Big and I went downtown today to explore the extraordinary toddler section at the Central Library, only to find out that it, due to our increasingly minimalist public funding, the main library, like our local rinky-dink library, closes on Mondays.
Having paid the parking fee, we decided to spend a morning downtown, window shopping and enjoying the energy, sights and sounds of Nicollet Avenue. Big's vocabulary is beginning to burst (we counted 26 words last week and I'd bet he's already up to 40) and he could be heard atop my shoulders while, I could only surmise by the rocking of his body, pointing this way and that to "Bus!" and "Car" and "Guy!" etc. etc. We browsed books at the local Bunns and Noodle (see Allison Bechdel for her witty renaming of the book chain), and visited the Mary Tyler Moore statue, slowly meandering our way back to the car.
Pardon the trite observation, but there is absolutely nothing like a toddler to force you to stop and be present for the smallest, loveliest moments in life. And it's not just their innate joy in all-things-new that is contagious. It is also that their pace, so much slower compared to our own, allows for such a rich perspective, if you allow yourself to be taken up in it all, as opposed to fighting for your own agenda.
At one point we stopped by a man warming up to play his trumpet for the noon-hour pedestrians on their way to lunch. Big threw in a coupla bucks and we sat down to hear him play for a while. He was mesmerized by the sound and when the guy broke into that old Celtic song "Danny Boy" which I happen to sing to Big nearly every night (changing the words, usually to "[Big's first name] Boy") I am fairly sure I saw a hint of recognition in his eyes.
We had not requested the song, or even shared a word with this man, yet, somehow, he choose a song that Big and I share when we are extremely close -- those moments before sleep. While I am no longer surprised by that sort of connection that living beings have with one another--I believe that we truly feel one another at some deep level that is infinitely more powerful than our formal forms of communication--I was, nonetheless, moved deeply.
He played it a second time and we sat for the entire rendition, only a few feet away from our soloist, Big tucked under my arm, watching, me softly singing along in his ear.
And then we moved on, Big pointing out buses, police cars and our little tram, climbing and jumping off of planters, taking our time back toward the car.
What a great, fabulous moment with the trumpeter. There's nothing like slowing down your pace to absorb the city. Good days.
Bunns and Noodle - ha ha. I often call it that myself but my het co-workers never get it.


Simbu, Hansika starred Vaalu has completed its censor formalities today [March 11] and the rom com Tamil movie has been certified with a clean U by the board.
Vaalu team is excited and apparently expecting a clean U certificate. Simbu and team have come up with a complete family entertainer this time around, which is certainly a good news for all film buffs.
"#vaalu censor happening Tom just feeling good after completion of all postproduction works", SS Thaman Tweeted earlier.
It is for the first time that a movie has topped the Twitter trends on the censor day, STR's Vaalu takes the credits. As Simbu fans expected, Vaalu has got a clean chit, it is to be seen if the movie will hit the screens on the announced release date, March 27th. The movie is running for 2 hours and 34 minutes.
On the occasion of Womens Day [March 8], Simbu arranged special screening of Vaalu for his mother.
Usha Rajender is a big critic for her Son, but this time she is heavily impressed with the picture and praised Silambarasan for putting up a scintillating performance in 'Vaalu'. Hansika has paired opposite Simbu in this film, while Santhanam provided comedy.
Directed by debutante Vijay Chander, Vaalu is an NIC Arts production film that enjoys Thaman's muisc. Santhanam will be seen in a key role in SS Chakravarthy produced Vaalu that is slated for March 27th release.


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Home » TV & Movies » 'The Real World Homecoming: Los Angeles': Tami Roman Shocked to Learn Every Woman in the House Had an Abortion in the Past – 'I Felt Alone'
'The Real World Homecoming: Los Angeles': Tami Roman Shocked to Learn Every Woman in the House Had an Abortion in the Past – 'I Felt Alone'
Tami Roman revealed to MTV's The Real World Homecoming: Los Angeles cast that the reason production didn't film the second day after she had an abortion was due to a complication – she was actually pregnant with twins.
Her revelation prompted Irene Berrera-Kearns and Beth Anthony to share they too had abortions prior to coming to the house, but they never told anyone. Roman said knowing that and having more of their support during her ordeal would have been helpful because she felt very alone in the moment. Beth Stolarczyk sat by, silently and eventually pulled Roman aside to privately tell her she too had an abortion.
