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By MATTHEW PENNINGTON
FILE – In this April 15, 2012, file photo, a North Korean vehicle carrying a missile passes by during a mass military parade in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung. North Korea is probably years away from perfecting the technology to back up its bold threats of a pre-emptive strike on America. But some nuclear experts say it might have the know-how to fire a nuclear-tipped missile at South Korea and Japan, which host U.S. military bases. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea is widely recognized as being years away from perfecting the technology to back up its bold threats of a pre-emptive strike on America. But some nuclear experts say it might have the know-how to fire a nuclear-tipped missile at South Korea and Japan, which host U.S. military bases.
No one can tell with any certainty how much technological progress North Korea has made, aside from perhaps a few people close to its secretive leadership. And, if true, it is unlikely that Pyongyang would launch such an attack, because the retaliation would be devastating.
The North's third nuclear test on Feb. 12, which prompted the toughest U.N. Security Council sanctions yet against Pyongyang, is presumed to have advanced its ability to miniaturize a nuclear device. And experts say it's easier to design a nuclear warhead that works on a shorter-range missile than one for an intercontinental missile that could target the U.S.
The assessment of David Albright at the Institute for Science and International Security think-tank is that North Korea has the capability to mount a warhead on its Nodong missile, which has a range of 800 miles (1,280 kilometers) and could hit in South Korea and most of Japan. But he cautioned in his analysis, published after the latest nuclear test, that it is an uncertain estimate, and the warhead's reliability remains unclear.
He contends that the experience of Pakistan could serve as precedent. Pakistan bought the Nodong from North Korea after its first flight test in 1993, then adapted and produced it for its own use. Pakistan, which conducted its first nuclear test in 1998, is said to have taken less than 10 years to miniaturize a warhead before that test, Albright said.
North Korea also obtained technology from the trafficking network of A.Q. Khan, a disgraced pioneer of Pakistan's nuclear program, acquiring centrifuges for enriching uranium. According to the Congressional Research Service, Khan may also have supplied a Chinese-origin nuclear weapon design he provided to Libya and Iran, which could have helped the North in developing a warhead for a ballistic missile.
But Siegfried Hecker at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation, who has visited North Korea seven times and been granted unusual access to its nuclear facilities, is skeptical the North has advanced that far in miniaturization of a nuclear device.
"Nobody outside of a small elite in North Korea knows — and even they don't know for sure," he said in an e-mailed response to questions from The Associated Press. "I agree that we cannot rule it out for one of their shorter-range missiles, but we simply don't know."
"Thanks to A.Q. Khan, they almost certainly have designs for such a device that could fit on some of their short- or medium-range missiles," said Hecker, who last visited the North in November 2010. "But it is a long way from having a design and having confidence that you can put a warhead on a missile and have it survive the thermal and mechanical stresses during launch and along its entire trajectory."
The differing opinions underscore a fundamental problem in assessing a country as isolated as North Korea, particularly its weapons programs: solid proof is very hard to come by.
For example, the international community remains largely in the dark about the latest underground nuclear test. Although it caused a magnitude 5.1 tremor, no gases escaped and experts say there was no way to evaluate whether a plutonium or uranium device was detonated. That information would help reveal whether North Korea has managed to produce highly enriched uranium, giving it a new source of fissile material, and help determine the type and sophistication of the North's warhead design.
The guessing game about the North's nuclear weapons program dates back decades. Albright says that in the early 1990s, the CIA estimated that North Korea had a "first-generation" design for a plutonium device that was likely to be deployed on the Nodong missile — although it's not clear what information that estimate was based on.
"Given that twenty years has passed since the deployment of the Nodong, an assessment that North Korea successfully developed a warhead able to be delivered by that missile is reasonable," Albright wrote.
According to Nick Hansen, a retired intelligence expert who closely monitors developments in the North's weapons programs, the Nodong missile was first flight-tested in 1993. Pakistan claims to have re-engineered the missile and successfully tested it, although doubts apparently persist about its reliability.
Whether North Korea has also figured out how to wed the missile with a nuclear warhead has major ramifications not just for South Korea and Japan, but for the U.S. itself, which counts those nations as its principal allies in Asia and retains 80,000 troops in the two countries.
U.S. intelligence appears to have vacillated in its assessments of North Korea's capabilities.
In April 2005, Lowell Jacoby, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that North Korea had the capability to arm a missile with a nuclear device. Pentagon officials, however, later backtracked.
According to the Congressional Research Service, a report from the same intelligence agency to Congress in August 2007 said that "North Korea has short and medium-range missiles that could be fitted with nuclear weapons, but we do not know whether it has in fact done so."
In an interview Friday in Germany, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the U.S. does not know whether North Korea has "weaponized" its nuclear capability.
Still, Washington is taking North Korea's nuclear threats seriously.
The bellicose rhetoric follows not just the nuclear test in February, but the launch in December of a long-range North Korean rocket that could potentially hit the continental U.S. According to South Korean officials, North Korea has moved at least one missile with "considerable range" to its east coast — possibly the untested Musudan missile, believed to have a range of 1,800 miles (3,000 kilometers).
This week, the U.S. said two of the Navy's missile-defense ships were positioned closer to the Korean peninsula, and a land-based system is being deployed for the Pacific territory of Guam. The Pentagon last month announced longer-term plans to beef up its U.S.-based missile defenses.
South Korea is separated from North Korea and its huge standing army by a heavily militarized frontier, and the countries remain in an official state of war, as the Korean War ended in 1953 without a peace treaty. Even without nuclear arms, the North positions enough artillery within range of Seoul to devastate large parts of the capital before the much-better-equipped U.S. and South Korea could fully respond.
And Japan has been starkly aware of the threat since North Korea's 1998 test of the medium-range Taepodong missile that overflew its territory.
Yet in the latest standoff, much of the international attention has been on the North's potential threat to the U.S., a more distant prospect than its capabilities to strike its own neighbors. Experts say the North could hit South Korea with chemical weapons, and might also be able to use a Scud missile to carry a nuclear warhead.
Darryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, acknowledges the North might be able to put a warhead on a Nodong missile, but he sees it as unlikely. He says the North's nuclear threats are less worthy of attention than the prospects of a miscalculation leading to a conventional war.
"North Korea understands that a serious attack on South Korea or other U.S. interests is going to be met with overwhelming force," he said. "It would be near suicidal for the regime."
Associated Press writers Foster Klug in Seoul, South Korea, and Robert Burns in Stuttgart, Germany, contributed to this report.


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|The lens is designed for Canon 35mm film SLR cameras with the Canon FD mount.
|(Unofficial acronym) A new generation of FD series lenses without the breech-lock ring.
|■Canon FD 17mm F/4
|11 - 9
|1971 ●
|■Canon FD 17mm F/4 S.S.C.
|11 - 9
|1973 ●
|■Canon FDn 17mm F/4
|11 - 9
|1979 ●
|Production details:
|December 1979
|Production status:
|● Discontinued
|Original name:
|CANON LENS FD 17mm 1:4
|Canon FD (1971)
|Optical design:
|Focal length:
|Maximum format:
|35mm full frame
|Mount and Flange focal distance:
|Canon FD [42mm]
|Diagonal angle of view:
|Lens construction:
|11 elements in 9 groups
|Floating element system
|Diaphragm mechanism:
|Diaphragm type:
|Aperture control:
|Aperture ring (Manual settings + Auto Exposure setting)
|Number of blades:
|6 (six)
|Closest focusing distance:
|Maximum magnification:
|1:10 at the closest focusing distance
|Focusing modes:
|Manual focus only
|Manual focus control:
|Focusing ring
|Physical characteristics:
|Maximum diameter x Length:
|Screw-type 72mm
|Lens hood:
|BW-72 - Bayonet-type round
|Canon Extender FD 2X-B → 34mm F/8
|Sources of data:
|1. Canon FD interchangeable lenses booklet (PUB. IE01-075).
|2. Lens Wonderland. Canon FD lens guide book (PUB. C-IE-097AZ).
|3. Specifications of Canon New FD lenses (PUB. C-II-099B).
|4. Canon FD interchangeable lenses booklet (PUB. C-IE-075AF).
|5. Lens Work. The Canon guide to interchangeable lenses and Single Lens Reflex photography.
|6. Quick reference guide.
|7. Canon AE-1 Program booklet (PUB. C-CE-124).
|8. Canon AL-1 Quick focus booklet (PUB. C-CE-135A).
|9. The New F-1 World booklet.
|10. Canon A-1 booklet (PUB. C-CE-0990) (September 1980).
|11. Canon AE-1 booklet (PUB. C-CE-1056AB) (September 1980).
|12. Canon FD lenses sales guide.
|13. Canon Reflex 1981/1982 booklet.
|14. Canon interchangeable lenses FD booklet (PUB. C-IE-075AQ).
With a very wide angle of view, this lens has a strong wide-angle perspective, free of rectilinear distortion, which tends to make a subject in the foreground look much larger than in the reality while objects in the background seem to be much more distant. Spherical aberration is at a minimum; a special Canon Floating System corrects curvature of field which is usually common at close distances in compact wide-angle lenses. For extreme wide-angle applications with a goal of emphasizing the vastness of depth of the subject. Excellent for close-up mountain landscapes, for instance, or very cramped quarters. This lens shows quite a bit of improvement in weight.
With a field of view 2.26X that of a 50mm lens, the 17mm's outstanding feature is that it is free of rectilinear distortion despite its extremely wide coverage.
Because the various wavelengths of light are refracted at different rates, lateral chromatic aberration can diminish image quality. Two groups of cemented convex and concave lenses located behind the diaphragm serve to control this aberration. In the last convex lens, the use of special glass with a higher index of refraction and lower dispersion results in very high resolution and guarantees excellent sharpness.
The majority of lenses are designed for optimum performance at infinity; when used at their closest focusing distance, picture quality has a tendency to deteriorate. This is especially true of asymmetrical-type wide-angle lenses. In the 17mm, Canon's Floating System is employed where certain lens components move during focusing to offest the loss in quality. Therefore, even at its closest focusing distance, aberrations are controlled and image quality is exceptionally high.
Considering its spectacular angle of view, sharpness and lack of distortion, this New FD lens is an exceptional optical achievement. It is ideally suited to a wide variety of applications, such as architecture, fashion or reportage. With the incorporation of the Canon Floating System, image quality is assured at every aperture and focusing distance through this lens' range.
The New FD mounting system makes changing the lens a fast, one-hand operation, and the elimination of the special mounting ring also made it possible to reduce the weight of the lens to just 13 ounces.
Sorted by focal length and speed, in ascending order
|Canon FDn 14mm F/2.8L
|14 - 10
|1982 ●
|Canon FD 17mm F/4
|11 - 9
|1971 ●
|Canon FD 17mm F/4 S.S.C.
|11 - 9
|1973 ●
|Canon FD 20mm F/2.8 S.S.C.
|10 - 9
|1973 ●
|Canon FDn 20mm F/2.8
|10 - 9
|1979 ●
Sorted by manufacturer name
|Cosina 20mm F/3.8 MC
|9 - 8
|Norita Kogaku NORITAR 17mm F/4
|11 - 10
|1972 ●
|Sigma MF 14mm F/3.5 ZEN
|13 - 11
|1991 ●
|Sigma MF 14mm F/3.5 ZEN
|13 - 11
|1995 ●
|Sigma MF 18mm F/3.5 ZEN
|10 - 9
|1992 ●
|Sigma MF 18mm F/2.8 II
|10 - 9
|1984 ●
|Sigma MF 18mm F/2.8
|11 - 9
|1980 ●
|Sigma MF 18mm F/2.8 Filtermatic
|? - ?
