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Anthony Hamilton Returns, Readies First Holiday Album
by Gary Gentles October 1, 2014
Get ready to add Anthony Hamilton to your Holiday playlist. The R&B veteran will release his debut Christmas album, Home For The Holidays, on October 21, 2014 via RCA Records.
"This album is for the people who really love the holidays and what feelings they bring. For the families that get together and love a good time," Hamilton states in a release. "I wanted to remember every joyful, wholesome, tender, raw moment you feel during the holidays. I feel like some of the things we enjoy most, we can only feel with our hearts. Having an emotional connection to this project was essential because I want my fans to be moved by the music and associate each song with a time where no other feeling mattered but love. This album is for people who love good music."
The 14-track Home For The Holidays will boast six original tracks including, "Spend Christmas With You," "Coming Home" and "'Tis The Season" and will feature appearances from Chaka Khan, Gavin DeGraw and ZZ Ward. Covers on the set include some of the season's most beloved holiday classics like "Little Drummer Boy," "Away In A Manger" and "Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto."
Since the R&B crooner always gives his all on every record, we're guessing this will be a nice holdover until he drops his next studio LP.
Home For The Holidays Track Listing:
1. It's Christmas
2. Spend Christmas With You
3. Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto
4. Little Drummer Boy (Interlude)
5. Little Drummer Boy
6. Home For The Holidays feat. Gavin DeGraw
7. 'Tis The Season
8. What Do The Lonely Do At Christmas
9. Coming Home
10. Away In A Manger (Interlude)
11. Away In A Manger feat. ZZ Ward
12. Please Come Home For Christmas
13. The Christmas Song feat. Chaka Khan
14. Spirit Of Love
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Q: SVG icon change inside fill color I have this facebook SVG icon, that I need to be able to change the circle color and the inside  color (icon itself). How do I change it from transparent to white?
what I have

what I need

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A: The problem is that the <path> in the SVG is just defining the shape of the black part of your icon.
If you want to make the "f" white, there are two options.

*

*add a white shape behind the path so that it shows through the hole.

div {
  background-color: orange;
}

<svg id="Capa_1"
     width="49.652px" height="49.652px" viewBox="0 0 49.652 49.652">
  <circle cx="25" cy="25" r="20" fill="white"/>
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*Split the path into its two parts: the outside circle, and the "f" shape. Make the "f" shape white.

div {
  background-color: orange;
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Pick which one you prefer.

A: Well, you can't change the color of the f in the logo, as the black is all one shape, so it's actually cut out from the circle. What you can do, is add another shape that sits behind the logo in your SVG.
I cut down the SVG code you have:
SVG:

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  <circle cx="25" cy="25" r="20" class="circle"/>
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#facebook {
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.circle {
  fill: white;
}

Working fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/disinfor/gvpeLn91/

A: The most obvious is of course to edit the SVG, another option would be to add a pseudo element matching the black circle.
This trick could be handy if one for example loads icons from a CDN or similar, where it is not possible to edit the SVG.

div {
  position: relative;
  display: inline-block;
  background-color: red;
  padding: 10px;
}

div svg {
  position: relative;
  display: block;
}

div::before {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  left: 10px;
  top: 10px;
  width: calc(100% - 20px);
  height: calc(100% - 20px);
  border-radius: 50%;
  background-color: white;
}

  <svg id="Capa_1" width="49.652px" height="49.652px" viewBox="0 0 49.652 49.652">
  <path d="M24.826,0C11.137,0,0,11.137,0,24.826c0,13.688,11.137,24.826,24.826,24.826c13.688,0,24.826-11.138,24.826-24.826
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A: The best way I found so far is to use the CSS clip-path property. It works with any transparent image.

img {
  background: #ff1234;
  clip-path: circle(50% at 50% 50%);
}

More info about clipping and masking at https://css-tricks.com/clipping-masking-css/.

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Seahawks tickets bring out fans, price gouging
SEATTLE -- A long wait, but Seahawks tickets are in hand for Art Graddy.
An annual tradition ended in success compared to previous years in the ticket lottery outside of CenturyLink Field.
"Last year, I was number 263. Year before that---161. Year before that, I was 563."
Seahawks single-game ticket sales
There's passion no doubt for Seahawks fans who have camped out (against team orders) since the early weekend.
"And it's just devotion. These people are crazy. We just really love the Seahawks and they want to watch the games," said fan Craig Beckett.
But there is also vulnerability, according to the Better Business Bureau's David Quinlan.
"With the Seahawks being this commodity, people are trying to get their hands on these tickets," he said.
With sellouts a guarantee and only 67,000 options, the secondary market online becomes one of the few choices.
No hopes of face value or below, so how to stop the gouging?
"So there's only so much that we can do at Better Business Bureau. There's only so much that the law permits us to do," Quinlan said.
That's true.
The Hawks and others are moving to more in-person sales to slow down the inevitable scalping by organized groups.
Same for bot sales snaking prime seats through automated online programs. That's actually been illegal in Washington since 2015.
You may have also noticed a growing hit at checkout, too. We found a single ticket listed at $175, the cheapest on a broker site. But until you bust out the credit card or chip off some gold bullion, you can check a box to find the real price with fees.
That ticket jumped from $175 to over $212, just on fees alone.
Quinlan agrees it's inflated, but it's not illegal or shady. Just business---and fans need to go at it eyes wide open.
"They're basically not doing their research and the're looking for bargains," he said.
When love of the game wins out over financial sense.
"One way or the other, if there's a game going on here, I make sure my presence is in the midst," Graddy said, clutching his tickets before hopping back in line for more.
A Seahawks spokesperson issued the following statement:
We understand there was a bit of confusion at our single-game ticket event at CenturyLink Field this morning because fans were camping outside of stadium property. We discouraged camping and fans were not permitted on CenturyLink Field property until 7 a.m. this morning. Single-game tickets still remain at the CenturyLink Field Box Office for $65.50. Everyone who attended our on-sale event were able to purchase Seahawks tickets. We apologize for any inconvenience or confusion.