Irene Berrera-Kearns surprises 'Real World' cast with story about her abortion
That's when Berrera-Kearns shared that she too had an abortion before she came to the house. "Well, there's something I want to share with you," she revealed. "I too had an abortion before I came onto the show. At first, I made the decision that I was going to keep the baby. And I was 23 at the time."
"I kept on playing the scenario over in my head with this person who I was going to have this baby with," she recalled. "And I thought, No, this is not the man that I want to be the father of my children. Just the other day, I finally told my mom for the first time, I did abort it. For me personally, it was like the hardest decision I ever made when I, you know?"
Beth Anthony also had an abortion, she revealed
But then Anthony shared her story. "I was young and in Hollywood and I was dating a really well-known actor," she shared. "And I got pregnant and I was like, this is going to get really complicated, really fast and I don't want to have to be connected to someone who may not want this. I know I did the right thing because I would still be entangled with him. And it and it might not have been healthy."
Berrera-Kearns shared that three out of the four women in the house had an abortion. "I had an abortion. Tami had one," she said. "Beth A. had one. There were three girls in that house that had one. In the long run, it doesn't shock me because we're women that back then we knew what we wanted. Even though we were young. So I consider all three of us very strong women to have to go through something like that."
Tami Roman says she would have felt less alone if the women shared their stories with her
And while Roman felt supported by the cast and hearing Berrera-Kearns and Anthony's stories, she wished they would have come forward at the time. "I know when I announced it to the house, I felt alone," Roman said. "So to hear you ladies today say, you know, I went through it too. I think that would be nice. I had so much shame. You know, each one of us has our own experience, and maybe I wasn't able to forgive myself in that moment. Maybe that's the truth."
Berrera-Kearns said she too experienced shame. "I should have had a conversation because I was just too ashamed at the time," she recalled. "Because I was Catholic, you know. I did go to church back then, and when I saw you go through this pain and I apologize because I thought maybe I could have added a little comfort because I knew what you were going through."
Roman said she didn't need to apologize.
Later Stolarczyk revealed to Roman that when she was 19 she had sex for the first time and got pregnant. She shared she had an abortion. "It was a very mutual decision to not have the baby," she shared. Stolarczyk said she didn't speak up in front of the group because "the whole vibe in the room seemed off to me."
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Here is my recipe for Vegan Gardein Sweet and Sour Porkless Bites with Fried Rice – a fun, conveniently easy, and yummy recipe for all to enjoy. Feel free to share, and I hope you enjoy it as much as my family has!
Add the onion, red bell pepper, green bell pepper, and red pepper flakes. Sauté for 2- 3 minutes until slightly soft.
Add the frozen peas, and sauté for an additional 2-3 minutes until cooked.
Add the cooked rice, garlic powder, soy sauce, water, and 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil. Sauté for 7-9 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Let it cool for 2 minutes. Then serve your Gardein Sweet and Sour Porkless Bites over the fried rice and enjoy!
This is a Gardein recipe that knocks it out of the park – super scrumptious, healthy, and pure convenient. I just love it, and I hope you do, too. You are welcome to share the recipe with friends and family via social media so we can spread the word about Gardein's delicious, nutritious, and easy meals. As always, feel free to comment and let us know your thoughts.
We are big on healthy eating and your recipe is exactly one my family will love to eat. Super delicious, easy, and healthy!
Thanks so much for your feedback, Eileen! We are big on healthy eating, too!
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Panagiotis Karagiannidis June 28, 2011
BEHEMOTH recently rehearsed for the first time since Adam "Nergal" Darski, was diagnosed with leukemia last August.
Nergal, who underwent a bone marrow transplant procedure in December, said, "Sooo, first rehearsals after the transplant are under our belts! I didn't want to get overexcited at first, just wanted to see how things would go, but I have to tell you… the second rehearsal we fuckin' nailed 'Ov Fire And The Void', 'Lucifer', 'Conquer All' and 'Antichristian Phenomenon' flawlessly! One of us even asked, 'Did we really take a year off from each other?' Ha ha… it was good times in great company! But the biggest surprise were the songs we NEVER played live ever and planning to do on the upcoming 'Phoenix Rising Tour'. I won't reveal any names yet, let it be a mystery 'till we hit the stage, all right?" He added, "In other news, I started jamming out some NEW shit too… [It's] too early to give any further comments, but it sounds VERY disturbing and eerie. Can't fuckin wait to unleash those ideas to my friends…"
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In a recent interview with Metal Sucks, Nergal stated about BEHEMOTH's upcoming touring activities, "The October shows [in Poland] are just to get warmed up. Then we might do some shows in Australia and Asia — that's the plan. Then the priority for early 2012 is a European tour, then shortly after that, a U.S. tour. This is our top priority for the next year and we're going to fucking do it!"
