MAKE MINE A DOUBLE; A digital stills camera that can also record HD video? That’s the kind of two-for-one deal we really like
Tue ,24/11/20090 Comments | Mail on Sunday (London, England), The, Nov 22, 2009
CANON 7D [pounds sterling]1,299 (body), jessops.com Megapixels 18 Lens 18-135mm ([pounds sterling]529) Video resolution 1080p, 30fps Verdict The 7D is a serious semiprofessional digital SLR (DSLR). Its allnew 18-megapixel APS-C sensor is the next size down from the professional models and it comes with weatherproofing, the latest light metering and 19-point auto-focusing technology. For still photos, it’s hard to fault. The video function is trickier to use than a dedicated video camera – don’t forget you have to manually focus each shot – but with practice you can achieve stunning results. *****
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NIKON D300S [pounds sterling]1,249 (body), jessops.com Megapixels 13.1 Lens 16-85mm ([pounds sterling]550) Video resolution 720p, 24fps Verdict As soon as you pick up the Nikon you know it’s top-of-the-line kit. Build quality and handling are superb, with all the main features on dedicated controls for ease of use. Image quality is about as good as it gets with the large APS-C sensor. Despite its somewhat disappointing 12MP, it produces excellent noise reduction and dynamic range. Disappointingly, video is a bit below par with only mono sound and 720p quality. Nevertheless, a great all-rounder. ****
PANASONIC LUMIX GH1 [pounds sterling]1,199 (inc lens), currys.co.uk Megapixels 14 Lens 14-140mm Video resolution 1080p, 24fps Verdict The GH1 is a very competent stills camera, and although the smaller micro 4/3 sensor can’t compete with DSLRs in low light, it’s vastly superior to sensors in compact cameras. With video, the continuous silent auto-focus and ability to adjust shutter speed and aperture during filming solves the shortcomings of competing SLRs
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Dentists join crusade to stop alcohol abuse
Tue ,24/11/20090 Comments | Daily Mail (London, England), The, Nov 23, 2009
Byline: Alan Roden
DENTISTS are to quiz patients about their alcohol intake as part of Scotland’s latest health crackdown. When patients turn up for a checkup, they will be asked if they ‘feel guilty’ about having a drink.
Researchers in Glasgow are working with the NHS to develop a scheme which will see dentists ask patients how much they drink and refer for help those who may have a problem.
Dr Christine Goodall, oral surgery lecturer at Glasgow University, said: ‘Alcohol is a big factor in causing oral cancer. The good thing about dentists as opposed to a hospital unit is that dentists see patients regularly and are seeing patients who are not at the doctor’s all the time.’ The plan comes as ministers this week publish a Bill that would lead to a ‘minimum price’ for alcohol, sending the cost of beer, wine and cider soaring.
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The SNP has refused to reveal its preferred cost per unit of alcohol but the industry anticipates it will be 40p.
The future of the Bill remains uncertain, with the LibDems and Tories opposed but Labour still sitting on the fence.
Scottish Conservative deputy leader Murdo Fraser said: ‘The SNP’s policy is probably illegal, penalises responsible drinkers and will damage the whisky industry.’ Meanwhile, Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh, who has previously admitted using heroin and ecstasy, has called on politicians to end low prices for alcohol.
He said heavy drinking in Scotland could no longer be written off as a longstanding cultural problem.
Mr Welsh added: ‘More people than ever are at risk from being encouraged to overconsume this drug. ‘This has an incalculable impact on the NHS and on our social services through the pressure illness and harmful drinking puts on families.’ Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said: We welcome Irvine Welsh’s comments and the measures we have proposed to tackle alcohol misuse are in line with what he is saying
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KAUTO STARS AGAIN – BUT IT'S A REAL STRUGGLE
Mon ,23/11/20090 Comments | Sunday Mirror, Nov 22, 2009 | by BILL KNIGHT
KAUTO STAR collected the big money at Haydock, but it was heart- stopping stuff for the legion of fans who backed their favourite to odds-on in the build-up.
