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Peer-to-peer connections join devices when routers or servers aren't available
Ad-hoc networks are local area networks that are also known as P2P networks because the devices communicate directly, without relying on servers. Like other P2P configurations, ad-hoc networks tend to feature a small group of devices all in very close proximity to each other.
Wireless ad-hoc networking describes a mode of connecting wireless devices to one another without the use of a central device like a router that conducts the flow of communications. Each device connected to an ad-hoc network forwards data to the other devices.
Because ad-hoc networks require minimal configuration and can be deployed quickly, they make sense when you need to put together a small — usually temporary — cheap, all-wireless LAN. They also work well as a temporary fallback mechanism if equipment for an infrastructure mode network fails.
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Ad-Hoc Benefits and Downfalls
Ad-hoc networks are obviously useful but only under certain conditions. While they're easy to configure and work effectively for what they're intended for, they might not be what's needed in some situations.
Without the need for access points, ad-hoc networks provide a cheap means of direct client-to-client communication.
They are easy to configure and provide one of the best ways to communicate with nearby devices in time-sensitive scenarios when running cable is not an option, such as in emergency medical environments.
Ad-hoc networks are often secured given their usually temporary or impromptu nature. Without network access control, for example, ad-hoc networks can be open to attacks.
When the number of devices on the ad-hoc network is relatively small, performance might be better than when more users are connected to a regular network.
Devices in an ad-hoc network cannot disable SSID broadcasting in the way that devices in infrastructure mode can. Attackers generally will have little difficulty finding and connecting to an ad-hoc device if they get within signal range.
Performance suffers as the number of devices grows in an ad-hoc setup, and it becomes increasingly more difficult to manage as the network grows larger.
Devices can't use the internet unless one of them is connected to the internet and sharing it with the others. If internet sharing is enabled, the client performing this function will experience massive performance problems, especially if there are lots of interconnected devices.
Managing an ad-hoc network is difficult because there isn't a central device through which all traffic flows. This means there isn't a single place to visit for traffic stats, security implementations, etc.
There are a few other limitations of ad-hoc networks that you should be aware of before you set up this type of network.
Requirements for Creating an Ad-hoc Network
To set up a wireless ad-hoc network, each wireless adapter must be configured for ad-hoc mode instead of infrastructure mode, which is the mode used in networks where there is a central device like a router or server that manages the traffic.
In addition, all wireless adapters must use the same Service Set Identifier (SSID) and channel number.
Wireless ad-hoc networks cannot bridge wired LANs or to the internet without installing a special-purpose network gateway.
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What to watch today: Dow set to bounce, helped by gains in J&J shares on split plans
Published Fri, Nov 12 20218:36 AM EST Updated Fri, Nov 12 20218:56 AM EST
Matthew J. Belvedere@Matt_Belvedere
U.S. stock futures rose Friday, helped by premarket strength in Dow component Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) on plans to split into two companies. The Nasdaq and the S&P 500 rebounded Thursday. But the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell for a third straight session, pulled down by Disney's (DIS) 7% decline on disappointing quarterly results. Dow stock Disney was modestly higher in Friday's premarket. (CNBC)
The U.S. bond market opened back up Friday after the Veterans Day holiday, with the 10-year Treasury yield flat, following this week's gains after hot inflation data. The government is out with its Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey at 10 a.m. ET. JOLTS in September is expected to show employment vacancies dropping to 10.2 million after the prior month's 10.4 million, fueled by record quits.
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J&J shares rose roughly 3% in the premarket after the health-care giant announced Friday it's splitting into two publicly traded companies: one focused on consumer products, such as Band-Aid bandages and baby powder, and the other focused on medical devices and pharmaceuticals, including its Covid vaccine (CNBC)
* Austria to impose lockdown on millions of unvaccinated people as Covid (CNBC)
* Vaccines alone won't end the pandemic, says New Zealand's ex-prime minister (CNBC)
Shares of Rivian Automotive (RIVN) rose nearly 4% in Friday's premarket, a move that would add to the newly public electric vehicle maker's two-day gain of 57%. Since Wednesday's debut, Rivian's market value has climbed to $105 billion and CEO R.J. Scaringe's stake in the company he founded in 2009 was valued at $2.2 billion. (CNBC)
Rivian, which has Amazon (AMZN) and Ford (F) as backers, pales in comparison to Tesla's more than $1 trillion market value. Elon Musk, worth more than $275 billion, took a shot at his rival Thursday, saying high production and break-even cash flow will be the true test for Rivian. (CNBC)
* Xpeng shares spike 10% as the Chinese electric carmaker teases new SUV (CNBC)
Alibaba (BABA) and JD.com (JD) racked up around $139 billion of sales across their platforms on China's Singles Day shopping event, setting a record. Singles Day was slightly more muted this year as Chinese tech companies continued to face scrutiny from regulators and Chinese President Xi Jinping's push for so-called common prosperity. (CNBC)
Xi took another step to solidify his hold on China, the world's second-largest economy, and to advance his vision for a strong Chinese Communist Party-dominated system. On Thursday, he joined the ranks of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping as the country's third leader to oversee a "historical resolution" at the close of the widely watched meeting of the CCP. (CNBC)
* China slams U.S. democracy at an event promoting Xi's growing power (CNBC)
Party officials called Xi a "helmsman" and a "people's leader" on Friday, in a show of support for his continuing leadership. Those terms were descriptions used more than 50 years ago during the cult of personality surrounding Mao. Xi and U.S. President Joe Biden are expected to hold a virtual meeting Monday. (Reuters)
* COP26 negotiators scramble to turn promises into action on the final day of climate talks (CNBC)
Lordstown Motors (RIDE) plummeted 10% in premarket trading on Friday after the company reported another quarter with no revenue. Lordstown said it plans to produce and deliver its Endurance truck in the third quarter of 2022. The company's loss per share was narrower than expected in its most recent quarter, according to Refinitiv. BTIG also downgraded Lordstown Motors to neutral from buy.
WM Technology (MAPS) was 16% lower in premarket trading on Friday after missing on the top and bottom lines of its quarterly results. WM Technology's fourth-quarter guidance also came in under expectations.
Nvidia fell slightly in premarket trading on Friday after Wedbush downgraded Nvidia to neutral from outperform on valuation. The Wedbush analyst is struggling to justify Nvidia trading 55x the firm's 2024 numbers.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ticked lower in premarket trading on Friday after Goldman Sachs downgraded the stock to sell from neutral, citing a weakening IT spending environment in late 2021 and early 2022. The Wall Street firm cut its price target to $14 per share from $16 per share.
Blink Charging (BLNK) rose 5% in premarket trading on Friday as investors cheered strong third-quarter revenue. The company reported $6.4 million in revenue, well ahead of the $4.7 million expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv.
Caesars Entertainment (CZR) rose in premarket trading on Friday after B Riley Securities initiated coverage of Caesars Entertainment with a buy rating and a $191 per share price target.
Warby Parker fell in premarket trading on Friday after the company reported wider-than-expected losses as direct listing costs offset 32% sales growth. Warby's net loss for the three-month period ended Sept. 30 widened to $91.1 million, or $1.45 per share, compared with a loss of $41.6 million, or 78 cents a share, a year earlier.
A video published by Inspired by Iceland, a marketing campaign for Icelandic tourism, takes aim at a Mark Zuckerberg video released in October announcing Facebook's name change to Meta (FB). In it, Zuckerberg hypes the so-called "metaverse." Icelandic tourism authorities seem to think they can offer something better. (CNBC)

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Gardasil –- More alarming stories from mothers and grandmothers
Filed under: autoimmune disease, big pharma, cancer, CDC, cervical cancer, Child Abuse, deadly vaccinations, deadly vaccine, deadly vaccines, Eugenics, fda, gardasil, Genocide, health and environment, HPV, HPV Vaccine, Human Experiments, immune system, medical Experiments, medical industrial complex, merck, polio, polio vaccine, polysorbate 80, tween 80, Vaccine, vaccine virus
Readers tell of death, devastation, and disabilities caused to their young daughters after taking this vaccine. No one knows at this time the long term affects of this vaccine on 25,000,000 young women who have received this vaccine. Some states want to make it mandatory like DPT, polio, and chicken pox. Where has individual rights gone? Should this vaccine be taken off the market?
Below are additional comments submitted by readers who have researched this vaccine and/or who have had a daughter made terribly ill after taking this vaccine. As in previous article, these comments are unedited. There have been 25 million young girls who have been administered this drug and some had immediate or long term illnesses associated with it.
One commenter tells about the ingredients in this vaccine and the possible long term affects. Parents, guardians, and teachers need even more to encourage these young women to practice chastity in an effort to stem cervical cancer caused by HPV. I want to thank these individuals who have come forth to share their information and their stories; some so terribly sad.
There are over 200,000 people a year killed in hospitals by mistakes and errors and most are drug related in some way. The following comments were copied and pasted and left unedited.
Denise Melton says:
"ONE LESS" has been mentioned by one of the writers. Our family is also "ONE LESS". Jessie had all three shots of Gardasil. After the second shot she and her mother notices the headaches, Muscle aches, and fatigue. Jessie was taken to the doctor that gave her the Gardasil. The doctor said it was just stress. Jessie was a cheerleader; a member of the National Honor Society, Played many sports and was practicing for softball, which was about to start. Jessie went with her mother on February 20, 2008 for the third shot of Gardasil. The next night she told her mother that the headache was back and went to bed. Her mother went to work early the next day and upon returning home from work found Jessie dead. She had been dead for several hours. The medical examiner said, "She was dead before she hit the floor". Still he could find no cause for her death. Gardasil was typed into the computer and the nightmares that came up were shocking.
R. Boyce says:
Here is some information I found on one of the ingredients in the GArdasil vaccine. Very scary stuff!
