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Students at the University of Georgia are trying to revive a forgotten UGA custom - the so-called "G Book."
University officials once pressed the little book into the palms of all incoming freshmen, dating to at least 1915. The last copy was produced with the 1951-52 school year, 58 years ago - until now.
Members of the university's Student Alumni Council began passing out about 5,000 copies of the new G Book on Thursday on Brumby Beach, the grassy area off Baxter Street that is a favorite spring sunbathing spot.
The new books contain a bit of campus history, a portrait gallery of the Uga bulldogs, and like the old G Books, some advice from past graduates.
"Find your passion and do what you love," one alum wrote for today's freshmen.
Advice from the 1915-16 book was more practical:
"Spend your spare time either in the Library or on the Athletic field."
"Write home often."
"Don't get in debt."
Senior Keith Barksdale's favorite part of the book is a list of 44 traditions that UGA students should participate in before they leave Athens, he said.
Barksdale has about five to go before he completes the checklist, he said.
Alumni of 20 or 30 years ago will be familiar with some of the traditions, like the homecoming parade and tailgating at football games. A couple are more recent traditions, like sipping coffee from Jittery Joe's, the coffee shop in the Miller Learning Center.
Barksdale was especially happy to see one tradition on the list - the annual break-dance competition, Faceoff. His Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity has won the contest three years in a row, he said.
Students Christie Haynes and Alan Goodno, both Alumni Council members, spearheaded the effort to bring the book back after learning two years ago that the University of Florida had revived its own version of the old student handbook - the F Book.
Georgia Tech and the University of Kentucky have also brought back their old T Book and K Book.
The University of Mississippi has never stopped publishing its M Book, though for two years it was just online.
Goodno and Haynes hope the new G Book will see many more editions.
"We want to make sure that students know the traditions of this campus," said Haynes, who was president of the Student Alumni Council last school year. Goodno was vice president.
Goodno and Haynes aren't sure what future editions of the G Book should hold, but they probably won't be exactly like the old books.
In 1915, freshmen were expected to learn what was inside - such as UGA's rules of conduct, important dates and the everyday routines of life on campus.
"Washwomen will be on the campus the first of each week to take your soiled clothes. There is one steam laundry and several Chinese laundries in the city," according to the 1915-16 G Book, preserved in UGA's Hargrett Rare Books and Manuscripts Library.
The 1951-52 book warned of a $2 fine for any student who skipped class on the day before or after a holiday.
Both old and new G-Books contain the words to Georgia cheers and fight songs - the words to the song "Glory, Glory, to Old Georgia" are in both the 1915-16 and the 2009-2010 books.
But some of the cheers in the 1915-16 book have not sounded in Sanford Stadium in many years, like this one:
"Hey Reuben Rah!
Hey Reuben Rah!
Gee Beck!
(a long drawn-out whistle)
Boom! Rah!
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Yesterday afternoon (June 15, 2011), Mayor Lee signed the Treasure Island legislation into law, following a unnanimous adoption by the Board of Supervisors and earlier approval by the Planning Commission. This was an extremely complex project with intense public interest and tight deadlines. For the Planning Department, the project included:
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Examples of the 17 plane symmetry groups collected together - complete with a key to the symmetry elements and the designations of the plane groups. This would make a banner poster on a wallpaper swatch (with 6 on a roll of giftwrap or a wide yard of fabric).
The word plane in this context refers to the concept of the design being repeated over and over in a self-similar way across an infinite 2-dimensional space. It's a key difference between a picture that one might frame and a viable pattern for printing rolls of fabric. This underlying requirement for endless repetition of the design necessarily limits the types of symmetry which work.
The absolute minimum symmetry is effectively none at all beyond translation - ie that act of repeating the design indefinitely in two different directions. These axes do not have to be perpendicular to each other, as per cartesian co-ordinates, let alone repeat at the same rate. The most basic repeating unit cell is a parallelogram (ie any non-zero angle and different side lengths). However, for the purposes of bitmapped images uploaded to Spoonflower, the design does need to come back in line with cartesian co-ordinates at some point! So, for mere convenience only, my examples here use a special type of parallelogram called a rectangle - which has the benefit of a right angle but still doesn't insist on equal length sides.
In one standard notation, that minimal type of symmetry in a repeat is called p1 - which means a primitive unit cell with a pattern that only matches up with itself 1 time, ie the original orientation, when you rotate it around. The half-drop and half-brick Spoonflower repeat types do nothing to alter this lack of symmetry unless the design itself is already built to have a different repeat symmetry. They are merely mechanisms for inducing a rhombus parallelogram unit cell instead of a rectangular one. So this superficially centred version of p1 has no more real symmetry than the previous example. Nor does this stepped version of p1.
As touched on above, one of the possible symmetry elements is rotation of the design to match up with itself again. Whereas a one-off mandala pattern can have any number of rotationally repeating spokes, the constraint of translation across a two-dimensional surface limits the rotation numbers which work in plane symmetry. The first number which works is 2 - which is handy for creating bidirectional fabrics. A rotation 2 centre is called a diad. Adding this rotation doesn't even require any further conditions on the unit cell - it can still be any parallelogram. However, as you can see from this annotated example of p2, adding one diad immediately induces a whole set of them. They always turn up in 4-packs (although some can be turned into tetrads or hexads).
