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Yosemite National Park - a spectacular landscape full of extraordinary shaped mountains, waterfalls, rivers and brooks.
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fiedziu (1764) 2005-08-01 16:38
nice colors and reflection
maybe you could choose better POV
but it is fine
thanks for sharing
kingdragon (445) 2005-08-01 16:46
A very good composition
Maybe the framing could be better if u can cut out some part of the water and use it for sky
Roly (2024) 2005-08-01 16:48
Beautiful location for a shot, excellent warm light and composition. On the negative side, the image lacks sharpness and the bright sky on the right is quite distracting. The result of over-polarization I reckon?
Curioso (9271) 2005-08-01 16:58
Although a bit blurry (probably for scan issue) the result is spectacular. I guess there is a good post-processing behind that scene but the whole compo and scene is absolutely great ! In fact, it almost looks like a painting. Congrats Michael !
robbertjan (2906) 2005-08-01 17:30
Hai Michael,
Great picture. I've been there myself. Such a beautiful nature. Good sharp picture with nice colors!
Liber8or (0) 2005-08-01 17:30
I really like this image. Unfortunately i did not get to enter Yosemite due to the flash floods in May. I love the vibrant colours.
A very North American style image...
anesugur (18789) 2005-08-01 17:36
Very good composition, nice colors and reflection.
peter1892 (1681) 2005-08-01 18:13
Beautiful location, well captured. The reflections are great, especialy on the right side where the reflection on the water looks a little darker.
spacewil (936) 2005-08-01 18:27
Definitely, Yosemite parc is one of the most beautifull place on earth. I like the reflexion of el capitan in the water...
I like the colors also.
Very nice
bluevelvet (172) 2005-08-01 19:39
Great photo! Nice composition, and wonderfull reflexion on the water. Great composition and nice colors. Just like an oil painting from 18 century. Well done!
UlfE (14641) 2005-08-02 1:25
Hello Michael,
Fantastic shot. I like the colors, the reflections very much.
Marche (4307) 2005-08-02 1:26
Bonjour Michael,
Magnifique vue du Yosemite National Park. Très bon résultat pour cette photo ancienne (scannée). Superbe réflection. Elle est nette, elle devait être d'une remarquable définition. Les couleurs sont très belles.
Merci du partage.
Dans quelques j'y serai, je pars demain.
filip54852 (0) 2005-08-02 1:47 [Comment]
stefi (1230) 2005-08-02 2:20
Hi MIchael, Yosemite Park is a "must" for a photographer and I hope to go there one day.
I tell you what I like and not:
I like:
- colors
- composition
- polarization
- point of view
I like less:
- sky (a little overexposed on the right)
- noise (scanning?) ù
danyy (0) 2005-08-02 2:30
Bonjour Michael,
tu nous rends ce magnifique endroit encore plus envoûtant avec ces couleurs fantastiques. Domage quie la photo manque un peu de netteté, mais le cadrage et le POV sont esxcellents.
J'aime aussi ce reflet dans ce petit plan d'eau peu profond.
Bien vu et capturé.
donluicu (24724) 2005-08-02 4:52
Bravo Michale
quel splendide panorama..tres clair, le reflet est excellent
timotey (119) 2005-08-02 5:30
The purity of the water in the foreground srtikes me. It provides amazing reflections and a symetry that balances the composition very well. The background is well defined by a good aperture. Very well done !
Papem (85) 2005-08-05 19:52 [Comment]
And the park too!
capthaddock (28790) 2005-08-05 20:10
Hi Michael - the scenery is awesome, wonderful reflection with enough detail on the submerged stones. I'm sure it looked much better in print, I will add it to favorites not because of image quality but for the quality of the work.
kasperp (494) 2005-08-10 3:02
I went to Yosemite more than 10 years ago. Your picture captures perfectly how I like to remember it and it keeps me longer to go back.
That the sky to the right is a little overexposed doesn't seem to matter to me, the refections in the lake and the colors of the trees and rocks are all I seem to notice.
Very well done.
Cormac (26565) 2005-08-20 10:10
Stunning picture! I really like the bright colours you got with this. The reflection is also a great touch, especially when you can see the rocks under the water. Wow, this is a real winner!
alejandroguzman (4684) 2005-08-22 1:47
another MAGNIFICENT picture !!!
baudinm (349) 2005-08-24 10:18
Hi Michael,
This is one of my favorite landscape because the point of view is astounding.
The colors are bright and the contrast between the green and the blue is very nice.
I also like the reflections in the lake.
I suppose that a polarising filter has been used because we can see the rocks under the water.
Congratulations !
AndyGr1er (281) 2005-09-02 7:44
suberb shot, great light and colour tone, but some graininess and slight over-exposure in the sky (a circular polarising filter would sort that nicely)
jrenier (762) 2005-09-07 15:20
Wow :)
That's a very good one.
I like a lot the different layers. Too bad it's not sharper.
Well done.
jkos (981) 2005-09-21 15:44
Excelent shot. Were you standing on a fallen tree? I have a shot from the exact same locatiion (not so crispy) taken almos one year earlier - http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/North_America/United_States/photo229229.htm
Thanks for sharing.
Mansi (543) 2005-10-05 15:25
a very nicely balanced shot Michael!
love the comp and the colors
great POV and depth
well done
rajhema (1873) 2005-10-28 9:49
One word. Wow! let me be the one to take you to 50 points. Glorious picture Michael. it is going to my favourite
krakowiak (4762) 2005-10-29 4:23 [Comment]
Probably this isn't photo taken by digital camera and it looks not so bright, but it's nice shoot.
