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MA in English/Creative Writing, plus Certificate in the Teaching of Composition, at San Francisco State University | BA in English with minor in Communications, and the Senior Class Commencement Speaker, at Mills College | AA in Liberal Arts at American River College
DIANA FLEMING has been a full-time instructor with the Language Arts Division of De Anza College since 2000. She teaches college composition courses--at both Introduction and Intermediate levels--as well as literature courses and Basic Skills-level writing. Assigned readings tend to focus on themes of ethnic and cultural identities; socio-economic influences; gender studies; feminist perspectives; historical literary critical theory; and psychological influences and self-esteem. She also advises and coaches her students on Transfer Student College Application writing responses.
When not teaching, Instructor Fleming enjoys spending time with her husband and son. Her hobbies and interests include interior design and styling; fashion history and wardrobe styling; film studies; enjoying various cuisines; and of course, reading literature.
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CHILDREN are more confident than they used to be. We had 'Declan' round to play this week.
I'd heard Declan say he was streetwise for a six-year-old due to his older brother. And then he strides in with gelled spiky hair, designer jeans and a Chelsea shirt on, saying: "Hey guys!"
Or to quote mam's extensive re-telling on the phone later to disapproving relatives: "He just come in the house without knocking. I thought he was American. Turns out he's from Tebay."
Declan takes the remote, sits down next to the eldest daughter and goes: "Aw this is childish. Let's watch MTV, it's awesome."
I gripped the cushion as he told us that his: '18-year-old big brother has it on till midnight'. The lad is going to go far, just a bit too quickly.
Dads are programmed to protect their children's innocence, particularly girls'. I was flashbacked to my big sister inviting 'boyfriends' round at the age of 13.
Dad interrogated them like he was Bodie out of The Professionals. The point being to make them so uncomfortable they didn't come back.
He took a dislike to one thin and sallow youth in particular. The one 'with the earring who was never off his Grifter.'
Det Sgt Dad: 'Where do you live, then?'
Suspect friend: 'Over the way.' (Awful answer. Evasive and mildly effeminate.)
DS Dad: 'What's your father called?' (Pronounced fath-er).
Suspect gave him a name that Dad didn't know. You could see his mind whirring.
After Dad's grilling, sister's friend would sit transfixed by whichever tv programme was on.
Their standard conversation:
Her: "Where've you been?
Him: "Up town."
Her: "What doing?"
Him: "Nowt. Just bodding."
Her: "Oh right."
Then the programme would end and he'd leave immediately.
Mam remembers him. In that more slightly cruel and coldly evaluating way of hers.
"Always had a bad cough and a big red nose. Wore half-masts and his step-brother's coat."

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The following sites offer information on careers in EMS and health care fields. We also encourage
students to visit the Weber State University Career Center for additional information and career counseling.
Accreditation - Credentialing - Certification Organizations
- Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP)
- Committee on Accreditation of Educational Programs for the EMS Professional (CoAEMSP)
- National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians
- Utah Bureau of Emergency Medical Services
- Wyoming Office of EMS
Professional Organizations & Related Sites
- American Ambulance Association
- American Heart Association (2010 Standards)
- American College of Emergency Physicians
- EMS Magazine
- FireScience.org
- Journal of Emergency Medical Services
- National Association of EMS Physicians
- National Association of EMS Educators
- National Association of State EMS Officials
- National Association of EMTs
- National Office of EMS (2010 Education Standards)
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Home Run Raglan Set Fits most 18" Dolls
PDF digital pattern for you to make clothes for your dolls. This is not a finished product, but you will receive via email a pdf pattern to print Home Run Raglan and Capri/shorts.
Skill level: Beginner
Now you can make clothes for those dolls yourself. How cute for them to have matching clothes!
PDF Sewing pattern includes all full size pattern pieces (just print, cut and sew!!) as well as clear instructions with color photos to guide you every step of the way. Please feel free to Convo me should you have any questions!
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CLARETS co-chairman John Banaszkiewicz went back to the classroom to give life lessons to students at his old school.
More than 140 pupils and staff at St John Fisher and Thomas More RC High School, Colne, heard his advice on getting into business.
But year 11s seemed more interested in getting autographs from some friends Mr Banaszkiewicz brought along – Clarets star striker, Danny Ings, and goalkeeper Tom Heaton.
The players fielded questions from dozens of fans, including 15-year-old Poppy Connelly, granddaughter of Clarets legend John Connelly, whose goals helped the club win the Division One title in 1960.
Mr Banaszkiewicz, who grew up in Nelson, was visiting the school for the first time since 1979, and recalled taking part in a debating society meeting in the same hall.
He talked about his education at the school and Nelson and Colne College and his time at university, and Freight Investor Services Ltd, one of the world's leading freight and commodity brokers, which he co-founded in 2002.
He said: "It's a 24/7 market so you need different people in different time zones; people who are team players, who like pressure and like stress."
Mr Banaszkiewicz was also joined by Ian Woan, Burnley's assistant manager, and Neil Hart, the club's head of community, who gave out 140 free tickets for today's top-of-the-table clash with Leicester City.
Mr Banaszkiewicz, a director at Turf Moor's UCFB College of Football Business, said: "We're trying to give kids the opportunity to succeed in life and be part of the community."
David Swarbrick, head of year 11 at Fisher More, said: "It was a great opportunity for our students, who at this time of year are looking at motivation and hard work.
"I don't think any other football club would do this. We should all feel very, very privileged that they have come here today."


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Life Line Screening issues refunds to husband, wife
Q: My wife and I both had Life Line Screening sessions on Feb. 10 as a preventive measure for our overall health. My wife's results were reported as normal, but mine were not.
My results showed possible concern for the arterial health in my left ankle. The brachial index was reported to be zero. The screening results summary said "primary care consultation recommended."
I sent a copy of the screening results summary to my physician, and his response was that there was probably an error as a zero reading would mean my foot was not there, or dead. Nonetheless, my physician scheduled me for an examination, which revealed that I did indeed have a pulse in my left ankle.
To allay my apprehension, he referred me to a specialist who found both ankles to be relatively good for a 71-year-old man.
It is indisputable that an inexcusable error was made in my examination and Life Line's physician's review. The zero reading should have been regarded at the very least as an error in the application of the ankle attachments and testing.
The testing for my wife and me amounted to $270, plus $20 copay for my follow-up. I question my cash outlay as being far less than a dollar's value for a dollar spent and perhaps without any value whatsoever, considering the trauma this ill-read test caused.
Edward M. Blau
A: Joelle Reizes, communications director for Life Line Screening, agreed that a reading of zero on this test is abnormal and cause for concern. This reading indicates a level of arterial stiffness, she said.
"Unfortunately, his doctor misinterpreted the meaning of the zero reading as an absence of a pulse. This is a misunderstanding of the screening and its purpose," Reizes said. You had a pulse, but due to the stiffness a systolic pressure was not attainable. Happily, your follow-up diagnostic tests showed adequate blood flow to the legs, with no significant arterial blockage.
Reizes said although Life Line Screening stands by its screenings and the quality of its services, she apologized for the delayed response to your first inquiry. She agreed that your concerns could have been alleviated if Life Line had been quicker to communicate.
Terri Burdette, a clinical manager for the company, did attempt to contact you by phone several times, but was unable to reach you personally, according to Reizes. She didn't know you wanted a written response, but e-mailed you once she found this out.
General manager Tom Phillips, also contacted you about your complaint. He confirmed that Life Line Screening issued a $135 refund in June when he first learned of your concerns. Since receiving the detailed complaint from Action, Life Line Screening has also issued an additional $135 for your wife's screening as well as $20 for your follow-up copayment. The refund will be applied to your credit card.
Reizes said that Life Line services is the largest provider of preventive screenings in the United States and have been in operation since 1993. Its goal is "for each and every customer to have a positive experience when they attend a Life Line Screening event."


