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I've had extreme pain in armpit and arm for the last month. I had surgery in 2010 to remove a lipoma in that area and cancer was not found. In November 2011, the lumps came back and I had an ultrasound and mammogram in Jaunary 2012. They came back normal; they said it was fatty tissue. I felt more lumps and in May 2012 had another ultrasound at a different facility. I'd breast implants put in. My arm has been hurting on and off since the lumps came back, but this last month they are really hurting! Now I am freaking out thinking I have cancer! I am sitting here in pain and having an anxiety attack about this thing.READ MORE
Very bad pain in armpit
I also had to have a lipoma (fatty tumor) removed from my arm. Because I was just a couple of years out from a diagnosis of aggressive Stage IIIB inflammatory breast cancer, the surgeon said that it needed to come out even though he was pretty sure that it was just a harmless lipoma. In reading about lipomas at that time, I learned that some people will have multiple lipomas once they have had one. Usually when a situation with multiple lipomas exists, doctors do not keep operating. They are really confident at that point that they are dealing with lipomas and they don't want to create more scar tissue if it is not necessary.
It could be that one or more of the new lipomas are pressing on a nerve or displacing muscle in a painful way. Because the pain is extreme and has lasted a month, having more surgery to remove the new lipomas might be the route to go. The implant might have shifted in a way that causes this pain. As PJ mentions, you need to ask questions about your heart since this is pain radiating down your left arm. Researchers are learning that women's symptoms of cardiac problems are often different than the textbook descriptions, which had been based on men's symptoms.
We are not doctors here, so your doctors are the best people to advise the right course. It sounds like right now you are having trouble finding a doctor to take your pain seriously. Your regular doctor may take it more seriously now that it has continued longer than a menstrual cycle, or you may have to find a new doctor. But continue to be assertive to find out that cause of your pain. I don't think it will be breast cancer related, but you want to investigate every possibility.
Hi everyone, thanks for your input. I doubt it cardiac only because right before I had my implants done I had an EKG that was required before going under general anesthesia. I am also a fitness instructor and a personal trainer and Im in good shape. I teach several high impact classes per week.
This also started about 3 or 4 weeks before the implants so its the same pain as before the implants so I don't think its the implants.
I also have a 2nd opinion from another breast surgeon in dec to be on the safe side. I don't feel like having surgery again but I might have to. EEeesh.
The elbow is weird though and its still freaking me out. I know with my job I physically do a lot so I probably overdid it but I haven't been teaching because of my implants surgery and the hurricane in almost 3 weeks. I would think if I pulled a muscle it would be better by now. Unless I tore something!n I may have to see an orthopedist too now. I still think something in the armpit is giving me this pain. It stinks because its affecting my job. I'm supposed to go back to teaching in another week. I'll probably just have to walk around and tell them what to do and not lift any weights plus, I probably still won't be able to lift heavier weights yet from my breast implant surgery and don't want to because my arm hurts anyway.
I really appreciate everyones input it helps.READ MORE
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Glad you're feeling a bit less anxious. I hope you can get back into your full routine soon - it's tough when a health challenge derails your work, as well as your personal well-being. While it does seem coincidental, it could very well be that your elbow pain is completely unrelated to your other symptoms; so if this necxt appointment doesn't yield any solid answers, it might be time to see an orthopedist. Good luck - PJHREAD MORE
Hi - Take some deep breaths and try not to panic, OK? What you describe doesn't sound at all like breast cancer symptoms. You've had both a mammogram and ultrasound that were normal; that should give you some comfort that this isn't cancer you're dealing with, but something else.
When you have multiple lumps in your breast, that's often a sign of fibrocystic change, which is fairly common in younger women. It can be quite painful, as oftentimes cysts develop, and as they enlarge they can press on nerves. And this does sound like a nerve issue, with pain traveling down your arm. It could very well be that your implant is positioned so it's pressing on a nerve, too. Unfortunately, there's not much you can do at this point beyond work with meds to try to alleviate the pain. Has your doctor prescribed anything yet? If not, make sure to let him/her know how much discomfort you're experiencing, and that you need some relief.
Again, please try not to stress; pain in the armpit, and traveling down the arm, isn't a typical breast cancer symptom. In fact, breast cancer is usually painless. And remember, you've had screening that's come back normal. Please read our post on fear as you wait for your appointments; I think it might help you. Take care - PJH
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10 Breast Cancer Myths Debunked
Hi PJH,
Thanks for your response!
I am almost 46 years old. Thanks for your support. You made me feel much better about this. But its the same pain as before the implants. The implants aren't even that big. From this pain it feels like I have a bruise on my elbow. Its weird. My doctor was saying oh certain times of the month but this has been a month allready so its not period related. I even had an x-ray on my elbow a few weeks ago thinking I have cancer and it spread to my elbow. The dr. said no cancer in that elbow. I don't even believe him, sad aren't I. I will definitely look at the post- "fear" to calm me down.
wear is the "fear" link?
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Sorry, those links are sometimes hard to see. Click on this word: fear. That will bring you to it.
