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Google is acquiring PushLife, a company that develops mobile media syncing software. The exact terms of the deal haven't been disclosed, but the acquisition is rumored to have cost Google $25 million. The move is significant because the underlying software that powers PushLife's media platform would make a good addition to Google's lineup of services and integrated software for Android.
At the Google IO event last year, the search giant revealed several capabilities that were planned for eventual inclusion in future versions of Android. One such feature was wireless music synchronization and cloud streaming on an Android mobile device. It seems likely that Google has acquired PushLife with the aim of integrating some of the company's services and technology into the upcoming Android music offering.
PushLife's current products include custom media-management applications for Android and Blackberry devices. The software supports wired synchronization with iTunes and Windows Media Player. It also has extensive social network integration with services like Last.fm and Twitter. The company's real vision for monetization, however, was its integrated music store—a service that it planned to deliver in partnership with mobile network operators in order to take advantage of carrier billing.
In an interview with Red Canary last year, PushLife founder Ray Reddy described his company's content storefront as a "carrier-grade platform" and insisted that it was much more than just an application or a smartphone software play. It's not hard to imagine why Google found PushLife's approach compelling. Much of the speculation regarding Google's acquisition of PushLife is focused on the syncing software, but it's clear that there is a lot more value.
To compete head-on with Apple's iTunes ecosystem, Google will need to offer a similarly frictionless media management solution and integrated content storefront. PushLife neatly fills in several pieces of that puzzle. The company's software, however, tends to be a bit more aligned with the Blackberry platform and isn't quite as mature on Android.
In addition to news of the PushLife acquisition, speculation about the upcoming Android music service has also been heating up this month due to the recent leak of an experimental new version of the Android music player application. The leaked player reportedly shows signs of supporting a cloud music service, though it doesn't seem to be operational yet. We can expect to see more details about the Android music platform emerge at the upcoming Google IO conference next month.
Amazon, which appears to be gearing up for an Android battle with Google, managed to beat the search giant to the market with a cloud music streaming and storage service of its own last month. Prior to launching the streaming service, Amazon already operated its own mobile music store—a service that has had a strong following on Android since the early days of the platform.
Superior media management is often cited as one of the advantages of the iPhone over Android-based devices. If Google can put PushLife's technology to good use and deliver a strong syncing experience, it could help make Android more competitive.


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Today the Executive Body for the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP) concluded its thirtieth session, held from 30 April to 4 May 2012 in Geneva, adopting historic amendments to the Convention's 1999 Gothenburg Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone (Gothenburg Protocol).
Following years of wide-ranging and intense negotiations, the new text of the Protocol will now include national emission reduction commitments for main air pollutants to be achieved in 2020 and beyond. The revised Protocol will include — for the first time — emission reduction commitments for fine particulate matter, the pollutant whose ambient air concentrations notoriously exceed air quality standards throughout Europe.
Fine particulate matter includes both solid particles and liquid droplets found in air that are less than 2.5 micrometres in diameter. Also referred to as "respirable" particles, because they penetrate deep into the respiratory system, adverse health effects have been associated with exposure to fine particulate matter over both short periods (such as a day) and longer periods (a year or more). Health effects of fine particles include coughing or difficulty breathing; chronic bronchitis; and premature death in people with heart or lung disease. Fine particulate matter is also responsible for environmental effects such as corrosion, soiling, damage to vegetation and reduced visibility (haze).
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In addition to ceilings on fine particulate matter, several of the Protocol's technical annexes were revised with updated sets of emission limit values (emission standards) for both key stationary sources of air pollution (such as factories and processing plants) and mobile sources (such as vehicles and non-road mobile machines and agricultural and forestry tractors).
National emission reduction commitments and emission levels for 2005 for the 27 member States of the European Union, as well as for Belarus, Croatia, Norway and Switzerland are shown in the table1 below. Other LRTAP Parties that intend to become members of the revised Protocol – notably Canada, the United States, the Russian Federation and countries in Southern and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia – will need to provide their respective 2005 data and commitments figures upon ratification of or accession to the amended Protocol.
EU as a whole is going to reduce its emissions of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, ammonia, volatile organic compounds and PM2.5 by 59, 42, 6, 28 and 22%, respectively. The United States provisionally indicated that it is aiming for a level of ambition similar to that of the EU, with respect to its reduction commitments.
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The tests showed that "alcohol was present" in the 27-year-old singer's body when she passed away in her London apartment on July 23, but it hasn't been determined if it played a role in her premature death, spokesman Chris Goodman told The Associated Press.
Her family is still unsure of what killed the "Rehab" singer. An initial autopsy was inconclusive and Scotland Yard told TMZ in July no foul play was suspected.
Winehouse had struggled with drug and alcohol addictions, spending time in and out of rehab for the past several years.
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A native of Washington State, Mr. Assink has been a pianist since childhood and is an accomplished organist. After taking a master's degree in musicology and business administration from the University of Minnesota, he joined the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra's (SPCO) artistic operations department in 1981 and six years later was named SPCO Manager. In 1990, he was named SFS General Manager, then returned to the SPCO in 1994 as the organization's President. He was named SFS Executive Director in March 1999.
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Assink spearheaded the Orchestra's Keeping Score project, an unprecedented global multimedia endeavor designed to make classical music accessible to people of all ages and musical backgrounds. Keeping Score's components include television documentaries and concert programs seen by over 9 million Americans on PBS television, a Peabody Award-winning national radio series, interactive web sites and an education program that has trained elementary school teachers nationwide to incorporate music instruction into core subjects. The educational Web site for children sfskids.com, first introduced in 2002, will re-launch in 2013 using the latest web-based learning tools and gaming techniques. Under Brent Assink's leadership, the SFS has expanded Adventures in Music, the longest running and most comprehensive education program among U.S. orchestras, now bringing music to every child in grades one through five in all San Francisco public elementary schools, and reaching more than 23,000 students. In 2011-12, its Instrument Training and Support program has expanded to reach more students in every public San Francisco middle and high school with a music program, with professional musicians teaching and coaching at schools and helping provide students with music supplies, instrument repairs, and other needed resources. As part of the SF Symphony's Centennial initiatives, Assink oversaw the development of Community of Music Makers, an ambitious amateur music program serving adult musicians and promoting active participation in music-making and lifelong learning. The popular program extends the Symphony's role beyond its historic performance and teaching model by creating opportunities for SFS concertgoers to participate in music-making under the auspices of the SFS and with the support of SFS players and artistic staff.