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University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa study suggests how to save threatened Haleakalā silverswords
Paul Krushelnycky, (808) 956-8261
Assistant researcher, Department of Plant & Environmental Protection Sci
Frederika E Bain, (808) 956-3092
Writer/editor, Office of Communication Services, CTAHR
Posted: Mar 5, 2020
Haleakalā silversword in bloom
Haleakalā silverswords grow where few other plants can.
The Haleakalā silversword, already one of the rarest species in the Hawaiian Islands, has been declining in recent decades due to drier and warmer climate conditions. Efforts to restore the population should focus on outplanting new plants in geographic areas with the most favorable climatic conditions. That's according to a three-year study by researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources and the UH Botany Department.
"The goal of our study was to understand the specific reasons why silverswords are dying in the wild," said lead investigator Paul Krushelnycky, an entomologist in CTAHR's Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences. "The study helped us better understand what is likely driving the spatial pattern of mortality in the wild population. This is important for coming up with the most effective strategy to ensure the plant's continued survival."
The Haleakalā silversword lives only on the slopes of this volcano. Besides its rarity and dramatic appearance, it also plays a critical ecological role in its alpine desert environment, including acting as the habitat for several species of endemic insects. Beyond that, it's a good indicator of what's happening throughout the world as plants and animals are impacted by higher temperatures and changing rainfall patterns.
Predicting how plants will respond to increased future drought is difficult, because there are multiple factors influencing both drought resistance of plants and local climatic conditions. Krushelnycky and his co-authors, including Kasey Barton of UH Mānoa's Botany Department and Creighton Litton of CTAHR's Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, conducted a detailed study of why the Haleakalā silversword has been dying off at lower elevations on the slope and how best to plant new plants that would survive.
After introducing new plants sourced from silverswords growing in different areas of the mountain and planting them at high, medium and low elevations, they tracked the plants for more than three years. They found that plants were more likely to survive at higher elevations, no matter where their seeds had come from. This matched the pattern of mortality in the wild population. They believe this is because lower-elevation plants grow up to be less drought-resistant than higher-elevation plants, and therefore die at higher rates during especially dry seasons.
Krushelnycky explained, "This means park managers should focus their efforts on identifying areas on the mountain where outplanting survival is likely to be highest, rather than trying to take advantage of more resistant genotypes."
The study, "Clinal variation in drought resistance shapes past population declines and future management of a threatened plant," appeared in Ecological Monographs of the Ecological Society of America.
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Hungarian Rhapsody
The Nosuch Disco
17.07.2012 06:42 Just got this email through...
Queen Concert Movie 'Hungarian Rhapsody' On The Big Screen For The First Time At A Cinema Near You From 20th September 2012
Hungarian Rhapsody: Queen Live In Budapest '86 is a must–see event for Queen fans released in cinemas worldwide from 20 September 2012. The film is expected to play on screens in over 30 territories worldwide. In the UK it will be screened in all the major cities, around 100 cinemas nationwide.
Cinema listings and ticket booking links will be available soon at link with new venues being added on a regular basis.
Originally filmed in 1986, this momentous concert movie has been re-mastered in high definition and superb 5.1 surround sound for its first–ever cinema screening and opens with a special 25 minute documentary feature following legends of rock, Queen, from just after their historic show–stealing performance at Live Aid on 2 July 1985 through the following year leading up to the concert in Budapest.
As part of the hugely successful 1986 Magic Tour that, poignantly, was the last to be played by Freddie Mercury, Queen were for the first time able to include Hungary on the tour schedule. With three years to go before the fall of the Berlin Wall, this was the largest concert ever staged at the Népstadion, Budapest, and the first Western Rock Concert staged in a stadium behind the then Iron Curtain. It was of such significance to the Hungarian authorities and film industry that a group of the country's top film cameramen and technicians were brought together to film it for posterity.
Staged for 80,000 ecstatic fans, the concert set includes favourite hits like Bohemian Rhapsody, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, I Want To Break Free and We Are The Champions. The resulting concert movie has been digitally re-mastered for the big screen and is introduced by a documentary feature that gives the inside track on events leading up to the Budapest concert. Using archive footage from rehearsals, interviews with the band and on the road during the Magic Tour – some of which has never been seen before – this fascinating intro feature has been specially created for the cinema release.
"We're delighted that Queen fans across the world will finally have the chance to relive this amazing moment for the band. We knew a stadium concert in Budapest was ground–breaking, but hadn't quite anticipated what a historic night it would turn out to be. The concert looks fantastic on the cinema screen in all its digitally re-mastered glory and the documentary does a great job of setting the scene – it really was an extraordinary time in the band's history." Brian May and Roger Taylor
Hungarian Rhapsody: Queen Live In Budapest '86 – a fantastic opportunity to dress up, sing along and celebrate the magic of Queen at your local cinema.
Cinema listings and ticket information coming soon at link
Release date: 20 September 2012
Certificate: TBC
Directed by JÁNOS ZSOMBOLYAI
Executive Producers JIM BEACH and LÁSZLÓ HEGEDÜS
17.07.2012 06:46 I think it would be nice to go and watch but a dvd/blu ray is a bit unnecessary.
Lapetsu
17.07.2012 06:55 115 minutes - 25 minute documentary = 90 minutes
And that's the length of Live in Budapest VHS, I guess no complete concert for us :(
Excited to see it on big screen though!
EDIT: Tracklist that I found from link
TAVASZL SZÈL
TIE YOUR MOTHER DOWN
IN THE LAP OF THE GODS
SEVEN SEAS OF RHYE
TEAR IT UP
A KIND OF MAGIC
WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER
I WANT TO BREAK FREE
NOW I'M HERE
IS THIS THE WORLD WE CREATED?
HAMMER TO FALL
RADIO GA GA
FRIENDS WILL BE FRIENDS
So no AOBTD or or RnR medley. No guitar solo either? And Tavasl Szel as an intro?
cmsdrums
17.07.2012 07:17 They must have had the same problem as with Montreal - a lot of footage not used in the original edits was just binned - criminal
on my way up
cmsdrums wrote: They must have had the same problem as with Montreal - a lot of footage not used in the original edits was just binned - criminal
Please Miklos: tell your story one more time for all to read.
DLCVinnuendo
17.07.2012 09:02 Very exciting!!!!!!!
Gaabiizz
Fuck , What is the shit?!!
Complete concert , please , this release is stupid
rocknrolllover
Gaabiizz wrote: 115 minutes - 25 minute documentary = 90 minutes Fuck , What is the shit?!! Complete concert , please , this release is stupid
This is stupid release only demonstration in cinemas, my dear. Don't worry 'bout these things.
17.07.2012 12:32 Listed as coming soon in a cinema just an hour away from where I live:)
17.07.2012 12:38 Can't wait! Hope it comes to my theater.
Hangman_96
17.07.2012 13:14 The October release could be complete.
Ghostwithasmile is BACK!
17.07.2012 13:16 Trust me buda will be the first of a series dvd releases. I am sure any Queen fan will have 2 live dvd's ubder the xmas tree ;-)
Mkls
Lostman wrote: The October release could be complete.
waunakonor
17.07.2012 17:00 I MIGHT see this if it comes fairly close to me.
Oh my goodness, that is definitely the most I have ever seen you put into a post.
conejo29
17.07.2012 20:09 1. In widescreen
2. Remastered in HD
3. Sound 5.1 Resmatered
4. Plus 25 min. intro of rare imagens
Good for me ...
fr1986
17.07.2012 20:57 Omg The biggest crap in the world. Don't tell me they will release the same thing they released almost 30 years ago but only in hd. The only excuse i can find for this is "marketing movement" Unlike montreal i am quite sure they do have the full show. Both audio and video. What i think, and i really hope i am right, is that after they release it on cinemas they will include "extra footage on the bd/dvd release" liks "extended version of the concert" to be sure they have nice sell numbers. If that's not the case, in the future instead of having a 70's era concert we may have a new release of the budapest "full concert". Hope that does not happen
18.07.2012 03:03 Fuck. You're One big perpetual discontent
ghostwithasmile wrote: Trust me buda will be the first of a series dvd releases. I am sure any Queen fan will have 2 live dvd's ubder the xmas tree ;-)
Christmas related 2 live Queen DVDs... Hm, if it's what I think it is than it's great :-)
Mind your language please :-)
conejo29 wrote: 1. In widescreen 2. Remastered in HD 3. Sound 5.1 Resmatered 4. Plus 25 min. intro of rare imagens Good for me ...