Paul57 (2217) 2005-11-19 14:39
Hi Michael,
Great composition and beautiful shades of green. I also like the reflection in the water.
Thanks for sharing.
rabani (9645) 2005-11-24 22:48
Obviously this is a print. You have a lovely angle Michael. You are low enough and probably in the stream to get the whole view of the meadow with the overhanging rockfaces in the background. Lovely work Michael. I really liked the bright summer feel of this work.
Remarkably clear photo. Sets a new benchmark.
blackmamba (43) 2006-01-27 10:43
Impressive reflections, good composition, well done.
sabyasachi1212 (19779) 2006-05-19 10:27
Hi Michael,
Absolutely picture postcard image. The water is so clear one can see the bottom. Beautiful reflections and colours.
Thanks for sharing
patriik (1935) 2006-05-21 7:56
fantastic shot! Wonderful colours, nice compo!
this place is awesom!
good work!
pboehringer (770) 2006-06-05 12:42
Excellent POV and composition. The reflections, trees and meadow are fantastic. The sky and the rocks are a little bit to overexposed and grainy.
zeca (19762) 2006-07-25 22:33
A classic view of Yosemite! I love this place! I have some pictures, but I don´t have it already scanned. The colours are great and so is the framing, showing the river's rocks. Well done, Michael!
arnoud1976 (1191) 2006-08-17 5:35
hi michael, fantastic landscpe. good pov and great colors!!! shame of the noise in the sky...but still GREAT! tfs arnoud
IgorDeleze (585) 2007-01-30 10:04
Hello Michael,
Great landscape with beautiful colors. Nice reflection.
cdmonson (5260) 2007-01-31 20:16
Beautiful shot Michael, in every respect. I love the inclusion of the water--it makes it feel like a much more lush and fertile area. There is quite a bit of noise in the picture, so I ran it through Neat Image and posted a workshop. Otherwise, fantastic job.
PeterDF (421) 2010-06-23 7:16
A wonderful capture here by you of this beautiful scene in Yosemite National Park in my home state. The reflections off the water are really remarkable, blending almost perfectly with the land. A beautiful time to visit the area, too...in late September. Really very nicely done.
metalz (444) 2013-12-13 7:10
Hai Michael,
I like this photo. It really make me feel cold and calm when I see this. Like I want to be in this place.
yiannisscheidt (206) 2013-12-13 7:54
Good afternoon Michael.
Excellent composition, and very high level of sharpness in the water area. Nice job!
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- Copyright: Michael Trezzi (MichaelTrezzi) (3368)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2001-09-30
- Categories: Nature
- Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
- Theme(s): Greatest-1116, Mountains of N. America [view contributor(s)]
- Date Submitted: 2005-08-01 16:35
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Eston said there were too many key players to name individually, but Cole Needham, Michael Mullen and Paul Chiolino would all be called upon.
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AVmail: March 18, 2013
Letter of the Week: Question from a Midair Veteran
I have read your interesting article on mid-air collisions, but I cannot agree totally with it. I am the lucky survivor of an actual mid-air, where my Twin Comanche at 150 kts cut off the fin of a Cessna C172RG at 125 kts, losing most of my left wing tip in the crash. Luckily, nobody was hurt, but it still puzzles me how such an event may have occurred.
In perfectly clear weather, I was on my toes knowing that traffic at the same altitude (2,000 feet) was heavy and having been warned by ATC of traffic on the opposite heading. Unfortumately, I had just passed another aircraft on opposite heading and thought that was it. Despite what I believed to be an accurate scan, we only saw each other at a distance of about 1,000 feet. I dove sharply to the right, but the other guy also dove without turning, so I pulled up hoping to avoid him. Well, I didn't make it.
My question is: In case you really are close, is it better to dive, to keep him in sight, or to pull up?
Giulio Valdonio
Sequester Bites
Regarding the "Question of the Week" on sequester: I instruct at KANE in Minnesota. Our contract tower is on the list to close. We are a reliever airport for KMSP and have six instrument approaches from three different directions, a significant amount of flight instruction, corporate jet traffic, and cargo haulers as well as about 400 GA aircraft based on the field.
With the mix of aircraft and pilot experience and skill, operating with no tower is a huge safety concern. Unfortunately, the FAA isn't considering safety as one of the criteria for keeping the contract towers open. I find this rather ironic considering the millions of dollars the FAA spends on safety awareness and instruction.
Ours is not a unique situation. Many of the towers scheduled to close are in busy air space, creating a very hazardous situation. There must be a better way than this to cut the budget.
Cheryl Daml
Of course I'm still going to fly. I'm a young pilot living off a modest budget, with a loving wife who also lives off a modest budget. Quite frankly, I'm tired of listening to a lot of older pilots wishing things would go back to the way they were in the '70s. We do ourselves no favors bitching about how bad things are to everyone, then wondering why no one's starting. Maybe if a few of the "doom and gloom" pilots hung it up, a few more people would be interested in starting.
Brandon Freeman
I'm based at FDK, where the new contract tower is on the chopping block. All of my flying is IFR because of the adjacent SFRA and Camp David. I expect significant delays in clearances and releases, so it will affect my flying, most of which is for Pilots N Paws.
Elliott DeGraff
I see AOPA is asking the government to keep the low-volume towers open. They are behaving like everyone else who is getting cut: "Cut the other guys, not me." It is time for us all to bite the bullet and cut back. We operated nicely without towers, and we can do it again. Not that big a deal.
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Certified for ADS-B
I recently purchased a new LSA aircraft and installed a Garmin 796, a GTX-330ES, and a GDL-39 thinking that I'd be receiving all ADS-B information on my 796. The aircraft dealer thought the same. I didn't want to wait until 2020 to be compliant with the "out" mandate and wanted to have the weather and traffic picture now.
