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Asset Building Toward Inclusive Policy
Michael Sherraden, Lissa Johnson, Margaret M. Clancy, Sondra G. Beverly, Margaret Sherrard Sherraden, Mark Schreiner, William Elliot III, Trina R. Williams Shanks, Deborah Adams, Jami Curley, Jin Huang, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Yunju Nam, Min Zhan, and Chang-Keun Han
Since 1991, a new policy discussion has arisen in the United States and other countries, focusing on building assets as a complement to traditional social policy based on income. In fact, asset-based policy already existed (and still exists) in the United States, with large public subsidies. But the policy is regressive, benefiting the rich far more than the poor. The goal should be a universal, progressive, and lifelong asset-based policy. One promising pathway may be Child Development Accounts beginning at birth, with greater public deposits for the poorest children. If every child had an account, then eventually this could grow into a universal public policy across the life course.
Asylum Seekers, Refugees, and Immigrants in the United States
Miriam Potocky
This entry presents introductory information on asylum seekers, refugees, and immigrants in the United States, including distinctions among them, major regions of origin, demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, challenges in social and cultural adaptation, and best practices for social work with these populations.
Capacity Development and Building
DeBrenna LaFa Agbényiga
As a profession, social workers must understand and work well within the realms of capacity development. This understanding is important because it provides a foundation for working at the micro and macro levels to engage communities, organizations, systems, and individuals. However, the complexity of capacity development has made it difficult for social workers to fully engage from this stance. This entry discusses the historical development of capacity development and building while linking it to social justice. It also provides a theoretical perspective and methods for understanding and utilizing capacity development and building in social-work practice.
Child Labor
Usha Nayar, Priya Nayar, and Nidhi Mishra
The paper presents a global scenario of child labor by placing the issue in a historical context as well as comparing current work in the field. It specifically explains the psychosocial, political, and economic determinants of child labor and the prevalence of different forms as well as its magnitude in the different regions of the world. It features innovative programs and actions taken against child labor by local governments, civil societies, and United Nations bodies—mainly the International Labor Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund. The paper also highlights multilateral collaborations among the UN and other international agencies that stand against child labor in general and the employment of children in hazardous conditions. It illustrates the cooperation among local governments, civic organizations, and child-rights movements that have brought gradual changes over the decades toward ending child labor. Further, it suggests that social work, relevant professional schools, and associations working in various disciplines should be engaged in research-based advocacy and find innovative solutions to control child labor.
David F. Gillespie
Disasters are a form of collective stress posing an unavoidable threat to people around the world. Disaster losses result from interactions among the natural, social, and built environments, which are becoming increasingly complex. The risk of disaster and people's susceptibility to damage or harm from disasters is represented with the concept of vulnerability. Data from the Indian Ocean tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and genocide in Darfur, Sudan, show poor people suffer disproportionately from disasters. Disaster social work intervenes in the social and built environments to reduce vulnerability and prevent or reduce long-term social, health, and mental health problems from disasters.
Environmental Justice
Mary E. Rogge
The concept of environmental justice gained currency in the public arena during the latter part of the 20th century. It embodies social work's person-in-environment perspective and dedication to people who are vulnerable, oppressed, and poor. The pursuit of environmental justice engages citizens in local to international struggles for economic resources, health, and well-being, and in struggles for political voice and the realization of civil and human rights.
Global Community Practice for the Global Agenda
Manohar Pawar and Marie Weil
This article presents an integrated perspective and framework for global practice towards achieving the Global Agenda. First, it presents the origin and current understanding of the Global Agenda for social work. Second, it illustrates the utility of the term "global practice" as a progressive, comprehensive, and future-oriented term that encompasses social work and social, economic, and sustainable development at multiple levels: local, national, regional, international, multinational, and global. Third, it discusses ways of moving forward on the Global Agenda at multiple levels through an integrated perspectives framework consisting of global, ecological, human rights, and social development perspectives to guide practice. Finally, it concludes that global practice and the Global Agenda need to be translated into local level social work and development practice and local level agendas, making a case for social work and sustainable social development leadership and practice at grassroots and national levels.
Shanti K. Khinduka
Globalization is the key social, economic, political, and cultural process of our time. This entry defines globalization, summarizes its complex and contradictory correlates and consequences, and offers, from a social work point of view, a balanced assessment of this powerful multidimensional process that is sweeping contemporary world.
International Aid, Relief, and Humanitarian Assistance
Carmen Mónico and Karen Smith Rotabi
International development, humanitarian aid, and relief are at the heart of international social work practice. They have evolved historically and globally; shaped by world markets, social and environmental forces, including natural disasters. Considering this context, the authors cluster relevant social-work theories and practices as (1) human rights perspectives, and (2) ecological, feminist, and cultural theories. They discuss both micro and macro practice, with an emphasis on the latter. Case studies are presented with the overlay of relevant international conventions, guidance, and international private law. A continuum of humanitarian assistance is presented considering different countries; Guatemala is a prominent example in addition to Haiti's massive earthquake of 2010 and post-conflict community practice in Afghanistan. Capacity building as related to social work training is emphasized. This entry concludes that much remains to be accomplished with regard to capacity building among humanitarian assistance organizations so that the principles and practice strategies of international social work are institutionalized.
International Child Development Accounts
Michael Sherraden, Li-Chen Cheng, Fred M. Ssewamala, Youngmi Kim, Vernon Loke, Li Zou, Gina Chowa, David Ansong, Lissa Johnson, YungSoo Lee, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Margaret M. Clancy, Jin Huang, Sondra G. Beverly, Yunju Nam, and Chang-Keun Han
Child Development Accounts (CDAs) are subsidized savings or investment accounts to help people accumulate assets for developmental purposes and life course needs. They are envisioned as universal (everyone participates), progressive (greater subsidies for the poor), and potentially lifelong national policy. These features distinguish CDAs from most existing asset-building policies and programs around the world, which are typically regressive, giving greater benefits to the well-off. With policy innovation in recent years, several countries now have national CDA policies, and four states in the United States have statewide programs. Some of these are designed to be universal and progressive. Evidence indicates that true universality can be achieved, but only with automatic account opening and automatic deposits. In the absence of automatic features, advantaged families participate and benefit more. Today, momentum for universal and automatic features is gradually gaining traction and accelerating. At this stage in the emergence of inclusive asset-based policy, this is the most important development.
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St Angelis necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 98 diseños de 31 diseñadores freelance.
'St Angelis' is a new fashion designer label going global with our individual and innovative designs on our garments. Our logo (or emblem) must represent us in the same dynamic context, be instantly recognizable and memorable and will also feature as the signature 'design' on our garments in all our ranges.
