![]() ![]() There will be a Patagonian theme on the field before and after the concert when the Welsh band, Brigyn, will be appearing on the S4C stage where they will be performing songs from their current CD that’s been inspired by Patagonia.Īmong the other highlights at this year’s Eisteddfod will be the Thursday night concert when heart-throb tenor Alfie Boe will be joined on stage by Britain’s Got Talent star Jonathan Antoine. Hector said: “I have been fortunate enough to have had several choral works performed in Wales but the opportunities do not exist in Patagonia for a composer to develop the skills required to write for a symphony orchestra.” “In America because I was the Royal Harpist, they wanted to know more about the instrument and it gave me the opportunity to promote both classical music and the harp.”Īccording to Patagonian composer Hector MacDonald, whose uncle, Elvey MacDonald lives in Aberystwyth and is a former director of the Urdd youth organisation, it was a “fabulous experience” to be able to work with Catrin and a world-class symphony orchestra. It gave me the opportunity to expand my career and put the harp in the spotlight. She said: “It was a springboard for my career and I enjoyed a wonderful four years as Royal Harpist. A piece of North Wales in Patagonia.”Ĭatrin, who graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 2002, says she will always be grateful to Prince Charles for asking her to become his first Royal Harpist. It’s an amazing thought that there’s a little Welsh community on the other side of the world. “I’m really looking forward to the concert. I really enjoy mopping up the special atmosphere there. “It’s remarkable that a small town in North Wales has the ability to draw so many top musicians from around the world. She said: “I last appeared at Llangollen in 2002 and I’m really looking forward to going back to what is a very special festival. “The Sounds of South America concert will be a fitting tribute the courage and the endurance of the original settlers whose legacy lives on today.”Ĭatrin’s career took off after she was named Royal Harpist to the Prince of Wales in 2000, a traditional position revived after a century-and-a-half. She has done so much to take harp music to the world and she is a wonderful classical musician and performer. “It’s always a pleasure to see a musician such as Catrin Finch take to the Eisteddfod stage. He said: “It’s wonderful that the Welsh community in Patagonia continues to thrive a century-and-a-half after it was first established. There are now many as 5,000 people in the Chubut area who still speak Welsh, and in recent years there has been a significant revival of interest in all things Welsh.Įilir Owen Griffiths, the Eisteddfod’s musical director, is delighted the anniversary of the Welsh outpost will be celebrated at the festival which starts on Tuesday, July 7, and runs until Sunday, July 12. He also considered Vancouver Island, in Canada, but eventually settled on Patagonia before around 150 people set off from Liverpool on May 28, 1865. The migration was masterminded by non-conformist minister Michael D Jones, from Llanuwchllyn, near Bala. The work has been written by composer Hector MacDonald, a fourth generation Welshman who comes from Chubut Province in Patagonia where descendants of the original settlers cling on to their Welsh identity. ![]() The concert at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod on Wednesday, July 8, where the piece will be performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales will also star former royal harpist Catrin Finch. Photos by In the Barrel Photography.World premiere of work to celebrate 150th anniversary of PatagoniaĪ new work to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Welsh colony in Patagonia in South America will have its world premiere in North Wales. Carrie Carr, Davide Casaroli, Beth Murphy Photos by In the Barrel Photography Suzanne Devine and Ali Grosslight Photos by In the Barrel Photography David Heikka, Joe Lucas Founders Hector and Emma Finch welcomed guests and shared sentimental stories about the history of the brand and more. Over 35 designers enjoyed dinner prepared by chef Arturo Avallone in an exclusive gallery that features magnificent lights by he U.K.-based brand. showroom in honor of Hector Finch’s 25th anniversary. ![]() ![]() On November 11, Harbinger and California Home+Design hosted an intimate dinner at the L.A. Out on the Town: Celebrating 25 years of Hector Finch Author: Lindsey Shook ![]()
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![]() If Franklin leaves after 2022, it will cost him just $6 million, and only $2 million starting the following year. James Franklin’s new Penn State buyout is $8 million multiplied by the number of years left on his 10-year deal if fired without cause. The buyout goes to zero if Scott Woodward leaves his post as LSU AD. Kelly, or his next school, would only need $2 million to get out of his contract after December 2022. LSU hired the former Notre Dame coach under a deal that pays 90% of his base and supplemental compensation-$9.5 million a year-for all years remaining on his contract if he is fired without cause, and the figure hits 100% if he wins a national championship. Schools are typically on the hook for huge buyouts under these new deals, while the coaches can often leave with limited repercussions. Their contracts are packed with incentives that push their total comp above our average values. Ten-year deals are the new norm for coaches with any kind of track record. 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Know that you’re both waiting for the right moment to happen.Īnd if you’re already with your soulmate, embrace and nurture the relationship you have. ![]() It’s like there’s a force pushing you to give of yourself completely.