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I don't think anyone can answer this, but I feel the need to complain about it. We are stationed in Japan, so I download to the computer than transfer to the kindle. I have 2 kindles on the same amazon account and I have to download the same book twice to put it on each kindle. I don't understand this. Why can't I download it once and then be able to read it on either kindle without downloading it twice and having to have two seperate backups for the same book. I also have to change the metadata in both downloads. It seems if you were on the same account you should not have to do this twice or more. Considering getting a kindle for my husband but I do not want to do the downloads three different times for each book.
Because the books are encrypted for a specific Kindle... not for a specific account. This keeps you from being able to share ebooks with your other Kindle friends.
If you want to d/l it once, get Kindle 4PC, Calibre and Apprentice Alf's scripts... are you d/l the book to K4PC you can add it to Calibre and it will be "liberated" and then you can use that single copy on all of your Kindles... oh and you can convert it to ePub to use on your iPad or Sony too. (for example)
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While prospecting along the Hassayampa River in October 1863, Henry Wickenburg and several associates discovered a gold-bearing quartz outcrop 500 feet long, 400 feet wide and 100 feet tall.
Wickenburg named the future mine the Vulture after he saw turkey buzzards hovering over a nearby peak.
Not long after that, one of the original claimants threatened Wickenburg with an injunction against further working the mine. Although dismissed in district court at Prescott, it was the first mining litigation brought to civil authorities in the Arizona Territory.
Wickenburg lacked the money to develop the mine, a lode-bearing mine that required the knowledge and prowess of a hard-rock miner to extract the gold deposits. He allowed other miners to work his claim, charging them $15 a ton.
The ore was transported by mule or burro to a series of 40 arrastras located along the Hassayampa River, where it was crushed and the gold extracted.
Wickenburg, not satisfied with the profit, sold four-fifths of the Vulture claim for $50,000 to the Vulture Mining Co., which mined it between 1867 and 1873. Even though its principal ore body had been worked out by 1872, the Vulture's reputation for additional ore deposits kept hopes alive, with productive activity continuing there until prior to World War I.
Vulture City, built as a mill site around the mine in the 1870s, drew water from the shallow wells along the Hassayampa River. The town, which grew to a population of 300, was known for its numerous hangings of unscrupulous miners.
The mine drew the interest of Horace A.W. Tabor, the Leadville, Colorado, silver-mining magnate who acquired the property as a speculative venture in 1887.
The mine failed to produce, and Tabor was at the mercy of creditors who accused him of fraudulent actions. He was forced to sell his holdings a decade later.
The Vulture Mines Co. acquired the property, and after finding a faulted segment of the ore body, built a 20-stamp mill in 1910. The company operated the mine until 1917, extracting $1.84 million worth of ore.
It was later worked by multiple lessees, with little profit, and since 1970 has operated as a tourist attraction.
The mine was credited in the 1860s by Arizona Territorial Governor Richard C. McCormick as being "the Comstock of Arizona," in reference to the huge Nevada gold and silver mine.
According to the Arizona Geological Survey, the mine yielded 340,000 ounces of gold and 260,000 ounces of silver from 1863 through 1942. One million tons of ore were mined, with an average grade of 0.35 ounces per ton of gold, and 0.25 ounces per ton of silver.
The figures may have actually been greater except for highgrading (theft), fraud and embezzlement.
Most production occurred before 1900, with an estimated value of $6 million. During that time, the Vulture mine helped settle Central Arizona with the allure of great riches during Arizona's early territorial years.
As for Wickenburg — a prospector, farmer, businessman and pioneer — he retained a fifth of the Vulture claim and lived a long life — 85 years — before despondency overtook him and he shot himself with a Colt revolver in 1905.
Although he came to a sad end, the bucolic town of Wickenburg 12 miles northeast of the Vulture mine was named after him.
The Vulture mine may yet reopen as a profitable open-pit mine as a result of exploration drilling in the area by Vulture Peak Gold LP in 2011.


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The Halloween Inspiration Board: Sherlock Holmes
Halloween is the perfect time for a little gender-bending. And Sherlock Holmes is one of the best fictional detectives making a resurgence this year with a new movie, so why not combine the two for your costume? All you need are a few classic menswear pieces that can be pilfered from your dad's closet, thrifted, or purchased (details after the jump).
- Melinda Hook-Bar Slacks, $15.80, Forever 21
- Wool Capelet, $27.80, Forever 21
- Durable Tobacco Pipe, $6.05, Amazon
- Target Circle Silk Printed Ascot, $16.99, Amazon
- UO Felt Fedora, $28, Urban Outfitters
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Mitchell players improving at Monday Night Football
Since the first week in June, Mitchell High School football players have gotten together in an effort to get better.
The meetings, which feature coaches and players, take place every Monday at 7 p.m. on the field south of Joe Quintal and will go until the last Monday of this month. During the workouts, players from grades seven through 12 practice a variety of football skills, including passing, catching, and blocking in addition to playing 7-on-7.
The title of these football get togethers is aptly named "Monday Night Football."
"It's a similar concept to open gym," Mitchell football coach Kent VanOverschelde said. "We do it on Mondays because that is the day of the week that seems to work best for our students. We are just trying to get kids the opportunity to get out and do an activity."
Monday Night Football began four years ago as a way for Mitchell football players to keep a football in their hands and keep getting better during the offseason. The Kernel football team doesn't play in many 7-on-7 tournaments during the summer but play that style when it meets up.
"We are lucky because we invite all grade levels," VanOverschelde said. "Just to see the progression that they make with all the skills they are working from year to year is always nice. With the limited time we have to prepare for that first game, we have to look at what other teams are doing to prepare and know that we have to get better."
VanOverschelde said there is an average of 25 players every week, adding it's not a requirement that players attend.
"Our numbers have very much improved since the time when we first started doing Monday Night Football," VanOverschelde said. "We have seen more kids come because it is a consistent deal now. When the kids don't have a baseball game or an activity outside of football, this is good for them to come and work on their skills."
One of those players who has faithfully attended the once-a-week get-togethers is lineman Andrew Getty.
Getty will be a senior this fall and has been attending the summer workouts since he was a freshman. Since joining the team he has been active in trying to get his fellow teammates to attend the Monday workouts.
"We work on our individual skill positions as well as coming together for some team time at the end," Getty said. "We get to come out here with our teammates and get prepared for when the season rolls around in August, which really helps us. It hasn't really hit me that this is my senior year, but I definitely want to be playing some football in November."
Once the Monday night workouts finish at the end of this month, the MHS team captains will take over the workouts until summer practice begins.


