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He's a non-roster pitcher who has played with the Twins, Cardinals and, very briefly, the Blue Jays. Over five seasons, Walters has gotten into 40 Major League games, 24 of them starts, with a 6-10 record and a 6.28 ERA.
"I've always been a starter, but I'll do whatever they need me to do to help them," Walters said. "Obviously this is a very good pitching staff and very few spots open, but whatever spot may be where I can jump in and help 'em out, that's where I'll go."
So far, though, Walters, 28, hasn't been mentioned enough as a likely candidate for the Royals' fifth starting job.
A product of Faith Academy and the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Walters was drafted in the 11th round of 2006 by the Cardinals and spent parts of '09 and '10 in St. Louis. Just before the 2011 Trade Deadline, he went to Toronto in an eight-player swap that, among other things, also took center fielder Colby Rasmus to the Blue Jays. Then Walters signed as a free agent with the Twins and spent parts of the last two years with them.
Twice last June, he started for the Twins against the Royals and lost both times. He was rocked pretty hard in his second appearance, giving up six runs in three innings, with most damage coming via homers by Billy Butler and Mike Moustakas.
"They've always been a good-hitting team and watching them last year was interesting," Walters said. "It was a lot of fun to see them; they played hard, they've got guys diving around on defense, stealing bases, pitchers competing. It makes it fun to watch, even on the other side. Obviously you're trying to beat 'em, but it's still fun to watch when the game's played the right way."
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Widely used in clinical practice despite a lack of evidence establishing efficacy, endovascular therapy has once again proven ineffective at improving outcomes when put to rigorous testing in patients with ischemic stroke.
Results from the randomized MR RESCUE trial showed that embolectomy was not superior to standard medical care for patients with acute ischemic stroke, even when neuroimaging was used to select patients with salvageable brain tissue who presumably would be most likely to benefit.
In the phase IIb blinded outcome study, the mean score on the 90-day modified Rankin scale was 3.9 points in patients who received embolectomy and those who received standard stroke care, reported Chelsea S. Kidwell, MD, of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and colleagues.
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- This study evaluated outcomes in patients who were within 8 hours of the onset of large vessel, anterior circulation strokes and who underwent pretreatment CT or MRI of the brain and then were randomly assigned to undergo embolectomy or to receive standard care.
- Note that a favorable penumbral pattern on neuroimaging did not identify patients who would benefit from endovascular therapy for acute ischemic stroke and further, embolectomy was not superior to standard care.
When patients were stratified according to whether imaging identified favorable penumbral patterns (a small infarct core surrounded by substantial salvageable tissue) or nonpenumbral patterns (small or absent penumbra, large core), there was still no difference in functional outcomes.
Still, patients with a favorable penumbra regardless of treatment had significantly better functional outcomes, making the penumbral pattern a marker of good clinical outcome, Kidwell said.
Findings from the Mechanical Retrieval and Recanalization of Stroke Clots Using Embolectomy (MR RESCUE) trial were reported online in the New England Journal of Medicine and also presented at the International Stroke Conference (ISC) in Honolulu.
Italian researchers had earlier reported at the ISC the results of the head-to-head SYNTHESIS Expansion trial that showed endovascular therapy did not improve outcomes in patients with acute ischemic stroke compared with thrombolytic therapy.
Also reported at the ISC were the results of the Interventional Management of Stroke (IMS) III trial. Investigators reported that endovascular therapy following thrombolytic therapy with intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (IV tPA) did not improve outcomes compared with IV tPA alone. Those studies also were simultaneously published in the NEJM.
That's not to say endovascular therapy and penumbral imaging are dead, agreed both the researchers and stroke neurologists not involved with the work. There are a host of reasons to remain optimistic, such as the introduction of newer-generation embolectomy devices, Kidwell said.
The results do apparently point to the need to restate the obvious. "MR RESCUE underscores the importance of confirming hypotheses in randomized controlled trials prior to implementing treatment approaches in clinical practice," she said.
The researchers randomized 118 eligible patients to undergo mechanical embolectomy with the Merci Retriever or the Penumbra System or to receive standard care within 8 hours of onset of large-vessel, anterior circulation strokes. Before treatment, all patients underwent multimodal CT or MRI, and randomization was stratified according to whether they had a favorable penumbral or a nonpenumbral pattern.
The mean age of the patients was 65.5 years, and the mean time to enrollment was 5.5 hours. Of the total, 58% had a favorable penumbral pattern.
Revascularization was achieved in 67% of patients in the embolectomy group.
"The primary analysis testing for an interaction between treatment assignment and penumbral pattern was not significant, with a mean difference 0.8 (P=0.14)," the researchers reported.
Similarly, embolectomy was not superior to standard care in patients with a favorable penumbral or a nonpenumbral pattern:
- Favorable penumbra: mean Rankin scores -- 3.9 for embolectomy versus 3.4 for standard care, P=0.23)
- Unfavorable penumbra: mean Rankin scores -- 4.0 for embolectomy versus 4.4 standard care, P=0.32)
Results did not change after adjustment for age, the only significant univariate predictor.
At 90 days, the rates of all-cause mortality, symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage, and asymptomatic hemorrhage across the entire cohort were 21%, 4%, and 58%, respectively. These numbers did not differ according to penumbral pattern or treatment assignment.
In a prespecified age-adjusted analysis, 90-day scores on the modified Rankin scale were lower in those with a penumbral pattern than in those without (3.6 versus 4.2; P =0.047), regardless of treatment assignment.
The final infarct volume was lower overall in those with a favorable penumbral pattern, regardless of treatment assignment. Rates of reperfusion or recanalization were similar regardless of penumbral pattern or treatment group.
Limitations of the study include the 8 years it took to complete the trial and the use of first-generation devices that have lower recanalization rates.
American Stroke Association spokesperson Ralph Sacco, MD, head of neurology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, said he was disappointed and surprised that penumbral mismatch did not predict response to treatment.
The low rate of revascularization in the embolectomy group could be associated with the use of first-generation devices, Sacco said.
The authors agreed: "In randomized trials, newer-generation stent retrievers have had higher revascularization rates and better clinical outcomes than has the Merci Retriever. It is possible that these newer-generation devices would show a treatment benefit (and a benefit in patients with a favorable penumbral pattern) because of both higher recanalization rates and lower complication rates," they wrote.
Yet another possibility is "that patients with a favorable penumbral pattern, particularly in late time windows [of 3 or more hours] may have a good functional outcome regardless of which recanalization treatment they undergo," the authors said.
