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March 12, 2013
Editor's Note: As theYellowstone Park Foundation prepares for the grand opening of the restored Old Faithful Haynes Photo Shop this summer, we will be featuring articles covering various aspects of this historic treasure.
One of Yellowstone's Most Influential Families
Renowned YNP collectors recall the Haynes family, and how they came to know them through memorabilia
If you gathered all of the memorabilia from the establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872 through today – the trinkets, postcards, artwork, brochures, antiques, photos, etc. – they would tell a story of this remarkable place, and how people have experienced it over time. The trouble is, most national park memorabilia ends up scattered in the hands of various enthusiasts or relinquished to landfills.
Collector Susan Delin Davis purchased her first box of 50 Haynes-produced postcards of Yellowstone from a little antique shop in Fromberg, Montana, 46 years ago. She grew up in Bozeman, and the Park was a special place for her and her family. When she married Jack Davis in 1978, he adopted her passion for collecting Yellowstone memorabilia, and the two spent years acquiring, organizing, researching and upgrading the most complete privately-held collection of Park memorabilia known. Approximately 25 percent of their collection is related to the legendary Haynes family.
Perhaps even more remarkable is how the Davises acquired each piece in their collection. They owned and operated a building maintenance company in Bozeman from 1982 through 2002. (They also operated the only antique postcard and paper shop between Minneapolis and Spokane from 1990 to 2005.) When they learned about the estate sale of Isabel Haynes, wife of the late Jack Ellis Haynes, in Bozeman in 1993, they took on extra maintenance jobs and saved for months in advance.
The Davises scored big at that exhausting and exhilarating auction, and Jack Davis says, "It was THE single most important Yellowstone-related auction in history."
What do you do when you amass such a collection?
Ron Lerner, former board member of the Yellowstone Park Foundation (YPF), headed the funding effort to purchase the Davis Collection.The Davises worked with the Foundation to donate portions of the collection.YPF presented the Davis Collection to Yellowstone National Park in 2001 and it now resides in the Yellowstone Heritage & Research Center.
With the re-opening of the Haynes Photo Shop at Old Faithful, YPF took the opportunity to meet with the Davises to talk about the Haynes family.
YPF: What do you hope others come to appreciate about the Haynes family after visiting the Haynes Photo Shop?
JD: The Haynes family – Frank Jay, son Jack and Jack's wife, Isabel – were the single most influential family to impact Yellowstone. The materials they produced, which include photographs, guidebooks, postcards and souvenirs, shaped the perception of YNP throughout the world. Also, the Golden Age of Postcards, from 1898 to 1915, had a similar impact on society as the Internet does today. It's estimated that the Haynes family published more than 55 million Yellowstone Park postcards from 1900 to 1966. There have been more postcards published of YNP than of any other single location in the world, and the Haynes family dominated that market.
SD: Jack Haynes was called "Mr. Postcard."
YPF: Besides wanting to share your collection with other YNP enthusiasts, what prompted you to sell and donate your collection to the Park?
JD: We had so much stuff in our house that by 2000 it had become unmanageable.
SD: Our boys said that it was like living in a museum.
JD: Frank Jay was a pioneer photographer who died in 1921. His work was done under hard, demanding conditions. It was logistically very difficult to do what he did. Jack took over the business in 1916 and he and Isabel were geniuses at merchandising. Isabel was a driving force in the business.
SD: Isabel was an employee who met Jack in the Park. She was the head housekeeper at Roosevelt in the 1920s.
JD: We feel like we know Isabel better than we know Frank Jay or Jack. We bought Isabel's handwritten ledger from 1947 when she was in charge of checking out linens to Park employees. One guy in the ledger apparently didn't check his stuff back in at the end of the season, and she wrote THIEF next to his name in big red letters.
SD: Jack and Isabel moved to Bozeman in 1942 so that Lida, their only daughter, could go to school. Lida died in a car wreck at age 21 in 1952. She was learning photography when she died and was in line to take over the family business.
YPF: How did the death of Lida seem to affect the Haynes family?
JD: Their business efforts slowed down after their daughter died. It really changed their lives, although financially they were very successful.
SD: We learned that Isabel made a shrine to her daughter at their warehouse.


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Unlike Politico, the Washington Post offers a realistic, non-partisan take on President Obama's assertion of executive privilege. Under a headline stating that Obama has "create[d] a tricky situation," David Nakamura recognizes that this dispute could hurt Obama. He writes: "The potential protracted legal dispute has the potential to embarrass and distract the White House during the heart of the reelection campaign."
This election is, above all else, about the economy. But the fact that Obama is now on record as officially seeking to conceal documents relating to a significant scandal will add to his discomfort.

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Hiya, Thinking about coming back to FFXI, Cor was my main during the WotG days (and well before). So I had a few questions
1. Are the still used? I know XP parties aren't what they used to be but are Cors still nice to have around?
2. Weapons, I know there is the new style relic weapons with the Wildfire WS, is this a needed thing to be a successful cor and if so, how hard is it to get? I'll be playing mostly by myself but I have 2 accounts so if I level them both to 99 I should have several good job choices for content.
3. What all subjobs are needed? I'm not a /whm style cor (unless the job requires it) so /war /sam /nin /rng still the standards?


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TREASURE ISLAND — A trio of beach hoteliers say parking rows of cars for events on a wide stretch of sand behind their properties isn't just hurting their businesses, it's against state law.
If city leaders don't curtail festivals that bring vehicles onto the beach, such as a Rotary Club carnival in the spring, the hoteliers' attorney has vowed to sue.
A state law passed in the 1980s prohibits driving on Florida beaches except for maintenance, unless local governments already had allowed it, attorney Tyler Cathey wrote in a letter to Treasure Island City Attorney Maura Kiefer.
Pinellas County makes no such allowance, and Treasure Island only amended its beach driving ordinance in 2003, which means it runs afoul of the state law, he wrote.
"The cumulative effect of promoting and holding events that allow driving and parking on the beach evidences a lack of proper management by the City of Treasure Island, violating the direct Legislative mandate in Florida's Constitution," wrote Cathey, who represents owners of Page Terrace Motel, Windjammer Resort Hotel and Thunderbird Beach Resort.
Kiefer replied that her staff was investigating whether the law applies to public property where cars "park or traverse for limited deliveries."
Many business owners have praised the city for bringing dozens of new events to the beach in the past decade, drawing tourists at nonpeak times for spectacles like the Sanding Ovations sand-sculpture competition in November.
These beach festivals strain the city's limited parking capacity, though, and a particularly broad section of public beach at the end of 107th Avenue has become an auxiliary parking area for some of them.
The Rotary Club's Greatest Show on Surf, a four-day carnival with a Ferris wheel, music and other attractions, pushed Page Terrace Motel owner Arthur Czysczon and the other hoteliers over the edge.
The carnival happened at peak season, in March, and many of Czysczon's guests were not pleased to have their views of the beach and Gulf of Mexico obstructed by rides.
The city has held more than 50 events with beach parking since 2010, Cathey stated in his letter to the city.
That's a good thing, local chamber of commerce leaders say.
"We know all the visitors yearly that call in, they want to plan their vacations around these events. And some of the events we've had are amazing," said Jo Massaro, head of the combined Treasure Island and Madeira Beach chamber.
Massaro said the fight against beach parking is championed by a small minority; most businesses have embraced the events.
Kiefer, in her letter, points out that Thunderbird owner David King is sponsoring the Fall Fly at T.I. kite event this month, which has participants anchoring sport kites to vehicles on the beach.
The aggrieved hotel owners aren't against all beach events, Czysczon said, as long as they're not disruptive to their guests.
Of course, should the threatened lawsuit come to fruition, it might preclude several events on Treasure Island's calendar, Vice Mayor Alan Bildz said.
"If the hotels' attorneys are right about parking on the beach, then, yes, it would affect a lot," said Bildz, who has been a lone voice in support of the affected hotels at past city commission meetings.
Few of Florida's beaches allow cars, with the exception of Daytona Beach and some adjacent beach communities, where driving has been a long-standing tradition.
Private property owners and environmentalists, who have voiced concerns about sea turtle nests, have filed lawsuits in the past decades to limit driving there.
Czysczon said he has collected thousands of online and paper petitions from local residents and hotel guests who want to see beach parking banned.
"We support the events that incorporate sand, ocean and wind. These are nature's events — events that should be on the beach," he said.


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Mexican marines Thursday displayed to the news media an alleged gangster believed to be a breakaway commander known as "El Taliban," who had split with the brutal Zetas crime group.
The arrest of Ivan Velazquez Caballero, 42, took place in San Luis Potosi, a mining city in central Mexico, said Adm. Jose Luis Vergara, a navy spokesman.
Velazquez's arrest marks a major achievement likely to change the contours of gang-on-gang violence in parts of northern and central Mexico, perhaps allowing the Zetas gang, one of Mexico's most powerful, to overcome a bloody internal feud and march on rivals near Mexico's capital.
