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Just Posted: Sigma 35mm F1.4 DG HSM Preview Samples
We've just posted a gallery of shots from Sigma's new 35mm F1.4 DG HSM prime lens, showing off its capabilities in a range of different environments, across its aperture range. We were very excited to start using this lens, and so far, it doesn't disappoint. Our gallery contains 23 photographs taken using the Canon EOS-1D X and 5D Mark III, and includes several images converted from Raw. A full review is on its way before the end of the year, but for now, we hope you enjoy our gallery of initial images.
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|Sigma 35mm F1.4 Preview Samples - Posted 4th December 2012
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To those people saying their 35L still rules: Every test I've seen of this lens measures it as way sharper wide-open than either your 35L or my 35/1.4G. The ONLY thing I'd be concerned about with the Sigma is the Bokeh, which seems nervous to me, especially slightly OOF specular highlights. I plan on doing some of my own rudimentary testing and will decide if I will sell my 35G in favor of the Sigma when a local store has one in stock.
I like a lot third party options (and my wallet), but in this case I find that the Canon 35 L still rules.
This Sigma seems to be very correct, and therefore is a nice option to get a bright prime, but the sharpness and colors of my 35mm are in other level... I hate the price of the Canon, but the 35mm L is very very good indeed despite some issues.
This lens definitely gets attention and for a good reason but comparing it to 15 years old design of EF lens is somewhat not fair.
Of course C@N can sit on the laurels as long as they wish and if they won't take notice it would be their own fault. Bravo Sigma!
One curious thing is not providing this lens in SA mount for Sigma SD camera users at least at the same time as in other mounts. Since Sigma is building their own DSLR systems for some time now this seems quite puzzling and dishonest for their own DSLR users?
The Sigma lens might be a good lens but Sigma both
in the Usa as in many parts of the world except Hongkong
and Japan wont update the firmware of lenses for them to work with
them Nikon series 1 and the FT1 adapter which is a shame.....
Sigma showed once more that its not futureproof ! :(
They're future proofing with the USB lens dock, and don't be blaming Sigma for having to reverse engineer and figure out how to get their lenses' AF to work on any other body, with little support from CaNikon they came this far
Which actually proves, that irrespective of the lens, images in the field really do not show their absolute optical capabilities.
Take home lesson: stop obsessing and enjoy.
OK...I take my comment back. I was looking at this page on my iPad and just opened it up on my iMac. I was totally incorrect. The shot of the gentleman in the table in the booth f/1.4 shows really good sharpness @ that aperture and nice bokeh of the lights in the background, especially for a wide angle lens. Sorry I jumped the gun..am cursing my iPad right now! Lens looks really interesting. Would like to see a side-by-side with the Canan equivalent.
I tested it briefly on a D800 today at Yodobashi. Very very nice. I'm not an AF guy as current AF lenses are too big and heavy, but this lens looks and performs well. Bokeh is wonderful, focus is fast and rather quiet. Build is up to current Nikon standards. Manual focus isn't nearly as good as a proper Ai lens, but apart from that, there's not much to complain about.
If I were to get an AF 1,4/35mm lens, it would be the sigma. I'm not though, so whoopee!
I'm probably going to test it from a rental location someday. These are some of the best pictures I've seen from dpreview from a lens test. I like what I see. Compared to $2000 for a Zeiss, this might be a real option.
I don't know. I'm sure it's an excellent lens and will do the job, but other than 2/3rd of a stop, I'm not sure it's any better than Nikon's superb 28 f/1.8G for a couple hundred less dollars and Nano Crystal coating. In fact, it might not be quite as good. I don't know. My Nikon 28 f/1.8G performs so well, I can't really imagine needing a 3rd party 35 f/1.4 for any use.
I perfer a slightly wider field of view when I can get it. I'm completely sold on Nikon's Nano Crystal coating. I love the light weight of the new 28. So far, I've not seen any field curvature nor focus shift some have reported. What more could one ask for for $200 less USD? Why would I need a 35mm? My 35 f/2 AFD already is retired to the shelf.
Moreover, it would probably be a rare day I'd use a wide angle at under around f/4, more likely being at f/5.6 or f/8. To even consider the f/1.4 over f/1.8 seems to not be a worry in the least. Again, I'm sure it's a great lens, but..
Totally agree about the Nikon 28.18G. Now I know what all the fuss is about with Nano Crystal coated lenses. Color, contrast are and flare control are excellent.
But I do like the 35mm focal length in general as a slightly wider normal lens and this Sigma looks like a winner.
Actually... 35 and 50 mm focal length are more like standard focal length (although eye standard perspectives would be more around 43, 44).
21, 24, 28, are wide angles and, as such, they tend to "compress" distance between the subject and the background.
1.4 - 1.8 might not seem huge, but it can be useful if you're framing a subject that is not too close and you still wish to isolate, 35 mm is pretty cool for street shooting, or shooting people in general (not portraits, I mean people in action or such).
Plus a wide angle usually has a rather deep depth of field, so a fast aperture give you more options. You don't need f/8 to have most of your composition in focus on a 35 mm and even less on wider angles, so you can work with faster apertures with less risks of misfocusing. If you use an 85 at an event to take pictures of people, good chances if it is in low light you will need to open a good deal, and it's harder to compose, (unless you just wanna isolate the face)
or you bump the iso... and well you just lose details...