St Angelis
With the brand name of 'St Angelis', angel wings is the main theme and dramatic, structured wings rather than cute, fluffy ones, however, keeping them 'angelic' rather than 'demonic'.
We also need to incorporate the name 'St Angelis' in or amongst the 'wings' design and the font for 'St Angelis', should be along the lines of gothic/Old English scroll but readable and distinguishable.
Also some added 'scroll/swirl' design can be incorporated to 'blend' the two images of the wings and the brand name together. So basically the overall design has 3 component parts.
1. Angel Wings
2. St Angelis
3. Scroll/Swirl design.
Angel Wings must be coloured white.
St Angelis can be any colour or a blend of colours.
Scroll/Swirl design can be any colour or a blend of colours
Overall background colour can also be any colour or a blend of colours as long as the white angel wings are distinguishable and stand out.
'BLACK' may be used as an outline or shading colour or blended in with any other colour.
'St Angelis' as I have written it here, the 'S' and the 'A' in capital and the rest in lower case.
Too much 'darkness' and depression of colour.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.

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SunTrust Halts Ganassi Bid
By Jonathan Ingram | Senior Writer
After a strong opening stint by Ricky Taylor, SunTrust Racing completed a dominant victory at Connecticut's Lime Rock Park with Max Angelelli behind the wheel of the team's Dallara-Ford. The fifth round of the Grand-Am Rolex Series was marred by an opening lap incident at the exit of Big Bend, where Gainsco/Bob Stallings Racing's Jon Fogarty pushed off the Target Chip Ganassi entry of Memo Rojas, which cost co-driver Scott Pruett some of his lead in the championship.
Nic Jonsson won the pole in the Lola-Ford of Krohn Racing during a brief session held the morning of the race at the track in a state where motor racing on Sunday's is prohibited. Taylor started on the outside of the front row of the inaugural Memorial Day Classic and quickly moved into the lead. From there, the SunTrust team used quick pit stops and the closing stint of Angelelli to maintain its margin.The team led the bulk of the two hour, 45-minute race.
The search for a fourth straight vicory by the Ganassi team, on the heels of a triumph in the Indy 500 on Sunday, went awry when Rojas stayed with an outside line in the first corner versus Fogarty. The GAINSCO driver acknowledged aggressive tactics that sent Rojas into the dirt, where the Riley-BMW sustained heavy front end damage to the splitter and front undertray.
"To be brutally honest, it's not a fair fight between the BMW and the Chevrolet," said Fogarty of his Riley powered by a Chevy V-8, referring to the Grand-Am's formula for equating different engines. "You get pretty tired of getting beat up every race weekend, and the frustration level grows. It's not a fair fight. Things are going to get dirty. That's the only chance we have to win."
Rojas was unfazed by Fogarty's suggestion that he shouldn't have taken the outside line into Big Bend, which puts a driver on the inside for the next corner. "I had a great start," he said. "I ran on the outside of the 99 car with enough room, actually. But he decided to push me out. This is part of racing. We'll fight back."
Pruett ran the minimum 30 minutes in Ganassi's Riley-BMW before it was parked and preparations began for the six-hour event at Watkins Glen this coming weekend. Pruett was credited with a 13th-place finish.
Ryan Dalziel and Mike Forest of Starworks Motorsport finished second, followed by Brian Frisselle and Michael Valiante of Michael Shank Racing, also in a BMW-Riley. The Lola-Ford of Krohn finished ninth after team owner Tracy Krohn followed Jonsson, who retained second place until the team's first pit stop.
In the GT category, John Edwards and Adam Christodoulou scored their first Rolex Series victory for SpeedSource. Their Mazda RX-8 edged the Dempsey Racing RX-8 driven by James Gue and Leh Keen. Mazdas swept the top four positions followed by the Corvette of Banner Racing.
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Witness for the Prosecution
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A UNIQUE COURTROOM STAGING of Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution, directed by Lucy Bailey.
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Step inside the magnificent surroundings of London County Hall and experience the intensity and drama of Agatha Christie's gripping story of justice, passion and betrayal in a unique courtroom setting. Leonard Vole is accused of murdering a widow to inherit her wealth. The stakes are high - will Leonard survive the shocking witness testimony, will he be able to convince the jury, and you of his innocence and escape the hangman's noose? Don't miss this landmark stage production on London's Southbank.
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There is no lift to the Galleries. The Galleries are up 33 steps from the Chamber (doors situated at row B). Galleries row C has an extra 4 steep steps. Galleries row D has an extra 8 steep steps. Galleries row A has narrow access and an extra 2 steep steps. All steps within the Galleries are narrow. The Galleries are not suitable for Vertigo Sufferers. If you have any concerns regarding access, we strongly recommend you book your seats in the Courtroom Stalls. There are no toilets situated on the Galleries level. Hearing Loop may not work for patrons seated in the North or South Gallery.
There is a lift from Street level to the Foyer/Box Office. There is a lift from the foyer to the Courtroom Stalls Chamber ONLY. Courtroom Stalls row F is the only row for step-free access. There is a wheelchair space available in row F. This is only suitable for those wishing to stay in their wheelchair for the duration of the show. Anyone with access needs should book through KX Tickets via their website or by calling 0333 320 1663. Hearing Loop should work for any seat in the Courtroom Stalls.heelchair Space
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As indicated in this news item, I will be no longer be updating the Digital Camera Resource Page website after the end of this year. I will be moving over to DPReview, where I will be a Senior Editor. Believe me, it was not an easy decision. A extra big thank you to our loyal forum members for their support and feedback.
I will be sending e-mails out to everyone about how they can join a private "DCRP Forum" on dpreview once that's set up in a few months.
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Testing out the Intel Z68's "best of both worlds" mode with a 20GB SSD
Subject: Motherboards, Storage | May 13, 2011 - 03:26 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: z68, ssd, larson creek, intel 311, smart response technology
One of the more interesting things about the Z68 is Intel's SRT which allows you to utilize a small SSD as a cache for your HDD, allowing you the speed benefits of an SSD in most applications without having to spend the money to buy an SSD large enough to hold all your favourite programs. Legit Reviews tests a 20GB Intel 311 SSD paired with a 600GB WD Velociraptor in both modes, enhanced and maximized to see which offers the greatest benefits. Check out their findings.
"The Intel SSD 311 Series 20GB 'Larson Creek' drive proved itself to be a great cache drive. If you have an Intel Z68 platform that can run Intel Smart Response Technology, it's worth looking into if you have a hard drive for the primary drive and don't want to splurge on an SSD and having to re-install your OS!"
Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- Intel 311 Solid State Drive Tests @ Benchmark Reviews
- Z68 SSD Caching with Corsair's F40 SandForce SSD @ AnandTech
- OCZ Vertex 3 (240GB) @ AnandTech
- Intel Smart Response Technology and Intel 311 Larson Creek SSD @ PC Stats
- Enabling and Testing SSD TRIM Support Under Linux @ Techgage
- OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G 240GB Solid State @ Tweaktown
- Solid State Drive Performance Comparison Guide @ TechARP
- Kingston HyperX Max 3.0 @ HardwareBistro
- Mach Xtreme GX 16 GB USB 3.0 @ techPowerUp
- Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1.5 TB Portable (USB 3.0) Hard Disk @ TechARP
- Thermaltake Max 5G Active Cooling 3.5'' External HDD Enclosure Review @ Madshrimps
- Patriot Supersonic 32GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review @ ThinkComputers
- ineo I-NA559N Pro 5-Bay NAS Server @ Tweaktown
Podcast #154 - Intel Z68 Chipset release, Intel SRT SSD caching technogy, OCZ Agility 3 and Solid 3 and more!
Subject: Editorial, General Tech | May 12, 2011 - 02:30 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: z68, ssd, srt, solid, smart response technology, smart response, podcast, ocz, Intel, agility
PC Perspective Podcast #154 - 5/12/2011
This week we talk about the Intel Z68 Chipset release, Intel SRT SSD caching technogy, the OCZ Agility 3 and Solid 3, Viewer Questions and more!
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Hosts: Jeremy Hellstrom, Josh Walrath and Allyn Malventano
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- 0:09:40 Intel Smart Response Technology: SSD Caching on Z68 Tested
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- 0:31:24 Gigabyte Launches World's First Z68 Motherboards With Support for mSATA Intel SLC SSDs and Smart Response Tech
- 0:36:50 Discrete Graphics Card Shipments See Slight Increase Versus Previous Quarter
- 0:40:18 OCZ Technology Announces the Agility 3 and Solid 3 SATA III Solid State Drives
- 0:43:17 Intel Atom Processors Will Not Use Intel Graphics, PowerVR GPUs Planned
- 0:46:59 Rumors point to Apple moving to ARM processors for future notebooks
- 0:53:30 Email from TK about server memory
- 0:58:24 Email from Ralph about SRT and SSD sizes
- 1:01:26 Email from Jesse about hyperthreading
- 1:06:04 Hardware / Software Pick of the Week
- Ryan: Z68 motherboards, so far the ASUS P8Z68-V Pro is a great option
- Jeremy: This is great, this is scary, but I'll pick the $25 USB computer.
- Josh: Fast, good USB 3.0 Flash
- Allyn: Linksys WRT400N
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For the past few months, we've seen rumors upon rumors of a hybrid combination of the H67 and P67 chipsets into a 'Z' series. As the storage editor, I don't normally focus on a chipset update unless there is a corresponding increase in SATA bus speeds and/or ports available on the newer product.
This time things were different. While the Z series had the same SATA bandwidth specs as its older brothers, there was an extra feature that was rather huge in the storage world: Smart Response Technology.


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by Paul Badger
Download CapacitiveSensor04.zip
This updated CapacitiveSensor version 05 adds support for Arduino Due and other non-AVR boards.
The capacitiveSensor library turns two or more Arduino pins into a capacitive sensor, which can sense the electrical capacitance of the human body. All the sensor setup requires is a medium to high value resistor and a piece of wire and a small (to large) piece of aluminum foil on the end. At its most sensitive, the sensor will start to sense a hand or body inches away from the sensor.
Version 04 adds support for Arduino 1.0, and fixes an obscure possible race condition with Tone, Servo and other libraries that perform I/O in interrupt context.
Version 03 has been updated to C++ and supports multiple inputs. It also includes some utility functions to make it convenient to change timeout values.
Capacitive sensing may be used in any place where low to no force human touch sensing is desirable. An Arduino and the library may be used to sense human touch through more than a quarter of an inch of plastic, wood, ceramic or other insulating material (not any kind of metal though), enabling the sensor to be completely visually concealed.
A capacitive sensor covered with paper or other insulator also acts as fairly good (human touch) pressure sensor with an approximately logarithmic response. In this regard it may surpass force sensing resistors in some applications.
The capacitiveSensor method toggles a microcontroller send pin to a new state and then waits for the receive pin to change to the same state as the send pin. A variable is incremented inside a while loop to time the receive pin's state change. The method then reports the variable's value, which is in arbitrary units.
Watch a short video demonstration (YouTube)
The physical setup includes a medium to high value (100 kilohm - 50 megohm) resistor between the send pin and the receive (sensor) pin. The receive pin is the sensor terminal. A wire connected to this pin with a piece of foil at the end makes a good sensor. For many applications, a more useful range of values is obtained if the sensor is covered with paper, plastic, or another insulating material, so that users do not actually touch the metal foil. Research has shown that a small capacitor (100 pF) or so from sensor pin to ground improves stability and repeatability.
When the send pin changes state, it will eventually change the state of the receive pin. The delay between the send pin changing and the receive pin changing is determined by an RC time constant, defined by R * C, where R is the value of the resistor and C is the capacitance at the receive pin, plus any other capacitance (e.g. human body interaction) present at the sensor (receive) pin. Adding small capacitor (20 - 400 pF) in parallel with the body capacitance, is highly desirable too, as it stabilizes the sensed readings.
The library contains three main methods and some utility methods:
CapacitiveSensor creates an instance of the library (please note the capital letters, this is not the same method as below)
capacitiveSensorRaw requires one parameter, samples, and returns a long integer containing the absolute capacitance, in arbitrary units. The samples parameter can be used to increase the returned resolution, at the expense of slower performance. The returned value is not averaged over the number of samples, and the total value is reported.
capacitiveSensorRaw will return -2 if the capacitance value exceeds the value of CS_Timeout_Millis (in milliseconds). The default value for CS_Timeout_Millis 2000 milliseconds (2 seconds).
capacitiveSensor requires one parameter, samples, and returns a long containing the added (sensed) capacitance, in arbitrary units. capacitiveSensor keeps track of the lowest baseline (unsensed) capacitance, and subtracts that from the sensed capacitance, so it should report a low value in the unsensed condition.
The baseline is value is re-calibrated at intervals determined by CS_Autocal_Millis. The default value is 200000 milliseconds (20 seconds). This re-calibration may be turned off by setting CS_Autocal_Millis to a high value with the set_CS_AutocaL_Millis() method.
The set_CS_Timeout_Millis method may be used to set the CS_Timeout_Millis value, which determines how long the method will take to timeout, if the receive (sense) pin fails to toggle in the same direction as the send pin. A timeout is necessary because a while loop will lock-up a sketch unless a timeout is provided. CS_Timeout_Millis' default value is 2000 milliseconds (2 seconds).
reset_CS_AutoCal may be used to force an immediate calibration of capacitiveSensor function.