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No. 3 Mt. Pleasant wins, sets up showdown with Washington
Every baseball team has its closer — the guy they go to in the final inning to end an opponent's rally.
Mt. Pleasant football coach Bo Ruffner has his own closer: running back Tyler Mellors.
With No. 3 Mt. Pleasant clinging to a one-touchdown lead in the fourth quarter, Ruffner went to his top option, and Mellors responded.
Mellors, who rushed for a season-high 259 yards, scored two of his three touchdowns in the final quarter to carry Mt. Pleasant to a 35-21 homecoming win against Jeannette on Friday at Vikings Stadium.
The victory, along with No. 5 Washington's win at Brownsville, sets up an Interstate Conference first-place battle Friday at Washington.
Mt. Pleasant (6-0, 6-0) also clinched home-field advantage in the first round of the playoffs.
"The one thing that was exciting about this game was it was homecoming, and our players knew if we won this game we'd have a home playoff game," Ruffner said. "That was a lot to play for."
Mellors started quickly. He opened the scoring with a 1-yard run, and he had more than 100 yards in the first quarter as Mt. Pleasant built a 21-7 lead.
After Mellors scored, Jeannette (4-2, 4-2) tied the score one play later when quarterback Julian Batts tossed a 71-yard strike to Zach Altieri.
Ryan Ballew and Brett Fess scored touchdown runs to give the Vikings a 21-7 lead after one quarter.
Penalties and two turnovers plagued Jeannette in the opening quarter.
"I'm at a loss for words about penalties," Jeannette coach Roy Hall said. "I'm so disgusted with them. I just don't know how to fix it. We've tried everything.
"Then we didn't block very well on offense. We called a great defense, but we can't tackle. When the defense stepped up, the offense sputtered."
Mt. Pleasant sacked Batts 10 times during the contest.
"We practiced all week containing the quarterback," Ballew said. "Our defensive ends got good pressure and our linebackers made good reads.
"It's a nice win to have, but now we can look forward to next week. Washington is a really good team. We have to keep winning and get better."
Jeannette's Davie Headen fielded a punt that no one on Mt. Pleasant downed and returned it 74 yards for a touchdown to cut the Vikings lead to 21-14 at halftime.
"What happened at the end of the first half, I'll take the blame on that," Ruffner said. "I've almost never seen that happen in high school football."
Heading into the fourth quarter, Ruffner turned to the running game and defense to close things out.
"We have so much faith in our running game, so we put it in Tyler's hands," Ruffner said. "Obviously we kept feeding Tyler. We pounded the football, and the offensive line responded."
Mellors scored on runs of 7 and 16 yards for Mt. Pleasant in the fourth quarter.
Batts completed 13 of 23 passes for 238 yards and two scores. Miles Sunder caught four passes for 100 yards, including a 60-yard touchdown pass.
Paul Schofield is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. Reach him at email@example.com or via Twitter @Schofield_Trib.


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The MMWC Museum Strategic Plan
In its 50th year as Indiana University's museum of world cultures, IUB Vice Provost for Research Sarita Soni charged the MMWC to develop a strategic plan to guide its work. The Mathers Museum of World Cultures Strategic Plan, 2013-2018 has now been endorsed by the museum's Policy Committee and by the Vice Provost, and the museum is busily pursuing its broad and ambitious goals through refinement and implementation of its specific objectives and strategies.
Building on the MMWC's own mission statement, the plan is rooted in the IUB Campus mission and in the broad goals articulated by IUB Provost Lauren Robel in her 2013 State of the Campus address.
The plan's details are organized around four broad thematic goals. (1) Increasing Research Productivity, Excellence, and Reach, (2) Networking the Museum, (3) Stewarding People, Collections, Facilities, and Resources, and (4) Strengthening Public Outreach and Campus Engagement.
Additionally, the MMWC strategic plan will inform the campus strategic planning process initiated by Provost Robel in 2013. MMWC Director Jason Jackson is a member of the Campus Strategic Planning team.
We invite you to consult the the museum's strategic plan yourself and to contact us if you would like to partner with us in achieving its goals. As work on under the plan continues, we will post plan-related updates and reports here.


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"This is the part where I say how much I hate this part of the process because it's soooo hard to write about me."
Gimme a break. I'm here, and you're there. Who among us is good at making here and there decisions?
I try to enjoy things that are enjoyable.
I try to appreciate things that are appreciable (appreciateable?)
And of course I try to incred things that are incredible...
I am glib, off the wall, and left-handed
b. guy movies (must include weak plots, automatic weapons, gratuitous sex scenes, and chase scenes that violate the laws of gravity.)
c. music - a mix of the 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's... all rock! all the time! (except for the modern country and western... and big band music.... okay, pretty much everything but rap)
d. a wide variety of meats and potato(e) combinations, texmex, fresh fruits/veggies, and foods that don't start with "Mc"
By the way, my favorite color IS a celebrity!
I actually spend way too much time contemplating the machines that make the machines that make the stuff on "How It's Made."
(I'm bored with all the 'I never have a typical Friday' answers... seriously!)
but perhaps you have an idea what you're looking for...
I'm an ENTP (if that means anything to you...) Then again, I'm also familiar with the other 22 letters of the alphabet (but most of us are just friends)


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"From Homer to Hip Hop" Lecture Saturday
One of the most important components of the critically acclaimed, thoroughly addicting series The Wire was its portrayal of the current circumstances afflicting those simply trying to survive in the inner-city. Loosely based on lead writer David Simon's experiences as a crime reporter for the Baltimore Sun, it is hailed for accurately depicting the toll violence has taken on poor neighborhoods and communicating the downfalls of failing to consider strong social policies while thoroughly embracing capitalism.
In addition to looking to his years spent reporting on the crime beat, Simon turned to the ancients of Greek tragedy to inform his construction of the tragedies of post-modern society. He told the Guardian, "Greek tragedy became one of the influences in terms of the tone and intent ... a framework for what we were doing with The Wire." Simon didn't frame anyone in the series according to a particular Homeric god or character, but the comparison between the capriciousness of government actions and the arbitrary power-wielding of the Greek gods is an apt one.
"We want to believe that we are in control of our lives. But when we
started looking at where America was headed politically and
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Kewell eyes Germany role
Australia attacker Harry Kewell is hoping to feature in his side's World Cup opener with Germany.
Last Updated: 10/06/10 7:10pm
Australia attacker Harry Kewell is hoping to feature in his side's World Cup opener with Germany, after returning to full fitness.
The Socceroos talisman has had a frustrating season with injury and has only managed a few minutes of pitch-time with Turkish club Galatasaray.
Kewell, formerly of Leeds and Liverpool, is happy with his recovery and says the choice is now in the hands of coach Pim Verbeek as to whether he plays against Germany on Sunday.
He said: "I am happy with the way I am travelling, I am very happy with the way things are going.
"I can't make his (Verbeek's) mind up for him, he's the one who has the final decision on who plays and what happens.
"Look, all I can be is 100 per cent ready the same as any other player."
Australia have been drawn in Group D for the South Africa tournament and take on Serbia and Ghana as well as the Germans.
Kewell is optimistic of his side's chances having crashed out of the 2006 competition in the second round, and he knows the importance of the opener against the three-time champions.
"We're sharp. We're fit, we're strong, we're up for it," he added.
"We've come a long way, we've gone the route of qualifying properly this time (through Asia), which has been fantastic.
"The players have done all the hard work and it's kind of the fun part now to go out and show the world what we are capable of doing.
"We are all excited and we will be watching the opening match tomorrow, but as soon as that's done and dusted it's down to business.
"It's country versus country now and that's where you have to step up and show what you're worth.
"It's important to get off to a flyer at the World Cup, to get three points.
"Let's face it, we are probably hitting the hardest team in the tournament to come up against, especially first off the bat.
"We all know what Germany is capable of doing at a World Cup, but it's a World Cup and anything can happen.
"People are a lot more wary now of the players we have, but as a team we're still not that well known out there, but I am quite sure now a lot more teams are focused in what we are capable of doing."


