These days, movie capture is commonplace even for interchangeable-lens cameras aimed at consumers. For a professional model, it's absolutely obligatory, and as you'd expect, the Nikon D4 offers video recording capabilities with a rich feature set indeed.
As you'd expect of a camera aimed at pros, the Nikon D4 offers both automatic and manual exposure control, and supports both internal and external microphones. It also provides for full-time or single autofocus operations, and manual focusing. It's rarer in offering a headphone jack to monitor audio during capture, and a fairly fine-grained control over both microphone and headphone levels. Even rarer is the ability to capture video remotely via Ethernet or an optional WiFi adapter. Particularly interesting to pros is the opportunity to record an uncompressed video stream via HDMI, for recording on an external device. Perhaps the most unusual feature of all, though, is the ability to smoothly adjust aperture using two front-of-camera buttons, although this only works when recording with an external device. Otherwise, the camera reverts to a stepped aperture that is locked once capture commences.
The Nikon D4 records movies at three progressive scan resolutions: either 1,920 x 1,080, 1,280 x 720, or 640 x 424 pixels. The highest resolution 1,920 x 1,080 pixel mode is commonly known as Full HD or 1,080p, and has a 16:9 aspect ratio. This offers a choice of three frame rates, nominally listed as 30, 25, and 24 frames per second, although the highest and lowest rates are actually 29.97 and 23.976 fps. As well as the standard field of view, a 2.7x crop is available in this mode. The intermediate 1,280 x 720 pixel resolution also has a 16:9 aspect ratio, and is better known as 720p. These also offers the nominal 30 and 25 frames per second rates, drops the 24 fps rate, and adds two more. A 60fps nominal rate equates to 59.94 fps actually, while the remaining 50 fps rate matches the nominal figure. When the D4's video output is set to the North American NTSC format, the 60fps, 30fps and 24fps movie recording rates are available. If switched to PAL format, the D4 offers a choice of 50, 25, or 24 fps rates. Finally, the non-standard 640 x 424 pixel mode has an approximate 3:2 aspect ratio. With this standard definition mode, recording frame rates are fixed at either 30 fps for NTSC, or 25fps for PAL.
For most resolutions and frame rates, recording times are limited to 29 minutes, 59 seconds or four gigabytes per clip, whichever limit is reached first. However, the highest-resolution 1080p modes and the high-framerate 50 / 60 fps 720p modes are limited to a clip length of 20 minutes. If you're shooting in high ambient temperatures, note that like all video-capable DSLRs, the D4 will monitor its internal temperature and cease video capture if a certain threshold is passed, to prevent damage to the sensor and other components. You're given a 30-second window in which to wrap up your shot after the shutdown warning is shown, if this is the case. You'll then need to wait for the camera's internals to cool sufficiently before another video capture can be started.
The Nikon D4 records movies using H.264/MPEG-4 AVC compression with Linear PCM audio, and stores them in .MOV files. Compared to the Motion JPEG format used by some cameras, H.264 is much more conservative of memory card space. It also avoids some of the severe image quality loss suffered by AVCHD cameras, when faced with significant amounts of change in image content between frames. (AVCHD uses a subset of the H.264 standard, which among other things mandates a limit in recording bandwidth, translating into a lesser ability to convey rapidly-changing detail.) The choice of H.264 comes with the requirement of greater processing power, though -- not only from the camera when recording, but also when playing back or editing videos. The more sophisticated encoding used in the H.264 standard requires quite a bit of processor power to pull it apart and put it back together again, so frame-accurate editing of H.264 requires a fast processor and capable editing program. That said, for the target customer, this is unlikely to be an issue; merely something to bear in mind.
Unlike some cameras using AVCHD recording, the Nikon D4's H.264 movies have relatively little lag in response to your starting or stopping recording. That's great news, because it means you're less likely to miss the start of the action, or have to trim the start and end of clips.