īut if you haven’t found yours yet, don’t lose hope. When you’re with your soulmate, their presence will energize you and you’ll be comfortable enough to open up.įinding your soulmate is life-changing. For when you get that feeling, you’ll know what it means. Your instinct will likely tell you whether this person is the right one for you or not. ![]() The best way to know if you’ve found your soulmate or not is to listen to your gut. Look out for these signs to help you answer the question, “have I found my soulmate?” 1) You just know it Your soulmate could be your ideal partner, best friend, colleague, true love, or someone you’d be with for the rest of your life. Here are 20 signs to help you know if you’ve found your true connection. It’s amazing to know that someone out there is ideally suited for us.Īnd meeting the other half of our soul is so beautiful and something that we don’t want to miss.īut sometimes, we ignore the signs that the universe is giving us. We all have a soulmate (or so I believe). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I had given up completely on my passion and doing what I loved in exchange for status, an identity and the pursuit of money, which would ultimately make me happy… I thought. The glitz and glamour of the corporate world and the lure of making the big bucks had me hook, line and sinker. more → Jeff Freestone Jeff Freestone & Michéla Griffith | April 17, 2023 This unique upbringing in Czechoslovakia helped forge who she is today and what makes her gravitate towards the subjects she does. Her father gifted her a camera at a young age, which opened a whole new way of discovering the world around her. more → Vanda Ralevska – Portrait of a Photographer Matt Payne | April 18, 2023 We wanted to build on our experiences, but, this time, have three rather than six photographers. more → LITTORAL Paul Gotts & John Ash | April 18, 2023īy early 2022 we had both recovered from the success of our previous book, “New Beginnings”, and the £1,500 which went to the Young Minds charity. The caption reads that it captured two rocks fallen into wet mud, causing the mud to curl up as it dries up. Taken in the Paria Canyon Wilderness, Utah, Bloom is an example of such a captivating image. more → Issue 277 Tim Parkin | April 22, 2023Ĭlick here to download issue 277 (high quality, 150Mb)Click here to download issue 277 (smaller download, 100Mb) more → End frame: “Bloom” by Peter Coskun Huibo Hou | April 18, 2023 My aim these days is to hopefully let the light painted through the lens take the viewer on a similar journey like I found myself on many occasions when being entertained by what was Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings. Latest Articles Tolkien’s Shire in Lord Of The Rings Lewis Phillips | April 27, 2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In January 2014, GoTo (then LogMeIn) permanently retired its LogMeIn Free tier, so you'll no longer be able to use any version or plan of the service without paying. It used to be, which is why you'll see a lot of conflicting answers to what should be a simple question. No, GoTo's Pro is no longer a free service. 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I’ve already wrote them about it, maybe, with all the new LogMeIn customers, they’ll consider putting in this alternative method of a touch interface.įebruat 5:36 I have downloaded and installed TeamViewer but am turned off by the resolution change you mention and the dialog box it leaves open when disconnecting. Like the desktop on a Surface! □Īnyway, sadly, this way the TeamViewer app is pretty much useless to me. □ One can tell the app to leave the resolution untouched, but not only does 1920×1080 seem to be the maximum it can accommodate, as there is no way to zoom in (pinch gestures are interpreted as standard Windows zoom commands, resizing icons on the desktop or text in browsers), everything is way too small to be usable. By default it shrinks the host’s resolution to 1024×768 – yikes! As my DELL XPS 27 runs at 2560×1440, that’s quite some shrinkage. I love that, as it keeps the window sizes untouched, I’m very picky that way, every window is positioned just right, and I don’t want another program to mess with that.īut that’s exactly what the TeamViewer app does. In LogMeIn Ignition on the iPad You can preserve the host’s native resolution and zoom in and out with the typical iOS pinch gesture. I switched to TeamViewer as well, but the iPad app lacks one important feature unfortunately, or rather its approach to touch control is different. You also won’t hear sounds being made on the remote machine through the local machine. It doesn’t lock out the person on the remote end from being able to use the computer, but it you won’t be able to see the remote person moving the mouse on the local machine. ![]() When a local machine is controlling another machine, both sides can control the mouse and keyboard. On the Macbook Pro side of the connection, there will be a popup window letting you know someone is connected. In the image above, I’m remoted into my Macbook Pro from a Windows PC laptop. Of course, the Macbook Pro needs to be turned on, connected to the internet and have the TeamViewer application running, in order to be able to remote into it. I’m able to use the mouse and keyboard just like I was sitting in front of it. If I’m at work and need to remote into my Macbook Pro, I’ll launch TeamViewer and double click my Macbook in the address book and it will connect and allow me to control it. My Macbook Pro and my work laptop which remains on my desk at my day job. Or you can create an “address book” like you see on the right side. This is the info you would give to someone you want to allow to remote into your machine. I’ve covered up the machine IDs which are used to identify a machine so you can control it. The TeamViewer user interface on a Mac or PC looks like the window you see above. ![]() ![]() ![]() build teams of 5 to 6 students per team.We first need to