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US 7376581 B2 Abstract The present invention is a system and method for providing access to electronic works over a network. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention offers a user access to electronic copies of works, such as songs, albums, movies, or music videos, over a network. The user responds to the offer by requesting to access to a particular work. Before such a request is granted, the present invention may verify that the user is authorized to access to the work. In one embodiment, the user verifies that they are authorized to access an electronic copy of the work by demonstrating that they possess a physical copy of the work. In another embodiment, the user verifies that they are authorized to access an electronic copy of the work by demonstrating that they ordered or purchased a copy of the work. If a user's authorization is verified, the user may then be provided with access to an electronic copy of the work by such techniques as downloading or streaming.
Claims(19) 1. A method for providing electronic works over a network, comprising the steps of:
offering electronic works over the network,
receiving a request for at least one of the electronic works from a user,
verifying the user is authorized to access the requested electronic work; and
providing the requested electronic work to the authorized user over the network in response to said verifying;
wherein said verifying includes
receiving data corresponding to a physical version of the requested electronic work, and
comparing track offset information from the data corresponding to the physical version and track offset information from the stored electronic version.
2. The method of
identifying a title of the physical version based on the data received.
3. The method of
4. The method of
5. The method of
receiving a block of data corresponding to a predetermined portion of the physical version;
comparing audio characteristics of the received block of data and audio characteristics of a corresponding block of data from the stored electronic version.
6. The method of
7. The method of
acquiring identification information from the physical work, and
identifying the requested electronic work for comparison with the identification information.
8. A method for online delivery of electronic works, comprising:
offering electronic works over a network,
receiving a request for at least one of the electronic works over the network;
sending a request to obtain data corresponding to at least a portion of a physical work corresponding to the electronic work requested;
receiving data corresponding to the at least a portion of the physical work;
comparing the at least a portion of the physical work with a corresponding portion of a stored electronic version of the physical work including phase shifting either the at least a portion of the physical work or the corresponding portion of the at least one electronic work; and
providing the requested electronic work over the network if it is determined by said comparing that the at least a portion of the physical work matches the corresponding portion of the stored electronic version.
9. The method of
10. The method of
11. The method of
increasing a size of the at least one portion of the physical work or the corresponding portion of the stored electronic version of the physical work prior to said comparing.
12. The method of
13. The method of
14. The method of
15. The method of
requesting data corresponding to the at least one portion of the physical work; and
repeating said receiving and said comparing.
16. An apparatus for providing electronic works, comprising:
a server for offering electronic works to a user over a network, wherein when the server receives a request for access to at least one of the electronic works, the server verifies that the user is authorized to access the requested electronic work by receiving data of a physical version of the requested electronic work;
wherein the data of the physical version of the requested electronic work is compared to data of the requested electronic work at a location of the server wherein the data of the physical version comprises track offset data for a compact disk; and
wherein when the comparison indicates a correlation, the server provides the requested electronic work to the user over the network.
17. The apparatus of
18. The apparatus of
19. A method for providing selective access to an electronic work, comprising the steps of:
receiving a request for the electronic work from a user, the request demonstrating that the user is authorized to receive the requested electronic work; and
providing the electronic work over a network; wherein the demonstrating is based on information relating to a physical version of the requested electronic work;
wherein the information comprises data read from the physical version of the requested electronic work;
wherein the data read from the physical version is track offset data of a compact disk, and wherein the track offset data is compared to corresponding track offset data of the requested electronic work to determine whether the user is authorized to receive the requested electronic work.