Jockey Ruby Walsh was convinced that he had lost out in a photo verdict to Imperial Commander after the pair had gone head to head all the way up the Haydock straight.
However, the print went the way of the much-battered rider who had missed the horse’s last two Betfair Chase bids through injury.
“You can always rely on this horse to dig deep and he had to pull out everything here,” said Walsh. “I thought I was beat, but I know he will come on for this.”
That was the best possible news for trainer Paul Nicholls, who said: “Now we are in course for Kempton and Cheltenham
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CEA and ASHA Strengthen Partnership to Promote Safe Listening
Mon ,23/11/20090 Comments | Wireless News, Nov 23, 2009
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) announced further collaboration with the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) to promote safe listening habits.
According to the CEA and ASHA, the new joint campaign elements include radio PSAs and a brochure focused on the safe usage of portable entertainment devices.
CEA and ASHA partnered with children’s musicians Billy Jonas, Justin Roberts, Brady Rymer and Linda Severt to produce 30- and 60- second audio PSAs with each artist promoting safe listening tips for children of all ages. The PSAs will run in radio markets where ASHA’s “Listen to Your Buds Safe Listening Concerts” are held. The two organizations also partnered to produce a new “Listening for a Lifetime” brochure that will be distributed to consumers through CEA’s manufacturing and retail members and CEA’s Web site DigitalTips.org.
Both of these outreach efforts are an expansion of CEA’s ongoing commitment to promote safe listening, along with ASHA’s “Listen To Your Buds” public education campaign, which teaches young children safe listening habits so that they protect their hearing from unsafe usage of personal audio technology.
“CEA is excited to broaden our commitment to promote safe listening habits through our work with ASHA,” said Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of CEA. “Once consumers are educated about how to use their personal audio devices safely, then protecting their hearing becomes part of their everyday routine.”
CEA and ASHA said they recommend a few simple steps for all consumers when using personal entertainment devices. First, set your volume control to the lowest level where listeners can hear the music comfortably and clearly. Once the volume is set, leave it there. Also, check if your music player has a volume limiter that allows listeners to set a safe listening level by establishing a maximum volume level on your player. Finally, limit listening time to give your hearing “quiet breaks.”
ASHA is the national professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 130,000 speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech and hearing scientists
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Utah Rep. Karl Wimmer bills
Sun ,22/11/20090 Comments | Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Nov 21, 2009 | by Bob Bernick Jr. Deseret News
Rep. Karl Wimmer has several bills planned for the 2010 Legislature, including:
Making it a crime for a woman to actively seek someone to help her abort a fetus. The bill stems from a Utah teen paying a man to kick and punch her in her abdomen in an attempt to abort her fetus. The man was charged, but a state judge said the young woman could not be
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Tulsa roofer expands into OKC area
Sat ,21/11/2009Journal Record, The (Oklahoma City), Nov 20, 2009 by Kirby Lee Davis
A-Best Roofing of Tulsa has expanded into the metro Oklahoma City area to secure more revenue in Oklahoma’s souring economy.
“This is just a little satellite that we’ve spun off from Tulsa to just give us a little flexibility when times are tough, like now,” said A-Best owner Jim Lane.
The 21-year-old Tulsa company also increased its commercial roofing services, hoping to build that from 25 percent of revenue to 50 percent.
“A lot of people don’t associate A-Best Roofing with being a commercial roofing contractor,” said Lane, who named Jeff Smith to oversee that new department. “That’s going to help us get through the highs and lows. We’d love to build up our business so we’re not so reliant on an act of nature.”
A-Best has opened a 2,000-square-foot office at 13722 N. Lincoln Blvd
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The 400-year-old mystery that threatens to bring down the
Sat ,21/11/20090 Comments | Evening Standard; London (UK), Nov 20, 2009 | by Nick Curtis
IT’S a bizarre story that, if true, could rock the English aristocracy. A New Zealand antiques dealer and former Olympic hockey player claims he is the rightful heir to the title Earl of Northumberland.