Other successful programs initiated during Mr. Assink's tenure, and designed to serve San Francisco's uniquely diverse community, include an annual Chinese New Year Concert that celebrates Asian and Western musical traditions; the popular Deck the Hall holiday celebration for children from local community organizations; and an annual Día de los Muertos community concert and celebration.
As SFS General Manager from 1990 to 1994, Brent Assink oversaw a major acoustical modification of Davies Symphony Hall, launched several new concert series, expanded ticket revenue, and augmented its education and community activities.
As SPCO President from 1994 to 1999, he recruited new board leadership, appointed Bobby McFerrin and Nicholas McGegan to the artistic staff, launched an educational initiative in partnership with St. Paul and Minneapolis public schools, and solidified the ensemble's program of national and international touring, including the SPCO's first tour of Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. The SPCO presented annual balanced budgets, retired its accumulated deficit, and launched a new endowment campaign that raised more than $14 million under his direction.
Brent Assink holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and piano performance from Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa. He is a regular faculty member for the Orchestra Leadership Academy, sponsored by the League of American Orchestras and Co-Director of the League's Essentials of Orchestra Management Seminar. He serves on the board of the League of American Orchestras and on the Advisory Council for the University of Minnesota's School of Music, and is a regular panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts. He has published articles on church music, is a published composer, and has been recognized as a distinguished alumnus by Dordt College. He and his wife, Jan, have three adult children.
Joseph Laposta, State Operating & Major Projects Manager – AFL NSW/ACT. Joseph has been with AFL NSW/ACT for 4 years based at their Head Office in Sydney. Prior to working with the AFL Joseph was involved in Town Planning and Infrastructure Development, both in the public and private sectors throughout Sydney and Melbourne.
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White Zombie Commentary – Part 2 (of 3)
Mike / February 21st, 2011
February 21, 2011 at 2:42 am
I just came online for a quick second before I go to bed and I find this…. so much for sleep at the moment.BLADDERMETAL
February 21, 2011 at 5:48 am
Thats alot of info i didnt know about this flick James,thanx. Lugosi rules!!ObSoLeTe
February 21, 2011 at 12:18 pm
ahh sweet , this is awesome, cheers guys
ohhh amazon say they have a colourised version.
Format: Black & White, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
heres the link
February 21, 2011 at 12:55 pm
He asks for a match to light his pipe 🙂Ctrl Alt Elite
February 21, 2011 at 2:58 pm
The tombstone moves because he touches it.
January 3, 2014 at 10:37 pm
a tombstone shouldn't move from slightly touching it, tombstones are heavy. He was commenting on the bad effects.
February 21, 2011 at 3:24 pm
the flower wasnt drugged it its self was a poison and, these zombies wernt dead they were entranced humans. the burrials were a farce to fool the others. typical vodoo stuff. i enjoyed this and hope to see more
January 3, 2014 at 10:23 pm
actually in this story they do put the drug in the flower it's mentioned earlier in the film.Jon12393
February 21, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Loved your commentary and loved the movie, do more commentaries!
February 21, 2011 at 4:57 pm
Thanks a lot for like so often bringing me a film nearer that i would not know about or even watch it.
February 21, 2011 at 6:10 pm
Keep em' coming. This is fun to watch.itscmillertime
February 21, 2011 at 8:43 pm
Had to log in that when you said real life was in black and white I started cracking up. I remember my mom used to say "back in olden times when grampa was in world war II…" and i always used to picture it happening in black and white. I probably thought that real life was in black in white for the first 3 or 4 years of my life haha.sutekh22
February 21, 2011 at 11:34 pm
Some points on the Dracula set. I'm pretty sure the staircase is the same, the railing particularly looks like something used for Dracula. Some of the set was also the Carfax Abbey set, which is much bigger and more expansive than what you see in Dracula. There's some stills of deleted scenes from Dracula that show it off better and give you a better perspective of what was used in White Zombie.
Put me down for someone who'd listen to James and Mike do a commentary 3-4 times a year. Night of the Living Dead, House on Haunted Hill, Phantom of the Opera are all PD classics. And Plan Nine is too, though there's a guy (Wade Williams) who claims to own it and used to sue everyone involved with it.sutekh22
February 21, 2011 at 11:36 pm
I also used this movie in my cable access series "NIghtmare Cinema" playing an English undead host, which is on youtube if you look for it.leothecaveman
February 22, 2011 at 4:04 am
the funny thing regarding movies where the dead come back to life is that if you watch highlander for example even though macleod is the good guy he gets kicked out of his clan 'cause he didn't stay dead; why his personality didn't change nor his behaviour towards anyone it seems like the only person to be able to come back to life without getting punished is jesus christ. hell they even said and still say today that it was a miracle but as soon as it happens again it is witchcraft. weird isn't it?
February 22, 2011 at 11:44 am
I just went back and checked the 1931 Dracula, and those stairs are, in fact, the same. They did move them. Instead of the left side being against the wall, it was actually the right side in Dracula. However, the "evil-X" shape of the railing thingamajigs are the same.Joe Shadows
February 22, 2011 at 9:33 pm
Please do more! And as much as I would prefer for these to remain free, obviously, if you wanted a way to justify spending your time on them you might also sell them as iRiffs on the RiffTrax site.Spaxspore
February 22, 2011 at 11:47 pm
Pooo… where is part 3 🙂 i Wanna c what happens to Miss WHite Zombie…afromonkey
February 23, 2011 at 12:01 am
Great video! I think I remember that "life was black and white" joke from a Calvin & Hobbes strip.kinghenry
February 23, 2011 at 10:33 am
I DVD'd this off TCM when it came on last year and have yet to watch any of it.
