Canon PowerShot SX600 HS review - The SX600 HS offers a substantial 18x optical zoom and extensive feature set all for under £200 at launch
Canon PowerShot SX600 HS Review – Image Quality
The SX600’s image quality is very good, and more importantly it is consistently good. It doesn’t quite reach the standard set by its more expensive sibling the S120, but for an all-rounder snapshot camera it is comfortably above average.
Colour and White Balance
Colour reproduction under both natural and flash light is extremely good, with rich, punchy primaries, plenty of detail even in very bright tones, nice subtle gradations in skin tones.
Automatic white balance is very reliable, producing natural-looking colours even under mixed lighting, in this case a combination of tungsten and compact fluorescent.
The SX600’s back-side illuminated CMOS sensor produces noticeably better dynamic range than conventional 1/2.3in sensors, especially in the direction of shadow detail, which makes it particularly good for low-light shots.
The exposure metering definitely helps, managing to balance the extended shadow detail without blowing out too many highlights. It also copes well with high-contrast scenes and back-lighting.
While some of its rivals have opted to outfit their recent compact cameras with 20-megapixel sensors, Canon has chosen to limit the SX600’s resolution to 16MP, and the resolution of its higher-end cameras to only 12MP.
The reason is that Canon knows that overcrowding the sensor past a certain point actually reduces image quality. Nevertheless, the SX600 has sufficient resolution to produce photo-quality A3-size prints, and is capable of resolving a surprisingly fine level of detail.
Image noise is the bane of most small-sensor compacts, but here again Canon’s use of a BSI CMOS sensor pays off. The SX600 has an ISO range of 100-3200, and all of it is usable.
It produces virtually noise-free images at 1600 ISO, and perfectly printable images at 3200. There is a certain drop-off in dynamic range at the higher settings, but it’s not particularly significant.
As we’ve noted before, making very compact but very powerful zoom lenses involves making compromises that affect image quality, so naturally the lens on the SX600 isn’t perfect, but it is a lot better than some other compact zooms that we’ve seen recently.
Corner sharpness is surprisingly good, and while it does inevitably produce pincushion distortion at the 25mm wide-angle end, it is even and well controlled. If anything, the overall sharpness could be a little bit better, but it’s certainly nothing to complain about.


UPDATE: Severe storm warning cancelled
UPDATE: The severe storm warning has been cancelled.
Severe thunderstorms are no longer occurring in Queensland, the Bureau of Meteorology confirmed.
"The situation will continue to be monitored and further warnings will be issued if necessary," a BoM statement reads.
INITIAL: LARGE hailstones and strong winds are headed towards our region.
The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe storm warning for the Wide Bay and Burnett districts.
Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce damaging winds and large hailstones over the next several hours across Monto, Childers, Biggenden and Gin Gin.
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services advise residents to:
- Move your car under cover or away from trees.
- Secure loose outdoor items.
- Seek shelter, preferably indoors and never under trees.
- Avoid using the telephone during a thunderstorm.
- Beware of fallen trees and powerlines.
- Contact the SES on 132 500 for emergency assistance.
Warnings are also available through TV and radio broadcasts, the Bureau's website at www.bom.gov.au or call 1300 659 210.


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Cases of tuberculosis (TB) are on the rise in West European cities. TB cases in large cities like London, Brussels, and Barcelona are much higher when compared to the national tuberculosis notification rates.
Tuberculosis is a contagious disease; it is sometimes referred to as consumption and the “white plague” due to its ability to make victims pale, feverish, and skinny.
The bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes TB. In most cases, TB attacks the lungs; however, the bacterium can also invade any part of the body including the brain, spine, or kidneys. TB can cause death, if not properly treated.
Global tuberculosis epidemic
Tuberculosis is the second leading global infectious disease; AIDS is the leading infectious disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) proclaimed tuberculosis a global emergency in 1993. They assert close to 2 million people will become infected by 2015.
Victims of this contagious lung infectious disease are predominately poor, homeless, drug addicts, and immigrants in Europe’s Western big cities. Britain’s government health agency, Public Health England (PHE) reported 8,750 cases in 2012.
Reports also show that 3,426 cases were in London.
In 2011, 1.4 million people died from getting tuberculosis.
Ibrahim Abubakar, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at University College, London, explains,
“Although we have long understood that TB affects specific groups and is often concentrated in urban areas, what we are now witnessing is a marked change, where rates of TB are showing an overall reduction nationally while still increasing within big cities.”
Stopping the spread of tuberculosis
The World Bank warns the international community that tuberculosis is spreading globally at an alarming rate. Poor and vulnerable communities are especially at risk of contracting TB.
The World Bank also affirms there is a growing drug resistance to TB, with nearly 2 million deaths last year. They also exclaim that TB is an eminent public health emergency.
According to Dr. Chris Dye (WHO),
“The overall trend for TB cases in most European countries is downwards, but in the UK it is going up and that is very worrying. Parts of London now have rates as high as the highest found in the world.”
Paul Sommerfeld, director of the charity TB Alert, declares travel, migration, and poverty may play a part in the increasing number of cases in London and other urban areas.
Studies show that 43 districts in the United Kingdom have above average rates of TB. It’s reported that only five districts have enough TB nurses.
There is also a shortage of lung specialists–150 to 300 more lung specialist will be needed in the next five years to keep on pace with the demand for care.
An action plan will be published next year, according to the Department of Health and fresh supplies of the BCG vaccine to inoculate children and high-risk groups are arriving in the UK from Denmark.
The symptoms of TB include:
Bad cough that last 3 weeks or longer
Coughing up blood or sputum (phlegm from deep inside the lungs)
Fatigue or weakness
Sweating at night
Contact your healthcare provider or state or local TB control office if you think you’ve been exposed to someone with tuberculosis.
The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) offer detailed information on tuberculosis at their websites.
George-thank you for more insight into this horrible disease that I did not think was an issue any longer. I was overseas and knew of it there, but never thought it was still a big issue. I will make sure to educate my children on it, as well.
This is scary. Great awareness article since somehow I thought we had virtually wiped out this disease.
Thank you Marian.
By the way, the only disease that has been eradicated is smallpox. All others are still mutating.
World TB Day
World TB Day, 24 March 2014
World TB Day is an opportunity to raise awareness about the burden of tuberculosis (TB) worldwide and the status of TB prevention and control efforts.
Thank you, HOMEO DOCTOR FATEHYAB ALI SYED.
Great awareness George!
This is scary to know how you can easily be affected by anyone who has TB.
I work in a Super Market and didn’t even consider that I can get this disease.
Like I said, this is scary. Thanks to you I’m aware of what to look out for and how I can protect myself.
Thank you again,
You’re welcome and thank you as well, Tina.