If you read the manuals on the above equipment, you'd think that you'd be all set with the latest, but the manuals are deceiving.
What you must know is that in order to talk to the ADS-B ground stations you must have a certified GPS unit. As of this time, the GPS 796 is not [certified]. So The cheapest fix now is to install a standalone certified GPS unit to talk to the GTX-330ES to be able to send and receive the information that I thought I was getting.
What would be great, and makes perfect sense, is that a certified GPS should not have to be used in an experimental or an LSA, as long as the GPS unit is WAAS-capable.
The 796 fits the WAAS requirement.
Isn't it better that we all, certified and non-certified aircraft alike, have the same picture of weather and traffic?
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Alphabet Performance
I've been an AOPA member since 1978 and an EAA member since 1990. I think AOPA does a decent job with national issues, but both organizations stabbed their memberships in the back with the purposeful elimination of legacy aircraft such as the C-150/152 or Skipper from the LSA category.
So they wanted to "nurture" a new industry? Maybe they should change their names to GAMA and stop pretending to represent member pilots. The proposal to eliminate the third class medical shows how weak they perceive themselves to be. No night flights? Horsepower restrictions? Did the FAA draw up this proposal? I am on the verge of dropping both memberships.
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I see drones frequently because I fly one. It's a three-pound hexacopter capable of carrying a one-pound payload consisting of a camera and camera gimbal.
Since I hold a commercial pilot's certificate, I can claim superior knowledge of FAA rules over most drone hobbyists. Almost all hobbyists fly according to AC 91-57. Few want to risk their craft that cost well north of $500 with out-of-sight GPS-guided flight, and believe me, at 400 feet, a typical hobby drone is just a speck in the air.
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"Short Final" Sensitivities
Regarding the letter about "Short Final": I have been flying since 1972. I learned to fly in a USAF flying club. My ex-husband was AF, not me. I found that "Short Final" to be funny, not derogatory to women. We need to lighten up and not take ourselves so seriously. I flew single-pilot night freight in the late 1970s and most of the 1980s, when I was the only woman in the area I was flying in. When I got picked on (and I did, big time!) I turned it back on the man with humor. I got accepted rather quickly.
Lighten up all, please.
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As in Stan's case, for purposes of full disclosure, I am not and have not been in either the Marines or the Navy. Like Stan, I taught in college/university aviation programs and was the director of one during the 9//11 time period. I am also very sensitive to the issue of women in aviation, especially since my daughter pursued a career in aviation both as a pilot and in ground functions.
I think that Stan missed the point of the joke in the Feb. 25 "Short Final." The reference was to men's vs. boys' departments, not men vs. women. I agree that we have to do all we can to make sure that women do not have to put up with discriminatory things in pursuit of aviation careers, but in this case we might well do more harm than good by trying to make a truly "innocent" joke into something that it is not.
I compliment Stan for his sensitivity and willingness to speak out � but in this case it wasn't needed.
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Business Insider
Tim Cook spoke with Goldman Sachs' analyst Bill Shope at Goldman's technology conference this morning. We listed to the interview and our live notes are below.
Here is the high level summary of what Cook said:
• Apple doesn't have a "depression-era" mentality when it comes to cash, despite what David Einhorn said. He says Apple has paid out a lot to shareholders and is actively looking at how to do more.
• He thinks Einhorn's lawsuit is a silly sideshow. What Apple is trying to do is make it better for common shareholders, and Einhorn is actually trying to make things worse.
• Apple has done ~6 acquisitions per year over the last few years, and they're mostly small companies. Apple has looked at big companies, but passed because it wasn't a good fit. Apple could do big acquisitions if it really wanted, but it's not going to buy revenue. Only smart people and good products.
• Apple's culture of innovation is based on the fact that it can do hardware, software, and services. At the intersection of these three, Apple has "magic," and its rivals are trying to catch up.
• The iPhone isn't done growing. The smartphone market is big and getting bigger. Apple can grow.
• Don't limit your thinking when it comes to an affordable iPhone. The iPad is an affordable Mac. There is a way for Apple to make a great, inexpensive product.
• Worrying about the iPad Mini killing the big iPad is stupid. Just make a great product before the competition does.
• Apple's services business can help its margins on its hardware sales.
• Cook loves Apple's stores. If he's ever feeling down, he just goes there and it makes him happy. He likes the energy, he likes to see all the people.
It's starting .... Goldman talking about Goldman right now.
Lloyd Blankfein is in the house...
Lloyd: I won't take long, I know why everyone is here this early in the morning (for Tim Cook).
Blankfein: Always nervous at this conference, because tech changes so quickly, I'm afraid I'll embarrass myself talking about last year's tech.
Blankfein is introducing Tim Cook, running down all the crazy numbers for Apple...
Here's Cook... he starts off with Safe Harbor statement
Reaction to notion that Apple is in depression-era mindset re: Cash
Cook: Apple doesn't have depression era mentality. Apple makes bold product bets. Last year $10 billion CapEx, do the same this year, investing in R&D, new products, supply chain, we're acquiring some companies. I think it's hard ... or at least my definition wouldn't include investing a pair of 10s over two years, and $45 billion back to shareholders, I don;t know how a company with despression era mindest would have done all those things.
Now, we do have some cash, but it's a privlige to be in this position. That we can seriously consider returning additional cash to our sharholders. Management team and the board in very active discussion, we will do so thoughtfully.
Thoughts on Greenlight secuirty idea?
Cook: It's creative, and we're going to thoroughly evaluate it.