He added, "Just wait and see us on the stage. You'll see. I'm not going to reveal anything about it, but we … It's not gonna just be BEHEMOTH. It's not like time stood still for us, like we were frozen in time and are just going to appear with the same entourage and in the same outfits. No. We're going to come back, we want to remind people of our existence obviously, but we want to make a fucking impact, an impression. We want to show them that, hey, we are still fucking evolving. We're not just hoping that you'll come to see us because I was sick. Fuck that. I'll be better soon and we're going to deliver!"
Speaking to Revolver magazine in April, Nergal said, "We just decided to play some so-called comeback shows in Poland just to warm up and see how we feel, just to be onstage again together. And I really hope that it's going to turn out great and that it's going to cause other tours and stuff. We have plans until the summer of next year. We already have some cool offers. We're talking to our agents. There's some really, really cool ideas. I don't want to reveal anything yet, but once we're done with October shows, and we feel good about it, and there's chemistry onstage, we definitely want to continue the 'Evangelion' touring cycle. There's still some markets we didn't even touch. We've done over 100 shows so far to 'Evangelion'. We're going to do another 100 at least, and then we can focus on the next record.
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World, International and European premieres are favored.
The International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film – DOK Leipzig – is the largest German and one of the leading international festivals for artistic documentary and animated films.
Artistic animated film is an integral part of the festival for decades and is represented with its own, independent competition since 1995. This 'twin-track character' makes Leipzig unique in the festival landscape.
Under the motto "The HeArt of Documentary", the Festival serves the promotion and increased circulation of international documentary and animated films and provides film-makers, producers, distributors, commissioning editors, journalists and media scientists with an opportunity to meet and exchange views with each other as well as with the Leipzig cinema audiences.
DOK Leipzig has the following competitive sections:
International Competition for Documentary Film
International Competition for Animated Film
International Young Documentary Talent Competition – Generation DOK
German Competition for Documentary Film
The 2008 competitions are open to:
documentary films and videos of any length
animated films and videos of up to 45 minutes length
animadok films and videos (hybrids between documentary and animated films) of any length
For the International Competition for Documentary Film only those films can be selected that have never been screened in Germany before (including the Prix Europa). World, international or European premieres will be favoured.
For Generation DOK – the International Young Talent Competition for Documentary Film – only films of such directors shall qualify who have not made more than 3 films prior to the one submitted (excluding those during their training). The films submitted must have had no prior screening in Germany, either. World, international or European premieres will be favoured.
In the German Competition for Documentary Film world premieres will be favoured.
World, international, European or German premieres will be favoured for the International Competition for Animated Film. The prize for the best German animated film will be awarded as part of the International Competition for Animated Film.
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Patrick M. Garry: Wrestling with God: The Courts' Tortuous Treatment of Religion
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By William A. Donohue
"I spent twenty years looking for a government that I could overthrow without being thrown in jail. I finally found one in the Catholic church." That is how Frances Kissling, the president of Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC), explained her mission to a reporter from the magazine, Mother Jones. As the record shows, her rhetoric is anything but empty.
One way that Kissling works to attack the Catholic Church is to challenge
the status of the Holy See at the United Nations. The Holy See is a sovereign state and has maintained a diplomatic corps since at least the 15th century. Kissling is determined to try to convince the 170 countries around the world that exchange diplomats with the Holy See that it is unworthy of such recognition. To that end, she has orchestrated a "See Change" campaign to strip the Vatican of its permanent observer status at the U.N.
"Vatican representatives have misrepresented, distorted and lied about what women want." This is the language that Kissling chose to characterize the Holy See at the outset of the Fourth U.N. Conference on Women in Beijing. Following the precedent she set in Cairo, Kissling sought to remove the Vatican delegation from the Beijing Conference. She failed in that attempt but not in her quest to condemn the pope and the entire Catholic Church.