February 23, 2011 at 1:37 pm
you are the man James!
February 24, 2011 at 11:13 am
I saw Revolt of the Zombies on AMC On Demand and it's definitely crap! I would recommend King of the Zombies, haven't seen Revenge of the Zombies, and Teenage Zombies is even worse!
But the pre-Romero zombie movie I would recommend the most is Hammer's Plague of the Zombies because while some of the zombie appearances are brief, the movie excels in creating atmospheric chills, suspense, thoughtful characters, and unique storytelling. It's actually considered one of Hammer's best horror films and it's worth picking up especially double billed with the inferior The Mummy's Shroud.miles.z
February 27, 2011 at 11:46 pm
When they were discussing how Lugosi looks directly at the camera, I couldn't help but think of another example.
Citizen Kane used it in two instances I can remember. Mr. Thatcher looks directly at the camera when he receives the letter from Charlie Kane about not selling The Inquirer, saying "I think it would be fun to run a newspaper (grumble)".
Its used again when Charlie writes his declaration of principals, and Jed Leeland turns to the camera saying "I think it will be important, like the constitution or the declaration of independence…"
I don't know why it isn't used more often in film today, maybe because it's seen as cheesy in a modern context. I thought it was used pretty effectively in Citizen Kane, briefly connecting the audience directly with the characters of Thatcher and Leeland on the screen. It doesn't have the same effect in White Zombie, but its an interesting directorial choice.608nate
March 1, 2011 at 12:12 am
Just a little comment to that, in the movie "Funny Games" The antagonist repeatedly asks the audience if what he is doing is too much or if he should keep going. Cool little tidbit is all.Schloss Ritter
March 1, 2011 at 3:52 pm
"Real life was black and white back then." I'm trying to remember the name of that movie with Reese Witherspoon where her and her brother are transported to where that's true.Dolly Dagger
July 22, 2011 at 1:09 pm
Rope was a fantastic movie–I saw on the behind-the-scenes featurette that Hitchcock did the long takes because he wanted the movie to play out like a stage play.
Oh, and Murder Legendre's hat isn't a sombrero–it's a traditional undertaker's hat.Mappu
July 24, 2011 at 10:46 am
Horror Classics 50 Movie Pack Collection has good version of this movie, and also has lots of other awsome cult horror moviesJaysonGeronca
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January 3, 2016 at 6:01 pm
great commentary, James and Mike! Re: the world was black and white: that reminds me of that classic Calvin & Hobbes strip, one of my favourites: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2014/11/09
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text: So back on BAM some of you may remember our 7-string thread, so I figured why not try to migrate it here with the new faces from other forums! The point of this thread is basically to show that there is interest in a production Maryland made 7 string (even just a limited run to test the waters). They come with the stigma that they are for kids trying to play Korn songs, but nowadays that is far from the truth. People like Emil Werstler, Clint Lowery, Mike Mushok and Dave Weiner have been using seven strings as writing tools to create a full sound only available with that low B! Over on Sevenstring.Org (a very large guitar community specializing in 6,7,8 and extended range instruments), you will see that hundreds of people are financing guitars through private luthiers (Vik, Damoness, Bernie Rico Jr., Strictly7, Blackmachine etc) to build them 7 strings for $3k-$6k when the fact of the matter is a majority of them would prefer a production PRS 7 over a custom built guitar! Lets start it off with Emil Werstler's Whitewash 7!


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It's the best sh-t ever.
Spoiler alert for Desperate Housewives although I can't imagine you don't know about this by now…
Marc Cherry has killed off Nicolette Sheridan/Edie Britt. I don't watch DH, have never watched a full episode, but I know enough that Edie was the skank ho on the block and now she's gone. Apparently she's gone because these two queens could not co-exist.
Oh but why not???
In a new interview with TV Guide, Nicolette – bless her – refuses to sugarcoat her departure. Bitter, bitchy, and petty, she tears down the show and its creator and also compares herself to a diamond.
Nicolette says that DH now sucks: "When the show started it was such a different beast. It was exciting and dangerous and funny and edgy and bizarre. It started feeling a little complacent, and that was very frustrating. (I would have left sooner but we were all) contractually bound, so there was no way out on your own terms. "
She believes that without her, it will suck even harder: "(Killing off Edie) was a risky decision that could have devastating ramifications."
She thinks that Edie was ultimately killed because Marc is harbouring some latent emotional distress and decided to take it out on her character: "Somebody up there really wanted her dead. I think whoever Edie represented in Marc's life was somebody he didn't like. And he had a very difficult time distinguishing between fact and fiction."
Finally, she insists that her talent was wasted, that Cherry stupidly ignored the brightest star on his roster: "When you have a jewel, why not polish it and put it out there for all to see?"
Do you love it?????
I love it so much!
So how did Marc Cherry respond?
You don't need to teach a queen how to claw.
According to Cherry, he, like many other executives in this economy, needed to downside. Cutting Nicolette was the only logical move and it will save the show up to $200,000:
"There has been tremendous pressure put on me to cut costs ... the network is saying to all the shows, 'The company is really hurting financially. You must find a way to produce these shows more cheaply.' "
So how will they replace her?
"Edie's already slept with most of the guys on the street and has caused about as many problems as she could. We will find a new kind of sexiness coming through Wisteria Lane. What I won't do is cast another fortysomething sexy blonde. (Nicolette) performed the aging, neighborhood tramp better than anyone has ever done before."
Oh no he didn't.
Oh yes he did.
He used the A word. Which implies the O word.
This is Nicolette leaving My House (a club) the other night trying not to look O even though she is A.
Photos from Wenn.com
When queens fight…
It's the best sh-t ever.


