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In many court cases, surveillance videos are used as significant court evidence. As these surveillance videos can easily be forged, it may cause serious social issues, such as convicting an innocent person. Nevertheless, there is little research being done on forgery of surveillance videos. This paper proposes a forensic technique to detect forgeries of surveillance video based on sensor pattern noise (SPN). We exploit the scaling invariance of the minimum average correlation energy Mellin radial harmonic (MACE-MRH) correlation filter to reliably unveil traces of upscaling in videos. By excluding the high-frequency components of the investigated video and adaptively choosing the size of the local search window, the proposed method effectively localizes partially manipulated regions. Empirical evidence from a large database of test videos, including RGB (Red, Green, Blue)/infrared video, dynamic-/static-scene video and compressed video, indicates the superior performance of the proposed method.
With the development of highly sophisticated imaging devices, digital images are commonly used in our ordinary lives. The benefits of digital images, such as facility in editing, sharing and storing, motivate people to use digital images instead of analog images. At the same time, the very nature of digital data, which can be easily manipulated, encourages abuse of the digital images; hence, the authentication of images has become one of the biggest issues regarding digital images.
Digital image forensics, which detects modification of digital images, has been actively researched for the last decade [
Within the last few decades, surveillance cameras have been installed in many areas to prevent crime. As a consequence, in many court cases, surveillance videos are used as court evidence. Unfortunately, surveillance videos can be easily forged by video editing tools, such as Premier, Vegas,
A common form of manipulation, which is often perpetrated in surveillance video, is cropping a video after enlarging it to erase evidence of a crime in the outer part of the video. As surveillance videos are always recorded at regular resolution, magnifying to the original resolution is required for a cropped video. We refer to this type of forgery as upscale-crop forgery. An upscale-crop forgery can be attempted in the following scenario.
Another type of forgery, in which splicing and compositing parts of a video frame by various image editing methods, such as intra- and inter-frame copy-move, splicing, and so on, can also be accomplished. We refer to this type of forgery as partial manipulation. For instance, the falsifier can generate
By examining the forged videos of
In this paper, we propose a forensic method for surveillance video based on sensor pattern noise (SPN). In order to detect manipulation of surveillance video with high accuracy, we first analyze the general characteristics of the surveillance camera and consider related studies from the literature in Section 2. From the analysis, an overview of SPN in Section 3 lays the foundation for its application to surveillance video forensics. Sections 4 and 5, respectively, explain the proposed upscale-crop and partial manipulation detectors based on SPN. Experimental results are then given in Section 6, and Section 7 concludes the paper.
This section explains the general characteristics of surveillance video. We then review the forensic methods that have been studied so far in two separate categories: upscale-crop forgery and partial manipulation detectors. Finally, we discuss the contributions of the proposed method.
In order to detect forgeries of surveillance video, first of all, the characteristics of a surveillance camera should be analyzed. Unlike general cameras, surveillance cameras can record not only RGB video, but also infrared video. They can also take both static-scene video from a fixed position and dynamic-scene video when the camera is installed on a moving object. Furthermore, the recorded video is compressed by video codec, such as H.264. Therefore, these characteristics of surveillance cameras should be considered for a forgery detector of surveillance video.
Enlarging a video includes a resampling process of each frame in the video. Therefore, upscale-crop forgery can be detected by determining whether or not an investigated video was resampled. Gallagher first uncovered periodicity in the second derivative signal of interpolated images [
Aside from analyzing the n-th order derivative of the interpolated image, Popescu and Farid identified the correlation between neighboring pixels of the interpolated image by a local linear predictor that uses an expectation/maximization (EM) algorithm [
These methods were able to detect a trace of upscale-crop forgery accurately if an investigated video was uncompressed. However, these methods rarely detect forgery in surveillance videos, because the periodic properties of resampling artifacts mostly disappear during the video compression process.
Methods to detect partially manipulated images or videos have been actively researched in the last decade. Detection of copy-move (CM) forgery is one of representative approaches to localizing partial manipulation. CM forgery copies parts of an image and inserts them into another part of the same image. This is usually done to conceal or emphasize detail. CM forgery was first proposed by Fridrich et al. [
To overcome the drawbacks of CM forgery detectors, methods that analyze the statistical properties of both unforged and forged areas have been proposed. Chen et al. proposed the detection method of partial manipulation based on SPN [
In our previous work, we proposed a forgery detection method that could detect upscale-crop forgery and partial manipulation [
We discuss three main contributions to solving the problems of surveillance camera forensics. To satisfy the inherent constraints of a surveillance camera as stated in Section 2.1, SPN is used as a statistical tool. SPN is extractable from both the RGB video and the infrared video. Moreover, the SPN survives under lossy compression, filtering, gamma correction and many other typical processing procedures. Therefore, the proposed method is robust against RGB/infrared mode and video compression (see Section 3 for the details of SPN). A second contribution lies in a novel upscale-crop forgery detector based on a minimum average correlation energy Mellin radial harmonic (MACE-MRH) correlation filter. To detect upscale-crop forgery, we designed two different MACE-MRH correlation filters from a reference SPN (see Section 4). Third, we propose the partial manipulation detector to accurately detect partial manipulation in static-scene video by eliminating high frequency components and adaptively choosing the size of a local search window (see Section 5).
An image sensor, such as CCD or CMOS, in digital imaging devices is composed of an enormous number of photon detectors, commonly called pixels. Pixels have different sensitivities to light, due to the inhomogeneity of silicon wafers, and the variable sensitivity of each pixel to light generates uncorrelated pattern noise. Consequently, every sensor casts a unique sensor pattern noise (SPN) onto every image or video it takes. This SPN acts as a sensor fingerprint and exploits identifying imaging sources or verifying the image in the field of digital forensics [
In a video clip, the SPN can be extracted as follows. Assuming that the video is composed of
Using SPN extracted from
The whole process of the proposed method, which is based on the characteristics of SPN, is depicted in
This section explains the details of upscale-crop forgery detection as the first step of the proposed method. In general, when a surveillance video is presented as legal evidence in court, the information of the camera, by which the video is recorded, becomes available publicly. Thus, prior knowledge of the recording device can be used to determine whether or not the investigated video is manipulated.