Velazquez, a native of Tamaulipas state along the border with Texas where Los Zetas have their stronghold, had operated from central Mexico since 2007, a navy statement said.
He commanded 400 gunmen and his turf included Zacatecas and Aguascalientes states as well as parts of Guanajuato and Coahuila states, the statement said. At one time, he controlled gang operations in Monterrey, a key industrial hub in northeastern Mexico, it added.
A bitter feud broke out a few months ago between Velazquez, who also is known as "Z-50," and one of the two top leaders of Los Zetas, Miguel Trevino Morales. It led to a series of tit-for-tat murders in their respective ranks, including a dump of 14 bodies in San Luis Potosi on Aug. 9.
Los Zetas, onetime enforcers for the Gulf Cartel, broke off in 2010 and have eclipsed their former bosses in strength and global reach. Velazquez, in turn, split with Los Zetas and sought help from the Gulf Cartel.
The arrest of Velazquez would make it the latest blow to the Gulf Cartel, which is based in Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas.
Earlier this month, naval marines captured Mario Cardenas Guillen and Jorge Eduardo Costilla, senior leaders of factions of the Gulf crime group.
With the arrest of "El Taliban," only remnants of the Gulf Cartel remain.
"The number of (Gulf Cartel) leaders who have been arrested in recent weeks is uncanny. I suspect Trevino is providing intelligence to the marines," said Scott Stewart, who oversees analysis for Stratfor, a global intelligence company based in Austin, Texas.
The fast pace of arrests of Gulf Cartel leaders, including Velazquez, may allow Los Zetas to consolidate control of northeastern Mexico and heal their internal rift.
It may also embolden the Zetas to go after the Knights Templar, a crime gang based in Michoacan state heavily involved in production and smuggling of methamphetamine. The Knights Templar had formed a pact with Velazquez and with the Gulf Cartel to try to contain the advance of Los Zetas, which have a presence in at least half of Mexico's 31 states and the capital.
The navy statement said Velazquez began his crime career at age 14 by robbing cars in his hometown of Nuevo Leon in Tamaulipas state. He was sent to jail for car theft at age 22 and joined Los Zetas on leaving prison, it said.
Two other men were arrested with Velazquez, Manuel Antonio Guerrero and Carlos Uriel de Santiago Hernandez, the navy said. Commandos also found four grenades, several firearms, $20,000 in cash and some 26 pounds of what appeared to be marijuana, it said.


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Police have released CCTV images of a man wanted in connection with an assault outside a nightclub in Bolton.
Between 3.15 and 3.30am on Thursday 8 November 2012, a 21-year-old man and his friend were approached on Mawdsley Street in the town centre outside J2 night club by three other men.
One of the men punched the 21-year-old in the face and walked away. He suffered a fracture to his jaw.
Detective Constable Pam Chandler said: "This appears to be an unprovoked attack and was a powerful blow which has knocked the man to the ground causing extensive injuries.
"We are appealing to the public to take a look at these images and if you recognise the man wearing the red/orange top or witnessed the assault, please get in touch."
Anyone with information should phone police on 0161 856 5740 or the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.


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Chicago Fire at Toronto FC
BMO Field – Toronto, Ontario
MLS Regular Season
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Chicago Fire Head Coach and Director of Soccer Frank Yallop
Thoughts on the game
"Hard fought, coming back in any game always feels like you got something out of it as opposed to letting it slip. I'm really happy with the fight back and the spirit of the guys. Obviously, quality wise we weren't quite there yet but the fighting spirit was great."
On Robert Earnshaw's debut performance
"As TFC fans know, he knows where the net is. He hasn't played for a couple months now and he said he probably has 15 minutes in him and I said, "How does 30 sound?" He's dangerous and he creates the second goal with his forcefulness in the box and he is going to help us. I felt we were very dynamic once Ernie came on and it was nice to see."
On the playoff chase
"Every team I manage I want them to fight hard. We've been in almost every game but we just don't have quite enough quality in all our positions to really dominate and take games over. We do have the fighting spirit and once we add some pieces I think we'll be okay, so it's a building process but I'm happy with the overall commitment from everybody."
Chicago Fire forward Quincy Amarikwa
Thoughts on the game
"We didn't make it easy on ourselves but as a team we fought together and we got the draw."
On the goal
"We were trying to bring them into the middle and then get it out wide for some crosses."
On the addition of Robert Earnshaw
"That's what we expected out of him, just to come off the bench and bring some energy. He came on and scored right away and hopefully this leads to more goals in the future. Hopefully we can build a little partnership."
Chicago Fire forward Robert Earnshaw
On returning to Toronto
"It's like I haven't been away. Maybe just because it is a familiar ground and a place I am very fond of. I have been back and forth here, it's a great place that I like to come to. I'd like to thank everyone at Toronto as I never got a chance to really thank everyone here. From Ryan Nelsen to the whole organization, I just want to say thank you very much. The goal I scored was a welcome to Chicago, but also a thank you very much to Toronto."
On returning to Major League Soccer
"Yeah, I love to play. I enjoyed just coming in and getting the shirt on, getting a feel for the ball, felt great. I want to get better on a personal level. I've come here to give something extra, contribute and help each teammate to do better with my experience and quality."
Toronto FC Head Coach Ryan Nelsen
Thoughts on the match...
"Well I thought we were pretty comfortable in the first half. Obviously losing Steven (Caldwell) our captain was a little unsettling for us and we were in pretty good control until then. Then that kind of happened and although we had a lot of the ball, a lot of possession, the analytical guys will say we had all the possession, but we really didn't do much with it. It was pretty comfortable possession in front of their team and they sat back and we didn't really punish them. We had a couple of really good chances and we kind of left them in the game. Obviously we conceded a soft goal and again losing Justin (Morrow) disrupted us. We needed some energy and we needed something, a lift, someone to grab the game by the back of the neck. I thought when Luke (Moore) came on he looked really good and we got ourselves a goal and could have made it three. Then that second goal was horrendous to tell you the truth. We've got to have a desire when an opposition player gets down to the endline we've got to have midfielders right on top of our backline defending our box. We were spectators, we kind of watched it hoping that someone would make the play but in the end it was a deflection bicycle kick that fell unfortunately to them and they punished us. We weren't in the right spots and we had guys just watching in comfortable positions. When you put yourself out of the arena to affect the game, things like this happen."
On the injuries to Seven Caldwell and Justin Morrow…
"Steven (Caldwell) had a really good week of training and he just felt his same quad on one of the stretches that he made, which he probably made 50 times during this week, but unfortunately in the game he hit it. Luckily it wasn't as bad as the original one, it was just something that we had to pull him off because it was only going to get worse. With Justin (Morrow) it was his hamstring so we'll have to get that scanned. When we go down with injuries we seem to do it all at once."
Does it sting even more that the two goals were scored by former TFC players?
"No, not at all. We wish all the best for all our former players. When any player scores against us it stings. Any former player from TFC we wish them all the best."
Dwayne De Rosario was dropped from the 18, is it safe to say that you haven't got what you wanted out of him this season?
"No, not at all. We've got absolutely everything from Dwayne, he's been absolutely fantastic. He's been fantastic in the locker room and he's a great guy but I've got a premier league striker on the bench, I've got a Nigerian striker who would have been going to the World Cup on the bench. So it's a hard squad to make these days. This is a wee bit different and we've got to make tough decisions. Even Daniel Lovitz unfortunately didn't make it and Daniel has been absolutely brilliant for us. His (Dwayne) position is up for grabs now every time we play. They are under the microscope to play well because there are guys, Dwayne and Daniel being a couple of them, that really want to play."
Toronto FC defender Justin Morrow
What was the injury?
"I just turned it. I felt in on a longer run right at the beginning of the second half. I just kind of felt it."
Any idea of how long you might be out?
"I'm going to get it scanned on Monday and see how it is but I don't think it should be too bad. It's sore right now but it should be alright."
How gutted are you to see the team concede so late and throw away points?
"Yes its tough but we have to take a positive out of it in that it is a tie. We do expect more out of ourselves at home and we should get three points. So we are a little disappointed with that but we have a lot of games coming up, games that we should win."
Toronto FC forward Gilberto
How did you feel scoring in successive games?
"I'm very happy that I scored my first goal at home in my stadium in front of my fans. I feel the team is doing really good work right now but unfortunately we couldn't get the result. But I am really happy with the progress of the team."
Do you feel comfortable with Luke Moore upfront?
"If you look back Jermaine Defoe scored six or seven goals when we were playing together so it really has nothing to do with my comfort with Jermaine or Luke. I'm happy now, I wasn't scoring goals and now I am."
Toronto FC defender Mark Bloom
Overall thoughts of getting back into a full game?
"It was good for me to come off of injury and start my first time back. I felt like my fitness was good and I didn't focus about my knee at all. It didn't bother me at all so in my mind I'm back fully fit."