identify 'objects' and second we must find out how they relate and talk to each other. But before we can start we need to analyze the game. If you recall from class, when inventing UML, the Three Amigos started with something that was called Object Oriented Analysis and Object Oriented Design. (However, I had students who did not know it, so in case you don't please learn about it and play it for a little before continuing with this lab). Actors never turn into objects, actors are always outside the system, hence the Tetris example below is much better. Important Note: the restaurant example actually is not a very good example, because it may give you the impression that actors become objects. Look at the classes generated and compare them with your model. In StarUML you right-click with your mouse in the class diagram, and select 'Generate Code'. Once you are done with the class diagram, try out the 'Generate Code' feature. Take the restaurant example from class and create all the different UML diagrams we created in class using StarUML or your favorite UML modelling tool. To learn how to use objectiF, take a look at their tutorial. Lab 1b: objectiF (30 min) Īnother UML modelling tool, which is free for personal use is objectiF. More details can be found at the following StarUML Tutorial. After that you can create all kinds of UML diagrams by right-clicking on the model. Then in the Model Explorer add a new model by right-clicking on the ’untitled’ thing. Start StarUML, and select ’Empty Project’ at the startup. ![]() A small disadvantage is that it is no longer supported, hence it is limited to Java 1.4 and C# 2.0, which is very unfortunate. StarUML is a free UML modelling tool that is quite powerful, it allows for forward and reverse engineering. We need to learn about a UML modelling tool. ![]() ![]() ![]() So the image was corrected as much as possible for the background and whites, and the original artwork on the right was mapped into the photograph: Artwork remapped to conform to the photograph In Conclusion Correcting for the white levels produced a nasty color shift in skin tones and artwork. The original image on the left had an improper white balance, and was only in JPG. Rather than attempting to fix the white balance only, the original artwork was mapped into the photograph to represent the correct colors: Original image on left, original artwork on right Fortunately they still had the high quality artwork used to produce the work being photographed. So the resulting photographs had some very nasty color shifts. One interesting use of this was to correct a problem that someone had where they had taken photos of artwork on display, but didn’t set the white balance properly. Each of the RGB channels of an image can be brought into the software and aligned to help reduce errors caused by TCA in the image. In fact, the open source HDRi software LuminanceHDR uses Hugin behind the scenes for doing the initial alignment before creating the HDRi (align_image_stack).īesides being able to align the image stack for HDRi creation, it also allows for an interesting solution for fixing transverse chromatic aberrations. In this case it is just a pure image alignment. The stitching and alignment of images also works for multiple images of the same scene. ![]() If I want parameters that will match the same result as the in-camera JPG, both can be opened in Hugin, and correction parameters can be generated to match the RAW to the JPG distortions. I’ve found this same method to be useful when generating RAW+JPG during a shoot, as the RAW file will be uncorrected. ![]() Once the optimization has finished it will produce lens parameter values that can be saved for re-use in the future (or modified for use in other software) to automatically correct lens distortions. The basic idea is to shoot photos of an image that has known straight lines in it, identify points along these lines as straight lines in the software, and to run an optimization against them: Straight lines being identified in Hugin for lens calibration ![]() There is a tutorial on the Hugin site that walks through the process. If you start with an image (or images) that have known straight lines in them, they can be used to generate parameters to automatically correct images later. The same technique can also be used in reverse to correct for lens distortion. In the previous example the image was corrected to maintain parallel lines in rendering the final output. Speaking of control lines, the software can also be used to generate lens correction parameters as well. The view on the right is possible without modification using a view camera, but can be approximated using a few extra control lines in the panorama software. This produces an “architectural view” (really axonometric, or really really planometric). From the same panorama, the right image was generated, but in this case the vertical lines of the image were identified in the software. On the left is the rectilinear projection after correcting for lens distortions. The image above is stitched from 3 images. This allows all of the parallel lines to remain parallel in an image: View cameras have the option of shifting the lens up vertically to include the top of a building without having to tilt the film plane. Doing so will lead to converging parallel lines. Shooting a building from ground level for instance will often require the photographer to pan the view up in order to include the top of the building. This comes in particularly handy for shooting architectural subjects where you want to maintain parallel lines in the image. One of the really great capabilities of having the lens plane adjustable relative to the film plane is that the image can be shifted while maintaining orthogonality with the subject. This effect is produced in view cameras by modifying the front plane with the lens relative to the film plane on the back plate. ![]() |