This was Jesus' response to one of the criminals being crucified along side Him who cried out "Jesus, remember me when You come in Your kingdom." The other criminal hanging there was hurling abuse at Jesus, saying "Are You not the Christ? Save Yourself and us!" That very day both of those men entered into eternity, one into eternal death and suffering apart from Christ and the other into eternal life and paradise with Christ.
Both of those men who hung on their crosses beside the Lord were suffering and would soon die. One was focused only on the moment believing only what he could see and feel. The other was focused on a glorious future he couldn't see or feel, but accepted by faith.
In heaven there will be no more suffering, pain, death, fear, stress or problems of any kind. We will be alive in perfect bodies, suited for eternal bliss and most importantly, we will always be with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. There will, of course, be amazing reunions with friends and family who are also in Christ and have gone home to Him before us. We will be meeting Abraham, Moses, Ruth, David, John the Baptist, Peter, Paul and the other Apostles and all the other Old and New Testament saints... Even that man on a cross who trusted Christ. We will see, hear and experience wonderful things beyond our wildest imaginations.
So when life gets hard and you start to lose heart, change your focus from the temporal to the eternal. Thank the Lord for His grace, His salvation and all the joy that will be yours for eternity in heaven with Him. Maranatha!


No I am asking what prompted the decision to deal with eliminating one set of titles altogether and retain another set of titles. The whole thing seems to be something somebody just decided. If it is not the database driving the issue, what is going on?


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Q: How can I retrieve the features of the last step in backward regression in R I am using backward regression to do the feature selection in R. After the backward feature selection is run I get a series of outputs starting from the initial set of features.
    Start AIC 6811.87
    Step  AIC 6809.88
    Step  AIC 6807.99
    Step  AIC 6807.63

I would like take the features of the last step with the minimum AIC and pass it into another model.
model.aic.backward <- step(fullModel, direction = "backward", trace = 1)

When I try to print the terms by using the below command
print(attr(model.aic.backward$terms,"term.labels"))

I still get the initial set of features which was fed into the model. Please suggest how can I achieve this.
Thank you

A: The model given by step is the "optimal" model, not the initial model.
Here is an illustrative example:
# Linear data generating process
set.seed(1)
n <- 100
X <- matrix(rnorm(n*5),nrow=n)
betas <- c(-1.5,2,0,-2,0,0)
y <- cbind(rep(1,n), X) %*% betas + 0.5*rnorm(n)
dtset <- data.frame(y, X)

# Initial full model
lmfit <- lm(y~., data=dtset)

# Backward selection
model.aic.backward <- step(lmfit, direction = "backward", trace = 1)

Here is the output of step
Start:  AIC=-137.45
y ~ X1 + X2 + X3 + X4 + X5

       Df Sum of Sq    RSS     AIC
- X2    1      0.01  22.44 -139.41
- X5    1      0.11  22.54 -138.97
- X4    1      0.22  22.66 -138.47
<none>               22.44 -137.44
- X1    1    294.14 316.57  125.24
- X3    1    422.44 444.87  159.26

Step:  AIC=-139.41
y ~ X1 + X3 + X4 + X5

       Df Sum of Sq    RSS     AIC
- X5    1      0.12  22.56 -140.89
- X4    1      0.22  22.66 -140.45
<none>               22.44 -139.41
- X1    1    294.37 316.82  123.32
- X3    1    423.21 445.65  157.44

Step:  AIC=-140.89
y ~ X1 + X3 + X4

       Df Sum of Sq    RSS     AIC
- X4    1      0.23  22.79 -141.89
<none>               22.56 -140.89
- X1    1    299.18 321.74  122.86
- X3    1    423.79 446.35  155.59

Step:  AIC=-141.89
y ~ X1 + X3

       Df Sum of Sq    RSS     AIC
<none>               22.79 -141.89
- X1    1    300.89 323.67  121.46
- X3    1    431.38 454.17  155.33

and here the model inside the model.aic.backward object:
summary(model.aic.backward)

############
Call:
lm(formula = y ~ X1 + X3, data = dtset)

Residuals:
    Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max
-1.2168 -0.3057 -0.0047  0.3693  1.0416

Coefficients:
            Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) -1.51531    0.04885  -31.02   <2e-16 ***
X1           1.94126    0.05424   35.79   <2e-16 ***
X3          -2.01862    0.04711  -42.85   <2e-16 ***
---
Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

Residual standard error: 0.4847 on 97 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.9693,    Adjusted R-squared:  0.9687
F-statistic:  1531 on 2 and 97 DF,  p-value: < 2.2e-16

This is the model after backward selection, not the initial model.
Hope this can help you.

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Always somewhere between living and dying
Magnet #894 - Van Gogh's Sunflowers
Vincent and the Doctor is one of my favorite episodes of Doctor Who - ever, where Eleven and Amy go back to visit Van Gogh. Loved that. And one of my favorites scenes is here, when they wake Vincent up out of one of his paintings, and he peers out his window at Amy sitting among the sunflowers, and Amy learns that he doesn't really have a thing for sunflowers.
Several canvases seem to say the opposite, for Van Gogh painted at least a dozen still lifes of sunflowers in every stage. From gorgeous full blooms to dying blossoms strewn on the ground, it was clear he had some sort of affinity for them.
The backstory being that people aren't really that sure if he loved the flowers themselves, or if he just painted them to please his buddy Paul Gauguin. Or, if he painted them because at the time, yellow paint was a new set of hues that they came out with and he loved experimenting with those shades and the joyfulness of the color.
At any rate, he considered the sunflowers his flower to paint.
And now, of course, now I feel the need to run over to the Met to check out their batch of sunflowers.
Van Gogh was one of our answers to one of the clues during last Saturday's Watson Adventures' Murder at the Met scavenger hunt. I've done the same hunt before, but with a different set of clues. Hard! I dunno if you guys have ever done one, but I love them.
For two hours, you think of nothing but getting to the next clue by solving the one you're working on, and getting lost in the details and figuring out red herrings, and not really seeing the art in front of you. Mind you, I'm not always so good with figuring out those clues, but I'm really good at getting you where you need to go when it comes to getting around the Met. Well, unless you're looking for cups from the first millennia in two different rooms. And you lose 20 minutes because of it. Oops.
For me, though, the best part about that scavenger hunt was that it brought me to rooms I'd never been to before - I can't wait to get back there to explore them...and those sunflowers.
Labels: art, collecting magnets, Doctor Who, magnet collecting, magnet collection, magnets, sunflowers, Vincent Van Gogh
Bright lights, big city
"Pace yourself. It'll come together."*
The big dance
Heroes with hang-ups
Puzzle me this
"This is the church"*
Will you still love me?
Stone's throw from Boston
Active imaginations
OND 9OU!
Definitely pass go
Awesome's in the details
Tales of a fourth grade everything
Ain't that America
Kindred magnets
From Impressionism with love
Oh, I would walk 18 miles
It's an honor to be here!
Sweetening the pot
Quiet beauty
The very definition of...
Powerhouse of fun
"I hated him, of course."*
Too thinky! Tooooo thinky!!!
Hiding in plain sight
I'm not a tourist. No, really, I'm not. - Guest bl...
Fixing the world from far away
That David thing