In addition to recording in-camera, the Nikon D4 provides another, much more rare option--but only when there are no flash cards in the camera body. If this is the case, the D4 can output an uncompressed, 8-bit, 4:2:2 video feed via the HDMI port, which can then be captured and stored with an external recorder such as an Atomos Ninja or similar. This lets you get at the uncompressed video, and it also provides a way to circumvent the clip length limitations (although you're still subject to sensor heating issues, so if the sensor gets too hot then live view will be stopped.) It's possible to adjust the aperture while outputting via HDMI, as described in the exposure control section below. Note that while the HDMI feed is active in this manner, no informational overlays are added to the output feed. The live view is mirrored on the camera's LCD, where the overlays are shown, letting you confirm settings etc. without affecting the recorded video.
Here are some examples of video from the Nikon D4, showing typical results under daylight and night conditions.
The Nikon D4 performs autofocus in live view and movie modes using contrast detection, which operates based on data streaming from the image sensor. It's the same technique referred to as Tripod mode on earlier Nikon SLRs. As in other recent models, the Nikon D4 offers both single-servo and continuous-servo autofocus modes, and the latter bears a different name from its phase-detection equivalent. It's called Full-time Servo AF, or AF-F for short, as opposed to AF-C / Continuous-Servo AF for phase detection AF when shooting stills through the viewfinder. By design, contrast detection autofocus involves some hunting around the point of focus, and can lag behind changes in your subject's focus distance somewhat. If your subject is relatively static, you can instead opt for the Single-servo AF mode, which will still allow you to perform single autofocus operations during video capture by half-pressing the shutter button, or pressing the AF-ON button. Of course, pro videographers will almost certainly prefer to switch off autofocus altogether, and pull focus manually by appropriately setting the Focus-mode selector on the camera's front panel (as well as that on the lens, if applicable).
The D4 offers four AF-area modes for use during movie capture: Face-priority AF, Wide-area AF, Normal-area AF, and Subject-Tracking AF. The Wide and Normal-area modes are self-explanatory, providing two different focus area sizes, which can be manually positioned anywhere within the frame (and even moved during video capture.) Face-priority AF--which can identify up to 35 individual faces within the frame during live view, but an (undisclosed) lesser number during movie capture--will select the closest subject among the group when adjusting focus. This individual will be indicated by a double-yellow frame on the D4's LCD panel. Finally, the Subject-tracking AF function allows you to manually position the point from which autofocus tracking should commence, and to start or stop the function by pressing the center of the multi selector when your subject falls under the AF point. The D4 will then indicate the point at which it is currently tracking the subject with a focus frame that changes between either green to indicate a focus lock, or red to indicate that a focus lock hasn't currently been attained.
Like most interchangeable lens cameras capable of AF during video--and especially those using lenses that were designed for still imaging--the D4 has a tendency to pick up autofocus drive noise quite clearly in the audio track of its movie clips. This can be mitigated by use of an external microphone, and by adjusting the D4's manual gain control, however. You have a useful thirty-step gain control over the internal microphone, and a 20-step control over external mics, but note that you can't adjust the levels during capture. You can also disable audio capture altogether, and rely on an external device to record audio. Alternatively, you can let the D4 control levels automatically.
As we've noted in other SLR reviews, the good news with focusing for video is that you can get surprisingly good depth of field in video mode by stopping the lens down, thanks to the relatively low resolution of the video image. With a pixel resolution of only 2.1 megapixels in the Nikon D4's highest-resolution 1,080p "Full HD" mode, 0.9 megapixels in 720p HD mode, and just 0.3 megapixels in the standard-definition mode, images that would be unacceptably blurred as 16 megapixel still shots look perfectly fine as video frames. This not only provides greater depth of field at any given aperture, but is also more forgiving of diffraction limiting at very small lens apertures. Diffraction at small apertures means you'd usually want to avoid f/16 or f/22 for still images, but again, the results generally look perfectly fine at video resolutions. Bottom line, with the Nikon D4's lens set to f/16 or f/22 (assuming you're shooting under fairly bright conditions), you'll be surprised by how little focus adjustment is needed during a typical video recording.