So basically it all depends on your subjects, the size of your prints, the perspective you wish to render, and son on...
But a fast 35 mm for shooting people is a good deal. Enables you to work in low light, with good image quality, and it's rendering perspective in a rather neutral way, more natural than wide angles.
The 28/1.8G is not very good on a D7000 or D800. There's a resolution 'dip' where the borders would be on APS-C and the corners are pretty average on a D800.
This Sigma will probably beat the Nikon even though I object to slightly OOF highlights rendering as rings.
When saying that this or that lens is great, I think these days you need to qualify that sort of comment according to the sensor and format you are using.
On a lower resolution sensor like the D700 I'm sure that lens would be very nice though.
Really impressed with this, especially when compared to the more expensive Nikon equivalent.
I'm keeping my eyes peeled for Sigma's next generation 85 1.4. Coupled with this 35mm is probably all I'll ever use on my Nikons.
...Maybe a 21mm for fun.
...and a 50 for the weight.
Other than a 105 micro, I don't think I'd need anything else.
The 17-35's nice though.
It's the best focal length in my opinion, and now everyone has a slightly cheaper alternative to the Canon/Nikon pro lenses. If I didn't already own the 35 1.4 L I'd be definitely on this
I am on the waiting list for one. Can't wait to arrive before Xmas :-)))
Would like to see more Xmas like shots with colorful bokeh in the background.
I mean ... hey it's December and I'm pretty sure wherever those shots have been taken there must exist something more Xmas like.
I see major curvature issues. Which may not be bad if you want to isolate the center
I had to download the original file and view it at 100% to see it though.
The ONLY fault I can find with this lens is the way it renders slightly OOF specular highlights. They appears as rings.
See the nose of the dog in the following picture:
I got to handle the Sigma 35 today on a 6D. I was surprised and impressed by the build and heft of the lens, and it was quite accurate on the 6D as well.
I will definitely be picking up one of these babies. And I don't understand the people complaining about softness...the ACR processed ones are quite sharp, even wide open. And I give a thumbs up to the photography in general. Bunch of whiny brats expecting nothing but top notch photographs....sheesh.
Very impressed so far. Other sites have shown comparison with Canon35/1.4 L and the Sigma betters it many ways. So far no comparisons with Nikon.
I have this preordered.
I like the lack of LoCA (better than my 35/1.4G) and I don't mind the very large OOF HL's but the slightly OOF specular HL's are little loops (aspherical elements at work) as they give many of the images a nervous look. Check out shot # 2341143.jpg and look 1/2 way down the oblique wood element of the image and you'll notice lots if tiny specular loops (not unlike that which a mirror lens would produce).
I grabbed the full res' files and loaded them into LR4 to get a decent view of the details.
Looks like a very good lens. I just bought a Nikon 28 1.8G which is fantastic, so I'm not sure I need a 35mm lens between it, and my 50 1.8G. But, this lens, along with the Samyang 35 1.4 are definitely two top choices at the low to mid price range. I cannot think of a better choice than the Nikon 35 1.4, but I'm sure my wife can.
Seriously, you don't need a 35 between a 28 and a 50. Actually, if you have a 35, you don't really need a 28 or a 50, depending on your style. If focal lenghth is so important to you, just buy a zoom, the 24-70 is all you will ever need.
Nicolai, when is focal length not important?
And sorry, but I don't think an f2.8 zoom lens is "all one ever needs". I shoot video in low light, so I prefer moderately fast lenses. But yes, I'd love to have a Nikon 24-70, but I'm not sure I want to carry such a heavy lens on my D800, hence the 3 primes 28-50-85 that I use.
28-50-85 or 35-50-85 is a nice trio, full frame. APSC that's 19~23-33-56.
I own the nikon 24-70 and while it's a great lens that focuses instantly and delivers gorgeous results starting right at f/2.8, it's a pig to use. First of all it's enormous so there's no way to use it discretely, and second, its bigness makes it hard to maneuver when you're shooting quickly. I can completely see the appeal of a smaller, lighter lens especially when shooting people, events, anywhere that you need to be light on your feet. It's time to get back to the olden days when people used two camera bodies with two different focal length lenses.
Try street shooting with a 5D MKII and a 24-70 f/2.8...
People will look at you as if you're either a hoodlum or a pervert !
No, seriously a zoom is good thing as it fits all the purpose, sure, but it's big and slow...
Standard and wide lenses with fast apertures enable the photographer to play a little more with depth of field, plus they won't let you down when the night falls! And they're usually more compact, and show less distortion!
Gotta love primes! (that's why I still love using the OM-1 with all its manual primes... 21, 35, 50 mainly)
this type of gallery is soo annoying! page reload on every click on an image, endless scrolling again and again to center the picture vertically... vrrrr....
We're working on a more user-friendly system, but 'slideshow' will help if you want to quickly go through images.
Setting up Lightbox2 (or similar) for your galleries would be super great and easy to implement.
Lightbox doesn't allow zooming in on an image and is just a simple Javascript that automatically resizes images, and dims the background. The Flash solution that DPR is currently using in Slideshow mode is much better and more sophisticated.
Personally, I like DPR gallery software, but i use a very large monitor so I don't have to scroll too much.
On the list. Small team, big list :)
I'm not sure if it's a bad thing but photography wise the dpreview samples are always dull.
Yup, so it distracts not where it goes about on a site as DPreview, the gear.