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Natural Sweeteners: Information and Usesby Katie Cavuto-Boyle in Healthy Tips, November 17, 2012
Added sugars in out diet have been shown to increase the risk of obesity and disease. Does this mean you can never have sweets again? The answer is no, but it is important to understand the facts. With constant media hype surrounding buzz words like high-fructose corn syrup and refined sugar, how do you know what to choose and how much is too much? And are natural sweeteners really better for you?
The truth is, all sweeteners (both refined and natural) are considered to be discretionary calories. The American Heart Association recommends no more than 6 teaspoons of sugar a day for women, or about 100 calories worth. Men should aim for about 9 teaspoons a day, or 150 calories. The problem is, with so many added sugars in our diet (surveys have shown that the average American consumes about 22 teaspoons of added sugar a day) we can achieve this quite quickly. A 12-oz soda contains 8 tsp of sugar. Many cereals, even the "healthy stuff" have 3-4 tsp of sugar per serving and the same goes for flavored oatmeal, some tomato sauces, condiments like BBQ sauce and even that granola bar you are eating. Needless to say, the teaspoon of honey you put in your tea is rarely the culprit.


text: Hi all, Just swapped from Ford to my first Audi and have a few questions that hopefully you will be able to help me with. When I owned the Mondeo we had the official parts DVD to look stuff up, what system does Audi use and are they available? I hear people talking about VAG.com, what is it etc? Although the sky is the limit on mods etc what are, if any, the essential changes to my 2008 A4 Avant S-Line SE Quattro that could be made? Thanks in advance for your help Adam


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Scattered Storms Possible Monday Night
Your Doppler 10 Forecast
This Evening: Partly cloudy with scattered showers.
Tonight: Clearing skies and less humid. Low 57.
Tomorrow: Partly sunny and cooler. High 75.
Wednesday: Sunny and pleasant. High 79.
Special Information:
Scattered showers and thunderstorms ending this evening and skies clearing. A cold front moving south of the Ohio River brings Fall like weather our way for the rest of the week. Look for sunshine and highs in the middle to upper 70s during the day and clear skies with lows in the lower to middle 50s at night.
Alerts : None
Inconvenient Weather: Scattered showers and storms this evening. Best chance for rain south of Columbus.
Stats: Today's averages 82/61…Record High 100 (1953) Record Low 43(1967) Sunset tonight 8:01 PM and sunrise tomorrow 7:01 AM


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MATT Ford believes in-form Poole Pirates boast the best one-to-five in the Elite League – but insists that will count for nothing without more support from his reserve riders.
The Wimborne Road outfit hit back from their miserable end to May with 12 points from five top-flight meetings to move within a point of second-placed Lakeside with two meetings in hand.
Wednesday's 49-41 success over Wolverhampton marked their third consecutive maximum haul on home shale as second string heroes Josh Grajczonek and Vaclav Milik carried the fight with double-figure totals.
Milik has made a mockery of his assessed four-point average by racking up 6.34 since the start of his debut season in the UK, while Grajczonek has boosted his rating by more than a point despite an injury-blighted campaign.
But Ford argued that the impact of those impressive statistics had been diluted by the new fast track scheme and said that reserves Kyle Newman and Ben Hopwood would have to produce more consistent performances if Pirates were to keep hold of British speedway's top prize.
Ford told the Daily Echo: "We certainly had a few challenges to deal with in May but we came through it and the overall form of the team has been phenomenal at times.
"Much of that comes down to Vaclav Milik and Josh Grajczonek improving dramatically this year alongside three established international riders. They have moved forward tremendously and in a manner most of us could not have possibly imagined.
"Our consistency levels are getting better by the week and now we just need to get the right support from our reserves because we'll win nothing without them, that's for sure.
"Usually when you have a four-pointer who comes in and gets himself up to six-and-a-half, you should be a title-winning team but unless your fast track riders are hitting the heights you end up losing much of what you gain with the system as it is.
"It is vitally important we don't waste how well our top five are doing because they are outperforming the rest of the league. Their averages remain better than Kings Lynn's but it is them who are top of the league by a country mile."


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NEW YORK (AP) -- Consumer products maker Colgate-Palmolive Co. said Friday its vice chairman Javier G. Teruel will retire on April 1.
He was with the company for 35 years and will return to his native Mexico.
Other Colgate senior executives will assume his duties.
Teruel will receive a pension benefit accumulated over his tenure worth about $14.5 million, and will also receive $2.64 million to remain available as a consultant for the company during the three years following his retirement.
In other business, Colgate said Thursday its board declared a quarterly cash dividend of 32 cents per share.
The company will pay the dividend on Feb. 15 to shareholders of record on Jan. 26.


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Given that we've released several downloads for Oblivion on Xbox Live, I thought you guys might find this information useful. Yesterday, Microsoft released their Content License Transfer Tool (aka the DRM Tool) on Xbox.com. If you're asking, "huh, what's that?" — let me explain how it might help you.
Let's say you downloaded the Shivering Isles from Xbox Live. When you downloaded it, a license to play the content is then associated with your 360 console. If for any reason you replaced your 360, the license would not exist on the new box, and as a result, the content would only be playable when your 360 is connected to Xbox Live. This new tool will remedy this problem, as you can now transfer the license of your Shivering Isles purchase, or any other DLC for Oblivion, to your newer 360.
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|Drama . Comedy . Sci-Fi & Fantasy . Horror
After an encounter with a zombie, Riq meets lone armed survivor Alex. The pair team up and escape the zombies by hiding in an abandoned country house. BB Producer Patrick begins to realise that he is stuck in the green room with newly evicted Pippa and no communication to the outside world, no food and no way out – zombie Davina is patrolling the corridor outside. Grayson tries to nurse Angel whose health is rapidly deteriorating. Having found safety inside the BB house, Kelly, along with Marky and Space, now has to venture outside again. Armed with knives, the three speed off to the supermarket in the hope of getting the medication that could save Angel's life.
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Four words: Best. Eviction. Episode. Ever. The only thing that could have made it even more delicious? Zombie Chenbot.Entertainment Weekly Full Review
Vulgar and noisy, and often disgustingly hilarious, Dead Set is the perfect pop-culture poison for those of us convinced the world of Big Brother and its spawn is an endless night of the living dead, turning participants and fans alike into craven zombies.TV Guide Magazine Full Review
I was surprised at how much adrenalized horror there is to be found in the story, as it races forward into bloody human-zombie battles and scary entrapments. This isn't a wink-winkfest so much as a sly screamfest, with lots of post-apocalyptic misery and carnage afoot.Boston Globe Full Review
On balance it plays like a well-made and increasingly grim horror picture, with a crispness of execution and a graphic level of intestine-pulling, throat-ripping violence that are both beyond the American norm.The New York Times Full Review
Dead Set is less remarkable, because this import from the U.K. is more typical of the genre and gets campy, although it will scare the bejeebers out of you.Wall Street Journal Full Review
For all its gore, Dead Set has a frightening lack of suspense. Then again, except for Kelly (Jaime Winstone), a "Big Brother" producer with a dysfunctional love life, most of the characters are so lacking in humanity that the transition to zombie isn't much of a leap.The Hollywood Reporter Full Review