With the Nikon D4's exposure mode set to program or shutter priority, the main exposure variables--shutter speed, aperture, and ISO sensitivity--all remain under automatic control when recording movies. If the exposure mode is set appropriately, however, you can shoot movies in aperture-priority or manual modes. In all modes except manual, the ISO sensitivity is controlled automatically, although you can adjust the range of sensitivities available: either 200 to 12,800 equivalents, or 200 to 204,800 equivalents (aka Hi 4). The reverse is true of manual mode: ISO sensitivity can't be automatically controlled, and must be manually set. Regardless of exposure mode, user-adjustable exposure variables are locked from the start of video capture.
Regardless of the metering mode selected, movies will always be recorded using Matrix metering, with the Center-weighted and Spot options available only for still image capture. You can, however, adjust exposure compensation within a +/-3.0 EV range, and lock the metered exposure with the sub-selector's center button, if you wish. You can apply Nikon's Picture Controls and adjust white balance for movies, as long as they are selected before recording begins. This is useful if you'd like to for instance record in monochrome, with more saturated colors, emphasising the color of a sunset, etc.
Nikon also offers a flicker reduction feature in the D4, useful for taming flicker induced by fluorescent and mercury-vapor lighting. The camera can attempt to automatically select the correct flicker reduction frequency itself, or you can manually set this to 50 or 60Hz.
Not really an exposure feature per se, but the Nikon D4 also allows you to mark up to twenty 'index' points in each captured video clip. You can then return immediately to these points when editing your movie, if your chosen video editor recognizes the marks, making it quicker to edit clips together if you identify key points at capture time.
Connectivity. At top left is a 3.5mm stereo headphone jack, allowing live audio monitoring. To the right is a 3.5mm stereo microphone jack, providing an alternative to the built-in monaural mic. At bottom are an ethernet jack and a Type-C Mini HDMI connector.
The Nikon D4 has an internal, monaural microphone comprising three holes located directly beneath the self-timer lamp and adjacent to the flash sync terminal on the camera's front panel. As noted previously, internal mics have a tendency to pick up camera handling and autofocus drive noise on the audio track of captured movie clips. The severity will vary significantly depending on the videographer, and the lens model in use. The D4 also provides for external stereo mics, courtesy of a 3.5mm input jack under a flap on the left side of the camera's body. Simply switching moving to a shoe-mount mic with some form of shock mount can do wonders for your DSLR audio, while moving the mic off camera at a distance can completely resolve the issue. Nikon recommends its ME-1 stereo mic for use with the D4, but you can of course use third party mics too.
Another feature that can help resolve audio problems is the adjustable sensitivity for the microphone. Internal and external mics are adjusted separately, and have varying levels of adjustment possible. For the internal mic, there are thirty sensitivity levels to choose from, along with Auto gain, and Off settings. For external mics, you can choose from Auto, Off, and twenty gain levels. A stereo level display on the LCD provides a 15-step visual cue for whether audio levels are too high, and the top of the scale is indicated in red to catch your attention. Unfortunately, the manually-selected level for either mic is fixed from the start of video capture, so you can't react to unanticipated changes in ambient noise levels without stopping and restarting capture.
A much rarer feature of the D4 is its external headphone jack. This lets you monitor audio levels on the fly during capture, so you should at least have an idea if they're out of whack. Again, levels can be manually adjusted in 30 steps. Nikon doesn't recommend any particular headphone type.
The D4's Linear PCM audio is recorded with a bit depth of 16-bits, and a sampling rate of 48 kHz, plenty enough for good quality audio.
As well as standard movies with or without sound, the Nikon D4 can also assemble time-lapse movies in camera. Time lapse movies are recorded with the resolution and frame rate settings currently configured in the Movie Settings menu, and do not include sound. If the camera is set to manual exposure, it will show variations in ambient light levels faithfully; otherwise the exposure level will vary to cancel them out. Likewise, auto white balance will attempt to correct for changes in light color temperature (perhaps causing color shifts during the time-lapse sequence), while manual white balance will faithfully show changes in ambient light temperature throughout the movie.
Time lapse movies can have a duration of up to seven hours, 59 minutes, and both the interval and shooting time are configured manually. Multi-shot exposure modes aren't available, and nor are live view or bulb shooting. The camera ignores its standby timer, and if power runs out, the movie up to that point will be saved. If autofocus is enabled, frames where a focus lock can't be achieved are skipped. The viewfinder should be covered before exposure starts, and there's a three second delay before the first frame is captured.