Tough to see Caldwell and Morrow going down to injury, did you feel some of the energy was deflated when they went out of the lineup?
"Those two guys are crucial to our team. I mean you take our captain and a guy that has played every single game, that is definitely hard. It takes away the heart of our defence but we have the players to cover them and I thought we did well. Unfortunately we gave up two goals."


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A cleft lip is an abnormal opening in the middle of the upper lip. A cleft palate is an opening in the roof of the mouth (palate).
Cleft lip repair and cleft palate repair are indicated for:
While the baby is anesthetized and asleep (general anesthesia), the tissues around the defect are trimmed and sewn together with several layers of stitches (absorbable sutures). The skin is sewn together with very small, fine stitches (sutures) to make the scar as small as possible. In cleft palate repair, tissue from the back of the mouth (pharynx) may be taken to add tissue to the deficient soft palate (this is called a pharyngeal flap). Occasionally more than one surgery is required for complete palate closure.
Most babies heal without complications. The cosmetic result often depends on the severity of the deformity and is usually quite good.


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NEW YORK (AP) — The euro was little changed against the dollar Wednesday ahead of a meeting of the European Central Bank.
The ECB is meeting Thursday to set interest rates. Most economists don't expect the central bank to lower its rates.
Unemployment in the 17 countries that use the euro rose in November to its highest point since the single currency was founded in 1999.
The euro slipped to $1.3053 in late trading Wednesday from $1.3084 late Tuesday.
The British pound fell to $1.6016 from $1.6059.
The dollar rose to 87.75 Japanese yen from 87.19 Japanese yen, to 98.76 Canadian cents from 98.71 Canadian cents and to 0.9260 Swiss franc from 0.9239 Swiss franc.


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When Carolyn Green of Ravenel asked for recipes for cheese biscuits, I immediately thought of the 2011 cookbook "Southern Biscuits" (Gibbs Smith).
Co-authors Nathalie Dupree, one of Charleston's own, and Cynthia Graubart of Atlanta finally gave a proper throne to a food beloved in these "parts." Kudos to them for realizing it was long overdue.
Since then, others have come forth to show some love to biscuits. So biscuits seem to be trendy, "hot" if you will. And what's not to like about a hot biscuit?
So let's get down to bisc-ness. Here's their recipe for "pimento" — properly spelled pimiento — cheese biscuits.
Makes 16 to 18 biscuits
21/4 cups self-rising flour, plus more as needed
1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/4-inch pieces
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
4 ounces pimento or roasted red bell peppers, chopped (from a jar)
1/4 cup finely chopped onion (optional)
1 cup regular or low-fat buttermilk
2 to 4 tablespoons melted unsalted butter, for brushing
Position the top oven rack in the upper third of the oven; preheat to 450 degrees. Brush a baking sheet with a little softened butter.
Combine 2 cups of the flour and the cup of cheese in a food processor; pulse two or three times. Scatter the 1/4-inch butter pieces over the flour mixture and pulse two or three times, then scatter the 1/2-inch butter pieces over the flour mixture and pulse two or three times, until the mixture resembles well-crumbled feta cheese, with no piece larger than a pea.
Add the pimento or roasted red pepper, the onion, if using, and 3/4 cup of the buttermilk. Pulse briefly to incorporate. When the blade stops, remove the lid and feel the dough. Add just enough of the remaining buttermilk or flour as needed; pulse to form a slightly wet dough. Pulse once or twice more until the dough looks shaggy but holds together.
Generously dust the work surface with flour. Use more of the flour to coat your hands.
Turn the dough out onto the work surface and sprinkle the top of the dough lightly with flour. Fold the dough in half, then pat it out into a 1/3- to 1/2-inch-thick round, using a little additional flour only if needed. Flour again if necessary and fold the dough in half a second time. If the dough is still clumpy, pat and fold a third time.
Pat the dough out into a round 1/2-inch-thick for regular biscuits, 3/4-inch thick for tall biscuits and 1-inch thick for large biscuits. Brush any visible flour from the top. For each biscuit, dip a 2-inch biscuit cutter into flour and cut out the biscuits, starting at the outside edge and cutting very close together, being careful not to twist the cutter.
Dough scraps may be combined to make additional biscuits, although they make tougher biscuits.
Carefully transfer the biscuits to the baking sheet, arranging them so they are touching each other. Bake on the top oven rack for 6 minutes, then rotate the baking sheet front to back. If the biscuits seem to be browning too quickly on the bottom, slip a second baking sheet under the first one to help insulate the biscuit bottoms. Bake for 7 to 9 minutes, until the biscuits are light golden brown on top.
When the biscuits are done, brush the tops with melted butter. Turn the biscuits out upside down onto a plate to cool slightly. Serve hot, right side up.
Also this year, the University of North Carolina Press published "Biscuits" by Belinda Ellis, which is part of its "Savor the South" cookbook series.
Since everyone, well, most meat eaters at least, seems to agree that bacon makes everything taste better, why not follow Ellis' lead in this recipe:
Makes 8 biscuits
2 cups soft wheat all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch chunks and chilled for 15 minutes
6 to 8 ounces smoky bacon
1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese, divided
3/4 cup buttermilk, plus more if needed
1 tablespoon rendered bacon fat
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Use a baking sheet.
Whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, brown sugar and pepper in a large mixing bowl. Cut in the butter until it's the size of small peas.
In a skillet over low heat, cook the bacon until done. Drain on paper towels, reserving the rendered fat. Finely chop the bacon and return to the skillet. Cook over low heat until the bacon is crisp and most of the fat is rendered, about 7 minutes. Allow to cool slightly.
Stir the bacon and half of the cheese into the flour mixture. Add the buttermilk and rendered bacon fat and stir to combine. Add additional buttermilk if needed to create a sticky dough.
Using an ice cream scoop or heaping tablespoon, drop the biscuits onto the baking sheet. Sprinkle the remaining cheese on top.
Bake for 12 minutes, or until the biscuits are golden brown.
Harriet Little of Summerville copied this recipe from a 1996 Post and Courier column. "It is quick and easy and usually gets raves," she notes.
This recipe is known as the Red Lobster knockoff.
Readers at the time it was published here said it is dead-on.
Makes 10 to 12 biscuits
2 cups Bisquick baking mix
2/3 cup milk
1/3 cup shredded cheddar cheese (2 ounces)
1/4 cup margarine or butter, melted
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
Heat oven to 450 degrees. Mix baking mix, milk and cheese until soft dough forms; beat vigorously for 30 seconds. Drop dough by spoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until golden brown. Mix margarine and garlic powder. Brush over warm biscuits before removing from cookie sheets.
Variation: Add dried parsley to the blend of margarine and garlic powder that's brushed on top after baking.
Debra Taylor of Mount Pleasant is looking for a recipe for a shrimp and grits casserole that would be good for tailgating, preferably one that could be put together the night before. She also prefers more of a gravy-type recipe versus a tomato and peppers version.
LaBrasca's lives on: Maude Johnson of West Ashley requests the recipe for LaBrasca's meatballs "and sauce, too, if you can get it."
She writes, "I recently moved back to Charleston after living in Birmingham, Ala., for 37 years. Two weekends ago I got together with cousins to reminisce about the ole days when we were kids. Of course, LaBrasca's restaurant was mentioned fondly. We all had memories of riding with our parents to pick up Sunday dinner: the best (best-est in the world?) meatball spaghetti. I can still remember the wonderful aroma of their restaurant."
Looking for a recipe or have one to share? Reach Features Editor Teresa Taylor at firstname.lastname@example.com or 937-4886.


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Name: Roxy
Age: 37
Location: SF Bay Area
Dear Dr. Dick, I am slowly but inexorably marching to my wits end over my current dilemma. I'm a part time TV married to a wonderful girl who I find very satisfying emotionally, mentally and physically. So what's the problem, you're asking? The problem is that before we got married I had several sexual encounters with men (yes, with me dressed and made up as a girl). Some of which were quite thrilling, and now I find that I am yearning to get all dressed up and find a male partner who will satisfy the girl side of my psyche sexually. I don't want to cheat on my wife (with whom I've talked about marital fidelity…if I cheated and she found out, her line is that our sex life would be over), but I feel the compulsion to act getting stronger all the time… what should I do?
Sincerely, Distraught in downtown
Before I respond to you, Roxy, I want to make sure my audience knows what we're talking about.
Folks, Roxie here is identifying himself as a part-time TV. That, of course, has nothing to do with the box in your living room on which you watch The Brady Bunch reruns. TV in this context means transvestite, or better still, crossdresser. Which is literally the practice of crossdressing; wearing the clothing of another sex. Which as we all know, or should know, must not to be confused with a TS, which means transsexual, or better still, transgender. (Here's a tip: the terms transsexual and transvestite are outmoded because they are heavily pathologized, as medically or psychologically abnormal.) A transgender person is someone who self-identifies as a gender other than the one she/he was assigned at birth. I hope we're all down with that now.