|1978 ●
|Spiratone 18mm F/3.5 Pluracoat [I] (Soligor Wide-Auto)
|11 - 8
|1979 ●
|Spiratone 18mm F/3.5 Pluracoat [II]
|11 - 9
|Spiratone 20mm F/2.8 Plura-Coat (Cambron MC, MC Soligor C/D Wide-Auto)
|9 - 7
|1983 ●
|RMC Tokina 17mm F/3.5 II (SL)
|11 - 9
|RMC Tokina 17mm F/3.5 Wide-Auto
|11 - 8
|Vivitar 20mm F/3.8 Auto (s/n 22xxxxxx)
|9 - 7
|1969 ●
|Vivitar 17mm F/3.5 Auto (s/n 37xxxxxx)
|11 - 8
|1976 ●
|Vivitar 17mm F/3.5 MC (s/n 37xxxxxx)
|11 - 9
|Vivitar 19mm F/3.8 MC (s/n 9xxxxxxx)
|9 - 8
|Sigma[-XQ] [Widerama] MF 18mm F/3.2 (Spiratone) [YS]
|12 - 10
|1972 ●
|Tamron SP 17mm F/3.5 51B [Adaptall-2]
|12 - 10
|1979 ●
|Tamron SP 17mm F/3.5 151B [Adaptall-2]
|12 - 10
|1984 ●
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Cannot compare the lens to itself.
A technology used for reducing or even eliminating the effects of camera shake. Gyro sensors inside the lens detect camera shake and pass the data to a microcomputer. Then an image stabilization group of elements controlled by the microcomputer moves inside the lens and compensates camera shake in order to keep the image static on the imaging sensor or film.
The technology allows to increase the shutter speed by several stops and shoot handheld in such lighting conditions and at such focal lengths where without image stabilizer you have to use tripod, decrease the shutter speed and/or increase the ISO setting which can lead to blurry and noisy images.
Lens name as indicated on the lens barrel (usually on the front ring). With lenses from film era, may vary slightly from batch to batch.
Format refers to the shape and size of film or image sensor.
35mm is the common name of the 36x24mm film format or image sensor format. It has an aspect ratio of 3:2, and a diagonal measurement of approximately 43mm. The name originates with the total width of the 135 film which was the primary medium of the format prior to the invention of the full frame digital SLR. Historically the 35mm format was sometimes called small format to distinguish it from the medium and large formats.
APS-C is an image sensor format approximately equivalent in size to the film negatives of 25.1x16.7mm with an aspect ratio of 3:2.
Medium format is a film format or image sensor format larger than 36x24mm (35mm) but smaller than 4x5in (large format).
Angle of view describes the angular extent of a given scene that is imaged by a camera. It is used interchangeably with the more general term field of view.
As the focal length changes, the angle of view also changes. The shorter the focal length (eg 18mm), the wider the angle of view. Conversely, the longer the focal length (eg 55mm), the smaller the angle of view.
A camera's angle of view depends not only on the lens, but also on the sensor. Imaging sensors are sometimes smaller than 35mm film frame, and this causes the lens to have a narrower angle of view than with 35mm film, by a certain factor for each sensor (called the crop factor).
This website does not use the angles of view provided by lens manufacturers, but calculates them automatically by the following formula: 114.6 * arctan (21.622 / CF * FL),
CF – crop-factor of a sensor,
FL – focal length of a lens.
A lens mount is an interface — mechanical and often also electrical — between a camera body and a lens.
A lens mount may be a screw-threaded type, a bayonet-type, or a breech-lock type. Modern camera lens mounts are of the bayonet type, because the bayonet mechanism precisely aligns mechanical and electrical features between lens and body, unlike screw-threaded mounts.
Lens mounts of competing manufacturers (Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Sony etc.) are always incompatible. In addition to the mechanical and electrical interface variations, the flange focal distance can also be different.
The flange focal distance (FFD) is the distance from the mechanical rear end surface of the lens mount to the focal plane.
Lens construction – a specific arrangement of elements and groups that make up the optical design, including type and size of elements, type of used materials etc.
Element - an individual piece of glass which makes up one component of a photographic lens. Photographic lenses are nearly always built up of multiple such elements.
Group – a cemented together pieces of glass which form a single unit or an individual piece of glass. The advantage is that there is no glass-air surfaces between cemented together pieces of glass, which reduces reflections.
The focal length is the factor that determines the size of the image reproduced on the focal plane, picture angle which covers the area of the subject to be photographed, depth of field, etc.
The largest opening or stop at which a lens can be used is referred to as the speed of the lens. The larger the maximum aperture is, the faster the lens is considered to be. Lenses that offer a large maximum aperture are commonly referred to as fast lenses, and lenses with smaller maximum aperture are regarded as slow.
In low-light situations, having a wider maximum aperture means that you can shoot at a faster shutter speed or work at a lower ISO, or both.
Provides correction of aberrations and ensures constantly high image quality at the entire range of focusing distances from infinity down to the closest focusing distance. It is particularly effective for the correction of field curvature that tends to occur with large-aperture, wide-angle lenses when shooting at close ranges.
The basic mechanism of the floating element system is also incorporated into the internal and rear focusing methods.
The minimum distance from the focal plane (film or sensor) to the subject where the lens is still able to focus.
The distance from the front edge of the lens to the subject at the maximum magnification.
Determines how large the subject will appear in the final image. For example, a magnification ratio of 1:1 means that the image of the subject formed on the film or sensor will be the same size as the subject in real life. For this reason, a 1:1 ratio is often called "life-size".
The diaphragm must be stopped down manually by rotating the detent aperture ring.
The lens has two rings, one is for pre-setting, while the other is for normal diaphragm adjustment. The first ring must be set at the desired aperture, the second ring then should be fully opened for focusing, and turned back for stop down to the pre-set value.
The lens features spring mechanism in the diaphragm, triggered by the shutter release, which stops down the diaphragm to the pre-set value. The spring needs to be reset manually after each exposure to re-open diaphragm to its maximum value.