The method set_CS_AutocaL_Millis(unsigned long autoCal_millis) may be used to set the timeout interval of the capacitiveSensor function. Re-calibration may be turned off by using set_CS_AutocaL_Millis to set CS_AutocaL_Millis to "0xFFFFFFFF".
Here are some guidelines for resistors but be sure to experiment for a desired response.
Note that the hardware can be set up with one sPin and several resistors and rPin's for calls to various capacitive sensors. See the example sketch.
The grounding of the Arduino board is very important in capacitive sensing. The board needs to have some connection to ground, even if this is not a low-impedance path such as a wire attached to a water pipe.
Capacitive sensing has some quirks with laptops unconnected to mains power. The laptop itself tends to become sensitive and bringing a hand near the laptop will change the returned values.
Connecting the charging cord to the laptop will usually be enough to get things working correctly. Connecting the Arduino ground to an earth ground (for example, a water pipe) could be another solution.
Another solution that seems to have worked well on at least one installation, is to run a foil ground plane under the sensor foil (insulated by plastic, paper, etc.), and connected by a wire to ground. This worked really well to stabilize sensor values and also seemed to dramatically increase sensor sensitivity.
Experiments with a slide pot type linear sensor have been successful with just two pins and a resistance ladder. The basic layout is shown in the Quantum Scrollwheel sensor datasheet.
The code uses this type of arrangement
CapacitiveSensor Left32 = CapacitiveSensor(3, 2); // wire from pin 2 to left side of resistor ladder\ CapacitiveSensor Right23 = CapacitiveSensor(2, 3); // wire from pin 3 to right side of resistor ladder
Where the pins switch their send and receive positions. With a linear resistance ladder, a finger closer to the send pin will report lower values because resistance downstream from the capacitance is basically out of the circuit.
So in this manner when a finger is moved from one pin to the other the two calls to capacitiveSensorRaw will report complementary values that have an approximately constant value to them. The complication comes in when trying to deal with how much contact (capacitance) is present, which raises (or lowers) both values, but not necessarily in a linear manner.
At some point I'll get the sketch posted here.
capacitiveSensor and capacitiveSensorRaw will return -1 with an invalid choice of pin parameter, but it appears that this feature is not working at this writing. Engineers are working on this, stand by...
capacitiveSensor and capacitiveSensorRaw will return -2 if the methods timeout. This is caused by the count exceeding the value of CS_Timeout_Millis, which is set at a default value of 2000 milliseconds (2 seconds). This is most often caused by a missing resistor or the resistor in the wrong pin. It could also be caused by a sensor that is grounded or connected to +5 V.
A timeout is necessary because the while loop that does the timing in the CapacitiveSensor method, will lock-up the sketch (the function will never return) if, for example, the resistor between sendPin and receivePin becomes disconnected.
#include <CapacitiveSensor.h> /* * CapitiveSense Library Demo Sketch * Paul Badger 2008 * Uses a high value resistor e.g. 10 megohm between send pin and receive pin * Resistor effects sensitivity, experiment with values, 50 kilohm - 50 megohm. Larger resistor values yield larger sensor values. * Receive pin is the sensor pin - try different amounts of foil/metal on this pin * Best results are obtained if sensor foil and wire is covered with an insulator such as paper or plastic sheet */ CapacitiveSensor cs_4_2 = CapacitiveSensor(4,2); // 10 megohm resistor between pins 4 & 2, pin 2 is sensor pin, add wire, foil CapacitiveSensor cs_4_5 = CapacitiveSensor(4,5); // 10 megohm resistor between pins 4 & 6, pin 6 is sensor pin, add wire, foil CapacitiveSensor cs_4_8 = CapacitiveSensor(4,8); // 10 megohm resistor between pins 4 & 8, pin 8 is sensor pin, add wire, foil void setup() { cs_4_2.set_CS_AutocaL_Millis(0xFFFFFFFF); // turn off autocalibrate on channel 1 - just as an example Serial.begin(9600); } void loop() { long start = millis(); long total1 = cs_4_2.capacitiveSensor(30); long total2 = cs_4_5.capacitiveSensor(30); long total3 = cs_4_8.capacitiveSensor(30); Serial.print(millis() - start); // check on performance in milliseconds Serial.print("\t"); // tab character for debug window spacing Serial.print(total1); // print sensor output 1 Serial.print("\t"); Serial.print(total2); // print sensor output 2 Serial.print("\t"); Serial.println(total3); // print sensor output 3 delay(10); // arbitrary delay to limit data to serial port }
Instead of using capacitors, you may use a function to count relevant values, and reset the count when encountering lower values (interferences). This is a code example for a touch lamp. It require to either touch the pin 8 wire or to get close to an antenna, and it stops the readings when the threshold is reached. You might want to adjust values A, B and C according to your particular project.
#include <CapacitiveSensor.h> CapacitiveSensor cs_7_8 = CapacitiveSensor(7,8); //10M Resistor between pins 7 and 8, you may also connect an antenna on pin 8 unsigned long csSum; void setup() { Serial.begin(9600); } void loop() { CSread(); } void CSread() { long cs = cs_7_8.capacitiveSensor(80); //a: Sensor resolution is set to 80 if (cs > 100) { //b: Arbitrary number csSum += cs; Serial.println(cs); if (csSum >= 3800) //c: This value is the threshold, a High value means it takes longer to trigger { Serial.print("Trigger: "); Serial.println(csSum); if (csSum > 0) { csSum = 0; } //Reset cs_7_8.reset_CS_AutoCal(); //Stops readings } } else { csSum = 0; //Timeout caused by bad readings } }
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Internet gambling is an excellent case study of how difficult it is to effectively regulate many aspects of the Internet.
As more and more of our lives migrate online, congress, state legislatures and local governments are grappling with how to address the issues and challenges this presents. The problem is that by the nature and structure of the Internet itself, content and commerce on the Internet are virtually impossible regulate.
The federal government is better positioned than a state or local government, and even they have a very difficult time. Internet servers and mirror sites located all over the world allow people to operate businesses from whatever jurisdiction they choose. If tightly controlled countries like China and Iran can't completely stop their citizens from accessing websites they deem objectionable, it is virtually impossible in a free, democratic society like the United States.
Internet gambling is an excellent case study of how difficult it is to effectively regulate many aspects of the Internet.
Just as Internet poker was gaining in popularity in the early 2000s, congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act (UIGEA), which it thought would put an end to Internet gambling. But a 2010 study by the respected Internet gaming research along with data firm H2 Gambling Capital found that Internet poker was booming despite the law. The study found there were between 10 million and 11 million people playing Internet poker for money in the United States.