Kevin Percy, 74, says that “powerful vested interests” contrived to have his family’s bloodline declared extinct in 1670, after which the earldom was taken up by the family of the current Duke of Northumberland.
Asked if he plans to lay claim to the Duke’s estates, including Alnwick Castle — model for Hogwarts in the Harry Potter films — and Syon House in London, the avuncular Mr Percy replies: “Well, we mustn’t get ahead of ourselves …” Mr Percy has spent years working with a British genealogist and the London College of Arms to assemble compelling but tantalisingly inconclusive evidence of his claim. Now he is offering to test his DNA against the bodies of known relatives of the 5th Earl of Northumberland, and has written to the Queen to ask her to support his case for an exhumation.
A successful DNA match could have explosive repercussions not just for the current Duke but for an entire aristocracy founded on the notion of unbroken male bloodlines. Mr Percy says he is motivated purely by a wish to restore his family — and Percys worldwide — to their rightful genealogical place. Imagine his claim multiplied throughout the UK’s grand families, backed by the implacable proof of DNA testing, though: it’s possible to see the edifice of aristocracy shake.
The “Louvain-Percy” bloodline in question is itself heroic, stretching back to the French king Charlemagne. Other members include Harry “Hotspur” Percy, immortalised in Shakespeare’s Henry V; the dukes of Brabant; and a Henry Percy who was engaged to Anne Boleyn until a lustful Henry VIII intervened (an episode dramatised by Hilary Mantel in her Booker Prize-winning novel Wolf Hall and in last year’s remake of The Other Boleyn Girl, with Scarlett Johansson).
The circumstances of the claim are hugely complicated, and riven with intrigue. So Mr Percy will today put all the available history and correspondence on a website. He hopes it will generate “a groundswell of public opinion” to force the case for an exhumation.
In simplified form, the facts and suppositions are as follows. When the 11th Earl of Northumberland, Josceline, died in 1670 without leaving a male heir, the succession was presumed to have terminated.
The heiress to the estates married the Duke of Somerset; later, her granddaughter married Sir Hugh Smithson, who assumed the name Percy and in 1766 was created the first Duke of Northumberland and Earl Percy: the defunct earldom was subsumed within the ducal title
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Air New Zealand Flies Facebook Users to New Heights
Sat ,21/11/2009Market Wire, November, 2009
Be in charge of your own flight and jet off to exotic destinations with ” Jump Seat “, a new Facebook game launched by Air New Zealand this week. The interactive game tasks Facebook players with various missions and fast-paced adventures to be completed en route.
Jump Seat players can upload pictures to create their very own avatars as Air New Zealand Flight Attendants or First Officers. Once en route, participants answer trivia questions, play mini games and complete onboard tasks. Each completed task or correct answer is rewarded with energy points – the faster the response, the more points, which unlocks new levels of the game .
Recruit Facebook friends to help fluff pillows for the lie-flat beds; recommend and refill New Zealand wine, a key component of the airline’s world-class service; send fellow flight attendants gifts of energy points for a boost; and tag team to ensure all passengers have an excellent in-flight experience.
“Our mission is to make flying fun again, and Jump Seat is an exciting extension of our unique, on-board experience,” said Roger Poulton, Air New Zealand vice president – the Americas. “Introducing passengers to Air New Zealand’s world-class, friendly service is the first step to sparking trips to New Zealand, and there’s no better way to engage than by inviting future travellers to create their own, in-flight experience.”
Get flying on Facebook now at http://tinyurl.com/y9hcu43
Air New Zealand offers Facebook fans the chance to book a real flight at a reduced fare, with round trip tickets starting at $1,249 (CAD) from Vancouver to Auckland, New Zealand. Travellers must book before November 30, 2009 for travel between February 1 and May 31, 2010.
