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A method and apparatus for constructing an inexpensive camera with vignetting correction in the camera electronic hardware. The hardware is programmable through the use of a register storing a constant value corresponding to the amount of vignetting of a particular lens used in the camera. The register value is provided to a correction circuit which implements an algorithm that corrects for the amount of vignetting of pixels depending upon the pixel position.
1. A method for manufacturing a camera which connects to a computer, comprising:
determining a vignetting effect of a first lens;
installing said first lens in a first camera housing;
determining a vignetting effect of a second lens;
installing said second lens in a second camera housing;
installing in each housing a photosensor array mounted behind said lens;
coupling an analog processing circuit to each said photosensor array;
coupling an analog to digital converter to each said analog processing circuit;
coupling a digital processing circuit to an output of each said analog to digital converter, said digital processing circuit including
a register for storing a constant corresponding to a vignetting rating of said lens,
a correction circuit, coupled to said register, for adjusting a value of selected pixels according to a formula using said constant, to correct for vignetting of said lens;
coupling a bus interface circuit to an output of each said digital processing circuit for connecting to a bus for transfer of data to said computer;
storing a first constant in said register in said first camera housing, said first constant corresponding to said vignetting effect of said first lens;
storing a second constant in said register in said second camera housing, said second constant corresponding to said vignetting effect of said second lens.
2. The method of
3. The method of
4. The method of
5. The method of
6. A camera for connecting to a computer, comprising:
a lens;
a photosensor array mounted behind said lens;
an analog processing circuit coupled to said photosensor array;
an analog to digital converter coupled to said analog processing circuit;
a digital processing circuit coupled to an output of said analog to digital converter, said digital processing circuit including
a register for storing a constant corresponding to a vignetting rating of said lens,
a correction circuit, coupled to said register, for adjusting a value of selected pixels according to a formula using said constant, to correct for vignetting of said lens; and
a bus interface circuit coupled to an output of said digital processing circuit for connecting to a bus for transfer of data to said computer.
7. The camera of
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9. The camera of
10. The camera of
The present application is a Continuation Application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/282,734, filed Oct. 28, 2002 and titled �Image Sensor Based Optical Defect Correction,� and is a Continuation Application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/345,167, filed Jun. 30, 1999 and titled �Image Sensor Based Vignetting Correction,� both of which are incorporated by reference herein in their entirety for all purposes.
The present invention relates to digital cameras, and in particular to correcting vignetting effects.
The vignetting effect is when the brightness around the edges of a screen is less than the brightness in the center of the screen, creating a halo effect. Professional photographers will sometimes try to intentionally create this effect with an appropriate lens or screen, to produce a softened image at the edges of a picture. However, when this effect appears unintentionally in digital photographs, it is annoying. A variety of techniques have been developed to measure and address vignetting effects.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,884,140 shows an analog circuit for providing vignetting compensation for a video camera using a zoom lens which causes vignetting.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,434,904 shows measuring the vignetting effect for an x-ray examination apparatus by using a constant brightness image. A correction factor is then stored in the memory for each pixel.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,576,797 shows the detection of vignetting effects in a camera with a focus detecting device.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,381,174 shows the correcting of vignetting due to operation of a zoom lens by using a field frequency sawtooth signal.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,816,663 shows the detection of vignetting between a photo taking lens and focus detecting optical system.
Digital cameras for use with a personal computer for personal teleconferencing have become cheaper and cheaper. This puts pressure on the camera manufacturers to use cheaper lenses, which have more of a vignetting effect. In addition, the price pressure forces manufacturers to use fewer semiconductor chips, thus making the use of semiconductor memory to store vignetting corrections undesirable. Accordingly, there is a need for a digital camera which is inexpensive to manufacture and also corrects for vignetting of an inexpensive lens.
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for constructing an inexpensive camera with vignetting correction in the camera electronic hardware. The hardware is programmable through the use of a register storing a constant value corresponding to the amount vignetting of a particular lens used in the camera. The register value is provided to a hardware correction circuit which implements an algorithm which corrects for the amount of vignetting of pixels depending upon the pixel position.
The invention thus allows different lens suppliers or lens types to be used in cameras as they are manufactured, by simply programming a different computed value into the register. The correction is applied on the raw sensor data after it is converted into digital form, near the sensor itself. Thus, the data is corrected prior to the optional collection of statistics on the sensor data and the compression of the data for transmission to a host computer over a bus. The vignetting correction of the invention maintains the resolution of the image and allows real-time performance. It also makes more accurate statistics collection, thus making the automatic gain control (AGC) in the host, and the automatic white balance (AWB) in the host more accurate.
For a further understanding of the nature and advantages of the invention, reference should be made to the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
In one embodiment, a threshold indicated by rT is illustrated within which the curve 13 is near the maximum value 16, and no vignetting correction need be applied. Alternately, the correction can be applied to all of the pixels regardless to avoid any transition effects at the points rT.
The signals from the CMOS chip are provided to an analog front end 40 which includes a differential amplifier or correlated double sampler (CDS) 42, which provides the analog signals to an automatic gain control (AGC) circuit 44. The data is then provided to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) 46.