Cook: It centers on Prop 2. Right of shareholders. It's not about whether returns additional cash to sharholders, not about how much to return to shareholders, not about mechanism to return it, it's about the right of shareholders. In 2012, we were looking at what we could do to improve goverence, one item that came out was we should eliminate a blank check preferred. Not that Apple can release preferred, but if we do it we need to go to our common shareholders.
Frankly, I find it bizarre that we would be sue for doing something that would be good for shareholders. It's a silly sideshow.
More Cook ...
You're not going to see a yes on 2 sign in my front yard. It's a waste of shareholder money.
I support prop 2, I think it's the right thing for shareholders to have the right on this, I encourage others to vote on it. but, it's not something we're going to spend cycles on.
The serious thing is the return of cash, how to do it, and we're serious about that.
Prop 2 a silly sideshow. We feel so strongly that for Apple that shareholders should approve an issuance of preferred stock that common shareholders, we would go for a vote regardless. That's the way I see it.
Question about acquisitions...
We have done 6 acquisitions per year on average. Mostly IP, or something people are working on, and moved the skills to work on something else.
Great example: We bought PA Semi. We were working on designing the engines in all iOS gadgets. This was a skilled group of guys and they could supplement people in Apple. They were working on PowerPC, so move skills to iOS device engines. That's a great example of what we've done.
We will do more of those. Constantly looking in the market for more to do.
We have looked at large acquisitions but passed. We don't feel a pressure to acquire revenue, we want to make great products, that's what we're about. If a large company could do that, we would do it, but deliberate, thoughtful is the way to do it.
Where is Apple's culture of innovation?
Cook: Never been stronger. A belief there are no limits. Deeply embedded, in the values, in the DNA of the company, I feel fantastic about it. No better place for innovation.
Look at essentials for innovation, there is no formula. Without releasing all magic, for us, it's skills and leadership.
If you look at skills: Unique and unrivaled position. Skills in software, hardware and services. Reality is that hte model that grew PC industry, someone specialized in something, that model is not working for what consumers want today. The customer is at center of experience.
Where you can innovated in hardware, software, services, the real magic happens at the intersection of these. Apple can innovate like crazy and cause magic.
The iPad is magical because a company was doing all of these things.
Some peopel call this vertical integration, for years, was out of favor, people called it crazy. We never did. This isn't something you can go write a check for. You work decades for this. We're unique and unrivaled, there are people trying to catch up.
Cook on leadership....
I see superstars. People at the very top of their game, I see people like Jony Ive, he has the best taste in the world.
I see Bob Mansfield, top silicon expert in the world.
Jeff williams, phil, dan, craig, so focused on products at the very top of their game.
I look at Apple, and I see culture deeply embedded.
Is growth at a natural limit in iPhone?
Cook: We don't have limit in our vocabulary. People I work with don't have limits. It's because of that, people can't live without. When I zoom out and look at smartphone market, I see a market that last year was around 700 mill +/-, projected to double to 1.4 billion. More on a longer term basis all phones will be smartphones.
People love to upgrade their phones, I see a market that is great to be in, one of the greatest markets to be in. Apple has enoromus momentum.
Incredible momentum, over period of time an ecosystem, best customer experience on the planet. Incredible economic gain for developers. Look at App economy, money flowing ... all moved to mobile (tablets/smartphones) I see momentum, ecosystem, when I look at what Apple has done in China.
Gone from a few hundred million to $3 bill to $13 billion to $23 billion last year. I also see in markets where we havent done as well, optty.
More Cook ...
When I string it all together, and I consider that today, the iPhone only available to 50% of subscribers in the world, frankly, I see a wide open field.
But can everyone afford iPhones?
Cook: Good question. Our north star is "Great Products." We would never do something that isn't a great product, not why we're on this earth.
That said, if you look at what we've done to appeal to people that are price sensitive — lower price of iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, in most recent quarter, not enough supply of iPhone 4. Suprised us. We are making moves to make things more affordable.
If you look at Apple's history. Look at iPod. It was $399. Today you can get an iPod shuffle for $49.
Instead of how can you cheapen to get it lower, we were saying how can we make something great.
The same thing in a different way, people said why don't you have a Mac that's less than $1,000? We worked on them, put we couldn't do a great product. What did we do? We invented iPad and it starts at $329.
Sometimes you can take the issue and solve it in different ways, our north star is great product and that has served us well. I think of this one, a track record to show it.
So we shouldnt think of it as a limit?
Quesiton about screen sizes, why not bigger?
Cook: I don't want to say what we will do or won't do. The truth is...
Let me compare to PC. Way companies compete were specs and price. They would say I have largest drive or fastest processor, or camera would say megapixels.
Products want great product, and those things have nothing to do with that.
Do you know speed of AX processor? You don't , it doesnt matter. You want a fab experience.
If you look at display. People focus on size.
But there are other things. OLED color saturation is horrible. If you buy something online and want to know color, don't depend on OLED display.
Retina 2X as bright as OLED.
There are many attributions of a display and Apple sweats every detail. Not going to comment on what we do in the future, it's always broader than that which can be defined by a simple number.
Cook: Only thing we'll never do is make a crppy product. We're going to make a great product. Something bold, something ambitious. We sweat the details. Hopefully we've proven this is something we can do.
Talking iPad now. Strong on unit basis. How do you think about optty going forward?
Cook: Tablet market will be huge. It is a huge opportunity. It's one of those areas that show integrated experience that is jaw dropping. To put 23 million in some context. HP world's largest PC maker sold 15 million PCs. 50%+ more iPads, and if you look at full year, more iPads last year than HP's entire PC lineup, sea change here. I think we're in the early innings of this game. 120 mill tablets last year, projection is that it will triple in 4 years. Think about that that's more PCs sold around the world and PC growth is contracting.
