The new Canon EOS-1D Mark II is the successor to the Canon EOS-1D which was announced and introduced at the end of 2001. This new generation of digital SLR almost doubles resolution with its new eight megapixel CMOS sensor, doubles the size of the continuous shooting buffer. Despite the advertised 8.5 fps the EOS-1D Mark II actually shoots at a maximum of 8.3 fps (the same as the EOS-1D).
The EOS-1D Mark II is also obviously Canon's answer to Nikon's fast shooting D2H announced last year, it does appear however as though Canon are raising the bar with resolution and one would hope we can expect similar low noise performance from its CMOS sensor as we have seen from the same technology in the EOS 10D.
Putting the additional resolution and buffer size to one side there are also a variety of improvements and changes compared to the EOS-1D, not least of which a new version of Canon's DIGIC image processor, an extension of selectable ISO sensitivity, support for Secure Digital as well as Compact Flash and the addition of a USB port (although only USB 1.1). The SD slot and USB connector are interesting additions as they may hint towards potential future add-ons for this camera such as a wireless kit (pure speculation on my part at this stage).
this news has made my day!! thanks for uploading mate. van persie next my full respect goes to verminator!! we <3 you man! only if he was fit since he signed for us. a lot of people complain on how arsenal need to sign more players and never think we hardly ever have our best 14 men ready or at least our starting eleven if ya look at them szczesny merte verm sagna santos wilsher song arteta gervinho walcot persie now thats a SOLID 11. Any1 else think we need to change medic staff?Arsenal defender Thomas Vermaelen has signed a new long-term contract with the club, the Gunners have confirmed on their official website.
The Belgium international, who has endured an injury-ravaged two and a half years with the club since joining from Ajax in the summer of 2009, is understood to have agreed to stay at the Emirates Stadium until 2015.
The captain of his national side, Vermaelen enjoyed a memorable first season with Arsenal, weighing in with eight goals on his way to earning a place in the Professional Footballers Association Team of the Season.
E!'s Giuliana Rancic revealed Monday that she's facing a new challenge in her journey to become a mother: She has been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer.
The 36-year-old host of "E! News" and "Fashion Police," who's been televising her efforts to get pregnant with her husband, Bill Rancic, on the Style Network's "Giuliana and Bill," said on NBC's "Today" that a doctor insisted that she get a mammogram after two failed in-vitro fertilization treatments.
Rancic said she wasn't planning to get a mammogram until she was 40, but the doctor wanted to rule out breast cancer because a pregnancy could accelerate the cancer.Many people were stunned when, on Monday, Guiliana Rancic announced that she has breast cancer. Also, many celebrities were also stunned and saddened by the news.
Rancic, 37, is a well-known host for E!. She and her husband have long wanted a baby, and the hostess have been trying in vitro fertilization treatments in order to conceive. She has had two rounds of in vitro, one ending in miscarriage and the other not working. The cancer was discovered before she was set to begin her third round.
2YR OLD Chinese Girl Ruthlessly Run Over Twice - pedestrians do nothing to help her
As a Muslim, I was raised to care for humanity and had to share this video, even thought it's very disturbing. All that came to my mind: What is this world coming to....
This is not a race issue, it's an issue regarding the society people live in. This is a human rights watch. This incident happened to take place in China, but it doesn't mean all Chinese are blind to the sanctity of life. Please don't make it a race issue. May God Bless the child's soul.
I believe people didn't help because in a similar case of a man helping a woman who fell down, he was prosecuted for doing that. People must have had fear of helping the little child, but it's still no excuse of letting her bleed on the floor like that. Even animals shouldn't be treated like this. Who knew out of all the people, a trash collector came to the child's rescue; God bless her soul. I hope this opens people's eyes and shows them that we need reform.
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More than a dozen passers-by ignored a two-year-old girl as she lay critically injured on a street in southern China after being run over twice, the official Xinhua news agency said Monday.
The incident has sparked outrage on China's hugely popular social media sites.
Surveillance cameras showed a series of people walk past the girl, named Yue Yue, after she was hit first by a van and then a truck outside her family's shop in the southern Chinese city of Foshan.
Xinhua said a rubbish collector who finally came to the girl's aid, moving her to the curb and shouting for help, was ignored by several shopkeepers before he finally tracked down her mother who took her to hospital.
In response, one netizen on Sina Weibo, a Chinese micro-blog similar to Twitter, wrote: "This society is seriously ill. Even cats and dogs shouldn't be treated so heartlessly."
But others linked the incident to an earlier case in which a man who tried to help an elderly woman after she fell over was prosecuted, apparently because his intervention broke government rules on dealing with accident victims.
Doctors said Yue Yue was in a coma and unlikely to survive the ordeal.
"She would not be able to survive any operations. She's very close to brain death," a spokesman for the hospital treating her told AFP.