1. What makes you think it will be widescreen ? I didn't find such info in the press release.
2. A HD transfer is not immediately a remaster
fr1986 wrote: Omg The biggest crap in the world. Don't tell me they will release the same thing they released almost 30 years ago but only in hd. The only excuse i can find for this is "marketing movement" Unlike montreal i am quite sure they do have the full show. Both audio and video. What i think, and i really hope i am right, is that after they release it on cinemas they will include "extra footage on the bd/dvd release" liks "extended version of the concert" to be sure they have nice sell numbers. If that's not the case, in the future instead of having a 70's era concert we may have a new release of the budapest "full concert". Hope that does not happen
What makes you think they have the complete concert ? The deleted scenes were trashed, Miklos could probably tell you more :-)
pittrek wrote:
Who is this Miklos?
18.07.2012 04:57 The Hungarian collector who was in contact with the director
pittrek wrote: The Hungarian collector who was in contact with the director
How Can I connect with him?
inu-liger
rocknrolllover wrote: Fuck. You're One big perpetual discontent
You should talk
Come on Peter, tell me wthat you think it is :)
18.07.2012 06:56 Come on Miklos, just between us, no one else is listening ;-)
I'm glad you found the reels - as has been well proved in the past, QPL and their archiving team couldn't find their arse with both hands!
18.07.2012 07:10 Ha ha, JÁNOS lost, ha ha
plumrach
18.07.2012 07:14 Having seen the entire concert on youtube, i will say that the concert is one of the best on the magic tour and if it does ever get out on dvd then that would be effing great!
18.07.2012 07:56 Please cmsdrums enlighten us into the processes an archiving team go through in unearthing material? You seen to know a lot about it.
Miklos wrote:
to be exact, the hungarian collector who actually found the negative reels
So you actually FOUND them ? GREAT job ! But maybe we should continue via email :-)
18.07.2012 08:57 The complete footage does NOT exist. What they (QPL)have, is what we can see. It might be annoying but anyone expecting to see a 100% complete Budapest show better start preparing themselves for the reality now.
Nothing really matters to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Hang On In There
18.07.2012 09:04 The reality will be QUEEN IN THE CINEMA! - it's all good (as Ian Fletcher would say)
18.07.2012 09:06 I'm hoping they will find all the Budapest negative reels some day.
But,I'm even more hoping they'll release Hammy'79 one day soon.
Remember: It has also been said that the multi track for Hammy'79 was lost.
Now, recently I've heard rumours that this multi track has been found. I'm now hoping for a Hammy'79 release one day soon:-)
In my estimation the multi track Hammy'79 is even more important than the uncut video of Budapest '86...
A double Hammy DVD would be the ultimate Christmas present for me:-) (certainly if they also release cd versions:-)
joesilvey
to be exact, the hungarian collector who actually found the negative reels , as QPL had no f*king idea where they are. I am happy they make a lot of money now with the cinema release worldwide, I am still waiting for a 2 word "thank you" email from QPL , yes if i sound pissed off its because i am. The unused reels were not trashed in 1986, but thats a different story and i have to shut up my mouth i was asked haha.
could one surmise, then, that perhaps the negatives Miklos found are the source for the HD transfer and cinematic release of the original edit... but that a complete version of the concert is being prepped for forthcoming dvd/blu ray release from unused reels that QPL DID have in their archives? I'm reading between your last few lines of course...
18.07.2012 09:25 I'll be great to watch the edit in high def though;-)
emrabt
18.07.2012 09:38 would the show have been edited by cutting up the negative in 1986, or would they have dupped all the footage first and then edited it from the copies?
Senna wrote: Please cmsdrums enlighten us into the processes an archiving team go through in unearthing material? You seen to know a lot about it.
Whilst my abilities, or otherwise, at unearthing material is not the question in hand, the ability of those tasked with doing so is. Numerous discussions here over the years, and backed up by their own words and actions, does sadly point very much to a lot of obvious steps in tracking down and retrieving material are not always taken when they should be.
Queenman!!
18.07.2012 11:08 So QP transfered the digital version to HD and not the original mastertapes. That may the reason for the edited tracklist
rocknrolllover wrote: The complete footage does NOT exist. What they (QPL)have, is what we can see. It might be annoying but anyone expecting to see a 100% complete Budapest show better start preparing themselves for the reality now.
Time GT to clear this story....
Where are you????....
18.07.2012 12:13 .
emrabt wrote: would the show have been edited by cutting up the negative in 1986, or would they have dupped all the footage first and then edited it from the copies?
Any film is edited by cutting up the negative, then making positive copies. As the negative edit was found in top form, that probably means we will see a perfect transfer from the very original film shot , even without the ugly yellow credits because it might not be on the negative, only the positive transfer. I am sure with the transfer quality everyone will be happpy, either it was done by the hungarian film laboratory or in london by someone else, i have no clue - but in both cases I assume it is a 4K HD transfer, so with the picture and the sound everyone will be happy. The "lost" footage is lost because nobody cared for it when it was still there. Thats all i can say.
Ok , sorry friend!
Would be something great !
Holly2003
18.07.2012 14:28 So is this in 16:9 or 4:3?
18.07.2012 16:06 first, if they took the trouble of remastering it, they will be thinking of adding something new. Like they did with wembley, the original release was incomplete, then in 2004 they added the songs missing and released a very nice product, then, it's very different from the montreal release, since they had all the rights on the footage they taped, also by the hints
Miklos gave its very probalble that they will release it complete for the home release. In case this does not happen at least they can release the full audio show.
Only time will tell,
Just wait and see
18.07.2012 16:06 first, if they took the trouble of remastering it, they will be thinking of adding something new. Like they did with wembley, the original release was incomplete, then in 2004 they added the songs missing and released a very nice product, then, it's very different from the montreal release, since they had all the rights on the footage they taped, also by the hints Miklos gave its very probalble that they will release it complete for the home release. In case this does not happen at least they can release the full audio show. Only time will tell, Just wait and see
18.07.2012 17:02 Pretty much the same as the previous few DVD releases. It looks like they don't want to dip into the Seventies for some classic Queen.
Mr.QueenFan
18.07.2012 19:40 edit
19.07.2012 01:24 did I correctly understand that complete Budapest never will be released on DVD&Blu Ray?
19.07.2012 02:38 People, let's say Thank You to QPL, because thanks to them we will never see complete concert in Budapest 1986
oliverd05
19.07.2012 10:35 cant wait for this to be released in the cinemas, i for one will definetly be goin to watch it in all its HD glory... BUT i have to agree its a shame were never gonna see a complete budapest 86
oliverd05 wrote: BUT i have to agree its a shame were never gonna see a complete budapest 86
Well it does still exist somewhere, so never say never :-)
rocknrolllover wrote: People, let's say Thank You to QPL, because thanks to them we will never see complete concert in Budapest 1986
no sorry thats a stupid thing what you say. Thanks to QPL you see the film as it is, in remastered blu ray brilliant glory. Why the lost reels were lost, is not only QPLs fault, its the fault of everyone involved with this since 1986 - QPL, Jacky at the fan club, the hungarian fan club, Mafilm , the editors, me , everyone could have make a further step in the 1990s but nobody knew individually at that time what do to or who to contact or or or ...
19.07.2012 15:20 it seems that you did not read all the posted messages. Wait till the hpme version is released. There you will get what you ask for. just wait
oliverd05 wrote: cant wait for this to be released in the cinemas, i for one will definetly be goin to watch it in all its HD glory... BUT i have to agree its a shame were never gonna see a complete budapest 86
19.07.2012 15:24 i guess will have to wait to the home release to see the real worth watching version. I am not saying that the cinema version is rubish. In fact it's the closest thing we will have to queen performing live.
19.07.2012 15:43 why i bother writing anything, the board is full of dyslexics... seriously i write something over and over again clearly for many years, and people come back with things like the above... i go back to read only mode ,i dont have energy to waste haha
19.07.2012 16:05 then you should not bother in writing anything if wrote several times the same thing over the years why i bother writing anything, the board is full of dyslexics... seriously i write something over and over again clearly for many years, and people come back with things like the above... i go back to read only mode ,i dont have energy to waste haha
Gaabiizz wrote:
Would be but WON'T.