In an editorial accompanying the study, Marc I. Chimowitz, MD, of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, agreed that was possible. "However, that hypothesis does not explain why only 14% to 23% of patients with a favorable penumbral pattern had a good outcome in MR RESCUE," he said.
Other possible explanations: Only a subgroup of patients with favorable penumbral patterns may have ischemic brain tissue that can recover with later reperfusion or the standard treatment group may have had higher-than-expected revascularization rates, Chimowitz suggested.
"Larger randomized trials will be needed to retest this hypothesis with the use of newer devices once the accuracy of perfusion imaging for identifying viable brain tissue has been more clearly established," he said.
In the meantime, "what are the implications of these results for clinical practice?" Chimowitz wrote. "The IMS III and SYNTHESIS Expansion studies show that intravenous thrombolysis should continue to be the first-line treatment for patients with acute ischemic stroke within 4.5 hours after stroke onset, even if imaging shows an occluded major intracranial artery. Beyond 4.5 hours, the MR RESCUE trial does not provide data supporting the use of endovascular treatment in patients with an ischemic penumbra of any size."
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The MR RESCUE study was supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Concentric Medical provided study catheters and devices from study start until August 2007; thereafter, costs for all study catheters and devices have been covered by study funds or third-party payers.
Kidwell reported relationships with Simcere and Embrella. Some co-authors reported relationships with industry, including Covidien, Medina, Grifols, Concentric Medical, MicroVention, Genentech, CoAxia, Paion, Forest, Lundbeck, Actelion, Xigen, Mitsubishi-Pharma, GE Healthcare, Philips Healthcare, Aldagen/Cytomedix, Penumbra, and Remedy Pharmaceuticals. It was also reported that the University of California has a patent on retrieval devices for stroke.
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This Mercury Elite Pro mini replaces the same enclosure that crapped out on me with a bad USB 3 port after 3 1/2 years, and so far I'm happier with this one than I was with its predecessor: The on-off switch is "firmer", and the USB 3 port is a snugger fit for the cable; it seems like a more "substantial" product.
I use this enclosure with a short cable,which is inconvenient, because traditional cables need to be twisted in order for both ends to be pointed in the right direction to be inserted in their respective ports, but I solved the problem by simply turning the insides of the enclosure upside down, thereby equalizing the relative positions of the ports.
Also, note that OWC's website is confusing about this product, describing it as both USB 3.0 and USB 3.1 Gen 1, but the latter is simply a renaming of the former, i.e. they're the exact same thing.
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Time will tell in regards to the stability and longevity of this arrangement for my uses. But I do have a lot of faith in the quality of OWC products. Every Mac I've owned has been upgraded with RAM or SSD's from OWC. In six years I haven't had one failure.
It seems well-built, compared to other enclosures I've owned that just hold the drive in place with a couple screws, without attaching to the control board. In one enclosure I used to own, the hard drive would come loose from the board without warning (and according to Murphy, it would do so at the darnedest times, too. Pulling out a small screwdriver and reassembling my hard drive in the middle of a presentation made quite an impression.) This enclosure has screws positioned to keep the drive attached to the board, and the board attached to the enclosure, just like it should. Glad I bought it!
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Crawford joins Holliday in AFL Hall of Fame
With ceremony in November, outfield duo to be 35th, 36th inductees
ST. LOUIS -- Dodgers outfielder Carl Crawford has accrued numerous accolades during his baseball career, and he can now add Arizona Fall League Hall of Famer to the list.
The AFL announced Sunday the election of two members to its Hall of Fame, Crawford and Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday. Crawford, a four-time All-Star, is the youngest player in Major League history to reach 100 career home runs, 100 triples and 400 stolen bases. He is the fourth player since 1900 with 1,500 hits and 400 stolen bases before turning 30.
Those numbers helped the speedster join a list that will soon total 36 AFL Hall of Famers. The AFL Hall of Fame was created in 2001 to honor the top Major League players and managers who developed through the league, which was founded in 1992.
"I think it's special," Crawford said. "Any time you can get inducted into any type of Hall of Fame is good. I'm just glad they recognized me and decided to add me on. I'm definitely honored to be on the list."
Playing for the Maryvale Saguaros in 2001, Crawford was leading the AFL in hitting (.386) when he left to join Team USA for the 2001 World Cup in Chinese Taipei. During his stint in the AFL, Crawford appeared in 17 games, stealing nine bases.
Crawford's time and success against baseball's top prospects in the AFL launched him into a Major League career that began in 2002 with Tampa Bay and has continued in this 13th season with the Dodgers.
"It gives you confidence," Crawford said of his experience in the AFL. "You're playing against the top players. If you had any uncertainty about your ability, you come in and play against the top guys and see where you're at. It's kind of a measuring tool to see where your skills are."
Crawford and Holliday will be inducted into the AFL Hall of Fame in November.


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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The senior al-Qaida leader known as Abu-Zaid al-Kuwaiti was killed by a U.S. drone strike Friday as he ate breakfast in Pakistan, an Islamist Website said.
U.S. officials confirmed the news, NBC News reported. Experts said Sheik Khalid Bin Abdul Rehman Al-Hussainan was one of the top remaining leaders of al-Qaida following the death of Osama bin Laden and a possible successor to Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's deputy and successor.
"We celebrate to you the news of the martyrdom of the working scholar Shaykh Khalid al-Hussainan (Abu Zaid al-Kuwaiti) while eating his Suhoor (dawn) meal, and we ask Allah to accept him in paradise," the first announcement on an Internet forum said.
Hussainan was the highest-ranking al-Qaida official to be killed by the United States since Anwar al-Awlaki in September 2011. Awlaki, a U.S. citizen, died in a drone strike in Yemen.
Evan Kohlmann, an NBC News analyst and consultant to the Justice Department, said al-Qaida now has a "big gap in the leadership."
"He was the last senior al-Qaida leader in the Afghanistan-Pakistan area who was, one, from the Arabian Peninsula and, two, who had serious clerical credentials," Kohlmann said. "Now there is no obvious publicly recognizable candidate left to succeed Zawahiri."


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Brown ground beef and onion. Drain off grease. Return to pan, adding spices, tomatoes, sauce and kidney beans. Simmer for 10 mins. Preheat oven to 400. Mix Cornbread mix according to package. Place chili mixture in baking pan. Spoon cornbread mixture on top, covering the chili mixture. Bake for 20 mins in oven.
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Smartphones are taking a beating these days from security vendors who seem to release a new report each week about increases in mobile malware. And out of the major platforms, Android is supposedly the biggest target, both because of the open nature of its app store and its robust market share.
