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Herald News: Governor can lead or deflect
WHERE THE scandal over lane closures at the George Washington Bridge ultimately leads remains an unknown, but in the absence of a direct link to Governor Christie, the governor still has a job to do for the next four years.
As reported last week by Record Staff Writer Mary Jo Layton, Republican strategists are advising Christie to return to governing and abandon petty attacks at individuals already implicated in the scandal – people like David Wildstein, a former schoolmate of Christie's and one of his top appointees at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, who ordered the lane closures.
Christie should end the broadsides against former aides and appointees. They add nothing to ongoing investigations and only make him look petty. Christie must cooperate with federal investigators and with the joint egislative committee looking into the GWB scandal and also into charges made by Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer that Sandy relief aid was being tied to her approval of a commercial project in Hoboken. But the governor also has to govern – that is what he was elected to do and is paid to do, and quite simply, the business of New Jersey cannot be put on hold until sunnier days.
Republican strategists suggest Christie be bold with his second-term agenda; we encourage the governor to embrace new ideas that can be embraced by the emboldened Democrats who control the Legislature. In November, Christie won by a landslide; in February, he is buried in an avalanche of scandal.
Chris Christie no longer can dictate to the Legislature.
During his State of the State address, the governor spoke of extending school days – there were no details. There still are no details, and state Education Commissioner Chris Cerf has announced he is leaving.
Education reform is more than attacking teachers and unions and it goes beyond tweaking the rules for tenure. There is no longer an appetite in the Legislature for voucher programs that would siphon money out of public schools, a former Christie initiative. Yet poor-performing schools need to improve. Education should top Christie's list of priorities.
Additionally, we continue to advocate for comprehensive mass transit across the Garden State. New Jersey needs a transportation vision. Expanded rail, light rail and bus routes, an additional trans-Hudson tunnel – these will bolster the state's economic opportunities. Christie should get behind either the Gateway tunnel project or propose an alternative, but a new tunnel has to be built, and the money to fund it has to be found.
Christie's recent embrace of the phrase "income opportunity" is troubling. The governor ridicules liberal Democrats for wanting "income equality," reducing it to shorthand for widespread mediocrity. Everyone should not be paid the same wage, but the deck should not be stacked against people trying to work their way up.
Maybe before the GWB scandal, Christie could get away with a catchy sound bite and leave it at that. Not anymore. The governor can call it income opportunity or income equality, but New Jersey's unemployment rate is too high. There isn't enough income equality or opportunity in New Jersey.
Christie has a job to do in New Jersey, and we hope he focuses attention on education, transportation, affordable housing, unemployment and the rising costs of public employee benefits. We encourage him to take charge, to govern the state he was elected to lead.
The scandals will not go away, but neither will the business of the people of New Jersey. If the governor wants to put these scandals behind him, he will have to put the people of New Jersey ahead of his future political ambitions.


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The Israeli government maintains accurate records of attacks by Palestinians on their citizens but for some reason attacks by Israelis on Palestinians is not always recorded. Palestinian drivers were proceeding on their journey when suddenly they were attacked by stone throwing West Bank settlers who believe God has ordained they must remain in the area regardless of the cost to themselves or other humans. Medics said two Palestinians were taken to the hospital as a result of stoning, and the culprits fled into their settlements where they can declaim and denounce any effort to achieve peace with the terrorist Palestinians.
Settlers have warned the netanyahu government they will not peacefully accept any form of destruction of their homes because it is stated in the Torah that Israelis have a right to build houses anywhere in the area now known as Palestine. Naturally, with such attitudes it makes impossible any peaceful settlement with Palestinians.
We hope the Israel government releases figures on attacks by settlers on innocent Palestinians.

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Rockstar's silence surrounding GTA V broke on the Newswire in a recent Asked & Answered session.
"What is going on with GTAV?"
We are very busy working on the game! Everything is going well, but the game is a huge project. We should have more information and some new assets for you soon.
"Why don't you give us more news?"
As we have said before, we have often had long gaps between asset releases on previous games and will continue to do so in the future. We are sorry if you find this frustrating, but please understand, we don't do this because we 'don't care about our fans' 'don't respect our fans' 'hate GTA fans etc' – precisely the opposite! We do it because we want to make sure we only release 100% correct information, and because we want to keep plenty back for the actual game release so there are still lots of surprises when you play it. The only things we care about are that you enjoy the experience of actually playing the game and that we release accurate information. We just have not been in a position to show more of the game than the trailer and will not be for a while yet.
We will try and get some more screens for you soon and then another trailer when we are ready.
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Download This presentation will look at video as a collaboration medium: Is it hype? Does anyone need to see the faces of colleagues that they know well and collaborate with regularly, often in person? How much does the quality of the video matter when considering video's importance as a collaboration medium? In this session, experts will debate and dissect the factors that make video either succeed or fall short within enterprises. We'll consider both room-based and desktop implementations, looking at the unique factors in each scenario, as well as evaluating whether or not one type of deployment is more effective than the other in certain collaborative situations.


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I know a few of you have done a Jodo Kast helmet. What colors did you use? I am thinking I might do a mini Jodo Kast helmet. I just need to know what colors to buy.
I know a few of you have done a Jodo Kast helmet. What colors did you use? I am thinking I might do a mini Jodo Kast helmet. I just need to know what colors to buy.
I used Krylon Pumpkin Orange and an Olive Green by Krylon as well.
hmmm, without his helmet Jodo looks less intimidating...
Exposure to starship fuel can lead to hair loss. BEWARE!!!!!
maybe i should cut my hair in case i am affected,then people wouldnt think i was a woman
Pumpkin orange and green...
That's always gonna be one of the most bad-ass pictures ever.
Come over to the yellow and blue side......Forget all that you have learned from the green and oranges....Come to the blue and yellow side.....
What color did you guys use for the kill marks?
They are maroon.