In another embodiment, a search for the exact match may be performed before the system performs the flexible range search. Although, exact matches require more accurate recordings, an exact match search may reduce the search time and more quickly identify the related electronic work. For example, using the above facts, such a search would only identify Electronic Work A. In yet another embodiment, the distributor's servers may only search a subset of their stored electronic works, such as the works with a certain identification code, the works with the same or similar titles, the works from a given artist, etc. Further, the comparison may search for one track offset or multiple track offsets within a work. For example, the software may compare the track offset for each work on a CD, may compare several track offsets within the same work, or may compare any combination thereof. The location of the track offsets used for these comparison may be predetermined, one of a finite number of possible comparison scenarios, or randomly selected for each work. In another embodiment, the comparison may include multiple layers of searching. For example, the comparison may first check the database to determine whether there are any stored works with the exact track offsets. If no such work exist, the comparison could proceed to check whether there were any works with almost exact track offsets by searching for a small range, such as a track offset from 120-180. If such a work is still not found, the comparison may search for works within a larger range, such as 80-220, and so on. In another embodiment, the comparison may also include layers to distinguish between two works identified during the same search. For example, if a search identified two works, the comparison may compare a different set of track offset or set of track offsets. If the first search only looked for works with a track offset of 120-180 for the first work on a CD and the search identified three stored works. The comparison may proceed to compare the track offsets of the second work on the CD or from just another portion of the CD. If there are no stored electronic works within specified range, the User Interface Server 120 may inform the user that their physical work was not accepted or not eligible for inclusion into their personal account. The User Interface Server 120 can also provide the user with the plurality of customer service options identified above. In alternative embodiments, the system tests to identify whether the physical work, confirmation number, UPC code, or other authentication information enter was already entered by a previous user or for some other reason appeared fraudulent. The system could automatically preclude the user from any further access to the user's personal account and prevent them from logging back in. If the comparison identifies a stored electronic work that is within a specified range, the User Interface Server 120 may allow the user to upload the data on their physical copy to the Content Repository 142, or may provide a pointer to the stored electronic work within the user's personal account. If the comparison identifies one or more electronic works that are close, but not close enough to authenticate the user's ownership of the work, the system may continue to verify the user's ownership of a physical work with additional tests. Another technique to verify a user is otherwise authorized to receive access to an electronic copy of the work is to compare portions of the physical work to portions of the stored electronic work. This type of comparison could be the only comparison used for verification, or can be used after the number of works for comparison has already been reduced by other means. For example, before comparing portions of the physical work to the electronic work, some embodiments may narrow the number of stored electronic works for comparison based on other information about the work, such as the artist, title, year, etc. In a preferred embodiment, this comparison is run after the track offset comparison to narrow the number of eligible works. For example, the Verification Server 141 can request that the user's machine to send a portion of data, such as the 5 sectors of data found on track two beginning at the thirtieth second of playing time. The portion of data requested may be predetermined or determined randomly. The user's machine responds by sending the requested sample of data. The Verification Server 141 then compares this requested data with the samples of data previously extracted and stored during the content acquisition. Such a comparison may simply compare each sample or the comparison may add some additional steps to make sure that the comparison is comparing like data. For example, the straight comparison of samples may be used with equipment that accurately reads the recorded works or the samples are identified in a way that minimizes problems caused by mechanical error, as shown by In a preferred embodiment, such a comparison may make sure it is comparing like data with many well-known techniques, such as correlation and/or phase shifting. Specifically, the Verification Server 141 requests a portion of data from a client machine. The client machine collects this data from a physical work and sends this data to the Distributor Location 100. The Verification Server 141 receives the corresponding data collected from the physical work and determines whether this data can match up with the data of one or more stored electronic works. To reduce possible problems caused by mechanical error, the comparison may not match the data exactly as it is received. Instead, the Verification Server 141 may first identify whether any portion of the sample received from the first work potentially matches any portion of a stored electronic work or sample of a stored electronic work. Once it identifies the corresponding portions of data for maximum correlation, the Verification Server 141 may use correlation and/or phase shifting techniques to manipulate the data so that the comparison is not thrown off by mechanical inaccuracies, such as the inaccuracy of the user's personal computer reading a CD. For example, as shown in Once the most closely corresponding portions of the samples or works are identified, the verification process compares these possibly corresponding portions of the samples. In a preferred embodiment, the verification process runs a Fast Fourier Transform (�FFT�) algorithm on each WAV samples to generate their respective power spectrums. The computer can then compare these two spectrums. The Verification Server 141 performs the FFT. The FFT provide a frequency analysis of the data. The Verification Server 141 compares either or both channels of a stereo audio file and averages the results. When the data on the physical work matches the data on the electronic work perfectly, the difference between the audio files in the power spectrum can be 0.000. Conversely, if a CD is badly scratched at this specific location on the disk or the physical work is different from the electronic work, the two data may not compare too well. However, in a preferred embodiment, a scratch should only affect one or two samples of the 20 samples so that the system could