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Seen 'Oppenheimer'? Learn About Columbia's Role in Building the First Atom Bomb
Whether you’re a seasoned Columbia faculty member or a fresh-eyed incoming freshman, you may have wondered as you stumbled into the humid night after catching a showing of Christopher Nolan’s overwhelming new cinematic opus “Oppenheimer" this weekend:
“What role did the institution to which I belong play in this history-altering project? It is, after all, called the Manhattan Project. What,” you asked yourself, “does that have to do with the movie I just watched, which took place largely across the country in California, and at Los Alamos, in New Mexico?”
Columbia News is here to clarify.
“Oppenheimer” focuses on Robert Oppenheimer’s early physics education in Europe; his growing understanding of and experiments with nuclear fission at the University of California Berkeley in the lead up to and start of World War II; and his years creating and leading the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a remote site in New Mexico, where he oversaw a team of scientists in creating the world’s first nuclear weapons.
Columbia Physics faculty had been researching the prospect of atom splitting throughout the 1930s, but their involvement in what was to become the Manhattan Project began in earnest at the same moment Oppenheimer and his fellow Berkeley faculty members did: in 1939, just months before World War II broke out, when the Danish physicist Niels Bohr traveled to the United States, bringing with him the news that German scientists had just blasted uranium with neutrons, creating barium, a lighter element, in the process. It was the first time that scientists had deliberately induced nuclear fission, in which an atom’s nucleus splits apart, creating a new element, and releasing energy.
Upon arriving in the U.S., Bohr reported his news, and word of the discovery quickly spread among Columbia’s physics faculty, which included II Rabi, Enrico Fermi, Willis Lamb, and John R. Dunning. A team that included both Fermi and Dunning promptly conducted their own experiment in which they bombarded uranium oxide with neutrons, releasing bursts of energy using a custom-built cyclotron that Dunning had created to set particles speeding at up to 25,000 miles per second. (“Oppenheimer” depicts a similar confirmation of the German experiment at Berkeley.)
These first instances of splitting atoms released energy, but it was far short of the scale needed to create an atomic bomb. Still, the discovery opened the door for the possibility of a nuclear chain reaction, in which millions of atoms would split in fractions of a second, releasing the vast amounts of energy needed to power a nuclear weapon.
Other Columbia scientists joined the fray. Leo Szilard and Walter Zinn conducted an experiment in which they confirmed that uranium fission emitted neutrons, which could spark a nuclear chain reaction. (Fermi and a graduate student confirmed similar findings in a separate experiment.)
Concerned with the gargantuan implications of these experiments, Columbia professors sounded the alarm in Washington, D.C. Dean of Faculties George Braxton Pegram; Edward Teller, who was teaching at Columbia; and Szilard were among those who raised the issue to the federal government. Though the military at first ignored Pegram’s warnings, President Franklin D. Roosevelt took action after receiving a letter sent by Albert Einstein at the urging of Columbia professors, including Szilard. The president created an Advisory Committee on Uranium, and issued Columbia $6,000 in research money. It was the first federal contract to explore atomic energy.
The faculty used the money to buy graphite. Fermi and Szilard worked together to use graphite, which can slow neutrons, to isolate the neutrons emitted by fission—a necessary step for achieving a nuclear chain reaction. The pile of graphite mixed with some uranium oxide that they used to this end is often credited as the first atomic pile, or nuclear reactor.
Fermi’s initial work took place mostly in Pupin Hall, but, when he needed more space, he turned to members of the football team, who were hired to carry the materials across campus to Schermerhorn. “It really was a pleasure to direct the work of these husky boys,” he was later quoted as saying.
Dunning, meanwhile, worked with his own team of scientists, including the chemist Harold Urey, to develop a process called gaseous diffusion, a separate method of isolating enough of the necessary kind of uranium to ignite a nuclear chain reaction. The method was based in part on Dunning’s discovery that U235, a relatively rare, unstable isotope of uranium, was easier to fission and more suitable for use in a weapon than the more ubiquitous and stable U238 isotope.
The government officially established the Manhattan Project in August 1942. The project was headquartered out of a building near City Hall, and oversaw research efforts that quickly proliferated across the country. At its peak, the project is said to have employed about 5,000 people across New York, including 700 at Columbia.
But the Manhattan headquarters was short-lived: In 1943, the government moved the project headquarters to Tennessee, at least in part because of security concerns about conducting the research in densely populated Manhattan, which could potentially be reached by an enemy submarine, and was seen as more easily subject to spying. Los Alamos opened for operation that same year, and became the project’s primary research and testing site.
Columbia, Hollywood, and the Manhattan Project
Although the project’s nexus wandered west across the country through the war, Columbia faculty remained involved until the end: II Rabi, who is played in the movie by David Krumholtz, declined to join the project as associate director, but served as an adviser to Oppenheimer through 1945, a decision depicted in a scene in the movie. In 1944, Chien-Shiung Wu, often referred to as the first lady of physics, joined Columbia, and conducted research for the Manhattan project on areas such as uranium enrichment. In the waning days of the war, early computer technology developed at Columbia was used to help make calculations necessary for the development of the bomb. Szilard, who conducted early experiments at Columbia before moving to Chicago, was the lead author of a major petition from scientists who tried to stop the bomb from being dropped on Japan, an effort that features in the film.
Robert Serber, who is played in the movie by Michael Angarano, trained new Los Alamos recruits. He joined the Columbia faculty after the war, and was in Los Alamos in July 1945 for “Trinity,” the first successful test of a nuclear bomb. “Looking at it was like looking at the end of the world,” the Columbia Spectator quoted him as saying in 1993.
Oppenheimer was never professionally affiliated with Columbia, although he grew up on the Upper West Side and his mother taught at Barnard. He did make a public appearance at the University in 1954, to deliver a speech on “Prospects in the Arts and Sciences.” Months earlier, the government had stripped Oppenheimer of his security clearance because of suspected ties to Communism, a process that the movie depicts in detail (the Department of Energy apologized for and vacated that decision in 2022). Oppenheimer used the occasion to argue that the arts and sciences should aim to achieve peace.
“There has always been more to know than one man could know; there has always been a mode of feeling, many modes of feeling, that could not move the same heart; there have always been deeply held beliefs that could not be composed into a synthetic union,” Oppenheimer said in his speech: “Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.”


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Back in December
we burned some planted longleaf.
Six weeks later, they're greening up and candling.
I couldn't find a single longleaf that didn't survive.
Even ones that a few weeks ago you would have thought
were burnt sticks now have green leaves or white candles
Natural Society has awarded Monsanto the Worst Company of 2011 award
for its ongoing work to threaten human health and the environment.
Currently responsible for 90 percent of all genetically-modified (GM)
seed in the US, the biotechnology giant is also the leader in developing
genetically-modified (GM) seeds and the resulting crops worldwide.
But Monsanto is perhaps best known for its herbicide Roundup, which
many experts link to soil damage and herbicide-resistant superweeds,
not to mention potential health problems.
“We were very much surprised by our findings. Until now, it
has been thought almost impossible for Bt proteins to be toxic to
human cells. Now further investigations have to be conducted to find
out how these toxins impact the cells and if combinatorial effects
with other compounds in the food and feed chain have to be taken
into account,” says Gilles-Eric Séralini from the University
of Caen, who supervised the experiments. “In conclusion, these
experiments show that the risks of Bt toxins and of Roundup have
The toxicity of the corn itself may have been a surprise,
but not that of Roundup:
These findings are in accordance with several other investigations
highlighting unexpected health risks associated with glyphosate
including ones by Dr. Séralini,
already showed exposure to glysophate (the active ingredient in Roundup)
to be "a risk factor for developing Non-Hodgkin lymphoma",
and to be toxic to human umbilical, placental, and placental cells with a
"is far below agricultural recommendations and corresponds to low levels
of residues in food or feed."
Prof. Andrés Carrasco has demonstrated birth defects in amphibians
and there is increasing evidence of human birth defects.
"I am alive today, but part of the farming population is going to be
sacrificed and is going to die because of this," Francois, 47, told
He and other farmers suffering from illness set up an association
last year to make a case that their health problems should be linked
to their use of crop protection products.
France and the EU have already take other actions:
The Francois case goes back to a period of intensive use of
crop-protection chemicals in the European Union. The EU and its
member countries have since banned a large number of substances
Monsanto's Lasso was banned in France in 2007 following an EU
directive after the product had already been withdrawn in some other
France, the EU's largest agricultural producer, is now targetting a
50 percent reduction in pesticide use between 2008 and 2018, with
initial results showing a 4 percent cut in farm and non-farm use in
Because of the dangerousness of these products, in the country,
nobody says anything, it's omerta!
Why such a vow of silence?
The pressure of lobbyists is strong according to Paul François.
He says the dangers of pesticides may be as important as those of
I would say worse, because asbestos doesn't usually drift
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to most crops, unlike RoundUp.
It's time to break the silence, so we won't have so many
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Washington, D.C. — This afternoon the Senate voted 57-42 to confirm Mike Pompeo as the 70th U.S. Secretary of State.
Penny Nance, CEO and President of Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee, issued the following statement in response:
“Today, 42 Senate Democrats put party over country by voting against Mike Pompeo’s confirmation. It is a shame, because Pompeo will serve the U.S. well as Secretary of State and has a proven record of service to our nation as a veteran of the U.S. Army, a congressman from Kansas, and Director of the CIA. Not only does Pompeo have President Trump’s trust and respect, his qualifications are undeniable.
“The Secretary of State is a crucial position, and Pompeo will represent the nation well on the world stage. The State Department is notorious for failing to support international religious liberty and for pushing a pro-abortion agenda on developing nations, but I have confidence in Pompeo to bring the State Department in line with the policies of the Trump Administration.
“I have had the honor of working with Mr. Pompeo on many occasions, and I am confident that his vast experience across all levels of government makes him an excellent representative of the United States. I believe Mr. Pompeo will bring pragmatic yet firm and decisive leadership to U.S. foreign relations, such as our pressing political and economic challenges with North Korea, Iran, Russia, and China.
“Mr. Pompeo will put America’s interests first and bring desperately needed leadership to the State Department. We look forward to working with him to implement the Administration’s policies to advance international religious liberty, support life, and preserve our national sovereignty.”
For an interview with Penny Nance contact Annabelle Rutledge at [email protected] or 916-792-3973.