I haven't done Jodo, but I've given a lot of thought to non-Boba-but-Boba-inspired Mandos, like Jodo, Fenn, and Tobbi. I do have a Fenn Shysa of my own in materials accumulation and subassembly stages, and an important step fo rme was gathering as close to ESB-accurate paints as I could. Mostly Floquil and Polly S paints for airbrushing, from their railroad and military lines. My take for Jodo:
Undercoat/primer layer for the back skirt: Concrete
Undercoat/primer layer for the rest of the helmet: Reefer Gray (this one's available in a small rattle-can)
Left ear undercoat: Light Gray (one option -- I'm using Rust-Oleum Clean Metal Primer, which is a light grey colour)
Main colour, cheeks and dome and left ear: Panzer Olive Green
Main colour, back skirt: German RLM Green 73
"Cheekbones" colour: PRR Brunswick Green
Keyslots and frame: Anthracite Gray Metallic
Right ear topcoat: Earth
Killstripes, left ear midcoat, circuit board: Caboose (not Caboose Red -- this is the main colour for Boba's visor frame, reversed out with the yellow for his killstripes)
Undercoat for the visor frame and brow band: UP Armor Yellow
Topcoat for the visor frame and brow band: Reefer Yellow (This is the colour of Boba's killstripes, as well as his knees and shoulders. It gets darker the thicker it gets painted on -- different darknesses for the knees and shoulders. I'd go with something lighter for the visor frame. It's very close to Insignia Yellow, and is the colour I use for my Clone Commander.)
How's that for a lead?


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The Rose-Hulman Civil and Environmental Engineering program offers a rigorous hands-on education with in-depth senior project work, allowing students to leave Rose-Hulman exceptionally well-prepared and in-demand. The program is sound in the fundamental principles of science and engineering, providing a solid base for life-long professional learning. It is designed to prepare the student for a productive career in industry as well as advanced graduate study.
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Our curriculum provides students with the opportunity to learn the foundational concepts while concentrating in many areas.
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Authorities, dogs make progress after triple murder
ONEIDA COUNTY, Idaho - The Oneida County Sheriff's Office has some leads in last week's triple killing in Holbrook.
According to a news release, Oneida County authorities are working with their counterparts in Box Elder County, Utah. A search warrant was served at a home Thursday evening in Box Elder County. No arrests were made. The sheriff said no information will be released as to whether or not any evidence connected with the murders was found during the search.
Killed on April 4 were Yavette Chivon Carter, Brent L. Christensen and Trent Jon Christensen. Two children, one 2 years old and the other 2 months old, were found near the body of Carter, their mother, and are safe and with family.
In addition, more than 60 dogs were found in poor condition at the home, which the sheriff said housed pit bull fighting and marijuana grow operations.
All of the pit bulls have had their medical evaluations.
The Idaho Humane Society in Boise said the animals are getting used to their new environment and many of them are "surprisingly very playful."
On its Facebook page, IHS said national pit bull experts will arrive this weekend to help with the behavioral evaluations. For updates on the dogs, see https://www.facebook.com/idahohumanesociety.
The investigation is continuing and the those with information can contact the Oneida County Sheriff's Office at (208) 766-2251. Sheriff Jeff Semrad said this was not a random killing.


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Developer: Sucker Punch Studios
Ships: Fall 2005
Rating: Pending
Created and developed by Sucker Punch Productions, Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves™ is the team's follow-up to their best-selling title Sly 2: Band of Thieves™ and their "Greatest Hits" PlayStation®2 debut title, Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus® . Recognized for their award winning comic-book inspired visuals, superior craftsmanship and brilliant character designs, Sucker Punch recharges the character-based action-adventure genre delivering an innovative approach to the classic platforming gameplay experience. Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves immediately draws players into the continuing, episodic adventures of Sly Cooper and his partners in crime, Murray and Bentley, as the three struggle against new villains and old adversaries in a rich, evolving storyline, crossing exotic and remote locations.
With its sophisticated, yet accessible gameplay, Sly: Honor Among Thieves truly is the game for PlayStation 2 fans of all ages, offering unique and diverse gameplay, a challenging and exciting dual analog stick multiplayer mode, new vehicles, mini-games, gadgets, enhanced combat move sets and much more. Sly, Bentley and Murray are on the prowl for a new band of recruits as they prepare for the ultimate elaborate heist in Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves.
Sly and the gang narrowly avoided defeat and the team is in disarray. Bentley was hospitalized after the final battle with Clockwerk at the end of Sly 2: Band of Thieves and is now confined to a wheelchair. Murray , feeling responsible for Bentley's tragic accident, has left the team and chosen a path of non-violence and solace. Meanwhile, Sly visits an aging member of his father's gang, who shares with Sly the location of their old hideout and resting place of the Cooper family fortune. Arriving at this hidden location, Sly discovers another gang of thugs attempting to blast their way inside. Sly and Bentley are overmatched and quickly realize they will need considerable help to defeat this new rival. Their recruiting starts with Murray , and once back on-board, Sly, Murray and Bentley set out to enlist some new faces and some old enemies, to join their crew. It will take a team of World Class thieves to pull off this World Class heist.
Players will be able to play head-to-head and cooperative missions in multiplayer, split screen modes.
In addition to Sly, Murray and Bentley, gamers will experience many new playable characters, including Inspector Carmelita Fox, Lounge Lizard Dimitri and a unique cast of other villains – each with their own unique move set.
Extensive replay value with power-up objectives, a scoring system, multiplayer challenges, mini-games and more. Players also can utilize the time machine feature which will allow them to replay mini-games and missions they have completed using new moves, abilities or disguises to see how high they can score.
Earn more money and locate more collectibles with an enhanced economy system through an expanded "Thiefnet". "Thiefnet" will feature a richer set of meaningful items, extra items to purchase and a more complex pricing model with a bigger "hideout" for stashing and collecting unique items.
Conquer challenging, complex heists in robust, open exotic environments in settings like Venice , Holland , The Outback and China .
Sly becomes a master of disguise, enabling him to sneak into heavily guarded areas unnoticed. These disguises will affect not only Sly's look, but also his personality and move set.