The type of symmetry element with which people are most familiar in real life (albeit imperfectly!) is the mirror reflection. There's the horizontal mirror at the surface of water and the vertical mirror between the visible sides of the body of many animals. Introducing a mirror does affect the unit cell though. It forces a right angle - either between the sides, ie a rectangle, or (less obviously) between the diagonals, ie a rhombus (which equalises the sides instead). However, because rectangles are so much easier to handle, there is a convention to reorient and double all rhombus cells into rectangles and refer to them as centred cells. This type of centredness actually means something, unlike the half-drop and half-brick versions. Meanwhile, the underlying requirement to repeat across the plane means that reflections always turn up in pairs.
The simplest type of mirror reflection, when aligned with cell axes, looks like this pm example (ie still a primitive cell but with an m for the addition of the mirror). But there's another type of reflection more commonly seen (albeit again imperfectly) in plants than animals. This is the glide reflection. It mixes up a simple mirror with half a translation. So, whereas some plants do put out pairs of leaves opposite each other (or have leaf veins which branch exactly opposite each other), many plants will put out a leaf (or a vein) on one side and then the other and then the first side again, alternating all the way as one glides along the stem. Here is an example of pg (ie still a primitive cell but with a g for the addition of the glide).
When the mirror or glide reflection is aligned with the cell diagonals instead of the axes, it automatically induces the other type of reflection too. For my non-centred example of this I'm using a very special kind of rhombus called a square (because it's so much easier to do this with bitmapped images on Spoonflower if I stick to cartesian axes!). There you can see that the reflection axes are really diagonal ones. But the conventional view of cm would be the centred cell one (c for centred and m for mirror).
In the same way that mirror and glide reflections automatically induce each other when placed on the diagonals of a unit cell (for the centred examples above), combining any two of diads, mirrors and glides in various ways automatically induces another symmetry element. By (naming) convention, we'll assume we started with the diad set and then added a reflection to those. p2mm has two sets of mirrors at right angles to each other. p2gg has two sets of glides at right angles. p2mg has one set of mirrors against one set of glides. c2mm has sets of alternating mirrors and glides on both diagonals, which become the axes in centred view c2mm.
Temporarily skipping over a rotation number of 3 (because it's hard!), a 4-fold rotation centre is called a tetrad. When repeated across a plane, a tetrad automatically induces a second tetrad (centred between the original ones) and a pair of diads (in the same positions as the remainder of a diad 4-pack). Now the unit cell has to be right-angled and equal-sided (equilateral) - ie a square. The simplest option, p4 (primitive cell and a tetrad set), has no further symmetry elements. But adding any reflections at all will induce even more of them. p4mm (p4m) has mirrors cutting both sides and diagonals, relegating glides to just the diagonals. p4gm (p4g) has glides cutting the sides and diagonals, relegating mirrors to just the diagonals.
Getting back to 3-fold rotations, the triad does work in a plane repeat but it always comes in a 3-pack (one of which may be a hexad) and it requires a special type of rhombus unit cell formed from 2 equilateral triangles. I like to call this the trombus. Again it's handy to show this on site as a centred rectangle - though it's not labelled that way. p3 (primitive cell and a triad set), has no further symmetry elements. Adding one type of reflection automatically induces the other type and there are a couple of ways of doing this. p3m1 has the mirrors perpendicular to the trombus sides. p31m has the mirrors parallel with the trombus sides.
The next valid rotation under the constraint of repeating across an infinite plane is 6-fold, ie the hexad. This simultaneously occupies the position of one of a set of 3 triads and one of a set of 4 diads. The unit cell is still a trombus. The simplest option, p6, has no further symmetry elements beyond these automatically induced ones. If you try to add any reflections at all to this you inevitably get the full p6mm set of mirrors and glides.
No other types of rotation are compatible with infinite plane repeats. Any 5-fold rotational patterns you may think you have seen are the result of clever cheating in hiding the symmetry breakage from you.
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su_g says: Congratulations on the first sale of your 17 plane symmetry groups poster! It's terrific that each roll of the gift wrap = 6 copies of the poster, so easy to build up substantial numbers with just a few rolls... I like the way you've fitted the groups into the wallpaper sizing too - adding another option.
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Tuscany emerged a multitude of noble families, including the distinguished Fortugno family. During the Middle Ages, as populations grew and travel between regions became more frequent, the people of Tuscany found it necessary to adopt a second name to identify themselves and their families. The process of adopting fixed hereditary surnames was not complete until the modern era, but the use of hereditary family names in Italy began in the 10th and 11th centuries. Italian hereditary surnames were developed according to fairly general principles and they were characterized by a profusion of derivatives coined from given names. Although the most common type of family name found in Tuscany is the patronymic surname, which is derived from the father's given name, the nickname type of surname is also frequently found. Nickname surnames were derived from an eke-name, or added name. They usually reflected the physical characteristics or attributes of the first person that used the name. The surname Fortugno is a name for a person of happy nature, good fortune and favorable destiny. This surname is derived from the Latin personal name Fortunatus, which means happy, chance, or luck. The Latin name was fashionable among early Christians, chosen to illustrate their joy in the faith. It was borne by a large number of early saints, which further increased its popularity as a given name in the Middle Ages.
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I was wondering if there was any update on a 3.0 release of NWSGI.
It'll happen shortly after IronPython 2.7 is released. Unfortunately, I don't know when that will be.
Since a major part of NWSGI 3 was being server-independent, I'm now waiting on
the OWIN project, which will make that goal much simpler.
IronPython 2.7 was released :)
Are you guys still working on this ?
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Welcome to Nocturne Falls, the town where Halloween is celebrated 365 days a year. The tourists think it's all a show: the vampires, the werewolves, the witches, the occasional gargoyle flying through the sky. But the supernaturals populating the town know better. Living in Nocturne Falls means being yourself. Fangs and all.