The camera automatically closes the diaphragm down during the shutter operation. On completion of the exposure, the diaphragm re-opens to its maximum value.
The aperture setting is fixed at F/4 on this lens, and cannot be adjusted.
As a general rule, the more blades that are used to create the aperture opening in the lens, the rounder the out-of-focus highlights will be.
Some lenses are designed with curved diaphragm blades, so the roundness of the aperture comes not from the number of blades, but from their shape. However, the fewer blades the diaphragm has, the more difficult it is to form a circle, regardless of rounded edges.
At maximum aperture, the opening will be circular regardless of the number of blades.
Excluding case or pouch, caps and other detachable accessories (lens hood, close-up adapter, tripod adapter etc.).
Excluding case or pouch, caps and other detachable accessories (lens hood, close-up adapter, tripod adapter etc.).
For lenses with collapsible design, the length is indicated for the working (retracted) state.
A rubber material which is inserted in between each externally exposed part (manual focus and zoom rings, buttons, switch panels etc.) to ensure it is properly sealed against dust and moisture.
Lenses that accept front mounted filters typically do not have gaskets behind the filter mount. It is recommended to use a filter for complete weather resistance when desired.
Helps keep lenses clean by reducing the possibility of dust and dirt adhering to the lens and by facilitating cleaning should the need arise. Applied to the outer surface of the front and/or rear lens elements over multi-coatings.
Lens filters are accessories that can protect lenses from dirt and damage, enhance colors, minimize glare and reflections, and add creative effects to images.
A lens hood or lens shade is a device used on the end of a lens to block the sun or other light source in order to prevent glare and lens flare. Flare occurs when stray light strikes the front element of a lens and then bounces around within the lens. This stray light often comes from very bright light sources, such as the sun, bright studio lights, or a bright white background.
The geometry of the lens hood can vary from a plain cylindrical or conical section to a more complex shape, sometimes called a petal, tulip, or flower hood. This allows the lens hood to block stray light with the higher portions of the lens hood, while allowing more light into the corners of the image through the lowered portions of the hood.
Lens hoods are more prominent in long focus lenses because they have a smaller viewing angle than that of wide-angle lenses. For wide angle lenses, the length of the hood cannot be as long as those for telephoto lenses, as a longer hood would enter the wider field of view of the lens.
Lens hoods are often designed to fit onto the matching lens facing either forward, for normal use, or backwards, so that the hood may be stored with the lens without occupying much additional space. In addition, lens hoods can offer some degree of physical protection for the lens due to the hood extending farther than the lens itself.
Teleconverters increase the effective focal length of lenses. They also usually maintain the closest focusing distance of lenses, thus increasing the magnification significantly. A lens combined with a teleconverter is normally smaller, lighter and cheaper than a "direct" telephoto lens of the same focal length and speed.
Teleconverters are a convenient way of enhancing telephoto capability, but it comes at a cost − reduced maximum aperture. Also, since teleconverters magnify every detail in the image, they logically also magnify residual aberrations of the lens.
Scratched lens surfaces can spoil the definition and contrast of even the finest lenses. Lens covers are the best and most inexpensive protection available against dust, moisture and abrasion. Safeguard lens elements - both front and rear - whenever the lens is not in use.

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Jonathan Sanchez (0-1, 2.03) vs. Roy Oswalt (1-1, 3.29).
COMMENTS: Since I, SoSG Orel, was apparently fated to write this Game Thread, can we talk about fate for a minute? Were the Rangers fated to make their first World Series this year, or did they just manage to burn through the best of the AL East with talent and hard work? Are the Giants fated to return to the World Series for the second time in nine years, or do the Phillies have enough juice — which they had more than plenty of in 2008 and 2009, assholes — to make a comeback for the ages?
As we've discovered in our comments, you can lose years off your life rooting for a team not to win. Baseball just isn't as enjoyable when you're pulling for a negative outcome. But hell, everybody around here is half-happy that the Yankees are getting ready to hit the links, so what's another two Giants losses? Call it fate, or Phight — because I'm getting tired of rooting against the bad guys.


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Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy the following pictures that I took when the weather was not as capricious as now!
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy the following pictures that I took when the weather was not as capricious as now!
54 comments:
Fait froid chez moi aussi. Je crois que la belle saison a décidé de se décaler.ReplyDelete
Lovely pics rosa..ReplyDelete
The sunlight through the trees is a great shot!ReplyDelete
These photos are full of atmosphere Rosa; they make me yearn for a story to go along with them. Can you tell a story?ReplyDelete
weather is silly in london as well, your photos are great! cheersReplyDelete
Oh, Rosa, your photographs are just beautiful and dreamy. I love your work!ReplyDelete
a voir tes belles photos, on a du mal a croire a la grisailleReplyDelete
I know what you mean ....ReplyDelete
we are lucky today, sun is out hope it will be warm too.
spring is in the air... everything looks so green! here it is already warm and the hills are turning brown.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous pics Rosa...hope you get warm weather soon! I think you probably got a sneak peek on what to expect in the days to come.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5:17 PM, May 12, 2010
das gute Wetter braucht dieses Jahr sehr viel Geduld. Bis dahin gucken wir uns deine Bilder an :-)ReplyDelete
I love the third photo. There's nothing like the color yellow to brighten up a scene.ReplyDelete
It's been nothing but hot and sticky over here. I think I'd trade for cold weather for a few weeks. :)
Des photos réconfortantes dans un climat froid et pluvieux.ReplyDelete
Vivement le printemps.
A bientôt.
Our weather has been so funny lately as well. Cold, rain, hot -- mother nature cannot make up her mind.ReplyDelete
Lovely images!
- Anonymous6:04 PM, May 12, 2010
So pretty! Our weather here has been finicky - yesterday it was so cold and today all of a sudden warm again. You never know.ReplyDelete
Absoluletely beauty and georgeous pictures Rosa, gloriaReplyDelete
Lovely pictures Rosa,ReplyDelete
here it hot already. I love the sun and its heat.