Learn exciting moves for Sly, Murray and Bentley including a new range of powerful combat attacks for Sly, special geeky gadget wheelchair moves for Bentley, and new brawler moves for Murray .
New varied, sophisticated enemy interactions and artificial intelligence means enemy guards now offer more challenges to players, and redouble their efforts to defeat Sly and his gang.
Uncover hidden messages in works of art with the help of Bentley who can examine the pieces to reveal clues.
Experience a great variety of gameplay and features with new vehicles, gadgets and mini-games and moves all wrapped in an engaging, animated comic caper.


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Hercules Fortissimo 2 soundcard
Posted by Thomas
McGuire on October 03, 2001
Manufacturer: Hercules Product:
Find soundcard prices here.
Gamesurround Fortissimo 2 ($59.99) is Hercules latest foray
into the Mid/Budget-range Soundcard market with the Game
Theater XP ($149.99) serving the Higher (Non-professional)
-end market & the Gamesurround Muse XL ($29.99) being
the Soundcard for those on a tight budget. Using the Cirrus
Logic CS4624 DSP & Sensaura 3D Environmental technology
it boasts some good features for a relatively low price. In
this review I'll examine whether or not to on-paper specs
can hold up to much in reality.
Installation of the
Gamesurround Fortissimo 2 was a fairly standard affair
compared with, well, basically every other Soundcards you
can think of. Simply insert it into a free PCI slot &
connect the 9-pin Analog Out cable, which splits into 4
further Jacks, to the respective peripheral – Front &
Rear speakers, Microphone & Headphones. The Soundcard
itself features 2 Analog Inputs available - CD-Audio &
Auxiliary In, with the Optical Digital In/Output being
located on the Bracket of the Soundcard. There's a
as well of course.
Manual for the Fortissimo 2 was basic enough, containing how
to install the Soundcard correctly in Windows Operating
Systems, to enable DMA for DVD playback & … well
that's pretty much it. As a nice addition the Users Manual
for Power DVD 3 did come with the Fortissimo 2, something
that was lacking with the Game Theater XP.
Gamesurround Fortissimo 2 supports all Microsoft Operating
Systems from Windows 95 (Except NT4 though it seems) &
we can also assume Windows XP support will be available in
the future also. Moving onto the Gamesurround Fortissimo
2 applet in the Control Panel you'll find a nice
amount of options to configure the Soundcard with. First up
being the initial Main tab.
left to right, first have the semi-usual Record Source &
Recording volume level controls followed by the Master
Volume level control & an option to select the Audio
Output mode – Headphones, 2 or 4 Speakers. Best of all is
the ability to independently adjust the volume level for
each Channel available. Finally you also have the ability to
check the Output mode has been configured correctly using
the Test & Sound Rotation buttons, which
will play Audio through each Channel so you can verify
it's coming from the correct one.
Mixer tab lets you adjust the volume level for
different Audio sources & the ability to enable a 20dB
boost to Microphone input, nothing out of the ordinary. The EQ
tab contains a nice 10-Band Equaliser with 8 preset settings
available for it, although you can adjust this as you see
fit yourself. Next up there's the
you can adjust a variety of
settings for the Soundcard. The Fortissimo 2 supports
playback of up to 64 notes in Hardware, with any further
notes being generated by the CPU (Up to a maximum of
what's set for the Maximum Software Notes).
specifies the scheme used to silence a previous note &
play a new one when the limits for hardware & software
synthesized voices have been reached. For best system
performance this should be set to Dynamic (default)
rather than DLS.
Midi support if quite sufficient (The high quality Yamaha XG
Player is also bundled too), although it won't really be
too important to most of you at all, although as detailed in
the API Support section the Fortissimo 2 does also offer
Hardware DirectMusic Support for Games that use it.
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Speaking Event: The Fine Print - How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind
David Cay Johnston, a reporter for The New York Times for thirteen years, is the author of Perfectly Legal and Free Lunch - both New York Times' bestsellers. He is also the president of Investigative Reporters and Editors, and the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize. In The Fine Print, he reveals just how major corporations work with the government to relax rules, re-write regulations, and enforce only the rules that benefit them. All of this is done without the consumer's Knowledge, and it costs every American family money they cannot afford to lose.
"With clarity, conciseness, and cool, fact-saturated analysis, Mr. Johnson, the premier investigative reporter on how industry and commerce shift risks and costs to taxpayers, sends the ultimate message to all Americans—either we demand to have a say or we will continue to pay, pay, pay…"—Ralph Nader
"Everyone pays for a rigged economy, in a myriad of ways," Johnston writes. "It extracts money from the many and concentrates it in the hands of the few. In doing so, it squanders opportunities, wastes valuable skills, costs more in taxes and adds risks.It also helps our economic competitors by making us less efficient. Just as poor health damages the quality of life, a weakened economy damages the quality of life for all, including even the few gorging on the stolen fruit of the nation's economic output,"
"Perfectly Legal will make you mad as hell. Even if you suspected all along that the system favors the rich, you're going to be shocked to learn just how badly you're being screwed." — Greg Palast
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It's "Black Monday'' in the NFL.
Jets GM Mike Tannenbaum wasn't the only NFL executive to get fired today. In all, six coaches and four GMs have been fired today, the day after the end of the 2012 season.
So far, Andy Reid of the Eagles, Romeo Crennel of the Kansas City Chiefs, Chan Gailey of the Buffalo Bills and Pat Shurmur of the Cleveland Browns have been fired. Browns GM Tom Heckert and Jacksonville GM Gene Smith have been fired, and even Chicago Bears coach Lovie Smith, whose team finished 10-6 this season, has been fired.
The San Diego Chargers, as expected, let go of both head coach Norv Turner and GM A.J. Smith, after the Chargers went 7-9 and missed the playoffs for the third consecutive year, and the Arizona Cardinals have reportedly likewise fired coach Ken Whisenhunt and GM Rod Graves." Read more...


