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Camden — "Politics can seem so untouchable sometimes," Carolin Helmholtz, a sophomore at Camden Hills Regional High School said Friday, Nov. 2.
She and about a dozen classmates decided this year to do something to change that attitude by forming the Political Affairs Forum, a group whose original intention was to provide a forum for debates. Senior Emily Ruger proposed the original idea and heads up the group.
"People should be disagreeing with each other left and right," she said, adding she has learned the most about politics by talking about issues and hearing perspectives from both sides.
Teacher Keri Vilchinsky offered supervision for the group after school and said she was glad to be a part of the students' movement.
"This is the group that made it happen," Vilchinsky said, noting numerous efforts — all within about three weeks — to get students involved in the political process, including a mock election last week.
Vilchinsky said members of the Political Affairs Forum arranged to borrow five official voting booths from the town of Rockport as well as three privacy screens from Camden, in addition to creating and decorating several of their own voting booths.
Camden Hills Regional High School mock election results:
Johnson, 5 votes, 2 percent
Obama, 212 votes, 69 percent
Romney, 82 votes, 27 percent
Stein, 9 votes, 2 percent
U.S. Representative:
Courtney, 71 votes, 23 percent
Pingree, 237 votes, 77 percent
U.S. Senate:
Dalton, 11 votes, 3.7 percent
Dill, 73 votes, 24.3 percent
Dodge, 5 votes, 1.7 percent
King, 143 votes, 47.5 percent
Summers, 64 votes, 21.3 percent
Woods, 5 votes, 1.7 percent
Question 1, same-sex marriage:
Yes, 249 votes, 78.8 percent
No, 67 votes, 21.2 percent
Question 2, education bond:
Yes, 161 votes, 52 percent
No, 148 votes, 48 percent
Question 3, land bond
Yes, 219 votes, 73 percent
No, 80 votes, 27 percent
Question 4, highway bond
Yes, 191 votes, 61 percent
No, 120 votes, 39 percent
Question 5, water bond
Yes, 205 votes, 67 percent
No, 103 votes, 33 percent
Results calculated and provided by Political Affairs Forum.
"[The state coordinators of mock elections] wanted us to hand out pieces of paper in homeroom," Ruger said, adding the group wanted to make the experience as real as possible.
Members of the group agree that students — and adult voters — should research the issues and vote according to their own beliefs rather than "regurgitating" party lines and saying "I'm a Republican so I vote Republican," Junior Annie Brady said.
"This helps us talk about different views," Senior Eddie Socker said.
The students and teacher alike were somewhat surprised at the reaction of several students during the mock election process.
"The [voting] kids didn't want to hand ballots to [Political Affairs Forum] students," Vilchinsky said.
"A lot of people folded ballots because they wanted it to be private," Senior Jordan Knowlton said.
Junior Abby Blakeley noted the importance of each vote and said, "We can change [the future] for ourselves...within the state or town, you can make a difference."
She and Knowlton agreed that younger voters may be intimidated by those with opposing views.
"The younger they are, the less they care or [they] are scared," Knowlton said, while Blakeley added, "I'm 16, I still have two years. [But] I'm scared of being attacked [for political views]."
The Political Affairs Forum has allowed discussion of different views without students feeling ganged up on.
"Knowing the other side is good — I don't like talking about stuff I don't know about," Knowlton said.
The group was responsible for tallying the mock election results and is looking forward to seeing how the student vote compares with the state and national results.
Beyond the presidential election this week, the group plans to continue meeting. Several students expressed the feeling the group is an outlet.
"[There were] voices raised in passion during the first meeting," Vilchinsky said.
"We walk in as friends and walk out as friends. We all want the same thing — a better country," Knowlton said.
"I think the Political Affairs Forum is a marvelous group because it gets people who might not normally be interested in politics interested," said student Matt Clark.
Socker said helping students become informed about issues is important.
"Getting the community involved in politics has been one of the goals," Ruger said. "People don't realize how much politics affect their lives, but it does...Politics doesn't end once elections are over."
Members of the group include Clark, freshman Laszlo Steinhoff; sophomores Eva Ritchie and Helmholtz; juniors Taylor Benner, Brady and Blakeley; and seniors CeCe Beck, Socker, Ruger, and Knowlton.
Camden Herald Associate Editor Stephanie Grinnell can be reached at 236-8511 or email@example.com.
How come "Yep I Said It" gets to hide behind a fake name? I thought that Village Soup stopped allowing that.
....posters could do well....
Congratulations to CHRHS Political Affairs Forum for bringing a mock election to their fellow students of their school and all the excellent life lessons and experience that it generated. It sounds like they worked with each other to share opposing views without name calling and remained respectful of each other. The above posters do well to follow the students good example.
I think the Political Forum is an excellent idea. Perhaps if kids can get together and talk about the issues and learn to advocate for their own beliefs while stil respecting the other side, we will eventually get out of the nasty gridlock and hate speech we've been experiencing for quite a while now.
That's your Camden liberals for you. If anybody thinks Obama wins by nearly 2 to 1 they are nuts. Where are the Che Guevara shirts?
interesting to look at the sidebar. After voting for a socialist slate they also wanted to borrow money, so that the debt could grow. Does the school teach economics?


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Nick Broomfield isn't always a particularly disciplined documentarian, but he is a cheekily entertaining one. His previous films have delved, compellingly, into the scandal of Heidi Fleiss, the incarceration of Aileen Wournos, the suicide of Kurt Cobain, and the deaths of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.; all were as motivated by sensation as information, and all were as much about their filmmaker as they were about their subjects. Indeed, the wry Englishman frequently makes the process of creating the film an integral part of the film itself, showing (explicitly or implicitly) how much we can learn about a person by how hard it is to get to them, and how easy it is to find people who will say terrible things about them.
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This is, by definition, a political film, so we might as well get the politics out there: I, like (presumably) most of Broomfield's audience, am not much of an admirer of Ms. Palin. (Feel free to discount this review accordingly.) I think she's represents something truly dangerous in American political discourse--and I'm not talking about her conservative politics, but about her willful, if not downright gleeful, ignorance. No political figure has ever been as proud about how little she knows than Sarah Palin is--and that, as much as anything, seems to be what draws her devotees to her. In one scene in the film, Broomfield chats with a gun store owner, and asks why he likes Palin so much. The gentleman speaks glowingly of her regularity. "No big fancy words!" he beams. That pretty much sums it up.
Those who do, in fact, admire Palin will doubtlessly react quite differently to Broomfield and Churchill's film, should they see it (which is dubious). The question is, how does Nick Broomfield feel about her? The way the picture is constructed and played, they went to Wasila with no agenda and no pre-conceived notions, with no intention to make what Palin's father later calls "a hit show." In fact, in the early scenes, he chats amiably with her parents and, after meeting the former governor at a book signing, "I could understand why people fell in love with her." Is he shaping a sympathetic portrait?