Leaving aside personal feelings about gambling and whether Internet gambling should be legal, it is virtually impossible to enforce a law that 11 million people are violating in the privacy of their own homes. Between 2006 (when UIGEA passed) and 2011, billions of hands of poker were played, and billions of dollars changed hands. And for every hand of poker played, the companies operating the games took a percentage. But none of that money went to U.S. companies, and no governmental entity in the United States earned any tax revenue from it. Instead of ending Internet gambling in the U.S., UIGEA simply forced it offshore.
Companies that were operating in the U.S. market withdrew, and were replaced by companies that were less interested in respecting the law. Places like Gibraltar, The Isle of Man and Alderney became the homes to multi-million dollar businesses. Their governments and regulators created a friendly regulatory structure and welcomed the businesses. Many of these countries had a very small GDP. Revenue from the new gambling enterprises provided a huge boost in tax revenue, and they had no incentive to enforce U.S. law.
In 2011, after years of trying, the United States' Department of Justice was able to seize the domain names and shut down the U.S. operations of the world's two biggest Internet poker companies. But their enforcement actions did not arise from great police and detective work, nor did it come from tightly written, effective statutes. It came from an informant who the FBI was able to arrest because of a spat between the informant and his employers.
According to a survey by Poker Voters of America (disclosure: they are a former client), there were at least 532 Internet poker sites in operation in 2006. The closure of two of those sites, through complete luck, hardly constitutes the triumph of government's ability to regulate the Internet.
And if proof is needed, less than 24 hours later, it was easy to find many sites ready and willing to accept wagers from U.S.-based players.
The biggest action that slowed down Internet poker in the U.S. was the decision by ESPN to stop accepting advertising from Internet poker companies -- a decision that came in the wake of the Department of Justice's actions, but was completely voluntary.
Fast forward to 2013. Federal law remains unchanged; it is still illegal (at least on paper) to gamble for money over the Internet. Despite that, anyone with a computer and a credit card can be playing Internet poker within a few minutes. For that matter, if blackjack is your game, you can find that too. The same is true with slots, craps, bingo and roulette. You can even play backgammon for money if you want.
Gambling has a long history and seems to be about as certain in society as death and taxes. Neither the Internet nor gambling is going away. And when the two are combined, it is a matter of "where" the games will take place, not "if" they will take place. The only question is, will they take place on computer servers owned by foreign companies located in foreign territories? Or will they take place on servers located in the United States that are owned and operated by companies based here.
This story was originally published by Techwire.net.
(Editor's note: Then Assemblymember Lloyd Levine was the first state legislator in the country to introduce legislation to legalize Internet gaming at the state level. Since that time, he has served as a consultant in the Internet gaming industry, been featured panelist, speaker and moderator and many Internet gaming conferences, and is a frequent contributor to gaming publications around the world. In part two of this series, Levine will look at the current efforts by various state legislatures to legalize intrastate, Internet poker.)


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Chicken with Balsamic Mushroom Sauce - Secret Recipe Club
Welcome, Dear Reader! Hope you enjoyed all the Purim festivities this past weekend. And for those who watched the Academy Awards last night, hope your favorites won. In either of the cases, hope you are not nursing a
Okay, now back to business. For this month's Secret Recipe Club, I was assigned to make and post a recipe from Baking and Creating with Avril. Avril shares a lot of lovely and delicious-looking creations, with most quick enough to whip up for a weeknight meal. Since I had a whole cut-up chicken, two package of sliced mushrooms and a random red onion patiently in the fridge for when I got home from work at 5:50pm this past Thursday, I made the executive decision to stop procrastinating and select something from Avril's recipes that utilizes all of them.
Let's see ... chicken? Yes!
Mushrooms? YES! Oh boy!
Red onion? YES! Ohboyohboyohboy!
So I start to assemble all the ingredients on the counter ...
then ... finally noticed ...
... that Avril's recipe called for skinless, boneless chicken.
Oh ... poop! (sorry for all those dots ... there was this sale on ellipsis points at the Try 'n Save ...)
Well, at 6pm I wasn't about to run out and purchase more recipe-friendly poultry, so I adjusted Avril's version to be more me-friendly. As it turned out, by 7pm we were sitting down to dinner, which isn't too bad, timing-wise.
Wine is not an original ingredient, but I had what I thought was about a half-cup remaining in a bottle from the previous evening and needed an excuse to use it up. Turned out it was about an entire cup. Which is twice as good as one-half cup. If you decide to use any wine at all, add a few minutes to the sauce reduction time (or use less broth to compensate). The resulting sauce was a little on the thin side, but still delicious.
Since I also had a half-bag of fingerling potato medley on the counter, it made sense (at least in my little world) to use them instead of rice or pasta. Just before we started to dig in, daHubby said that while dinner was "nice" and that the recipe is a keeper, he felt that bone-in chicken served over potatoes was a little weird, and that I shoulda used rice. But to be fair, I can put a plate of rice over rice in front of him and he's happy, so I ignored him and returned to my serving, trying not to make too many yummy sounds.
Chicken with Balsamic Mushroom Sauce
Adapted from: Baking and Creating with Avril
Serves 4
1 Tbl. olive oil
1 whole chicken, skin on, cut into 8th's
1/2 tsp. kosher salt
1/4 tsp. coarsely ground black pepper
16 oz. sliced mushrooms
1 small or 1/2 medium-size red onion, finely diced (about 1/2 cup)
1 (14 oz.) can chicken broth (low-sodium preferred)
2 tsp. minced garlic (about 2 cloves)
2 Tbl. balsamic vinegar
1/2 cup white wine (optional)
3-4 sprigs fresh thyme leaves (or 1/2 tsp. dried)
2 Tbl. unsalted margarine
2 cups fingerling potatoes, scrubbed and halved (quarter the larger fingerlings)
water (enough to cover potatoes) mixed with 2 teapoons table salt
Heat oil in a large skillet or dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add chicken, skin side down, Cook undisturbed until skin starts to brown a bit (about 6 minutes). Flip; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Cook another 6 minutes until other side is browned as well (chicken will not be anywhere cooked through!). Transfer chicken to a covered dish and set aside; keep warm.
|Looks like a lot o'mushrooms, even in this large dutch oven.
Do not wipe out skillet. Add mushrooms, diced onion and garlic.
|But mushrooms reduce down signifantly
Saute, stirring frequently over medium heat for 5-6 minutes or until mushrooms reduce and start to give off their liquid. Remove veggies to a covered bowl, leaving as much liquid behind in skillet as possible.