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Twenty-two consulting firms across four categories have been nominated for the 2017 edition of the EducationInvestor Awards. The winners will be announced at an official dinner in December.
The EducationInvestor Awards are an annual ceremony to promote excellence and recognise innovation in the business of education. Following the announcement of the shortlist, which has seen 22 consulting firms nominated for their work in the sector, the organisation's judges will have until December 5th 2017 to select groups and individuals that have made an outstanding contribution to education as outright winners. The victorious candidates will then be presented with their awards during a dinner taking place at the Park Lane Hotel in London, with over 700 guests in attendance.
Of the five categories, two have sub-sections specifically dedicated to the consulting and professional services industries. Within the advisory and finance category, awards will be designated for consultants to educational institutions, consultants to the private sector, and financial advisors. Meanwhile in the education property category, an award for best education property consultant will be handed out.
Last year's winning Consultants to the Private Sector nominee Cairneagle Associates return in 2017, with nominations for that same award along with the Consultants for Educational Institutions prize. They are joined in both categories by Big Four consultancy Deloitte, last year's Educational Institutions winner Parthenon-EY, and London-based Shiftlearning. Carfax, whose Private Tutors service is also up for the Private Tutoring Companies gong, make up the remainder of the private sector consulting nominees, along with Yorkshire social care and education consultancy Pivot. Michael Smith, Pivot's managing director, said of the nomination, "Our overarching aim is to work with education providers and support them to improve, by developing good practice and challenging what needs to change, through the provision of a broad range of flexible, objective, carefully planned, relevant school improvement services."
In the Consultants in the Private Sector category meanwhile, Cairneagle, Deloitte, Shift Learning and Parthenon-EY were joined by fellow Big Four rival PwC, CIL Management Consultants, PMSI International, and Colliers International, who are also hoping to retain the Education Property Consultants award they obtained in 2016.
The Financial Advisors category is meanwhile to be contested by the ASA Group (formerly Adam Street), Clearwater International, European financial advisory DC Advisory, Quayle Munro Private Finance and QMPF – who were also listed in the Education Property Consulting sub-section – and Grant Thornton UK, the British arm of the world's seventh largest professional services network.
Finally, the EducationInvestor shortlist named the firms to contest the Education Property Consultant award. Along with Colliers and QMPF, construction services firm Arcadis, holistic development advisory Currie & Brown, project management group Faithful + Gould, property consultancies Gerald Eve and Lambert Smith Hampton, and chartered surveyors Aitchison Rafferty all made the grade.


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The Comfortable Chair
From: Los Angeles, California, USA
A California-based pop-psychedelic sextet, the Comfortable Chair was formed in 1968 by songwriter and singer Bernie Schwartz, vocalist Barbara Wallace, guitarist Gene Earfin, bassist Gary Davis, drummer Greg Leroy, and keyboard player Tad Baczek, and left behind a self-titled album recorded for Lou Adler's Ode Records label — it fell in the pecking order just ahead of Peggy Lipton's folk-rock album, at a time in the label's fortunes when, if you blinked, you might miss the release altogether. They made a slightly longer-lasting contribution to the 1969 Bob Hope/Jackie Gleason comedy vehicle How to Commit Marriage, with an appearance in the movie. The most notable aspect of the group's history, however, may concern two musicians who were never actually members — the Doors' Robbie Kreiger and John Densmore, stepping outside the context of their own band for the first time, produced the Comfortable Chair's Ode album.
~ by Bruce Eder, All Music Guide.
From the 1969 album The Comfortable Chair
Child's Garden


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Post-ligation neurological syndrome (PLNS) remains a major frustration. It's gratifying that we are increasingly able to diagnose and close shunts but equally heart-breaking when everything goes pear-shaped post-op. The spectre of a horrible week of distressing, potentially very expensive and frequently-fatal seizuring in intensive care complicates the whole decision-making process. There's an obvious need to discuss possible complications frankly with owners and, because of this, many go un-operated.
J Vet Emerg Crit Care (San Antonio). 2016 Nov;26(6):831-836. doi: 10.1111/vec.12431. Epub 2015 Dec 18.
Successful treatment of refractory seizures with phenobarbital, propofol, and medetomidine following congenital portosystemic shunt ligation in a dog.
J Vet Intern Med. 2011 Nov-Dec;25(6):1379-84.
Incidence of postoperative seizures with and without levetiracetam pretreatment in dogs undergoing portosystemic shunt attenuation.
Fryer KJ1, Levine JM, Peycke LE, Thompson JA, Cohen ND.
…and now we had a means to rescue any who slipped through that net.
There's very little published since then on how this is all working out in practice. However, our own experience reveals that before the advent of levetiracetam we operated 26 dogs with only one, non-fatal PLNS. With routine pre-op levetiracetam we have seen 2/21 suffer fatal seizures which proved uncontrollable despite the use of medetomidine.
In cats, there appears to be nothing published on the use on levetiracetam for shunt surgery but, in articles, relating to its use in this species in other scenarios there is no suggestion of untoward adverse effects.
J Vet Intern Med. 2018 May;32(3):1145-1148. doi: 10.1111/jvim.15129. Epub 2018 Apr 19.
Serum levetiracetam concentrations and adverse events after multiple dose extended release levetiracetam administration to healthy cats.
Barnes Heller H1, Granick M1, Van Hesteren M1, Boothe DM2.
Since the publication of this article we have used levetiracetam pre-operatively in three cats undergoing shunt attentuation. 1/3 suffered fatal PLNS.
OK, so what to do when faced with a neurological post-surgical scenario?
If the patient received levetiracetam pre-op then it is probably sensible to continue. If they weren't on it pre-op then add it now. Levetiracetam is available as an injectable solution for infusion.
start a propofol CRI (dose to effect; 0.01-0.25mg/kg/min) for at least 24 hrs to maintain a semi-comatose state.
medetomidine/dexmedetomidine: Heidenreich used a medetomidine CRI dose of 0.016 microgrammes/kg/min in addition to a pre-existing propofol CRI.
Benzodiazepines (diazepam, midazolam): firstly it is generally agreed that these are ineffective in PLNS scenarios. Secondly they may exacerbate hepatic encephalopathy.
It's important to note that the dog successfully managed by Heidenreich et al. was hospitalised for 25 days!!. This is the kind of information which needs to be factored into pre-op discussion.


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John L. Sullivan Collection
John L. Sullivan Collection: Home
Collection Ref.: IE BL/SC/JLS
Title: John L. Sullivan Collection
Level of description: Item
Extent: 3 cassette tapes & typescript material
Administrative History:
IE BL/SC/JLS is the John L. Sullivan Collection held in UCC Library. This collection was donated to the library by Máirín Mac Góráin in 2007.
Biographical History:
John L. Sullivan was a native of West Cork and veteran of the War of Independence.
The collection comprises of 3 cassette tapes of interviews conducted by Riobaird Mac Góráin. Also tss transcripts of same. The interviews were conducted in 1986 when Sullivan was aged 85.
A member of the Pro Treaty side in the Civil War, Sullivan describes his motivations and the people he encountered and served with. He also describes his earlier involvement with the Volunteer movement, his subsequent arrest and incarceration in Cork Jail and Port Laoise Prison. He describes encounters with many of the notable personalities of the period, including an encounter with Michael Collins in Bandon the day before his assassination. After the war of Independence Sullivan joined the Army Comrades and subsequently the 'Blueshirt' movement under the leadership of Eoin O'Duffy. In 1950 he was elected to Cork County Council and became the longest serving member there. In the course of the interview he gives his thoughts on the development of Local Authorities in Ireland and the role they play in society.
Email: specialcollectionsarchives@ucc.ie
Finding Aid: Item descriptions (see separate tab above, next to 'Home' tab)
Collection Access: The cassette tapes are currently not available for researcher access. Access is via the transcriptions.
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Katara & Aang. . HD Wallpaper and background images in the Avatar The Last Airbender club tagged: avatar airbender last aang katara kataang.
But Katara DOSEN'T love him.
Then why did she marry him?
Get over it, Zutara didn't happen.
In the series before the invasion she has on her blue tunic but here she has on her swimsuit. Why is that?


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Q: Trouble getting all records from a database where X I'm using this MVC framework as I have to.
The framework has a database structure built in however I'm having trouble understanding how the where function works.
This is what I'm trying
public static function get_lesson_by_user_id($uid) {
    return self::where('leerling', $uid)->get();
}

I'm expecting all rows to be returned where the uid is the value of the leerling column.
However I'm getting a foreach error (I'm guessing it's because I'm not using the where() function properly?)
Warning: foreach() argument must be of type array|object, string given in C:\Users\Victor\Desktop\Easy Drive Examen\core\database\QueryBuilder.php on line 378

This is the where function
    /**
 * This method finds one or more rows matching specific criteria in the database and binds it to the Model, then returns the Model.
 * @param $where
 * @return $this
 * @throws Exception
 */
public function where($where, $limit = "", $offset = ""): Model
{
    $this->cols = App::DB()->setClassName(get_class($this))->describe(static::$table);
    $this->rows = App::DB()->setClassName(get_class($this))->selectAllWhere(static::$table, $where, $limit, $offset);
    return $this;
}

selectAllWhere function
    /**
     * This method selects rows from a table in a database where one or more conditions are matched.
     * @param string $table
     * @param $where
     * @param string $limit
     * @param string $offset
     * @return array|false
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public function selectAllWhere(string $table, $where, $limit = "", $offset = "")
    {
        return $this->selectWhere($table, "*", $where, $limit, $offset);
    }

I honestly have no clue what the proper way to use this where function is and I'm stuck on finding out what's giving me the error.