No, probably not. But we at least get the sense that it could have gone that way--that had Palin or those close to her chosen to participate, the picture might have been a bit less one-sided. But frankly, he appears to have arrived at the conclusions that just about any clear-headed person poking around in Palin's past would: that she is a vindictive and reckless politico with a pathological need for attention and a bad habit of blaming everyone else for her own flaws.
One doesn't have to be a Michael Moore to arrive at that evaluation; several reputable journalists have said as much, though perhaps not in so many words. So with that in mind, it is frustrating that Broomfield occasionally muckety-mucks up the picture with a surplus of cheap shots. When mention is made that the dogmatic views of Palin's evangelical upbringing include a belief in End Days and the Rapture, the filmmakers throw in clips from goofy religious videos on the subject--and they're funny, sure, but they don't have anything to do with Palin. Neither does the story of Lewis, a gay teen from Wasilla who was harassed by his classmates; he's a product of Palin's environment, but the connection is tenuous at best. And I'm no fan of the evangelical movement, but a cut from discussion of the evangelicals to the picket-line shenanigans of the Westboro Baptist Church is downright dishonest. Those crazy fuckers don't represent anyone's religion but their own. (Sidenote: the film is rather startling in its technical shoddiness--and I'm not talking about the small-crew, low-fi production. The stock footage all appears to have been grabbed off of YouTube--sometimes with the "Viewing Copy" watermark of a conversion software's trial version plastered across the screen. C'mon, guys, pony up the fifty bucks for the clean copy.)
The film is at is best when it steers clear of the culture war stuff, and of Palin's personal life (those rumors of affairs and other bad behaviors are brought up, but sort of just left hanging there; leaving them in without adding anything new just serves to empower Palin supporters who consider the film a "hit show"). When it works is when it hews closest to Broomfield's stated goal of creating a "political biography": the pettiness and drama of her mayoral and gubernatorial administrations, and particularly of the "Troopergate" scandal (Broomfield gets a rare interview with the man at the center of that affair, Mike Wooten). The portrait that emerges there is riveting and probing; not much of this is new information, but the people that tell these stories--Wooten, "top cop" Walt Monegan, Alaska Senate president Lyda Green--deepen our understanding of them. And a scorched-earth phone interview with McCain campaign strategist Steve Schmidt sheds considerable light on that entire debacle.
Do some of those interviewed have axes to grind? Oh, probably. What is interesting, Broomfield ultimately seems to implicitly argue, is that there are so many people with axes to grind. As per usual, Broomfield's got a good nose for oddball characters, including Laura Chase (Palin's first campaign manager), Jesse Gryphen (an anti-Palin blogger), and Anne Kilkenny (a local political figure), who at one point exclaims, "This is a town of five thousand people, my gosh!"
For his part, Broomfield is endlessly polite--entering Palin's parent's home, he asks, "Should I take my boots off? Are you sure?"--and an often-comic figure, showing himself slipping and nearly falling on the Wasilla ice, or chasing down a fleeing Palin confidant for an interview. It becomes fairly clear early on that he is not going to get Palin herself to talk to him, though he keeps showing up at book signings to get soft-soaped ("By now, we had so many copies of Sarah's book, we were giving them away"), and that she will be the Roger Smith to his Michael Moore. But Broomfield soldiers on, clad in his hunter's jacket, boom mike in his hand, the muck-racking documentarian chasing down his story. Sarah Palin: You Betcha! does not offer him as complex a topic as his previous films, and is not one of his best efforts. But it is still comforting to see him back in the game.

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NEW YORK, June 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- In this, the season of the action blockbuster, one can go to the movies and watch a plague turn people into zombies or terrorists take over the White House. But that's just Hollywood, right? That can't happen in real life, can it? Hopefully not – but there are threats that could more conceivably happen, and that some Americans believe are extremely or very likely to occur in the next five years.
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Among 15 possible scenarios, the one perceived as extremely or very likely by the highest percentage of U.S. adults (45%) is the possibility that a large number of illegal immigrants come into the country in the next five years, while an additional 20% say it is likely. Next in terms of perceived likelihood, almost two in five (38%) say it is extremely or very likely that the national government becomes unable to borrow money due to a huge debt load, with an additional 19% saying it is likely this will occur. In 2007, the last time The Harris Poll asked this question, over half of Americans believed it was extremely or very likely large groups of immigrants would come into the country (55%) and just one-quarter (26%) thought the government would be unable to borrow money.
These are some of the results of The Harris Poll of 2,240 adults surveyed online between May 8 and 13, 2013 by Harris Interactive. (Full findings on all 15 tested threats, including data tables, available here)
One third of Americans think each of the following is extremely or very likely: a significant loss of jobs to foreign countries (34% now, 52% in 2007), a significant natural disaster destroys large areas of a major city (33% now, 43% in 2007), and significant trade imbalances lead to foreign ownership of the country's debts and property (33% now, 35% in 2007).
Two items show the largest differences over time. Currently, three in ten Americans (29%) believe it to be extremely or very likely that a major stock market crash occurs in the next five years, compared to 11% in 2007; in contrast, one-quarter (26%) believe energy needs significantly exceeding energy supplies is extremely or very likely, compared to 40% believing this six years ago.
At the bottom of this list, three in ten Americans say that it is not at all likely that a city within the country is attacked with a nuclear weapon (31%) and that a major world war occurs involving most industrialized nations (30%), while 27% say it is not at all likely that there is a significant rise in the level of the oceans in the next five years.
Partisan differences
Not surprisingly, Republicans and Democrats have some different thoughts on the likelihood of these possible events happening in the next five years. Republicans are more likely than Democrats to believe it is extremely or very likely that a large number of illegal immigrants will come into the country (61% vs. 34%), that the national government becomes unable to borrow money due to debt (50% vs. 25%), significant trade imbalances lead to foreign ownership of the country's debts (43% vs. 24%) and a significant loss of jobs to foreign countries (40% vs. 28%). Democrats, however, are more likely than Republicans to believe there will be a significant rise in the level of the oceans (23% vs. 11%).
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The excitement over solar power, which once attracted billions in private investment and public subsidies, has waned recently, underscoring the limitations of renewable energies and the unchallenged dominance of fossil fuels.
Some of the $75 billion sector's high profile names have fallen on hard times recently — most notably Suntech Power. The China-based solar panel company rattled the industry when it filed for bankruptcy last week. In its heyday, the stock traded just shy of $90 and had a market capitalization of $16 billion: on Thursday, the last day US markets were open, the shares traded around for 42 cents each.
Alternative energy advocates point out that Suntech's difficulties were specific to its business model, exacerbated by a trend of compressed industry prices that have squeezed profit margins for solar companies. The company's failure belies a US market where solar panel installations grew by 76 percent last year, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA).
"The overall story is about growth and declining costs," said Arno Harris, chairman of the SEIA Board, in an interview. Much like the way low-cost natural gas is transforming the US energy market, "[solar] costs have come down so dramatically, it's created a Darwinian environment," Harris added.