After seeing her maybe-mobster boss murder a guy, Delaney James assumes a new identity and pretends to be a mail order bride. What she doesn't know is her groom to be is a 400-year-old vampire.
Hugh Ellingham has only agreed to the set up to make his overbearing grandmother happy. His past means love is no longer an option. Except he never counted on Delaney and falling in love for real.
Too bad both of them are keeping some mighty big secrets…
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~ Kira Sutherland ~
After a near fatal accident (and getting cheated on by her 'boyfriend'), and beating up the lead cheerleader (with whom the boyfriend cheated…), and being labeled as having 'issues' in her school because she, uhm, sees ghosts, Kira is left with two choices:
- Continue her 'therapy' (where she's told the ghost is a hallucination and also gets her legs ogled too often…)
- Go to Starkfield Academy, a boarding school for "Crazies and Convicts" (as the social media sites call them.)
She chooses the latter…
~ Cory Rand ~
Cory Rand has not had an easy life. His mother died in a car accident when he was twelve, and so did his mother's best friend…sort of. You see, Janice made a promise to take care of Cory just before she died, and so she lingers. Undead. A ghost that watches out for him.
Brought up in an abusive home, Cory quickly falls into a life of disreputable behavior. After his third offense (which was prompted by a girl, as usual – he has a weakness) he's left with two choices:
- Be tried as an adult and share a cell with a guy named Bubba (he thinks…)
- Go to Starkfield Academy, which Cory is pretty sure is run by vampires. But, hey, at least he'll get an education.
He chooses the latter…
It's at Starkfield that Kira meets Cory Rand, a boy with an insatiable Rage who sees ghosts, too. As well as other things, other things from his past, things that confuse him, things like fire and witches and demons.
Things he's always ignored.
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Forbidden to cross the Elvin barrier into human lands, Brock cannot sate his curiosity. Cursed by a vampyre bite that forces him to feed on the life-essence of others, he is unable to touch another without taking their life. Chained by prophesy, he must find a witch, pierce her heart, and draw her blood for his cure.
Celeste must escape the monks who have held her prisoner for years. Her magic has been kept dormant by her captors. An ancient powerful Warloc craves her powers. If he succeeds in devouring her magic, she and the world will die.
When Brock falls in love with Celeste before realizing her demise is his cure, will love triumph over his desire to be healed? Will he risk everything to save her from a Warloc, an oath breaker, who also wants her dead?
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The best thing about reading a book, is when it's not like anything you've read before. There have been times when I feel like I'm reading the same story over and over again in different books. This is not the case, and how refreshing that is.
The Garnet Dagger has everything you want in a fantasy story; elves, witches, magic blades, and an epic quest. And I loved the fact that although it was fantasy, I felt like it could have been historical with the way the setting was described. I felt like I could have been there myself.
Like the summary states (so I'm not giving anything away) I like how Brock is in the ultimate dilemma of killing Celeste to fulfill the prophecy and save his own life, or not killing her and forfeiting his life. It definitely makes the book that much better having such a conflict in it.
So if you're looking for your next fantasy read, give The Garnet Dagger a try.
My Rating: 4 stars
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Up From the Grave Review
Title: Up From the Grave
Author: Jeaniene Frost
Published: 2014 by Avon
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Buy: Amazon
This is the last book in one of my favorite series, and that's okay with me.
This series started out amazing. I absolutely LOVED the first three books. But then things, well, they were still pretty great, but it just wasn't the same. You know how the excitement of first love fades? Well, I felt something like that.
So the fact that this was the last book in the series is okay with me. I think it's time. Now, don't get me wrong, this was still a great book. I'm just glad that Ms. Frost is ending on a great note. So basically, if you're already reading this series, definitely read this and finish the series!
And if you haven't read this series yet, give the first one a try, it's so fangtastic. 😉
My Rating: 4 Stars
***My husband purchased this book for me.***
The Species Within Review
Title: The Species Within
Author: Kimberley Clark
Genre: Paranormal Romance, Erotic Urban Fantasy
Buy: Amazon
This book is intended for ages 18 plus.
Kira, a huntress plagued by dreams of fire and pain has worked
tirelessly to rid her city of the scourge that has nearly destroyed
it…nostvores, mythlend creatures with dark and vast appetites for
blood and sex. She does this not only because they had killed so many
people in her life, but also because she has an edge that no other
human had…she has their abilities. The problem was, these abilities
were killing her and she feared time was no longer on her side.
So the moment she found out that Darius, a nostvore leader was
threatening to awaken an indestructible species to help him enslave
all humans and mythlends, and that she may be the key to his plan, she
knew her only choice was to risk her life with the little time that
she had left and join her enemy to find out why, and to make sure his
plan failed.
If that wasn't dangerous enough, the more time she spends with the
Vanatre nostvore Emmerich, and the mooran Kuron, who she brings with
her for protection, the less she wants to kill them. Instead, she
feels an unexplainable attraction towards them both, and she fears
surrendering to such desire with either is a deadly game to play, for
she would not only be risking her life, but quite possibly her heart.
(Blurb from the author.)
Ms. Clark approached me many months ago for a review, and life got busy, so I apologize for taking so long getting to it.
This book started off fantastic. In fact, it reminded me of Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress series (which I love!) As you saw from the blurb, Kira is a huntress, who kills the nostvores (aka vampires). This isn't so hard for her because she shares a lot of the same abilities.
