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The Bell County Sheriff's Department arrested a Pineville man on Tuesday after he allegedly threatened deputies. Orville Hobbs Jr., 48, was arrested by Deputy Joel Quillen and charged with three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment and two counts of third-degree assault.
According to the citation, Hobbs came to Balkan Road and pointed what appeared to be a semi-automatic shotgun at deputies BJ Brock, Carl Frith and Quillen while they attempted to serve a warrant.
The citation states deputies ordered Hobbs to drop the weapon, which he did not comply. He turned his four-wheeler around and drove back to his residence. After Hobbs was placed under arrest, he grabbed Quillen and attempted to pull him to the ground. He also kicked Brock while being placed in the police cruiser.
According to the citation, Hobbs threatened to have individuals harm the deputies and their families.
Hobbs was also charged with second-degree fleeing or evading police, three counts of third-degree terroristic threatening and resisting arrest. He was lodged at the Bell County Detention Center. He received a 50,000 cash bond.
In other police news, Lambert Carl Stewart, 64, of Calvin, was arrested after allegedly pointing a gun at several neighbors. He was charged with three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment.
According to the citation, deputies responded to a complaint on Emily Drive that Stewart had a handgun pointed at several neighbors. Upon arrival, Quillen and Deputy Shane Stewart spoke with Michael Cox and a female.
The alleged victims said Carl Stewart and his girlfriend allegedly came to their residence. The citation states the victims said Carl Stewart then begin assaulting Cox. At one point during the altercation, it is alleged that Carl Stewart pulled the handgun on Cox.
Carl Stewart was being held at the detention center on a $5,000 cash bond.
Anthony Cloud can be reached at 606-248-1010, ext. 1125 or on Twitter @AnthonyCloudMDN.


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My wife and I have had season tickets with the Aurora since our first experience there as guests of Emory Morsberger for "Annie Get Your Gun." We have never been disappointed. Certainly some productions were more appealing than others, but overall, the Aurora continually provides theatre at its best.
It was our good fortune to recently attend "Les Miserables". It was simply phenomenal. Everything about it was superb. We couldn't offer a single suggestion as to how it could have been any better. Our daughter and her husband accompanied us to this viewing and we all agree that it was the best.
Anthony Rodriguez and Ann-Carol Pence have made the Aurora a comfortable and welcoming place. It's "easy in, easy out" with top-notch entertainment in between. In our opinion, for the entertainment dollar, it is without question the best value in metropolitan Atlanta.
We are aware of a prize that the Aurora is offering — a trip for two to New York with a few visits to the theater while there. We believe that two season passes to the Aurora would be just as good and probably better.
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This is an amazing book, especially if you love the artwork of magic. This is the biggest book I have ever owned. It is a truly a coffee table book, you need to read it lying on a coffee or kitchen table. It is very heavy. I also did not realize that it was written in three languages, at first I thought I had ordered the German version by mistake. It is published in German, French & English, but the three parts are repeated so that everything is covered in each language, but there are different photos with each language so you can enjoy the entire book (the captions for all the pictures are in all three langauges).
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February 17, 2015
The 15 boys who stood on the stage were mostly solemn, but some of them allowed grins to creep across their faces as they absorbed the magnitude of the moment.
Cub Scout packs across the country hold annual transition ceremonies for 11- and 12-year-olds who have fulfilled the requirements to join Boy Scouts. Cub Scout Pack 682, which draws its members from Issaquah and Sammamish, honored its graduating fifth-graders Feb. 3 at Pacific Cascade Middle School.
Skyline senior attains Eagle honor with Scout troop
October 28, 2014
Most boys who enter the world of Scouting will make a lot of fond memories and learn many valuable lessons, but fewer than one in 10 will accomplish what Jonathan Chriest is doing this weekend.
At a Nov. 2 Court of Honor ceremony at The Plateau Club, the Skyline High School senior will receive his Eagle Scout rank from the Boy Scouts of America.
The National Eagle Scout Association estimates about 2.25 million boys have attained the honor since 1912, which might seem like a lot until learning that number represents only 5 percent of all Scouts.
Civil savior — Scout spearheads Civil War gravestone restoration project
September 30, 2014
Nearly 112 years after his death, Civil War infantryman Allan Day has gotten a new gravestone, thanks to a local Boy Scout project.
Day, born in October 1831, died Nov. 7, 1902, in Issaquah. He served in Co. K, 43rd Wisconsin Infantry in the Civil War. His stone over the years had turned a dark gray, and his information was illegible.
That has happened to most of the 18 gravestones of known Civil War veterans buried in Issaquah's Hillside Cemetery. All of them need to be replaced.
May 6, 2014
Tiger Mountain
Librarian hopes school will continue for years to come
My personal experience with Tiger Mountain Community High School was limited to about an hour and a half on Dec. 7, 1992.
I was at that time the young adult librarian at the Issaquah Library, and I visited the school to present a program to a group of young parents.
I didn't know what would be of interest, but I took along cloth books, board books, books about making toys or clothes or baby food — everything I could think of.
In my entire career as a librarian, I've never addressed such an interested, even rapt, audience! Those students were so keen to see the materials I'd brought. They loved the hand puppets (which at that time were for circulation), and some decided then and there to convert the stuffed toys they were scheduled to make into hand puppets instead. Their teacher agreed to help them with the project.
I was able to give every parent a copy of "Goodnight Moon," (and incidentally, I'd really had to work to persuade the library administration to let me have those books for that particular audience).
The teenagers were happy to show me their lovely babies after the program, and to tell me how they were caring for them — only 15 or 16 years old, but devoted caregivers.
I've often thought of those students and their children, children who would now be much older than their parents were in 1992. I do hope their lives turned out happily. I'm sure that attending Tiger Mountain Community High School helped a lot in that respect, and that the school will continue to assist all its students for years to come.
Marnie Webb
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Options abound to recycle old Christmas trees
December 31, 2012
NEW — 2 p.m. Dec. 31, 2012
Christmas is history, and residents ready to pitch old Christmas trees can do so in different ways.
