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Designed for Uncompromised Imaging
From unique flat-emitter technology to real-time stent enhancement, Artis one offers proven technology with next-generation imaging tools. The CARE+CLEAR package comes standard, the perfect choice for high image quality at the lowest possible dose.
State-of-the-art technology
Artis one features proven state-of-the-art technology – like the MEGALIX Cat Plus X-ray tube, the first angiography tube to offer unique flat emitter technology. The CARE+CLEAR technology comes as a standard. Benefit for example from the image quality of your preference with CLEARchoice.
Next-generation imaging tools
CLEARstent Live takes stent enhancement to real time. It lets you manipulate the catheter while obtaining a clear image of the currently positioned stent in relation to previously deployed stents or cardiac anatomy.
One single sweep acquires all necessary angulations required for coronary diagnostics in order to find the optimal projection for treating a lesion. HeartSweep provides up to 10 different trajectories with configurable movement speeds and can be operated with just one button.
Embrace the 3rd dimension
Experience parallel processing and a high-speed C-arm rotation of 60 degrees per second – with integrated 3D. Two high contrast acquisition modes, one using more images for the 3D reconstruction to optimize image quality, one using fewer images for less dose.
Unparalleled coverage
Benefit from patient coverage up to 2.10 m (6ft10"). Do peripheral run-offs without moving the patient. Image the whole body in one pass, with ceiling-like imaging workflows on a floor-mounted system.
Designed for Intuitive Interaction
Optimal system positions? At the press of a button – or automatically - Artis one smoothly adapts to your procedure-specific needs. Keep the patient's head free for anesthesia and echography or have room to move during an emergency.
Always knows where to go
Keep the patient's head free for anesthesia or echography. And have an optimal and repeatable system position for every procedure. Just one button-press for fully motorized system movement.
Intelligent controls keep your attention focused
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Josh Gad Loses 30 Lbs. by Dieting
The married actor jokes that cutting back and losing weight has helped his love life
Josh Gad is slimming down!
The Jobs actor, 32, has lost at least 30 lbs. for upcoming movie roles by working with a nutritionist and cutting down "from about 18 meals a day to about five," he told PEOPLE at the L.A. premiere of the Steve Jobs biopic, which also stars Ashton Kutcher and hits theaters Friday.
So what's on the menu of his new meal plan?
Gad, who plays Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in Jobs, says he eats seven egg whites with avocado on top and a grapefruit for breakfast. Two hours later, he drinks a protein shake and then will snack on some almonds, followed by a lunch of 7 oz. of turkey on a salad with nonfat dressing. Before a dinner of salmon and veggies, he drinks another protein shake.
"It's amazing what it's done to my love life," he joked at the premiere, sponsored by American Harvest. "My wife actually loves me again!"

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With lots of help from the new familysearch.org and some help from ancestry.com, I have been able to follow Lola through her various name changes. At least I think these records all pertain to the same woman.
Lola was born in Tishomingo County, Mississippi in 1861 and died in Parmer County, Texas in 1952.
In the 1870 census Lola Swinney was living with her mother and 3 siblings. They are living with Mary's parents in Mississippi and she is listed as 9 years old.
In the 1900 census Lola Poe and her daughter Minnie are living in Bell County, Texas. Lola is listed as sister and living with Amos McDonald. (Amos is actually her half-brother born after Mary remarried.) This census record states that Lola was born in April 1861 in Mississippi. The fact that Lola married a Poe is reinforced in the death certificate of Minnie D Mayfield. Minnie died in 1959 and the certificate available on familysearch.org states that her father was Z.C. Poe and her mother was Lola M Swinney.
On familysearch.org the Texas Marriages, 1837-1973 file lists Mrs. Lola M Poe marrying J.O. Jones on 23 Dec 1900 in Bell County, Texas. No image is available but the film number is 981038. In the 1910 census Lola M Jones and John C Jones are living as husband and wife in Jones County, Texas. The record states that they have been married for 10 years and it is a second marriage for each. She is listed as being 48 and was born in Mississippi.
I was unable to find Lola in the 1920 census. Back to familysearch.org and I put in Lola Mont in the search box. The first listing was a Lola Mont Sanders in Texas Deaths, and parents were M Sweeny and no one was listed as mother. It showed that she died in 1952 in Parmer County, Texas.
I then checked the 1930 census records for a Lola Sanders. Lola is living with W E Sanders in Jones County, Texas. The census shows she is 65 and was born in Mississippi. I don't know who W E Sanders is and I have not found a marriage record for Lola and W E. I also haven't found a death record for W E.
If any one has information about Lola or know that I've made some errors, I would definitely appreciate a note. Thank you.


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Syria crisis: Obama says world's credibility on the line
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President Barack Obama has said the credibility of the US, its Congress and the international community is on the line over their response to Syria's alleged use of chemical weapons.
Speaking in Sweden, he said the world should stick to its own "red line" against the use of chemical weapons.
Mr Obama is trying to build support in the US for punitive military action against the Syrian government.
Congress will vote next week on whether to support his plans.
France - whose government has strongly advocated intervention - held an extraordinary debate on Wednesday in the National Assembly, though MPs will not vote on the matter as the president can mobilise the military without their backing.
Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said it was France's duty to act and that "faced with barbarism, doing nothing is not an option".
Inaction would "put peace and security in the entire region in danger", he said, and "close the door on a political solution" to the conflict.
The UK parliament voted last month against military intervention.
Jordan's Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour told the BBC that it would back intervention in neighbouring Syria if proof emerged that chemical weapons had been used.
But he said any strikes would have to be precise, and that Jordan itself would not be involved.
'World's red line'
The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is accused of using chemical weapons against civilians on several occasions during the 30-month conflict, most recently on a large scale in an attack on 21 August on the outskirts of Damascus.
The US has put the death toll from that incident at 1,429 - though other countries and organisations have given lower figures - and says all the evidence implicates government forces.
President Assad has said such an attack would have been "illogical" because UN chemical weapons experts were visiting Damascus at the time.
Mr Obama has said the evidence gives him "high confidence that Assad carried this out" and that action must be taken to deter the regime from using chemical weapons again and degrade its ability to do so.
On Tuesday, senior members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations agreed a draft resolution on military action to go before Congress, specifying that any operation would be "limited and tailored" and prohibit the use of ground forces.
They later approved authorisation for the US use of military force in Syria by 10-7.
The full committee may vote on the draft on Wednesday.
Mr Obama has won the support of key Congressional leaders, though influential Republican John McCain said there were "number of people who are unhappy".
So far, only 21 senators have said they support or are likely to support the resolution, according to a tally by ABC News.
Thirteen have said they oppose or are likely to oppose the resolution, while 66 votes are undecided or unknown.
However those numbers are expected to shift as the language in the resolution changes, the White House and their congressional allies apply pressure, and lawmakers hear from their constituents.
Separately, Secretary of State John Kerry and Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel pressed the Obama administration's case in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday.
Mr Hagel said any US military strike at Syria would not be a mere "pin prick" but would reduce Syria's military capability. He said he thought the likelihood was "very high" that Mr Assad would use chemical weapons again if the US did not act.
The defence secretary estimated the cost of such a strike would be in the "tens of millions" of US dollars.