Meanwhile, into a 2 quart saucepan add potatoes and salted water. Cover and bring to a boil; reduce heat to a simmer and let cook for 10-12 minutes or until fork-tender. Drain, allowing some moisture to cling to potatoes. Return potatoes to their cooking pot. Cover, set aside and keep warm
While potatoes are cooking, into the remaining liquid in the skillet stir in broth, balsamic vinegar, thyme and wine (if using). Increase heat to medium-high and bring to a boil. Continue to boil for 2-5 minutes to reduce sauce by a third (especially important if wine is used) or until you are too hungry to care.
Return chicken and any accumulated juices to skillet; cover, reduce heat to a simmer and let chicken cook for 15 minutes or until cooked through (no pink remains). Remove and discard thyme sprigs, if used.
Plate potatoes. Top with chicken and keep warm.
Add mushroom mixture and margarine to remaining liquid in pot. Increase heat to medium-high just long enough to melt margarine and rewarm veggies.
Ladle sauce over chicken and serve.
Disclaimer - because this recipe is part of an online cooking group, many of the linked recipes below might NOT be kosher.


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In times of uncertainty, and in preparation for market declines, Wall Street's advice to investors is always the same.
The market cannot be 'timed', and cash does not pay enough interest to even keep up with inflation. So investors need to remain fully invested and continue to buy stocks, but can protect themselves by shifting to 'defensive' stocks and sectors.
The advice has always been the same.
No matter what happens to the economy people will still have to eat, drink, and take their medicines. So food, beverage, and drug companies will continue to do well in an economic or market downturn. And the stocks of utilities and other solid companies that pay high dividends will also do well since the dividends will help offset a decline in the stock prices.
They do not explain that although consumers will still have to eat, drink, and take their medicines, investors will not have to continue to value the earnings of those companies as highly as they did in a rising market. Stocks that sell at 20 times earnings in the excitement of a rising market may only sell for 12 times earnings by the time a correction has made investors more fearful. So even though a company's earnings continue to rise, its stock will still be dragged down by the falling market.
The same holds true for the high dividend payers. They also do not escape the problem of investors not being willing to value their earnings as highly as they did in a rising market.
In fact, since defensive stocks and sectors are touted so heavily by Wall Street near market tops, driving their prices to more over-valued levels than other stocks, their subsequent declines often exceed the decline of the rest of the market.
It doesn't take much research to check it out, but unfortunately most investors aren't inclined to bother. However, that is my job, and here are the facts.
Utilities are traditionally among the highest dividend paying stocks. Yet the DJ Utilities Average plunged 60% in the 2000-2002 bear market, considerably more than the 50% decline of the S&P 500. And it plunged 48% in the 2007-2009 bear market, not much different than the 50% decline of the S&P 500.
In lesser corrections the degree of safety promised for high dividend paying stocks has been equally disappointing for those who accepted the theory.
In the summer correction of 2010 the S&P 500 declined 15%. The DJ Utilities Average declined 13%. So far in the current correction, the S&P 500 is down 7.8%. But the DJ Utilities Average is down 11.6%.
Likewise, the ten highest dividend-paying solid companies in the 30-stock Dow are down an average of 18.9% in the current correction, compared to the S&P 500 being down 7.8%.
You could say that high-dividend payers have an added incentive for selling in the current correction since one of the risks of the 'fiscal cliff' is that taxes on dividends might jump significantly. And that's true. But those same ten stocks plunged an average of 65.3% in the 2000-2002 bear market, and an average of 55.4% in the 2007-2009 bear, much worse than the Dow and S&P 500.
Meanwhile, we're seeing the same historical pattern for the 'still gotta eat, drink, and take their meds' stocks.
So far in the current pullback, while the S&P 500 is down 7.8%, the still gotta eat and drink category is holding up fairly well, although Coca Cola (KO) is down 10.2% and PepsiCo is down 7.3%.
But in the 'still gotta take their meds' category, while the S&P 500 is down 7.8%, most major drug-makers are down more. Abbott Labs (ABT) is down 12.4%, Bristol Myers (BMY) is down 14.8%, Eli Lilly (LLY) is down 14.6%, and Merck (MRK) is down 10.7%.
You can blame it on concerns about drug company profits under Obamacare. But just as the high-dividend paying stocks plunged right along with the rest of the market in the 2000-2002 and 2007-2009 bear markets, so too did the drug-makers. Abbott Labs, Bristol Myers, Eli Lilly, and Merck, plunged an average of 54.5% in the 2000-2002 bear market, and an average of 49.1% in the 2007-2009 bear.
Several conclusions could be drawn from that history.
The first is that there seems to be nothing to gain by repositioning into the so-called defensive stocks or sectors. In fact, by doing so one may come out the other side even more damaged than by holding onto current holdings.
Taking profits and moving to cash when risk is high would be a much better strategy, even though the cash would earn nothing, since one keeps the previous profits and can re-enter when the correction ends, rather than having huge losses and needing the next bull market just to get back to even.
And if the expected correction doesn't materialize, the cost is only some lost opportunity for more gains, not the actual painful losses incurred by remaining fully invested and moving into so-called defensive stocks.
Another approach, which I prefer, is that the best defense is often a good offense.
For instance, an 'inverse' etf or mutual fund designed to move opposite to the S&P 500, like the Rydex Inverse S&P 500 fund (RYURX), or the ProShares Short S&P 500 etf (SH) will gain roughly 20% if the S&P declines 20%, more in larger corrections.
But regardless of what decision is made, let's be street smart and realize that so-called 'defensive stocks' usually are not close to being so.


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Coach Frank Barnes '29 will be honored Friday night at Shelbyville High School for the 60th anniversary of the schools 1947 state championship.
Barnes, a 1929 Wabash College graduate, led the Golden Bears to the state title with star player Bill Garrett. Garrett went on to play at Indiana University as the first African-American starter in the Big Ten.
The school will re-name its basketball court the Frank Barnes Court in the William Garrett Gymnasium.
Barnes also coached at Yorktown, Danville, Flora, and Jeffersonville, winning five sectionals, three regionals, one semi-state, and the one state championship. He coached for 30 seasons, 15 at Shelbyville, and had only two losing seasons in three decades.
Barnes died in 1996. The Friday night ceremony takes place during the Shelby Shootout Holiday Tournament featuring Shelbyville, Rushville, Indianapolis Roncalli, and a traveling Canberra, Australia team.