The pain in your elbow, to me, would definitely signal a nerve issue. Or, one more thought - it's a long shot, but if this is all on the left side, you might consider some testing for a possible cardiac issue... Best of luck to you. PJHREAD MORE


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Shakira is pretty great, right? She sang "Underneath Your Clothes" and that "Hips Don't Lie" number, she seems very sweet -- we like Shakira pretty well around these parts. But Shakira's boyfriend, soccer player Gerard Pique, well, he's an entirely different story. Because here's a thing that Shakira said in a new interview with Billboard about that hot music video she did with Rihanna:
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Roger was not able to defend his title in Madrid today. He lost to David Nalbandian 6-1, 3-6 and 3-6.
Roger made an excellent start, clearly dominating his opponent in the first set. But just as our star looked as though he might run away with it, Nalbandian fought his way back into the match by breaking Roger's serve in the second game of the second set. Roger looked uneasy at the start of the decider and gifted Nalbandian another break in the third game after two uncharacteristically loose shots that drifted beyond the baseline.
The world number 25 kept our title-holder on the ropes with some excellent serving and deep returns and broke again in the ninth to claim the sixth ATP title of his career and make up for the disappointment when he lost against Marat Safin in the 2004 final. Nalbandian, who beat world numbers two and three, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, on his way to the final, became only the second player since Boris Becker in 1994 to beat the top three at the same event.
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I don't see what's wrong with that. If the president embraces this approach, he shows he is being reasonable without sacrificing his program. And, yes, Boehner should go with it, too.
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hi guys, i'm now ttc after i had my 3rd m/c. i have got 3 children which were all born fine and pregnancies were successful. since then i have suffered a m/c 3 times in a row. i had my coil out last tues and have since been bleeding heavy, i'm totally confused as to whether this is a period or whether its just where i had it removed cause i came off my normal period while on the coil the sat b4 i had it removed. can any1 shed any light????
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Sorry hun, i can't help, i know a few people who have had the coil fitted and said they bled after its removal, but that was a few years ago now, so don't know how much or how little they bled, and i dare say if i asked they wouldn't remember completely, i am sure someone on this site can shed some light on your problem,
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Was it one of those new coils that is embedded with hormones as well, could be withdrawal bleeding from the embedded hormone if that is the case. This will take a little while to get your body back to normal. I am sorry to hear that you have had three losses in a row and wish you all the best in your new effort.
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I had a Mirena Coil removed in May 2006 and bled for a week or so. My period was regualr after the first initial bleed.We weren't actively TTC as we were planning our wedding which took place in Nov 2006. I fell pregnant in March 07 but lost the baby at 7 weeks. I fell pregnant again in Oct 07 and had a gorgeous baby boy in July 08 .
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Canon Digital IXUS Review (Powershot S100 Digital Elph / Ixy Digital)
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Record mode display
This is a typical view of the LCD in preview mode, the settings are overlaid like this for just four seconds (so as not to be distracting).
Information overlaid:
Half-pressing the shutter release causes the camera to focus, measure light (meter) and calculate the optimum exposure settings, if the shot is likely to suffer from blur because of a lack of light (long exposure) a small camera blur indicator () will be shown over the preview image. A final full depression of the shutter release takes the shot.
Keeping the shutter release button depressed after taking the shot displays an instant review, to keep this on the screen just press SET. There is now an image erase shortcut, by pressing SET and LEFT arrow you will be given the option to erase the image.
Record mode menu
Upon pressing the MENU button you're taken to the record mode menu, use the left / right arrows to select the shooting mode (only two shown in this animation)
Shooting modes:
If the camera is in Auto mode pressing the MENU button once more takes you to the Setup Menu (described below), in Manual mode there are two more option pages before reaching the Setup menu: (In B&W mode only exposure compensation is available).
|Exposure compensation +/-2 EV in 0.3EV steps
|White Balance selection, Auto, Fine, Cloudy, Tungsten and Fluorescent
Record mode setup menu
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Large / Fine (1600 x 1200)
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Last (camera remembers your settings)
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Language menu shortcut: Hold SET + MENU in Play mode.
Playback display
Switching to Playback mode immediately displays the last image taken, flicking between images is instantaneous. There is a delete shortcut in playback mode and that is holding the SET button and pressing the LEFT arrow will display a single image erase confirmation box (this is the same as record mode).
This is a typical view of the LCD in playback mode, we have the review information set to full (press the DISP button) and as you can see there's a column of exposure information down the left side, frame number count and date & time along the bottom and folder / filename top right.
Pulling the zoom lever towards the magnifying glass (tele) enters zoomed mode (about 2.5x zoom). The arrow keys now function as a cursor for scrolling around the zoomed image.
Zoom mode on the Digital IXUS is very fast and fairly easy to operate, it would have been nice to have had a further zoom level and/or a 4-way direction controller but there have to be certain design compromises on a camera this small.
|Pushing the zoom lever towards the checkerboard display (wide) enters thumbnail view mode (9 images in total). The arrow keys now function as a selector. All other functions are still available in thumbnail mode.
Playback mode menu
Pressing MENU in playback mode displays six options (these are normally overlaid over the review image, I've used a black background here for clarity), menu detailed below.