CFFC is often described as the nation's largest Catholic pro-choice organization. This is twice wrong: it is not Catholic and it is not an organization. It has been openly denounced by both the Vatican and the U.S. bishops as being a fraud, and it has no members. Funded almost entirely by pro-choice foundations, CFFC is not only an oxymoron, it is the establishment's most persistently anti-Catholic letterhead.
CFFC was founded in 1973, setting up shop in the headquarters of New York's Planned Parenthood office building. Once Roe v. Wade legalized abortion, CFFC joined with the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, moving decisively to counter efforts for a Human Life Amendment. Its first president, Father Joseph O'Rourke, was expelled from the Jesuits in 1974; he served as CFFC president until 1979. Kissling took over in 1982 and has been responsible for shaping the anti-Catholic agenda of CFFC more than anyone else.
Kissling has long thrived on direct confrontation with the Vatican. In October 1984, CFFC ran an ad in the New York Times titled "Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion." The ad, which was designed and placed through Planned Parenthood, maintained that there were differing "legitimate Catholic positions" on abortion. Such reasoning has become a staple of CFFC thought and informs its approach to Catholicism in general. For Kissling, there can never be enough dissent from the Catholic Church.
The credibility of CFFC hangs on its alleged Catholicity. The media court CFFC because it allegedly offers a contrasting voice within the Catholic community on the subject of abortion. Now no one doubts that there are some Catholics (approximately one-third) who differ with the Catholic Church's position on abortion. The question, however, is to what extent can CFFC be considered a Catholic group? Deny it the status of a Catholic organization and CFFC collapses to simply another player in the pro-abortion lobby.
The following statement is typical of the way CFFC distorts Catholic teaching: "The bishops won't tell you, but CFFC will: There is an authentic prochoice Catholic position." It was due to misrepresentations like this one that on November 4, 1993, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) released a statement stating, "many people, including Catholics, may be led to believe that it [CFFC] is an authentic Catholic organization. It is not. It has no affiliation, formal or otherwise, with the Catholic Church." The bishops added that CFFC "is associated with the pro-abortion lobby in Washington, D.C." and "attracts public attention by its denunciations of basic principles of Catholic morality and teaching…." And in May 2000, the president of the NCCB, Bishop Joseph Fiorenza, denounced the group for its rejection and distortion of the Church's teachings on life issues.
Despite what the bishops have said, Kissling continues to appropriate the Catholic label in descriptions of both herself and CFFC. It is true that at one time she spent six months in a convent. But it is also true that her procurement of abortions, done illegally overseas in abortion clinics that she founded, is enough to merit her excommunication from the Catholic Church.
Kissling herself does not dispute the fact that her identification with Catholicism is based on her own definition of what it means to be a Catholic. "When I say I came back to the Church, I never came back on the old terms…. I came back to the Church as a social change agent; I came back to woman-church." Admitting that she is "not talking about coming back to Sunday Mass, confession," and the like, Kissling asserts that the hierarchy of the Church "doesn't deserve our respect."
Perhaps the most severe blow to the reputation of CFFC came on April 21, 1995. That was the day the National Catholic Reporter printed a letter by Marjorie Reiley Maguire blasting the reputation of CFFC. Maguire, an attorney who is divorced from the ex-Jesuit and Marquette theology professor, Dan Maguire, was for years a prominent CFFC activist. Indeed, she and her radical husband were once the CFFC's poster couple. But like many others who came of age in the sixties, Maguire began to have second thoughts. Included in her intellectual migration were second thoughts about CFFC and Catholicism.
In her letter, Maguire branded CFFC as "an anti-woman organization" whose agenda is "the promotion of abortion, the defense of every abortion decision as a good, moral choice and the related agenda of persuading society to cast off any moral constraints about sexual behavior." She explains that it is not the Catholic Church that is "hung up on sex." Rather it is liberals who are obsessed with sex. Questioning the right of CFFC to call itself Catholic, Maguire said, "When I was involved with CFFC, I was never aware that any of its leaders attended Mass. Furthermore, various conversations and experiences convinced me they did not."