Chip trees — minus tinsel and other decorations — into landscaping material or ground finer into a composting soil amendment.
Customers tired of evergreens dropping brown needles can set out trees for yard waste collection on regular yard waste collection days.
Haulers do not collect trees decked in flocking or decorations. Contact garbage haulers for details; CleanScapes and Allied Waste — a local name for national company Republic Services — serve Issaquah.
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November 20, 2012
Boy Scout Nicholas Co earns Eagle rank
Nicholas Co recently earned the rank of Eagle Scout.
His Eagle Scout service project was repurposing an unusable space at Issaquah Middle School, contributing nearly 100 hours of service to his community.
Co is the student body president of Issaquah High School, an active member of National Honor Society and he runs as a member of the cross-country and track teams. He is a passionate volunteer of King County Search and Rescue, and was recognized as last year's Top 5 Youth Responder.
Co plans to study engineering after graduating in June.
Local Boy Scouts complete 80-mile hike in New Mexico
October 30, 2012
Twelve local teenage Boy Scouts and leaders took the New Mexico wilderness head on in August, hiking 80 miles over a dozen days. The group followed a track in the Philmont Scout Ranch, one of the largest adventure camps owned by the Boy Scouts of America.
The ranch, which covers 214 square miles of wilderness, has seen more than 950,000 Scouts, venturers and leaders since the first camping season in 1939. The ranch has trails that climb from 6,500 feet to 12,441 feet in altitude, and the territory is home to bears and mountain lions, among other natural challenges.
Philmont is well-known in the Scouting world, and ranch visitors are selected for hiking the area through a lottery system that Boy Scout troops can enter every two years. Other national camps also offer scuba diving in addition to hiking.
Brothers complete Eagle project at Squak Valley Park
August 21, 2012
On a hot, sunny Thursday in July, Skyline High School brothers Kyle and Josh Jancola spent their day hauling wheelbarrows full of gravel across the trails of Squak Valley Park.
Just ask them, they have the blisters to prove it.
It was all for a good cause though as the 16-year-old brothers completed their Eagle service project and helped improve the Issaquah park.
Kyle built 150 feet of new trail for the park, while Josh assembled and installed three park benches. The brothers hope that the improvements will be positive additions.
"I hope that people eventually would be able to come outside here and enjoy the fresh air," Kyle said.
The brothers did not complete the project alone, though. Several friends, family members and fellow Scouts gathered to help the morning of July 19.
The heat was an annoyance, the brothers said, but they worked to keep a positive atmosphere with snacks and beverages for the volunteers.


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This page intends to provide various softwares regarding quality assessment, digital watermarking, lossless compression, selective encryption, HVS models, as well as some subjective experiments.
Please note: There is no warranty or support for the applications below. They are supplied free of charge. We cannot be held responsible for damage caused to your computer. If you are unsure about any aspect of installing this software then please do not proceed.
Quick access:
Objective Quality Metrics
Mojette related code
JND masks for watermarking
Watermark detection
Subjective Experiments
Video Processing
Quality metrics
- Download the Komparator quality metric (provided by Pierre Evenou).
Many thanks to Vinod Pankajakshan for his source code of both cpa1 and cpa2.
Mojette stuff
- Some code for the Mojette (provided by Pierre Evenou).
also available as a sourceforge project
- Some more code for the Mojette Transform, for lossless compression and Selective Encryption purpose. (Many thanks to Andrew Kingston who wrote this code). This code is further to the preliminary study on the Mojette compression.
JND Masks for digital watermarking
- Some source code for the three following JND masks:
- Chou-Hsien Chou, Yun-Chin Li, "A Perceptually Tunned Subband Image Coder Based on the Measure of Just-Noticeable-Distortion Profile", IEEE Trans on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 5, Dec. 1995.
- A. B.Watson, "DCTune: A Technique For Visual Optimization of DCT Quantization Matrices for Individual Images", Society for Information Display Digest of Technical Papers XXIV,1993.
- Xiaohui Zhang, Weisi Lin, Ping Xue, "Just-noticeable difference estimation with pixels in images", Journal of visual Communication &Image Representation., June 2007.
- A. B.Watson, "DCTune: A Technique For Visual Optimization of DCT Quantization Matrices for Individual Images", Society for Information Display Digest of Technical Papers XXIV,1993.
- Xiaohui Zhang, Weisi Lin, Ping Xue, "Just-noticeable difference estimation with pixels in images", Journal of visual Communication &Image Representation., June 2007.
Many thanks to Chen Wei, who provided this code.
- A piece of GNU Octave code to compute a JND mask on still images. This code is a simplified version of the JND mask presented in :
Please, note that the Masks provided by the GNU Octave code above differ from the masks as presented in the "SigPro" paper (please see the included Readme file).
- Towards a JND mask in the Wavelet domain. A subjective experiment, as detailed in the following papers
- "A perceptually driven hybrid additive-multiplicative watermarking technique in the wavelet domain", in Electronic Imaging 2011.
- "A Subjective Study of Visibility Thresholds for wavelet domain watermarking", in ICIP 2010.
- "A Subjective Study of Visibility Thresholds for wavelet domain watermarking", in ICIP 2010.
Watermark Detection
- Some source code for the Grubbs' test (see the paper entitled "Application of Grubbs' test for outliers do the detection of watermarks", in ACM IH&MMsec 2014).
To use this code, you will need the libit, gsl and mpfit libraries.
Command line:
./Grubbs_test <Data.txt> <width> <height> <alpha_value>
./Grubbs_test xcorr.txt 127 127 0.000001
./Grubbs_test <Data.txt> <width> <height> <alpha_value>
./Grubbs_test xcorr.txt 127 127 0.000001
The distribution of the data is obtained, and a Gaussian fit is performed, in order to ensure that the data follows a Normal distribution.
This code is based on this Matlab implementation.
It is C code, but the archive also includes a python script.