But if you believe Google's Chris DiBona, the company's open source and public sector programs manager, it's all a big load of excrement. Neither Android nor its competitors Apple and BlackBerry have security problems severe enough to merit this level of attention, DiBona argued in a post on Google+ last week.
"Yes, virus companies are playing on your fears to try to sell you bs protection software for Android, RIM and IOS," DiBona wrote. "They are charlatans and scammers. If you work for a company selling virus protection for android, RIM or iOS you should be ashamed of yourself."
DiBona's remarks came one day after Juniper Networks reported a 472 percent increase in Android malware samples collected since July. As if in response, McAfee Labs issued its third-quarter report on Monday, which claimed "this quarter Android was the sole target of mobile malware writers." The malware writers' products include SMS-sending Trojans, malware designed to record phone calls, and root exploits that gain access to system databases, breaking free of the application sandbox Android normally uses to keep sensitive data safe.
In yet another report, albeit a gimmicky one, the firm Bit9 created a "Dirty Dozen" list of the most vulnerable mobile devices and gave every single spot to Android. Bit9 brings up Android's platform fragmentation issue, noting that "Fifty-six percent of Android phones in the marketplace today are running out-of-date and insecure versions of the Android operating system software" and that "manufacturers such as Samsung, HTC, Motorola and LG often launch new phones with outdated software out of the box, and they are slow to upgrade these phones to the latest and most secure versions of Android."
But while the risk is growing, mobile security threats still aren't as sophisticated as the ones designed for PCs, a point DiBona makes in his post.
Phones don't have virus problems?
"All the major vendors have app markets, and all the major vendors have apps that do bad things, are discovered, and are dropped from the markets," DiBona wrote. "No major cell phone has a 'virus' problem in the traditional sense that windows and some mac machines have seen. There have been some little things, but they haven't gotten very far due to the user sandboxing models and the nature of the underlying kernels."
"Yes, a virus of the traditional kind is possible, but not probable," he continued. "The barriers to spreading such a program from phone to phone are large and difficult enough to traverse when you have legitimate access to the phone, but this isn't independence day [the movie], a virus that might work on one device won't magically spread to the other."
DiBona further complained about critics claiming that "Android is festooned with viruses because we do not exert Apple like controls over the app market."
To get the perspective of one of DiBona's "charlatans," we spoke with James Lyne, the director of technology strategy at Sophos. Lyne, in a way, agrees with DiBona's point that antivirus software designed for PCs shouldn't be shoehorned into mobile devices, but says limitations in today's mobile security products are due largely to the phone makers (particularly Apple) being uncooperative with security vendors. "There is some legitimacy to the point he is trying to make," Lyne told Ars. "But I think he may have gone to an extreme that is unhelpful."
The PC approach of scanning files and matching them with malware databases isn't right for smartphones, Lyne said, noting smartphones' rich permission systems that prevent applications from accessing all of the phone's capabilities, as well as sandboxing and the ability for vendors to remotely delete malicious applications from user-owned devices. Still, Lyne said there is a need for security products to enforce password and encryption policies, keep phones patched and up to date, and check the reputation of applications before they are downloaded. These types of products may end up being called antivirus software, but they're actually quite different from what the name suggests.
Although today's mobile threats are usually simple to detect, Lyne and other security experts warned that, as smartphones become more prevalent and gain more access to confidential data, attacks will grow and become more sophisticated. Android lags behind the iPhone in several areas; for example, Android devices consistently fail to have full disk encryption built in, he said. The ease with which applications can be sideloaded onto Android devices and the less restrictive nature of the Android Market vs. the Apple App Store also makes it a more appealing target to criminal hackers.
Security firms want more cooperation from Apple, Google
But that doesn't mean Apple's security model is perfect, either. Security researcher Charlie Miller recently found a flaw within the iOS App Store that could potentially let any app download and run unsigned code. Miller created an app capable of exploiting the flaw, and got it approved by Apple for inclusion in the App Store. Apple eventually pulled the application and even gave Miller a one-year ban from its developer program, but his success in getting the application onto the store shows Apple's culling process likely can't catch every malicious piece of software.
Lyne called on Apple to expand its security APIs to provide a greater level of trusted access to the operating system—for example, an improved ability to scan and encrypt files opened by Safari. He said Google doesn't provide all that is necessary either, but enough Android code is public that you could write your own APIs. "Apple is the most obstinate by far," Lyne told Ars. "Google has actually been quite supportive in the grand scheme of things. I think Android will get there faster, but it doesn't have everything today."
Of course, just as DiBona pointed out, security vendors have financial motivation to convince smartphone buyers that they're at risk. One security product published for Windows Phone by AVG was taken off the marketplace by Microsoft after it was found to be generally useless and a violator of user privacy by sending information to AVG's servers. But that doesn't mean there isn't a place for mobile security products. Businesses in particular worry about the safety of data when providing access to e-mail and other services from mobile devices, and are interested in tools that manage employee access. Security products can also provide backup and restore functionality that consumers might be interested in.
While Google pulled 21 malicious applications from the Android Market back in March, apps aren't the only potential attack vector. Security reports from Georgia Tech and Syracuse University researchers recently found that smartphone Web browsers are rising in importance as an attack point.
"It's not time to panic about it yet," Lyne said. "But it's certainly time to start safeguarding ourselves, rather than put our heads in the sand and say this will never happen, these devices are magically secure."


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|System: PS3*, Xbox 360
|Dev: Square-Enix
|Pub: Square-Enix
|Release: February 11, 2014
|Players: 1
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
|Blood, Mild Language, Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol, Violence
If there's anything that is decent about Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII it's the battle system. Square-Enix decided to take out parties all together, letting you control only Lightning for the whole game. At least you don't have to auto-battle anymore, though. Instead, Lightning has three ATB bars that fill up as the battle goes on. Each of these bars is tied to a "schemata" and each "schemata" has four different abilities you can use, each tied to a face button. Simply press the button of the ability you want to use, and switch schematas when you run out of ATB.
Unfortunately, Square-Enix still managed to make this battle system incredibly shallow. First of all, there's no real strategy to battle. You can't move around fast enough to dodge enemy attacks, so it makes sense to include a guard ability in each schemata in order to reduce damage. Also, your choice of attacks really doesn't matter much. While you can attack enemy weak points to stagger them, doing so is kind of a pain. It's a lot more effective to just spam your most powerful attack in each schemata. So it still feels like an auto-battle, even though you are choosing your attacks.