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This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 11/673,931, filed Feb. 12, 2007 (now U.S. Pat. No. 7,433,491), which is a division of application Ser. No. 11/060,975, filed Feb. 17, 2005 (now U.S. Pat. No. 7,177,443), which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 10/003,717, filed Oct. 22, 2001 (now U.S. Pat. No. 6,920,232), which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 09/434,757, filed Nov. 4, 1999 (now U.S. Pat. No. 6,307,949), which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 09/186,962, filed Nov. 5, 1998 (now U.S. Pat. No. 7,171,016), which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/649,419, filed May 16, 1996 (now U.S. Pat. No. 5,862,260), which is a continuation-in-part of PCT application PCT/US96/06618, filed May 7, 1996.
The present subject matter is related to that disclosed in the assignee's other patents and applications, including U.S. Pat. No. 5,862,260, and application Ser. No. 09/074,034 (now U.S. Pat. No. 6,449,377), Ser. No. 09/127,502 (now U.S. Pat. No. 6,345,104), Ser. No. 09/164,859 (now U.S. Pat. No. 6,374,036), Ser. No. 09/292,569 (now abandoned in favor of continuing application Ser. No. 10/379,393, which has issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,263,203), Ser. No. 09/314,648 (now U.S. Pat. No. 6,681,028), Ser. No. 09/342,675 (now U.S. Pat. No. 6,400,827), and Ser. No. 09/343,104 (now abandoned in favor of continuing application Ser. No. 10/764,430).
Watermarking is a well-developed art, with a great variety of techniques. Generally, all vary an original signal (corresponding, e.g., to audio or image data—video being considered a form of image data) so as to encode auxiliary data without apparent alteration of the original signal. Upon computer analysis, however, the auxiliary data can be discerned and read. (For expository convenience, the following discussion focuses on image data, although the same techniques are generally applicable across all watermarking applications.)
A problem inherent in all watermarking techniques is the effect of the underlying image signal. In this context the underlying image signal—although the intended signal for human perception—acts as noise for purposes of decoding of the watermark signal. In most cases, the energy of the image signal far exceeds that of the watermark signal, making watermark detection an exercise in digging out a weak signal amidst a much stronger signal. If the encoded image has been degraded, e.g., by scanning/printing, or lossy compression/decompression, the process becomes still more difficult. As watermarks become increasingly prevalent (e.g., for device control, such as anti-duplication features in reproduction systems), the importance of this problem escalates.
FIG. 1 shows how an image may be tiled with a watermark.
FIGS. 2 and 3 are flow charts illustrating methods according to different embodiments.
FIGS. 4 and 5 are flow charts illustrating methods according to other embodiments.
To mitigate the problem of detecting a watermark signal in the presence of a much-stronger image signal, certain choices are made early in the process—at the embedding operation.
The "noise" introduced by the image signal doesn't always hurt the detection process. Sometimes innate biases in pixel values, or other image characteristics (e.g., DCT, wavelet, or other transform coefficients), can actually serve to accentuate the watermark signal and thereby simplify detection.
Starting with a perhaps overly simple case, consider an image prior to watermark encoding. If the un-encoded image is analyzed for the presence of a watermark, none should be found. However, there are cases in which the innate image characteristics sufficiently mimic a watermark signal that a phantom watermark payload may nonetheless be decoded. If the application permits, the user may then encode the image with this watermark payload. This encoding just accentuates the phantom data signal coincidentally present in the image. Even if all of the added watermark energy is somehow thereafter lost, the watermark may still be detectable.
Most watermark decoding algorithms are designed to guard against detection of phantom watermarks in un-encoded images. For example, the algorithms may look for checksum bits in the watermark payload; if the payload bits don't correspond as expected to the checksum, the decoder may simply report that no watermark is detected. Other algorithms may employ some confidence metric for each of the decoded bits (e.g., signal-to-noise ratio). Unless the confidence metric for all the decoded bits exceeds a threshold value, the decoder may again report that no watermark is detected.
In applying the principles detailed in this specification, it is generally desirable to disable or circumvent mechanisms that guard against detection of phantom data so as to essentially force the decoder to make its best guess of what the watermark payload is—assuming there is a watermark present. In the case just discussed, this would involve circumventing checksum checks, and lowering the detection confidence thresholds until watermark data is discerned from the un-encoded image.
The approach just-discussed assumes that the image proprietor has total freedom in selection of the watermark payload. This may be the case when the image is being secretly marked with an identifier whose purpose is to identify unauthorized dissemination of the image—in such case, the identifier can be arbitrary. More commonly, however, the watermark payload data cannot be so arbitrarily selected.
A variant of the foregoing considers the phantom presence of specific watermark payload bits in the un-encoded image. Many watermark encoding techniques essentially encode each payload bit position separately (e.g., each bit corresponds to specific image pixels or regions, or to specific transform coefficients). In such arrangements, the un-encoded image may mimic encoding of certain payload bits, and be indeterminate (or counter) as to others. Those bits for which the image has an innate bias may be incorporated into the watermark payload; the other bits can be set as may befit the application. Again, the image is then watermarked in accordance with the thus-determined payload.
(The notion that an image may have a preference for certain watermark payload data is expressed in various of my earlier patents, e.g., in U.S. Pat. No. 5,862,260, as follows:
Again, the foregoing example assumes that the user has flexibility in selecting at least certain of the payload bits so as to exploit watermark biases in the image itself. Commonly, however, this will not be the case. In such cases, other approaches can be used.
One approach is to vary the origin of the encoded watermark data within the image. "Origin" is a concept whose precise definition depends on the particular encoding technique used. In the watermarking techniques disclosed in the commonly-owned patents and applications, the watermarking is performed on a tiled basis (FIG. 1), with a square watermark data block 14 (e.g., 128×128 pixels) being repetitively applied across the image 12. Heretofore, the upper left hand pixel of the first data block is made coincident with the upper left hand pixel in the image (the latter is the origin). Thereafter, the watermark block is tiled horizontally and vertically across the image, repeating every 128 pixels. At the right and bottom edges, the tiled data block may overlie the edge of the image, with some of the block lost off the edges. This arrangement is shown in FIG. 1.