Kira's a hard ass, she is a supreme fighter, and at one point she was tortured. Most people would cave; she didn't. Like I said, this girl is tough stuff!
I really loved loved loved the beginning of this book, but then it went from awesome to good. Kira has an attraction to a certain vampire, but she has a real tough time accepting it. It's just so back and forth (for her) that it just drove me nuts.
Another thing, that I kind of got bored with, was there was a point of view from the 'bad guy' Darius. I don't know, I think it would have been more suspenseful if his point of view was left out all together. I'm kind of impartial to singular point of views in stories though, so that's my personal opinion.
All in all, Ms. Clark is a very talented writer. And if you like paranormal romance I would give hers a try.
My Rating: 3 stars
***I received this book free from the author in exchange for an honest review.***


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Discussion in 'General Pro Player Discussion' started by TheTruth, Jun 11, 2008.
Wow, amazing stat for Nadal!
I know!
Plus, everyone was doubting his ability to defend his clay season points, but he did it!
Wait until you see the stats for Outstanding Performers for 2008!
Davis Cup stats are not compiled, I can see.
Andy's doing awesome. Plus, one of his losses was a retirement.
haha who doesnt belong near the top of that list?
How fitting that the guy who was voted the most unpleasant player at Roland Garros by the ballboys and ballgirls, has the worst record in the top 100 - Arnaud Clement - 1 win and 7 defeats
No he didn't actually. Nadal didn't defend all his clay points from 2007. Fededer has actually gained some clay points in 2008. Why else do you think Fed is over 1000 points ahead of Nadal in ranking? It was much closer before the clay season.
?......... Actually the only thing he didn't defend was Rome... and we all know why he lost there.
Sure we do. Ferrero beat him......soundly.
Lol I love you guys. You can pretend Ferrero won that match if you want.
Maybe Nadal wasn't at 100%. But, actually, Ferrero did won that match.
we can check on the atp site, they keep records of all the matches...
Well you could play no atp tour matches but play one davis cup rubber, and if you won it you'd be number one on the list with a 100% record.
thanks for these stats
You're welcome! I tried to get the women's (although this is 95% ATP), but it wouldn't come up. It will be interesting to see the fluctuations throughout the year!
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Probably everyone has seen beautiful photographs of flowing water at least once, in which water itself wasn't captured at certain point of time, but rather that the photographer allowed a long exposure time, which causes water stream to appear continuous and smoothed out.
Using long exposure when photographing water means that all the other details on the photo appear unnaturally sharp, but the water itself turns into the kind of foam, which softly falls in the photo. Using even longer exposure times can cause very similar effect on clouds, but this falls outside of the scope of this article.
Such photos usually require a DSLR with decent lens, a tripod and a neutral density filter, which darkens the scene, giving camera a chance to use longer exposure than it would be necessary under daytime lighting conditions. Is achieving similar effect with a smartphone camera, where we have no control over exposure time, even possible?
To photograph flowing water will require some planning. It is no longer enough to put the smartphone in your pocket, go out and start shooting in the wild. For this type of photography you need a tripod.
Why a tripod? Because shooting photos with exposures longer than 1/30s will inevitably cause them to be blurred if the iPhone is handheld. Blurred photos, when done intentionally, can be seen as some sort of art, but in photographing flowing water we want the rest of the scene to remain remarkably sharp.
What tripod to choose for our smartphone? I can confidently recommend two options:
1. The spider-like GorillaPod is a very universal tripod which fits almost every smartphone (apart from phablets). Spider mechanics allows the photographer to use it on practically every surface, horizontal or vertical, as far as mount it on less expected places (such as on a street light, tree branch or balcony).
Amazon.com store link: Joby GripTight GorillaPod Stand for Smartphones
2. The Joby GripTight Micro Stand for smartphones is a variation of the Joby tripod, the same smartphone mount, but the spider is replaced with a typical tripod, which, when collapsed, takes almost no space. Micro Stand ideally fits for situations where you can put a tripod on a horizontal surface and is also ideal for "puddleography" (photographing from just over the ground). The very small size makes it practical to attach it to your keys (for example) so that it travels with you.
Amazon.com store link: Joby GripTight Micro Stand for Smartphones
Apart from the tripod, you will of course need a smartphone. I took my iPhone 5 for the trip, but you will be able to achieve very similar results with Android or WP8 smartphones.
Apart from hardware, we will need specialized apps, which give us more control over exposure time. I chose:
1. PureShot (https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/pureshot/id591785487?mt=8)
PureShot is one of the best apps on the market, targeted to advanced mobile photographers. In this article though, I will only use one feature of the app – night mode – which allows extending of exposure time to 1 second.
2. Slow Shutter Cam (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam-long-exposure/id357404131?mt=8)
Slow Shutter Cam can be used in all the situations where we need long exposure times. That means evening and night photography as well as to "painting-with-light" photos. In this specific instance, rather than painting with light, we will be painting with water.
3. AvgNiteCam (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam-long-exposure/id357404131?mt=8)
Using AvgNiteCam was a sort of experiment, which I did to research to determine if the app can deliver better or more innovative photo than other two apps by taking multiple photos and averages them to get the final result (instead of a long exposure time for a single image).
The Subject
Besides knowing how to photograph water, you need to actually have some water to be photographed If you happen to be on holiday, you will certainly be able to find a fountain, river, waterfall or other place where water is simply falling down. That's all we need.
Flowing water looks best when shot at dawn or at the sunset. The light has very interesting shades and the white water is better visible against the rest of the subject in the photo.