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The Redline R530
What I see is a compact aluminum framed hybrid bike with crappy brakes, fenders and a full chain case slapped on it to capitalize on the Stateside Euro-bike fascination. There is indeed a place for an upright riding posture, and a bicycle of style and sophistication in the United states. Presently, the Electra Amsterdam is the closest approximation from a US bicycle company, but even the Amsterdam has a compact frame.
Compare the Redline product with the esteemed Batavus Favoriet. The Favoriet frame has a horizontal top bar. It has a seat tube that places the feet forward. It has a leather sprung seat, and no pneumatic suspension front fork. The frame is steel, and so is the chain case. On the aluminum Redline, the seat is a gel filled pillow, and the chain case is brittle plastic. The Favoriet comes with lights, a
Hopefully, at some time in the future, an affordable American bike with an authentic Dutch geometry and flavor will become available. There is a ready market for such a velocipede. The Redline R530 is not it. The R530 is like a pair of Chuck Taylors trying to masquerade as Chanel.
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The DRX-Revolution sets new standards for bedside imaging with excellent image quality, exceptional maneuverability, and a collapsible column that allows safe and easy movement of the system from one area to another.
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If you do a Google Images search for "gay Valentine's Day," this is one of the top results. It was apparently created by Austin-based graphic designer Rene Flores of Jerkypants. Unfortunately we don't know of any place that's actually selling these hearts, but we couldn't resist sharing.
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To see me perform Cherubino live on the internet! There will be a performance of Nozze di Figaro streamed live on the Internet. Here is a sneak peak:
Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) - Rehearsal 12... par operaliege
To see me perform Cherubino live on the internet! There will be a performance of Nozze di Figaro streamed live on the Internet. Here is a sneak peak:
Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) - Rehearsal 12... par operaliege
Very exciting! When can we see it?
I'm watching it now, and you are amazing. <3 your facial expressions are hilarious and you have the most gorgeous voice ever. Thanks so much for letting us know about this live stream! I'm loving the whole production...and the guy playing Figaro is really cute ;)
^^ oops! meant to say, the guy playing *Antonio* was incredibly cute. (but of course, all of the singers were fantastic.)
anyway...wishing I was in Belgium right now and could see this opera again and again. :)
Dear Caelen - thanks for watching - and I've heard that the videos will be up again online next weekend if you didn't get enough.
And as for all the cute baritones, I'm not sure who you were talking about, because when you sent in the first comment, it was actually before Antonio (the gardener's) first entrance. I know, because I looked at my phone after I jumped out the window, and when I saw the comment, I walked into the Figaro's dressing room and told him about it. :) And I remember that it was before his entrance in the Act II finale, because we were chatting and I said "don't you have to go to stage now??" and he did - and his entrance is before Antonio's first entrance. So it remains a mystery - WHO did you think was super cute??? :)
hmm...I just replied and I think the internet ate it. Anyway, Antonio was indeed the super-cute one, though you're right about the timing. I always google the casts of operas before I go to see them (yes I know, I'm a nerd :p ) and your delightful Mr. Thirion has clips from a recital on youtube. :)
I think I had Figaro on the brain because...it's in the title? Or perhaps because my roommate and I were hosting an opera-watching party and every girl in our living room was swooning over him. :p
How fun! I love the jump out of the window! Thanks for sharing - I'll be subscribing to your adventures! Who knows, one day maybe I can understudy for you! (looking into European gigs...)


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Backstreet Boys made the video of this song despite rumor that they actually wouldn't have it as the second 'Unbreakable' single.
Backstreet Boys have premiered a video of 'Helpless When She Smiles' on Yahoo! Music today (December 12). Member Nick Carter allegedly was hit by "cow patty" while filming this one.
The black and white clip was filmed on November 15 in Joshua Tree National Park with Bernard Gourley as the director. Gourley previously penned clip of Deftones' 'Mein' and will soon release another work for M.I.A.'s 'Paper Planes'.
'Helpless When She Smiles' is the second single from 'Unbreakable', the first album from the band as a quartet following Kevin Richardson's departure. It was rumored sometime ago that the boys actually were reluctant to have this as the second single because it sounds to similar to their previous singles. However, their label Jive has denied this and went on with the plan
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Like more than a few other presidents, Lyndon Johnson was a larger-than-life figure who experienced both great success and deep failure. Beginning with footage of a joyful Lyndon Johnson dancing at his 1965 inaugural gala, this award-winning film traces Johnson's story from his early Texas days, Senate career, and tragic ascent to the presidency to his domestic victories. But the ever-growing, deeply unpopular war in Vietnam eclipsed it all, and he decided not to run for reelection.
Having trouble playing video? Please view The Presidents: LBJ on PBS. See more from American Experience.
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[3] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/