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Release Day Launch & Giveaway: Enforce (Eagle Elite #1.5) by Rachel Van Dyken
Posted December 18, 2014 by bookstobreathe in Book Blitz/Promo, Giveaway, New Release / 0 Comments
Title: Enforce
Author: Rachel Van Dyken
Series: Eagle Elite #1.5
Release Date December 18, 2014
Genres: Dark Romance, New Adult Romance
Purchase From: Barnes & Noble
Purchase From: iTunes
Purchase From: Kobo
Purchase From: Audible
There's two sides to every story...
And ours? Isn't pretty...
Then again, what's pretty about the mafia?
Trace Rooks, that's what.
But she only wants one of us, and I'll kill him before I let him have her.
The only problem?
We're cousins.
And she may just be our long lost enemy.
Whoever said college was hard, clearly didn't attend Eagle Elite University.
Welcome to hell also known as the Mafia where blood is thicker than life, and to keep yours? Well, keep your friends close, and your enemies?
Even closer...
Trailer: Nixon
Trailer: Chase
Trailer: Phoenix
Trailer: Tex
Elite (Eagle Elite, #1)
Amazon US | B&N | iTunes
When I won the annual Eagle Elite College Scholarship lottery, I was thrilled. After all, my grandma had just died and I wanted to take care of my aging grandpa — he couldn't be a farmer in Wyoming forever. And graduating from Eagle Elite meant opportunity.
But I wasn't counting on meeting Nixon.
Nor was I counting on the rules of the Elect.
1. Do not touch The Elect.
2. Do not look at The Elect.
3. Do not speak to The Elect.
And worst of all? Don't discover the secret they hide, because in the end, you may just realize… it's about you.
Elect (Eagle Elite, #2)
Amazon US | Amazon CA | Amazon UK
Would you die for the one you love?
Nixon Abandonato made his choice. And now he has to pay the price. Tracey is the love of his life, but being with him has made her a target of his family's enemies. The only way to keep Trace alive is convince the world she means nothing to him.
Trace Rooks has fallen irrevocably in love with the son of her family's sworn rival, and she knows in her bones nothing can tear them apart. Until Nix suddenly pushes her away and into the arms of his best friend… But Trace isn't ready to give up on a future with Nix–and if he won't fight for them, she will.
In the end, a sacrifice must be made. A life for a life. For what better way to cover a multitude of sins than with the blood of a sinner . . .
Entice (Eagle Elite, #3)
Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon CA
"As burns this saint, so burns my soul. I enter alive, and I will have to get out dead."
Chase Winter let the love of his life slip through his fingers and into the hands of his best friend and mafia boss of the Abandanato family. Now that he's been given a second chance to right a wrong–he refuses to let his own selfishness stand in the way. The only problem? He's not fully in possession of his heart, so when Mil De Lange, the girl who's innocence he stole, and heir to the worst of the worst mafia families in the US, asks him for a favor. He actually says yes, not realizing that that one yes has the power to destroy them all.
Mil's been in love with Chase as long as she can remember, but as the years went by, the love turned to hate, and now that he's agreed to help her, she's wondering if she made a fatal error. Because Chase isn't a teenager anymore. He's a hot blooded male, bent on owning every part of her body and soul, and willing to kill anyone in his path who dares stand in the way.
It's time for secrets to finally be revealed…but make no mistake, it's going to take a lot of bloodshed for those truths to be discovered.
You've never read a New Adult Mafia story like this before…loyalties will be tested, lovers reunited, and friendships obliterated. Welcome to the Family. Blood in–No out.
Elicit (Eagle Elite, #4)
Cursed, numb, rejected, scorned, wicked, sinister, dark, twisted…my name is Tex Campisi and this is my legacy. I killed my father in cold blood and lost my soul right along with him.
I crave war more than peace, and I'm about to take my place in history as the youngest Capo dei Capi in the Cosa Nostra…that is until someone stops me, saves me from myself.
But the only person able to do that…is my best friends sister, Mo Abandanato, and she just ripped my heart out and asked me to hold it in my hands while she put bullets through it.
Im cursed so I did it.
I'm numb so I held it.
I'm wicked so I liked it.
I used the pain Mo caused as a catalyst to turn into my biggest nightmare–the five families greatest enemy. It's my turn to take a stand, knowing full well I'm going to lose my mind to the madness that is the American Mafia. I've always been told Blood is thicker than life. I wish I would have listened. Because regardless of who you love? You will betray. You will kill.
Blood Always Wins.
The only way out is death…yours.
Welcome to the Dark Side of the Family.
Ember (Eagle Elite,#5) (coming 2.19.15)
Phoenix's story!
About Rachel Van Dyken
Rachel Van Dyken is the #1 New York Times Bestselling, Wall Street Journal, And USA Today bestselling author of over 80 books ranging from contemporary romance to paranormal. With over four million copies sold, she's been featured in Forbes, US Weekly, and USA Today. Her books have been translated in more than 15 countries. She was one of the first romance authors to have a Kindle in Motion book through Amazon publishing and continues to strive to be on the cutting edge of the reader experience. She keeps her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, adorable son, naked cat, and two dogs.
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Release Day Blitz: Infraction (Players Game #2) by Rachel Van Dyken
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Release Day Blitz: Cheater's Regret (Curious Liaisons #2) by Rachel Van Dyken
Release Day Blitz + Giveaway: The Matchmaker's Replacement (Wingmen Inc #2) by Rachel Van Dyken
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The department of geography and geology, Central University of Punjab (CUP), has been selected by the Geological Society of India as a test centre for students of classes XI and XII of the Malwa region.
The department is among the 80 test centres, which will conduct the entrance test to select students for International Earth Science Olympiad (IESO), 2019.
Earlier, the test was conducted in Chandigarh, Amritsar and Pathankot. Now with Central University of Punjab selected as a test centre for IESO exam, Bathinda would be a popular destination.
Jitendra Kumar Pattanaik, officiating head, department of geography and geology, CUP, said, "Selecting CUP as the centre for IESO entrance exam will not only help interested students from this part of state to participate in this prestigious event, but will also provide an opportunity to them to represent India in the 13th edition of IESO 2019 at Daegu in South Korea to be organised in September by International Geoscience Education Organisation.
Pattanaik added, "Such initiatives will spread awareness of career perspectives in earth sciences field as geologist in Geological Survey of India, mining sector, petroleum and gas sector, NHPC, civil engineering projects and central ground water boards.
He said maximum schools should participate in this olympiad and should encourage students to submit their application by January 15 and appear in the IESO test on January 19 at Central University of Punjab.
International Earth Science Olympiad is an annual competition for secondary school students. Its aim is to promote geo science education worldwide and foster-friendly relationship among young learners from different countries. Besides, it will promote international cooperation in exchanging ideas and materials on earth sciences and earth sciences education.
The department is among the 80 test centres, which will conduct the entrance test to select students for International Earth Science Olympiad (IESO), 2019. Earlier, the test was conducted in Chandigarh, Amritsar and Pathankot.