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E. Malis. Contributions à la modélisation et à la commande en asservissement visuel. PhD Thesis Université de Rennes 1, Mention traitement du signal et télécommunications, November 1998.
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Our work is concerned with robotics and vision, and more precisely visual servoing. It consists in the design of methods that do not need the model of the observed objects or a precise calibration of the system. First, the problem of the Euclidean reconstruction (up to a scale factor), from two images of a unknown static object, has been studied. It has been highlighted that the best linear solution for a robust reconstruction of the camera displacement is to use an homography matrix. Thus, an algorithm for the linear estimation of this matrix has been proposed. Then, two new visual servoing schemes, based on the partial Euclidean reconstruction, are proposed. The closed-loop system is analyzed in order to obtain the robustness domain of a proportional control law with respect to the system calibration errors. Later, it has been shown that, thanks to the decoupled structure of the considered systems, it is possible to considerably increase the robustness domain with an adaptive control law. The new methods have been tested on a Cartesian robot and on a redundant robot, and then compared to the classic ones. The obtained results confirm the improvement in the stability of our methods. Finally, the visual servoing techniques have been extended to the use of several cameras observing different parts of the scene. The multi-camera visual servoing has been designed as a part of the task function approach. The particular choice of the task function allows us to simplify the design of the control law and the stability analysis. In the end, a positioning task of a cumbersome object has been realized using two cameras mounted on a manipulator robot
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Welfare must help the needy, not the greedy
BRAVO for last week’s editorial “The moral case for benefits reform”. Painstaking work by public servants — with your newspaper providing the “sunlight” as “the best disinfectant” — can cut the welfare bill. People do need a safety net, but some — including criminal groups — are stealing from us all.
Tony Devenish, London SW1
With the new rules on housing benefit, thousands of hard- working families on low incomes who live in a property with one more bedroom than they require will lose 14% of their housing benefit, through no fault of their own. Yes, we all are aware that welfare reform is needed, but so is the reform of bankers’ bonuses and tax avoidance schemes.
James Noel, Aberdeen
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|Publication number||US7421091 B2|
|Application number||US 10/829,383|
|Publication date||Sep 2, 2008|
|Filing date||Apr 22, 2004|
|Priority date||May 20, 2003|
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an image-capturing apparatus achieved by using a solid-state image-capturing element.
2. Description of the Related Art
Solid-state image-capturing apparatuses that improve the sensitivity by adding together electrical charges stored at adjacent pixels along the horizontal direction at a CCD solid-state image-capturing element and also minimize the extent of degradation of the horizontal resolution attributable to the addition include the one disclosed in Japanese Laid Open Patent Publication No. H 06-209434.
Image signals are processed as described below in the image-capturing apparatus in the related art mentioned above. A reset pulse is applied to a reset gate of the CCD solid-state image-capturing element through intermittent drive over 2-pixel cycles and thus, the electrical charges stored at pixels adjacent to each other along the horizontal direction are mixed together to realize a sensitivity level twice as high. In addition, by adopting a combination of phase control of the reset pulse and interpolation processing of signals achieved based upon vertical correlation, the extent to which the horizontal resolution is lowered is reduced to ¾. However, it is inevitable that the resolution still becomes poorer.
According to the present invention, outputs of pixels located around a given pixel at an image-capturing unit are added to the output of that pixel before executing image processing on image signals output from the image-capturing unit having a plurality of pixels disposed two-dimensionally. An addition pattern with which pixel outputs are added together is determined in correspondence to the specific type of image processing to be executed and the pixel outputs constituting the image signals output from the image-capturing unit are added in conformance to the addition pattern to generate an image. Then, the image processing is executed on the image resulting from the addition and the image having undergone the image processing is output.
Instead of determining the addition pattern with which the pixel outputs are added together in correspondence to the type of image processing, the addition pattern may be determined in correspondence to a specific vehicular behavior. Alternatively, the pixel output addition pattern may be determined in correspondence to the extent of vibration that the image-capturing apparatus experiences.
The image-capturing element 1 is a semiconductor device adopting a CMOS structure which includes a plurality of light receiving elements disposed two-dimensionally and a read circuit that reads output voltages from the individual light receiving elements. The image-capturing element 1 outputs the output voltages from light receiving elements specified with read address signals as output voltages of the image-capturing element 1.
The adder 2 adds the output signals from light receiving elements at addresses specified by the addition pattern generating device 5 which is to be detailed later until a reset signal is output from the addition pattern generating device 5. In other words, the adder 2 generates a new image by adding the outputs of pixels present around a given pixel at the image-capturing element 1 to the output from the pixel.
During the add processing executed by the adder 2, the pixel outputs may be added together by weighting the outputs in correspondence to the individual light receiving elements instead of simply adding them together. In such a case, the addition pattern generating device 5 may output weighting elements, or if weighting elements are fixed, the weighting elements may be automatically generated at the adder 2.
The A/D converter 3 executes analog-digital conversion so as to enable digital processing of the output from the adder 2. The A/D converter 3 is achieved by using a device and circuits known in the related art.
The processing device 4 executes image processing on the image-capturing signals having undergone the digital conversion to detect a vehicle present ahead, to detect the road conditions and the like. Such detections can be executed by adopting a method known in the related art. The processing device 4 also outputs information indicating the type of image processing to be executed to the addition pattern generating device 5. For instance, when executing longitudinal edge detection (vertical edge detection) through longitudinal Sobel filter arithmetic processing on 3×3 pixel data to detect a white line drawn on a road, a signal indicating that image processing for longitudinal edge detection is to be executed (hereafter referred to as an image processing type signal) is output to the addition pattern generating device 5.
The addition pattern generating device 5, to which the image processing type signal is input from the processing device 4, generates a combination pattern or an addition pattern with which pixels are to be combined for the addition of the outputs thereof in correspondence to the processing type and outputs address signals specifying light receiving elements in correspondence to the addition pattern to the image-capturing element 1. In addition, the addition pattern generating device 5 outputs a reset signal to the adder 2 to initialize the adder 2.
The combination pattern with which pixels are combined for the addition in correspondence to the type of image processing should be regarded as a pattern that will yield optimal results for a specific processing purpose, e.g., a pattern with which the outputs from three light receiving elements continuous along the lateral direction are added together or a pattern with which the outputs of every second light receiving element along the longitudinal direction for a total of four light receiving elements are added together.
By switching to an appropriate addition pattern in correspondence to the type of image processing executed by the processing device 4 to extract necessary information from the image data, the target object can be detected even when the level of illumination is low, without compromising the level of accuracy.
In each of the examples presented in
The addition patterns are not limited to the longitudinal pattern, the lateral pattern, the “
As described above, in the image-capturing apparatus achieved in the embodiment, the outputs of pixels present in the vicinity of a given pixel at the image-capturing element 1 are added onto the output of the pixel. The addition is executed based upon the pixel output addition pattern determined in correspondence to the type of image processing to be executed. As a result, when the processing device 4 performs image processing by using the image signals provided by the image-capturing apparatus, an edge detection can be executed in a desirable manner in an image with improved sensitivity in a low illumination condition without lowering the resolution.