Tablet attracting people who never owened a PC and people who owne them but wnat better epxerience.
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Cook: 300,000 apps for iPad. Other guys have a few hundred. We have a significant lead in this area.
You can see the whole of Apple here. If you look at usage, there are companies that have very very good usage.
IBM did a survey of usage on Black Friday. Mobile product that had most shopping was iPad. 2X as every Android device, every phone, every tablet. Why? because iPad an incredible experience.
More Cook ...
We're in every fortune 500, almost every global 500, in education, a long time for products to engage all of these markets, we've already done that. But I still think we're in the initial innings of this. Profound for industry. Age old model of everyone doing a sliver of something and hoping it comes together, customers aren't buying it.
Question about iPad Mini and cannibalization.
Cook: I get this question a lot. I remember people asking about the iBook. OMG, you're going to kill the Mac! You're stupid.
We don't think about it that much. Our belief, if we don't cannibalize, someone else will. In iPad, I would argue Windows PC is huge and there is more to cannibalize than Mac or large iPad.
If you ever use cannibalizing as a measure of products, it's the beggining of the end.
Look in Brazil, those people buying iPads don't have Apple stuff. This is a huge introduction. We've found correlation between first Apple product and other Apple products. We saw this with iPod and iPhone and iPad for iPhone. All synergies and stuff. It's not about just a point product. As you can probably tell from my response, I think this is a huge opportunity. It seems perfectly reasonable to me to have an iPad and iPad Mini. I think this is going to be the mother of all markets. Customers voting and buying, we had difficult time satisfying everyone.
From investor perspective ... revenue growth and gross margin preservation?
Cook: Dont want to project margins beyond what we do in earnings. You can go in and accept a lower margin at any time for a strategic reason. Could be our entry into that and at the background, we know the halo effect plays. We have confidence in our ability to execute supply chain. In area of tablets, market huge, have another product. People wanted full iPad in someting smaller and lighter. Becuase we're not a hardware company, we have other ways to make money and reward shareholders. This doesn't get noticed, but last quarter, services and software was $3.7 billion. If you look at that vs. software and services companies, that's an incredible amount of revenue. Because we're not a hardware company other things we're doing and could to have revenues and profits flow. We don't look at the sales of a product as our last part of the relationship. Our stores do a fantastic job. There's financial benefit, but our focus in on customer. Larger than a hardware company affords us ability to not worry about so much in short term, managing for long term. I know people care about quarters, we care, but decisions are for long term health not for short term, 90-day.
Platform strategy in emerging markets? China, App Store, iCloud popular, but in emerging markets, customers can't buy music/movies. How do you think about that?
CooK: Last year we put enormous energy in expanding geographically. iTunes over 100 coutnries. iBooks over 50 countries. iCloud in every country. Messages in every country that we can, some goverment restrictions, but only one major country nto selling movies. We advanced last year in getting infrastructure. We advanced the ball. Our intention is to have a great eco-sytem everywhere. We don't believe in limits, keep knocking at the door.
Question about retail...
Cook: Not for selling, but for service. Get more out of Apple products over life of them. It's a gather place that has important role in the community. If you look at agenda, might be youth program coming in as a field trip or a local musician entertaining people, incredibly exciting what these stores do, not even sure store is the right word. They are the face of Apple for all our customers. They dont think of Cupertino, think of the store.
120 million people last year in our stores and we only have 400 stores.
We're closing 20 stores, making them larger. We're adding 30 more, disproportionatly outside the U.S. First store in Turkey, puts us in 13 countries. 4 stores in China last quarter, add lots more. Serve customers there.
One of the things not understood, we wouldn't have been as successful with ipad if nto for stores. It's a different product. People's view of tablet is something the Hertz guy is holding that no one wanted. Our store is a place to explore and discover. I don't think the launch would have been nearly as successful without the stores. It gives Apple competitive advantage to have these stores. It's not so easy to replicate to launch these products. I'm bullish on the stores.
Avg store last year was over $50 million in revenue, who would have thought a store could do that?
If i ever feel like I'm dropping down (feeling bad) I go into a store, it's like a Prozac. A feeling like no other.
What are you most proud of over the last year?
Cook: Employees. Have privilege of working with people that want to make the best products in the world.
(He rattles off all the "best things" Apple makes...)
Proud we have largest private solar farm anywhere, proud of all of these things.
And that's that ...
Cook thanks everyone for showing up early.


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"We are pleased to have MLS clubs compete in this summer's World Football Challenge, and our teams embrace the challenge of competing against top international opponents," said Will Wilson, MLS executive vice president. "We have worked closely with CAA Sports in the past and are proud to partner with them to produce this innovative event for soccer fans throughout the region."
The tournament will run from July 14 through Aug. 6. The competing teams, schedule, format, event sponsors and ticket information will be announced in the coming weeks. Televisa, a founding partner of the inaugural World Football Challenge, will remain involved in 2011.
"By all measures, the inaugural World Football Challenge was a big success: introducing some of the top international clubs and players to existing and new American fans of soccer, multiple sold-out matches, blue-chip sponsors and a world-class broadcast partner in ESPN," said Michael Levine, co-head of CAA Sports.
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The inaugural version of the tournament took place in 2009 and featured Serie A clubs AC Milan and Inter Milan, English Premier League powerhouse Chelsea FC and Mexican giants Club América. The teams played a round-robin format in six cities at stadiums including the Rose Bowl, the Georgia Dome, MT&T Bank Stadium, Gillette Stadium, Stanford Stadium and Cowboys Stadium.
