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The New Foveon Sensors The cone-shaped cells inside our eyes are sensitive to red, green, and blue—the "primary colors". We perceive all other colors as combinations of these primary colors. In conventional photography, the red, green, and blue components of light expose the corresponding chemical layers of color film. The new Foveon sensors are based on the same principle, and have three sensor layers that measure the primary colors, as shown in this diagram. Combining these color layers results in a digital image, basically a mosaic of square tiles or " pixels " of uniform color which are so tiny that it appears uniform and smooth. As a relatively new technology, Foveon sensors are currently only available in the Sigma SD9 and SD10 digital SLRs and have drawbacks such as relatively low-light sensitivity. The Current Color Filter Array Sensors All other digital camera sensors only measure thebrightness of each pixel. As shown in this diagram, a "color filt...

Fun, Sassy and Smart. First glance says it all: The PowerShot E1 and you are going to get along just great. After all, you love color that dares to surprise. And nothing delights you more than style that makes you smile. The PowerShot E1 goes everyplace you go...to parties, to the beach, far away and to fabulous times right around the corner. Every moment matters when you've got a camera that couldn't be cleverer. Or cooler. Canon announced its new digital camera, the PowerShot E1. Stylish and easy-to-use, the Canon PowerShot E1 is targeted to the teen and tween markets. It features a 10-megapixel resolution, 4x Optical Zoom-lens; with Optical Image Stabilization, Canon’s Face Detection Technology and Easy Mode which makes taking photos with a “BFF” at a slumber party, snapping shots while watching a hot band perform or capturing cap-and-gown moments for a scrapbook or brag book easy to do. The PowerShot E1 has just the right combination of intuition and style with its rounded...

By : Brooks Freed There are many advantages associated with creating your own website. You get complete creative control over the content and appearance of you site, and this is important because it affects the way people see your business. Creating your own website also teaches you useful skills that will help you perform maintenance on your site later. This will save you time and money in the long run. Step 1: Come Up With Your Concept Before you begin any of the technical aspects of creating your site, you need to give some thought to how you want this site to appear and what you want it to accomplish. What needs to happen to the appearance of the site to make it accurately represent your business? What would you like this site to do for your business? Having clear goals for your site will help make sure that the finished product is exactly what you want. Common goals for a business website include the following: providing information about products and services, displaying a posit...

By : Keith Baxter For most people who pick up the guitar, the first year or two of playing is a very exciting time. Just like an infant who learns so very much in a condensed period of time, the beginner guitarist who puts in sufficient practice time improves his playing at what seems like the speed of light. Think back, if you can, to when you first began playing the guitar and remember how exciting it was. A simple guitar chart could probably keep you entertained for hours as you studied the finger positions and names of chords. Then, you probably learned how to read guitar tabs and went on to master playing easy guitar songs. Finally learning to play even easy guitar songs from start to finish is absolutely thrilling for the novice guitarist. But what happens when you have downloaded all of the free guitar sheet music you are interested in, and you feel like you have hit the so-called wall? You have spent hours poring over Metallica guitar tabs, and have even spent some time learni...

If you want something startling and "NEW" please point your browser to Amazon and buy the latest book on Forex trading. As for the rest who know better please read on and see what the real secrets are to Trading The Forex Like A Pro Success Secret #1: Can I Get A Little Understanding... The first thing you should strive to achieve is a solid grasp of how the markets work and why they move. This is the basics of being able to make intelligent trading decisions. It is this intrinsic understanding of market forces and construction that allow you to visualize the entire problem and make a decisive conclusion. It is why doctors spend a majority of medical school learning biology and the construction of the body so that they can visualize the "why" behind the symptom. Spend your time wisely and learn how this whole thing works. Success Secret #2: Pick A Philosophy and Stick With It... Once you have a grasp of the who what when where and why behind the Forex markets you sh...

Pavel Globa, a well-known astrologist, predicts that Russia will successfully extricate from the current financial crisis, although it is not going to happen soon. Russia, the astrologist said, will suffer a lot less in comparison with the United States and the European Union. The latter may even collapse, Globa said. The West will suffer from a major crisis in two years, which will subsequently result in the change of the world order. “Russia will survive; the situation here is not that catastrophic. There will be forces and there will be opportunities,” the astrologist said in an interview with Novy Region news agency. He also said that the economic block of the Russian government would be dismissed in the winter of 2009 and the national banking system would collapse. “Russia will experience the severe economic crisis for two more years, until 2010. The consequences will be serious, but we will handle it. Many key figures, including Finance Minister Aleksei Kudrin, will leave the gov...

One of the topics we get asked to write about a lot here at Digital Photography School is wedding photography . As a result, we’ve covered wedding photography quite a bit. Following are some of our more popular wedding photography tutorials and tips - all in the one place. Happy Shooting! Wedding Photography Tutorials Wedding Photography - 21 Tips for for Amateur Wedding Photographers - Start with these wedding photography tips if you’re an aspiring wedding photographer wanting a good all around introduction to the topic of wedding photography. Your Best Friend’s Wedding - you’ve been asked to photograph a friend’s wedding? Here’s 10 tips to get you going. Stepping into Wedding Photography - 5 tips from a photographer experienced in weddings. Wedding Photography Survival Tips: The Preparation - tips on how to prepare for a wedding photography job. The One Location Technique for Wedding Photography - a great technique for getting a great variety of shots all in the one location...