To detect upscale-crop forgery of the surveillance video, we exploit reference SPN extracted from the source camera. More specifically, two MACE-MRH correlation filters, which have different scale-tolerance ranges, are designed from the corresponding reference SPN. The first filter is designed to have a very large correlation value when the suspicious video is not scaled. On the other hand, the second filter is designed to maintain a high correlation value even if the suspicious video is upscaled. By calculating two cross-correlation values between the different MACE-MRH correlation filters and the test SPN, we judge whether or not the test video is forged.
In the following subsections, we first provide an overview of the MACE-MRH correlation filter [
Correlation is a natural metric for characterizing the similarity between a reference pattern and a test pattern. A correlation filter is designed to have a high correlation peak if the reference pattern, which was used to generate the filter, is similar to a test pattern. Let
The correlation filter basically has a shift invariance property, since the convolution operation in
To detect upscale-crop forgery, the proposed method exploits the MACE-MRH correlation filter designed from reference SPN. The MACE-MRH filter is designed as shown in
Second, MRH function coefficients are computed according to the scale response. The relationship between the scale response,
The relationship between the transformed scale response,
After that, the MRH function,
Finally, the correlation filter,
In the previous section, we explained how the MACE-MRH correlation filter is designed. In this section, we show how we apply the MACE-MRH correlation filter to upscale-crop forgery detection.
In our previous work, we proposed a camera identification method using a MACE-MRH correlation filter generated from SPN [
The second MACE-MRH correlation filter is designed to maintain a high correlation value even if the input pattern is enlarged. To design such a filter, the reference SPN is magnified by
Because of the trade-off between the range of scale-tolerance and the performance, the MACE-MRH filter generally has a higher correlation value with a lower
After designing two filters, namely
In this section, we explain how to detect partial manipulation of a video under investigation. If a video has been partially manipulated by clipping objects from an intra-or inter-frame and superimposing them, the doctored region will have weak SPN or not be synchronized with the reference SPN. Thus, the normalized correlation coefficient (NCC) between the reference and test SPN in the doctored region is very small. By using this property of SPN, Chen
Li proposed an approach to reduce the influence of high frequency components in their SPN [
From the above observation, we propose a forgery detector with a small local searching window to accurately detect partial manipulation from a static-scene video. Specifically, the proposed method estimates a high frequency map (HFM) to determine whether or not each pixel of the SPN is contaminated by high frequency components. Afterwards, we remove the high frequency components from the SPN using the HFM and adaptively select the size of the local searching window according to the quantity of clean SPN in the window block. In the next subsection, we explain the details of estimating the HFM and forgery detection method.
SPN is accurately estimated with smooth and bright scenes, such as a scene of blue sky [
After estimating the
Using the
The position of the time stamp in the video does not contain any sensor pattern noise, as the time stamp was digitally inserted after the capture. Thus, if a test video has a big time stamp, SPN estimated from that video will have many errors in the region of the time stamp. Therefore, the SPN errors by the time stamp should be filtered. The proposed method can filter them by
The proposed method detects partial manipulation in static-scene video by eliminating high frequency components using the
In the second step, to determine whether or not any pixel of the test video is forged, NCC values between
As a final step, the proposed method determines whether or not the inspected video is forged as follows:
This section contains extensive detection tests of both upscale-crop forgery and partial manipulation. We recorded 120 sample videos, 60 RGB and 60 infrared videos, from ten surveillance cameras, as summarized in
In order to measure the performance of the proposed upscale-crop detector, we first created 240 unforged videos by compressing 120 sample videos with the H.264 encoder with quality factors of 80 and 100. Then, 1,920 forged videos were created as follows: All frames of 120 sample videos were enlarged in increments of 0.05 from 1.05 to 1.4 by bi-cubic interpolation kernels. The outer part of the scaled videos was then cropped out to make the resolution 640 × 480. Finally, the forged videos were compressed with quality factors of 80 and 100. With the test videos, we measured the average detection accuracy of the proposed method, varying both scaling and quality factors. We further benchmarked two more detectors, which were, respectively, proposed by Mahdian [
The proposed method found non-doctored videos with 100% accuracy, i.e., without any false positive error. For measuring the forgery detection accuracy with a similar false positive condition, the decision thresholds of Mahdian's approach and Kirchner's approach were set to a false positive rate (FPR) of 10−2. After that, the forgery detection accuracy of each method was computed.
In this section, we discuss the interesting case in which a video is forged by both upscale-crop and partial manipulation. If upscale-crop forgery occurs after partial manipulation, the proposed detector is not affected by partial manipulation at all, since all pixels in the investigated video frame have the trace of upscaling inherently. On the other hand, if partial manipulation occurs after upscale-crop forgery, some of the upscale traces in the partially manipulated region disappear. Consequently, the detection accuracy of upscale-crop forgery might be affected by the partial manipulation after the upscale-crop, especially when the size of the doctored region is big enough.
To measure the performance of the proposed upscale-crop detector according to the size of the locally doctored region after upscale-crop forgery, 1,920 forged videos were created as follows. One-hundred twenty sample videos were enlarged with scaling factors of 1.15 and 1.3, followed by cropping to 640 × 480 at the center position. After that, the videos were forged by copying and pasting objects from other videos at random positions. The size of the doctored regions was varied from 50 × 50 to 200 × 200 in steps of 50 square pixels. Afterwards, the videos were compressed by an ffdshow H.264 encoder with quality factors of 80 and 100. With the forged videos, we measured the average detection accuracy of the proposed method. We also tested both the Mahdian [
Sections 6.3 and 6.4 only consider the detection performance of the proposed method against forged videos with partial manipulation. In this section, we focus on how well the proposed method detects forged pixels in the locally doctored videos by evaluating the partial manipulation detection performance at the pixel level. For this purpose, 1,440 test videos were created as follows: 120 sample videos were forged by copying and pasting objects of other videos at random positions. The size of the doctored regions was varied from 100 × 100 to 150 × 150 in steps of 10 square pixels to examine the influence of the size of the doctored region. Afterwards, the videos were compressed by an ffdshow H.264 encoder with quality factors of 80 and 100. To analyze the performance according to the types of video scene, we classified the test videos into static-scene and dynamic-scene video.