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- Introduction
Table of Contents
- Microsoft SQL Server Defined
- Microsoft SQL Server Features
- Microsoft SQL Server Administration
Microsoft SQL Server Programming
- An Outline for Development
- Database
- Database Services
- Database Objects: Databases
- Database Objects: Tables
- Database Objects: Table Relationships
- Database Objects: Keys
- Database Objects: Constraints
- Database Objects: Data Types
- Database Objects: Views
- Database Objects: Stored Procedures
- Database Objects: Indexes
- Database Objects: User Defined Functions
- Database Objects: Triggers
- Database Design: Requirements, Entities, and Attributes
- Business Process Model Notation (BPMN) and the Data Professional
- Business Questions for Database Design, Part One
- Business Questions for Database Design, Part Two
- Database Design: Finalizing Requirements and Defining Relationships
- Database Design: Creating an Entity Relationship Diagram
- Database Design: The Logical ERD
- Database Design: Adjusting The Model
- Database Design: Normalizing the Model
- Creating The Physical Model
- Database Design: Changing Attributes to Columns
- Database Design: Creating The Physical Database
- Database Design Example: Curriculum Vitae
- NULLs
- The SQL Server Sample Databases
- The SQL Server Sample Databases: pubs
- The SQL Server Sample Databases: NorthWind
- The SQL Server Sample Databases: AdventureWorks
- The SQL Server Sample Databases: Adventureworks Derivatives
- UniversalDB: The Demo and Testing Database, Part 1
- UniversalDB: The Demo and Testing Database, Part 2
- UniversalDB: The Demo and Testing Database, Part 3
- UniversalDB: The Demo and Testing Database, Part 4
- Getting Started with Transact-SQL
- Transact-SQL: Data Definition Language (DDL) Basics
- Transact-SQL: Limiting Results
- Transact-SQL: More Operators
- Transact-SQL: Ordering and Aggregating Data
- Transact-SQL: Subqueries
- Transact-SQL: Joins
- Transact-SQL: Complex Joins - Building a View with Multiple JOINs
- Transact-SQL: Inserts, Updates, and Deletes
- An Introduction to the CLR in SQL Server 2005
- Design Elements Part 1: Programming Flow Overview, Code Format and Commenting your Code
- Design Elements Part 2: Controlling SQL's Scope
- Design Elements Part 3: Error Handling
- Design Elements Part 4: Variables
- Design Elements Part 5: Where Does The Code Live?
- Design Elements Part 6: Math Operators and Functions
- Design Elements Part 7: Statistical Functions
- Design Elements Part 8: Summarization Statistical Algorithms
- Design Elements Part 9:Representing Data with Statistical Algorithms
- Design Elements Part 10: Interpreting the Data—Regression
- Design Elements Part 11: String Manipulation
- Design Elements Part 12: Loops
- Design Elements Part 13: Recursion
- Design Elements Part 14: Arrays
- Design Elements Part 15: Event-Driven Programming Vs. Scheduled Processes
- Design Elements Part 16: Event-Driven Programming
- Design Elements Part 17: Program Flow
- Forming Queries Part 1: Design
- Forming Queries Part 2: Query Basics
- Forming Queries Part 3: Query Optimization
- Forming Queries Part 4: SET Options
- Forming Queries Part 5: Table Optimization Hints
- Using SQL Server Templates
- Transact-SQL Unit Testing
- Index Tuning Wizard
- Unicode and SQL Server
- SQL Server Development Tools
- The SQL Server Transact-SQL Debugger
- The Transact-SQL Debugger, Part 2
- Basic Troubleshooting for Transact-SQL Code
- An Introduction to Spatial Data in SQL Server 2008
- Performance Tuning
- Practical Applications
- Professional Development
- Application Architecture Assessments
- Business Intelligence
- Tips and Troubleshooting
- Additional Resources
An Outline for Development
Last updated Mar 28, 2003.
I've covered quite a few syntax examples and algorithm explanations in articles on the specifics of Transact-SQL Code development. But syntax and algorithms aren't the complete picture; they are the tactics you use to implement a strategy, and that strategy is the process of development.
Perhaps you're a professional developer who has moved into the database administration or development role. Or, your team may already have a sophisticated development process. In those cases, you probably already have experience in developing code. There are several formal methods and processes for large-scale development efforts. These processes include things like a formal Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), working through Unified Markup Language (UML) diagrams and so on. Those decisions will largely be driven by your team or organization. Those are deep topics, and there are several references for them here at InformIT.
In this tutorial, I'll focus more on the specific process for writing Transact-SQL (T-SQL) code. This is a method I use whether I'm writing simple code for a view all the way to complex business logic within a stored procedure or other code. It's concise, easy to remember, and works well.
I break down the development task into four phases:
- Understand the goal or problem as completely as possible
- Comment the process
- Code the comments
- Optimize the code
Let's explore each of these in order. I'll refer back to these concepts in my future tutorials to create simple and more complicated programs.
Understand the Goal or Problem as Completely as Possible
In this phase, I try to gain an understanding of what is needed. Notice the two kinds of issues in this phase: the goal and the problem. A goal is long-term. In fact, the particular thing I am working on might only be a part of the solution. With a problem, I am often working on a smaller issue.
The key to this phase is a requirements document. This is a highly important instrument; it describes the goals and boundaries for the program. If you're paid for development work, it's also a legal contract. Without it, it's tempting for developers to think of one end result and the application's users to have another picture of the end result in their minds. You'll most likely have access to this document, since it's required to create a database in the first place.
