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Full Frame - APS-C - µ43. Which format to choose

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Why I do this comparison

Everybody is searching for image quality. Everybody wants to have the best possible image technically. But the better sensor is the bigger - due to many reasons. And one of those reasons comes from the physics: Camera sensors are photon counters.. And if one pixel is larger there are more photons to count... and as more photons are counted the distance to zero becomes larger. And as larger this level is as more informations an image can get. Very simple spoken.

But larger sensors have their drawbacks, too. And one of these drawback is the camera size. Camera size means weight to carry and bag size as well. But not only the camera became larger, the lenses too. A µ43-Equipment fits in each pocket... very simple. A full format camera will need a bag...

My question is: What will I loose when I carry the in little µ43-cameras with me instead of the FullFormat Monsters... So i decided to investigate the commons and the differences.

The basics behind the investigations

When I started writing my blog I compared the bokeh between full format and µ43 at the same settings: http://delightphoto.zenfolio.com/blog/2013/7/fullformat-vs-43-comparison-of-bokeh Here you could see that the depth of field is the clear differentiator...

Basically the comparison is characterized by the so called crop factor: This is the factor you have to multiply the actual focal length to get the full format equivalence.

  • 50mm @ Full Format: Crop 1: 50mm@Fullformat
  • 35mm @ APS-C Format: Crop 1.6: 56mm@Fullformat
  • 25mm @ µ43: Crop 2: 50mm@Fullformat

But this is only half of the truth. The other factor to be considered is the depth of field. This is following the same factor. If I want to get comparable images I do have to multiply the aperture with the crop factor as well:

  • f1.4 @ µ43: Crop 2: f2.8@Fullformat
  • f2.0 @ APS-C Format: Crop 1.6:  f3.2@Fullformat
  • f2.8 @ Full Format: Crop 1: f2.8@Fullformat

If I want to get the same impression of a photo in terms of depth of field I will have to compare at comparable levels but in this case I will have to vary the ISO or the shutter speed:

  f t ISO
FF 2,8 1/25 400
APS-C 2.0 1/50 400
µ43 1.4 1/100 400

When I look to the sensor performance data there should be a clear difference between the different cameras...

I follow here the systematic of DXO in Paris who perform comparisons of lenses and camera sensors in a very detailed way, based on scientific measurements:

But numbers are not everything...

Evaluating the figures above you see: the sensor score between APS-C and µ43 is pretty close and the difference to FF quite  big. The biggest impact you will see in the low light performance but in portrait and and especially landscape the dynamic range looks pretty much the same....

This graph shows signal to noise: A clear winner is the 5D2...

For the Dynamic range At low ISO-Values: all 3 cameras behave similar... The differentiation comes with the higher ISO´s.

The color sensitivity shows a similar behavior for all cameras: a clear winner and to followers which are pretty close.

For the test shoots I have chosen the following set up:

  • Full Format: Canon EOS 5DMkIII with the Canon EF 1.4/50mm USM
  • APS-C: Canon EOS 7DMkII with the EF 2.0/35mm IS/USM
  • µ43: Panasonic Lumix GM1 with the Leica Summilux 1.4/25mm

All lenses are excellent, good performers...

Also here are the performance datas available.

These are the scores of the used lenses with the used sensors,
The 7DMkII uses the same sensor like the 70D, therefore I chose the 70D data for the comparison. As a conclusion: there should be a big difference in sharpness and chromatic aberrations...

The difference in sharpness should be manifested in the outer regions -according to the figure above. The field map shows the used setup of the lenses: µ43 wide open, APS-C wide open and the FF @ 2.8.

Image Workflow:

  • All images were captured in RAW.
  • Iff possible there was a white balance adjustment on similar points in the image
  • The Images were loaded in aperture.
  • From Aperture the photos were converted into TIFF and opened in photoshop. (Automatic Handling)
  • In Photoshop the images were combined to one image by copy and paste
  • From Photoshop the images were exported as TIFF-Files

No further adjustments were done.

Real Images

But what does real images will show us???

All images are in the same order: The top shows the Full Format, In the middle You see APS-C and the bottom shows the µ43 image

Handheld Nightshots, ISO 1600, wide open and 1/25s; 1/50s 1/100s

Handheld, ISO 400, wide open and 1/25s; 1/50s 1/100s

Handheld, ISO 200, wide open and 1/200s; 1/400s 1/800s

Do you see major differences? I cannot see it... Why not to choose µ43 generally? Yes, there are differences... and some can come out pretty ugly:

Shot on a tripod, FF/APS-C/µ43 with ISO 400 and f16/f11/f8.... What you see is some refraction patterns at the end of the rays. This is really improved against the first generation of µ43 cameras. What I mean: please look at the image below.

But what you can see as well: there is much more contrast much more information in the left image than in both images right of it - but they are close together...

These photos were shot as JPG at a time i did not shoot RAW, somewhere in 2011. The left image was shot with the 5DMkII and the 28-300mmL from Canon while the right image was shot with a G% and the 14-140mm Mk1 from Panasonic.

Conclusio - if there is one..

First of all: in terms of measurements there are big differences between the different cameras and sensor formats. I will add some more images in the future to differentiate the cameras and sensor sizes.

  • For a general use: µ43 gives you a great performance, especially if you take into account size and weight you want to carry...
  • The APS-C format is something which is no fish no meat. It is somewhere in between. It is more on the µ43 side than on the full format.
  • The Full Format gives you the best image quality - but you will get aware of it only under extreme conditions. But under these conditions the benefit will be great...

But this is only have of the truth. We can not compare sensors. We will have to compare lenses and cameras as well. And here comes some bigger differentiators. Handling, build in features speed etc. Just looking at image quality Full Format and m43 would be enough. But for me APS-C comes with the 7D´s. And the 7D´s are really great cameras: Very fast with a great autofocus. I never used my µ43 cameras for sports. I do not have the confidence in the autofocus and the level of control I have shooting with the DSLR´s...

What camera I recommend?

  • 7DMkII: Without doubt: the best camera I know for sports and wildlife. No compromise on speed and accuracy
  • 5DMkIII: The best low light performer. If you know that you will have to shoot in the dark: The best I know.. (Or generally spoken: take Full Format. I know that Sony´s A7s is even better in low light). And a very good studio camera as well... And you can use it for sports and wildlife, too...
  • µ43: You want to have the image quality of a standard DSLR but you do not want to carry it: Here is your solution. For I would say 90% of the "normal"photographic stuff µ43 is more than enough. And they are very well equipped with tons of features like remote control from iPhone or iPad, build in time lapse etc... The µ43s are the solution if you want to make great images everywhere at anytime and nobody should realize that you are carrying a great camera with you.

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Sure, without tabletop RPGs, you would still have puzzle games, platformers, and first-person shooters, but games with roleplaying elements: characters that level up, gaining new abilities, going on adventures and having ongoing stories — those wouldn’t exist. Imagine no Fallout series. No Mass Effect. No Final Fantasy. No Pokemon.

Today, when someone talks of playing a RPG, they’re most likely talking about something on a computer or videogame console.