I prefer to call them functional images, they are 'selling' the quality of the lens, not that of the photographer. They usually give a good overall impression what to expect from lenses and their characteristics.
I think the this Sigma is an excellent lens. Only some of the "boke" in the samples feel a little too harsh for my taste.
I'd really like to see how this looks on the K-5. Strongly thinking this lens will be my next purchase.
Well, it doesn't look like it's going to be on par with the canon L or the nikon G, but at roughly half the price, in my country, it would be naive to expect that. The image quality is decent, vignetting is acceptable, not much chromatic abberation, pretty good sharpness. I don't relally like the colors, they are pretty bland, sigma style, or maybe it's that canon sensor. Also, the bokeh isn't something to rave about, the highlights are pretty dissapoiting, showing a texture in the highlight blobs. This being said, this lens does cost about 800E brand new in the store, so the only real choices for this money or less are the f/2 lenses from canon/nikon, if you want AF, that is.
Meh, I dunno, looking at background blur in samples of the Nikon 35mm f/1.4 and Canon 35mm f/1.4, they're not really any better. Wide angle lenses have a tough time with background blur because of the perspective effect on the background, so none of them will ever be as good as an 85mm anyway.
Regarding sharpness, aberrations and the rest, I'll wait for the imatest / dx0mark results. Random sample photos are not going to be meaningful for accurately measuring those qualities due to all of the uncontrolled variables. Empirical science - separating fact from fiction since 1600BC!
Maybe I'm alone on this one but to me the Sigma looks like it will be better than the Canon 35L. Trust me, I'm not a Sigma fan so I'm hardly biased.
I can almost guarantee that the Nikon 35 1.4 G, a nano crystal coated lens, will have better color/contrast. And for a wide, it have very decent bokeh helped by it's 9-blade round aperture. But it's not news to anyone that a wide angle lens won't blow out a background like an 85mm portrait lens.
It looks like the Sigma 35 1.4 (like their 50 1.4 and 85 1.4) will be an excellent lens. And the new barrel looks sharp.
Some of your f/1.4 images are a bit soft. Did you use a tripod?
'Our gallery contains 26 photographs taken using the Canon EOS-1D X and 5D Mark III'
WTF: I thought D800(E), Sony SLT were all the rage these days at DPR. Why are you using the 'old' Canon sensors to test these new lenses?
Just yanking your chain :-) nice set of test pics. Have a great day. Cheers :-)
As is typical with new Sigma lenses, the Canon version becomes available to reviewers before other mounts ;)
35mm has always been a weird focal length to me, even if many Full frame street photographers adopted it as a standard. I'd rather shoot wider on a 28mm 1.8 or closer for better portraits.
Is it just me, or your test pictures are getting better? I enjoyed some of them as photographs.
And I think the lens are not bad at all.
Scott is one of our best photographers - and it helps having a lens that we're excited about as well.
The bokeh here: http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/reviewsamples/photos/2341157/pt3c9403?inalbum=sigma-35mm-f1-4-dg-hsm-preview-samples is terrible. The Canon would have problems there as well.
I once had the Zeiss Contax/Yashica. I am a bit surprised about the inferior resolution, despite its floating-element closeup-correction.
Would be interesting to see results at larger distances and corner-sharpness. In analogue-times at 2.0 light-fall-off was not disturbing other than the results i had with a really bad 35/2.0 OM. One of the reasons i switched to Contax.
On the other hand i am pleased to see that i can get a surperbe lens when i will jump on the sigma-foveon-train.
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That's the BD Ion headlamp. I use it as a "just in case" headlamp on dayhikes and a backup car-camping, and it's surprised me with how bright it is when it's been called into action. Oh, and free bump :)Jan 2, 2011 at 9:34 pm #1679985
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My wife is interested to know about the fitment on the North Face Jacket. I think she may be between sizes or pushed into a large because her torse is quite long (Even for her height. Think long torso and short legs.). She's about 5'11" or so.
The BD headlamp is tempting me but I'm undecided.Jan 2, 2011 at 9:42 pm #1679986
I also have a long torso compared to my legs, but I am only 5'2". I just tried it on and it goes 2/3 of the way down my behind. If that helps.Jan 4, 2011 at 4:43 am #1680319
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A Is for Admission: The Insider's Guide to Getting into the Ivy League and Other Top Collegesby Michele A. Hernández
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The Target AudienceThe most natural thing to assume is that you are writing your application so that brilliant Ivy League-educated people can read it and laud your humor, charm, and intellectual prowess. But have you ever stopped to think why these brilliant educators would be working in an admissions office, rather than in an upper-level teaching or administrative capacity?
THE TYPICAL ADMISSIONS OFFICER In most highly selective admissions offices, two very different kinds of admissions officers can be found. Though I admit to stereotyping, most admissions people would probably agree with the basic truths surrounding these two groups.
The first group would include highly talented recent college graduates from either that particular college or another highly selective college. These individuals tend to be very bright, people-oriented, interested in education as a broad field, and anxious to gain some valuable job experience before moving on to a teaching position or perhaps a graduate program. Although they are not very experienced in admissions, they know the caliber of students who are accepted into highly selective colleges because of their firsthand experience with their supertalented classmates. They are, for the most part, extremely qualified to judge candidates in terms of their intellectual potential. Finally, they tend to have a risk-taking capacity that allows them to break the rules here and there when they really believe in a candidate. As a group, they are in touch with current students on a day-to-day basis, since they run most of the student programs, such as hosting and tour guiding.