To evaluate the performance of the proposed partial manipulation detector, we conducted three types of experiments. First, we analyzed the distribution of the NCC values in doctored and non-doctored regions. The NCC values corresponding to each pixel of video were calculated by
Second, from the above analysis, we compared the performance of each method by receiver-operating-characteristic (ROC) curves. The pixel level true positive rate (TPR
Finally, we analyze the computational complexity of each method. Three detectors determine forged pixels by computing NCC values between local blocks of test SPN and the corresponding reference SPN blocks as
After determining the forged region at a pixel level as depicted in Section 6.3, we finally determined whether or not the investigated videos were forged in this section. More specifically, we measured the performance of partial manipulation detection among three detectors (the proposed, Chen's and Li's approaches) at the video level. For that purpose, 240 unforged videos were created by compressing 120 sample videos with H.264 with quality factors of 80 and 100. Then, 1,440 forged videos were created as explained in Section 6.3. For all test videos, we calculated the NCC values of each method and generated forgery map
From the map,
For a more detailed comparison with each method, we set the τ
With the growth of the digital imaging industry, surveillance cameras are widely used throughout our society. As a result, in many court cases, surveillance videos are used as court evidence. At the same time, forgeries of surveillance videos are rapidly increasing. In this paper, we focused on a forensic technique to detect altered surveillance videos. Two types of forgeries, called upscale-crop forgery and partial manipulation, were identified by the proposed method based on sensor pattern noise (SPN). We exploited the scaling tolerance of a minimum average correlation energy Mellin radial harmonic (MACE-MRH) correlation filter to reliably unveil traces of upscale-crop forgery of videos. By excluding high-frequency components of the investigated video and adaptively selecting the size of the window block, the proposed method effectively detected partially manipulated regions in static-scene videos. Empirical evidence from a large database of test videos supported the superior performance of our techniques regardless of RGB/infrared video, dynamic-/static-scene video and compression.
This work was supported in part by the Defense Acquisition Program Administration and the Agency for Defense Development under the contract (UD060048AD) and in part by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MEST) (No. 2012R1A2A1A05026327).
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Examples of upscale-crop forgery: (
Example of partial manipulation: (
The structure of surveillance video recording both RGB and infrared video.
The whole process of the proposed method.
Design procedure of a minimum average correlation energy Mellin radial harmonic (MACE-MRH) correlation filter.
Proposed upscale-crop forgery detection procedure.
A cropped region after scaling by 1.4.
Plots for the peak to correlation energy (PCE) values of the two correlation filters varying the scaling factor.
Histogram of clean SPN.
Histograms of the NCC values in the static-scene video: (
Histograms of the NCC values in the dynamic-scene video: (
receiver-operating-characteristic (ROC) curves of each method for detecting forged pixels: (
ROC curves of each method for detecting forged videos: (
Surveillance camera models used in the experiments.
DALS | C160(mini IR) | DALS | DSV100IR/M434 |
The normalized correlation coefficient (NCC) values between selected blocks of test SPN extracted from
64 × 64 Blue block | −0.003455 | 0.049101 | 0.089420 |
128 × 128 Blue block | 0.046220 | 0.082426 | 0.094428 |
64 × 64 Red block | 0.120120 | 0.122120 | 0.120120 |
128 × 128 Red block | 0.129220 | 0.118833 | 0.129361 |
Detection accuracy (%) of upscale-crop forgery for varying scaling and quality factors.
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Proposed | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
80 | 100 | 98.3 | 100 | 100 | 99.2 | 100 | 100 | 99.2 | 99.6 | |
Mahdian | 100 | 60.0 | 86.7 | 97.5 | 100 | 98.3 | 100 | 100 | 96.7 | 92.4 |
80 | 44.2 | 70.8 | 73.3 | 80.8 | 70.8 | 78.3 | 85.8 | 84.2 | 73.5 | |
Kirchner | 100 | 51.7 | 91.7 | 99.2 | 100 | 99.2 | 100 | 86.7 | 100 | 91.1 |
80 | 20.0 | 46.7 | 50.8 | 68.3 | 87.5 | 79.2 | 20.8 | 62.5 | 54.5 |
Detection accuracy (%) of upscale-crop forgery, even after the intended partial manipulation of upscale-cropped videos; the breakdown by the size of the doctored region.
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1.15 | Proposed | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99.2 |
80 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99.2 | ||
Mahdian | 100 | 81.7 | 60.8 | 33.3 | 21.7 | |
80 | 37.5 | 30.0 | 12.5 | 8.3 | ||
Kirchner | 100 | 99.2 | 99.2 | 96.7 | 92.5 | |
80 | 49.2 | 46.7 | 40.0 | 31.7 | ||
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1.3 | Proposed | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
80 | 100 | 100 | 98.3 | 98.3 | ||
Mahdian | 100 | 99.2 | 80.8 | 60.8 | 45.0 | |
80 | 59.2 | 45.0 | 28.3 | 14.2 | ||
Kirchner | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99.2 | 98.3 | |
80 | 74.2 | 70.8 | 65.8 | 47.5 |
Detection accuracy (%) of partial manipulation at FPR
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Static-scene | Proposed | 100 | 97.5 | 94.2 | 96.7 | 95.0 | 94.2 |
Chen 64×64 | 25.8 | 20.8 | 20.8 | 20.0 | 11.7 | 9.2 | |
Chen 128×128 | 64.2 | 44.2 | 30.8 | 26.7 | 19.2 | 10.0 | |
Li 64×64 | 68.3 | 66.7 | 60.8 | 59.2 | 59.2 | 50.0 | |
Li 128×128 | 97.5 | 91.7 | 86.7 | 84.2 | 66.7 | 55.8 | |
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Dynamic-scene | Proposed | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
Chen 64×64 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99.2 | |
Chen 128×128 | 100 | 96.7 | 83.3 | 66.7 | 48.3 | 43.3 | |
Li 64×64 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | |
Li 128×128 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 97.5 | 84.2 | 64.2 |


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If you look around the campus at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, you will find a message chiseled for eternity into the stone of our structures. "We shall achieve." A bold commitment that guides us in everything we do, and tells the world what to expect from our campus. At UTC, we achieve, and so will you.
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Cars 2 (Cars 2 世界大賽)By Christy Lemire, Associated Press August 12, 2011, 4:02 pm TWN Pixar's track record has been close to impeccable for turning out intelligent, emotionally rich, beautifully detailed animated films, with plenty of humor and heart to appeal to movie lovers of all ages.