For illustration purposes in this article I chose two places to photograph: an exit of River Birs into the Rhine and a fountain on the crossing of St. Alban Graben and Dufourstrasse in Basel (Switzerland)
Note: The photos used in the article have not been processed at all. That's deliberate – I wanted you to see what kind of material can you get solely after a mobile photography session of flowing water.
River Birs.
I arrived at Birs just after the sunset. The sun was already gone, but there was still enough daylight to shoot some photos. On the nearby little street the lamps were already on. Jumping on the rocks, I positioned myself towards the river, settled my GorillaPod and was ready for the photo session.
A short recap on how to take photos with a long exposure time:
1. The smartphone must be steady, either on a tripod or laying/standing on a stable surface (such as a table)
2. Pressing the shutter might cause movement and thus a blurred photo, so it's best to either connect your headphones to the smartphone and use the volume button to snap a picture or use a Bluetooth-enabled remote shutter such as Shuttr.
3. If the app supports it, additionally set the time so that the smartphone can stabilize itself. In this case you can use a traditional shutter (on-screen button or volume button on the phone).
I took the first picture (picture 3) with PureShot, with night mode turned on. Additionally, I set the timer with a delay, so that the smartphone could stabilize itself after I pressed the shutter. I was not thrilled with the result. The reasons are:
● Grain: despite relatively low ISO, grain is clearly visible (especially in the upper part of the photo, but on the water as well)
● Sharpness: photo is slightly blurred despite the smartphone being stabilized on the tripod. It turned out that the masses of the water flowing down cause rocks to minimally vibrate, which caused the blur. Well, I would have to live with that, since I don't have any other place to stabilize the camera.
I took the second photo (picture 4) with Slow Shutter Cam. My settings:
● Self timer na 5s
● Capture mode: Light trail
● Shutter speed: 15s
● Sensivity: 1/64
The result was much better. Using Light Trail mode caused the camera to make one background photo and then lay over the moving elements onto it, as on the canvas. That is, in the final photo you don't see the snapshot of the water, but rather it is 'flowing' and very smooth. Plus very nice, discrete reflections from street lamps on the water surface. Not bad.
One can experiment with different values in the Sensitivity parameter, which (according to the app developer) changes that way the app 'paints with light'. In my case, I achieved the the best results with a setting of 1/64.
I captured the third photo (picture 5) with AvgNiteCam (with the number of photos set to 32). The way AvgNiteCam captures the scene is a bit different: it takes a large number of photos of the same scene, one after another, and then averages them, creating one final photo. Unfortunately, the app doesn't write anything to the EXIF header so I don't know which settings were used to produce the photo. Nonetheless, the result is quite similar to that of Slow Shutter Cam, but brighter – which unfortunately means that the house visible above river level is blown out.
The undisputed winner: Slow Shutter Cam.
Fontanna (The Fountain)
I reached the fountain when it was already dark, at approximately 10 pm. The fountain itself has its own interesting illumination, and adding to that is the light coming from the street nearby. I set my GorillaPod on the edge of the fountain, mounted the iPhone and started shooting.
I took the first picture (picture 6) as a baseline reference so that I could compare the other images to it later. I used the built-in Camera app of the iPhone for this shot. Results:
● high ISO (grain clearly visible)
● poor tonal range (I chose to skip the built-in HDR option)
● despite the tripod the photo is not sharp enough
Please notice that the light setup is very challenging one: some of the reflectors are mounted underwater, and an one is mounted pretty high over ground (to illuminate the tree), and the wall behind the fountain is lit up by the street lights. It creates a difficult task for iPhone algorithms setting the exposure time.
PureShot (picture 7) did a bit better job, as it increased the exposure time to 1/7s, which brought down the ISO to 400. The streams of the water are a bit smoothed, but it's still not the effect we're looking for.
At the fountain, I decided to carefully examine how the Sensitivity parameter works in Slow Shutter Cam. After setting it to 1 (Picture), I noticed to my surprise that the app catches a lot more light and the streams of water are not blurred at all but rather they are layered one on top of another (please note a handful of very little water streams near the sculpture).
Taking a photo with Sensitivity set to 1/64 (picture 9) resulted in similar effect like with the river: photo – the image is very dark, with a lot of blur to moving elements.
And the result from the third app (AvgNiteCam) is shown in picture 10. The final effect is as if we combined the static part from Slow Shutter Cam with sensitivity 1 with the moving water parts from the shot with sensitivity of 1/64.
I decided to set this one aside for further post-processing (you don't want to know how many other really bad photos from this walk I have in my Camera Roll).
Post-processing (or as Koci says: apping)
Because the photos presented here are meant to illustrate the photographing of flowing water, I decided not to post-process them at all. In most cases though, you would want to tune some parameters to give them some punch or highlight to a particular element of the photo. Among the most common corrections done on the photos shot at night are:
● Removing noise and/or grain. One of the best noise removal algorithms available on the market is coming from Adobe (PS Express, Adobe Revel, PS Touch, Lightroom Mobile). You will find a decent algorithm in Perfectly Clear app.
● White balance correction. I usually use iPhoto module for this.
● Selective corrections of certain parts of the photo using brushes. Some of the apps that offer this capability: PS Touch, Leonardo, FilterStorm Neue, Handy Photo
● Adding some additional elements on the night sky (stars, moon etc) – try LensLight, LensFlare and AlienSky.
If you choose to do post-processing on a desktop computer, you can get good results in Adobe Lightroom or Apple Aperture. These programs have a non-destructive workflow process, where you can roll back to any previous step at any moment.