Now back to you, Roxy. It seems to me that you're really overreaching here. Desires are wonderful things. We just better know the difference between a desire and reality. I encourage you to think twice about realizing this particular desire of yours if it means upending your relationship. Seems to me your long-suffering wife's feelings deserves more than the casual consideration you seem to afford them.
Most TVs I know would give their left falsie for a partner as understanding and accommodating as your wife. And look at you, contemplating fucking this up by skipping out on her just so you can get all gussied up so you can find a dude to pound the bejesus out of you to satisfy the girly side of your psyche.
I never advocate the cheating option. But I know how compelling sexual fantasies can be. On the other hand, maybe some kind of additional accommodation could be made with your wife. Maybe she'd be up for a 3-way.
I know this marvelously kinky woman, Abby, who pimps out her beautiful straight boyfriend to totally hot gay men they meet at the best gay nightclubs. She does this just so she can watch the straight BF get pounded. I hasten to add that the beautiful straight BF is a willing participant in this unusual ménage. Curiously enough, he'd never think of doing this on his own. For him, the turn on is not the part where other guys fuck him; although that is pleasurable. It's the pleasing and being dominated by his kinky girlfriend that turns his crank. So when Abby snaps her finger, you know for certain that Ty will soon be buggered senseless while she'll get a great show. Now that's devotion. And while this is not for everyone, it sure as hell works for them.
Will your little woman go for something like this, Roxy? Who knows! One thing for sure, you'll never know unless you ask. Here's a tip. To sell this whole ménage thing to the wifie, I encourage you to play up how HOT it will be for her. How much fun she'll have watching and possibly even directing her pansy-ass husband take it up the bung-hole. How it's gonna blow her mind, and shake up your traditional sex roles and really spice things up in the boudoir. With a sales pitch like that she might just give it a whirl.
I don't envy your dilemma, Roxy, but I think something interesting could come of this just as long as you're upfront about it with your wife. If ya don't, you'll soon be a cock in a frock with his marriage on the rocks.
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Leslie Schlake, 54 - May 06, 2009
Leslie Dale Schlake, 54, of Gothenburg died Wednesday, April 22, 2009, at his home in Gothenburg.
A memorial service was held Thursday, April 30, at the American Lutheran Church of Gothenburg with the Rev.Matthew Groenke and Lonna Grabenstein, PMA, officiating. Another memorial service will be held at Norfolk at a later date.
Schlake was born Jan. 31, 1955, to John and Elaine (Schmidt) Schlake at Beatrice.
He graduated from Gothenburg High School in 1973 and Creighton Medical School at Omaha in 1982. He was also a 1985 graduate of the University of Iowa Family Practice Residency Program.
Schlake was united in marriage to Yvonne Franssen in 1980. To this union, three children were born.
He worked as a physician in Broken Bow for five and one-half years, was an emergency doctor in Grand Island, Hastings and North Platte for three and one-half years, and was the owner of Norfolk Primary Care in Norfolk for 12 years.
?Schlake was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church.
?He had enjoyed cars and traveling in his spare time, according to family members.
?Survivors include: his children—Jeffery (Marjolaine) Schlake of Lincoln, Erin Schlake and Lesley (Micah) Roberts, all of Norfolk; his parents, John and Elaine; a brother, LaMonte (Darla) Schlake of Gothenburg; ex-wife, Yvonne Schlake of Norfolk.
Memorials are suggested to the Schlake family at: 620 10th St., Gothenburg, NE 69138.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.blase strauser.com. Arrangements have been placed in the care of Blase-Strauser Memorial Chapel of Gothenburg.
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|Me and the girls 1996
When Devyn was in preschool, she was sent home with a note.
Dear Mrs. Noyce,
We did a special craft today that required cutting. After passing out the scissors to the class, Devyn carefully handed them back to me, informing me that you don't allow her to use scissors. Cutting is an important skill in preschool. It is important that she is allowed to use scissors.
The thing was, I never told Devyn she couldn't use scissors. But I never had her use scissors at home. So Dev assumed she wasn't allowed. I felt so stupid. How did all those other moms know to have their kids to use scissors. I never even thought about scissors skills.
I thought that one of the great things about getting 2 kids to high school before adding more kids to our family is that, I had 17 years of parenting experience under my belt. I would be a better, smarter mom than before. I would learn from my mistakes. I was probably going to be amazing.
|Me and the boys 2011
Mikias was home only a couple of months when he started swimming lessons at the YMCA. We were leaving the family locker room after a lesson when Mikias took off running. This was becoming routine, so I was ready. But, instead of taking his usual left turn out of the locker room, he ran straight across the hallway and opened the door to a group exercise room. The lights were dim and I initially thought the room was empty. Instead, a classroom full of people were practicing yoga. No one moved when my still damp little boy darted between them, laughing as I chased him. Maybe they didn't know what to think when a small black boy being chased by a flustered white woman entered their space. After about 30 seconds (it felt like an hour) of chasing him, it became clear to me that I wasn't going to catch him on my own. I whispered (pretending we hadn't already disrupted the peaceful calm of the room) "If someone could just grab his ankle when he passes, we'll get out of your way." Someone did. We left. No one smiled at us.
Not too long ago, I was folding laundry while Mikias and Jemberu were playing loudly. . The phone rang, I decided to let the machine get it. It was just too loud to talk on the phone. Then Mikias did something he had never done before. He answered the phone.
His voice still raised from the game he was playing with Jem, I heard him say loudly, "WHAT IS YOU NAME?" Oddly, the boys English skills deteriorate when they are playing loudly but even so...
He handed me the phone still yelling, "HE REFUSED TO DIVULGE HIS NAME, SIR! I MEAN MA'AM!"
I tried to laugh it off with my caller, "I apologize for my secretary, first day on the job!" I laughed again but he didn't laugh with me.
Since the boys joined our family, I have had hundreds of moments like that. In fact, just the other day, I was watching the boys baseball practice while chatting with one of my favorite moms. Jemberu yelled from across the entire field. "Mom! When I was trying to make a catch, I missed and the ball hit me right in the NUTS!" He illustrated his outburst by grabbing his crotch area, keeling over and yelling in mock pain.
When it comes to certain skills, be it scissors or phone answering, I don't plan ahead. I am probably cutting myself too much slack when I tell you that I teach them on a need to know basis. It seems only fitting that the details of being the mother of these kids is only given to me on a need to know basis as well. When we were deciding to adopt, I did not need to know that I would often feel embarrassed or ill equipped.
I am so glad that I didn't know what I was in for. I didn't know that hundreds of strangers would tell me that I have my hands full (as if I hadn't noticed). What if I had known? Would I have chickened out, played it safe, kept our family size to four? I shudder at the thought. While it is true that I have felt frustrated and/or embarrassed hundreds of times, there have been thousands of moments that make it all worth it. Thank goodness for getting information on a need to know basis. While it may be true that my hands are full, my heart is even more full.


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The Wald 582 sets the standard for ingenuity when it comes to rear baskets. Mounting to the side of many rear racks, this nimble basket is the perfect size for packing 1-2 bags of groceries while balancing your load. When not in use, the base of the basket pivots up allowing the side walls to collapse. A simple clamp at the top keeps the basket out of your way when not in use.
Available in plated (582), black (582BL), and white (582WH) finishes.
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- Baskets clamp to most rear racks up to 1/2" diameter
- When not in use the base of the basket pivots up allowing the side walls to collapse making the collapsed basket 1" thick
- A simple clamp at the top keeps the basket out of your way when collapsed
- Extended basket is 12 3/4" front to back x 7 1/4" side to side x 8 1/2" deep
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The Alaska Sustainable Energy Act (SB220 Chapter 83 SLA10) passed in 2010, requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to "work with state agencies to develop a standardized methodology to collect and store energy consumption and expense data" (AS 37.07.040 (12)). In this chapter an agency includes the University of Alaska (AS 37.07.120(1)).
The Alaska Retrofit Information System (ARIS) is an internet based platform developed by the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation (AHFC) to meet the requirements. No later than January 1 of each year, the DOT&PF is required to submit a report to the legislature detailing the progress in reducting the state's energy consumption (AS 44.42.067(d)).


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To say Vancouver Whitecaps FC are underdogs against the defending MLS Cup champions LA Galaxy in Thursday's one-off Knockout Round match (7:30 pm PT, TSN, RDS2, TEAM 1040 radio, live chat on MLSsoccer.com) would be the understatement of the 2012 postseason.
To pull off arguably the most improbable upset in Major League Soccer in perhaps three years or more would be, in a word, epic.
"It would probably be the shock heard 'round the league," Whitecaps FC goalkeeper Brad Knighton said following the club's final training session on Wednesday. "I think everyone's already written us off, so why not make everyone wrong, prove everybody wrong, and prove to some people that we deserve to be here?"
The underdog label Vancouver now carry is well deserved, and for as good as the LA Galaxy have been since their difficult start to 2012, Whitecaps FC have been extremely poor to close the season.