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I think I've mentioned in other posts that I sometimes use lines that people say. I've proved it this past month by using something that Misty Evans said twice. In a comment on a January guest post, Misty said:
"My hometown has less than 4,000 people. There are some great folks here, but gossip is rampant. The saying is, you can't do a cartwheel in your front yard at 8 a.m. without everyone knowing about it by dinner time."
In a guest blog on Tote Bags 'n' Blogs, I quoted Misty. Then last week I was working on my next Miracle Interrupted book, and I used it again with a twist:
If she did a cartwheel on her front porch in the morning, everyone would be whispering by dinner time about the kind of panties she was wearing.
Today's blog makes it three times that I've used it. I think that's it for that one.
I've also used things my husband and I have said in intimate moments – not the tender stuff but the funny stuff. I'd repeat one but that's probably not a good idea. It's in one of my paranormal books, but I won't say which one it is.
I've warned people that I'll use what they say. What I won't use are lines from someone else's book. Or from comedians and TV shows. Someone sweated to get that line, and using it just seems wrong. But when I listen to comedians, I sometimes get ideas in a riff-like effect that puts my own take on the subject. My final line wouldn't be recognizable to the comedian.
Everyone says something funny or quotable at some time. And not always humorous. My son's motto is "It's all good," which I've used in a book before. I'm sure if I wrote a book with small kids in it, and I lived with small kids, I'd be putting in real things they said, whether it's funny, profound or squeezes of the heart.
Have you heard anything that you would put in a story?
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|Old Havana, Cuba. This is what most of us associate with HDR imagery; surreal colors and exaggerated saturation. A taste embraced by some and reviled by others.
Whenever I teach an HDR (high dynamic range) photography workshop, the first thing I do is ask my students to type a Google search for 'I hate HDR'. More than a million results pop up, most of them bemoaning the damage that HDR images have wrought on photography.
I actually think there's a place for surreal HDR imagery and that when it is done well, it's as valid as any other creative approach to photography. I'll be the first to agree, however, that there are plenty of HDR images out there that are an over-sharpened, hyper-saturated mess.
|Oregon coast: Canon EOS 5D Mark III, EF 15mm fisheye (3x exposures combined)With skillful processing, HDR composite images can take on a much more natural look.
But even photographers who wish to create more traditionally-photographic types of images can benefit greatly from capturing wide dynamic range scenes. After all, we see the world around us in a very wide dynamic range, so why shouldn't we take advantage to photograph it that way as well? And at its core, that's really what HDR photography is about.
In this article, I'll share some of my HDR images that were created using the in-camera processing of the Canon EOS 5D Mark III. On the following page I'll talk about the need to take more control over exposure bracketing and use HDR-specific software. All in the service of creating images that seek to emulate the world we see with our own eyes.
In-camera HDR
My guess is that if I did not tell you, you would not know that the image above is an HDR image, created by merging three exposures (0, +2 and -2) together in the Canon EOS 5D Mark III with the HDR mode set to Art Vivid. The separate exposures used to create the composite are shown below.
|Here you see the three raw files used to create the in-camera JPEG using the Canon 5D Mark III.
You may be wondering why the three shots above are all tilted. Here's why.
|To achieve the shooting angle I desired, I had to kneel down in the sand and cold water and shoot very low to the water at an awkward angle. Very cold water was leaking into my boots as I was shooting. Brrrrrrr! But I had to get the shot.
Due to the awkward position I was in, it was obvious the resulting shots would be tilted, so I shot extra wide knowing two things: 1) I'd crop and rotate my picture in Photoshop. 2) When the 5D Mark III merges images together, some image area is lost at the top, bottom, left and right of the frame.
Although the in-camera processing did a reasonably good job, I still brought the image into Photoshop. After checking the histogram I used a Levels adjustment layer to make sure the blacks were black and whites were white. I then boosted the saturation a bit. Next I added a blue gradual filter in Nik Software's Color Efex Pro and then as a final step, sharpened the image using Photoshop's Covert to Smart Filter > Unsharp Mask in order to make selective sharpening edits.
Here is another example of in-camera HDR processing, followed by some additional edits and a crop in Photoshop.
|Oregon coast: Canon EOS 5D Mark III, EF 17-40mm lens. HDR was needed to capture the entire dynamic range of this scene.
Below is the middle exposure from the three-image sequence used to generate the HDR composite.
Original image with no exposure compensation adjustment. Canon 5D Mark III, Canon 17-40mm lens.
Okay. I know what some of you guys are saying. The contrast range in this middle exposure does not look to be too extreme in the first place. And a skilled digital darkroom expert could have simply used a single raw file to pull out the shadow detail and tone down the highlights.
Well, I made another attempt doing just that using Photoshop's Adobe Camera Raw 6.7.
|ACR 6.7 Basic panel adjustments to recover shadow information and maintain highlight detail.
In ACR, I was able to greatly enhance the image, but to achieve the precise result I envisioned, I knew some Photoshop work was needed. So yes, the image might have looked similar to my HDR composite, but it certainly would have taken more time to create. And when given a reasonable choice, I prefer to spend my time shooting and not processing. So in-camera HDR can be a time-saver.
Something else to consider, particularly when making more aggressive adjustments, is that noise can become more prominent in shadow areas as you brighten them. With a multi-shot HDR option, you can often end up with a cleaner image with regard to noise.
HDR Panoramas
|Oregon coast: Canon EOS 5D Mark III, EF 14mm lens. A four shot HDR panorama created initially from raw files captured at different exposures.
Speaking of saving time, in-camera HDR can sometimes be very helpful when shooting a panorama. Above is an HDR panorama I made from four JPEG files (below). Each JPEG was created from a composite of three raw files captured at different exposures. Below is a screen grab from Adobe Bridge that shows the four files.
|Four HDR JPEGs created from 12 raw files. Processed in-camera with the Canon 5D Mark III.
Just think, if you had an external HDMI monitor you wouldn't have to bend to the ground. Or a camera with a rotating screen.
Why doesn't Canon put a damn rotating screen on the Mark III? I would buy one if it had it.
Good old solution to this problem is called an angle finder.
Why doesn't Canon and all the other DSLR makers, make their own proprietory external monitors?
I can use a cell phone app to connect my smart phone to my DSLR and contro, the camera from the cell phone.Put the camera on a pole with a tripod head and one does not even have to bend over to get close to the ground.
But those apps all have their limitations.
Canon makes cameras with touch screens that allow the user to change seting on the screen. All they need to do is make a larger touch screen that can beconnected to the camera with a cable..or maybe even WiFi.
If the app writers can create an app for this, I'm sure that it is within the technological capability of Canon or Nikon to create an off the camera controller. They could do better than the cell phone apps by replicating all the buttons and dials of the camera on the remote monitor!!
Wouldn't that be cool?
I'd rather see a cheap cable connecting an iPad and a D800.
In certain conditions an iPad is the right tool but in the field I want something smaller, easier to handle that doesn't take up too much space;like the Samsung Note.
But I'd rather have a dedicated device that has physical buttons and dials that mirror the cameras. I don't like the touchscreen shutter releases. The camera controller apps I've looked have certain functions that are not part of the camera system like intervalometer and expanded HDR exposure braketing.Touch screen focus select would be nice.
But there are compatibility issues with apps and phones. My brand new phone would have to be upgraded and rooted for the app to work. That is too complicated and risky.
A dedicated device would not require its own internal operating system, would run off the camera battery, would not have to be replaced when I changed phones and would probabaly be more rugged and materproof than an iPad or smart phone.
I much rather have a dedicated piece of camera hardware.
Very nice. I definitely can see the appeals of HDR. Not only does it allow for the capturing of images that are otherwise dull, it opens up a different dimension of expressionism.
'...a different dimension of expressionism.' Exactly. Without wishing to spark an Art vs. Photography debate, van Gogh is quite well thought of for distorting reality. To use a camera to only record a subject faithfully, is, I think, to miss out on a lot of exciting possibilities.
I like the Havana picture. It's fun.
The first two examples from Oregon coast looks kind of okay, except they seems over-saturated to my eyes - especially the second one.
But the last panoramic example is clearly over-the-top for me. The clouds are weird, not bright enough, and the ground just much to saturated and contrastful. Looks artificial and not very pretty to me.
I do like the idea of HDR, but it is just so rare I see photos that actually looks nice when people tell the technique was used. If that is because it's actually technically difficult to make it natural looking HDR or if it is the photographers mind that play tricks when editing, I'm still to find out...
Edit: Ups, there's a page 2 too... Sorry, don't like the examples on page 2. They definitely looks unnatural and HDRish in my opinion...