Beautiful! How I wish it's warmer here too!ReplyDelete
Oh dear Rosa we too have an horrible wheather and they say it will last until the twentieth !! Beautiful places !ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:19 PM, May 12, 2010
Lovely, lovely photos!ReplyDelete
I hope you get the weather that you want very soon.
Paz ;-)
Tu nous gâtes encore avec tes belles photos:)ReplyDelete
Your photos are really beautiful!ReplyDelete
We sure could use some of your rain but our nice days do make for lovely walks!ReplyDelete
That last picture is wonderful. Ahhh, the light greens of spring.
Beautiful photos, Rosa! It's actually been unseasonably cold and rainy here, so I'm hoping for warmer days too! :)ReplyDelete
Lovely photos, Rosa. Wishing summer visits you sooner!ReplyDelete
lovely pictures...here in texas the heat is starting..ReplyDelete
We've had a string of cold wet weather here too. But your photos are a bit of sunshine. They're beautiful. I especially love the trees and the yellow wildflowers.ReplyDelete
Si ça peut te rassurer, ici c'est pareil...ReplyDelete
Merci pour cette balade bucolique !
Beautiful photos, you are quite the photographer Rosa.ReplyDelete
So beautiful Rosa! :DReplyDelete
- Anonymous5:39 AM, May 13, 2010
Beautiful shots!! I love warm days too!ReplyDelete
My they are so beautiful..I would love to be there beautiful ...ReplyDelete
It seems you're mentioning the weather here....wonderful pics Rosa and better sunny days there!ReplyDelete
All the best,
Hi RosaReplyDelete
I know the feeling, over here the weather is not much good either.
Awesome photos, thanks x
Thanks Rosa, I needed to see some sunshine with all this rain!ReplyDelete
Stunning pictures, dear Rosa!!ReplyDelete
I know what you mean,..I want hotter & lovely summer days to come,..
Au contraire, it's so hot here in Athens the past days. Beautiful pictures.ReplyDelete
I am not sure if my previous comment came through. Here in Athens it's very hot. Your pictures are beautiful.ReplyDelete
You have very special eyes for scenery and nature shots!! Simply breathtaking :-)ReplyDelete
Sawadee from Bangkok,
Fraîche ta ballade, mais ô combien inspirante et sublime :-)ReplyDelete
Ah Rosa, ils ont dit que c'est le plus froid depuis 1935...Même ici, on ne dépasse pas les 13°C en plein midi...Et le soleil apparait juste avant de se coucher pour nous énerver!ReplyDelete
Tu penses bien que tes photos ensoleillée me réchauffent l'esprit!
Oh Rosa, there are so many of your photographs that I wish I could get to so that I could print and hang them up on my wall - such beautiful art!ReplyDelete
Beautiful, Rosa. Those greens! They don't look real!ReplyDelete
Amazing photos. I love looking at your pictures. The scenes you capture are just so beautiful. I especially like the one with the sun peaking through the trees. It makes me feel warm. Weather has not been great here either.ReplyDelete
What a gorgeous photos, and beautiful nature... so much in need for this here, since last, we had around 12 cms of snow on Saturday, and the weather still cold and now raining...ReplyDelete
I really need to feel the warm sun and nice weather.
Merci Rosa pour la charmante balade..ReplyDelete
Bo week~end à toi xx
Wow, I love the scenery. They're just fantastic. I don't see much greens here in the city.ReplyDelete
Hy Rosa,ReplyDelete
Wonderful space you have. First time here. Glad to follow u.
You are most welcome to my space.
These are absolutely beautiful! I wish I can live at this place! I only see cars and rows of other when I look or step outside. Love the first pic.ReplyDelete
Those are beautiful beautiful pictures Rosa. Blowing you lots of sunshine and warmth from our state here. hope it reaches you soon.ReplyDelete
Lovely photos. Sorry to hear the weather hasn't been so good. Hope that changes.ReplyDelete
Its been raining here today but just looking at these pictures makes me feel happy! Bring on summer :)ReplyDelete
Gorgeous photos!!ReplyDelete
Those flowers are gorgeous. Wish I had a huge bouquet of them.ReplyDelete


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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Santa's Dad
"Mom? When did Santa's dad die?"
"Santa Claus's dad?"
"Why do you think Santa's dad is dead?"
"Well, does Santa have a dad?"
"Um. I'm gonna say, yes?"
"Santa is very old so I thought maybe his dad was very dead."
"I don't know how old Santa is or anything about his parents."
"Oh... I am very old now because I am four."
"You are a big boy but you are not very old. You know daddy and I aren't going anywhere, right? You are stuck with us, Buddy."
"Thanks, mom."
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I love the way you and le petit Bob talk to each other. x0 N2ReplyDelete
Bob Rosenberg is the citizen of many, many worlds.ReplyDelete
*hysterical* what an amazing kid :)ReplyDelete
- Ilene WaterstoneSeptember 21, 2010 at 7:49 AM
I love that Bob thought Santa's dad was very dead. As opposed to just plain old dead.ReplyDelete
I have never ever thought about Santa's dad before. I just want to hug him.ReplyDelete
Just to clarify, I want to hug Bob, not Santa's dad.ReplyDelete
That is all.
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CONGRATS ON BEING A BON!!!ReplyDelete
I like your blog and will be back!
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Just so cute! Thanks for chuckle. :-)ReplyDelete
I don't know if you know this yet but you're the Blog of Note today. It's how I found your site--just thought I'd let you know I've been sitting here laughing for about an hour.ReplyDelete
I agree with Bethany. Reading your past posts. I really really REALLY love your blog. :-)ReplyDelete
Whoa - BLOG OF NOTE! You are all famous now!! Congrats. It's well deserved!!!ReplyDelete
Hey there, love the dialogue. I have two little ones myself. These 'talks' are precious and you capture what it is perfectly. Thanks and congratulations on the blog of note.ReplyDelete
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That's a cute story. I've never thought about Santa's parents before... I guess I thought he was an omnipotent being or something. The weird thing is that he's married, elderly, and yet has no children or grandchildren?ReplyDelete
How well do we really know this dude who sneaks into our houses late at night? Who is this "Claus" guy and what is he giving our children?!