still recognize the match. Additionally, as an alternative to FFT, the Verification Server 141 can perform direct waveform comparisons of the sampled and stored data. If the received information identically or substantially matches only one stored CD, then the Verification Server 141 automatically stores a pointer to the formatted version of this title in the client's personal account. Otherwise, the Verification Server 141 asks for additional data (e.g., send the seven sectors of data found on track four at the tenth second of playing time). The system repeats this process until it has received an acceptable amount of data to verify or reject the CD in the user's machine or until it completes a predetermined set of requests. The number of requests for information by the Verification Server 141 can vary as necessary, as can the number of channels of data and sampling rate In an alternative embodiment, the Verification Server 141 can make all of its requests for information and complete its verification process before notifying the user that their request has been verified or rejected. This embodiment protects the integrity of the interrogation process, because the user's machine receives no feedback as to the specific point where the request failed. In another embodiment, the entire verification process can be repeated to further narrow the number of works found within a search or to increase the certainty of the process. The system can also repeat the verification process for each work that the client desires to have in their personal account. In another alternative embodiment, the verification step may not include loading a physical work into a client machine at all. Instead, the user may demonstrate that they ordered a physical work. The Distributor Location 100 may recognize that the user ordered a physical work in many ways. For example, in a preferred embodiment, the distributor may know that the user purchased the work from a retailer because the retailer sent the distributor a message authorizing the distributor to provide the user with access to an electronic work. To control the integrity of these messages, the distributor may only accept such messages from certain IP addresses, or may require the retailer to provide a security key or password. In another embodiment, the Distributor Location 100 may know that the user has ordered a physical work because the order was submitted through the distributor. Thus, the distributor takes the order and records the information related to the order, including user name, email address, credit card number or other billing information, unique identifier of the ordered work, or confirmation number, and forward the order to the retailer. In yet another embodiment, the Distributor Location 100 may obtain verification that the user purchased the work based on a confirmation number entered by the user or retailer. In another embodiment, the Distributor Location 100 may receive the order information from another location, such as a partner or other third party. In a preferred embodiment, the distributor is partnered with a retailer. For example, the distributor may communicate with a plurality of retailer locations via an application program interface made for retailers. The retailer API may enable retailers to host user accounts, folders, or files. In this example, a user purchases a work from a retailer, the retailer sets up a user account. Then the user can purchase a work from the retailer and shortly thereafter access the work via the network 130. Further, the distributor or retailer can deactivate access to a work if the consumer returns or exchanges the work later. If the user returns a work, the retailer may deactivate the user's access to an electronic copy or notify the distributor to deactivate the user's access to the electronic copy. The retailer may check to determine whether the user already accessed the electronic copy before it allows the user to return the work. For example, the retailer may not allow the user to return the work if the user already accessed the electronic work. In yet another alternative embodiment, the retailer API can allow retailers to access a user's account or folder at the Distributor Location 100. In a preferred embodiment, the retailer API may perform one-way authentication to verify the identity of the retailer. For example, the retailer would need to enter a login and/or password, or any other well-known technique that the order or authorization information is actually from a retailer. Also, such communications between a retailer and distributor are preferably secure (i.e., encoded and/or encrypted) to prevent a non-retailer from obtaining a retailer's retailer identification or password. For example, the retailer API secures the retailer's identification and/or password with encoding or encryption. In other embodiments, the system may use one of many available encryption methods (public or nonpublic). A basic introduction to some encryption and decryption techniques is described in the text written by Bruce Scheiner entitled �Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms And Source Code in C,� published by John Wiley & Sons, 1994, the entirety of which is hereby incorporated by reference. Moreover, more detailed descriptions of systems and apparatuses for accomplishing encryption and decryption in computer networks are set forth in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,903,652, 5,850,442, and 5,580,446, the entirety of each of which is incorporated by reference. When encryption is used, each retailer API may have a unique encryption key that is shared with the Distributor Location 100. The Distributor Location 100 uses this unique encryption key to identify and authenticate the specific retailer API. In a preferred embodiment, the retailer API may send various types of data packets or API function calls to the Distributor Location 100. These packets can include user email data, a retailer identification, an order number, a UPC, and band, title, checksum data, or any other potentially useful data. For example, a retailer may issue an �activate_cd� (user email, order #, retailer id, UPC, band, title) message to enable the user to listen to the purchased work. When the server tier 28 receives an activate_cd request, the Verification Server 141 checks to see if the transaction already exists in an invoice table. If it exists and is active, it is ignored. If it exists and is inactive, the system activates the record and sets the appropriate media for the user to �purchased.