In spite of all this, the media continue to portray CFFC as a Catholic organization in good standing. Yet even a perusal of CFFC's literature should be enough to convince anyone that CFFC has no love for the Catholic Church or for any organization that proudly defends the Church. Its 1994 publication, "A New Rite: Conservative Catholic Organizations and their Allies," lists as "the enemy" groups that range from the National Catholic Conference of Bishops to the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.
At the top of the "enemies list" for CFFC is Pope John Paul II. At the time of the Cairo Conference on Population and Development, Kissling wrote, "If there is a devil in Cairo, it can only be released by the pope's obstructionist meddling." In similar fashion, Kissling stokes the fires of anti-Catholicism by charging that "The Vatican cannot be allowed to set policy for the whole world," as if the delegation from the Holy See was doing something untoward by simply stating its position as a duly elected member of the United Nations.
Indeed, it is not below Kissling to assert that base appetites motivate the Vatican. For example, the Vatican's opposition to abortion-on-demand is not seen as a moral position. Rather its stance "is about money and power, not about spirituality."
Sometimes Kissling resorts to spin, as she did after the papal encyclical, Evangelium Vitae. In this teaching letter, Pope John Paul II decried drugs, war, international arms trade, environmental destruction, overuse of the death penalty, infanticide and experimentation on human embryos, calling them "the culture of death." Kissling's response was remarkable: "What he calls the 'culture of death' is really human freedom, being able to make choices based on conscience." This not only distorts the message of the Holy Father, it shows a hubris that is disconcerting.
CFFC, of course, contends that it is a Catholic abortion rights organization having nothing to do with anti-Catholicism. Yet even its most eloquent spokespersons can't explain why its board members continue to show up on TV shows that deal with issues that have nothing to do with abortion, but have everything to do with discrediting the Catholic Church. Or take, for example, bigoted comments made about people like the late John Cardinal O'Connor. Kissling once said of the New York Archbishop that he is "the kind of man who, if the church still had the power to burn people at the stake, would be right there lighting a fire."
In word and deed, Catholics for a Free Choice is anti-Catholic. That is why it does not deserve to be given a platform of legitimacy by any respectable organization.
This first appeared as a guest column in the October 10, 2002 issue of The Daily Catholic (vol. 13, no. 113), www.dailycatholic.org
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January 18, 2023 by Ashish Lavania
Instagram is a widely accepted social media platform that is a hub of content creation. Instagram allows people to make reels and show their talent to the rest of the world.
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Q: Prove or disprove: The minimum number of transpositions needed to decompose $\sigma$ is $n-S$. Assume that $\sigma \in S_n$ and $\sigma = \alpha_1 \dots\alpha_s$ is the decomposition of $\sigma$ into disjoint cycles, such that all of the members of $\{1,2,\dots,n\}$ are appeared in the members of $\alpha_1, \dots, \alpha_s$.
Is this statement true?

The minimum number of transpositions needed to decompose $\sigma$ is $n-S$.

A: It's true because every cycle of length $k$ can be decomposed as the product of $k-1$ transpositions. The way to see that is to observe that
$$(1,2,\ldots,k)= (1,2)(2,3)\ldots(k-1,k)$$
which can be checked directly from the formula (each $i$ goes to $i+1$ modulo $k$)

A: amakelov explains why $n-S$ transpositions are sufficient. To show that $n-S$ transpositions are necessary, one proves that for a permutation $\sigma$ and a transposition $\tau$, $\sigma\tau$ has one more, or one fewer cycle than $\sigma$. As the identity permutation has $n$ cycles, a product of $k$ transpositions has at least $n-k$ cycles. So if $k<n-S$,
a product of $k$ transpositions has more than $S$ cycles.

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Understandably, Bree grew up with a grudge against The Church of the First Born, and when she was seventeen years old, she was booted out of the community and shunned for life. Set adrift in the Northwest and cut off from the rest of her devout family, Bree made trouble – until the day she decided to start making music. The moment she plugged in, she channeled all the frustration, rejection, disbelief, and faith in herself into fierce, searing, two-fisted songs. You'll hear roots of early 70's rock, British Invasion pop, and even classic country in her sound, and more than a hint of the gospel music she grew up singing in her father's cult. Blended together, Bree and her namesake band have created their own style of 21st century no-nonsense, melodic, forcefully-delivered rock. New Skin, her sophomore ten song album on Werewolf Tunes, is filled with statements of self-actualization from a woman who has overcome tremendous adversity. "Damn, I'm Being Me Again," the lead single, could double as a message straight to the community that cast her out – an exciting statement of intent from an artist finding her voice and her footing. "Broken" is even tougher, even leaner, even harder to deny with a pounding groove deeper than the Willamette River that runs through Bree's hometown.