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According to the Chicago Tribune, Keef was arrested by Chicago police officers and charged with a misdemeanor tresspassing charge. The charge stems from a complaint made by a security guard from the Parkway Gardens housing complex on May 16 — Keef was asked to leave the premises and he refused.
Earlier in the day at his hearing for the speeding charge, the 'I Don't Like' rhymer was scolded by the judge, who told him not to drive. He was given a break on his sentencing; Keef could have been serving a year in prison for charges and fined $2,500, but the judge fined him only $531. He's also on probation for 18 months supplemented with 60 hours of community service and random drug testing.
"You think you're invincible, and you're certainly not," said Cook County Circuit Court Judge Earl Hoffenberg. "Violate (conditions of the plea agreement) and you'll find out you're not. … I sure hope I don't see you again, because if I do you better be ready to go to jail."
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This clip is part of a series of eight square dances called by Ted Sannella at the Chesapeake Spring Dance Weekend, sponsored by the Folklore Society of Greater Washington. (Ted called another four or five squares during the weekend, plus contras and triplets.) Each clip includes Ted's walkthrough, plus the introduction and first time through the figure. We've included so many clips from one event so callers of traditional New England style squares can hear how Ted taught dances and how he varied the opening of dances throughout the weekend.
The recording was made by Joel Bluestein, April 3–5, 1987, at Camp Letts, near Annapolis, MD. Musicians are Peter Barnes, piano; Mary Lea and Ruthie Dornfeld, fiddles.
A CD with 14 live recordings of Ted Sannella calling is part of Ted's booklet, Calling Traditional New England Squares, published by Country Dance and Song Society. The selections on that CD were chosen because of the variety of the breaks. Detailed instructions for this particular dance can be found in Ted's Balance and Swing book.


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robban wrote:ok. interesting!
how do you interpret the 4nt and 8fp? like illarraza do?
To clarify my point further so I'm not misunderstood again, illarraza is coming from a Nichiren view point. I am not a Nichiren follower but a Tendai follow. I don't like sectarian battles so I kept my answer short and sweet and as the question was asked in the Nichiren forum I do not think it would be appropriate for me to go crtiique illarraza's Nichiren interpretation of the 8FP.Seishin wrote:No.
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The confederates had occupied positions that required the Federals to bring in supplies from the railroad at Stevenson by a long, roundabout wagon route up the Sequatchie Valley and then south over Walden Ridge to the north bank of the river opposite Chattanooga. The distance was about 60 miles. After rainy weather started in mid-October wagon trains were taking eight days over this route and draft animals were breaking down. When "Baldy" Smith arrived to become chief engineer of the Army of the Cumberland he worked up a plan for opening a shorter line of supply via Kelly's and Brown's ferries.
To do this it was necessary to drive the Confederates from Raccoon Mountain. Grant approved Smith's plan and put him in charge of its execution. Hooker's force at Bridgeport moved secretly across the Tennessee the night of 26 Oct. Howard's XI Corps led the advance along the line of the railroad south of the river toward Wauhatchie. Cruft's Div. (IV) crossed northwest of Whiteside and joined Hooker. At 3 A.M., 27 Oct., about 1,500 picked men under Hazen were silently cast loose at Chattanooga to drift downstream past the enemy sentinels to Brown's Ferry. Here they landed, secured the heights overlooking the site, and fought off a small enemy counterattack. Turchin's brigade then crossed from the north bank at Brown's Ford. A pontoon bridge was put over. Hooker's column drove back an outpost from Law's brigade. In withdrawing, the Confederates destroyed the railroad bridge across Lookout Creek and occupied high ground Hooker left Geary at Wauhatchie to guard the road, and the next day linked up with the Federal Bridgehead.
The Confederates failed to wipe out Geary's isolated division in the Wauhatchie night attack of 28-29 Oct. '63
The morning of 30 Oct. The steamboat Chattanooga arrived at Kelly's Ford with 40,000 rations and tons of forage. The cry went up from the troops: "The Cracker line is open. Full rations, boys!"
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According to police, the armed robbery happened at 1318 NW 7th Court about 1:30 a.m. Feb. 1.
Onondieu Demelus, a driver for the Yellow Cab Company, was dispatched to Plantation General Hospital to pick up a customer named "Smith," police said.
Demelus took the robber to the address, and when they arrived, the robber told Demelus he was armed and demanded Demelus' things, say police.
"When I pull over, he say, 'Hey, guy, give me all things you have. If you don't give me (everything), I'm going to shoot you,'" said Demelus.
Demelus then told the robber there were security cameras inside the cab, but the robber continued yelling his demands and reached towards his waistband, say police.
"I pull him, I get my seatbelt, I leave it," said Demelus. "I take my seatbelt out and I go out. I let him drop everything I got. When the guy say, 'He got a gun,' but you never know."
The robber took Demelus' GPS, iPhone, and an undisclosed amount of cash before running away, say police. He was last seen running west past the 1300 block of Northwest 7th Street.
When asked why he first fought back, Demelus said he didn't think about what could have happened.
"Job is dangerous because when you get a customer, you don't know which one you get," he said. "You don't know what kind of people you get. You scared about a gun. You scared about the people."
Demelus has been a cab driver for three years.
The robber is described as being in his 30s, about 5 feet 11 inches tall, and 200 pounds. He had a short haircut and was clean shaven.
Anyone with information on the robbery is asked to call Fort Lauderdale Police at 954-828-6093.
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Discussion in 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' started by Salinga, Jan 9, 2013.