Studies have shown disturbing and potentially serious health effects related to Tween 80. The anti HPV vaccine Gardasil contains Polysorbate 80, which is linked to infertility in mice," noted Dee Nicholson, National Communications Director for Freedom in Canadian Health Care. [Nov 2007] Sleight of Handling: More Merck Magic Tricks With HPV Vaccine By Christopher C. Barr
A study published in December, 2005 discovered that Tween 80 can cause anaphylaxis, a sometimes fatal reaction characterized by a sharp drop in blood pressure, hives, and breathing difficulties. Researchers concluded that the severe reaction was not a typical allergic response characterized by the combination of IgE antibodies and the release of histamines; it was caused by a serious disruption that had occurred within the immune system.
Teresa Allen says:
My 16 year old daughter was also injured by the Gardasil vaccine. She had her first jab on January 9th, 2009 and her second on March 9th, 2009 (the day after her 16th birthday). Since her first shot, she has suffered dizziness, overall weakness, pains in both legs and left arm, numbness and tingling in both legs and left arm, back pains, neck pains, pressure headaches, vision disturbances, racing heartbeat, chest pains, nausea, diarhea, weight loss, hair loss, just to name a few. She has been rushed to the ER three times with breathing problems. She stopped breathing 3 times. She threw her birth control away because she was so sick and didnt want to take anything else. We literally thought she was going to die. Just 2 weeks after throwing her birth control out, and being comforted by her best friend, she got pregnant. She failed her 10th grade year from missing so much school and having brain fog. Now she is carrying a baby that could have birth defects. How many more girls????
MY GIRL DIED AS 'GUINEA PIG' FOR GARDASIL
The Great HPV Vaccine Hoax Exposed
Vaccinations Destroy Lives
Polio Surges in Nigeria After Vaccine Virus Mutates
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Polio, a dreaded paralyzing disease stamped out in the industrialized world, is spreading in Nigeria despite efforts to stamp it out. And health officials say in some cases, it's caused by the vaccine used to fight it.
In July, the World Health Organization issued a warning that this vaccine-spread virus might extend beyond Africa. So far, 124 Nigerian children have been paralyzed this year — about twice those afflicted in 2008.
The polio problem is just the latest challenge to global health authorities trying to convince wary citizens that vaccines can save them from dreaded disease. For years, myths have abounded about vaccines — that they were the Western world's plan to sterilize Africans or give them AIDS. The sad polio reality fuels misguided fears and underscores the challenges authorities face using a flawed vaccine.
Nigeria and most other poor nations use an oral polio vaccine because it's cheaper, easier, and protects entire communities.
But it is made from a live polio virus — albeit weakened — which carries a small risk of causing polio for every million or so doses given. In even rarer instances, the virus in the vaccine can mutate into a deadlier version that ignites new outbreaks.
The vaccine used in the United States and other Western nations is given in shots, which use a killed virus that cannot cause polio.
So when WHO officials discovered a polio outbreak in Nigeria was sparked by the polio vaccine itself, they assumed it would be easier to stop than a natural "wild" virus.
In 2007, health experts reported that amid Nigeria's ongoing outbreak of wild polio viruses, 69 children had also been paralyzed in a new outbreak caused by the mutation of a vaccine's virus.
Back then, WHO said the vaccine-linked outbreak would be swiftly overcome — yet two years later, cases continue to mount. They have since identified polio cases linked to the vaccine dating back as far as 2005.
It is a worrying development for officials who hope to end polio epidemics in India and Africa by the end of this year, after missing several earlier deadlines. "It's very disturbing," said Dr. Bruce Aylward, who heads the polio department at the World Health Organization.
This year, the number of polio cases caused by the vaccine has doubled: 124 children have so far been paralyzed, compared to 62 in 2008, out of about 42 million children vaccinated. For every case of paralysis, there are hundreds of other children who don't develop symptoms, but pass on the disease.
When Nigerian leaders suspended polio vaccination in 2003, believing the vaccine would sterilize their children and infect them with HIV, Nigeria exported polio to nearly two dozen countries worldwide, making it as far away as Indonesia.
Nigeria resumed vaccinations in 2004 after tests showed the vaccine was not contaminated with estrogen, anti-fertility agents or HIV.
Experts have long believed epidemics unleashed by a vaccine's mutated virus wouldn't last since the vaccine only contains a weakened virus strain — but that assumption is coming under pressure. Some experts now say that once viruses from vaccines start circulating they can become just as dangerous as wild viruses.
"The only difference is that this virus was originally in a vaccine vial," said Olen Kew, a virologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The oral polio vaccine used in Nigeria and elsewhere contains a mild version of the live virus. Children who have been vaccinated pass the virus into the water supply through urine or feces. Other children who then play in or drink that water pick up the vaccine's virus, which gives them some protection against polio.
But in rare instances, as the virus passes through unimmunized children, it can mutate into a strain dangerous enough to ignite new outbreaks, particularly if immunization rates in the rest of the population are low.
Kew said genetic analysis proves mutated viruses from the vaccine have caused at least seven separate outbreaks in Nigeria.
Though Nigeria's coverage rates have improved, up to 15% of children in the north still haven't been vaccinated against polio. To eradicate the disease, officials need to reach about 95% of the population.
Nigeria's vaccine-linked outbreak underlines the need to stop using the oral polio vaccine as soon as possible, since it can create the very epidemics it was designed to stop, experts say. WHO is researching other vaccines that might work better, but none is on the horizon.
Until a better vaccine is ready, WHO and U.S. CDC officials say the oral vaccine is the best available tool to eradicate polio and that when inoculation rates are nearly 100% it works fine.
"Nigeria is almost a case study in what happens when you don't follow the recommendations," Kew said.
Since WHO and partners began their attempt to rid the world of polio in 1988, officials have slashed the disease's incidence by more than 99%.
But numerous deadlines have been missed and the number of cases has been at a virtual standstill since 2000. Critics have also wondered whether it is time to give up, and donors may be sick of continuing to fund a program with no clear endgame.
"Eradication is a gamble," said Scott Barrett, an economist at Columbia University who has studied polio policies. "It's all or nothing … and there is a very real risk this whole thing may fall apart."
Aside from Nigeria, polio persists in a handful of other countries, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Chad, Angola and Sudan.
Aylward agreed the Nigeria situation was another unwelcome hurdle, but was confident eradication was possible. "We still have a shot," he said. "We're throwing everything at it including the kitchen sink."
Jim Carrey's Fight Against Toxic Vaccines
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Superstar Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy are at full-force against childhood vaccines that are given during the child's developmental stage. The CDCs vaccination schedule for children is ever increasing since Thimerosal was implemented in the 1930s. The current recommended schedule for these shots is 48 doses of 14 vaccines by the time the child starts kindergarten, of these, 36 doses of various vaccines will be given during the first 18 months of life. [Source]
The Hollywood couple went on Larry King Live concerned that children are given 'too many vaccines too soon' and that these vaccines have ingredients like Thimerosal (mercury) causing brain neuron degeneration called Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPDDzwhu–s
Jim Carrey recently wrote an article in the Huffington Post titled "Judgement on Vaccines Is In?". here's a few snippets:
"In this growing crisis, we cannot afford to blindly trumpet the agenda of the CDC, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) or vaccine makers. Now more than ever, we must resist the urge to close this book before it's been written. The anecdotal evidence of millions of parents who've seen their totally normal kids regress into sickness and mental isolation after a trip to the pediatrician's office must be seriously considered. The legitimate concern they and many in the scientific community have that environmental toxins, including those found in vaccines, may be causing autism and other disorders (Asbergers, ADD, ADHD), cannot be dissuaded by a show of sympathy and a friendly invitation to look for the 'real' cause of autism anywhere but within the lucrative vaccine program.
In all likelihood the truth about vaccines is that they are both good and bad. While ingredients like aluminum, mercury, ether, formaldehyde and anti-freeze may help preserve and enhance vaccines, they can be toxic as well. The assortment of viruses delivered by multiple immunizations may also be a hazard. I agree with the growing number of voices within the medical and scientific community who believe that vaccines, like every other drug, have risks as well as benefits and that for the sake of profit, American children are being given too many, too soon. One thing is certain. We don't know enough to announce that all vaccines are safe!
We have never argued that people shouldn't be immunized for the most serious threats including measles and polio, but surely there's a limit as to how many viruses and toxins can be introduced into the body of a small child. Veterinarians found out years ago that in many cases they were over-immunizing our pets, a syndrome they call Vaccinosis. It overwhelmed the immune system of the animals, causing myriad physical and neurological disorders. Sound familiar? If you can over-immunize a dog, is it so far out to assume that you can over-immunize a child? These forward thinking vets also decided to remove Thimerosal from animal vaccines in 1992, and yet this substance, which is 49% mercury, is still in human vaccines. Don't our children deserve as much consideration as our pets?
If the CDC, the AAP and Ms. Brown insist that our children take twice as many shots as the rest of the western world, we need more independent vaccine research not done by the drug companies selling the vaccines or by organizations under their influence. Studies that cannot be internally suppressed. Answers parents can trust. Perhaps this is what Campbell Brown should be demanding and how the power of the press could better serve the public in the future." [Source]
The main cause for autism is a vaccine preservative called Thimerosal, which is 49.6% mercury by weight, mercury is the second most toxic metal known to mankind. [Source] Not only is mercury in childhood vaccines but in 90% of all flu shots, food, and silver amalgam tooth fillings which also cause Brain Neuron Degeneration:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1911155503223191666
If you have amalgam tooth fillings you can find your nearest Biological Dentist that are professionals in safely extracting amalgam, replacing them with better materials. [Source]
A study from the California Department of Developmental Services (DDS) also agrees with the hypothesis that autism is directly caused by the exposure of the vaccine preservative Thimerosal. [Source]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the author of "Deadly Immunity" on RollingStone.com appeared on Scarborough Country in 2008 discussing how the same top government scientists whom green-lighted Thimerosal in vaccines in the 1930s are covering-up the effects of Thimerosal from the American people today
The same year Kennedy Jr.'s article was published the U.S. Government quietly admitted the link with vaccines-autism in a Court of Federal Claims [Source]
In other non-related thimerosal news, girls and women who receive Merck's Gardasil (an HPV vaccine) are getting Guillian-Barre syndrome (a debilitating neuron disorder) after getting their shots. The same vaccine injury that 500 U.S. soldiers experienced during the swine flu scare of 1976. [Source]
There are a lot of vaccines that contain a cocktail of who knows what, it is playing Russian roulette with your health. Big Pharma is big business, and big corporations get together with big governments to destroy lives and make money! When you think of vaccines, think about how Baxter Pharmaceuticals was caught putting H5N1 in flu vaccines! [Source].