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Air New Zealand offers more direct flights to the South Pacific than any other airline, including non-stop flights from Vancouver San Francisco, Los Angeles and Honolulu to New Zealand, as well as Los Angeles non-stop to the Cook Islands and Samoa. Other popular destinations include Australia, China, Japan and Tonga. In addition to flying non-stop Los Angeles-London, Air New Zealand’s route between London and Hong Kong now allows customers to fly round-the-world on one airline. Consistently rated among the world’s best international airlines, Air New Zealand’s new Inflight Concierge Service provides all passengers with a range of services, from travel advice to assistance with onward bookings. Air New Zealand’s most recent accolades include “Best Business Class to Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific” for the third straight year by Business Traveler Magazine (USA) “Best Transpacific Airline” at the 26th Airline Industry Awards, “Best Passenger Service” award by Air Transport World magazine, and “Best Business Class Red Wine” for the Martinborough Pinot Noir 2005 at the 2007 Cellars in the Sky awards.
United Mileage Plus, US Airways Dividend Miles and Air Canada’s Aeroplan members earn and redeem mileage on select flights. Flight and vacation essentials can be booked on AirNewZealand.com or by calling 1-800-262-1234 in the USA and 1-800-663-5494 in Canada
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SCAM TARGETS MONEY MULES
Fri ,20/11/20090 Comments | Daily Mirror, The; London (UK), Nov 19, 2009 | by Penman
BEING scammed after losing your job is a double kick where it hurts.
Thousands of jobseekers are duped by online banking fraudsters into acting as “money mules” laundering millions every week.
Worse, the mules, who think they have a genuine job with a foreign company, end up out of pocket and branded criminals.
John is typical. When he was laid-off, he looked online for home- based work
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Pepperidge Farm Supports Habitat for Humanity and Celebrates Making Holiday Memories at Home with Holiday “Cookie House” Sweepstakes
Fri ,20/11/2009Business Wire, Nov 19, 2009
Celebrity Designer, Tracy Hutson, Encourages Consumers to Share
Holiday Baking Memories for the Chance to Win $10,000 for a Home
Improvement Project
NORWALK, Conn. — The holiday season conjures countless memories spent among family and
friends at home, such as gathering for time honored traditions like
building cookie houses, enjoying festive meals and exchanging holiday
gifts. In celebration of families making memories in homes of their own,
Pepperidge Farm is proud to support Habitat for Humanity this holiday
season by donating $50,000 to help eliminate poverty housing.
And to help spread holiday joy, Pepperidge Farm is inviting consumers to
share a cookie house photograph or personal holiday baking story for a
chance to win $10,000 toward a home improvement project.
Pepperidge Farms partnership with Habitat for Humanity is very
exciting because we believe in supporting the organizations important
mission, said Brian Immel, Business Director, Adult Snacks at
Pepperidge Farm. We are proud to help give more families in need the
opportunity to experience holiday joy in their own homes. Since its
founding in 1976, Habitat has built more than 300,000 houses worldwide,
providing simple, decent and affordable shelter for more than 1.5
million people.
Television personality and celebrity designer Tracy Hutson is
encouraging consumers to take part in this exciting sweepstakes. The
holidays are the perfect time for fun household projects that bring the
family together, said Hutson. Building a cookie house is a great way
to make memories at home, express creativity and begin or continue a
special family tradition. I cant wait to upload a photograph of my
familys cookie house to help get into the spirit of the season.
For cookie house novices and experts alike, Pepperidge Farm developed an
online video showing step-by-step directions for creating a classic
cookie house complete with homemade icing. The video can be found at http://cookiehouse.pepperidgefarm.com.
Now through 11:59pm EST on Thursday, December 31, 2009, consumers are
invited to go online and access the recipe featuring Pepperidge Farm cookies.
By uploading a cookie house photograph or personal holiday baking story,
consumers will spread holiday cheer among other baking enthusiasts and
be entered to win a $10,000 gift card to a home improvement store for an
enhancement project of their own.
Available at major supermarkets and grocery stores nationwide, Pepperidge
Farm cookies are sold with suggested retail prices ranging from
$3.99 to $5.99
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