fr1986 wrote: then you should not bother in writing anything if wrote several times the same thing over the years why i bother writing anything, the board is full of dyslexics... seriously i write something over and over again clearly for many years, and people come back with things like the above... i go back to read only mode ,i dont have energy to waste haha
As far as I can tell you are claiming that the BlueRay will have the full concert including the bits that were missing from the original video release. You haven't provided any evidence to back up this claim. Someone else has provided *some* evidence that the bits missing still haven't been found. So I guess the burden of proof is on you to provide some evidence to support your claim, isn't it?
If those tapes were lost in the 90's, then how can you explain the appearance of the complete 16 cameras version a few years ago?
MackMantilla
20.07.2012 09:47 Miklos, thanx for providing us this information.
Now I understand that a FULL Budapest release it's NOT going to happen, because of the unused footage was discarded. Hopefully they found the negatives of the video edit we all now, so we should be glad that we can have it on pristine quality.
I wonder if the documentary includes extra-bits of footage covered by DoRo Team. I supposse they were recording this show too..
Lostman wrote: If those tapes were lost in the 90's, then how can you explain the appearance of the complete 16 cameras version a few years ago?
The 16 cam was trading in the collectors circles since 1993, and it exists since 1986 ,it was used during the editing process. Period.
From my archive, a report of the premiere of the film, first time available. No time to translate from Hungarian , sorry. You can mostly hear what Brian is saying.
20.07.2012 12:04 well I understand QPL, Mafilm lost lost footages of Budapest FOREVER
25.07.2012 13:58 link
tomchristie22
26.07.2012 04:58 Is that official? The content thing says Eagle Rock so it appears to be
26.07.2012 05:06 Why would Eagle Rock upload their remastered Budapest to youtube a long time before it's released?
tomchristie22 wrote: Is that official? The content thing says Eagle Rock so it appears to be
That's the automatic Youtube content owner recognition
Kevinrm15
26.07.2012 09:25 This video is blocked in my country (North America) :(
brunogorski
26.07.2012 10:37 It isn't official, it's a brazilian guy from a brazilian forum that made some kind of edit in the original video (Contrast, etc), so upscaled to HD. :/
26.07.2012 15:59 The administrator to the forum in queenonline wrote this: " Oh and saw it a few weeks back at a test screening, it was awesome, not seen it in ages and the colour and sound is gorgeous... "
this only makes the movie more exciting ... :D
27.07.2012 04:32 i kindly ask the idiot who reposted my queenzone posts on queenonline.com under a new id, so it looks like i keep complaning about the issue while it is actually some psycho russian spammer - stop doing what you do, you causing troubles for me. Making even less likely that i find anything in the future, so just fuck off and get a life
P-Tr extinction event wrote: i kindly ask the idiot who reposted my queenzone posts on queenonline.com under a new id, so it looks like i keep complaning about the issue while it is actually some psycho russian spammer - stop doing what you do, you causing troubles for me. Making even less likely that i find anything in the future, so just fuck off and get a life
I am not spammer
27.07.2012 11:48 Considering your track record, I'm siding with the accuser. You have been little more than a waste of sperm at this forum, and seemingly elsewhere now as well.
on my way up wrote:
Ah, thanks for clarifying. I clearly don't know how these things work
28.07.2012 03:38 The press release makes no mention of the audio being remixed, and only refers to 'remastered 5.1 sound', which is bizarre when you need a 5.1 mix in the first place to remaster, but there wasn't!
I'm betting that the sound will not be remixed from the original tapes like Montreal, but we'll just get a fake 5.1 mix expanded from the stereo mix, which is what they did with Wembley (bad).
Still, as others have pointed out the press release (as with nearly all queen press releases) has some other factual inaccuracies such as stating that it's the first ever cinema screening, which it isn't, so we'll see.
chromant
01.08.2012 06:43 Hungarian Rhapsody
There you go, another concert, title, sleeve (because obviously Queen ARE Freddie and no one else) butchered and slaughtered...thanks as usual Queen Prod.
01.08.2012 07:46 I too am frustrated at the 'Freddie only' cover pics for recent releases (Wembley, Montreal, this), especially when there are plenty of specific Freddie solo releases coming at the same time too.
01.08.2012 10:48 Showcase Cinemas have announced that they will be showing it.
01.08.2012 12:40 only freddie in the art AGAIN????
sadness for this, but i'm very excited to watch this!!
01.08.2012 15:20 Could not agree more, way too much Freddie on the art work these days. They could easily include the Guitar guy, and that nice lad who played Bass, or the good looking one. :-)
Seriously though, It's all down to marketing. The average pleb buying music these days has the attention span of a goldfish. You put four guys on the cover, and from 3 feet away on the shelf it looks like everything else, it just blends in.
Bang Freddie on it and it stands out, the pleb recognises and buys said thing.
Freddie = $$$$£££££$$£$££$
02.08.2012 01:31 ARh! STupid stupid. Oh well, at least they're releasing it
AlexRocks
02.08.2012 10:12 I am also am phucking pissed off. What the fuck?! Queen Freddie Mercury's solo band. Freddie Mercury live in Budapest with his solo back up group...wait for it...Queen! Bull shit!
05.08.2012 14:59 Could've been worse... Given the latest circumstances, they could have even placed Lambert on there, so stop moaning.
Missreclusive
05.08.2012 22:17 lol, what tha heck is wrong with you people?
06.08.2012 05:27 Queen was my favourite singer ever. He could have used a better backing band though, the one he had was incompetent, especially the guitarist.
Missreclusive wrote: lol, what tha heck is wrong with you people?
Live at Wembley Stadium : link
Live at the Bowl : link
Queen Rock Montreal : link
Hungarian Rhapsody poster : link
Do you see the pattern ?
06.08.2012 08:21 Having Freddie only in the DVD covers for the live shows means that his fellow band members regard him fondly as the greatest frontman in the world.
06.08.2012 09:22 This is the release i was waiting for! For me, Budapest is the best gig ever recorded by QP, so i'll buy for sure.
I'll be a little disappointed if the rumors are true and
they don't release the full gig. But in first place, Queen made something incredible playing in Budapest, and in second, they filmed it, in 35 mm no less! Something very rare for the time. Too bad QP don't search for the unused film in the 90', but still, Queen win 2-1.
And for the artwork, is ok. They want the face of the band in front, that doesn't mean nothing.
06.08.2012 11:19 Of everything, I'm looking forward to the audio and video being at the right speed at last
06.08.2012 11:22 What makes you feel they will fix the speed ? The Tokyo 75 footage which was released last year was converted from PAL to NTSC, but still it plays too fast
06.08.2012 14:54 I don't believe that pic is the DVD art but the poster for the concert's run in movie theaters. Has a BluRay or DVD release been confirmed?
06.08.2012 16:37 I live in (probably false) hope Pittrek!
pittrek wrote: What makes you feel they will fix the speed ? The Tokyo 75 footage which was released last year was converted from PAL to NTSC, but still it plays too fast
The Japan 75 footage was an extra on a Japanese-only release, and wasn't great quality to begin with.
Budapest will be a worldwide release, and may end up being the highest quality Queen concert ever seen. If they're doing it in 5.1, I highly doubt they'd go out of their way to speed up the audio from their multi-tracks. But we shall see..
07.08.2012 14:38 Yes Pittrek I do see the pattern and that Freddie is front and center, exactly where a "frontman" should be. I don't feel it takes away from the others and apparently they don't either.
08.08.2012 01:59 While this is true, Freddie was never supposed to be the 'frontman' - they've actually made a very big point of that over time, particularly Freddie himself. He was the lead vocalist and pianist, not the frontman.
tomchristie22 wrote: While this is true, Freddie was never supposed to be the 'frontman' - they've actually made a very big point of that over time, particularly Freddie himself. He was the lead vocalist and pianist, not the frontman.
This is not correct: Freddie was the frontman from day 1.
Frontman does not mean "leader"...
earwig
08.08.2012 05:19 semantics |s?'mantiks|
the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. There are a number of branches and subbranches of semantics, including formal semantics, which studies the logical aspects of meaning, such as sense, reference, implication, and logical form, lexical semantics, which studies word meanings and word relations, and conceptual semantics, which studies the cognitive structure of meaning.
• the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text: such quibbling over semantics may seem petty stuff.
*wink-wink*!!! haha!!
08.08.2012 07:15 Take me to your frontman, earthlings!
08.08.2012 10:03 LOL@ Holly, I go back to ..what tha heck is wrong with you people?!! I nearly know I've seen an interview where Freddie admitted being the "frontman" for Queen and of course he said they were all equal partners in Queen. I can not believe anyone would say he wasn't the frontman.


