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The plot feels fairly mild, as if one of our traditional dishes was made without enough seasoning.
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"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
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"Trance", Danny Boyle's new thriller, is slick, silly, and frequently very entertaining. Its vibe is twisty and pulpy. Its style is candy-colored visual escapism — every shot hyped up for maximum pop. Viewers who get hung up on story logic — or prefer movies that feature at least one sympathetic character — will spend much of "Trance"'s 101 minutes gritting their teeth.
The movie opens with a London auction house being robbed at gunpoint. Assistant auctioneer Simon (James McAvoy) is tasked with taking the auction's most valuable item — Francisco Goya's 1798 masterpiece "Witches in the Air" — to safety. On his way to the auction house's basement vault, Simon is intercepted by head robber Franck (Vincent Cassel). Franck knocks Simon unconscious and grabs the painting — or, rather, what he believes to be the painting. Once inside the getaway car, he discovers that the canvas has been cut from its frame.
In a movie that runs largely on outlandish plot twists, it hardly qualifies as a spoiler to reveal that Simon was in on the robbery. The problem, though, is that the knock on the head delivered by Franck has made him lose his memory; he can't remember where he hid the painting, or even why he hid it. After torture proves ineffective, Franck decides to try a more unorthodox method: hypnosis. He hands Simon an iPad ("Trance" is sick with Apple product placement) and lets him pick out a hypnotherapist. He chooses American expatriate Elizabeth (Rosario Dawson) because, he says, he likes her name.
It doesn't take long for Elizabeth to figure out that Simon isn't really looking for his lost car keys. She confronts the gang and makes Franck give her an equal share in exchange for retrieving "Witches in the Air." Simon, she says, can't remember what happened to it because of repressed anxieties. Finding the painting means first figuring out what makes Simon tick.
It goes without saying that Simon turns out to be more than just a patsy, and that Elizabeth's motivations go beyond wanting a break from the monotony of treating overeaters and premature ejaculators. Part of what makes "Trance" entertaining — if not especially believable — as narrative is its go-for-broke nihilism. Its plot plays fast and loose with the audience's sense of the characters, some of whom go from sympathetic to downright scary.
"Trance"'s major problem is also its selling point: It's a Danny Boyle movie. Shot by Anthony Dod Mantle — who won an Oscar for his work on Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" (2008) and has shot all but one of the director's features since "28 Days Later" (2002) — the movie has all of the hallmarks of a digital-era Danny Boyle flick: hyper-saturated colors, deliberately mismatched angles, and eccentric compositions that disorient the viewer without ever embracing Tony Scott-style abstraction. While not as visually kaleidoscopic as "Slumdog Millionaire" or "127 Hours" (2010), "Trance" is still a lot of fun to look at.
It has the sort of manic energy that makes Boyle's movies so interesting; unfortunately, it also has many of the flaws that make them so frustrating. It's no coincidence that most iconic moments in Boyle's work — the "Choose life…" monologue from "Trainspotting" (1996), the zombie attacks from "28 Days Later" — involve the characters running. Boyle is a sprinter: His movies start out fast and energetic, but can't sustain the pace for too long. His career is full of films that are great for the first hour and then devolve into generic blandness ("Sunshine" (2007) and "The Beach" are two of the most obvious examples).
While "Trance" never falls apart, its closing stretch involves several shifts in emotional perspective that the movie doesn't really pull off. To make matters worse, Boyle ends the whole thing on a sentimental note which doesn't jibe with the nihilist tone of the final act (this is also a common Boyle problem). The awkward shoehorning of Big, Serious Themes into the pulp premise doesn't help, either. However, if you can look past the sputtering conclusion — or the pseudo-intellectual banter about memory, modern art, and other assorted nonsense — what you'll find is a brisk, breezy, style-heavy crime flick that happens to be one of the most purely entertaining movies Boyle has made in a long time.
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REDMOND, Ore. – Redmond Police on Tuesday arrested a 22-year old Crooked River Ranch man who had allegedly been impersonating a doctor, administering medication, and performing medical procedures including minor surgery on several people throughout Central Oregon. The suspect -- whom police say has no formal medical training -- was charged with more than two dozen crimes including assault, identity theft, sexual abuse, drug charges and more. Scott Hanson - DCJ photo Scott E. Hanson first came under ... [full story]
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MADRAS, Ore. – A lengthy investigation led to the arrest Friday afternoon of three men -- two suspected of selling drugs in the Bend and Madras areas, and one for possession – after police stopped their vehicle and found over 18 grams of methamphetamine and dozens of morphine pills, police reported. (left to right) Donald Randy Scott, Jarrod Marcus Allen, Danny Michael Easterling – JCJ photos According to Deschutes County Sheriff's Sgt. Rob Emerson, Central Oregon ... [full story]
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TERREBONNE, Ore. – The search for a 19-year-old man who went missing Saturday afternoon after he disappeared into the swift water of Crooked River at Smith Rock State Park is continuing Monday, although the mission is now likely that of recovery instead of rescue, officials reported. Alex Thomson – photo courtesy helpfindthemissing.org According to Deschutes County Sheriff's Cpl. Wayne Morgan, Alex Thompson, a 19-year-old Aloha resident and current student at Oregon State University in Corvallis, was ... [full story]
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LA PINE, Ore. – A La Pine woman has been issued a $1,551 penalty by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) for allegedly allowing the open burning of prohibited materials on property she rented at 15959 Jack Pine Loop Muller in the Deschutes County community. The tenant, Patricia Sue Wishon, has appealed the penalty. On Oct. 28, 2008, DEQ staff observed dark smoke that smelled like burning plastic rising about 300 to 400 feet into the ... [full story]
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MADRAS, Ore. – Troopers say that the 20-year-old driver of a vehicle that crashed on Highway 26 about five miles north of Madras Wednesday night was attempting to pass two vehicles when he lost control, drove off the road and flipped his car which landed upside-down in a crash that left him injured and his passenger dead. The passenger of this vehicle died late Wednesday night on Highway 26 about five miles north of Madras. ... [full story]
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REDMOND, Ore. – A traffic violation Monday afternoon led to a police chase through the Redmond area, a high-risk felony stop, and then ultimately the arrest of the driver for an outstanding warrant, eluding and reckless driving, and methamphetamine charges. Eric Uloalo Gibb – DCJ photo According to Deschutes County Sheriff's Deputy Mark Eggert and Sgt. Mike Biondi, a deputy tried to stop a 1986 Ford Tempo for a traffic violation near SW Canyon and SW 17th ... [full story]
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REDMOND, Ore. – Officials evacuated and sealed off the Redmond High School gym on Friday after asbestos-tainted material was knocked off the ceiling by a tennis ball. The gym will remain closed until further notice. Stephanie Curtis, the Redmond School District's Communication Officer, said the tennis ball hit the ceiling and spray-on fire retardant fell to the gymnasium floor. After the area was evacuated, the district contacted Alpine Abatement and Paulson Environmental to make arrangements to ... [full story]
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SISTERS, Ore. – The driver of an SUV died early this morning when the vehicle struck a utility pole and caught on fire about 3 ½ miles east of Sisters on Highway 126 West, deputies reported. According to a news release prepared by Deschutes County Sheriff's Sergeants Chad Davis and Mike Biondi, deputies responded to the crash near Hurtley Ranch Road about 3:40 a.m., April 3, and found a 2003 Ford Escape fully engulfed in flames. Cloverdale ... [full story]
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REDMOND, Ore. --A Eugene man was arrested early Wednesday morning after he led police on a 70-mph pursuit before crashing the car he allegedly stole from his brother along with a gun and $1,000 cash. Justin Teague Britton - DCJ photo According to Redmond Police Sgt. Brad McMurrian, officers, Deschutes County Sheriff's deputies and Oregon State Police troopers responded to 1950 SW 22nd Street about 1:50 a.m., April 1, to the reported theft of a car, ... [full story]
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. – Two teenagers were arrested early this morning when police found them walking from a pharmacy parking lot in northeast Prineville as they responded to a burglary alarm at the business. Matthew W. Walker – CCJ photo According to Prineville Police Narcotics Detective Jeff Frickey, Prineville Police and Crook County Sheriff's deputies arrested 18-year-old Matthew W. Walker and a 16-year-old boy when they arrived at Hans Pharmacy at 136 NE Third Street about 12:13 ... [full story]
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REDMOND, Ore. -- Police are looking for an armed, masked man who held up Sassy's Cafe in southwest Redmond Monday night, then fled with an undisclosed amount of cash. A multi-jurisdictional law enforcement search of the area conducted by Redmond and Bend Police officers and their K9 police dogs, Oregon State Troopers, and Deschutes County Sheriff's deputies was unsuccessful. � According to Redmond Police Detective Sgt. Cory Chase, a report of an armed robbery at Sassy's, ... [full story]
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SUNRIVER, Ore. – An 18-year-old driver was injured Sunday about noon when he apparently fell asleep at the wheel and his car left the highway, rolled, then crashed into a tree, deputies reported. According to a news release prepared by Deschutes County Sheriff's Sgt. Bryan Husband, deputies and Sunriver Police and Fire personnel responded to Highway 97 near milepost 152 about 11:55 a.m., March 29, to a reported single-vehicle rollover crash with unknown injuries. Brent Hermanns ... [full story]
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LA PINE, Ore. - The drivers of two vehicles - one an SUV and the other a large truck pulling a trailer carrying a fork lift - were injured Sunday morning when they were involved in a head-on crash on icy Highway 97 near La Pine, Oregon, deputies reported. � Sunriver resident Tina Sides was flown by AirLink helicopter to a hospital in Bend.� Deschutes County Sheriff's Sgt. Bryan Husband said that 42-year old Sunriver resident Tina Sides ... [full story]
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Not to get all "Gloria Steinem" on you all here, but women pretty well hold the power to changing the world, or at least our food system.