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Heck, I like the Shadowrun turn-based games Harebrained has put out more than the original Shadowrun roleplaying game. (I’m also a bit disappointed that I’m almost at the end of Shadowrun: Hong Kong. I just unlocked the dialogue that says, “Before you go on this next mission, you might want to take care of any unfinished business — there’s no coming back from this.”) I love going back to Skyrim and following my own path[1] I love Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. I’m looking forward to Fallout 4 and losing days of productivity, even as that game competes with XCOM 2.

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Located in the European Tour calendar, organized with the support of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Turkish Airlines Open begins tomorrow in Antalya .

Antalya news: Photo dates between November 13 to 16 will be held at The Montgomerie Maxx Royal Golf Club tournament at a press conference about Lee Westwood and Sergio Garcia evaluated tournament. A total of $ 7 million will be awarded to the organization that last year's champion Victor Dubuisson , as well as Lee Westwood , Sergio Garcia, Henrik Stenson will take place as a famous professional players . 78 professional golfers to join the organization began with last year's Tiger Woods shot. Photo AĞAOĞLU:\"< strong> BEST OF THE WORLD PLACE DUE \"Photo Turkey Golf Federation President Ahmet Agaoglu, tournament 75 foreigners , 3 amateur players will participate in specifying the Turks , he recalled winning $ 7 million . Agaoglu, \"a city which holds 30 percent of Antalya Turkey's tourism revenues. Due to the incident at the border Antalya under a serious pressure . Will be followed by 19 hours in Antalya day by 1 million 500 thousand people in 510 million households in 39 countries around the world . All the world will be here the message is so important. will fight in the field will be the best players in the world in the players, \"he said. photo Agaoglu, potential shortages in the tourism sector of this tournament, and he added that it is important for the prevention of low income .
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I have been studying The tree of Life lately, by purchasing 21 days to understand the Qabalah written by David Wells. It have been my first book ever on the Qabalah. Most of my knowledge have come from reading the webpage called Order of the white lion a very good page to start on, if …

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Menu Plan Mondays: In Recovery

Last week was great.  The house was chaotic.  The schedules were loose at best.  I didn't make it to the gym one single day.  I filled my head with lots of fun techie dreams with little respect for reality.  Bean's birthday was celebrated multiple times with great enthusiasm and a touch of whimsy.  Inchie started WALKING.  The week was honestly a stellar success.

And if I hear myself say "Wow.  It's really been a busy couple of weeks" one more time, I may stop speaking entirely.  I'm beginning to feel like the Mom who NEVER has enough time and EVERYONE knows she never has enough time because she TELLS everyone she never has enough time.  First step to stop annoying myself?  Stop ACTING surprised that I'm busy.  It's not like this is a new thing.  The time has come to adjust and move on.

So how do I move on?  My approach has always been to do a little introspection (navel gazing if you will) and pick a few priorities.  Using those priorities I take a big black satisfying sharpie to my To Do lists and make some serious readjustments.  This week is one of those readjustment times whether I have TIME for it or not!

This week's menu:
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(Hubby) Oatmeal, Bananas & OJ

LO Chili (and whatever else I find living in my fridge)
Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches
Health Choice Entrees
Lettuce Salad

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Tuesday: Hot Dogs & Green Beans
Wednesday: Spaghetti
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Saturday: Crock Pot Indian Food
Sunday: BBQ Chicken

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   Process dynamics in the intermittent snow zone

By combining field observations with a multiple-hypotheses approach to model development, we seek a better understanding of the dominant processes in the transient snow zone and a path towards a better, coupled atmosphere-hydro model.

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The intermittent, or transient, snow zone is defined as areas where 10-50% of October to March precipitation falls as snow. Because intermittent snow is almost always ripe to melt, it responds immediately to energy inputs, resulting in a change in snow water equivalent (SWE) rather than just a change in internal snowpack temperature. This readiness-to-melt makes intermittent snow an extra sensitive indicator of snow model performance. Therefore, any model improvements vetted in this area will translate into better snow modeling everywhere, including the seasonal snow zone.

We are teaming with Dr. Martyn Clark at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to develop modular snow models that allow for the evaluation of each modeling process or algorithm independently. By eliminating the possibility of compensating errors from the evaluation process this structure exposes the sources of model uncertainty. We will analyze the performance of boundary conditions supplied by both the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) and field observations. A primary field sites at Snoqualmie Pass, WA has been used for testing and evaluation.

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The People’s Democratic Republic of Columbusplein

Ownership creates responsibility. This simple thought lies behind the social design project by the experimental group Social Design For Wicked Problems in a problematic Amsterdam neighbourhood.

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The city of Amsterdam and its social workers had tried many things to make the Columbusplein, a square in De Baarsjes neighbourhood in the western part of Amsterdam, more liveable. The square contains a basketball field, a playground and a community centre where one can take photography or dance classes. Surrounding the square are five-storey high apartment blocks built in the typical and very popular Amsterdam School style dating to the beginning of the twentieth century. There’s clearly no lack of facilities or infrastructure, so something else must have been missing.

“There are problems like bullying and a lack of a community spirit in the neighbourhood,” says Jorge Mañes Rubio, one of the designers involved in the project. “This is an area with quite a negative image in the rest of the city.”

People of many different cultural and ethnic backgrounds live in the neighbourhood. Not only Dutch, but also Moroccan, Turkish, Surinam, Dominican, and many more. A large mosque is being built a stone’s throw away from the square. Social Design For Wicked Problems decided to explore the possibility of an entirely new identity for the area, one that every citizen could contribute to and thus could equally relate to. The People’s Democratic Republic of Columbusplein was established.

New passports, a flag and a space program were created. But a nation also needs a food culture so a contest was organised for a new local Columbusplein sauce to go with French fries – traditionally eaten with mayonnaise in the Netherlands. The winner of the contest for Columbussauce was 9 year old Sophie Hamzaoui and her face adorns the new Columbusstamps.

“I think this is a good positive example of social design, of how design can make a positive impact on complicated social situations,” says Mañes Rubio. “It might be early to say, but lots of people are excited about the positive impact that this art project is having in the neighbourhood.”

The city, which has struggled for a long time with incidents and a sense of insecurity among residents in the area, also gives a positive appraisal for now.

SOCIALDESIGNFORWICKEDPROBLEMS is a project created by The New Institute, Twynstra Gudde, social designer Tabo Goudswaard and Stichting Doen.

The micro-nation of Columbusplein was created by Jorge Mañes Rubio and Muzus.

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We incorporated the school mural as a graphic above the StoryWall and displayed the school’s key words as simple but effective vinyl graphics on the wall, which were complemented by the superb in house decorating.

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Gala Dalí (7 September [O.S. 26 August] 1894 – June 10, 1982), usually known simply as Gala, was the wife of first Paul Éluard, then Salvador Dalí, and an inspiration for them and many other writers and artists.

Gala was born Elena Dmitrievna Diakonova in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia, to a family of intellectuals. Among her childhood friends was the poet Marina Tsvetaeva. She began working as a schoolteacher in 1915, at which time she was living in Moscow.

In 1913 she was sent to a sanatorium in Clavadel, Switzerland for the treatment of tuberculosis. She met Paul Éluard while in Switzerland and fell in love with him. In 1916, during World War I she travelled from Russia to Paris to reunite with him; they were married one year later. Their daughter, Cécile, was born in 1918. Gala detested motherhood, mistreating and ignoring her child all of her life.