The eugenics society and Big Pharma corporations have a never-ending vendetta against human life. They seek to destroy life, they seek to dumb down intelligence so people do not question their authority. They want a zombie-like population, that's why mandatory child vaccinations are needed, and if you don't bend to the will of this Orwellian government you will be labeled an "unfit parent" or a "crazy conspiracy theorist" and have your child taken away.
Bertrand Russell in his 1952 book The Impact of Science on Society* describes the effects
of "scientific technique" on the increasing control of societies by an ever shrinking number of people
In 1952, Globalist Bertrand A. W. Russell wrote a book called "The Impact of Science and Society" describes the effects of scientific techniques of manipulation used on societies, on page 49-50 he wrote: "Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible."
Thimerosal in vaccines doesn't lead to autism?
http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=5231
Childhood vaccine linked to convulsions
http://www.rawstory.com/news/m..inked_to_convuls_02272008.html
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Dangerous HPV Vaccine Mandatory For Immigrants
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Genetically Engineered Merck Cancer Vaccine Made Mandatory For Immigrants
Controversial shot now required if you want to live the American dream
Infowars.net
Immigrants seeking permanent legal residency in the U.S. are now mandated to take an expensive and controversial vaccine that has been linked with thousands of serious complaints and several deaths.
The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine — known as Gardasil — is one of five the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services recently added to the required list, reports Fox 8 News.
A press release from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Agency confirms that the requirements for the vaccine went into effect on July 1, 2008.
The regulation represents a total dismissal of the recommendation of Dr. Jon Abramson, chairman of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's advisory committee on immunization practices. In February 2007, Abramson said that he and the 15-member panel at the CDC opposed making Gardasil mandatory because the sexually transmitted HPV is not a contagious disease like measles or chicken pox.
At $162 per dose, the three-dose vaccine is set to make millions in profits for Gardasil manufacturer Merck, a company that has a history of both lobbying intensely for state mandates and entering into crony deals to hoodwink Americans into believing HPV vaccinations are compulsory.
Merck were unable to sell the "benefits" of the vaccine to make enough profit out of it, so instead they turned to state legislature and attempted to pay off Governors and other officials to curry favor and force eleven year old girls (and in other states children as young as eight) who aren't even sexually active to take the shot.
However, the pharmaceutical giant agreed to stop lobbying state legislatures to make it mandatory for schoolgirls to be inoculated with Gardasil after a fierce backlash from concerned parents and religious organizations.
We previously exposed Merck's role one such crony deal with Texas Governor Rick Perry which saw a resulting media campaign fool parents into thinking that the HPV vaccine had been made compulsory by law for all young girls.
Without consulting and doctors, scientists or medical experts, Perry, who has various close ties to Merck, issued an executive order requiring girls to be vaccinated against HPV. Several Texas lawmakers subsequently petitioned for a reversal of the decision without success.
Almost immediately following Perry's announcement, newspapers and TV stations began to report that it was "the law" that parents had to have their child vaccinated. This reflects a national and international hoax that is repeatedly being perpetrated shortly before school terms begin each year.
There is no law in America, aside from those applying to medical workers, that says any citizen or their children have to take any vaccine whatsoever, no matter what any executive order, requirement, mandate or policy dictates.
As in the case of all other vaccines, Perry's executive order merely stated that the vaccine is "recommended," yet the mass media drumbeat constantly conditions people to believe that if they don't take their shots they will be kicked out of school, arrested and thrown in jail.
Last November we reported on a case in Prince George's County, Maryland, where parents of more than 1600 children were told they could be put in jail for failing to get their kids vaccinated. At the time a local Fox News affiliate reported, "A new law was passed last year requiring children from 5th through to 10th grade to have the vaccine," which was a total lie.
The non-complying parents were not charged not under vaccination laws (because there aren't any) but under truancy, neglect or child in need of supervision laws, which state that the parent is culpable after 30 days of a child's unexplained absence from school.
The school itself triggered the truancy violation by unfairly kicking the kids out of school, and failing to inform parents about vaccine waiver forms. A state prosecutor involved in the case then admitted that there is no law that mandates any vaccine.
This trick will continue to hoodwink Americans into taking all manner of dangerous and untested vaccines, the number of which rises every year, until they realize that there is no law that forces them to take any vaccine.
Until this is drilled home with parents we will also keep seeing relatively unchallenged moves to pass legislation to make mandatory all vaccines recommended by the CDC for all children, including infants and toddlers.
As we have previously seen with other controversial schemes such as Real ID, immigrant populations provide a prime testing ground to quietly introduce policies that may later be subject to efforts to make them mandatory for all American citizens.
So what is actually in the HPV vaccine?
Live genetically engineered cancer virus. As the vaccine spreads in use, reports of horrible side effects are already starting to proliferate.
"Negative side effects of Gardasil, a new Merck vaccine to prevent the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer, are being reported in the District of Columbia and 20 states, including Virginia. The reactions range from loss of consciousness to seizures," reported the Washington Times.
"Young girls are experiencing severe headaches, dizziness, temporary loss of vision and some girls have lost consciousness during what appear to be seizures," said Vicky Debold, health policy analyst for the National Vaccine Information Center, a nonprofit watchdog organization that was created in the early 1980s to prevent vaccine injuries."
The report quotes physicians who debunk the claim that the HPV vaccine even prevents cervical cancer, as is claimed by Merck and the FDA.
"There is no proof Gardasil will stop cervical cancer," said Clayton Young, an obstetrician/gynecologist in Texas, "They haven't been studying it long enough to make that claim."
Non-profit, public interest group Judicial Watch, released a report at the end of June this year which revealed that there had been 9,749 adverse reactions and 21 reported deaths related to Gardasil in the last two years.
According to the report, there have been 78 severe outbreaks of genital warts, six cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome and at least 10 miscarriages reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) since the approval of Gardasil. However, a study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that clinicians, patients and drug companies report only about 10 percent of side effects to VAERS, so the actual number of Gardasil side effects could be much higher.
The CDC subsequently released a statement on July 22 which stated "Based on ongoing assessments of vaccine safety information, the FDA and CDC continue to find that Gardasil is a safe and effective vaccine… The benefits continue to outweigh the risks."
Merck also issued a statement in response to the data, saying it "believes that no safety issue related to the vaccine has been identified. These types of events are events that could also be seen in the general population, even in the absence of vaccination."
The CDC plans to release a study in October that it says will help determine whether a true linkage between Gardasil and the reported adverse reactions exists.
The U.S. distributed 2.2 million doses of the vaccine in 2006 and 11.3 million in 2007.
Alex Jones Show – (8/14/2008) With Vaccine Expert Barbara Lowe Fisher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSUa-rCUDxo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS-MiW5DV-I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn1FVN6UJAE
Flashback: Hepatitis B Vaccine Linked to Diabetes
http://www.infowars.com/?p=4283
Vaccinated girl new victim of polio
http://www.dawn.com/2008/09/18/top17.htm
Group With Big Pharma Ties Wants to Shut Down Vaccine "Conspiracy Theories"
http://www.prisonplanet.com/group-..-vaccine-conspiracy-theories.html
Ministers ignored parents' fears over cervical cancer jab
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi..ervical-cancer-jab-921704.html
Doctor: AIDS Created For Eugenics Experiments
Filed under: aids, Bio Weapons, cancer, CDC, deadly vaccines, Eugenics, flu vaccine, Genocide, hepatitis B vaccine, innoculation, live cancer virus, malthusian catastrophe, man made disease, man made diseases, merck, pandemic virus, polio, polio vaccine, Population Control, SV40, Vaccine, vaccine virus, virus pandemic | Tags: herpes, ks virus, National Institutes of Health, NIH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edikv0zbAlU
There is no doubt that AIDS erupted in the U.S. shortly after government-sponsored hepatitis B vaccine experiments (1978-1981) using gay men as guinea pigs. The epidemic was caused by the "introduction" of a new retrovirus (the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV for short); and the introduction of a new herpes-8 virus, the virus that causes Kaposi's sarcoma, widely known as the "gay cancer" of AIDS. The taboo theory that AIDS is a man-made disease is largely based on research showing an intimate connection between government vaccine experiments and the outbreak of "the gay plague"
The widely accepted theory is that HIV/AIDS originated in a monkey or chimpanzee virus that "jumped species" in Africa. However, it is clear that the first AIDS cases were recorded in gay men in Manhattan in 1979, a few years before the epidemic was first noticed in Africa in 1982. It is now claimed that the human herpes-8 virus (also called the KS virus), discovered in 1994, also originated when a primate herpes virus jumped species in Africa. How two African species-jumping viruses ended up exclusively in gay men in Manhattan beginning in the late 1970s has never been satisfactorily explained.
Researchers who claim AIDS is a man-made disease believe it is much more likely that these two primate viruses were introduced and spread during the government's recruitment of thousands of male homosexuals beginning in 1974.