Whenever I am stunned by some appalling childhood obesity statistic, or food access issue, or even the mind-boggling sum that is spent annually marketing junk food to our kids, I take a deep breath. And I remember a few helpful things:
I remember that we women rock a few impressive numbers ourselves.
We make 93 percent of food purchase decisions for our families (meaning the foods we purchase to serve at home). Yep, even with the kids nagging us, it's still our decision.
As nutritional gatekeepers, we control at least 70 percent of the foods our families eat. While our kids may make other choices at school lunch, or out with friends, or by other parents after a soccer game, our share ends up being nearly three-quarters of the food choices.
I remember that all those companies are nothing without our consumer dollars.
While "vote with your fork" is probably one of the least democratic polls we can have in our country due to economics and food access, for those of us who can choose our foods, it is a pretty amazing power. The hope is that we choose wisely and the food system as a whole becomes healthier for all.
I also remember, that its not easy to know which choices are best.
This is deliberate, too. Labels are confusing and misleading. Things that are NOT labeled (and should be) are confusing. After over a decade of trying to figure out the food system, I basically have arrived at Ten Simple Rules — A Mom's Food Manifesto — for making good food choices.
Here it is. Please share it, at will, with others if you like them. And go wield your awesome powers, Moms. We can win this war.
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Hugo Rodallega earned the praise of both managers as he helped Fulham to their first away win of the season against his former club Wigan.
The Colombian left the Latics in the summer after refusing to sign a new contract and scored his first goal for his new club at the DW Stadium in Fulham's 2-1 victory.
Rodallega is Wigan's all-time leading goalscorer in the Premier League with 24 and, after a few boos early in the game, he was applauded by the home fans when he chose not to celebrate his bullet header. Fulham boss Martin Jol said: "I knew Rodallega would be very eager and motivated to do something nice, to score his goal and that was exactly what he did, so that was ever so pleasing for us."
Jol added: "He showed respect to the people and they showed him respect as well."
Rodallega's goal came in the 31st minute and Damien Duff added a second for the visitors in the 68th minute before Arouna Kone pulled one back in injury time.
Wigan manager Roberto Martinez said of his former player: "Hugo showed real respect to the fans. It could have been easy for him to celebrate the goal, and rightly so.
"It was a nice gesture from him and the fans recognised that.
"Nothing hurts you more than losing a football game and nothing gives you more happiness than winning a football game so showing the respect of controlling the emotions I think was a nice touch."
Martinez, meanwhile, was far from happy with his side but felt the result was harsh, saying: "I don't think we deserved to lose. What Fulham did was created a few chances, probably more than we would like. I thought from open play a couple of times we showed a lack of intensity in defence but we had the better chances.
"When Jordi hits the crossbar it seems that it's not going to be your day. Arouna Kone and Mauro Boselli's chances were as open as you're going to get and you need to score goals."


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Bruce Springsteen Weighs In On World Cup Biting Controversy
With the group stage of the World Cup winding down right now, it seems like everybody has an opinion on what's going on in Brazil. That includes Bruce Springsteen, who talked about an incident in one of yesterday's (June 24) matches, where Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez appeared to bite Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini on the shoulder.
Although known as a New York Yankees fan (albeit one who is fully welcome at Boston's Fenway Park, home of their rivals and current World Series champions the Red Sox), Springsteen acknowledged that he has been following the World Cup "a little bit." But when accosted on a Manhattan street by a TMZ camerman, he said he was unaware of what had happened earlier in the day. Still, he joked about whether or not it was allowed. "What are the rules about biting in the World Cup?" he deadpanned. "There probably should be one. Biting has no place in sports."
With 10 minutes remaining in the then-scoreless match, Suarez sunk his teeth into Chiellini as they fought for a ball. Had the referee seen what had happened, Suarez would most likely have been ejected from the game, forcing Uruguay to play with only 10 men. Instead, he stayed in and, a minute later, Diego Godin scored the game's only goal for Uruguay, which knocked Italy out of the tournament. Suarez has officially been charged by FIFA for his actions, and could potentially be banned for the rest of the tournament.
Springsteen was asked a few other questions about sports, such as the future of LeBron James with the Miami Heat and whether or not he would ever want to buy a team, as Jon Bon Jovi is trying to do with the Buffalo Bills.
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Web StockDecember 01, 2004
The imagery needs of most web sites are modest; haven't stock photography providers figured this out?
Due to download times and the frequent need for dynamic content areas, the web approach to photography is often different than print. Buying one single photo for a large print run is commonplace; buying one single photo for an entire web site is limiting.
- The web designer needs:
- high-quality, but comparatively low-res images
- re-usable imagery
- a large selection of easily usable photos to fill dynamic areas, some of which may draw from pools of dozens of variations
- nominal fees for volume, royalty-free photography
- The average stock provider offers:
- Royalty-free singles at pre-determined resolutions
- Rights-managed singles that have a price calculated based on size, impressions, and usage
- photo CDs for $300-$600 or more
I'm all for paying for the use of someone else's creative work, but it strikes me that there's a fundamental difference between the average web designer's needs, vs. the offerings of the likes of Veer, Getty, Corbis, and the rest. Ideally I'd be buying themed photo CDs and building up my own library, but doing so involves paying for print-resolution photography.
It could very well be that there's no business case for providing stock for the web; I'd expect lower prices for the lower resolution, but of course the content of the photo is what we're really paying for. Perhaps there's a break-even point that targetting prices for web use would fall under; perhaps not.
Increasingly I've been turning to the "dirty little secrets", the open photography providers like iStockPhoto and stock.xchange. Both allow sharing of digital photos, and re-use in commercial projects. The quality is hit and miss, but the prices are low (iStock) or free (stock.xchange). The resolution is usually a few megapixels, which is rarely, if ever, not enough.
I've started my own personal collection of stock from these sites that's starting to rival what I've had to work with in the past, with the added bonus of being made up only of shots that I like, rather than shots that happened to be included on the CD. I'm having a hard time finding a downside to this approach.
Am I alone? What's everyone else doing for stock?
Reader Comments
Like Jim, I use morguefile a lot. Since its inception, it's grown tremendously. I have to go through a lot of red tape to authorize every purchase, so I save that for really important, major images and use morguefile (or our research group's camera) for everything else.
There used to be a great site that I can't remember the name of that offered their entire catalog of stock photos and clip art for a $30/yr. subscription. It was great for my at-home, on-the-side business, until they upped the price to something like $200/yr. (about half of what I might make in a year!).
I agree with Justin and most of the other comments I've read. We've just started using iStockPhoto at the Advertising Agency I work for, and it really pays. However, as Justin stated, not all the images are up to par, particularly people shots.
These images certainly suffice for web related projects. When it comes to print (depending on what medium and publication), you need to be more careful. And I think the commercial providers that are mentioned (Corbis, etc.) more so gear towards print than other media.