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As you can imagine, there is little motivation for a talented young graduate to spend more than a year or two in an admissions office before moving on to other academic endeavors, such as law school, medical school, or a Ph.D. program. Thus, there is always a huge turnover in the first group, while the older guard, the career admissions officers, remains the staple of most Ivy League offices. With the exception of Harvard and sometimes Princeton, usually under 50 percent of those working on Ivy League admissions staffs (and here you can include Williams, Swarthmore, and Amherst, to name just a few) attended an Ivy League college. Even if you consider the current deans of admissions at the Ivies, very few attended an Ivy League institution themselves. My career paththat is, leaving Dartmouth for four years (one year in Spain, one in a master's program at Columbia University in comparative literature and English, and two teaching) and then going back to work in the admissions officeis atypical.
I hope by now the point is clear: For the most part, Ivy League hotshots are not the ones reading your application. You will note the conspicuous absence of Rhodes scholars or well known educators on admissions staffs. Many of the people who will be judging you went to less prestigious colleges and sometimes begrudge those who have had more opportunity than they have had. As my former colleague from the Putney School in Putney, Vermont, and former Brown admissions officer Harry Bauld writes in his hilarious book on college essays, "This is your audience. Study them well. Not exactly the Nobel Prize panel."
What I am trying to say without shocking you too much is that the very best of applicants will often be brighter than many of those who will be evaluating them.
THE IMPLICATIONS The main fact you should keep in mind is that sometimes admissions officers will miss subtle points because they are not extremely perceptive readers, or because they are reading too fast, or because they are trying to highlight one main point from a letter, or because they are just plain exhausted from reading applications for seven to eight hours a day for months at a time. Unfortunately, many admissions officers are not expert readers (many more have degrees in education than in an academic discipline), and most of them are not scholars or intellectuals. Add to this problem the above factors and you can understand why oftentimes subtle points are overlooked even though they can be crucial to understanding a student's academic potential.
Let me give an example that took place at Dartmouth during a reading retreat, when the whole admissions office gets together, discusses strategies and priorities for the upcoming year, and then reads through actual case studies from the current year's class. All thirteen of us prepared the five case studies the night before so we could read our write-ups aloud and then see how people voted. The biggest disagreement concerned an extremely subtle case of a girl who came from a very humble background. She knew early on that she wanted to be a veterinarian, and she had started working ten hours a week and all summer for two years in a vet's office to obtain firsthand experience. Veterinary medicine was her passion, and you could see throughout all her class work and activities that she was preparing for a career in the field. All her recommendations stressed that she was very quiet but that when she did contribute to class, she almost always offered a tremendous and insightful thought that really turned the classroom into a live arena for debate. One even referred to her as something like a "creative whirlwind of ideas." Though all her teachers said she was modest and quiet, no one said that she was a low impact person who just blended in with the scenery. On the contrary, they all pointed to the fact that she just didn't blather on and on about what she knew, as some students did, but, rather, that her idea was to follow the discussion intently and then to interject her point as things became more interesting.
What became immediately evident in our follow-up discussion was that nearly all the old-guard people in the office immediately latched onto her teachers' remarks about the quiet aspect of her character, stressing that she would be a low-impact person at Dartmouth and would never add to class discussion because she'd be afraid to speak up. In other words, they totally ignored the body of the recommendations, which stressed that she always had meaningful contributions and that she just waited until the right moment to share her thoughts. Based on this information, only two out of thirteen people voted to accept her.
As you can see from this example, it takes a much more comprehensive reading to get beyond the formula (which in this case was the word quiet) and to delve into the meaning of what the recommendations were saying, which was that at first glance you might think she was quiet, but, in fact, she was one of the most valuable presences in class discussions.
The most obvious point is that teachers, guidance counselors, and students should avoid being too subtle. Remember, most recommendations are read quickly and the reader is skimming for main points. Rather than writing a long, detailed letter that chronicles the entire intellectual development of the student ("When Jim was in ninth grade, his writing was not very good; then in tenth, I noticed some improvement...."), just get to the point. How is the student now? Hit your main point hard: "In my class of twenty-five honors-level students, Jim is by far the finest writer and thinker." If you want to convey the idea that even though Jim is quiet, he is not a wallflower, be direct: "Although Jim is a quiet person, his insights are so powerful that when he does contribute to class, he changes the way others think about an issue." If the recommender I described above had been more direct, there would not have been such a high potential for misunderstanding.
The same rule applies to the student. Don't try to hide your accomplishments behind a wall of modesty. If you are captain of your team, come out and say so. If you are president of an organization that is citywide, explain briefly that your role goes beyond that of the average club president. If your science experiment won a major competition, write about it and explain how high the level of competition was. I will offer more specific information in later chapters, but keeping your audience in mind will always help your chances of admission.
Despite the fact that most people are convinced that wealth, fame, and position in society will be looked upon as positive factors in the Ivy League admissions process, this is simply not the case anymore. The tendency at all the Ivies is to reward students from very humble backgrounds who have gone above and beyond their means in order to succeed academically. Since for the last several years the Ivies have been trying to shed their image as snobbish enclaves for wealthy and privileged students, they scrutinize applicants who have never had to work for anything In the majority of cases, coming across as a preppy, well-off kid will work against you in two ways. First, you will alienate many admissions officers who might hold your upbringing against you, especially if they come from a more modest background, and second, you are putting yourself right into the Ivy mold that these colleges are trying to break away from.