He pointed to the collapse in silicon — a linchpin of solar panel manufacturing — which has led to a steep drop in prices per watt of solar panels. That amount is now less than a dollar, down sharply from $4 per watt a few years ago, making it difficult for companies to make money.
Yet in many ways, Suntech's spectacular fall is a microcosm of a sector in transition, and holds lessons for US solar firms. As domestic drilling and abundant natural gas has stoked expectations for US energy independence, it has also sapped attention from renewable energy.
(Read more: US Gas Exports Will Shake Up Global Market)
Although Washington still gives a nod to clean energy, gone is the flurry of incentives that once helped solar industry champions boast of one day breaking the stranglehold of fossil fuels on the economy. Public subsidies helped prop up failed companies like Solyndra, which became a political football in the 2012 elections.
"Definitely for the US, interest has cooled," said Greg Sheppard, senior director at research and analysis firm IHS. "It's certainly not like in 2008, when it was all over-hyped and sexy."
Sheppard added that there was definitive interest in developing the sector globally, but solar is now "in a reality phase. Now projects need to stand alone" in returning investments without government support.
That is more applicable than ever to Chinese companies, which critics contend have benefited from the dumping of cheap solar panel imports in US markets and government subsidies that totaled nearly $2 billion last year.
As it confronts the possibility of a slowing economy, China may be indicating that it will be less generous to solar companies and government protection.
There's a blend of both isolated incidents and some broader trends within the Chinese government recognizing that it does have to pull back
Indeed, publicly-traded solar firms bear more than a passing resemblance to dot-com companies in the wake of the bursting of the 2000 Internet bubble. Many are now confronting the realities of share prices trading far from their highs, as fiscally-challenged governments pull back on the purse strings.
Over the last year, JA Solar has lost 56 percent of its value, trading near $3.71 after hitting a high of $131.60 in 2008. Another Chinese solar panel maker, Trina Solar, has shed 52 percent year over year, while LDK Solar plunging 74 percent over last year.
In a measure of how some investors may be betting on American solar panel makers getting a leg up on their Asian competitors, US — based First Solar has risen nearly five percent over the last year. Still, the company's stock is languishing near $27 — down a whopping 91 percent from its 2008 peak above $313.
However, SEIA's Harris said that prospects for solar remain bright as renewable energy becomes more mainstream. "Solar this year will be the number two technology right behind natural gas," he said. "It's no longer this fringe thing that's a fun science experiment."
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Best lenses for the Canon EOS 70DBy Kevin Carter - Friday August 30 2013 Lens Recommendations
Best primes:
|Sigma 85mm F1.4 EX DG HSM Canon
|Sigma 35mm F1.4 DG HSM A Canon
|Canon EF 35mm f/2 IS USM
|Canon EF 85mm F1.2L USM
|Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM
|Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L USM
|Canon EF 100mm f/2 USM
|Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
|Sigma 50mm F1.4 EX DG HSM Canon
|Samyang 85mm f/1.4 Aspherique IF Canon
With equal ranking,the best performing primes include the Sigma 85mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM and the newer Art series 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM as well as the new Canon EF 35mm f/2 IS USM. While it may be somewhat embarrassing that two out the three of the best optical performers for the Canon EOS 70D are made by Sigma,
Canon are well represented in the 'Top 10'. Note though, it is dependent on focal length; you won't see any ultra-wide angle lenses or extreme telephotos in this list as it's lot easier to design and manufacture a lens with fewer aberrations in the 35-85mm range.
#1: Sigma 35mm f/1.4DG HSM A
When taking the highest DxOMark score and the highest sharpness scores into account, the $899 Sigma 35mm f/1.4DG HSM A once again takes the top slot as the highest performinglens in our database when mounted on the Canon EOS 70D. Although a big and heavy lens (it weighs 665g / 23.05oz), as the equivalent to a 56mm on the EOS 70D it's still an attractive option, and especially useful if you already have access to a full-frame Canon body. While a 15P-Mpix score for sharpness puts the Sigma ahead of the rest, distortion, vignetting and chromatic aberration are all low, vignetting especially, due to smaller sensor of the EOS 70D body.
#2 Canon 35mm f/2 IS USM
If it wasn't for the price being so close to the Sigma 35mm f/1.4, the $849 Canon EF 35mm f/2.0 IS would be an easy choice to make for the Canon EOS 70D. Although quite large physically, it's not particularly heavy at 335g and makes a good match in terms of balance and handling. While a stop 'slower' at maximum compared to the Sigma model it has a 4-stop stabiliser and very good sharpness centrally at full-aperture, though closing down to f/4 improves sharpness in the outer field. There's some vignetting noticeable at full aperture but transmission, distortion and chromatic aberration are all excellent.
#3 Sigma 85mm f1/4 EX DG HSM
While the optics and mechanics have yet to be upgraded in line with the firm's new Art series lenses, the current Sigma 85mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM model is an excellent performer optically. This full-frame model, equivalent to a 135mm on the EOS 70D, is a sharp lens but this particular imaging characteristic isn't everything, especially in a portrait lens.
Indeed, at maximum aperture, acutance is a bit low and it's not really sharp until stopped down to f/2. Edge to edge sharpness begins two stops down from full aperture, which gives the photographer some control at least. Vignetting and chromatic aberration are both very low in a 'high-speed' lens like this, and there's no measurable distortion. Transmission at 1.7TStop is a little disappointing but it's not unexpected. At $969 it is not inexpensive, but it's still some $900 less than the Canon EF 85mm f1.2L.
Best Zoom
There's no denying that zooms are more flexible than primes but they're usually heavier and bulkier to work with. Combine that with a slower maximum aperture and it's no wonder that primes are making a comeback. That said, if video is important then a zoom makes a lot of sense. Sigma recently bucked the trend for 'slow' zooms by introducing the world's fastest standard zoom for APS-C DSLRs in the form of the $799 18-35mm f/1.8 DC HSM A. Although not small or light in weight the 29-56mm equivalent also happens to be one of the best performing models on the Canon EOS 70D. It out performs both the full-frame Canon and Tamron 24-70mm f/2.8 models and matches the Sigma 50-150mm f/2.8 EX DC APO OS HSM and new Tamron SP 70-200mm f/2.8 for sharpness.
#1: Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 DC HSM A
With a DxOMark lens score of 27 points, the Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 is the best performing zoom lens in our database, and with a score of 15P-Mpix the lens compares with many high-end primes. Sharpness is higher and more uniform across the field at 18mm, but even when zoomed to 35mm the center of the field is excellent at full aperture, while edge-to-edge sharpness is achieved by f/2.8. If there's a shortcoming to the design it's that vignetting is a little high at -1.1 EV, but chromatic aberration is very well controlled and distortion is quite mild. Transmission, an important consideration for video makers, is excellent at 1.8Tstop. The range of focal lengths isn't particular wide, as the equivalent to a 29-56mm, but at $799 it's excellent value.