Drupal 6.6 and Drupal 5.12, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as critical security vulnerabilities , are now available for download. Upgrading your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 6.x release series, consult the Drupal 6.0 release announcement , more information on the 5.x releases can be found in Drupal 5.0 release announcement . Security information We have a security announcement mailing list , a history of all security advisories , and an RSS feed with the most recent security advisories . We strongly advise Drupal administrators to sign up for the list. Drupal 6 also includes the Update status module built-in, which informs you about important updates to your modules and themes. Bug reports Both Drupal 5.x and 6.x branches are being maintained, so given enough bug fixes (not just bug reports ) more maintenance releases wi...

Experts Clash Over Mud Disaster - Theories on Trigger of Indonesian Mud Volcano Two international conferences are scheduled to discuss the Indonesian mud volcano. Bambang Istadi, Geologist, Energi Mega Persada, will present to the London Geological Society new evidence and facts that the drilling of the Banjarpanji-1 well could not have been the trigger for LUSI. The evidence presented will provide for the first time, clear and indisputable facts that none of the four required factors for the well to have been responsible for triggering the eruption occurred. It is likely that the [earthquake redistributed the stress in several parts of Java and in particular contributed to reactivate fractures in this preexisting fault, affecting the fluid pressure and permeability and ultimately triggered the eruption through the already overprocessed subsurface We look forward to the opportunity to engage in an open debate based on the facts. On the basis of the available evidence, we b...

Vernacular Disaster Risk Management in Indonesia Jonatan Lassa [1] * One of the most important messages in the 4 th Community Based Disaster Risk Management Conference (CBDRM) in Bali, 19-21 August 2008, is the need to conceptualize vernacular disaster risk management in Indonesia . Dr. Syamsul Ma'arif, the head of National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) pleaded Indonesian experts and scientists to invent ‘homegrown’ concepts concerning disaster risk reduction. “Community based” is probably closer to the meaning of ‘vernacular’ – claimed here as a ‘better term’ – of Latin origin refers to any value homemade, for consumption at home. This kind of intellectual positioning is suggested to be read from historical viewpoints as noted further. Once upon a time in Indonesia , probably back to mid 1990s, most pilot projects that adopted ‘community based” approach to disaster risk reduction in Indonesia , were actually supported by international organizations such as INGOs and ...

IRAN: THEOLOGICAL CONTROVERSY IN ISLAMIC REPUBLIC COULD HAVE PROFOUND POLITICAL RAMIFICATIONS Kamal Nazer Yasin 5/30/08 A developing theological controversy in Iran is causing a major rift among the country’s political and theological elites, who together control the chief levers of state in the Islamic Republic. Over the near term, the doctrinal dispute raises questions about the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the country’s neo-conservative president. Conservative/traditionalist clerics welcomed the 2005 election of Ahmadinejad, who campaigned on a back-to-basics message, aiming to reinvigorate the social and religious principles that drove the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Conservative clerics back then felt that the eight-year presidency of reform-minded Mohammad Khatami had dangerously diluted religion’s role in policy making, leading to a loosening of political and social strictures, and, therefore, greatly reducing the mullahs’ influence over society. The widely held assumption a...

24 October 2008 "Smile, we now have a file on you" Reporters Without Borders condemns the Chinese government's latest measure to reinforce surveillance of Internet café users, who will henceforth have to have their mugshot taken and their ID card swiped by a Customer Registration Device to be installed in all of Beijing's estimated 1,500 Internet cafés by the end of the year. "All Internet users are now suspects to be put on file in China," Reporters Without Borders said. "By citing a need to combat piracy and cyber-crime, the government has found a way to introduce a terrifying Big Brother-style system for automatically creating files on Internet users. With no guarantees on how this information will be used, the Internet cafés could become places for all kinds of spying and informing." According to a 16 October report in Beijing News, the data on new Internet café clients will be sent directly to the Cultural Law Enforcement Agency, ...

Timothy I, Apology for Christianity (1928) pp.16-90 [Translated by Alphonse Mingana] With the assistance of God we will write the debate held by the Patriarch Mar Timothy before Mahdi, the Commander of the Faithful, by way of question and answer, on the subject of the Christian religion. On the one hand I feel repugnance to write to your Lordship, 1 and on the other I am anxious to do so. I feel repugnance, on account |16 of the futility of the outcome of the work. It is true that I could not have acquired a mature experience of such a futility from the single discussion herein mentioned, but I may state that I have acquired such an experience from discussions that took place before the one involved in the present lucubration. 2 I am anxious, in order to confirm and corroborate a traditional habit, inasmuch as the habit of friendly correspondence has acquired the right of prescription from very early times, and has thereby received an additional title to existence; as a matter of ...