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The Surreal World of Cyriak, Interview
Matteo Damiani | December 19, 2020 April 30, 2020 | Featured, Interesting things, Interviews, Sound & Visions
Cyriak Harris is a British artist and composer known for his surreal and grotesque short animations using photo and video montage, which he began spreading on the internet in 2004.
He has since built a career as a freelance animator, working on commercials, TV shows, and music videos, and has a YouTube following of over a million subscribers. He currently lives in Lincolnshire for no apparent reason.
What are your major influences as an artist?
I guess it is a mixture of Escher style technical drawing and Terry Gilliam cartoon madness. Growing up I was heavily into the psychedelia of underground comics like Zap, but was also strangely fascinated by the illustrations in Haynes car manuals.
Anything that subverted reality or rendered it in such complex detail that it became visually overwhelming.
How did you start? Why did you decide to become an animator?
Originally I wanted to be a writer. I also wanted to make video games, and be a comic artist, and make tv shows and be in a band. I basically wanted to do everything, and making animations was the closest I could get to all of these things.
It was also the most easily accessible to an audience once the internet finally arrived, so that helped to steer the direction of my career.
How is evolved your visual aesthetic over the years?
I started using cut-out photos just because it was quicker than drawing things. I wanted to tell visual jokes, but I had to be able to do it quickly before I got bored and started doing something else.
However, I soon fell in love with the surreal style of distorted photographic visuals, and over time I ended up using it to build complex psychedelic worlds.
You have made a series of short dark videos dedicated to Christmas. What does this holiday mean to you?
Christmas is great when you are a kid. When you are a grown-up it is a nightmare of over-consumption and waste, eating too much food and buying people gifts that they don't even want, along with all the tacky plastic ornaments that are made to be thrown away and yet will outlive human civilisation.
Still, I appreciate the time off.
How do you go about making the videos? Do you have every aspect of animation in mind before trying your hand, or are some elements added based on your inspiration?
Usually, I will have a vague idea in my head of how the whole video will be, but I will fill in a lot of the details as I go along.
When I am making music videos, the music becomes like a storyboard to me, and the journey it goes on directly influences the visuals I will make.
How important is technology in our daily life in the age of social networks?
It is reaching a point now where we hardly know what to do with ourselves when the internet stops working. That's kind of funny to me since I grew up without the internet, but I am still a victim of its addictive nature. Social networks bring us constant attention, which humans crave.
Feeding that addiction could be dangerous, which we are discovering as the world follows a more disturbing path, where people don't care about the truth as long as they are getting more followers on the internet. But this is just human nature being amplified, so I'm not sure if it can be avoided.
What is a typical day in the life of Cyriak?
A typical day in the life of Cyriak involves sitting in front of a computer all day while I work, and then turning it off so I can go and sit in front of another computer in the evening.
There isn't much of my life beyond the glow of a computer screen.
Grotesque self-spawned mutations, syncopated movements, surreal structures, dissonant music, loops, monstrous creatures populate your videos. How do you find the perfect balance between these seemingly inconsistent and chaotic elements? What role do math sequences play in your videos?
I would say that whatever balance there is just emerges from the chaos. I sometimes feel like my videos are making themselves. I put all the pieces together, but the way that they fit is like a jigsaw puzzle, there is only one solution.
Mathematics is involved in the sense that it builds everything in reality, and I am using those fundamental building-blocks to create my own worlds, with geometry, chaos, emergence, evolution, and entropy. These things are laws unto themselves.
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Where did the idea for your book "Horse Destroys the Universe" come from?
I decided to write a book by thinking of the most ridiculous situation possible, and then working backward to figure out the story that would realistically lead to such a conclusion.
It was a creative exercise, not intended to be read or published, but as with all of my creations, it grew until it had a life of its own.
Was the transition from video to literature difficult?
I've been writing stories since long before I ever made animations. In a way, my animations are like stories, to me anyway. Writing a novel isn't difficult until you realise that someone else will have to read it.
Turning a hobby into a product to sell to people, you learn a lot during that process.
Would you like to work with any particular artist?
I don't enjoy working with other people, especially other artists. Artists have their own ideas about what makes things look good or interesting, that is the job of being an artist, basically.
I guess I'm too much of a control freak to accommodate other people's ideas.
What is your next project?
My life is like my animations, there is a vague plan but I'm mostly making it up as I go along. I've no idea what I will do next, I won't know until I'm doing it.
I would like to write another book, or make a film, or a video game, or make more music. This is the problem with going in every direction, you never know where you are going.
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Matteo Damiani is an Italian photographer, author and motion designer. Matteo lived and worked for ten years in China. During his stay in China, he paid attention to social issues apparently of secondary importance, but which influenced heavily the Chinese domestic policies over the years.
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What a suicide survivor wants you to know about her triggers.
One woman explains why survivors of suicide loss can spend much of their days dodging triggers.
Deborah Greene
This story was originally published on Reflecting Out Loud and The Mighty.
The other day while in Target, I overheard two young women in the bathing suit department:
One held up a bathing suit and jokingly showed it to the other, asking "How about this one?" The other girl responded, "I'd kill myself if I had to wear that."
The following day I was in Kohl's camp shopping for my daughters. A frazzled mother was talking aloud to herself as she passed me, her toddler in tow. "Did I get a gift receipt? I can't remember if I did. Damn it! I'd like to just shoot myself today."
Both moments felt like a sucker punch and momentarily took my breath away.
Photo via iStock.
We are so flippant in our language.
I am certain I was once guilty of it too. It's so easy to make light of suicide — until it touches your life or the life of someone you love.
And then, you quickly discover, there's not a single funny thing about suicide. Survivors of suicide loss spend much of our days dodging triggers. We sit down to watch a television show only to have a joke made about suicide. We deal with the drug commercials that lump suicidal thoughts and actions right next to hives and rashes when discussing possible side effects — as if they are even close to being on par with one another. We try to tune into election coverage only to hear words like "political suicide" tossed about.
Here's the thing — if you can wake up in the morning, kiss your loved ones, walk outdoors and breathe in the fresh air, then there is no "suicide" in the demise of your political career.
We survivors are everywhere.
And there is nothing funny about the loss we are learning to live with.
So how about we stop treating it like a punchline or a reasonable response to a moment of frustration? Let's treat it like the serious and painful issue that it is, an issue that claims another life every 12.8 minutes in this country and shatters the world of those left behind.
The triggers for suicide are abundant, and we dodge them all day long. But that places the burden on us. And quite frankly, our shoulders can only take so much before our knees buckle.
So please, take ownership of your words. Because I'm fairly certain a missing receipt or an ill fitting bathing suit is not something you would seriously end your life over.
And if they were, I promise you, it would be no laughing matter.
Ariana Grande wows TikTok with a stunning, stripped down cover of 'Over The Rainbow'
Grande is even currently filming a live adaptation of the musical "Wicked."
@arianagrande/TikTok
This pink sweater is everything.
Ariana Grande might be best known as a pop queen, but her musical theatre talents run deep. She was a performer on Broadway at the age of nine, long before she began racking up Grammys. And even throughout her adult career, she'll wave that theatre kid flag once in a while, as she did for NBC's "Hairspray Live!"
Grande is even currently filming a live adaptation of the musical "Wicked," playing the role of Galinda, aka Glinda the Good Witch. While the movie might not release until Christmas of 2024, the singer treated fans to an early taste of Oz with a gorgeous rendition of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow," originally sung by Judy Garland in the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz."
The video shows Grande chilling in a kitchen, completely covered up in a giant pink yarn sweater—equal parts for comfort and hiding her golden Glinda locks, to be sure—as she effortlessly captures that same kind of dreamy lilt that Garland once did for the tune. Perhaps this shouldn't come as a surprise, since Grande is a whiz at musical impressions.
Listen. It's stunning.
@arianagrande
wanted to sing you a little something but don't want to sing anything that is not "Ozian" at the moment :) keeping to my little bubble for now … done with lots of love.
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"Wanted to sing you a little something but don't want to sing anything that is not 'Ozian' at the moment :) keeping to my little bubble for now," Grande wrote in the video's caption. "Done with lots of love." The cover comes as a polite response to a fan who asked, "Why aren't you a singer anymore?" since Grande hasn't put out a new album since 2020.
Understandably, filming two huge movies at the same time ("Wicked" director Jon Chu previously announced that the movie would be split into two parts) leaves little time to produce new music. But rest assured, Grande is, and probably always will be, a SINGER. (All-caps necessary to encapsulate all that talent.)
Grande's clip quickly went viral, reaching yet another famous Glinda—Kristin Chenoweth. Chenoweth, who originated the "Wicked" role on Broadway, threw on a hot pink feathered sweater and performed a TikTok duet of the song, along with the caption, "Just two Ozians."
Is there any better seal of approval than a duet with the OG Galinda herself? I don't think so.
@kristinchenoweth Just two Ozians 🌈💞 @arianagrande #wicked#glinda#galinda#wizardofoz#overtherainbow♬ original sound - arianagrande
"Wicked" boasts an impressive cast of not only Grande, but Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible and Jeff Goldblum as The Wizard of Oz. And if this cover is any indicator, it seems like it's going to be a lovely retelling of the story…with one amazing soundtrack.
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Trans doctor says major insurance companies are refusing to pay her after legal name change
"As long as they're denying my claims for my services on that ground, they can do that to any trans healthcare provider of any type."
Courtesy of Dr. Tiffany Najberg
Insurance companies can withhold pay for trans doctors and one doctor is fighting back.
Insurance companies can be a frustrating maze for consumers and for providers. It's not uncommon to call the number on the back of your insurance card and get a different answer every time you call with the same question. But for Dr. Tiffany Najberg, the fight with the insurance companies is a bit more personal.
Najberg is a transgender woman who has run into a multitude of problems in the insurance claims world—not as a patient, but as a provider. After changing her name legally and updating all of the required information on official websites, including the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare and the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System, two websites insurance companies look at to verify providers' credentials and ability to practice, her claims have been denied.
In the beginning of this year-long saga, Najberg was receiving checks, but the checks were in her dead name and couldn't be cashed. After going several rounds with the insurance companies, the checks stopped coming and the insurance companies started denying her claims altogether. Of course, this prompted even more questions and frustration since Najberg updated the insurance companies with her legal name as required.
Najberg told Upworthy that on six different occasions, she and her billing company attempted to rectify the situation to no avail. These aren't small companies that may have never encountered such a request. In fact, many Americans with insurance are likely covered by one of the companies she's currently challenging. "Human, Cigna and Aetna flat out refused, but Medicaid, BlueCross BlueShield changed it immediately so it clearly has been approved through national databases," Najberg said.
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The insurance companies' refusal to pay has been hurting Najberg and her practice, UrgentEMS, located in Shreveport, Louisiana. "My clinic treats everyone, but we aim towards communities that are underinsured and uninsured. I don't have money to pay my rent next month because of this," the doctor told Upworthy.
Najberg explained that between the three major insurance companies, she is currently owed nearly $200,000 in unpaid claims. Of course, she could turn patients who have these particular insurances away, but for Najberg, that's not an option because she focuses on serving those who are underinsured and people in marginalized communities. She currently has over 100 trans patients who need continued healthcare with someone who makes them feel safe.
During the height of the pandemic, her clinic served as a place where people could get COVID-19 treatment, with Najberg proudly saying she treated everyone across the political spectrum. Najberg has built such a reputation on TikTok for her openness and ability to present public health issues in a relatable way that CDC officials have contacted her for pointers on how to engage the public.
But none of that matters if she can't keep her doors open, and the fear that comes from recognizing that possibility keeps her up at night. Through tears, Najberg expressed her concerns for the most vulnerable population she treats, saying, "I'll likely have to sleep in my car, and what about my trans patients? If my clinic closes, a few of them may kill themselves."
Dr. Najberg runs a clinic in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Najberg actually found herself in the position to lose everything last month after once again not being paid, but thankfully someone anonymously paid the rent on her office space, which costs around $5,000 a month. Recently, she has relied on donations from her followers in order to keep her doors open until she wins her fight with the insurance companies.
During the interview, Najberg informed Upworthy that one insurance company is now complying. "Aetna has started processing all the back claims and a new contract has been signed. I have no retirement anymore. I have no savings. I'll never own property. For a lifetime to be wiped away over a name change is ridiculous," Najberg said.
A name change isn't uncommon. People change their names for multiple reasons, the main one being marriage, so it would stand to reason that insurance companies know how to navigate name changes within their system. What makes this name change so different if other companies had no issue?
It took Najberg months of phone calls to find out the reason for her denials was due to her name change and she was advised to submit under her dead name. But submitting an insurance claim under a different name than your own is insurance fraud and kind of illegal, she protested.
For Najberg, who's had a lifelong passion for helping people, the fight isn't just for herself.
"If they're doing this to me, they have to be doing this to other people. If they get away with this, they'll do it to other trans providers," Najberg told Upworthy.
If you'd like to support Dr. Tiffany in her fight against the insurance companies, you can sign her petition here, and if you'd like to donate to help her pay rent and get needed medical supplies, you can do that here.
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This is a wonderful area of NLP, and probably you won't learn this anywhere else. This is called Perceptual Positions – This is about adopting different viewpoints, thinking and feeling from different people's point of view.
The idea is simple "Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes." We all have our judgments and perceptions about people and things but that needn't be the reality, we judge based on our reality which might not be true. When a person is angry at you, you might feel he is arrogant and rude, you are partially right but when you think and feel from his point of view, you understand him.
The ability to see things from other's point of view is a key skill in all aspects of life, business, entrepreneurship, relationships. This is also an important communication skill, negotiation kill, persuasion skill .
NLP is not only concerned with seeing things, but also feeling and hearing from others' perspective sometimes, even smell and taste can tell us a lot about other person's perspective..
Consider this, you asked your mom to make a cup of coffee and while you wait for the coffee, you receive a call. And you're talking to your friend. Coffee is ready. But you are still talking to your friend. By the time you're back and you sip the coffee, you realize – coffee is cold. Will you drink it ? Some people might drink it because for them "cold coffee'' is fine. But some others might not drink because for the coffee must be hot. Both of them are true to their feelings. This can lead to arguments and confusions because if we don't understand other persons' map, we disconnect with them.
Let's try this : Consider walking some steps with your friend and try walking like your friend. His body posture, his movements, his pace . Take a few minutes to reflect. What happened to you now? You feel uncomfortable. You feel funny. That's because you just tried to walk in someone's shoes and you found it different. But for your friend, that's his reality, that's his life.
Step 1 – The You Position – In this position you talk from your perspective. It is all about you. It is all about your feelings, your thoughts, your sensory experience. This is how you sense the world. And this is your world.
Step 2 – The Other person position – In this position you talk from other's perspective – you disconnect from your sensory experience and try to get into other person's map of the world. In the world, you try to match his feelings, perceptions, experience and talk how other person will talk.
Step 3 – The neutral person – In this position you are a neutral person. You don't know – First position and Second Position. This means you look from a neutral point of like. First two positions could be 2 Indians talking to each other and trying to understand each other whereas this position is like a Chinese person trying to understand an Indian. In this position – preconceived notion, bias, prior experiences are limited.