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Parents: Mike and Mandy Hintz
Hobbies and interests: I am a captain of the Warrior varsity tennis team, have played on the varsity tennis team for three years, and am a member of the Warrior Leadership Council. I am also a member of the Lutheran Church of the Cross Youth Group and am a three-year mission trip participant. I am a Sunday school teacher and am the co-founder of a clothing drive called Clothing Cuz We Care, as well as a tennis instructor for Brainerd Park and Recreation. I enjoy being on the lake, fishing, swimming, rollerblading, volunteering with my church youth group, attending sporting events and spending time with my friends and family.
Future plans: I plan to attend the College of St. Benedict's or Gustavus Adolphus College next fall to study exercise science and play for their tennis team.


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Town Square
Should Benest be the one who should really leave ?
Original post made by National Enquirer, Community Center, on Mar 30, 2007
Look at the announcements, Frank does appear to be the one to have suspended her, it was someone else. How could Frank suspend her if he was part of the conflict. Emily was a rising star and a potential treat to Frank.
Maybe the City politics is unraveling.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Mar 30, 2007 at 3:30 pm
All this speculation and finger pointing is "getting out of hand". Let's just all wait (take a deep breath) until more information becomes available.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Mar 30, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Who got let go? If no one, moot point.
Maybe Emily will enjoy Cabo for Spring Break.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Mar 30, 2007 at 7:48 pm
No one was "let go". Just three weeks off without pay. You are the same person who started this topic- stop changing your name to make it look like other people are thinking like you!
a resident of another community
on Apr 1, 2007 at 8:44 am
Time to move on. Have a GOOD life.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Apr 1, 2007 at 9:10 pm
To Fireman,
If you feel you have been treated unfairly, then hire a lawyer and plea your case. If you have a case (with PA), then a court of law would rule in your favor.
a resident of another community
on Apr 2, 2007 at 8:24 am
Tim.. Do you think it is that simple...Fight a City that has public funds to fight you?? A city that has a personal/private force field. Went to a person to exam me for the city..After this exam this person said" Let me explain something to you..I work for the City,they contract my services and pay me.Now if I side with you I will not have my contract renewed. I will be fired" I think there are many other people that would like to make a change,as a group we can make a differance...One by one they will silence you..
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 2, 2007 at 7:08 pm
Where is your union?
a resident of another community
on Apr 5, 2007 at 11:54 am
Mr wallis..Sorry it took time to get back to you..For thinks to be so disfunctional there has to be many things wroung..Are union is one of them..Or several members of the board who owe much to the city and past fire chief..Pay Back..The problems with the City have been going on for a very long time..I have had years of problems with The Fire department management for 6 years or so before I resigned with the union doing very little.Most members do not trust the union. Towards the end I called a union Lawyer who informed me that I was not the client but the union would be..This would make the information we talked about avalible to members of the union board. He then informed me that with his deals with the union in the past that this information would be give to the city.Leaked. He felt that it would be very difficult to work this way.. We have several rats in the union and department..


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"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..
IF were were to sign Bowe for 3m a year , that is what it will have to take for me to be ok to let cruz go... because we would get a good wr for cheap and we will get draft picks for Cruz. Even better there is a chance that that pick can be a top pick so we can get Clowney, thus solving our cap, wr and de issue.
I do not think this is very likely to happen but if it does this will be great for us in the long run. I have seen crazier things happen.
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"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..
Free agency on the other hand has a lot more variables. Bowe could want to play in the greatest city in the world and 3 mil a year is still MORE than enough money for any one man.
Therfore there's a real chance. Small but real.
I do not see how bringing up this fact is so "bizzarre"
Why do I have to be on drugs to even bring it up?
dont mind them. they talk about how other people dont have class while insulting some one who clearly just doesnt know any better. i get what ur saying but i think u need to realize that theres no chance in hell bowe will be had for 3 mil a yr. u have a better chance at that contract lol. thats why some posters are acting as if ur the town idiot all of a sudden, bc they realize the impossibility of bowe signing a deal worth 3 mil a yr. IF that were possible, EVERY team would jump on that, no? yes, itd be a great situation if cruz were to somehow leave and we get picks, its just as likely as MS not insulting someone on here for one day...not gonna happen. it is impossible for all intents and purposes


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The apartment has everything you may need, such as a fully equipped kitchen with ceramic hob, microwave, washing and dryer machine, TV, WiFi and bathroom.
Nearby you will find a grocery shop and bike renting.
In Nice, you can enjoy a Mediterranean climate with mild temperatures most of the year. You have lots of cultural spots and museums like the Opera de Nice (constructed in the 19th century), the Marc Chagall Museum and the Matisse Museum, among many others. You also have the lovely botanical garden and several monuments and visit cathedrals like Sainte-Réparate, Saint-Jacques, Notre-Dame de Nice and the Russian Orthodox Cathedral. You can also enjoy lovely walks in the Promenade des Anglais, along the Baie des Anges (Bay of the Angels) and you also have a large selection of stores, restaurants and cafés where one can sit outside and enjoy an appetizer.
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Everything was fine except of the noise. It was a bit loud but at night it was ok. Marco is really friendly and a cool guy. I recommend it!
A clean apartment with everything needed (towels, kitchen equipment, washing machine, wifi). Nice and clean bathroom.
A perfect location. The tramway goes right past it, so it's very easy to go to the centre and we could even walk because it's not too far. You can hear the tram if the window is open but it's only during the day, not at night, so it didn't bother us at all. We slept very well!
Marco is very kind and helpful. He takes very good care of the apartment and guests. If we come back to Nice, we would definitely stay here again!
Merci beaucoup Marco!
We had a very nice stay. The studio is very clean and the sofa was really comfortable. While the staircase in the house looks a bit old, the flat and bathroom were recently renovated and in very good state. By walk the neighboorhood is 10-15 min away from the old town. Alternatively you can also take the tram for 2 stations. All dealings with the landlord were very smooth.
Only drawback: With open windows the tram in front of the building can be a bit loud. However we were always quiet tired so that we didn´t care.
We were looking for a cheep and simple place to stay and for the price of 60€/night it´s exactly what we got. We can recommand this studio.