Important Note: Within the framework of the ACM paper mentioned above, the Grubbs' test is applied on correlation data (see J. P. Lewis, "Fast Normalized Cross-Correlation", 1995, e.g. Matlab, OpenCV, Python code) preferably in a transformed domain (DFT, DWT, DCT...), where the data (either the watermark or the host signal) is noise-like. The correlation data needs to follow a Normal distribution.
Subjective experiments
- Download various subjective quality assessment databases here.
- Some works on JND computation in the wavelet domain. (the link includes
a subjective experiment, feel free to give it a try and send me the log
- Download a DSIS subjective experiment right here. The original and distorted images are successively displayed in the center of the screen for about 5 seconds each, and then, the observer has to vote, using the F1 to F5 keys.
- Some source code for a "2AFC" experiment is there. 2AFC stands for "Two Alternative Forced Choice", basically, an original image is displayed on the upper part of the screen, and two images are displayed in the lower half. Among these two images, one is the original, and one is a distorted version. The observer is asked to select the image he believe is the distorted image. The selection is done with the right/left arrows (pointing towards the distorted image).
- An alternative "2AFC" experiment is on sourceforge, here. Matthieu Urvoy implemented this protocol during his post-doc position within the IRCCyN lab in 2014. This code uses the OpenCV library. Full details are provided on the sourceforge project page.
- Download a Pair comparison subjective experiment right here. This experiment basically displays two images side by side on a monitor, the reference image location is known (left hand side of the screen), and the distorted image is displayed on the right hand side. The observers are asked to evaluate the quality of the distorted image using the F1 to F5 keys on the keyboard (please read the README.txt file included in the zip archive for more details).
Video Processing & Display
- Check out a H.264 watermarking DEMO.
- Download a YUV
player for Windows or Mac/Linux.
2 versions are available here:
- An SDL based player (cross-platform)
- An AquaTerm based player (Mac-only)
The arguments for this program are as follows:
1) the yuv video filename, 2) the frames height and 3) the frames width:
./SDL_YUVplayer foreman_qcif.yuv 144 176
Please read this file for more details.
Sourceforge project:
You can access the sourceforge project here.
Note that the sourceforge project may include new features.
Some YUV videos can be downloaded from
Graphical User Interface:
I made a first attempt to create a GUI to the YUV player.
This interface allows to read 4:4:4, 4:2:2 & 4:2:0 planar YUV files.
You will need to have Python installed to run the Graphical User Interface.
If you want to compile this code, you'll need:
- SDL_Image
- Python
- wxPython
Please, read the README.txt file.
Misc Stuff
- A 2D normalized cross correlation function in C: normxcorr2.
- 2D csf (Contrast Sensitivity Function) in C: 2Dcsf.
Edit the .m files, and set the 'cmd' variable to the path of your "ij.jar" or "Plot" file.
Note: The the "getimage" function should be cross-platform, whereas the "getplot" function is Mac only.
Note: The the "getimage" function should be cross-platform, whereas the "getplot" function is Mac only.


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Perhaps wearing only a thong and boots left Rihanna a little exposed to the elements: The pop singer still isn't feeling well and canceled Tuesday's (March 12) concert in Baltimore, after also missing out on Sunday's scheduled show in Boston.
After kicking off her Diamonds Tour on Friday at Buffalo, New York's First Niagara Theater, Rih Rih pulled out of Sunday's show at the TD Garden in Boston. Event promoter Live Nation issued a statement that cited the flu and laryngitis as the reasons Rihanna could not perform, adding that the show would be rescheduled.
Shortly thereafter, she took to Twitter, telling fans she was "embarrassed" about letting them down. "#Boston this is the hardest thing for me to deal with!" she wrote. "I feel like we've been waiting on this day forever, and I'm hurt that I let you down."
She hasn't tweeted since then, so there's no message yet for disappointed ticketholders in Baltimore.Chris Brown laughs off alleged Rihanna rant.
According to a review of the Buffalo show in the Buffalo News, the singer appeared in fine form on opening night. Though Rihanna was reportedly an hour late to take to the stage, the sold-out show featured impressive choreography from the singer, her eight dancers, two backup singers and four-piece band.
Stay tuned to MTV News for word on whether Rih will make her next scheduled tour stop at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on Thursday.
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Will Tuition Increase Hurt Enrollments
Will the latest tuition increase across the board hamper efforts by the state colleges and universities to get students from out of state here? Good question says UW-L Chancellor, Joe Gow.
The 5.5% increase approved two weeks ago will take another $400 from students attending UW-La Crosse....higher at the Milwaukee and Madison campuses.
Miss La Crosse Oktoberfest Takes Miss Wisconsin Title
Another Miss La Crosse-Oktoberfest moves up the pageant ladder...
The reigning Miss Oktoberfest, Kate Gorman, has won the Miss Wisconsin title for this year, meaning that she'll compete at the Miss America contest in January. Gorman is now the second straight Miss Wisconsin from La Crosse County, succeeding Raeanna Johnson of Holmen, also a former Miss Oktoberfest. Elizabeth Kramer from Holmen finished third at the state pageant in Oshkosh. Kramer followed Johnson as Miss Oktoberfest in 2010, and was succeeded by Gorman last fall.
Kwik Trip Deal Approved by Council
Kwik Trip has its deal. The La Crosse city council has agreed to a development arrangement with Kwik Trip that will lead to a big expansion in the industrial park. Part of the agreement will return hundreds of thousands of dollars in property tax dollars to Kwik Trip based on the value of the property it creates. The company will also rent some land from the city and then buy it when some contamination gets cleaned up. The company is also in line to get a million dollars in job credits from the state for the hundred jobs it plans to create.
Basement Fire Damages Second-Oldest Building At UWL
The original physical education building at U-W-L will be shut down for a while, because of a weekend fire.
On Saturday night, flames broke out in the basement of Wittich Hall, directly north of Main Hall. Nobody was hurt, and the cause of the fire isn't known yet. The Wittich fire happened less than two blocks from the football stadium, where thousands of people were gathered Saturday night for the Freedom Fest concert. Hetzel says the festival did not interfere with fire department activity.