I use iStockPhoto weekly. I also have begun making my own library from digital photos I take.
Coming from the print side of the design world, I've mostly used PhotoDisc, adding the cost of one disc to each project's bid. I've built up quite a stock of discs that way.
I wasn't surprised when disc prices began to rise after Getty bought Photodisc, but not happy either. I've begun to use Photos.com more and more (buying unlimited rights per year), in addition to the Photodiscs I have. But even their price has begun to rise.
So, thanks for the other references. I'll check them out.
I use iStockPhoto almost exclusively for basic needs. In fact, I've uploaded a handful of my images, which are just enough to provide me with credits to download without hardly ever having to charge up my account.
A nice trade, if you ask me.
Two other sites you might wish to consider also….
Veer, are you listening?
We all love you, but your stock photos just simply are overkill for what we need. I see a market you can create…
I've found excellent quality and almost everything I need at istockphoto.com. I also browse other free sites (mentioned above) and sometimes find exactly what I need for free! I still look through the expensive collections, but mainly for inspiration.
Sounds like a helluva opportunity for someone. iStock is awesome but doesn't always have the shot.
I love "dirty little secrets" In addition to the ones mentioned above, I use:
There a a few other "dirty little secret" sites out there:
All inexpensive royalty free stock sites.
I have found that over the past year, nearly every electronic device that I have purchased to carry with me on a daily basis has a camera built in (Palm Zire 71 PDA, Motorola v400 phone). Granted, they both max out at 640x480 res.*, but as I tend to only use bits and bobs from photos and mangle them in Photoshop before use (the banner on my website was taken in the bathroom mirror with my PDA), that really isn't a limitation. Plus I found out that my PDA has a really neat unexpected fisheye effect when taking pictures of objects at close range.
If there is a need for a higher-res image, I break out the Sony Cybershot and it seems to do the trick.
* NOTE: The new(er) Zire 72 has a 1-point-something Megapixel resolution camera.
#7 Have you looked at ArtBitz for vector illustrations? http://www.artbitz.com/
I have never personaly used them but they're in my bookmarks "just in case"
Oh, and ditto with stock.xchng - great stuff on there.
The usual modus operandi in web design is low res photos. However I've found its nice to be able to have access to the high res version as well. I think the perfect service would be if a company had quality stock images that you could get a cheaper low res version for web work. Then if you or the client want a higher res version for a print piece you can pay a little more for it.
Being a back-end coder, and not actually a designer in the truest sense, I don't get to do much design work except for on my own personal stuff, and for that, I've generally had to just make my own graphic elements because I don't have the time or resources to shop around for something I like.
In addition to the resources already mentioned, I also try to get the weekly free stock photo from IStockPro.com, the higher end alternative to IStockPhoto.com. I've also managed to get a few dozen from places like StockByte when they've had some promos on.
Since I'm not quite the man of the money, I too use free stock photos. But I like Pixel Perfect Digital [1] best. Great quality, growing database by the day.
Something that I use a lot, that nobody has mentioned yet is deviant art. They have a good collection of photos in a variety of categories. Most of the stuff isn't print quality, and generally people ask that if you use their photos you let them know, but that's a small price to pay for some of the really good photos. http://www.deviantart.com
You can find some fairly good images here now and then, especially if you need something related to nature:
Travis (#20) - Thanks for the listing and I'm glad you enjoy the photos, but I just need to clarify, all images at my stock site are for personal use. I'm not sure how handy they would be for Dave and the other pros commenting here.
To answer Dave's question:
If i don't have a suitable photo that I've taken in the past, I usually head to istockphoto or www.photos.com (which has an interesting payment scheme).
Being a photographer I can pretty much tell you why you don't get the lower prices for lower resolution files. The photographer is not going to sell his work cheaper just because it is for the web. IMO you sould actually pay more for an image used on a web site because It will most likely see more faces than a print ad will.
However I am also a designer. I to use IstockPhoto and the like, but would never be caught dead giving away my images there. I also take my own shots when possible. Sadly though I recently deleted a ton of stuff I had downloaded from Istock. Big bummer.
But what it all comes down to is what the photographer feels his or her work is worth. It would be my guess that if you are doing print and web design work your hourly rate is not much different, so why should a photog sell his work for less if it is in web not print?
Thanks for the photographer's perspective, Caleb. I realize traditional rights-managed pricing models rely on impressions, so it's no surprise that a photographer might think a web site should pay more for use.
But I think the evidence speaks loudly — even at current prices, web designers aren't exactly buying in droves. So clearly the needs of the two aren't aligning properly here.
It might be a different case if we were talking custom photography, but we're not. We're talking about stock.
It used to be the case that deviantART's stock section would veild some decent results. Over the years its not been looked after.
As steven ametjan rightly points out there are lots of really good photos in the "proper" photo section and on most cases people will be more than happy to let you use there photos.
However I will stress that you do ask and not just take! Firstly i'ts just bad manners and secondly deviantART has a pack of hounds (aka lawyers) ready to kill!
There's a downside to this 'dirty little secret' thinking, though. If webdesigners are signing up for an account at iStockPhoto or stock.xchange, downloading files and not asking permission or giving credits where it's due, supplying photographers will not be inclined to share their best with the world. To illustrate: one photo of mine has been downloaded 150+ times, and I've only had one formal request for permission so far. I honestly doubt that there isn't a single illegal commercial use among those downloads.
Now, some of you may say: then don't put your photo up there. Then I say: that's exactly my point! ;-)
You're not alone in the least. I completely raided stock.xchange for my last project, and it turned out pretty well. Commercial stock is just too ridiculously priced for me to use without driving the final price of my usual projects up 2x. Maybe worth it if I latch onto a huge client that's willing to shell out major bucks at me, but that's pretty rare for me lately.
On a somewhat similar note, I'm pretty amused at stockbyte's attempts to get me to buy $1500 worth of stock, where at they'll throw in a FREE (FREE! FREE!) 30gb ipod. Well, isn't that a bargain.
I have to 100% agree with Caleb. Being a photographer myself, I cannot stress enough that we - the people who create the images you love to use - have to eat too. And giving away those images we work so hard to create for free (or damn near) just isn't an option.
In that sense, iStockPhoto and stock.xchange are really bad for our business. I get clients all the time, wanting quotes for web use of my images, and although I think my prices are *very* reasonable and far below what Getty and the like charge, they end up running off to a place like iStockPhoto.
Web designers - I hear you all about needing a place to buy reasonably-priced stock pics.
But look at it this way - do you really think a photographer is going to sit on some cold, snowy mountain for hours to wait for that perfect sunrise shot for his stock collection, only to end up giving it away for free?
What if there were huge online deposits of website templates, with all the bells and whistles included, and companies would be able to just use those instead of hiring a web designer?
Right. That's exactly how we photographers feel about iStockPhoto.
Simone, you bring up a good point, that a lot of photographers have a huge back catalogue of their own work that they are willing to sell for less than the big box stock sites.
By the way, there are already a lot of sites full of cheap website interfaces… not free, perhaps, but you can buy a whole template for about $50 or so these days… http://www.webtemplates.com/ springs to mind… ugh…
Much the same as everybody else, sxc.hu, istockphoto.com etc. http://bluevertigo.com.ar/ has a great collection of links, go spend a day or three exploring and build a photo library.
Another dirty secret, photographs taken by US Government employees as part of their work are generally not covered by copyright. Which means the photo archives of
the Navy (18000 photos) http://www.news.navy.mil/view_photos.asp
the Airforce (6000 photos): http://www.af.mil/photos/
and a large number of others govt depatments ie: Fish and Wildlife Services http://pictures.fws.gov/ are available for use.
The only real restriction with these photos is people in the photographs are entitled to privacy, so no identifiable people photographs should be used. But that is the same with sxc and most other free/low cost sites. istockphoto is different they required model releases, but that is why people shots are rare there.
Seriously, the amount of trouble with red tape for me to purchase a stock photo, makes it easier to shot it myself on a digital camera or grab it from a low cost source on the web. I have built up a small library of stock photos (4000 at last count) from photos I have taken or grabbed from the web that are useful for most purposes, except people shots.
That problem at work is solved by hiring a photographer a couple of times a year and shooting a large number of stock people photos, often using staff. This is usually done in conjuction with special photo shoots. So we hire a photographer for a day instead of half a day.
