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In which we lament the sad fate of 80s musicians, and PUFFINS!
I awoke on my 40th birthday to a chorus of well-wishes. 40 is a big year, and Eric had asked me earlier in the trip about how I felt about turning 40. I thought about it, and I have to say that I feel really, really good about it. So much has changed in a generation – when my mom turned 40, we threw her an "over the hill" surprise birthday party. If anyone even thought of throwing me such a party, I would hurt them. Eric thinks that some of the difficulty with the milestone is that for many, it seems that few surprises remain after the age of 40, in that your life is relatively established and you can map out the future course with relatively depressing certainty. Not downhill, then, but perhaps more of a plateau. I can't say that this resonates either – five years ago I never would have pictured myself where we are now nor predicted living in New Zealand for most of my 40th year. I think it's easy to settle into a routine, and seems daunting to think about breaking it, especially as you reach mid career point which many people are at this age. We've been able to step out of that, and take the first big leap and you know what? It makes other big leaps seem so much more possible. So who knows what is on the horizon now? If anything, I feel excited by the time to come ahead.
I love puffins. Something about their ungainly potbellied birdy bodies and their curved orange beaks is just too adorable not to. For my birthday, I thought we'd do a puffin tour! I'd read that for most of the tours, you can't get much of a photo unless you've got a telephoto lens as puffins are surprisingly small. Instead then, I chose a tour where we would have some time with puffins but also venture out to the bay to do some fishing and then eat the fresh catch! This may seem like an odd choice for a mostly vegetarian family, but I thought it would be nice to do something very, very different. And because I do eat fish occasionally, it seems hypocritical of me to not be able to kill one myself.
I went with Happy Tours, a small family run company, because it was one of the few tours that provides good binoculars for the trip. Captain Snorri welcomed us on board the Saga and outfitted us with protective waterproof clothing, which was adorably oversized on the kids, making them look as though they were wearing rubber sumo suits.
I'm queen of the worrrlllddd
heading out to fish!
First, off to the puffins! They nest on a small island in the bay, and we saw quite a few with the binoculars. Most surprising is how fast the little critters are when they're in flight, zooming across the sky despite what would seem like a lack of aerodynamic form.
Then a little further out to drop long fishing lines and catch some cod for our lunch. The fishing poles were taller than us and a bit unwieldly at first, but we all got the hang of it. I can't really say that fishing like this takes much skill – you drop the line down, the cod chomp on and you pull them up and into the bucket. The girl had a bite first out of our family, squealing excitedly and then needing a little help in holding the rod while she rotated the reel to pull up a nice sized catch! Captain Snorri efficiently dispatched the fish with a quick cut to the main artery, and we soon had a bucketful.
Photo taken with my phone held up to the binoculars. Best I could get, really. Puffins!
the proud fishergirl and her catch
On the way back to the dock, Snorri sliced open the fish, showing us what they'd last eaten. A few small crabs for some, and for one a gourmet bellyful of caviar. At least he'd had a nice, rich last meal that one. He efficiently filleted the fish, tossing the offal overboard for the waiting gulls, who sometimes snatched the piece out of the air before it hit the water, and other times engaging in a battle for what goes as gull gourmet – the liver.
slicing up the cod
inspecting the kitchen
Once at the pier, Snorri pulled out a hot plate and began to pan fry the fish with lemon pepper, tossing on new potatoes for a side dish. Friends, this was the most delicious fish I've ever had. The boy couldn't get enough and ate four large platefuls. The girl, who normally doesn't like fish at all had a fair share as well. Bellies full, we thanked Snorri and his son and headed out to town for some souvenir shopping.
My main interest in Icelandic souvenirs is the yarn. Iceland has a very proud knitting tradition, and even sells yarn in the grocery stores. Not the acrylic crap that you'll find at a Wal-Mart in the States, but actual Icelandic wool from the sheep that dot the countryside, direct decendents of the original 9th century immigrant sheep, with long fibers that are spun into a delicate untwisted wool.
at the handknitting association
At the icelandic equivalent of supertarget. Seriously.
At the Handknitting Association of Iceland, I walked passed the sweaters and hats and scarves straight to the walls of Lopi, or Icelandic wool. It was so difficult to choose colors, but I managed! Yarn, it should be noted, is one of the few things in Iceland that is actually cheaper there than elsewhere and I picked up a sweater's worth for $50. A handknitted Icelandic sweater will cost you around $200-300, which is a fair price for the time involved. In a world where mass-produced fast fashion for the lowest dollar has become the norm, it's refreshing to see a place where artisan work is still valued.
It was now almost 4 p.m., but as we didn't have looming darkness to contend with, it was like we had a whole second day ahead of us. Eric found a hot spring river, where you hike about an hour in and then can have a relaxing soak. Normally, it would seem insane to start this at 4 pm – 40 minute drive, then hour long hike, then hour at the river, then hike out and drive back, we were looking at not getting back until 9pm. But as the light at 9 pm was no less bright than that of midday, off we went, fields of purple lupine flanking the highway.
Taken out the car window – you feel like you're driving over a purple carpet
Changing radio stations in the car, Eric happened upon one called "80s flashback," and we headed out, appropriately enough, to "Heaven is a Place on Earth." They played mostly really good 80s music, and I could sing along to most of it. "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" came on, and we talked of the music video with the bright colors and dressing room scenes, and then lamented the sad fate of poor Whitney. "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" started playing as we rounded a sharp corner, and Eric reminisced about the time he saw the Smiths on the "Meat is Murder" tour, and I reflected that Morrissey had kind of turned into a racist jerk. Soon enough, "Beat It" was on the playlist, yet another 80s artist with a sad ending. Later in the trip, "You and Me in Paradise" started up, and I immediately groaned and turned down the radio, because there is no reason to ever be forced to listen to the doldrum nasal plodding of Phil Collins. "God I hate Phil Collins," I said out loud. "Why?" Piped up the girl from the back. "Was he a really bad sort of person?" "No," I replied, "I just don't like his music…as far as I know he's a decent person who's still alive." At first I couldn't figure out where her question came from, but then remembered our earlier conversation where Eric and I talked about the downfall of the prior artists, and realized that she must have surmised that poor lambasted Phil Collins must have also suffered some horrific drug-addled fate.
rising vapors in the distance
a bridge to nowhere