Koula Friend Unsure About Timeline On Day Koula's Parents Were Killed
A friend of Eric Koula's says he believes investigators wanted him to change his story...
That's what Mike Genz said when questioned in court today at Koula's murder trial in La Crosse. Genz is a defense witness who has said that he and Eric were doing tile work at a house in La Crosse on the afternoon that Eric's parents were killed in Barre Mills. Genz frequently said that the two of them left the house at 5:30 p-m, which would conflict with the police theory that Eric killed his mother 11 minutes later at a house that was eight miles away. Genz said today that they could have left sometime between 5 and 5:30. Genz says Eric was not behaving unusually either that afternoon, or two days later when they spent time together on a boathouse.


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Quote, originally posted by enlarged reputation » this is the worst idea i've heard of since... ever. brake dust + road grime + plasti dip = :crazy:
if the photo above is not sufficient to see if youd like flat black wheels, i suggest using that temporary rock protection spray so at least your able to spray it off with high pressure once you make up your mind. even if you peel the plastidip there will be spots you wont be able to get to..
Looks like Alanbrito caught that idea as well. If you want a week long flat black look into that spray or the car art stuff. Plasti-dipping wheels is the worst idea i've heard in a while. If you are looking to save money and want a flat black look, I suggest Duplicolor wheel specific paint.
I bought a set of trashed classix for the winter and less than 20 bucks later:
But IMO the charlestons are too interesting of a design to paint black, just like the huffs. The painted and machined contrast is what sets them apart. Even if they are just 'stock' wheels.


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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The radiation exposure of at least 13 workers at a nuclear dump in a New Mexico salt bed more than 2,000 feet below the ground has brought new attention to the nation's long struggle to find places to dispose of tons of Cold War-era waste.
The above-ground radiation release that exposed the workers during a night shift two weeks ago shut down the facility as authorities investigate the cause and attempt to determine the health effects on the employees. The mishap has also raised questions about a cornerstone of the Department of Energy's $5-billion-a-year program for cleaning up waste scattered across the country from decades of nuclear-bomb making.
With operations at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant on hold, so are all shipments, including the last of nearly 4,000 barrels of toxic waste that Los Alamos National Laboratory has been ordered to remove from its campus by the end of June. Other waste from labs in Idaho, Illinois and South Carolina is also without a home while operations are halted.
The dilemma about what to do with the nuclear waste is highly politicized.
The government spent an estimated $15 billion on a proposed nuclear waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain that has not been completed. The Yucca site is fiercely opposed by Nevada lawmakers, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
By contrast, New Mexico's congressional delegation has largely supported the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, which has been accepting waste since 1999 and employs about 650 people. The site is limited by law to plutonium waste from making weapons, but experts say salt beds at the site may be suitable for radioactive waste from commercial reactors.
In an example of the dilemma that communities nationwide face over nuclear waste, documents obtained Friday by The Associated Press found that there are "significant construction flaws" in some storage tanks at Washington state's Hanford nuclear waste complex. Taxpayers spend about $2 billion a year to clean up radioactive waste at the site.
Many scientists consider the unique geology of the New Mexico location to be ideal for disposing of tainted materials like tools, gloves, glasses and protective suits. Over decades, with pressure from the ground above, the salt deposits settle around the containers and entomb them.
Edwin Lyman, a nuclear expert at the watchdog group Union of Concerned Scientists, said the accident could curb enthusiasm on Capitol Hill for the underground site.
"I think from a political standpoint this is going to put a damper on some of the more ambitious expansion plans," he said. "The narrative is that facility is super-safe. Now that they've had a serious incident, that's no longer valid."
Officials said they don't yet know what doses of radioactive material the workers absorbed, and that it's too soon to speculate on what the health effects might be.
Tests showed traces of the element americium. Once in the body, americium tends to concentrate in the bone, liver and muscles. It can stay in the body for decades and continue to expose surrounding tissues to radiation, increasing a person's chance of developing cancer.
On Feb. 5, the mine was shut and six workers were sent to the hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation after a truck hauling salt caught fire. Nine days later, a radiation alert activated in the area where newly arrived waste was being stored. Preliminary tests show 13 workers suffered some radiation exposure, and monitors as far as half a mile away have since detected elevated levels of plutonium and americium in the air. Ground and water samples are being analyzed.
Officials said they're confident the incidents are unrelated. And while they emphasize that the levels detected off-site are no more harmful than a dental X-ray, they have not been able to go underground, and have not directly answered questions about how contaminated the tunnels might be.
Don Hancock, director of the Nuclear Waste Safety program at the Southwest Research and Information Center, said the contamination levels will depend on the workers' proximity to the material.
"If you're standing by a 55-gallon drum of plutonium and americium, not much problem. But when you get even a small portion of what's in that drum in the air and you breathe it in, then you do have a problem," he said.
Government officials, politicians, the contractors that run the mine and local officials all say it is too soon to speculate on what the short- or long-term impacts of the shutdown might be, or where else the toxic waste would go.


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At the invitation of a friend whose daughter and son-in-law were performing significant roles in it, my wife and I attended a student performance this evening of Verdi's Falstaff — which is, of course, based on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor. It was very well done, and entirely enjoyable. Quite funny.
But there were empty seats.
The opera will be performed once more, tomorrow night. (Actually, now that I look at the clock, tonight. Saturday, at 7:30 PM.) The cast will be different, so I can't really say anything about that. But, if it's as good as the Falstaff that we just saw, it will be well worth the time.


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Summer is all over the city. Start packing your vacation gear with the season's trends that are sure-fire hits to keep you fresh and cool 24/7.
From drape tops and body-con shorts to cutout dresses, spikes and prints, we got your backs. Featuring illustrations by Mai Evangelista, here is your style guide for summer break!
Breezy heights
Get into your shorts and let the fun
begin. Pile on your favorite colors and pair them with cotton-y tank tops.
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Fiery spirit
The more skin, the better choice it is for a summer beach dress. Opt for one with cutouts to show the world the new you.