Notice also that I seek to understand the issues as "completely as possible." The ideal process would involve being intimately familiar with the business process or scientific endeavor before the coding solution is framed. Often, in larger shops, a "Business Analyst" position is included on the development team to help with this process.
Unfortunately, time and resources don't often permit a complete understanding of the business or process. In this (unfortunately more common) case, it's important to do two things: create the requirements document in concert with the users, and have frequent reviews with the users to validate the program's design. Because the development staff (even or maybe especially if that's only you) doesn't have time to learn more about the business, the business users need to learn more about the development process. This can be painful, but it's necessary. To do so, I bring the business representative into the development design meetings, and include them in the process.
Just as an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) uses a simple set of symbols to quickly explain a database's objects and relationships, business process professionals also have a graphical language to describe processes. You can use standards such as Unified Modeling Language (UML), IDEFX0, or Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). I've used BPMN with some success, and I'll cover that topic in another article.
Once you have either a set of business requirements, a BPMN diagram or some other instrument to explain what the requirements for the program are, you can move on to the next step. A word of caution here — moving on without this information is a recipe for failure. In fact, there's an actual term for code that works correctly, but doesn't meet the need of the users due to poorly written or understood requirements: "Broken As Designed." Sad, but true. So take the time to get those requirements down before you begin coding.
Comment the Process
After the requirements have been laid out, the next step is to document the broad outline of the program. This outline serves as the overview for the program flow.
Take the main points from the business requirements and turn those into a general outline of what the code will do. For instance, here are a few items from a code request from a retail website. While the developers will code the HTML and other programming, the data professional pulls out the items that will become views, stored procedures and so on. I'll include only a few lines here to give you the idea of how to start the process. I put these right below the header of the T-SQL code.
/* Customer selects a product they are interested in from the website. Customer input their name, e-mail address and select a city and state where they live. Assign a salesperson to contact the customer, based on region. E-mail the salesperson and the customer introducing each other. ... */
You can use something as specific (or even more specific) than this, or make it more general to start. The point is to get something down that represents the programming objects you need.
At this point, the order of these items does not matter. That's because you're working towards creating the programming objects like stored procedures or functions that add, delete or alter the data in the database. Those are called in turn by the higher-level web or other code in whatever order those programs run.
After the general requirements are annotated, you can refine the comments by breaking them out and adding details, changing the comments to be more specific, perhaps even specifying elements and types of logic like this:
/* Stored Procedure that updates customer data with: Name e-mail address City State */ /* Stored Procedure that assigns a salesperson to contact customer, looks up region and product choice. */ /* Function to e-mail the salesperson and the customer introducing each other. */
And so on. From here, take each of these comments and use the information from the database design and the business requirements to create the actual code.
Code the Comments
Now it's just a matter of applying two things to the comments: syntax and algorithms. In this part of the process, think about the program block and the best way to code it.
I'll continue on with the example to put everything into the final code snippet:
/* CreateWebPageInputScripts.sql Purpose: Creates programming objects in the WebPage database. Author: Buck Woody, 1/1/,2009 Last Edited: 2/3/2009 Instructions: Only run in a blank database. This is the creation script. References: None. */ /* Customer selects a product they are interested in from the website. Assign a salesperson to contact the customer, based on region. E-mail the salesperson and the customer introducing each other. ... */ /* Stored Procedure that updates customer data with: Name, e-mail address, City and State */ CREATE PROCEDURE usp_TakeCustomerInput @Fname varchar(50) , @Lname varchar(50) , @Email varchar(100) , @City varchar(100) , @State char(2) AS BEGIN TRY INSERT INTO Customer.CustomerDemographics (Fname, Lname, Email, City, State) VALUES (@Fname, @Lname, @Email, @City, @State) END TRY BEGIN CATCH IF @@TRANCOUNT > 0 ROLLBACK TRAN SELECT ERROR_NUMBER() AS 'ErrorNumber' , ERROR_SEVERITY() AS 'ErrorSeverity' , ERROR_STATE()) AS 'ErrorState' , ERROR_PROCEDURE() AS 'ErrorProcedure' , ERROR_LINE()) AS 'ErrorLine' , ERROR_MESSAGE() AS 'ErrorMessage' END CATCH /* Other functions and code.... */ /* End CreateWebPageInputScripts.sql */
It's simply a process of building the script by working from the business requirements of what the database code needs through the comments, refining the comments, and then commenting the code. But you're not done just yet...
Optimize the Code
Next, optimize the code you just wrote. There are two schools of thought here. The first says to do this phase right after the code block is written, and the second says to wait until the whole program is complete.
The argument for the first method is that the code should be developed "properly" the first time — you shouldn't build bad code to begin with. The argument for the second method says that the whole body of code must be evaluated to find the best optimizations. Actually, either way works, so you should find a methodology that suits the way you work and make it a best practice.
There is certainly more to learn about working in a development environment, but these simple steps can help you start from the beginning, work through the middle, and stop at the end. Good advice given decades ago for writing, and it still works today for writing code.


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Canon EOS 70D review: A great all-rounder
The Canon EOS 70D is the company's latest enthusiast-oriented SLR. It replaces the Canon 60D, and has various enhancements that distinguish it from the likes of the Canon EOS 700D. The viewfinder is significantly larger, there are lots of single-function buttons, a passive LCD screen on the top plate and a command dial and rear wheel for direct access to exposure settings. It's faster than both the 700D and the 60D, with a 7fps continuous mode that lasted for 108 JPEGs or 16 RAW frames before slowing to the speed of the card.