The hike itself winds through gorgeous volcanic hills and valleys, covered in moss on the south side, the north side a black rocky cliff. Dramatic landscapes await around corners, where steam rises in long puffs from the ground in otherworldly welcome. Stretches of the trail had zero visibility with steam clouding the way, and as we rounded one such corner and emerged into view again, the river curved around before us, vapor rising into the cool air. Little natural and manmade dams of rocks and stones are laid across it at intervals, creating a series of small pools. The further upstream you go the hotter the water, so wandering along and dipping a toe in we found our Goldilocks pool, changed underneath towels and hopped in. The kids and I passed the time by balancing rock cairns on the stone dam in front of us. While there were a fair number of people there, there's also quite a bit of river so we had our own little pool to ourselves and stayed in for an hour before the hike and drive back again.
The river from above, you can see people soaking a bit downstream.
Our last day in Iceland, and we thought we'd drive around the Golden Circle, what should be called the choking tourist yoke of Reykjavik. The drive itself is fine, but once you arrive at the sites you're contending with tourists that have been spat out by the busload, small and large. I swear, one of these days I'm going to grab someone by the selfie stick and start beating them over the head with it. I can't stand those things. The only saving grace of those idiotic fidget spinners is that all of the sidewalk stands that used to sell only selfie sticks now sell fidget spinners, which are far less intrusive to other people. In hindsight, I wish we'd skipped the Golden Circle and just driven somewhere a little off the path to a hike or perhaps to an accessible glacier, but that'll have to wait for another trip.
First stop was the Thingvallir, where the North American tectonic plate meets up with the European. You actually walk along the plate itself, and at places along the short walk it has split and fissured, as it's still constantly moving, albeit slowly. It borders a little marshland with goslings and their protective parents, as well as shorebirds.
you stay away from my bebes
marshland at the edge of the tectonic plates
Another 50 minute drive took us to Geysir, the original geyser. Is there a geyser there? Yes. Is it kind of cool? Meh. Are there a ton of people standing around waiting to get the exact same picture? Yes. The kids really wanted to see the geyser here, and I had a smattering interest but honestly, I think it's kind of skippable given the other cool things Iceland has to offer. In false advertising, the large and impressive Geysir rarely erupts, and mostly you're watching it's smaller and poorer cousin Strokkur erupt every five to ten minutes.
woo a geyser
As we drove back to town, we happened across the Kerio crater and dropped by to take a look. Formed from the carcass of a burned out erupted volcano, a pool of aqua water rests at the bottom ringed by red lava stone. The water at the bottom doesn't fill or drain, instead is reflection of the current water table.
Kerio crater with a bit of attitude
Back in the car, we picked up 80s Flashback again about 40 minutes outside of town. One of my 80s favorites "Right Here Waiting" came on, and of course, I knew all the words. As I sang along, Eric commented that he was basically the 80s precursor to Adele, singing as he did about pining after a lost love. Soon after "Every Breath You Take" was on, and I thought that that song could be the 80s precursor to Taylor Swift, the vindictive response of a jilted lover.
The following morning we piled our luggag into the car, and turned on 80s flashback for one final trip to Keflavik Airport. "And you may find yourself in another part of the world…and you may ask yourself, 'well? How did I get here?" the Talking Heads crooned as we drove, in a fitting last soundtrack before our flight back home.
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YouChoose: The Mission We've Chosen To Accept - Part 1: The Band
The mission has begun
What's the point of YouChoose? We do have one. Do you know what a mission statement is? You probably have a pretty good idea. The best way to describe one is shown in the 1996 film Jerry MaGuire (written and directed by the awesome Cameron Crowe). For whatever reason, this film changed my life. Just like we hope YouChoose will do for others now and in the future.
Maybe it was because I was at a professional crossorads that ...MaGuire mattered so much to me. I'd recently been turned down for a promotion I burned for by the company I loved and worked for. Professional Life Lesson #1 - Watch what you fall in love with. If it ain't human, it can't love you back. I was vulnerable and open to new ideas. Tom Cruise was different in the movie. He wasn't a superhero-type guy. He was regular. He failed. He made mistakes. He was confused. He was just like me. Check out the clip before I go on:
In Jerry MaGuire, Tom Cruise has a breakthrough - or, as he questions himself, was it a "breakdown?" No, it was a breakthrough. He has an epiphany. He knows now who he is and what he wants. Making it all work out is the hard part.
Which brings us to YouChoose. What are we about? What's our purpose? What's our mission? Who cares?
Right now, some people care. Admittedly, it's not a whole LOT of people, but that doesn't matter. Probably the people who care the most are the people in the band. It's not a tiny band. It's not just me - no way. That's no fun for anybody. It's not just me and my sidekick. The cool part about our band is its size. The core includes 4 electric guitarists, 1 acoustic guitar guy who's a Methodist church pastor and has been taking stabs at playing an electric lately, 2 keyboardists, 1 bass player, between 5-7 singers... Oh, and 2 drummers. How many is that? On the high side, it's 17. That's a big band. Add in the occasional 3-person horn section and we could literally have 20 people on stage at one time playing one of YOUR requests.
None of these great friends/musicians need to do this. But they choose to anyway. If you can get 20 people to be a part of something you started on your own, you better make them happy. Let's try and put together a mission statement just for the band.
Your YouChoose band is YOURS. We belong to the people who come to watch us play. We belong to the people who make requests and choose to sing/play with us. We belong to each other (is that a lame Pat Benatar lyric? Sorry. Let's move on.). The mission of Your YouChoose Band is to put music and people in front of ego. We aren't divas. If we were that good, you'd see us winning Grammies. We're regular people. The moment we begin to think we're better than the audience, we lose. We can't lose. We are like a team; we can even say "family" if we want. We ARE a unit. We are a band. Whether there are 5 of us on stage or 20, we are there for specific reasons: to bring music to people, to help fulfill fantasies of those who request songs and choose to sing with the band, to raise money for great causes, to make each other feel good, to individually feel like we each have a purpose and can truly "give back" to the community and to those who can benefit from our talents. We are there because we want to be there. We try to bring the best out of each song so the audience comes back time and again. We like to bring joy to the audiences, to our kids, to our friends, to others in the band, and to ourselves. We pick each other up. We have fun. We feel no pressure to continue if we aren't having fun. We invite others to listen and give it a try. We embrace those who support us. We use the word "we" all the time in our mission statements. We do this because we can.
Do you agree? Think this is dumb? Think its right on target? Think it's missing anything? If you're in the band and reading this, pass along your suggestions. If you're early to the YouChoose party and tripped into this, what are your thoughts? We want to be great. This is one way of getting there.
Now check out the mission statement of Holstee, a Brooklyn-based company which sells eco-friendly clothing and accessories. Want to read an awesome mission statement? This is maybe the best one ever. What do you think?