I think it's great that we have all of these options available to us for creating HDR and tone-mapped images.
Die App ist klar strukturiert und übersichtlich, auf SchnickSchnack wird verzichtet.
Hydra 4 is a speed demon with a significantly faster result than other HDR apps or its predecessor.
Sorti en 2008, le logiciel Hydra est désormais disponible en version 4, avec pour principal avantage des performances accrues grâce à la prise en charge de l'API Metal de macOS.
Mit Hydra 4 kann man wirklich atemberaubende Bilder mit hohem Dynamikumfang erstellen - auch als Laie hat man hier binnen weniger Minuten verstanden, wie Hydra funktioniert. Wer schon mit der Vorgänger-Version gearbeitet hat, wird auch die hier zur Verfügung gestellten Optionen lieben.
True HDR often has an issue with image alignment, but Hydra has both automatic and manual tomography computation options to ensure proper alignment.
En quelques années, Hydra s'est imposé comme une référence pour traiter ses images HDR sans dépenser des fortunes dans des logiciels professionnels.
Le résultat est étonnant de fiabilité, au même niveau que les effacements contextuels de Photoshop. Chapeau !
Hydra Pro 3 ist eine exzellente Software für den Mac um in die HDR Fotografie einzusteigen.
Hydra Pro 3 ist da schon etwas konkreter und ist eine App, die dem ambitionierten Fotografen unterstützt, ein gelungenes HDR Foto zu erstellen.
I found it to be one heck of a simple program, while still providing ample creative control.
Hydra Pro 3 has excellent automatic alignment and ghost-removal features, but even better, you can manually adjust these with intuitive tools, such as the X-ray feature, to align images. The ghost-removal feature is just as intuitive and more powerful than any competitors' products.
Hydra Pro 3 proved to be simple to operate and offers ample control of the creative process.
For most scenes, Hydra Pro 3 will have all you need and that's good news as it is a great program in more than one respect. For example, the automatic alignment and ghost removal are nothing short of excellent.
Better yet: you can manually adjust these with intuitive tools, such as the "X-Ray" feature to align images. With Hydra Pro 3 it's very easy to create a perfectly aligned HDR image that contains no stray lines.
De Tone Mapping manipuleert de beelden verder dan een camera kan bereiken en de resultaten stellen zeker niet teleur.
Le logiciel est très agréable à utiliser et il excelle dans les rendus photoréalistes. Les fonctionnalités de la très récente version 3 sont complètes, sans excès de complexité.
If you're comfortable with iPhoto, you will feel at home in Creaceed's Hydra. From the app's icon to the user interface, Hydra feels very much like a native Mac app. Creaceed only produces products for OS X and iOS, and it show in the little details.
Hydra propose une méthode pour supprimer les ghost, ces fantômes d'objets en mouvement qui apparaissent à des endroits divers sur votre série de clichés (par exemple, un personnage qui se déplace). Une méthode automatique donne des résultats acceptables mais il est aussi possible de "détourer" vos objets ghost et sélectionner quelle itération vous voulez conserver ou effacer. Et là, c'est un peu plus de boulot mais c'est fort efficace.
Well with a little bit of practice it could become a fun plugin/standalone app to play with. One thing I want to mention again is that taking a good HDR shot is actually very difficult. So many aspects need to be right but when you get it right the results are amazing. The user interface is pretty easy to use along with all the controls, all that's left to do is get the right scene and everything should be a breeze.
Hydra is a superb and easy to use piece of software. It has an amazing range of controls. It is easy to use. What more do you want?
Obviously, Photoshop has an HDR function, easy to use and powerful. I tried both. See for yourself and decide which you prefer. My money goes on the Hydra horse. Nine heads and all!
There are plenty of people who turn their noses up at the thought of HDR, claiming it muddies the shot, removing the drama of a normally exposed image. I'm a bit with them… but Hydra delivers a different product.
Simplicité d'emploi, rapidité, qualité du rendu... Difficile de trouver des défauts à Hydra, (...) Hydra est à l'heure actuelle la meilleure solution commerciale pour créer des images HDR à partir de votre gestionnaire de photographies.
Hydra: High Dynamic Range (HDR) Made Easy?
Hydra can produce good quality images with better dynamic range than your camera can manage alone, with a minimum of user effort. If you tend to think of post-processing digital images as more of a pain than a pleasure, Hydra may well be your least painful route to HDR images.
Creaceed has a great manual in the PDF format. The manual was easy to read and helped the user to understand the program. I was pleased that company spent the time to write a manual. In this day and age many software companies only have a help database that you have to search through to find the answers to your questions.
Hydra 2.0 is an easy to use HDR program that will help you capture photographs that you have not been easily able to do in the past. Most people would not have attempted to take certain pictures because it was too hard for the average user to pull off. Hydra 2.0 changes the game for the average user to make good photographs in high contrasts areas. The cost of the program makes it is reasonable for most users.
An easy, simple, almost self-explanatory interface. If you can handle iPhoto, you can handle Hydra. You also get output photos with stunning richness, the whole reason to add higher dynamic range to a photo.