In prepared remarks, Mr Kerry said "the world is wondering whether the United States of America is going to consent with silence".
Among the audience at the panel were several people with signs opposing US action, their palms coloured in red.
In Stockholm, Mr Obama said he did not believe he had risked his credibility by asking Congress to vote - something he was not constitutionally obliged to do.
"My credibility is not on the line. The international community's credibility is on the line," he said.
"America and Congress's credibility is on the line, because we give lip-service to the notion that these international norms are important."
Mr Obama, who has previously said the use of chemical weapons would cross a "red line", told reporters it was not him who set this line but the world, "when governments representing 98% of the world's population said the use of chemical weapons are abhorrent and passed a treaty forbidding their use even when countries are engaged in war".
"Congress set a red line when it ratified that treaty," he added.
He said he believed Congress would approve intervention, but stressed that as commander-in-chief, he had the right to act in his country's national interest regardless.
Russia remains firmly opposed to military action.
President Vladimir Putin warned on Wednesday that any strike without UN approval would be "an aggression".
But he said Russia did not rule out supporting a UN Security Council resolution authorising force, if it was proved "beyond doubt" that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons.
In Syria, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said Damascus was mobilising its allies, who were "offering it all sorts of support".
"Iran, Russia, South Africa and some Arab countries have rejected this aggression and are ready to face this war," he told the AFP news agency.
Meanwhile, Syrian state TV denied reports that a former Defence Minister, General Ali Habib, has defected.
The opposition Syrian National Coalition movement told Reuters that Mr Habib had fled to Turkey, but the Alikhbaria news channel said he was still at his home.
The United Nations says more than 100,000 people have been killed since the uprising against President Assad began in March 2011.
On Tuesday, the UN's refugee agency said more than two million Syrians were now registered as refugees, and an estimated 4.25 million had been displaced within Syria, making it the worst refugee crisis since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
At a meeting at the UN in Geneva on Wednesday, the foreign ministers of Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq - which border Syria - called for more international support to help them handle the huge numbers arriving in their countries.
The BBC's Imogen Foulkes at the UN said they were frustrated and dismayed at the lack of a political solution to the Syrian conflict, and at the lack of help.
They are expected to ask for funding and in some cases, for help resettling some refugees in other countries, possibly in Europe.


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Requirements for a Doctoral Degree
5720.1 Program of Study
The policy governing programs of study applies to doctoral programs with the exception that the form should be prepared and submitted no later than the fourth semester of the student's program.
5720.2 Academic Standards
Doctoral programs may have academic standards equal to or higher than those published in this policy, but they cannot be lower than these standards.
All students are required to maintain a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0. A cumulative average of 3.0 is required for graduation.
The grade of "C" is a minimum passing grade for graduate credit; however, no more than six semester hours of courses with a grade of "C" may be applied toward the requirements of a degree program. Also a grade of a "C" or better is required in any course, undergraduate- or graduate-level, to satisfy a prerequisite for a course in a doctoral program.
Typically at the end of one year or 16 semester hours a student may be evaluated by the program (the program, however, has the right to review or evaluate a student's academic performance at any time). On the basis of this evaluation, and after review by the Graduate School, the student will be:
- Recommended for continuation in the graduate program,
- Placed on probationary status, or
- Dismissed from the Program and the Graduate School.
After completing 16 semester hours of course work in a doctoral program, students will automatically be placed in probationary status if their cumulative graduate grade point averages drop below a 3.0. Students must achieve a 3.0 cumulative average the semester they complete nine hours of course work since being placed on probation. Failure to meet this condition could result in their dismissal from the Graduate School. Students achieving a 3.0 average prior to or during the semester that nine hours have been completed will be taken off probationary status.
5720.3 Credit Hour Requirements
All doctoral programs at the university require the completion of a minimum of 90 semester hours of graduate credit. A program may, however, require more than these minimums. Students entering a program with a relevant master's degree from regionally accredited universities/colleges may be required to complete only 60 semester hours of graduate course work at Wright State. Students who transfer to a Wright State doctoral program and retain the same major professor may be required to complete only 30 semester hours of graduate course work at Wright State. Students should refer to program requirements for deviations from the above credit hour requirements.
5720.4 Residence Requirements
Students in a doctoral program are considered to be in residence for any term for which they are registered for at least six semester hours of Wright State graduate courses. A minimum residence of two consecutive full-time academic semesters at Wright State University, devoted wholly to graduate work, is required.
5720.5 Time Limit
Students must complete all the requirements for a doctoral degree within 10 years from the date the student matriculated in the program. Courses older than ten years on the students' programs of study cannot be used toward degree requirements. Doctoral programs may set an earlier date for program completion.
5720.6 Dissertation Committee
A dissertation or supervisory committee will be formed for each doctoral student. The committee will consist of at least four regular or adjunct members of the graduate faculty. The director or chair of the committee must be a regular member of the graduate faculty, a member of a doctoral program faculty, and dissertation-qualified. Adjunct members of the graduate faculty who are members of a doctoral program faculty and are dissertation-qualified may be eligible to co-direct a dissertation along with a regular dissertation-qualified member and will be selected and nominated in accordance with the doctoral program's policies or guidelines. Students who transfer to a Wright State doctoral program and retain the same major professor should have at least one Wright State faculty member, in addition to the major advisor, added to their dissertation committees. Committee members who continue from the students' previous institution are considered to possess adjunct status while the student continues in a Wright State doctoral program.
Members of the dissertation committee will be selected and nominated in accordance with each of the program's policies or guidelines. The eligibility requirements for members of the committee are presented in Policy 2160.3. The director of the doctoral program will submit the names of the faculty nominated for membership to a dissertation or supervisory committee to the Dean(s) of the College and/or School and the Dean of the Graduate School. The Deans will formally approve the nominees to the committee.
In consideration of the extensive Agreements which established the Dayton Area Graduate Studies Institute in 1994, Wright State recognizes regular faculty members in engineering and computer science at the other four original DAGSI institutions (Air Force Institute of Technology, University of Dayton, the Ohio State University, and University of Cincinnati) as possessing the equivalent of adjunct graduate status.
5720.7 Dissertation
The dissertation is an original contribution to scholarly or scientific knowledge in a specialized area. Students are expected to demonstrate in the dissertation the highest level of mastery in the techniques of research and a thorough understanding and application of the subject matter.
Before undertaking the dissertation, the student must (1) pass the qualifying examination, (2) be admitted into candidacy status, and (3) gain approval of the proposed dissertation topic from the student's dissertation or advisory committee. Students must complete the dissertation within the time frame established for candidacy. All course work associated with the dissertation must earn a grade of "A", "B", or "P" in order to qualify the student for graduation; all grades for dissertation work will be given in each semester for which dissertation credit is awarded. The dissertation must be written in English.
The final defense of the dissertation will normally be open to the public. The dissertation committee may also elect to privately question the candidate following the public presentation. The program's graduate committee will establish the procedures for the defense of the dissertation. The dissertation must be approved by at least three (3) members of the dissertation committee. The dissertation defense must occur by the last day of Final Exam week of the semester (last day of classes in the case of Summer semester) in order for the student's successful completion of the degree to be awarded in that semester. This requirement also governs the student's ability to participate in the graduation ceremony in that term: in order to participate in the graduation ceremony, the student's dissertation defense must be held by the final day of Final Exam Week in that semester (last day of classes in the case of Summer semester).