In addition, by generating various addition patterns in correspondence to varying types of edges in the image to be detected through the image processing, the different types of edges, e.g., longitudinal edges, lateral edges, diagonal edges and a
Furthermore, by generating the addition pattern in correspondence to a specific detection target type when detecting target objects such as pedestrians or vehicles through image processing, pedestrians or vehicles ahead of or behind the subject vehicle can be detected reliably.
The addition pattern may be altered for each frame of image output by the image-capturing element 1. For instance, the addition pattern may be switched for each frame by alternating between the longitudinal pattern and the lateral pattern. In this case, the processing device 4 should execute longitudinal edge extraction processing and lateral edge extraction processing in combination, each in correspondence to one of the addition patterns. It is particularly advantageous to change the addition pattern for each frame when an image-capturing element with a high frame rate is used. Since the time lag between the longitudinal addition and the lateral addition is reduced when the two types of processing are alternately executed repeatedly at a high frame rate, processing results equivalent to the results achieved by simultaneously extracting the longitudinal edges and the lateral edges with a high-sensitivity image are obtained.
When the processing device 4 executes image processing for lateral edge detection, for instance, the number of pixels continuous along the lateral direction, the outputs of which are to be added together, can be adjusted in correspondence to the frame rate or the length of exposure time set by the setting device 11. To rephrase this by referring to the addition pattern as a lateral addition pattern, the number of pixels the outputs of which are added in the lateral addition pattern is adjusted in correspondence to the frame rate or the length of exposure time.
By executing the image processing with the image signals output from the image-capturing apparatus described above, the dynamic range can be expanded while achieving the required level of sensitivity to minimize the extent of deterioration of resolution.
As the optical axis of a photographic optical system which forms a subject image on the image-capturing element 1 shifts, the image becomes blurred or smeared. In such a case, the vibration detection sensor 21 detects the movement (vibration) of the optical axis of the image-capturing apparatus. Then, an addition pattern is generated so as to add together the outputs of pixels disposed continuously along a direction matching the detected direction, i.e., the direction along which the image blur or smear has occurred.
By executing the image processing with the image signals output from such an image-capturing apparatus, the detection target image can be extracted with a high degree of sensitivity without lowering the resolution even when the optical axis of the image-capturing apparatus has shifted.
An image-capturing apparatus achieved in the second embodiment, which detects vehicular behavior and switches the pixel addition pattern in correspondence to the vehicular behavior, is explained in reference to
An A/D converter 3A executes analog-digital conversion to enable digital processing of the output of the image-capturing element 1. In this embodiment, the number of quantization bits is defined as follows.
(number of A/D converter output bits)=(number of adder output bits)+log2(number of pixels used for addition)
This makes it possible to achieve a high level of resolution at which the image processing can be executed without losing any information even under a condition of low illumination.
An adder 2A executes digital processing to add the output signals from light receiving elements at addresses specified by the addition pattern generating device 5 until a reset signal is output from the addition pattern generating device 5.
In the second embodiment, signals output from the image-capturing element 1 immediately undergo the A/D conversion and are then added together through the digital processing. However, the output signals from the image-capturing element 1 may instead be added together through analog processing and the results of the addition may then undergo A/D conversion as in the first embodiment.
A vehicular behavior measuring device 6 measures the vehicular behavior. A specific addition pattern type is determined based upon, for instance, information provided by a yaw rate sensor, which measures the vehicle motion along the yawing direction effected through steering and information provided by a vehicle height sensor which measures vertical movement of the vehicle. The addition pattern type thus determined is output to the addition pattern generating device 5.
When a pronounced vertical motion occurs at the vehicle, a pattern with which outputs are added along the longitudinal direction is indicated. When a pronounced vertical motion is occurring at the vehicle, the image becomes blurred along the longitudinal direction resulting in a lowered resolution along the longitudinal direction. For this reason, the resolution does not become any lower if the signals output from the pixels disposed along the longitudinal direction are added together. When the yaw rate of the vehicle is significant, on the other hand, a pattern with which outputs are added together along the lateral direction is indicated. When the yaw rate of the vehicle is high, the image becomes blurred along the lateral direction resulting in a lowered resolution along the lateral direction. For this reason, the resolution does not become any lower if the signals output from the pixels disposed along the lateral direction are added together.
Since the results of the image processing executed in the second embodiment are similar to the image processing results achieved in the first embodiment shown in
The image-capturing apparatus achieved in the second embodiment detects the vehicular behavior and generates the addition pattern corresponding to the vehicular behavior. Thus, even when the vehicle moves up and down or to the left/right while traveling, the sensitivity under low illumination conditions can be improved while minimizing the extent of the deterioration of the resolution.
In the second embodiment, the addition pattern is adjusted based upon the vehicular behavior. This addition pattern adjustment may be adopted in conjunction with the addition pattern adjustment based upon the type of image processing having been explained in reference to the first embodiment and the examples of variations.
The image-capturing apparatus according to the present invention is used in a vehicle both in the first embodiment and in the second embodiment described above. However, the present invention may be adopted in all types of applications other than automotive applications, as well. For instance, it may be adopted in an image-capturing apparatus for a robot that detects the position of an object.
It is to be noted that the individual components do not need to adopt the specific structures described above as long as the functions characterizing the present invention are not compromised.
The disclosures of the following priority applications are incorporated herein by reference:
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You may know Andrew Cashen from Austin bands Sweet Spirit and A Giant Dog but KUTX’s Taylor Wallace got the chance to sit down with Cashen on his own and talk about his solo projects. Cashen just recorded a second solo album to be released on new label Rebel Rouser Records to be later this year called Cosmic Silence. Prior to that, his debut solo album, Back In Texas, was released in April. A veteran of the Austin music scene and a self- proclaimed Texas native, Cashen will soon be moving to Brooklyn seeking adventure. Though we will be sad to see him go we will be able to listen to his Studio 1A session anytime.
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Landscaping is a lot more than planting grass and trees. Landscaping also incorporates decorative elements like benches or garden structures. Pergolas, decks, birdbaths and archways create attractive and complicated looks with beauty and visual interest. These elements may be in various selling prices that can suit most budgets.
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It’s possible to save some cash through purchasing off-season. For instance, winter is the best time to purchase lumber, while shrubs, mulch, and tress ought to be bought at a later date in the season. Instead of buying new plants once they first appear, wait annually or two and allow the prices fall.
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Don’t always choose the most expensive landscaping products. Products such as mulch, planting containers, and several perennials have cheaper versions that are the same as the higher priced items. Give your plants a good look over though. Places that sell them at the deal might possibly not have given them the care they require.
Landscaping your backyard or front lawn can be like renovating a room in your house; just a little knowledge might help very, a lot. Read a whole lot about landscaping whenever feasible, and practice what you learn in your landscaping efforts. This will help you to create beautiful landscapes that you may be proud of for a long period.