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textual-biological correspondences
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Reading Derek Ratcliffe's wonderful ornithological, corvi-cultural study, The Raven, returns me to a closing query of my previous entry: "What sort of animal meaning . . . does [the raven] present in Coleridge's "The Raven"? Ratcliffe quotes one R. Bosworth Smith:
A bird whose literary history begins with Cain, with Noah, and with Elijah, and
who gave his name to the Midianite chieftain Oreb; whose every action and cry
was observed and noted down, alike by the descendents of Romulus and the ancestors of
Rolf the Ganger; who occurs in every second play of Shakespeare; who forms the subject
of the most eerie poem of Edgar Alan Poe, and enlivens the pages of the Roderick
Random of Smollett, of the Rookwood of Ainsworth, of the Barnaby Rudge of Dickens,
is a bird whose historical and literary pre-eminence is unapproached. (cited Ratcliffe 9)
Indeed the raven has served "to point many a moral and adorn many a tale," in part because this bird has seemed to many to be "the bird most like ourselves" (D. Kennedy and A.B. Walker, "The Great Transformer"), a prophet, omen-bearer, watcher, and so forth. But how much do these age-old associations and allegorical uses relate to the bird's own being and behavior, as an animetaphor that is as much an instigator as a product of cultural markings?
Back to Coleridge's fabulous animal poem. Following the playful forgery-oriented opening, the text describes how,
Underneath an old oak tree
There was of swine a huge company
That grunted as they crunched the mast:
For that was ripe, and fell full fast.
Then they trotted away, for the wind grew high:
One acorn they left, and no more might you spy.
Next came a Raven, that liked not such folly:
He belonged, they did say, to the witch Melancholy!
Ratcliffe points to the raven's associations with death and darkness, likely owed to its black plumage, vocal mimicry, intelligence, and "sepulchral voice" (10). No surprise, with or without kicking Edgar Alan Poe, that Coleridge's speaker should pointedly mention the folk associations with "melancholy" and the supernatural. Indeed there's little here to surprise. A herd of swine feasts on acorns beneath a bountiful oak. When the pigs depart, an opportunistic solitary raven sees an opportunity and visits the now vacated spot in search of remaining spoils. Ravens are of course opportunists, and their diet includes not just carrion but also, on occasion, various seeds and berries, including acorns. So there's some ornithological verisimilitude afoot here, despite the folklorish associations (from which the narrator distances himself and the bird).
The speaker continues his tale of this lone scavenger:
Blacker was he than blackest jet,
Flew low in the rain, and his feathers not wet.
He picked up the acorn and buried it straight
By the side of a river both deep and great.
Coleridge knows his ravens (better, certainly, than I on this point); ravens do indeed make use of food caching: "Fat, fatty meat, egg, bones, bread, dates and dung are materials which have been seen to be hidden, usually in holes or beneath stones, but sometimes in small excavations dug by the birds themselves" (Ratcliffe 95). And if ever there was a bird likely to recall the location of that cache, it is the raven (see Ratcliffe 251).
Where then did the Raven Go?
He went high and low,
Over hill, over dale, did the black Raven go.
Many Autumns, many Springs
Travelled he with wandering wings:
Many summers, many Winters—
I can't tell half his adventures.
The narrator espies his own perceptual limit: his inability to "tell half" of what the raven has experienced (via its/his anthropomorphized "adventures"). Those "wandering wings" carry the bird beyond any human's ken. Indeed those wings return a different raven, a descendant of the acorn-cache-maker and unwitting tree planter:
At length he came back, and with him a She
And the acorn was grown to a tall oak tree.
Hardly the same raven—whose lifespan would likely not exceed twelve years--and yet to the human fabulist it is that same "he." It is a species or family line (raven crest) that returns, rather than an individual—eh? (That or a very fast-growing oak!)
But is all this literalism, all this reliance upon and reference to ornithology, beside the point, despite the fact that, up to this line, Coleridge's animal poem seems to portray its raven subject quite accurately? Do such textual-biological correspondences figure in this text, as one part of its animetaphorical meaning? Or are they beyond it and extraneous to it? Let me close with an inspiring closing statement from Tim Morton's Ecology without Nature: "Hanging out in the distance may be the surest way of relating to the nonhuman" (205). More to come.
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I have had the unique opportunity to experience many facets of BCG, with each experience leaving me a more inspired and fulfilled person.
I first joined BCG as an associate where I helped deliver real impact to our clients, all while receiving the best business education imaginable. After spending nearly a decade working in the consumer products industry, I returned to BCG in the Consumer practice and served as a knowledge expert and the global marketing manager for the practice. Here, I deepened relationships and my appreciation for the opportunity to work with such extraordinary and talented people every day.
In my current role as the learning and development manager in North America, I have the unique pleasure of helping to shape the next generation of BCGers. It is such a gift to work for a firm that has helped me to grow and develop in so many ways, and to now have the opportunity to do the same for other BCGers.
Jen holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from INSEAD. Jen worked at S.C. Johnson & Son, The Cambridge Group, and Alberto Culver (now part of Unilever) before returning to BCG.
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OTTAWA Stephen Harper did his best yesterday to convince Canadians he's still a small-c conservative, promising he would take just four years to eliminate every penny of the $34-billion deficit his government announced yesterday.
But now that the Prime Minister has admitted there's a place for big government, can he really expect to put the toothpaste back into the tube?
Mr. Harper, the former Reformer, used his first three years in office to cut taxes in major ways, leading most experts to conclude that the conservative revolution he had in mind was to shrink Canadian government permanently. He also pledged to stay out of the provinces' way, allowing them to run their own shops, while Ottawa removed itself.
But a number of initiatives in yesterday's budget suggest that his government has crossed the philosophical Rubicon – for even if the government can eliminate the deficit by 2014, the Tories have demonstrated that, when the circumstances warrant, they have an appetite for spending as large as past Liberal governments. How else to explain the decision to reach back to the Pierre Trudeau-inspired notion of regional development by announcing a $1-billion, five-year package to establish the Southern Ontario Development Agency?
"Canadians regret the need to run a deficit in order to invest in our economy," Finance Minister Jim Flaherty explained in his budget address yesterday. "Our government shares that regret."
Perhaps in an effort to assure Canadians the government is not a spendthrift, Mr. Flaherty pledged that future surpluses would help it eliminate the deficit in short order. He may or may not be right, but a bigger question is whether Canadians will allow the Conservatives to phase out the spending and entitlements to which the population will soon become accustomed.
Take, for example, the Tory plan to allow the jobless a two-year period in which they can collect five extra weeks of benefits under the employment insurance program.
Even if Mr. Flaherty's best intentions prove out – and the recession is a short one – would voters not punish a government that removes these benefits? The Conservatives would almost certainly find themselves up against Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams, who argued long and loud for the enhancements to be included in yesterday's budget.
Consider, also, what might happen in a federal election. If the Liberals were to bring the Conservatives down next fall or a year from now, and then promised to extend the employment benefits package during a campaign, would the Conservatives hold to their line? Perhaps, but it might be tough in the mid-size cities of Ontario, where the Tories need to build their majority. Unemployed auto workers would be showing up all over Mr. Harper's campaign events, complaining of the government's heartlessness at such a difficult time.