A computer file containing an approved dissertation, in pdf format, must be transmitted to OhioLINKhttp://etd.ohiolink.edu/submit/or delivered to the Graduate School for electronic transmission to OhioLINK not later than 30 days after the end of the semester in which the degree will be granted (due dates are published by the Graduate School and distributed to the doctoral program offices). Instructions for submitting your dissertation are on the OhioLINK Web site. OhioLINK is the repository for Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) for the state universities system in Ohio. This final copy should follow the form prescribed in the Graduate Thesis/Dissertation Handbook, available at the Graduate School Web site and should be carefully produced, free of errors in style, mechanics, and format. The pdf file must include the typed dissertation approval page, but without signatures.
One (1) paper copy of the typed dissertation approval page, with signatures, must be submitted to the Graduate School for filing. The ETD cannot be approved until the Graduate School receives the paper copy of the signed dissertation approval page. Please consult the Graduate Thesis/Dissertation Handbook for additional information and details about preparing your ETD. Because some program offices require additional electronic or paper copies of dissertations, students should consult with their advisors to determine the number of such additional copies needed.
5720.8 Qualifying Examination
All students in a doctoral program are expected to take and pass the qualifying examination before they will be admitted into candidacy status. The purpose of the qualifying examination is to determine if a student has acquired and is able to apply fundamental knowledge and acumen in the program area. The examination may be written, oral, or both. The graduate committee of the doctoral program will determine the type of examination and the procedures for the examination. Students will normally not take the examination until they are familiar with the material in the core courses of the program. Failure to pass the examination may result in dismissal from the program regardless of performance in other aspects of the program. Depending on the committee's recommendation, a student failing the examination may repeat it once. Students will normally be expected to repeat the examination at its next scheduled date. Passing the examination does not guarantee a student's admission into candidacy. The program may establish additional criteria to determine a student's eligibility for candidacy.
Students will be provided written notification of the results of the examination and of any actions to be taken within ten days of having taken the examination. The doctoral program will notify, in writing, the Graduate School of the administration and results of the qualifying examination and the actions to be taken for those students who have failed to pass the examination. If dismissal action is to be taken, the Graduate School will formally notify the student by letter.
5720.9 Candidacy
Acceptance into candidacy in a doctoral program indicates that students have the basic potential to undertake work on the dissertation and to successfully complete all other requirements of the program.
Students in a doctoral program may achieve candidacy by passing the preliminary or qualifying examination and by having obtained approval of their dissertation topic from their dissertation committees. The programs will determine the requirements for achieving dissertation approval. Candidacy is valid for five years. The program can, however, terminate candidacy for unsatisfactory progress. Students may petition for an extension to the candidacy term.


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Physics becomes psychology for Lani on today's The Dollar Short, as she responds to The Light Years.
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Virtual Reality for Planners 4: Refining the End User Experience
This final course of the virtual reality series discusses the big picture, looks at space planning and event setup, discusses alternatives to the full VR experience, and lists a few ways to fine tune the user's experience for maximum success.
Virtual Reality for Planners 3: Working with Unity
In this third course of the virtual reality series, we will create a VR application from scratch using Unity. We will be adding SketchUp data, VR components, materials, textures, backgrounds, sky and finally virtual reality.
Virtual Reality for Planners 2: Modeling in SketchUp
Learn how to use SketchUp to create content appropriate for a virtual reality environment. By the end of the course, viewers will be ready to learn how to prepare a final model for export into Unity.
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Scotty McCreery Is One of the Most Famous College Kids Right Now
Scotty McCreery is one of the brightest new stars in country music, but it's the 'Water Tower Town' singer's academic work that is bringing him some well-deserved attention these days.
According to Yahoo! Finance, the North Carolina State freshman is one of the 16 most famous college co-eds to be enrolled in classes this semester. The singer handles his double life with grace, but admits that life as a student is a tad more stressful than he had originally anticipated.
"I've been studying non-stop. But it was a lot tougher than I was anticipating going into it," McCreery reveals of his journey in higher education. "When I was doing this in high school, balancing it all was nothing. But college was definitely a huge step. I've had to learn how to study again."
The singer's chaotic schedule is about to be elevated to a higher level as McCreery continues to work on his sophomore project, his follow-up to the 2011 platinum-selling 'Clear as Day' album. The process has been slow-going, but McCreery planned it out that way.
"The first one I did was a little rushed, I didn't get to enjoy it or get creative with it," he acknowledges. "This one we're going to take our time and really make a good album."
New music from McCreery is expected to be released later this year. The singer continues to tour when his schedule permits, having just announced his Weekend Roadtrip tour.


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[β news reporter Jin Shixian] Hanwha membership progrm, which is looking forward to cultivating college students, is entering the sixth issue, which aims to select young and creative talents who dream of becoming creators of cultural information.
The recruitment of members of Hanhua group (No. 5) was supported by the content of "Hanhua group's talent selection program" (No. 10).
HMP (Hanwha membership progrm) is a program for college students who have the ability of content production in various fields to cultivate their strength when they enter the society in the future under the value of "improving the direction of times change through content".
The HMP talent standard selected this time is based on a high degree of concern and understanding of digital content, with the ability to analyze the latest content trend, and to create (plan, produce, edit, etc.) various forms of digital content (image / image, etc.).
The students selected through the recruitment will have a 7-week education and internship from July 10 to August 25.
First of all, there will be special lectures invited by internal lecturers and one daycut trip, subsidiary visits, etc. After that, he cooperated with five tutors of Han Huasheng brand strategy group in landmark 63 building in Seoul to carry out content planning, production, editing and other education.
If the course is successfully completed, the relevant business support of Hanhua group's companies will be allocated to a certain point in the future. In fact, people from HMP 1 to 5 work in the marketing and content production company of Hanhua group. Not only that, but also entered the main content / media companies in China and launched its strength.
After 7 weeks of HMP course, the final publication and graduation ceremony will be finished in late August, and the program will be over.
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VisaHQ.com was founded in 2002. Below are some milestones in the company's history and ongoing development
VisaHQ launch a new user interface for its web and mobile platform. With a user-friendly status tracker, photo editor, and document upload tool, our new UI allows more control over applications.
VisaHQ opens an office in Giza, Egypt.
VisaHQ introduces a voice-activated visa service available on Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Google Assistant smart speakers and chatbots.
VisaHQ Collaborates with Alibaba's Fliggy to Expedite Outbound Tourism for Chinese Travelers.
VisaHQ opens its Montreal location to better serve Canada and the Francophone community.
VisaHQ expands further into the Pacific Rim, opening it's Singapore office. Services can be viewed on the web at visahq.sg.
VisaHQ opens it's Berlin, Germany office.
VisaHQ opens it's Dublin, Ireland office. Services can be viewed on the web at visahq.ie.
VisaHQ opens it's third Indian office in Chennai City
The VisaHQ integrated solutions for travel agencies and websites are now available at VisaHQ.net portal.
