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1. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?ssprengel Mar 28, 2011 11:27 AM (in response to lukebai99)1 person found this helpful
For Canon and Nikon (and a Leica and a few Pentax) cameras, besides their standard Adobe profile, Adobe makes Camera-matching profiles that attempt to simulate the way the camera JPGs look. Unfortunately, there are no Camera-matching profiles for Olympus cameras...perhaps a resource-allocation decision based on the perceived number of Olympus users vs the time and expense of creating camera-matching profiles. Even with the additional profiles the colors aren't always the same, just closer more of the time.
You can see what cameras are supported with the camera-matching profiles by looking in:
C:\Users\All Users\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles\Camera
You can try creating your own camera profile for PS and LR using something like an X-Rite Passport:
What is the WB of the RAW file? Was there fluorescent lighting in the mix?
2. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?lukebai99 Mar 28, 2011 8:32 PM (in response to ssprengel)
Hi ssprengel,
Thanks for your reply. WB is set "As shot", no fluorescent WB. Other colors are ok, just this orange is way off.
I don't think it's an issue of color profile. Adobe colors are usually quite accurate, Olympus JPEG seems exaggerate things a bit, not not that much. This time the color in raw is a bit off, I need to tune the color by changing the yellow hue to -60! Adobe color is not only different from JPEG, but different from the subject I shot.
Just to be sure, I took the same shot in the daylight. XZ-1 using iAuto, WB Auto.
RAW developed with default setting from Lightroom, the orange color tinged towards yellow.
I check the physical object, the orange color is very close to the JPEG version, it should be far more orange than yellow.
I feel that XZ-1's red and yellow might need some further calibration from Adobe.
3. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?Vit Novak Mar 28, 2011 11:19 PM (in response to lukebai99)
Luke, try this one
I made it from Adobe standard, but replaced a lookup table in the profile with version that was used in older Adobe standard profiles (hence the name - Adobe Standard Old). Should have lower orange hue, although not as low as jpeg from camera. Hope it will work, as I don't have XZ-1 to try it. That's all I can do
4. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?ssprengel Mar 29, 2011 6:17 AM (in response to Vit Novak)
From my reading, the Adobe Standard conversion in LR isn't orange enough. Does "lower orange hue" mean more orange or less orange?
Comparing the camera-embedded preview JPG extracted with ExifTool with the Adobe Standard LR conversion of a sample ORF downloaded online, there is clearly a difference in hue for a specific range of colors, and in this example it is the wall behind the clown. Either Adobe hasn't spend much time with the profile because it is not for a Canon or Nikon DSLR or if their shifting orange to yellow is on purpose, perhaps they are trying to optimize skin colors to something less snookie-like (less orange) but it obviously affects things besides skin:
Looking at a RAW+JPG pair file from my own Canon camera, the old-style ACR 4.4 profile is clearly more yellowish and the Adobe Standard is close to the in-camera JPG conversion:
5. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?lukebai99 Mar 29, 2011 10:17 PM (in response to ssprengel)
Hi Ssprengel
Just clarify what I wrote before.
Yes, I mean increase the orange color, but that in operation, is actually ask Lightroom to "decrease" the value of orange hue, so it will shift orange towards the red side. so better say it's to reduce the color of yellow.
In reality, it's hard to say whether the yellow is too strong or the red is not enough. Shifting the yellow will work for this photo, but create problem for other photos. A calibration is a better way to fix it.
you are right about the impact of the hue shift, it impacts a lot of my photos. In your example, it's hard to judge whether it's the problem of JPEG or RAW, I was highly suspicious of the JPEG until I get hold of the physical object. The JPEG looks so much closer to the real color. Even in your example, the ORF's version clown's background looks more natural. Looks like JPEG is more saturated. It's very easy to blame the JPEG for this problem.
Is there anyway can get Adobe to have a look at this?
6. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?ssprengel Mar 29, 2011 11:22 PM (in response to lukebai99)1 person found this helpful
My comments about shifting the hue were directed towards Vit who supplied a different Adobe Standard that was modified to use the older calibration matrix, and from my experiment with my Canon Adobe Standard vs the older ACR x.x, the ACR x.x calibration was more yellow and that applied to a too-yellow image would make it worse not better. Did you try Vit's Adobe Standard Old and was it even worse or did it fix things, somewhat?
Whether the ORF or the JPG is more correct depends on the color of the stain of the wood in the background. I thought the JPEG looked better if it was something like cherry that had been used.
As far as Adobe caring or not, Eric Chan/MadManChan is the main RAW engineer that chimes in when he feels like it sometimes so if he doesn't say anything you can imagine that the issue will be ignored but perhaps it'll be addressed silently. If nothing changes it'll be up to you to create your own profile(s) with something like the X-Rite Color Checker Passport by photographing the standard color target in a couple specific colors of lighting and then using the free program to create your own profile.
It has been my experience that it is impossible to get a perfect calibration and fixing one color makes another further off, so it's possible that Adobe has done the best they can do with their particular calibration methods and taking another look wouldn't change anything. Or maybe a mistake was made and things could be better.
To demonstrate the difference in color-rendering a different profile can make, take a look at these experiments I did some years back, using a script Tom Fors created and Tindemans and others modified that would compute the optimum positions of the calibration sliders to minimize the color error in different lighting. On my slow computer, it would take hours, sometimes, for the scripts to converge on the optimal values. Adobe releasing their own tool to create profiles made the scripts mostly obsolete and they have stopped being maintained so likely won't work in the current version of ACR, anymore.
The images in this gallery represent two different color-checker photographs that were rendered with various camera profiles and/or optimal slider values, and the distance of between the circle and the square is the amount of error, with the number in parenthesis being the error and the lower is better. The "error" is interpreted as the 3-dimensional "distance" between the RGB value measured from the photograph with the color-profile/slider-values applied compared to the published standard RGB values for each color patch. For my camera, a custom-created camera profile had the smallest error for the incandescent (2700K) photograph, but the ACR 4.4 profile + Tindemans slider values had the least error for the Hazy Sun (6500K) shot. The last item on each row is the profile that Adobe tries to make as most like the in-camera JPG as possible. At the time of my experiments Adobe was just developing their new camera-match profiles so these were the results with the first beta release of them.