Price, specs and rating based on the body-only package
When we originally reviewed the 70D it cost £999 for the body only. The price has steadily decreased since its initial release, but after reaching a low price of £697, that price has gone up once again to around £800 from both Jessops and Park Cameras. This means the price difference between the 70D and Canon's full-frame offering, the 6D, is a mere £260, as the 6D now costs £1,250 from the same retailers.
If you're looking to keep your budget below £1,000, however, the price of the 70D still leaves plenty leftover to pick up a decent lens. It's considerably cheaper than the newer Canon EOS 80D, which is £1,000, body only.
We haven't written a full review of the 80D yet, but in summary, it gains a new, higher resolution sensor with a slightly improved autofocus system, and canon has also added the ability to use continuous autofocus during live view stills capture and a 60fps mode for 1080p video. There's still a lack of professional video features such as zebra stripes and clean HDMI out, however, and still no 4K capability. Is the 80D worth the extra money? Only if you really need the live view autofocus, otherwise stick with the 70D.
Equally, now that the 7D has been upgraded with a 7D MKII version, you can get the original as a body only for even less - and in some places less than the cost of a 70D body. While the 70D has more pixels, an articulated screen and is a newer camera, the 7D has more professionally-minded controls, an LCD display on the top of the body and a lower price. If you've already bought into the Canon lens system and don't need to buy a body with a kit, the 7D could be a bigger step up in terms of manual controls than the 70D. For everyone else, though, the 70D will still be the Canon camera of choice.
The 20-megapixel resolution is Canon's highest to date for an APS-C sensor, and the sensor design is radically different to anything we've seen before. Each pixel not only measures the intensity of light, but also the direction, with each one made up of two photodiodes facing left and right. This helps the sensor to perform phase-detect autofocus, determining not just whether the image is in focus, but also, if not, by how much. It means the lens can jump straight into focus rather than shuttle back and forth in search of a sharp picture.
Phase-detect autofocus is already available in all modern SLRs when using their viewfinders, but in most cases it's disabled in live view mode. The 70D's ability to perform phase-detect autofocus directly on the sensor makes it much faster than the 60D to focus in live view mode.
We've seen this technique a few times before, most recently on the EOS 700D. However, previous implementations have been limited to a few dedicated phase-detect points dotted across the sensor. What's special about the 70D is that almost every pixel can contribute to phase-detect autofocus. The active area is quoted as 80 per cent of the frame, horizontally and vertically – you can't place the autofocus point right at the edge of the frame.
Testing with the 18-135mm STM lens, the benefit was immediately obvious. It took around half a second to focus and capture a photo in live view mode, rising to around one second in low light. That's twice as fast as the 700D, and about five times faster than the 60D.
It's a superb result, but we can't help wondering if it could have been even faster. It typically took less than 0.2 seconds from when we pressed the shutter button to hearing a double-beep to confirm that focus was achieved, but then it took another 0.3 seconds for the shutter mechanism to kick in. Half-pressing to focus and then fully pressing to capture removed this shutter lag, though. We measured 2.1 seconds between shots in live view mode, which is much slower than the 0.4 seconds it achieved when using the viewfinder. It delivered 7fps continuous shooting in live view mode, but focus was fixed and the screen was blank during bursts.
Still, the bottom line is that live view mode is far more useful than on any other Canon (or Nikon or Pentax) SLR. It helps that the screen is articulated, with a side-mounted hinge that allows it to tilt up, down, to the side and right around for self-portraits – a feature that's conspicuously absent from the Nikon D7100 and Canon and Nikon's full-frame SLRs.
The 70D's screen is touch-sensitive too, so moving the autofocus point in live view mode couldn't be easier. Subject tracking is available but we weren't bowled over by its reliability. The touchscreen also speeds up navigation of the Q menu, which gives quick access to a wider array of functions than are covered by the dedicated buttons. The touchscreen provides an alternative way to navigate the main menu, but we found it quicker to use the command dial and rear wheel to jump to a particular setting.
The 70D is fastest when using the viewfinder, so it's good to see some improvements here too. The 60D's 9-point autofocus sensor has been ditched in favour of the 19-point sensor first seen in the EOS 7D. All 19 points are cross-type for increased sensitivity, and they were fast and accurate even in extremely low light. There's a new button next to the command dial for expanding the active area. The largest area encompasses all 19 points, and when used in conjunction with the AI Servo autofocus mode, allows for some basic subject tracking. It can't match the sophistication of the 3D Tracking mode in the Nikon D7100, though.
Wi-Fi is built in, with the same functions that we saw on the Canon EOS 6D. They include remote control via the accompanying iPhone and Android apps, with access to exposure settings and the ability to move the autofocus point using the smartphone or tablet's touchscreen. While the 6D had to make do with lethargic live view autofocus, the 70D was much more responsive when shooting remotely. The app can also access the camera's card to view full-screen previews with EXIF metadata, apply star ratings and instigate transfers.