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A bigoted man comes to see the many sides of racism.
Melvin Van Peebles
Godfrey Cambridge
Jeff Gerber
Estelle Parsons
Althea Gerber
Howard Caine
Mr. Townsend
D'urville Martin
Mantan Moreland
Counterman
Watermelon Man (1970) - How Now Brown Cow?
Watermelon Man (1970) - Take This Elevator To Harlem!
Watermelon Man (1970) - Is This America?
Watermelon Man (1970) - No Wonder Negroes Riot!
The Night the Sun Came Out
New York opening: 27 May 1970
Johanna Productions
Color (Technicolor)
Bigoted suburbanite Jeff Gerber wakes up to discover that he has become black. Horrified, he indulges in an orgy of hot showers, bleaches, hair straighteners, and milk. Although his children Burton and Janice display little interest in their father's metamorphosis, his wife Althea is repelled, his physician Dr. Wainwright suggests that he consult a Negro doctor, and his neighbors pay him to leave the community. The head of his insurance agency, however, is delighted by the commercial possibilities of the transformation, and the blonde Norwegian secretary Erica is immediately enraptured. When his wife and children leave for Indianapolis Gerber rejects both the proposed exploitation of the black community and Erica's implied bigotry. Moving into the black community, he opens his own office, sheds his funereal wardrobe, and enrolls in a militant self-defense unit.
Kay Kimberly
Kay E. Kuter
Dr. Wainwright
Burton Gerber
Erin Moran
Janice Gerber
Irving Selbst
Mr. Johnson
Emil Sitka
Lawrence Parke
1st passenger
Karl Lukas
2d policeman
Ray Ballard
3d passenger
Robert Dagny
Paul H. Williams
Employment office clerk
Ralph Montgomery
Drugstore boss
Charles Lampkin
Dr. Catlin
Vivian Rhodes
Erik Nelson
Matthias Uitz
Rhodie Cogan
Donna Dubrow
Frank Farmer
Andy Brandon
Hazel Medina
Ivan Beckoff
Assistant to the prod
John B. Bennett
Malcolm C. Bert
John Burton
David Curtis
Joe Ellis
Assistant prod Manager
Les Fresholtz
Ralph Hall
Virginia Jones
W. Wallace Kelley
Carl Kress
Ben Lane
Makeup Supervisor
Gene Liggett
Sydney Z. Litwack
Carl Manoogian
Key grip
Kyme Meade
Leon Mirell
Herman Raucher
Marshall Schlom
Sheldon Schrager
Edna Taylor
Luke Wolfram
Watermelon Man (1970) - Take This Elevator To Harlem! In an early scene in whiteface, Gerber (Godfrey Cambridge) reveals his bigoted views to counterman Joe (Mantan Moreland) and the gang at work, in director Mario Van Peebles' Watermelon Man, 1970.
Watermelon Man (1970) - No Wonder Negroes Riot! Having turned black, Gerber (Godfrey Cambridge) grabs a cab to the drug store to buy skin treatments, getting help from wife Althea (Estelle Parsons) in director Mario Van Peebles' Watermelon Man, 1970.
Watermelon Man (1970) - How Now Brown Cow? As wife Althea (Estelle Parsons) bemoans their failing sex life, Jeff (Godfrey Cambridge, in white-face) demurs, then wakes up black, in Mario Van Peebles' Watermelon Man, 1970.
Watermelon Man (1970) - Is This America? Encouraged by his boss, Gerber (Godfrey Cambridge) decides to confront his sudden-blackness head-on, making a date a discriminating club for lunch, in director Mario Van Peebles' Watermelon Man, 1970.
Melvin Van Peebles' Watermelon Man (1970) isn't considered a seminal "blaxploitation" title and shouldn't be...yet the film's placement at the head of a growing tsunami of black-themed American movies in the 1970s should not go unmarked. A former San Francisco cable car gripman (by way of a degree in literature at Ohio Wesleyan University and service in the United States Air Force) with a stack of unpublished books and movie-making aspirations, Melvin Peebles relocated to Europe in the 60s to study astronomy on the GI Bill. It was in Holland that he added the "van" to his name for performances with the Dutch National Theater. In France, Lithuanian filmmaker Jonas Mekas exhibited Van Peebles' short films at the Cinémathèque Française. Impressed by what he saw, Cinémathèque founder Henri Langlois invited the American expatriate to Paris.
While living in the City of Lights, Van Peebles wrote several novels before landing a $60,000 grant from the French Cinema Center to adapt one of them as a feature film. Shot as La Permission over the course of 36 days, Van Peebles' feature film debut was the French entry into the 1967 San Francisco Film Festival, for which it was retitled The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967). The bittersweet tale of a spirited, short-lived interracial romance between a black American soldier and a white French girl, The Story of a Three-Day Pass was picked up for stateside distribution and opened doors for its director in Hollywood.
To hear Melvin Van Peebles tell the story, Hollywood was shamed by the fact that the French entry in an American Film Festival was the work of an expatriate Negro. With the doddering studio system desperate to put a black man in the director's chair, Van Peebles kept Hollywood waiting before he agreed to sign a contract – paving the way for Gordon Parks to make The Learning Tree (1969) and Shaft (1971) and Ossie Davis to direct Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970). Van Peebles eventually hired on with Columbia Pictures, who offered him the script The Night the Sun Came Out on Happy Hollow Lane, adapted by New York writer Herman Raucher from his novel of the same name. (Raucher would strike it big a year or so later with his celebrated screenplay for the nostalgic hit Summer of '42.) Columbia wanted the project, about a crass white insurance salesman who wakes up black, as a vehicle for Jack Lemmon or rising star Alan Arkin. Van Peebles thought a black actor should play the role, given that the character is black-skinned for ninety percent of the film. Eventually Van Peebles got his way and was able to cast Godfrey Cambridge, an Obie-winning, Tony-nominated stage actor and topical comedian who had just made the leap from episodic TV to prominent roles in such feature films as The President's Analyst (1967), The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968) and Cotton Comes to Harlem.
It's jarring to see Godfrey Cambridge capering in unconvincing whiteface during Watermelon Man's opening frames. With his clay-colored skin, carroty hairpiece and Cheshire Cat grin, Cambridge's Jeff Gerber resembles no one so much as Alfred E. Newman, which is oddly appropriate as Van Peebles had a sideline in Paris translating Mad magazine into French. Played for the broadest of laughs, Watermelon Man goes for an edgy, discomfiting level of hysteria that may be difficult to fully appreciate for anyone born post-All in the Family. The film's anger isn't surface-level but holds its breath just below and is palpable in a number of acidic exchanges, as when a pre-transformation Gerber kids his black bus driver (D'Urville Martin) that during slavery he would have had to drive from the back of the bus or when a cocoa-colored Gerber complains to the manufacturer of his sun lamp that he is "a little darker than is necessary." Chased down by an alarmist mob of white suburbanites while running for his morning bus (the assumption being that a black man can only run from something), Watermelon Man recalls the mobbed "baby killer" of Joseph Losey's M (1951) but taken end to end is closer kin as a nightmare fantasy to Kurt Neumann's sci-fi classic The Fly (1958). It's a coin toss as to which film has the more tragic conclusion.
Having spent, by his own calculation, "80% of the energy on Watermelon Man...fighting in the corridors of power," Melvin Van Peebles turned his back on an offered three-picture deal with Columbia. Taking $70,000 of his earnings and a $50,000 loan from comic/entrepreneur Bill Cosby, Van Peebles moved on to the leaner and infinitely meaner Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971), which he shot guerilla style using an all black cast. A seminal title in the controversial canon of "blaxploitation," the film grossed $10 million, nearly equaling the take on Cotton Comes to Harlem and Shaft but a greater success relative to cost. But beyond the box office, Sweet Sweetback... had a greater value for blacks in its rejection of white custodianship, in having been made completely outside the Hollywood system, in being a film by African Americans for African Americans.
Sadly, Van Peebles was never able to repeat this level of success and influence. It remains one of the cruel ironies of his career that Van Peebles' contributions to black cinema are largely forgotten while black-themed films made by white directors (among them Barry Shear's Across 110th Street (1972), Jack Starrett's Slaughter [1972], Jack Hill's Coffy [1973] and Larry Cohen's Black Caesar [1973]) linger as pop culture touchstones. To this day, Van Peebles continues to publish, and to write and act both on his own and in partnership with his son, actor-director Mario Van Peebles. He has also been recognized by no less a figure than Spike Lee as "the Godfather of black films."
Producer: John B. Bennett
Director: Melvin Van Peebles
Screenplay: Herman Raucher
Cinematography: W. Wallace Kelley
Art Direction: Malcolm C. Bert, Sydney Z. Litwack
Music: Melvin Van Peebles
Film Editing: Carl Kress
Cast: Godfrey Cambridge (Jeff Gerber), Estelle Parsons (Althea Gerber), Howard Caine (Mr. Townsend), D'Urville Martin (Bus Driver), Mantan Moreland (counterman), Kay Kimberley (Erica), Kay E. Kuter (Dr. Wainwright), Scott Garrett (Burton Gerber), Erin Moran (Janice Gerber).
C-97m.
by Richard Harland Smith
Melvin van Peebles interview by Andrew Rausch, Reflections on Blaxploitation: Actors and Directors Speak (The Scarecrow Press, 2009)
"Blood Money or Money and Bloods" by Melvin van Peebles, Black Genius: African American Solutions to African American Problems (W.W. Norton & Company, 2000)
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: A Guerilla Filmmaking Manifesto by Melvin Van Peebles
"Melvin Van Peebles: The Black Movie Director as Folk Hero," Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, & Bucks: An interpretive History of blacks in American Films by Donald Bogle (Continuum International Publishing Group)
Melvin Van Peebles' Watermelon Man (1970) isn't considered a seminal "blaxploitation" title and shouldn't be...yet the film's placement at the head of a growing tsunami of black-themed American movies in the 1970s should not go unmarked. A former San Francisco cable car gripman (by way of a degree in literature at Ohio Wesleyan University and service in the United States Air Force) with a stack of unpublished books and movie-making aspirations, Melvin Peebles relocated to Europe in the 60s to study astronomy on the GI Bill. It was in Holland that he added the "van" to his name for performances with the Dutch National Theater. In France, Lithuanian filmmaker Jonas Mekas exhibited Van Peebles' short films at the Cinémathèque Française. Impressed by what he saw, Cinémathèque founder Henri Langlois invited the American expatriate to Paris. While living in the City of Lights, Van Peebles wrote several novels before landing a $60,000 grant from the French Cinema Center to adapt one of them as a feature film. Shot as La Permission over the course of 36 days, Van Peebles' feature film debut was the French entry into the 1967 San Francisco Film Festival, for which it was retitled The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967). The bittersweet tale of a spirited, short-lived interracial romance between a black American soldier and a white French girl, The Story of a Three-Day Pass was picked up for stateside distribution and opened doors for its director in Hollywood. To hear Melvin Van Peebles tell the story, Hollywood was shamed by the fact that the French entry in an American Film Festival was the work of an expatriate Negro. With the doddering studio system desperate to put a black man in the director's chair, Van Peebles kept Hollywood waiting before he agreed to sign a contract – paving the way for Gordon Parks to make The Learning Tree (1969) and Shaft (1971) and Ossie Davis to direct Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970). Van Peebles eventually hired on with Columbia Pictures, who offered him the script The Night the Sun Came Out on Happy Hollow Lane, adapted by New York writer Herman Raucher from his novel of the same name. (Raucher would strike it big a year or so later with his celebrated screenplay for the nostalgic hit Summer of '42.) Columbia wanted the project, about a crass white insurance salesman who wakes up black, as a vehicle for Jack Lemmon or rising star Alan Arkin. Van Peebles thought a black actor should play the role, given that the character is black-skinned for ninety percent of the film. Eventually Van Peebles got his way and was able to cast Godfrey Cambridge, an Obie-winning, Tony-nominated stage actor and topical comedian who had just made the leap from episodic TV to prominent roles in such feature films as The President's Analyst (1967), The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968) and Cotton Comes to Harlem. It's jarring to see Godfrey Cambridge capering in unconvincing whiteface during Watermelon Man's opening frames. With his clay-colored skin, carroty hairpiece and Cheshire Cat grin, Cambridge's Jeff Gerber resembles no one so much as Alfred E. Newman, which is oddly appropriate as Van Peebles had a sideline in Paris translating Mad magazine into French. Played for the broadest of laughs, Watermelon Man goes for an edgy, discomfiting level of hysteria that may be difficult to fully appreciate for anyone born post-All in the Family. The film's anger isn't surface-level but holds its breath just below and is palpable in a number of acidic exchanges, as when a pre-transformation Gerber kids his black bus driver (D'Urville Martin) that during slavery he would have had to drive from the back of the bus or when a cocoa-colored Gerber complains to the manufacturer of his sun lamp that he is "a little darker than is necessary." Chased down by an alarmist mob of white suburbanites while running for his morning bus (the assumption being that a black man can only run from something), Watermelon Man recalls the mobbed "baby killer" of Joseph Losey's M (1951) but taken end to end is closer kin as a nightmare fantasy to Kurt Neumann's sci-fi classic The Fly (1958). It's a coin toss as to which film has the more tragic conclusion. Having spent, by his own calculation, "80% of the energy on Watermelon Man...fighting in the corridors of power," Melvin Van Peebles turned his back on an offered three-picture deal with Columbia. Taking $70,000 of his earnings and a $50,000 loan from comic/entrepreneur Bill Cosby, Van Peebles moved on to the leaner and infinitely meaner Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971), which he shot guerilla style using an all black cast. A seminal title in the controversial canon of "blaxploitation," the film grossed $10 million, nearly equaling the take on Cotton Comes to Harlem and Shaft but a greater success relative to cost. But beyond the box office, Sweet Sweetback... had a greater value for blacks in its rejection of white custodianship, in having been made completely outside the Hollywood system, in being a film by African Americans for African Americans. Sadly, Van Peebles was never able to repeat this level of success and influence. It remains one of the cruel ironies of his career that Van Peebles' contributions to black cinema are largely forgotten while black-themed films made by white directors (among them Barry Shear's Across 110th Street (1972), Jack Starrett's Slaughter [1972], Jack Hill's Coffy [1973] and Larry Cohen's Black Caesar [1973]) linger as pop culture touchstones. To this day, Van Peebles continues to publish, and to write and act both on his own and in partnership with his son, actor-director Mario Van Peebles. He has also been recognized by no less a figure than Spike Lee as "the Godfather of black films." Producer: John B. Bennett Director: Melvin Van Peebles Screenplay: Herman Raucher Cinematography: W. Wallace Kelley Art Direction: Malcolm C. Bert, Sydney Z. Litwack Music: Melvin Van Peebles Film Editing: Carl Kress Cast: Godfrey Cambridge (Jeff Gerber), Estelle Parsons (Althea Gerber), Howard Caine (Mr. Townsend), D'Urville Martin (Bus Driver), Mantan Moreland (counterman), Kay Kimberley (Erica), Kay E. Kuter (Dr. Wainwright), Scott Garrett (Burton Gerber), Erin Moran (Janice Gerber). C-97m. by Richard Harland Smith Sources: Melvin van Peebles interview by Andrew Rausch, Reflections on Blaxploitation: Actors and Directors Speak (The Scarecrow Press, 2009) "Blood Money or Money and Bloods" by Melvin van Peebles, Black Genius: African American Solutions to African American Problems (W.W. Norton & Company, 2000) Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: A Guerilla Filmmaking Manifesto by Melvin Van Peebles "Melvin Van Peebles: The Black Movie Director as Folk Hero," Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, & Bucks: An interpretive History of blacks in American Films by Donald Bogle (Continuum International Publishing Group)
Director Van Peebles incurred the studio's wrath by agreeing to, and not delivering, an alternate ending wherein the character played by Godfrey Cambridge awakens to find that everything that transpired before was "just a dream." Van Peebles felt the predominantly white studio execs would choose the "less threatening to whites" ending and thus harm his creative integrity.
The working title of this film is The Night the Sun Came Out.
Released in United States January 1990
Released in United States June 1990
Released in United States Spring May 27, 1970
Shown at Museum of Modern Art, New York City in a Melvin Van Peebles retrospective June 22-30, 1990.
Shown at United States Film Festival Park City, Utah January 20-28, 1990.
Released in United States January 1990 (Shown at United States Film Festival Park City, Utah January 20-28, 1990.)
Released in United States June 1990 (Shown at Museum of Modern Art, New York City in a Melvin Van Peebles retrospective June 22-30, 1990.)