Looking forward to this... Trailer looks great.
So no new wrecked ships, just new fires lighting the old ones up.
Darn, looks like they still aren't replacing the shot of the 2-footer next to the Borg cube.
It's up at Amazon! Star Trek: The Next Generation - "The Best of Both Worlds": preorder for $17.49
HD version of the trailer was just released and looks freakin incredible.
And thankfully the bridge scenes look normal again, and aren't super bright and blown out like in the first trailer.
Oh my god that looks gorgeous. Also, these trailers that CBS is bringing out have been excellent, much better than anything we have seen for "Into Darkness".
Hot damn, I sure missed you, CBS-D. This is gonna be great.
1:13 - the saucer separation shot is still CGI. I guess they never found the original film (perhaps lost after being used in Generations)
2:00 - I wonder if that's how the Part 1 to Part 2 transition will be accomplished. Either way, the greatest moment in TNG history is going to be truncated, so I'm only watching this once for novelty's sake, and then sticking with the separate versions.
2:20 - destruction of the cube is spruced up with CGI. I like it.
CBS-D sure did a great job making the 4-footer look presentable.
This would be a great opportunity to add deleted scenes if they were any.
The ships in the graveyard scene are very well defined. The explosion at the end was fantastic!
Looks like the opening shot of the Enterprise over Earth is Tobias Richter's 3D mesh. This is probably one of those elements that was moved down the line into another episode's collection.
I'm SO glad they didn't add a stupid explosion ring to when the Borg cube blows up.
That would have been such a Lucas thing to do!
The only small complaint I still have with this two-parter.... are those goofy looking rainbow-colored phaser beams they constantly use on the Borg. I get that they had to look modified, but couldn't they have come up with something that looked a bit... cooler?
Cooler = More money
I get the feeling this separate BOBW Blu-ray release is to help pay for the added time and effort that CBS-D probably put in to make the BOBW look as best as possible.
Good lord that looks amazing. Picture quality is incredible. Can't wait!
I'm glad they showed the explosion, because this is a good preview for Cause and Effect. It makes me wonder how CBS-D is going to handle the Enterprise-D blowing up like 5 times in that episode, if they are going to do anything additions or what.
Agreed about them taking out what made the cliffhanger so great. I think on tha end I'm glad they are showing this feature movie in the theaters so we can see how they are going to do it. I still think we're going to get "Mr. Worf, Fire", a good amount of black screen to let the score play, and then jump right into the next episode without the "previously on". That would be the best way, and it leaves the drama intact.
The color, contrast and brightness are much improved from the season 3 trailer. No worries, CBS-D knows what they're doing.
Now that I've seen the trailer in HD, anyone notice how much better the shot with the cube and the two footer looks in CBS-D's hands? CBS-D took the same film elements and made the cube look menacing, real, and not like plastic. I compared the two shots in photoshop and the difference is staggering. Thank God they got rid of HTV.
I kind of like the blue mixed in there.
Yeah, I just compared them as well, and the new shot is a huge improvement. The Enterprise still looks like a dinky little model of course, but at least it's blended into the background better and the goofy looking sensor dish doesn't stand out as much.
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Stepson accused of stabbing his stepfather to death; grand jury indicts for first-degree murder
Oct. 4, 2011 at 5:04 a.m.
A search of Lavaca County District Attorney's Office phone records over the past year would reveal an exorbitant number of incoming calls from Alabama and Florida.
Email inboxes and postal mail boxes at the office also had an abundance of communications from the same places, all of which derived from the Housemans.
The Houseman family waged an all-out campaign of not only calls and letters, but also texts to the district attorney's office, hoping to get justice for their loved one.
"We wanted to stay on top of the prosecution to not forget about Shanon (Houseman)," said cousin Christopher Jones, of Florida. "I didn't want him to be another statistic."
The family's prayers for justice were seemingly answered on Sept. 30.
That day, the family learned that Kristopher Adam Henderson had been indicted by a Lavaca County grand jury. Henderson is accused of first-degree murder in the death of his stepfather, Shanon Houseman.
"We're happy," said Cassie Houseman, one of Shanon Houseman's sisters. "We'll be more happy when he's actually behind bars."
Shanon Reese Houseman, 42, died in August 2010 after being stabbed multiple times at his home in the 21570 block of Farm-to-Market Road 530 near the Speaks community in southern Lavaca County.
Both Lavaca County District Attorney Heather McMinn and Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon declined to comment on the case.
Sharon Houseman, Shanon Houseman's widow and Henderson's mother, also declined to comment on the case.
Although a warrant had been issued for his arrest, Henderson was not yet in custody as of Tuesday night.
JR Peters, chief deputy of the Lavaca County Sheriff's Office, said authorities are trying to determine Henderson's whereabouts.
According to earlier reports, the troubles began the morning of Aug. 10, 2010, when Sharon Houseman asked her husband to read a letter she wrote to him explaining her desire to end their 17-year marriage.
Infuriated by the letter, Houseman allegedly blew up and began threatening everyone in the house, prompting his wife to call the Lavaca County Sheriff's Office.
Houseman left before deputies arrived to investigate the first disturbance call, claiming he was headed back to his hometown of Mobile, Ala. Instead, he returned to his Hallettsville-area home later that night, prompting his wife to make a second call for help.
Sharon Houseman said she and her husband were outside arguing when Henderson, who was 21 years old at the time, came to her aid.
The fatal fight ensued shortly thereafter, with Houseman throwing the first blow, the family members said.
Shanon Houseman was stabbed with what Harmon previously described as a "large, hunting-type knife."