Creative process
As I mentioned before, I chose Picture 10 for further post-processing. I will try to show you what you can do with a bit creativity and unconventional approach. Picture 10 was a bit better lit than the others. The fountain was ok, but the wall behind it is was way too bright. It was so bright you hardly noticed the fountain, which I wanted to be the main subject in the photo.
I spent some unproductive time trying to create a mask out the wall only, while leaving the fountain and tree. Making a mask with semi-transparent leaves is a nightmare. I went to sleep frustrated.
After a few days I gave it another try and here's what I was able to accomplish.
What is needed:
1. A spotlight with focused stream of light
2. A stylus (I used Wacom Bamboo Stylus mini)
3. Photoshop Touch or Leonardo
And this is what I've done:
1. I opened the photo in Photoshop Touch on my iPad
2. I added a new empty layer and set the blending mode to Overlay
3. I duplicated the new layer, leaving the blending mode as Overlay
4. From the menu tools, I chose Camera Fill (filling layer from the iPad's built-in camera)
5. I turned off the light and turned on the spotlight. In PS Touch, I chose the front-facing camera.
6. Using the spotlight, I lit up the scene from the bottom (that means I placed the spotlight on the right side of iPad's camera). I tapped on shutter in PS Touch.
7. I selected the second layer and this time I lit the scene from the top (spotlight on the left side of camera). I tapped on shutter in PS Touch.
8. The effect left me speechless. The lighting in the scene changed significantly. I achieved exactly what I wanted, that is stronger illumination of the fountain and the little sculptures below the big one, and additional beautiful light streams on the wall and the tree. The little devils were illuminated with very nice blue shade. I exported the result to the Camera Roll.
9. I opened the picture in iPhoto. I fixed the contrast and added a bit of brighness.
10. Then I opened the Brushes section. I love iPhoto brushes. They allow some creative potential even for such a terrible artist like me to make the local corrections of the photo that look good.
11. With the softening brush I softened the front of the fountain, tree leaves and the wall behind, creating the illusion of shallow depth of field (which is available in much bigger cameras like DSLRs). I needed a stylus for delicate moves (the Bamboo brand stylus did a great job here).
12. With sharpening brush I sharpened the little devils below the main sculpture. I wanted them to look even more devilish.
13. Using the brightening brush I brightened the rest of the fountain, revealing the texture of the sculpture (which was previously in shadow), and saved this version to Camera Roll.
14. A couple of final touches, which I did in LensLight: I added some Bokeh Dots and the Anamorphic Dust texture and saved the final to Camera Roll.
I hope that you like the final photo. I don't claim to have invent the torch trick myself, came from the great Adobe evangelist Russell Brown, the full tutorial you can watch on Adobe TV.
As you can see, even with the smartphone camera, pimped with smart software, you can make quite nice photos of flowing water. I hope that the tips from the article will help you achieve better results when photographing in difficult lighting conditions. Some more examples where apps like Slow Shutter Cam or AvgNiteCam will do great job are:
● city landscape containing car traffic (painting with light)
● photos of fireworks
● photos of lightning
If you have any questions concerning the article, please add a comment below the article.
About the Author
Michal Szklanowski is a Polish mobile photographer, living in Basel, Switzerland with his wife and 3 kids. Michal is a member of Polish mobile photography enthusiast group Grupa Mobilni. Michal's photos were featured multiple times in various Instagram contests as well as in iPhonePhotographySchool.com.
You can see his photo collection on his Instagram page.


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High Speed Rail (Preparation) Act 2013. It is an Act to make provision authorising expenditure in preparation for a high speed railway transport network.
A Bill, in two parts, has now been presented to Parliament - see Department of Transport. The Bill may be read via the website of Parliament - High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill
Bill (as introduced) - The Bill has 65 sections and 31 very detailed Schedules.
The Department of Transport said:
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An interesting feature is that the Bill is a HYBRID Bill. Bills are usually either Public Bills (e.g. the High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill itself ) or Private Bills (see Private Bills 2009-10) but a Hybrid Bill has features of both. Private Bills only change the law as it applies to specific individuals or organisations, rather than the general public.
Opposing a Bill may not necessarily be as easy for individuals as
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difficult legal issues. For example, there will be legal issues relating to compulsory purchase of land, compensation for such purchases and planning law. Furthermore, much of the Act is concerned with overriding matters such as consecrated land and disapplying controls under various local Acts of Parliament relating to Oxfordshire, Staffordshire and West Midlands. The right of a petitioner to be heard in
opposition to a private or hybrid bill (locus standi) depends on whether
his personal property or interests stand to be adversely affected by
the passage into law of the measure concerned. It is possible for counsel to represent parties making representations about a bill - How to petition against a private Bill.
A Library Note relating to Hybrid Bills was published by Parliament on 19th November 2013 - Hybrid Bills - note .
Links of interest:
Parliament - Living Heritage - Roads and Railways
Parliament - Living Heritage - Roads and Railways - Private Acts
Local and Personal Acts of Parliament - Wikipedia
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Gunnison Sage-Grouse are similar to, but rarer than, their close relative the Greater Sage-Grouse. They have the same spectacular courtship, where males gather on lekking grounds to puff themselves up, fan their tails into a starburst, and use bizarre pouches in their chests to make loud burbling noises. Females gather in flocks to decide which males to mate with, then raise the young entirely on their own. Gunnison Sage-Grouse are restricted to western Colorado and eastern Utah; they number about 5,000 and are federally threatened.