The digitized signals, rather than being stored in a frame buffer memory as in the prior art, are then provided directly to a digital processing circuit 48. They are first provided to a video digital signal processor 50 which performs the compression, cropping, scaling and other functions on the data, as well as digital filtering.
Data from video DSP 50 is provided to a bus interface 54 which includes a bus controller buffer 56 and a bus controller 58. Preferably, bus controller buffer 56 is capable of storing two USB frames at the maximum possible rate, or 2 Kbytes. Depending upon the frame rate, compression rate, etc., this may typically vary up to 10 lines, or even to 15-20 lines if decimation is done.
Bus controller 58 provides a control signal on a line 60 to a timing generator 62. Timing generator 62 provides clocking signals on line 64 to CMOS chip 12. Clocking signals 64 include the horizontal and vertical transfer pulses. In one embodiment, the analog front end 40 and the timing generator 62 are integrated onto the same semiconductor chip substrate 41 as CMOS array 12.
DSP unit 50 includes a vignetting correction circuit 70 according to the present invention. This circuit utilizes a constant value in a constant register 72 to perform the vignetting correction. Depending upon the particular lens 10 which is chosen, its specified vignetting amount can be used to provide constant 72. Thus, different lenses could be used in manufacturing a camera by simply programming a different constant value into register 72. This allows multiple sources to be used for the lenses, and allows compensation for changes in lens quality from lot to lot or manufacturer to manufacturer.
As can be seen, the vignetting correction is done before a statistics unit 74 collects statistics which are than transmitted to the host processor 18. In addition, it is prior to any compression performed in bus interface 54.
On the host side of bus 20, host 18 includes a color processing unit 76 which can perform AGC and AWB (automatic white balance) adjustments based on the statistics provided it. Since the vignetting correction is applied before the statistics are taken, this processing will be more accurate. In addition, the application of the vignetting correction prior to compression and transmission over the bus also improves the accuracy of the signal. After color processing, the signal is provided to a display 78 as shown.
An embodiment of an equation for implementation and hardware to perform the vignetting correction is set forth below. The vignetting defect of a low quality lens may be modeled as pass through in the middle of the lens and a parabolic curve near the edge of the lens. The transform function is isotropic. Let pi and po be the pixel value before and after vignetting correction, and x0 and y0 be the coordinate of the center of the lens (should be the center of the image if the lens is mounted properly). Then,
�a� is a small positive constant. To be on the safe side, a maximum of 50% vignetting can be corrected, which means:
Normalized by 226, this will give a=1298. By limiting a to 0 through 1023, and performing the inverse computation, the maximum correctable vignetting is 56%.
Note that in the formula given above, the pixel aspect ratio is not taken into account. For square pixel, the equation is exact, for 12/11 pixel aspect ratio, the result is slightly off. Also, a will be scaled by � if the sensor format is non-scaled QCIF (subsampled QCIF from CIF by leaving out every other pixels in both horizontal and vertical directions).
If yi is 10 bits, (x-x0)2 and (y-y0)2 is 16 bits (for CIF size), and y0 is 10 bits, this determines that a needs to be 10 bit (0 through 1023).
In particular, the current x value of the pixel, xi, is applied to arithmetic circuit 88, where the central pixel, x0, is subtracted from it. This value is then squared by applying its input twice, through a multiplexer 90, to a multiply circuit 92, where it is accumulated in an add/accumulator 94. Similarly, the y value yi is provided to a circuit 96 93, where the difference from the center y value, y0, is determined. This is similarly applied as two values through mux 90 to a multiplier 92, where it is squared and provided to add/accumulator 94, where it is added to the squared x value. The use of the multiplexer simply allows, by time division multiplexing, the same multiplier 92 to be used for both calculations. Obviously, an alternative would be to provide two separate multiply units.
The output of accumulator 94 is then provided to a second multiplier 96, where it is multiplied by the constant value from register 72. The value of one is then subtracted in a unit 98, and this value is multiplied by the pixel value, pi, in a multiplier 100. The output is provided on a line 102 through multiplexer 82 to output line 86. Obviously, variations of the circuitry could be provided, such as using the same multiply circuit for multipliers 92, 96 and 100, with the multiplier being used for different purposes in different time slots.
Optional circuit 80 provides a comparator 104 which compares the output of add/accumulator 94 (the radius value of the x2+y2 values) to the threshold radius in a register 106.
Preferably, the constant a has the same number of bits as the pixel value, pi. Thus, if pi is 10 bits, while the x and y values are 16 bits, the constant a would be 10 bits. Also, a can be scaled by � if the sensor format is non-scaled QCIF (cropped). Thus, correction is provided where the image is cropped before the vignetting correction.
In addition, correction can be done for the pixel aspect ratio by multiplying the y value by 11/12 where a TV will be used.