� If the record does not exist, the system creates invoice and verification records for the user. The verification table stores the status as �purchased� in the verification table. The server then returns a confirmation of this transaction to the user via email. If the Verification Server 141 cannot find an appropriate match for the requested work identifier, such as UPC, title, or band, then the work does not exist in the Content Repository 142. The Verification Server 141 then communicates this to the user and to a customer representative with the distributor so that distributor may attempt to add this work to their database. The retailer may also issue a �deactivate_cd� (user email, order #, retailer id, UPC) to disable access to a CD for a particular customer. When the Distributor Location 100 receives a deactivate_cd call, the Verification Server 141 checks to see if the transaction exists in the invoice table. If it does not exist, it is ignored. If it exists and is deactivated, it is ignored. If it exists and is active, then the system deactivates it. The Verification Server 141 will then check to see if the user identification has any other active order for this particular work. If so, then the Verification Server 141 takes no further action, because the user owns another copy of the work under a different order or retailer. If this is the last order with this media identification, the Verification Server 141 sets the media identification in the verified table to �unpurchased.� The retailer may also send a �has_accessed_cd� message when a user attempts to return or exchange a previously purchased work. When the Verification Server 142 receives this message, the Verification Server 142 checks the user's account to see if the user has previously accessed (i.e., downloaded, streamed, opened, read, watched, or listened to) the electronic copy of the work. The Verification Server 142 also checks the invoice table to see if the user owns multiple copies of the same work. If the user only owns one copy of work and has not previously accessed the work, the Verification Server 142 communicates this information to the retailer API. If the user has multiple copies of the work, then the system only knows that the consumer has listened to at least one copy and will communicate this information to the retailer. The consumer thus cannot exchange this CD. If the user has previously used their electronic copy of the work, the retailer may not permit the user to exchange the work. Once a work is loaded or accessible to a user, the user can access those works through a variety of graphical user interfaces and organization models, such as a juke box, alphabetically, by artist, by type of work, by category of work, by verification date, etc. In a preferred embodiment, the works are organized as shown in The user may be provided with access to the electronic works identified in their account by downloading, streaming, email enclosure, or many other well-known techniques. Such access may be provided via the user's personal computer, cell phone, personal digital assistant, pager, car stereo, television or any media player. Before providing such access, the Content Delivery System 152 may attempt to identify what media player the user is accessing the works with. These characteristics may be automatically provided to the Distributor Location 100 as a header or some other information field included with the user data. The Distributor Location 100 could also request the information automatically from the user's device or the user. If the information is requested from the user, the user could identify their device by manually entering �cell phone� into a blank field or selecting their device from a list of available devices. In an alternative embodiment, it may also be able to identify the user's device to accommodate for geographically specific server farms. In a preferred embodiment, a user may access the works identified in their account from anywhere connected to the network 130. Since this network is preferably the Internet and may be accessed with cellular transmission, such access is geographically unrestricted. In an alternative embodiment, the network 130 may be a local or regional network with geographical restrictions. In another preferred embodiment, a user may be provided with a work by the Content Delivery System 152. The Content Delivery System 152 receives a request for access to a particular piece of content or work either directly from the user or from another component with the Distributor Location. As part of the request, the System 152 may receive or generate a secure, tamper proof, encrypted URL to represent that request. Within the Content Delivery System 152, the coder/decoder decodes the URL, forwards some of the information with the request to the translation module, and discards the remaining information. The translation module translates the URL into a unique identifier of the requested content. The validation module validates that the user is entitled to receive the work. In a preferred embodiment, the validation module performs Valid From Date (�VFD�) data management and concurrency checking. The validation module performs concurrency checking by monitoring which users are logged into the Distributor Location 100 at any given time. Such information is useful because user accounts and lockers each have different access privileges. For example, a company may have a user account that entitles every employee of a company to access the account. To obtain such an account, the user may have paid more for a group license to a work or obtain multiple copies of the same work. In another embodiment, the access privileges for a user account may only permit a single individual to access the account. For example, if a single user buys a copy of a copyrighted CD, only that user may access the account. Thus, if a second user attempts to access the work while a first user is already logged into the account, the system recognizes that both of these users are not entitled to access this work. When a possible breach of the access privileges is detected, the system may automatically deactivate all the works in the account, shutdown the account immediately, deny the concurrent request for access, suspend the account, or prohibit any subsequent access to the account. In addition, the validation module may log information about the concurrent request for access, such as the user identification, the time, where they were logging in from, etc. and notify the user of the integrity breach so that they can explain themselves if it was a mistake. With regard to VFD data management, the Content Delivery System 152 validates the time stamp embedded within the URL. The time stamp indicates the time at which the work was selected. Such a time stamp may be used for validation by testing whether the time stamp expired, testing whether the time stamp was before the VFD of the user's account, or a variety of other ways. For example, a URL may be acquired at 9:00 am and expire twenty four hours later so that any attempt to access that URL after 9:00 am the next day is not validated. In another example, the URL representative of the request for access to a work is compared with the VFD of the user's account. If the time stamp on the URL of the request is before the VFD of the user's account, the request is not validated. Such a test may be used to preclude users from sharing account information or other unauthorized uses. For example, the Content Delivery System 152 may recognize that a user shared their account information due to concurrency checking. Accordingly, the Content Delivery System 152 may reset the VFD on the user's account so that any URLs acquired prior to that time are no longer valid. Further, if both the account holder and the unauthorized user were identified to have account, the System 152 could reset the VFD on both accounts. In another alternative embodiment, the VFD may