During my years in admissions, I was sometimes surprised by the bias Ivy officers held against privileged students, especially those who went to fancy private high schools. I disagree that there is something inherently undesirable about having smart students from wealthy families on Ivy campuses. In my opinion, having a wide mix of socioeconomic backgrounds on every campus is an important part of diversity. Just as poor students didn't choose to grow up poor, few rich students choose to grow up wealthy. I disagree strongly that being privileged should automatically count as a strike against the student. However, the reality is that it often does, so it is necessary to take this into account when writing college applications.
How does all this relate to your presentation of your application? The first thing to avoid is the tendency to brag about your privileged upbringing. You'll notice that most colleges have you start by filling in your parents' college backgrounds and professions. I know that when I filled in these boxes, I was convinced that the admissions committee would be impressed by my parents' backgrounds and jobs. I thought I would get "extra points" because I came from a family that valued education. In fact, I thought the committee would see that I had a good chance of succeeding since I came from a successful family. I could not have been more wrong.
The main reason colleges ask this question is to see if you qualify as a "legacy" at their college, meaning that either your mother or father graduated from their school (see chapter 12 for more details). Another reason is to see if you have come from a much less sophisticated background and therefore would have lower standardized test scores and perhaps a less polished application. What these questions are not there for is to impress the reader, some of whom have been known to harbor grudges against kids who "have it easy." It's a matter of preconceived notions and expectations, as well as personal biases.
If an officer is reading the application of a student from Groton whose father went to Harvard Medical School and is the chief neurosurgeon at a major hospital and whose mom has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is in private practice, he starts out by expecting a lot of the student. Clearly, the student comes from a family where there has always been enough money to put a child in the finest nursery schools, kindergarten, after-school activities, and so on. Undoubtedly, they have been able to afford private tutors for both standardized tests and high school subjects. If the officer then sees that this applicant has mid-600 SAT scores, a B high school average, and has been involved in extracurricular activities such as lacrosse, sailing, and horseback riding, he is bound not to be very impressed. The officer's thoughts would run as follows:
He has had every possible advantage and still only managed mediocre [by Ivy League standards, that is] grades and scores and has never really gone beyond the classroom to seek additional academic challenges.
Now let's look at a student with similar achievements from a totally different background. The first thing the officer sees about Susan is that neither parent went to college; her father is an auto mechanic and her mom is a postal clerk. She goes to a poor inner-city high school where only 15 percent of the population goes on to four-year colleges. Before the officer even starts reading her application, he mentally adjusts his expectations and attitude. No need to feel threatened or jealous of the advantages she might have had. Despite her background, and the fact that she could not afford SAT prep courses, she was always a reader from early childhood. She scores 660 on the verbal, 650 on math, and ends up ranked tenth in her class of 110 students (let's say she earned mostly A's, with a few B's), taking the hardest course load available to her. She is captain of two athletic teams, has done significant community-service work, and teachers say she adds that extra spark to class discussions. Susan would get the vote of any highly selective admissions committee because she rose to the top with limited resources and managed to stand out. The readers can feel good, thinking that they are helping out someone less fortunate by giving her that ticket to an Ivy League school so she can succeed in life.
Some of you may take my advice too much to heart and be tempted to lie or invent. I am not suggesting that path. I am a firm believer that the cream always rises to the top and the best kids shine, no matter where they are from. What I am saying is that you don't need to be overly specific. You have to state where your parents were educated, but when it comes time to put down their jobs, you might want to be somewhat vague. For example, if your father is the president and CEO of a big-name investment bank, the committee is going to be expecting quite an amazing applicant, one who has gone beyond his comfy lifestyle to make himself known. You might just write down "banker" for occupation. It's not a lie, but at the same time, it doesn't create such a high expectation in terms of wealth and privilege. Rather than saying "chief neurosurgeon," why not just M.D.? Rather than "chief partner in a major law firm," just put "lawyer." I'm not suggesting you deceive the readers; rather, I'm proposing that you be modest and exercise a level of humility in both your personal part of the application and the description of your parents' jobs.
Unless someone in your family is planning on using his position (let's take the CEO of a major investment firm) to erect a large building on the campus, the admissions office does not need to know exactly what your parent does. That way, an officer will be unable to judge you unjustly because of your background. You are merely protecting yourself from this unfair treatment. Better to let the committee wonder about your background and thus consider you entirely on your intellectual merit.
There are a few exceptions to this rule. The highly selective colleges are always glad to have some very high-profile students or celebrity kids at their institutions, because they get free publicity. When the son of a Disney CEO attended Dartmouth, the college received tons of good, free publicity. When Amy Carter went to Brown, people suddenly knew all about the school and its curriculum. However, a very small percentage of students will fit into this category, so if your parents are merely wealthy or partners in law firms or business firms, the highly selective colleges will not be impressed. However, if your father is a famous actor or the President of the United States, the admissions office might be more favorably impressed. In any case, all VIP cases (see chapter 14) first go through the alumni/development office, not through the admissions office. At some point, the two offices communicate. The bottom line is that in 98 percent of all cases, there is no reason to overstate your parents' position in society on your application.