Furthermore, schematas are made out of "garbs" which change their base stats, and each garb tends to have an ability already set on it. So on average, you really only get to customize your schematas to have two or three abilities of your choosing. Furthermore, you get bonus garbs and weapons if you have a complete FFXIII and FFXIII-2 save on your machine, and these create incredibly powerful schemata that you can ride through the whole game. Heck, you don't even get to upgrade your abilities until halfway through the game.
Overall, there is nothing enjoyable about Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. It's hard to care about the story, quests, battles, or anything the game throws your way. It kind of feels like Square is just trying to make you care by default because the game has Final Fantasy characters in it. Unfortunately, Lightning Returns has nothing to do with prior FFXIII titles. It's just a quickly thrown together mess of mechanics that feels like it's trying and failing to be an open world American style RPG. Frankly, you aren't missing anything if you totally pass this title up. You are better off picking up Bravely Default for the 3DS if you are really itching for a good traditional Final Fantasy title.
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During an interview, Nintendo's Katsuya Eguchi revealed why Wii U launch games will run at 720p. Eguchi believes that games running at 720p are sufficient. He says that all developers have their reasons but Nintendo will choose Wii U's resolution based on what they feel will deliver a great experience to the gamer. Eguchi says that if Nintendo wants games to run at 60 frames per second, during a particular stage of development, then 720p seems more realistic.
"As far as the resolution and framerates for any of the software goes, it'll obviously depend on whatever the developer feels is the best way to get the best experience to the player. I can't personally speak for third-parties and their circumstances, but at Nintendo we have different teams working on different games that take into consideration the resolution… and if they think that by focusing on 720p and a certain framerate to get a certain experience, than that's ultimately how they make their decisions."


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KCPD getting leads in slayings of 2 women
Investigators say homicides of Tamara Sparks, Nicoleone Reed linked
Kansas City police said they are getting leads from the public in the slayings of two women.
At a news conference Friday, police said Tamara Sparks' homicide and Nicoleone Reed's homicide are connected.
Sparks' body was found in October 2011 at Northeast 120th Street near North Eastern Avenue.
Reed's body was found in August at 134th and Scott streets in Kearney.
Kansas City police Detective Sgt. Doug Niemeier told KMBC's Jana Corrie that detectives have been getting new leads and worked until about midnight last night and were back in early Saturday morning working the case.
Investigators said they are looking for a pickup truck in connection with the case. It's an American-made late '70s to early '90s model white pickup truck with an off-color passenger door.
Investigators also showed off a size 11 canvas-style shoe that was found in the area where Sparks' body was found.
"We really appreciate the community, the people calling us because at this point, that's who we believe is going to solve this case -- is someone calling us with a tip on that shoe that we showed yesterday and also a tip on the white truck," Niemeier said.
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A Trappist monk passess by graffiti written in Hebrew reading: "Jesus is a monkey" and "mutual guarantee, Ramat Migron and Maoz Ester" (West Bank settlements) at the monastery of Latrun, between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, in September 2012. | AFP-JIJI
A recent surge in vandalism of Arab religious sites across Israel has resulted in widespread concern and several demonstrations demanding action from the Israeli police.
On 3 April in Jish, a town near the city of Safed in the northern Galilee, a mosque was vandalized with graffiti reading: "Only non-Jews will be driven out of our land." The tires of over 40 cars were slashed. Security footage showed three people committing the attacks, but no arrests have been made.
Then on 18 April, the Araq al-Shabab mosque in the majority Arab town of Um al-Fahm was defaced with anti-Arab graffiti and the door and then set on fire. The vandals were caught on camera and two couples from the settlement of Yitzhar were arrested in connection with the acts. However, the town organized a general strike and demonstration three days later to protest, believing that the police are not doing enough to prevent and prosecute these attacks.
On 29 April, another two incidents occurred. In Fureidis, a majority Arab town near Haifa, citizens woke up to find that a mosque was defaced with the words: "Close mosques, not yeshivas." A number of nearby cars had their tires slashed. On the same day in Nazareth, a car was painted with the Star of David and its tires were slashed.
Further, on 3 May, a Muslim cemetery in the city of Nesher, just outside of Haifa, was defaced with graffiti. The Al Qassam cemetery was spray painted with the Star of David, the names of John Kerry and Tzipi Livni, and the words "price tag."
Christian and Druze also targeted
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Nazareth Giancito-Boulos Marcuzzo received a letter on 27 April threatening him and his church. The letter specified that all Christians, except Protestants and Anglicans, needed to leave Israel before 5 May or they would be "killed by the heavens." The letter warned that for every hour of delay, 100 Christians would loose their lives. Signed by "Messiah, Son of David," the letter asserted that Christians are contaminating Israel. Police recently arrested a 40-year-old male suspect in connection with the letter.
The same day, a baptism was interrupted in the village of Al Bassa, a Palestinian village destroyed in 1948. Christians had permission from the Archbishop of Acre to hold a baptism in the church of Al Bassa, one of the village's few structures that remain standing. During the baptism, citizens from the Jewish town of Shlomi—which is built partially over the ruins of Al Bassa—drove up and honked loudly throughout the ceremony, shouting racial and religious slurs.
The following day, 28 April, officials at the Church of the Primacy of St. Peter in Tabgha in the Northern Galilee told the Associated Foreign Press that a cross in front of their church and several pews inside the church had been vandalized, and their clergy attacksedby Jewish teenagers.
On Wednesday, Times of Israel reported that a Druze citizen of Yok'neam, Dr. Khatem Hatar, arrived to work to find that his dentistry practice had been defaced with graffiti saying, "Death to Arabs" and "Greetings to Fureidis, Price Tag." His practice had been defaced less than a month before with the Star of David and the words "price tag." Police have made no arrests yet.
"Price Tag" Attacks
"Price tag" attacks refer to assaults that have been carried out by an extremist right wing Jewish Israeli movement since 2008. The group primarily vandalizes Arab [Palestinian] property, although Arabs [Palestinians] themselves are also frequently harassed. These attacks are meant to exact a price from Palestinians or Israeli security forces for any actions taken against the Zionist settlement enterprise. The movement was initially concentrated in the West Bank and Jerusalem, but spread across the Green Line in 2013.
In the US State Department's 2013 Country Reports on Terrorism, "price tag" attacks were, for the first time, categorized as terrorist acts, classifying them as "property crimes and violent acts by extremist Jewish individuals and groups in retaliation for activity they deemed to be anti-settlement." The report also recorded that such attacks went largely unprosecuted in 2013.