In one embodiment, the correction will take place only outside a predefined diameter. This assumes that the lens performs satisfactorily around the center of the lens, which is often a reasonable assumption. By doing so, a more accurate correction model can be derived. Let rT be the diameter within which the vignetting defect can be ignored. Then,
The present invention thus allows variation in lenses and also cheaper lenses to be used. It improves the AGC and AWB in the host computer. Additionally, it allows better object motion tracking. Object motion is usually done by assuming the luminance value is the same as the object moves to the edge of a sensor, and thus tracking by looking for the same luminance value. Obviously, vignetting effects can thwart the efforts to locate the object. By applying the vignetting correction close to the sensor, this can be overcome. The invention also provides overall improved video quality.
Also, due to the need for image compression for transmitting over a bus, such as a universal serial bus (USB), having the host do vignetting corrections will result in less precision. Providing vignetting correction on the sensor side of the bus in the present invention provides the correction prior to compression to transmit over the bus.
As will be understood by those of skill in the art, the present invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the essential characteristics thereof. Accordingly, the foregoing description is intended to be illustrative, but not limiting, of the scope of the invention which is set forth in the following claims.
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Just making sure Malz was still as ****ty as everyone knows he is. He is don't worry guys.
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Creativity And Emotional Repression
"You should be experiencing the life that's happening to you, not the one you wish was happening. Don't waste a moment of life trying to make other things happen; appreciate the moments you are given. Don't you understand that every minute you are closer to death? This is how to live your life. You live as though you are on the verge of death because you are." – Michael A. Singer
Engaging with Life
Many of us guard ourselves against the world on a day to day basis without even realizing it; in order to cope with stress, we tense our muscles, put our emotions on hold, and grit our teeth as we power through the day. Many people are lauded for having such thick "armour"and the ability to cope that comes with it, and thus validated, they never take full stock of the consequences of emotionally shutting off in this way.
When we so completely disengage from our emotions, however, we also lose the ability to lose ourselves in feelings of love, gratitude, and joy. Inevitably, this harms our interactions with those closest to us, and does nothing to nurture our deeper selves.
Emotional Repression
The above described denial of our emotions usually arises from the fact that it hurts to feel and, believing we are alone (or likely to be judged harshly by others) and being unable to deal with that pain, we begin to reflexively avoid feeling. While at first this may seem to make things easier, in the end it winds up costing us a great deal of energy; controlling a growing collection of ignored hurts is an endeavour that only becomes more draining as time goes on.
Inevitably, these repressed feelings begin to seep out in the form of nameless anger, sadness, anxiety, and fear—and by the time things get to this stage, we cannot pinpoint why we feel those things, as we long since divorced ourselves from the instigating stressors and hurts. Likewise, it's simply part of the human condition to struggle with verbalizing emotions; our emotional patterning is, after all, set in place before we have words (between birth and the age of seven, usually). This makes it even more imperative that we not repress our emotions, as being fully "present"for them as they happen is key to healthily processing them and later being able to heal. Continue reading →
The Link Between Genius and Insanity
Many of us are familiar with Edvard Munch's famous painting "The Scream", but few know the details of the artist's life and the inspiration for this evocative piece of art.
Munch, a Norwegian artist who died over 70 years ago, lived a life that was fraught with anxiety and hallucinations. His masterpiece—which is today one of the most recognized paintings in the world—was conceived one evening when the artist was standing on the edges of Oslofjord. Rather than the painting coming to him in an enlightening and victorious flash of inspiration, Munch wrote that, "The sun began to set – suddenly the sky turned blood red; I stood there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an endless scream passing through nature."
Most art historians today believe this painting represents the angst of modern man, which Munch suffered from to a great degree all throughout his life, but saw this as an indispensable motivator of his art. In his diary, he recorded feeling that: "My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art."
The link between genius and madness which Munch experienced is certainly not unique to the artist; through history, many great creative minds have experienced a similar relationship between talent and torment.
Vincent van Gogh is particularly well known for his madness, owing to the fact that he cut off his ear after an argument with his friend Paul Gauguin, and later ended his own life.
In one of his missives to his brother Theo, penned in 1888, he wrote: "I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me. Now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head… at times I have attacks of melancholy and of atrocious remorse."
Van Gogh's illness, well-known as it is, has played a strong role in furthering the widespread perception that madness and genius are intrinsically entwined, and that artists are especially prone to a range of mental illnesses, such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, which drive the intense emotions and otherworldly visions expressed in many great works of art.
But correlation, or course, does not guarantee causation, so psychologists stepped in to research the matter in greater depth. Is there indeed a link between madness and genius? It turns out this popular assumption may in fact have some merit.
Need to Feel a Sense of Reward? Try Looking at Art
We all love that feeling of accomplishment we get when we complete a project, overcome a challenge, or create something beautiful—but it's not always easy to come by. When we're feeling tired, demotivated, or depressed, it's much more difficult to engage in the "work" part of the work and reward cycle our brains need to thrive.
Knowing how to stimulate feelings of reward and pleasure during such low periods is key to emerging from them as quickly as possible, and thanks to a new study by researchers at the Emory University School of Medicine, we now know there's an easy way to accomplish this: Simply look at art.
The Emory study, which included four male volunteers and four females (all in their mid-twenties) revealed that there is something special about viewing art; it more strongly activates the brain's "reward system" than other forms of pleasurable visual stimulation. When the researchers analyzed (via imaging technology) the brain activity of the study participants while viewing the works of Monet, Van Gogh, Picasso, and others, vs. while viewing photographs of similar subjects, they found that the brain's ventral striatum (a part of the reward system) was more active while viewing the works of art.