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Annie Shaw
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For a long time, Annie and Matt wanted to clean up and beautify the Mariposa Street off-ramp leading onto Pennsylvania Avenue. They wanted to make it a relaxing and safe place for all people and animals to enjoy. As a result, the two decided to start a garden in late 2008.
After almost a year, the garden's layout was set, and officially named Pennsylvania Garden (PG). Annie and Matt completed nearly 1,000 hours of heavy, backbreaking work. The vast majority of plants were planted. At that point, all of the plants were chosen and paid for by Annie and Matt. This required many blister-inducing weekends and late nights of digging in various gardens throughout the Bay area. With the addition of many donations from neighbors, the garden was starting to look established. However, the cost continued to escalate.
Fortunately, with the help of volunteers, grant proposals were written for the group, now called Pennsylvania Street Gardens (PSG). Since then, the garden has acquired funds to cover hardscape improvements. A few years later, Annie and Matt moved a block away down the hill. They realized the entire street they were now on needed a similar facelift, and so Pennsylvania Railroad Garden (PRG) was born. 23 trees and 850 plants were planted within 2 years, and a sidewalk and retaining wall were built.
What's growing here? Pennsylvania Street Gardens grow xeric ornamentals. The plants are nearly all native species, or drought tolerant when established, so the garden doesn't need to be watered much. PSG's mission is to show that you too can have a lush garden with little to no water use!
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The group meets on the first Saturday of the month from 10am to 12pm to work on the garden. They welcome you to join them, and will provide tools, gloves and drinks. Everyone is welcome!
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Note that their website lists all of the different genera of plants in the garden. You can also find a weekly ""Plant Profile"" there, giving more details on a species or genus of plants you can see in the garden, to help you grow them too.
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By Prabakaran | May 22, 2017
In 2016, Instagram stopped its chronological feed for an algorithm timeline. Naturally, after this change many users lamented because it would now be more difficult for them to reach audiences.
But now as it appears that Instagram communities are looking to counter the algorithm by creating Instagram pods.
What are these pods and what do they mean for influencers and brands? Here is a look at situation.
What are Instagram Pods?
Instagram pods are groups of people who join forces to increase the engagement on the posts. They do the same thing as the Instagram bots – leaving comments and liking the posts to confirm that posts appear higher in in the user's feeds. There are some rules which are followed so that the engagement would appear natural such as not posting comments which are less than four words. So, the members of the pods turn on notifications in order to like it as soon as it is published.
It is not easy to become a member as each member is invited by an "invite" only and the members are able to know about the opportunity via Instagram direct messages or on other platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.
Who's doing it?
Seems like, the majority of pods are made up of influencers or micro-influencers looking to improve their presence on the platform, so that brands would look and take notice.
@NiaSky Instagram pods are a great way to interact with other bloggers, but the best thing is to be active and connect with others! #bbloggers
— chelsey ocean (@chelsocean_x) April 23, 2017
The main problem with Instagram pods is that they make it difficult for brands to see which influencers are succeeding. So, potential partnerships are formed on fake engagement and will only lead to skewed data.
Eventually, pods seem to go against the reasons the brands want to work with influencers in the place of traditional advertising.
By this engagement, influencers could run the risk of harming their own reputation in the long run.
Will Instagram find a way to stop it?
So far, it looks like Instagram is not doing anything to prevent pods. But it is demonstrated that Instagram is not willing to let fake accounts impact the user experience for everyone else. If Instagram pods continue to grow in popularity, then we can expect to see a crackdown on fake engagements in near future.
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The Sony Xperia ZL may be coming to market in more than just black and white if these photos of a deep red model are to be believed. We had a look at the black and white versions of the Xperia ZL back at CES in Las Vegas and really enjoyed the quality of the handset, but the red version was nowhere to be found. The photo above is reportedly a prototype model handled at a South East Asia launch event, and word is that we shouldn't expect this for a worldwide launch like the other colors. The design is apparently identical, save for a back plate that's smooth rather than textured.
This is a touch confusing considering the white and black models were shown off so extensively at the major launch event in Las Vegas. Sony may have some final tweaking to do on the red model before it's ready for a consumer release, or it may be holding the third color as a special edition or regional device. Red version aside, we have no firm pricing or release date for the Xperia ZL (or it's brother, the Z) anywhere in the world. If you happen to be holding out for the device to make an appearance in the states, you may want to prepare to have it imported from overseas.
Though it isn't slated for the U.S. anytime soon, ZTE's ultra-high-end device, the Nubia Z5, finally launched today.
The handset comes in black or white, and has a 5-inch 1080p touch screen with a 1,920×1,080-pixel resolution and 443ppi. The display itself is manufactured by Sharp.
Its aluminum uni-body design measures 5.43-inches tall, 2.71-inches wide, and has a thin, 0.3-inch profile. And at 4.44 ounces, it's more lightweight than most standard 5-inch smartphones.
The Nubia Z5 runs on Android 4.1, and it's powered by a 1.5GHz quad-core processor and a 2,300mAh battery.
On the back there is a 13-megapixel camera with LED flash, and it includes features like panoramic and continuous shooting. On the front is a 2-megapixel camera.
Other features include 2GB of memory, 32GB of storage space, Dolby sound technology, and free backup to a private cloud service.
The device costs about $554.26 (3,456 yuan) and is ZTE's flagship phone for the season.
As previously mentioned, it doesn't look like there are plans for the Nubia Z5 to hit our shores, but if it's anything like the Grand S, another 5-inch, quad-core phone that ZTE is planning to unveil at CES 2013 for the U.S. market, I'll be pretty excited.
ZTE already said it wants to heavily invest in its U.S. presence, and if it releases reliable handsets like the Nubia Z5 here, it might get the recognition it's been trying so hard to attain.