On Wednesday 4 May police entered the settlement of Yitzhar to pursue an investigation surrounding the attacks in Um al-Fahm. Four suspects arrested in connection with the case, after their white Suzuki Baleno was seen on security footage. When the police entered the settlement, approximately 100 settlers surrounded the police and threw rocks at the officers and their vehicles.
Reactions of Israeli officials
As these price tag attacks are committed with increasing frequency, targeting religious institutions as well as individuals of varying backgrounds, Israeli forces are under pressure to pursue and prosecute the perpetrators.
Both the Israeli police and the government, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres, have condemned these attacks. Netanyahu spoke to members of his party about the attack on Fureidis, saying: "This is unsettling," and claiming that "we will use the Shin Bet to capture those responsible."
However, former chief of the Shin Bet Carmi Gillon and former Mossad chief Shabtai Shavit spoke at a cultural event in Beersheba on Sunday, claiming that these attacks aren't being made enough of a priority. The Jerusalem Post reported that Gillon made remarks saying "if the head of the Shin Bet decides to deal with a certain issue, there will be results."
Shavit said that when it comes to "Price Tag" attacks, "Israel doesn't enforce its laws."
Gillon also wrote an op-ed for Yedioth Ahronot, one of Israel's leading daily papers, asserting that "price tag activity is a real threat the safety of all citizens…Experience shows that such activity deteriorates to terrorism for all intents and purposes and could inflame the situation among Israel's Arabs…As the 'price tag' terror is directed against both Muslim and Christian religious institutions, this is a much more sensitive and explosive matter." He urged the current Shin Bet chief to aggressively pursue the perpetrators of these attacks.
The interfaith organization Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land published a press release appealing to Israeli authorities "to allocate the resources necessary to both prevent such attacks and apprehend the perpetrators. We consider any attack on the sites of one religion to be, in effect, an attack on all religions and a desecration of the Divine Name."
Despite at least 9 attacks in the past month and new ones occurring nearly everyday, there has thus far been minimal action to put an end to them.
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Understanding the Dangers of Cesarean Birth: Making Informed Decisions
Nicette Jukelevics
Foreword by Charles Mahan, M.D.
304 pages, graphs, photos
Praeger Publishers
Media Type: Hardcover
Book available at a discount from ICEA.org (with membership or registration) and from Amazon.com
Buy your copy from Amazon using GoodSearch and the vendor will donate to the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS). Go to www.goodsearch.com/goodshop.aspx, choose CIMS as your charity, then choose Amazon and enter Dangers of Cesarean Birth in the Amazon search bar.
Listen to a Bellycaster interview with Nicette speaking about the out-of-control cesarean rate and , the health impact of interventions on mothers and babies.
Cesarean delivery - childbirth through an incision in the mother's lower abdomen - is now the most common major surgical procedure performed in the United States. No one argues over the fact that it can be a life-saving procedure when the baby or mother is at risk. But for almost three decades in this nation, cesarean deliveries have increased, without substantially better outcomes for babies or mothers. Experts warn that up to 50 percent of the more than 1 million C-sections performed here each year are unnecessary. And that is where Nicette Jukelevics, a certified childbirth educator, researcher and writer, steps in with this book. Jukelevics aims to give women the insights they need to make an informed decision about whether natural or C-section birth is best for them and their babies. She explains when C-sections are necessary, and when they are not needed. She also addresses the overuse and misuse of medical procedures that can complicate labor and lead to C-sections, as well as reasons doctors may support or suggest C-sections, including outdated medical information, fear of liability, and economic advantages measured in doctors' time.
This work also examines midwifery practices shown to safely reduce cesarean deliveries, but ignored or resisted by hospitals. Understanding the Dangers of Cesarean Birth will interest not only expectant and future parents, but also to students and scholars of women's health, nursing, and public health. Childbirth educators and doulas will also find this book helpful since each chapter includes, Especially for Mothers, a section with helpful guidelines, questions, and numerous resources for making informed decisions about birth professionals, hospital interventions, and place of birth.
Table of Contents
Series Foreword by Julie Silver, M.D.
Foreword by Charles Mahan, M.D
List of Abbreviations
1. Freefall
2. Nondisclosure: The Missing Information for Making Informed Decisions
3. Patient Choice or Physician Choice Cesareans?
Cesarean Delivery and Its Impact on Mother and Baby
4. About Cesarean Section
5. How Safe Are Cesareans?
6. Breaking the Silence: Birth Trauma, Cesareans, and Post Traumatic Stress
7. How Does a Cesarean Birth Affect the Baby?
8. Impact of a Cesarean on Future Pregnancy
Common Reasons for a Cesarean
9. I'm Laboring as Fast as I Can: Prolonged Labor, a Highly Variable Diagnosis
10. Especially for Mothers: Walk, Rock, Sway, Squat, You Can Help Your Labor to Progress
11. Laboring for a VBAC: A Safe Alternative to a Repeat Operation
12. Electronic Fetal Monitoring: More Information Is Not Always Better
13. Breech Version: A Safe Alternative to a Planned Cesarean
14. Elective Induction of Labor: A Risk Factor for Cesarean Delivery
Reducing the Risks for Cesarean
15. Especially for Mothers: Coping with the Pain of Labor
16. Labor Support by Women for Women
17. Giving Birth with Midwives: Excellent Outcomes with Fewer Cesareans
18. Out of Hospital Birth Lowers the Odds for Cesarean Section
19. Especially for Mothers: Reducing the Odds for a Cesarean - What To Do during Pregnancy
20. Especially for Mothers: Reducing the Odds for a Cesarean -What To Do during Labor and Birth
Changing the Status Quo
21. Why Normal Birth Matters
22. Resources: Truth and Transparency in Maternity Care


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- Good speed/AF performance
- Battery life could be better
- Noisy shots, even at low ISOs
- Too much sharpening
- Video performance not so hot
Blame it on their portability. Blame it on their great price-to-performance ratios. Blame it on the fact that people like something that's a little bit different. Whatever the reasons, compact ultrazooms – cameras that offer long lens performance in a smaller body – are one of the hottest segments of the digital camera market at the moment.
Even with all the energy around these kinds of cameras, Canon appeared to take the cautious design approach to its entry into this class for 2008, introducing a mild update to the 10x zoom SX100 in the form of the Canon PowerShot SX110 IS. On the surface, there's not a lot about the SX110 to set it apart from its predecessor. But the SX100 is a good camera, and with a few crucial refinements and an attractive price for the SX110, Canon may yet be onto something here.