According to senior author Krish Sathian, M.D., Ph.D., professor of neurology, rehabilitation medicine, and psychology, this part of the brain is already well-known for its involvement in obviously reward-seeking behaviours (such as addiction and gambling), working in conjunction with the orbitofrontal cortex to create what is known as the "reward circuit". Interestingly, this area of the brain is also active during times of uncertainty; it plays a role in the decisions we make while under financial stress, for instance.
This study, which was supported by the State of Georgia, the National Institutes of Health, and the Veterans Administration, represents a departure from the usual research into how our brains appreciate art, which has typically been carried out from an aesthetic angle (i.e., figuring out how our brain reacts to art it deems "ugly" as compared to art it deems "attractive"). Such studies usually asked participants to assess art by rating its beauty on a scale of one to ten, and revealed that aesthetic preference is largely the result of activity in the amygdala, which is involved in emotional reactions, and parts of the orbitofrontal cortex.
Understanding Creativity: What Drives us to Create?
The processes that drive creativity have been so mysterious to us throughout human history—why we create art and inherently crave fantasy—that terms like "divine inspiration" have frequently been used to describe what underlies the inception of great creative works.
In times past, of course, divine forces were used to explain just about anything which was brought about by unseen machinations—natural disasters, diseases, etc. Now that we have a much deeper understanding of the scientific processes that weave through the fabric of the universe, we better understand many such once mysterious phenomena.
Science is, of course, still struggling to fully understand the human mind and human behaviour, but psychoanalysis has yielded some potential clues as to why we create.
Sigmund Freud, while he could not completely explain the processes behind art using his psychoanalytic method, came to a host of conclusions on the topic that bear consideration.
Validating the relationship between potentially tormented minds and art, Freud believed that the creative process is an alternative to neuroses. He felt that it was likely a sort of defence mechanism against the negative effects of neuroses, a way to translate that energy into something socially acceptable, which could entertain and please others. Of course, not all art is socially acceptable—and some would argue that none of the best art is so—but generally most artists do find a validation for their talent in the appreciation of at least a few like-minded peers. The defence mechanisms used in this process are thought to be condensation and displacement, terms also frequently used to describe (similarly unconscious) dream processes.
Based on Freud's theory of personality, the well of inspiration for art is rooted in the libido, the energy of the id, which is sublimated into a more complex interpretation of, and manifestation of, the culture around the individual, so as to help that individual's ego feel more adjusted and acceptable to the world. It, in essence, "corrects" troubling impulses, transforms them into palatable creations.
Art – a Creative Process or a Therapeutic Tool?
The field of psychology covers a broad spectrum of human interactions. When applied to mental health there are many preconceived ideas of the role of psychology. For many the place of psychology is limited to testing and psychotherapy. It may be surprising to learn that there is a field of human experience where psychology plays an important role. That field is beauty and all things associated with it. Which brings us to the topic at hand: using art as a therapy.
Most have no problem understanding the common definition of therapy. Add to the term therapy the word art and the result is a final term: art therapy. Suddenly, for some the meaning may become a bit less clear. Among psychology professionals and lay persons the concept of art therapy is often misunderstood. In fact, there are some settings where art therapy is given a secondary role of being an activity, a way of filling time and is is usually run by therapy aides.
According to Wikipedia's definition of art therapy: "Art therapy is a mental health profession that uses the creative process of art". As a professional extension of mental health services art therapy is a relatively new with its modern day introduction occurring in English speaking and European countries in the mid-20th century.
Among its critics are mostly traditional psychotherapists who view the only valid use of psychotherapy to be a talk therapy session. The idea of beauty having a psychological value seems irrational to many. Ironically, the very foundation of art therapy is Freud's theory of unconscious and it is built on assertion that visual images are the simplest and most natural form of human expression and experience.
There are many other mental health professionals who have grasped the psycho-therapeutic value of art therapy. Those values include the use of art, as either something the client does or appreciates; meeting certain psychological needs. Among the areas of life that may improve through the use of art therapy self-expression, coping skills, managing stress, and strengthening a sense of self.
On Psychology and Physiology of Beauty
Beauty matters. From Plato to modern times, scholars tried to answer this question: "How our mind determines what is beautiful?"
There is no doubt that in this world, attractive people enjoy certain privileges, and not merely in the area of dating and relationships; frequently they are chosen for promotions over their less-attractive peers, favoured by teachers, deemed more trustworthy, and attractive infants are even said to be favoured by their mothers.
While what is deemed attractive is somewhat subjective, and differs somewhat in different regions of the world (though there is much more agreement on what makes an attractive person, it turns out, than disagreement), it usually comes down to a combination of factors, including the way you dress, carry yourself, your apparent social status, size, shape, and race. However, there is invariably one feature which stands out above all the rest in this process of determination—the face. Our brains are fine-tuned to immediately be able to tell a beautiful face from one only a mother could love, and this seems to be an ability we are simply born with (infants as young as six months old prefer to look at the same attractive faces adults do).