With only three road wins in the league this season – the last one coming on July 4 against the Colorado Rapids, and just one win in the final 10 leagues matches – even the most diehard of 'Caps supporters will be sober about the magnitude of the task at hand.
READ: Donovan explains how 'Caps could pull off unthinkable
Add in the scoring woes up front, where the team has remarkably been shut out in seven of those final 10 matches, and the prospects of victory don't get much brighter.
Still, with many having already penned in the Galaxy for the next round, the players are using that as a point to rally around.
"Any advantage you can get as you prepare is something that you want to use," defender Jay DeMerit told reporters. "Being the underdog has its advantages of course, because when the pressure is a little bit off, you have a chance to concentrate on what you really have to do and getting a solid game plan.
"That's what the last couple of days is about and now it's about lighting the fire under our own bellies and making sure we're ready to play and ready to do what we've prepared for."
While the 'Caps may still be a team trying to find its identity, there's plenty of experience of big pressure games behind a core of veterans in the squad, such as Young-Pyo Lee, Barry Robson, Kenny Miller, John Thorrington, and DeMerit, who have all played at some of the game's top levels for both clubs and country.
"We've got a lot of veteran guys," Thorrington told MLSsoccer.com. "We've got guys who have played in World Cups, we've got guys who have played in Champions League, national team games – big occasions – and that experience will really help us."
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LONDON (AP) — It's a long way from Middle Earth to 17th-century Massachusetts, but Richard Armitage has made the journey — and found a surprising link.
The British actor — dwarf warrior Thorin Oakenshield in Peter Jackson's "Hobbit" trilogy — is now starring at London's Old Vic Theatre as John Proctor, the decent man in a world gone mad in "The Crucible," Arthur Miller's modern classic about the Salem witch trials.
The play recounts the mania that swept a community of colonists in 1692, which resulted in 20 people being executed for witchcraft.
It's a change of pace, to say the least. Armitage says the "The Hobbit" is "a big machine that you get to play a little cog in." In "The Crucible," Proctor — decent, tormented and flawed — is the center of the audience's attention.
"I can feel that the audience are breathing his breath as they watch the play," Armitage said. The show, in previews, opens Thursday.
But the actor says "there are threads and arteries" connecting the worlds of Miller and J.R.R. Tolkien— including their operatic scale.
"At the end of the second act of that opera ("The Hobbit"), my character says, 'If this is to end in fire then we will all burn together.' And in exactly the same place in Miller's work — and it definitely wasn't plagiarized — I say, 'We will burn, we will burn together.'"
Armitage, 42, admits to being a little apprehensive about his return to the stage after a dozen years in television and movies. He'll soon be onscreen in "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies" and in the tornado thriller "Into the Storm."
Armitage, who once had himself water-boarded for a torture scene, took a similarly hands-on approach while preparing for "The Crucible."
"I went and worked with some cows," said Armitage. He also visited Salem. Although he found the tourist site there a bit disappointing — "Disneyland for witches" — he called the village "quite magical."
"Seeing the actual bricks and mortar ... It's just something that connects you to the reality of real people that this happened to," he said.
"We think, 'Oh it's a period piece about some kind of hysteria about witches,'" he added. "(But) it's here today in civilized Western societies. In America, in England. This slow feeding of fear to pitch neighbor against neighbor. It's not as far away as you might think."
Tall and dark-haired, Armitage has an old-fashioned, matinee-idol quality. His bearded, brooding face stares from posters all over London's subway system. One recent afternoon he sat in his dressing room, reading fan letters — actual paper letters.
He's no stranger to leather-jerkin roles — he was the villainous Guy of Gisborne in the BBC series "Robin Hood" — and it's easy to imagine him fitting snugly into Proctor's breeches.
But this is not a production that plays it safe. Director Yael Farber is a South African with a reputation for a passionate, challenging approach to scripts.
"Scorcher' is way too mild a description," was The New York Times' verdict on "Mies Julie," her South Africa-set version of August Strindberg's "Miss Julie."
"People start to focus on how handsome or excellent a production it is, and that's just not what I'm in theater for," said Farber. "I'm in theater to try to tap some kind of vein of truth (so) that the audience gets taken on an experience that changes them.
"I've also learned that some people just don't want that — but then don't come and watch this production!"


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(Sultan Knish aka Daniel Greenfield via front page mag) If you want to see the feudalism toward which America's public sector unions are headed, look no further than Mexico where teaching positions aren't a job, they're membership in a guild that can be passed on to your children so that teachers can give birth to teachers who will go on teaching for all eternity until no one can read or write anymore.
Tens of thousands of teachers are blocking highways and seizing government buildings across Mexico to protest a federal education reform ending their longtime practice of selling their jobs or giving them to their children.
They're doing it for the children… literally. Their children.
"We're fighting to guarantee jobs for our kids," Oscar Miranda said as he helped teachers stage a protest in front of the governor's office in Cuernavaca, the capital of Morelos. "Throughout history the sons of carpenters have become carpenters. Even politicians' children become politicians. Why shouldn't our children have the same right?"
Wake up America, this is what we are headed for.
Trying to turn America into Mexico, institutionally and demographically, will lead to actual feudalism, composed of guilds of fake professionals.
But you can also sell teaching jobs.
"Teaching jobs were routinely bought and sold for as much as $6,000. That's as much as beginning teachers make in a year. The jobs are still coveted because they provide steady income, particularly in poor areas."
Now that the leftist PRI is back in power in Mexico, they are following through on a pledge to end the whole "Passing on Public Sector Jobs to Your Children" business, which Felipe Calderon tried and failed to do.
Addressing teachers at a ceremony in Mexico City, President Enrique Pena Nieto laid out a proposal that would champion merit-based teacher promotions and chip away at the union's power to hire teachers on its own terms. "Your rights will be safe because your income, tenure and promotion will not be subject to discretionary criteria. Good teachers will have the opportunity to advance based on their professional merits."
So how broken does a system have to be before a leftist politician embraces merit promotions for teachers? This broken.
But now can you imagine living in a country where the left is actually opposed to teacher's unions?
"No more promotions for loyalty, (or) cronyism with union leaders," said Jesus Zambrano, who heads the leftist opposition Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). "Let's have promotion be based on teacher merit and professionalism."
Right winger! He hates the middle class! He wants to destroy education! We need to protect our kids from education reform that will drain us of the best teachers who happen to be genetically born to other teachers!
So teachers' unions may once again go on strike in Mexico and that's serious business over there. Sure our teachers' unions are nasty, but they do worse over there than punch people in the face.
Police raided three teachers colleges on Monday in the western state of Michoacan, where dozens of students had been hijacking buses and delivery trucks for a week to protest curriculum changes.
Masked protesters battled police with rocks and fireworks. Student involved in the campus takeovers burned a dozen trucks and buses before authorities swept in, detaining 176 strikers. Ten police officers were injured, three seriously, the Michoacan state government reported.
The standoff at the teachers colleges began over a week ago, when students seized the campuses to protest plans to require them to take English and computer science courses. The protesters say the colleges are meant to prepare teachers for rural areas where basic skills are more of a priority.
If you want this to come to America, just keep voting for Democrats and keep the borders open.
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Celebration of Life of Laura Onwudinanti Set for Aug. 9Aug. 4, 2014
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WACO, Texas (Aug. 4, 2014) -- Funeral services have been set for a Baylor University School of Music graduate who died along with another Baylor student in a one-car accident that injured two other students July 29 in Central Texas. They were traveling to the International Clarinet Association conference at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
A celebration of the life of Laura Onwudinanti will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 2024 S. Collins St., in Arlington, Texas.
Laura earned her bachelor's degree in instrumental music in May and was set to begin graduate study at the University of Michigan in the fall.
Please continue to lift up in prayer Laura's family members, her friends and those whose lives she touched as they grieve her passing.
A funeral Mass was held Saturday in Dallas for Jack Stewart, a junior instrumental studies major who also died in the accident. Please continue to remember Jack's family and friends, as well as the students, faculty and staff in the Baylor School of Music, as they grieve the loss of these outstanding students.
The Baylor family also continues to pray for the injured students: Jacob "Jake" Hale, a senior instrumental music major from Fort Worth, who has been released from the hospital, and Megan Ritzi, an incoming freshman from Fort Worth, who remains hospitalized with serious injuries at Baylor Scott & White Hospital in Temple, Texas.
"The hearts of the Baylor University family and our School of Music are broken as we mourn the passing of these remarkably talented students who have been taken too soon from us," Baylor President and Chancellor Ken Starr said. "We pray that God's grace and comfort will surround the families and friends of Jack Stewart and Laura Onwudinanti at this terribly sad hour. We continue to labor in prayer for Jake Hale and Megan Ritzi and for their attending physicians as they are treated for their injuries. We ask that the Baylor family keep all loved ones and friends, and our School of Music faculty, staff and students, in their deepest prayers."