The Canon PowerShot SX110 IS is the latest model from Canon representing the emerging compact ultrazoom segment of the market – cameras with the size and design of a traditional compact point-and-shoot, but with zoom ranges more like that of an ultrazoom. In Canon's case, a 10x zoom with an equivalent focal length of 36-360mm earns the camera its "ultrazoom" designation, and a body similar in size and style to the larger Canon PowerShot A models its "compact" status.
Positioned as slightly up-market products, compact ultrazooms tend to bring a few more features than their regular compact counterparts, and the 9 megapixel SX110 (up slightly from the 8 megapixel sensor in the SX100 it replaces) is no exception. An excellent 3.0 inch LCD is one crucial upgrade, making the camera a joy to use in the field. Having optical image stabilization is also key, especially for a camera with this kind of zoom range. Canon's DIGIC III processor underpins the whole thing, providing responsiveness, known AF performance, and arguably the best face detection system around: as with other DIGIC III cameras, the SX110 is able to lock onto profiles better than ever before and track a moving face within the frame.
With its broad market of potential buyers, the SX110 has to cover a lot of ground in terms of user knowledge as well, offering everything from a Easy shooting mode with essentially no user control to a full manual exposure mode where every setting is in your hands.
- Easy: The camera at its most basic, this option is a true full auto mode with adjustment for flash function only
- Auto: Users can change flash settings and ISO (Auto or Hi) in this position
- Program: The full range of menu options, including white balance and color and metering modes, are unlocked in Program mode
- Shutter Priority: Conventional shutter priority, in which user selects the shutter speed and the camera calculates aperture value for correct exposure
- Aperture Priority: Conventional aperture priority, in which user selects the aperture value and the camera calculates the correct shutter speed
- Manual: User controls both aperture and shutter speed
- Scene: There are 13 presets, divided between the mode dial and a separate Scene menu
- Movie: Basic video recording mode, with file size options up to 640×480; optical zoom is locked during video recording
I've resigned myself to the fact that I will simply never understand the logic behind which scene modes Canon puts on the mode dial of its compact cameras, and which ones it reserves for scene position menu. In the case of the SX110, your more readily accessible mode dial options include a couple of the expected ones (portrait and landscape), but also some odd choices. The ubiquity of night portrait modes in positions of prominence on this and other cameras, for instance, suggests to me that more people must be taking people shots outdoors at night than I realize. I do like the fact that they saw fit to put the indoor preset, which provides all of the settings you need to grab snaps of moving subjects indoors in a single location, up on the dial.
To be a stick in the mud about the whole thing, I would have preferred a single scene position and less clutter on the mode dial, but others will probably disagree disagree. So be it.
Video options on the SX110 are pretty basic, with the camera prompting you to shoot in either regular (640×480) or basic (320×240) mode. You can't use the optical zoom in movie recording mode, and considering how much noise it makes when zooming, you probably wouldn't want to.
Finally, I'm a big fan of the fact that the SX110 lets you simply push the playback button to turn on the camera directly into playback mode. No need to wait for the lens to extend, even.
For a detailed listing of specifications and features, please refer to the specifications table found at the bottom of the review.
Styling and Build Quality
When it comes to its PowerShot cameras, Canon has definitely infused more style into the most recent models when compared to those from a few years back. This has been a double edged sword in some ways, though, because while the latest PowerShot cameras aren't the boring boxes for which Canon was once known, they don't always exude the same tank-like reliability, either.
Thankfully, the SX110 has little of the thin plastic feeling of some of its lower-tier A-model siblings. Although the body is mostly composite material, everything is well fitted. Body and panel flex are basically nonexistent, and the buttons feel like they could have easily been borrowed from one of Canon's mid-level DSLRs.
Overall, befitting its premium status, the SX110 does the best job of any Canon PowerShot we've seen in the last few generations of combining both of these design objectives – stylishness and ruggedness – into a single device.
Ergonomics and Interface
The biggest problem with the SX110's challenge to cameras like the Panasonic TZ5 may be its size. Although it's styled identically to the latest PowerShot A cameras, what pictures of the SX110 don't always accurately convey is its size: although it's thinner than the previous model in this line, it's slightly larger in every other dimension, and this fact alone makes the camera too large for all but the most capacious pockets.
Canon PowerShot A1000 IS (left) and SX110 IS
Having plenty of physical space to work with, however, makes the SX110 actually quite comfortable ergonomically. A slight grip bump provides stability, and the back-panel control layout is extremely easy to navigate, with large buttons and a solid, easy-to-operate control wheel. Everything's pretty tightly grouped around the control wheel, with the Print/Share button (which, in this camera as well, does double duty as a custom function control) the only outlier.
Canon continues to provide light refinements rather than major overhauls to their long-running, sidebar driven visual interface. As we've said before with other Canons, if you've used a camera from the manufacturer in the last decade, you should quickly settle into the SX110's arrangement.
One the SX110's big upgrades over the SX100 is the addition of a 3.0 inch LCD. Although its resolution number is a now typical 230,000 dots, the screen looks fantastic: bright, vivid, and extremely color accurate, making it extremely easy to live with.
The screen has a glossy overlay that's become the norm for Canon cams, which makes its decent performance outdoors that much more surprising: in spite of strong reflections against a black display, the SX110 is able to put up an image that's relatively viewable, even in direct sunlight.
Gain up in low light is automatic, and looks just fine, though there's some strangeness with illumination levels when using a fixed ISO setting: at ISO 80, the display will gain up briefly while focus is being locked, but then dropped down to levels that are so dark as to be basically unviewable once the camera grabs focus. It's a strange process that doesn't seem entirely intentional, or at the very least, not particularly well sorted.
Images are auto-rotated on playback based on the orientation of the camera and of the original shot, which means no turning the camera sideways to look at either landscape or portrait compositions. The fact that this isn't the de facto method of operation on every point-and-shoot we look at really should be against the law.
Timings and Shutter Lag
Pocket ultrazooms are usually billed as performance cameras, and the SX110's long lens, slightly large body, and manual controls make it a clear choice as an SLR user's backup "bag camera" assuming it delivers responsive performance.
In this regard, numbers are solid if not mind-blowing: when pre-focused, our test unit consistently grabbed snaps in the 0.04 second range. The average number for locking focusing and grabbing a shot with half-pressing the shutter first came in at 0.45 seconds. In both cases, these numbers aren't endangering either speed records – especially the AF acquisition time. They are fast enough to make the camera feel snappy, though the SX110's primary competitor, the Panasonic TZ5, has a step on this model in terms of speed with right combination of settings.