We appreciate how both the remote shooting and image browsing modes are accessible without locking up the camera's controls. Photos appeared in the app within two seconds of being captured, letting us use an iPad to review shots in more detail that the camera's 3in screen allows. However, previews and transfers are limited to 2.5 megapixels, so it's not so useful for checking focus. Enabling Wi-Fi disables the USB port and video capture, so a tablet can't be used as a remote video monitor.
The iOS app worked fine in our tests but we could only connect our Nexus 4 smartphone via an existing network rather than make a direct connection. We've heard others have made direct connections with different handsets, but if this is an essential feature to you it might be worth popping along to a retailer and testing it with your own device.
The new autofocus technology is great news for photographers, but it's potentially even more exciting for videographers. The 70D's video autofocus was the most responsive we've ever seen from a large-sensor camera, adjusting in less than a second when we moved the autofocus point using the touchscreen. There was no sign of focus hunting, and face detection and subject tracking helped us follow moving subjects – although once again, it was a little unreliable.
Even so, when we tapped on a subject to focus on, more often than not, focus would remain locked as it moved nearer or further. We've always maintained that manual focus is the only way to achieve polished results, but for the first time, here's a video autofocus system that we can envisage being used in professional productions. With a choice of 24, 25 or 30fps capture at 1080p, clips up to 30 minutes and an All-Intra mode that encodes at 75Mbit/s to avoid compression artefacts, it all looks pretty promising for serious video production.
It's a shame, then, that details in the 70D's videos aren't a little sharper. Its footage looked decent enough in isolation, but the Panasonic GX7 and Panasonic GH3 were able to resolve fine details with greater fidelity. We also noticed a tendency for moiré interference on repeating textures such as fabric and bricks. The full-frame Canon 5D Mark III showed big improvements in video detail compared to previous EOS cameras, but it seems that these advances haven't been built into the 70D. We achieved better results by selecting the Neutral Picture Style and sharpening up the footage in software, but this didn't get rid of the moiré interference.
It will bother some more than others, but the Panasonic GH3 (left) has a clear advantage over the 70D (second from left) for details in videos. The 70D's details can be improved by rolling off the sharpness and contrast and then sharpening in software, but it still can't quite match the GH3 - click to enlarge
Another hurdle for serious video production is the lack of a headphone socket, which limits the usefulness of the microphone input. The HDMI output can stream a live feed but it's not a clean feed to send to an external recorder. Despite the 70D's superb autofocus performance, the Panasonic GH3 remains our top choice for video production. The 70D isn't too far behind, though. For more casual users who still demand high quality, its more responsive video autofocus may tip the balance in its favour. Continues on Page 2


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For a third, consecutive year, Southern Miss football fans can catch a trolley to the Golden Eagles' home game.
The Hattiesburg American reported that USM fans can park free at the Lake Terrace Convention Center on U.S. 49, and then use the trolley to get to the game.
The shuttle, provided by the City of Hattiesburg in conjunction with the convention center, will begin two hours prior to that week's starting time and run 30 minutes after kickoff.
For Saturday's game with East Carolina, that means the shuttle will run from noon until 3 p.m.
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Here it is then. A lot of people were asking why we needed another Technics like turntable on the market and Pioneer have answered that question with the all analogue PLX-1000. Building on the tried and tested layout of the iconic 1200 and the 1210 the PLX-1000 will be a welcome addition to any turntablists arsenal. Expected RRP is around £450.
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The road to economic recovery in Mississippi doesn't come without a speed bump and federal numbers now show how much of a bump there is. In 2011, Mississippi's economy came up in the negative, decreasing by 0.8 percent. Only five other states showed a decrease as well with Mississippi performing worse than all of them, except one.
For senior economist Marianna Hill, with the State College Board, those numbers are a little surprising.
"I knew that we were flirting with recession but even with those numbers, it's still not clear that we actually went into recession," said Hill.
The state's gross domestic product, or GDP, sank to just more than $84 billion last year, which is a few billion below where the state was in 2007, at just more than $87 billion. Mississippi even had the lowest per capita economic output at just more than $28,000 per person, compared to a national average of about $42,000.
Hill says the lack of employment growth in early 2011 was an indication of a weaker than expected economy.
"We still haven't seen much employment growth this year compared to last, so that we're still in a period for very slow growth," said Hill.
Hill says two major factors play a role in the overall decrease. The first was the drying up of federal stimulus dollars through government spending. The other was impacts from natural disasters on the state's number one industry, agriculture.
"Over half of the counties in the state were declared federal disaster areas last year either due to flooding or the drought," said Hill.
The overall numbers may not be favorable, but Hill says other numbers are. Currently, tax collection revenues are up by almost 6 percent, compared to this time last year.
"There are a variety of numbers that indicate things are getting better," said Hill. "It is a very slow pace."
In addition to higher tax collections this year, there's also an upturn in housing and construction permits which is an indication for growth. But when it comes to employment numbers, the state has lost about 400 jobs. That's what economists call an unbalanced recovery.


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This past Wednesday, the Diane Rehm Show featured Philip Roth's The Plot Against America for its October's Readers' Review. Since the Rehm Team sees fit to ignore each and every of my constant emails and I'm afraid of restraining orders, I've decided to relegate my complaints about the book to Tome.