But the weak link in the chain, at least from a narrative standpoint, has always been 2006's "Cars" (汽車總動員), with its two-dimensional talking autos and hokey, borrowed tale of small-town life. Sure, it was bright and zippy, which was enough to appeal to the little ones, and it became a merchandising juggernaut. Just try finding a kid who doesn't have some sort of "Cars" stuff. My 19-month-old son has a Lightning McQueen sippy cup and I have no idea how he got it — these things just show up on their own. That's how ubiquitous they are. So sure, why not make a sequel? Trouble is, "Cars 2" is such a mess, it makes the original look like it ought to rank among Pixar's masterpieces by comparison. What has set the studio's films apart from all the other animated fare is story: It's paramount. Innovative tales like "WALL-E" (瓦力) and "Up" (天外奇蹟) get you choked up just thinking about them, they're that good. "Cars 2" tries to encompass many kinds of stories at once, none of which is terribly clever or compelling. And the fact that Pixar mastermind John Lasseter is back as director is the most baffling part of all. This is the man who kicked it all off with the soulful and groundbreaking "Toy Story" (玩具總動員) back in 1995. This is not someone from whom you would expect empty glossiness. Here, working from a script by Ben Queen, Lasseter makes a transparent attempt at catering to the ever-expanding global moviegoing audience by having the hero of the original "Cars," Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson), compete in an international grand prix through Japan, France, Italy and Britain. The sponsor is a Richard Branson-type Range Rover-looking vehicle (Eddie Izzard); McQueen's main rival is an arrogant Italian Formula 1 racecar (John Turturro). At the same time, "Cars 2" panders to middle America by placing Mater, the rusty, aw-shucks tow truck, front and center. McQueen is flashier but this is Mater's time to shine, as it were; Larry the Cable Guy, who voices the character, even gets top billing over Wilson. But a little of the comedian's twangy shtick goes a long way — for the audience, and for McQueen, who gets annoyed with Mater's boorish behavior in all these refined settings. Still, Mater is there to teach us some lessons about valuing the underdog. Or not judging people because we think they're different or stupid. Or something. |


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Back in June when I was converting from a PC to a MacBook Pro (best decision I ever made) I asked around to see what apps people recommended for the Mac. There are a lot of nice apps available for Mac OSX that aren't available for Windows.
I've compiled a list of Mac Apps I have in my OSX dock that I use on a daily basis and should be useful to other Mac users and/or web designers.
1. Adobe Creative Suite
An obvious and primary requirement (I feel) all serious web designers should have. I couldn't get through the day without Photoshop while Illustrator and Flash are constantly called upon. I hear Fireworks is good too, especially for compressing images, but I've yet to use it myself.
2. Transmit
Transmit is an FTP client for Mac. Edit remote files, synchronize, search, SSL, tabs; it covers all your daily FTP needs.3. Coda
Coda is a light-weight all in one text editor. You can edit your code, preview your web page, upload to server (integration with Transmit), edit CSS and run commands in Terminal; all from within this one app. I would use Coda for front-end development.4. Textmate
Textmate is another text editor that I prefer using for back-end development. Code completion, snippets, syntax colouring are some of the things I enjoy about Textmate along with ease of customizing fonts and colours.5. CocoaMySQL
CocoaMySQL gives you an interface to work with your MySQL databases. This is a desktop alternative to PHPMyAdmin, which is a lot quicker and in my opinion a lot easier to operate.UPDATE 13/12/08: CocoaMySQL has been abandoned and replaced with Sequel Pro. Works just as well and looks even better. Check it out.
MAMP is an easy way to get Apache, MySQL and PHP up and running on your machine. Just by running MAMP all these three services will be up and running, no messing around in Terminal needed.7. Things
Great app for getting things done. Set yourself project tasks and daily tasks and check them off as and when you get them done.8. CSS Edit
A very good CSS editor. It allows for real time previews of your website and styles and is a very efficient app allowing you to easily find all styles being applied to certain elements.9. Transmission
Transmission is used for downloading/uploading torrents over the net. Useful for sharing files with friends and colleagues (among other things)10. MarsEdit
MarsEdit allows you to compile draft blog posts on your local machine before publishing them live on your blog. I use it daily to take notes on various blog topics I think of and then I can easily compile a blog post over the course of a week.11. Skitch
I was only recently introduced to this by GoodOnPaper @ FOWA. Allows you to easily share images/screenshots on the web and using the Skitch editor you can add notes to your image or highlight areas of a screenshot. Very useful and saves having to load up Photoshop for simple tasks.12. Parallels Desktop
You can run Windows XP or Vista on your Mac using Parallels. Handy for being able to test your websites in versions of IE (using Multiple IEs) and if there are any Windows only apps you need to use, e.g. Microsoft Access.13. Office
A good old favorite for creating text documents, preparing slideshows or looking after sets of data. There are a few Mac alternatives, and of course online alternatives, but I personally prefer Office.14. Paparazzi
Paparazzi takes full screenshots of webpages. The problem with Cmd+Shift+3 is that it only takes a screenshot of the visible screen. Paparrazi takes the whole height of the page, even below the fold, so it's great for showing screenshots of your web designs.15. Twitterific
Easily interact with Twitterland via Twitterific. Saves you having to make the trip to Twitter to see what's going on as it can retrieve and send tweets for you.Others worth looking at
- Firefox Firefox is a fantastic browser with fantastic extensions for web designers like Web Developer Toolbar and FireBug
- Pixelmator Cheap alternative to Photoshop
- Lineform Cheap alternative to Illustrator
- Flickr Uploader Easily upload your photos to Flickr
- Skype Have your conference calls for free over the web
What apps do you use?
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5 Easy Ways To Turn Your Backyard Into A Party Worthy Space
Let your creativity soar with some fun ideas for your next backyard barbecue. Here are five easy crafts that will make the most of any backyard party.
WEATHER BLOG: Weather Order
The following is an order from the CBS3 weather department: GET OUTSIDE NOW!
Perfect Late Spring Weekend Ahead
Once the sun popped out, it turned into a gorgeous Friday across the region!
A Battle Of The Seasons, With A Summer-Like Surge!
This week spring and summer will face-off and you may be surprised at the winner.
WEATHER BLOG: First May Weekend Is A Decent One
Remember all winter, just waiting and waiting and waiting for springtime? It is here in most of its glory.
Brighter Days Ahead!
Friday will be a beauty, with plenty of sunshine and a high around 70 degrees.
WEATHER BLOG: Let's Bottle This Weekend Weather
Temperatures on Saturday reached the lower 70's, today clips a few degrees but it will still be very comfortable.
WEATHER BLOG: Those May Flowers Will Be Huge
If all it takes is April rain to bring May flowers, then the weather over the next week will create monsters.