With a long zoom point-and-shoots, focusing speed at telephoto is often not just slower, but considerably slower, than the wide-angle counterpart used for our standard speed evaluations. We checked the numbers at full telephoto as well just to see how the SX110 would do, and found its press to capture times of just under a second in this case to be clearly slower than the wide-angle numbers, but also better than expected given the way many cameras with long lenses perform.
In a second test, we turned on the continuous AF system, gave the camera exactly half a second to begin focusing, and then press the shutter. As expected, times came in much better, at an average of 0.61 seconds. The moral of the story? If you're going to be shooting a lot at telephoto, continuous AF can be a great help. Just make sure you have a spare set of batteries handy, as the SX110 uses a lot more power in this mode.
The SX110 is able to shoot an infinite burst of back-to-back shots at full resolution. If you're only shooting 3 frames, the PowerShot drives along at a full 2.0 frames per second, but after the third frame, the number drops to an infinite rate closer to 1.5 fps.
Auto Focus
For a premium camera targeting advanced users, the SX110's focus options – center or face-detection/auto-multi AF areas, and single-shot or continuous focus – seem a bit paltry. Where's the user-selectable multi-area mode, for starters? While the camera does have automatic multi-area AF in some of the auto exposure modes, the fact that there's not more to work with on the user control side seems like a poor choice given this camera's target audience.
In terms of performance, the system exhibited the kind of reliability that Canon's known for, proving basically unflappable at wide angle and still remarkably good at full telephoto. There's definitely a little more hunt/lag time at the long end of the lens, but finding an accurate lock was rarely a problem even at the long end of the lens. Shooting indoors in low light at full telephoto showed the system at its weakest, as it tends to with every camera we test, but even here I was able to get an accurate lock against all but the most low-contrast subjects on the second attempt at worst.
Lens and Zoom
This is the reason people buy cameras like the SX110: a 10x zoom in a camera that's close, at least, to pocket sized. The SX110's lens has all the right specs: optically stabilized, good range, and relatively fast maximum apertures (f/2.8-4.3) from wide to tele. Sourced straight from the SX100, the lens is a known quantity in terms of performance, and while it might have been nice to see Canon move to add either more range or a wider wide-angle end on the updated model, the SX110's glass is perfectly fine.
In use, the zoom can be a little noisier than some competitive models, with a buzz/whir when the lens is moving that's easily audible in a room with normal conversation taking place. Again, this probably won't be a big hang up for most users, but the noise is loud enough to attract attention if it's quiet – making it that much harder to make use of the SX110's zoom range for covert candids or nature shooting.
Somewhat unconventionally, the SX110's on-board flash is manually raised and lowered. No spring-loading here.
With its ultrazoom style positioning and operation (necessary to get illumination over the long, wide lens barrel no doubt), the Canon's flash unit does a decent job of providing coverage across a broad area when shooting in landscape mode. The flash can cause some more pronounced side shadows than is the norm for a point-and-shoot when working close to your subject in landscape mode, however.
Point-and-shoot flash metering is rarely perfect, and the SX110's no exception. There's a flash power compensation option in the sidebar menu with 2 EV of possible adjustment in either direction – a nice touch for a camera in this price range. A notch or two of negative compensation as the default setting helps out some with the hot spots. Color is accurate, avoiding strange casts when using auto white balance and flash under mixed light as a rule.
The SX110 has an appropriately powerful flash unit to match its 10x zoom. While it wasn't quite able to get the exposure as high as I'd like in low light scenes with the ISO locked, it's not more than a stop or two off even in a completely dark room at ISO 80.
Running on two AAs, the SX110 pays a price for this power in recycle times. After a full-power burst, the camera takes just under ten seconds (9.7) to recharge and fire again. One benefit of the pop-up flash, though, is that you can take a flash shot, flip the strobe down, and shoot without flash while it's recharging – better than being completely locked out from shooting while the flash recycles as with most point-and-shoots.
Slow synchro and red-eye reduction (pre-flash) modes can be enabled via the Flash Settings menu.
Unlike some full-size ultrazooms, the SX110 doesn't have a hot shoe for an external flash, though an accessory panel flash that mounts via an extension arm in the tripod socket is available from Canon.
Image Stabilization
Like most manufacturers, Canon doesn't seem to switch up its IS technologies much from one generation to the next. The SX110's lens-based stabilization system has the options that seem to be standard to Canon's DIGIC III cameras: a continuous IS setting in which the system is always working (ideal for video shooting), a shot-only mode in which the system engages when the shutter is half-pressed, a panning mode that stabilizes up and down motions without correcting for side-to-side movement, and an off setting.
Testing didn't uncover anything we haven't already seen. The system is more than adequate down to shutter speeds of about 1/15 at wide angle if you have steady hands. A long telephoto zoom range challenges the technology at the other end of the spectrum, however, and the fact that the SX110's small size makes it harder for many to easily stabilize doesn't help. In short, if you don't have much light to work with and are shooting under 1/100 at full telephoto, you'll probably want some physical stabilization beyond the IS system for consistently sharp results.
Battery Life
The SX110 gets its power from a pair of AA batteries, with all of the advantages and disadvantages that implies. As we've already seen, flash recycle times are pretty laggy if you're using alkaline AAs, especially, and the cells add to the SX110's overall heftiness, but the convenience of being able to get fresh power just about anywhere in the world can't be overstated.
The SX110's big screen and long, heavy zoom lens almost guarantee that you'll get less than 150 shots on alkaline power (though you can really extend your mileage by turning the screen brightness to its lowest setting). Switch to NiMH rechargeable cells, however, and then number shoots up to more like 400. So with the caveats always associated with AA power in mind, the SX110 does fairly well for itself on balance.
For a camera attempting to attract users looking to advance their photographic skills with features like manual exposure control, image quality is a first order concern. And as with the SX100 before it, I found the SX110 to have good image quality that did the job and showed few major flaws, but wasn't what I would necessarily call "impressive" either, especially for a camera in this class.
Exposure, Processing, and Color
The exposure and metering fronts proved to be one of the SX110's stronger areas. Default multi-area metering appears to be in tune with the capabilities of this camera's sensor, showing us fewer clipped highlights on the whole without any exposure compensation than we're used to seeing from a small-sensor compact.
Processing, however, is another story. A slightly noisy sensor all around combines with some sharpness processing that looks pretty aggressively bumped to my eye, even in the default color mode, to produce some artifacts in high-contrast boundary areas.
100% crop
Shooting in regular, rather than fine, compression quality can also slightly emphasize the prominence of the "jaggies," making the SX110's images look a little less smooth and more digital than some competitive models.