The two-time Indianapolis 500 winner is involved in a 15-car wreck early in the series' season-ending race. He was 33. Three other drivers are taken to a hospital for evaluation.
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The car of driver Dan Wheldon hits the track after bursting into flames when it flew over another car and went airborne into a retaining wall and fence in a 15-car wreck during the Las Vegas Indy 300 on Sunday. (Robert Laberge / Getty Images / October 16, 2011)
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IndyCar racing fires on all cylinders at Kentucky event
By Jim Peltz
October 16, 2011, 8:35 p.m.
Veteran driver Dan Wheldon, who won the Indianapolis 500 for the second time this year, died from injuries suffered Sunday when his car was entangled in a horrific 15-car wreck early in the IndyCar series' season-ending race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The Englishman was 33.
As the 34-car field moved through the first turn of Lap 11 on the 1.5-mile oval track at speeds of more than 200 mph, Wheldon was running 25th when cars began spinning in front of him.
As the cars piled up in an instant, Wheldon's No. 77 car slammed into another car in front of his and went airborne before crashing into the fence in Turn 2 and briefly catching fire, video replays showed.
Simultaneously, the car driven by championship contender Will Power also went airborne, others briefly caught fire as they crashed and debris was sprayed in all directions.
After Wheldon was airlifted to a nearby hospital, Randy Bernard, chief executive of the Izod IndyCar Series, announced his death "from unsurvivable injuries." Wheldon is survived by his wife, Susie, and two young sons.
"I just feel for his family," a tearful Danica Patrick, who is leaving the IndyCar series after this year for NASCAR stock car racing, told a television audience. "He'll be missed."
It was the first on-track fatality in IndyCar racing since 2006, when Paul Dana was killed in a practice crash at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Florida.
Three other drivers — Power, J.R. Hildebrand and Pippa Mann — also reportedly were taken to the hospital for evaluation. There was no immediate word on their condition.
The rest of the race was canceled. But the remaining drivers held a somber salute to Wheldon by climbing back into their cars and, lined up three wide, slowly circled the track for five laps.
As they did so, fans in the grandstands stood and dozens of race-team personnel and safety workers walked to the edge of pit road facing the track, many of them wiping away tears. A bagpipes version of "Amazing Grace" played on the speedway speaker system.
"It is hard to put into words how sad this is for all of us," said three-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves. "On the track we compete, but at the end of the day we are like a big family and today we lost a part of that."
Indianapolis Motor Speedway President Jeff Belskus said "we are incredibly saddened," adding that Wheldon was "a fantastic husband, father and man — a good friend to so many in this sport."
Five months ago Wheldon had stunned the motor racing world by winning the speedway's famed Indy 500 after Hildebrand, who appeared to have the race won, crashed into the wall on the final lap.
It was Wheldon's first race of the season because, despite winning 15 IndyCar races up to that point and capturing the series' 2005 championship — the same year in which he won his first Indy 500 — Wheldon had been unable to secure a full-time ride this year.
Wheldon's fateful race in Las Vegas also came about via unusual circumstances. He agreed to be the driver in a challenge whereby he would start at the rear of the field and, if he won, split $5 million with a fan.
Wheldon raced two weeks ago at Kentucky Speedway as a warmup for the Las Vegas race.
A stylish dresser and a superstitious racer — he tapped his car on the nose three times before climbing in — Wheldon also was a student of racing history and had made appearances as a TV racing analyst this year when he wasn't driving.
Wheldon revered the Indy 500 in particular, and shed tears after winning the 100th anniversary race again in May and kneeling to kiss the yard of bricks at the track's finish line.
The Las Vegas crash was one of the worst seen in IndyCar racing in recent memory, both in terms of its violence and the number of cars involved.
Although there have been significant advances in safety in recent years, including so-called SAFER energy-absorbing walls and head-and-neck restraints for drivers, the wreck Sunday again underlined the ever-present danger of a sport in which the cars are racing at such high speeds.
Wheldon and others were averaging 220 mph or faster in their practice sessions at Las Vegas.
"I've never seen anything like it," driver Ryan Briscoe said of the deadly accident. "The debris we all had to drive through the lap later, it looked like a war scene from 'Terminator' or something."
Because the race was canceled, Dario Franchitti — who entered the race with an 18-point lead over Power in the title standings— won his third consecutive IndyCar championship and fourth overall.
Here came excitable San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh, right down the row of towel-draped, 300-pound offensive linemen in the excited San Francisco locker room. The 49ers had just defeated the Detroit Lions 25-19
Video of the post-game incident between Jim Harbaugh and Jim Schwartz. Lions Coach Jim Schwartz chased after Niners Coach Jim Harbaugh and shoved him after what he perceived to be an overexuberant celebration following the 49ers' victory.