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Q: SQL Table Variables - adding constraint that checks for existence of matching row set Updating with pmbAustin's suggestion
pmbAustin, thanks. I think that will work. I've created a function "dbo.CK_WinteamSportExists" that returns a 0 or 1. However I'm now getting a baffling error message. When I tested my solution I get the following:
create table #check
(
SportID int
,WinTeamID int
,LoseTeamID int
,check
(
(dbo.CK_WinteamSportExists (WinTeamID , SportID) = 1)
)
)

Error Message:
Msg 4121, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Cannot find either column "dbo" or the user-defined function or aggregate "dbo.CK_WinteamSportExists", or the name is ambiguous.
I tried using a fully qualified name "mydatabase.dbo.CK_WinteamSportExists", no dice.
It appears that I've got the syntax wrong in the check, but for the life of me I can't find the error.
Original Question
I am trying to enforce referential integrity on a table variable.  I'm working in SQL Server 2012.
declare @GameID_Table table (
GameID int
,SportID int
,WinTeamID int
,LoseTeamID int
)

Combinations of WinTeamID/SportID and LoseTeamID/SportID in @GameID_Table must be constrained by the existence of a matching row in a separate table Link_TeamSport defined as:
create table Link_TeamSport
(
TeamID int,
SportID int
primary key (TeamID, SportID)
)

Normally I'd do this with a composite foreign key, however these are not allowed in table variables.
I also tried creating user-defined functions that check for the existence of a matching row in Link_TeamSport, but UDFs are not allowed in table variables either.
Here is an example of working code that illustrates my constraint condition.  The code below returns a result of 1 if a matching row is found and 0 if not. However, I cannot figure out how to incorporate this concept into the check constraint within @GameID_Table.
declare @winteam int
declare @sportid int
set @winteam = 1001
set @sportid = 4001

select count(*) from
(
select lts.TeamID, lts.sportid from Link_TeamSport lts
where
(@winteam = lts.TeamID and @sportid = lts.sportid)
) a

A: Use a #TempTable instead.  @TableVariables have a lot of restrictions that #TempTables don't, and also don't perform as well if you're going to have more than just a few rows in them.