Lovely studio close to the centre with all equipment needed (including necessary kitchen equipment, wash machine, fan, towels etc.). Marco is a nice friendly person willing to help with anything. There is a big parking space next to the street for travellers with car. I would recommend this studio to all the visitors. Higly recommended!
We've had a very nice stay in this apartment. It has a great location in the centre of Nice; a tram stop, baker and supermarket nearby. We were on the beach within ten minutes. The apartment itself is very neat. We've slept well on the sofa bed. Marco is friendly and helpful. This apartment is a great alternative if you think the hotels in Nice are too expensive. Thank you Marco for our pleasant stay!
A very clean and nice studio with everything one need with friendly and very courteous host. It is also not far from the Vieille Ville and has good connections to all traffic. We liked this studio a lot and can recommend it.
Studio was very clean and well equipped. Marco and his wife are wonderful hosts, I highly recommend this place. Tram stop is really close and there is no problem to get to the city centre. Supermarket is also nearby. Don't hesitate to spend your time in Nice here!
The studio was great - clean, updated and with great appliances. The facilities, internet, TV, fridge, washer, oven, were great. The host, Marco, was very helpful and nice. We recommend this to anyone looking to stay in Nice, you get excellent value for your money!
Thank you for a great stay!
Die Wohnung ist wirklich zu empfehlen! Wir haben dort eine Woche verbracht und waren sehr zufrieden. Es ist alles da, was man brauch und wenn was fehlt, kann hat man genug Auswahl an Lebensmittelgeschäften in der direkten Umgebung.
Etwas gewöhnungsbedürftig ist die "Tür" zum Badezimmer. Es handelt sich dabei um eine Schiebetür aus milchigem Glas besteht und aufgrund der Schienevorrichtung auch nicht richtig schließt. Sonst ist das Bad völlig in Ordnung und vor allem sauber und wir konnten uns gut an die Glastür gewöhnen.
Da die Wohnung direkt an der Straße und an Bahngleisen liegt, ist es etwas laut, aber wer keinen super leichten Schlaf hat, sollte das nicht großartig stören.
Auch Marco als Gastgeber war super! Mit Englisch kommt man zwar nicht sehr weit, aber das war gar kein Problem und mit Händen und Füßen konnten wir uns gut verständigen. Also alles in allem top!
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Simon A. Cole
THE DOUBLE HELIX AND THE LAW OF EVIDENCE. David H. Kaye. xviii + 330 pp. Harvard University Press, 2010. $45.
GENETIC JUSTICE: DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties. Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli. xviii + 406 pp. Columbia University Press, 2011. $29.95.
Over the past 25 years, DNA profiling has developed into an enormously powerful policing technology. This development, however, has raised a number of difficult legal, political and scientific questions. These include questions regarding such matters as how broad the government's ability to collect DNA samples should be, what sort of genetic information should be retained in government DNA databases, in what manner those databases should be searched, what degree of scientific acceptance is needed to warrant using a genetic analysis as forensic evidence, and how the results of genetic analyses should be presented to judges and jurors. These debates and others have spawned a number of new books, including The Double Helix and the Law of Evidence, by David H. Kaye, and Genetic Justice, by Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli. Both books are valuable additions to the literature. They thoroughly cover two quite different aspects of the development of DNA profiling: The first examines the past, and the second reflects on the future.
The Double Helix and the Law of Evidence, although it touches on other issues, is primarily concerned with the disputes over the legal admissibility of DNA evidence in the United States during the early and mid-1990s. That period saw fierce courtroom battles as government and defense attorneys litigated, first, whether DNA evidence was ready to be used in court, and, second, what sorts of statements about the value of the evidence expert witnesses were justified in making. Because DNA analysis was a new technology and because, unlike many other forensic techniques, it emanated from "high science," a number of renowned scientists, primarily molecular biologists, were mustered by both sides. As the courtroom struggles intensified, the debates between these heavyweights—scientists such as Eric Lander, Kenneth Kidd, Richard Lewontin and James Crow—bled over into scientific journals. The National Research Council (NRC) was soon drawn into the fray, convening two committees, which issued two somewhat contradictory reports in 1992 and 1996.
Author David H. Kaye is a law professor renowned for his meticulous attention to detail, careful argumentation and impressive technical mastery of statistical and scientific issues. He was also a player in the events described above: He consulted occasionally for defendants, served on the second NRC committee and published many scholarly articles commenting on the weaknesses of arguments made by courts, scientists and other legal scholars. The Double Helix and the Law of Evidence offers a detailed, authoritative accounting of the legal cases of this period and of scientific debates that ran in parallel in the pages of scientific journals.
The debates concerned a number of issues. One was the question of what constituted proper scientific controls over the interpretation of the output of analyses of genetic materials. Two questions regarding population genetics were also important: What can scientists assume about the degree of "structure" in the human population? And, is it justifiable to treat different genetic loci as independent when calculating the value of genetic evidence? Kaye offers a number of simple exercises and analogies to make this technical material accessible to lay readers.
Kaye tends to be more critical of defense attorneys and their experts than he is of the government, and occasionally he treats judicial insults of expert witnesses as statements of fact, rather than considering that they might be rhetorical ways of justifying the decisions judges want to make. But he is generally equitable in dispensing trenchant criticism, and few characters in the story (the statistical geneticist Newton Morton is one) escape completely unscathed. When Kaye inserts himself into the narrative, he strikes an appropriate balance, usually letting the reader know what he thinks about an issue without being at all self-aggrandizing.
Kaye notes at the outset that he is not a historian. This imposes more limitations than the trivial one he acknowledges—that he is not always accurate about his characters' precise ages. One limitation is that the book lacks context. For example, although Kaye is often critical of the quality of lawyering in the cases he discusses, only once does he mention the crippling lack of resources under which most criminal defense attorneys in the United States operate. (The O. J. Simpson trial, which Kaye analyzes in depth, may, with some justification, be viewed as the exception that proves the rule.) A reader looking for a better contextualized and more readable—although less legally and technically detailed—narrative of these events might turn to Genetic Witness: Science, Law, and Controversy in the Making of DNA Profiling (2007), by historian of science Jay D. Aronson.