#2: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM
Our previous best performing standard zoom offers a wider range but as it's a full frame lens it's the equivalent to a not quite as appealing 38-112mm on the Canon EOS 70D. It has excellent sharpness and uniformity at just about every focal length and aperture setting it has very good transmission, low distortion and well controlled vignetting. Chromatic aberration is a little high when compared to the Sigma, but it's still low in general. If you have a full-frame camera then this lens would serve double duty, but at $2,299 it's not inexpensive when compared with the new Sigma.
#3: Sigma 50-150mm f/2.8 EX DC APO OS HSM
The next best performing zoom on the EOS 70D is yet another Sigma model. As the equivalent to a 70-200mm, this lens doesn't have a direct 'high-speed' counterpart in Canon's range and may explain why this model consistently performs well in tests. It has excellent sharpness and uniformity when stopped to f4 at all focal lengths but at full aperture the performance is a little sketchy at 150mm. In all other respects it is a first class lens with negligible distortion from 70mm onwards (it shows some barrelling at 50mm), low vignetting and equally low lateral chromatic aberration, which are all unusual in a 'high-speed' telephoto-zoom like this. At $999, it's good value when compared with full-frame models but bear in mind it is designed for APS-C bodies only.
A decade of improvement in Canon image quality:
In our recent review of the Canon EOS 70D, the new 20.2-MPix 'Dual Pixel CMOS AF' sensor achieved a DxOMark Sensor score of 68 points.
It's a pretty good score, but as a benchmarking exercise, we noted at the time it was really only a slight increase in performance over the earlier Canon EOS 60D. And, neither did it perform that closely when compared with the rival Nikon D7100 or with the Sony SLT Alpha 77.
DxOMark sensor score and the individual use case sensor scores don't tell the whole story, and only reflect part of the sensor's capabilities. (see our DxOMark sensor score documentation)
By analysing the data from the camera/sensor and lens together, as we do in our DxOMark lens scores, we can take the both the acutance of the combination into account.
If we take that a step further, assessing the same lens on different camera/sensor combinations we can see the improvements gained by increasing pixel count.
Even if the DxOMark lens scores appear to increase marginally between models, when assessed with cameras that are over 10 years or more old we can there has been significant improvement for Canon users over the past decade.
|Canon EOS 70D
|Canon EOS 100D
|Canon EOS 700D
|Canon EOS 7D
|Canon EOS 500D
|Canon EOS 50D
|Canon EOS 40D
|Canon EOS 450D
|Canon EOS 30D
|Canon EOS 20D
|Canon EOS 350D
|Canon EOS 400D
Canon APS-C cameras mounted on the Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8: A decade or more improvement in APS-C sensor performance.
In part 3 of this guide, we'll be looking at the best performing primes and zooms covering standard, wide-angle and telephoto focal lengths for the Canon EOS 70D.
If you have a Canon EOS 70D and a favorite lens, we would very much like to hear from you. Please leave a comment below, stating what lens it is and why you like it.
Added by BrianIrwin | April 13 , 2015
Are your 70D Reviews a good guide for the 7DM2 also?
Hey DXOMark,
Thanks for a really informative article. As with lots of people on here I struggle to know what is a good lens with so many different options out there.
I know you guys were pretty disappointed with the 7DM2 and there are too many bodies to test all body/lens combinations. I have been using your 70D Reviews as a good guide for what to expect with the 7Dii but figured I would ask the experts as I want a wide angle and the Tokina AT-X 11-16 is not cheap but looks a lot better than the Canon EF-S 10-18mm.
Thanks in advance
Added by mty55 | November 16 , 2014
price filter for recs
Thank you for these recommendations!
Some dream lenses in there.
Unfortunatelyi have a certain budget not to exceed....
Is there a possibility to filter by price, so i would see only lenses below 1000 usd and hence the top 15 an 20 come up and are notoutrun by unaccessible / too pricy pieces?
Thanks for your site
Added by SamHepworth | September 20 , 2013
Sigma 17-70mm F2.8-4 DC MACRO OS HSM C
I would like to know how the Sigma 17-70mm F2.8-4 DC MACRO OS HSM C performs compared to the other zoom lenses.
Added by jmkiska | September 12 , 2013
Sigma "Best Zoom" Lenes with 70D and DPAF (Live View)
How did the Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8 EX DC OS HSM and the 50-150mm f/2.8 EX DC OS HSM APO work with the Dual Pixel CMOS AF system on the 70D? Did you do any testing with "Live View"?
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Added by Emilie_DxOMark | September 13 , 2013
Re: Sigma \
Thanks for your interest in DxOMark.
A test with live view will be posted today. For lenses you asked they are availalble here :
You can read our lens recommendation for Canon EOS 70D available here :
Best regards,
The DxOMark team
Added by jmkiska | September 16 , 2013
Re: Sigma \ Live View Test
Thanks for your interest in DxOMark.
A test with live view will be posted today. For lenses you asked they are availalble here :
You can read our lens recommendation for Canon EOS 70D available here :
Best regards,
The DxOMark team
What is the link for the "Live View test" you referred to above? I can't seem to find it on the website.
Added by Brutusfly | September 05 , 2013
Error in 50-150 chart
Appreciate your info so much DXO. Might want to check the sharpness chart for the Sigma 50-150. I think you are displaying the older version of the lens and not the new OS model which is a far better performer. Also, in the write up, you write "god" rather than good. Keep up the god work! ;)
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Added by Emilie_DxOMark | September 10 , 2013
Re: Error in 50-150 chart
Thanks for letting us know about the mistake. This is now corrected.
Best regards,
The DxOMark team
Added by ShaunOtter | September 04 , 2013
Ooops, just didn't see it. Normally it gets better reviews -- Bad copy???
Probably you had a bad copy of the Canon 15-85mm IS, if it scored that closely to the 18-135s and 18-55??
Added by ShaunOtter | September 04 , 2013
What about the Canon EF-S 15-85mm IS ?
Your site's reviews of Canon EF-S lenses is missing one of the most useful, versatile, and supposedly most high performance all-around lenses, the Canon 15-85mm IS .
That should be a great walk-around lens and is the widest Canon EF-S zoom to incorporate IS, very useful for all handheld video and many stills situations, too, of course.
As a pro newspaper photog, I appreciate our great 2.8 and/or L-series glass, but the 15-85mm complimented with one of the two nice 75-300mm IS options should be a great and relatively compact travel kit, especially for people who shoot handheld video or handheld low-light stills in slower subject situations. Perhaps add a 1.4/1.8 wide or normal prime (or two) for some trips.
It'll be interesting to see how the 15-85mm IS compares to the Canon 17-55mm IS and the others :)
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Added by dovetail65 | January 16 , 2014
Re: What about the Canon EF-S 15-85mm IS ?
The article states they checked 100 plus lens. The leaving off of a lens simply means it did not make the top ten. I assume the lens you mentioned is not a lens they recommend for this camera, not necessarily that they did not test it. At least thats how I understand this site works.
Added by makofoto | September 03 , 2013
Canon Vs Nikon lens tests
@dichiaras .... go to a tourist site ... I'm always amazed at how many Canon's there are and how few Nikons ...