Mumbai welcomes the second VisaHQ.in office in India
VisaHQ.id opens its Indonesian branch in Jakarta
Apostille services are now offered on the VisaHQ AuthenticationHQ.com portal
VisaHQ enters the German and Indian markets with offices in Frankfurt and New Delhi
California sees its second VisaHQ branch open in Los Angeles
The full range of travel document solutions are now available for the VisaHQ corporate clients at BusinessVisaHQ.com.
VisaHQ adopts to the new standard of responsive design, making its website accessible across all platforms on desktop and mobile devices
VisaHQ expands into the Middle Eastern market with office openings in Dubai and Abu Dhabi
San Francisco, CA and Houston, TX are the latest additions to the growing base of local VisaHQ offices in North America
VisaHQ extends its presence in Canada with opening of two new offices in Toronto, ON and Vancouver, BC
The Inc 500 magazine awards the second top 25 travel industry ranking for VisaHQ, who was ranked #19 in 2011 as well
The Big Apple welcomes VisaHQ office on the Fifth Avenue in the heart of Manhattan
In August 2011, VisaHQ was added to the Inc. 5000 as the #1 in Travel for the DC area as well as #19 for Travel Nationwide. VisaHQ also sits at #2645 amongst the 5,000 companies total
In Canada, VisaHQ.ca changes its location to the prestigious financial district of downtown Ottawa, ON. The new Bank Street location also launches a complimentary service, offering instant passport photographs, on site for walk-in clients in need of photographs to support their visa applications
Launch of London, U.K. office and region-specific website: VisaHQ.co.uk. The opening at a prime location for the U.K. branch, in the exclusive central Mayfair area, heralds another milestone in the growth and worldwide scope of the VisaHQ brand
VisaHQ.com moves its servers to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. A green solution, due to its enhanced energy efficiencies, cloud computing arms VisaHQ customers with the most reliable and robust service, regardless of how many users are simultaneously submitting applications online
VisaHQ collaborates with the popular travel portal BootsnAll.com, who adds VisaHQ travel visa and passport solutions to their website
VisaHQ.com re-launches a new consumer website, adding a new design and many enhancements to streamline the visa and passport application processing. The new site is the most sophisticated online travel visa and passport solutions resource found anywhere on the web
VisaHQ partners with Vayama and JohnnyJet. As both websites add travel visa and passport solutions using VisaHQ.com tools
VisaHQ announces its international expansion with the opening of a new office in Ottawa, ON, Canada. The company's new operation delivers the same unrivalled levels of travel services expertise, reliability and customer service to Canadian travelers
VisaHQ.com introduces a unique online tool for checking worldwide travel visa requirements. By selecting a country of nationality and a country of destination, users can determine if a travel visa is required and view detailed information on the types of visa available, related fees, allowed duration of stay and Embassy contact information. With easy installation and user-friendly capabilities, this cutting-edge feature allows travel professionals and travelers access to travel visa requirements worldwide
VisaHQ.com adds new customs database to its repertoire of online tools for clients. This database (available to citizens of any country free of charge) provides indispensable customs information for all countries, including import and export regulations, food and drink standards, and general health issues
A partnership is brokered, which makes VisaHQ the exclusive visa services partner of STA Travel - the largest student travel association in the world. This allows STA Travel to provide online visa application services to student and youth travelers at competitive rates for virtually any country in the world. The service launches online at: statravel.visaheadquarters.com
A new tool is added to VisaHQ.com a free to database comprising the largest online directory of international Embassies and Consulates
VisaHQ moves its headquarters to Embassy Row, Washington, DC. This strategic location, within easy access to Consular offices and Embassies, enables VisaHQ to forge alliances with diplomatic staff and brings many practical benefits that improve efficiency and visa application turnaround
VisaHQ.com officially launches. The new site enables travelers to apply online for visas to virtually any country that has a Consulate in the United States, simply by filling out one universal, 100% paperless electronic application form - an industry first. U.S. Citizens visiting the website can also renew, replace or add pages to their passports


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The pocket-size, point-and-shoot digital camera was once a standard part of many consumers' electronic tool kit. But it has been challenged by smartphones with better and better built-in cameras and photo apps. While they lack some photographic capabilities, like physical zoom lenses, phones are carried everywhere all the time. Plus, they are wirelessly connected to email and the Web, where digital pictures often wind up.
Now, Samsung has introduced a pocket camera that aims to erode the advantages of smartphones—even though the company also produces phones. This new camera, the SH100, has Wi-Fi built in. This isn't the first camera with built-in Wi-Fi, but Samsung hopes to better capitalize on it. It also competes with the add-on memory card called Eye-Fi, that brings Wi-Fi abilities to almost any camera. It has easy, preconfigured uploading to Facebook, YouTube, Picasa, email and other online destinations, plus a bunch of added wireless features, including cordless transfer of photos to a PC.
I've been testing the SH100. It carries a list price of $200 without a memory card but can be found at various merchants for as little as $150. Its wireless capability requires no contract or monthly payment.
My verdict is that the SH100 pretty much does what it promises as a wireless device, and takes very good photos and videos. Unlike on a cellphone, its wireless functions don't work almost everywhere. Still, for those who would like some of the wireless ease of a phone in a better camera, it might be tempting.
The SH100 is a good-looking, pocket camera with a resolution of 14.2 megapixels, a 5x optical zoom and a wide-angle lens. Smartphones typically have much lower resolution and lack optical zoom lenses.
It has a large, 3-inch touch screen on the back, for framing and viewing shots, and for controlling its many functions. There are only four physical buttons—a home button, a power button, a playback button, and a combination shutter and zoom controller. Everything else is controlled by tapping on icons and menus on the screen.
The user interface has been designed to resemble the array of apps on a smartphone. Unfortunately, the SH100 uses a less expensive, and much less responsive, type of touch screen than is typically found on smartphones. So, tapping on icons, scrolling through menus and, especially, typing email addresses and wireless login details, can be a frustrating process for people trained now to use sensitive phone and tablet screens.
This was my biggest gripe about the SH100. In my tests, using its screen required extra pressure, multiple presses and corrections. Samsung implicitly acknowledges this by including a plastic stylus with the camera. Using the stylus makes things easier, but it's another thing to carry and seems easy to lose.
Samsung says the SH100 is mainly about connectivity, and its photographic capabilities and features aren't significantly different from those on its other point-and-shoot models. In my tests, it took sharp, vivid photos and videos, indoors and out. It has all the standard settings and effects I've seen in other point-and-shoot cameras, including auto and more manual modes, and various preconfigured settings for scenarios such as sunsets or beach photos.
One of its nicer features is something called Magic Frame, which merges a photo you take with a background. For instance, it can place your photo in a poster on the side of a bus-stop shelter, or on the screen of an old black-and-white TV. It also has a 3-D carousel view for browsing through your photos, and another mode where you can flip through pictures by tilting the camera.
But I mainly tested the camera as a wireless device, with mixed results. I was able to connect almost every time to noncommercial Wi-Fi networks in my home and office, and was easily able to post pictures to my accounts on Facebook and Picasa, and videos to my YouTube account. I also was easily able to email photos. This required a one-time setup process for each online account.
