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Le Mans 24 Hours 2016

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I was fortunate enough to attend the 84th 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2016. A long-held childhood dream of mine was to stay up for the full duration of the race; after visiting for the first time in 1993 as a 6-year-old, where I was blown away by the electricity and excitement of a full-blooded race through the night, I was finally able to realise this ambition, 23 years later. This is what I saw.

[English Voiceover] Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah(HA) - Press Conference - August 09, 2010

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The full text of the press conference held by Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Monday August 9th, 2010 at Shahed Hall – Airport Highway In the Name of Allah, The Compassionate, The Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, The Lord of the world. Peace be on the Seal of prophets - our Master and Prophet Abi Al Qassem Mohammad - and on his chaste and pure Household, chosen companions and all prophets and messengers. Brothers and sisters! Ladies and gentlemen! Peace be upon you all and Allah's mercy and blessing. First, I have promised to hold a press conference in which I present indications and data that open new horizons which help in accusing the Israeli enemy of assassinating martyr Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. This is exactly what I promised of, and I will fulfill my promise tonight Inshallah. Also since I made my announcement to this effect, comments from one party were issued: Why now? Why not years before? Why did you hide this data? Why are you unveiling it now and talking about it? Apart from the means, background and technique in which this issue was evoked – as we will talk seriously because we do not want to get engaged with each other – I will leave answering this question to the end of the press conference because the data which I will present will help, taking its nature and timing into consideration. That will help very much in answering this question. Indeed I must welcome all of you and thank you for this important and great attendance. It goes without saying that the event, the topic, the cause, the stage and the challenge necessitated on you this level of responsibility – and you are competent for this responsibility. Welcome then. I also thank all the media outlets that will show interest in what I will say and broadcast it live on air. As usual, there are several topics: I will try to be as quick as possible. I will talk also in classical Arabic to generalize the benefit abroad. I will be as quick as possible to make full use of time though the case deserves considerable time from all of us. The first topic: Israel's accusation of Hezbollah. This is an indispensable prelude. The Israeli enemy had been working on this since the very beginning and especially after the event of September 13th, 1993. All of us – all the Lebanese – know that on that very day Oslo Accord was inked. Hezbollah organized a protest in the southern suburb (Dahiyeh); it was opposed by the Lebanese government which was then under Premier Hariri. Fire was opened on the demonstrators; ten martyrs fell and more than 50 were wounded. At the time, a kind of political tension and conflict took place between Hezbollah and the first government of Premier Hariri and with Premier Rafiq Hariri in person. This is well known. The Israelis intruded through one of their agent at the time who contacted one of the security internals in the party of Premier Hariri. He worked at convincing him that Hezbollah is plotting to assassinate him and is now in the execution stage. He particularly accused brethren martyr Imad Mughniyeh and others of what he claimed and the data he gave. To comprehend the issue, I would like to present it in my way: Months after the event of September 13th, 1993, Syrian Intelligence and pursuant to a command by General Ghazi Kanaan, arrested one of the Islamic Resistance cadres in Sidon – namely brethren fighter Hajj Ali Deeb who is known as Abu Hassan Salameh and who was later killed by the Israelis. When you listen to the collaborator talking about Abu Hassan Salameh, he would be meaning brethren Ali Deeb. Brethren Ali Deeb was arrested in ambiguous unknown conditions. Days later, I knew that brethren Abu Hassan Salameh is in Anjjar. So I went to meet General Ghazi Kanaan, and I called on him to set free the brethren. He told me that he sent him that morning to Damascus and that the issue is in Damascus by now. I blamed him saying: What is the story? Has you summoned him from me for interrogation, you know that we would have responded. You know we respond in such issues especially if the case is sensitive. General Ghazi told me: (Indeed let no one say I am referring to deceased persons because the document exists and will be presented in a while) Some days ago, Premier Rafiq Hariri paid me a visit and told me: I have some data; there is a very close person to Hajj Imad Mughniyeh. He is either a politburo or one of the very close bodyguards to Hajj Imad. He attended a session (this reminds me of Zuheir Essedeeq) with Hajj Imad Mughniyeh and Abu Hassan Salameh among others whom he did not know by name. In the session, they plotted to assassinate you. The assassination will take place through ambushes which will be set for you in this road and on that road. He gave him some details. General Ghazi carries on saying: We can't remain silent on that because this is an assassination operation which is being set for the Premier. We can't contact Imad Mughniyeh but we ca

Kaleidoscopic beautiful time-lapse clouds filmed over Derby. How to create this effect.