Lack of context is also evident in the book's conclusion, when Kaye turns to the topic of lessons learned and discusses ways that the comprehension and use of science in legal proceedings might be improved. He focuses exclusively on the perceived biases of expert witnesses and the various mechanisms that have been proposed to mitigate those biases. Surprisingly, there is no discussion of whether biases (not to mention lack of scientific literacy) among judges might be an issue of equal, if not greater, importance. There is ample evidence in The Double Helix and the Law of Evidence that judges not only failed to understand the scientific issues well but may also have been reluctant to deprive the government of evidence that could be used to convict accused criminals. Although Kaye may view this as, in retrospect, the correct outcome, that does not necessarily mean it emanated from the right intentions.
Kaye concludes by declaring that "the great DNA wars over admissibility are over," but he acknowledges that thorny issues remain, such as so-called low-copy-number DNA analyses. In addition, although the issues relating to population genetics have been thoroughly aired, the question of how to interpret DNA analyses, especially analyses of "mixtures," samples that contain DNA from more than one individual, remains contentious and has received less attention from the courts, the NRC and scientific journals. Nonetheless, with the imprimatur of the courts, a public myth of the "infallibility" of DNA profiling has arisen.
Genetic Justice begins, in a sense, where Kaye's book leaves off—with this notion of infallibility. It recounts the notorious case of the "phantom of Heilbronn," in which German officials spent $18 million and 16,000 hours of overtime, analyzing 3,000 DNA samples taken without any direct suspicion, in the search for a supposed serial killer—a search based on a DNA profile that turned out to belong to a woman who worked at a factory packing swabs used for DNA sampling. Authors Sheldon Krimsky, a public-policy scholar well known for his work on the influence of corporate money on scientific research, and Tania Simoncelli, the former science advisor to the American Civil Liberties Union, note that it was the perceived infallibility of DNA profiling that prevented the authorities from considering alternative explanations for the results they were seeing.
In contrast to Kaye's book, Genetic Justice addresses the myriad privacy issues raised by the expansion of DNA profiling and DNA databases. Although DNA databases were initially limited to murderers and rapists, they rapidly expanded to encompass the perpetrators of other crimes and are now becoming an essential part of law-enforcement infrastructure. This expansion has been taken to its greatest extreme in the United Kingdom, where in 2008 the national database contained the DNA profiles of 4.6 million people (7.6 percent of the population). More than one-fifth of these profiles—about a million of them—were from individuals who had not been convicted of, or even charged with, a crime, but had merely been arrested. Although the all-encompassing nature of the U.K. database was recently deemed a contravention of the European Convention on Human Rights, the United States, among other countries, appears determined to follow the United Kingdom's example.
Genetic Justice offers a comprehensive discussion of contemporary civil-liberties intrusions associated with DNA profiling. In DNA "dragnets," DNA samples are demanded from inhabitants of a defined geographic area fitting a certain (usually rather vague) physical description. Krimsky and Simoncelli argue that these samples are not truly voluntary, because the police use intimidation and coercion to procure them. The authors also note that these dragnets are rarely effective at solving the crime in question and that the samples are rarely destroyed at the conclusion of the investigation; instead, they are added to the local DNA database.
Familial searching is the practice of identifying suspects by searching the database for partial matches to a crime-scene sample. Inferring that individuals who match the sample at many but not all loci may be close blood relatives of the true source of the sample, the police generate suspects accordingly. As Krimsky and Simoncelli note, permitting such searches effectively adds to the DNA database the close blood relatives of convicts already in the database. Phenotypic profiling is the practice of attempting to predict the physical appearance of the perpetrator based on the genetic analyses of a crime scene sample. This practice raises thorny ethical and policy issues, in part because the technique sometimes purports to predict the perpetrator's race. Although such predictions are inherently probabilistic, this may not be well understood by users or by the public. Moreover, even predictions of phenotypic traits such as hair and eye color require inquiries into ancestry, because the frequencies of genetic markers associated with these traits vary across different ethnic groups. Surreptitious sampling occurs when law enforcement officers gather DNA samples from suspects without obtaining a warrant, simply by collecting ubiquitous "shed" DNA. Krimsky and Simoncelli note that under U.S. law there is no legal protection whatsoever for such "abandoned" samples, which bear the legal status of "waste." Moreover, courts have even upheld the use of samples obtained through deception, as in a famous case in which a suspect was tricked into providing a sample by licking an envelope. And, law enforcement aside, nothing prevents our fellow citizens from collecting our "abandoned" DNA.
Of course, not every country operates this way. Part II of the book puts the situation in the United States in perspective by surveying DNA databanking regimes in five other countries, a comparative approach also adopted by a recent volume edited by Richard Hindmarsh and Barbara Prainsack, Genetic Suspects: Global Governance of Forensic DNA Profiling and Databasing (2010). Krimsky and Simoncelli note that Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Norway mandate the immediate destruction of DNA samples after DNA profiles (which contain only a small amount of genetic information) are generated.
This policy of sample destruction emerges as perhaps the most appealing "technological fix" to civil-liberties concerns. Claims that current DNA profiles don't invade privacy because they are based on "junk" DNA that is completely devoid of predictive value have been overstated. Nonetheless, it seems clear that contemporary law-enforcement DNA profiles provide little basis for potential genetic discrimination. Thus destruction of the DNA samples used to generate the profiles would resolve many of the most pressing threats to privacy.
