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\"In a world where diplomacy has become celebrity, a young ambassador survives an assassination attempt and must join with an undercover paparazzo in a race to save her life, spin the story, and secure the future of her young country in this near-future political thriller.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Emperor Has No Clothes
Historically positioned as the standard bearer of British civilization, the House of Windsor has long sought to vigilantly maintain control over the depiction of royal personages. Wrapped in its vestments and regalia, the royal body is the picture of grandeur and power. Yet for all the fastidiousness of the royal PR machine, photographs taken without consent have shown a different view of the royal body, if not entirely naked, then at least barely dressed. This essay explores the scandal surrounding King Edward VIII’s relationship with Wallis Simpson, paying special attention to a photograph taken of the couple on an intimate excursion in 1936, the first photographic depiction of a royal figure in a state of partial nudity. The essay situates the coverage of Edward’s affair with Simpson within the context of a burgeoning media culture focused on the public rituals and private lives of the social elite. The fate of the King – the preeminent figure of London’s high society – offers the clearest example of the dramatic stakes of representation in a new era of photographic reporting. Through a close analysis of this image and the circumstances of its creation and dissemination, I argue that the depiction of unclothed royal figures upends many of the orthodoxies of power, privilege, and propriety that continue to undergird the image of royalty.
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Persona
\"In a world where diplomacy has become celebrity, a young ambassador survives an assassination attempt and must join with an undercover paparazzo in a race to save her life, spin the story, and secure the future of her young country in this near-future political thriller\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Potential of Low-Cost UAVs and Open-Source Photogrammetry Software for High-Resolution Monitoring of Alpine Glaciers: A Case Study from the Kanderfirn (Swiss Alps)
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are a rapidly evolving tool in geosciences and are increasingly deployed for studying the dynamic processes of the earth’s surface. To assess the potential of autonomous low-cost UAVs for the mapping and monitoring of alpine glaciers, we conducted multiple aerial surveys on the Kanderfirn in the Swiss Alps in 2017 and 2018 using open hardware and software of the Paparazzi UAV project. The open-source photogrammetry software OpenDroneMap was tested for the generation of high-resolution orthophotos and digital surface models (DSMs) from aerial imagery and cross-checked with the well-established proprietary software Pix4D. Accurately measured ground control points served for the determination of the geometric accuracy of the orthophotos and DSMs. A horizontal (xy) accuracy of 0.7–1.2 m and a vertical (z) accuracy of 0.7–2.1 m was achieved for OpenDroneMap, compared to a xy-accuracy of 0.3–0.5 m and a z-accuracy of 0.4–0.5 m obtained for Pix4D. Based on the analysis and comparison of different orthophotos and DSMs, surface elevation, roughness and brightness changes from 3 June to 29 September 2018 were quantified. While the brightness of the glacier surface decreased linearly over the ablation season, the surface roughness increased. The mean DSM-based elevation change across the glacier tongue was 8 m, overestimating the measured melting and surface lowering at the installed ablation stakes by about 1.5 m. The presented results highlight that self-built fixed-wing UAVs in tandem with open-source photogrammetry software are an affordable alternative to commercial remote-sensing platforms and proprietary software. The applied low-cost approach also provides great potential for other regions and geoscientific disciplines.
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Paparazzi Lawsuits Against Celebrities: Ongoing Litigation
In 2013 then director of the U.S. Copyright Office, Maria Pallante, wrote in the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts that more of the general public was affected by copyright than at any previous time in history.9 That included liability for online content infringement.10 She advocated for authors and artists to be able to enforce their legal rights whether their creative works existed \"on the street or streamed from the cloud. \"11 In 2013 she urged Congress to consider how to enforce \"incidental\" digital copies of original works in future amendments to the 1976 Copyright Act.12 She was also concerned about the high cost to photographers for recovery of infringement when they copyright a collection of works under one group registration.13 One area Pallante encouraged Congress to reconsider is the idea of an \"opt-out system\" for creators to disseminate their works.14 The concept is simple. According to the United States Copyright Office, photographers own the copyright to their works nearly by default: \"21 Photographs are included as \"pictorial\" works.22 Any photographer who secures copyright controls those ownership rights for his or her life plus an additional 70 years. Since paparazzi are photographers, they have every legal right to secure their celebrity photos and control how they are viewed by the public.
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A ‘No-Flow-Sensor’ Wind Estimation Algorithm for Unmanned Aerial Systems
A ‘no-flow-sensor’ wind estimation algorithm for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) is presented. It is based on ground speed and flight path azimuth information from the autopilot's GPS system. The algorithm has been tested with the help of the simulation option in the Paparazzi autopilot software using artificial wind profiles. The retrieval accuracy of the predefined profiles by the wind algorithm and its sensitivity to vertical aircraft velocity, diameter of the helical flight pattern and different data sampling methods have been investigated. The algorithm with a correspondingly optimized set of parameters is then applied to various scientific flight missions under real wind conditions performed by the UAS SUMO (Small Unmanned Meteorological Observer). The SUMO wind profiles are compared to measurements of conventional atmospheric profiling systems as radiosondes and piloted balloons. In general, the presented ‘no-flow-sensor’ wind estimation method performs well in most atmospheric situations and is now operationally used in the post-processing routine for wind profile determination from SUMO measurements.
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How Stuff Works: How Paparazzi Work
\"The paparazzi are photographers who take photographs of celebrities in return for money from magazines, newspapers and television shows. Whether you love or hate the paparazzi, you have to admit one thing--their work is becoming more and more a part of daily life.\" (How Stuff Works) Learn more about the paparazzi.
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