The assignment of the origin to the upper left hand corner of the image is a matter of convention and simplicity more than design. The origin can be moved to the next pixel to the right, or the next pixel down, without impairing the watermark's operation. (The decoding technique detailed in the commonly-owned patents and applications determines the location of the origin by reference to a subliminal graticule signal embedded as part of the watermark. A related system is shown in U.S. Pat. No. 5,949,055. By such arrangements, the encoding origin can generally be placed arbitrarily.) Indeed, in the case just cited, there are 16,384 possible origins (128*128) in the image that can be used. (Beyond the first 128×128 pixels, the tiling starts duplicating one of the 16,384 states.)
When an un-encoded image is decoded using the upper left hand pixel as the origin, a first set of watermark payload biases, as described above, may be revealed. If the origin is moved a single pixel to the right, a second set of watermark payload biases becomes evident. Likewise for each of the 16,384 possible origins.
For short payloads (e.g., up to 12 bits), it is probable that one or more of the phantom watermarks that may be discerned from the un-encoded image—starting with different origin points—will exactly yield the desired payload. For longer payloads, an origin can likely be selected that will exhibit a phantom bias for many of the payload bits. The task then becomes one of searching for the origin that yields suitable results. ("Suitable" here depends on the application or the preferences of the user. At one extreme it can mean finding the single origin within the 16,384 possible that yields the best possible phantom watermark results. If several origins yield the same, desired, phantom watermark biases, then each can be analyzed to discern the one yielding the best signal-to-noise ratio. In other applications, searching for a suitable origin can mean finding the first of perhaps several origins that yield the desired innate payload bit biases-regardless of whether there may be others that yield the same payload bit biases at better signal-to-noise ratios. In still other applications, a suitable origin can be any point that yields innate payload bit biases better than the normal upper-left-corner-pixel case. Etc.)
Except in limited circumstances (e.g., encoding a watermark in a single image that may be replicated billions of times, such as a banknote), an exhaustive search to find the single best origin may be so computationally burdensome as to be impractical. There may commonly be shortcuts and clues based on particular image characteristics and the encoding/decoding algorithms that can be employed to speed the search process.
The "origin" need not be a spatial location. It can be any other reference used in the encoding process. Quantization-based watermark encoding schemes, for example, may tailor the quantization levels in accordance with the particular innate biases of the image to encode desired watermark data.
In other embodiments, the suitability of an image to accept a particular watermark having a particular origin may best be ascertained by modifying the image slightly, and analyzing the modified image to determine watermark suitability. For example, a trial watermark (complete or incomplete, reduced amplitude or full amplitude) might be inserted into part or all of the image with a trial origin. The analyzing could then include an attempted reading of the watermark to yield a performance metric (e.g., signal-to-noise ratio). Based on the results thus achieved, the suitability of the image to host such watermark data with that particular origin can be assessed, and the process repeated, if desired, with a different origin. After thus characterizing the suitability of the image to accept watermarks with different origins, the image may be watermarked using the origin found to yield the best performance.
Although the foregoing discussion focused on changing the origin of the watermarking, other parameters can also be varied to effect the "match" between the innate image characteristics and the watermark data. One such parameter is image resolution. Another is image rotation. Yet another is compression.
Consider a vector graphic image that is "ripped" to yield a set of pixel data. The conversion can yield any desired pixel spacing (resolution), e.g., 600 dpi, 720 dpi, etc. The different resolutions will yield images that may be differently suited to host a particular set of watermark data. By analyzing the image at different resolutions, one may be found that provides innate image attributes that best tend to reinforce the desired watermark signal.
Similarly, with rotation. It is not essential that the image be encoded with the "top" oriented vertically. By rotating the image 90, 180, 270 degrees (or even to intermediate rotation states) prior to watermark encoding, a state may be found that provides image attributes tending to assist with the watermark encoding.
In still other applications, image attributes may be changed by corrupting the image through differing degrees of lossy compression/compression. To human observers, the results of different compression processes may be imperceptible, yet in the encoding domains, the resulting changes may make a particular image better- or worse-suited to encoding with a particular watermark. Again, various such modifications can be made to the original image to try and find a counterpart image that coincidentally has attributes that tend to reinforce the desired watermark signal.
Image modifications other than changing resolution, rotation, and compression can similarly be pursued; these three are exemplary only.
Reference was sometimes made above to image attributes that "coincidentally" tended to reinforce the desired watermarking signal. In particular cases, such attributes needn't always be left to chance. For example, in the compression-based approach just-discussed, compression algorithms have a great deal of flexibility in determining what image components to maintain, and which to omit as visually superfluous. The decision whether or not to omit certain image components can be made dependent, in part, on a priori knowledge of a watermark payload that is to be encoded (or retained) in the image, so as to optimize the innate biases in the decompressed image accordingly. Indeed, the entire watermark encoding process may be realized through a suitable compression algorithm that operates to retain or discard image information based at least in part on the watermark-related attributes of the resulting image after processing. Such arrangements are depicted, e.g., in FIGS. 4 and 5.
In still other embodiments, a multi-way optimization process may be performed. The original image can be analyzed to find which of several different origins yields the best results. The original image can then be modified (e.g., resolution, rotation, compression), and a variety of different origins again tried. Still further modifications can then be made, and the process repeated—all with a view to optimizing the image's innate suitability to convey a particular watermark.
As is familiar to those skilled in the arts, the foregoing methods may be performed using dedicated hardware, through use of a processor programmed in accordance with firmware or software, etc. In the latter case the processor may include a CPU and associated memory, together with appropriate input and output devices/facilities. The software can be resident on a physical storage medium such as a disk, and can be loaded into the processor's memory for execution. The software includes instructions causing the CPU to perform the analysis, search, evaluation, modification, and other processes detailed above.