Added by Toshik | September 02 , 2013
Lenses tested on D7100
[url=http://forum.dxomark.com/index.php?action=profile;u=10453]Emilie[/url] you told us [url=http://forum.dxomark.com/index.php/topic,1450.msg2920.html#msg2920]here[/url] to publish Nikon APS-C lens recommendations, after Olympus PEN EP5 and in September.
Olympus lens recommendations were published 27th August and September has already come. Where are Nikon APS-C lens recommendations? Or at least please say when to expect them.
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Added by Emilie_DxOMark | September 05 , 2013
Re: Lenses tested on D7100
Thanks for your interest in DxOMark.
Not sure I told that in every post but we always perform test on new camera before old ones, that's why the Canon EOS 70D postponed the D7100 lab tests.
Best regards,
The DxOMark team
Added by Toshik | September 05 , 2013
Re: Lenses tested on D7100
I see your point of view, but the logic says that readers want to see tests of the cameras (and lens results) they can buy right now. Constant postponing of publishing the results may lead to the point that manufacture will make a new camera, and your test results will be already obsolete. That in someway happened when lab tests with D7000 were published, Nikon already made higher MPx count D3200, D5200 and now D7100.
Thanks for your interest in DxOMark.
Not sure I told that in every post but we always perform test on new camera before old ones, that's why the Canon EOS 70D postponed the D7100 lab tests.
Best regards,
The DxOMark team
So will the results be pusblished during September or not?
Added by Emilie_DxOMark | September 06 , 2013
Re: Lenses tested on D7100
The review should come soon, so probably this month.
Best regards,
The DxOMark team
Added by wallence78 | September 24 , 2013
Re: Lenses tested on D7100
Still waiting..... ::)
Added by wallence78 | September 30 , 2013
Re: Lenses tested on D7100
Added by Toshik | October 01 , 2013
Re: Lenses tested on D7100
probably this month.the month is over and there is no review. :-[
Added by Emilie_DxOMark | October 04 , 2013
Re: Lenses tested on D7100
Thanks for your interest in DxOMark.
We are sorry for the delay but the first part of the D7100 lenses review is online:
Best regards,
The DxOMark team
Added by dichiaras | August 31 , 2013
Lenses tested on D7100
Are you kidding me? The first Canon 70Ds have just left the factory, with one of them you already tested quite a few lenses, and the 6-months-old Nikon D7100 has zero tested lenses? Really?
Maybe there is some new Canon funding we don't know about...
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Re: Lenses tested on D7100
Thanks for your interest in DxOMark.
The D7100 test results will come soon. We have many new devices to test and they are on top priority in our road-map.
Best regards,
The DxOMark team


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ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS ON THE RIO NAPO, EASTERN ECUADOR Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, Vol. 6.
Evans, Clifford and Betty J. Meggers.
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Many countries in Africa are starting to turn the corner economically. With global economic powers looking for new sources of everything from minerals to food products, Africa has attracted heaps of investment in recent years. But the effects are not necessarily benefiting everyone in Africa, and there is mounting concern that many will not share in the riches.
One sector where African countries have a disadvantage is fishing. Africans lack the massive boats and trawlers that scour international waters. Local fisherman generally are limited to small boats that can only go a few miles offshore. As the global demand for fish from anywhere continues to spike – and has become more difficult to source – fishermen in nations like Senegal and Ghana are finding that they cannot compete with their international competitors. Basic protein needs, therefore, fall to the wayside as nations with far more affluent mouths to feed scrape the ocean floors. Now an economist suggests that such nations tax commercial fishing off their coasts in order to preserve fish stocks and maintain local economic development.
Kofi Vondolia, an economist who is finishing his doctoral work at the University of Gothenburg, suggests that the United Nations has not done enough to regulate fishing fleets off the shores of Africa. Current protocol allows international fishing operations to cull "surplus" fish from zones that are further out to sea, but the results have been depleted fish for local populations. Vondolia points out that in Ghana, for example, that smaller-scale fishing fleets are seeing local fish stocks decline as larger fleets consume what the UN assumed were plentiful supplies of fish.
To that end, Vondolia created an economic model that calculates taxes that African governments can impose on foreign fishing vessels and companies that fish off their shores. Current statistics do not account for the fish that move closer to the shores of countries along the Atlantic and Gulf of Guinea. Therefore, a tax or duty could be calculated and operated in numerous ways: grow revenues for a country while discouraging offshore fishing; factor in the number of far-flung offshore fish as opposed those closer to these nations' coasts; base a levy on the fish reproduction rate; account for costs of harvesting; and ascertain the social discounting rate. As Vondolia was quoted in Science Daily:
The fees foreign trawlers pay for offshore fishing at present are very low in comparison to our calculations. It is unlikely that the current level of charges lead to the highest possible welfare for the countries with fishing zones in which foreign vessels are fishing.
The big questions is whether a tax can be enforced, and whether the funds, if collected, would actually benefit the people that such a levy is purporting to help. Regardless of what the outcomes will be, the question of overfishing is yet another problem Africa, the last frontier for natural resources, will face as other countries seek to exploit its riches.
Leon Kaye is a consultant, writer, and editor of GreenGoPost.com and also contributes to The Guardian Sustainable Business; you can follow him on Twitter. He lives in Silicon Valley.


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Frozen Brazo by Ange
Of course, all good things like Camara's Frozen Brazo need to have competition. We need competition so that we get the best value for our money. I discovered Ange's Frozen Brazo which is exactly the same as the Camara's version except for its size 7x11 versus the 9x9 size of Camara. It costs P500 too but it has more ice cream. BTW, the ice cream in the frozen brazo is not Cheese but French Vanilla or Mantecado to be exact. The graham crust is just a little bit sweeter while the egg white topping is a little bit firmer vs. a softer egg white of the Camara version. In terms of packaging, Ange's version comes in a plastic tray while the Camara one has a plastic tray put inside a christmas box.
Overall, it taste exactly the same. I have the pleasure of testing it side by side and I can't really tell the difference. Given the competition, I'm sure that these Frozen Brazo will improve over time. Btw, I'm sure Camara would have tons of order by now, so at least you have another option where to get this Frozen Brazo delight.
Frozen Brazo -- Sweet Life by Ange
75 Amorsolo Street San Lorenzo Village Makati.
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BTW, both of them are based in San Lorenzo but Ange is a lot easier to find. Just enter the Amorsolo gate of San Lorenzo Village which is near the Don Bosco Church. Upon entering, just go straight along Amorsolo and find house number 75.


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Revered cancer researcher Stephen Friend has a message: not only do we need to take more agency in our own healthcare, beyond the "priestly experts" we entrust, but we need to reclaim "endangered experiences" where we have a dialogue with ourselves. Bell Labs' Marcus Weldon calls this lecture "the bravest talk I've ever seen." Listen to this episode to understand why; then, listen to the full lecture in Episode 6. Future Human is a presentation of Nokia Bell Labs, produced by audiation.fm.