Even ending the temporary spending program on infrastructure would be difficult in such a campaign. Liberals and New Democrats alike might be tempted to argue that the program should be lengthened by another year or two.
The last eight weeks of consultation have also set a precedent for the Prime Minister for listening and responding to various stakeholder groups. After having received a list of demands from the provinces for various forms of infrastructure help, Mr. Harper will face more demands in the future, and will have increased difficulty saying no. No longer will he be able to hold what one provincial bureaucrat called a "drive-by" first ministers meeting, lest he be accused of failing to consult.
Like previous budgets, the Prime Minister has also included some baubles targeted at those he believes can help build his base of support. To wit, first-time home buyers will get a tax credit to help defray the cost of legal fees and other closing costs, a move that might bring young couples to the Tory fold as they build their families.
Mr. Harper's political side also emerged, in the form of $12-million to promote cruise ship tourism on the St. Lawrence and Saguenay Rivers. It's a region where the Conservatives are trying to protect seats and perhaps even add one or two.
Perhaps the truest reflection of how Tory thinking has evolved came from Mr. Flaherty in a brief news conference before his speech, when he acknowledged that he had turned his back on dogma when crafting the budget.
"These are not ideological things," he told reporters. "We heard from Canadians this is what we need to do. I'm a pragmatic person. We're doing what we need to do to ensure we respond to protect Canada during a global recession."
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This tutorial doesn't cover reasons why you might want to stitch in HDR format. It is a simple HOWTO listing the tools available and how to use them with hugin.
Working with HDR images is fairly extreme behaviour. If you just want higher quality output than you get with typical 8bit photography, then you probably want to look at a 16bit workflow with hugin.
Still here? There are two basic ways of creating an HDR panorama:
- Stitch several panoramas of the same scene, each one at a different exposure, and merge them together into a single HDR file.
- Create a set of HDR shots of the scene and then stitch them together.
Each has advantages and disadvantages: The first technique is simpler and has the advantage that the final HDR step can be skipped and substituted with a Contrast Blending approach, but has the potential for misalignments causing ghosting problems. The second technique is presented here since it involves a greater range of tools.
- 1 Preparing the HDR images
- 2 Stitching with hugin
- 3 Post processing
Preparing the HDR images
Unless you have an expensive HDR camera, you will be merging bracketed shots to create the HDR images - Unfortunately this means that you are limited to static scenes and landscapes.
Taking bracketed shots
The number of shots required depends on the dynamic range of the scene you need to capture and the capabilities of your camera.
Many cameras have an auto-bracketing mode that takes three or five shots two stops apart with one press of the button. This may be adequate, though a typical outdoor scene might have a dynamic range of eighteen stops which would require eight shots two stops apart.
Whatever method you choose, it should be obvious that you need a good tripod to keep the camera steady.
Correcting chromatic aberration
Now is a good time to correct chromatic aberration and vignetting with fulla using pre-calibrated data for your lens, it doesn't really work later on.
Merging bracketed shots with pfscalibration
There are other tools for merging bracketed images, but PFScalibration is Free Software and does the job.
Calibrating the camera response curve
Generally when a digital camera creates a JPEG or TIFF file, it takes a 12bit per-channel dynamic range image captured by the CCD and compresses it using a camera response curve into a 8bit output file.
So JPEG and TIFF files need unrolling with a calibrated camera response curve so they can be mapped into the linear space of the floating-point HDR image.
If you are working with RAW images, the camera response is generally linear and doesn't need calibrating, so you can skip this step.
A quick way to derive the response curve for later use is to take a series of five bracketed JPEG shots one stop apart. eg. 2, 1, 0.5, 0.25 & 0.125 seconds exposure. First extract the exposure times from the EXIF data:
jpeg2hdrgen *.jpg > mycamera.hdrgen
Then extract the response curve, by comparing the photos, and save it:
pfsinhdrgen mycamera.hdrgen | pfshdrcalibrate -v -g 6 -s mycamera.response
Aligning the shots
If the pictures were taken hand-held you will need to align the stack of photos using hugin.
Alternatively the hdrprep tool can be used to do all this automatically and save a lot of time.
Note that aligning photos with hugin or panorama tools produces TIFF files with an alpha channel that chokes pfstools, you can strip this out by using the +matte command of ImageMagick:
mogrify +matte DSCN4804.tif
Merging the bracketed images to Radiance RGBE .hdr format
Create a hdrgen file listing each of your bracketed photos and their exposure times, you can base this on the mycamera.hdrgen file created earlier.
Then use this and your camera response file to create an RGBE file:
pfsinhdrgen mypicture.hdrgen | pfshdrcalibrate -v -f mycamera.response | pfsoutrgbe mypicture.hdr
Check the output with pfsview:
pfsinrgbe mypicture.hdr | pfsview
Stitching with hugin
The RGBE images can be loaded into hugin as per usual with a couple of caveats:
- Everything may appear very dark since our images represent linear sensor data. The display of HDR images can be configured in the hugin preferences.
- Information about the field of view was lost, so this will need to be re-entered manually or re-optimised.
Stitch the images as per usual into a TIFF file, you can use enblend as the final step.
Post processing
This TIFF file is in floating-point 32bit per channel IEEE format. This is impossible to display on a normal monitor in its entirety at once, so you possibly want to create final 8bit per channel human-readable images.
Otherwise, typically a HDR panoramic image is used as a lightprobe for 3d rendering, in which case you are now done.
Adjusting in a GUI tool
There are various image editors that can open this file such as cinepaint, krita, vips and HDRIE. The capabilities vary so you need to experiment.
Alternatively, use pfstools to manipulate the image: pfstools has the facility to read HDR TIFF files.
An HDR image can be viewed using pfstools using:
pfsintiff stitch.tif | pfsview
Unfortunately versions before pfstools 1.5 choke on the alpha channel created by nona and enblend - If you use an older version, open the TIFF file in cinepaint, flatten and save as EXR.
This can be viewed with pfsview:
pfsinexr stitch.exr | pfsview
A quick way to create a good usable 8bit per channel image is to select logarithmic mapping, adjust the exposure slider until you see a good range of shadows and highlights, zoom 1:1 and save as PNG.
Tone mapping
tone mapping operations use HDR compression to compress high dynamic range images.
Note that local tone mapping operators produce strange artefacts in the zenith and nadir of equirectangular images. So either choose a global tone mapping operator or retouch the poles afterwards.
A related package to pfstools called pfstmo can do automatic tone mapping of an HDR image and compress it into a low dynamic range output. There are many options and techniques available, commands look like this:
pfsinrgbe stitch.hdr | pfstmo_drago03 | pfsgamma -g 2.2 | pfsout stitch.png
Photomatix also can perform tone mapping.