With Éluard, Gala became involved in the Surrealist movement. Gala was an inspiration for many artists including Éluard, Louis Aragon, Max Ernst and André Breton. Breton later despised her, claiming she was a destructive influence on the artists she befriended. She, Éluard and Ernst spent three years in a ménage à trois, from 1924-27.

In early August 1929, Éluard and Gala visited a young Surrealist painter in Spain, the emerging Salvador Dalí. An affair quickly developed between Gala and Dalí, who was about 10 years younger than she. Nevertheless, even after the breakup of their marriage, Éluard and Gala continued to be close.

After living together since 1929, Dalí and Gala married in a civil ceremony in 1934, and remarried in a Catholic ceremony in 1958 in Montrejic. They needed to receive a special dispensation by the Pope because Gala had been previously married to Éluard. Because of his phobia of female genitalia, Dalí was said to be a virgin when they met at Costa Brava in 1929. Around that time she was found to have uterine fibroids, for which she underwent a hysterectomy in 1936. She was a muse for Dalí, and said that she was the one who saved him from madness and an early death.

In the early 1930s, Dalí started to sign his paintings with his and her name as “(i)t is mostly with your blood, Gala, that I paint my pictures” He stated that Gala acted as his agent, and aided in redirecting his focus. According to most accounts, Gala had a strong sex drive and throughout her life had numerous extramarital affairs (among them with her former husband Paul Éluard), which Dalí encouraged, since he was a practitioner of candaulism. She had a fondness for young artists, and in her old age she often gave expensive gifts to those who associated with her.

Gala is a frequent model in Dalí’s work, often in religious roles such as the Blessed Virgin Mary in the painting The Madonna of Port Lligat. Dalí’s numerous paintings of her show his great love for her, and some are perhaps the most affectionate and sensual depictions of a middle-aged woman in Western art. Among the paintings she served as a model for are: Imperial Monument to the Child-Woman, Gala; Memory of the Child-Woman; The Angelus of Gala; Gala and “The Angelus” of Millet before the Imminent Arrival of the Conical Anamorphoses; William Tell and Gradiva; The Old Age of William Tell; The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus; The Ecumenical Council; Corpus Hypercubus; and more.

In Portrait of Galerina (1940–45) Gala’s face is shown severe and confrontational, her bared breast meant to depict bread, and the snake on the arm a gift of Dalí’s sponsor Edward James.

In her late seventies, Gala had a relationship with rock singer Jeff Fenholt She lavished him with gifts, including Dalí’s paintings and a million dollar home on Long Island.Fenholt later became a televangelist.

She died in Port Lligat in the early morning of June 10, 1982 and was buried in the Castle of Púbolin Girona which Dalí had bought for her. Edited from – Gala

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Describing SSH to your mother

I was recently asked how I would describe SSH to the person's mother. Assuming that English is her native tongue, I gave the first explanation that came to mind. This explanation involved the use of puzzle pieces and colorful napkins. I originally didn't plan to to rehash that here. Instead, I thought I would refresh myself on the protocol (SSH 2.0) and write it it's maybe fresher in my mind as it has admittedly been quite a while since I have gotten into the nuts and bolts of SSH. I think I will do a little of both. :-) To keep it simple (I hope) I will first discuss SSH from the more nerdy side of life and will break the discussion into

The Players:
Switch 1 (just be cognizant that my discussion here involves communication between the CLIENT and SERVER using Switch 1)

Initial Session Setup
First, the same old three-way handshake.

CLIENT sends the SYN packet to SERVER
SERVER sends the SYN,ACK packet to CLIENT
CLIENT sends the final ACK packet of the handshake to SERVER

Figure 1: TCP Handshake

Protocol Version Exchange
Once the initial TCP-Handshake is accomplished, both Hosts announce to each other what protocol version they are running. This is known as the identification string and has the following format:

     SSH-protoversion-softwareversion SP comments CR LF

Figure 2: SSH Protocol Version Exchange

There are a few variations of these strings and these [variations] are based upon the version of the client and the server. The identification string is "usually" sent first by the server (SERVER in this example). This string sent by the server should be the only bit of information sent by the server until the client (CLIENT) verifies the version of the protocol that the client is using. A full discussion of this can be found in the RFC itself, but here's a quick breakdown:

     SSH = should be obvious...but if not...try  Basic Protocol Help first. :-)
     -protoversion = If this doesn't say 2.0 from the server, I'd avoid connecting...just sayin'
     -softwareversion = No real concrete value. Basically, if it conforms to the applicable RFC's, it's fair game.
         SP = literally, a SPACE character (ASCII 32)...NOT A NULL!!! This is ONLY needed if there are comments
     comments - the identification string has a max length of 255. This section can be arbitrary but it is usually used by the server (again, SERVER in this case) to initiate the Diffie-Hellman key exchange.

     - a few other quick notes:
        -protoversion = must contain only printable US-ASCII characters with the exception of the minus sign and spaces
        -softwareversion = "used to trigger compatibility extensions and to indicate the capabilities of an implementation" (RFC4253)
        -comments = this should be used to provide helpful information to the user(s).
        - There can be multiple lines sent by the client or server as long as:
            - ONLY the first line starts with "SSH"
            - each line MUST end with a Carriage Return(CR, ASCII 13) and Line Feed(LF ASCII 10)

Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
SSH makes use of Diffie-Hellman to complete the key exchange between the CLIENT and SERVER. I am not going to get into Diffie-Hellman here other than to quickly cover its role in the SSH process. Suffice to say that it has been around for a few days, since 1971 I believe, and is a very creative way to perform the key exchange.

Figure 3: DH Key Exchange

Encrypted Traffic
Once the protocol is agreed upon and the key exchange is completed, the traffic is then encrypted. The key used for encryption can be changed during the conversation.

Figure 4: Encrypted SSH Traffic and Session Teardown

Misc Notes
It is germane to note that the RFC defines additional, individual, items that can be used:
  - The servery key_algorithm, the encryption_algorithm, and the mac_algorithm are required by the RFC to be a match between the Servers options and the FIRST matching option from the Client's list.
  - MAC: Message Authentication Code, if its usage is agreed upon then each binary packet except the first will contain the MAC as the last field in the payload.
  - compression: compression can be used when agreed upon by both the server and client. The RFC provides an interesting discussion in packet size and compression and how this may/may not affect network traffic.
  - Key Change: a key change may be initiated by either side by sending a SSH_MSG_KEXINIT. The RFC does stipulate that the roles MUST NOT be changed, regardless of who initiates the key change process.

Now, back to telling your mother about SSH.

The Players:
Yourself (Client)
Your Mom(Server)
Puzzle Pieces
Different Color Napkins

Initial Session Setup
You know that you need to give your mother some puzzle pieces. However, the wind is blowing fiercely, the rain is pellting you both, and you must pass the pieces to your mother over a large crater between the both of you. So...
You call out to your mother: "Yo!"
Your Mom hollers back: "Yo, I can hear you!"
To which you holler: "I can hear you!"

Protocol Version Exchange
You mother lets you know that she can work with pieces from the 5000pc puzzle depicting the 1984 Detroit Tigers.
You have pieces for this puzzle and therefore let her know that this will work well for you.

Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
Your mother now lets you know that she can use the puzzle pieces from your left and right jeans pockets and from your left coat pockets.
Your mother also lets you know that she can accept the pieces wrapped in Blue, Maize, or Orange.
You let your mother know that you do, in fact, have puzzle pieces in your left jeans pocket and in your left and right coat pockets.
You also let her know that you have the ability to use Maize or Orange colored Napkins.
Because you first mentioned the left jeans pocket and your mother can use this, these are the pieces you will be passing to your mother. Likewise, because you first listed the Maize colored napkins, the pieces will be wrapped with said napkins, as will any response from your mother.

Encrypted Traffic

Completing this puzzle is important to you. As such, you've contacted your mother, agreed upon which type of pieces are needed, and how to protect said pieces from the wind and rain. After you've agreed upon the pieces and the protection, there is no need for you to yell across the hole between the two of you.

So, I hope that this post will make sense to me in a year, and to anyone else who may read it. I left out some of the more technical things on purpose, especially the under-workings of the Diffie-Hellman protocol.


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Thursday, February 27, 2014

The Victoriana Coif

Michael of Helena Rubinstein handles hair like a length of satin

Cool Fashion

Emerald linen, cut to shoe a sun-polished triangle of back by Peck and Peck - Hat by Adolfo of Emme.

Simplicity Pattern 1611

Simplicity Pattern 1609

Clare Potter

Oleg Cassini

Nettie Rosenstein

The Sheath - Talmack

Anthony Blotta

The Fichu Dress

The Fichu-cape buttoned into sleeveless in back, bow-tied in front.

Jean Patchett in Mainbocher

Anne St.Marie in Scassi

Priscilla of Boston

Anthony Perkins
Bob Willoughby

Little Girl Alias Femme Fatale
Cecil Beaton

Point-to-Point Fashion
Harper's Bazaar June 1956
Photography: Gleb Derujinsky

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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Yves Saint Laurent Evening Glove

Yves Saint Laurent Purple Satin Trench Trimmed in Black Fox

Yves Saint Laurent "Smoking"

Yves Saint Laurent

Yves Saint Laurent Fantasy Hair Ornament

Paris... In The most Captivating Mood
Vogue October 1984
Photography: Avedon

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Monday, February 24, 2014

The New Jewel-Color Watch

The New Gestures 1978 - pulling on a hat, a glove, wrapping up in fur

New Twists

The way to straighten a seam ... the way a steel watch turns up unexpectedly - Rolex Stainless datejust. Angela Cummings sapphire and gold rings, star of diamonds on silk cord.

A Timely Gesture

All in Good Time - Piaget's dual-time zone watch

Calvin Klein
Carrera Porsche Design Shades

Less Dress - More Body

A smidgen of a strapless arrow-narrow black dress by Angelo Tarlazzi

She Shoots

New Versions of the Best Tops: velvet shawl-collared dressing gown jacket wrapped over pleated trousers

She Scores

The new cleaness of a bare "T-shirt" in crepe-back satin over a deeply slit straight black wool skirt. Vogue Pattern by Yves Saint Laurent.

New Ways To Go Out At Night

The Best Dancing look In Town: All-out body-dressing ... a slip-of-a-dress in black crepe-back satin, hip-wrapped with a shot of color.

Below: Calvin Klein's shawl-collared wrap dress over his narrow black silk charmeuse pants.

The End

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Friday, February 21, 2014

Van Raalte

The Pleasure Principles
Harper's Bazaar April 1960
Photography: Lillian Bassman

Thursday, February 20, 2014

 "Jump under the black light at the disco that makes your dress glow"

Tiger Morse halter-topped green wool jersey dancing dress, short and swingy. Barest back crossed by an iridescent sequined T-strap that shines in the night. Earring by Chrystya Olenska for Hattie Carnegie

if the shoe fits ...

Paco Robanne fancifully looped foot ornament

Paraphernalia crisp and silky pink and white plaid overall dress, that under a black light turns glowing red and midnight blue - its straps anchored by rhinestone pins. Mr. John Headdress, Betty Milham bracelet.

"Switch yourself on under a black light"

Exotic leafings of pink and white swirling into fuchsia and blue under a black light. Long silk Donald Brooks dress drawn open over midriff and back - long scarf looped over the head. Betty Milham jewelry.

Jewels that come alive in the dark

"Fantasy fall of jet and luminous ivory necklaces caught up by pink and yellow primrose pins by Vendome."

Black light colliding with color ...

"Green plastic bands asymmetrically whipped round a baring shoe by Margaret Jerrold with white kidskin toe and medium - stacked leather heel.

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Photography: Hiro Wakabayashi
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

and all things nice ...

The Blithe Sleep Dress

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Paris When It Floats

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top right - Patou
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Paris When It Parties

Francoise Dorleac in Cardin

Catherine Deneuve in Dior

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Trigere's Persian Spiral

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Wednesday, October 28

Dark Faith

Lately, the darkness on the ride to work has been getting to me. It's sapped my riding faith. We're not quite done with DST, so it's dark nearly the whole 20 miles in. Near record October rainfall hasn't helped. This morning, I made a right turn to NB Davis Rd (a 7 lane road) in NRH, not far in front of a small traffic "wave."

I made my left turn signal to change lanes; expecting everyone to sweep by. You see, my long-sleeve shirt was a Navy color, and my shorts were dark as well. My full finger gloves weren't bright or reflective. Ditto for the helmet. Yes, I had two rear lights and my "be seen" headlight on, but none of those alert a motorist to upcoming maneuvers - and it was dark. Almost to my surprise, considering my somewhat glum frame of mind, not one, but TWO motorists (one behind in my lane and the other in the next lane to my left) slowed down and made it clear they were waiting and expecting me to make my lane change. Somehow, seeing those two drivers clearly adjust their intended actions to reflect the sight of a signaling cyclist, in dark clothing, in the dark, brought back my faith in traffic operating as a solid cooperative principle. They didn't have to do it. If they thought about it, they'd realize I had more lane changes to make before I could make my left turn and that might slow them down further as I worked my way over. They were being cooperative and nice, without being patronizing. I wish I could have done more than just a wave of thanks.

Sometimes, bike blogs harp on motorist incompetence or incivility. Mostly, though, when motorists understand what the cyclist in traffic wants to do, they'll almost always go out of their way to cooperate. Sometimes they forget that other traffic is expecting them to operate in a particular way and their consideration becomes misplaced (cyclists complain about that, too), but mostly it makes operating nicer. Drive friendly!

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Keri said...

It's those moments in the thick of traffic, when you stick out an arm to signal a turn... thinking about your plan B, but giving it a try... then everything clicks, they see you, they slow, they yield, they let you in, you wave a thanks, you feel good, they feel good.

And you know, it might be the most human interaction they have all day.

People are good. Most people. It's nice to remember that. Expect it, in fact. And it seems to work out that way. Most of the time.

Rat Trap Press said...

Now that you mention it, I hadn't considered how to make hand signals visible to motorists in the dark. I've got some reflective velcro straps that could be wrapped around my wrists for just such a situation. You've got me thinking about things like that now.

Filigree said...

That is a nice story, and cars have been pretty nice to me lately as well. I do not mind cycling in the dark and find it quite peaceful really. Of course a good lighting set-up is crucial, but once that is sorted I enjoy it.