The Canon PowerShot G5 X is a compact DSLR-styled bridge digital camera with a 1in sensor, built-in viewfinder and 4.2x zoom. Introduced in October 2015 alongside the slim G9X, they prolong the PowerShot G series to 5 models. The chunky G1X Mark II formally remains the flagship model with its bigger 1.5in sensor and 5x / 24-120mm zoom, however for a lot of photographers, the G5 X would be the most well-liked selection.
The PowerShot G5 X turns into the primary within the present lineup with a built-in electronic viewfinder. It's a superb one too with a big magnification, 2.36 Million dot OLED panel, proximity sensor and shooting information that turns as you compose within the portrait / tall orientation – an excellent feature I've solely seen Fujifilm implement before. There's additionally a fully-articulated side-hinged touchscreen, which offers way more flexibility than a display screen that solely tilts.
The 4.2x / 24-100mm optical range (with a 5cm closest focusing distance) could also be inherited from the G7X (and its successor the Mark II) and out-gunned by many, however stays vivid at f1.8-2.8, and the customizable lens control ring feels properly damped with positive clicks. Rounding-off the specs are built-in Wifi with Dynamic NFC, Full HD video at as much as 1080 / 60p, USB charging in-camera, and an uncommon finger wheel that's vertically-mounted and flat to the entrance floor. All of it makes the G5 X some of the highly effective 1in compacts up to now however is it best for you? In my full overview I'll element all of the options and examine it towards Sony's RX100 III, the Lumix TZ100 / ZS100 and Canon's different G fashions that will help you make the best selection!
Styled like a mini-DSLR, the PowerShot G5 X is an attractive-looking digital camera that's designed to appeal to fans. The best means to consider it's because the sensor and lens of the PowerShot G7X, however repackaged in a chunkier body with a fully-articulated display screen, digital viewfinder and more controls.
Measuring 112x76x44.2mm and weighing 377g with battery, it's understandably bigger in each dimension than the G7X, however small enough to retain the allure of different 1in sensor models. To place it in perspective, the G7X measures 103x60x40.4mm and weighs 304g with battery, whereas Sony's RX100 Mark III – arguably its main rival – measures 102x58x41mm and weighs 290g with battery. Panasonic's Lumix TZ100 / ZS100 is one other key rival, squeezing-in the identical 1in sensor and an honest viewfinder however with a 10x optical zoom and 4k video right into a body measuring 111x65x44.3mm and weighing 310g with battery.
The G7X, RX100 III and TZ100 / ZS100 could all be chunky compacts, however they'll nearly squeeze into most trouser pockets, whereas the protruding viewfinder head of the G5 X means it's extra at dwelling in a coat pocket or small bag – certainly it's starting to strategy the scale of the smallest Micro Four Thirds cameras when fitted with a pancake lens. Design-wise I used to be reminded more than as soon as of the Olympus OMD EM5 Mark II with its compact body, viewfinder hump and fully-articulated touch-screen. In fact that's a special class of digital camera when it comes to build, lens flexibility and price, however the bottom line is the G5 X is the biggest of its quick peer group.
The flip-side is the PowerShot G5 X turns into essentially the most comfy of its peer group to hold and operate. The chunkier body accommodates an honest grip on the front and a beneficiant thumb rest on the rear, permitting you to carry the digital camera very securely. And whereas its predominant rivals additionally benefit from the further stability of composing with their viewfinders to your eye, solely the G5 X allows you to flip its display screen out to the aspect and cup it within the palm of your left hand, offering even higher assist. In brief, it was straightforward to carry the G5 X very steadily, permitting me to seize stills and easy video in conditions the place different cameras would undergo from extra wobbles.
A lot of the 1in class compacts supply loads of guide controls, however the G5 X goes above and past with no fewer than three control dials. Just like the G7X earlier than it, there's a hoop across the lens barrel and a thumb wheel on the rear, however these at the moment are joined by a finger dial mounted vertically on the entrance floor. This seems to be uncommon at first, however actually it's no totally different in operation to finger dials that are embedded inside grips revealing solely their ideas above the floor – the one distinction right here is the whole dial is uncovered. In use it feels very pure, successfully being positioned additional ahead than an embedded one throughout the slim physique would have allowed – certainly I discovered its dimension and clickable suggestions have been preferable to the rear thumb wheel and the newly-damped lens ring.
It's attainable to customize the operate of all three dials from a selection of eight settings or disable them if most well-liked, and you'll assign totally different capabilities relying on in case you're in Program, Manual, Aperture or Shutter Priority or in Manual Movie mode; the settings within the Auto modes are fastened to defaults. It's additionally attainable to customize the operate of the AF area and Movie record buttons to 23 or 24 totally different settings, and to decide on whether or not the Shutter launch locks each the main target and exposure or simply the main target, leaving exposure lock to the separate star button.
Even within the absence of further devoted operate buttons, the triplet of customized dials and a separate one devoted to exposure compensation means it's attainable to function the G5 X just about any means you want, leaving the operate of the AF area and movie buttons for additional fine-tuning if completely needed. For every thing else, Canon's on-screen Q Menu supplies fast entry with the touch interface. My solely criticism regards the movie record button which I managed to press by chance on quite a few events when selecting the digital camera up regardless of being indented throughout the thumb relaxation – possibly that's simply me although.
Composition is the spotlight of the G5 X, being the one model within the present G-series lineup to feature a side-hinged fully-articulated display screen and a built-in viewfinder. Having each make it the popular model in use, particularly as Canon's not skimped on the specification of both. So the display screen is a 3in / 1040k dot touch panel, whereas the viewfinder is a 0.39 sort OLED with 2.36 Million dots and respectable magnification. I'm happy to see the inclusion of an eye sensor to change between them, and in addition that the taking pictures data turns to stay upright within the viewfinder when composing within the portrait format – one thing I've solely seen on high-end mirrorless cameras like Fujifilm's XT1 and XT10, though like these fashions the knowledge on the display screen doesn't rotate. If most well-liked you possibly can disable the knowledge rotation on the G5 X.
The side-hinged display screen supplies nice flexibility as you possibly can comfortably compose at excessive or low angles whether or not you're taking pictures within the panorama / horizontal or portrait / vertical orientation; as somebody who shoots usually within the portrait form, I actually recognize this functionality over screens that solely tilt vertically. It additionally means the display screen can merely flip out to the aspect to face the topic for self-portraits or filming items to digital camera, fairly than having to clear the highest of the digital camera when tilting vertically, and naturally you can even flip the display screen again shut on itself for defense. As famous earlier, flipping the show out to the aspect additionally allows you to relaxation the display screen within the palm of your left hand for even higher stability.
All of Canon's PowerShot G models function touch-screens, and so they're a key benefit over Sony's RX100 series. Some photographers declare to not like them, however who wouldn't need the flexibility to reposition an AF space with a single tap? Canon's consumer interface additionally responds properly to the touch, however if you happen to proceed to be touch-phobic, you possibly can at all times flip the function off.
Sure I do love the display screen on the G5 X, however the viewfinder can be an exquisite thing to have, and invariably turned my pure selection when taking pictures with the digital camera. Having it at all times out there atop the physique could make the digital camera much less pocketable than the RX100 III, nevertheless it additionally makes it so much quicker to entry: all you do is convey the G5 X to your eye and the viewfinder kicks-into motion, whereas on the RX100 III you'll first have to pop it up, then manually pull it out in a two-step course of that's barely clumsy and far slower. I discovered it made the G5 X a faster and extra responsive digital camera, helpful to spontaneous conditions, though once more it makes the body much less pocketable than the Sony. Panasonic's Lumix TZ100 / ZS100 additionally enjoys the advantage of a viewfinder that's at all times out there, though it lacks any display screen articulation. So for me the Canon G5 X turns into the best-equipped 1in digital camera for composition.
Urgent the INFO button cycles by means of three pages of data and overlays, the primary two being customizable and the final one providing a clear view. On the customized views you possibly can select from any mixture of taking pictures particulars, a dual-axis leveling gauge, histogram and one in all two alignment grids, and it's attainable to configure the viewfinder and display screen preferences individually.
Urgent the Q button in the midst of the rear thumb wheel fires-up Canon's acquainted fast menu which superimposes rows of icons on the left and proper sides for entry to widespread settings. These range relying on mode, however in PASM you'll have fast entry to the AF space, photograph high quality, video high quality, self-timer, ND filter, metering, sensitivity and white steadiness. It's straightforward to faucet your means by means of these or certainly the whole paged menu system utilizing the display screen, or with the rocker wheel if most well-liked. You can too customise which choices seem within the Q menu, for instance including facet ratio and eradicating any of the above to reduce muddle.
The viewfinder head can be dwelling to a popup flash that's raised by hand. It's pretty small, however ample for close-range illumination and adjustable by three ranges if desired with entrance or rear curtain sync choices. In the meantime if you need extra flash energy, the G5 X can accommodate any of Canon's Speedlight flashguns on its hotshoe, a rarity on most 1in compacts and one other promoting level for Canon right here.
Behind a flap on the best aspect of the body you'll discover a Micro USB port, HDMI Micro connector and a port for the optionally available RS-60E3 remote cable; there's additionally built-in Wifi with NFC that I'll cover in detail later within the overview and you'll in fact use the Wifi to function the digital camera by remote control.
The NB-13L Lithium Ion battery and SD card are housed in a compartment beneath the digital camera, whereas the tripod thread is barely off-centre from the optical axis of the lens. Canon quotes the battery as being good for round 210 pictures. For video, I managed to movie three 1080 / 25p clips lasting 24 minutes and 22 seconds every with a full cost earlier than the battery was absolutely depleted; the 24 minute clip size was restricted by the file reaching 3.99GB in size.
Canon provides the digital camera with an external AC charger, however just like the G9X launched alongside it, the G5 X's battery will also be charged in-camera over a USB connection.