Having the colors be the most accurate isn't the same as having things look the most pleasing in a wide range of photos, so maybe Adobe has perfected their Adobe Standard profile for your camera as much as they want and won't give it any more attention, or maybe someone will see this thread and decide to tweak things. It is not Adobe's job to make their Adobe Standard profile recreate the in-camera JPG conversion so don't hold your breath.
My suggestion would be to wait until ACR is released and see if things have improved, and if not, buy a color-checker passport and make your own profile for different lighting situations. I have my default color-profile as one I've created myself, but sometimes switch to one of the Adobe-created ones if it looks better for a particular situation.
7. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?Vit Novak Mar 29, 2011 11:57 PM (in response to ssprengel)
I made that profile using Adobe standard for XZ-1, but replaced a lookup table with a table from one of older Adobe standard profiles. So color matrices and forward matrices in this profile are the same as in the profile Adobe Standard for XZ-1. Profiles like ACR 4.4 used only matrices and no lookup table
As I thought, orange hue is slightly lower with this profile (right half of the attached picture), but there are also some differences in red hue, which is also lower.
However, you won't get the same rendering as the camera with this or any other "Adobe standard" profile (in case Adobe changes color matrices in the release version of the profile) - you need a "camera profile" for that
8. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?lukebai99 Mar 30, 2011 12:48 AM (in response to Vit Novak)
Thanks Vit for your ACR profile. I appreciate your effort. Let me try those ACR profiles first and will report back tomorrow.
9. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?lukebai99 Mar 30, 2011 7:44 AM (in response to Vit Novak)
Hi Vit,
I just tried. Your profiles works! It improves my images significantly. The orange appears just the right amount. I will leave it on as default. Thank you.
10. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?lukebai99 Mar 30, 2011 10:14 AM (in response to ssprengel)
Hi Ssprengel,
Vit's profile solve my problem. I understand Adobe has their own calibration process, hopefully they have a second look at this. It does improve my pictures significantly, it's amazing how tiny bit of orange can improve the skin tone. Before people looks sick with pale yellow skin. The rendering was not very attractive.
I checked your pbase site, very impressed by the X-Rite result for your 7D in Best Buy Skin tone. I can see the calibrated skin tone is much better!
X-Rite seems to be great value, the color checker alone is selling for half the price. The passport is a convenient package even with calibration software included, great!
Thanks for your extremely detailed explanation. I feel like today had a crash course in calibration 101.
The whole color calibration is all new to me. It took me several hours already to figure out what X-rite calibration does. I download their manual from website and reading it. I think the DNG profiler also is very interesting.
Just a question about DNG profile:
I know I can create a profile to match the correct value. But what if I want to create a profile similiar to camera JPEG look and feel. say I want to create a profile similiar to the portrait mode.
so what I do is to set the camera to portrait mode, take a photo of the colorchecker chart, then convert the JPEG to DNG, open it in DNG profiler to create a color table. Then save and export profile.
Is it roughly how I do a camera profile? Am I on the right track? could this be done in the calibration software in X-rite? I read their manual under the impression that they can only calibrate to the "correct" value.
Thanks in advance,
11. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?ssprengel Mar 30, 2011 1:46 PM (in response to lukebai99)
The profiles we can create are based on DNGs from RAW data, only, although you can tweak the sliders after the initial profile computation has occurred to change how things look before saving the profile.
You might ask Vit to see what he did to create the variant of the Adobe Standard profile.
12. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?Vit Novak Mar 30, 2011 11:36 PM (in response to lukebai99)
I'm not familiar with X-rite software or any other widely used calibration software, but I'm affraid you can't get "camera profile" that way.
In my piece of software that I'm using for this I have a color chart with the same number of colors as the lookup table in the profile. And this number is 90x16x16 = 23040, as in latest camera profiles from Adobe, which is way more than those widely used color checker charts. To make a profile, I first have to make a raw file containing this chart with another program, get it developped by Canon Digital Photo Pro or Nikon NX2 and then calculate a profile on the difference between input and output. Unfortunately, I only found a way how to make Canon and Nikon raw files that are recognizable by those programs (using parts of the code found on the internet), so I can't make Olympus camera profiles. I suppose that Adobe is using similar approach, although details of their calibration procedure is unknown
Another approach would be to use camera profile for some other similar camera (with some simple modifications concerning camera model name in the profile). But, it seems that Olympus is using CCD made by Panasonic, unlike Canon G12 and Nikon P7000 that are probably using CCD made by Sony, so its color response is probably significantly different and profile wouldn't work very good
13. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?Vit Novak Mar 30, 2011 11:56 PM (in response to Vit Novak)
Anyway, try these
I combined XZ-1 Adobe standard profile with some camera profiles for Canon G12 (standard and portrait), that are also made by Adobe. On the test photo from dpreview, colors look relatively good to me, so maybe they will be usefull for you in some situations. However, rendering in Canon cameras is a bit different than in Olympus (Olympus generally returning 'warmer' colors than Canon), even under assumption that response of the sensor is the same, which probably isn't. You will also notice differences in brightness and contrast, because of different tone curve than in Adobe standard profiles
14. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?Tim Lookingbill Mar 31, 2011 9:15 AM (in response to Vit Novak)
Vit, been keeping along with this thread with some interest just out of curiosity. Glad I came across someone as knowledgeable about this as you.
From the work and research you've indicated here, what makes sensors different from one brand to another assuming as you said their response isn't the same.
A CCD is a CCD, so is it the Bayer filter spectral radiance? the electronics such as the A/D converter or is it all made different by the demosaicing algorithm?
Also where do you find this color target with 23040 samples to build the look up table for the "camera profile"? How proprietary is all this camera profiling?
15. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?ssprengel Mar 31, 2011 7:05 PM (in response to Tim Lookingbill)
The electronics behind and the filters in front of the sensor can change things even if the photosites, themselves are the same, and there is competition in the sensor market with pressure for less noise, higher density and lower power consumption/heat-generation, so it would be unlikely that two cameras had the same sensor unless they came out at the same time and only features were different, but Adobe is not a camera manufacturer so it is better they profile every camera. Some of the profiling has to do with noise-reduction slider settings, and standardization of ISO to brightness, so it's not just colors Adobe has to deal with, and plastic vs metal cases can change the heat/noise characteristics even if the colors are the same.
16. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?Vit Novak Mar 31, 2011 11:38 PM (in response to Tim Lookingbill)
There is a nice comparison between Canon and Nikon camera regarding spectral characteristics of their sensors and resulting color matrix in the profile
http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/Our-publications/DxOMark-Insights/Canon-500D-T1i-vs.-Niko n-D5000/Color-blindness-sensor-quality
Of course, I don't know the details, but as general rule, sensors with bigger pixels have sharper spectral response of each color channel. I presume it's because color filter in front of the pixel is more effective if the pixel is bigger. Also, I presume there are some differences in materials being used for filter between manufacturers.
Regarding profiles, first I have to point out (although I hope it was evident from my posts) that XZ-1 profiles I attached in this topic are just combined from several profiles made by Adobe, so take them as experimental.
Camera profiles are another story. As I described in some previous topics concerning profiles, I made a program for making camera profiles for Canon compacts that have no raw mode out of the box, but can produce raw files using chdk software. Those cameras are not properly supported by any raw development program, so I tried to make a program to profile them, mostly out of curiosity. One of the functions in chdk software is 'develop raw', so you can take a photo in raw mode and develop this raw in the camera to jpeg later. Or - you can make a raw file with a program, put it into camera and develop it to jpeg. So I came to idea to make a kind of test raw file that contains a test chart and develop it to jpeg with the camera. Comparing input and output, I calculated a profile. It's a simple idea, although implementation took a lot of experimenting. The biggest problem was jpeg compression, which was spoiling the results. So I tried different methods and my final version of test chart looks like this
It contains millions of colors and covers all points in the lookup table of the profile. This test chart does not exist physically, but just as raw image. Of course, it's not simple like that - various parameters have to be taken into account, like white balance, white level, black level etc ... to produce useful test raw file that can be used to make a profile
Making raw file for those compacts was easy, because it's just binary dump of data, recorded by sensor. Ordinary raw file, produced by cameras that "have raw mode" is a complex tiff structure. But I found some code to make cr2 and nef raw files, so after correcting some misconceptions in that code, I was able to make proper raw files for Canon and Nikon cameras and get them developped by Canon Digital Photo Pro or Nikon NX2, so I profiled my 400D, because camera profiles provided by Adobe several years ago had some flaws. But their calibration method improved significantly in the meantime, as I shown in one topic on this forum, so their "v3" camera profiles are now almost as precise as mine. I hope they'll become even better ...
17. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?lukebai99 Apr 1, 2011 2:38 AM (in response to Vit Novak)
Hi Vit,
Thanks for your camera profile for G12.
I generally have no complaints about colors, as long as they look right to my eyes. This XZ-1 is just an one off case. I am otherwise quite happy with the default profile. I trust that Adobe has the expertise. So I think I will skip the LX5, panasonic colors just not the way i like it.
I never expect that much "trouble" to create a camera profile. Well, I just think it's interesting to show you this, the comparison between different profiles.
RAW (With vit's custom profile)
RAW with Adobe standard Profile for XZ-1
RAW with G12 Standard Profile
RAW with G12 Portrait Profile
The rice on the plate is a good judge of white balance. That rice was prestine white.
The XZ-1 JPEG is about right, you are right, slightly warmer, but not much as the rice stays white. and Canon Portrait is on the cooler side of white balance. All the others looks way too warm. As the rice turns yellow.
You can see the pork rib on the rice, with adobe xz-1 standard profile, the meat look very yellow., but with your fix, it is a very close match to the JPEG. Quite amazing how big the difference!
I also like the G12 portrait look very much, it yield a very pleasant clean feeling.
After I tune the WB down a bit with your profile, they look great! I wonder if it is possible to add a white balance shift in the profile?
@spprengel - thank you so much for all your help before!
18. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?Vit Novak Apr 1, 2011 4:36 AM (in response to lukebai99)
all profiles I attached here have, believe or not, the same WB, because I used color matrices from Adobe standard profile (checked once more to be sure). They have different lookup table, and in case of camera profiles, forward matrices and tone curve. However, rice on your photos looks different, because with WB that you used, it's not white in the photo (meaning R=G=B), but a kind of orange color with hue around 40 and saturation around 50. Since we have AWB built in our eyes and brains, it still looks almost white, because other orange colors are more saturated. And, since rice doesn't appear white, it looks different, depending on profile used
You can use WB dropper tool on the rice, that will set WB to rice and it will be about white. In that case, it should look more or less the same with all of these profiles. However, photo will look quite 'cold' in that case, it will loose this orange cast
Of course, it's possible to tune WB of profile by changing its color matrices. It can be done even with DNG profile editor. But, since Adobe team surely has equipments to determine WB properly, I think there's no reason to change it. Also, if you used WB As shot in ACR for these photos, it wouldn't make any difference - photos would look the same with 'wb tuned profiles', only color temperature and tint displayed in ACR would be different. However, if you set WB manually in ACR with those 'wb tuned profiles', WB of resulting photo would be different in that case
19. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?Tim Lookingbill Apr 2, 2011 8:03 AM (in response to Vit Novak)
Spent some time reading the DXO link and what others here have posted including the past threads Vit participated in concerning his camera profiling methods, a subject that's intrigued me since I edited my first Raw off my Pentax K100D DSLR.
I'm not a programmer, just a former photo realistic painter who's studied the visual effects of light on color. Just can't wrap my head around writing code to manipulate pixels on screen. It's very interesting seeing how someone goes about doing this.
I have a ton of questions mainly concerning tertiary color detail and color constancy manipulation through profiling from a visual rather than mathematical code matrix perspective that's most likely beyond the scope of this thread.
Just want to thank all for their input to my questions and answers to Luke's.
20. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?lukebai99 Apr 5, 2011 9:20 AM (in response to Vit Novak)
Hi Vit,
Thanks for your clarification on WB.