Some photographers do not want to work that way and I understand why.
Does my employer spend more or less on photography now than 5 or 10 years ago. No, it is roughly the same portion of our budget, the amount spent of stock photos has dramatically decline (no stock CDs anymore), allowing us to spend more on commissioned work.
I do the exact same thing.
I've bought some photos from the sources you mentioned, but they were over-priced, when I only need it as a background image, or something subtle, that won't necessarily be the focal point of the design.
I'll never need a photo at 3000x3000px, that's just way too big… so I've been building my own library of photos that I've taken, as well as from other places I've found on the net.
Dave, I am right there with you. I actually have quite a bit of photos from iStockPhoto and that is currently my primary source for stock photos.
Also take into account RM (Rights-Managed) images which can be considerably more expensive than RF images and can be even more limited in terms of what you can use them for without having to pay additional usage fees.
For my own work, I prefer to work with the "dirty little secrets" because they either offer decent (but not always spectacular) images for little to no money, but I am willing to resort to Masterfile, Veer or one of the others if necessary. There are some good gems if you're willing to spend the time searching through the more amateur shots…
I've been using iStockphoto for the past year, and usually can either find the "perfect" photo, or a close enough alternative to get by. It's a great resource for web designers.
It's *really* hit or miss, but I've found the Creative Commons search engine to be quite good at times:
I recently purchased a few stock images for print and was quoted the same price again if I was going to use it for the web.
Thinking this reeked I found similar enough images to use at: http://sxc.hu/ and http://www.morguefile.com/archive/
Both good to hunt through and free.
I couldn't agree more. I use the stock.xchange almost exclusively. The photos are professional enough and the quality is more than I would ever need.
The real problem I think is finding quality illustrated work. I rarely have the time to hop into illustrator and design a quality icon and I have yet to find a professional , high-quality illustrative work and reasonable prices, much less for free. Plus, they never give you a vector file… What gives?
I think I've been doing this for years. Nice to see that the "big boys" do this as well… ;)
On a sidenote: another great resource is http://photocase.de . It's in german, but really self-explaining.
iStockPhoto almost exclusively. I had forgotten about stock.xchng. Thanks for reminding me. I also use my own photos, or those of friends (who are usually better photographers than I!).
I guess I'm pretty much reiterating what all have said so far… iStockPhoto all the way. Recently, at work the web designer and marketing manager purchased some photos from Corbis. The prices blew me away and when I told her about iStock Photo and the amazingly affortable prices she had no idea iStockPhoto even existed. We ended up using the expensive photos in a print ad, so all was not lost. But at the same time, we've used these images repeatedly on the website, for which I could not ever justify paying much money for.
Many of the photos at iStock are sufficient for print ads as well, just not all of them. I'd always check there first.
I live on stock.xchange and have a huge library on my local drive that I've built from that site. I have two folders: one for "no permission required" and another for "permission required." I add labels to the latter to ensure I am able to contact a photographer if I eventually use one of the photos in one of my designs.
The large providers don't get it. Fortunately, sites like iStockPhoto and stock.xchange do. My analogy is that the small potatoes are like open source: we share and trade so that we all arrive at a good place together. That's what the web is all about.
Finally, I'm a novice photographer and take many of my own photos, even for clients. If I can do it, so can you. As designers, we're artists. And photography is the art of vision. You'd be amazed at how quickly you, as a visual designer, could apply your visual skills to the art of photography.
Nice of you to bring this topic to light, Dave.
What a great list of links, I've wacked all the free ones into my del.ico.us site at http://del.icio.us/bardsley/stock with a load of sub catergories. If anyone wants a quick reference although it doesnt include peolpes very useful commentary.
I joined iStock about a year ago, back then the deal was $80 for 80 photo's, since then the price has risen, but how can you beat value like that. If all else fails I have a few mates who are photographers so if things get desperate I can always call on them.
I think I'll be sticking with iStock for quite some time yet, and if I get a chance to leave the office I may just take some snaps myself.
I'm wondering, do people use specific applications to help file their stock photo collections? At the moment I have about 2,000 images which are just stuck in Windows directories that I feel are appropriate at the time. I'd like to be able to store them with keywords and search them, etc.
Any suggestions?
I generally use photos.com, but that's really only because the company I work for has an account with them.
nice the christmas logo too
google-style ;)
You are, of course, overlooking other stock sources, other than photography, naturally
Both DeviantArt ( http://www.deviantart.com ) and GFXArtist ( http://www.gfxartist.com ) have a large assortment of royalty-free stock libraries
Then there's always Worth1000's Pre-Photoshopped collection, however as I'm not a member of W1K, I'm not sure of the terms attached to their library
and IRT Paul:
I just sort them into semantic and meaningful subdirectories under my \My Documents\My Pictures folder (on WinXP)
I think it would be wise to invest in a proper image collection management app if you've got an extensive collection, there was one included in an issue of CAS a few years ago
As someone who's just getting started in web design/development, I always wondered where the "good" sites get those perfect photos from. I found stock.xchange last night. Ten minutes later I had an account. Who knew?
Well, I tried deviantArt, but it's stuff was too dark, if you know what I mean.
So, I use stock.xchange. I even got the leaf on my header from there.
But, I don't mind paying for stuff. It's just that it costs too much.
two other military image resources…
thanks for all the other tips.
We use http://photos.com/ where I work. It seems like a great deal for what you get, but then again, I did find the selection wearing somewhat thing in certain areas after time.
I don't really touch visual design much anymore, though, so I dunno what the site's like currently.
Just wanted to add to the list of folks who frequent stock.xchange and sxc.hu.
Both of these sites have provided excellent stock photos in a pinch.
The other method I employ frequently is my own photography (amatuer, but pretty decent). Often I find I have many of the things I need, if I just look for them. Plus, if you need something specific there are always people who want to pose for the camera!
Oh, yeah and bluevertigo is amazing… tons of stuff if you have time to search.
Like many here, I use Istockphoto as well. I started uploading images myself about 3 months ago (I bought a Nikon D70) and have been fortunate to get a number of downloads. I typically buy about 20-30 images a week and hopefully by next year, my uploads will lower or eliminate the costs.
Interestingly enough, I used to average about $3000 - $5000 a month in stock photos from Veer and Comstock. I still buy there but Istockphoto satisfies about 90% of my needs. And the community there is awesome. Some great designers.
As far as deviantART goes, the stock photography there has gone downhill in my opinion. As a member since the beginning (August of 2000), I've never really felt that deviantART was a good resource for stock photos, especially with the lack of a good search feature on the site.
Thanks to everyone who shared their opinions on this. I've gained quite a few new resources from this thread and hope to start building my own repository of stock photography soon.
PS. I agree completely with Mark on his point that we, as web designers, have the ability to take our own stock photography. I've done this numerous times with my digital camera when stock archives just couldn't provide me with the right picture for the job.
Response to Paul Haine (#42) -
Extensis Portfolio is a nice app for managing your photo library.
And I have a minor OT question for anyone-
Kind of a silly question but why is it that when I download a high-res jpeg from one of these sites, it downloads it as for example a 2.5 meg file but when I open it in photoshop it's 10 megs there?
Ross: It's because Photoshop displays the uncompressed size of an image.
For photo management on a PC, try using Picasa from Google (it's Free as in Beer). It's worked well for me. It does everything you'd like a photo-management application to do:
and send to "Hello"
Simone said:
"But look at it this way - do you really think a photographer is going to sit on some cold, snowy mountain for hours to wait for that perfect sunrise shot for his stock collection, only to end up giving it away for free?"
It seems a lot of them do though. sxc.hu seems to be mostly made up of very skilled hobbyist photographers who aren't too concerned how their stock gets used - that seems to me to be totally their perogative.
You on the other hand are approaching this from a business model point of view and whilst I can understand your frustration to a certain degree the two things aren't really comparable IMO.
I've given away designs before. For non-profit groups, for friends and even sometimes for companies in my local area that needed a starting boost. Just like these guys on iStock or stock.xchange I do it at my discretion.
Hi guys, count one more for stock.xchng , I also had one account at iStockphoto but only used my first 2 free credits. I am going to revisit them, upload some of my pictures and buy some credits.
Adam (#40): Thanks for sharing your del.icio.us bookmarks, I am also a user of them.