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Sea stud
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OMBRE gray sweater with spike shoulder details, metallic body-con skirt and pink tie-dye wedges, all Forever 21
Finding light
Stay classy with a white polo shirt, which can be your cover-up or your go-to shirt for impromptu nights out.
WHITE sheer button-down polo and scarf-print leggings, both Oxygen
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For a group of North Carolinians, dialing 911 and communicating with a dispatcher is not as easy as it seems during an emergency situation.
According to the state's Division of Services for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing (DSDHH), more than 1 million adults in North Carolina have a hearing problem. A few of those individuals reside here in Sampson.
Roberta Parker, telecommunications manager for the Sampson County Emergency Management, said they're ready to help those individuals in times of emergency.
To assist those in the county with hearing problems, the agency's 911 center has a system for individuals using Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD), or Teletypewriters(TTY)systems.
"It's real similar to texting," Parker said.
Those systems are available for deaf, hard of hearing and speech-impaired individuals.
The system is built into their phone system and when the center receives a call from a TDD or a TTY resident, the dispatcher hears a tone and it switches over to a screen where they can type to the individual seeking help.
Parker said it's been a while since the center has received a call.
"We used to have two regulars, but they both passed away," Parker acknowledged.
The center, she said, may only receive three calls a year, but for those who need it, knowing the service is available is a great comfort.
Some residents previously called the Relay North Carolina system to contact Sampson County's emergency personnel.
"We would talk through this third party, but we have not had a call like that in years," she said.
To use the relay service, anyone can dial 7-1-1 and the service is available 24 hours a day.
The local emergency management is certified by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. "They come in and do test calls to make sure we're doing what we're supposed to by making calls," Parker said.
Parker said the certification also includes classes about the system and the language.
"If they type GA, that means they're done and it's time for us to type what we want to type," she said.
Currently, no upgrades are planned for the system, which has been in place for at least 25 years.
"I've had several deaf calls from people needing an ambulance or for us to make a phone call for them," Parker said.
According to the DSDHH, equipment is available through their Equipment Distribution Services and other resources. After a system is selected, staff members can help with the application process, provide documents to order desired equipment and assist with installation.


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Storms roll through D.C. region with heavy rain, strong wind and lots of lightning
Among the lightning hits was one right behind the U.S. Capitol dome.
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Severe thunderstorms moved through the D.C. area Thursday evening, downing trees and power lines while damaging buildings.
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Dr. Mustafa Cerić, Grand Mufti Emeritus of Bosnia and Herzegovina, will address current global geopolitical challenges, notably schisms in the Middle East and its consequences for the European security project and integration of the Western Balkans into European Union and NATO.
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Drawing on a recently published larger volume - Strategies of Symbolic Nation-Building in Southeast Europe – Vjeran Pavlakovic will analyze the nation and state building strategies of the Croatian elite since the country attained independence, following the Homeland War, 1991-1995. In his presentation, Pavlakovic will focus on the role of contested narratives and commemorative practices related to the wars of the 20th century in the political arena. The discussion will also address current attitudes and sentiments in Croatia towards the EU, following the country's accession to the European Union in July, 2013.
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Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia have been independent states for more than 23 years. Although geographically contiguous, they differ in language, religion, and political and security orientation. How is each country faring in state-building, developing democracy, and improving economic performance? What are their relationships with Russia and the West, and with each other? How does their historical experience influence current developments, and what are their long term prospects?
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In recent years Russia has shown a growing interest in East European far-right parties. Now Russia, as Political Capital Institute research demonstrates, is increasingly involving itself with far-right and far-left parties of Western Europe as well. At a time of political and economic crisis some European political forces have become particularly receptive to Russia's new conservative, increasingly nationalist message. PCI Director Peter Kreko will discuss the changing perception of Russia on the political fringes of European politics and the new challenges it poses for Euro-Atlantic integration at both the national and the EU level.
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This year, South Africa is celebrating 20th anniversary of its first general elections when voters sent Nelson Mandela to the presidency ending the scourge of apartheid. This milestone anniversary is an occasion to reflect on the impressive accomplishments of South African democracy and economy since 1994, ponder key challenges facing the country today and in the years ahead, and also think about South Africa's place in Africa and globally.
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President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was sworn in on June 8. In his inauguration speech, al-Sisi spoke of his intent to lead Egypt in an inclusive manner. Khattab, who lives in Egypt, Ottaway, who recently returned from Egypt, and Shahin share their opinions of what the future of Egypt will hold.
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June 03, 2014 // 10:00am — 12:30pm
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Presidential elections in Egypt mark yet another milestone in the country's turbulent political journey of the past three years. Will the election of a new president usher in a period of greater security, prosperity and good governance or a continuation of uncertainty and volatility in Egyptian politics and economic life? And what will a new President mean for the US-Egyptian relationship? Four veteran analysts of Egypt and its politics offer their observations on these critical matters in this Ground Truth Briefing.


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Pax6 overexpression does not significantly affect retinal progenitor proliferation at E12.5 (A) Horizontal section of the eye of an E12.5 wild-type embryo labeled with anti-BrdU (red), anti-IdU (green) and counterstained with TOPRO3 (blue). Cell counts were made in 100 μm wide sampling boxes in the proximal (p) and distal (d) retina. (B) Estimated S-phase length (TS) and (C) estimated cell cycle length (TC) in the proximal and distal retina of wild-type and PAX77+/+ E12.5 embryos. No significant differences were detected between the mutants and the wild-types (n = 3 of each; Student's t-test; p > 0.05). Scale bar: 100 μm.
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HOUSTON (ICIS)--US November methanol reached a five-year high on Monday with Southern Chemical Corp's (SCC) posting of 174 cents/gal.
SCC's number stayed under Methanex's posting of 180 cents/gal last week. The two companies' postings historically have set the monthly contract range.
Their announcements put the average price for November at 177 cents/gal, an increase of 15 cents/gal over the October contract average of 162 cents/gal. US methanol contract prices have not reached this level since early 2008.