He knows when you are sleeping.ReplyDelete
He knows when you're awake.
He knows if you've been bad or good...
So be good! For goodness sake!
He seems to be a stalker and I may need a restraining order.
First, congrats on blog of note. Second, congrats on actually having a good blog, I look forward to reading many more of your entries. Third, and most importantly, congrats on living your dream with what seems like an awesome son.ReplyDelete
Mine's still a bit new to the world, and really only says "blllfflaaaa" a lot.
Just wait until he gets to that "why?" stage.ReplyDelete
I'm gonna put that child in a sammich and eat him.ReplyDelete
And? He has the best mum around. Holy smokes, woman...
Excellent writing :)ReplyDelete
By the way, did anyone of you see Santa in his childhood?
Congratulations on the BON recognition. Love your delightful snippets of life with Bob. Definitely brightened my day. Thanks.ReplyDelete
Bob? You are more famous than Santa now. At least for me.ReplyDelete
and my being Jewish should have no bearing on the situation.
Three years ago I wouldn't have found the humor in this. Now as the father of a three year old son I am laughing out loud. Makes me think I should talk more about my son than celebrities on my blogReplyDelete
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i'll just echo the funny and wise Mrs Moon :)ReplyDelete
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I love your blog and Bob! So very cute and funny. :) Thanks for a look into both of your lives.ReplyDelete
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Yeah for you!!! BLOG OF NOTE?!?!ReplyDelete
Congratulations! Lovely to see you as a BON. I read you all the time and love your stories. Your boy is hilarious.ReplyDelete
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Love to read your blog post,,your boy so cute and sweetReplyDelete
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True Butterscotch Pie
The trick to the filling in this Iowa State Fair prizewinning recipe? Stirring and stirring while it cooks. The recipe comes from Louise Piper of Garner.
Millionaire's Pie
This pie might be the ultimate comfort food: a gooey chocolate-pecan filling nestled in a flaky piecrust.
Peanut Butter Chiffon Pie
Peanut butter lovers, rejoice. This pie is so good, and it has a twist: Melba toast replaces graham cracker crumbs for a crisp, salty foil to the decadent filling.
Toasted Marshmallow Sweet Potato Pie
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Chocolate Cream Pie
The filling of this chocolate-crust pie is luscious, but not too rich. (Think old-fashioned chocolate pudding.) A bit of sour cream in the whipped topping balances the chocolate perfectly.
Lemon-Cream Cheese Pie
This longtime reader-favorite recipe makes two pies; if you like, freeze one. To thaw, let the frozen pie stand in the fridge overnight.
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Lisa Ludwinski of Sister Pie in Detroit says this sweet-tart recipe, which she shares in her new Sister Pie cookbook, might be her all-time favorite—especially served with vanilla ice cream. Note: There is a step of blind-baking the crust (par-baking it before filling so that the crust gets nice and crispy). You'll need pie weights or a couple pounds of dried beans.
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This almond-kissed, fruit-packed pie comes from David Harper, of Richland Center, Wisconsin. He likes to serve it with a wedge of Wisconsin cheese, but it's just as good with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream! The recipe was a finalist in our annual recipe contest.
Peanut Butter-Fudge Pie
Vanilla ice cream, gooey fudge sauce and peanuts sit on a chewy rice-cereal crust. Trust us, it's out of this world—perfect for potlucks or family dinners.
Mom's Oatmeal Pie
We love the nutty oatmeal taste of this sweet treat, and it's a healthier alternative to most desserts. If you're watching calories, serve this pie with a berry topping instead of whipped cream.
Peanut Butter Pie
Creamy peanut butter filling with a swirl of meringue on top makes this dessert irresistible at Tonka Hills Restaurant in Linn Creek, Missouri.
Raspberry Pie
Blend just four ingredients, including either fresh or frozen raspberries, for this super-easy two-crust pie. The recipe comes from The Clarmont restaurant in Columbus, Ohio.
Gooey Chocolate-Caramel Fantasy
This luscious dessert includes a chocolate crumb crust and caramel-pecan filling crowned with melted chocolate. It's like a big candy bar on a plate!
Triple Lemon Pie
This pie earns its triple-lemon name from lemon zest, lemon juice and lemon extract. (You can add lemon slices and whipped cream on top of the baked pie for even more lemony goodness.) A store-bought piecrust speeds prep time.
Coconut Cream Pie
The recipe for this classic meringue-topped specialty comes from The Overlook Restaurant in Leavenworth, Indiana. The light meringue is a perfect topping for the rich-and-creamy coconut filling.
Chocolate Pecan Pie
This chocolate version of pecan pie always disappears fast at Historic Clifton Mills restaurant in Clifton, Ohio.
Mile-High Chocolate Pie
Whipping cream, semisweet chocolate and bittersweet chocolate create a rich, tall filling for this gluten-free pie from Murray's restaurant in Minneapolis. A sweet meringue forms the crust.
Old-Fashioned Sour Cream/Raisin Pie
A stately meringue tops this creamy pie from the Downing Cafe in Downing, Wisconsin.
Michigan Cherry-Berry Pie
Frozen unsweetened tart red cherries, frozen red raspberries and cherry juice or cranberry juice form the heart of this recipe inspired by the Cherry-Berry Pie served at Jesperson's Restaurant in Petoskey, Michigan.
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Line zest and lime juice combine in this light, airy and easy-to-make dessert from a Kansas bakery. The recipe gives instructions for an orange variation, too.
Triple Pear Pie with Walnut Crust
You can't mistake the fruit in this cardamom-spiced beauty. Pear nectar and dried pears complement thick slices of fresh, juicy Bosc pears.