Large numbers of gay men in Manhattan donated blood for the experimental hepatitis B vaccine trial, which took place at the New York Blood Center in Manhattan in 1978. Extensive evidence supporting the man-made theory of AIDS is easily found on the Internet by Googling: man-made origin of AIDS; and in my two books, "AIDS and the Doctors of Death" and "Queer Blood: The Secret AIDS Genocide Plot."
Government interest in "gay health" before the AIDS epidemic
Beginning in the mid-1970s, government scientists became interested in the health of gay men, particularly in the realm of sexually-transmitted diseases, and specifically in the sexual transmission of the hepatitis B virus. The early 1970s was a time when large numbers of gays come out of the closet and identified themselves as homosexuals at government-sponsored health clinics. Organizations such as the Gay Men's Health Project were formed at this time. Promiscuous gays were avidly sought as volunteers to test the efficacy of a newly-developed hepatitis B vaccine manufactured by Merck and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
By 1977 over 13,000 Manhattan gays were screened to secure the final 1083 men who would serve as guinea pigs to test the hepatitis B vaccine. The vaccine was manufactured from the combined plasma of 30 highly selected gay men who carried the hepatitis B virus in their blood. Developed over a period of 65 weeks during 1977-1978 and tested for six months in chimpanzees (the primate in which HIV is thought to have originated), the first group of gay men were inoculated at the New York Blood Center in November 1978.
That same year a final cohort of 6875 homosexual men at the San Francisco City Clinic was assembled to study hepatitis B virus sexual transmission in that city. By the end of the decade gays in clinics in Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, and St. Louis, also came under surveillance by the Centers for Disease Control. An additional 1402 volunteers were finally selected to participate in similar vaccine experiments in those cities beginning in March 1980.
Before 1978 there was no stored blood anywhere in the U.S. that tested positive for HIV or the KS virus. There were no cases of AIDS and no cases of "gay cancer" in young men.
The first cases of AIDS appeared shortly after the experiment began in Manhattan. In June 1981 the epidemic became official and was quickly labelled the "gay related immune deficiency syndrome", later known as AIDS.
The gay community was the most hated minority in America. After the experiments ended, the gay community was decimated by the "gay plague." In the first years of AIDS, the epidemic was largely ignored by the government and the disease was blamed on gay anal sex, drugs, and promiscuity. Gays were immediately labelled "high risk."
In my view, what made gay men "high risk" was the fact that they were the exclusive volunteers for government medical experiments that undoubtedly put them at "high risk." The evidence for this conclusion is outlined in this report. Further evidence can be obtained from abstracts of scientific reports available on the Internet at the PubMed website of the National Library of Medicine.
Mercury-Autism Article Linked To Big Pharma
Filed under: autism, big pharma, bird flu, Bird Flu Drill, Child Abuse, fda, flu vaccine, h5n1, HPV, HPV Vaccine, influenza, innoculation, medical industrial complex, merck, Mercury, Pandemic Influenza, polio, UN, Vaccine, virus pandemic
News Target
While the mainstream press is widely reporting a new study "disproving" any link between autism and mercury-containing thimerosal in vaccines, no one has bothered to point out that the study was published in a medical journal stacked full of ads from the very same drug companies that manufacture and market vaccines. The Journal, the Archives of General Psychiatry, is the pro-drug psychiatric arm of the American Medical Association, a pill-pushing organization tarnished by a history of conspiracy against alternative medicine and the promotion of toxic substances like cigarettes with full-page ads in its flagship publication, JAMA.
From the outset, the fact that this study appears in a pro-drug, pro-psychiatry journal should bring pause to any scientific-minded person. There is obviously a serious conflict of interest here, especially if this study is to be taken as "fact" and applied to public health policy. There also need to be a close look at any financial links between the researchers involved in this study and various vaccine manufacturers, as virtually all pro-drug "science" (if you can call it that) being published these days is influenced by Big Pharma money.
The Truth About Vaccines containing Mercury for Children
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cMVeYXObd8s
Prepare for big flu pandemic economic hit, UN says
http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN042538.html
FDA Admits HPV is not linked to cervical cancer!
http://noworldsystem.com/2007/12/30/the-great-hpv-vaccine-hoax-exposed/
Merck Vaccine Brings AIDS to America
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Merck Vaccine Chief Brings HIV/AIDS to America
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Folks, you had better sit down, take a very deep breath. Merk drug company vaccines admits injecting cancer viruses into their vaccines and we have the proof on video for you to watch.
This censored interview conducted by medical historian Edward Shorter for WGBH public television (Boston) and Blackwell Science was cut from The Health Century due to its liability–the admission that Merck drug company vaccines have traditionally been injecting cancer viruses (SV40 and others) in people worldwide.
This segment of In Lies We Trust: The CIA, Hollywood & Terrorism, produced and freely contributed by consumer protector and public health expert, Dr. Leonard Horowitz, features the world's leading vaccine expert, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, who explains why Merck's vaccines have spread AIDS, leukaemia, and other horrific plagues worldwide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDxZ7PX8YGI
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6068096409136912010&hl=en
Dr. Hilleman, who developed the Mumps, Rubella and Measles vaccines, said: "Vaccines are the bargain basement technology of the 20th century."
In the taped interview (with about 6 Merck executives in the room, their nervous laughter audible in the tape) Dr. Hilleman explains how in his search for uninfected monkeys, Merck imported green monkeys from Africa. Those monkeys, it turned out, were carrying the AIDS virus: "I didn't know we were importing AIDS."
Dr. Hilleman also acknowledged that he discovered that the Sabine polio vaccine (manufactured by Merck) was infected with the SV-40 cancer virus. In the process of developing vaccines Merck scientists are shown to blithely disregarded public safety as they conducted massive tests exposing millions of unsuspecting people to wild viruses. Dr. Hilleman acknowledged that the cancer infected polio vaccine had been tested in massive field trials in Russia, then in the U.S.
The issues raised in this candid interview raise serious doubts about the propaganda the public has been fed about the safety of vaccines. Vaccines that have been promoted as "safe and effective" miraculous cures have been infecting (possibly) millions of people with cancer, leukaemia, and AIDS.
The interview was conducted by Dr. Edward Shorter, Professor of the History of Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. I checked the authenticity of the tape with Dr. Shorter who informed me that he did it when preparing a PBS series called "The Health Century." Doubleday published a companion volume of the same title in 1987.
Dr. Shorter deposited the entire tape of the interview, including portions omitted from the book, along with other interviews in the National Library of Medicine.
The uncovered facts should prompt a re-examination of the advisability of US mandatory vaccine policies–
The person who posted this censored portion of the interview on Youtube is Dr. Leonard Horowitz, a controversial and prolific healthcare expert with multiple academic degrees–including 3 doctorates.
In his forthcoming documentary film, "In Lies We Trust: The CIA, Hollywood & Bioterrorism," Dr. Horowitz examines official directives for national preparedness against outbreaks, nuclear explosions, and other disasters. A critical examination of what officials are saying and not telling that impacts the future of public health and urgent life-saving decisions every American is currently being encouraged to make.
In short you have been deliberately poisoned.


Our universal story is made up of archetypal experiences, those that connect us to the source of basic human tendencies and to the timeless elements of the human experience. This is because archetypes are ultimately the Imago Dei, or God-image, within us. When we consciously experience an archetype in our lives, the archaic becomes contemporary, and, most importantly, the universal becomes personally sacred.
Myth and ritual incorporated archetypal experiences in order to bring about the transformation from one state to another that was desired to maintain and strengthen the community. So when these universal archetypal elements emerge into our lives today they carry a transformative power. They keep us in the vital, nourishing riverbed through which the water of life has flowed for centuries, and which is the soul of our existence. They bring us to life, and keep us truly alive.
An archetype integrates into a meaningful whole all the illusory splits of apparent oppositions. It is in this way that archetypes also carry a "healing" function, in unifying the differing facets of the same reality, and their presence is felt as also having a profound spiritual significance.
A 42nd way to explore your soul's story – It is important to grasp how and why living an archetype can help bring about healing. This will add much more meaning and depth to the life story we have lived. Think of any experience where some aspect of your life was healed, reconciled, or resolved. Then think of whether that experience could possibly be unique to you, or if it is more likely shared by others. Was it the uniqueness of the experience, or was it the universality of the experience, that ultimately enabled the healing to happen? Was it the fact that only you could have experienced it, or the fact that many if not most other people could have also experienced it, that made it healing for you? What is it about either uniqueness or universality that makes it healing? How and why is this awareness important in telling your life story? Incorporate these reflections into the telling of your life story, and share them here if you would like to.


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Panasonic FZ 1000 Review
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000 with 4K video recording: Super zoom bridge camera with 1″ sensor
With the Lumix DMC-FZ1000, Panasonic introduces its first super zoom bridge camera with a 1″ sensor and competes with the Sony RX10. The FZ1000 resolves around 20 megapixels on the 13.2 x 8.8 millimetre CMOS sensor, optically zooming 16x from the equivalent of 25-400 millimetres to double the final focal length of the Sony RX10, even if only with an initial aperture of F4 (F2.8 in wide-angle). As a highlight, the FZ1000 is the first compact camera to record videos in 4K resolution, which is around 8 megapixels.
Short evaluation
Rapid autofocus, even in the telephoto range
4K video function with numerous setting options
Large, universal zoom range
Very good operation with many individualization possibilities
Tripod thread outside the optical axis and too close to memory card and battery compartment
Missing touch screen.
All housing made of plastic, however quite robust.