Color reproduction is typical for Canon, with a nice fat saturation boost that is generally pleasing and extremely printable. If the default color mode isn't your style, Canon offers lots of options for changing things up via its "My Colors" menu in the main settings list.
Vivid and Neutral options push colors up or bring them down, respectively, providing a nice three-step adjustment range in combination with the default setting. For even more control, a Custom color mode allows saturation, sharpness, and contrast to be adjusted independently via five-step sliders.
Custom: minimum sharpness, contrast, and saturation
Custom: maximum sharpness, contrast, and saturation
As seen above, the range from one end of the spectrum on all values to the other is nice and wide, making it fairly straightforward to fine-tune the camera's processing to your tastes or a specific shooting situation. Although it doesn't allow you to save multiple user-created presets, the SX110 does remember custom settings across sessions as well – meaning that if you get a processing combination you're happy with, it's easy to keep it around for future use. Moreover, having this level of processing adjustability in a consumer grade compact is a nice touch that should further the SX110's bid as a budget-minded option for serious shooters.
White Balance
No surprises here: the SX110 turns in an objectively poor auto white balance performance under our studio incandescent light test.
Auto White Balance, 3200K incandescent light
I also noted some strange color casts when shooting outdoors early and late in the day. In some ways, I wish I could say the SX110 performance was unusually bad – as it certainly required some tweaking in several situations – but the truth is that things are about par for the course in this class.
A full range of preset options work somewhat more consistently in their respective areas of expertise, and as always, there's a user-set custom mode for tricky lighting situations as well.
Lens and Zoom
For a wide-ranging zoom lens, the SX110's glass acquits itself fairly well in all areas. Bowed lines are visible in opposite directions at both wide-angle and telephoto, but aren't severe in either case. There's also some corner darkening, or vignetting, at telephoto, but again, it's rather minor.
Sharpness across the range is also usually a concern with complex, far-reaching zooms. While it's not the sharpest optic we've seen at any point in its range, I was pleased at just how well the SX110 performed even at full telephoto and maximum aperture.
There's plenty of edge definition to be had even in this worst case scenario. The fact is, camera shake will likely be a greater cause for concern in this situation than lens sharpness.
Finally, we saw some fringing/chromatic aberration toward the wide end of the lens and at wide apertures, especially. It was never particularly intrusive, but it was definitely there in high-contrast boundary areas.
Sensitivity and Noise
With a slight resolution bump on the same-sized sensor when compared to its predecessor, the SX100 tends to be ever so slightly noisy all the way down to ISO 80. Likewise, the more saturated the area in question, the more noise you see, making colorful areas look just a bit mottled to begin with.
ISO 80, 100% crop
ISO 100, 100% crop
ISO 200, 100% crop
ISO 400, 100% crop
ISO 800, 100% crop
ISO 1600, 100% crop
The SX110 is slightly more limited than some of its competition in terms of overall sensitivity range, maxing out at a full-res ISO 1600 setting. Visible noise begins to intrude in normal view sizes as low as ISO 400. ISO 800 is usable, but there's a big jump up to ISO 1600.
Noise is something of an issue for the SX110, yes, but my bigger gripe with this camera's high-sensitivity performance has to do with color wash out. Even at ISO 800, much of the saturation is lost, and by ISO 1600 you're dealing with an image that has maybe half of the color information available to the same shot at ISO 80.
Overall, it would have been nice to see Canon stick with the previous generation's 8 megapixel sensor and fine-tune the processing to straighten out this SX camera's noise and color reproduction issues. It's certainly not terrible, but it will likely be the primary hang-up for serious users just the same.
Additional Sample Images
After first spending some time with both the SX100 and Panasonic's competitor at the time, the TZ3, late last year, I came away slightly preferring the Canon's overall solidness to the TZ3's nicer form factor. As time went by, though, the SX100 just didn't seem to speak to me as much as the exciting and very compact TZ camera did. A year later, there hasn't been a new Lumix pocket ultrazoom in awhile: maybe the SX110's time is right.
In truth, the SX110 targets a different user than the TZ5. There are manual controls here, for starters, and the simple but well-stocked menus and solid performance of the SX110 encourage you to get out and take some shots rather than get wrapped up in lots of novelty. The Canon doesn't hold your hand as much as some competitors, but it doesn't get in your way either. Hence, if you're serious about photographs, the SX110 has the tools to get the job done in an efficient, workmanlike manner that earns your respect for its capabilities the longer you spend with it.
The SX110 will never be the most exciting or full-featured camera in this class – Canon simply didn't design it that way – and those hoping to see a dramatically smaller camera will be disappointed by the results of the latest SX model's slight slim-down. For these reasons, this camera may also get overshadowed by new models in this class that excite us, and the purchasing public, more. But if picture quality, easy of use, and performance are your primary concerns, buying this PowerShot is also the safest bet around: it's an unquestionably powerful camera with few blemishes, and thus a buying decision that few buyers (who aren't put off by its looks, size, or noise, perhaps) will have reason to regret.
- Full manual controls that make sense
- Solid, stylish build
- Excellent display
- Good speed/AF performance
- Battery life could be better
- Noisy shots, even at low ISOs
- Too much sharpening
- Video performance not so hot
|9.0 megapixel (effective), 1/2.3″ CCD
|10x (36-360mm) zoom, f/2.8-4.3
|3.0″, 230K-pixel TFT LCD
|Shutter Speed
|15-1/2500 seconds
|Shooting Modes
|Easy, Program, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, Manual, Scene, Movie
|Scene Presets
|Portrait, Landscape, Night Scene, Foliage, Snow, Beach, Sunset, Fireworks, Aquarium, ISO 3200, Indoor, Kids & Pets, Night Snapshot
|White Balance Settings
|Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H, Custom
|Metering Modes
|Multi, Center, Spot, Face Detection
|Focus Modes
|Multi-area, Face Detection, Single Point, Selectable Point
|Drive Modes
|Normal, Continuous, Self-Timer
|Flash Modes
|Auto, Forced On, Slow Synchro, FE Lock, Forced Off, Red-Eye Reduction
|Self Timer Settings
|10 seconds, 2 seconds, Off
|Memory Formats
|Internal Memory
|File Formats
|Max. Image Size
|3456 x 2592
|Max. Video Size
|640×480, 30 fps
|Zoom During Video
|2 AA batteries
|USB, AV output
|Additional Features
|Face Detection, iSAPS, optical image stabilization, DIGIC III processor, manual exposure modes


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