This reaction is so inherent and immediate it is said to take place before you are even consciously aware you have seen a face; a recent study which showed people faces for only 13 milliseconds found that the participants were able to assess the faces' attractiveness with the same accuracy as the experimenters themselves, who looked at the faces far longer. The people engaged in the study were not consciously aware of any deduction process they had gone through, feeling like they were merely guessing at the attractiveness of each fleeting face.
This hard-wired knowledge is not mere superficial preference, however; the features our minds have learned to recognize as "beautiful" are preferred by the brain because of what they indicate about a person's physiology and even character.
So, without further ado, what makes us beautiful?
When Art Meets Psychological Testing
This article was inspired by recent comments from Dr. Tali Shenfield, who advocates the use of art in psychological testing and therapy, especially for young children.
Regardless of the reasons given, art when used as a psychological assessment tool can become a slippery slope. Why? Because art in and of itself is considered to be a form of aesthetics representing human creativity. This function is entirely different from those functions associated with psychological studies, i.e., the study of thought and intent.
This common view holds that a particular work of art, whether done by the hand of an adult or a child, is a form of communications between the artist and the viewer. This is true regardless of age or gender. Whether the work of a young child (5 – 11 years of age) or an adult when creating art there is something being communicated. This has raised a question; is art a valid area for psychological inquiry? We will take a stab at trying to answer this question in this article.
When writing here about art we are not referring to the works of the masters. Rather, our reference point is those drawings flowing from our own mind. Even more specifically, we will explore the use of two psychological testing methods, the Rorschach test and Projective Drawings.
Our Reaction to Beauty: Art, Science, & Einstein
by Jim Aldrich
How we use words and phrases is our connection to the world beyond our mind. This use becomes our affirmation of beauty in our world. Does this statement represent a theory, thought, or idea? Or, does it contain elements of science, as in the observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena? Let's take a little side trip where we can explore this sometimes awkward relationship between beauty and science.
Childhood Memories
Remember for a moment that time in your life when, for the very first time you experienced a spectacular painting? There you are anxiously awaiting a fun day with your mother. The scene has you most likely a young child in tow of your parent.
"As their van pulled into the parking lot of the Museum of Art and Science six year old Susan was ready to explore all that the visit to the museum promised. All except those things they called paintings. She thought to herself how weird that people would collect drawings to put on display. "Heck," she thought, "some aren't even pictures of anything. Just scribbles on paper."
Susan had managed to steer her mother away from those awful paintings for as long as she could until finally her mother said "Well Susan, just one more area to visit. "Come on, you're going to like this, I promise."


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(JTA) — The neighborhood in Shanghai that was home to approximately 20,000 Jewish refugees during World War II may be added to the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.
While the Nazi-fleeing refugees who settled in Shanghai certainly fared better than the family and friends they left behind in Europe, life in the so-called "Pearl of the Orient" was nonetheless turbulent.
Things in Shanghai looked bright initially, when the first German Jewish refugees, many of them doctors and dentists, arrived soon after Hitler's rise to power.
The local community was apparently so grateful for the professional skills these refugees brought that JTA headlined a 1934 article "German Jewish doctors cause China to be grateful to the Nazis."
In that article, JTA reported that an American journalist working in China said approximately 100 Jewish doctors had set up practices in Shanghai: … during the short time they have lived in the city they have come to be regarded as "Hitler's gift to the Far East" by virtue of the medical skill they have contributed to a territory which has long suffered from inadequate medical attention.
"German Jewish doctors," said the newspaperman, "have already established themselves as being among the most expert surgeons and general practitioners of Shanghai. None of them seems to be suffering from lack of patronage, while most of them have already established themselves as commanding figures in the city's public health service."
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One month ago, I returned from China, where I was the guest of the Guilford and Diane Glazer Center for Jewish and Israeli Studies at Nanjing University. The Glazers are not the only Jewish philanthropic connection — many American Jews have made commitments in support of China's ten academic centers of Jewish study. Yes, you read that right — there are no less than ten centers for studying Judaism in China.
The Chinese have a fascination with Jews, you see. It's partly because of mythologies related to perceived notions of "Jewish political influence" in America, but it's also connected to the significance of Jews in Western history and culture. As the "other" great ancient civilization, Jews enjoy a level of respect and admiration among the Chinese.
My hosts at Nanjing made a conscious effort to expose me to scholars and students not only at that university but also at two other higher educational centers. Over a 12-day visit, I was invited to offer presentations on everything from the Israel-Diaspora partnership to the uniqueness of the American Jewish experience. My audiences included Jewish studies majors, academic officials and students from an array of disciplines, as well as ordinary Chinese citizens simply interested in the material.
So what did the Chinese want to learn about Jews in the United States? They were mostly focused on these questions: Why did such a community within the U.S. feel it important, even essential, to be politically engaged? Why did American Jews have a particular connection to Jews worldwide and especially to the State of Israel? What did Jewish peoplehood represent, and how did Jews maintain their connections across continents?