AdGate advertising is one step away from the departure gate for many commuters as a growing number of airlines and tourism boards utilise tactical out of home placements to engage with commuters.
We were delighted to welcome American Airlines on board to our AdGates at Paddington. Intrepid travellers from Wales and the West Country, as well as affluent Oxfordians and Clapham commoners enjoyed a visual connection with their campaign imagery 3,763,472* times, which outperforms other concourse placements at Paddington by anything up to 172%*.
Emirates has used AdGates as their runway a number of times recently. It would appear that Victoria Station was one of their favourite destinations, delivering a combined total of 19,842,530* impacts over a 2 week period. Regular creative updates ensured the forecast was always bright at Victoria.
Germanwings utilised AdGate placements at Liverpool Street to showcase how inexpensive it is to get to Germany. As a result, many commuters celebrated Oktoberfest properly, rather than morosely supping a Pilsner down the local. Just be careful: 476,177* Liverpool Street users might beat you to the bar!
Finally Go Turkey brought a welcome dose of sunshine and scenery to commuters at Waterloo. What was especially clever about this campaign was the use of different creatives to really highlight what this stunning country has to offer. 701,531* potential holidaymakers would almost certainly agree.
* All data has been checked in by Route in September 2015.


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Andersons make animal health a family tradition
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MISSISSIPPI STATE -- When Ryan Anderson came to Mississippi State University's College of Veterinary Medicine as a student in 1984, he both kept and broke family tradition.
Dr. Ryan Anderson, a 1987 MSU graduate, is the seventh man in his family to become a veterinarian. His father, Dr. Walter Anderson Sr., began the tradition in 1949, and Ryan's two brothers and three first cousins followed suit.
But unlike the other six veterinarians, Ryan earned his veterinary degree from MSU. The others went to Auburn University for their doctorates, after receiving undergraduate degrees from MSU.
"Our blood runs maroon and white," Ryan said of the family. "Everybody got his undergraduate degree at MSU, but Mississippi State did not have a vet school at the time the others went to school."
The Anderson family is from Macon, and Ryan is the youngest of three brothers and one sister. He grew up working in his father's practice and later spent high school summers working in the veterinary practices of his brothers, who are 9 and 11 years older than he.
"I didn't know anything but veterinary medicine," Ryan said. "I'd been around it all my life. I'm an animal lover, and veterinary medicine is the only thing I knew about growing up."
Ryan became a fan of Auburn while his older brothers attended veterinary college there, but when it came time for him to pick a university, he chose MSU.
"My father is a 100-percent disabled American vet, having earned a Purple Heart in the Battle of the Bulge. He had to quit practicing in 1970 and worked for the state in meat inspections until 1980," Ryan said.
When Ryan was ready for college, he and his father maintained a small herd of cattle in Macon. Ryan considered applying to Auburn, but decided to earn his degree at Mississippi State so he would be close to home and could help his father manage their herd.
Today he is a mixed animal practitioner working with Dr. Stephen R. Green at the Central Mississippi Animal Clinic in Carthage. He does the majority of the cattle work for the practice but sees a lot of small animals as well.
"The practice has really done well," Ryan said. "This year has been as good as it's ever been."
Walter, a 1949 Auburn graduate, worked mostly with large animals for 20 years, then sold his practice in Macon &endash; the Anderson and Bradshaw Veterinary Clinic &endash; to his nephew, Barry Bounds. He spent the next nine years as a meat inspector with the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce.
"I enjoyed the meat inspection," Walter said. "It was a different phase of veterinary work, but I also enjoyed the large animal practice I did before."
Walter said when he entered veterinary medicine he had no idea of the family trend he would start. While he didn't intentionally steer his sons or his nephews into the business, he often did take them with him while he worked.
"Veterinary medicine has been good to all of us," Walter said.
In addition to Ryan's practicing in Carthage, Walter's son Neal Anderson (Auburn 1977) works in Pontotoc and son Clayton Anderson (Auburn 1976) practices in Columbus. Clayton is in veterinary practice with Walter's nephew, Louis Bounds (Auburn 1965). Barry Bounds (Auburn 1963) bought Walter's practice in Macon, and Walter's other nephew, Louis T. Anderson (Auburn 1967), practices in Waverly, Tenn.
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Climate-friendly cooling to help ease global warming
A new IIASA-led study shows that coordinated international action on energy-efficient, climate-friendly cooling could avoid as much as 600 billion tonnes CO2 equivalent of greenhouse gas emissions in this century.
Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are mainly used for cooling and refrigeration. While they were originally developed to replace ozone-depleting substances that are being phased out under the Montreal Protocol, many HFCs are potent greenhouse gases with a global warming potential up to 12,400 times that of CO2 over a 100-year period.
The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, which entered into force in 2019, aims to phase down the consumption of HFCs by 2050. While previous agreements have resulted in improvements in the design and energy performance of, for instance, cooling equipment, the Kigali Amendment is the first to include maintaining and/or enhancing the energy efficiency of cooling technologies as an explicit goal. According to the authors of the study, which has been published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, there is however currently limited understanding of the potential future impacts of the Kigali Agreement on global warming and possible co-benefits from savings in electricity. The study is the first to try to quantify the overall effects of the Agreement on both greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions.
The researchers developed a range of long-term scenarios for HFC emissions under varying degrees of stringency in climate policy and also assessed co-benefits in the form of electricity savings and associated reductions in emissions. The results indicate that, due to technical opportunities to improve energy efficiency in cooling technologies, there is potential for significant electricity savings under a well-managed phase-down of HFCs.
"Our results show that the global cumulative HFC emissions from refrigerant use in cooling technologies would have been over 360 billion tonnes CO2 equivalent between 2018 and 2100 in the pre-Kigali baseline scenario. In addition, indirect CO2 emissions from energy production of electricity used in cooling equipment will be approximately the same order of magnitude if the world continues along its present path, without any additional changes in energy policy," explains IIASA researcher Pallav Purohit, who led the study.
"We found that if technical energy efficiency improvements are fully implemented, the resulting electricity savings could exceed 20% of future global electricity consumption, while the corresponding figure for economic energy efficiency improvements would be about 15%," adds study coauthor and senior IIASA researcher Lena Höglund-Isaksson.
The researchers say that the combined effect of HFC phase-down, improvement of energy efficiency of stationary cooling technologies, and future changes in the electricity generation fuel mix would prevent between 411 and 631 billion tonnes CO2 equivalent of greenhouse gas emissions between 2018 and 2100, thereby making a significant contribution towards keeping the global temperature rise below 2°C. Transitioning to high efficiency cooling can therefore double the climate mitigation effects of the HFC phase-down under the Kigali Amendment, while also delivering economic, health, and development benefits.
The findings further show that reduced electricity consumption could mean lower air pollution emissions in the power sector, estimated at about 5 to 10% for sulfur dioxide, 8 to 16% for nitrogen oxides (NOx), and 4 to 9% for fine particulate matter (PM2.5) emissions compared with a pre-Kigali baseline.
"To be consistent with 1.5°C scenarios, by 2050 HFCs should be reduced by between 70 and 80% compared to 2010 levels. According to the Kigali Amendment and Maximum Technically Feasible Reduction (MTFR) scenarios we analyzed, we could achieve 92.5% and 99.5% reductions in 2050 compared to 2010 levels, respectively. This means that both scenarios surpass the 1.5 ̊C threshold. If carefully addressed during the transition to alternatives that have the potential to relieve global warming, improvement potentials for energy efficiency in cooling technologies are extensive and can bring significant electricity savings," Purohit concludes.
Purohit P, Höglund-Isaksson L, Dulac J, Shah N, Wei M, Rafaj P, & Schöpp W (2020). Electricity savings and greenhouse gas emission reductions from global phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics DOI: 10.5194/acp-20-11305-2020
Researcher contact
Pallav Purohit
Research Scholar
IIASA Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases Program
purohit@iiasa.ac.at
Ansa Heyl
IIASA Press Office
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About IIASA:
The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is an international scientific institute that conducts research into the critical issues of global environmental, economic, technological, and social change that we face in the twenty-first century. Our findings provide valuable options to policymakers to shape the future of our changing world. IIASA is independent and funded by prestigious research funding agencies in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. www.iiasa.ac.at
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Ravens Gold Rush
October 28 – December 3, 2011
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Installation view of Rebecca Horn: Ravens Gold Rush at Sean Kelly, New York
October 28 - December 3, 2011
Sean Kelly Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of Rebecca Horn's new exhibition, Ravens Gold Rush. The opening will take place on Thursday, October 27, from 6pm until 8pm. The artist will be present.
Ravens Gold Rush will include a rare early sculpture, important new paintings on paper and a new large-scale sculptural installation. The title of the exhibition refers to Horn's 1986 New York show, The Gold Rush, which took place in a time of international financial uncertainty. The eponymously titled sculpture from this exhibition will be installed in the first gallery; it is comprised of a small hammer that repeatedly chips away at sticks of charcoal, the residue of which falls onto a gold bar. Twenty-five years later, during the current global state of social and financial turmoil, this earlier work creates a context for the major new installation that will be featured in the main gallery: a mechanized, multi-branched structure that functions almost like a moving tree. The "branches" culminate in bird-like beaks that snap open and shut while ravenously consuming gold. The four large paintings on paper that will be installed in the second gallery draw their inspiration from Japan, a country to which Horn has a long creative and spiritual connection and which recently suffered significant natural and man-made crises. Created in the spring and summer of 2011, they are some of Horn's most poignant paintings to date, rich with the artist's iconic, lyrical, gestural marks. As the critic Joan Waltemath stated, "the virtuosity of Horn's mark-making is ubiquitous, giving over to a surface of consequence in the restraint of what initially might have become an outpouring."
Horn's work is included in major public collections worldwide including: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy; the Tate Gallery, London; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Stedelijk Museum, Ams- terdam; the Van AbbeMuseum, Eindhoven and many others. She has participated in Documenta and the Venice Biennale on a number of occasions; she has been the subject of a major retrospective at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and was recently awarded Japan's prestigious 2010 Praemium Imperiale Prize in Sculpture and the Grande Médaille des Arts Plastiques 2011 from the Académie d'Architecture de Paris.
In conjunction with the opening of Ravens Gold Rush, the Rubin Museum will host the North American premiere of Horn's new film, Moon Mirror Journey (2011), on Saturday, October 29th at 4pm. Directed and narrated by Horn, the film is, in her words, "a sufi's journey" through some of her most compelling, site-specific large-scale installations and exhibitions, including the Concert for Buchenwald (1999) and the Spiriti di Madreperla installation in Naples (2000). The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the artist, offering a rare opportunity to hear Horn speak in public about her work. Tickets are $12 and include admission to the museum. They can be purchased on the Rubin Museum website: rmanyc.org or via phone at 917.254.7859.
作品清單
Gallery 1 (clockwise from south wall):
Gold Rush, 1986
gold bar, charcoal, electronic devices, steel hammer
overall dimensions as installed: 100 x 10 x 11 5/8 inches
(254 x 25.4 x 29.5 cm)
RH-SC-2032
Uncle Harry's Gold Rush
postcard with gold and text
postcard: 7 1/8 x 4 1/2 inches (18.1 x 11.4 cm)
framed: 17 x 13 5/8 inches (43.2 x 34.6 cm)
Gallery 2 (clockwise from east wall):
Japan - painting the house I, 2011
acrylic, graphite, color pencils on paper
paper: 15 3/4 x 11 7/8 inches (40 x 30 cm)
framed: 24 3/8 x 19 5/8 x 1 3/4 inches (62 x 50 x 4.5 cm)
RH-1089
Japan - painting the house II, 2011
Der Sturz des Schattens in die Öffnung des Vulkans
(Volcano's Mirrored Shadow), 2010-2011
paper: 71 6/8 x 59 inches (182 x 150 cm)
framed: 81 1/2 x 69 x 1 3/4 inches (207 x 175 x 4.5 cm)
RH-BL-1016
Der Kopf an Seidenfäden hängend - Japan, 2011
Sonnenlicht Fliehend, 2010
framed: 81 1/2 x 68 3/4 x 1 3/4 inches (207 x 174.6 x 4.4 cm)
Ravens Morning, 2011
Main Gallery (clockwise from north wall):
Ravens Forest, 2011
glass, steel, goose egg, black paint, electronic devices, braided leather whip
overall: 39 1/2 x 27 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches (100.3 x 70.5 x 31.8 cm)
Main Gallery (center):
The Raven Tree, 2009-2011
copper, steel, charcoal, glass funnels, electronic devices, gold
overall: 196 7/8 x 165 3/8 x 157 1/2 inches (500 x 420 x 400 cm)