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What is natural dressage?
Knowing the horse nature will allow us to communicate with him and avoid misunderstandings. From the beginning of our relationship we seek harmony and cooperation from the horse that will yield to tension free movements.
This tension free movements are also the goal of other kinds of taming, but many times they are done unconsciously, or contra productive from the horse's point of view. So a lot of patient experience and tact are needed in order to achieve good results.
In natural taming we employ a direct route to the horse's will as to gain his cooperation. It is so fast that we may ride a young colt with just one hour of training, with all his confidence. In a few days we are able to ride the colt out in the fields with only a head band. The results with colt or sour horses are so spectacular that many times we may be accused of cheating people or that we are doping the horse. Nothing is further from the truth.
It is just a simple taming technique that allows for the horse to use it's own logic , without forcing him to understand our logic.

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Augmented reality headsets are becoming more popular each day even if the market for them is still mostly non-existent. Starting with the likes of Apple, Sony and most recently Google, who are rumoured to be preparing the launch of a video headset (with augmented reality support), another major company prepares to enter the game. Any idea who might be missing from the Fantastic Tech Four team?
According to Patent Bolt, the company behind the best-selling operating system in the world has been secretly working on a video headset for its Xbox 720 future release since September 2010. Building on the success they had with Kinect, Microsoft wants to continue their impressive evolution in the gaming market (and beyond) with their proposed headset. Even if Patent Bolt makes no specific reference to augmented reality per se, the headset’s transparent displays will most likely be capable of AR projections onto real-world objects. These will be an add-on to the HUD’s already announced virtual reality capabilities.
With two different styles proposed, Microsoft wants to capture both home and mobile users. The first relates to a helmet-type display similar to the ones worn by pilots which will most likely target Xbox gamers and other media viewers at home. Going beyond its looks, we are not very sure if hard-core Xbox gamers who already heat up (literally) during gameplay, will like to wear a helmet (of any kind). Nonetheless, Microsoft may already have a solution for this possible issue.
The second style is more similar to the much awaited Google Glasses, resembling a pair of sunglasses designed for use with smartphones and tablets, portable media players and other mobile devices. Seen already as ‘cooler’ than the helmet, these might be more appealing to many technology enthusiasts, especially when they promise to come with some great features.
A different image to each eye, thereby capable of 3D images and a projector system that, if worked correctly, would display a 16:9 image “that will appear to the wearer as if it were 21 inches in diagonal and viewed at arm’s length” are only a few features that will keep us excited for some time.
When this product will be launched or whether there is already a working prototype are still unknown. But we are very excited to witness the start of a new battle between the four tech giants which will most likely bring many goodies to the end consumer.


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Quinoa is a coarse grain rich in nutritional properties. Nowadays people are using quinoa in their diet for weight loss. It contains so many nutrients that doctors are advising to eat it from diabetes to heart related diseases. Quinoa is a superfood grain mostly found on the Andes Mountains of South America. Ever since its miraculous properties have been known, it has been grown in many countries. The scientific name of quinoa is Chenopodium quinoa. The height of this plant is about feet, which has many branches red, purple and green.
As a result, it has slowly globalized and is now considered to be one of the best superfoods to consume by the health conscious. Quinoa is a pseudo-cereal that rich in protein, fiber, and various minerals and vitamins. Although, quinoa acts as a whole grain, it is actually a seed from a plant called goosefoot. When cooked, quinoa is soft and fluffy, with a slightly nutty taste. It can also be made into flakes, flour, and foods like bread and pasta. Quinoa seeds come in many varieties and different colors. However, the white, red, and black seeds are the most commonly harvested for consumption. Apart from these colors, quinoa is also available in yellow, grey, orange, purple, pink, green or yellow, giving the consumer a wide variety to choose from. Quinoa is a good source of protein, fiber, iron, thiamine, copper, and vitamin B6. It is also considered to be an excellent source of phosphorous, manganese, magnesium, and folate.


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Over the Summer months, the kitchen garden at Forde Abbey is filled with the gentle scent of sweet peas, an abundance of over eighty varieties lining the pathways on their twiggy supports and providing armfuls of cut flowers to display around the house and to make into posies for sale in the shop.
Danny, our gardener, is responsible for the annual task of sowing them from seed and has some tips and advice on how to create beautiful and long-lasting displays.
- Rootrainers (long, thin pots) or loo rolls
- Multi-purpose compost
- A selection of sweet pea seeds.
Sweet peas like to create a good root system and don’t like to be disturbed once they’re planted. For this reason, Danny uses rootrainers or long thin pots.
Fill the rootrainers with multi-purpose compost and sow seeds individually, pushing them down to about 1cm below the surface. Don’t be tempted to plant too deep as the seed will use up all its energy before it gets to the surface.
If you’re growing a selection of different seeds, like Danny, it’ll help to label them, with the name of the variety and date you’ve sown them.
Seeds should take 3 to 4 weeks to germinate, and you’ll need to keep them in a cool but light spot to encourage good root growth. Too high a temperature and sweet peas will develop longer and more straggly stems.
Keep the soil moist, but not sodden, as overwatering will result in the seeds rotting.
After three or four leaves have formed, pinch out the tips as that will help to ensure bushy growth.
Harden off seedlings before planting them out after the final Spring frosts – roughly 8 inches apart.
At Forde Abbey, we gather together bundles of hazel sticks at the start of each year, weaving them together to make teepee supports for the sweet peas. We tend to sow eight sweet peas per teepee and twine them in as they begin to scramble up their supports. Do this on a regular basis to ensure strong plant growth.
We also apply a thick mulch of mushroom compost before planting and feed them with potash-rich tomato feed in the first couple of weeks to ensure strong and healthy blooms.
Water them regularly and pick to your heart’s content.
Danny will be hosting monthly garden workshops in the potting shed from the end of March focusing on seasonal jobs to do in the garden. As numbers are limited, you’ll need to ensure you book well in advance to avoid disappointment. Visit our events section for more information.

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Comparison between Rose Bengal and indirect ELISA tests for detection of the antibrucella antibodies in serum of sheep in Mosul city
Iraqi Journal of Veterinary Sciences,
2010, Volume 24, Issue 2, Pages 89-92
AbstractThe aim of the present study was to determine seroprevalence of brucellosis in non vaccinated sheep in different areas in Mosul city, and make a comparison between Rose Bengal and indirect ELISA tests for the diagnosis of the Brucellosis in sheep. The study included examination of 228 serum samples representing 1906 sheep distributed in ten flocks.The results of Rose Bengal test showed that total seroprevalence of brucellosis was (8.7%), being highest in Talkaf (40%), while no seroprevalence of Brucellosis was recorded in Al-Rashedia, Bazwaya and Al-Chaban areas. Using indirect ELISA test the total seroprevalence was (23.6%) and the highest percentage (100%) was in Al-Namrood area, but lowest (5.2%) in Bazwaya area. The results showed that the compatibility between the two tests was (0.380) on Kappa value which indicated that the indirect ELISA test is more sensitive when compared with Rose Bengal test in detection of antibodies of Brucellosis in serum sheep.
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Study: Washington ranked 5th worst state to retire, with Nebraska 1st
Moving out of Seattle to another Washington town is a somewhat familiar pattern for folks looking to retire, but according to one study, they should probably be leaving the state as well.
The Bankrate.com study found Washington is the fifth worst state in the country to spend your twilight years, based on factors including affordability, crime, culture, weather, and wellness, among others. Only Illinois, Alaska, New York, and Maryland fared worse, with Maryland coming in at dead last, reports KOMO.
What’s the best state to retire in according to the study? That’d be Nebraska.
“I can’t imagine that a lot of people that like whatever the Pacific Northwest has to offer wouldn’t find it Nebraska,” joked KIRO Radio’s Tom Tangney. “But in terms of how far your money goes that makes a lot of sense to me.”
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Washington took a hit on the affordability metric, where we ranked 41st. The affordability ranking was calculated based on research from the 2019 Cost of Living Index, the percentages of people “who needed to see a doctor but could not because of cost in the past 12 months from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and rankings for income,” and property and sales tax rates.
Washington also ranked 37th in crime, 25th in culture, 36th in weather (assuming you like heat), and 37th in wellness, which was based on the availability of places providing services for the elderly and people with disabilities.
Why is Nebraska the Shangri-La of retirement states? The state scored high on affordability (ranking 14th, with Missouri coming in at 1st), and placed in the top 20 for crime and wellness (at 19th and 8th, respectively).
“Nebraska reminds you of that old joke about ‘Retire here, a week feels like a couple years.'”
Listen to the Tom and Curley Show weekday mornings from 9 a.m. to noon on KIRO Radio, 97.3 FM. Subscribe to the podcast here.