For those of you who aren't familiar with Plot, it's Roth's attempt at alternative history. Charles Lindbergh, famous aviator, national hero, and reputed anti-Semite, beats FDR in his re-election bid of 1940. So, instead of the U.S. entering the war with Hitler, Lindbergh (a fan of the Fuhrer) signs a peace treaty. As a result, we never enter the war and anti-Semitism crashes upon our shores. Roth fictionalizes his family and talks about what it would've been like being a Jew in this harrowing time for the Jews.
My problems with Plot were twofold. While I'll admit that anti-Semitism has been a problem in America, it has paled in comparison to the racial strife that America has suffered throughout its history. The war years were indeed turbulent on the home front, but it wasn't anti-Semitism that rocked the country to its foundations. It was racial strife.
In 1943, Los Angeles erupted in bloodshed with the Zoot Suit Riots, where thousands of sailors and Marines targeted Latinos (but also blacks and Filipinos). The police escorted the servicemen during the melee and arrested over 500 Latinos for "rioting." Some 500 people were injured during the riots, and the local press heralded our boys in uniform for the riot's "cleansing effect." They even went so far as accusing Eleanor Roosevelt of stirring racial discord when she spoke out against the riots and claime she had Communist leanings.
There, of course, was the internment of mainland Japanese Americans during the war. There was the Jim Crow South, and race riots in Mobile when the wartime industries were desegregated as well as other race riots in Chicago, Harlem, and Detroit (so much for Americans banding together to beat the bad guy).
My point being, if one were to write an alternative history about prosecuted minorities during the war, it seems that race was the overarching conflict--not religion. Even as allegory, I thought that Plot dodged the real story to make it more Eurocentric than it really was. Hollywood does much the same thing with Civil Rights movies like Mississippi Burning or Long Walk Home and this latest batch of Civil Rights/Sports films (Hurrican, The Express), conflating the roles of white mentors to diminish black heroics.
My other problem with Plot was simply the cartoonish ending. Charles Lindbergh is defeated in his own re-election bid, everybody sees the light, and America instantly goes back to becoming the great nation it was destined to be. The gripe I have with this ending is the same I have, as a science-fiction writer and fan, with dystopian Hollywood SF films.
Dystopias don't happen overnight. The Holocaust didn't either. It's not as though the Germans just woke up one day and decided to kill all the Jews. The Holocaust was the culmination of centuries of anti-Semitism, Jewish persecution, and progroms. The Nazis built upon a framework that existed way before they mass-produced murder.
Hollywood routinely ignores this--all in attempt to blame dystopias on one, reeeeaaallly evil bastard. As I said, these things don't happen overnight. Philosophies are developed, attitudes are changed and cemented, institutions are built. Dystopias are systems. One person's never responsible for this. They may capitalize on these existing strains, but they don't create them out of the ether. Therefore, getting rid of the person does not get rid of the system. Strange Days, Minority Report, and a slew of other films always relies on the trope of the Bad Guy (actually, Strange Days blamed an entire police state on two "rogue" cops).
The Plot Against America does the same thing. It's an understandable trope for movies. If one concedes that dystopias are systems, we can't really have a happy ending. You can't just kill one person and have an entire society wipe away its entire history (ya hear that, W.?) and become paradise on Earth. That's far too unwieldy for a movie to tackle.
However, I would expect that type of scrutiny from a novel--especially from a novel from Philip Roth. If America had gotten to the point of flirting with its own holocaust of the Jews, simply defeating Charles Lindbergh at the polls would not have stopped it. America would've been a fundamentally different place. Would Jews really have been granted full citizenship afterwards? And what about the blacks, Latinos, and Asians who were roundly ignored in the book?
These are exactly the questions alternative histories are written to address or at least ruminate over. Roth completely ignored his responsibilities in writing such a speculative work. And since he did ignore them, I ultimately couldn't figure out his point in writing the book and found it all too wanting.
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- Grant said...
Good points. I read the book a couple of years ago. In truth, I just accepted the premise and enjoyed the read. It's the only Roth that I've read.
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- October 31, 2008 at 4:37 PM
- grinder said...
My Republican Friends, this is really a victory. SOMEONE TELL FOX NEWS!!
- November 1, 2008 at 9:29 AM
- grinder said...
Aside from promoting my update to The Secret Squirrel, I wanted to comment on your posting. I liked it, especially the part about dystopias not happening overnight.
The rise of antisemitism in Germany is a case in point. That was very much a product of the massive social and political upheaval in Europe between 1875 and 1920.
If there's one book that really provides an insight into it that had never occurred to me until I read it, the book is Hitler's Vienna: Apprenticeship of a Dictator, by Brigitte Hamann. I also read a short history of 19th Century Germany, published by the Modern Library, whose name I can't recall, and found it very useful.
A bunch of things were going on at that time:
1. Nations were turning into nation-states. This is unfamiliar to Americans, who can't conceive of a difference between a "nation" and a political entity. In Europe, there were political entities, but there were also overlapping nationalities, and identites were as much national as state-based.
2. Both Russia and the Austria-Hungarian empire, which controlled most of Central Europe, were collapsing. Nations were on the move. The Russians expelled millions of Jews westward and southward. The Czechs were on the move, and so were Poles. The German nation, which was spread well beyond Germany's borders, was feeling increasingly insecure.