The moves confirmed expectations of methanol market watchers last week who expected a large jump in November based on a big bounce in spot prices. US methanol spot barge prices on Monday remained at 157-158 cents/gal.
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Janelle \j(a)-nelle, jan(el)-le\ as a girl's name is pronounced ja-NELL. Modern elaborated form of Jane, with the feminine ending -elle from names like Danielle. See also Jeanelle.
Janelle has 15 variant forms: Janel, Janelba, Janell, Janella, Janellie, Janely, Janiella, Janielle, Jannelle, Jenell, Jenelle, Jinella, Jinelle, Johnelle and Jonelle.
Janelle is a very popular first name for females (#548 out of 4276) and also a very popular surname or last name for all people (#16130 out of 88799) (2000 U.S. Census).
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My boiler is around 12 years old and now needs an expensive repair of around £451 (in addition to the £70 odd pounds a service and fault finding session has cost).
Does anyone have any advice which way to go with this? What would you do? I can run to a new boiler although I would have to put other important things on hold for a while.
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Posted September 19, 2011 at 8:14AM
I still like to have a tank with an immersion heater fitted for those emergencies, or if you've used all the hot water between timings it heats it up quickly.
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Posted September 19, 2011 at 9:20AM
My boiler is a combi, so produces hot water on demand. The cupboard where the huge copper tank used to reside is now full to the brim with old computer kit :)) (....Really must get round to clearing it out!)
My CH system has a timing system, but I don't use it. It has a wireless thermostatic transmitter which I pre-set to the desired temperature.
Each room has independent controls for each radiator, so I only switch the heating off if I'm away (even then I turn it down low in case of freeze ups)
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Posted September 19, 2011 at 9:41AM
Yes, there is no doubt that modern system are far better than only a few years ago, my combi comment was based on what was around when the last system I had put in 17 years ago. I won't be far off having to spend some money on a new one too. Are new combis OK for running baths now?
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Posted September 19, 2011 at 9:56AM
They are now....I have a walk in shower, but the friend who got me my boiler has said he used to have to wait ages for the old one to heat up got fill the bath.
They are not high pressure, but the water is so hot (and constant) that filling a bath wouldn't be an issue.
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Posted September 19, 2011 at 10:09AM
I would suggest two other points for when the new boiler is installed: 1. Make certain the whole system is flushed properly and a cleaner and inhibitor are applied. This will reduce the chance of problems from particulate floating around in the system even though some have a filter as part if the installation. 2. If going for a combi again, have a water filter installed in the mains inlet to it. This will, at least, reduce scaling in the domestic water heater and should increase the life of the unit.
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Posted September 19, 2011 at 4:41PM
Most new combi's fittted now come with an in line inhibitor/filter fitted. It's called a Magnaclean, it might come as an option at a cost of £100, but it is definately worth putting on.
My friend works for BG and he says great things about them so I would recommend you get one fitted. I think it works as an inline filter constantly within the system cleaning carbon and impurities out that damage the heat exchanger. I also think it is a removable piece of kit that owner periodically cleans to keep it working efficiently.
Hope this helps! Al.
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Posted September 19, 2011 at 6:49PM
Am I correct in thinking that a Combi boiler requires the whole system to be under modest pressure? Does this mean that a Combi Boiler would not be a good match for an older set of radiators currently causing no problems with a coventional boiler? Hope that made sense....
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Posted September 19, 2011 at 7:10PM
A conventional heating system is pressurised from the height of the expansion tank in the loft.
The alternative with a closed system is an inflatable diaphragm within the boiler which probably is set to a similar pressure.
I think the operating temperatures of the two sytems are different and thus the radiator sizes may need recalculating.
Confession......Not a plumber or heating engineer!
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Posted September 19, 2011 at 7:31PM
A combi boiler that's connected to a set of radiators that were installed to work with a conventional boiler usually causes no problems. Occasionally leaks can occur on compression joints on copper piping if they were not sufficiently tightened when fitted, and occasionally old radiators can start to leak where the valve tail enters the radiator. That's the point on the radiator where corrosion commonly starts to show on old radiators.
In the main, conversions from a conventional boiler to a combi go without any hitches. The combi system will be pressurised to between 1.0 and 1.5 bar, and this shouldn't result in any problems on a properly installed set of radiators.
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Shazam is an American app for smartphones, PCs[1] and Macs, which is best known for its music identification capabilities. Shazam Entertainment Limited was founded in 1999 by Chris Barton, Philip Inghelbrecht, Avery Wang and Dhiraj Mukherjee.[2] The company is best known for its music identification technology, but has expanded to integrations with cinema, advertising, TV and retail environments.[3]
Shazam uses a smartphone or Mac's built-in microphone to gather a brief sample of audio being played. It creates an acoustic fingerprint based on the sample, and compares it against a central database for a match. If it finds a match, it sends information such as the artist, song title, and album back to the user. Some implementations of Shazam incorporate relevant links to services such as iTunes, YouTube, Spotify or Zune. In December of 2013, Shazam was one of the top ten apps in the world, according to its CEO.[4] The Shazam app has more than 100 million monthly active users and has been used on more than 500 million mobile devices.[5] In October of 2014, Shazam announced its technology has been used to identify 15 billion songs.[6]
Shazam offers two types of applications; a free app simply called Shazam and a paid app called Shazam Encore. The service was expanded in September 2012 to enable TV users in the US to identify featured music, access cast information and get links to show information online, as well as adding social networking capabilities.[7]
In February of 2014, Shazam announced a redesign of the app, which included a new look and additional features, including lyric-viewing options, access to music videos and related videos, unique recommendations, improved biographies and discographies and additional functionality for use with TV shows. The update also featured a News Feed, and Auto-Shazam, a feature introduced in December of 2013, which runs in the background of users' mobile devices to automatically identify media.[8]
In July of 2014, Shazam announced the launch of Shazam for Mac, a desktop version of the app, which when enabled, runs in the background and automatically recognizes any song played on or near the computer, including songs playing in the background of TV shows or YouTube videos.[9] Apple's launch of iOS 8 in September of 2014 came with the seamless integration of Shazam into Apple's intelligent personal assistant Siri function.[10]
The Watch OS version of Shazam will work in a similar manner to other technologies, using a built-in microphone to gather samples.