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S275J0 S355JR S355J0 SS400 SM400A SM400B SM490A SM490B SM490YA SM490YB SN400A SN400B SN490B SS400 SM400A SM400B SM490A SM490B ASTM BS EN10025-2 JIS G 3101 JIS G 3106 JIS G 3136 KS D 3503 KS D 3515 Specification Special Type Inch H ASTM A6 JIS H JIS G 3192 Fixed Dimension Heavy Wide Flange J grip-H Stripe-H Embossed H (1) Specifications KS D results for this questionWhat does EN10025 s275jr mean?What does EN10025 s275jr mean?EN10025 S275JR Meaning (Designation) The lists below explains EN10025 S275JR meaning S is for structural steel; 275 refers to the minimum yield strength is 275 MPa tested with steel thickness 16mm.JR means that the minimum charpy impact value at room temperature is 27J.EN10025 S275 Steel S275JR Properties,Equivalent,Meaning results for this questionWhat is s275jr plate?What is s275jr plate?The S275JR PLATE is a steel plate made from mild steel or carbon steel.These plates are having huge usage for the structural building,manufacturing in the plant,machinery building,and in mining.These plates are made of S275JR alloy which is very versatile in nature.S275JR Plate,S275JR Steel Plates,S275JR Structural Steel
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Structure Steel I Beam (S275J2 S275JR S275J0) These grades of steel are intended for structural work where no significant forming or bending must be done.These grades can be bolted,riveted and welded in a full range of structural and fabricated items including bridges,box girders,cranes and other general structural projects.China Structural Alloy W H Beam (S275J2 S275JR S275J0 S275jr W H Beam,S275j2 W H Beam,S275j0 W H Beam manufacturer / supplier in China,offering Structural Alloy W H Beam (S275J2 S275JR S275J0),1/16 Hard C22600 Jewelry Bronze Coil Bronze Strip,X Ray 10mm 2mmpb Lead Glass Window for CT Room and so on.Design manual of welded and cold-formed hollow sectionsVERY CONDITIONS - EN 10219 59 8.FERPINTA PROFILE TABLES 69 8.1 Structural steel hollow sections according to EN 10219 69 8.1.1 Circular hollow sections,Ferpinta CHS 69 8.1.2 Square hollow sections,Ferpinta SHS 81 8.1.3 Rectangular hollow sections,Ferpinta RHS88 8.2 Structural steel hollow sections in high strength steel 103
Steel Grade S235JR ( 1.0038) Related grades S235JR,S235J 0,S235J 2 S275JR,S275J0,S2 7 5J2,S 35 5J R,S355J 0,S355J 2,S355 K 2,S 450J0,S235JR G3.S235JR Steel Plates.S 235 a structural grade steel with a minimum yield strength of 275 N/mm² which widely used in the engineering and .construction industries..S 235 offers high yield and tensile strength and is supplied with a EN 10025-European Standards for Structural Steel ProductEN 10025 includes a series of European standards for structural steel products,delivery condition is specified as hot rolled.For example,hot rolled steel coils,hot rolled steel section.EN 10025 standard (6 parts) covers a wide range of structural steel product.ENEN 10365 The European norm replacing DIN 1025The DIN 1025 for structural beams,as well as the DIN 1026 for various structural channels is going to be replaced by the new EN 10365.Currently,the norms do coexist in parallel.Which steel and stainless steel structural profiles are involved and what does change will be explained further on.
AGICO ANSON is able to supply all kinds of structural steel plate produced by En10025-2 standard,which mainly includes 4 major grades S235,S275,S355 and S450,there's also more specific steel grades for different mechanical properties.As same as common structural steel,steel plate and pipes under this standard are featured with good weldability,formability,hot forming,cold formability EN10025 S275 Steel S275JR Properties,Equivalent,Meaning Dec 14,2019·EN 10025 S275 Steel is a non-alloy structural steel grade,according to EN10025,S275 mild steel is mainly devided into S275JR (1.0044),S275J0 (1.0143) and S275J2 (1.0145).Some properties of S275 mild steel is better than S235,and lower than S355.En 10025 S275jr,S275j0,S275j2 Wpb Parallel Flange BeamEarlier These EN 10025 S275J0 WPB Parallel Flange Beams were manufactured by the hexagonal pattern on the hot-rolled section of the beam or by cutting up a zigzag.But now these WPB Parallel Flange Beams are produced in different patterns and shapes
structural steel.EN 10025 2004 is the new European standard for structural steel.This leaflet shows the new grades, or Structural sections to BS4 part 1 for rolled sections.History of the standard S275J0 0 27 S275J0 43C S275J2 -20 27 S275J2G3/G4 43D - 1 355 470/630 - - S355 50AFile Size 1MBPage Count 32S275JO Structural Steel Steel Plate Murray Steel ProductsS275JO steel plate and structural steel is available in a wide range of sizes from Murray Steel Products,along with associated processing services,including profiling,cutting and drilling.File Size 48KBPage Count 8People also askWhat is S275 steel?What is S275 steel?EN 10025 S275 Steel is a non-alloy structural steel grade,according to EN10025,S275 mild steel is mainly devided into S275JR (1.0044),S275J0 (1.0143) and S275J2 (1.0145).Some properties of S275 mild steel is better than S235,and lower than S355.EN10025 S275 Steel S275JR Properties,Equivalent,Meaning
Column,Channel and Angle Sections [CED 7 Structural Engineering and structural sections] IS 808 1989 Indian Standard DIMENSIONS FOR HOT ROLLED STEEL BEAM,COLUMN,CHANNEL AND ANGLE SECTIONS ( Third gi\,en in Sccti0ns 2 (0 6 for information.2 .SECTION 2 BEAM SECTIONSPRODUCTS HANDBOOK Structural SteelCONTINENTAL STEEL PTE LTD 100 Gul Circle,Singapore 629586.Phone (65) 68620033 Facs (65) 68616448/68624006.Website consteel.sg PRODUCTS HANDBOOK Structural SteelS235JR S355JR UPN Channels (U Sections)We supply a wide range of UPN steel channels and sections which are available for immediate dispatch.Masteel are suppliers of UPN Channels (commonly known as 'U Sections') which are used throughout the construction industry.These sections are to the continental specification and therefore,unlike UK sections,are truly metric.
S275,S355 Plate,Beams,Columns,Channels,Angles.S275 a structural grade steel with a minimum yield strength of 275 N/mm² S355 a structural grade steel with a minimum yield strength of 355 N/mm².S275.S275 suitable for numerous general engineering and structural applications.S275 S275JR steel can be supplied in plate,round bar and flat barS275JR Plate,S275JR Steel Plates,S275JR Structural Steel Rexton Steel Alloys is the leading suppliers and stockists of S275JR Plates,S275 Plate,S275 Steel Plates,EN S275JR 1.0044 Plate,235JR Steel Plate in Mumbai,India.Phone +91-22- 66394202 Email [email protected]STRUCTURAL STAINLESS STEEL DESIGN TABLESStructural Stainless Steel and presented in an equivalent set of tables to those in the AISC Steel Construction Manual for carbon steel sections.The following structural sections are covered in this publication W- and S-shapes C- and MC-shapes Equal angles Rectangular hollow structural sections (HSS) Square HSS
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We produce and distribute hot rolled and laser fused stainless steel channels throughout the world in both imperial and metric sizes.Please select the catalog for your region below to view a list of available standard size channels.Our range of capabilities far exceeds standard sections,though.Steel Grades Specifications - RFLEN 10025 2004 is the new European standard for structural steel.EN 10025 2004 is the new European standard for structural steel.former standards include EN10025 1993.History of the Standard.The European Committee for Iron and Steel Standardisation is responsible for producing the European Standards (ENs) for structural steels.Structural Sections - Barrett Steel - Barrett SteelParallel Flange Channels; European Sections; Structural Angles; Barrett Steel Value.As the largest steel stockholder in the UK with over 150 years experience,we can pass on the benefits of our buying power to you,which is why we believe we represent excellent value for money.
d Depth of section,rounded to the nearest 0.01 inch or 1 millimeter .tf,tw Flange and web thicknesses,rounded to the nearest 0.001 inch or 0.1 millimeter .T (W HP shapes) Clear distance on web between fillets which equals (depth minus the ASTM A6/A6M maximum allowable underStructural Steel - BS EN 10025 S355 and S275Structural Steel Plate,Beams,Columns,Channels,Angles - S275,S355.S275 a structural grade steel with a minimum yield strength of 275 N/mm² S355 a structural grade steel with a minimum yield strength of 355 N/mm².S275.S275 suitable for numerous general engineering and structural applications.S275 S275JR steel can be supplied in plate,round bar and flat bar.Structural steel Tata Steel in Europe - EN-Home PageStructural steel products are available as follows As-rolled (+AR) Normalised rolling (+N) Suitable for cold forming (C) Suitable for post-galvanising (Class 1) Relationship with standards.Hot-rolled structural steel complies with European standard EN 10025 2004 and is
section might also be used for composite construction when the upper and lower flanges are switched.Chapter three introduces the geometrical properties of cold-formed steel sections,these sections includes Channels (stiffened and unstiffened) and Z sections (with straight lips and with inclined lips) These sections are used mainly for roofThe Government of the Hong Kong Specialto carry out reviews of structural steel design practice in Hong Kong and overseas and to draft a limit state code for the Structural Use of Steel using Limit State Approach.The study was carried out by a joint venture consultancy formed from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Ove Arup Partners Hong Kong Limited.