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Occasionally, shizennougyou readers send in questions or stories they'd like to share with a wide audience. These questions and stories come to me through email, via Facebook, and through this website. Recently, a new reader who discovered shizennougyou due to my multi-year coverage of Bank of America (primarily the articles pertaining to the overdraft fee class-action lawsuit), wanted to share a cautionary tale about the same bank.
It's no surprise that bankers are salespeople. Some are encouraged to sell financial products with compensation like bonuses or commissions, and they are not required to sell products that are in their customers' best interests. Salespeople in any field are there to make money for their companies — that's it. At the same time, consumers look to certain types of salespeople as experts, relying on these professionals to help them navigate complicated products.
I've never opened a home equity loan with a bank. I don't have a home or a mortgage, so I don't have personal experience with the type of product discussed in this article. But I took this opportunity to research the subject. There might be financial professionals, planners or advisers who are required by their certification to give advice with their clients' best interests in mind, who might be able to elucidate the issue even further.
I'll share the story in a future article because I wanted to ensure I was more familiar with the particular product, credit life insurance, before addressing the general concern she had. The concern is not with the product itself but with how Bank of America charged her for the coverage, and I'll explain that in detail in a future article.
I say the following with no judgment whatsoever about anyone who has knowingly chosen, while understanding what a credit life insurance policy does and does not cover.
First, credit life insurance is a type of insurance policy that banks will try to sell — and they will try hard to sell thanks to big commissions for these products — when a customer takes out a loan or opens a home equity loan. It's an add-on product, and some might even try to say that credit life insurance is required when you take out a mortgage with less than a 20 percent downpayment. Credit life insurance pays the lender if the borrower dies before having a chance to repay the loan in full.
There are off-shoots to this type of insurance product. Credit disability insurance pays the lender if disability makes it difficult for the borrower to live up to the obligations of the debt, and you might find products like credit unemployment insurance.
The premiums for a credit life insurance policy are rolled into the cost of the debt, so you hardly notice that you're paying for something separate. Your monthly payments for your home equity loan, car loan, or mortgage will include the credit life insurance premiums.
Is credit life insurance necessary? Not in almost every situation. Unless a family member's name is on the loan with yours, no survivor would be required to pay off the loan's remaining balance in the event of your death.
Credit life insurance isn't even a benefit for the consumer, it's a benefit for the lender. You're paying an extra fee for the lender's protection, not your own. Additionally, these plans often expire before the loan would be repaid in full. The reader indicated, as you will be able to see in the follow-up article, that her plan would have expired automatically when she became 66 years old. It actually expired several years prior. So, like term life insurance, you could pay into a plan for several years with a good chance of never needing to or being able to make a claim.
Here is a summary of the cons for buying credit life insurance. Keep this in mind the next time you visit a bank for a loan.
- Credit life insurance costs more than regular life insurance for the same type of coverage.
- The lender is the beneficiary, not your family.
- Credit life insurance is not required for taking out a loan, and if a salesman tries to imply that it is, go somewhere else or report him or her to the authorities.
The Federal Trade Commission has issued a consumer alert about credit insurance, including credit life insurance, credit disability insurance, and other variations of insurance that protect the lender that includes the following warning:
Before you sign any loan papers, ask the lender whether the loan includes any charges for voluntary credit insurance. If you don't want credit insurance, tell the lender. If the lender still pressures you to buy insurance, find another lender. And review your loan papers carefully to be sure they have been drawn up correctly. Lenders can't deny you credit if you don't buy optional credit insurance — and if you don't buy it directly from them. If a lender tells you that you'll only get the loan if you buy the optional credit insurance, report the lender to your state attorney general, your state insurance commissioner or the FTC. Consumers should ask these same questions about other extra products offered with their loan, such as auto or shopping clubs, home or auto security plans, and debt cancellation products.
Has a banker or salesperson attempted to sell you credit life insurance? Do you have credit insurance for a loan? If so, make sure you understand the terms, but I'd be interested in hearing whether people with these plans consider credit insurance to be worthwhile protection.
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Red Tails (US - BD RA)
Gabe thinks that the Tuskegee Airmen deserve a better movie than this...
Italy, 1944. As the war takes its toll on Allied forces in Europe, a squadron of black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen are finally given the chance to prove themselves in the sky - even as they battle discrimination on the ground. It's a tribute to the unsung heroes who rose above extraordinary challenges and ultimately soared into history. (Official 20th Century Fox synopsis).
George Lucas had been attached to a Tuskegee Airmen film since before the Star Wars prequels were even a verified as a sure thing, but never quite found the will to get it done. Throughout the production of Red Tails, he claimed that the production took decades to get off the ground, because the studio system wasn't interested in putting the money into the subject matter. I do believe there was a general lack of interest, and that the studio system is inherently a bit racist, but I don't believe the production of Red Tails was somehow made impossible due to a lack of studio interest. Spike Lee got the money to make the largely action-free Miracle at St. Anna, and before that George Tillman, Jr. got the money to make the entirely action-free Men of Honor, there had to be some spare cash still lying around to make a buoyant, feel good action film with George freakin' Lucas' name on the marquee. In the end Lucas paid for the film himself, like he always does. I believe the decades long delay on the project had more to do with problems in Lucas' personal life, and his need to get Star Wars out of his system. It's just too bad that Star Wars clearly isn't entirely out of his system and that he has created a Tuskegee Airmen film that reeks of a galaxy far, far away.
Two things are immediately clear within the first minute of Red Tails – one, the action is going to be spectacular and, two, the dialogue is going to be terrible. In other words, this is going to be a George Lucas movie. The on-screen director credit goes to one Anthony Hemingway, whose other credits are made up entirely of television work, including The Wire, CSI:NY, True Blood and Treme, but, even without the verification of Lucas' second unit work, there's simply no way anyone could possibly not see Lucas' fingerprints all over this movie. As a producer aware of his shortcomings as a director, Lucas was clever to hire Hemingway based on his obvious strength with ensemble casts and to cast himself as the film's second unit action director. Complain though we may about the Star Wars prequels, we also have to admit they have some potent and creative action scenes (those of us that don't may have to admit that they're choking on sour grapes). But even the generally spectacular dogfight sequences, which stand as the only consistently good part of the movie, are dripping with the essence of the prequels. The action is certainly bloodier than what we'd expect from even the most violent Star Wars film, but the pacing, editing and movement all look like they were made using Revenge of the Sith computer programs with era appropriate WWII planes 'skins' stretched over the Delta-7 Aethersprite-Class Light Interceptors (/nerd).
This slick look makes it a bit difficult to entirely buy into the supposed reality of the situation, but clearly Lucas and Hemingway were aiming for something a bit more 'fun' than Saving Private Ryan. The problem isn't the tonal choice, per se, but that the overall tone is too intrusively sentimental for the subject matter. The sentiment should be refreshing, given the usual drudge of 'War is Hell' throughout modern WWII cinema, but here it grates, creating the condescending aura of a particularly perfunctory children's film. I'm sure middle school history teachers will get decades of lesson plans out of the film, but there's little reason for the general film-going public to pay full price for occasionally entertaining, made-for-classroom material. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Lucas and Hemingway betray their tone when dealing with the Germans, who are devastated in a Tuskegee turkey shoot during their first major victory. One can't help shed a tear for the 'Jerries' as they bleed and burn to death, rather than cheering for the heroes that just slaughtered them in an entirely unfair fight. Given the film's lack of moral ambiguity, this seems like a mistake, betraying both the film's tone and robbing the significant historical moment of any real joy. I'm not arguing that there shouldn't be a moralistic middle ground, or that the Germans should necessarily be treated as faceless villains, but, with the exception of one sneering, scar-faced Jerry ace, they are otherwise presented as such. Why change the formula for one or two scenes right when the film might actually earn a genuine sentimental thrill?
It might not be quite so difficult to deal with the maudlin issue, had Red Tails been at all funny, but Lucas' utter inability to deal with comedy appears to transcend writing collaboration. It's probably an issue with Lucas' rewrites and final cutting, but the lack of laughs is still baffling, considering the people Lucas hired to write. The screenplay is credited to John Ridley with punch-ups by Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder. Ridley's other credits include U-Turn, Undercover Brother and a story credit on Three Kings. All of these were at least partially re-written before going in front of cameras, so it's possible that the laughs were not his, but none of them were anywhere near this laugh-free. Aaron McGruder is credited with providing rewrites for the Lucas directed reshoots, and it's assumed that he was hired based entirely on an episode of Boondocks he wrote about the Tuskegees called Wingmen. Whatever McGruder's place was on the film, the consistently awkward prose is distinctly Lucas-esque. The worst dialogue revolves around the eye-rolling inspirational speeches and lectures handed to Cuba Gooding Jr. and Terrence Howard. The more persistent problem is the excessive expositional conversation. The characters spend so much time telling instead of showing, I was afraid I'd stumbled upon the descriptive track for the blind. I do give the screenwriters credit for cramming a whole lot of information into a relatively short period of time. There's a lack of focus, an episodic Cliff's Notes structure, and some of the more interesting plot aspects are barely touched upon to make room for more sentiment, but no single sequence drones on too long. All things considered, I didn't find myself growing particularly bored at any point.