Shazam is a free or low-cost application that runs on Android, Apple iPhone iOS, BlackBerry OS, and Windows systems. The application is similar on most phones and the result is shown on the screen complete with details on Artist, Album, Title, Genre, Music label, lyrics, a thumbnail image of the song/album artwork, links to download the song on iTunes or the Amazon MP3 store and, where relevant, show the song's video on YouTube and give the option of playing the song on Rdio. Shazam is also available for Mac, as a desktop application.[11]
Shazam is also confirmed as a new optional app on Watch OS, launching on the Apple Watch App Store on 24th April, 2015.
Shazam works by analyzing the captured sound and seeking a match based on an acoustic fingerprint in a database of more than 11 million songs.[12]
Shazam identifies songs based on an audio fingerprint based on a time-frequency graph called a spectrogram.
Shazam stores a catalogue of audio fingerprints in a database. The user tags a song for 10 seconds and the application creates an audio fingerprint.
Once it creates the fingerprint of the audio, Shazam starts the search for matches in the database. If there is a match, it returns the information to the user; otherwise it returns a "song not known" dialogue.[13]
Shazam can identify prerecorded music being broadcast from any source, such as a radio, television, cinema or music in a club, provided that the background noise level is not high enough to prevent an acoustic fingerprint being taken, and that the song is present in the software's database.
The company was founded in 1999 by Barton and Inghelbrecht, who were students at University of California, Berkeley, and Mukherjee, who worked at a London-based internet consulting firm called Viant.[citation needed] In need of a digital signal processing specialist, the founding team then hired Wang, who was a PhD student from Stanford University. As of September 2012[update], Wang is the only member of the original team to remain in the company,[2] and serves as Shazam's Chief Scientist.[14]
Rich Riley joined Shazam as CEO in April 2013 to increase the company's growth,[15] after over 13 years at Yahoo![16] and with more than 17 years of experience as an entrepreneur and leading Internet executive.[17] "I look forward to extending our dominance in media engagement, from our roots in music to our leadership position in second-screen TV and want to ensure that Shazam is the company that helps people recognize and engage with the world around them," Riley said in a statement at the time.[18] Riley replaced Andrew Fisher, who was hired from Infospace into the CEO role in 2005 to strengthen industry partnerships and grow the userbase.[2] Fisher is now executive chairman.
The first partnership was with Entertainment UK, part of Woolworths, whom they approached to digitise their music catalogue of 1.5 million songs in return for permission to create a proprietary database. As the service grew to have a worldwide userbase, it needed to keep its database up-to-date, which it does by having relationships with labels globally.[2] By December 2008, the database had grown to 8 million songs.[19]
In February 2013, Shazam announced a partnership with the music store Beatport, adding its library of electronic music to the service.[20] On 3 April 2013, Shazam announced an exclusive partnership with Saavn, an Indian online music streaming service. The deal will add nearly 1 million songs in Indian languages to Shazam's database.[21][22][23][24] In July 2014, Shazam announced a partnership with Rdio that allows Shazam users to stream full songs within the app.[25]
In addition to music, Shazam has announced collaborations with partners across television, advertising and cinema. In May of 2014, NCM Media Networks announced a partnership with Shazam to incorporate Shazam into FirstLook pre-show segments that run in Regal, AMC and Cinemark theaters.[26] In November of 2014, NCM and Shazam announced that NCM FirstLook pre-shows are now Shazam enabled on over 20,000 movie screens across the United States.[27]
In August of 2014, Shazam announced the launch of Resonate, a sales product that allows TV networks to access its technology and user base. The news included the announcement of partnerships with AMC, A+E, dick clark productions and FUSE.[28]
Shazam recently announced a partnership with Sun Broadcast Group on Shazam for Radio, a new offering that will allow radio stations to push customized content to listeners on Sun Broadcast's over 8,000 radio stations in the U.S.[29]
Early days of the service[edit]
Initially, in 2002, the service was launched only in the UK and was known as "2580", as the number was the shortcode that customers dialled from their mobile phone to get music recognised.[2] The phone would automatically hang up after 30 seconds. A result was then sent to the user in the form of a text message containing the song title and artist name. At a later date, the service also began to add hyperlinks in the text message to allow the user to download the song online.[30]
Shazam launched in the US on the AT&T Wireless network in 2004 in a joint offering with Musicphone, a now defunct San Francisco-based company. The service was free at launch with AT&T saying that it would charge USD0.99 for each use in future.[31]
In 2006, users were charged £0.60 per call or had unlimited use for £4.50 a month, as well as an online service to keep track of all tags.[30]
Smartphone app[edit]
Shazam for iPhone 2.0 debuted on 10 July 2008, with the launch of Apple's App Store. The free app simplified the service by enabling the user to launch iTunes and buy the song directly if the user was on a Wi-Fi connection [32] (at the time, iTunes did not allow music downloads over 3G). It was also possible to launch the iPhone YouTube app, if a video was available.[33]
In 2008, the service struggled to identify classical music.[34]
Shazam launched on the Android platform in October 2008. The Android app connected to Amazon's MP3 store instead of iTunes.[35]
Alongside the iOS 3 update in July 2009, Shazam updated its app to include a number of new features: marking the tag with GPS coordinates; sending tags to others as 'postcards', enabling them to buy the song; and Twitter integration.[36]
The app launched on the Windows Mobile Marketplace in October 2009 as a freemium offering, with the first release of Shazam Encore. The free version was now limited to five tags per month: users typically tagged ten songs per month. Encore, priced at USD4.69, added several features such as song popularity charts and recommendations.[37] Encore first appeared for iPhone in November 2009.[38]
By December 2009, Shazam was downloaded 10 million times in 150 countries across 350 mobile operators. Around eight percent of users purchased a track after it was identified by the service.[2] Its success led to a funding round from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in October 2009.[2][39] In January 2011, Apple announced that Shazam was the fourth most downloaded free app of all time on the App Store, while rival SoundHound had the top paid iPad app.[40]
Early adopters of the free application are still allowed unlimited tagging.[41]
GetJar, an app store for Android, Blackberry and Symbian, added Shazam in November 2010.[42]
In January 2011, Shazam and Spotify announced a partnership for iOS and Android to help users identify music with Shazam and listen to tracks through Spotify.[43]
While Shazam already had Facebook and Twitter share buttons, deeper Facebook integration was released in March 2011. With Shazam Friends users can see what their Facebook friends have tagged, listen to the tracks and buy them.[44]
With Shazam 5.0, released in April 2012, the app begins 'listening' as soon as it is launched and can take as little as one second to identify media. In addition to music, the app can identify TV programs and ads, if they are Shazam-enabled.[45]
In August 2012, Shazam announced the service had been used to tag five billion songs, TV shows and advertisements. In addition, Shazam claimed to have over 225 million users across 200 countries.[46] A month later, the service claimed to have more than 250 million users with 2 million active users per week.[7] The Shazam app currently has more than 100 million monthly active users and has been used on more than 500 million mobile devices.[47] In October of 2014, Shazam announced its technology has been used to identify 15 billion songs.[48]
The Shazam app was listed among Techland's 50 Best Android Applications for 2013.[49]
In August 2014, Shazam announced there would be no more updates for Shazam(RED) after 7 August.[50] Current users are advised to switch to the free version with tags transferred and ads removed (for free).