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While I'm aware that not everyone is lucky enough to live with acres of fields right on their doorstep, I do firmly believe that it's possible to embrace the countryside lifestyle, wherever you live.
To me, the countryside lifestyle is all about taking time out to breathe in some fresh air, to focus on the smaller joys and to relish in a slower pace of life. It's not about owning chickens, running away from all of your problems or living on an isolated farm (although all of those things sound equally as appealing). It's a way of life, not a place.
Here on Sweet Serendipity, you'll find posts encouraging you to get outside – with everything from travel guides and journals, to tips on places to walk around the UK and posts about the reality of owning a horse.
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The USS Indianapolis and Writing About History for Kids
Writers are asked all the time 'what inspired you to write this book?' Into the Killing Seas, my newest novel, is told through the eyes of a young boy who, along with his brother, stows away about the USS Indianapolis. Almost two days out of port, the ship was sunk by a Japanese submarine.
Two torpedoes tore the ship nearly in half. It sank so quickly only 900 of the 1200 man crew were able to abandon ship. Most of them were burned and wounded. They floated in the ocean nearly five days before they were spotted and rescued. They survived exposure, dehydration, starvation, and relentless heat and rolling seas. And they had the great misfortune to sink in some of the most heavily shark infested waters on earth.
Scientists have called it the worst human-shark encounter in history. Of the 900 men who made it off the ship, only 317 were pulled from the water. It was the worse disaster at seas in US Naval history. It was, by any definition, a horrific event.
What inspired me to write Into the Killing Seas? First, like any writer, my primary goal is to tell the best story I possibly can. And in the case of the Indianapolis disaster, to introduce young readers to an important historic event through historical fiction.
There is a lot of action and tragedy in Into the Killing Seas. Booklist called it "grim and vivid." And it is very difficult to 'sanitize' a shark attack. Which brings me to the inspiration question. Why write about such a horrible event, a war, death and destruction? Especially in a book for children?
It's my own opinion, but I believe young readers deserve honesty and truth, just as much as adult readers. Writing a book like Into the Killing Seas gives readers a glimpse of a true event that was beyond horrible. And the horribleness is the point. My goal in writing historical fiction for young readers is to try and give them an understanding that war and the things that go with are awful. It is not a movie or a video game. It is at times both the best and worst of humanity. There is no reset button. Sometimes men and women fight and die. And in my opinion, I think it's important that young readers learn that reality.
And that's my question. Does giving kids a glimpse of the reality of war, or the truth of history provide them with a valuable lesson? We have a tendency these days to want to protect our children from the harshness of life. But life is not always kind. Does opening their eyes to events like the Crusades or World War II make them better prepared to understand the world as they become adults? I'd love to know what you think about using historical fiction to introduce young readers to history.
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Janeen Kilgore says:
I'm sorry, this isn't even close to putting you on the banned book list. I teach 4th-6th graders at a small, Catholic school in a VERY conservative area of the county. Students from all three of those classes have read Into the Killing Seas and loved it.
This is about as nonviolent as it can be and still tell the story. Life and history is violent. We could never teach a history class, allow a child to watch television nor play a video game if that were the case.
No this probably isn't the best book for 1st graders, but for 4th grade and up, as this book is intended is perfectly fine.
My students put the word streak in the context of a kill streak, as in a video game, over streaking, or a streak of paint or mud.
I'm sorry, but this isn't going to make the banned book list any time soon.
James Asherton says:
My 12 year old son needed a book to read for a school assignment, so I picked up Into The Killing Seas form our library. I read it also and found it to be a superb piece of historical fiction. Well done. I never suspected the story would end as it did. Very touching.
Thank you Mr. Asherton. I really appreciate your kind words. I hope your son enjoyed it as well.
socialstudies says:
I have done my master in History, and look to on Public Research for my children .Imperialism,
Progressivism, Great War these are some topic i would like to know more
Hi. I started reading this today to my 5 th grade students in Scotland. They are loving it so far. Are there any teacher resources available??
Michael Spradlin says:
If you email me at michael@michaelspradlin.com, I can send you the teachers guide!
John Mcnicholas says:
Hi Mr Spradlin, I am 65 yrs old but read young adult novels to relax. I read Prisoner of War and felt a connection because my wife is Filipino. Her father was a guerilla fighter in world war 2. I got your book for my Filipino-American grandson in 8th grade. Thank you for this story. I loved reading it. 4 years in the us navy.
Mr. Mcnicholas,
Thank you for your very kind words. I'm glad that you enjoyed Prisoner of War and I hope your grandson enjoys it as well.
Also, thank you for your service. Best to you and your family.
Kim Larson says:
I'm a 50 year old wanna be author and thoroughly enjoyed Prisoner of War, which I read for "research" on point of view and writing style. Not only did I find the book educational in this regard, but in a historical aspect as well. I applaud your talent, and thank you for your work in introducing young readers to the sacrifices that were made for the freedom they may take for granted. Much respect. I plan on reading more of your books, but not only for research 🙂
mr beast says:
i loved this book 5 stars
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