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Claude Shannon. "Father of the Information Age." Inveterate tinkerer. Restless polymath. His work made digital computing possible. Yet he refused to rest on his laurels, always turning his attention to solving the next "problem that interested him most." Two spiritual descendants, neuroscientists Henry Markram and David Eagleman, are relentlessly focused on uncovering the workings of the brain – perhaps even improving on it. Future Human is a presentation of Nokia Bell Labs, produced by audiation.fm.
Episode 3
The latest chapter of the Bell Labs relaunch of Experiments In Art and Technology – E.A.T., a 50-years long collaboration between artists and engineers – features a first-of-its-kind album premiere: Beatie Wolfe performing live in one of the quietest rooms in the world, as the imagery and lyrics of her songs come to life around her with Augmented Reality. Forget about a "lyric video" – this is like waking up inside a song. Could this be the future of how music artists perform? We check in with various experts to get the scoop.
Also mentioned in the podcast are Firstage.com, the Augmented Reality concert company; DigitalDomain.com, a leader in digital effects, virtual humans and VR; the "Raw Space" visual design crew http://design-io.com/; and the engineering and design firm arup.com. The songs from this episode are featured on Beatie's just-released new album, "Raw Space," available at https://www.beatiewolfe.com/music/ - music-raw-space-section.
Future Human is a presentation of Nokia Bell Labs, produced by audiation.fm.
Episode 2
This episode of Future Human takes us from one of the world's quietest rooms – Bell Labs' anechoic chamber – into the voluminous history of sound innovation and the amazing potential of music-based therapy.
This episode features the song "Need Somebody" by musician Beatie Wolfe. Find out more about her groundbreaking music and dementia project here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C3sPtaw9ew and check out more of her music at beatiewolfe.com.
To learn more about the inspiring work of Dr. Connie Tomaino, please check out the Institute For Music and Neurologic Function at http://musictherapy.imnf.org/.
To hear more about Bell Labs' anechoic chamber, check out the episode of the Radiolab podcast entitled "Hallucinating Sound" (http://www.radiolab.org/story/91792-hallucinating-sound/).
For a heartwarming glimpse of how music reawakened an inert, elderly patient named Henry, take a look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyZQf0p73QM (have some tissues on hand).
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In the series debut, we examine the origins of E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology) – an unlikely pairing of artists and engineers in the 1960s which heralded some of the most impactful technological advances of the last century – and uncover the motivations for the recent reinvigoration of the program.


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*UPDATED* Thanks to Thedemonhog for the link for LOST Syndication in Canada on Space Channel.
Hey Losties,
As some of you may know, LOST will begin its first run in syndication starting in the next two weeks. LOST begins airing on the SciFi Channel on Sept. 15th in 4 hour blocks every Monday night and earlier today I actually saw the first promo on TV, so I recorded it with my cell phone. Naturally the quality is poor because it is a recorded version and as soon as a HQ version becomes available we will post it for you.
The show will also air on the G4 network (Sept. 15th) and it seems like even on some local CW networks. Here is a screencap of the CW network's affiliate in Cleveland, OH advertising "LOST Again", which starts on Sept. 13th.
So for all of you looking to get your LOST fixes, make sure you check your local listings for these networks because LOST is back on TV before the premiere in January!!
Additionally for those of you in Canada LOST starts even sooner!! It will begin airing Monday-Thursday on Sept. 8th on the Space Channel. Here is the link with details: LOST to Air on the Space Channel
Thanks to Alpert's Eyelashes (yes that is an actual user name) for the heads up about the CW airing LOST.
Here is the promo for G4's LOST 2.0:
Here is the SciFi promo and once again sorry for the quality.
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LOST Syndication on SciFi, G4 and CW!!
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How To Rethink Your Dating Strategy
There's a great article on Huffington Post this week about the mistakes smart women make when it comes to dating. The article's written by Dr. Alex Benzer, who regularly runs young alumni events for numerous Ivy League universities. But don't worry, his advice applies to all women, brainiacs or not. After the jump, let's take a look at what many of us are doing wrong and how we can increase our chances of finding the right person … or at the very least make the dating game a little more fun to play.1. Love isn't a contest.
Dr. Benzer acknowledges that smart women like to date smart men, but says an inevitable pitfall is the urge to compete. "She feels intimidated by his intelligence: 'Is he smarter/more educated/more successful than me?' Now she's feeling silly when she doesn't know something, or tries to one-up him and have the upper hand. The guy doesn't quite know what's happening, except that the very trait that made him attractive in the first place is now causing tension.
Like tends to attract like, so whether you're looking for your intellectual match, someone who's equally ambitious, or simply someone who's hot (hey, there's nothing wrong with that — as long as it's not the only thing you're after), celebrate the way you complement each other, the way you push each other to be better, and don't let competition ruin what could be a great match.
2. A date is not a job.
Sure, it may seem like work sometimes, but dating isn't your day job, so leave your "work self" at the office. Whether your job involves managing people, making big decisions under stress, or organizing a large number of people, "if you unconsciously keep on doing those things that make you so effective at the office, you may end up alienating him." Whether you're a CEO, a school teacher, or an HR rep, in the words of Dr. Benzer: "Guys respect and absolutely adore a woman who can take charge and kick ass but doesn't feel the need to prove it around him. According to Marianne Williamson's insight in A Woman's Worth, 'In intimate relations with men, I want to major in feminine and minor in masculine.'"
3. Make love a top priority.
If what you really want is a meaningful relationship, make finding one as big of a priority as the other things that matter most in your life.
If you like a guy, make him feel it. Give him at least as much time and energy as your spreadsheet, term paper, chihuahua or Facebook page. A smart guy knows exactly where he is on your priority list, and if it's too low, he will move on.
I'd add that you can have your job, hobbies, friends, and family, but leave room for a relationship. You need to make space before you find the right person. Making room afterward may be too late.
4. Someone who's good on paper may not necessarily be good for you.
You may think what you want is someone with a great job, a good sense of humor, and a love of kids, but if he doesn't make you feel good, the relationship isn't going to work. Use your "list" — and we all have one, right? — as a guideline, but let your heart do the picking. As Dr. Benzer says: "Fulfillment is not a person; it's a feeling. If his company isn't fulfilling, you're probably with the wrong guy."
5. Don't overthink.
We women overanalyze everything, don't we? "'Does he like me? What does he really think about me? What does he think I think about him? And what do I think he thinks I think about him?'" Sometimes, I think we get so caught up worrying about what the guy thinks of us, we forget to figure out what we think of him. Dr. Benzer says to simplify our thinking. "Did you enjoy his company? Then see him again and see what happens. Otherwise, don't."
6. Use your feminine charms to your advantage.
Think Joan Holloway here and use what God gave you. Take pleasure in yourself — "your sensuality, the swing of your hips, the nape of your neck, the curve of your lips" — and "take pleasure in the physical world through touch, food and sex." We work so hard to "get ahead" in a "man's world," that women often forget the power of their own feminine energy. It's magnetic, it pulls people in. Let it work for you.