Red Tails was primarily shot using Sony CineAlta F35 high definition digital cameras, similar to the ones used for Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, and the utter clarity of the 35mm-aping format is gloriously represented here on this 1080p, 2.35:1 Blu-ray transfer. The clarity of the format is a strange problem aesthetically, considering the grim and grainy look of most modern war films. The image is consistently sharp without more than a hint of digital noise, which is good news for the quality of the transfer, but kind of terrible news for the film itself, which ends up looking, well, cheap. Contrast levels are set reasonably high throughout, but in comparison to the kind of hyper-reality found in Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down, the more even-handed sheen appears downright glossy. Again, not a problem for the transfer, which handles the subtle gradations and sharp black edges very well (black levels can be a bit too soft), but, for the film itself, which is stylistically unimpressive. The colour schemes tend to skew warm, utilizing a lot of yellows and browns, all of which blend well with other common hues like olive greens and sky blues. Red is the most common highlight element, and pop without bleeding or blooming effects, and the more natural forest greens are wonderfully lush. There are some issues with low level noise in the softer backgrounds, especially where red highlights mix with the tan and brown bits. There are also some minor compression effects in the (usually computer enhanced) wider shots, but no major edge enhancement problems.
This being a George Lucas movie, audio design is a top priority, and this DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack does not disappoint. Ben Burtt is credited as co-editor, not sound designer, but his influence looms heavy and there are plenty of Burtt's patented, Lucasfilm universe, aural Easter eggs throughout the mix. There's very little in the way of silence anywhere in the film. Even comparatively and pointedly quiet sequences are usually busy with light ambience throughout the stereo and surround channels. The obvious standouts are the dogfight sequences, which roar to life with the buzz of plane engines cutting across the channels and the startling blast of gunfire punching up the LFE. The off screen rear and stereo effects are especially impressive, leading me to instinctively crane my neck to look behind me more than once. The value of the mix is found less in its bombastic qualities (of which there are plenty), but the dynamic highs and lows of the sound, which help define the rush of the action. The lip-sync does appear to be slightly off throughout the film, and there is constant inconsistency in dialogue volume and fidelity, leading me to assume that something terrible happened to the source dialogue, and the majority of the film was ADR'd. Considering Lucas' love of digitally constructing sequences in post production it's more likely that there were big changes to dialogue after filming. Grammy Award winning jazz star Terence Blanchard's musical score is among the dopiest and most inappropriately derivative I've heard from a studio production in years. Blanchard aims for something John Williams-esque, and entirely misses the target. The score, which rarely gives the rest of the soundtrack a chance to breathe, does sound quite rich on the track, which is little consolation following how terrible it is.
The extras begin with Double Victory: The Tuskegee Airmen at War (1:06:45, HD), a documentary concerning the true history of the Tuskegee airmen, and their struggles in segregated America and overseas in WWII. Narrated by Cuba Gooding Jr., it includes interviews with surviving pilots Lt. Col. Charles Dryden, Lt. Col. Lee Archer, Lt. Col. Leo R. Grey, Lt. Col. William Hollowman III, Jr. Lt. John Leahr, Captain Roscoe C. Brown Jr., 2nd Lt. Mitchell Louis Higginbotham, Captain Les Williams, Lt. Col. Herbert E. Carter, Lt. Col. Charles A. Lane, Jr., Tech Sgt. George Watson, Sr. and Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, Tuskegee wives Edith Roberts and Mildred Carter, non-Tuskegee pilots Lt. Col. George Hardy, 1st Lt. Herb Heilbrun, Lt. Hiram E. Mann and 2nd Lt. Roger Terry, and experts/historians/authors John Morrow and J. Todd Moye. The interviews are supplemented with plenty of photographs and newsreel footage from the period.
Next up is George Lucas: Executive Producer (3:30, HD), a fluff piece interview on set with producer/secret director George, discussing the long gestation of the project, including behind the scenes footage and choice cuts from the film, followed by the similar Anthony Hemingway: Director (5:30, HD), which includes footage of the actors in boot camp, Terence Blanchard: Composer (6:20, HD), and The Cast of Red Tails (25:10, HD), with producer Rick McCallum and actors Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Nate Parker, David Oyelowo, Ne-Yo, Elijah Kelley, Tristan Wilds, Michael B. Jordon, Marcus Paulk, Kevin Philips, Gerald McRaney, Brian Cranston, Method Man and Andre Royo. Things end with Movie Magic (5:10, HD), a look at the special effects with Lucas, McCallum, effects supervisors Paul Kavanagh, Victor Muller, Craig Hammock and Peter Daulton.
Red Tails isn't a terrible film. It moves along quickly, and features some spectacular dogfight sequences. But it isn't the movie this story deserves, and is very disappointing for the few of us that still hoped George Lucas could get behind something special, post- Star Wars prequels. Those that did enjoy the film, and history teachers looking for a bit of busywork for their students should be plenty happy with this Blu-ray's image and sound quality. The rest of us should also enjoy the included documentary on the real life Tuskegee Airmen, which runs about an hour.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Agreed! This film needed a better writer.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 22nd May 2012
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish, French and English Descriptive Track
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish
Extras: Double Victory: The Tuskegee Airmen at War, George Lucas: Executive Producer, Anthony Hemingway: Director, Terence Blanchard: Composer, The Cast of Red Tails, Movie Magic, DVD Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Anthony Hemingway and George Lucas
Cast: Cuba Gooding, Jr., Terrence Howard, David Oyelowd, Ne-Yo, Elijah Kelley, Nate Parker
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama and War
Length: 125 minutes
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Epinephelus drummondhayi
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Epinephelus drummondhayi Goode & Bean, 1878
|Regional Assessments:
Common Name(s):
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Critically Endangered A2d+3d ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
Needs updating
|Ng Wai Chuen & Huntsman, G. (Grouper & Wrasse Specialist Group)
|Sadovy, Y. & Koenig, C. (Grouper & Wrasse Red List Authority)
E. drummondhayi is an important species in the recreational and commercial fisheries of the southeastern USA. Mainly caught with hook-and-line, but some might also be taken in traps, trawls and on bottom-set longlines.
The major threat to the Speckled Hind is mortality as a result of fishing or by-catch release mortality (due to barotraumas since it is a deepwater species). Both recreational and commercial fisheries for speckled hind are currently regulated in the south Atlantic; the South Atlantic Fisheries Management Council considers the species to be overfished. In the Gulf of Mexico commercial fishery, there are no possession limits for the species for federally permitted reef fish vessels, and both species are managed under the deep-water grouper commercial quota. The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council classifies the status of Speckled Hind as "unknown" (see NOAA Fisheries, Office of Protected Resources web site).
E. drummondhayi are caught as bycatch from the deepwater snapper/grouper fisheries off the coast of North Carolina through Texas. There is a paucity of data for this species: the stock structure is not characterized, population size is unknown and much of the life history of the species has not been investigated. The introduction of large marine protected areas is likely to be the most effective conservation measure for this species.
The status of the species is ambiguous. There is concern that even if the deeper parts of the range have healthy fish stocks, the shallow areas are much depleted. Despite management introduction, there continues to be continued killing of the species in bycatch which is unlikely to be reported. It appears to have largely disappeared from Bermuda.
Despite the continuing poor understanding of this species, there is considerable concern about its present and future status given that management action may be too little and not effective, and a threatened category listing is warranted, given the intrinsic vulnerability of the species and the possibility that US waters hold much of the species. Declines in the recent past have been extreme, fishing effort is not known and there is concern that much other fishing effort is moving offshore and will increasingly impact this species. Musick et al. (2001) considered the species to be endangered.
It is not clear whether this species fits better in the Endangered than Critically Endangered category. The classification of Critically Endangered is retained (a) because there is no good evidence of a change in condition since the last assessment was conducted; (b) the species continues to be taken as bycatch and is not protected from this by current regulations; (c) a precautionary approach is being taken; and (d) the species has a suite of life history characteristics that are often associated with higher extinction risk.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|The species occurs in the waters around Bermuda and along the coast of the USA from North Carolina to the Florida Keys and in the northern and eastern Gulf of Mexico. Reports of Speckled Hind from Cuba and the Bahamas are unsubstantiated (Heemstra and Randall 1993).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Bermuda; Mexico; United States (Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Atlantic – western central
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|Very little population data have been reported for the species.
In Bermuda the species is rare and probably not reproducing. Biologist and Bermuda Fisheries government officer Brian Luckhurst "examined and photographed two specimens in 1983 and that was the last time I have seen any specimens". "My view is that there is probably not a reproductively viable population here. We may occasionally get larvae coming in on Gulf Stream eddies but that is sporadic. Suffice it to say that the species is commercially extinct here and has been for at least 20 years" (B. Luckhurst pers. comm). Smith (1958) reported the species to be sporadically common in Bermuda at depths of 146–182 m, but now the species appears to be quite rare (Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999).