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Q: How do I enable "debug" logging of the Docker daemon? (Ubuntu 16.04) I want to set the verbosity level of the docker deamon in ubuntu 16.04)
Docker version = 1.12.6
The following didn't work:

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*/etc/docker/daemon.json, setting"debug": true (can not find the file)

*docker -d  (error docker flag provided but not defined deamon)

A: The recommended way when using systemd is drop-ins. See the documentation here. You can create the file at /etc/docker/daemon.json if it does not already exist.
Add the following code snippet:
{
    "debug": true
}

You will need to restart the docker service at that point sudo systemctl restart docker
EDIT:
Because you are using an older version of Docker, you may need to do things differently.
Run systemctl show --property=FragmentPath docker to show the default file. This should be something like /lib/systemd/system/docker.service
Edit this file and add EnvironmentFile=/etc/default/docker
Add the -D flag to DOCKER_OPTS in /etc/default/docker and restart the service.
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L'impératrice Xiaodingjing ( - 1822 ), du clan Yehe Nara de la Bannière Jaune à Bordure Manchu, nom personnel Jingfen, était une épouse de l'empereur Guangxu. Elle était âgée de trois ans de plus que lui.

Biographie

Antécédents familiaux
 Père : Guixiang  ; 1849-1913), a servi en tant qu'officiel militaire de premier rang ), et possédait le titre d'un duc de troisième classe )
 Grand-père paternel : Huizheng  ; 1805-1853), duc de troisième classe )
 Grand-mère paternelle : Dame Fuca
 Tante paternelle : l'impératrice Xiaoqinxian (1835-1908), mère de l'empereur Tongzhi (1856-1875)
 Tante paternelle : Wanzhen (1841–1896), mère de l'empereur Guangxu (1871–1908)
 Mère : Dame Aisin Gioro
 Deux frères
 Une sœur aînée et une sœur plus jeune

Ère Tongzhi
La future impératrice Xiaodingjing est née le quatrième jour du premier mois lunaire de la septième année du règne de l'empereur Tongzhi, qui se traduit par le  dans le calendrier grégorien.

Ère Guangxu

En 1889, Cixi, qui était régente pour l'empereur Guangxu, décida que l'empereur devait se marier avant de pouvoir prendre officiellement les rênes du pouvoir. Elle choisit sa nièce, la fille de Guixiang, pour être l'épouse de l'empereur Guangxu, afin de renforcer l'influence du clan Yehe Nara au sein de la famille impériale.

Jingfen épousa donc l'empereur Guangxu le  et devint son impératrice immédiatement après le mariage. La cérémonie de mariage était une occasion particulièrement extravagante et spectaculaire. Le , la Cité interdite prit feu et la porte de l'harmonie suprême fut réduite en cendres. Selon les traditions impériales, le trajet du cortège de mariage de l'empereur devait passer par cette porte de l'harmonie suprême, qui était alors complètement détruite. Ainsi, de nombreuses personnes considérèrent cet incident de mauvais augure.

Puisque la reconstruction de la porte serait fortement chronophage, et que la date du mariage de l'empereur ne pourrait pas être retardée une fois fixée, Cixi ordonna la construction d'une tente ressemblant à la porte. Les artisans employèrent du papier et du bois pour le construire, et une fois complète, la tente avait exactement la même hauteur et la même largeur que la porte d'origine, avec des ornements extrêmement similaires à l'original. Les personnes qui traversaient régulièrement le palais intérieur eurent des difficultés à faire la différence entre le portail d'origine et la tente temporaire.

Après leur mariage, l'impératrice fut détestée et ignorée par l'empereur Guangxu, qui favorisa une autre épouse, Zhen du clan Tatara. Cixi estimait Zhen, mais après avoir découvert qu'elle dépensait au-delà de son allocation, elle la rétrograda. Cixi devint finalement plus hostile envers Zhen et l'envoya au "palais froid", un lieu réservé aux épouses tombées en disgrâce de l'empereur.

Puisqu'elle s'opposait fermement au programme de la réforme des cent jours de l'empereur Guangxu en 1898, Cixi fit placer l'empereur en résidence surveillée dans le palais d'été. L'impératrice Xiaodingjing espionnait fréquemment l'empereur Guangxu, en rapportant chaque détail à Cixi. En 1900, lors de la rébellion des Boxers, l'impératrice s'enfuit à Xi'an avec Cixi et l'empereur Guangxu, alors que Pékin était occupée et mise à sac par les forces de l'Alliance des huit nations. À leur retour, Zhen s'est noyée dans un puits dans la Cité Interdite.

Lizzie Yu Der Ling et , qui passèrent du temps à la cour de Cixi à la suite de la rébellion des Boxers, décrivirent l'impératrice Xiaodingjing comme une figure gracieuse et agréable.

Ère Xuantong
L'empereur Guangxu et Cixi moururent à un jour d'intervalle en 1908, après quoi l'impératrice Xiaodingjing fut promue impératrice douairière, avec le titre honorable Longyu, signifiant "propice et prospère".

Immédiatement après la mort de l'empereur Guangxu, Cixi nomma Puyi, neveu de l'empereur Guangxu âgé de 3 ans, nouvel empereur. Comme l'impératrice douairière Longyu n'avait pas eu d'enfants avec l'empereur Guangxu, elle adopta l'enfant Puyi comme son enfant. Bien que Cixi ait décrété avant sa mort que la cour impériale des Qing ne permettrait plus jamais aux femmes de servir de régentes, Longyu resta la figure dirigeante du gouvernement Qing et fut consultée sur toutes les décisions importantes. Mais comme elle était inexpérimentée en politique, au cours des premières années du règne de Puyi, le père biologique de l'empereur, Zaifeng (prince Chun), servit de régent pour Puyi aux côtés du général Yuan Shikai.

Sur le conseil de Yuan Shikai à l'automne 1911, l'impératrice Douairière Longyu accepta de signer une abdication au nom de Puyi, alors âgé de cinq ans. Elle accepta sous la condition que la famille impériale serait autorisée à conserver ses titres. Les autres conditions furent les suivantes :
 La famille impériale pourra garder ses biens.
 Ils pourraient rester dans la Cité interdite temporairement, avant de se relocaliser vers le palais d'été.
 Ils recevraient une allocation annuelle de quatre millions de taels d'argent.
 Les mausolées impériaux seraient protégés et entretenus.
 Le nouveau gouvernement paierait pour les funérailles de l'empereur Guangxu et la construction de sa tombe.

Époque républicaine

La dynastie Qing a pris fin en 1912, remplacée par la République de Chine. Quelques mois après la chute de la dynastie Qing, le , l'impératrice douairière Longyu mourut à Pékin des suites d'une maladie. Elle avait 45 ans et fut la seule impératrice chinoise dont le cercueil fut transporté de la Cité Interdite à son tombeau en train. Lors de ses funérailles, le vice-président de la République chinoise, Li Yuanhong, fit son éloge pour son « excellence parmi les femmes ». Elle fut enterrée dans le mausolée Chong des tombes occidentales Qing avec l'empereur Guangxu.