Lens with poor edge resolution, also soft images from ISO 1.600
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000 is equipped with a 1″ sensor with 20 megapixels resolution and has an optical 16x zoom, which covers a small picture equivalent focal length range from 25 to 400 millimetres at a speed of F2.8 to F4. [Photo: Panasonic]
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000 not only has a foldable and rotatable 3″ screen, but also a 2.36 million pixel OLED viewfinder. The 7.5-centimeter screen of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000 has a resolution of 921,000 pixels and can be rotated and swivelled. [Photo: Panasonic]
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000 optically zooms 16x in the 35mm equivalent of 25-400 millimeters. The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000 is easy to operate with its many knobs and dials. Moreover, thanks to the pronounced grip, it lies wonderfully in the hand. The 16x zoom of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000 has small-frame equivalent focal length markings on the extended tube [Photo: Panasonic]
On the side of the lens of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000 you can choose whether you want to focus or zoom via the adjustment ring. The optical image stabilizer can also be activated here. [Photo: Panasonic]
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000 can be expanded with an external flash unit. [Photo: Panasonic]
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000 records videos with 4K resolution, an external microphone for sound recording can be easily connected. [Photo: Panasonic]
Inside the Lumix FZ1000, the same four-core Venus engine as in the Lumix DMC-GH4 works to process the large amounts of data from 4K video recordings. The 4K videos with a resolution of 3,840 x 2,160 pixels are recorded with a maximum of 25 frames per second, in Full HD resolution even up to 100 frames per second are achieved, which allows smooth 4x slow motion. The still images from the 4K video recording can be used to print high-quality A4 photos, if you downsample the videos to Full HD, this results in an incomparable image sharpness, which is not achieved by Full HD devices. The videos are stored in MP4 format, supporting SDXC UHS Speed Class 3 (U3), which is required for 4K recording at 100 Mbps. The 16x optical zoom with Leica label is optically image-stabilized, while the hybrid active mode for Full HD video ensures particularly effective image stabilization. You can film using the direct recording button, intelligent auto shooting and manual aperture and shutter speed adjustment for creative effects. In addition, the FZ1000 has a built-in zoom stereo microphone with automatic wind filter and Dolby Digital stereo. Alternatively, an external microphone can also be operated via the 3.5mm jack socket. The video equipment is completed with zebra patterns, AF tracking and focus peaking.
With dimensions of 137 x 99 x 131 millimetres, the very voluminous camera has a large handle and weighs around 830 grams ready for operation. But it offers everything the photographer needs in the housing. This includes not only the optical 16x zoom of 25-400 millimeters with an initial aperture of F2.8 to F4 and the optical image stabilizer, but also the rotatable and swivelling three-inch screen (7.5 centimeters in the diagonal) with 921,000 pixels resolution, unfortunately without touch function, as well as the 2.36 million pixel OLED viewfinder, which at a magnification of 0.7x relative to 35mm is quite large. Switching between viewfinder and monitor is done automatically by detection. With a delay of only 0.01 seconds, the viewfinder is three times faster than the FZ200 viewfinder.
The lens consists of 15 glass elements in eleven groups, using five aspherical lenses with eight aspherical surfaces. In addition, four particularly low-scatter ED glass lenses are used. The front lens group consists of four elements and is intended to prevent chromatic aberrations, especially in the telephoto range. The lens has an electronic adjustment ring that adjusts either focal length or focus. In addition, there is a ring-shaped zoom lever on the shutter release, which is suitable, for example, for smooth zoom movements at five different speed levels. The 1″ sensor with its area four times larger than that of 1/2.3″ sensors should also ensure good image quality. Each pixel, for example, has 2.4 times the area of the FZ200, which ensures low noise. The sensitivity can be set up to ISO 12,800, with an extension even to ISO 25,600. The new 1,728-zone white balance is also intended to improve image quality by detecting the correct white balance twelve times more accurately than with the FZ200, for example.
The DFD autofocus system introduced with the GH4 is also used with the FZ1000. Together with the linear motor, it is to be focused and triggered in the wide-angle position within 0.09 seconds and in the telescopic position within 0.17 seconds. With DFD (Depth from Defocus) technology, two images with different focus points are compared and the exact focus point is determined, which significantly accelerates focusing. With AF tracking, the FZ1000 achieves 7 continuous shots per second, 12 without tracking.
In addition, the FZ1000 offers intelligent automatic, scene modes, 22 digital effects and semi-automatic and manual setting options for time and aperture. There is also a panoramic swivel function on board. The user can adjust the gradation curve for both photos and videos to the subject situation in order to optimally display shadows and highlights. The digital level indicator shows the user when the camera is tilted. It can also record in raw format, whereby the files can still be converted in the camera into a JPEG, a corresponding converter with many setting options is integrated in the camera. In addition, the FZ1000 has WLAN, which not only allows pictures and videos to be transmitted, but also allows the camera to be remotely controlled via an app, with the Panasonic app offering a particularly wide range of setting options. The connection can easily be established via NFC or QR code. The FZ1000 does not offer a GPS, but the GPS can be used by the smartphone via WLAN.
Autofocus works with 49 AF fields and has face and eye detection, focusing on the eye closer to the camera. In addition, the FZ1000 offers an AF field that can be freely shifted over the entire image field, the size of which can be freely changed, as well as a particularly precise pinpoint AF that focuses on the finest details. The focus magnifier allows up to tenfold magnification at fine zoom levels, and there is no lack of a peaking function. The low-light AF, on the other hand, focuses even in very dark environments of up to -3 EV without disturbing AF auxiliary light, which corresponds to a landscape in the night-time moonlight.
Numerous buttons and operating elements are intended to ensure easy handling, with five Fn buttons providing great freedom in the assignment of functions. In addition, the FZ1000 has an integrated flash and a TTL system flash shoe.
With the Lumix DMC-FZ1000, Panasonic recently introduced a super zoom bridge camera with a large 1″ sensor to replace large and heavy DSLR equipment. With its F2.8-4.0 25-400 mm 16x zoom, it covers a wide focal length range at high speed and offers very high resolution for both 20 megapixel photos and 8 megapixel (4K) videos.
Ergonomics and workmanship
Panasonic has learnt from the experience of Sony, whose RX10 with magnesium case and splash water protection is very high quality processed, but with originally 1,200 euros the entry price for larger groups of buyers was too high. In the meantime, Sony has reduced the EIA to just under 1,000 euros. The FZ1000, on the other hand, is only supposed to cost about 850 Euros, and so savings have to be made in some places where it seems to Panasonic to be acceptable. The main point is the housing. The FZ1000 does not radiate the robustness of an RX10, although it is a high-quality processed plastic. At just over 800 grams, the camera is quite light, at least in relation to its size, even though Panasonic relies completely on glass lenses for the lens, which is no longer a matter of course. So you could say that Panasonic preferred to put the money into the inner values than into the outer ones.
Although the Lumix FZ1000 with its fixed lens is one of the compact cameras, it can no longer be described as compact. It easily takes on the size of a DSLR with a set lens, except that the Lumix has a zoom lens with more light. Thanks to the distinctive handle, the FZ1000 can be held securely, even the little finger can still find support in the lower part of the handle. The grained rubber coating both on the handle and on the back in the area of the thumb provides additional support. The switch-on lever is located below the large program selector wheel, which can be reached by the thumb. Most keys can be operated with the right hand, but some also require the use of the left hand. Basically, the FZ1000 is a camera that needs to be held and operated with both hands, even if this works with one hand in an emergency. The zoom lever and shutter release are easily and precisely accessible for the right hand.
The knobs and wheels are all big enough and easy to operate, even if the high quality of the metal wheels is missing here as well. As known from the G-system cameras, the rear rotating wheel is not only rotatable, but can also be pressed, thus changing at least between two exposure parameters, depending on the program between aperture and exposure time or even the exposure correction. The ISO sensitivity, which is now an equivalent exposure parameter, is unfortunately not taken into account; another key must first be pressed for this. After all, Panasonic now also offers an ISO automatic in the manual program, so that you can set exposure time and aperture and have the exposure controlled by the sensitivity.
The operating concept of the FZ1000 includes five programmable Fn-buttons, some of which are even preassigned with appropriate labels. In the case of the Fn3 key, which calls the Quick menu, reprogramming is even less advisable, since the Quick menu can save you having to go to the main menu. But for calling the flash settings, one has to go to the main menu, for example, so it's a good idea to put them on the Fn1 button, which is factory-set with the picture style setting that, in contrast to the flash setting, can also be reached via the quick menu. For the wireless flash settings (with internal flash as master) or the flash exposure correction, you still have to go to the main menu. Thus, the FZ1000 is not always permanently operable, unless one sacrifices even more Fn keys, for example for flash exposure correction.
On the back, the FZ1000 has a 7.5-centimeter screen with a resolution of 921,000 pixels. In view of the camera size, the monitor looks almost small in proportion. The screen can be rotated 180 degrees to the side and then 90 degrees up and 180 degrees front or 90 degrees down, so it can be viewed from virtually any angle, even in self-portraits. It's a shame, though, that Panasonic didn't install a touch screen, and this was probably also done without in favor of the price.
So the screen is rather a good standard food, but quite different is the high-resolution electronic viewfinder, which can be activated automatically by a proximity sensor if desired. It achieves 2.36 million pixels and has a high-contrast OLED panel, which also has very good drawing in the depths. The viewfinder magnification of 0.7 is almost equal to that of 35 mm full-frame cameras. It's really fun to work with this viewfinder, especially since you can display an exposure preview, a 3D spirit level, a histogram, a highlight warning, and even the Zebra pattern familiar from the video world. In addition, the viewfinder magnifier can be adjusted in fine steps, focus peaking and, of course, the usual displays for exposure and shooting parameters as well as the white balance preview and one of several grid line patterns. All this can of course also be displayed on the monitor. The viewfinder thus offers numerous advantages and with a refresh rate of 60 fps it also works very fast.