In some cases, it will be obvious that you come from a privileged family just by your choice of high school and your address. If you go to a fancy private high school in New York City and live at a chic, recognizable address, you might as well write whatever you want, because your background will be quite evident anyway. In later chapters, I will go into more detail about how to present yourself without being overly coached or polished, but for now, I want to set out a constructive timetable for the years leading up to college, especially for the benefit of families who do not have access to an informed college counselor.
Copyright © 1997 by Michele A. Hernandez "END
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Skip to comments.Couple's wedding ring found at plane crash site
Posted on 09/14/2006 10:08:26 AM PDT by DaveLoneRanger
The inscription on the 14-karat gold wedding band said, "I love you ten, your girl."
The ring was found a few days ago by Todd Murty, a manager of the Elkhorn Bend Farm, where Comair Flight 5191 crashed shortly after takeoff from Blue Grass Airport on Aug. 27. Murty said he found the ring on the ground near the crash scene.
At first, no one knew who the ring belonged to, though Murty had a hunch. He took the ring to a local radio station and then to WLEX-TV on Tuesday. Both stations broadcast reports asking if anyone knew who it might belong to.
A local jeweler did know: It was the wedding ring that Scarlett Parsley bought for her new husband, Jonathan Hooker.
The couple died on the plane about 12 hours after they exchanged vows in a storybook wedding in Lexington. They were on the way to their honeymoon.
Murty said he spoke to Scarlett's mother about the ring today. Both of the late couple's mothers have arranged to meet with Murty on Friday.
"I'm just glad it got back to its rightful owner," Murty said.
Scarlett's mother told him that "ten" was Scarlett's pet name for her groom.
It was her way of telling him he was perfect.
Man, this is sad. I just hope the two mom's don't fight over who should keep the keepsake.
Wow. I pray they're together in God's arms now. How sad their time was cut short like that.
Together for eternity, leaving mortal things behind to help survivors in their grief.
Broken hearts that will never heal.
perhaps joint custody is a good idea - 6 months with one, 6 months with the other.
Yes. God bless them.
Looks like the FAA accident investigators did a pretty sloppy job of searching the crash site. Probably Bush's fault.
Jewelery normally goes from the mother to daughter. Absent a will or trust, I suppose that the daughter's jewelery should go to her mother.
It wasn't the daughter's ring. It was the husband's wedding band.
OOps! I guess it goes to his mother.
It sounds like this was the mans ring, not the womans, therefore it would go to his family.
I feel the ring should stay with the person who found it. Everything happens for a reason. Perhaps he's someone's "perfect TEN." Maybe the ring was supposed to live on as a symbol of love for someone else. "The Legend," or then again I could just be a hopeless romantic.
Be Gone Troll.
Just call it like I see it. I suppose some of us have a more optimistic view on life than others. Then again I'm a romantic. A dying breed apparently.
God Bless!
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CIA interest and involvement in extraterrestrial reality has been well documented through declassified documents. http://www.cufos.org/IUR_article3.html The extent and the degree of CIA involvement has not been well documented but is massive and beyond the comprehension of most investigators. Of course the CIA is not the only major player in the investigation, exploitation and suppression of extraterrestrial technology and reality.
Other organizations like the NSA are very much involved but what is unique about CIA involvement is the covert scope and breadth of CIA operations throughout society not just in the United States but worldwide as well. The CIA both in terrestrial and extraterrestrial operations is for all extents and purposes an agency owned and operated by entrenched special interests. It's a complete shadow government in itself that creates and manages shadow governments in countries around the world for entrenched special interests in business and politics.
The Church Commission investigations of CIA criminal wrongdoing barely scratched the surface of the CIA's terrestrial unconstitutional and unethical operations but never even laid a hair on the CIA's extraterrestrial operations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Commission Today the CIA with its own private army, air force and navy, it's national and international death squads, its huge trillion dollar off the record funding operations, its infiltration and control of mainstream media, its control over not just the military and press in the United States but other nations as well, is staggering. http://www.geocities.com/cpa_blacktown/20000318mediaoverb.htm
While the CIA is a constitutional agency many of its covert operations especially the extraterrestrial operations are unconstitutional or given only an appearance of legality through secret executive orders out of the White House. In a classic case of the tail wagging the dog the CIA's extraterrestrial operations are so secret and deceptive that there is almost no control or oversight by legitimate constitutional government.
The CIA's extraterrestrial operations were created to get a handle on, exploit extraterrestrial technology and propagandize the public but now seem to be almost completely under the control of elite global entrenched special interests in collaboration with predatory extraterrestrial races. In other words the predatory extraterrestrials and their willing and not so willing human entrenched interests have turned the tables on the process and now use the CIA's extraterrestrial operations against the interests of the world public and even the ethical extraterrestrials that would be our allies.
Over the period of my UFO/ET investigations I have run across little tidbits of information that combined with some creative remote viewing are allowing me to gain some understanding of covert CIA Extraterrestrial Operations and the threat they pose to society. Of course the CIA often gets blamed for the faults of others and has been tasked with an impossible task that requires widespread criminal activity. There is certainly plenty of blame to go around and once again the CIA is sure to be singled out as the scapegoat.
I believe CIA/NSA covert extraterrestrial operations have become a lynchpin to worldwide shadow government resulting in a very dangerous and flawed extraterrestrial policy. In my opinion extraterrestrial operations and policy should be in the hands of diplomats rather than the military and clandestine services, and should be immediately transferred to the State Department so that an enlightened extraterrestrial policy can be created and implemented at he highest levels.