I just figured out that there could be put a lot of things manufacturer could throw in to "bake" the JPEG engine.Why JPEG color cannot be duplicated, because maybe it's not simple color variance.
with automatic scene detection, if the processor detect landscape mode and blue sky, it can automatically calculate how to shift the blue to make it more attractive depends on the measurement. Each time they could shift a different amount. landscape with sunset, the camera can add a a reddish cast to the scene. They can add different amount of red given their exposure information, to make image look natural. If the technology like that is happening, there could not be a standard "landscape" color profile. I also notice my xz-1's auto mode even automatically correct the black level to some degrees.
RAW and JPEG probably have to go separate ways in term of color. As long as the color look good enough and similiar to camera's P mode. Adobe has done their job. I just wish there is something easier in Lightroom to help photos looks more attractive, e.g if a particular color looks a bit off, e.g. purple looks like pink, people should be able to pick a color, or pick the color they want from another image, lightroom shift the color automatically. present people different previews, people choose the version they like the most. Since there will be different combinations to get to the shift, some will make more sense than others.
Shift the Hue,luminance might not be second nature for many beginners, it can be quite hard. you never know which colour is too much or something else is missing.
I think it really helps to have an alternative profile for each camera. With the default adobe profile for xz-1, it didn't work well for the food. It's useful to switch between different profiles. again with vit's custom profile, the orange looks great, similiar to the JPEG. however, the red can cause some problem, some red shifted towards magenta, making everyone "wearing lipsticks" in rare occasions. I've made different presets to address different situations, that's temporarily sorted now.
Again, I think a x-rite color card sounds like a good investment, at least an easy way to make a picturel look "right".
Anyway, Thank you again vit and spprengel for all your help. :-)
21. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?ssprengel Apr 5, 2011 11:02 AM (in response to lukebai99)
With the Adobe Standard profile, Adobe's job is not trying to duplicate camera processing in P mode as you say. It is going for a look that is consistent across all the camera brands and models it has dealt with over the years, and historically probably geared toward commercial magazine and catalog print output where clothing colors being correct for the end consumer are the most important, so using Adobe Standard probably won't produce images like the in-camera JPGs.
For Canon and Nikon cameras and a very few others, Adobe makes some effort to replicate in-camera JPG processing with additional "camera-match" profiles. Because your camera is from a less common manufacturer, Adobe has chosen not to produce camera-matching profiles for it, and you're left to beg from others or create your own with third-party color-targets and software.
You will find that producing your own color profiles with an x-rite color checker passport may also not match the in-camera JPG, since you're not involving JPGs in the process, only RAWs converted to DNG. But it should make the colors look more correct as far as the original scene, to the extent that using a 18-color-patches + 6 grays can cover the full spectrum of color, and this correctness may or may not be right for a particular scenario.
I helped with a wedding last summer and dutifully took a few shots of the color checker at various points in the church to get the mixture of daylight, artificial light, and a touch of multi-colored stained-glass coloring things here and there. However, I ended up using Adobe's Camera-Standard (camera-match) profile for my Canon DSLR, because my own custom profiles brightened the colors too much.
Specifically, the church had neutral-colored walls along the sides, and various colors of artificial high-pressure lighting overhead, and one set of bulbs in particular had an ugly yellowish cast, so wherever this artificial lighting was close to the wall, there was a yellowish area compared to the more bluish diffused daylight elsewhere. For this particular shoot, it was more important to minimize the saturation of this ugly yellow area than it was the have all the colors correct.
I was able to almost neutralize the yellowish areas by selective HSL adjustments in LR where by using the Camera-Standard profile there was less of this color to remove so it was easier. Had I not taken so many pictures, and had more time to experiment, I might have found a set of tweaks to the RGB adjustment sliders beneath my own custom profile would have also minimized the yellowish area, but I spent my time perfecting various things for each photo, rather than perfecting the color profile for all of them. In this photoshoot, having the correct colors was less important than having pleasing photos.
Most of my photos are natural scenes, outdoors so I almost always prefer my own custom profile(s) for these.
22. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?Tim Lookingbill Apr 5, 2011 12:50 PM (in response to lukebai99)
I have another non-standard camera brand, Pentax K100D DSLR, that Adobe doesn't include Picture style profiles nor makes an attempt to replicate the jpeg with either Adobe Standard or default ACR 4.4 profiles, but it still does pretty decent job on a wide range of memory colors like orange.
See below the four color variants of orange compared to the Pentax jpeg of a test shot lit under a Philips "Natural Sunshine" 5000K/91 CRI fluorescent tube bought at Home Depot. Exposure specs are...AutoWB, 35mm, 1/30's, f/7.1, ISO 400. All that was changed in the three non-Pentax jpeg was the profile with the forth being a custom DNG dual illuminant profile made from an X-rite ColorChecker chart.
23. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?ChrisSpark Jun 25, 2011 11:44 PM (in response to lukebai99)
Hi Vit, thank you VERY much for providing your modified profile!
Great improvement at minimal effort!
24. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?foolberry Apr 17, 2012 3:21 PM (in response to Vit Novak)
Would be great if you could upload your profile to somewhere new, as megaupload is now non-functional. Thanks in advance.
25. Re: XZ-1 Orange color not accurate?Vit Novak Apr 18, 2012 12:11 AM (in response to foolberry)
Here it is, I found it somewhere on the disk ... however, I don't know is it the same sensor as in Canon, made by Sony. If the sensor is made by Panasonic (like in LX-5), I suppose colors will be undersaturated, as that sensor is less sensitive to colors


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Now You Can Fly Around the World (Jun, 1936)
This sounds like a lot of fun. As long as they keep the Hindenburg filled with helium and not hydrogen on that first leg.
Now You Can Fly Around the World
By John E. Lodge
OUT of the sky over Lakehurst, N. J., a few days hence, the enormous silver Von Hindenburg, biggest Zeppelin ever built, is scheduled to nose down for a landing at the end of its maiden voyage to America. Not many weeks later, the four-engined, twenty-five-ton China Clipper will head out past the promontories of the Golden Gate on its first passenger flight to the Orient.