SXC Kicks ass.
I wonder if there is a good mac os x program (free) that would let me catoloug images that I found that I love.
Hmmm, version tracker I know.
So obviously there's a niche that is begging to be scratched here… I'm down for working with photographers and other web developers to create a "fair-for-all-parties-involved" web design focused stock image site (Phew!). Any takers, contact me! nick [at] deceptykhan [dot-com](Seriously, I live for useful projects like this :) And if you're going to email, don't forget to lose the munge!)
http://picturestation.net - This site has a decent collection of images.
I don't think this site was mentioned, but I've found some nice work here, so I thought I would share. The yearly subscriptions is a really great deal, if you want to spend the time archiving stuff for later use.
I don't think this site was mentioned, but I've found some nice work here, so I thought I would share. The yearly subscriptions is a really great deal, if you want to spend the time archiving stuff for later use.
I shoot my own
Phototrendy.com is a new site that has some pretty good photos. They have a reasonable pricing structure and if you sign up you get a free download every day. Their collection is small but it's growing.
Some changes are afoot at istock:
1. January 3 will see their prices double. You can go buy credits at this year's prices now and they will be valid next year.
2. istock will increase the commission to photograghers they "exclusively" represent. Which means to earn the extra bucks the photograghers will have to remove their photos from SXC and other places. So know is the time to go build your own photo library by hitting the SXC back catalog.
Hope I'm not just dittoing, but you raise an interesting need.
Istock and other creative commons type stock options are missing the boat (I think) because they haven't incorporated the social aspects of software into their interaction design.
A combination of … say www.flickr.com, www.istock.com, and www.bornmag.com, with a twist on www.veer.com 's lighboxing: designers post creative briefs. Photographers (by this i mean the gamut, from stockhorses to your favorite photoblogger) respond with images from their ouvre. You see one you like and arrange a fair price/rights arrangement.
You pay a premium for access to high resolution. Resolution comes in handy. But the transaction is P2p, and in effect, on spec. The risk is minimal for both parties, and maybe even fun.
Resolution is important, because our perception of value in images is directly tied to how clear it is to our eyes, how detailed. Thus the 40 square pixel art deco tile that looks fabu in your design, costs about $1.50, and the striking, model released tableau on 4X5" film costs you 100 bux to use in pieces throughout your site, but it costs the ad agency you're working for 2000 dollars for the big ass banner version.
The owners of the system earn a tiny portion of each transaction. Everybody's happy.
Of course it would all hinge on a really good, intuitive, and community enforced classification system. tags.
Good ones and lot's of em. If you can find it and talk to the person who made it, you're all set.
Where practical I shoot my own. I'm a photographer and a Web designer so I am loathe to purchase stock work where I can produce an image on my own.
Buddy up with a photographer. Barter. Save a photographer or two from those nasty Flash and Muzak websites 'optimized for IE at 1024x768' and you'll have all the stock you can print.
To Erik Christensen (OS-X pictureviewer): try IView MediaPro. I'm a webdesigner/photographer with huge amounts of images lying around and use it all the time.
A really powerfull life-saver.
I have made my own stock collection for years. I started at www.deviantart.com and got addicted to stock. I now have over 3000 print quality images I can use.


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We live-blogged all the action in the stock market on Friday, as investors took in a jobs report with a strong headline number. You can get a compact rundown of the day\'s action in Market Snapshot.
4:13 pm | Dow ends 0.4% off record closing level from earlier in week | by William Watts
A busy week marked by a heavy round of top-tier data — including, of course, Friday's jobs report — and a brief foray into record territory by the Dow Jones Industrial Average (which set a record closing high Wednesday) and the S&P 500 (which, along with the Dow, traded above its record closing level after the jobs report) came to an anticlimactic close Friday.
The Dow fell 45.98 points, or 0.3%, to 16,512.89. That's good enough for a 0.9% weekly rise but down around 0.4% from its record closing level of 16,580.84 on Wednesday.
The S&P 500 fell 2.54 points, or 0.1%, at 1,881.14, leaving a 1% weekly gain.
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DJIA down 0.3% at 16,508.46
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Stocks will continue to struggle but they should avoid a crash as the Fed continues to slowly slow the pace of stimulus, say strategists at Capital Economics, in a note:
Equities in the US are likely to struggle as the Fed becomes less accommodative, although we do not think a crash is imminent simply because valuations and profit margins are high relative to the past. Our end-2015 forecast for the S&P 500 remains 1,900. Equities should fare better in Europe because there is greater scope for profitability to rise, valuations are more attractive, and the outlook for monetary policy should support an appreciation of the dollar against both sterling and the euro. Our end-2015 exchange rate forecasts are $1.60 and $1.25, respectively.
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S&P 500: down 0.05% to 1,882.75
Nasdaq: up 0.07% to 4,130.49
Dow: down 0.21% to 16,524.29
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The S&P 500 is up 1.8% for the year. In 2013, the S&P ended with a 29.6% annual gain, its biggest since 1997.
Jeremy Grantham, founder of the Boston-based money manager GMO, says stocks will continue sail higher for the next year or two, until the S&P pushes above 2,250. Then things will get grim.
The stock market "will revert to its trend value, around half of its peak or worse, depending on what new ammunition the Fed can dig up," he writes in his quarterly letter. Read more here.
2:33 pm | Dow members' earnings | by Anora Mahmudova
This morning, the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly topped record closing level reached two days ago. The event excited a lot of Dow Theory adherents, as it coincided with the record levels of the Dow Transports, which hit record high several days before.
We wrote about it in the Tell Blog: Dow Theory back in action as transports, industrials hit record.
John Butters, Senior Earnings Analyst at FactSet says that record levels at the Dow are definitely not fueled by earnings.
To date, 24 of the 30 companies in the DJIA have reported actual results. The blended earnings growth rate (combines actual results for companies that have reported and estimated results for companies yet to report) stands at -3.3%.
Given this performance during the Q1 earnings season to date, it does not appear that results for Q1 are fueling the rally. Perhaps the market is looking ahead at expectations for higher earnings and revenue growth in the future.
2:25 pm | Three reasons to love the Indian rupee | by Saumya Vaishampayan
Th e Indian rupee had a spectacular tumble in 2013 as taper talk by the Federal Reserve and the country's huge current-account deficit helped push the rupee to multi-year lows in late August.
This year, however, the Indian rupee is up against the dollar. Sara Yates, global head of foreign-exchange strategy at J.P. Morgan Private Bank, thinks that trend is likely to stick around for three reasons: The new central bank head, India's status as a Fragile Five country and high Indian yields. Read more here.
2:20 pm | Stocks deeper in red | by Anora Mahmudova
Stocks are deeper in the red, with the Dow about 120 points below its session high. Still, indexes are set to post modest weekly gains.
Dow /quotes/zigman/627449/realtime DJIA -0.28%
S&P 500 /quotes/zigman/3870025/realtime SPX -0.13%
Nasdaq /quotes/zigman/12633936/realtime COMP -0.04%
2:01 pm | MarketWatch Radio Newscast | by Anora Mahmudova
Stocks are little-changed, despite upbeat news on job creation.
1:30 pm | Market update | by Anora Mahmudova
Stocks are trading near their session lows - with losses trimming weekly gains.
S&P 500 /quotes/zigman/3870025/realtime SPX -0.12%
Dow /quotes/zigman/627449/realtime DJIA -0.23%
Nasdaq /quotes/zigman/12633936/realtime COMP - flat
1:17 pm | Jobs report poses strange puzzle | by Anora Mahmudova
Explaining April's jobs report - Jeffry Bartash reviews the details:
Funky job reports are not unusual, and the employment data for April certainly fits the bill. How else to explain the biggest gain in hiring in more than two years – at the same time the labor force shrank by the second largest amount in 32 years.
12:45 pm | Berkshire Hathaway shareholders gather in Omaha for annual fest | by Sue Chang
It is May and that usually means Berkshire Hathaway Inc. will host its annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Neb. where Warren Buffett and his BFF Charlie Munger will share investment ideas and dish out folksy humor on the side.
Check out Bill Watts' slideshow on what to expect at the "Woodstock for capitalists" this weekend.
Both Class A and Class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway are off roughly 0.5%.