On the handle side, the FZ1000 offers three interfaces that are covered by a common, very tight rubber plug. To release it requires strength, and you risk a broken fingernail. In addition to the USB interface, there is also a micro HDMI socket and a remote release connection. An external stereo microphone, on the other hand, is connected to the opposite side of the housing via a 3.5 mm jack socket, the plug there can be loosened perfectly. The memory card is inserted like the battery on the underside of the camera, and if the metal tripod thread were seated in the optical axis, this flap would remain accessible even when using the tripod. However, this is not the case, the NFC chip is located in the optical axis and the tripod thread is located directly next to the battery compartment. The lithium-ion battery is sufficient for 360 shots according to the CIPA measurement method and is charged in an external charging cradle, the SD memory card compartment also swallows SDHC and SDXC cards, whereby the SDXC speed class U3 is supported, which means that the camera supports cards with a minimum writing speed of 30 MByte per second. If you want to record 4K videos, you should choose at least one U3 card, as this will generate a data stream of 100 Mbit/s or 12.5 MByte/s respectively. But a fast memory card is also always worthwhile when shooting image series, especially in raw data format.
As already mentioned, the FZ1000 has a large program selector wheel, which is also used properly. Three of the ten positions are reserved for the automatic transmissions. The Intelligent Auto (iA) adjusts the camera completely to the subject, with functions such as Face Detection, Scene Recognition, Intelligent ISO Auto with Motion Detection, etc. active to set the camera to the best possible setting. Only the flash must be opened manually if necessary. Unfortunately, the intelligent digital zoom is also active and can't be switched off, so that you zoom into the range from 400 to 800 millimeters (35mm equivalent) faster than intended. This does not change if you activate iA+, which allows corrections of aperture or exposure time and image brightness. Panasonic has combined the pre-selectable motif programmes with a further selector wheel point, where a panorama mode can be found among other things. Another item on the wheel is dedicated to creative filters, where you can choose from 22 lavish effects. If you want, you can use your very powerful FZ1000 like an ordinary snapshot without having to deal with the technology.
However, it becomes interesting for ambitious users when they leave the pure automatic mode and can exert more influence on the image design in the program, aperture or aperture automatic mode as well as in the manual exposure mode. Thanks to the clickable control wheel on the back of the camera, the parameters can also be quickly adjusted with the thumb. A further dial on the left side of the case offers quick access to the shutter release mode, but with only five positions Panasonic was somewhat economical here. In addition to the interval function, the self-timer, the continuous shooting function and the continuous and single-frame modes, there would have been room for the HDR mode, for example, which is hidden in the menu. But let's get back to the program selector wheel: This also offers two memory locations for individual camera settings and a position for accessing the full range of functions of the video function.
Although the FZ1000 records videos at any time via its own video trigger, which is easily accessible for the index finger behind the photo trigger, one does not see the cropping beforehand and the 4K resolution is also not available. Only if you turn the program selector wheel to the video mode, the full range of functions opens up. If the maximum resolution in AVCHD format is still Full HD (1,920 x 1,080), the option of recording in 4K resolution at 25 frames per second opens up after conversion to MP4. Even for photos of good quality, the 8 megapixel resolution single images of the videos are suitable. Even if you only want to present your video in full HD, there are some advantages with 4K, such as zooming or panning, without having zoomed or panned during the actual recording, or you use the high quality of the 4K videos down-calculated to full HD, which is not only reflected in the sharpness and resolution, but from 4:2:0 8 bits in 4K you can easily calculate 4:2:2 10 bits in 2K (full HD). During video recording, the exposure parameters can be changed, but it is recommended to use an external microphone, just like when zooming, otherwise operating and motor noises will land on the audio track. Zooming during video recording is actually a bit too fast. The autofocus works inaudibly and very quickly. The leveling of the sound is no problem either, the internal stereo microphone can even be zoomed in. The Zebra function and focus peaking are also very useful. Also not from bad parents is the high-speed video function with 100 frames per second at Full HD resolution, which allows smooth quad slow motion.
The continuous-advance function is also impressive, as according to the manufacturer it records 12 frames per second without AF tracking and 7 frames per second with AF tracking. However, the live image is no longer displayed on the screen or in the viewfinder, but always the last photo taken, which can be quite problematic with action motifs, as these threaten to run out of the picture. In fact, we could only measure a continuous shooting rate of 9.1 to 9.5 frames per second, but in JPEG the FZ1000 always keeps up this pace for five seconds, in Raw it's over after 1.5 seconds. The bracketing function shoots three, five or seven images in a row with exposure distances from 1/3 to 1 EV, making it easy to get started with HDRs, for example.
While the image processing functions for JPEG are still limited, the Lumix offers a built-in converter for raw images, where for example exposure and white balance can be adjusted. The WLAN functionality, on the other hand, is very powerful. This unfolds when you install the free app on your Android or iOS device. The connection is established very easily via NFC or QR code, but those who wish can also enter the WLAN parameters manually. In addition to transmitting images and videos to the smart device, the camera can also be remote-controlled, including live image transmission. The Panasonic app is one of the most comprehensive in terms of configuring camera parameters.
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000 has an impressive 16x zoom with a physical focal length of 9.12 to 146 millimetres. Due to the 1″ sensor with its screen diagonal of almost 15.9 millimetres (crop factor 2.7), this corresponds to a 35mm equivalent of 25 to 400 millimetres in the native 3:2 aspect ratio of the sensor, and that with an initial aperture of F2.8 to 4.0. Practically speaking, the camera not only displays the current 35mm equivalent zoom range on the screen, but also the currently set 35mm equivalent focal length. Depending on the aspect ratio, the focal length shifts in the direction of Tele, in video mode at 16:9 for example to 37 to 592 millimeters. Zoom is achieved electronically either by means of the zoom lever, which encloses the shutter release button, or by means of the electronic lens ring. Both controls support multiple speed levels, with the lens no longer able to follow particularly fast movements on the zoom ring, similar to the Sony RX10. Practically one can use beside the stepless zoom also one with given focal lengths, this function is alternatively put on the ring or the lever or both. This means that the zoom lever can be used, for example, to zoom continuously and the zoom ring can be used to zoom in fixed steps.
The large aperture can't hold the lens for long, only F3.5 is available at 57 millimetres (KB), and from 170 millimetres the maximum aperture is F4.0. While the noise of the motor zoom and the crackling of the aperture can be heard quite quietly, the camera is able to release the shutter completely silently. Up to 1/4,000 second exposure time, you still have the choice of whether the shutter should work mechanically (quiet click) or electronically (inaudible), purely electronically, even 1/16,000 second short shutter speeds are possible.
The minimum focus distance of one meter with the zoom fully extended allows for proper magnifications at sufficient shooting distance to avoid larger insects from fleeing. Thanks to the 62 millimetre filter thread, close-up lenses can be used, which further improves macro capabilities. In addition, the FZ1000 offers a special macro mode with even higher magnification, but with wide-angle zoom. This leads not only to a visible curvature of the image field, but above all also to a shadow cast by the camera or the lens. By the way, Panasonic does not offer a teleconverter, for example. In view of the slight play of the extended tube and the large lever, a heavy teleconverter is not recommended anyway.
Panasonic promises a rapid autofocus even in the telephoto range, the FZ1000 should focus from infinity to two metres in the wide-angle range within 0.09 seconds, and within 0.17 seconds in the telescopic position. Normally, super zoom cameras in telescopic position are very sluggish and do not even come close to the fantasy values of the manufacturers, who only specify them for the fast wide angle as a precaution, often in the telephoto range, but this is different with the FZ1000. It is the first camera in which we were able to measure exactly the same pure focusing values in the test laboratory as the manufacturer had specified. In practice, a release delay of 0.04 seconds is added, also a very fast value. This masterpiece enables on the one hand the whisper-quiet linear drive, which allows a fast adjustment of the lenses despite the large zoom range, and on the other hand the Depth from Defocus (DFD) technology, which imitates a phase auto focus with the contrast autofocus method. When the focus position is current and slightly changed, measurements are taken and compared. Based on the values, the camera then knows, as with a phase autofocus, in which direction and how far the focus point has to be adjusted, so that only a short "pump" is required for fine focusing. In any case, the result is convincing in practice.
In the compartment on the bottom of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000, the lithium-ion battery for 360 shots and the SD memory card are concealed.
The metal tripod thread of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000 not only lies outside the optical axis, but also far too close to the battery and memory card compartment, which is then blocked.
On the handle side of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000, the three ports for HDMI, USB and remote release are hidden behind a flap that can be removed easily.
The stereo microphone connector, on the other hand, is hidden on the other side of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000. In addition, the stopper can be loosened without breaking fingernails.
Not only the speed of the autofocus is impressive, but also its functionality. The FZ1000 has face and eye recognition, with the focus always on the eye closer to the camera. Instead of the 49 AF fields, the autofocus point can also be moved manually over the entire image field and its size adjusted. If you focus manually, the focus magnifier that can be adjusted in very fine steps as well as the focus peaking help further, the latter emphasizes the sharp contrast edges in color so that you can see where the focal plane is. The focus scale, on the other hand, is less helpful because it does not even show rough distances. By the way, the Lumix also has an optical image stabilizer, which is also very helpful for manual focusing, since the viewfinder image is calmer.
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000 is equipped with a 1″ CMOS sensor, the origin of which Panasonic does not officially comment. Since the Japanese manufacturer is particularly proud of its own production of sensors and emphasizes this, if installed, it is probably a sensor from the competitor Sony, which is also supported by the technical parameters such as resolution or 4K capability (the RX10 uses the 1″ sensor without 4K capability).