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Saturday, November 27

Maybe Cold Enough

Pearl Izumi Softshell Gloves
Last summer, when most at the Hotter 'n Hell were shopping for summer cycling stuff, I was stocking up on leftover winter items. This weekend, I actually got to wear the gloves for the first time. They work well, though I fear they will require a supplemental covering when the temperatures drop below 20F, and their comfortable upper temperature is about 50F.

Oldfool said...

What is this 20F of which you speak?

Chandra said...

Yesterday was cold. I used only El Cheapo Walgreen's $1 gloves and I wasn't too happy about my choice. I should have used a wind-proof pair of gloves. I may have a pair of what you have pictured.
Peace :)

Apertome said...

Hmm, I have some Specialized gloves that look to be a similar weight. I've been amazed at the temperature range I can use them in. I don't even wear full-fingered gloves above 50 degrees, but below that I wear these, all the way down into the teens. Maybe you'll be pleasantly surprised with these.

Trevor Woodford said...

Was well below freezing on my training ride this morning- the tips of my fingers were sooooo coooold.
I really do need a new pair of decent gloves- some nice Pearl Izumi ones like yours would be a good start...!

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News: Pics and rules from the new Dark Elves Army Book!

Okey we got to see the new Dark Elves stuff this weekend in White Dwarf. But there where several units missing in this months release actually and we will soon get even more Dark Elves stuff. These pics and info comes via HERO's Gaming Blog, so cheers to him.

That's a potentially solid debuff. What's the Ld of the beasts?
hydra is 6445552(3+remaining wounds)6, 160pts, 4+AS, 20pts for flame breath and 20pts for a 8'' shooting with multiple shots=remaining wounds, s=remaining wounds. kharibdyss is 650755456, 160pts, 4+AS, poison attack, abyssal howl(reroll successful ld test), feast of bones(if all attack hits, auto hit D6 S7 hits afterwards.)

Thank you for your enthusiasm Zhangyi. Do you mind if I ask you about how sea dragon cloak changed in this edition?
well it's now a 5+ scaly skin.

Just guessing now that zhangyi has left, but given that the scroungerunner's cost includes the bolt thrower, I'm quite sure the High Beastmaster can man the bolt thrower.
yes, he takes place of one crew. he get bs7.

Thanks....what are the rules for the Fleet Admiral and the Beastmaster characters?
they're both lord choice. fleetmaster is 155pts with 566433739. he has two hand weapons, light armour and sea dragon cloak. can take 50pts magic items. have a special rule called show no weakness that if he's fighting in a challenge or killed a character and still alive, the unit he joins become unbreakable till the end of that turn. high beastmaster is 300pts which must take a manticore or scourgerunner chariot by free. his 577433839 with spear, light armour and see dragon cloak. can take 100pts magic items. have a special rule called beastslaver that at the start of each of your turns, choose a friendly monster within 3''. that monster get +D3 A till the start of your next turn.

Hydra and Kharibdyss
and one more thing... hydra and the kharibdyss both are monsters now, without handlers. though u can see two on their base, they're nothing about them in the rules.

Magic items aren't that great but everything else seems awesome. Is malus the exact same? What's the pricing on sorcereress and lords?
he's been changed slightly, now the daemon gives him +1 to WS,S,T,I and frenzy. any to hit roll of 1 hit a friendly model in base contact. supreme sorcerer is 185pts with lvl3, dreadlord is 140pts. sorcerer is 80pts with lvl1.

Rules for kuran and tullaris?
kouran 596432739 join bg and make them unbreakable. have a +2s crimson death, and a 5+AS with armour of grief which make a S5 hit every time an opponent hit him. tullaris 566432739 join ex and make them frenzy. have a magic great weapon which called the first draich that gives him 5+KB

Are they champions or moved to hero slots?
moved to hero slot, u see they have w2 both.

Hydra Regen how specifically does it work ? Thank for answering all my questions by the way!
at the end of your phase if it still alive, u roll the number of dice equals the lost wounds. every 4+ it regain a wound.

This is nuts! If I don't go WE I may go with these girls and march and charge them up the field before they can get shot to pieces. Are they khanites and do they get the same bonuses from CoB as WE's?
no they're not brides of khaine, they're arena fighters. COB can give them 6+ ward save if join them... but still if they're 6'' within COB they can reroll all the failed rolls to wound. and COB have a bound spell can make them frenzy.

Which special characters are in, which are out?
they stay the same. no new special characters.

What does the magic item section look like, Do I still have access to the Hydra Banner (fingers crossed)
from my first glance they're not as good as HE. only 10 items, including one 100pts nearly useless sword(hydra blade, +D6 A, every close combat phase u must make a -2LD test or suffer -5WS, but gain HKB.) and one 100pts useless banner(banner of nagarythe, the unit take it will unbreakable). hydra banner is not there any longer, so does the banner make cosair frenzy.

Does Malekith get cheaper? Don't need points just wondering.
yes, he's only 510pts on foot. didnt change much of his rules, now the circlet grants him an bonus dice if failed his casting/dispelling attempts once per magic phase.

points and options for black guard and cold ones pls. Also what does the medusa chariot thing do?
BG=15pts, EX=12pts, cold one knight=30pts. the chariot make units from this book in 6'' +1LD, and all others -1LD, called aura of agony.

Witch Elves keep poison? How does Power of Darkness work? Available lores?
yes they keep poison. power of darkness is one of the two signature spell, which cast on 8+, target the caster's unit. all models in unit get +1S until the caster's next magic phase, and recover D3 casting dice, if you rolled 3 dice, the caster suffer a wound that cant be saved by armour. dark elf have access to all eight lores this time, cheers.

can you list the magic items and new spell lore. Do executioners still have Killing blow or are they now D3 wounds
still KB, not D3 wounds.

rbt and handbow rules? what about the bleakswords? any rules for them? What about shades? do they still have options for great weapons?
rbt is now special and 70pts, u can take four.(yes four) handbow become 12'', the rest stay the same. bleakswords have no other rules have to be metioned, 9pts. shades is 16pts, hand weapon and repeater crossbow, no armour. u can take great weapon or two hand weapons by 2pts/per model.

hows the assassin looking ? Manbane ? Repeater Bows armor piercing ?
90pts with poison attack. can get two hand weapon or a handbow. access to 50pts magic items and one of three poison. one is to wound roll+1, one is KB, the other is if u wound a model, his LD-1 for the rest of the game.

Is there a sac dagger and pendent?
yes the dagger is there. no pendent.

sac dagger
everytime when u cast a spell but before dispelling, u can use the dagger. remove a man from the unit, and roll a D6, 4+ u get an extra dice and must be rolled and add to the result, then opponent try to dispell. if u roll 1-3 then u can try the dagger again and again until you get a dice, or you can simply give up.

WE Initiative?
they're I6

what's the chariot with RBT do ? is it special or core ? thx for the pictures and information!
it's my pleasure:P it's special, cost 150pts, profile is S4 T4 W4 with 5+AS, M9, two crew with spear and repeater crossbow. it has a harpoon launcher, like a bolt thrower but far more powerful. it's S7, 24'' range, and cause D3 wounds. if a monster suffer any wounds from it, the monster will be dragged D6'' directly towards it. if D6>3, the monster suffer another wound with no AS.