7. Be the love you want to attract.
"Be the light," Dr. Benzer advises.
If you're embodying joy, compassion and sensuality, telling him how great he is, making him feel like a billion bucks and the conqueror of worlds, you have no competition. Anywhere. Good men will come out of the woodwork to find a goddess like you.
It's true, guys aren't complicated. They like being treated well. They like attention and compassion, and they especially appreciate it when it comes from someone who isn't, you know, their mother. It's not hard here — bake him some cookies, slip a little love note into his jacket pocket, make him feel special. These aren't "tricks" to wield an unsuspecting guy in. If you're genuinely interested in someone, you should want to show him how you feel. And if he's interested back, he won't hesitate to let you know.


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Let's Talk…Project Approach
Below is a 3rd post from guest blogger Robyn Nitchals-Reierson on her classroom's project approach around music. Malisa
We have been investigating music for about a month now. One aspect of the project approach is field site visits and expert visits. We are fortunate to be on campus where plenty of music opportunities have been available to the children. However, I've also been in contact with parents and other family members or others in the community for support in this project as well.
We took a field trip to the music hall on campus to observe a jazz band practice. This was a small group of 5-6 musicians. They were rehearsing for a concert they had in the next week. The smallness of the group of musicians allowed for the children to get a front row seat to a variety of instruments. The instructor had positioned chairs all around the musicians and encouraged them to get up and move around so they could watch each instrument being played.
Dan, the guitar player, visited our classroom to show the children how a guitar and bass sound. He sang some songs for the children, both requested songs, and original songs he has played in bands. The children had prepared questions for Dan's visit. Many children wanted to know what was inside the guitar (since it has a hole in it). Others wanted to know more about the neck and strings. However, once they saw the guitar and bass some new questions emerged. Children were interested in the size of the instruments. We ended up with an impromptu measuring activity when children wanted to find out if anybody was taller than the guitar and bass!
Melissa, a dance teacher, visited our classroom to teach children the basics of ballet. There were some children who have taken lessons from Melissa before, and they were excited to take on a leadership role and show all the dance moves and dance terminology they knew! The children learned first and second position, and also practiced doing plie and releve.
This next month we will have some more visitors to our classroom. My sisters will share their clarinet and trombone. We will also have a baritone player, a saxophone player , and a trumpet show their instruments and talk about being in the Iowa State University Cyclone Football Varsity Marching Band.
Getting this real-world experience with musical instruments and musicians in our community has helped me link the outside world to our music project.


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(Big) Improv Quote of the Day: What Does Improvisation Do For a Musician?
For one, it gives me a break from tackling my wrong notes, distasteful vibrato, and being torn between interpretations in the practice room. There are no wrong notes, no wrong inflections. I wouldn't say that a note during improv with "distasteful" vibrato/intonation/whatever was necessarily done on purpose, but was made in the moment and without expectation. There is something very freeing and empowering about this. What happens on accident- a cracked note, or a gasping breath, can turn into inspiration for what is to come.
At the same time, I can tackle my classical music troubles through improv. Lately, I've had issues with controlling the style of my double tonguing. I'll start moving my fingers, with no regard to scales or my piece, and focus solely on my double tonguing. This allows my mind to be entirely focused on the production of my tonguing, because I am not going to be distracted by the fingers in an awkward passage, or by the monotony of scales.


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I'm pretty sure this was sent to me in the Turkey Santa swap by CelebriTEA – thank you so much for this!
My new gongfu is on it's way, and so I felt bad about having this today without it. Still, I really wanted to try it, so Western style it was.
This steeps up a pale yellow-ish green color, and smells very toasty-roasty rice-y, just like how it tastes. Some depth from (what I assume is) the cocoa, and a few other flavors I can't quite place, but seem to round out this tea nicely. Initially I thought I'd dislike the tea because of the rice kernels, and then I started to like it, crave it even.
My four cups of this were enjoyed fully, yet quickly, and it helped me meet a deadline – so thank you for that! :)


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majicdolphin says... #2
is it cause im monoblack??cause if so thats RRRACIST!! or if not how could i make it a suitable mono black in modern?
im thinking maybe Liliana of the Veil ....
November 23, 2013 12:03 a.m.
maybe bloodghast? Gives 2 devotion and recurs like a mofo haha. Also...why not thoughtseize? For fun, you could also use sheoldred :P
November 23, 2013 4:36 p.m.
And I honestly prefer Underworld Connections to Phyrexian Arena
November 23, 2013 4:38 p.m.
Don't miss Sanguine Bond . With it on the battlefield, play Gray Merchant of Asphodel which will mostly win the game (double the life loss, devotion 10+ -> 20+ life loss)...
I love Sanguine Bond in devotion decks!
December 16, 2013 10:32 a.m.
SealableZero says... #7
check out my mono-black devotion! Death to All
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SealableZero says... #8
The thing about modern is mana cost.. typically who can play the fastest...you want to keep mana cost around 2-3 average for most of your cards. Yes its okay to have those high drops because typically mono black is mid-range, but you have to make it there. Discard is really important for black, so consider adding maybe something like Mind Slash or Wrench Mind .
June 21, 2014 6:09 a.m.
elementalheroflamewingman says... #9
You have way too many cards that fights for your 4th and 5th turn plays. Also, Underworld Dreams is just ineffective in such a format, people play fetches and shocklands, along with Dark Confidant and Phyrexian Arena . Making them lose 1 more life on the third turn at the earliest isn't really an effective strategy. You should probably lower your CMC and focus on Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Demigod of Revenge , along with hand distruption like Thoughtseize , Inquisition of Kozilek , and maybe even 2 Duress . Path to Exile do not play well with your demigod.
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by Aries100, 2013-08-26 22:27:02
Today's update from Game Informer on Dragon Age: Inquisition is a video roundtable discussion on Bioware's new IPs, the chance of a new Jade Empire and what Bioware is learning during the making of DA: Inquisition. The Participants are:
General manager Aaryn Flynn, Mass Effect's executive producer Casey Hudson, and Dragon Age's executive producer Mark Darrah joined Game Informer's Joe Juba to discuss what they have in store for fans.
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KillerTruffle 3 years ago#111
KillerTruffle posted......who cares which one is objectively 'better?'...
Except you're talking about something that is highly *subjective*. The fact that KB/mouse is an objectively superior control method for FPS isn't going to matter to someone who prefers to play platformers, and the fact that PC is objectively superior to consoles in many (if not most) ways isn't going to matter to someone who wants to play iNfamous or Halo Reach.
"How do I get rid of a Trojan Horse?" -Sailor_Kakashi
"Leave it outside the gates of Troy overnight." -Davel23
Playing devil's advocate here….
People don't want to buy a new video card every year.
People don't want to pay $1k+ for a gaming device. Then they don't want to pay $100 for a gaming mouse, $100 for a gaming keyboard.
They don't want to pay all that just to play $5 indie games they can play on their phone.
No one wants a computer tower next to their tv in the living room, that would be ridiculous.