Titres

 Sous le règne de l'empereur Tongzhi (1861-1875):
 Dame Yehe Nara (à partir du )
 Sous le règne de l'empereur Guangxu (1875–1908):
 Impératrice ( ; à partir du )
 Sous le règne de l'empereur Xuantong (1908-1912):
 Impératrice douairière Longyu ( ; à partir du )
 Pendant les années de la République de Chine (1912-1949) :
 Impératrice Xiaodingjing ( ; à partir de 1913)

Galerie

Dans la fiction et la culture populaire

 Interprété par Lin Jing dans Les tristesses de la cité interdite (1948)
 Interprété par Ivy Ling Po dans The Impress Dowager (1975) et The Last Tempest (1976)
 Interprété par Liang Yuejun dans Le dernier empereur (1987)
 Interprété par Gong Lijun dans Li Lianying: L'eunuque impérial (1991)
 Représenté par Suet Lei dans L'ascension et la chute de la dynastie Qing (1992)
 Représenté par Jiang Nan dans Towards the Republic (2003)
 Représenté par Fan Bingbing dans The Founding of Party (2011)
 Représenté par Joan Chen en 1911 (2011)
 Interprété par Li Sheng dans Le Premier président (2011)
 Représenté par Pauline Chow dans Le dernier guérisseur de la Cité interdite (2016)
 Rangs des épouses impériales en Chine # Qing
 Rangs royaux et nobles de la dynastie Qing

Notes et références
Notes

Références

Bibliographie
 Sterling Seagrave: Dame du dragon
 Maria Warner: L'Impératrice des dragons: La vie et l'époque de Tseu-Hi, 1835–1908, l'impératrice de Chine.
 Anchee Min: Orchidée Impératrice
 Een Vrouw op de Drakentroon (Une femme sur le dragonthrone), Mayli Wen (avant-propos Lulu Wang),
 Vie quotidienne dans la cité interdite, Wan Yi, Wang Shuqing, Lu Yanzhen

Liens externes

Personnalité chinoise du XIXe siècle
Mandchous
Naissance en janvier 1868
Décès en février 1913
Pages avec des traductions non relues
Décès à 45 ans
Impératrice douairière
Impératrice de Chine
Impératrice du XIXe siècle
Impératrice du XXe siècle