I tend to think that if one sees immediately that a picture is HDR, it has been over-done. HDR at best is done so that one get a more even exposure without even realizing some magic has been applied.
There's one self-promoted HDR-guru (not the article writer), whose pictures are almost always just plain terrible. Unnatural plasticky manipulations. Yuck.
But that is just me, YMMV.
Hmmm ... what exactly do we learn from this article ?
In overall it says : One has to take a couple of images and then carefully process them to get an HDR picture.
Well I knew that before. Otherwise it doesn't tell anything at all. Not even the term "tonemapping" is found.
One of the poorest article about this subject I've ever seen.
LOVE the article
and one of the BEST HDR pics in recent memories
hmm, yeah i strongly prefer hdr photography that looks realistic. the extreme form of hdr, as in the havana photo above, is clearly computer-generated to anyone who's looking at it, which puts it in a totally separate category from every other type of photography we generally discuss on these forums. hdr for the sole purpose of increasing dynamic range to eliminate the appearance of highlight and shadow clipping is something i'm far more interested in, personally.
Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer the look of a single exposure. If the sky is too bright, expose for the shadows and use a grad ND filter.
Well, I'm almost with you, brother, but I say use HDR with even LESS saturation than the author's finished images. Unfortunately, we are in the minority. Walk into any Wal-Mart or Fry's Electronics, go to the rear of the store and check out how all of the television displays are adjusted: unnaturally saturated. Sometimes I think Joe Consumer has lost the ability to even see color. He wants to be slapped in the face with it.
Yep, at factory settings modern TVs almost cause reaction to vomit with horrible picture they give you.
Gradient filter has problems because of that gradient being very specific.
So HDR has it's place but it needs to be very well controlled like in that second picture.
Of course also DR of camera's sensor affects to need of it and there cameras using Sony sensors are leading.
You can still have the look of a single exposure with HDRI. With HDR capture, we can record more information than we really need, how much of it you use is up to you. Its better to have more information to work with than to be struggling to tame a highlight or open a shadow that has no detail.
The average person now spends hours a day staring at brightly lit TV screens, computer monitors and smart phones. Thats what their eyes are atuned to. Neon colors are even big in fashion.
Many artists think in order to be seen they have to be as bright and garish as everyone else. They may be correct, but that doesn't make them right.
The question is: Who is YOUR target audience? Is it the viewer who appreciates subtleties, or is the the viewer who wants to be dazzled? Its like pop music VS classical. The masses are drawn to the overprocessed HDR images like moths to a candle.
There really is no right or wrong, it is merely a matter of taste.
Funny, I feel about grad filters the way most people seem to feel about HDR. I instantly think "Urrrgh Yuck, Lazy photographer, horrible photo, unrealistic image". I've *never* seen a grad filter photo that I've liked. Most HDR photos I don't like either, but I've at least seen *some* I like.
@gasdive:I'm with you on that. I don't like the graduated filter look, they can only used in certain circumstances and you're stuck with whatever you get when you take the shot. I cringe when I watch CSI Miami which overuses an orange grad filter. Makes it look like Miami's got a bad smog problem!
HDR offers more control and flexibility.One can make the image scream "HDR" or one can apply just enough of the effect to balance the tonal values and make the image pop a little more than a straight shot.
There are lots of filter effects that were ok when that was all we had but look dated today.
Don't take my Kodachrome, or HDR, or B&W, away. It's all fun. HDR is Ansel Adam's brain on LSD.
I formulated my own developer for Tech Pan. It was difficult to mix but gave far better results than the Kodak Technidol developer. So I can always make my own. But the only Tech Pan I can find is 8 year old stock that been stored at room temp.
I hope that whomever buys Kodaks patents will recognize the qualities of Tech Pan for fine arts photography and start making it.
If that doesn't happen I'll proabably never soot another role or sheet of film. And when Canon gets off its behind and gives us the rumored 46MPX camera, even tech pan will be surpassed.
Hmmm... these examples are not great.
If you really want an extended DR image, better off getting a Nikon, expose for the highlights then do some moderate shadow pulling.
You won't encounter the dramatic shift in tones to balance our at the edge of light and dark.
I just had a look at your site, sincerely images are really poor, not for landscapes that are obviously beautiful, but the color rendering of the tones too unnatural, areas that are artificially too bright or too saturated and also too desaturated depending on the colors. Ugly shades/nuances.
Really poor, you can easily see, at first glance, right from the small low-resolution previews of the galleries.
To forget.
Excuse me for my criticism, but that's what I think.
sams images are beautiful in my humble opinion and I have been a professional photographer for 7 years. he ia also quite correct. you dont need a nikon though any dslr should do. nikon will be better d800 better still
Thanks Kodachrome! - each to their own, I can appreciate people saying my images are a little too saturated for their tastes, but never quite had that reaction...
Oh well, Claudio's site is very cool, but where the tonality and saturation differs from my work, I cannot quite see - both are a slightly (but not overly) enhanced view of nature.
These aren't HDR. They're LDR. Step one is educating the public about the misused terminology that pervades this fad.
If you see something in a JPEG online, you know it's not HDR. HDR requires a file format that can store it, like EXR. It also can't be viewed on any normal computer monitor.
>These aren't HDR. They're LDR.
The term HDR as commonly used simply means capturing a range that is wider than the normal dynamic range of the camera, and squeeze that range into the dynamic range of your output (print, LCD display, etc) device. It does not necessarily mean you have to use a super high bit depth output device.
I don't think your criteria is a commonly accepted one.
People often confuse High Dynamic Range Capture and tonemapping.
It is tonemapping that creates the oversaturated and oversharpened images., not the dynamic range of the original scene.
Tonemapping can be applied to single LDR images as well. If the dynamic range of the original scene was within the range of the camera sensor, then the working image file can have as much shadow and highlight information as a high dynamic range scene captured with multiple exposures and rendered as an "HDR" image.
A high dynamic range scene captured via the multi shoot HDR method, can be rendered as a rather conventional looking image. It will simply reveal more highlight and shadow detail than a single shot image would.
SDPharm is correct. HDR refers to the method of capture, not the final loutcome.
Tonemapping is just the methods employed to render the HDR image to the desired result.
The "HDR look" isn't the result of HDR and should be refered to as the "tonemapped look"
Shooting architecture on 4x5 film, I was often faced with the challenge of balancing dark shadows with bright lights and windows, utilizing split exposures, artificial lighting, reflectors, scrims, gobos, diffusers and filters..all in an effort to capture in camera a relatively 'normal' looking image.
Digital photography was a godsend because I could bracket my shots and composite the various componants in Photoshop to create a "normal" image.
So right from the getgo, I saw HDR imaging as a means of bringing out shadow details and taming blown out highlights to create a "normal" image. It's really just one more technique for quality control, as are artificial lighting and Zone System.
One could just as easily create wild and wacky surrealistic images in Photoshop and with film. While it is fun to experiment, it's HDRIs ability to render highlight and shadow detail that I find most useful. I use just enough to make my images pop without looking obviously tonemapped.
I wonder if he did extra pp in the first star fish shot. The HDR shows a deeper blue sky that the three raws images doesn't seem to have. Usually the under exposed ones should have the dark sky to be picked up in the HDR.
here you go
Although the in-camera processing did a reasonably good job, I still brought the image into Photoshop. After checking the histogram I used a Levels adjustment layer to make sure the blacks were black and whites were white. I then boosted the saturation a bit. Next I added a blue gradual filter in Nik Software's Color Efex Pro and then as a final step, sharpened the image using Photoshop's Covert to Smart Filter > Unsharp Mask in order to make selective sharpening edits
HDR, when use correctly, is the same intent Ansel Adams, Minor White, and Edward Weston had when developing and using the Zone System - the ability to manipulate exposure, developing times and printing to capture details throughout the range of reflected light of a subject from film that could not otherwise record the scene as those photographers wanted it presented to the viewer.
HDR is the current interpretation of that process and when used correctly, does well at allowing the photographer to present a scene as they want it seen and can also be used well to capture and present a scene in the reality of tonalities as it was seen.
Agreed. Perhaps it's "to create a realistic look" but even reality is subjective.
suffice it to say, all digital darkroom pp to fix high contrast shots are all forms of HDR tweaking.
any pp is a demonstration that sensors today are incapable of handling high contrast shots in a single capture with NO EXTRA PP/FIXING.