Tsuri (Heng) Shi, far left, with Michael Freund, right, and Kaifeng Jews. / Shavei Israel
A new Passover destination is being added to the maps this year. Those bored of celebrating the holiday in Florida or Israel can now head to Kaifeng, a city of four million in China's central Honan province. For the first time in more than 150 years, the city's small but ancient Jewish community will hold a communal Passover celebration.
Nearly a millennium old and thought to originate from Persia and India, the Jewish community of Kaifeng numbered up to 5,000 people at its heyday between the 14th and 17th century, but fell into decline during the 19th century due to intermarriage and assimilation. Over the past decade or so, with the help of the Jerusalem-based Shavei Israel organization, members of the community have started rediscovering their roots through Shabbat gatherings and study sessions.
This process culminates in a Passover ceremony to be held on April 14, which will be led by Tzuri Shi, a 28-year-old member of the community who immigrated to Israel in October 2009, where he underwent conversion and studied at a yeshiva. According to a press release by Shavei Israel, Shi was sent back to his hometown together with Passover items, ranging from matzoh and haroset to Hebrew and Chinese Haggadahs and kosher-for-Passover cakes. Of the estimated 500–1,000 Jews in Kaifeng, 100 are expected to attend.
The Guardian cites a new report from Price Waterhouse Cooper Consulting saying the world is on track for an average global temperature increase of 6 degrees C (10.8 F) by the end of the century at current rates of carbon emission, with catastrophic implications for human life.
New research by consultancy giant PwC finds an unprecedented 5.1 per cent annual cut in global emissions per unit of GDP, known as carbon intensity, is needed through to 2050 if the world is to avoid the worst effects of climate change and meet an internationally agreed target of limiting average temperature increases to just two degrees above pre-industrial levels.
Such deep reductions in carbon intensity would be over six times greater than the 0.8 per cent average annual cuts achieved since 2000.
The report also confirms that greatest rises in greenhouse gas emissions came from the emerging E7 economies of China, India, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Indonesia and Turkey, whose cumulative 7.4 per cent annual increase in emissions swamped record levels of reductions in the UK, France, and Germany.
PwC warns sustained economic growth in these countries could "lock in" high carbon assets that will make it significantly harder for them to decarbonise over the coming decades, a point likely to be raised at the UN-backed Doha Climate Summit when it kicks off later this month.
It also warns that industrialised countries must accelerate their partially successful efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
Sheldon Adelson's libel lawsuit against a Democratic Jewish group has little chance of success because the casino billionaire is a public figure and the claims in question appeared in court documents, two media law experts told the Forward.
The $60 million lawsuit filed yesterday in federal court in New York accuses the National Jewish Democratic Council of defaming Adelson with accusations that he personally approved of prostitution at his Macao casino.
Experts noted that the NJDC is likely protected by the fact that Adelson is a public figure, and that the prostitution allegation came from another court case.
"I suspect that this lawsuit will die a quiet death," said Robert D. Balin, co-chair of the media law practice at the law firm David Wright Tremaine and adjunct professor of publishing law at Columbia University Law School.
Balin and Charles Tobin, chair of the media practice group at the law firm Holland & Knight, based their analysis on a description of Adelson's complaint by the Forward.
Adelson's status as a public figure makes any defamation claim particularly difficult to prove, the expets said. Adelson would need to prove that the NJDC acted with "actual malice," a high bar that Balin said would essentially mean that Adelson would need to show that the NJDC published the claim knowing it was false.


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England is the first country I have ever visited and it is the gate to lead me to the wonderful world.I stayed there for 4 months and met a lot of friends.I love travelling and planning to do my best to travel whole the world.Cross my fingers.
My girl who is the key lets me see the world by the different ways.I met her in England and our first trip was to Haworth where Charlotte Bront?(JANE EYRE) lived. It is the best trip I have ever had.I can't forget the wind,the cloud,the smelling of grass,the stone road even the horses we fed.My journey is starting from that day,the wonderful journey.
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Happy Birthday, Chang! ENJOY your day!
Hellllo CC - Welcome to VT. Ni hao! Bukashen (sp) for sharing your pix and intro, and WOW! My best friend is Taiwanese - she reads all the Jane Eyre books etc. Hope to see more pix. Keep smiling and be happy. Best wishes, Hazel :-)
Welcome to VT! Your Angkor page is off to a good start. Looking forward to seeing more.
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I am new to camellias - in fact I only have one plant right now. It's a Buttons and Bows. I'm worried because we've been having some pretty cold weather lately. Last night it was down to 10 degrees, and the weather for the rest of the week doesn't look much better. Highs during the day have been in the upper 30's to mid 40's. My plant has some buds on it that are about the size of pencil top erasers. I'm worried that this cold will freeze them so that they won't bloom. Should I cover my plant or will it be OK? From what I've read about Buttons & Bows, it doesn't bloom until April. Thanks for any help!
Yeah, what is with this cold weather?
I'm so disgusted.
I live in South Carolina too, my poor gardenia's little leaves are chattering.
Don't worry that much about your camellia though, it'll probably be fine.
I myself wouldn't cover it, I'd be afraid that I would knock the buds off, but that's just me.