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David James Glenn passed away suddenly Friday September 20, 2019 in the arms of his loving wife Michelle (Shelly) Glenn in Middlebury, Indiana. They were on their way home to Hawks, Michigan on a brief leave from Dave's consulting job in Myanmar (Burma). Dave was born on March 13, 1957 in Takoma Park, Maryland.
Dave worked his entire life in the field of agriculture, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Crop and Soil Science from Michigan State University (MSU). He started his working career in agriculture at the MSU Clarksville Horticultural Experiment Station while still working on his undergraduate BS degree. He then transferred to the main campus and spent several years as the technician to Dr. Everette (Ev) Everson and his wheat breeding program. They became very good friends, as many of Dave's colleagues, and Dave often traveled to Arizona to visit "Doc" at his retirement home. Shortly after Ev's retirement from MSU, Dave moved to the Manager position at Michigan Foundation Seed Company in Okemos and then on to the Extension Directorship of Presque Isle County, for MSU again, where he eventually retired from. Dave was by no means done with work and had a lot of ideas he wanted to share in addition to working his farm. While working in Iraq, Dave married Michelle in California and they combined their love of international travel and their talents by forming a consulting group (Connemara Consulting). This took him (and often Shelly) to many post conflict areas in the world. He traveled for work to Sudan, Uganda, Iraq, Afghanistan and lastly Myanmar. They also undertook a few domestic work assignments with the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey and the Farm to School program in southwestern Colorado. Between the international assignments, Dave and Shelly worked on their 80 acre farm near Hawks, Michigan where they had various livestock animals, a greenhouse for off season vegetable production as well as a very large market garden. The bounty from the farm often ended up on the tables of the Chicory Cafe that they owned and operated in Rogers City or at one of the local farm markets in Gaylord, Rogers City or Alpena. They both were active in the local small farm community, helping to develop programs to support those other farmers too. Dave was instrumental in starting the Farmers Market in Rogers City and the Small Farm Conference for Northern Michigan. Dave often took on jobs with various local community development groups and taught business development courses with the hopes and expectation of helping to develop Northeastern Michigan into a more vibrant area that would attract tourists and bring in new ideas. Dave had a talent for attracting people of all ages and cultures to him and could strike up a conversation with a complete stranger. Those conversations would often last for hours and they would part as friends. His quick wit and often times, sarcasm, kept you entertained and on your toes! He could take a simple comment and quickly turn it into a joke, often at your expense! Dave loved life, his children and grandchildren, his many pets, and most of all, his wife Shelly! He will always be remembered as a kind and friendly soul who was a friend for life, once he made you his friend. Dave committed his life to making the world a better place, both at home and abroad. He lived his life to its fullest and often expressed his appreciation for the people and opportunities in his life.
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1. N.Y. Yankees (3): The Yankees received prospects for Aroldis Chapman, Andrew Miller and Carlos Beltran last year, but the trade that's most benefited them this year is J.R. Murphy for Aaron Hicks. The latter, a lifetime .230 hitter, is batting .342 with six homers, 16 walks, five steals and an 1.105 OPS. The former is batting .262 — in AAA.
2. Washington (1): Ryan Zimmerman has hit 13 home runs — only two fewer than he hit in 345 more plate appearances last year — and his 1.334 OPS is more than twice as much as the .624 he finished last year with.
3. Houston (2): Marwin Gonzalez has played five positions, and homered at four of them. The nine he's hit are just four fewer than his career high (13 last year) and his .686 slugging percentage is 284 points above his career .402. If there was a Ben Zobrist award for best versatile player, Marwin is the early favorite.
4. Baltimore (4): Trey Mancini has 10 home runs in first 86 major-league plate appearances, seven of them good for 20 RBIs. This puts him in a tie for 10th for HRs by a former Notre Dame player, but he's got a ways to go to catch the leader — Carl Yastrzemski with 452. Diamondback A.J. Pollock is the active leader with 41.
5. L.A. Dodgers (7): Rookie Cody Bellinger has been a Dodger for a little more than two weeks and he's second on the team with five home runs. His career is certain to last longer than his father, Clay, who was a utilityman, mostly with the Yankees, from 1999-2002. Clay's timing was good for a couple of World Series rings, though.
6. Cleveland (6): Indians' bullpen leads MLB in ERA (1.79), slugging percentage against (.271), OPS against (.554) and home runs allowed (2, both by Dan Otero, who allowed just two home runs in 70.2 innings last year). It's a good thing, because the Indians' touted starters are 26th in MLB and last in the AL in ERA at 4.86.
7. Colorado (9): The Rockies spent $70 million on Ian Desmond with the notion of making him a first baseman, not realizing they already had one. Mark Reynolds is batting .321, slugging .661 and has 11 homers. Even better, he's fanned only 27 times in 124 plate appearances, which may sound like a lot. But a strikeout every 4.6 plate appearances is well below his career average of a strikeout every 3.2 plate appearances.
8. Chicago Cubs (5): The Cubs lost Chapman to free agency, but may have replaced him with someone better. Wade Davis has allowed two singles, two doubles and four walks in 14.1 innings, fanning 18 and saving all seven games he had a chance to. Since the start of 2014, Davis has a 1.09 ERA, compared to Chapman's 1.79.
9. St. Louis (11): Jedd Gyorko is batting .337 and has 15 extra-base hits and a 1.043 OPS, but only 13 RBIs. Wherever Gyorko bats, nobody hits well in front of him. All six of Gyorko's homers have been with the bases empty, a year after he hit 30 homers — 18 solos — and knocked in just 59 runs.
10. Boston (10): Chris Sale has a 1.92 ERA and leads MLB with 73 strikeouts in 51.2 innings pitched. Yet he's 3-2 for the team which led MLB in runs scored last year. The Red Sox have scored 32 runs in Sale's seven starts — 17 of them on Sunday. The Red Sox scored 10 runs in the ninth inning Sunday, long after Sale had departed, or just five fewer than they had scored for Sale in his first six starts.
11. Arizona (8): Zack Greinke said he wasn't going to talk about his velocity after a March start where he didn't top 90 mph. "I'm not going to answer velocity questions every time the whole season. I mean, you've got to pick and choose your times you ask me about that," he said then. Greinke has fanned 47 in his first 43.2 regular-season innings and no one's asking any more.
12. N.Y. Mets (18): All the injuries have hurt, but the opportunity for Michael Conforto has been a welcome salve. Conforto leads the Mets in walks with 15, average at .325 and OPS at 1.040.
13. Cincinnati (21): Zack Cozart has a career .250 average in 2,426 at-bats, but he's hitting 101 points higher than that and slugging (.588) almost 200 points above his career .393 mark. A .427 average on balls in play has helped.
14. Minnesota (13): Ervin Santana has been among the best pitchers in baseball, aided by a measure of good fortune. Santana is 5-1 with a 1.72 ERA and has allowed just 21 hits — six of them homers — in 47.2 innings. Santana's .126 average against on balls in play leads MLB by 56 points (Dallas Keuchel is second at .182).
15. Milwaukee (14): There's no way Eric Thames could replicate his success from Korea, and he's not. He's bettering it. Thames is batting .328 with 12 homers and a 1.170 OPS, comparable to his .321/427/679 when he hit 40 homers last season. Still a ways to go to match his .381/497/790, 47-homer 2015 in Korea.
16. Detroit (15): The line to replace Francisco Rodriguez as closer begins with Justin Wilson, who's fanned 22 in 13.2 innings and has a 1.32 ERA. Wilson has two saves in his career, but a .622 OPS against and 280 strikeouts in 271.2 innings.
18. Tampa Bay (22): Shortstop Tim Beckham was the first pick of the 2008 draft, and it's taken him nearly a decade and Matt Duffy's injury to become a regular. He's hit six homers and is slugging .482, but's he's fanned 40 times and walked just 5. The Rays passed on in-state college star Buster Posey (Florida State) to take Beckham, and there won't be enough home runs hit in 2017 to make up for that.
19. Seattle (25): James Paxton allowed no runs in four of his six starts and had a 1.43 ERA before getting hurt; Mitch Haniger was hitting .342 with a 1.054 OPS before getting hurt. It's been that kind of year for the Mariners.
20. L.A. Angels (19): After 185 starts, Bud Norris may not make another. With Cam Bedrosian injured, the Angels turned to Norris to close. He has five saves, 22 strikeouts in 17 innings, a .528 OPS against and a 3.18 ERA — the lowest of a career with a lifetime mark of 4.49.
21. Miami (16): Marcell Ozuna leads the Marlins in home runs (11, tied with Giancarlo Stanton) and RBIs (26), but he had a similar experience last year. Ozuna was an All-Star in the first half with 17 homers, .307 average and .892 OPS and then fell far in the second half with six homers, a .209 average and .609 OPS.