But there were some issues. In one instance, during a meeting with Samsung officials to show me the camera, it wouldn't work with my office Wi-Fi, though my test unit later did fine in the office. Also, when uploading to Facebook, the camera installs a Facebook app called MashupSocial, which you may or may not want.
More important, the camera's Wi-Fi won't work with many commercial Wi-Fi hot spots, such as those in coffee shops or airports, that require a login process via a browser, because it lacks a browser. To compensate, Samsung includes a free three-month trial subscription to Boingo, a service that automates logins to some of these services. After the trial ends, Boingo costs $8 a month, but it is optional.
Also, the camera can't automatically send any photo you snap. You can only choose to send photos when you are in playback mode. And this is a manual process. You also can't queue up photos you take outside of W-Fi range for later instant uploading when you get near a compatible Wi-Fi network.
To save battery life, the camera doesn't remain connected to Wi-Fi. It connects only when you choose to transmit, and then disconnects. This is a relatively slow process. Samsung says the SH100's battery can shoot more than 200 pictures on a single charge, but that battery life degrades if you use Wi-Fi a lot.
I also successfully tested a couple of other wireless features. I was able to wirelessly transmit photos from the camera to a Windows PC using a special Samsung computer program called Auto Backup. (This doesn't work on Macs.) I also was able to use a feature called Remote Viewfinder that lets you control the camera remotely from a Samsung smartphone. The camera can also wirelessly beam photos to a compatible TV, but I wasn't able to test this.
If you're willing to accept the wireless limitations of the SH100, and value its photographic advantages compared to a phone's camera, it might offer the right balance for you.
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A weekly (or so) ranking of college basketball teams on the basis of watchability and with very little regard to how good they might be.
1. Kansas. No one stands out like a 7-footer on the bench. Two years ago, Jeff Withey was known, if he was known at all, for being a former McDonald's All-America who could never get any time on the court, despite his manifest physical gifts. He played 6.2 minutes a game and otherwise sat around blocking sightlines for paying customers. This season? Withey is the anchor of a top 10 team and has an outside shot at Player of the Year honors. His strength is not his offense. He scores mostly on dunks, alley-oops, and putbacks. When Kansas does look for Withey on the block, the primary purpose is to reverse the ball and create space. (The Jayhawks are a case study in how to create open shots through simple ball reversal.) It's on defense where he makes his mark. He was a volleyballer as a youth, and it shows in his superb timing and quick second jump. At his current rate he is blocking a shot on 19 percent of opponents' two-point attempts, which is nuts, and that doesn't even account for all the shots he affects. In Kansas's recent win over Ohio State, Withey had only one block, but he made the Buckeyes look like a bunch of kids playing driveway ball under a low-hanging eaves.
Next game: Saturday at Texas Tech
2. Kentucky. During his second season in Lexington, coach John Calipari instructed his squad to take the air out of the ball on offense. Part of his rationale was to cut down on turnovers, but he also slowed the pace to force his team into a halfcourt offense. This season, though, UK is one of the nation's youngest teams—newcomers have accounted for 80 percent of the Wildcats' total minutes played—and the squad has had trouble picking up Cal's offensive schemes. Drives stop awkwardly; shots get rushed; iso's go slack and result in aimless passes instead of buckets—all of which explain why Calipari is trying to quicken the pace. UK manages nearly 70 possessions per game, the fourth most in the conference. The Wildcats are not a bad offensive team; they just need to run to get out of their own heads. In a recent loss to Louisville, Kentucky spent the first half kicking the ball around its half of the court. Out of sync, UK managed just 32 possessions and 28 points. In the second half, though, Calipari opened things up: 39 possessions, 49 points. It was the difference between having your guys run plays and letting your guys make them.
Next game: Saturday vs. Texas A&M
3. Ole Miss. If you happen to catch an Ole Miss game on television, make sure to watch for #22, a lanky 6-foot-2 guard with a shaved head. Marshall Henderson transferred from Utah to Ole Miss because then-coach Jim Boylan reportedly didn't understand Henderson's "individuality," a funny word that means, in this context, Henderson's desire to jack nearly 11 threes per game. During the Diamond Head Classic, Henderson took 28 threes, making 46 percent of those tries. He typically camps on the perimeter and either waits for a teammate's pass or runs off screens set on his right shoulder. Henderson is also on a quest to surpass 380 three-point attempts in a season, a feat that would put his individuality in the NCAA record books. For Henderson to reach that figure, he'll need to take at least one more three per game for the remainder of the season, which we don't think will be too hard for the guard—during a win at Tennessee, Henderson attempted 12 threes.
Next game: Saturday vs. Missouri
4. Colorado State. Larry Eustachy's teams have always been big on crashing the offensive glass. These Rams are no different, pulling in 45 percent of their misses—an astonishing rate that isn't so surprising when you see the mid-size sedans that make up Colorado State's frontcourt. There's hulking Minnesota transfer Colton Iverson, who in his Big Ten days seemed to begin every game with three fouls; and there's Greg Smith, who is adept at clearing out interior space; and there is Pierce Hornung, who is the most effective Ram of all. He's a tweener at 6-foot-5, built more along the lines of a tight end, but a not insignificant portion of Colorado State's scoring comes from his ability to create separation and outmuscle his defender, snag the board, and then convert the put-back.
Next game: Saturday vs. San Diego State
5. Temple. Khalif Wyatt does not look like anyone's idea of an elite athlete. He hides his 6-foot-4 frame in a T-shirt worn under his Temple uniform, like the biggest kid at the swimming pool. But watch him next time he's on TV. He has the wheels to get past just about any perimeter defender, and he has the hangtime, the contortionist's limbs, and the pool-hall-massé touch to convert seemingly impossible shots. He's crafty as hell, too. He kicks his left leg whenever he shoots, and he uses his off-arm to keep defenders from pressuring the ball, a trick that is rarely (in Wyatt's case) whistled a foul and that gives him enough separation to maneuver. Bill Self said he had an "old man's game," which is perfect. He's scoring 16 per for one of the most patient teams around.
Next game: Saturday vs. Saint Louis
6. Arizona State. Under coach Herb Sendek, the ASU offense historically had been a dull exercise in arranging five pieces of statuary around the halfcourt—and then guard Jahii Carson showed up. Carson, ruled ineligible by the NCAA last year, has been as good as advertised. Streaky from the perimeter, he has quite possibly the quickest first step in D1, and he has readily assumed the role of orchestrating the break. Through the non-conference slate, ASU used 72 possessions per game—a brisk pace for any team, let alone a Sendek bunch. A quarter of Carson's assists were handed out in transition, and his teammates, like Carrick Felix, have benefited. Before this season, Felix was known primarily for being the first junior college player ever to get a Duke scholarship offer, but after 13 games, Felix is now making a name for himself as a slasher filling the right wing (and scoring 1.4 points per fast break). Now that ASU is two games into Pac-12 play, the question becomes whether Sendek continues to let his team run. Early evidence does not prove promising—against Colorado, Utah, and Oregon State (all wins), ASU used 196 possessions, or 65 per game, and scored only .97 points per possession (as compared with 1.05 PPP in OOC play).