Off the lek, males make a soft wut call when warning others of predators. Females give a variety of calls, though their function has not been well studied. When accompanying a brood, females have both a contact call, and a call to warn their young of danger. To distract or confront a predator, they use a loud hissing call. Females also call when soliciting males on the lek.
The outlandish male strutting display is a complex, finely timed sequence of sounds, both vocal and mechanical. It begins with three wing shushes, separated by about one second, that are achieved by the male heaving his vocal sacs, enclosed in a neck pouch, through his wings that are held rigidly at his side. The shush sound is produced when the rough feathers on the neck pouch are dragged through his wings, and is only heard when the bird is very close by. In between the wing shushs are a set of low coos and pops that collectively sound like a bubbling. After the three shushes, the male expels air from his esophageal sac, making a burp-like sound, and shimmies his tail.
The best way to see Gunnison Sage-Grouse is at a lek site—but be aware that sage-grouse are extremely sensitive to disturbance. Because of this species' low numbers, only one lek is accessible to the public as of 2015. It's the Wuanita Lek about 19 miles east of Gunnison, Colorado. Western State Colorado University hosts a page about the lek, its current viewing conditions, and behavior and precautions for lek viewing.
A Vanishing Species in Plain Sight, Living Bird, Winter 2015.
Last Grouse Standing: Can Birds and Industry Coexist in the Western Sage Lands?, Living Bird, Spring 2015.
Federal Decision Not To List Greater Sage-Grouse Shows Conservation Is Working. Here's Why, All About Birds, September 22, 2015.
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Twelve Ulster athletes are set to star in Los Angeles
Twelve athletes from Ulster are ready to deliver for Team Ireland at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Los Angeles this summer. Their selection comes after four years of training and competition and the action gets under way from July 25.
A 40-strong coaching and management team will be supported by 155 Team Ireland volunteers at the tournament, with 88 athletes representing our island.
The Ulster contingent are Christopher Kane (19) from Lisburn and Peter Fitzpatrick (20) from Ballynahinch (5-a side football), Carole Catling (37) from Newtownabbey (table tennis), Kirsty Devlin (20) from Belfast and Patrick Quinlivan (32) from Letterkenny (gymnastics), Oliver Doherty (38) from Buncrana, Jill Connery (29) from Scarva and playing partner Ursula McDonnell (71) from Belfast (all golf), Sarah Jane Johnston (35) from Lurgan (aquatics), Déarbháil Savage (14) from Mowhan (equestrian), Sean Campbell (30) from Coleraine (ten pin bowling) and Nuala Browne (38) from Strabane (kayaking).
Ahead of their American adventure, the athletes enjoyed a reception at Stormont yesterday and Sports Minister Carál Ní Chuilín said: "I congratulate all the athletes on being selected to compete at the Special Olympics World Summer Games where you will have the opportunity to compete at the highest level and meet people from across the globe.
"Los Angeles is famous for its movie stars and for its glitz and glamour but for the duration of the Games you will be the stars and you have earned all the plaudits you will receive. I wish you all the best and I know you will make us proud.
"Sport and physical activity is for everyone and my Department and I are committed to increasing participation among under-represented groups and I commend Special Olympics Ulster and Special Olympics Ireland for their efforts."
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The clip, which was uploaded and translated on Saturday by MEMRI, a US-based Middle Eastern media watchdog group, begins with the words "Message to America," followed by a scene portraying the American president on his knees and crying profusely.
The president's head is seen held by "Jihadi John" — the British citizen infamous for his role in videos showing the grisly executions of Western citizens captured by the terrorist group — who slaps the American president on the head, calling him a "mule" in Arabic.
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KEVIN SHEA is an accomplished hockey historian, bestselling author and proud recipient of the Society for International Hockey Research's (SIHR) Brian McFarlane Award for Excellence in Hockey Research and Writing. Shea is the Editor of Publications and Online Features for the Hockey Hall of Fame and teaches a hockey course at Seneca College. An Ajax, Ontario resident, Shea sits on the Toronto Maple Leaf Historical Committee.


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The Seven Least Surprising Scientific Studies
April 26, 2011
Science is a wonderful thing, but it has a problem: scientists can take literally nothing for granted. Take a look at these predictable research studies and tell us that someone wasn't just looking for some easy grant money.
7. Kids Hate Clowns
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You know how everybody hates clowns? Sitcoms have jokes about evil clowns. Horror movies are centered around the awfulness of clowns. The Simpsons coined the phrase "Can't sleep clown will eat me," which adorns the T-shirt of many a "misunderstood" whiner in high schools across the nation. Clowns are so hated, they even have a phobia named after them, coulrophobia.
But, unfortunately for children everywhere, people seem to think children love clowns. Well, the University of Sheffield decided to put that theory to the test by surveying 250 children about how they
felt about clowns
. The kids described them as "frightening and unknowable." Apparently, this is because clowns are wrong and disturbing in an unfamiliar way.
Thanks, science. We needed to know exactly why Pennywise was disturbing.
6. Carrying a Gun Makes You More Likely To Get Shot
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We take no stance on the ongoing argument about guns in America, although we do want as many of them used on gel torsos as possible, because that's never not funny. We're just reporting what a scientific look at the data, namely police reports of people walking around with guns tells us, and apparently, that is, if you're walking around with a gun, for some reason, we can't quite imagine why, you're more likely to
get shot.