BREE (the band) makes a big noise – so big that you might doubt that only three people could generate it. The "Broken" clip is a testament to their power. Bree and her bandmates play with total determination and deliver their song with an intensity reminiscent of early 70's American power trios like The James Gang and Grand Funk Railroad. The video is a calling-card for BREE's spectacularly focused live show, which has already taken the combo across the Atlantic for critically acclaimed U.K. tours with The Supersuckers (Acetate), The Parlotones (Gallo), and the Lottery Winners (Warner Brothers). Everywhere they've gone, they've left stages smoking, and reaffirmed their absolute faith – not in medical miracles from above, but the power of rock and roll.
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HDR of a rain storm coming in from the East. This was actually pretty scary. Lighting was very bad and I have to admit I was somewhat scared being out in the open like this.
High-dynamic-range imaging (HDRI) is a high dynamic range (HDR) technique used in imaging and photography to reproduce a greater dynamic range of luminosity than is possible with standard digital imaging or photographic techniques. The aim is to present a similar range of luminance to that experienced through the human visual system. The human eye, through adaptation of the iris and other methods, adjusts constantly to adapt to a broad range of luminance present in the environment. The brain continuously interprets this information so that a viewer can see in a wide range of light conditions.
HDR images can represent a greater range of luminance levels than can be achieved using more 'traditional' methods, such as many real-world scenes containing very bright, direct sunlight to extreme shade, or very faint nebulae. This is often achieved by capturing and then combining several different, narrower range, exposures of the same subject matter. Non-HDR cameras take photographs with a limited exposure range, referred to as LDR, resulting in the loss of detail in highlights or shadows.
The two primary types of HDR images are computer renderings and images resulting from merging multiple low-dynamic-range (LDR) or standard-dynamic-range (SDR) photographs. HDR images can also be acquired using special image sensors, such as an oversampled binary image sensor.
Due to the limitations of printing and display contrast, the extended luminosity range of an HDR image has to be compressed to be made visible. The method of rendering an HDR image to a standard monitor or printing device is called tone mapping. This method reduces the overall contrast of an HDR image to facilitate display on devices or printouts with lower dynamic range, and can be applied to produce images with preserved local contrast (or exaggerated for artistic effect).
In photography, dynamic range is measured in exposure value (EV) differences (known as stops). An increase of one EV, or 'one stop', represents a doubling of the amount of light. Conversely, a decrease of one EV represents a halving of the amount of light. Therefore, revealing detail in the darkest of shadows requires high exposures, while preserving detail in very bright situations requires very low exposures. Most cameras cannot provide this range of exposure values within a single exposure, due to their low dynamic range. High-dynamic-range photographs are generally achieved by capturing multiple standard-exposure images, often using exposure bracketing, and then later merging them into a single HDR image, usually within a photo manipulation program). Digital images are often encoded in a camera's raw image format, because 8-bit JPEG encoding does not offer a wide enough range of values to allow fine transitions (and regarding HDR, later introduces undesirable effects due to lossy compression).
Any camera that allows manual exposure control can make images for HDR work, although one equipped with auto exposure bracketing (AEB) is far better suited. Images from film cameras are less suitable as they often must first be digitized, so that they can later be processed using software HDR methods.
In most imaging devices, the degree of exposure to light applied to the active element (be it film or CCD) can be altered in one of two ways: by either increasing/decreasing the size of the aperture or by increasing/decreasing the time of each exposure. Exposure variation in an HDR set is only done by altering the exposure time and not the aperture size; this is because altering the aperture size also affects the depth of field and so the resultant multiple images would be quite different, preventing their final combination into a single HDR image.
An important limitation for HDR photography is that any movement between successive images will impede or prevent success in combining them afterwards. Also, as one must create several images (often three or five and sometimes more) to obtain the desired luminance range, such a full 'set' of images takes extra time. HDR photographers have developed calculation methods and techniques to partially overcome these problems, but the use of a sturdy tripod is, at least, advised.