US National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) data showed that the landings of E. drummondhayi have fluctuated. In southeastern USA, annual landings (recreational and commercial) declined to about 5 metric tons in the mid-1990s, then increased to about 18 metric tons, then dropped to just a few metric tons in 1995 (see Figure 2 in the Supplementary Material for a graph of these figures). More recent landings data have not been located (Parker and Mays 1998).
The landings reflected in the commercial landings for all US waters indicates a different trend, one showing overall increase from 1980 to 2004 (yearly landings from 1980 in metric tons: 0.7; 1.9; 5.3; 12.3; 14.8; 14.6; 12.7; 9.9; 8.7; 8.9; 9.8; 27.1; 30; 20.7; 29.4; 19.4; 17.5; 28.2; 23.2; 23.2; 29.7; 30.9; 23.3; 40.3; 47.4). (See the detailed table of commercial landings data for this species at http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/st1/commercial/landings/annual_landings.html).
It is not known what trends in fishing effort have been associated with the reported landings, although there appears to be a movement of effort offshore (and into the areas where this species occurs) by both recreational and commercial sectors as part of moving fishing effort away from inshore waters. The declines and increases noted above could either reflect declines or increases in catch rates combined with a movement/change of fishing effort, or some combination of the two.
Personal observations by Dr. Gene Huntsman (cited in Musick et. al. 2001), a scientist familiar with the species and its fishing history suggested steady and drastic declines in abundance.
Low resilience, minimum population doubling time is 4.5 - 14 years (Froese and Pauly 2005).
A detailed analysis of size-frequency data and catch data in the Gulf of Mexico is needed to determine stock status in this location. The species appears to be depleted over its more shallow range and status in both deep and shallower areas needs to be determined.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|E. drummondhayi derive their common name (Speckled Hind) from the multitude of tiny white spots that cover their reddish-brown head, body and fins. Specked hinds are deep-water groupers, which have their pelagic egg and larval stages offshore (Richards 1999). Adults inhabit offshore rocky bottoms in depths of 25 to 183 m but are most common between 60 and 120 m (Bullock and Smith 1991, Heemstra and Randall 1993). Juveniles are more commonly found in shallower portions of the depth range (Ross 1988).
Speckled Hind are protogynous hermaphrodites (Brule et al. 2000); females mature at 4 or 5 years of age (45–60 cm TL), transition into males was estimated to occur at ages 7 to 14 (Brule et al. 2000).
Spawning occurs from April to May and July to September (Heemstra and Randall, 1993, Brule et al. 2000). No direct observation of spawning has been reported; spawning may occur at >70 m depth based on the catch of ripe individuals (Brule et al. 2000, Gilmore and Jones 1992).
Maximum size is about 110 cm TL and maximum weight is 30 kg (Matheson and Huntsman 1984, Bullock and Smith 1991, Heemstra and Randall 1993). Prey items, which can be engulfed whole, include fishes, crabs, shrimps lobsters and molluscs (see NOAA Fisheries, Office of Protected Resources web site).
|Major Threat(s):
An immediate threat to this species is related to management of the commercial bottom long-line fishery of the southeastern US. The management trend has been to restrict such indiscriminate gear to deeper waters. If this management trend continues Speckled Hind and other deep-water species like it (Warsaw Grouper, Snowy Grouper, Yellowedge Grouper, and several species of tilefish) will experience an even greater impact than they do now because barotrauma (expansion of enclosed gases in the swimbladder (embolism)) results in hemorrhage and eventual death as these deep-water fish are brought to the surface (Coleman and Williams 2002, Coleman et al. 2004).
There is also a trend for the recreational fishery to operate in deeper water as shallower stocks become depleted. Even though there is a daily bag limit and trip limit for groupers, there are so many recreational fishermen (over 1 million saltwater licenses in Florida alone) that the potential impact on the already depleted Speckled Hind population is serious.
At the present time there are no stock assessments and none are planned.
|Conservation Actions:
E. drummondhayi was listed as a "Candidate Species" in 1997 under the US Endangered Species Act (ESA), and was classified as a "Species of Concern" in April 2004 by National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (see: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/concern/). In either case the status does not carry any procedural or substantive protection under the ESA.
Status by Distinct Population Segment (DPS) US: Endangered, steady and drastic decline in abundance, males rare (G.R. Huntsman pers. obs.).
|Ng Wai Chuen & Huntsman, G. (Grouper & Wrasse Specialist Group). 2006. Epinephelus drummondhayi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2006: e.T7854A12855084. . Downloaded on 19 September 2018.
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Lets go back to lens image quality.Phase One 55mm LS 2.8 and 40MP crop sensor
And who said you can repost my images. I want it removed immediately if not sooner.
Thus, in Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc.,[5] the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit explained why inline linking did not violate US copyright law:Google does not...display a copy of full-size infringing photographic images for purposes of the Copyright Act when Google frames in-line linked images that appear on a users computer screen. Because Googles computers do not store the photographic images, Google does not have a copy of the images for purposes of the Copyright Act. In other words, Google does not have any material objects...in which a work is fixed...and from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated and thus cannot communicate a copy. Instead of communicating a copy of the image, Google provides HTML instructions that direct a users browser to a website publishers computer that stores the full-size photographic image. Providing these HTML instructions is not equivalent to showing a copy. First, the HTML instructions are lines of text, not a photographic image. Second, HTML instructions do not themselves cause infringing images to appear on the users computer screen. The HTML merely gives the address of the image to the users browser. The browser then interacts with the computer that stores the infringing image. It is this interaction that causes an infringing image to appear on the users computer screen. Google may facilitate the users access to infringing images. However, such assistance raised only contributory liability issues and does not constitute direct infringement of the copyright owners display rights. ...While in-line linking and framing may cause some computer users to believe they are viewing a single Google webpage, the Copyright Act...does not protect a copyright holder against [such] acts....
I consider this a copyright infringement . I was waiting for you to do something stupid a troll always does.
Edited. Removed.Guy...However that was no more than a link to the image you had linked to in this thread.Look at the HTML code.It's called in line linking. It's not a copyright infringement. Something forum owners and moderators are aware of.As a courtesy I removed the inline link and now refer to it with words. However I have saved your post making an accusation of copyright infringementon a public forum. (pdf, screenshot and HTML)
I know the law and I own a forum and just making a point. Bottom line don't repost my images as it is wrong to do and it's disrespectful and you already know that as a Pro. Have some respect for people's work as you post links to many of others work. I'm not going to get into the technicalities of the law but my lawyer would have a field day with this regardless of how the law is written. You should already know that as a working Pro, this is not amateur hour lets get that straight. No one posts my images except me. Fred I suggested this earlier that what was the point of posting a image here as you will turn it into something else to prove your point. Which is exactly what you done and exactly why I did not want to post in the first place which I am sure why many are not as well. Ill further further comments out as it is not very pleasant for others but you lost any respect I may have had.
Lets go back to lens image quality.Lets compare some images to the Phase One 55mm LS 2.8 and 40MP crop sensor posted in this thread.D800E with Nikon 15mm
That image of the library was shot at 15mm with the 14-24mm f/2.8G ED.The 15mm ais you are refering to is a much older lens.
Another good example of image quality :http://dl.dropbox.com/u/68162974/Raw%20File%20Catalog/Capture/Sample%20Files/28LS%20vs.%2028D%20vs.%2032HR/Scene-1_IQ160_28D_f11-ProfotoRGB.jpg
Lets go back to lens image quality.Lets compare some images to the Phase One 55mm LS 2.8 and 40MP crop sensor posted in this thread.D800e with Zeiss 21mmhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/poweiyeh_tw/7454539682/Corner to corner clarity and detail.Russ Barnes on flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/russellbarnes/8338107472/D800E with Nikon 15mm with the 14-24mm f/2.8G ED ZOOM lenshigher res here:http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8078/8412801002_3d9c7f0fd0_o.jpgD800e 70-200 2.8 II zoomhigher res herehttp://farm9.staticflickr.com/8080/8412825174_9ace6b7563_o.jpgOne should also keep in mind the prices of the gear.Phase One DF Plus 55mm 2.8 LS IQ140 about $ 30,000. D800E and Zeiss 21mm about $ 4,900.D800E and 14-24mm G about $ 5,000
Phase One DF Plus 55mm 2.8 LS IQ140 about $ 30,000. D800E and Zeiss 21mm about $ 4,900.D800E and 14-24mm G about $ 5,000
A valid point.I hope the competition from Nikon and Canon will lead to significant improvements in MFDB sensor design and bring prices to more 'reasonable' levels - the gap between 35mm and MF in the film days wasn't such a tough pill to swallow.
which one are you saying is over sharpened?
You know the law, but still chose to accuse me of copyright infringement.At least I don't make these kind of accusations.


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