Some of the latest tidbits of information coming from insider sources seem to indicate that CIA extraterrestrial operations are beginning to meltdown with accelerating UFO/ET disclosure. I just had some personal confirmation of this from a source that is becoming psychologically unglued and recently while drunk and very hostile called up regular military officers in the middle of the night, gave special codes and then proceeded to harangue a high level general.
This accelerating meltdown and turmoil in internal CIA/NSA/ET operations is causing the threat and intimidation levels to rise inside and outside of government as UFO/ET disclosure beckons. I also infer this from recent comments passed on by insider A on the OM /UN thread.
I am also beginning to wonder if this might be partly terrestrial fallout from a now rapidly escalating ET space war. I am thinking that we will soon see a covert internal war in government accelerate into real overt fighting as regular military and politician's rebel against the oppressive tactics employed by an increasingly dangerous and threatened secret shadow government of which the CIA/NSA plays an important role.
There are always those who ask me to provide more evidence for my concepts and conclusions. Often I can't do that in order to protect my sources and at times I just get tired of doing the confirmation work that is only a few keystrokes away for anybody remotely interested in the subject. The following case is an example of many sources and cases I have not been able to divulge. I have remained quiet on this case for about 15 years and only now feel it is okay to go public with it as evidence in support of the CIA/NSA extraterrestrial program.
In 1993 we were building publicity for Operation Right To Know a UFO/ET activist organization I co-founded. I have many letters from this time and was contacted by Robert E. Cotner in a letter postmarked 2/22/93 asking me to contact him for a deathbed confession. He claimed to have ended up in prison by being framed by some corrupt local government officials and provided me with much documentation. He was isolated and had no friends that could help him.


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Translink staff are pulling over 62 community shuttles after drivers complained that toxic fumes were coming into the passenger cabin.
The problem was first reported in 2013, shortly after the shuttles were bought. Now, it's re-surfaced after more complaint.
Mike Madill with Coast Mountain Bus Company says TransLink is working with WorkSafeBC, their drivers, and the shuttle manufacturer.
"The issue with the fumes is not a consistent issue. It's a very elusive one that comes up from time to time. When it comes up, we investigate it right away."
TransLink will replace some of the problem shuttles with new ones. That cash came from a budget surplus, after Translink bought some HandyDART buses cheaper than expected.


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ipFob is a mobile connection to your Honeywell Vista, DSC PowerSeries, and GE NetworX alarm control systems. This app runs on your mobile device and allows you to remotely Arm / Disarm with access to other basic functions of supported controls from anywhere in the world. ipFob requires a Broadband Alarm Transmitter (BAT) that is connected to the control system. Or, with an ipDatatel ZigBee Gateway (ZGW) you may control your home lighting, thermostat, and locks!
Good, almost great. Echo sentiments by another reviewer. Very good app, but I'm a security installer and need to be able to save more than one set of account credentials within the app on my phone. Give me that, and you've got a five-star-plus app! Edit: despite emails to the developers requesting this feature, I have gotten zero response. Also, left/right scrolling buttons on DSC keypad not functional, makes remote programming difficult-to-impossible.
Worthless do not rely on this app The app will not load most of the time. Sometimes after waiting minutes it will load. Notifications are often many hours late. Your home could be burglarized and you would not know until hours later. This is an unreliable app and they will probably end up getting sued by a homeowner. This app hasnt been updated in over two years. If you are considering a security system that uses this app you are making a serious and potentially life threatening mistake.
Useless sluggish app. Far from being practical. Mediocre design. Badly written. NEVER WORKED. Waste of time. Alarm Relay scrap it and come up with your own. I love my alarm service, but this crappy app will definitely make me look some where else. I wish there was minus 5 stars I would have given it. Rubbish
Eazy peaszy...ID Systems I can't say enough about this app, the eaze of operations or the convenience of knowing your home is armed for protection, at a glance. I get notified when entry is gained and which user code is entered. I know what time and which kid were there. If they forgot to reset the alarm when they left, no problem, I just do it from my phone or tablet.
So far so good but. . I have been using the app since October 2015. I'm able to accomplish the overall goal of setting/unsetting the alarm. I've learned to do a trick for quicker results. It is now saying COMM failure in between settings but it still works.
Poor App no fixes If you have a ipDataTel cellular modem for your alarm this is the only app you can use. Sadly it is junk. Buggy with frequent crashes. Very slow response between key press and response back from panel. It can take several attempts before you can enable or disable the alarm. Keypad sounds are inconsistent. App hasn't been updated in over a year and developer is unmoved to make it better.
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My Home Gateway app allows home owners to control the intrusion system.
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Art dodged a slow downward slash from his newest project - Marx. The boy had it all, to be honest, and that was boring. The only real thing he lacked was practice. Fine tuning, in other words. He knew the rhythms of the battle and could dance to it's tune, but he was still stumbling on his own feet at times.
Artonus grabbed Marx's sword arm by the wrist and threw the lad over his shoulder, enhancing the move with his levitation. A grunt escaped the boy as his body dug into the ground. Bah, no fun. At this point he was just a sparring partner, not a teacher.
"You have the ability, boy," Art told him, deciding a little pep talk would do him good after hours of beatings, "You just have to learn to put everything together better without losing your cool."