What would you say is the best magic item the DE's got? The dagger sounds pretty nice, how much does it cost?
25pts. DE have some "OK" items IMO, but i cant tell which is the best. wait for me to post them.

it looks like the Dark Riders now have shields? Is this a default now, or still an option which causes loss of Fast cav?
it's an upgrade with 1pts/per model. DR can have both light armour and shield without losting fast cavalry.

DE sorcerer cast dark magic gain +1 bouns in casting value. it's called HEKARTIS BLESSING

they're fast cavalry in rare with state 544431528, and M9 on horse. 25pts/per model. they only have hand weapon, but have 4+ward save except for wounds caused by model with mark of slaanesh or daemon of slaanesh. they're considered to be level2 wizard which is used like pink horrors. +1 for casting value for each extra rank except the first, to a max of +3. they know 2 spells, one is doombolt from DE army book(see #2221), the other is soulblight from lore of death. great unit.

I'm afraid to ask but... how much for a Dark Rider?
16pts per model with light armour. 1pts for shield, 3pts for crossbow.

what's the basic warrior cost ?(without spear , shield , RXB ..)
shield is auto. spear is another auto. 9PTS for spearmen and swordsmen.RXB is 12pts without shield upgrade(+1PTS)

Last masochistic question: Sisters of Slaughters?
they're rare choice with very impressive state 564331629. 15pts/model, with shield and hand weapon. can have a magic banner up to 50pts. 4+ward save in close combat, and every close combat phase it can choose an enemy unit in base contact. they lose parry and rank bonus in combat result.(still can steadfast). if any enemy model in base contact with them have highter WS or S(before weapon matters), they get +1 to hit and wound rolls.

Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Warriors of Chaos: Skullcrushers unit finished!

You know that satisfying feeling when you finally have finished a painting project. I have that right now and that is because the Skullcrushers unit is finished! Don't get me wrong, it's really fun models to paint up but they do take some time to finish up. And I have been working on them now for a while so it will be nice to concentrate on some other projects now when these are finished.

Just like the first one (the one in the middle) I went with the army wide blue colour scheme and well I must say I like the final result. Was really doubting at first but now when they are done I think it works quite well, despite being blue Khorne followers.

So here they are, c & c is as always very welcome.

Tuesday, 24 September 2013

News: Dark Elves WD Pictures and Rules!

So at last, some pictures of the new Dark Elves. And they look really cool in my opinion, really nice. Pics comes from:

And the rumors via Faet212.

via Scizorsfury on Warseer
The sisters of slaughter are rares: enemies is base contact with them lose rank bonuses.

Hydras are specials can upgrade to get a strength 4 breath attack, no regen but can regrow heads (recover lost wounds) just like the slann can with his discipline.

The kraken thing has a special ability that triggers when all 5 of its attacks hits ( gets an extra attack that inflicts additional hits) has a scaly skin save and causes terror. Enemy models in base contact must re roll successful leadership tests. Both use the monster and handler rules.

They have 2 signature spells just like high magic. One of the spells goes off on a 8+ and grants a unit +1 strength and then you gain D3 power dice but if you gain 3 power dice this way the wizard suffers a wound with no saves allowed.

The army has always strikes first.

Murderous Prowless: models with this rule re roll 1s when rolling to wound.

Wizards casting Dark Magic add plus 1 to their casting attempts.

edit via Scizorsfury
I had the sisters rule mixed up with the kraken monster. They take away rank bonuses

Monday, 23 September 2013

News: Dark Elves Teaser Trailer

The usual Teaser trailer from GW, but one of the better ones I must say. Also here's some of the latest rumoured release schedule, these comes via Faeit212.

Sunday, 22 September 2013

Warriors of Chaos: Lords/Heroes

Warriors of Chaos has quite a few really good and viable choices in both Lords and Heroes, most notably the Nurgle Daemon Prince and Tzeentch BSB. I have a goal of painting a lot of the options open in the WoC list, so far I don't have that many but expect this page to be bigger in the future.

Daemon Prince (Tzeentch/Nurgle)

This is my try to do an dual mark DP. But as the main colour here is blue most people including me tends to view him as an Tzeentch DP. I made some green colours on him as well to try to justify him being a Nurgle DP as well but the more I thought about this the more I think that it doesn't work. I could try to 'Nurglify' him as I have started to do on my Nurgle Warriors and Gorebeast but I don't really want to mess the paint job up on this one just to make him look a little more Nurgle. So Iv'e decided to paint up a new one to have as a Nurgle DP, and in the meantime this one can work.

Tzeentch BSB on a Daemonic Mount

A choice I will probably go with in most lists is this one, which I finished painting up during the summer (2013). I am really fond with the result if I may say so, especially the free hand design inspired from a banner in a old Champions of Chaos book (5th ed I believe). I don't think anyone will argue about this one being marked Tzeentch, Iv'e used the colours I have as the main colours in the army (Enchanted blue and washed black and then re highlighted) and also a lot of gold, typical Tzeentch colours. I have also incorporated some of the designs I try to paint throughout the whole army, like the red eyes.

Sorceror on foot/disc

The first character model I made for my WoC army was this one, a Tzeentch Sorceror. I made some modelling on him to make the burning skull as seen here. It is showing it's age now though I think, he still looks quite good but he doesn't fit with how I paint the warriors right now. I have some ideas on changing the flames for normal red/orange/yellow flames and tidy up the rest of the paint work. I will make a new Sorcerer before though and he works as is as well.

Throgg the Troll King

The first and only special character Iv'e painted for my WoC army is the Troll King himself. Couldn't restist painting up this guy and well he totally badass in the game as well which is of course a bonus. Really like the model actually and the "Finecast" version I got was actually really nice, nothing to complain about.

Friday, 20 September 2013

News: Forgeworld shows us Ferrus Manus !

Got a mail from Forgeworld with a video showing us the first of the Primarchs that stays loyal to the Emperor, Ferrus Manus of the Iron Hands legion. Really cool looking just like the Primarchs done before. Down below you can watch the video and what they wrote in the mail.

The Primarch of the Iron Hands Legion was a figure of legend amongst the peoples of his home world of Medusa, named by them ‘the Gorgon’ after the most ancient of mythic creatures. Ferrus was amongst the strongest of the Primarchs, reflected in this giant figure, dwarfing many of his brother Primarchs.

Forge World will be attending UK Games Day, held on Sunday 29th September at the NIA in Birmingham, and Ferrus Manus, the latest model in our Horus Heresy Character series, will be available to purchase on the day. As part of our Games Day UK previews, we have a feature on the Forge World Visual Feed about the Primarch of the Iron Hands Legion. In our latest video, designer Simon Egan talks about how he created the model of the Gorgon and how it can be incorporated with Fulgrim to form a stunning diorama.

You can also watch Edgar Skomorowski talking about Erebus and Kor Phaeron, our trailer for The Horus Heresy Book Two – Massacre as well as a video of writer Alan Bligh talking about what you can expect to find in this forthcoming book here.

If you would like to stay up to date with the Forge World Visual Feed of videos dedicated to our latest releases, simply select the Subscribe option in our YouTube channel. This will ensure you receive a notification every time we add new videos.