12:20 pm | Papa Murphy rallies on debut | by Sue Chang
Papa Murphy's Holdings Inc. /quotes/zigman/30441398/delayed /quotes/nls/frsh FRSH rallied on its debut on the stock market, rising 7% to $11.76, above its initial public offering price of $11.
The operator of take-and-bake pizza chain offered 5.8 million common shares and granted another 874,999 shares to underwriters to cover over-allotments.
12:15 pm | Technology sector | by Anora Mahmudova
Technology sector is also weighed down by Yelp and Expedia, both down after reporting quarterly results.
Yelp shares are down 4.4%, Expedia shares down 3.6%.
For more on these and other tech stocks read: Yelp, LinkedIn weigh on techs
12:01 pm | LinkedIn hit after earnings | by Anora Mahmudova
In earnings news, LinkedIn /quotes/zigman/5131883/delayed /quotes/nls/lnkd LNKD shares took a hit - down 6.3% - after posting a loss and disappointing with outlook.
Analysts cautioned that the professional social network may not see the same kind of gang-buster momentum that just recently turned it into a Wall Street favorite.
For more on the story, read: LinkedIn bulls struggling with tough year
11:51 am | Stocks shrug off April jobs report | by Anora Mahmudova
Don Cleven, portfolio manager of the Touchstone MidCap Value Fund says it's too soon to tell if April's jobs gain came from economic strength or just weather-related catch-up.
11:40 am | Utilities are down | by Anora Mahmudova
Cyclicals are trouncing defensive stocks on the S&P 500. Materials and energy are up, utilities are down. Incidentally, utilities sector stocks /quotes/zigman/246354/delayed /quotes/nls/xlu XLU are the only ones in the red this week.
On the one hand – a solid jobs report (despite the details), on the other hand, Ukraine headlines are not great, especially going into the weekend.
11:34 am | BBC reports many dead Ukraine | by Anora Mahmudova
BBC reports:
Many pro-Russia rebels have been killed, injured and arrested in the Ukrainian government offensive in the eastern city of Sloviansk, interim president Oleksandr Turchynov has said.
Markets are not reacting too much to this piece of news.
Dow is down 16 points, S&P 500 is flat and Nasdaq up 5 points.
11:22 am | Dow drops back after hitting highs | by Anora Mahmudova
For the second time today, #Dow touches all time high then drops back. Still a lot of resistance.— Colin Cieszynski (@CCieszynski_CMC) May 2, 2014
11:12 am | Ukraine news | by Victor Reklaitis
The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting at noon Eastern to discuss Ukraine at the behest of Russia, says a short MarketWatch story.
Russia wants to discuss the "serious escalation of violence in Ukraine," according to AFP.
Read more here.
At last check, stocks are down to flattish.
S&P 500 -0.23 points
Dow -17 points
Nasdaq +1 point
Photo credit: AP
11:00 am | More on the slide | by Victor Reklaitis
Some market watchers are attributing the negative reversal to some Ukraine/UN news:
News of UN EMERGENCY MEETING @ Security Council re Ukraine today triggering mkt reversal #forex $SDS $SPX— Ashraf Laidi (@alaidi) May 2, 2014
10:52 am | Quite a reversal | by Victor Reklaitis
Market watchers on Twitter are talking about the negative reversal:
$spy couldn't hold $188.50-$188.80 again. $TLT just took off again. Be tight in whippy trades— Scott Redler (@RedDogT3Live) May 2, 2014
10:47 am | Erasing gains | by Victor Reklaitis
Stocks have given back their modest gains in the last few minutes, with all three main indexes turning negative.
Dow -0.1%
Nasdaq -0.1%
10:44 am | Ares slides in debut | by Victor Reklaitis
Ares Management isn't faring so well in its first day of trading.
Shares in the alternative lender were last down 2.8%.
A WSJ story says Ares is "the latest victim of the flagging market for initial public offerings."
10:30 am | Pfizer falls | by Victor Reklaitis
Last down 0.9%, Pfizer is one of today's biggest losers in the Dow after AstraZeneca rejected the U.S. drug giant's improved buyout offer.
Meanwhile, Wynn is one of the biggest winners in the S&P 500 after its quarterly earnings report — last up nearly 7%.
Read more about notable winners and losers in today's Movers & Shakers column.
10:15 am | S&P tops record close | by Victor Reklaitis
Stocks have strengthened in the last few minutes, lifting the S&P 500 above its record closing level achieved on April 2.
Photo credit: Getty Images
10:12 am | Dow still shy of intraday record | by Victor Reklaitis
The Dow is also creeping up toward its highest intraday level ever.
Its intraday record is 16,631.63, hit on April 4.
The blue-chip index is within about 15 points of that at last check.
10:08 am | Record levels | by Victor Reklaitis
After wavering between small gains and losses in the opening minutes, the S&P 500 and Dow have both settled into showing modest gains.
The S&P 500 is within a couple of points of its April 2 record close at 1,890.90.
The Dow is on pace to top Wednesday's record closing level of 16,580.84.
S&P 500 +0.3% to 1889
Dow +0.2% to 16,604
9:56 am | LinkedIn falls 4% | by Victor Reklaitis
LinkedIn /quotes/zigman/5131883/delayed /quotes/nls/lnkd LNKD is one of today's big losers, last down 4%.
Many investors were not pleased with the social-media company's outlook, notes MarketWatch's Therese Poletti.
She writes:
"LinkedIn said it sees second quarter revenue in a range of $500 million and $505 million, just below analysts' consensus estimates for the second quarter of about $506 million."
9:47 am | Pinch of salt | by Victor Reklaitis
"The sharp drop in joblessness must therefore be taken with a pinch of salt as the cast of unemployed did not necessarily find work," says Andrew Wilkinson of Interactive Brokers.
"They may have simply stopped looking. Proving the case is the drop in the participation rate to 62.8 from 63.2%."
MarketWatch's Rob Schroder has a nice roundup of different reactions here -- Wilkinson's and many other takes.
9:44 am | Baked in? | by Victor Reklaitis
One of MarketWatch's stories on the jobs report also emphasizes that a big jobs gain was already baked in the cake, so to speak.
"The economy was widely expected to show a faster pace of job creation in April, as warmer temperatures induced firms to add workers they might have hired earlier in the year if not for extremely harsh winter."
Go here to read Jeff Bartash's full story, which features the adjacent chart.
9:40 am | Weak details | by Victor Reklaitis
The much-anticipated jobs report said the U.S. generated 288,000 jobs in April, the biggest increase in more than two years and well above forecasts for 215,000.
But analysts aren't happy with some of the details, and that could help explain why the strong headline number isn't providing more of a lift for stocks.
Steven Ricchiuto, chief economist at Mizuho Securities, says the details were "weak."
"Not only did the labor force participation rate plunge to 62.8% from 63.2% accounting for the entire decline in the jobless rate from 6.7% to 6.3%, but the hours worked and hourly earnings numbers were also weak," he writes in emailed comments.
9:36 am | Wobbling at the open | by Victor Reklaitis
Good morning.
The S&P 500 and Dow opened higher, then dipped into the red, and now they're higher again.
Dow +0.1%
Nasdaq +0.3%


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The value of physical gold rose for the 12th consecutive year in 2012 – but gold-related equities did not do so well.
Gold funds littered the worst performers' chart – BlackRock Gold & General lost 11.5pc, Investec Global Gold lost 12.9pc and Smith & Williamson Global Gold & Resources 13.5pc.
Evy Hambro, manager of the BlackRock fund, blames the management teams at the mining companies for this lag.
"Not all gold company assets and management teams are equal, and the market has taken an increasingly discerning view of those companies that deliver financially and operationally and those that fall short," he said.
Mr Hambro said that some companies were serving themselves rather than shareholders – and as a result, share prices fell.
However, this year has already seen a change in fortunes for the Gold & General fund, up 1.9pc since January 1.
Speaking about what did do well last year, Mr Hambro credited silver and platinum miners.
"The fund's silver exposure was a source of outperformance, in particular Fresnillo: the stock was helped by a positive market reaction to the board's approval for the development of their $500m San Julián silver project," said Mr Hambro.
"Our overweight positions in gold royalty companies also aided relative performance. The fund's holding in Impala Platinum, a major platinum producer based in South Africa, was also a positive contributor."
Mr Hambro has expanded the global reach of the fund in recent months, adding exposure to the Philippines as well as an emerging Australian gold producer and a Guatemalan silver miner.