Paradise Pumpkin Pie
A cheesecake layer and nut topping help this pumpkin pie stand out from its peers. This recipe was a winner at the Morton, Illinois, Pumpkin Festival baking competition.
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Nutmeg and cinnamon spice up a classic sweet potato pie mix of eggs, sugar, butter and evaporated milk.
Chocolate Chess Pie
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Peoria Rhubarb Cream Pie
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Something Special Apple-Cherry Pie
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Peppermint Brownie Pie
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Apple Butter Pumpkin Pie
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Crumb-Topped Apple Pie Trio
Crisp on top, sweetly tender inside, this quintessential fall dessert blends tart and sweet apples—Granny Smith, Jonagold and Braeburn—with sugar and cinnamon under a brown-sugar and walnut crumb topping.
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Sweet apples balance the tang of cranberries in this fall favorite.
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Summer Breeze Lime Pie
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Mixed Dried Fruit Pie
This winning double-crust pie from Faye Hunton of Sedalia, Missouri, gets big flavor from plumped apples, apricots and cherries.
North Dakota Juneberry Pie
Called the Blueberry of the Northern Plains, juneberries (also known as serviceberries) give bakers in North and South Dakota a reason to warm kitchens in summer. Pies featuring the berry bake a deep purply red and bring a nutty almond flavor to every fork full.
Mommy's Pumpkin Pie
"This recipe is adapted from my mother's classic pumpkin pie," says Linda Hundt, owner of Sweetielicious Bakery Cafe in DeWitt, Michigan. "I added cream to make it a bit richer and orange zest for flavor." The result is a dark mahogany pumpkin pie with ginger-cinnamon-clove spiciness.
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Edward Snowden Is No Hero
Mohandas Gandhi went to Yeravda Central Prison.
Martin Luther King Jr., went to Birmingham jail.
Nelson Mandela went to Robben Island.
Edward Snowden is going to Venezuela.
Or not. His destination was up in the air as these words were written. A Russian lawmaker tweeted on Tuesday that Snowden, the fugitive former U.S. contractor, had accepted asylum from Venezuela. Then the tweet was deleted and the official word was that there was no official word.
Whatever happens, one thing is obvious. Wherever Snowden goes, he has no intention of coming home to answer for what he did.
One struggles to know how to feel about that.
Many of us, after all, believe he struck a blow for freedom in leaking classified information revealing the breadth and depth of government spying on private citizens. But he seems not to have thought through the implications and likely outcomes of that act. How else to explain the fact that he has wound up trapped in the international transit zone at the Moscow airport, unable to enter the country, yet unable to leave because he has nowhere to go?
Well, that's not quite accurate. Snowden is reported to be fielding offers of asylum from several nations, including, besides Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua. It is worth noting that these would-be benefactors all have problematic recent relations with his own country. Surely that plays a part in their eagerness to get their hands on him.
One wonders if he understood what he was getting into. Civil disobedience is never without risk and one accepts this going in. To practice civil disobedience is, after all, to break the law in the conviction that doing so serves a higher moral law.
A visitor from China once asked Dr. Bernard Lafayette with some amazement how such a thing could be justified. Was that not a recipe for chaos? If every citizen can choose for himself or herself which laws to obey and which to ignore, does that not show disrespect for the very rule of law? Lafayette, a hero of the civil rights movement, said no, because civil disobedience does not seek to evade punishment. One shows one's respect for the rule of law, he said, by submitting to the penalties prescribed for breaking it.
Dr. Daniel Ellsberg would likely disagree; he supports Snowden's flight to elude U.S. authorities. Ellsberg famously leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971 and faced a possible 115-year sentence for doing so. Charges were dismissed in 1973.
In an op-ed published Sunday by the Washington Post, he argued that Snowden's situation cannot be compared to his — different circumstances, different era. Snowden, he writes, would likely be disappeared into solitary confinement if returned to these shores and have little chance to contribute to the debate on government surveillance.
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So Snowden should come home. You may say that is the worst possible choice, and you'd be right. It is the worst.
Except for all the rest.
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From chairs and chests all the way to large scale storage system, the range of flat-pack furniture is astounding. Also known as ready-to-assemble or knock-down, attractive home furniture purchased "off the shelf" in giant boxes and put together at home is growing in popularity. Folks from college students to golden agers appreciate the convenience and low price of the flat-pack concept. In fact, the only hitch seems to be actually getting it together, which is easier said than done. Here are 11 helpful tips.
1. Start with a simple, non weight-bearing project. My first DIY flat-pack assembly was a freestanding coat rack, not too complicated – or too disastrous if it were to suddenly fall apart one day. I am pleased to say that all went well and it is still upright and in active use today. Since then I've graduated to successfully putting together a desk.
2. Keep your store receipt in a safe place. If the project turns out to be defective or you need to replace a piece, you will normally have to provide a receipt.
3. Look through the instruction booklet to get an idea of what assembly involves. Usually the steps will be illustrated with simple images, using minimal or no text. As the furniture kits are shipped all over the world, the idea is that the images will be universally understood and that a picture is worth a thousand words. (Of course, sometimes those thousand words would sound something like "!@#$$%!!!????") To avoid this eventuality, if you are working with IKEA products, take a look at their YouTube playlist for extra help.
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Bartender Fired for Reporting Drunk Driver
It may sound hard to believe, but trying to stop a drunk driver has actually cost a woman her job.
Twyla DeVito has been let go from her bartending job at the American Legion in Shelby, Ohio after she called police to report a regular customer who was drunk got into his car and drove off.
Cops pulled over the man, whose blood alcohol level was more than double the legal limit.
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The American Legion had no comment on the matter. Ohio state law does not require a bartender to report a drunk driver, but DeVito has no regrets about what she did, saying, "If he had gotten in a wreck that would have been on me, because I was on my shift. It was in a lose-lose situation. I choose to possibly save a life."


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Firefighters and mechanics tried repeatedly to put out a battery fire aboard a Boeing 787 Dreamliner through smoke so thick they couldn't see the battery, according to documents released Thursday that portray the incident as more serious than previously described.
