compensation is the equivalent of between two and three extra stops, which means the camera can be used at slower shutter speeds without a tripod and without any detectable increase in image blur. With its combined large f/2.8 aperture and image stabilisation, the camera performs remarkably well in low light conditions.
Auto focus and exposure metering
Smooth, flicker free, clear and natural movie clips can be recorded to the camera's CF card in 30 frames per second VGA resolution. Furthermore, zoom, autofocus, auto exposure and auto white balance all work during movie shooting. A large "Movie" button on the rear of the camera provides quick and easy shooting. Footage of up to 60 minutes or 1GB can be recorded in a single shooting (at QVGA/15 fps mode).
Easy Review and flash
The TTL auto-focus options have been designed with both the still photographer and camcorder user in mind, and include FlexiZone AF/AE point selection and AF lock. The camera has a closest focusing distance of 10cm (W) and 93cm (T). Exposure metering is selectable between Evaluative, Centre-weighted Average, and Spot (centre or linked to AF point).
Purpose built DIGIC processor
A vari-angle LCD allows easy framing from candid or high/low viewpoints. The camera's built in flash can be set to operate automatically, always on or always off. It features a red-eye reduction mode, flash exposure lock and second curtain synchronisation, often used in night photography to create an image of blurred lights trailing a moving, illuminated object.
13 Shooting Modes
The PowerShot S1 IS uses Canon's DIGIC processor, the dedicated image processor now found in all Canon digital cameras up to the EOS 10D Digital SLR. By integrating all image processing algorithms onto a single chip, the purpose-built DIGIC processor has underpinned much of Canon's success in the digital camera market by delivering fast write times, minimal shutter lag, optimal image definition and consistently precise and natural colour reproduction. DIGIC also makes the camera highly responsive enabling it to display captured images almost immediately while Canon's iSAPS technology reads camera settings and environmental data to predict the most likely scene and make adjustments accordingly.
To cover every conceivable still and video shooting situation, the PowerShot S1 IS has 13 shooting modes and six photo effects. Shooting modes include Auto, Program, Shutter Speed Priority, Aperture Priority, Manual, Custom, Portrait, Landscape, Night Scene, Fast Shutter, Slow Shutter, Stitch Assist (for capturing panoramic scenes that can be merged using Canon's PhotoStitch software) and Movie. Photo effects include Sepia, Vivid, Low Sharpening, Black & White and Custom. The camera also has an interval timer function, capable of automatically taking a series of photos at regular intervals.
Shoot underwater adventures
An optional waterproof case allows the PowerShot S1 IS to be taken to a depth of 40m for digital stills and movie footage capture during activities such as surfing, diving, snorkelling and skiing.
Software and CANON iMAGE GATEWAY access
The software supplied with the PowerShot S1 IS includes ZoomBrowser EX (Windows) and ImageBrowser (Mac) for browsing and printing, PhotoStitch, and photo/movie manipulation software ArcSoft PhotoStudio and VideoImpression. Drivers are included for Windows 98/2000/Windows Me, while Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) support allows the camera to connect to Windows XP and Mac OS X (v10.1/v10.2) operating systems without the need for driver installation.
Camera ownership entitles the purchaser to 100MB free storage space on CANON iMAGE GATEWAY, a password-protected online gallery where albums can be stored and shared and camera settings (such as shutter sounds and start up image) can be personalised.Pricing, availability and reader enquiries
The PowerShot 1s IS will be available from March 2004 for £479 RRP inc. VAT.
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I only played solo in Mario Kart 7 and haven't grabbed Kid Icarus cause I hate the control scheme. But I'm glad to hear they may have figured out how online play works.
Try multi on MK7 just once or twice. It made me stop playing SP altogether.