be automatically adjusted for accounts using limited time offers, such as a distributor providing user's with free access for thirty days or an artist providing free access to their work for a week. In another embodiment, the validation module validates the user based on a counter. For example, when a work is provided to a user, the user's counter is incremented. When the act of providing the work to the user completes, the user's counter is decremented. If a URL is requested and the user's counter exceeds one, the user's request is not validated and the �valid from date� is set to the current date and time. In yet another embodiment, the media player software, known as the User Agent, used to receive an electronic work via download or stream is recorded in the user's account information. If subsequent works are requested by a different User Agent, the request is not validated and the VFD is set to the current date and time. Similarly, the Autonomous System Number (�ASN�) (i.e., essentially a map between the IP address and the Internet Service Provider) associated with a user's requests is recorded. If a subsequent address is made from a different ASN, the request is not allowed and the VFD is set to the current date and time. In yet another embodiment, the validation module validates by comparing the current session identifier provided within a requested URL to a stored session identifier. When a user logs into their account, they receive a session identifier unique to that machine, which is stored in their account record. If the user requests an electronic work, the validation module compares the session identifier stored within the user's account to that contained within the URL for the work. If the session values are different, the request is not validated. Once the Content Delivery System 152 validates a user, the System 152 uses the unique content identifier within the URL to determine where the requested work is stored, such as local memory, the Content Repository 142, or some other memory. In a preferred embodiment, the Content Delivery System 152 searches for the requested work in the local storage of the particular server accessed in the System 152. If the work is not present in the local storage of that server, the System 152 searches the local memory of the other servers or databases within the System 152. If the work is not present in the local memory of any of the System's servers, the System 152 accesses a bridge to the Content Repository 142 to determine whether the work is stored there. If the work is within any of these memories, it is provided to the user. If the work is not present in any of these memories, the system may continue to try other servers or databases, including remote servers and databases, or it may notify the user that the requested work is unavailable. For example, a user accesses the web site provided by the distributor. While on the site, the user selects a work. Based on the selection, the User Interface Server 120 generates a URL. Next, the URL is provided to the Content Delivery System 152 and the user. The Content Delivery System 152 extracts a unique content identifier from the secure URL, and attempts to locate the work with the Content Delivery System 152 or the Content Repository 142. If the work is present, the Content Delivery System 152 provides the user with access to the electronic work by downloading, streaming, broadcasting or other well-known delivery techniques. While various embodiments of the present invention have been described above, it should be understood that they have been presented by way of example only, and not limitation. For example, the present invention is not limited to the physical arrangements or use with any particular network. As such, the breadth and scope of the present invention should not be limited to any of the above-described exemplary embodiments, but should be defined only in accordance with the following claims and their equivalents. Patent Citations
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CBO: Cost Of ObamaCare Way Up, Those Covered By Private Insurers Way Down
Reuters is spinning hard, but, can't quite get away from the dismal numbers, written to be as confusing as possible. The Washington Examiner's Philip Klein is having none of it
President Obama's national health care law will cost $1.76 trillion over a decade, according to a new projection released today by the Congressional Budget Office, rather than the $940 billion forecast when it was signed into law.
By my math, that's, well, a lot of money. Almost double the previous projects. And that is the full 10 year cost per the CBO, now that actual costs are included, rather than accounting gimmicks. And, that is the gross cost, before the taxes, er, penalties, er, what are they today? ….. anyhow, from the Reuters article
"The fact that the outlook for the new law continues to worsen so rapidly, even before it's implemented, is ominous," said Senator Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee.
These cost reductions are largely due to lower estimates for subsidies and tax credits associated with the law's planned insurance exchanges for individual coverage.
They also include higher revenues from penalties and the tax effects of higher taxable income, as private employers drop health insurance plans in favor of extra compensation for employees to buy insurance via the exchanges.
Wait, I thought that "if you liked your insurance plan, you could keep it". Weren't we also told that there should be no fear that companies would drop their plans, because this basically just extends health insurance to illegal aliens and moochers those without?
But the analysis also projected that some 4 million fewer people will obtain insurance through employers or through the insurance exchanges promoted by the healthcare law by 2016 than estimated a year ago.
Wait, what? Fewer people with insurance? That's because companies will drop their insurance and just pay the fine, for reasons discussed many times. To put it simply, it is cheaper for the companies to pay the fine, expected to be $2,000, than pay the $6k-$12K they pay each year per employee. And, if anyone in the company gets insurance through the exchange, the company has to pay the fine for ever employee. Companies won't take the chance, especially since so many who have part time employees, for which either they offer much more expensive plans or no plans.
It's also worth noting that we were told time and again during the health care debate that the law didn't represent a government takeover of health care. But by 2022, according to the CBO, 3 million fewer people will have health insurance through their employer, while 17 million Americans will be added to Medicaid and 22 million will be getting coverage through government-run exchanges.
I think the CBO is seriously underestimating the number that will lose coverage from being dropped. And many will simply not get insurance except for when they need it. And for the exchanges, hey, Someone Else is picking up most of the tab, so why not go under the Central Government controlled plans. This POS law needs to be struck down and/or repealed, and replaced with common sense legislation that actually would expand coverage.