The new building, designed by architects AHMM, aims to deliver around 1.2m sq ft of offices, retail and a transformed public realm next to the train station.
The new plan is larger than the pre-existing planning consent for 945,000 sq ft inherited when the developer bought the site in May 2017.
Fresh plans include a one-acre garden promenade, directly connected to the Waterloo Station concourse which will benefit the 100m users of the station each year.
A public route below the garden called the Waterloo Curve will provide a major new pedestrian street for the area which would be lined with shops and cafés.
The scheme will also facilitate new links into Waterloo Station and help to accommodate the 30% projected passenger growth that is predicted over the next five years.
The client team includes structural engineer Robert Bird Group, with mechanical engineering delivered by Sweco.
The site has four major tube lines running beneath, requiring an innovative engineering solution for the building.
It will be supported on an A-frame structure that spans like a bridge across the site and transfers load into the ground on either side of the tunnels. The base of the building is a heavy ground- bearing structure that balances against the heave effect of the tunnels below.
If planning permission is granted, the development will support 11,000 jobs for an area, which has previously seen job numbers decline, supported by a variety of workspaces within the building and an employment, training and skills package for local people.


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A young, healthy, non-smoker, presented to the HMO with complaints of abdominal pain that began that same morning, nausea without vomiting, and two bouts of diarrhea. Physical exam was notable for epigastric and right lower quadrant tenderness. She was referred to the ER. In the ER, the surgeon could not elicit peritoneal irritation but referred her for abdominal ultrasonography.
Ultrasonography revealed an edematous, grossly dilated, slightly hyperemic vermiform appendix, with a minute amount of clear periappendiceal fluid.
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When a manufacturer needs to adapt its concept model to another country's market, there's a lot of things to reconsider Audi had to remaster and turn the A7 Sportback model for the Chinese market, and despite the fact that it won't reach American soil, they're upset about the results. The Chinese version is was named Audi Procrustean A7L Sedan.
During a photo shoot in China, spy photos surfaced and what we see as a beautiful Sedan, turns out to be a disappointment for the original A7L Sportback Sedan model. Generally, the Chinese version has an extended wheelbase, which required redesigning the roofline, increasing the size of the second-row side windows.
There are several modifications to the rear end sporting a traditional sedan truck opening along with a prominent lip spoiler on the trunk's lid and some tweaked taillights with all-new LED graphics. The car will be powered by a 2.0-liter turbo-four and a 3.0-liter turbo V6.
The model will be manufactured via a SAIC-VW joint venture at a Shanghai plant later this year. According to Car News China reports, the A7L Sedan, based on the MLB Evo platform, could deliver a 55TFSI Quattro model range, More details will be revealed in the coming weeks.
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Cheryl Fernandez-Versini looked ravishing in red for the second night of The X Factor final on Sunday night.
While reports suggest the brunette's marriage is on the rocks, the Girls Aloud star again sported the colour of love as she made her entrance for Sunday's decider.
But donning the huge get-up with a chic corset top and flattering feathered detail skirt, she had to be helped onto the Wembley stage by an assistant.
She matched her stunning outfit with bright red lippie and kept accessories simple with a silver wrist cuff.
And the luxury lengthy get-up took a whole lot of material to perfect.
The @GREATBritain Twitter account posted a message saying: "90m of fabric + 2,320 hours of work + 200,000 feathers = Cheryl's Official X Factor Final dress.
The live show will see the pop princess' act Reggie N Bollie or teenager Louisa Johnson crowned winner of the ITV music competition.
Meanwhile her fellow X Factor judge Rita Ora shimmered onto stage in a silver dress.
With its sparkling long skirt and wide flattering sleeves, she oozed sophisticated glamour as she blew a kiss to the London crowd.
The cropped bustier top boosted her cleavage and while flattering her toned tum.
As well as competing in the fashion stakes, the singer will be going head-to-head with Rita as her act Louisa Johnson bids for the X Factor crown.
Last night Cheryl looked incredible as she stepped out of her chauffeur-driven car onto her own personal red carpet.
Dressed head to toe in a luxurious, full-length blood red gown, Chezza sashayed her way down the carpet and easily won the fashion battle against her judging co-star.
Last night also dressed in red, Rita's one-shouldered slightly see-through creation was less of a hit than Cheryl's glamorous gown.
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Super Mario Maker 2 Doesn't Make You Wait To Unlock Tools
This time, most of the game's tools will be available from the start.
One of the more divisive aspects of the original Super Mario Maker is that it gated many of its tools behind a waiting period, forcing players to gradually unlock them over the course of several days. While the reasoning behind this decision was to ease players into the wealth of customization options in the game, it put a hurdle up in front of those hoping to use specific enemies or items in their levels. Fortunately, Super Mario Maker 2 does away with this restriction.
GameSpot recently went hands-on with Super Mario Maker 2 at a demo event, where we asked a Nintendo representative if the game features a similar waiting period before players could access the entire tool palette. The Nintendo rep confirmed that "almost all" of the game's tools will be available from the start, so you'll be able to jump in and tinker around with most of Super Mario Maker 2's new toys right from the outset.
One option that you will need to unlock is the nighttime theme. Super Mario Maker 2 allows you to change each type of level into a nighttime version, which will not only give it a starry backdrop, but also change some of the course's properties; nighttime snow stages, for example, are more slippery than their daytime counterparts, while nighttime sky levels have lower gravity. Fortunately, unlocking the theme is very simple; all you need to do is place Super Mario 3's angry sun enemy in the level and change it into a moon. Once you've unlocked the nighttime theme, you'll no longer need to place the moon in a level to access it.
Super Mario Maker 2 makes a few other welcome quality-of-life improvements. In the original game, you needed to shake certain enemies or combine items in order to change their form; for instance, shaking a green Koopa Troopa would transform it into a red one, while combining it with a Super Mushroom would supersize it. This time, however, you'll be able to choose these different variants simply by tapping on the object and selecting them from the menu. The game also automatically populates the top toolbar with the items you most frequently use, and you have the option to pin certain tools there for easy access.
Super Mario Maker 2 launches for Nintendo Switch on June 28. The game features a load of new elements, including a story mode and online multiplayer. To play and share levels online, however, you'll need to have a Nintendo Switch Online subscription, but Nintendo is bundling an individual 12-month membership for the service along with a copy of the game for $70--a $10 savings off the typical price of a 12-month subscription. If you already subscribe to the service and spring for this bundle, the 12 months will be stacked on top of your current subscription. You can learn more in our Super Mario Maker 2 pre-order guide.

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My portrait photography involves capturing people doing what they love in their natural habitat or around the city. These lifestyle portraits are meant to portray pros, artists and hobbyists doing what they love, where they love to do it, no matter what it is.
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I hired Keegan for a formal I planned, and every single person in attendance was blown away by the end results. He was very professional throughout, took amazing candids that truly captured the joy and spontaneity throughout the night, and we received the edited photos on the day he stated with absolutely no problems. He was flexible and willing to work with the vision of the night. I would definitely recommend hiring Keegan as the photographer for your event; the compliments we have received for the media output from the formal are all about the quality of the photographs. 10/10 More...