3. Germany itself had undergone a big transformation from a decentralized collection of states, fiefdoms, principalities, and city-states into a single state. Remember the Nazi hymn, Deutschland Uber Alles? It was the song of mid-19th Century German progressives who sought to overturn the centuries-old entrenched power of monarchs and princes and replace it with a modern state.
4. German reorganization was accompanied by brutality, not so much against people, but in terms of the discourse. Bismarck was the "Iron Chancellor" who ruthlessly overrode his opponents. The term "annihiliation" made its way into the German political lexicon in the late 1800s.
5. The Ottoman Empire, which bordered Austria-Hungary to the south, was also collapsing. The Arabs were fighting the Turks, and the Balkans (which were not called by that term at the time) were going up in flames. Recall that World War I started when a Serbian separatist shot the Archduke Ferdinand, an Austria-Hungarian, in Sarajevo.
6. Everything I've just mentioned pressed in on Vienna. The city was 25% Jewish, and the Jews of Vienna were long-assimiliated and well-established. Much to the chagrin of everyone, including the local Jews, refugee Jews were arriving from Russia and Poland in droves. That caused the Germans to form an Anti-Semite Party. The Czechs were moving west and south, and that contributed to a feeling of "encirclement" on the part of the Germans.
7. Communism was on the rise, and threatening the old order in a huge way. Capitalism had also been a huge challenge. Neither one of those systems was indigenous to Europe, which had long been feudal or semi-feudal in character.
8. World War I was completely chaotic. Millions of people died for obscure reasons. Nothing was settled, but in the aftermath the economy was flattened. In Vienna, for example, people would rent their sleeping quarters in shifts. You'd literally have eight hours of shelter at a time. Hitler spent several years in a homeless shelter. He made spare change by selling illustrated postcards on the street. He also sold small paintings to a Jewish art dealer who he later saved from the Holocaust.
It was a chaotic situation. Between 1850 and 1950, Europe was grabbed by the ankles and shaken. Every single certainty was set on its head. I don't think the average American has a single clue as to how crazy things were. This isn't an excuse for anything, but an explanation, and a very long way of agreeing with your critique of the simplicity of The Plot Against America.
When the Europeans call Americans hopelessly naive, they've got a good point. Yet, notice that they don't reject us for it. They wish their history was as smooth as ours, slavery and the genocide of the natives notwithstanding. I think they'd prefer it, though, if Americans weren't quite so ignorant on these matters.
- November 1, 2008 at 10:24 AM
- grinder said...
The history of Germany is called, The German Empire: A Short History, by Michael Sturmer. Also, a very interesting book is Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History, by Robert D. Kaplan. (Kaplan is a neocon, but he doesn't flog it AT ALL in Balkan Ghosts. In fact, I didn't learn of his neocon side until after I read the book, and I was shocked.)
Finally, an interesting (but frankly, not as readable as the others) supplement is The Nazi Voter: The Social Foundations of Fascism in Germany, 1919-1933, by Thomas Childers. The Germans kept meticulous records, so this book tells you exactly who supported the Nazis as they grew. It's like a long election-night statistical analysis.
The other books, though, give a more sweeping narrative understanding of the undercurrents. I never set out to study the Holocaust, but found that by reading those books I wound up with a deeper understanding that I never see reflected in even the "advanced" discussions I see in high-end periodicals.
I guess that's why we read books, huh?
- November 1, 2008 at 10:32 AM
- grinder said...
I hope you don't mind me rattling on here a bit, but I wanted to add something. The Childers book about the electoral rise of the Nazis does carry what I think is a critically important insight.
As the economic depression of the 1920s deepened in Germany, the center dropped out, and the public migrated more toward the extreme right and the extreme left. As I look at the Republican Party's lurch to the right since Reagan, and especially since Gingrich, I worry about the loss of the center.
The Democrats have remained a center-left party. I think it would be good for this country if the Republicans could somehow be coaxed back to the center. If Obama can manage that one, and be a steward of economic recovery, then he will go down in history as one of our great presidents.
I am one of these people who thinks that greatness in presidents is as much a matter of the times as the man. I think the times are such that there's now room for greatness. So, we'll see how it goes.
- November 1, 2008 at 10:38 AM
- boukman70 said...
I actually think these times are ripe for greatness. If it doesn't happen this time around, we'll suffer a round of mediocrity like we did from the end of the Civil War until the turn of the century. I thin there's actually going to be a civil war within the GOP for the next few years. They'll go harder to the right (portended by Romney's convention speech--that damned liberal Roberts Court--the crackhead), they'll lose a few more elections, and then regain their sanity around 2020.
You should definitely read _Hitler's Beneficiaries_. Talk about meticulous records, the author goes through the Nazis' financials. Basically, he argues, the Nazis didn't want the German people to have to pay for the war. So they ran up huge debts and bled the occupied countries dry. Poland, the Netherlands, etc., literally starved while the Germans lived better than they had in a long time. And whenever times got a little tight, they'd just round up more Jews, sent them off to concentration camps, confiscated their goods, and sold them off for rock-bottom prices to the citizenry. Whenever the concentration camps were under threat of attack, they'd just massacre all the Jews because they were too expensive to move. The book was truly an eye-opener.
- November 3, 2008 at 6:46 AM


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