The Nikon D4 is relatively rare in offering both built-in ethernet connectivity, and support for optional wireless transmitters. It's doubly unusual in allowing for movie recording via either connectivity type. With an Ethernet network configured, or the optional WT-4 or WT-5 wireless transmitter attached, you can record movies remotely via a built-in HTTP server and web browser, or using the optional Camera Control Pro 2 software. You can also upload existing movies from the camera to an FTP server, or to a computer.
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The D4 groups several settings related to video capture in a dedicated Movie Settings menu, accessed from the last page of the Shooting menu. There are also several movie-related custom functions, grouped in the final page of the Custom Function menu. It also offers limited in-camera movie editing functionality. You can select either a start or end point for a video clip, and save the resulting trimmed video as a new file, and it's also possible to extract single frames from a video. These functions are accessed from the Playback mode's Retouch menu, or while viewing a movie in Playback mode.
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Essentially every video capable digital SLR currently on the market exhibits motion-related distortions called rolling shutter artifacts. These are caused because the image data is captured and then read off the chip sequentially by rows, rather being captured all at once. In the case of the Nikon D4, with its variable frame rate, this means that image data for the last row of a given frame is captured and read out anywhere from 1/24th to 1/60th second after the data for the top row was captured. The effect on moving objects is similar to that of a focal plane shutter in an SLR, but more pronounced, because the video frame is read out much more slowly than the slit of a focal plane shutter moves across the sensor.
For a camera that scans video frames vertically (as all do that we're aware of), rolling shutter artifacts will be most noticeable for subjects that are moving rapidly side to side, or when the camera itself is being panned horizontally. Verticals in the scene will appear tilted to the right or left, depending on the direction of camera motion. As an example, consider the case of a camera being panned from left to right, with a flagpole or other vertical object in the middle of the scene when recording for a particular frame begins: If the top of the object was centered horizontally when the first line of the video frame is acquired, by the time the last line of the frame has been captured, the bottom of the object will have shifted to somewhere left of center: As a result, the vertical object would appear to be leaning to the right.
The D4's rolling shutter is most visible at 24 frames per second, less so at 30 frames per second, and by the time you reach the maximum frame rate of 60 fps in 720p mode, very little rolling shutter is present.
A typical computer these days has little trouble dealing with still images, but high-definition video can be another matter. Depending on the file format involved, it can take a pretty beefy computer to handle HD-resolution video playback without stuttering or dropping frames. The H.264/MPEG-4 AVC image compression used by the Nikon D4 is one of the more compute-intensive formats, and its 1,920 x 1,080 (1080p) resolution means there's a lot of data in each frame to deal with at full resolution. The net result is that you'll want a relatively recent and powerful computer to play full-res high-def video files from the D4 on your computer. At lower resolutions, the requirements will be more modest. You can, of course, view your movies on an HDTV via the Type-C Mini HDMI output.


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AMD shares fell 2.8% after the announcement. The stock has plunged 56% over the past year, compared with a rise of 15% for Intel.
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Analysts have said the acquisition has limited the company's ability to raise new cash since it is required to use a portion of new funds to repay the loan early.
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Britain called for a European-led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, days after Iran seized a British-flagged tanker in what London described as an act of "state piracy" in the strategic waterway, Reuters reports.
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt outlined the plans to parliament after a meeting of COBR, the government's emergency committee, which discussed London's response to Friday's capture of the Stena Impero tanker by Iranian commandos at sea.
"Under international law, Iran had no right to obstruct the ship's passage – let alone board her. It was therefore an act of state piracy," Hunt told parliament.
"We will now seek to put together a European-led maritime protection mission to support safe passage of both crew and cargo in this vital region," he said.
The British announcement signals a potential shift from Washington's major European allies who so far have been cool to US requests that they beef up their military presence in the Gulf, for fear of feeding the confrontation there.
It is unclear how much influence Britain may have in Europe given it is about to have a new prime minister, widely expected to be Boris Johnson, who takes over a country divided over Brexit, its planned departure from the European Union.