Next game: Sunday at Oregon
7. Hartford. Hartford was one of the America East's most promising teams in 2012, a strange thing to say about a team that won only nine games. However, one of those victories came against Boston University during the conference tournament, and the Hawks' youth—Hartford was the league's second-youngest team—tended to undermine their talent. Flash-forward to this current season, and John Gallagher's team is tied for first in the AE. What changed? Mark Nwakamma, a consistent interior scorer who even at 6-foot-6 can still bully his way to the basket, learned how to pass. At this point last season, Nwakamma was handing out 1.9 assists per 40 minutes, a rate that has risen to 3.3 assists in 2013, and opponents can no longer double team and fluster the forward. More critical, though, is that Nwakamma's teammates are converting his passes into points. Hartford loves the three-ball. No other AE team attempts as many threes, and for now, those shots are dropping.
Next game: Saturday vs. Stony Brook
8. Northern Arizona. Little Dewayne Russell has proved to be a surprise for first year coach Jack Murphy; though he is mired in a mini-slump, Russell has a quick first step that allows him to beat his defender toward the baseline and create for himself. Despite his size (5-foot-11), Russell can unload from beyond the arc—40 percent of his attempts have come from deep—and he has been efficient moving without the ball and waiting for the catch. Russell's most impressive trait is his rebounding. Russell has already grabbed 37 defensive rebounds, and while it may seem odd for a sub-6-foot guard to crash the glass, he has to. NAU is one of the nation's shortest teams, and the only way the Lumberjacks can generate transition buckets is to have their guards rush the interior. Michael Dunn and Stallon Sandivar account for 39 percent of NAU's defensive boards.
Next game: Saturday vs. Portland State
9. Gonzaga. Watch any Gonzaga game and your eyes go straight to Kelly Olynyk. That's partly because of his Rush-cover-band hair, but it's also because he is such a presence in the paint that he can pull the rest of the game into his orbit. Both he and frontcourtmate Elias Harris know how to create position before the catch, setting up for easy scores off drop-steps and hooks. That's a big reason they're drawing almost 13 fouls per 40 minutes this season. Olynyk's play this year is the product of some fine-tuning. Rather than burn a year of eligibility by sitting on the bench in 2012, he took a redshirt at the recommendation of his Gonzaga coaches, spending the season as a pseudo-coach and laboring over his offensive repertoire. Opponents used to count on the big to throw up a rushed jumper; now Olynyk is a patient surveyor of the court, backing his man down for a easy two or driving the lane with a vastly improved handle.
Next game: Thursday at Portland
10. Minnesota. The Golden Gophers' victory at Illinois on Wednesday was a masterpiece of counterpunching.
Next game: Saturday at Indiana
11. Michigan. Every Michigan game has at least one moment where you turn to your friend on the couch or to the dog or to no one in particular and say, "Whoa." The Wolverines' ball movement is so crisp and gorgeous to watch, and it's hard not to marvel at the idea of five kids, essentially, operating with a total understanding of the halfcourt. Everyone talks about Trey Burke, but keep an eye on Nik Stauskas, a lithe wing hitting 54 percent of his threes. (Whoa.)
Next game: Sunday vs. Ohio State
12. Indiana State. At 6-foot-4, point guard Jake Odum is taller than most opposing guards, and his long arms gives him an extra passing advantage, but where Odum truly excels is putting pressure on opponents. He draws over seven fouls per 40 minutes, thanks in part to a host of hesitation moves he can rely on in the paint, and he can change direction on a dime, wrapping the ball behind his back with those long arms and gaining an angle on a defender.
Next game: Saturday at Southern Illinois
13. Notre Dame
Next game: Saturday vs. UConn
14. Rhode Island. Coach Danny Hurley's teams at Wagner may have been known for their frenetic pace, but that offense was built on a foundation of pesky man defense. Hurley's certainly brought the latter to Rhode Island. Discounting the loss to Saint Mary's, in which the Rams allowed SMC to score 1.22 PPP, URI has held opponents to just .91 PPP in the previous seven games (a stretch when the squad went 4-2). Brown managed only 47 points in 66 possessions, a rate of .71 PPP, and though URI lost its first A-10 game (to Richmond), Hurley's squad still held the Spiders under a point per possession. The Rams don't do any one thing particularly well; they don't force turnovers or rebound. They just keep their opponents off-balance and prevent easy shots.
Next game: Saturday vs. Charlotte
15. Oregon
Next game: Sunday vs. Arizona State
Matt Giles is a reporter for New York Magazine and has contributed to College Baskeball Prospectus 2012-13, as well as ESPN the Magazine, ESPN Insider, BuzzFeed, and Salon.
Tempo-free statistics courtesy kenpom.com.


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ARLINGTON -- Yu Darvish left Monday's start against the Pirates after seven innings because of symptoms that suggested a cramp was coming on in his right leg. Darvish said it wasn't serious and he expects to make his next start against the Athletics on Saturday.
What does appear to be serious is the Rangers are struggling to snap out of their slump as they enter the final three weeks of the season and try to stay within reach of the first-place Athletics.
The Rangers, overwhelmed by Pirates starter Gerrit Cole, fell to two games behind the Athletics with 19 to play after a 1-0 loss on Monday at the Ballpark in Arlington. The Rangers have lost seven of their last 10 games, although they still have a four-game cushion in the Wild Card standings.
That's not the race the Rangers are looking at right now.
"We just have to win every game we can," A.J. Pierzynski said. "Everybody knows what's at stake and where we stand. But I'll take these guys and go to battle. Hopefully with whatever games we have left, we'll do the best we can and things will work out."
Winning with Darvish on the mound would help, but the Rangers are winless in his last five starts even though he allowed one run on four hits and a walk with six strikeouts Monday. Cole, the Pirates rookie right-hander, was simply better with seven scoreless innings in his 16th Major League start. The Rangers managed just three hits and two walks against him, while Cole struck out a career-high nine.
"That guy was really good," Elvis Andrus said. "If he pitches like that every start, he'll be the National League Cy Young winner. He's got impressive stuff, he doesn't make mistakes and he kept the ball at the knees. Every at-bat I had he was on the black."
The Rangers are hitting .243 with a .295 on-base percentage and a .387 slugging percentage in their last 10 games. They're averaging 2.9 runs per game in that stretch as well as hitting just .171 with runners in scoring position. They were 0-for-2 on Monday night.
"I knew we were in a little bit of a rut, but I wasn't going out there trying to throw zeros," Cole said after the Pirates snapped a four-game losing streak. "Whatever Yu was going to do, I was just trying to match or keep us in striking distance toward the end of the ballgame. He's really tough with all the different offerings he shows you. I was just glad I was able to keep the ball down and stay aggressive."
Darvish was terrific for six innings, allowing just two hits and two walks, holding his own in a scoreless duel with Cole.
"We needed him to step up and he did step up," manager Ron Washington said.
Darvish also retired the first two hitters in the seventh before Marlon Byrd ripped a double to left and Pedro Alvarez lined a double to left-center to break the scoreless tie. Darvish retired Russell Martin on a grounder to third to end the inning and that was the end of the night. He was done after 81 pitches because of his leg, although he said it was not as bad as the cramp that grabbed him in a start against the White Sox on Aug. 24.
Darvish said he was not feeling a cramp but more of the possibility that one was starting to develop. He also said the issue did not affect his pitching in the seventh inning.