The manager believes that both the value of gold equities and the metal itself will rise in 2013.
"The investment case for gold looks robust, with recent action by governments indicating that real interest rates are likely to remain negative in 2013, and the risk of inflation has increased. In addition, the behaviour of central banks suggests gold purchases look set to continue as diversification of currency exposure remains a key focus," he said.


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Physicist Silas Beane talks to New Scientist about the possibility that we are living in a simulated Universe, in an interview published earlier today.
Back in October, we told you about a paper — written by Beane and his colleagues — that explores how we might go about proving that reality as we know it is, in fact, simulated. That paper has since been submitted to the journal Physical Review D. Read more about it here.


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August 7, 1986
This season, Howard Wood, who does his own salary negotiating now, and who has "played every position except guard," returns to Spain's "A" professional basketball league, with Valencia.
"The directors at Burgos fed me a lot of lies — they still owe me quite a bit of money," he said without bitterness during a stroll on Newtown Lane the other day. "They'd say, 'Howard, you're the American so you must score 40 points and get 20 rebounds.' I said I would if they'd pay me on time."
He noted in this connection that he had had a 49-point game last season, and had scored a career-high 56 points in a tournament in Italy.
". . . At least I know that with Valencia I'll get paid," he said with a laugh. "The team's sponsored by a bank."
Rob Nicoletti of Ecker Insurance leads the East Hampton Town men's slow-pitch softball league in home runs, with 10.
August 14, 1986
When it comes to name recognition the Writers have already won the annual Artists-Writers Game that is to be played Saturday afternoon at East Hampton's Herrick Park for the benefit of the East Hampton Day Care Center.
Managed by Ken Auletta, a nonfiction writer and newspaper columnist, the Writers boast a lineup of heavy hitters in the literary field such as John Irving, George Plimpton, Peter Maas, Avery Corman, and Bruce Jay Friedman, not to mention journalism's equivalent of Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance — Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, and Ben Bradlee.
August 21, 1986
Mike DePalmer Sr., who coached Paul Annacone at the University of Tennessee, and who gave a clinic with the 23-year-old touring pro at the Bridgehampton Tennis and Surf Club throughout last week, said, "If they [the clinic-takers] left with improved footwork and with a better general knowledge of the game, we accomplished what we set out to do."
"It was excellent — very enjoyable," said one of the enrollees, Ken Ferrin, who plays at the East Hampton Tennis Club. But one couldn't be expected to vastly improve one's game in such a brief period, he added. "Tennis isn't easy," said Ferrin. "If you took piano lessons for a week, would you expect to play well enough to give a concert?"
John Scanlon, the emcee of the Artists-Writers Game, outscored both teams with his wry remarks. When Ben Bradlee, editor of The Washington Post, strode to the plate, Scanlon said something to the effect that "he's played football with the Kennedys, golf with President Ford, hackey sack with President Carter, and he's been playing softball with the Reagan administration for the past six years."
"Up for the Writers now is John Paul Newport of Fortune magazine," Scanlon said at another point. "Newport was the most valuable player last year in the Sag Harbor Saturday morning softball game. He's from Texas, a country boy. It took him five years to find out that Hanukkah wasn't a duck call."
August 28, 1986
The name of Paul Annacone, not heretofore a household word, echoed around the nation Tuesday night and Wednesday morning in the wake of his first-round 1-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3 upset on Tuesday afternoon of John McEnroe in the United States Open tennis tournament.
It was the first time that McEnroe, a four-time Open champion attempting a comeback after a seven-month layoff, has been put out of the tournament so early, and the first time since 1969 that the preceding year's finalist had been unseated in the Open's opener.
. . . It was his son's "biggest win so far," agreed Paul's father, Dominic, who added that "McEnroe is perhaps the greatest player of all time."
The Hampton Classic, now North America's largest hunter-jumper show, which 10 years ago was hit by a hurricane, and which four years ago was assaulted by a tornado the week before it opened, got off to another shaky start on Sunday as horses and ponies, apparently unnerved by gusty winds that swept over the 60-acre site, refused, bucked, and in one case ran wild. A dozen or so young riders were dumped, one reportedly suffering a broken arm and dislocated shoulder.


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RZA helps Quentin Tarentino on Kill Bill
- 2003-09-09 00:00:00
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- 2003-09-09
Film Director Quinton Tarantino has once again put together an eclectic line-up for the soundtrack to his next movie Kill Bill.
The album features Nancy Sinatra with a cover of the Sonny and Cher classic hit 'Bang Bang' through to the soothing sounds of Zamphir with 'The Lonely Shepherd', the disco beats of the 70s with Santa Esmeralda's 'Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood' and through to now with Wu-Tang Clan's RZA performing a number of tracks.
Kill Bill, starrs Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen, Darryl Hannah and David Carradine as "Bill."
Uma Thurman plays a pregnant assassin who is shot by Bill on her wedding day. She lays in a coma for 5 years and when she awakes the chase is on to Kill Bill.
Tarantino is the director behind 'Pulp Fiction', 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Jackie Brown'. Each movie has expertly used music in the soundtrack to enhance the potency of the film.
The tracklisting for Kill Bill Vol 1 is:
"Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" - Nancy Sinatra
"That Certain Female" - Charlie Feathers
"The Grand Duel - (Parte Prima)" - Luis Bacalov
"Twisted Nerve" - Bernard Herrmann
Queen Of The Crime Council - dialogue excerpt from film featuring Lucy Lui and Julie
"Ode To Oren Ishii" - The RZA
"Run Fay Run" - Isaac Hayes
"Green Hornet" - Al Hirt
"Battle Without Honor or Humanity" - Tomoyasu Hotei
"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" - Santa Esmeralda
"Woo Hoo" - The 126.96.36.199's
"Crane"/"White Lightning" - The RZA/Charles Bernstein
"The Flower of Carnage" - Meiko Kaji
"The Lonely Shepherd" - Zamfir
You're My Wicked Life - dialogue excerpt from film featuring David Carradine, Julie
Dreyfus and Uma Thurman
"Ironside" excerpt - Quincy Jones
"Super 16" excerpt - Neu!
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Institute for Entrepreneurship
The Institute for Entrepreneurship has merged with the Small Business Center and moved its website. The new address is www.cpcc.edu/sbc. Please update your bookmarks and visit us at our new site.
Whether you want to start, improve, or grow your business, the Small Business Center is here to help you achieve your business goals.
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When I read that the Dyson Animal vacuum was designed for pets, I became very excited (as part of our beefed up vacuum selection, Warners' Stellian now sells Dyson vacuums), because
A) Pet vacuums offer legitimacy to my animals–with–appliances photo habit (see below right)
2) I know how difficult pet hair can be to remove from carpet and flooring.
(And from the vacuum itself, for that matter. However, the Dyson Animal's cleaner head design allows scissors in to cut tangled hairs from the brush bar – genius!).
I used to clean a house where three dogs with short, thick hair lived. Cleaning the carpet required multiple vacuum passes, and hairs still stuck deep in the carpet fibers despite my best efforts. Why? Most bagged vacuums lose suction power as you use them.
But Dyson's Root Cyclone technology always sucks with the same amount of suckiness (which is a lot). >>Read more
Plus, suction alone isn't enough for stubborn pet hair.
To remedy this, Dyson's engineers developed a brush bar that will dig into your carpet at speeds of up to 5,400 revolutions per minute without obstructing the airflow.
Dyson vacuum HEPA filters never need replacing, either, because they last a lifetime and were engineered to be easily cleaned at home.
Plus, there are no bags to buy and the Dyson's bins empty from their bottom quickly and hygienically into your trash can with the pull of a trigger. Allergy and asthma sufferers will appreciate this, as well as the fact that Dyson vacuums are certified Asthma & Allergy Friendly by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.
These upright vacuum cleaners are more expensive (we sell the Dyson Animal DC25 for $549.95, but it will last seven to 12 years, and saves the average customer $267 over five years.
For that money, you could add another pet to the family. We sure did 🙂


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Students are required to take three core courses in the first year, and to undertake a ten-month internship in the second year during which they complete a dissertation.
First Year
Core Modules
During their first year, students all take the following three core courses:
- Conservation Processes (ARCL0104, 30 credits, 22 weeks)
- Conservation Studies (ARCL0105, 60 credits, 27 weeks)
- Conservation: Materials Science (ARCL0106, 30 credits, 22 weeks)
Second Year
During their second year, all students undertake supervised work experience in a professional environment.