22. Oakland (26): Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum is no place to find your inner slugger, but Yonder Alonso, who has a career .733 OPS, has already tied his career-high in home runs with nine and has a 1.010 OPS.
23. Texas (17): Joey Gallo is the Ryan Schimpf of the AL. He leads the Rangers in OPS (.820), home runs (10) and RBIs (21, tied with Nomar Mazara), but is batting below .200 at .194. His 50 strikeouts lead the team, but Mike Napoli's 42 aren't far behind.
24. Philadelphia (20): Cesar Hernandez may be a bad base runner — he's been thrown out stealing 23 times in 64 career attempts — but at least he's on base. Hernandez is batting .333 this year — and slugging .496 — and .301 since the start of 2016.
25. Pittsburgh (23): The Elias Sports Bureau says Ivan Nova (3-3, 2.14 ERA, 2 complete games, 1 walk in 42 innings) is the first Pirate with more complete games than walks in a 17-game span — the number of starts since Nova became a Buc — since Wilbur Cooper (1924). Let the record show that Cooper, a Pirate for 13 seasons, won 20 games in four of his last five Pirate seasons, including 1924 when he had 25 complete games and won 20. He walked just 40 in '24 in 268.2 innings, which for Cooper, was moderate usage. His 327 innings and 22 wins in 1921 led the NL.
26. Toronto (28): From the Department of Misleading Info: On a recent Blue Jays broadcast, the announcers were extolling that Kevin Pillar was tied with Mike Trout for most hits by an AL centerfielder. This is, of course, because Trout has walked 17 times and Pillar nine, and Trout has 21 fewer at-bats. Still, Pillar's .305 average and .843 OPS are way beyond career averages of .270 and .702.
27. Atlanta (24): Freddie Freeman has received MVP votes in three of the last four seasons, but this year might be better than any of them. Freeman is batting .349 with 11 homers and a 1.224 OPS.
28. San Diego (29): Trevor Cahill won 53 games as a starter in his first four seasons, but went to the bullpen after a 3-12, 5.61 2014 in Arizona. Starting again, Cahill is 3-2 with a 3.06 ERA and 44 strikeouts in 35.1 innings.
29. Kansas City (30): Royals starting pitchers are No. 1 in MLB with a 3.26 ERA, mostly thanks to Jason Vargas (4-1, 1.89 ERA) and Ian Kennedy (0-3, 3.03). It hasn't been enough to overcome an offense that is last in MLB with just 89 runs scored.
30. San Francisco (27): Buster Posey is batting .363 and slugging .505 in the middle of the Giants' order, and has six RBIs. He's hit three homers — all solos, naturally — meaning he's knocked in three other Giants in the 25 games he's played.
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This is my first ever project and its been going great so far. I reached a snag after I installed a steering column; I cant seem to figure out which wires attach to the column. I have installed a new battery and when I connect the positive cable the wipers and lights will work, but the ignition will not turn over. Lastly, where is the starter for '77 Malibu located? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Starter located back of the engine on the passenger side below the exhuast. Make sure you have wire loom with big red and purple wires pusher all the way together. Hope that helps.
Oh and by the way welcome aboard!
The loom has connectors which plug into the column and ignition switch. If you have all those plugged into the correct location, there is also a neutral / park safety switch which won't allow the car to start unless in one of those gears.
This one is underneath the column support and is screwd in by 2 small screws. You can't see it in the pic but should be easy to deduce.
Make sure that you slide the metal rod into the little hole in the unit. This connects to the other side of the column (see 2nd pic) they snap together and then clips into the column.
Well? Did it turn over?
OK, I need help. Figured I'd keep this old thread going also for other 77 Malibu related wiring issues.
I have a battery that is charged (I think anyway). Starter is wired & I have 12Volts there on the + side & - side to also run a Voltmeter. Also, 12 Volts at the Alternator. I have my engine harness plugged into the fuse box & the column is wired like described above when I posted that info for another member.
No power @ the key- no buzzer...nothing @ all. Took out the engine side harness plug & there is only 3 volts coming to what I believe is the Ignition Wire...What am I missing here?
The battery is old but when I was checking the connections & such again it was still giving a reading of 12V. The 1 fusible link in the harness looks good too as do the fuses. Thanks!
First thought -- bad or missing ground wire from body/chassis to battery? I remember running into the same problem with a 1st gen Monte a while back -- separate 12ga ground wire from battery to chassis was disconnected. This could be what you're seeing -- the 3V you're getting is just the amount finding its way back to the battery via other routes. Part of the trick in testing electrical is realizing that the problem might not be between the batt + and your meter, it could just as likely be between the meter and batt -.
While I'm thinking of it, try this: run a long wire directly from batt - to where you are testing the ignition, and use that as the ground for your test. This way the juice has a direct path back to the battery. If it now reads 12V, your problem is on the ground side, not the + feed.
Also try testing at the horn relay. IIRC, there is a direct path from batt + to the horn relay post, so a lack of voltage would again indicate a problem on the ground side.
I'll check all the ground wires to be sure. (I bet you're correct).
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LOL- took a while cuz I haven't been back in the shop since I posted the question.
After I reworked the ground wires- which I think were 16 or even 18 gauge- (plenty for the voltmeter to run off just not enough for the rest I guess)- I turned the key & heard the starter go! It was all of 2 seconds but one of the best sounds my ears have heard in a while! THANKS AGAIN!
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Q: Kubernetes Test Dome Can't figure out what I am messing up in the kubernetes yaml. The part that is messed up is the app:nginx part. Below is the question
The team responsible for Kubernetes wants to add a Deployment that will deploy 4 nginx Pods which should have port 443 open. Finish the following YAML configuration so that it implements those requirements
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We all know Donald Trump loves beautiful women. For proof, look no further than his current wife, Melania. The real estate mogul-turned-president has not been coy when it comes to flirting with what (or who) he wants. In fact, Trump even gave his best shot at wooing one of the world's most beloved beauties, Brooke Shields. The brunette knockout herself dished about Trump's attempt to swoon the model during an October 2017 appearance on Watch What Happens Lives, and needless to say things did not exactly go according to Don's plans.
At the time, the head of the Republican party had recently divorced from his second wife, Marla Maples, in 1999. The businessman did not find love again until he tied the knot with his first lady in 2005, per Newsweek. Although there has been a lot of speculation about the state of the Trump's marriage in recent months, Melania gushed over her man in 2016 before he was elected to office. "My favorite part about him are his brains, his looks — it's everything together," she told Us Weekly, per the Daily Mail. It looks like his pickup lines worked on at least one long-legged brunette. Keep scrolling to see the cringey remark Trump said to Shields.
Donald Trump had eyes for 'America's sweetheart'
Before Donald Trump married his third wife, Melania, the 45th president gave it his best shot at scoring a date with actress Brooke Shields. While dishing on her many encounters with the president, Shields revealed the icky line he used to try and win her over.
"He called me, I was on location doing a movie and he called me right after he had gotten a divorce and said, 'I really think we should date because you're America's sweetheart and I'm America's richest man and the people would love it,'" Shields retold during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live in 2017. Considering how Shields made a face of disgust while discussing the real estate mogul earlier in the segment, it is no surprise that she turned him down. "'I have a boyfriend; I really don't think it would be … he's not really going to be happy about it,'" the actress said, reenacting her response to the businessman.
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Pakistani mom promised her daughter a wedding reception. Instead, she burned her alive.
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It must have been strange for the 18-year-old Pakistani woman. Her mother, Perveen Bibi, had never approved of her relationship with Hassan Khan, a classmate. Nor had other members of the family, who had rejected multiple marriage proposals from her husband before the couple eloped.
But now, all was forgiven, her mother told her. Come home to celebrate so you're not branded as an eloper.
Rafiq nervously agreed.
But there was no celebration on her return to the family's home in Lahore, Pakistan. Instead, her mother and brother beat and strangled her, then tied her to a cot, doused her in kerosene and lit her on fire, according to reportsat the time.
After the attack, Bibi ran outside and yelled, "I have killed my daughter for misbehaving and giving our family a bad name," the mother's sister told Agence France-Presse at the time.