"It's not serious at all," Darvish said. "I was still able to make pitches."
Until the two doubles, Darvish was at the top of his game and much better than his previous start against the Athletics on Wednesday when allowed five runs in five innings. In that game, he walked five and allowed two home runs.
"Tonight was very effective and very efficient," Darvish said. "Obviously at this point of the year you're not going to feel great. There is some wear and tear. But I was able to focus and concentrate."
He just couldn't match Cole. The Rangers' best chance came in the sixth when Andrus drew a two-out walk and stole second. After Alex Rios walked, he and Andrus pulled off a double steal that put runners at second and third. But Adrian Beltre grounded out to shortstop to end the inning. Beltre has one hit in his last 21 at-bats with runners in scoring position.
"He's just not squaring the ball up like he was earlier," Washington said. "He'll get back to squaring the ball up."
Beltre singled his next time up but that was with two outs in the ninth against Pirates closer Mark Melancon. Pierzynski then grounded out to end the game. Darvish has received a total of 10 runs of support in his last six starts, and this was the third time this season he has lost a game by the score of 1-0.
"This is what it is," Darvish said. "It's baseball. Sometimes the offense can't score runs, some days they score 20 runs. Some days you throw a no-hitter and not win. The hitters tried their best and today I did my best."


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Chroma key compositing, or chroma keying, is a special effects / post-production technique for compositing (layering) two images or video streams together based on color hues (chroma range). The technique has been used heavily in many fields to remove a background from the subject of a photo or video – particularly the newscasting, motion picture and videogame industries. A color range in the top layer is made transparent, revealing another image behind. The chroma keying technique is commonly used in video production and post-production. This technique is also referred to as color keying, colour-separation overlay (CSO; primarily by the BBC[2]), or by various terms for specific color-related variants such as green screen, and blue screen – chroma keying can be done with backgrounds of any color that are uniform and distinct, but green and blue backgrounds are more commonly used because they differ most distinctly in hue from most human skin colors. No part of the subject being filmed or photographed may duplicate a color used in the background.[3]
It is commonly used for weather forecast broadcasts, wherein a news presenter is usually seen standing in front of a large CGI map during live television newscasts, though in actuality it is a large blue or green background. When using a blue screen, different weather maps are added on the parts of the image where the color is blue. If the news presenter wears blue clothes, his or her clothes will also be replaced with the background video. A complementary system is used for green screens. Chroma keying is also used in the entertainment industry for special effects in movies and videogames. The advanced state of the technology and much commercially available computer software, such as Autodesk Smoke, Final Cut Pro, Pinnacle Studio, Adobe After Effects, and dozens of other computer programs, makes it possible and relatively easy for the average home computer user to create videos using the "chromakey" function with easily affordable green screen or blue screen kits.[original research?]
In filmmaking, a complex and time-consuming process known as "travelling matte" was used prior to the introduction of digital compositing. The blue screen method was developed in the 1930s at RKO Radio Pictures. At RKO, Linwood Dunn used an early version of the travelling matte to create "wipes" – where there were transitions like a windshield wiper in films such as Flying Down to Rio (1933). A scene featuring a genie escaping from a bottle was the first use of a proper bluescreen process to create a traveling matte, for The Thief of Bagdad (1940), which won the Academy Award for Visual Effects that year. The development of the bluescreen is credited to Larry Butler, who won an Academy Award for special effects in The Thief of Bagdad. In 1950, Warner Brothers employee and ex-Kodak researcher Arthur Widmer began working on an ultraviolet travelling matte process. He also began developing bluescreen techniques: one of the first films to use them was the 1958 adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novella, The Old Man and the Sea, starring Spencer Tracy.[4]
One drawback to the traditional traveling matte is that the cameras shooting the images to be composited cannot be easily synchronized. For decades, such matte shots had to be done "locked-down", so that neither the matted subject nor the background could shift their camera perspective at all. Later, computer-timed, motion-control cameras alleviated this problem, as both the foreground and background could be filmed with the same camera moves. Petro Vlahos was awarded an Academy Award for his refinement of these techniques in 1964. His technique exploits the fact that most objects in real-world scenes have a color whose blue-color component is similar in intensity to their green-color component. Zbigniew Rybczyński also contributed to bluescreen technology.
In bluescreening, the background footage is shot first, and the actor or model is filmed carrying out their actions against a bluescreen. To simply place the foreground shot overlapping the background shot, as added light, would create a ghostly image with a blue-tinged background. The actor or model must be separated from the background and placed into a specially-made "hole" in the background footage. The bluescreen shot was first rephotographed through a blue filter, so that only the background is exposed. A special film is used that creates a black-and-white negative image – a black background with a subject-shaped hole in the middle. This is called a 'female matte'. The bluescreen shot was then rephotographed again, this time through a red-and-green filter, so that only the foreground image was cast on film, creating a black silhouette on an unexposed (clear) background. This is called a 'male matte'. The background image is then rephotographed through the male matte, and the shot rephotographed through the female matte. An optical printer with two projectors, a film camera and a 'beam splitter' combines the images together one frame at a time. This part of the process must be very carefully controlled to ensure the absence of 'black lines'. During the 1980s, minicomputers were used to control the optical printer. For the film The Empire Strikes Back, Richard Edlund created a 'quad optical printer' that accelerated the process considerably and saved money. He received a special Academy Award for his innovation.
For Star Trek: The Next Generation, an ultraviolet light matting process was proposed by Don Lee of CIS and developed by Gary Hutzel and the staff of Image G. This involved a fluorescent orange backdrop which made it easier to generate a holdout matte, thus allowing the effects team to produce effects in a quarter of the time needed for other methods.[5]
Meteorologists on television often use a field monitor, to the side of the screen, to see where they are putting their hands against the background images. A newer technique is to project a faint image onto the screen.
Some films make heavy use of chroma key to add backgrounds that are constructed entirely using computer-generated imagery (CGI). Performances from different takes can even be composited together, which allows actors to be filmed separately and then placed together in the same scene. Chroma key allows performers to appear to be in any location without even leaving the studio.
Computer development also made it easier to incorporate motion into composited shots, even when using handheld cameras. Reference-points can be placed onto the colored background (usually as a painted grid, X's marked with tape, or equally spaced tennis balls attached to the wall). In post-production, a computer can use the references to compute the camera's position and thus render an image that matches the perspective and movement of the foreground perfectly. Modern advances in software and computational power have even eliminated the need to accurately place the markers - the software figures out their position in space (a disadvantage of this is that it requires a large camera movement, possibly encouraging modern film techniques where the camera is always in motion).
The principal subject is filmed or photographed against a background consisting of a single color or a relatively narrow range of colors, usually blue or green because these colors are considered to be the furthest away from skin tone.[3] The portions of the video which match the preselected color are replaced by the alternate background video. This process is commonly known as "keying", "keying out" or simply a "key".
Green is currently used as a backdrop more than any other color because image sensors in digital video cameras are most sensitive to green, due to the bayer pattern allocating more pixels to the green channel, mimicking the human eye's increased sensitivity to green light.[6] Therefore, the green camera channel contains the least "noise" and can produce the cleanest key/matte/mask. Additionally, less light is needed to illuminate green, again because of the higher sensitivity to green in image sensors.[7] Bright green has also become favored since a blue background may match a subject's eye color or common items of clothing, such as jeans, or a dark-navy suit.