I can't wait til it warms up a bit.
In case your interested, there is a camellia show in Aiken Mall this Saturday and Sunday.
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Stop in if your interested.
I think most people that go to the show have their camellias in a greenhouse. I hope so for their sake.
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Family Forced From Minivan, Brought To Knees, Held At Gunpoint After Museum OutingSubmitted by barracuda_trader on Sat, 04/12/2014 - 09:24
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio (Derek Drake) — What should have been a fun day at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force turned into a nightmare for a Columbus, Ohio family who was pulled over and held at gunpoint while leaving the public-accessible portion of the base.
The incident happened on Friday, April 4, 2014 and continues to haunt the family's thoughts as they try to process exactly what happened.
They say that being held at gunpoint and put in handcuffs was excessive behavior, but the base says they were following their procedures.
"I'm looking at my 8-year-old grandson," said Alice Hill, who was driving the car at the time they were pulled over. "His eyes are full of tears and he says 'this is the worst day of my life.'"
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My husband and son go to that museum a lot
My son has been trying to perfect paper glider design ever since the last trip and has had so many engine design and aerodynamics questions. My husband's not going to be happy to hear what risk they took in going there. And they wouldn't have been shy about discussing what's wrong there either, so who knows what they could get reported for. Getting pulled over like that would cause my son to become a recluse.
Recently, there was a woman who crashed through a fence at that Air Force Base. It was said a security guard discovered her in the wee morning hours and that she was already dead. I've been wondering what it would take for a crash through a chain link fence to kill you. That's not off topic, is it?
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Headline should read:
"Family went on outing to visit military propaganda museum. Learned some truth instead."
After all, war is the health of the State, and a strong State is very scary.
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"Family went on outing to visit military propaganda museum. Learned some truth instead."
After all, war is the health of the State, and a strong State is very scary.
Yes, it can be confusing
It is very confusing when you are a slave and don't know it.. all these things happen and you don't know why...
"The base says they were just following their procedures"... ha ha.. so were the Nazis...
They would fail the Milgram Experiment, for sure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
ha ha.. so were the Nazis...
I have to enter an AF museum occasionally
to deliver packages. I often have my Ron Paul T-Shirt on and typically get the stink face look from the statists who work there. I remember the days when I used to be proud of all the cool planes and bombs on display...but since I woke up...I just shake my head at all the sheeple that trek to that place to admire all the MIC's toys of death and destruction.
I know my comment is a bit off topic for this post but it made me laugh when the lady said she told the family they could come back and visit for free and meet some of the security officers, etc. I'm sure thats exactly what those kids want to do now...go hang out with the thugs who handcuffed and kidnapped them. lol
I think its great that they now know that the police ARE the enemy. Its not mayberry anymore.
It's mostly
volunteers at this particular museum, but statists are so prevalent, some might still be. I just tend to think of volunteers as often among the more amenable of the population even when they fall in the more statist end of the spectrum.
The offer was to meet the security officers, but the museum is always free. Taking them upon it might be useful for the boy's therapy if the therapist so recommends, but that doesn't necessarily mean he will be taught they aren't dangerous, it'd be more about addressing some specific PTSD symptoms.
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Fire them
If their security 'force' can't use their brains to politely ask for the car registration and drivers license, which would have be the common sense thing to do, then they should be fired.
And they really need to check into the person who reported the supposed theft and that person should be fined for filing a false report.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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"My son doesn't trust police officers anymore"
Yeah we're teachin' 'em young these days.
Most of those who think so actually don't and most of those who think sew actually rip.
My thoughts exactly..
Why should your child be trained to trust someone just because they carry a gun and a badge? Those two items mean nothing to me personally. You can usually sort the jackboot thugs from the good guys fairly quickly. One has respect for the people he works for and the other thinks the badge makes him king. I get along very well with one, and the other ones have learned to leave me alone because I don't put up with their shit.
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Just a suggestion, could you see about adding sudo type functionality to make it possible to run a command as a specified player?
I prefer your plugin over commandhelper, but due to limited functionality I'm forced to make due using both.Last edited Mar 26, 2015 by fvqu
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what about a variable for the commands?
"Nummber of Args"
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Using !* creates a redundant space that cause some aliases not to work properly. Please fix!
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In this Photoshop for Designers course, Nigel French focuses on the tools and features in Photoshop designed for choosing, applying, and editing color. The course looks at concepts such as the color wheel and color harmonies as well as the practicalities of using the Color Picker, leveraging the power of color channels, and the characteristics of different color modes in Photoshop. The course includes exercises on correcting color, enhancing color, shifting and replacing colors, working with spot color channels, hand coloring black and white images, and designing with a reduced color palette.
In this movie, I'm going to discuss five different ways to make a sepia toned image. Sepia toning is very associated with the late 19th Century, so by applying sepia tone to your image, you give it an instant nostalgic feel. There's one sepia toning technique that I will not be discussing in this movie, and that is using the Duotone Mode. I do discuss Duotones in another movie, but all of these techniques allow us to retain our image as an RGB image, so we actually can keep the original color values.