The Jan. 7 fire at Boston's Logan International Airport is under investigation by the National Transportation Safety board, which released laboratory analyses, interviews and other data it has gathered so far. It still hasn't been able to pinpoint the cause.
Federal Aviation Administration officials are expected to make a decision in the next few days on whether to approve a plan by Boeing to revamp the 787's lithium ion batteries to prevent or contain future fires. Once the plan is approved, Boeing hopes to swiftly test the reconfigured batteries and get the planes back in the air.
Dreamliners worldwide have been grounded since a second battery incident led to an emergency landing in Japan nine days after the Boston fire. The incidents have raised questions about the safety of using lithium ion batteries, which are more susceptible to igniting if they short-circuit or overheat than other types of batteries. The episodes also have called into question the FAA's process for certifying the safety of new aircraft designs.
The Boston fire occurred aboard a Japan Airlines plane that had just landed after an overseas flight and was parked. A cleaning crew discovered smoke near a kitchen in the rear of the plane six minutes after the last of the 184 passengers walked off the plane, and one minute after the pilots left.
A mechanic investigating the source of the smoke in an electronics bay found intense smoke and three-inch flames in two places on the housing covering the battery. Attempts to put out the flames with a dry chemical fire extinguisher were unsuccessful.
The first firefighter to enter the plane reported seeing "a white glow about the size of a softball" through the smoke using his hand-held heat-imaging camera. He applied another type of fire extinguishing agent, which somewhat reduced the glow. An airport security camera video showed white smoke billowing from the underside of the plane.
Another firefighter entering the electronics bay reported "no visibility" because of the smoke and directed another burst from a fire extinguisher at a hot spot, but the battery seemed to rekindle. A fire captain applied the extinguisher again for about five minutes, reducing the fire. But the battery was still emitting heavy smoke and hissing loudly. Liquid was flowing down its side. Lithium ion batteries contain a flammable electrolyte.
Firefighters finally decided to remove the battery from the plane, but its "quick-disconnect knob" was melted, hampering the process. Investigators later found little balls of melted and cooled stainless steel, apparently from the cases of the battery's eight cells. That type of steel melts at 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit, one document noted. The bottom of the battery box was bent from where firefighters pried it out.
In all, it took an hour and forty minutes to quell the fire.
The report said several kinds of battery failures can cause the battery to smoke. Those include short circuits, recharging a battery that has been allowed to discharge too far and charging at cold temperatures. But unless something outside the battery ignites it, only overcharging it will cause it to burn, according to a report by NTSB engineer Mike Hauf, citing a Boeing safety assessment.
That raises the question of whether there were different causes for the fire in Boston and the Jan. 16 incident aboard an All Nippon Airways plane, where the battery smoldered but flames were not reported.
ANA confirmed this week that it replaced three circuit boards located in 787 electronics bays after pilots received an error message during flights in March, April and June of last year. One of those circuit boards had a "slight discoloration," said ANA spokeswoman Nao Gunji. Nothing wrong was found with the other two, but they were replaced as a precaution, she said.
The 787 is Boeing's newest and most technologically advanced plane. It is the world's first airliner made mostly from lightweight composite materials. It also relies on electronic systems rather than hydraulic or mechanical systems to a greater degree than any other airliner. And it is the first airliner to make extensive use of lithium ion batteries, which are lighter, recharge faster and can hold more energy than other types of batteries.
Boeing has billed the plane to its customers as 20 percent more fuel efficient than other midsized airliners. That's a big selling point, since fuel is the biggest expense for most airlines.
Airlines have been forced to tear up their schedules while the planes are out of service. United Airlines recently cut its six 787s from its flying plans at least until June and postponed its new Denver-to-Tokyo flights. United is the only U.S. carrier with 787s in its fleet.
LOT Polish Airlines has said the grounding of its two 787s is costing it $50,000 per day. The airline has said it will ask Boeing for compensation. Norwegian Air Shuttle, which was due to receive 787s this year, said it will lease two Airbus A340s along with flight crews for its planned New York-to-Bangkok flights if it doesn't get its 787s on time. The airline is allowing customers on 787 flights to change their flight date or get a refund, but "very few have taken advantage of this offer," spokesman Laase Sandaker-Nielsen said Thursday.
Boeing is still building 787s, but deliveries are halted. It has not said how much the battery problems will cost.
UBS analyst David Strauss estimated Boeing will burn some $6 billion in cash on the 787 this year — and that's even if it delivers more than 60 of them. Every missed 787 delivery adds as much as $120 million to the plane's cash burn this year, he estimated in a note on Tuesday.
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Brook Lopez had 28 points and 10 rebounds, Deron Williams added 23 points and 10 assists, and the Nets beat Chicago 110-91 on Monday night, cutting the Bulls' lead to 3-2 in their first-round playoff series.
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"We came out very aggressive, as we have the past few games. I think the difference was just we sustained it for essentially a full 48 minutes tonight," Lopez said.
Blatche scored 10 of his 13 points in the fourth quarter and Gerald Wallace had consecutive baskets in the finishing surge as the Nets finally pulled away in a game they led most of the way, but never by too much.
Two days after rallying for a 142-134 triple-overtime victory, the Bulls were outscored 15-1 at the finish and failed to set up a second-round series with Miami. Instead they will host Game 6 on Thursday.
"It was just a lot of mental mistakes. A lot of mental mistakes," Bulls center Joakim Noah said. "I feel like we had our chances. We beat ourselves. They played well. You've got to give credit when credit is due and now it's on us to come back and be ready for Game 6."
If the Nets win that one, they would host Game 7 on Saturday.
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Butler made a 3-pointer to open the fourth quarter and make it a one-point game, but Chicago never could grab the lead in the final period.
Wallace scored 12 points and Reggie Evans grabbed 12 rebounds as the Nets improved to 6-0 all-time in Game 5s at home. They have never lost a series when holding home-court advantage.
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