Hunt made a point of saying that the maritime protection proposal would not involve contributing European military power to back Washington's hardline stance against Iran.
The proposed new maritime protection mission "will not be part of the US maximum pressure policy on Iran because we remain committed to preserving the Iran nuclear agreement", he said.
In Nicaragua, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused the British tanker of endangering shipping by turning off its signal for longer than permitted and by "passing through the wrong channel".
Zarif said Iran's actions were not in retaliation for the British capture of an Iranian tanker two weeks earlier in Gibraltar and he warned the West against "starting a conflict", saying Tehran was not seeking confrontation.
"Starting a conflict is easy, ending it would be impossible," Zarif told reporters after meeting his Nicaraguan counterpart.
"It's important for everybody to realize, it's important for Boris Johnson to understand, that Iran does not seek confrontation."
US targets Chinese company
Washington's major European allies Britain, France and Germany all opposed US President Donald Trump's decision last year to abandon an international agreement that gave Iran access to trade in return for accepting curbs on its nuclear program.
In the latest element of its pressure campaign, the US said it had sanctioned China's state-run energy company Zhuhai Zhenrong Co. Ltd. for allegedly violating restrictions imposed on Iran's oil sector, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.
The Europeans have tried to stay neutral as tensions have risen between Tehran and Washington. But Britain was plunged directly into the crisis on July 4 when it seized an Iranian tanker off Gibraltar accused of violating sanctions on Syria.
Iran repeatedly threatened to retaliate, culminating with its seizure of the Stena Impero on Friday using the same tactics – commandos rappelling to the deck from helicopters – that British Royal Marines had used aboard Iran's own ship.
The US has an aircraft carrier strike group in the Gulf and a navy that is far more powerful than those of all its European allies combined. But it has made a point in recent weeks of saying it cannot protect shipping on its own.
Asked about the capture of the British ship, Pompeo said: "The responsibility … falls to the United Kingdom to take care of their ships."
Almost a fifth of the oil consumed globally passes through the Strait of Hormuz.
'Arrested spies'
In a separate development that could generate more tensions, Iran said it had arrested 17 spies working for the CIA and sentenced some of them to death, an announcement Trump called "totally false".
Iranian state television published images it said showed CIA officers who had been in touch with the suspected spies. The Ministry of Intelligence said the 17 spies had been arrested in the 12 months to March 2019.
Such announcements are not unusual in Iran and are often made for domestic consumption, although the timing suggests the possibility of an intention to link it to the Gulf crisis.
Trump later told reporters it was getting harder for him to want to make a deal with Iran.
Trump has said the 2015 nuclear deal reached by his predecessor Barack Obama is too weak and new sanctions are needed to force Iran to renegotiate it. Tehran has said it cannot negotiate unless Washington lifts sanctions and abides by the agreement.
Tensions have risen since May, when the US closed sanctions loopholes to try to halt all Iranian oil exports. Since then Washington has accused Tehran of attacking ships and Iran has breached limits in the deal.
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Canadian History and Environment Summer Symposium (CHESS) 2018: Prairie Landscapes and Environmental Change in the 20th Century
May 28, 2018 June 25, 2018 4 minute readby Andrew Watson
Prairie landscape, Saskatchewan credit: The Métis Francophone community of Saskatchewan
The 2018 Canadian History and Environment Summer Symposium is a new take on a long-standing annual NiCHE event. Since 2006, CHESS has been the focal event of environmental history in Canada. And twelve years after Geoff Cunfer and Bill Waiser hosted participants at Wanuskewin Heritage Park, CHESS returns to Saskatoon to explore Prairie Landscapes and Environmental Change in the Twentieth Century. New this year, CHESS 2018 will feature both a field school (May 31-June 1) and a writing workshop (June 1-2).
Co-sponsored by the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE), and both the Department of History and the School of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Saskatchewan, CHESS 2018 brings together a diverse range of scholars at various stages of their career interested in the history of the relationship between people and the environment.