Marx groaned as he stood and nodded. "That's the first nice thing you've said all day."
"Don't take it to your head," Art snapped, turning to see Grimlock walk into the large clearing. The woman - her name was Elise apparently - started to salute him, but was put at ease by a wave of hand. "Grimlock! A word?"
Marx looked toward Grimlock, then back to Art. "Break time?"
"Not in the least." Art lunged and found himself surprised as Marx managed a dodge. The boy even managed an attack that wasn't slow. Art dodged himself and kicked Marx in the sternum, sending him flying via levitation's added force.
"What do you need, Art?" Well, MASTER Grimlock was in a foul mood, but... Art wasn't in the greatest mood either. A few of those guild members announced dead weren't unknown to him... Nightwing. What was their goal in attacking? It was interesting, but Art knew he was more interested in revenge for his mentor, Juxon.
"The Transferixion Link?"
Grimlock eyes widened slightly in acknowledgement. "Ahh, yes."
Marx attacked, managing to slice Art's shirt once more and nearly draw blood, but Art moved and attempted to trip the boy. Marx adjusted to it, of course, and rolled over his senior's foot and struck out with his blade. The boy deserved some credit for adapting this fast, so Art swung his blade down hard, nearly knocking the boy's own free of his grip, then kicked his face.
"I don't know how they got one, since they are in the developmental stage," Art said, backing away from Marx. He was dangerous, if manageable. "But it was designed to transfer magic from youngsters who had too much and give it to a more experienced mage temporarily."
"So, sort of like Blackthorn's magic, except even more temporary."
Art parried a strike from Marx and dodged around in an attempt to slice the boy's back. He blocked, if barely and they continued a dance of blades. "And whoever took it doesn't have access to Marx's magic, per say, unless they already had some sort of affinity for it or some other device I don't know about... Or..."
"Or?" Grimlock seemed curious.
"Just a hypothesis, but a blood relative of Marx might be able to use the magic quite easily." Marx hesitated in one of his attacks and Art took the opening. The boy was sent to the ground by Art's fist. "Don't lose focus, boy!"
"Why not let me show him how to fight?"
Art turned to Grimlock. "You know I can't beat you with your damned magic."
His old friend laughed. "No magic for me," he said, literally looking down on Art. Giant bastard. "But you can use it to your heart's content. I've trained since you've left."
A bark of laughter escaped Art. "Alright, then. Watch us, boy."
Marx smiled defiantly. "Well, I do wanna see this. Might be refreshing to see either of you lose for a change."
"How about a bet?" Grimlock asked. "For old time's sake, of course."
"I bet I'll be able to land the first hit," Art challenged.
"You're on. The usual?"
"Drinks for a week on you."
Grimlock wasn't wearing his armor, but his imposing eight foot tall figure was all he needed to fight. He drew the massive blades - katana and wakizashi, was it? - he carried and assumed some sort of stance Art had never learned the name for. Art, in turn, grabbed his spears made from diamond from the edge of the clearing and switched them with his practice sword.
"Watch, Marx," Grimlock bellowed in his deep voice, "I'll show you how to beat this bald man."
"Trying to taunt already, scarface?"
Grimlock answered by lunging forward with a low - well, low for a giant - stance. Art reacted by jumping to the side and stabbing toward the guild master with a diamond spear. The larger man swatted it to the side with his shorter blade, then moved to jab with his longer one. Not pulling punches, huh, old friend?
Art pumped some magic into the spears he still held and formed a shield to redirect the attack. The impact knocked Art easily to the side, forcing him to roll to keep his bones from breaking. No rest, though. Grimlock was charging once more. At least he was smiling.
OK, then... Time to be serious.
Art breathed out heavily, still holding onto the sword that literally had cut the clearing in two, and watched Grimlock breath just as hard. His wakizashi was gone, knocked into the other side of the clearing, but he still held his massive katana.
Two hours.
They had been at it for two hours and neither had managed to land a hit. As infuriating as it was, Artonus was determined to win. Partially because he wanted drinks, but also because it was an interesting challenge.
Sure, Grimlock would easily have the victory given access to his magic, but this was more fun. So, Art decided to use something. It was a small thing, just a bracelet to the eye, but he had designed it for so much more.
"Amplifier Chain, activate."
Magic exploded into Art, more than he had ever had felt before. He wanted to sit there and feel the burning feeling throughout his body to take notes, but Grimlock was moving towards him, obviously noticing the change. Well, now or never.
Art grabbed everything - the grass, stray rocks, some trees on the outskirts of the clearing, and even his own diamond obelisk sword that separated the two halves of their arena - and merged them into thousands of small spears of crystal.
The burning intensified and Art's vision grew blurry, but he held on and released all the spears at once. Like reversing an explosion, they slammed into Grimlock. Just as they hit, Art released the magic.
In the center of the clearing, Grimlock was still standing. On his arm, though, was a single tiny scratch.
Art smiled. "I win!" He then fall back, feeling none of the accomplishment he had expected.
Win or not, this was a failure. He had barely managed to scratch Grimlock with his Amplifier Chain and using the cheapest trick he had. And now he was too tired to fight anymore. He wanted more power, but he knew it was pointless. His best bet was...
Fallen and Marx. Yes, he would forge them into Mages worthy of Gods.
Designs for new Chains started forming in his head even before Grimlock helped him to his feet.


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