Kick Off Golf Season With E.S.P.'s Spring Golf Guide
The arrival of golf season allows us once again to hit the links with some friends, get some exercise and take in the sunshine. To help get things started, E.S.P. presents their spring golf guide.
Sunshine And Warmth Before Rain Arrives Tuesday
Monday might not be your favorite day of the week, but that could change if every Monday featured weather like this.
WEATHER BLOG: Spring Has Sprung
We don't have to just look fondly in the rearview mirror at Saturday's beautiful weather, because we will be doing it again today.
Hear Philly: One Of Philadelphia's Largest Street Festivals Returns To Kick Off May
Spring is in the air and you know what that means…it's festival season! And on Saturday, May 3rd it'll be eight blocks of food, music, art and much more when the South Street Spring Festival returns for a second year.
Temperatures Remain Chilly Over Next Couple Of Days
Today was bright but cold across the region, with temperatures averaging more than 10 degrees below normal and a gusty breeze making it feel even worse! But the good news is that we are entering into a period of quiet weather.
Wintry Chill Replaces Summery Warmth
Talk about a shock to the system! Our potent Spring storm has thankfully retreated out to sea, and now we're back in a chill more typical of late February.
3 On Your Side: Spring Auto Buying
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stealing and tailoring ideas
We were interested to see Ikea's blog Livet Hemma's recent take on an idea we posted months ago: clipping boxes together with big binder clips to make somewhat freeform and sculptural shelving. We looked at their iteration of the idea, wondering if they'd seen our post, or if they'd just thought it up themselves. We were reminded of the startling way that an idea can shoot up like spring crocuses in many places at once, as though it were in the air. And that part of the nature of creating things is culling ideas that already exist and tailoring them to suit your own vision. To quote film maker Jim Jarmusch: "Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonated with inspiration or fuels your imagination…" (Check out the full quote in the previous post.) The Ikea shelves are a great example.
What ideas would we steal from Ikea's version of clipped-together shelves (that they may have stolen from us)? What would we change?
We like how they painted the interiors of the boxes (an idea we hadn't thought of) but don't like the colors with the black clips, except for the white one. We'd swipe the idea of painting the inside white, maybe using stainless clips which we find better looking.
(We couldn't resist this image of a binder clip that we found on Etsy while we were looking for ordinary office store ones.)
We're thrilled to know that we can buy inexpensive plywood boxes in various shapes at Ikea ($7 to $13):
We might just work with a single shape of box for a leaner look to clipped together storage…
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Hi, the links are embedded in the post and at the end as Related Posts. Here's the main one. Muuto's shelving is done wit proprietary clips. When we saw it, we wondered what easily accessible and inexpensive clip could be used and did a post asking for suggestions. Hence this long post on binder clips.
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The House has followed in the wake of the Senate, saying yes to $70 billion in funds for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Anti-war Democrats have had little success overcoming Republican filibusters and a publicity blitz meant to sell the "surge." Advertisement Square, Site wide Previous item: Kucinich Mourns Brother's Death Next item: For Veterans With PTSD, Location Is Everything New and Improved CommentsIf you have trouble leaving a comment, review this help page. Still having problems? Let us know. If you find yourself moderated, take a moment to review our comment policy.
By jbart, December 22, 2007 at 10:29 am Link to this comment I found this article while "surfing" and thought I'd share it with you all. Just another example of how deep, and far, we (as a nation) have sunk.
By DennisD, December 22, 2007 at 8:37 am Link to this comment The incremental destruction of the American way of life as we know it and knew it has been a bipartisan effort every step of the way over the last 50 years. Anyone that believes otherwise is either a fool, delusional or in serious denial. Thanks to technology, we can save ourselves the time and trouble of going out to vote this coming election, Diebold has already done it for us.
By BushWacked, December 21, 2007 at 10:05 am Link to this comment This is their meaning of "ending the war", gave more money to keep it going? All-talk-&-no-balls Pelosi & her side-kick scared Harry are a disgrace to oppositions everywhere, their loyalty to Bush & his criminal behavior is astounding.
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Comparison of acute hemodynamic effects of lidocaine and procainamide for postoperative ventricular arrhythmias in dogs. | |
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Heart rate and systolic, diastolic, and mean pressures were measured in two groups of dogs during treatment of postoperative ventricular arrhythmias either with intravenous (IV) 2% lidocaine hydrochloride or procainamide hydrochloride. Hemodynamic parameters were not significantly changed after IV administration of either drug. Additionally, changes in hemodynamic parameters for dogs treated with 2% lidocaine were not significantly different from those of dogs treated with procainamide. When dosed appropriately in the clinical setting, one bolus of IV procainamide was safe for the treatment of postoperative ventricular arrhythmias. |
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Title: Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association Volume: 42 ISSN: 1547-3317 ISO Abbreviation: J Am Anim Hosp Assoc Publication Date: 2006 Jul-Aug |
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Created Date: 2006-07-06 Completed Date: 2007-08-23 Revised Date: 2007-11-15 |
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Animals Anti-Arrhythmia Agents / therapeutic use* Arrhythmias, Cardiac / drug therapy, veterinary* Dog Diseases / drug therapy* Dogs Female Heart Rate / drug effects Lidocaine / therapeutic use* Male Postoperative Complications / drug therapy, veterinary Procainamide / therapeutic use* Treatment Outcome |
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Early last fall RewardsCanada.ca was featured in an article on Travel Hacking. What is travel hacking? Simply put it is what we have been doing here every day on RewardsCanada.ca for nearly 12 years, but it simply has a name put to it now. The article revolved heavily around a new site that charges people a fee for things that are found for free right here on Rewards Canada, Flyertalk, Milepoint, Boardingarea, Redflagdeals and many other places. To me it boggles the mind that someone would pay $97 per year to get the information you find for free here or those other places I mentioned. They claim they will get you one free flight within 30 days otherwise you can get your money back (or at least 1 free flight per year). I know from feedback of my readers that many of you have enjoyed tons of free flights, hotel nights, car rentals and more due to the information provided on Rewards Canada. Right from the onset of creating RC that was my goal, to help all Canadians get more Miles, more Points, more Rewards!