The variety of watermarking techniques is vast; the technology detailed above is believed applicable to all. The variety of watermarking techniques is illustrated, e.g., by earlier cited patents/applications, and U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,930,469, 5,825,892, 5,875,249, 5,933,798, 5,916,414, 5,905,800, 5,905,819, and 5,915,027.
Having described and illustrated the principles of my work with reference to various embodiments thereof, it will be recognized that this technology can be modified in arrangement and detail without departing from such principles. For example, while the detailed embodiment particularly considered image data, the same principles are applicable to audio data. (The "origin"-based approaches would commonly use a temporal origin.) Similarly, the detailed techniques are not limited solely to use with digital watermarks in a narrow sense, but encompass other methods for processing an image to encode other information (e.g., for authentication or digital signature purposes, for image-within-an-image encoding, etc.—all regarded as within the scope of the term "watermark" as used herein.) Accordingly, I claim all such embodiments as may come within the scope and spirit of the following claims and equivalents thereto.


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Originally recruited in 1998 as a software engineer to design and develop cutting edge technology for new products, Mr. Boettcher assumed leadership for Research and Development and then Engineering before being named President of Realityworks in 2005. Responsible for total operations, he has driven significant understanding of market opportunities, gatekeepers, and funding in education, healthcare, and public service markets; bolstered production and supply chain efficiencies; acquired and launched new age technology; rebuilt leadership competencies; led growth into the Company's 62% US school system and over 90 country presence; and led the implementation of the Company's ESOP to build on the societal mission of the Company and further the family oriented culture to reward employees for their success in achieving the mission and efforts to drive growth. Focused on high market growth, he has led the Company's turnaround and achieved double-digit top line growth simultaneously with dramatic profit and cash flow improvement.
Mr. Boettcher brings more than twenty years of engineering, product development, and global operations experience in education, advanced technology, manufacturing, and distribution industries. Prior to joining Realityworks, he held positions at Cray Research, a leading manufacturer of the world's fastest supercomputers and Wal-Mart Distribution, the world's leader in distribution and logistics.
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Mr. Boettcher is passionate about building effective connections between our countries workforce development system, economic development programs, and education infrastructure. A solid connection between these systems is needed to ensure our youth and workforce are prepared to be global competitive and ready to take on the challenges and needs faced by industry. In delivering on this passion Mr. Boettcher:
- has presented workforce development strategies on the national level for Harvard's Pathway's to Prosperity, U.S. Department of Labor, and at many Career and Technical Education events.
- established and currently chairs the Industry Workforce Needs Council (IWNC), a national level group of industry leaders that works directly with education to increase support for Career and Technical Education in the country in alignment with industry needs.
- currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Association for Career and Technical Education.
- chairs the Western Wisconsin Workforce Development Board (Chair) to help establish and lead regional workforce development initiatives.
- established and led the Innovation Foundation of Western Wisconsin (Chair) to help bring critical C-level talent to start-ups and small to mid-sized companies to help them grow.
- served on the Board for the Eau Claire Economic Development Corporation (President).
- and provides guidance to institutions like the International Business Programs Advisory Council of the University of Wisconsin (Eau Claire).
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Panasonic has unveiled its latest Android smartphone, P81, with 5.5-inch IPS HD display and 1.7GHz true octa-core smartphone. Powered by Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean), the 7.9mm thin smartphone boasts of a nice leatherette design. The phone features a 13MP Full HD-capable autofocus camera with a decent 2500 mAh battery.
The Panasonic P81 will be available to consumers in India from the third week of May at a best price of INR 18,990.
The phone packs in several additional features like the new multi-tasking experience where users can play around designing screens. 'Device Cleaner' to free up device RAM, Multi Play capabilities like dual window operation, and Panasonic's signature feature, the 'Gesture Play'.
"With the launch of the Panasonic P81, we have reached yet another milestone as this is the first model of the "P" series featured with octa-core processor. The introduction of this model reiterates our commitment to keep innovating as we believe that it is a direct result of the consumers' needs, and customer centricity has to be at the core of developing products for the Indian consumer."
– Manish Sharma, Managing Director, Panasonic India
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Recently a Catholic friend of mine posed a question that had me perplexed and I was hoping you could explain. As you probably know, Catholics believe in Sacred Tradition. My friend told me that the Bible supports Sacred Tradition in 2 Thessalonians 3:15 when it states "Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours." Could you please explain this?
Thank you for your question about 2 Thessalonians 2:15.
When Paul uses the word traditions in this verse, he is referring to the message of the life, death, and resurrection of Christ. The central message of the gospel that Paul received from the Lord is what he delivered to the church (cf. 1 Cor. 15:3-5, where the word "delivered" refers to the transmission of tradition). So when Paul calls the church to stand firm and hold fast to these traditions, he is telling them to stand firm and hold fast to the gospel of Jesus Christ which he passed on to them.
Paul taught this gospel both by spoken word and by his writings. Today, since Paul and the other apostles are gone, it is only by their writings that we know and are bound to the apostolic word about Jesus.
The Roman Catholic notion of Sacred Tradition is authoritative teaching in addition to scripture. I would warn you that this kind of tradition is like the one about which Jesus spoke in Mark 7:8: "You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men." Only Scripture is "breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness," (2 Tim 3:16)
I pray that you will hold fast to the message of the Gospel as it is revealed in God's holy and perfect word.
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Texas District Goes Door to Door to Find Dropouts
Daniel P. King | Superintendent
Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District, Texas
When Daniel P. King took the helm of the 32,000-student school district he leads in Texas' Rio Grande Valley in 2007, its three high schools had just been singled out as "dropout factories" in a seminal national report.
Three school board members and the outgoing superintendent had recently been indicted in a federal bribery case for accepting cash and other gifts in exchange for awarding contracts. All four were later convicted; two board members served time in federal prison.