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Russia To Search For Lost Radioactive Generators
25 November 2005 -- The Russian Navy was searching for two isotope thermoelectric generators that fell into the Sea of Okhotsk eight and 18 years ago due to "technical failures."
On 24 Novermber, the Sakhalin Oblast legislature demanded Russia's Pacific Fleet remove the generators from the seabed.
The generators were intended to supply power to undersea beacons for ship navigation, but malfunctions aboard the helicopters carrying them caused the generators to be dropped away from their target areas in 1987 and 1997.
Navy divers still have not located the generators.
Russia's Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Protection Service said no threat of radioactive contamination of the water has developed.
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Apple has been awarded with a MacBook patent that will be solar cell powered or photovoltaic. In the layman’s lingo – you can power and charge your MacBook through solar power!
Macbook will make use of Photovoltaic unit for energy generation. This patent application was filed 4 years back and is inclusive of complete description of its functionality. The patent is called Electronic Device Display Module. It is a 2-sided display present on the laptop and within its lid is the presence of a traditional display. The rear of the module is a plate that is made up of smart-glass also called electro-chromic glass or switchable glass. The smart glass (not the Google one) is designed to receive control signals that from the control circuitry. The signals are usable for the placement of electro-chromic glass in a translucent or transparent state.
If this technology becomes available in the marketing, the future of solar power will soar higher than it is now. Calif – from Cupertino is the company that filed the patent for this 2-sided laptop display, fitted with photovoltaic cells for enabling solar power charging. The photovoltaic cells are embedded that on top of the laptop and made capable for acquiring energy and generating it from external sources of light. The laptop lid is also designed with touch sensors that for input commands. Through sensors, users can get a better control of their media playback and other functions. This patent can prove to be a good thing for the overall battery life of iPhones.
The benefits of charging devices through solar power are many. First and more, the concept is eco-friendly. It is also easy to use, clean and quiet too. As mentioned above, it will help in the maximization of battery life of different devices. This is possible because of the fact that direct current or energy is generated via solar power charging, which is ideal for charging batteries and devices. There will be electrical independence, low level of maintenance, reliable and safe to make use of solar cells for charging your electrical devices and gadgets. Thus, this patent from Apple will prove to be beneficial in different aspects.
The patent was initially published as a form of a rumor that solar power can charge iPhones. Analysts soon began to determine the ‘innovative power’ of Apple giant and how it will outdo the next generation apple products with the sapphire glass display, inclusive of tiny solar panels. The concept will help in improving the battery life of iPhones. Finally, Apple does have the patent of solar powered iPhones and it was made public in February of 2013.


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what a tour, it was wonderful, wine tasting, road trip, stopping few time on the way, taking a lot of pictures. really enjoyed the trip. Must take this pisa day tour from florence if you going for holiday in italy.
This was the best tour we had on our trip across Italy! Transport was top notch and our guide very professional with really good English. He watched out for the needs of the individuals as well as the group. Comfy and convenient way to experience Pisa as well as see some of that marvelous countryside.
Excellent! we did not have to stand in long queue. Just recommend if you can the leaning tower of pisa opening hours before go there.
We had such a fantastic day. The Tour guide who took us around Pisa was very well informed and friendly. However, the restaurant where the wine tasting (amazing) takes place doesn't include lunch, which was a bit confusing, but it was stated in the description. Lucca is also amazing, we had just enough time to explore it.
The leaning tower is only 5 minute walk from Train station. Pisa leaning tower ticket price is might be little high but that's the better opt to take.
Outstanding! We had this florence to pisa tower tour and it was one of the best travel experience we had. We went by train in a small group of 15 people. As it's quite busy in summer make sure you take pisa tower booking in advance otherwise i have seen people just went back without seeing. At last, thank you to our guide Julia making this trip wonderful.
Pisa’s global renown is without a doubt linked to its Leaning Tower. However, the small Tuscan town has a lot more to offer. Begin in the Piazza dei Miracoli. It's a beautiful square and UNESCO world heritage site that buzzes with life all year round. Functioning as a hub for some of the best Pisa tourists attractions, here you will find the Pisa Cathedral, Baptistery, Camposanto Monumentale and of course, the Leaning Tower. Though it’s not the only place of interest in the city, Piazza dei Miracoli makes for a perfect starting point on your exploratory quest of Pisa attractions. The walk from the station, Pisa Centrale, to Leaning Tower doesn’t take longer than 10 to 15 minutes.
Better yet, it takes you along a lovely pedestrian promenade, Corso Italia. This famous "walking street" (as the locals call it) is dotted with street artists.
Although it enjoys nowhere near as much of the limelight as the cathedrals of St. Mark’s and St. Peter’s, Pisa’s Cathedral is a stunning sight with a rich history. Upon its completion in 1092 it was the largest Cathedral in Europe. In fact, it served as a model for many of Tuscany’s subsequent Romanesque churches. Its facade is a thing of tiered beauty. Moreover, the Cathedral’s elliptical dome, added in 1380, was the first of its kind in Europe. So, grab yourself some Pisa Cathedral tickets for a look inside the structures cavernous nave. After all, when it comes to Pisa Cathedral, the entrance fee is fairly affordable. Inside, you will find Giovanni Pisano’s 14th-century, Carrara marble pulpit. Though, that's not all. There are also paintings depicting stories from the Old Testament and life of Christ. All that featured under a wooden ceiling decorated with 24-carat gold leaf.
For those who haven’t had their fill of churches or perhaps those wanting to avoid the crowds of Piazza dei Miracoli, another great Pisa tourist attraction well worth a visit is the church of Santa Maria della Spina. This beautiful, little Gothic style church with its extravagant pediments sits on the banks of the river Arno. It came into existence for no other reason than to house a reliquary of a thorn from Christ’s crown.
Don’t worry, Pisa attractions do extend beyond cathedrals and churches. Come out of the Santa Maria della Spina and make your way to the Borgo Stretto. Here, you can while away the afternoon stopping off at the many cafes and high-end retail shops in style. Why? All of them are housed under the elegant arches of some of Pisa’s most beautiful architecture. At the bottom of the Borgo Stretto is the Knights Square the centerpiece of which is the Palazzo dei Cavalieri, a stunning 16th-century palace that used to be the headquarters for the Knights of St. Stephen.

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Founded in 1961, it has been considered one of the world's most prominent fashion houses and is known for its modern and iconic pieces, such as its tuxedo jackets for women. Today, Saint Laurent markets a broad range of women's and men's ready-to-wear products, leather goods, shoes, and jewelry. Yves Saint Laurent Beauté also has a notable presence in the luxury beauty and fragrance market.
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8. A320neo Family sets new standards with 20% reduced fuel burn.
10. First Jet Engines with 3D Printed nozzles delivered to Airbus
9. Manufacturing plastic parts for Airbus A350 XWB
6. Airbus started to work on 3D printed hinge bracket
7. Airbus introduced 3D printed hinge bracket for A320
11. Airbus installs first 3D printed titanium bracket on commercial A350 XWB aircraft
5. Arcam introduced Electron Beam Mealting (EBM)
4. DSM Somos introduced SLA/SLS user conference, including a nano composite material, a high-elongation material,a low-durometer material, a UL94 VOflame-retardant material, and a material that can withstand relatively high temperature.
3. MTS Systems Corp developed a process called laser additive manufacturing (LAM) that used a high-power laser and powdered titanium alloys.
2. Selective laser sintering (SLS) from DTM became available.
1. 3 AM technologies were commercialised, including fused repositioning modelling (FDM) from Stsratasys, solid ground curing (SGC) from Cubital, and laminated object manufacturing (LOM) from Helisys.
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For most of the last fifteen years, the destiny of pianist and conductor Christian Zacharias has been linked with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, of which he was Principal Conductor and Artistic Director from 2000-13. His leadership resulted in invitations to prestigious venues and led to numerous recordings. He was named Artist of the Year at Cannes MIDEM, 2007 and in 2010 received the rank of Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters. This 2-DVD Bel-Air release of Beethoven's complete piano concertos presents Mr. Zacharias at the piano as well as conducting the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.


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Nokia smartphone deflects bullet, saves police officer
Here's a story of a smartphone – a trusty Nokia Lumia 520
– that literally saved its owner's bottom. On May 1, a 24-year-old military police officer went over to his parents' house with the intention to ask his mother to wash his uniform for him. Little did he know that he was about to arrive at a crime scene – two robbers were looting the house, all the while holding his mom and dad as hostages. Probably after seeing the uniform in his hands, the criminals quickly realized that the young man was a police officer and fired a couple of rounds at him.
Luckily, nobody got hurt after the shots had been fired. One of the bullets missed the officer, while the other hit the said Lumia 520, which was inside his pocket. The smartphone did not survive the encounter with the round, as you can see from the picture above, but its owner walked away safe, sound, and supposedly a Nokia fan for life. The robbers, which successfully made off with several phones, jewelry, and more of the family's possession, have not been caught yet as of this writing.

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