The dissertation (ARCLG036, 90 credits) is a 15,000 word research report on any approved topic relevant to the degree and the taught components. It is produced as a result of an individual research project undertaken during the fiorst and second years of the programme. Students are assigned a supervisor to guide the main stages of the work.
Examples of past dissertation projects include:
- Investigation of culturally specific repair techniques and their suitability for use on museum collections.
- Priorities and decision making for the conservation of iron
- Evaluation of geotextiles used in the preservation of buried structures.
- Inherent hazards in collections; developing recommendations for handling, treatment and display
- Re-evaluation of soluble modified nylon as a consolidant for fragile plant materials
- Pesticide contamination of repatriated Native American cultural materials and methods to reestablish safe use of objects within tribal communities


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At least 4 injured after severe storms slam several Mississippi counties
A severe storm front packing gusting winds left four people injured as it punched across a wide swath of the Southeast, downing power lines, toppling trees and damaging at least one mobile home in Mississippi, authorities said Thursday.
There were also preliminary reports of minor damage in Arkansas and the storm also raked across Tennessee on its eastward trek during the night and early hours Thursday. Some utility poles in Mississippi snapped from the force of the winds and a tree fell on at least one home, local dispatchers and an official with the state's civil emergency agency told The Associated Press.
A worker at Mississippi's Sharkey Issaquena Community Hospital in Rolling Fork said four people had been taken in stable condition there with injuries and two were sent on to the University Medical Center in the state capital of Jackson. The employee declined further comment when asked about the extent of the injuries.
A University Medical Center spokeswoman later said the two injured sent there were in good condition.
Jeff Rent, a spokesman for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, said at least six northern counties in his state initially reported damage. He said experts would check for further reports of damage Thursday and also seek to determine whether reports of some possible tornadoes embedded in the vast front could be confirmed.
"These were severe storms that produced damaging winds," he said. But whether tornadoes or straight-line winds or some other type of storm were responsible, he said that determination would come in later hours.
Radar weather maps overnight showed a huge, arcing front that swept across Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, and parts of states such as Louisiana and Alabama on its march eastward on a jagged slant.
In Oklahoma, a Storm Prediction Center meteorologist, Greg Dial, said there had been reports of possible tornadoes in some parts of the country.
"Mostly we've had reports of damaging wind, but we have had a few reports of tornadoes. Most of the tornadoes have been from extreme eastern Arkansas into northwestern and west-central Mississippi," Dial told AP.
He also said there were a few minor reports of damage in Arkansas such as homes off blocks.
He said the storms extended from southwest Louisiana northeastward over several states, advancing on portions of Alabama and Georgia, among other areas.
Meteorologist Brian Koeneke at the National Weather Service in Jackson said the severe weather warnings in his state were widespread during the night. The National Weather Service had begun issuing tornado watches and warnings for many areas of Mississipi beginning late Wednesday afternoon and expanding those as the hours wore on.
In Missisippi, dispatcher Erica Severson with the dispatch office for Yazoo City and county said damage in that area included many trees downed along with power lines.
In Louisiana, authorities reported trees down in at least two parishes and one home with a damaged roof when part of the front swept through that state.


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Getting GHC HEAD and LLVM working together
Since dons' two posts, I have seen many people on the haskell-cafe mailing-list and the haskell-related IRC channels asking how they could get GHC HEAD and the LLVM-related stuff, build them and all. There are a lot of this information on the ghc trac but I have been told it would be nice to have a comprehensive guide with all the necessary steps and information.
Getting, patching and building LLVM
It is as simple as executing the following commands:
$ svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk llvm
$ cd llvm
$ patch -p0 -i ~/llvm-ghc.patch
$ ./configure –enable-optimized # probably also want to set –prefix
$ make
$ make install
where the given llvm-ghc.patch file can be downloaded here : http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~davidt/downloads/llvm-ghc.patch.
Getting GHC HEAD and Patching it to add the LLVM backend
First, get the latest archive matching that pattern : ghc-HEAD-AAAA-MM-JJ-ghc-corelibs-testsuite.tar.{gz or bz2} at http://darcs.haskell.org/, the latest currently being ghc-HEAD-2009-10-23-ghc-corelibs-testsuite.tar.gz. It ships GHC with all its dependencies, also including a testsuite.
Put the archive file in (on my computer) /home/alp/haskell/. Uncompress it with for example:
$ tar xzf ghc-HEAD-2009-10-23-ghc-corelibs-testsuite.tar.gz
You should get a /home/alp/haskell/ghc/ directory. Now we have to fetch the latest patches applied to GHC since the archive you downloaded got published on darcs.haskell.org. To do this, simply do:
$ chmod +x ./darcs-all
$ ./darcs-all pull -a
(the former may not be necessary though)
It can take some time, there may be a lot of patches to fetch and apply, don't worry.
If you are not interested in having the LLVM backend, you can stop reading that section and go straight to the next one.
Once done with that, you have to download the patch to add the support to the LLVM backend to GHC. Just download the following file : http://www.cse.unséw.edu.au/~davidt/downloads/ghc-llvmbackend-full.gz (it actually just is a darcs patch, not an archive or anything else — you may want to rename it with a .patch extension), put it in ghc's directory (/home/alp/haskell/ghc/ here) and apply the patch :
$ darcs apply ghc-llvmbackend-full.patch
(or .gz)
You just have one more patch to apply (isn't life about applying patches?), written by Don Stewart, to be able to pass LLVM options to GHC without conflicting with other options. You can get it at http://www.galois.com/~dons/add-new-llvm-code-generator-to-ghc_.dpatch. Just move it to your ghc directory and darcs apply it, like you just did for the previous patch. (note: this step might not be necessary if the previous patch or the ghc repository contain it)
Ok, we are almost done! Now create a file named "build.mk" in (on my computer) /home/alp/haskell/ghc/mk/, and put the following content in that file:
GhcWithLlvmCodeGen = YES
GhcEnableTablesNextToCode = NO
The first, obviously, enables LLVM code generation in GHC. The second disables a feature currently being in conflict between the LLVM and the C code generators, if I remember correctly. Now, let's build GHC, hooray!
Building and using the patched GHC non-intrusively
Once all the patches are fetched and applied, you just have to do:
$ sh boot
$ ./configure
$ make
Now, have a cup of coffee, read newspapers, try to solve P vs NP, whatever. It takes some time.
Once done with 'make', there should be many binaries in (on my computer) /home/alp/haskell/ghc/inplace/bin/. The ghc binary is called ghc-stage2
To check that the LLVM backend is enabled, as explained on Don's post, just do the following (in the your ghc/inplace/bin/ directory):
$ ghc-stage2 –info
and verify that it gives you ("Have llvm code generator","YES").
To make use of them properly without installing your brand new GHC HEAD system-wide, here is one possibility; add the following to your ~/.bashrc (or whatever you use, it's just about defining variables):
GHC613 = /home/alp/haskell/ghc/inplace/bin
And now, when you will want to install libraries via cabal for your new GHC, just execute commands close to the following (to install say the vector package):
$ cabal install vector –with-compiler=$GHC613BIN –with-hc-pkg=$GHC613PKG
And it will build and install the vector package using GHC HEAD and its library directories (in ~/.ghc/).
Moreover, if you want to build packages with the llvm backend, just ask cabal gently:
$ cabal install vector –with-compiler=$GHC613BIN –with-hc-pkg=$GHC613PKG –ghc-options=-fllvm
You can even chain options this way, passing for example -optlo-03. For more informations on that, check Don's posts:
- Smoking fast Haskell code using GHC's new LLVM codegen
- Evolving Faster Haskell Programs (now with LLVM!)
But be careful, -fvia-C and -fllvm aren't much friends, you may sometimes have to either edit the .cabal file of the package you want to install and removing -fvia-C from there, or via the –flags option of cabal install. For more informations, cabal help install.
Here are few links that you may find to be of interest:
- Home of the LLVM backend section of GHC's trac wiki
- The Building and Porting section of GHC's trac wiki
- David Terei's thesis about the LLVM backend for GHC [PDF] — thank you David !
I hope this post will be of help and that it will lead some of you to contribute to GHC !