Gang-related tensions were running high in the district's secondary schools, causing violent incidents to flare and attendance to plummet. And 23 high school science teachers had resigned because of a mismanaged school redesign process that had bungled the master schedule.
"The district was in crisis," says King, 59, who grew up in the Rio Grande Valley and has spent his entire 36-year career as an educator in that region. "I told the board that if they wanted to individually influence daily operations of the school system, they should not hire me. I needed a lot of leeway."
A little more than five years later, the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo school system, located along the Texas border with Mexico, stands out as a promising example of how to turn around a district where low graduation rates and sluggish academic achievement were the norm for years. It's also one whose demographics—99 percent Hispanic, 90 percent poor, and 41 percent in need of English-language-acquisition services—are more commonly linked to dropping out of high school than entering and finishing college.
The starting point: The graduation rate by the end of the 2006-07 school year was 62 percent, far below Texas' statewide average of 77 percent. Nearly 500 students (out of a total high school enrollment of 8,000) had dropped out of school that year, and nearly half of them were seniors who had fallen short by just a few credits, hadn't passed an exit exam, or were derailed by a combination of both, King says.
By last June: The dropout rate had been slashed by nearly 90 percent. More than 1,909 seniors earned diplomas in four years, bumping the district's graduation rate to 88 percent, roughly 10 percentage points higher than the rate for all of Texas. And about 25 percent of Pharr-San Juan-Alamo's high school students were enrolled in at least one course that could earn them credit for college. Enrollment rates in higher education doubled for the district's graduates between 2007 and 2010.
"It has been a massive shift in many ways," says Nora Rivas-Garza, the principal of the 2,000-student Pharr-San Juan-Alamo High School, one of five in the district. "But the biggest change is that we went from a system where only the top 10 percent were expected to go to college to one where all students are expected to do so. Everyone hears about higher education, and everyone is pushed, encouraged, and prodded to take those courses that are going to put them on the path to college."
The first step in turning the district around, King says, was a triage effort to restore order to the high schools, and a push to build relationships with staff members, school board members, parents, and a community still reeling from the fallout of the federal corruption case.
'Stopping the Bleeding'
King says that in his first several weeks as superintendent, he spent hours inside each high school, listening to the frustrations of teachers who had come to deeply distrust the central office, and coming up with concrete steps to address many of their grievances.
But his most urgent effort in the early weeks of his superintendency, he says, was "stopping the bleeding of dropouts."
That required an initiative that King and his team called Countdown to Zero, a block-by-block, door-to-door campaign in the summer of 2007 to bring every student who'd dropped out the previous school year back into the district.
In his previous job as the superintendent of the nearby Hidalgo school district, that brand of on-the-ground, intensive effort had paid off, King says. He believed it would work in Pharr-San Juan-Alamo, too, even though it's 10 times the size of Hidalgo.
For a few weeks, the district team fanned out in search of students, and each day, met to tally up who had been located and who had agreed to come back.
King says he and his team knew they had to offer dropouts something other than a return to the comprehensive high schools where they had not succeeded. Foremost in his mind were the more than 237 seniors who had come so close to graduating the previous spring.
"We had to give them something that they would see as a step forward, not a step back," he says.
That something was community college courses at a new school called PSJA College Career Technology Academy that was separate from the district's comprehensive high schools. Those courses, taught largely by faculty members from South Texas College in nearby McAllen, would put students on a track to earn credits toward an associate degree or career certificate, King says. The career academy also provides support to students who need to prepare for and pass the state high school exit exam and make up missing high school credits.
King, who already had a strong relationship with the president of South Texas College from his time in Hidalgo, drew on that connection to open up the new school for recovered dropouts in less than two months.
By September 2007, 224 seniors who had left before graduation agreed to come to the new school, King says. And three months later, in December, 49 of them had graduated. By January 2008, the district, with state funding to support its expansion, opened the program to any district dropout up to the age of 26.
Since the academy opened five years ago, more than 1,000 recovered dropouts have returned and graduated, and districts across Texas have replicated the model. One school leader says the results in Pharr-San Juan-Alamo have sent a powerful message to the broader community.
"That recovery school has shown that everyone is going to get an opportunity to have success. It's not just reserved for those who are going to make it whether Mr. King had ever come here or not," says Ronnie Cantu, who was elected to the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo school board two years ago and is now serving as its president. "These are young people who would have fallen through the cracks in many other systems but got a second chance here."
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At the same time that the district was focusing on dropout recovery, it was also attending to an overhaul of the three comprehensive high schools that, like the career academy, would offer all students the opportunity to enroll in community college courses and earn at least 12 college credits by the time they graduated from high school.
Parents and some members of the community were skeptical about the early-college approach at first, Cantu says. Students and their parents had to be convinced that extending education beyond high school would have longer-term payoffs than seeking work as soon as they graduated.
King and his team consistently argued that giving students a head start on earning college credits not only would increase their odds of graduating and going on to higher education, but would also increase their chances of finishing with a degree. And it would save them money.
"In a community with as much poverty as we have here, it can be hard to convince students and their parents to not go out and get a paying job once you graduate," the veteran superintendent says. "But when you show them how much more they can earn with a degree, and give them a head start toward earning it in high school when they don't have to pay for it, it's very effective."
King had established one of the first early-college high schools in the country in Hidalgo a few years earlier during his first superintendency, using a grant from the Seattle-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that, as first proposed, would have offered the dual-enrollment opportunity to only half the 800 students in the school. King said he did not want the grant unless the program would be open to all students, because "if it's good for kids, shouldn't everyone get a shot?" The foundation eventually agreed.
That all-or-nothing approach is something King still insists on, Principal Rivas-Garza says, which pushes her to keep increasing the numbers of students at her high school participating in dual enrollment. This school year, she expects at least half her 2,000 students to complete at least one college-credit-bearing course.
Across the district this school year, about 2,000 high school students are enrolled in at least one community college course, King says. He vows to keep pushing hard until that number gets closer to 4,000 students. "We are still in the middle of this effort, but I think what we've shown here," he says, "is that districts and communities in dire situations can come together and do what's best for kids."