Designing a lens with a large zoom range is a challenging task and involves certain compromises in image quality. With respect to a 20 x 30 centimetre exposed photo, a slight loss of sharpness from the centre of the image to the edge of the image can be measured, but in practice this does not play a role, since these differences occur in the barely perceptible area. The edge darkening with less than half a f-stop, which corresponds to only 30 percent light loss, is low, but the brightness does not decrease evenly, but at 25 and 100 millimeters quite spontaneously in the image corners. At 400 mm, on the other hand, no practical loss of brightness can be measured. Panasonic corrects the distortion very well, a barrel shape with 0.7 percent hardly disturbing can be measured in the wide angle, medium and long focal lengths are practically distortion-free. Even chromatic aberrations are perfectly under Panasonic's control, they are measurable, but even at maximum they barely reach half a pixel width.
However, looking at the resolution values at 50 percent edge contrast reveals some weaknesses of the lens. Thus, the highest resolution is achieved nominally in wide-angle fading to F4 with around 48 line pairs per millimeter (lp/mm), which is 25 percent higher there than at F2.8 (38 lp/mm). Medium and telephoto focal lengths, however, resolve about 10 (44 lp/mm) and 20 percent (40 lp/mm) less than the center in wide-angle. At the edge of the picture there is a rather bad picture at all focal lengths compared to the centre of the picture, the loss of resolution is around 35 to 45 percent, only at F8 a reasonably even resolution from the centre of the picture (39 lp/mm) to the edge of the picture (36 lp/mm) can be achieved with an average focal length of 100 millimetres. The absolute resolution at medium focal length is below the critical 30 lp/mm mark at the edge of the image when the aperture is open, and even at all apertures when in telescopic position. Since the FZ1000 can only be dimmed up to F8, diffraction cannot occur in the center of the image to push the resolution to really bad values. But overall, the lens can't meet the high expectations either with its absolute resolution, at least at medium and long focal lengths, or with the uniformity of the resolution from the center to the edge of the image. For comparison: The Sony RX10 has a higher resolution in absolute terms and only fights to the edge of the picture in wide angle with appreciable resolution losses.
A glance at the sensor-relevant measured values also shows that Panasonic can't quite keep up with the "1" competition from Sony, Samsung and Nikon. Up to ISO 400, the signal-to-noise ratio is still within the almost good range of just under 40 dB, but drops rapidly from ISO 800 and becomes critical above ISO 1,600. Brightness noise becomes visible above ISO 3.200, but remains fine-grained, after all color noise plays no role. This doesn't look so bad at first, but the texture sharpness shows that the noise reduction works too hard. Up to ISO 400, the sharpness of detail is flawless, but above this the measurement curve drops rapidly. ISO 800 still shows enough detail, but already at ISO 1.600 the images look soft, this "softness level" is only reached by the competition at ISO 3.200.
Panasonic has its input dynamics well under control, with good 9.5 to 10 f-stops processed up to ISO 6,400. Above this, the input dynamic drops slightly, but does not become critical. The tonal value curve runs divided, but remains in the pleasant and not exaggerated range. The output tonal range is only very good at ISO 80 and good up to ISO 800, from ISO 1.600 only less than 160 of 256 possible brightness gradations are output, above ISO 6.400 the value even becomes critical. The FZ1000 doesn't take the colours too seriously either. Not only are warm hues exaggeratedly saturated, but pure blue, for example, visibly drifts off into violet, thus having an excessively high red content. After all, the manual white balance works flawlessly, and the automatic one is usually also convincing. The color variety is also good, up to ISO 1,600 more than four million color nuances are distinguished, even at ISO 6,400 there are still a good two million.
Even though the FZ1000 is still lagging behind its competitors with a large zoom and/or 1″ sensor, it still offers very good image quality compared to normal compact cameras. Especially if you work in raw format, you can get the color fastness and the offensive noise reduction well under control.
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000 convinces above all with its inner values, which the Japanese manufacturer has packed into a rather disreputable plastic case in favor of a lower price. However, this is cleanly processed and ensures a relatively low weight. Due to the combination of sensor size and focal length, the FZ1000 is not really compact, but much smaller than a DSLR of similar focal length and speed. This makes the FZ1000 the ideal universal camera for those who don't want to change lenses, let alone buy more. The FZ1000 not only impresses with its good features, but also with its high speed, which makes some DSLRs and the super zoom competition look old anyway, as well as its 4K video mode, which offers an enormous amount of detail. The image quality is especially good up to ISO 400, but also ISO 800 are still well usable. From ISO 1.600 the images become visibly softer, which can be remedied by using the raw format with individually adjusted noise reduction. The lens has a slightly high resolution at wide-angle, but unfortunately the edge of the picture can't quite keep up with all focal lengths. At the targeted price of 850 Euros, the buyer receives an egg laying wool milk sow, which can cope with almost any photographic task in everyday life and offers plenty of scope for creativity.
Manufacturer Panasonic
Model Lumix DMC-FZ1000
Price approx. 850 EUR several years ago in 2014. Much cheaper now.
Sensor Resolution 20.1 megapixels
Max. Image resolution 5.472 x 3.648
(aspect ratio) (3:2)
Lens F2,8-4/25-400mm
Filter threads 62 mm
Viewfinder electronic
Enlargement 0,7-fold
Disbandment 2.359.000
Diopter correction yes
LCD monitor 3″
Disbandment 921.000
rotatable yes
swivelling yes
as seeker yes
Video output HDMI
Program automation yes
Aperture priority yes
manual exposure yes
BULB long-term exposure yes
Motif programmes
Portrait yes
Children/Babies yes
Countryside yes
Macro –
Sports/Action yes
Exposure metering Multi-field, Centre-weighted Integral, Spot
Guide number 10.9 (measurement)
Flash connection ISO flash shoe with TTL
Remote release Cable, WLAN
Interval shooting yes
Storage medium SD/SDHC/SDXC
Video mode
Size AVCHD or MP4
Codec H.264/AVC
Resolution (max.) 3.840 x 2.160
at frame rate 25p
automatic ISO 125-12.800
(upper limit adjustable)
manually ISO 80-25.600
Automatic yes
Sun yes
Clouds yes
Fluorescent lamp –
Light bulb yes
Other Shadows, flash, manual selection of color temperature, fine correction
Manual yes
Number of measuring fields 49
AF auxiliary light Red-orange
Speed 0,1-0,2 s
Languages German
Switch-on time 0,8 s
One-hand operation
(zoom and shutter release) yes
(ready) 830 g
Continuous shooting function*
Number of series images
46 (JPEG)
13 (RAW)
(frames/s)
9.1 (JPEG)
9.5 (RAW)
Endurance run
with flash –
Zoom adjustment motorized via ring rocker or zoom ring
Zoom levels stepless, optional 12
Time WW to Tele 2,6 s
Memory speeds*
JPEG 0,7 s (6,8 MByte)
RAW 1,4 s (22,4 MByte)
Triggering during
.Save as possible. yes
Battery life approx. 360 pictures (acc. to CIPA)
– = "not applicable" or "not available
"* with 16 GByte Panasonic Class 10 U3 SDHC memory card
This test of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000 was created with DxO Analyzer from DxO Labs.
Missing touch screen
It is all plastic, even if properly processed plastic housing
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000 Datasheet
Sensor CMOS sensor 1″ 13.2 x 8.8 mm (crop factor 2.7
)20.1 megapixels (effective)
Pixel pitch 2.4 µm
5.472 x 3.648 pixels (3:2)
5.472 x 3.080 Pixel (16:9)
Picture formats JPG, RAW
Colour depth 48 bit (16 bit per color channel)
Metadata Exif (version 2.3), DCF standard
3.840 x 2.160 (16:9) 25 p 29 min
1.920 x 1.080 (16:9) 50 i 29 min
1.920 x 1.080 (16:9) 24 p
Maximum recording time 29 min 59 sec
MP4 (Codec H.264)
Focal length 25 to 400 mm (35mm equivalent
)16x zoom9
.12 to 146 mm (physical)
4x digital zoom
Focus range 30 cm to infinity (wide-angle
)100 cm to infinity (telephoto)
Macro sector 3 cm (wide-angle
)100 cm (telephoto)
Apertures F2.8 to F8 (wide-angle
)F4 to F8 (telephoto)
Autofocus Functions Single autofocus, Continuous autofocus, Tracking autofocus, Manual, AFL function, Focus Peaking
Viewfinder and Monitor
Monitor 3.0″ (7.5 cm) TFT LCD monitor with 921,000 pixels, swivels 180°, rotates 270
Video viewfinder Video viewfinder (100 % field coverage) with 2,359,000 pixels, magnification factor 0.70x, diopter compensation (-3.0 to 3.0 dpt)
Exposure metering Center-weighted integral measurement, matrix/multi-field measurement, spot measurement
Exposure times 1/4,000 to 60 s (Auto
)Bulb with maximum 120 s exposure time1/16
,000 to 1 s (Electronic)
Exposure control Fully automatic, Program automatic (with program shift), Aperture priority, Aperture priority, Manual, Scene automatic
Bracketing function Exposure bracketing function with a maximum of 7 shots, step size from 1/3 to 1 EV
Sensitivity to light ISO 100 to ISO 12.800 (automatic
)ISO 80 to ISO 25.600 (manual)
Remote access Cable release, remote control via Smartphone/Tablet
Motives Auto, Backlight, Skin, Night scene, Portrait, 20 more scene modes
Picture effects Cross development, High Key, Low Key, Miniature effect, Monochrome, Retro, Sepia, Toy camera, Star grid, Soft focus, Cross development, Expressionistic, High/Low Key, 12 more image effects
White balance Auto, Clouds, Sun, Fine tuning, Shadow, Flash, Fluorescent lamp, Kelvin input, Manual
Continuous shooting 7 fps at highest resolution, max. 50 fps with electronic shutter, 7 fps with tracking AF
Self-timer Self-timer with a distance of 2 s, special features: Self-timer with 10 seconds forward and 3 shots in a row, as well as only 10 seconds.