Some cameras have an auto exposure bracketing (AEB) feature with a far greater dynamic range than others, from the 3 EV of the Canon EOS 40D, to the 18 EV of the Canon EOS-1D Mark II. As the popularity of this imaging method grows, several camera manufactures are now offering built-in HDR features. For example, the Pentax K-7 DSLR has an HDR mode that captures an HDR image and outputs (only) a tone mapped JPEG file. The Canon PowerShot G12, Canon PowerShot S95 and Canon PowerShot S100 offer similar features in a smaller format.. Nikon's approach is called 'Active D-Lighting' which applies exposure compensation and tone mapping to the image as it comes from the sensor, with the accent being on retaing a realistic effect . Some smartphones provide HDR modes, and most mobile platforms have apps that provide HDR picture taking.
Camera characteristics such as gamma curves, sensor resolution, noise, photometric calibration and color calibration affect resulting high-dynamic-range images.
Color film negatives and slides consist of multiple film layers that respond to light differently. As a consequence, transparent originals (especially positive slides) feature a very high dynamic range
Tone mapping reduces the dynamic range, or contrast ratio, of an entire image while retaining localized contrast. Although it is a distinct operation, tone mapping is often applied to HDRI files by the same software package.
Several software applications are available on the PC, Mac and Linux platforms for producing HDR files and tone mapped images. Notable titles include
Dynamic Photo HDR
HDR Efex Pro
HDR PhotoStudio
MagicRaw
Oloneo PhotoEngine
Photomatix Pro
PTGui
Information stored in high-dynamic-range images typically corresponds to the physical values of luminance or radiance that can be observed in the real world. This is different from traditional digital images, which represent colors as they should appear on a monitor or a paper print. Therefore, HDR image formats are often called scene-referred, in contrast to traditional digital images, which are device-referred or output-referred. Furthermore, traditional images are usually encoded for the human visual system (maximizing the visual information stored in the fixed number of bits), which is usually called gamma encoding or gamma correction. The values stored for HDR images are often gamma compressed (power law) or logarithmically encoded, or floating-point linear values, since fixed-point linear encodings are increasingly inefficient over higher dynamic ranges.
HDR images often don't use fixed ranges per color channel—other than traditional images—to represent many more colors over a much wider dynamic range. For that purpose, they don't use integer values to represent the single color channels (e.g., 0-255 in an 8 bit per pixel interval for red, green and blue) but instead use a floating point representation. Common are 16-bit (half precision) or 32-bit floating point numbers to represent HDR pixels. However, when the appropriate transfer function is used, HDR pixels for some applications can be represented with a color depth that has as few as 10–12 bits for luminance and 8 bits for chrominance without introducing any visible quantization artifacts.
History of HDR photography
The idea of using several exposures to adequately reproduce a too-extreme range of luminance was pioneered as early as the 1850s by Gustave Le Gray to render seascapes showing both the sky and the sea. Such rendering was impossible at the time using standard methods, as the luminosity range was too extreme. Le Gray used one negative for the sky, and another one with a longer exposure for the sea, and combined the two into one picture in positive.
Manual tone mapping was accomplished by dodging and burning – selectively increasing or decreasing the exposure of regions of the photograph to yield better tonality reproduction. This was effective because the dynamic range of the negative is significantly higher than would be available on the finished positive paper print when that is exposed via the negative in a uniform manner. An excellent example is the photograph Schweitzer at the Lamp by W. Eugene Smith, from his 1954 photo essay A Man of Mercy on Dr. Albert Schweitzer and his humanitarian work in French Equatorial Africa. The image took 5 days to reproduce the tonal range of the scene, which ranges from a bright lamp (relative to the scene) to a dark shadow.
Ansel Adams elevated dodging and burning to an art form. Many of his famous prints were manipulated in the darkroom with these two methods. Adams wrote a comprehensive book on producing prints called The Print, which prominently features dodging and burning, in the context of his Zone System.
With the advent of color photography, tone mapping in the darkroom was no longer possible due to the specific timing needed during the developing process of color film. Photographers looked to film manufacturers to design new film stocks with improved response, or continued to shoot in black and white to use tone mapping methods.