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There you go just with these offers you will have earned 100,000 Aeroplan Miles or 75,000 British Airways Avios. That's enough Aeroplan miles for four Aeroplan award tickets within North America or an Aeroplan Business Class award ticket to Europe (of course taxes and fees are extra but you could use the extra points earned from your spend on the Amex cards to cover them) or one British Airways Executive Club Reward ticket in Economy Class to Europe (40,000 Miles from the East, 50,000 from the West) although there will be heavy taxes and fuel surcharges on the award, but once again you can use your Membership Rewards points to cover that or if you want to avoid heavy surcharges you can have 7 round trip flights between select cities in Canada and the U.S. if you like (9,000 Avios per round trip) with Avios to spare, see here for details on this 9,000 Avios offer.
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You can also take advantage of other free Aeroplan mile offers that you can use to add even more miles to your account albeit not that many. I would recommend that you visit my Aeroplan and Avios Bonus opportunities pages regularly and look under the 'other offers' section for any and all free mileage offers that may come up. At time of updating these were the only 2 'free' Aeroplan Miles offer
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Sony Xperia Z survives dust and liquid torture, slow motion camera tells its rugged story
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The Sony Xperia Z is a first of a kind, a flagship Android device that is also dust and water resistant, and to demonstrate this…
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1. CX3NT3_713 (Posts: 2016; Member since: 18 Apr 2011)
Looks water repellant like?.. Nice
2. emadshiny (Posts: 1142; Member since: 05 Dec 2012)
the best phone right now. i will definitely buy one.
5. cezarepc (Posts: 648; Member since: 23 Nov 2012)
Even if GS4, Optimus G Pro, and M7 comes with beefier hardware Xperia Z is already ruling the house.
6. emadshiny (Posts: 1142; Member since: 05 Dec 2012)
i think the only one which can make trouble for it is S4. others can't be accounted as great rivals.
13. pyradark (Posts: 798; Member since: 10 Jun 2012)
agree!! S4 can be powerful but XZ is a damn great phone, thanks to its resistant features and other blah blah blah hahahaha
3. skuld (Posts: 44; Member since: 10 Jan 2013)
the phone to beat, most certainly.
4. SonyFan (Posts: 22; Member since: 22 Jan 2013)
7. PhoenixWright (Posts: 100; Member since: 11 Feb 2013)
I would love to own an Xperia Z phone with the great design but I'd miss out on the GNote 2 screen size. Seriously considering the Xperia Z tablet (Which I REALLY HOPE is REAL) since I already have a great phone. Now I just wish I have cash when the tablets roll out.
8. InspectorGadget80 (Posts: 6975; Member since: 26 Mar 2011)
A very nice story cant wait for its released. Waits paitently till date announcement
9. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
So far, it doesn't look like the Z will be available on VZW. :-( Oh well.
10. giper54 (Posts: 12; Member since: 06 May 2010)
Looks like AT&T won't be picking up the version of the Z until the fall, but Sony will most likely be selling an AT&T HSPA+ and LTE compatable version from their on line store.
12. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
Yeah, it seems like Sony didn't read the memo about expanding the number of carriers that carry your toys.
18. oister85 (Posts: 426; Member since: 27 Apr 2012)
How do you know at&t wont have it until fall please respond.
11. Dimitru (Posts: 40; Member since: 10 Feb 2012)
The best experience from SONY in a smartphone ;)
14. Nikolas.Oliver (banned) (Posts: 1574; Member since: 01 Jul 2012)
if only this was a nexus device...shut up and take my money
15. BadAssAbe (Posts: 434; Member since: 22 Apr 2011)
Nexus and add a OLED Screen
19. bipinm (Posts: 122; Member since: 07 Oct 2012)
oled is not that great...but the screen in Z is very good...swich on bravia engine 2 and u will be amazed...
Im damn sure of it...
16. gmracer1 (Posts: 646; Member since: 28 Dec 2012)
"Something not a single other high-end Android on the market can brag about."
Allow me to brag about my Razr Maxx.............
I've TRIED to scratch my screen, numerous times, with all of the keys on my keyring (I purposely demonstrate it for customers)
My phone has met face-to-face with wood floors, asphalt, and brick (those were accidents lol)
Soda has splashed on it, it's seen plenty of shower water drips, and the best of all.............it's been through the rain a dozen times (I ride a motorcycle and keep my phone in my front shirt pocket. So yeah...driving in the rain)
17. oister85 (Posts: 426; Member since: 27 Apr 2012)
I hope sony fix all those software issues like the screens sometimes it doesn't respond or doing the random reboots and free Of lags please free of lags sony.


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The Knog Blinder ARC 1.7 is waterproof, USB rechargeable and with a high-intensity XB-D Cree LED, packs a powerful punch. 170 lumens and a 24° horizontal beam, ensure other road users will see you from a 1000m, in multiple directions.
Top Features of the Knog Blinder ARC 1.7 Front Light
- 170 Lumens
- Visible from a distance of 1000 metres
- 100% Waterproof and Dust Proof
- USB Rechargeable with a Lithium Ion Battery
- Total of 4 light modes
- Light Dimensions: W32 x D32 x L70.8mm (main light unit excluding strap)
- Weight: 100g
Product Data
MTB: | Yes |
Road: | Yes |
Weight (g): | 100 |
Battery Type: | Li-Ion |
Battery Included: | Yes |
Battery Level Light: | Yes |
Battery Position: | Internal |
Mounting Bracket: | Silicone |
Bulb Type: | LED |
Charge Time (hours): | 4 |
Power Plug Type: | USB |
Output (Lumens): | 170 |
Commuter: | Yes |
EU Plug Supplied: | No |
US Plug Supplied: | No |
Aus/Nz Plug Supplied: | No |
A 1 x CREE XB-D LED provides an output of 170 lumens. This is matched with an elliptical beam of 16° vertical and 24° horizontal, allowing you to be seen, from multiple angles, by other road users, at over 1000m.
The lithium ion battery is rechargeable from a waterproof USB port on the rear of the light and with a 4hr full charge, maintains consistent brightness throughout the specified run-time. Up to 1.4 hours in High Beam, 2.7 hours in Medium Beam, 5.9 hours in Low Beam and 11.7 hours in Flashing mode.
A long button push on (0.75sec) prevents accidental activation of your light. Short presses switch modes continuously. Similarly, the light is switched off with a long button push off (0.5sec). There is a low battery indicator and a storage mode. Activated when the light will not be used for a period of time to optimise battery longevity.
Made with a UV-resistant, industrial-grade, silicone rubber body and straps, polycarbonate housing, PMMA lens, anodised aluminium heat sink, anodised aluminium fascia and solid stainless steel MIM latch.