Authorities arrested the mother and later Rafiq's brother, Anees Rafiq, and charged them in the young woman's death. The mother confessed almost immediately, telling police, "I have no regrets," according to the Associated Press.
On Monday, Bibi was sentenced to death and Anees Rafiq to life in prison for killing Zeenat Rafiq, the AP reported. A defense attorney for Rafiq told the AP his client was innocent.
Such "honor killings" are commonplace in Pakistan, where roughly 1,000 women are slain every year by relatives, most of them men, who believe they have disgraced their families. In 2015, about 1,100 women died in honor killings, while another 900 suffered sexual violence and 800 attempted suicide or took their own lives, the country's independent Human Rights Commission said in its 2015 report.
Rafiq's death came after a series of attacks on women triggered outrage in Pakistan, which is struggling to reconcile traditional attitudes about women and marriage with growing calls for reform. A week after her mother's arrest, a group of Pakistani clerics issued a fatwa, a ruling under Islamic law, calling honor killings "unethical and unjustifiable" and urging the government to draft new legislation to punish perpetrators.
In October, Pakistan's parliament passed a landmark law guaranteeing 25-year prison sentences for men convicted in honor killings and barring families from legally pardoning killers. Previous law allowed a victim's family to absolve killers of guilt, making prosecutions difficult or impossible in many cases.
Hassan Khan, Rafiq's husband, described his wife as his high school sweetheart in an interview with Newsweek Pakistan.
"We were just friends in the beginning," he said, "but both of us realized we loved each other after some time."
Eventually, the two decided to get married. Khan said he urged Rafiq to discuss their engagement with her family. When she did, he said, they beat her "mercilessly."
"Her family found it a matter of great dishonor," he said.
The couple tried on other occasions to get the family's permission to marry, Khan told Newsweek, but they were rejected. So in the summer of 2016, they eloped.
For the first two days, Khan said, they hid at a cousin's house, fearing retribution from Rafiq's relatives. Then they went to Khan's mother's house.
A few days later, Khan said, Rafiq's mother and an uncle arrived with something of an olive branch: if you let Rafiq return home, they said, we'll arrange a formal wedding reception.
It took some coaxing, but a male relative guaranteed Rafiq's safety, Khan told Newsweek. But even after Rafiq agreed to go, she knew she was taking a risk, he said.
"Please forgive me if I don't come back," Khan recalled his wife saying.
It was the last time he saw her alive.
Rafiq had been home just a couple days when her mother and brother burned her. Neighbors heard screams and saw smoke rising from the house, but family members prevented them from coming inside, the AP reported.
Khan said he learned about her death through one of her cousins, who called and said, "They have killed her."
"I couldn't believe my ears," Khan told Newsweek. "I rushed to their house and saw the burned remains of a body – it was so badly disfigured I couldn't even tell if it was a person."
Before Rafiq's mother and brother were sentenced, Khan vowed to seek justice for his wife. He told Newsweek he refused to let her killing cloud his memory of her.
"She was full of joy," he said, "and had such a beautiful smile."
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January 10, 2017 / Ben Develin
Early last year I got to play with the Panasonic VariCam LT and got to learn how much of a filmmaking beast that unit was (that article can be found here). The colours, the images, it blew my mind. So when the GH5 was announced a few days ago I became immediately excited.
The Lumix GH5 is the successor to the very popular GH4, their flagship Micro Four Thirds system. The GH5 improves upon its predecessor with 4K 50/60p, upping the megapixels by 25% to 20mp and also comes with a new image processor that delivers higher performance colour and sharpness reproduction.
One of the reasons I chose to buy the Sony A7s a couple years ago over the GH4 was mostly the low light performance. So it's very exciting to see Panasonic working hard to improve image quality in low light situations. I don't expect it to ever beat the A7s range as this is still a Micro Four Thirds camera and it has more megapixels (essentially sacrificing light sensitivity for more resolution). The GH5 is able to deliver better low light performance to the GH4 by upgrading its noise reduction processors.
It (GH5) boasts 4x the noise identification accuracy compared to the previous engine and preserves details even after the noise reduction process. As a result, photos can be clearly shot even at high sensitivity ISO values of up to 25,600.
The above video is by Nick Driftwood who has been one of the few filmmakers who has been working with Panasonic on the development of the GH5 and sent this through to newshooter.com
It was shot in 4:2:0 8-bit 60p mode (59.94fps) in 4K UHD, H.264 Level High 5.2, 158 Mbps, married with the new 12-60 Leica f2.8-4.0 ASPH lens.
Had he shot in 24/25/30p instead, it would have indicated the true low-light potential of this camera so instead my judgements are going to be more on the level of noise.
Up to 12,000 ISO it is still very usable and cleaner then I had initially expected of the GH5. 6400 ISO looks to be very clean (for a micro 4/3 sensor at least). Mind you, despite the A7S being known as a low-light king, my particular taste is to not push it past 10,000 ISO as beyond that point I start to dislike the level of noise. The GH5 seems to produce similar levels of noise as the A7S (at 10,000 ISO) somewhere between 3200 and 6400.
Slow motion capabilities have also been improved with the camera shooting at an impressive 180fps in FHD.
Also included in the camera is a 5-axis dual image stabiliser (IS) so photographers can be a bit more liberal with their shutter speed and filmmakers can achieve smoother, sexier camera moves. This will not be a substitute for having a Steadicam or gimbal but together I can imagine you'll be able choreograph some exceptionally stable shots. Which is fortunate as the GH5 is a small unit, so shooting handheld would otherwise be annoyingly shaky if it weren't for the IS.
The camera is capable of 4K 60p/50p ultra high-definition. Awesome.
It will be capable 6K/24p in Anamophic mode (4:3). Very exciting!
It also does internal 4:2:2 /10-bit video recording. THANK YOU!
Previously the GH series could only achieve this by outputting to an external monitor/recorder (such as an Atomos Shogun) and being limited to 8-bit video internally. My A7s is no different and although the A7sii is capable of internal 4K, the colour depth is still lacking, still only managing 8-bit video.
These improvements are especially important for colour grading and the indie filmmaking community is going to rejoice the fact that 4:2:2 10-bit is now not limited to expensive cinema style cameras.
Rolling shutter has also be reduced, no cropping of the sensor in 4K (take note Canon) and finally we have a mirrorless/DSLR that has no recording time limit.
Your picture profiles like 'Cinelike D' and 'Cinelike V' are there while V-LogL will come as a paid upgrade. Like I mentioned earlier, it will be capable of 6K/24p later in the year. Here are all the future upgrades expected to come.
Photographer: Daniel Berehulak - Shot on the Panasonic GH5
GH5 Firmware Upgrade Path:
4:2:2 10bit – Available April, 2017
6K/24p Anamorphic Video Mode (4:3) – Available Summer, 2017
(200 Mbps) FHD 4:2:2 10bit ALL-Intra – Available Summer, 2017
(400Mbps) 4K 4:2:2 10bit ALL-Intra – Available, Summer 2017
V-Log Color Profile – Available at launch, Cost: $100
Info from Cinema5D
Autofocus speed and accuracy has been improved and although it doesn't have phase detection, it utilises 'Depth from Defocus' and Contrast AF processes.
The speed of sensor drive during auto focusing in photo shooting mode has been increased to 480 fps, which is 2x faster than that of the GH4. Consequently, the LUMIX GH5 realizes ultra-high-speed AF of approximately 0.05 sec7 and 12 (AFS) / 9 (AFC) fps high-speed burst shooting using a mechanical shutter in full resolution. By analyzing every single frame precisely, it achieves a maximum 200% higher precision frame detection with minimum motion detection error for higher tracking tolerance against moving subjects.
For even more precise focusing, the number of focus areas has been increased from 49 to 225. Users can create a group of focus areas depending on the composition and can control it easily with a new joystick located on the thumb position, without taking your eyes off the subject. This is possible even when using the LVF or releasing the finger off the shutter button.
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I'm going to be keeping a keen eye on this camera when it launches. I'll soon be upgrading from my old trusty Sony FS700 to the Pansonic Varicam so getting the GH5 as a B-Cam will make a lot of sense. It is still a Micro Four Thirds camera which will leave me second guessing but regardless of that, I can see Panasonic selling this camera like hot cakes. I do reckon it is worthwhile to see if Sony does anything new with their mark iii versions of the A7S as you do have that beautiful full frame sensor and incredible low light sensitivity. But with the GH5 you will soon have higher frame rate 4K and 4:2:2 10-bit and I'm honestly torn on which alternative I need more!
The Lumix GH5 will be available (body only) in late March for $1999.99 US.
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