At the end of the book Krimsky and Simoncelli offer a reasonable set of additional policy recommendations: Apply the same protections afforded medical records to the information held in law-enforcement biological databanks; restrict the contents of the database to profiles of felons; and require warrants for dragnets, familial searches and recovery of shed DNA. Although these are reasonable suggestions, Krimsky and Simoncelli do not offer an entirely coherent ethical vision for how to grapple with the issues raised by the advent of DNA profiling. In particular, they tend to invoke all possible criticisms—invasion of medical privacy, race discrimination and ineffectiveness—without clearly articulating which of these issues is the fatal one. This results in some inconsistency: DNA databases are grave threats to privacy despite being ham-handedly ineffective; behavioral genetic research is both a pernicious resurgence of eugenics and a doomed research program based on a faulty understanding of human differences. And, in my view, Krimsky and Simoncelli are too willing to credit genetic determinism in making their privacy arguments—too willing to perpetuate the view that "DNA sequence information may . . . contain information about behavioral traits, such as propensity to violence or substance addiction, criminal tendencies or sexual orientation." And they are too willing to credit a study that claims to explain marital discord genetically, perhaps in hopes that the claim will help raise the reader's hackles about genetic privacy.
Nonetheless, Genetic Justice constitutes the single most comprehensive articulation of the civil-liberties concerns associated with law-enforcement DNA databases and should, therefore, serve as a touchstone for debates about the spread of DNA profiling. David Kaye, meanwhile, is apparently working on a new book that will address privacy and civil-liberties concerns. Because Kaye is among the most vigorous defenders of the legality of government DNA sampling and storage, and is among the most persuasive advocates of a universal, population-wide DNA database, Krimsky and Simoncelli's arguments will soon find themselves with a worthy adversary.
Simon A. Cole is associate professor and chair of the department of criminology, law and society at the University of California, Irvine. He is a coauthor (with Michael Lynch, Ruth McNally and Kathleen Jordan) of Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting (University of Chicago Press, 2008) and is a contributor to Genetic Suspects: Global Governance of Forensic DNA Profiling and Databasing, edited by Richard Hindmarsh and Barbara Prainsack (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
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During the 1950s, black leaders began to use marches, demonstrations and the courts to defeat racist laws. Their efforts are known as the civil rights movement. The most famous court case of the civil rights movement began in 1950 when 7-year-old Linda Brown of Topeka, Kansas, was denied access to a school that was just four blocks from her home because she was black. Linda's father went to court and on May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation (or separating races) in public schools violates the Constitution.
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Another important civil rights milestone happened on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama. On that day, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress who also worked for the NAACP, was asked to give up her bus seat to a white person. She refused and was arrested by police. Black leaders urged black people to boycott, or refuse to use, the buses in Montgomery. A young preacher named Martin Luther King Jr. led the peaceful boycott. Though originally scheduled for only one day, the boycott lasted 381 days. People walked many miles to work or home to avoid using the buses and the bus companies lost around $3,000 each day. The U.S. Supreme Court finally ruled that Montgomery could no longer have a segregated public transportation system because it violated the Constitution.
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Cuts that eliminated special summer school programs for gifted students weren't enough to stop Lynn Gatehouse, a teacher at Harvest Park Middle School. Gatehouse, on her own, created a 501(c)(3) charity and put together her own program, holding two two-week sessions and bringing in more than 160 students from San Ramon, Dublin, Pleasanton and Livermore with some coming from as far away as Fremont, Santa Clara and Cupertino.
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Wonderful idea, wonderful kids! Middle school and high school volunteers are the CREAM of the Student Crop. Hope they receive some recognition from the District and from the teachers of this program, a letter to go into the cum or to be used as a reference for college.


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Need is always a factor when the team is drafting, but one think JR does is ensure the team doesn't have any CRITICAL needs that he has to pass up more talented players in order to fill that need with the best player he can. Outside of QB, WR and maybe RB, I could legitimately see the team picking any other position and it would fill a need.
Maybe not the teams' biggest need on paper, but there's not a position on the team that we don't have some prospects with where if they had to, they could go into the season without drafting someone.
All Hail The New York Giants!!
Not confident in their DL at all. They need major help and would not be surprised if they drafted DL through most of the draft.
unless I'm mistaken didn't Mara say in his interview that the defense needs to be fixed since we couldn't stop the run and our pass rush went intothe tank so I don't see how the GM can go any other way but defense in the early rounds....
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This can't be. Police are the only ones qualified to own such weapons. They are here to protect the world. How could this happen???
Oh yeah that's right crazy is crazy no matter what their profession is.
I do like how they highlight the "Military Training" and not so much on his Police Training...
My heart goes out to the victims and their families and I hope for the safety of all the officers involved in the search.


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Crush Of The Week: AJR
Every week Seventeen's guy-obsessed editor reveals her latest crush. Get to know the three brothers she's into this week!
With Seventeen editors already sipping pumpkin spice lattes and the temp dropping low enough for me to pull out my motorcycle jacket, it's clear summer is really almost over. Whhhyyyy? Can't it stay summer for just a little while longer? Luckily, I recently discovered a new music group that has a summer-y summer to keep me in a sunny mood all year long. It also helps that brothers Adam, Jack, and Ryan, who make up the band AJR, are just as cute as they are talented.
The AJR bros just released the lyric video to their single, "I'm Ready" last week, and I gotta say, they look like a blast to hang out with. (Click here if you want to check it out.) Right now, AJR is just starting to get buzz, but they're set to open for both Hoodie Allen and Demi Lovato this fall—so soon everyone will know who they are. They've also opened for another Seventeen fave in the past—Fifth Harmony!
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Hey everyone, what's up.
This post is to inform everyone of my plans for the next couple of weeks here. Beginning Monday, 1/7 and running through Sunday 1/20, I'll be running the second annual FMR MAJOR Awards, where I break down the best and worst in movies for the year that was 2012.
Last year at this time, I considered it… let's say… a bit of a gamble to really play up my year-end awards like this. Instead of one simple post announcing my top ten for the year, I would do an entire week building things up by announcing the nominees – in numerous categories – and then another entire week announcing the winners. Two posts a day. Regular content would be put on hold. I honestly thought that there was good chance that people would reject it.
They didn't.
The MAJOR Awards were undeniably one of the highlights of my first year of blogging. Not only did everyone respond enthusiastically, a good number of new visitors found their way here to check out what was going on. It wound up being a massive success.
So I'm really excited to hold them again this year. Hopefully everyone will embrace them as much as they did last year!