I discover internal charging over USB a lot extra handy because it permits me to top-up a depleted battery whereas I'm out and about, whether utilizing a USB port on my laptop, a conveyable USB battery, or a port on a automobile. I don't want to recollect my charger nor discover an AC outlet to sit down subsequent to. Whereas photographing London in the future with the G5 X, I seen the battery had turn out to be virtually depleted, so related it to an Anker transportable USB battery in my bag when travelling between areas; upon arriving about half an hour later the battery was virtually half-full once more, permitting me to proceed taking pictures.
Now to be honest, that is an area the place Canon is enjoying catch-up as Sony's been providing in-camera charging over USB for a very long time. Certainly on its newest fashions, together with the RX100 IV, you possibly can even shoot with the digital camera whereas it's being powered externally, whereas on the G5 X the digital camera stops charging if you happen to begin taking pictures with it. However I'm nonetheless delighted that Canon's now providing USB charging on extra fashions and in contrast to Sony it additionally at present contains an exterior AC charging unit as customary for many who choose a standard route.
The G5 X, like most compacts, depends on a contrast-based AF system which hunts forwards and backwards earlier than confirming focus. When it comes to focus areas, the PowerShot G5 X provides the same old two choices for a Canon compact: 1-point and Face / Tracking. The previous, as its identify suggests, uses a single AF area which may be repositioned wherever on the display screen with a simple tap on the specified half. That is, for me, a significant benefit over the RX100 III which doesn't have a touch-screen. You can too change the scale of the one AF body.
Change to Face / Tracking and the G5 X will try to acknowledge a human face within the composition. If it could possibly't, it falls instantly again to a multi-area system. The Face ID choice additionally means that you can register as much as 12 totally different folks by storing pictures of their faces, after which the digital camera will identify and prioritise them in the event that they're noticed on the body.
You can too select between One Shot for single autofocus or Servo for steady autofocus, though maybe counter-intuitively if you wish to maintain focusing throughout a burst, Canon recommends coupling Servo with 1-Point AF fairly than the tracking option. There's additionally a Steady AF choice within the menus, however this refers to pre-focusing the place the G5 X makes changes as you compose, earlier than you've even pressed the shutter launch to speed up the ultimate course of.
In One Shot mode, the G5 X snaps-into focus pretty swiftly, actually as quick because the higher-end Sony RX100 IV. When you have Continuous AF enabled for pre-focusing, the G5 X usually locks-onto the topic no matter focal size in lower than a second with minimal looking.
As I discussed earlier, the enjoyment of the touch-screen is having the ability to reposition a single AF space with a easy tap – one thing that's nonetheless missing even on the RX100 IV. In case you choose the automated life although, the Face / Tracking choice works properly.
It's additionally attainable to change the G5 X into guide focus and use the up and down buttons or touch-screen controls to regulate the gap utilizing an on-screen scale and elective focus peaking. Not like the G7X earlier than it, you can even now alter the main target manually whereas filming video, once more utilizing the identical management system. I'll focus on film autofocus within the film part later within the overview.
When it comes to steady taking pictures, the G5 X is quoted as having the ability to fireplace bursts at 5.9fps or 4.4fps with AF. To place it to the check I fitted a freshly-formatted UHS card, set the sensitivity to 400 ISO and the shutter velocity to 1/500 and timed a series of bursts. With the quality set to Large Fine JPEG, I fired-off 73 frames in 11.7 seconds for an average speed of 6.2fps – and the digital camera appeared completely satisfied to maintain shooting. The common speed was quicker than quoted and the preliminary few frames have been slightly quicker nonetheless. Switching the digital camera to RAW although noticed the velocity plummet to only lower than one body per second, successfully ruling it out for motion images in something apart from JPEG.
The PowerShot G5 X's mode dial provides full AUTO, Canon's Hybrid AUTO, Inventive Shot, Scene, a dedicated Film place, a Custom bank, together with Program, Aperture and Shutter Priority and full Manual.
Shutter Precedence and Guide supply entry to the total publicity vary of 1/2000 to 30 seconds, to which Guide provides a Bulb choice that helps exposures as much as 4 minutes and 16 seconds whereas the shutter is held; if the Touch Shutter is enabled, you can even begin and finish a Bulb exposure with taps on the touch-screen, however clearly you'll have to be light to keep away from wobbling it. Alternatively you possibly can set off a Bulb publicity through the smartphone app. Auto publicity bracketing is offered for three stops in a variety as much as +/-2EV.
Set the digital camera to Hybrid AUTO and it'll exploit Canon's Film Digest function to seize two to 4 seconds of video previous to you taking every photograph. These are then compiled because the day goes on right into a single film which may give a enjoyable behind-the-scenes. The thought is you usually spend not less than a few seconds organising a composition earlier than taking photographs and that is when folks in portraits can usually be most relaxed earlier than their inventory pose. When it really works properly, the compiled movies can actually be enjoyable, however at different occasions it's possible you'll seize uncomfortable or messy footage, plus there's the fixed buffering taking place which can drain your battery sooner fairly than later.
Next on the mode dial is Creative Shot which analyses the scene and grabs six pictures with totally different results, crops or rotations utilized. Unlike the G5 X, now you can select for the six pictures to be primarily based on a certain style: Retro, Monochrome, Special or Natural, or you might go for the Auto which generates a selection. In practice it could possibly work fairly properly and it's nearly like handing your digital camera to someone else to take a photograph of a well-recognized topic as you'll virtually actually find yourself with some views you hadn't anticipated.
The HDR mode takes three exposures and combines them into one to increase the tonal dynamic range of the composition, typically revealing particulars otherwise misplaced in darkish shadows or vivid highlights. You'll be able to't select the ISO sensitivity, the bracketing depth or the exposure increment between the frames, however you possibly can select from 5 totally different processing results: Pure, Artwork Standard, Art Vivid, Art Bold and Art Embossed. The pure choice is pretty sympathetic, typically boosting element in darkish shadow and mid shadow tones. The opposite choices ship a much more stylised impact which may be proper up your road, or could alternatively drive you onto one other road solely.
The Canon PowerShot G5 X is supplied with Wifi and NFC for wi-fi switch of pictures between units, GPS tagging, uploading to providers and smartphone remote control. On this respect it sounds just like earlier implementations to not point out different manufacturers, however Canon's made numerous enhancements.
Canon now provides only one smartphone app for all its cameras: Camera Connect is offered for iOS and Android devices, and I examined it on my Samsung Galaxy S6. The very first thing you'll have to do is obtain the app and if – like me – you've an NFC-equipped handset, you want solely maintain the digital camera and phone collectively for a few seconds to set off the method.
In an improve over earlier models, the G5 X can be now geared up with Dynamic NFC which implies you don't even want the digital camera to be powered-on for it to provoke communications with an NFC telephone – all you do is maintain them collectively to set off the obtain of the app and, as soon as put in, bringing the 2 units collectively will mechanically begin and join their Wifi networks then fire-up the app – all prepared for motion with out further interaction. In case you're in playback on the digital camera, you possibly can contact the units and once more they'll join mechanically earlier than then asking you to pick out pictures on the digital camera for quick switch to your telephone. These processes are a lot less complicated than earlier than the place you needed to manually begin Wifi then join the units earlier than the app would supply any control or switch. Whereas Sony's NFC implementation is arguably much more direct with zero button-presses to send a photograph on-screen, I've no complaints with Canon's newest strategy. And as before in case your phone doesn't have NFC, you possibly can provoke the method utilizing the smartphone button on the aspect of the digital camera.
The PowerShot G5 X can document Full HD video with stereo sound captured by the built-in microphones, and you'll optically zoom the lens whereas filming. You can begin recording in any mode by merely pushing the red record button on the rear, however by first turning the mode dial to Film, the digital camera unlocks superior choices.
For instance when the G5 X mode dial is about to Film you possibly can change the digital camera between auto and guide publicity, the latter permitting you to set the sensitivity (as much as 6400 ISO), shutter and aperture; there's even an Auto ISO choice in guide, permitting you to repair the aperture and shutter and let the digital camera alter the sensitivity for the sunshine ranges. Impressively you can even use the touchscreen to make silent changes to the aperture, shutter and ISO when you're filming. You can too deploy the built-in ND filter for films, though there's no Auto choice – it's both on or off.
The Film mode extends the vary of attainable body charges over the G7X to incorporate 1080 at 24p, 25p, 30p, 50p and 60p, though there's nothing quicker for gradual movement, nor any 4k; for that you simply'll want Panasonic's Lumix TZ100 / ZS100. Usefully the G5 X's film mode additionally reformats the display screen to the video facet ratio, which for HD is 16:9, permitting you to compose correctly before beginning the recording. 720p or VGA are additionally out there at 25p / 30p relying on TV area.
The utmost recording time is restricted to a second shy of half an hour or when the file reaches 4GB in dimension, whichever comes first. In case you're filming in 1080 / 60p or 1080 / 30p, count on to hit the 4GB file restrict first after about 16 and 24 minutes respectively. When it comes to battery life, I managed to document three consecutive 1080 / 25p clips lasting 24 minutes every on a full cost earlier than the battery gave up.
When it comes to focusing it's attainable to set the digital camera to auto or guide, and if the latter you possibly can alter the focusing distance utilizing the touch-screen interface whereas filming; throughout this course of you're guided by an on-screen distance bar, and if you happen to like you can even allow focus peaking to focus on the edges of areas in focus. The power to regulate guide focus distance wasn't out there on the sooner G7X and a pleasant enhancement right here.
When set to AF you should use the touchscreen to pull-focus to totally different subjects, a helpful feature that's not out there on cameras like Sony's RX100 collection up to now which in fact lack touch-screens.