Prairie Landscape Road Trip
Photo by the author
Over three days, participants will explore the diverse histories of Canada's grassland landscapes in the field, and workshop a series of articles for publication in the new, peer-reviewed, online journal, Papers in Canadian Environment and Society. Over the course of the day on May 31 and the morning of June 1, more than forty people will travel together to historic sites in central Saskatchewan to consider various human efforts to transform or conserve the Prairie landscape. In the afternoon of June 1 and throughout the day on June 2, a smaller group will provide feedback to nine invited authors on pre-circulated papers focused on Canadian environmental history.
The field school on the first day and a half of the symposium will include visits at the Blaine Lake Doukhobor Settlement Area, the Seager Wheeler Experimental Farm National Historic Site, Gabriel's Crossing Métis Heritage Site near Batoche, the Saskatoon Forestry Farm, and the Federal Plant Gene Resources of Canada Genebank at the University of Saskatchewan.
After journeying north from Saskatoon, the CHESS group will tour Doukhobor cultural landscapes in the Riverlands Heritage Preservation Region outside Blaine Lake. Local historian John Kalmakoff and Doukhobor historian Dr. Ashleigh Androsoff will provide a bus tour with a few stops at key sites.
Doukhobor Prayer Home, Blaine Lake
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At noon, at the Doukhobor Prayer Home in Blaine Lake, Drs. David Moon and. Geoff Cunfer will deliver a pair of public keynote talks on comparative environmental histories of grasslands agriculture on the Russian Steppe and the American Great Plains. Moon will explore the connections between the development of agriculture on the Canadian Prairies, Great Plains of the United States, and steppes of Russia and the Ukraine. Cunfer will explore the complex ways that farmers in North America, Europe, and Latin America managed energy flows, maintained soil nutrients, and manipulated natural processes for human goals during the past two hundred years in an effort to answer a challenging question: "How sustainable were farm systems in Europe, in North America, and in Latin America?"
Seager Wheeler farm house and visitor centre.
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From Blaine Lake, the group will travel to the Seager Wheeler National Historic Site where local historian Larry Epp and Dr. Peter Anderson will provide a brief tour and details about the development of Marquis Wheat and federal experimental farms across Canada.
Gabriel's Crossing historic plaque
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The remainder of the day will be spent at the site of Gabriel Dumont's Ferry Crossing, near Batoche. Métis elder Maria Campbell and Métis historian Cheryl Troupe will give a second pair of talks at Gabriel's Crossing near Batoche. Campbell will focus on the local history of the Métis Community and Gabriel's Crossing, while Troupe will share her research examining the spatial relationships between Métis community formation, land use, and food history in the Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, drawing parallels between the Qu'Appelle Valley and Batoche. Her presentation will situate these two communities in early twentieth-century prairie Métis history more generally. Both talks will endeavour to extend our knowledge of Métis history and the Batoche community beyond the 1885 conflict.
Sutherland Forest Nursery Station
credit: Friends of the Forestry Farm
On the morning of June 1, CHESS participants will travel to the Saskatoon Forest Farm, where Sue Barrett and members of the Friends of the Forestry Farm will provide a tour of the site where the Sutherland Forestry Nursery Station experimented with various species of trees for farm shelterbelts. Our last stop will be the Canadian Federal Genebank facility at the U of S, where curator Dr. Axel Diederichsen will provide a tour of the repository for plant genetic resources for food and agriculture in Canada.
The workshop will follow immediately after the end of the field school, and is intended to provide nine invited authors the opportunity to receive constructive comments and suggestions on pre-circulated papers. Each author will deliver a 10-minute presentation to introduce the discussion, followed by 50 minutes for feedback from participants. Authors will be given an additional two months to make any changes before submitting a manuscript to the editors of NiCHE's Papers in Canadian History and Environment. Papers will then proceed through the peer-review process and the accepted papers will be published online and open-access on the NiCHE website. The first paper in this new scholarly journal by Matt Dyce and Jonathan Peyton, "Magical Regionalism: Canadian Geography on Screen in the 1950s," was published in February 2018, and we expect that a number of additional papers resulting from the CHESS workshop will be published in 2019.
The CHESS 2018 would like to thank the Network in Canadian History and Environment, the School of Environment and Sustainability and the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for their generous support.