Those two events will forge the final links in a vast chain of airways to encircle the globe. Before the end of this summer, you will be able to buy tickets for an aerial circuit of the earth as easily as you now purchase them for a round-the-world cruise by steamer. Years of preparation, the flights of daring pioneers, and the latest advances in engineering and radio have given a solid foundation to what, but a few short decades ago, was a seemingly impossible dream.
It is only sixty-four years since Jules Verne's classic "Around the World in Eighty Days" appeared in American bookshops. That imaginary circuit of the globe initiated a long series of real-life dashes by train, automobile, boat, and aircraft. Beginning with Nellie Bly's seventy-two day journey, in 1889, and ending with Wiley Post's eight-day flight, in 1933, these races against the clock have dramatized the advancing speed of transportation.
Such stunts, however, were pioneering trips far beyond the reach of the ordinary person. Now, on regular air lines, it will be possible to fly around the world in comfort, following the trail of Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg by air. In twenty flying days, and for the price of a high-class automobile, you can make the journey.
The Lakehurst field is the scene of the start. Under the glare of searchlights, the giant Von Hindenburg towers higher than a ten-story building and stretches across the field for a distance greater than three and a half city blocks. With nearly fifty other passengers, as well as a crew of forty, you climb aboard the transatlantic Zeppelin. In your stateroom, you find a comfortable bed, electric lights, hot and cold running water. Overhead, the great gas cells hold 7,000,000 cubic feet of helium, enough to lift a weight equal to half a mile of automobiles lashed bumper to bumper!
There is a final inspection, then, at midnight, the command: "Up Ship!" The mooring cables drop away, and majestically the immense, silver cigar rises into the air. Almost noiselessly, its four 1,300-horse-power Diesel engines begin spinning their huge propellers. The ship gathers speed. The lights of Lakehurst drop to the rear. At eighty miles an hour, you are heading for the coast. Half an hour later, the vast cluster of pin-point lights marking New York City has slipped beneath you and faded away behind. The sky liner is taking the great-circle route to Europe, following the trail of Lindbergh. In stormy weather, it would head across for the Azores along a "bad-weather route," 600 miles longer but out of the path of the northern gales. Sunrise finds you well up the coast, and midafternoon reveals the rocks of Newfoundland below. By evening, you are out over the Atlantic making the "down-hill run" to Europe. With prevailing winds at her tail, the big ship rushes on, hour after hour. An occasional steamer, the gleaming peak of an iceberg, alone break the monotony of tossing water. You have time to examine the great aerial hotel on which you are riding, to see the smoking rooms, the shower baths, the electric ranges, and even the full-size grand piano it carries.
By evening of the second day, you are gliding across Belgium, up the Rhine to the new airship shed at Frankfort on the Main. Forty-seven hours after leaving Lakehurst, you step down at the European airport. The fare for this 3,900-mile, transatlantic trip via the airways is $400.
In a special "Zeppelin service," all-metal Junkers monoplanes are warming up on the line, ready to carry passengers to Paris, London, Berlin. You board the ship for the British capital, and the steady roar of its twin engines soon lulls you to sleep. Dawn is breaking when you awaken with the machine sliding down for a fast landing at Croydon, the air center on the outskirts of London. The fare for the Frankfort-London hop is thirty dollars.
At London, you purchase an Imperial Airways ticket for a flight to the other side of the globe. The ticket will carry you to Hongkong over one of the longest airways in the world. The fare, $875, includes meals and incidentals.
For the first leg of this long flight, you ride in a thirteen-ton, eighteen-passenger Hercules airliner. Four 555-horsepower motors pull the 130-foot ship through the sky. From the windows of its spacious cabin you watch smoking factories, the glittering stretch of the English Channel, the green fields of France glide past beneath you. In sight of the Eiffel Tower, the Jupiter engines are throttled down and you land at Le Bourget, the Paris airport, to discharge and take on passengers.
Off again, you leave the French capital behind and slide down across the map of Europe, over the high backbone of the Alps, above the olive groves and blue bays of the Italian seacoast to a landing at Brindisi, at the "heel of the boot" in Italy. Your next take-off carries you out over the fishing fleets of the Adriatic, over the coastline of Greece, above the white columns of the Parthenon, at Athens. Here, you leave the Hercules biplane behind and take your place in the hull of a great fourteen-ton Scipio flying boat for the crossing of the Mediterranean. The second day from London and the fifth from home, you plow to a stop at Alexandria, the Egyptian city founded by Alexander the Great near the mouth of the Nile.
Again, you mount a fresh steed, this time a De Haviland Hannibal. Its quartette of Jupiter motors pull you steadily into the East, over the Holy Land, the Dead Sea, the desert regions of upper Arabia. Below, you see camel trails, caravans, palm groves, towns with low, white buildings gleaming in the sun. By evening, you reach your stopping place for the night, the fabled city of Bagdad, in Mesopotamia.
At dawn, next morning, you head for Basra, at the head of the Persian Gulf, and the following day finds you winging on toward the Orient over strange scenes in Osman, Persia, Baluchistan. Reaching Karachi, at the mouth of the Indus River, you shift to a fast ninety-foot Atlanta monoplane with a cabin specially designed for hot-weather travel. Rice fields, tea plantations, dense jungles, sluggish rivers, teeming villages with brown men rushing out to watch you pass, make up the fascinating panorama that unrolls beneath the wings.
On the flight across India, you stop at Jodhpur, Delhi, Cawnpore, Calcutta, then fly on to Rangoon, in Burma, and Bangkok, the capital of Siam. Swinging south along the Malay Archipelago, your monoplane rolls to a stop on the Georgetown airport at the island of Penang. Here you leave the main line of the Imperial Airways, which runs on another 4,794 miles to Brisbane, Australia—12,754 miles from London. By next year, superfast flying boats, now under construction in England, are expected to clip the time of this long journey in half. The trip to Georgetown now takes about eight days; a few months hence, it will be made in four.
At Penang, you board a shuttle plane for the north, a slim-winged De Haviland "86" powered with Gypsy engines. Crossing the Gulf of Siam, skirting the coast of French Indo-China, heading north up the China Sea, you swoop down for a landing at Hongkong. In twelve days, since that midnight start at Lakehurst, you have traveled 13,700 miles. The total fare has been $1,305.