Shooting functions AEL function, AFL function, live histogram
Flashgun
Flash built-in flash (hinged
)Flash shoe: Olympus/Panasonic (also Leica compact camera), standard center contact
Flash range 0.3 to 13.5 m at wide-angle1
.0 to 9.5 m at telephoto flash range
at ISO auto
Flash functions Auto, Fill Flash, Flash On, Flash Off, Slow Sync, Flash On Second Shutter Curtain, Red-Eye Reduction
Image stabilizer optical image stabilizer
SD (SDHC, SDXC)
Internal memory yes
GPS function GPS external (Smartphone as GPS-Logger)
Microphone Stereo
Power supply no power supply connection
Power supply 1 x lithium ion (Li-Ion) battery (7.2 V, 1,200 mAh
)360 images according to CIPA standard
Playback Functions Highlights / shadow warning, image index, slide show function
Face recognition Face recognition
Picture parameters Acuity
Grid can be faded in during recording yes
Special functions Electronic water level, orientation sensor, Live View
Ports Data interfaces: USBUSB type
: USB 2.0 High SpeedWLAN
: available (type: B, G, N)
NFC: availableAudio output
: noAudio input
: yes (3.5 mm stereo microphone jack)
Video output: yes (HDMI output Micro (type D))
Supported direct printing methods DPOF, PictBridge
Tripod socket 1/4″
Features and Miscellaneous scalable AF field electronic
shutter 1/16,000 to 1 second Shutter
speedVivid
video image styles,
monochrome, landscape, portrait, custom variant, cinema look-D and -Electronic
windshieldRAW processingMono-speaker fourstorable white balance settings
Weight 831 g (ready for operation)
Dimensions W x H x D 137 x 98 x 131 mm
included accessories Lithium-Ion battery chargerBattery chargerUSB connector cableBacklight hood
, lens cap, hot shoe
coverPhotoFun Studio 9.5 Premium Edition
image editing software for Windows or
and for Macintosh system or laterPhotoFun
image editing software
optional accessory Olympus FL-700WR Slip-on flash with swivel reflector
USB 2.0 High Speed (Micro-USB)
Firmware update 2.1 for the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000: Further improvements
After Panasonic had already extended the functional range of the Lumix DMC-FZ1000 with a firmware update in October 2014, two minor improvements follow with firmware 2.1. The playback performance of 4K videos is improved and the interval function now also starts at daylight saving time at the pre-programmed time. As always, the update is free of charge and can be downloaded from the Panasonic website and installed by the user himself. The procedure is described in English. If you do not have the confidence to perform the update yourself, you can contact your dealer or Panasonic Service.
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The Science-Backed Way to Keep Any New Year's Resolution
By Jeff Cattel on December 30, 2015
We drank the holiday Kool-Aid, and now we're full of warmth, cheer, and yes, sweets. We're feeling optimistic as January approaches. This is totally the year we're going to save money, meditate, or learn to speak French.
But the stats aren't in our favor: Fewer than 10 percent of people who make New Year's resolutions actually keep them. "It's just a wish," says Edwin Locke, Ph.D., one of the pioneers of goal-setting theory. "If you're going to be serious, you have to plan, keep records, and you may even need outside help."
The good news is that Locke and other researchers have conducted decades of research to figure out the foolproof way to make and achieve goals. All that science boils down to seven steps, which we've shared in the handy, printable checklist below.
One question to ask before you get started: Are you ready? Sure, it sounds obvious or even a little silly, but you really need to figure out if you're prepared to make a change, says Caroline Adams Miller, a goal-setting expert and author of Creating Your Best Life. If the answer is "yes," start with step one below:
7 Steps to Keep Your New Year's Resolution
1. Pick one (and only one) goal.
If you're picking a self-regulation goal—one where you have to keep saying no to yourself, such as drinking less coffee or cutting down on sweets—it's important to focus on just one thing. "Self regulation is a limited resource," Miller says. "We wake up with a certain amount and it gets depleted when you call upon it." That's why it's easy to pass on the donut at breakfast but not so simple to say no to the bag of chips while watching TV after work.
2. Make it specific and challenging.
Once you settle on a goal, make sure it's not too easy. Sure, it feels great to cross something off our checklist and know we've completed what we set out to accomplish, but if we lowball our goals, they aren't motivating, Locke says. Study after study has shown that the goals we stick with are specific—preferably something that can be measured—and challenging.
3. Ask: Are you learning or doing?
Now that you've got a concrete goal, it's time to figure out if this is something you already know how to do or something you need to learn. Say you're trying to save money and you know you want to have $2,500 in the bank by the end of the year—that's something you're doing. Tracking your progress on this is fairly easy.If you still need to figure out how much money you want to save or even the best way for you to save money, you've got a learning goal. Metrics are much harder on this. It requires more guess and check. Maybe one meeting with a financial planner is just what you need, or maybe you want to take a full course. Miller says you need to keep asking: Is it working? Am I getting closer to achieving my goal?
4. Break it into smaller, short-term goals.
Keeping with the theme of saving money, your goal will seem a lot easier when you take something big (like saving $2,500 in one year) and break it into more manageable chunks (like saving $208 per month). That way you can keep tabs on your progress throughout the year, Locke says.
5. Look who's around you.
It sounds a little far-fetched and New Age-y to say we become the average of the people we surround ourselves with. But there's solid science to back up it up! It's called the social contagion theory, the idea that the people around us have a major influence on how we act.Social contagion theory: examining dynamic social networks and human behavior. Christakis NA, Fowler JH. Statistics in medicine, 2012, Jun.;32(4):1097-0258. If you want to lose weight, it doesn't help to hang around people who love fast food, and if you want to save money, it's best to limit time with friends who like to go shopping, Miller says.
6. Prime your environment.
Hanging around the right people is only half of setting yourself up for success. You also need to surround yourself with the right things. That means getting rid of tempting triggers while also adding cues to remind us of our long-term goals.Exploratory Study of Web-Based Planning and Mobile Text Reminders in an Overweight Population. Soureti A, Murray P, Cobain M, et al. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2011 Dec 20. doi:10.2196/jmir.1773.Computer passwords are a perfect example. (Serena Williams is known for doing this.) If you're saving up for a trip to Paris, your password could be "France2016," Miller says.
7. Add accountability.
Feedback is an essential part of successfully achieving your goals. Part of that can involve metrics—did you save the money you said you would this month? But it also helps to have people around who keep you honest, Miller says. That could be a walking buddy or a standing date with a friend to hang out at home on Friday night instead of spending money at a restaurant or bar.
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General correspondence and related material, 1949-1950
General correspondence and related material, 1923-1955, undated, 1925-1954
Comprising the largest portion of the Fiske Kimball Records, this series clearly documents Kimball's extensive contact with the institutions, individuals, and businesses that collectively directed and promoted art and artists, and a public appreciation for both. Kimball cultivated a variety of correspondents, from dealers and donors to museums, educational institutions and professional organizations. Throughout the three decades documented, antiques and art dealers appear to be Kimball's most prolific correspondents, particularly the New York firms of French & Company and Wildenstein and Company, as well as Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Acton Surgey, Ltd., A.S. Drey and M. Knoedler & Co. Additional material pertaining to most of these firms can also be found in the "Objects and related topics" series. Kimball's correspondence with personnel at other art museums in the United States is also significant. There are letters with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in every year-span subseries. Some of the correspondents at the Met were former PMA curators, including Joseph Downs, Horace Jayne and Francis Taylor, who served as the Met's director from 1940 to 1955. Other museums well documented include the Fogg Art Museum, the Toledo Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the University of Pennsylvania's museum. Much of the correspondence with the latter is with Horace Jayne, who served as the curator there before returning to PMA in 1955.
Kimball was also diligent in his correspondence with donors and private collectors. Those best documented in this series also represent some of the most prominent names in Philadelphia society, such as president of the Curtis Publishing Company George Horace Lorimer and his son Graeme and various members of the Elkins, Lewis and McFadden families. Another frequent correspondent was Chester Dale, whose art collection came to the PMA in the early 1940s. Files pertaining to the Museum's receipt of his collection are in the "Objects and related topics" series. There are also a number of correspondence files from the 1930s with Francis Patrick Garvan. In regard to professional affiliations, the bulk of material pertains to the Association of Art Museum Directors, the American Association of Museums and the American Federation of Art. There is a significant amount of correspondence with Harvard, New York University and the University of Michigan, educational institutions that Kimball was associated with either academically or professionally. Other schools represented include the Art Institute of Carnegie Institute, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University.
Although not on any regular basis, Kimball corresponded with some of the art world's more illustrious figures, such as the art critics and writers Bernard Berenson and Christian Brinton, the artists Marcel Duchamp and Georgia O'Keefe, and the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Kimball also corresponded with the movie star and art collector Edward G. Robinson and his wife, Gladys, an artist, regarding possible exhibitions of their collection and of Gladys' work.
While most of this material consists of original correspondence to Kimball and file copies of his outgoing letters, there is a significant amount of correspondence between other museum personnel and outside entities. Although this interfiling is in part a result of the previously noted central filing system, it also reveals how Kimball operated as a director. In many cases, Kimball would refer matters to various staff members, but also continue in the correspondence between the museum and the outside correspondent. Thus the papers of a particular institution or individual may consist of letters with Kimball and/or with other staff members.
Many folders contain material related to the correspondence, including clippings, ephemera, photographs and occasionally a publication. Attachments have been retained with the appropriate correspondence as well as any reference material Kimball may have assembled with it. Notes are scattered throughout the papers, usually Kimball's own reminders or telephone messages.
From the Series: 42.5 linear feet
General correspondence and related material, 1949-1950. Fiske Kimball Records, FKR. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives.
General correspondence and related material, 1949-1950. Fiske Kimball Records, FKR. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives. https://pmalibrary.libraryhost.com/repositories/3/archival_objects/118741 Accessed January 28, 2023.