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Set of rear 5100s for 2nd gen Tacoma. Purchased front and rear and never installed rear due to my new suspension plans with spindles. So these won't work. They are brand new and in box still only opened to look at and photograph. One box has a stain from wife throwing mcdonalds bag on them and grease from it stained box. The struts are brand new and not harmed though. Asking 150 shipped for set. Let me know if I'm overpricing not sure what to ask. Just want to get some money toward 5150shttp://22.214.171.124/mu/a6890949-450f-9715.jpghttp://126.96.36.199/mu/a6890949-4523-147d.jpg
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Thanks for bump. Sounded like a good deal to me. Not sure what they're be brand new. Or what shipping is yet but I figure if I pay 10 to ship and make 140$ toward my 5150 I'm good with it.
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Another Parade on Pacific Avenue: Once again I don't have a clue about the date, or reason for this parade, but that's always been the fun behind printing some of these historical photos, just to get the feedback. I'd guess it was taken about where Cinema 9 is on Pacific Avenue and maybe circa 1920. Any data would be more than welcome.
WHERE'S THE CHAIRS? If I remember correctly, the city spent some big bucks trying to make Plaza Lane look nice. Plaza Lane is the lane behind the ID building; it runs past Corbin Gallery, Rhythm Fusion, Giltwood Studios and the back end of Chefworks. It's a nice place to visit, but there are no chairs there. The businesses were supposed to set out chairs every day and take them in every night, but they aren't. Sometimes there are two or three haphazardly around, but something like about 40 or 50 would be very nice--and we would have a fine place to meet until we get the Plaza planted.
MOVING RIGHT ALONG. Matt Thompson of Thacher & Thompson Architects tells me that if we'll promise to have Warmth back playing at the new Plaza, he'll be there. Matt also supplied the Plaza Committee with a website full of photos and drawings of internationally known plazas, which we'll be showing soon. None of the Santa Cruz City Council spoke against the Plaza idea at the budget meeting last week, plus they provided many new ideas of how the Plaza can be created. More than 400 signatures were collected in just two sessions, and many, many of the signers want public toilets in the Plaza. Former Mayor John Mahaney, Realtor Harriet Deck, Museum of Art and History director Chuck Hilger, Ceil Benedetto, Bill Fieberling, Tony Livoti, Tom Bihn, Tom Karwin, Graciella Hernandez, Hugh Carter and hundreds of other believers in our Downtown have added their names to our rapidly growing group of concerned citizens for beautifying the corner of Pacific and Church streets. Watch for and sign the petition and call Carli Stevens at 475-9172 to help make the Plaza a reality.
JUST ONE MOVIE. I saw almost all of The Loss of Sexual Innocence but missed the ending, which was unfortunate because I haven't a clue what that film was attempting to accomplish, except maybe as a study in hand-held camera techniques or how to confuse a story by some mystifying cutting and editing. I was busy last week being enthralled by the four operas in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen as produced by the San Francisco Opera. Before and after those operas, we went to San Francisco's Gay Pride parade, the current Bill Viola show at the SFMOMA and the newest production of the Kinsey Sicks, an a cappella drag quartet. We also visited San Francisco's great new plaza between Metreon, SFMOMA and the Yerba Buena Center. Their plaza has a magnificent waterfall more or less dedicated to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. We could have a version of that waterfall in our Plaza too. Go see it, if you're up that way.
WHAT'S IN A NAME? There are many historical as well as cultural reasons to name the new plaza Plaza. In 1918 the Plaza Land Office used to be where Louie Rittenhouse's Bear Building now sits. After that, we had the Plaza Bakery, Plaza Books and other Plaza things, which I'm sure I'll hear about very soon. In addition, plaza has a fine early Mexican flavor to it. Most of the folks I've talked to think plaza is friendlier than park or square.
THE SILENT-FILM FESTIVAL. Former UCSC student Stephen Salmons now heads the Fourth Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival. The Festival happens Sunday, July 11, at the Castro Theatre in S.F. They'll be screening some animation rarities plus hosting some live people from UCLA's Film & Television Archives at 11am. MGM's lavish 1927 silent classic Love, with Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, screens at 1:30 with Dennis James accompanying on the Mighty Castro Wurlitzer organ. The Russian thriller Po Zakonu (By the Law) shows at 4pm, and Michael Mortilla will debut his original piano score. Closing the all-day festival is the first Academy Award winner, Wings, starring Clara Bow, Buddy Rogers and Richard Arlen. This will be a brand-new print of Wings made by the Library of Congress. You can purchase tickets at the theater that day starting at 10am. Call 415/552-2075 for more information. P.S. I've always believed silent films were a completely different art form than talkies and even superior to sound films in many ways.
JOHN HOYT DAY. John Hoyt starred in films, stage, radio and lots of TV shows. He was a member of Orson Welles Mercury Theatre and appeared in such classic films as Julius Caesar, Brute Force, Spartacus and When Worlds Collide, with Barbara Rush and Richard Derr. John was a longtime Santa Cruz resident, and the Nickelodeon Theatre is presenting a free screening of When Worlds Collide at 11am Saturday, July 10, followed by a discussion with Kurt Havemann, co-owner of Mr. Goodie's and John Hoyt's stepson. Next month, the Nick will be saluting actor John Beal with one of his features and a discussion with his daughter Tandy.