Across the bay from Hongkong, at Macao, mechanics are tuning up the four 800-horsepower engines on one of the China Clipper flying boats of the Pan American line. In these swift transpacific craft, you will travel 8,910 miles to San Francisco by way of the Philippines, Guam, Wake Island, Midway Island, and Hawaii. These ships, and the elaborate precautions which protect them on their long journey, represent a new peak in aerial transportation.
Hundreds of weather stations, in a vast network that embraces half a dozen countries on two continents and innumerable islands of the Pacific, report flying conditions at frequent intervals. These reports form the basis of weather maps that determine when the ship takes off, what course it follows, and how high it flies. Directional radio, developed by Pan American engineers to function over hitherto impossible distances, aids in checking the position of the big boats along the route. Tiny bombs of aluminum powder form floating landmarks by which the navigator determines his drift. And, aboard every ship, a crack engineer sits in a special compartment, surrounded by 107 controls and instruments, adjusting the motors to meet the demands of each section of the flight.
This man, called the flight engineer, knows every quirk and rivet of the big machine. Not only is he capable of performing any necessary repairs, but each hour of the flight he takes seventy recordings, including the rate of gasoline consumption, head and base temperatures of two cylinders on each engine and oil temperature and pressure. His is a busy life from the time he takes off until he lands.
As you climb aboard the China Clipper at Macao, the flight engineer is adjusting all the motors so they will function in perfect unison when the pilot shoves ahead the throttles. With the big engines thundering, you gather speed. The slender hull rises in the water. A thousand feet, 2,000 feet, you roar across the bay. Then, the pilot eases back the elevator control and the great bird pulls itself free from the water and heads out over the Pacific. Your first stop is Manila, in the Philippine Islands, 700 miles away.
AT 5,000 feet, the pilot levels off and pushes a button, flashing on a light in the flight engineer's compartment.
"Carburetors in normal cruising," he speaks into a microphone.
The engineer makes the necessary adjustments, touches a button that flashes on a light in the pilot's cabin and reports: "Carburetors in normal cruising, sir."
From full power, the engines have slowed down to normal cruising speed, about 1,800 revolutions per minute. During the trip from China to America, the engines will revolve a total of 26,000,000 times. There are 900 explosions of gasoline vapor in each of the fifty-six cylinders each minute, or a total of 181,441,000 power strokes between Macao and San Francisco. The big ship can cruise at 157 miles an hour, and any three of the four power plants will keep it aloft, even when it is carrying a peak load.
You reach Manila that afternoon and at three o'clock the next morning you hop off for Guam over a 1,600-mile stretch of the Pacific. It is sunset when the great winged boat circles over this tropical island and slides down to a mooring for the night. At six the next morning, you are off again on a flight that requires the acme of navigating skill. Fourteen hundred and fifty miles away is the goal, Wake Island, a low speck of land only two and a half miles in width and four and a half miles long!
How can the pilot guide his ship through the sky with such accuracy? How does he find his way over 1,400 miles of water to this desolate dot of land in the mid-Pacific?
It is the navigating officer who keeps the boat flying on its course. Once every hour, day or night, he takes celestial observations, makes calculations, and determines the precise position of the craft. In addition, he checks up on the direction of radio stations broadcasting from the islands and from the mainland. To determine if side winds are drifting the ship away from its course, he uses an ingenious flask that is shaped like a miniature air bomb and contains a pound of aluminum powder.
ATTACHING his drift-indicating instrument to a window sill, he drops the flask into the sea. It shatters on striking, and the powder forms a tiny, glistening island that can be seen for miles. Speedily, he determines from the scale on his indicator the extent to which the ship is being blown sidewise.
This observation, however, will not reveal whether head winds are holding the craft back, or tail winds are speeding it along. To check up, the navigator determines where the boat should be fifteen minutes later, if there were no wind, and then determines her actual position at that time by radio bearing and celestial observation. The difference in positions represents the effect of the wind.
You see how well the navigation system works when, approximately fourteen hours after leaving Guam, your flying liner drops anchor at Wake Island. This previously uninhabited coral atoll, the home of millions of sea birds, will soon have a modern forty-five-room hotel, complete with baths, electric lights, and inter-room telephone service.
Your next hop is, in some ways, the queerest of all. On the 1,240-mile jump to Midway Island, you cross the International Date Line and lose a day. You leave Wake Island on Wednesday and arrive at Midway Island, the day before you started, Tuesday! Here, too, a modern hotel for aerial voyagers is under construction. So barren is the spot that, not long ago, a shipload of soil was carried all the way from the Philippines to make gardens possible.
Eleven hours after leaving Midway, the China Clipper ends the 1,380-mile flight to the Hawaiian Islands and you land at Pearl Harbor, near Honolulu. Twenty-four hours later, you are well out on the last, long leg to the California coast. This 2,410-mile journey begins in midafternoon and continues all night and half the next day. The captain and the first officer alternate at the controls at one-hour intervals.
After the flight is started, weather conditions may change. Then, the Pan American experts at San Francisco show their skill in routing the roaring plane, sometimes hundreds of miles out of its usual course, away from the path of the disturbance into smoother and safer air.
WHEN you come in, at the end of seven days of ocean flying, a brilliant afternoon sun is shining. The Golden Gate, the ships at anchor in the bay, the city of San Francisco, the winding coast line spread out below you as you soar toward the landing place. Once more, you are on the same continent from which you started. The trip from Macao has cost $1,000 and, taking for granted you have made connections throughout the trip, your total time from Lakehurst is nineteen days.
A few hours later, in a three-mile-a-minute Boeing monoplane, you are streaking eastward in an overnight hop to New York on an American air line. The Sierras, the Rockies, the Mississippi Valley, the Alleghenies pass below in the darkness and you sit down at the Newark airport, a few miles from your starting point, just as commuters are catching their morning trains for New York. You have circled the globe on regular air lines, traveled 25,292 miles, passed over nearly thirty countries, seen Europe, the Far East, the South Seas, with an elapsed time of twenty days and at a total cost in fares of $2,465.