Alongside Ferrus Manus, The Horus Heresy Book Two – Massacre, Erebus and Kor Phaeron, and the Tau XV107 R'varna Battlesuit will also be available to purchase at Games Day UK. There will be a limited number of these pre-release products there on the day so we suggest that you turn up early at our Sales stand to avoid disappointment. If you would like to purchase a ticket for this event, click here.

We are still taking reservation orders for Games Day UK for non pre-release product. Click here to find out how to place a reservation order. The cut-off for placing reservation orders is 6pm (UK time) today.

Forge World Sales Team

The Empire: Halfling Hot Pot finished!

The Halfling hot pot is done! Sadly you can't have them in games anymore, well not since 5th ed anyway. Well I will incorporate some Halflings into this army anyway and even GW which still sells this model is suggesting to use this as an Helstorm Rocket Launcher instead, and that is my intention as well. Will probably not use it much in gaming anyway since the Rocket Launchers suck pretty much but still a fun choice to have in the army. And the models are such classics.¨

I made my own base for these using four cav bases to make it into a chariot base instead, not really satisfied with the result but I didn't have any spare Chariot bases so this will have to do. Other than that I'm happy with how the turned out, the yellow needs some more work, especially on front guy where you can see his back on the second pic. It needs one more highlight I think.

So what do you think, you like these classic models? And do you want to see Halflings again in future Empire releases? I sure want that to happen. Tell me in the comments.

Thursday, 19 September 2013

Army Showcase: Warriors of Chaos

This is the first showcase page Iv'e done and the idea is to have one for each of the armies I have (with at least some painted models in it). Because of how the blogger system is working the easiest way of doing this is to simply make a new blog post and then link them together. So this first one will be quite simple with an overview look of the army as it looks like now and then have direct links to each section (Lords/Heroes, Core, Special and Rare). The reason why I divide them is because this page would be to pic heavy if I had all the pictures here. So just follow the links to see more pictures and info.

Monday, 16 September 2013

Miniature Monday 'Empire and Halflings'

Monday again and here's what I'm been up to in the hobby lately. As always I have a hard time concentrating on one thing and finish that and then move on to a new painting project. So I run several painting projects, converting projects etc. in the same time instead. So right now I quite much going on but I try to stay to the projects I will now tell you about.

I love painting this army, you can to do much modelling wise with WoC and you have so many different monsters and units, and they are all expensive as well so you don't need to paint that many to make a army of 2400-2500 Pts.

The stuff I have been working on is the two Skullchrushers I started long ago, still some things to do on them but I hope I will finish them this week (despite being on a business trip for the three coming days). After them I will try to paint up the Mutalith Vortex Beast, and I'm really looking forward painting this beast up.

After that I will do three more Warriors to complete the Nurgle unit, I also have a Sorcerer in the pipeline.

Painting some Empire stuff again, first of I will complete the Halfling Hot Pot in the next coming days, it is almost finished but I will probably not finish it before I go tomorrow. After that I have some quite exciting stuff for Empire because I bought some new models which are already painted, and quite nice as well.

So I don't need to re paint all that much, and the best part is I don't need to paint any of the first basic colours which is the most boring part of painting models in my opinion. Also they where really nicely kit bashed with the Greatswords kit and got heads from plenty number of kits which is really nice (the Halberdiers). That is all for now c & c is as always very welcome.

Friday, 13 September 2013

Review: White Dwarf September 2013

My WD arrived as it should this time around but I haven't really had time to write this review until now. It is a quite nice issue, if you like Space Marines of course. So on to the review...

New Releases

The main thing as always in WD is the new releases and I doubt anyone had missed out on which army would a new Codex this time around. The Space Marines is back and we have all seen the pictures heard the new rules etc. So we knew pretty much everything regarding this release. We get a new Codex of course (I got my copy today and it is awesome) and some new kits, including those Centurions (still dislike the look of these, much cooler in the artwork I must say) a favourite kit of the new ones is the Sternguard, where you get some great models and some much needed combi weapons as well.

We get really nice pictures of all the new kits, all of them in Ultra smurfs colours but also some small pictures of White Scars, Imperial Fists, Crimson Fists and Iron Hands. More diversity here would have been nice. We also get some pictures and information regarding the new Codex and shows us some of it's pages.

The Good

This month's Battle Report is an really interesting one and spans over 18 pages! Matt Hutson is using his really big army of Black Templars and is going off against an evil Chaos Nurgle coalition of Chaos Space Marines and Daemons. It has big pictures again and is nice and easy to read, still I think a little more Narrative had made it even better, but still a really nice Battle Report.

In Army of the Month we luckily don't get too see even more Space Marines as this time we get to see Owen Patten's Chaos Ogres. It may not be the best painted army Iv'e seen but surely one with the most conversions. He uses a wide variety of kits and I think that all of his miniatures has so kind of conversion, really nice army.

In Parade Ground we see photos from the Throne of Skulls event, some really nice ones, among them Mark Wildman's (from Bad Dice Podcast) Savage Orcs and my personal favourites, Dan Seymour's Dark Elves. Especially diorama is very cool.

In Hall of fame this month Glenn (WD Photo Editior) nominates ones of my favourite models, the Arachnarok Spider. I usually don't fancy this segment that much but this one has some interesting insight from the Aly Morrison (one of the sculptors on the model).

Armour trough the Ages is an article about... you guessed it. Power Armour. Really interesting read actually about how the design of the different marks developed and some history behind them. Strangely we don't get to see any of the Forgeworld models and the article could have been more fleshed out to make it even better, but a nice read nonetheless.

The War Diary continues and we get more really nice models to look at. We get two pages for Dan Hardens Empire showing his War Altar of Morr (where he has borrowed the idea of using Arch Confessor Kyrinov as a Morr priest from me actually, well I think so because he made a comment about me using him as a Priest/Arch Lector whent I sent him pictures of my Empire Army). We also get so his Great Swords and Display board.

The Bad

I should rename this I guess, because nothing is really bad in this issue. Some things could have been better though. For example the Kit Bash section, here we get a Kit Bash between three kits pretty much, the new Space Marine kit, Sternguard Kit and Vanguard Kit. Sure the models looks nice but I think we all can do that. Sure the name of it is Kit Bash but I think you can go further and make even more interesting models using more kits.

Paint Splatter again it's not bad, but could be better. We get to see how to paint Space Marines and SM Tanks using drybrushing, so quite basic actually. There's some more focus on a Centurion and Ultra Marines but we get some basic tips on Black Templars, Imperial Fists, Crimson Fists, Salamanders and White Scars as well.

I like this issue, but if you dislike Space Marines, this is probably not the issue for you. There are still things I would like to see in future WD:s though. More fluff for example, I remember those Index Astertes in the old WD for example, something like that would be cool. Then I would also liked to see more from the other chapters and their succesor chapters in this issue, little to much of the smurfs for my liking.

Another thing I would have liked to see is and I know they don't do this no more, example army lists using each of Chapter Tactics. Like how an Iron Hands army could look like, Salamanders etc.

All in  all this is an nice issue and I won't be so harsh with the rating as I maybe where in the last one so here it is.