Color film capable of directly recording high-dynamic-range images was developed by Charles Wyckoff and EG&G "in the course of a contract with the Department of the Air Force". This XR film had three emulsion layers, an upper layer having an ASA speed rating of 400, a middle layer with an intermediate rating, and a lower layer with an ASA rating of 0.004. The film was processed in a manner similar to color films, and each layer produced a different color. The dynamic range of this extended range film has been estimated as 1:108. It has been used to photograph nuclear explosions, for astronomical photography, for spectrographic research, and for medical imaging. Wyckoff's detailed pictures of nuclear explosions appeared on the cover of Life magazine in the mid-1950s.
Georges Cornuéjols and licensees of his patents (Brdi, Hymatom) introduced the principle of HDR video image, in 1986, by interposing a matricial LCD screen in front of the camera's image sensor, increasing the sensors dynamic by five stops. The concept of neighborhood tone mapping was applied to video cameras by a group from the Technion in Israel led by Dr. Oliver Hilsenrath and Prof. Y.Y.Zeevi who filed for a patent on this concept in 1988.
In February and April 1990, Georges Cornuéjols introduced the first real-time HDR camera that combined two images captured by a sensor3435 or simultaneously3637 by two sensors of the camera. This process is known as bracketing used for a video stream.
In 1991, the first commercial video camera was introduced that performed real-time capturing of multiple images with different exposures, and producing an HDR video image, by Hymatom, licensee of Georges Cornuéjols.
Also in 1991, Georges Cornuéjols introduced the HDR+ image principle by non-linear accumulation of images to increase the sensitivity of the camera: for low-light environments, several successive images are accumulated, thus increasing the signal to noise ratio.
In 1993, another commercial medical camera producing an HDR video image, by the Technion.
Modern HDR imaging uses a completely different approach, based on making a high-dynamic-range luminance or light map using only global image operations (across the entire image), and then tone mapping the result. Global HDR was first introduced in 19931 resulting in a mathematical theory of differently exposed pictures of the same subject matter that was published in 1995 by Steve Mann and Rosalind Picard.
On October 28, 1998, Ben Sarao created one of the first nighttime HDR+G (High Dynamic Range + Graphic image)of STS-95 on the launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. It consisted of four film images of the shuttle at night that were digitally composited with additional digital graphic elements. The image was first exhibited at NASA Headquarters Great Hall, Washington DC in 1999 and then published in Hasselblad Forum, Issue 3 1993, Volume 35 ISSN 0282-5449.
The advent of consumer digital cameras produced a new demand for HDR imaging to improve the light response of digital camera sensors, which had a much smaller dynamic range than film. Steve Mann developed and patented the global-HDR method for producing digital images having extended dynamic range at the MIT Media Laboratory. Mann's method involved a two-step procedure: (1) generate one floating point image array by global-only image operations (operations that affect all pixels identically, without regard to their local neighborhoods); and then (2) convert this image array, using local neighborhood processing (tone-remapping, etc.), into an HDR image. The image array generated by the first step of Mann's process is called a lightspace image, lightspace picture, or radiance map. Another benefit of global-HDR imaging is that it provides access to the intermediate light or radiance map, which has been used for computer vision, and other image processing operations.
In 2005, Adobe Systems introduced several new features in Photoshop CS2 including Merge to HDR, 32 bit floating point image support, and HDR tone mapping.
On June 30, 2016, Microsoft added support for the digital compositing of HDR images to Windows 10 using the Universal Windows Platform.
HDR sensors
Modern CMOS image sensors can often capture a high dynamic range from a single exposure. The wide dynamic range of the captured image is non-linearly compressed into a smaller dynamic range electronic representation. However, with proper processing, the information from a single exposure can be used to create an HDR image.
Such HDR imaging is used in extreme dynamic range applications like welding or automotive work. Some other cameras designed for use in security applications can automatically provide two or more images for each frame, with changing exposure. For example, a sensor for 30fps video will give out 60fps with the odd frames at a short exposure time and the even frames at a longer exposure time. Some of the sensor may even combine the two images on-chip so that a wider dynamic range without in-pixel compression is directly available to the user for display or processing.
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'Poo Protester' details his decision to join the DA
Ses'khona People's Rights Movement secretary Loyiso Nkohla's backing of the DA is not about the ANC election list controversy, but about improving the lives of the poor, the "poo protester" told News24 on Thursday.
by News24Wire
"We are in politics. We are not in church," he said, acknowledging that he had pledged to support the Democratic Alliance.
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