Andrew Watson
Assistant Professor at University of Saskatchewan
Andrew is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the School of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Saskatchewan. His current research includes the history of sustainability and tourism on the Canadian Shield in Muskoka, Ontario; the environmental, social, and economic history of coal in Canada; and the role of energy in shaping agroecosystems on the Great Plains of the U.S.
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Leverage: Redemption: Release Date, Cast, And More
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By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 10, 2021 12:32 pm EST
(Welcome to ...And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.)
The original "Leverage" was a TNT crime drama series that ran for five seasons from 2008-2012. It must have been successful enough (these days, getting a new original show to be renewed for more than two seasons is practically a minor miracle), considering it has since been brought back with quite a few familiar faces for fans of the original on ... IMDB TV, of all places. The future is streaming, folks! In an increasingly IP-obsessed world, I suppose a "Leverage" revival is far from the most unexpected idea out there. Whether that viewership comes from fans of the original series or a whole new group entirely remains to be seen, but consider me curious either way.
In any case, the revival is under the name of "Leverage: Redemption," (half of) the first season has already aired, and you can read everything you could possibly need to know about the overall show below.
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Leverage: Redemption Trailer
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SADC and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany signs a technical and financial cooperation agreement
The SADC Executive Secretary, Her Excellency Dr. Stergomena Lawrence Tax, and the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Botswana and SADC H.E. Dr. Rolf Ulrich, signed a technical and financial cooperation agreement for €17.0 million between SADC and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Q: Gremlin - how to show field value instead label value with gremlin I want to show a graph with vertex name a field name end not the label name.
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%%gremlin -d name -de weight

will label nodes using a "name" property, and edges using a "weight" property.
Note that most of the magic commands, like %%gremlin support asking for help. You just need to put at least one character in the cell body. For example:
%%gremlin --help
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There is additional documentation available here and here
There are also a number of sample notebooks that come included with the graph-notebook open source package. Several of those contain examples of how to customize graph visualizations. You may find those useful.


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Inon Zur Revealed As Composer for Outriders
Square Enix recently announced that award-winning composer Inon Zur would be composing the musical score for People Can Fly's upcoming ARPG/shooter Outriders.
People Can Fly's creative director, Bartek Kmita, said, "We were really excited to have Inon on board to do the soundtrack for the game. He's a legend in the industry and the team was big fans of his work already. He worked closely with us to develop a sound that fits with the story and world that we're creating, and he composed truly dynamic and powerful tracks for us that added so much depth to the tone and feel of the game."
Zur himself also made a statement regarding his involvement in the project. "As a composer, it's always extremely exciting to be involved in building new worlds and telling new stories, so I'm thrilled to reveal that I have composed the score for People Can Fly and Square Enix's epic sci-fi action game Outriders. It was a lot of fun blending heavy orchestral soundscapes and futuristic musical sound design for this rollercoaster sci-fi adventure and I can't wait to share the music with you."
This marks the first time that Zur has composed for either People Can Fly or for Square Enix. His previous works include the soundtracks for Dragon Age: Origins, Fallout 3, and Fallout 4. A "behind the scenes" video appeared during the most recent "Outriders Broadcast" presentation, which People Can Fly will be putting out monthly leading up to the game and possibly after launch. The "behind the scenes" video, which shows Zur working with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra at Tom-Tom Studios in Budapest, can be found on YouTube. It gives players a sneak peek at the soundtrack and letting them get a feel for the sort of musical tone the game will embody.
There have been no announcements regarding a physical release of the soundtrack, but if there is, it's probably going to be one to grab.
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Profile of the Hampton University Child Development Center and its director on Coast Live
Posted 12:37 pm, March 1, 2019, by Coast Live, Updated at 04:39PM, March 1, 2019
HAMPTON ROADS, Va. - Joy Phelps is the director for the Hampton University Child Development Center and currently serves as co-chairperson for the Hampton Roads Community Action Program (HRCAP) Project Discovery Advisory Board.
She has given back to the community in a variety of ways and is now being honored for her achievements with the Robert O. Bigelow Award from HRCAP.
She talks more about the center and plans for Planting Pinwheels for 2019's Child Abuse Prevention Month.
To learn more visit libarts.hamptonu.edu/edhd.
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