DAVENPORT BAR-B-QUE. Now's a perfectly good time to plan driving north to celebrate the sixth annual Davenport Bar-B-Que at the St. Vincent De Paul Catholic Church. It goes from 11am to only 3pm. They're having an Astro Jump, live music, food and a raffle. All monies will go to the ongoing restoration of the cement church built with donated cement and donated labor way back in 1914, so it's obviously a good cause. Call 461-1653 for information.
CAROL SUMMERS SHOW. That's Mister Carol Summers, in case you just got here. Carol is arguably one of the finest woodcut artists in the world today. He's been a longtime Santa Cruz County resident, and the Museum of Art and History is exhibiting a 50-year retrospective of his works July 10 through Sept. 19. I last saw a few of Carol's works in Pittsburgh, PA., quite some years ago, and believe me, this is a rare opportunity to see what you've been missing. MAH will also be showing a turn-of-the-century photo exhibit and artwork by Lisa Dale Miller. Be sure to take your summer visitors, they'll be impressed.
SHAKESPEARE AT THE NICK. Starting Friday and for the next five Friday noons, the Nickelodeon Theatre and Shakespeare Santa Cruz present their free lunch-time lectures on the featured attractions of the Shakespeare season. They'll do Two Gentlemen of Verona this Friday, followed by Romeo and What's Her Name on July 16, George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man on July 23 and two more after that. You can ask questions, find out which periods they're doing them in and all that behind-the-scenes stuff. Call 459-2121 for information.
PALINDROMES REVISITED. Jon Govsky gave me this one at Cruzio's big open-house celebration last week, but he gave Tom Noddy credit for writing it: "Did rats pop a one-lb. bubble? No, a pop star did." If you haven't anything else to do, try writing one of these palindromes, it'll drive you crazy. I realize that doesn't say much for either Noddy or Govsky but then again ...
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Employers added nearly 12,000 jobs in February, mostly in trade, transportation and utilities and hospitality and leisure, the state economic development agency said. February's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 3.7 percent, around the same as it's been since last August.
Retailers shed fewer jobs in February than is typical, said Steve Hine, labor research director at the Department of Employment and Economic Development.
Minnesota's unemployment rate is still below the national average, which ticked down to 5.5 percent last month. The state's employment-to-population ratio and labor force participation rate both increased slightly.
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Modeling microlenses by use of vectorial field rays and diffraction integrals
Applied Optics, Vol. 43, Issue 11, pp. 2242-2250 (2004)
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A nonparaxial vector-field method is used to describe the behavior of low-f-number microlenses by use of ray propagation, Fresnel coefficients and the solution of Maxwell equations to determine the field propagating through the lens boundaries, followed by use of the Rayleigh-Sommerfeld method to find the diffracted field behind the lenses. This approach enables the phase, the amplitude, and the polarization of the diffracted fields to be determined. Numerical simulations for a convex-plano lens illustrate the effects of the radii of curvature, the lens apertures, the index of refraction, and the wavelength on the variations of the focal length, the focal plane field distribution, and the cross polarization of the field in the focal plane.
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(080.3630) Geometric optics : Lenses
(220.3630) Optical design and fabrication : Lenses
(260.1960) Physical optics : Diffraction theory
Original Manuscript: August 20, 2003
Revised Manuscript: January 12, 2004
Published: April 10, 2004
Miguel A. Alvarez-Cabanillas, Fang Xu, and Yeshaiahu Fainman, "Modeling microlenses by use of vectorial field rays and diffraction integrals," Appl. Opt. 43, 2242-2250 (2004)
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Real time, low poly for game engine, Game-Ready.
HSV-2 Swift
Polygons : 4436 / Vertices : 6135
Textures : 2048 x 2048 Pixels resolution.
and with SH60
Polygons: 1917 / Vertices : 1691
Texture map : 1024x1024
SH-60 Seahawk 3D Model Low-Poly GAME-READY
Model has High-res texture details.So you can also use it for static renders.
U.S.NAVY HSV-2 Swift with SH-60,lowpoly Model by Omegavision
HSV-2 Swift is a non-commissioned, hybrid catamaran originally leased by the United States Navy as a mine countermeasures and sea basing test platform. She is now privately owned and operated by Sealift Inc. and chartered to the United States Navy Military Sealift Command.


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(2014-03-02 11:17)adamsutton Wrote: Agreed.