So, wait, what you're telling us is, if somebody has a gun, and you have a gun, and you get in a gun fight, you have a better chance of getting shot? Wow. Counterintuitive! We're glad the University of Pennsylvania took this on, although we still think the alternate testing scenario, just giving random people guns and seeing what happens, really needs to be tried out. Preferably after we get the reality show for that up and running.
5. You Shouldn't Drive While Stoned
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Far be it from us to add ammo to the clip of that annoying hippie who bakes himself to a crisp every morning and yet insists your having a beer in the afternoon means you rely on chemicals as a crutch, so we won't. That guy shouldn't drive while stoned.
It seems odd that a chemical that impedes motor skills and makes you more easily distracted would be
dangerous while driving
, but there it is. It also seems odd that the University of Iowa has anything to do with this study, let alone spearhead it, but then again, there really isn't much to do in Iowa. We just figured them more for drinkers than cheeb fans, but to each their own.
Yes, science has proven stoners should just get delivery. Hey, don't cry, pothead, there's got to be a sandwich place that'll deliver Doritos!
4. Movie Popcorn Isn't Good For You
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We know what you're thinking: how could a snack that is popped in canola oil, one of the grossest oils to cook something in, which is then served in a bucket the size of a feedbag after being coated with salt and covered with melted butter or butter substitute oil product, which is generally eaten with a soda the size of a cannon shell and possibly some nachos with a petroleum product that vaguely resembles cheese possibly be unhealthy? It's got fiber!
Nonetheless, the Center for Science in the Public Interest went out of their way to figure out
how unhealthy
. It turns out that a large movie popcorn and a soda is the equivalent of eating three Big Macs with twelve pats of butter.
Or, as we call it around here, "morning snack."
3. Chubby Chasers Exist
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If the Internet has proven anything, it's that it doesn't matter who you are, somebody, somewhere, somehow, wants to have sex with you. Lots of sexy sex. Seriously. Type in anything plus sex in Google, you'll get a result. We know, we tried it, which is why half the staff is applying for workman's compensation due to eye damage, psychological trauma, and emotional distress.
Anyway, chubby chasers, or guys who like overweight women, are far from rare. Or so the
University of Westminster discovered
, with what they call "fat admirers", we guess because "dude who falls on the grenade" wasn't in the English lexicon yet. Equally shocking, fat admirers tend to be interested in a wider range of body types than your typical guy!
Hard to believe, considering the fat admirer's tastes, but, hey, people can surprise us, and often do. Especially on dating sites.
2. A Woman Crying Turns Guys Off
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We're not really sure why, exactly, the scientists at the Weizmann Institute in Israel decided to figure out whether or not women's tears made men less likely to want to have sex with them. In fact, we're kind of confused as to how, precisely, the topic ever came up in the first place. You don't really offer somebody sex when they're crying unless you're a class-A douche, but maybe that's how they roll at the Weizmann.
Either way, they tested women's tears and discovered that there's a chemical in them that tells men not to try having sex with them. Of course, your brain saying "Dude, she's crying" should really be the first cue, but either way, we're not letting our sister visit the Weizmann Institute.
1. Old People Have Less Sex
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You know who we feel bad for, in this study done by the
University of Chicago
? The intern who had to sort through all the responses. We bet he learned way more about seniors getting randy than he ever wanted to know.
Not that there was much to learn in the first place, as it simply confirmed what we already knew: old people do it a lot less than young people, because they're not as healthy.
Yes, it is extremely likely your grandma isn't doing anything naughty. It's scientifically proven. And isn't that a relief?
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In this paper, the authors focus on mobile wireless networks comprising of a powerful communication center and a multitude of mobile users. They investigate the propagation of deadline-based content in the wireless network characterized by heterogeneous (time-varying and user-dependent) wireless channel conditions, heterogeneous user mobility, and where communication could occur in a hybrid format (e.g., directly from the central controller or by exchange with other mobiles in a peer-to-peer manner). They show that exploiting double opportunities, i.e., both time-varying channel conditions and mobility, can result in substantial performance gains.
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In October of 2016 I was able to help great friend and client Dr. Carroll Walker harvest a great non-typical bull on public land in northwestern Colorado. Check out the pictures and his testimonial!
"I'm glad that I made a connection with Zach for this 2015 elk hunt. He had all the equipment needed for a successful hunt. Before opening day glassing and scouting was essential to locate several mature bulls. On the day before the season opened several hunters moved into the area that we planned on hunting. We decided to hike further up the mountain in the dark to get a head start. We listened to elk bugling through the night. Two hours before sunrise we moved further up the mountain.
We crawled about 50 yards to get in position. Then we had to wait for legal hunting light. Zach told me that there was big non-typical that I needed to shoot. I could not believe that my hunt was going to be over in the first 10 minutes of the first
day. I have been on a lot of guided hunts and Zach is at the top of my list for preparation, hard work and success." – Dr. Carroll Walker


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New Delhi, Nov 3 (UNI) A local court today sentenced a man to ten years imprisonment for raping a five-year old girl and imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 upon him.
According to prosecution, Ramkrishan--a father to eight daughters--raped the minor on August 5, 2004. The matter came to the noticewhen the victim's parents found her weeping in their jhuggi.
Rape was confirmed after medical examination of the victim and an FIR under section 376 of the IPC was registered against the accused.
After hearing the arguments of the prosecution and the defence, Additional Sessions Judge Ravinder Kaur found the accused guilty and while convicting him observed that the crime committed is against the society and will affect the ''soul'' of the victim throughout her life.
The offence is ''inhuman and barbaric'' and no leniency can be shown towards the accused, the judge added.