Houseman was pronounced dead at the scene by Lavaca County Justice of the Peace Tramer Woytek.
His body was taken to the Travis County Medical Examiner's Office for an autopsy.
The victim's family members said the autopsy, which they said detailed his 14 stab wounds and 13 defense wounds, contradicted Henderson's claims of self-defense.
"You don't stab someone that many times and its self defense," said Cassie Houseman, 39.
The Advocate has filed a public records request with Lavaca County Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1, and Michael Andes to obtain a copy of the autopsy.
Fred Houseman, the victim's father, said his son's death came as a shock, as he believed for the most part all was well in his son's household.
"He loved that little house where he was living. That was the first home they bought together," said Fred Houseman, who said his son was happy about his recently acquired homestead. "He wanted me to come see it because he was so proud of it."
Fred Houseman said the only source of friction he was aware of in his son's life came from the fact that Henderson and his older sister, both of whom were adults, still lived at home.
"He got mad at Adam for lying around the house not doing anything," said Fred Houseman, 68. "He got that from me. I got mad at (Shanon) for just laying around when he was around 19 before he went to the Navy."
Despite his stepson's purported laziness, Fred houseman said his son had only kind things to say about the boy he had helped raise since the age of 2.
"He always spoke well of him," said Fred Houseman. "I liked Adam. He was a nice young man, but he was kind of strange."
Fred Houseman speculated his step-grandson was on drugs at the time of the incident.
Over the past year, the Houseman's have struggled to cope with their loved one's violent death.
"It's day by day. We've got a lot of people that pray. God has helped us through it," said Jones, 38. "God said we must forgive to be forgiven. My heart forgives him."
Since his son's death, Fred Houseman said he has had little contact with his son's widow other than to get his son's tombstone plaque, which Fred Houseman said she did not want to turn over to her husband's family so they could bury him in Mobile, Ala.
However, Fred Houseman said he did hear from his daughter-in-law after word came that her son had been indicted and a warrant had been issued for his arrest.
Fred Houseman said through tears she informed him Henderson was in North Carolina visiting his father.
Now that an indictment has been issued, the Housemans said they are now focusing on the next legal step - a trial or a plea deal.
"I want him to spend the rest of his life in prison, and there's no guarantee that he'll get out," said Cassie Houseman.


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ALPHARETTA, Ga. – After three years of trying to secure a permanent home for itself, Fulton charter school Amana Academy has closed on the purchase of the 100,000-square-foot Alpharetta Square shopping plaza on Main Street where it has been operating since 2007.
The school was able to secure more than $8.6 million in bonds without the use of any county or school district capital program dollars to acquire the property. With this purchase, Amana Academy has joined a handful of chartered public schools capable of building or purchasing their own facilities.
In addition to purchasing the 10.66-acre site, the school intends to use the proceeds from the bonds to renovate 18,000 square feet of the plaza for new middle school classrooms and labs in time for the new school year. Evergreen Construction, which Fulton County Schools used to build Cambridge High School, was chosen by Amana to complete the middle school renovation project.
"What helped us was that we had solid financial standing, strong academic results and an ethic of transparency with our authorizers – Fulton County Schools and the Georgia Department of Education," said Ehab Jaleel, the school's executive director and the school's principal. "Ninety-five percent of our 660 students live in North Fulton, mostly Alpharetta and Roswell, and they are familiar with our current location. It really works for us, because it allows for our anticipated growth, and because of the school's close proximity to 95-acre Wills Park, downtown Alpharetta and business partners who can support our Expeditionary Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education initiative."
In December 2012, Amana Academy successfully completed the Georgia Department of Education's site approval process. It then secured approval for the issuance of bonds to fund the project via the Development Authority of Fulton County and the Fulton County Board of Commissioners. With these approvals in-hand, Amana Academy was able to obtain the bond money needed to purchase the property this April.


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Local rockers Cosmic Jelly are sort of an elusive band these days. They're fading away into fond memory and separating officially, but it wouldn't be like them to go out without a bang. On Sept. 2 the group will have a screening and CD release day for their new video, "Let's Talk About Poop," which is designed to knock the shit (or should I say poop?) out of your ass.
"[The video] was a summer project," says director, producer and Cosmic Jelly guitarist Brett Sisun. "We started in June and worked through until now. We like to think of it as anti-art that is art." He goes on to explain that this is the intended message behind one particular image in the video, which features a "Poop Monster" shoving his head through a painting. "People are either horrified by it or love it," he says.
I'll come clean: Feces totally amuse me, and "Let's Talk About Poop"— whose title is derived from Sisun's suggestion that it would make a great name for a TV show — is downright hilarious. The song "Let's Talk About Poop" is awesome, too, and fits perfectly atop the video's images of splattering defecation, porta-potties and mustache stroking on the john. OK, so perhaps this isn't as highbrow a project as anything Da Vinci ever came up with, but it's art nonetheless, and Cosmic Jelly is highly attuned to the ways of Eugene's artistic community.
"We're all shit smears," says Sisun. "You can't be too serious but at the same time you absolutely have to be serious. 'Let's Talk About Poop' is weird, fun and affordable, and that's what makes it perfect for Eugene."
"Let's Talk About Poop" smears itself across the screen 5 pm Sunday, Sept. 2, at Kesey Square; FREE.


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Hello all.
DISCLAIMER: This is one of those "Write my whole program for me" type posts. I apologize in advance.
I don't know WinAPI, and am not going to learn it any time soon. But I want a prog that can modify registry values.
Can anyone give me something that:
Determines if a specific registry key/value exists and if so, deletes that key/value. (I am jst trying to automate going into regedit and wiping stuff manually)