The story of such a journey, but a single generation ago, would have read like a page of fantastic fiction. Now, it is entirely within the grasp of present-day travelers. High-speed Zeppelins, multimotored airliners, clipper ships of the sky have made it possible. The Phileas Fogg of 1936 can buy his tickets in advance and can make his air-line circuit of the globe in comfort.


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The following crimes are from the week of Nov. 11 to Nov. 17, 2012.
Nov. 11. 8300 block Seminole Ave. Complainant states that between 9 a.m. on Nov. 10 and 7 p.m. on Nov. 11, someone gained entry to property and stole two watches.
Nov. 12. Valley Green Road. Complainant states that someone broke the window to a Honda Pilot and stole a wallet containing bank cards, a driver's license, check and a North Face Jacket.
Nov. 12. 7700 block Germantown Ave. Complainant states that someone forced open the front door and stole 15 to 20 cartons of assorted cigarettes. Reported at 1:55 a.m.
Nov. 14. 8400 block Prospect Ave. Complainant states that between 10 p.m. on Nov. 13 and 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 14, someone gained entry through the side door in kitchen and stole a Mac Pro computer. The family was at home at time of entry.
Nov. 15. 7800 block Crefeld Street. Complainant states that between 11:30 p.m. on Nov. 14 and 7 a.m. on Nov. 15, someone stole a Global Positioning System from a black Honda Civic 4d and a black TomTom GPS.
Nov. 15. 100 block W. Springfield Ave. Complainant states that someone broke the passenger side window of a 2008 Jeep Wrangler and stole a silver pocket knife with "CDB" engraved on it.
Nov. 15. Unit block W. Moreland Ave. Complainant states that between 6:35 a.m.. and 7:50 p.m., someone ransacked bedroom. Police did a walk-through and found two bedroom windows open with pry marks on one window.
Nov. 15. 7800 block Roanoke Street. Complainant states that he parked his 2011 black Lexus 460 at this location and when he returned he found side the window broken and glove compartment trashed. Nothing appears to have been taken.
Nov. 15. 8000 block Cherokee Street. Complainant states that one of her students had left her 13" Apple MacBook Pro laptop in female bathroom and when she returned her laptop was gone.
Nov. 16. 300 block W. Willow Grove Ave. Complainant states that someone entered a gray 2011 Dodge Caravan and stole a Global Positioning System. Reported at 2 p.m.
Nov. 17. 8400 Germantown Ave. Complainant states that someone stole an AT&T Vivid Cell phone. There is a tracking device on phone.
Summary – Eleven crimes for week: four burglaries, two thefts and five thefts from vehicles.
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If you have been the victim of a crime and would like information, service or support, call Northwest Victim Services, 6301 Germantown Ave., Second Floor, Suite One, 215-438-4410. The service is free.


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Oprah Winfrey has unveiled her highly anticipated Favorite Things list for 2018.
Each year, the media mogul puts together an exhaustive range of items she's tried-and-tested herself and publishes them for fans in O, The Oprah Magazine.
For 2018, Oprah has selected 107 products that she recommends as holiday gifts, with categories including Cosy Things, Beauty Gifts, Fashionable Finds and even Presents for Pets.
"I go through every item, picking my favorites and narrowing the selection to my own. It's a process. Because it's important for me to remain as true to my original inspiration as possible," she said in a statement. "So, what are your gifts to give? We've all heard it's the thought that counts. True that. But it's also the intention behind the thought. The greatest offering is letting someone know through your actions and your words that they matter."
Among Oprah's top picks for outfits to wear at home include super-cushy Pudus slipper socks, Eberjey's Gisele Long Pajama Sets, Softies' Hooded Snuggle Loungers, and Tory Sport's Tracksuits.
For beauty lovers, she is a fan of Sunday Riley's Game Changer Kit, La Chatelaine's Deluxe Hand Cream sets, Clarisonic's Mia Smart Luxe facial brush and Julep's luxurious Beauty Divine Shine Ultra-Hydrating Lip Gloss Collection.
"I've survived enough Chicago winters to know that this collection of a dozen sheer glosses is a great gift for friends who are looking to keep their lips luscious from first frost until spring showers," the 64-year-old said of the range of pink and berry red lip products.
Meanwhile, Oprah also loves technology items such as Aura's Wi-Fi Smart Frames, Apple's Airpods and Amazon's Echo Spot, as well as great accessories like Echo's Faux Fur Vests, Justin Gregory's Fingerless Gloves and Un Billion's Lacy Totes which are made from vegan-friendly fabrics.
While the more unusual gift ideas include Story Bikes' Electric Step-Through Bike, costing $1,850, an Embark Dog DNA Test Kit, and a Grow Your Own Christmas Tree Kit which is priced at $45.
"Y'all know I love a good tree. Plant the spruce seeds from this kit, watch them sprout into a little Charlie Brown Christmas twig of a thing, and then transplant it outside, where the sapling can grow big and strong - and be visited for years to come," added Oprah.


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I posted a comment on Reddit, but it'll never be seen by anyone there. 4 months old thread with 2 upvotes and 1 comment. (Now 2, if we count mine.)
Just ran into this issue myself. I didn't see the logic behind the existence of "Remove from device history" in the context menu, so I wanted to see for myself what would happen if I tried it... So I clicked this new option on Total Commander, and now I quickly want to undo that stupid, stupid action. (Because I can no longer open my favorite application by typing the first few letters of its name!)
No results on Google aside from this one abandoned Reddit thread.
How to undo this? How do we edit/change/reset the removed entries? How do we customize what results appear for our favorite searches? I like to only type one letter and hit enter. But sometimes the wrong app opens. E.g.: Excel instead of Explorer, File Explorer instead of Firefox, Calculator instead of Chrome, TeamViewer instead of Total Commander, etc.


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Christian (Jamie Dornan) and Ana (Dakota Johnson) honeymoon on the French Riviera, where they enjoy the beach, bicycling through Paris and sightseeing in the south of France. When there's a break in at Christian's headquarters, they have to return early. Security tapes show the perpetrator to be Ana's old boss, Jack Hyde (Eric Johnson), who tried to steal computer files.
As Christian's wife, Ana learns to be stronger as she has to deal with staff, including Gia, a young architect who does all she can to seduce Christian, despite his obvious disinterest. Ana rises to the challenge but when she learns she's pregnant and tells Christian, his reaction is disappointing and causes strain in their relationship.