someday, multi-EV-zone handling via multi-ISO capable single exposure only sensors will be made, requiring NO PP whatsoever... we're waiting... it's coming slowly (HDR video resorts to cycling more than one ISO; thus does not yet work with stills; unless pixel-binning is used NOT for resolution, but for 'variable choice ISOs'... hopefully that is easier to do, than a specialized sensor)
I've been working for several years on new sensor tech that is inherently HDR capture. Actually, some car back-up cameras have been capturing HDR using smarter handling of individual pixels for years. In higher-IQ cameras, Sony has been leading the way in increasing dynamic range in their CCD and CMOS sensors. It's just a matter of time until the dynamic range we now call HDR is simply the default that the sensor delivers....
Greater dynamic range than today? Wonderful. Sensors smart enough to avoid clipping on a pixel-by-pixel basis? Wonderful. But dynamic range is a problem that extends beyond recording/measurement - the eye or viewing environment may not be able to encompass the full DR. Extending sensor DR simply kicks the can down the road, from camera to the print medium, exhibit lighting, etc. Eventually, we hit the inability of the human eye to encompass an entire scene without shifting point of focus and adjusting our irises.
HDR and Zone System allow the eye to view a scene as a whole, rather than scanning it piecemeal over an extended period (leave our atmosphere and look at our sun while trying to discern stars, galaxies, etc. in the surrounding "blackness").
A key skill for a photographer is adapting the original subject to the limitations of the playback/display environment, while delivering an audience-pleasing result. It will continue to be about skillful curve-fitting.
the problem with this is these types of looks are achievable with one raw file from a good digital slr. D800 exta especially
It's cheaper than the camera the author is using - your point is ?
While the D800 has more dynamic range than other cameras, it is not some kind of miracle. Most of these images are not that high DR to begin with, but the car interior is way beyond what the D800, or any single exposure can handle.
exactly i said D800 espeacailly. Any digital SLR should do ok. The interior shot may well be the exception but most of what i see here could be done in lightroom 4 rendering the technique pointless.
actually the biggest thing you could have is the newest camera raw or lightroom 4 witch are substantially better at achieving such results than any other raw converter i have worked with
"Okay. I know what some of you guys are saying. The contrast range in this middle exposure does not look to be too extreme in the first place. And a skilled digital darkroom expert could have simply used a single raw file to pull out the shadow detail and tone down the highlights.
Well, I made another attempt doing just that using Photoshop's Adobe Camera Raw 6.7."
I would (again) like to have the original raw file to play with. This style of editing is very different from what I do, especially the + contrast on a high contrast image. I did download originalsrgb.jpg and opened it in Camera Raw 6.6. I think it has more potential than is shown with this style of editing from what I did with that diminished file.
Could we have a link to the original raw?
You may be missing the whole point. The idea is to illustrate by example and demontrate HDR. Perhaps you could find better examples or criticize the one given - but the point was not to hold a debate on how much THAT pic could have been improved or not - that pic is but a prop. This is all about putting together something informative to help beginners - to get a message across.
What I take away from this is some valuable insight, and good advice. And I very much appreciate this article for the gift that it is.
The article is indeed about HDR but also how it is better than single raw alone. One point the author makes is that it is better than editing single raw and then he proceeds to edit a raw file in a way that I believe to be non optimum. This weakens the argument that hdr is superior in this photo to my way of thinking.
Hdr does have its place, I just wonder if it is the best choice for this photo.
I suppose what I am getting at is how to choose when hdr is appropriate might not be well stated here.
Thank you for this article, I am also a big fan of natural looking HDR, I could not stand surreal HDR. I would have like more details and example of reading the histogram.
In your car example, how did you know to use more over exposed shot vs. just the 0, +2 and -2 EV?
There are at least two ways to know how to bracket to get the extremes of dark and light. (1) Take shots 1 stop apart. Check the histograms. You need one that has the curve starting in the lower left corner and one that has the curve starting in the lower right corner. (Leave the aperture constant and keep adjusting your shutter time until you cover the full range.) Or: (2) Take your series of shots and look at all of them ion your LCD review screen. If there's a flashing warning on the screen indicating an area that's blown out, or too dark, you need to take at least one more bracket shot. A tripod really, really helps here. I can take three bracketed shots with a single setting using a Canon 20/30/40/50D or 5D Mark II, but often that's not quite enough. Comparable Nikons can take a wider range of bracketed shots (and so can the 5D-III).
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A Sony would have provided dry knees !
Swing out screen, in-camera HDR and focus peaking.
Check out these pictures they look like HDR but they are not, they were taken with Sony a900 one shot no blending just Cokin filters ND8 and GND8
Was going to comment on exactly the same thing. "Fortunately" (for Sony perhaps :-) ) Canon does not consider such features useful at all. Just leaves me wondering why people put up with it.
good article, but didn't really help with the hard part, how to actually do natural HDRs. The tools used mostly for HDR's are the reason why HDR's are often unnatural, as they're hard to use. I would have loved to see some tips for using the software, rather than a bullet point with only 1 arguably useful tip (the rest being obvious), retaining shadows.
And regarding the getting wet shot, I guess those flippy screens + live view have a use :) I wish more dslrs had them.
A truly remarkable and fantastic HDR image is the one most of the viewers will feel NEVER had an HDR process.
Isn't that the truth.
In Photoshop, you can put your different exposures on separate layers, and then carefully erase parts of a layer to let the others show through, or use layer blend modes like 'Overlay' and 'Multiply' at different strengths. You can cut out parts of the image and sharpen them a little bit, and blur the background a little bit. Increase foreground saturation a bit. Infinite possibilities. The trick -- as the post says -- is to make the changes slowly, carefully, subtly... so no-one will ever notice!
I hope there's a follow-up to this article. I already know how to bracket exposure, but that's just the raw material. What I struggle with is how to combine them properly. I can't help but feel that this is like a baking tutorial that focuses only on finding the best ingredients for a recipe.
I wrote a tutorial about this a few years back:
Look at the two output images at the bottom of the page - both are HDR, but one looks completely natural.
I also have natural (and some completely unnatural ones) in my Flickr photostream:
Yeah! That's what I'm talkin' about! The one at bottom right (at your first link) is wonderfully natural, but without HDR, you couldn't have captured that with a single exposure. Nice example! Thanks!
hmm, "without rich shadows, the images look flat".
That is true, so it's strange the photographer ignores his own advice.
The interior of the car - of the original exposures, the top left exposure looks better than the final HDR.
Ditto with the hotel in Havana. All trace of atmosphere has been lost by using HDR. Again, the original exposure is the best.
Although, these images do not have the overt tone mapped look to them, they still feel very artificial. I'd be very tempted to overlay the original exposure on top of the HDR and set the opacity to 90%. So there is just a hint of the extra dynamic range, without the plastic look.
If you want to acheive natural HDR images, you will know you have succeeded when people do not realise that the image is HDR. If this was the aim here, it has failed.
I think you're wrong. These examples demonstrate exposure bracketing / exposure blending at it's best, and that is how to capture a subject with high dynamic range and produce an image with a compressed dynamic range without rendering the entire image in that washed out / strange light / plastic HDR look.
I read an HDR article a year or two ago that did just what you suggest. I tried it and it works very well.
You take 3 photos -2, 0, +2. Then create the HDR image, and then import all four images into photoshop. Copy them as layers into the same file. Overlay them and selectively erase through the layers, with eraser strength set between 5 and 30 %.
It takes some practice, but it can give very good results.
At last, natural looking HDR pictures. Excellent article, thanks. I will read and absorb.
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The Master's College women's soccer team fell to No. 3 Azusa Pacific 1-0 Saturday afternoon. The Lady Mustangs record drops to 7-5 (1-2), and the Cougars record goes to 6-1-1 (2-1).
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Such a concept would seem unthinkable.
Perhaps the Stow-Munroe Falls boys basketball players may have let their minds wander a little bit against an opponent that has been their No. 1 rival for many years.
The same could not be said for that particular rival. Despite being down an almost insurmountable deficit, Cuyahoga Falls made the Bulldogs do some unexpected sweating in the early stages of the fourth quarter.
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Junior guard Coryon Rice and 6-8 sophomore forward Evan Bainbridge each had 9 points for Stow. A total of eight players scored at least three points for the Bulldogs.
Both teams finished with 25 rebounds, but a major reason why Falls was able to get it back within shouting distance was because of its work in the trenches.
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