Blue was used as a backdrop before digital keying became commonplace because it was necessary for the optical process, but it needed more illumination than green. However, it is also further in the visual spectrum from red, the predominant color in human skin.
The most important factor for a key is the color separation of the foreground (the subject) and background (the screen) – a bluescreen will be used if the subject is predominately green (for example plants), despite the camera being more sensitive to green light.
In analog color TV, color is represented by the phase of the chroma subcarrier relative to a reference oscillator. Chroma key is achieved by comparing the phase of the video to the phase corresponding to the preselected color. In-phase portions of the video are replaced by the alternate background video.
In digital color TV, color is represented by three numbers (red, green, blue intensity levels). Chroma key is achieved by a simple numerical comparison between the video and the preselected color. If the color at a particular point on the screen matches (either exactly, or in a range), then the video at that point is replaced by the alternate background
A chroma key subject must avoid wearing clothes which are similar in color to the chroma key color(s) (unless intentional e.g. wearing a green top to make it appear that the subject has no body), because the clothing may be replaced with the background video. An example of intentional use of this is when an actor wears a blue covering over a part of his body to make it invisible in the final shot. This technique can be used to achieve an effect similar to that used in the Harry Potter films to create the effect of an invisibility cloak. The actor can also be filmed against a chroma-key background and inserted into the background shot with a distortion effect, in order to create a cloak that is marginally detectable.[8]
Difficulties emerge with bluescreen when a costume in an effects shot must be blue, such as Superman's traditional blue outfit. In the 2002 film Spider-Man, in scenes where both Spider-Man and the Green Goblin are in the air, Spider-Man had to be shot in front of the greenscreen and the Green Goblin had to be shot in front of a bluescreen. The color difference is because Spider-Man wears a costume which is red and blue in color and the goblin wears a costume which is entirely green in color. If both were shot in front of the same screen, one character would be erased from the shot.
Blue is generally used for both weather maps and special effects because it is complementary to human skin tone. The use of blue is also tied to the fact that the blue emulsion layer of film has the finest crystals and thus good detail and minimal grain (in comparison to the red and green layers of the emulsion.) In the digital world, however, green has become the favored color because digital cameras retain more detail in the green channel, and it requires less light than blue. Green not only has a higher luminance value than blue, but also in early digital formats, the green channel was sampled twice as often as the blue, making it easier to work with. The choice of color is up to the effects artists and the needs of the specific shot. In the past decade, the use of green has become dominant in film special effects. Also, the green background is favored over blue for outdoor filming where the blue sky might appear in the frame and could accidentally be replaced in the process. Although green and blue are the most common, any color can be used. Red is usually avoided due to its prevalence in normal human skin pigments, but can be often used for objects and scenes which do not involve people. For example, in John Pizzarelli's song "Birthday Emotions" from the Sesame Street television series, painting backgrounds made by Gerri Brioso are used while the kids who are live-action are jumping through the air and celebrating a birthday.
Occasionally, a magenta background is used, as in some software applications where the magenta or fuchsia is sometimes referred to as "magic pink".[9]
With other imaging and hardware, many companies avoid the confusion often experienced by weather presenters, who must otherwise watch themselves on a monitor to see the image shown behind them, by lightly projecting a copy of the background image onto the blue/green screen. This allows the presenter to accurately point and look at the map without referring to monitors.
A newer technique is to use a retroreflective curtain in the background, along with a ring of bright LEDs around the camera lens. This requires no light to shine on the background other than the LEDs, which use an extremely small amount of power and space unlike big stage lights, and require no rigging. This advance was made possible by the invention of practical blue LEDs in the 1990s, which also allow for emerald green LEDs.
There is also a form of color keying that uses light spectrum invisible to human eye. Called Thermo-Key, it uses infrared as the key color, which would not be replaced by background image during postprocessing.[10][11]
The biggest challenge when setting up a bluescreen or greenscreen is even lighting and the avoidance of shadow, because it is best to have as narrow a color range as possible being replaced. A shadow would present itself as a darker color to the camera and might not register for replacement. This can sometimes be seen in low-budget or live broadcasts where the errors cannot be manually repaired. The material being used affects the quality and ease of having it evenly lit. Materials which are shiny will be far less successful than those that are not. A shiny surface will have areas that reflect the lights making them appear pale, while other areas may be darkened. A matte surface will diffuse the reflected light and have a more even color range. In order to get the cleanest key from shooting greenscreen it is necessary to create a value difference between the subject and the greenscreen. In order to differentiate the subject from the screen, a two-stop difference can be used, either by making the greenscreen two stops higher than the subject, or vice versa.
Sometimes a shadow can be used to create a special effect. Areas of the bluescreen or greenscreen with a shadow on them can be replaced with a darker version of the desired background video image, making it look like the person casting the shadow is actually casting a shadow on the background image instead. This has been used in several films and television series for a long time. Examples of this can be seen, for example, in the 1974 Doctor Who story Robot, among other TV series and films.
Another common, related, problem is lighting the subjects in a manner that is complementary to the scene being keyed in behind. Attention has to be paid to matching the direction of lighting and the color balance in the background. Any spill of the chroma key color will make the result look unnatural. Even a difference in the focal length of the lenses used can affect the success of chroma key.
Another challenge for bluescreen or greenscreen is proper camera exposure. Underexposing or overexposing a colored backdrop can lead to poor saturation levels. In the case of video and digital-cinema cameras, underexposed images can contain high amounts of noise, as well. The background must be bright enough to allow the camera to create a bright and saturated image.
There are several different quality- and speed-optimized techniques for implementing color keying in software.[12]
In most versions, a function f(r, g, b) → α is applied to every pixel in the image. α (alpha) has a meaning similar to that in alpha compositing techniques. α ≤ 0 means the pixel is the green screen, α ≥ 1 means the pixel is in the foreground object. Values between 0 and 1 indicate a pixel that is partially covered by the foreground object. A usable green screen example, which matches how chroma key was done on an optical printer, is f(r, g, b) = K0 * b − K1 * g + K2 (K0..2 are user-adjustable constants, 1 is a good initial guess for all of them).
Often the software does screen-spill removal from the colors as well as figure out the alpha. This may be a separate function g(r, g, b) → (r, g, b), a very simple green-screen example is g(r, g, b) → (r, min(g, b), b). Or f is changed to return (r, g, b, a) all at once, this is useful if part of the calculation is shared.
Most keyers use far more complicated functions. A popular approach is to describe a closed 3D surface in RGB space and determine the signed distance the point (r, g, b) is from this surface, or to find the distance the point (r, g, b) is between two closed nested surfaces. It is also very common for f() to depend on more than just the current pixel's color, it may also use the (x, y) position, the values of nearby pixels, the value from reference images, and values from user-drawn masks.
A different class of algorithm tries to figure out a 2D path that separates the foreground from the background. This path can be the output, or the image can be drawn by filling the path with α = 1 as a final step. An example of such an algorithm is the use of active contour. Most research in recent years has been into these algorithms.
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