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How do you rank among the Top 10 Traders of All-Time at Stock Market Events That Mattered (Or Did They?). Click here to learn more.
Critical mass means that your business has reached a point where it has enough users and/or developers that your business kicks into a virtuous feedback loop where more users bring in more developers and more offerings from developers bring in more users.
A winner-takes-all market is when only one or two or maybe three providers dominate 90% of the market.
Technology, software, operating systems, eco-systems — smartphones, tablets, computers — are markets that meet all the above criteria. Google's Android, Apple's iOS are winning the smartphone market the way that Microsoft's Windows once won the PC market, the way Google's search once won the Internet market, the way Amazon's retail outlet once won the online shopping market, and so on.
A binary outcome means that there are only two possible outcomes from polar opposite sides, such as dead/alive, yes/no, success/failure and so on.
Microsoft's /quotes/zigman/20493 /quotes/nls/msft MSFT new Windows 8, the Surface tablets, and the Nokia smartphones sure better take off and take off fast with consumers because it sure hasn't taken off fast with developers as there are few apps available out there for the new Tablets and smartphones. I've been surprised that I've not seen other analysts point out just how similar the set up for Microsoft's Surface tablet and the once-hyped and soon-failed RIMM Playbook tablet. Same price points. Same lack of email app. Same rushed-out feel as Softee won't have the Windows 8 version of the Surface tablet out until after Christmas season. What's the difference between the Windows 8 version and the Windows RT version that comes out tomorrow? One's really Windows 8 and the other is a lower end knock off. Sound like a winning strategy?
Windows 8 for PCs is such a big risk for Microsoft and its customer base of both business and consumers which still make up 90% of the market need to respond favorably to the new feel of the new OS quickly or the virtuous cycle of critical mass of developers and customers for Softee will quickly turn as vicious as it did for RIMM after the Playbook and other failed roll outs. Zune, Kin, and miniscule market share for Windows smartphones has burnt many a developer bridge.
I went back and looked at what happened to RIMM the stock when RIMM rolled out the Playbook tablet to see if there were any lessons we could take from that for a Softee trade here. RIMM's stock action immediately after the roll out will shock you. Click on the link to play out this scenario from my new game Stock Market Events That Mattered (Or Did They?): RIM Playbook Launch Setup
All this brings me back to that binary outcome set up. I think MSFT is set up to either rally 30% or drop 30% over the next three-to-six months. I'm going to buy some MSFT calls with $28-$29 strike prices expiring out six months or less. And I'm going to buy some MSFT puts with $27-$28 strike prices expiring out six months or less. That way if the stock does move big in either direction, we'll likely make some big gains on the options that work and we'll lose much less on the options that don't work. The big risk would be if MSFT stays rangebound here between $27 and $30 and the none of the options end up paying off big.
Cody Willard writes Revolution Investing for MarketWatch and posts the trades from his personal account at TradingWithCody.com. At time of publication, Cody was net long Apple, Sandisk, Google. Follow Cody on Twitter at twitter.com/codywillard.


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uptempo wrote:At the risk of sounding like a broken record, POB looked very good vs. the Clippers.
Old school coached do not like to play rookies. Don Nelson and Larry Brown are known for being the most unmerciful when it comes to rookie mistakes. Let's hope that POB does not become to the Warriors what Darko was to the Pistions.
I seriously doubt it. Nelson threw Biedrins and Monta into the deep end of the pool this season (with, virtually, no real experience). I doubt O'Bryant will be any different.


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If you are reading this, it is likely you or someone you love has been waging a difficult physical and emotional battle against HIV/AIDS. The VITAS mission is to serve those in the end stages of HIV/AIDS, to relieve pain, control symptoms, improve quality of life and reduce anxiety for patients and their loved ones.
Considering the slow decline of a patient with HIV/AIDS over months or years, it can be difficult to determine final stages of HIV/AIDS when the time is right for hospice. In general, hospice patients are thought to have six months or less to live. When patients with HIV/AIDS decide to discontinue the use of a feeding tube or breathing machine, they are likely to benefit from HIV/AIDS hospice services.
Only a doctor can make a clinical determination of life expectancy. However, look for these common signs that the disease has progressed to a point where all involved would likely benefit from hospice services:
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Your hospice team evaluates the patient's status and updates the plan of care as symptoms and condition change, even on a day-to-day basis. The goal of hospice is to relieve physical and emotional distress so patients can retain their dignity and remain comfortable.
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Family members may have to make difficult healthcare and financial decisions, act as caregivers and provide emotional support to others. If the decision is made to stop medical support, families experience strong emotions and feel overwhelmed.
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If you or a loved one is facing a life-limiting illness, you may have heard the term hospice. Friends or family might have told you about the specialized medical care for patients or the support services for loved ones. But most people are unaware of the many other benefits of hospice.
Comfort. Hospice works with patients and families to give them the support and resources to assist them through this challenging chapter of life and help them remain in comfortable and familiar surroundings.
Personal attention. When the hospice team works with a patient or family, they become participants in the end-of-life process, a very personal experience for any individual. The hospice mission is to care for each person individually. We listen to patients and loved ones. We advocate for them. We work to improve their quality of life.
Reduced rehospitalization. In the last months of life, some people who are seriously ill make frequent trips to the emergency room; others endure repeated hospitalizations. Hospice care reduces rehospitalization: a study of terminally ill residents in nursing homes shows that residents enrolled in hospice are much less likely to be hospitalized in the final 30 days of life than those not enrolled in hospice (24% vs. 44%)1.
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1 Miller SC, Gozalo P, Mor V. Hospice enrollment and hospitalization of dying nursing home patients. American Journal of Medicine 2001;111(1):38-44
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Ask permission. Asking permission to discuss a difficult topic assures your loved one that you will respect his or her wishes and honor them. Say something like, "I would like to talk about how we can continue to ensure you get the very best care and attention as your condition progresses. Is that okay?"
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A Dutch vacuum cleaner salesman is demanding a massive payday from Google in exchange for control of his company's web address, Knol.com.
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