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Monday, 1/7: MOST SURPRISING MOVIE, MOST DISAPPOINTING MOVIE
Tuesday, 1/8: WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR, WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Wednesday, 1/9: BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Thursday 1/10: WORST ACTOR, WORST ACTRESS
Friday, 1/11: BEST ACTOR, BEST ACTRESS
Saturday, 1/12: BEST DIRECTOR, WORST DIRECTOR
Sunday 1/13: BEST ANIMATED PICTURE, WORST PICTURE, BEST PICTURE
Monday, 1/14: MOST SURPRISING MOVIE, MOST DISAPPOINTING MOVIE
Tuesday, 1/15: WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR, WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Wednesday, 1/16: BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Thursday 1/17: WORST ACTOR, WORST ACTRESS
Friday, 1/18: BEST ACTOR, BEST ACTRESS
Saturday, 1/19: BEST DIRECTOR, WORST DIRECTOR
Sunday 1/20: BEST ANIMATED PICTURE, WORST PICTURE, BEST PICTURE
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Starting next week, we'll have a change of pace here for a little while. We're off to a little later start in order to see if I can squeeze "Zero Dark Thirty" and "The Impossible" in for consideration under the wire. Hopefully everyone will have a good time celebrating the best and kicking around the worst of 2012. It will also help to get us through the January doldrums… seeing as Hollywood chooses not to bless us with good movies unless schoolkids are on vacation. LOL
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The Huffington Post Wins Pulitzer Prize
Apr 16, 2012
Today, The Huffington Post received a Pulitzer prize for its series Beyond the Battlefield, honored in the National Reporting field. Beyond the Battlefield is an exploration of the physical and emotional challenges, victories and setbacks that catastrophically wounded soldiers encounter after returning home from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. The ten-part series is a tribute worthy of the men and women whose lives it chronicles.
Beyond the Battlefield is the result of several months of reporting and scores of interviews by the HuffPost's veteran military correspondent, David Wood. It is a deeply-felt, hard-won and wide-ranging exploration of what it means for a soldier to suffer extraordinary, disabling wounds -- and how friends, families, and hometowns, as well as the military and medical communities, adjust and respond to the physical and emotional struggles these wounded warriors endure.
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Canon EF 24-70mm f/4L IS USM review: The ideal standard zoom?By David Newton - Thursday February 07 2013 Lens Review
Taking the overall DxOMark score of 19, we can see that the lens is not an especially high performer in terms of overall image quality. However, looking at the scores in detail, we can see where the lens fall down.
Starting with the sharpness score, a rating of 13P-Mpix when attached to an EOS 5D Mark II is not that high when the nominal rating of the camera is 21P-Mpix. However, to put this into context, it is expected that zoom lenses will score lower than prime lenses due to the increased complexity in manufacture and the extra compromises required in lens design. Even the high scoring Canon EF70-200mm f/2.8L II IS USM lens only managed a sharpness score of 18P-Mpix when attached to an EOS-1Ds Mark III, a camera with a very similar nominal resolution.
Although the score itself is not that high, the main issue with the sharpness is the lack of homogeneity cross the frame. At all focal lengths when shooting at the maximum aperture, there is a fall off of sharpness across the frame. This is most noticeable around the 50mm focal length. Closing the aperture down to f/5.6 helps to alleviate the problems, but there is still a fall off. By f/8, the sharpness is close enough to even across the frame to not be a concern. Even so, the 50mm focal length setting is still the one that offers the lowest score.
The transmission score, on the other hand, shows that the maximum aperture of the lens (f4) matches identically with the real life test results. Although a score of 4TStop seems low compared to a prime lens like an EF50mm f/1.2, a score of 4 for a zoom lens is very good showing there is essentially no light lost as it passes through the lens.
Like the transmission score, the distortion score of 0.2% is especially good for a zoom lens, with only the slightest barrel distortion at the wide end of the focal range and an almost completely neutral result at the 70mm end.
The vignetting score is one area that has impacted the overall DxOMark score. Only at 70mm and at aperture of f/8 is there almost no vignetting. At all other settings, there is some corner shading or light loss at the edges of the frame. At 24mm and f/4, the score of -1.3EV is too strong for a lens in this class.
Finally, the chromatic aberration score of 8µm is actually very good. A score of 5µm is considered noticeable, but would only equate to around 1pixel on most cameras – certainly nothing that would be distracting in a final print.
Beyond the tested metrics, both the USM AF motor and the advanced Hybrid Image Stabilizer are two plus points in favor of this lens. The IS system is a hybrid unit, first seen on Canon's EF100mm f/2.8L IS USM Macro lens. The benefit of this is that whether you are shooting very close up to your subjects in a macro fashion, or whether you subject is more distant, the IS will function effectively to reduce camera shake while hand-holding.
Further readings for the Canon EF 24-70mm f/4L IS USM review: The ideal standard zoom?
To provide photographers with a broader perspective about mobiles, lenses and cameras, here are links to articles, reviews, and analyses of photographic equipment produced by DxOMark, renown websites, magazines or blogs.
The latest in the L series, the Canon EF 24-70mm f/4L IS USM is an ideal transtandard lens for reporting and can also make a good choice for portraiture. Versatile, it can also function as a macro with a reproduction ratio of 0.7x, Canon having worked hard to optimally match up the optical elements.
Added by ag08025 | February 16 , 2013
I do not believe
Most likely incorrect tests.I'll explain why DxO does not provide graphical results of the tests but only their personal considerations.So as another to drive the conclusion
Added by ag08025 | February 08 , 2013
I do not believe
because your tests are so far from reality?
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Added by ageha | February 10 , 2013
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because your tests are so far from reality?
Maybe sample variation? ;)
Added by RIVERAKTRE | April 05 , 2013
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Interesting point but you have to remember you're not really comparing apples to apples here. The link you provided compares a Canon f/4 VS Sigma f/2.8 which isn't a true apple's to apple's comparison. More like a peach and orange.
DXO Lab tests thousands of lenses under Strict controlled environments, I highly doubt they're fluffing up the test results. PLUS "IF" they were...what are they gaining from doing so?
Something to think about.


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