These are all nondestructive methods. The Duotone technique involves you converting your image to the Grayscale Color Mode, which is going to discard your Red, your Green, and your Blue channels in favor of one Grayscale channel. There are numerous ways we can do this in Photoshop; I am sure there are way more than five techniques. These just happen to be five that come to mind, in no particular order. Perhaps the easiest, apply a Black & White adjustment layer, and I have chosen a desert landscape here, because they seem to lend themselves, as well as would historic portraits, or any sort of portrait of people dressed in period clothing.
That would certainly lend itself to a sepia toning. A Black & White adjustment layer, and I'm just applying a Tint to it, method number one. Method number two is a Photo Filter. This is also an adjustment layer. It's right there. You can see I've got very different sort of sepia tone here. I could amp this up a bit if I wanted to, but I'm actually using the Photo Filter called Sepia.
Now, in addition to that adjustment layer, in order to get the result that I desire here, I need to add a Black & White adjustment layer that is a desaturating the image. I could desaturate the image in other ways, but this is as good a way as any. So I am desaturating in one step and then applying a Photo Filter adjustment layer in a second step. A third approach, also a very automated approach, is to apply an Action.
So let's see how this is going to work. An Action is a recorded sequence of steps, and there is a Sepia Toning Action that comes with Photoshop. So I am going to turn off that Action layer group, and then I am going to come to what's currently Layer 0. I am going to duplicate this layer, Command or Ctrl+J, and I will then Rasterize it. Because it's currently a Smart Object and the Action may not work with that. So I am going to come to the Layer menu > Smart Objects, and choose Rasterize.
So now it's just a regular Image layer. And from my Window menu I can choose my Actions, let's just move those over there. There it is, right there, Sepia Toning (Layer). So you need to be on the right layer, and then it's just a question of playing this selection. And that will make for you a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. It will desaturate and adjust the Hue, and of course you can come in and tweak that Hue Slider and the Saturation to your liking.
So if you did have a batch of images that you wanted to apply this technique to, the Action would be an automated way of doing this, because you could from using this option, File > Automate > Batch, you could specify that you want this Action applied to a specific folder. You would need to Choose the folder where you had your images stored. So that's another approach. I am now going to turn off those. And a fourth approach is to just mess around with the Color Curves.
So if I turn on that folder group, we can see another type of sepia toning effect. This, again, requires two adjustment layers. The first, Hue/Saturation, is just taking the color out, desaturating the image. I could have done that with Black & White, in this case I am doing it with Hue/Saturation. So you pull the Saturation Slider all the way over to the left. And then the second, the Curve. This involves working on the Red and the Blue curve independently.
On the Red curve, bring it up to increase the amount of Red, and on the Blue curve, bring it down to decrease the amount of Blue. Put another way, to increase the amount of Yellow, and that's our overall effect. There are four approaches to sepia toning; a Black & White adjustment layer with the Tint, changing the Curves, applying an Action, applying a Photo Filter. A fifth approach involves using the Camera Raw plug-in.
So I am going to now pop over to Bridge, where I have the same image in my Bridge Content Window. I am just going to increase the size of those Thumbnails. Now, this is a JPEG, so it's not a Camera Raw image. But I can still edit it in the Camera Raw plug-in by clicking on this icon right here, or File > Open in Camera Raw. So if you have a JPEG or a TIFF and you want to take advantage of the benefits of working in the Camera Raw interface, you can do so.
Now, what I want to do here is two steps. Firstly, I need to convert this to a grayscale image. I can do that right there, Convert to Grayscale. And then secondly, I will see this technique used for a different purpose in another movie, Split Toning. This is going to allow us to apply one Tint to the Highlights, another Tint to the Shadows, and then adjust whether we fade more of the Highlight color or more of the Shadow color. So to start out with I am going to change the Hue to a warm orange, I am going to increase the Saturation, this is for the Highlights.
And then for the Shadows, I am going to move more to the yellows, almost to the greens, and then increase the Saturation on that. And let's say I want that to go more towards the Highlight color, I will move the Balance Slider to the right. So there is the fifth approach to sepia toning. Just one other thing to point out in my finished version, just to further accentuate the nostalgic feel that sepia toning is going to give us, in addition to the tinting I also applied a Vignette.
And I did this in a different way to how I did it in a previous movie. In this case, I converted my layer to a Smart Object by coming to the Layers panel menu, Convert to Smart Object. I can now come to the Filter menu and use my Lens Correction, and in this case I want to do a Custom Correction. And what I am after is right here, Vignette, the Amount and the Midpoint, and these need to both move to the left, the further to the left the stronger the effect.
So whichever of those techniques you favor, entirely up to you, the results ultimately will depend upon how you adjust the sliders that are appropriate to the individual techniques. One other point I would make with the Black & White adjustment layer, which was the first one we looked at, and which I think I would probably favor if I had to choose one, and that is of course with the benefit of Black & White you get to mix the Contrast to determine how the colors of the original image go to make up Black & White.
And in this case, what I did with this version that differs from the others is I made the sky more dramatic by moving the Blue Slider to the left. So that's an additional option that you have if you use the Black & White adjustment layer. But five different approaches to creating a sepia toned image.
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