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A head injury ended Bowman's playing career while he was still a junior. He moved into coaching in the Canadiens' minor-league system and broke into the NHL with the expansion St. Louis Blues in 1967-68, leading that team to the Stanley Cup finals in each of its first three terms.
In 1971 the Montreal Canadiens hired Bowman to replace Al MacNeil, who had coached the team to a Stanley Cup just the year before but had lost the respect of players such as Henri Richard. The Canadiens won at least 45 games in each of Bowman's eight seasons at the helm, and they won the Stanley Cup five times. Those achievements speak volumes about Bowman's ability to prevent such an overpowering squad from growing complacent.
After the Habs' 1979 Cup championship - their fourth in a row - Bowman announced that he was stepping down from one of the most prestigious yet demanding jobs in hockey. A new challenge awaited him in Buffalo, where he was hired as the Sabres' coach and general manager prior to the 1979-80 season. The Sabres were a good team that failed to duplicate their playoff success of 1975, when they reached the finals only to lose to Philadelphia. Although he engineered a number of shrewd draft-day deals, Bowman was never able to fill the Buffalo roster with the same numbers of extraordinary role players he had had at his disposal in Montreal.
Bowman temporarily quit coaching in 1987 to work as an analyst on the CBC's Hockey Night in Canada telecasts. His next stop was Pittsburgh, where he was hired as the Penguins' director of player development. During the summer of 1991, he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a Builder. He returned to bench duty with the Penguins that autumn after Bob Johnson, a popular figure who had led the team to its first-ever Stanley Cup victory in 1991, succumbed to cancer during the off-season. Bowman molded the multi-talented club into a well-rounded squad that could control play at both ends of the ice. Their repeat championship in 1992 was attributable in no small measure to Bowman's leadership.
In 1992-93, Bowman's Penguins led the league with 56 wins and 119 points - both franchise highs - but were upset by the New York Islanders in the Patrick Division finals. Bowman moved on to Detroit, where he coached the Red Wings to 46 wins and 100 points. A stunning first-round defeat at the hands of the San Jose Sharks proved to be a short-term setback, as the Wings reached the Stanley Cup finals in 1995 - their first appearance in 29 years. Although they were swept by the New Jersey Devils, Detroit appeared to be headed for long-term success.
In 1995-96, the Red Wings won an NHL-record 62 games - eclipsing the previous standard of 60, which Bowman had set with Montreal in 1976-77 - but they fell short against the eventual Cup winners, the Colorado Avalanche, in the Western Conference finals. On December 5, 1995, Bowman made history when he coached in his 1,607th game - another NHL record.
Bowman earned a permanent place in the hearts of Red Wings supporters in 1997 by leading the team to its first Stanley Cup win in 42 years. The following year his experience at keeping a dominant team hungry came in handy as he guided Detroit to a repeat championship. Along the way he reached another individual milestone on February 8, 1997, when the Wings beat Pittsburgh to give Bowman his 1,000th career regular-season victory. In 1999 the Wings fell short of a "threepeat" when they were upset by Colorado in the Western Conference semifinals, but Bowman remained behind the bench to lead Detroit into the new millennium.
In February 2002, Bowman privately decided that he would retire at season's end. His hockey fairytale would indeed finish with a storybook ending. Scotty's Red Wings won the Cup in dominating fashion, defeating the Carolina Hurricanes in five games. One of the poignant scenes that played itself out on the ice following the presentation of the Stanley Cup was seeing Scotty out on the ice surface wearing skates and letting his players know that he had retired.
With nothing left to prove, Bowman retired from active NHL management with an unprecedented hockey resume. He is the winningest coach in NHL history with 1,244 victories and an astounding .654 winning percentage. His nine Stanley Cup bench wins ranks first all-time.
Scotty Bowman was selected as an Honoured Member of the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1991, but leaves a legacy that will remain as long as the game of hockey is played.
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1984/85: Madrid awake from European slumber
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A sleeping giant stirred in 1985, when Real Madrid CF lifted the UEFA Cup, their first European trophy in 19 years. Reviving them was the injection of young talent known as the 'Quinta del Buitre' - five homegrown players including Emilio Butragueño, Miguel 'Míchel' González, Rafael Martín Vázquez, Miguel Pardeza and Manuel Sanchís. Together they embarked on a remarkable run.
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Go to Hoi An, Hire a bike, motorbike, taxi or car. Ask directions and go. you gotta pay for parking. You get hassled big time on the beach buy vendors. If you wanna sit on the chairs you gotta pay. Wear sunglasses and say no thank you-Dont say maybe later. There are surfboards and bodyboards to hire-not great quality. check out wind guru before though as swell is not regular.
DistanceIn the city
WalkInstant access (< 5min)
Easy to find?Easy to find
Public access?Public access
Special accessPaddle > 20mn or Boat
Wave qualityNormal
ExperienceAll surfers
DirectionRight and left
PowerFast, Ordinary, Fun, Powerless
Normal lengthShort (< 50m)
Good day lengthShort (< 50m)
Good swell directionNorthEast
Good wind directionSouthWest
Swell sizeStarts working at Less than 1m / 3ft and holds up to 2m+ / 6ft+
Best tide positionAll tides
Best tide movement
Week crowdEmpty
Week-end crowdEmpty
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Great place be friendly, remember it is a 3rd world country and watch out for motorbikes.
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By Phil , 24-05-2007
Cuu Dai Beach - Cuu Dai beach is more for longboards, cause islands block most of swell.better go up to China beach, rent boards from german guy called gunnar,and vietn. wife named Thom. Tel : 0914-30 10 72
By Anonymous , 26-04-2007
- No shit its s 3rd world country! Still a great place compared to the states. South Vietnamn some pretty good uncrowded spots, two of them on government property but im goin back and want it all to myself so no telling where hahaha!!!
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