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I'm happy with the schematic the way it is now, so I think we are ready to move on to the next step. The next step is to associate the schematic components with the footprints. After that, we will go into Pcbnew and do the layout. To do the associations, we will use Cvpcb. Click on the Cvpcb button to start this app.
Start Cvpcb. The components that must be associated with footprints are in the middle pane.
It will take a few seconds for the panes to be populated with data from Github. The middle pane contains the components found in the schematic. We will associate these components with appropriate footprints.
Let's start with the resistors first. In this project we are working with through hole components, so we will use resistor footprints from the "Resistors_ThrougHole" library. There are a lot of options to choose from in this library. Since we are working with footprints, we just need to find one that has the correct dimensions.
I want to use resistors with a 10mm pitch.
Take out your ruler and measure the pitch (distance) between the two ends of the resistors you would like to use on your PCB. In my case, the pitch is 10mm. With this information, I will look for a footprint that has a distance between the pads of 10mm.
This option is a resistor with a distance of 10mm between the pads.
The resistors (middle pane) are associated with the 10mm through hole resistor footprint.
In that library, So there is a library with resistors somewhere here, yes, I'll manually going to look through it. All of the components in this project are through hole components. In the next project, in the last for this course, all of the components will be SMD, so for now I'm looking inside the resistor's through hole library.
The name filter can speed up searching for a footprint.
The options returned all involve 5 pins in 1 row configurations, either angled or straight. Use the pre-viewer to see what each one will look like on the board to help you decide which one to use.
The preview of the 5×1 straight connector. This is the one we'll use.
The connector is now associated with the 1×5 straight connector footprint.
Next lets work on the seven-segment display. The keywords filter does not return anything useful, maybe it does, but maybe we need to augment it with a number of pins filter.
With the keyword and pins filter selected, the right pane contains a small list of footprints that I can potentially associate with. We must find the best one manually.
To find the best footprint for our seven segment display we must ensure that the type of pins (through hole) and the dimensions are correct. The name and the preview of each footprints will help us in this. Avoid components that contains the letters "SMD" since they represent surface-mounted components (we'll work with them in the next project). Look for footprints that contain "7-segment" as a part of their name.
Footprint "7SegmentLED_LTS6760_LTS6780" has the right measurements and pin type.
Completed with associating the seven segment display component with a footprint.
Finally, let's work on the shift register. It's a 74HC595 and I looked up the documentation and its data sheet, it's up here in the NXP website. And the part that I want to use is this one here and you can see that the name of the package that my shift register uses is DIP16 or SO16.
As per the data sheet, the 595 shift register I wish to use comes in a DIP16 package.
So, we should search for a DIP16 footprint. The way that we configured the filters earlier return several options, one of which is the DIP-16_300 footprint, inside the "Sockets_DIP" library. In Kicad 4, this footprint is inside the "Housings_DIP" library.
Preview this footprints and ensure that its dimensions match the dimensions of the actual part.
It is important to cross-check that a candidate footprint matches the dimensions and pin type of the real part.
Now that the associations are complete, click on the Save button to commit them, and return to Eeschema. Before we forget, let's save the schematic in Eeschema. The last thing to do before we move on to PCBnew is to export the netlist. Create the netlist and save it in the project directory. In the next chapter we will start working on the layout in PCBnew.