Rating: 3
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Beyoncé had people trippin’ over her. The international superstar made her way through France’s Nice Airport with her security and mother, Tina Knowles, in tow. Fans and photographers chased her for photos, including one excited young lady who took a fall while trying to get up close with her idol. A concerned B looked back at the girl, who got right back up. The singer has been rehearsing overseas for her upcoming festival gigs and will return to the U.S. to play the “Good Morning America” Summer Concert Series on July 1.


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Monday, July 25, 2011

Lauryn Hill Welcomes Sixth Child

Lauryn Hill has added another member to her growing family. The former Fugee gave birth to a baby boy over the weekend.

Hill, 36, welcomed a son on Saturday (July 23). The father was not immediately identified. She has five previous children with Bob Marley’s son Rohan Marley.

According to, who first reported the news, the Grammy-winning singer “had a little scare because the baby came out the womb with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck.” But mother and child are doing fine. “All is well now and everyone is happy,” adds the source.

Marley congratulated Hill on the birth of her son. “I’m forwarding all well wishes to Ms. Hill on the birth of her new son,” he tweeted. “I’m sure she’ll appreciate the love being sent to her RASTAFARI R.M.”

Hill first hinted at her pregnancy at one of her recent concerts. “I keep having these children. I don’t know if I’m the most fertile woman in America,” she joked during a Los Angeles gig.

She wrote an open letter to her fans last month where she addressed her pregnancy and apologized for being late to her shows. She is scheduled to perform at the Rock the Bells Festival next month


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If blogs existed in 2002 we might be able to recycle the lede of the story, but Jim Thome has left the Cleveland Indians to play for the Philadelphia Phillies.

This time, it wasn’t about the money, but a chance to contribute to a team with the possibility of a championship. Thome signed a one-year, $1.25 million contract to reunite himself with long time manager and friend, Charlie Manuel. Thome, who can no longer play everyday because of back issues, hit .256, with 15 home runs and 50 runs batted in during 2011, a season split between Minnesota and Cleveland. Thome’s season was highlighted by becoming the eighth player in Major League Baseball to hit 600 home runs.

The slugger will mostly be used as a left handed pinch hitter off Manuel’s bench, but the Phillies could consider trying to play Thome occasionally at first base early in the season. Thome has not seen any regular time at first base since 2006, but he could help fill the hole left by Ryan Howard‘s achilles injury suffered in the National League Division Series. Howard is expected to miss the first two months of 2012.

While the Indians said they would like to have Thome return for 2012, it seemed improbable. Travis Hafner, another player unable to play the field, is signed for 2012 and is owed $13 million by the Indians.

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A few weeks ago, I published a collaborative blog post on “Annotexting,” which involved the close reading of text, annotations of text, and evidence based reading practices but involving 21st Century technologies and web tools.

This week, I’d like to offer an update, or perhaps a companion, that I’m calling “AnnoTango!”

Annotexting still relies on a balance between what is teacher-led and what is student-driven. A teacher would still be “directing traffic” in a specific way as they utilize web tools and focus students on deep reading, finding evidence for claims, and drawing conclusions.

Once the Annotexting becomes part of the habitual way in which students read text closely, it’s time to shake it up, and let the dance begin!

This involves shifting more responsibility to the students and thinking of the learning process as a ballroom dance. Read. Annotate. Learn. Switch. Read. Annotate. Learn. Switch. The teacher is still the in-room coach, but the students take on the responsibility of collaborative and communicative learning in a web-enhanced but still Socrative way.

This is the “AnnoTango.”

The students read and annotate (with web tools!) and they begin processing what they are learning with a partner or small group. When the students switch, they “annotate their annotations,” deconstructing and reconstructing their thinking as they switch groups. All of the collective information is curated in the web tools that they are using as a demonstration of understanding. (In fact, you could use the web tools to collect the entire conversation rather than just the annotations or singular thoughts.)

The assessment of their work could be around the thoughtful analysis of a new work, the defense of their thinking around what they curated alone and in groups, or even a collaborative creation that demonstrates how this level of access to information and its analysis by the group leads to critical thinking and strong conclusions drawn about a claim or thesis statement. (based on collected and discussed evidence.)

I’d also like to add that a natural extension to this would be taking it global. (Common Core College and Career Capacity #7!) If the students are already using web tools, then inviting in another classroom or students anywhere in the world would be pretty easy, as long as you know where to connect to these students. Around the World with 80 Schools and Skype In The Classroom would be a good place to find those connections.

Also of note: Skype In the Classroom, just this morning, shared the “collections” area of their website that represented exceptional “Skype In The Classroom” projects worldwide:

So that’s the “AnnoTango” in a nutshell. It can be an extension of “AnnoTexting” or a stand-alone way to let the close reading of text be more student-driven. The next step? I think David Bowie says it best in his late 80’s hit:

“Let’s Dance!”

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Friday, May 1, 2009

LIFE, What triggers a home feeling?

To trigger the home feeling of a place; recognition, freedom, detail and comfort seem to be the magic keywords.
• Own stuff, own music
• Freedom to choose
• Hissing sound of heater
• Bed, warm, good smell, food, drinks, friendly staff, outside space
Most of these items can be used as within an architectural expression.

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04 PM | 23 Apr

Hydroponic Billboard Grows Thousands of Lettuce Heads Each Week

Not all is wonderful when it comes to industrialization and manufacturing. For the capital of Peru, these things mean toxic runoff and contaminated food supplies. But in the Bujama region of Lima, a water-gerating billboard is generating fresh water and growing lettuce for the local community.

Air Orchard is a billboard that sits alongside the Panamericana Sur, Peru’s largest freeway, and extracts water from the air. A system of dehumidifiers is used for the withdrawal and filtering of the water, and the potable liquid is then transported through nutrient-lined PVC pipes to feed the hydroponic lettuce farm below.

For Lima, this development is huge, as crops laced with arsenic are cancerous hazards for the city’s population. By capturing water from the air before it reaches the polluted ground, Air Orchard is making it healthier for people to live in the developing urban area. The billboard produces approximately 2,400 heads of lettuce each week, all of which are distributed on the weekends to locals and passerby.

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I watched Invictus on DvD.

Clint Eastwood directs this film of rugby and Nelson Mandela in post-apartheid South Africa. Can a sports team really help a divided nation learn to live together? A tale worth the telling, if only to take us Mandela’s old prison cell and then ask the question: Can the oppressed forgive their former oppressors? Thumbs up.

Chime in. Share a film you watched this weekend, what it was about and what you thought of it.


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This interview was first published Oct. 5, 2010.

Jolynn McClelland, 28, grew up not far from the lighthouse on the windswept headlands of the Point Reyes National seashore. She comes from a long-time dairy family, the Mendozas, as does her husband, Robert McClelland.

Thanks, Jolynn, for sharing your story. Californians will recognize that I interviewed Jolynn at her family’s dairy ranch in spring when the native grasses were still green.


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Thursday, September 6, 2007

Mumbai Monitoring

Under orders from the Mumbai (Bombay) police, cyber cafes in that city are installing key loggers and automatic screen capture software on their PCs, reports an Indian newspaper/website.

The police are also looking at software that will monitoring browsing, file transfer, chat, IM and e-mail. In addition, cyber cafes in the city will need a police license to operate, and will have to register their IP addresses with the cops.

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