The Blinder Arc 1.7 has been tested rigerously; Drop tests, corrosion tests, UV tests, Electrical shock and static, vibration and impact, temperature and humidity, cycle testing and CE certification.
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3rd December 2010, 12:16 AM | #1 |
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push-pull extendible plugged enclosure
Had a couple of ideas for a "tunable" real time volume adjustable design to be made from PVC... large pieces. For simplicity and quality i choose the push pull concept... here is a picture
3rd December 2010, 06:06 AM | #2 |
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So i'd like to explain myself further as i was brief above.
My goal here to create the best sound with the cheapest materials... least accuracy dependent approach, whistl still being technologically intuitive. It's more of for an art project, where it will be build on location and space won't really be limited. the PVC will probably slide manually with no motors.. the distance between the push pull speakers will probably be fixed, though it would be interesting to allow them to be adjustable. Is a push pull with an open ended tunable tube a feasible project to make some cheap good sound? |
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I think I saw (advertisement on magazines ) some subwoofers ,only one driver ,that had a set of 3 or four different length ducts ,and that was for fine tuning the response to the room . But that ,after settling with the right one ,would have ended the game . What is the purpose of having a variable length ? Once you find the 'perfect' alignment , you're done ...
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Reminds me of the Blue Man Group kind of thing
At least the sub can be tuned manually to fit the needs at the time and to adjust to the room. Move the sub to a new room or different building? Collapse the tubes for easy transport--setup and adjust to a different room would be great. Back in my DJ days, moving those 157 pound 4 foot tall cabinets got old very quickly! |
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well... in all honesty it's a culmination of different ideas.
I heard about this show where Prodigy wouldn't play unless they had full control over the phase and delay of the subs. It got me thinking: they are the musicians and i'm sure at their level they know exactly what they want... the speakers are basically their giant instruments. you know how each time the DJ drop's his next track he takes a sec to set the EQ... so the bass sounds right? Well it would be cool if he also took a second to adjust the tuning of the subwoofers to compliment that particular kick drum sound. if the tuning were motor adjustable whatever electronics you used to tune one could sync all of them. This idea is 90% show... transprent walls would be cool, led and smoke machines inside the subwoofer would be cool... the problem is if one woofer is facing outwards, maybe the adjustable side should have a section that's adjustable.. but after that have it taper down into a transmission line design to load a little more compression into the equation. Having the woofer faciing forward is a feature I like, people like to look at woofers. |
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Brand new clip, 6 X 1000lb JDAMs level a Taliban position.
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ZIP | March 1, 2012 1:14 pm
I am 81 and a great grandma and I can't wait for your WarPorn and a little bit of payback. God Bless the troops
Ohhh, those poor trees.
The only survivors were insects buried very deeply at the time of explosion.
obama narrowly escaped by having to leave the brotherhood meeting early for his daily goat humping.
I would suggest this kind of action round the clock in every locale in this shit hole……..in just a few days ,declare victory and show them our ass on the way out………FTM!!!…..fuck the muzz…..
Something about killing flies with a baseball bat just warms my heart…
Ouch! That will leave a mark!
And that concludes today's demonstration on the proper way to dispose of korans.
Chuck, the last bomb should have been full of pork lard to consecrate the land.
Very clearly heard NINE detonations. The similarity in sound argues against hearing secondaries.
With that kind of payload, I guess it was a B-1 or B-52 in action.
@Dubya Bee
I'm guessing a B-52 but I'm not sure if they're currently being used in Afghanistan, I know B1-Bs are, they flew their 10,000th combat mission earlier this week.
Ah….well….it looks the the "call to prayer group" will be short a few members tonight! BTW cancel those dinner reservations. See ya!!!!
This should be done more often. Anytime a patrol comes under fire, that unit should retire to a safe position, Identify the target, call in artillery or bomber support and flaten the entire area. Civilian casualties equals unfortunate collateral damage. The Taliban cannot exist without the support of the civilian population. After a while, the civilians will fear us more than they do the Taliban. Therefore, no more Taliban. Then we can work on proving to them that being our friend is much better than being our enemy.
POP go the WEASELS!!
Well done.
however many was killed it is not enough
Do this to the whole country. North to South and East to West. Level it. All of it. Kill everyone of those heathens. The whole country isn't worth 47 cents and no one in it deserves to live! Then send a video of it to Iran and N. Korea.
The proper way to dispose of koranimals.


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A Glowing Baby Yoshi is a yellow Baby Yoshi appearing in New Super Mario Bros. U. It has the ability to light up dark areas by pressing the button on the or by shaking the . The amount of light shone increases the more the player shakes. Glowing Baby Yoshis also have the ability to stun enemies with the bright light. Glowing Baby Yoshi also emits a glow even in his dullest light. Glowing Baby Yoshi also adds a chorus to the current music, but only when shaken. It is also capable of eating Boos and other enemies.
Glowing Baby Yoshi is very similar to a Glow Block from New Super Mario Bros. Wii, as both illuminate dark places when carried. Additionally, Baby Bulb Yoshis' overall appearance resemble Bulb Yoshi, from Super Mario Galaxy 2.
This is the only Baby Yoshi that cannot be found on the World Map, and therefore, cannot be taken into other levels. In addition, its light-based abilities are only functional in dark areas, making this Baby Yoshi less useful if used in normal levels. However, if the players carry one to the goal, the Glowing Baby Yoshi gives an extra life as reward and remain behind the fortress, unlike the other Baby Yoshis that remain in front of the building and then follow the characters when they enter.


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HOOVER, Alabama - The Alabama Department of Environmental Management has proposed a $12,000 fine for Riverchase United Methodist Church for failing to use best management practices to keep dirt from a construction site from polluting a neighbor's lake.
Construction work on a $1.3 million addition at the church has sent mud and dirt into an adjacent 4-acre lake owned by neighbors Randy and Mary Raines Harper, causing them problems for nearly two years now.
ADEM documented multiple violations and in March 2011 ordered construction to halt until the problem was corrected. The church fired its original contractor and later sued him for negligence and fraud. The Harpers sued the contractor, too, and won a $76,500 settlement.
In August 2011, the Harpers signed an agreement with the church that called for monitoring conditions and restoration of the lake by March of this year, but March came and went without remediation work being done on the lake.
After the ADEM inspection report, the church hired a company to lower the level of the lake so it can be tested to determine how much sediment has entered the lake and needs to be removed.