Sorry . I started in TVHeadend Forums -> General "Muxes values wrong Dutch on Astra3"
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2014-03-02 11:35
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(2014-03-02 11:17)adamsutton Wrote: Agreed. Sorry . I started in TVHeadend Forums -> General "Muxes values wrong Dutch on Astra3" |
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2014-04-21 17:59
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Yesterday I removed MythTV completely from my TV server and using XBMC "Gotham" with HTS plugin 0.7 in combination with TVHeadend "3.9.542~g63ac3be". It is working fine for me.
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2014-05-25 15:22
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Hi Adam,
I am using an out of the box install of OpenELEC 4.0.2 (i386 generic) with my hdhomerun tuner. Everything works nicely apart from FF and RWD of live tv (it pauses fine as far as I can tell). Could you please advise on where I need to start to get this feature working? 1. Do I need to update TVheadend? If so is there a binary for linux i386 or do I have to build myself? 2. I keep reading about pvr.tvh, would you mind explainiung what this is and how I get it? Thanks very much for all your work, Martyn |
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2014-06-08 19:45
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using tvheadend in daily use for about more than 2 years .. imho best tv server ever, great piece of code .. happy to see, that develoment is active !
thanks a lot ! lastcoder Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server, Xfce, KODI Helix, Skin Confluence, tvheadend tv backend ASUS P8H61-M LE/USB3, Celeron G530, Geforce 210, 4 GB DDR3 RAM 16 GB CnMemory 300x CF, 1 TB Samsung 2,5" HDD iHOS104 BluRay Drive, TT DVBS2-1600 Silverstone GD05B Case, Sony PS3 BD Remote control, Logitech Cordless Mediaboard Pro for PS3 |
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2014-06-08 22:58
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@martndwheeler: first, check that you don't have the "on demand" checkbox ticked in the timeshift settings. Second, you should try pvr.tvh since it has many improvements to timeshift support. You can find everything you need in this thread.
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2014-08-22 23:44
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Did you noticed this bug repport? https://tvheadend.org/issues/2222 After version 3.9.1084 one specific channel stops working in XBMC See also this dutch report http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list...8#42749698 For some reason it doesn't work in XBMC/Kodi Gotham 13.2 beta x |
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2014-09-30 17:21
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curently i am running version 3.4.27~gfbda802, which runs stable.
I was wondering is there any 'stable' release since which i could update to? I see a lot of improvements in activity althoug no new stable release. Any ETA on 4.0? HTPC + Mediaserver E8400 - ABIT I-N73HD - 2GB DDR2 - 3.5TB - Geforce G210 - ANTEC FUSION V2 - Ubuntu 10.04 - XBMC-PVR TV-Server Ubuntu 10.04 - Tvheadend - Smargo Reader - Oscam Card Server - 2x PCI DVB-C |
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2014-11-26 04:39
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Using HTS Tvheadend 3.9.2083~g745cc6f~precise on a ATV1 running Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS.
Decoding Australian DVB-T MPEG2 broadcasts and stable so far, I was running the 3.4.27 release before this. The upgraded Web Interface is better than previous versions. RPI2 vs ODROID-C1 Setup - FLIRC, Logitech Harmony Remote and XBMC Raspberry_Pi (wiki) Chromebox (wiki) |
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2015-02-09 00:35
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I tried 3.9.* with the new architecture on the test machine against 3.4.*.
This is really disgusting - no help, nothing is understandable, migration from 3.4.* is underdone. No way for me thus to watch normally HTTP without thinking of transcoding and use official card after years of waiting. Thinking of switching to another SW. Sorry. |
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2015-02-09 22:04
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Hmmm. You upgrade from a stable version to a development version... and it's not to your liking... so it's 'disgusting'?
Migration works most of the time for most people. Yes, there are some things that need to be manually repaired - no, it's not terrible effort. And it's hardly the end of the world if you need to set up again, is it? I've done it many times, takes a few minutes only. You should try MythTV some time :-) Chill, man. If you don't want to accept some breakage, perhaps you shouldn't be installing pre-alpha, unstable code... |
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2015-02-24 17:14
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I seriously love TvHeadend. Im on the latest git version (2513) and all is fine. So that makes me wonder: when is 4.0 gonna be released?
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2015-02-26 04:15
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Agreed! I tried setting up Myth with my genpix - huge pain in the ass.
TvHeadend took me a bit of time but it works well. I had to manually map my channels, but worth the time. HTPC: Antec Fusion Black | iMon LCD | Intel i5-2500 | Gigabyte Z68MA-D2H-B3 | nVidia GTX 550ti | Kodibuntu 14.2 x86_64 | 8 GB Ram | Samsung SSD 840 500GB | BD-RE | 4 TB HD | Genpix Skywalker-1 | TvHeadend 3.9 Git FreeNAS 9.3: ASRock E3C226D2l | Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3 | 16 GB ECC | 16 TB Raid | CouchPotato | Headphones | SickBeard | SABnzbd | Plex | OwnCloud |
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