People sit at a desk all day during work, the last thing they want to do is come home and sit at a computer desk to "unwind."
You play video games? Cool, maybe we can share games or maybe play together sometime.
You play games on your computer? Lol, loser….
Once again, just playing devil's advocate.
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stampedefoot 3 years ago#113
Wii U+PC = best gaming combo.
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DAP1MP13 posted...
Playing devil's advocate here….
You don't have to buy a new video card every year or every other year... there's no requirement to buy a $100 mouse or a $100 keyboard to play games... and if you're going to argue that these people want to play $5 indie games, they can do that with integrated graphics, a $8 walmart keyboard and a $10 mouse (or an Xbox controller even).
I don't see what's ridiculous about having a PC in the living room any more than having a console... you can easily hide/disguise both if you're afraid of being judged by someone else.
There's no requirement to sit at a desk to play games. I'm sitting in my bed as I type this.
As for "you play games on your computer? LOL loser"... those people would just as likely call you a loser for playing on handheld or consoles... unless of course by "Devil's Advocate" you mean that consoles are the devil.
samuraigaiden 3 years ago#115
TC, you are wrong. Consoles offer higher priced games, paid online functionalities, games that can only be played in one generation of hardware, etc.
There's a bunch of stuff consoles offer that PC doesn't.
I still remember when I had to use a joystick to play Descent and Hi-Octane (the latter because it was a preference). Racing games like Whiplash, Screamer and Death Rally were great with keys, though I think PC came to its own in the Dreamcast years, with Half-Life, Thief, Quake III Arena, Unreal Tournament, Descent 3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Free Space 2, among others. After that the mouse and keyboard combo became too common for PC games that were meant for consoles, like Splinter Cell and Prince of Persia from the 6th generation, but with plug and play today, and with modding and indie communities, there's no reason to feel attached to consoles. And now I'm wishing we'd explore old gameplay styles with current controllers.
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KillerTruffle 3 years ago#117
DAP1MP13 posted...
Playing devil's advocate here….
Not much of an advocate then, spouting all the same tripe typical console trolls do...
"How do I get rid of a Trojan Horse?" -Sailor_Kakashi
"Leave it outside the gates of Troy overnight." -Davel23
DAP1MP13 posted...
Playing devil's advocate here….
I spent $987 Australian Dollars on my PC, that i'll get at least 4-5 years of use without upgrading, due to being able to Overclock my GPU and my CPU. My CPU has a 3 year warranty in case anything goes wrong, my power supply has a 5 year warranty, my GPU has a 3 year warranty, my motherboard has 3 year warranty and my RAM has a lifetime warranty in case anything goes wrong.
I Bought a Keyboard and Mouse combo for $75. I have my Tower in my living room hooked up to next my TV in it's unit. The Keyboard and Mouse combo I have is wireless and I game from the couch, I can also switch out and use a lot of games with a controller with ease. Steam can also actively be used as a controller based OS if you switch it to "Big Picture". Games are significantly cheaper, I don't have to leave my home just to buy games, when they're available on a lot of marketplaces.
You can't stereotype PC gaming into the chair and desk set up anymore. I'll fire up some pics later once i've cleaned my lounge area.
arleas posted...
DAP1MP13 posted...Playing devil's advocate here….
Oh, no lol. I'm not making those arguments at all. But those are what console gamers are probably think as they read this thread.
I don't care much for all this… sony pony, xbot, nintendrone, pc master race, crap (although the PC people are usually the most annoying).
I play whatever games I like, on which ever platform I enjoy. Unless money is an issue, why would you limit yourself?
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KillerTruffle posted...
DAP1MP13 posted...Playing devil's advocate here….
Well, that's why I said "playing," I'm not an advocate, so don't mistake me for one.
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Feds: Pay Attention to Drilling in PA, Elsewhere
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The final report from a federal panel on natural gas drilling warns that the industry and the government need to do more to address environmental concerns.
The panel was convened by Energy Secretary Steven Chu at the request of President Barack Obama. Subcommittee chairman John Deutch, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, warned in a statement that "environmental issues need to be addressed now — especially in terms of waste water, air quality, and community impact."
The focus of gas drilling companies has shifted in recent years to the Marcellus Shale, a massive rock formation underlying New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. Pennsylvania is the center of activity, with more than 3,000 wells drilled in the past three years and thousands more planned.
The drillers use a procedure called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which involves blasting chemical-laced water into the ground. Environmentalists and other critics say fracking could poison water supplies, but the natural gas industry says it's been used safely for decades.
The report, issued Nov. 18, noted that the panel still feels that "the development of shale gas is one of the biggest energy innovations, if not the biggest, in several decades" and that the resource has reduced energy costs and created hundreds of thousands of jobs.
But on several issues the report said that the progress to date is less than the panel had hoped.
"If action is not taken to reduce the environmental impact accompanying the very considerable expansion of shale gas production expected across the country — perhaps as many as 100,000 wells over the next several decades — there is a real risk of serious environmental consequences and a loss of public confidence that could delay or stop this activity."
The subcommittee held several contentious public meetings last summer and was criticized for being both too friendly to the industry and not friendly enough.
Pittsburgh resident Gloria Forouzan attended one of those meetings, and she said that despite extensive publicity and debate many activists agree that environmental concerns aren't getting enough attention.
"I don't sense any improvement," Forouzan said Wednesday. "The federal government has failed us. The state government has failed us."
The report noted that several earlier recommendations the panel made haven't been implemented.
For example, it had suggested the creation of a $20 million online portal to help improve the public's understanding of unconventional gas drilling. But the final report noted that there is "no firm plan" on how to do that.
The report added that "no new studies" have been launched on the issue of possible migration of methane — a gas that at high concentrations is explosive and can lead to asphyxiation — from gas wells to water wells.
There has been progress in some areas. The report noted that "companies are considering projects to collect and disclose air emissions data from shale gas production sites."
The report also called for more cooperation between the industry and federal and state regulators.
American Petroleum Institute spokesman Reid Porter said in an email that "the oil and natural gas industry is working with the regulators in states where shale energy development is occurring to share our knowledge and encourage them to help us raise the bar on performance."
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You can't talk about old school TT racing without mentioning the name Joey Dunlop. The outright record-holder for the most TT race wins at the Isle of Man TT, Joey Dunlop is an absolute icon at the Manx island, and road racing in general. He is quite simply the King of the Mountain.
So to help celebrate this year's Classic TT, Arai will produce 300 units of its RX7-GP helmet in Joey Dunlop's livery from 1985. Arai is calling the helmet the most authentic limited edition Joey Dunlop replica helmet ever produced, and it's using the actual design and sponsors from 1985 season. Additionally, Linda Dunlop, Joey's widow, will be signing each of the 300 exclusive helmets being produced.
A good find for any collector, or any fan of Joey Dunlop really, thevisorshop.com will be the sole-distributor in Europe, which is taking pre-orders at the full asking price of £700. Don't expect to see this special helmet available in the United States.
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