Efforts to contact Senior Pastor Jim Savage about the ADEM fine were unsuccessful, but Savage previously has said that the vegetation and trees being planted need time to take hold. The church, he said, is committed to making things right.
(See update with response from Senior Pastor Jim Savage)
ADEM has established a 30-day period for the public and interested parties to comment on the proposed $12,000 fine, ADEM spokesman Scott Hughes said. Anyone who wishes to comment on the fine can do so between Oct. 10 and Nov. 9 by writing to ADEM c/o Russell Kelly, P.O. Box 301463, Montgomery, AL 36130-1463.
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Babette Haag (Marimba, Percussion)
Born: October 31, 1967 - Munich, Bavaria, Germany
The German prccionist and marimba player, Babette Haag, daughter of a flautist and a harpist, began to play the piano at six. At 17, she heard a concerto for marimba and orchestra, and was so enthusiastic that she decided to study percussion instruments rather than making a career as a pianist. From 1988 to 1994 she studied classic percussion and timpani at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg/Breisgau. In 1991, she took part in the competition of the "Deutscher Musikrat" and was awarded a scholarship for the 36th National Selection "Concerts of young people" in 1992-1993. In the 1992-1993 season, Babette Haag began her solo career with more than 40 solo appearances throughout Germany. She also belonged as solo timpanist to the Jungen Deutschen Philharmonie and the Philharmonie des Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. With this orchestra , which in 1995 was renamed the Philharmonie der Nationen, she appeared for 7 years (1990-1996) under the direction of Justus Frantz as solo percussions and organizer of the percussion department at numerous concert tours at home and abroad, in CD productions as well as in the TV show Achtung! Klassik. You can Babette Haag experience in various formations in which she repeatedly tris to explore the versatility of percussion instruments: in solo percussion recitals, concertos for marimba / percussion and orchestra, with the Percussion-Ensemble Babette Haag (from duo to quintet) or as a chamber music partner (including a duo and trio Arparimba TriColore , with the Piano Duo Paratore, with the pianists Alexei Lubimov & Alexandre Rabinovich, with Klaus Maria Brandauer or Bobby McFerrin). Her performances - defined by a high musicality and an admirable sense of rhythm - have taken her to many countries in Europe and in the Baltic States, the USA, South America (Brazil, Nicaragua) Australia, Asia (China, Saudi Arabia) and Africa (Sudan, Côte d'Ivoire), or with the luxury cruise ship MS Europa around the UK. In North and South America she made her debut as a soloist in 2004 with recitals and concerts with orchestra, crowned by TV and radio recordings of her acclaimed performances as in the Sala São Paulo, the most prestigious concert series in Brazil. She is called "Wizard of the music world" and the newspapers (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung) certify her an electrifying enthusiasm combined with brilliant virtuosity. Babette Haag is a welcome guest at major international music festivals and invited by numerous symphony orchestras (Rheingau Musikfestival, Ludwigsburger Schloßfestspiele, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Berliner Festwochen, Bayerischer Rundfunk Symphonieorchester, Frankfurter Museumsorchester, Staatstheater Oldenburg, Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Musikcollegium Schaffhausen, Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonie Thüringen, Dresdner Kapellsolisten or Sinfonieorchester Plauen/Zwickau). Babette Haag shares her experience at home and abroad in master-classes, seminars and workshops such as at the University of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the College of Music and Drama in Khartoum, the Braunschweig Classix-Festival or the Musikhochschule Dresden. Babette Haag has release 5 CD's so far: "Magic Drums " - Works for Marimba, Drums, Percussion (1998); "Impressions for Harp and Marimba " - with the duo Arparimba (1999); "Magic Marimba " - solo works for marimba (2002); "Melodies for Percussion" - concertos for marimba, vibraphone, timpani or multi-percussion and orchestra - with the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn under Gazarian Ruben (2005); and "Pas de Deux" - music for harp and marimba (2006).
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Rochioli River Block Pinot Noir 2010
Pinot Noir from Russian River, California
Winemaker's Notes
Rich red berry fruits combine with a floral quality that is quite unique. A powerful wine with ripe fruit flavors, soft tannin and balanced acidity.
Critical Acclaim
International Wine Cellar - "Bright medium red. Sexy, highly perfumed aromas of raspberry, cherry-cola, lavender and minerals, complemented by a suave florality. Sweet, penetrating yet seamless red fruit flavors show a compelling blend of richness and vivacity, along with a subtle smokiness. The raspberry note shows strongly on the finish, which clings with outstanding tenacity and clarity." -
Vinous / Antonio Galloni - "The 2010 Pinot Noir River Block comes across as a bit reticent at this stage. Dark cherries, menthol, sweet spices and licorice are woven together nicely but the wine nevertheless appears to be holding back much of its potential. Today the 2010 River Block isn't as expressive as the other 2010s here, or the 2009s, but if the austere, angular contour softens and the fruit fills out, it may merit a higher score."
Rochiolli Winery
The Rochioli family has been growing grapes on its 136-acre ranch since the 1930s. In 1984, Tom Rochioli created the first wines to be produced under the Rochioli name. The 9000 case winery produces Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir. View all Rochiolli Wines About Russian River
View a map of Russian River wineriesThe Russian River Valley is named as such due to its proximity to the Russian River, the river itself named for the Russian fur traders who came down from Alaska in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The Russian River is agricultural land. While there is a focus on wine, beyond the vineyards are many small, family-owned farms cultivating everything from cattle to Christmas trees.
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The proximity of this cool river and the rolling fogs from the Pacific Ocean make the area amenable to cool-climate grapes like Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. In fact, the region is quite known for its full-bodied, yet elegant Pinot Noir, as well as their ripe, yet lean Chardonnays. Within Russian River Valley lie the smaller appellations of Chalk Hill and Green Valley. Chalk Hill is the warmer of the two and furthest from the ocean, while Green Valley is cooler and closer to the water.About California
It's not rare to see a wine's country of origin listed as "California." A country into itself in the wine world, California makes enough varieties and styles to match many European wine countries. It produces a diverse range of wines that span the quality spectrum.The most famous of the California wine regions is Napa Valley, and these wines are certainly outstanding – but it's not as broad and diverse as its larger neighbor, Sonoma County. Down south, Santa Barbara's Santa Maria Valley is well-known for its Rhône blends, as well as cool-climate varieties like Pinot and Chardonnay. The Central Coast, the largest California AVA, has many different microclimates that lead to a wide range of wines with many sub-AVAs.
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