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I hope you enjoyed watching my mesmerising beautiful clouds in time-lapse, It looks stunning when viewed fullscreen. Watching this now it looks like the world has flooded with just the tree tops sticking out of the flood water. Its so easy to create a video like this, If you have managed to follow my guide (below) on how to do it then then post a comment. Tell us what you did to your footage to get the effects you wanted. How I made it The video is made from a sequence of photographs I took with my old Canon Ixsus 430 camera. I used some software that allows you to control a Canon camera via the USB lead. The software is called PSRemote, this software has an option to take time-lapse photographs built into it. You simply select how many seconds between shots and set it going. In my video I set the duration to every 9 seconds and left it running for almost 8 Hours, this took a total of 3133 photographs. Of course you have to use a mains power adaptor to keep the camera running for that long. You also need to make sure you turn off screensavers etc on the PC that you are using to take the photographs. When I stopped it taking photographs I made it into a video using Sony Vegas as described below. When was it recorded I pointed my camera out of my upstairs window in Derby, Derbyshire,UK on 13th June 2011. The first photograph was taken at 14:39 and the last at 22:29 How I created a video from the photographs using Sony Vegas. I used Sony Vegas 10 Pro 10.0c 64-bit running on Windows 7. To start with we need to make a video from the source photographs, so.. Goto File - Import - Media Navigate to where you have saved your sequence of time-lapse photographs and click on the first frame. When you select your first frame it should show you some details at the bottom of the panel such as File Type : JPEG, Video : 2272x1704x24 Now TICK the option box to the left of where it says "Open still image sequence" To the right of this where it says range: it should state how many frames it has found example 1-3133 Click on the Open button and in the Properties panel where it says Alpha channel : Change this from None to "Straight (unmatted)" Now click OK and a thumbnail should appear in your "Project Media" tab with the title based on your imported frame sequence. for example "0001.JPG - 3133.JPG" Simply drag and drop this thumbnail onto your timeline. Just for reference my 3133 photographs create a video sequence that lasts for 2 Minutes and 5 seconds (25 FPS playback rate). At this stage (if you have a fast PC) you can click play to see what it looks like. How I created the kaleidoscopic mirror effect using Sony Vegas. I'm going to render this video in HD 1080p (For YouTube) so I need to do change the aspect ratio. I want my finished video at 1920x1080, 25.000 fps So use the Event pan/crop tool on the timeline and set the Preset dropdown menu to "16:9 Widescreen TV aspect ratio" then move the crop area down near the bottom of the frame. Now add the following Video FX filters onto the video clip. Colour Curves "Increase Contrast" Saturation Adjust "Boost midtones" Mirror "Reflect Right" Mirror "Reflect Top" move Y axis down to reveal tree tops And there we have it, ready to render the file. MUSIC For the first time ever I have actually used background music which I composed and played myself. I am NOT a professional musician as you can probably tell. You can always mute the music if its that bad! The track is called "Clouds from an unknown future" which I wrote way back in 1993. I recorded it using Steinberg pro 24 running on my Atari 4160 STE and my Yamaha SY22 synthesizer. I've still got all of this old equipment, not sure if the old Atari computer would even boot up though after all of these years! The music is from my 2000 Album "Dawn of the new millennium" which was on sale at Midas Records of Derby at the time. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andy.sav/mymusic/ Note I have never released this album other than via the local record shop. Perhaps I should, what do you think? Did you spot the face at about 47 seconds ? If you want to learn more about Derby then have a look at my photographic website: http://www.derbyphotos.co.uk/ My latest projects can be found on my blog: http://derbyphotoscouk.blogspot.com/ Thanks for watching Andy P.S. This video is also available to view at 1080p on my YouTube channel : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiyYaU_e1kI&hd;=1