Apple's launch of iOS 8 in September of 2014 came with the seamless integration of Shazam into Apple's intelligent personal assistant Siri function.[51]
In October of 2014, Shazam introduced version 8.0 of the app, which features a new and improved News feed, as well as a section featuring Shazam charts and an "explore" option which lets user explore Shazamed tracks near them and around the world.[52]
Desktop app[edit]
Shazam announced the launch of Shazam for Mac, a desktop application, in July of 2014. When enabled, the app runs in the background of a Mac and automatically recognizes any song played on or near the computer, including songs playing in the background of TV shows or YouTube videos.[53]
Similar apps[edit]
- SoundHound, previously known as Midomi, uses Query by humming to identify songs.[citation needed]
- Gracenote's MusicID-Stream has the main advantage of having the largest database of all music IDs (with more than 28 million songs).[citation needed]
- Musipedia is a music search engine that works differently from others because instead of using techniques to identify recorded music, it can identify pieces of music from a single melody or rhythm.[citation needed]
- Play by Yahoo Music.
- Bing music identification.
- Sony TrackID
- Path also has a music-identification feature.[54]
- Stream That Song by Orange Innovation UK Ltd
- Google Sound Search [55]
Patent infringement lawsuit[edit]
In May 2009, Tune Hunter accused Shazam of violating U.S. Patent 6,941,275, which covers music identification and purchase in a portable device.[56] Shazam settled the case in January 2010.[57]
As of September 2012, Shazam had raised $32 million in funding.[58] In July 2013, Carlos Slim invested $40 million in Shazam for an undisclosed share.[59] And in March of 2014, Shazam confirmed another $20 million in new funding, raising the total value of the company to half a billion dollars.[60]
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- ^ http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/6207061/shazam-launches-resonate-tv-sales-platform
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- ^ http://www.digitaltveurope.net/151662/shazam-unveils-app-redesign/
- ^ http://mashable.com/2014/07/31/shazam-mac-app/
- ^ http://www.jbgnews.com/2014/09/shazam-partners-with-apple-to-bring-music-recognition-to-siri/504608.html
- ^ http://mashable.com/2014/07/31/shazam-mac-app/
- ^ Shazam – About Shazam
- ^ How does Shazam work to recognize a song ? | So, you code ?
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- ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/08/30/shazam-rich-riley_n_3762179.html
- ^ http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/1560025/shazam-names-rich-riley-new-ceo-aiming-for-eventual-ipo
- ^ http://www.crunchbase.com/person/rich-riley
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- ^ Reisinger, Don (4 December 2008). "Shazam adds 2 million tracks to music library". CNET. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
- ^ "Beatport's Matthew Adell on Shazam Deal, Why Music Biz Is a 'Disaster Model'". Billboard.biz. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
- ^ Shazam Forms Exclusive New Partnership with Saavn for the Best Indian Music Discovery Experience
- ^ "Shazam Broadens Its Horizons – Speakeasy – WSJ". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Shazam Partners With The 'Spotify Of India', Saavn, To Improve Its South Asian Music Recognition | TechCrunch
- ^ Updated: Shazam Ties Up With Saavn To Identify Hindi & Regional Music; Implications – MediaNama
- ^ http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/6157583/shazam-partners-with-rdio-to-stream-full-songs-inside
- ^ http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/14/shazam-partners-with-ncm/
- ^ http://mashable.com/2014/11/07/shazam-firstlook/
- ^ http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/6207061/shazam-launches-resonate-tv-sales-platform
- ^ http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/10/09/shazam-makes-big-move-interactive-radio-content/
- ^ a b Lim, Andrew (24 April 2006). "Shazam & AQA: The answer is on your mobile". CNET UK. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
- ^ Charny, Ben (15 April 2004). "Dial-that-tune comes to U.S.". CNET. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
- ^ Rosoff, Matt (10 July 2008). "Shazam on iPhone could change music discovery". CNET. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
- ^ Dolcourt, Jessica (16 July 2008). "First Look video: Shazam for iPhone". CNET. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
- ^ Ho, Kevin (17 July 2008). "iPhone apps: Testing Shazam's limits – classical music". CNET. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
- ^ Reisinger, Don (21 October 2008). "Shazam moves to Android, works with Amazon MP3 Store". CNET. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
- ^ Lee, Nicola (17 June 2009). "Latest Shazam lets you track musical journey in iPhone OS 3.0". CNET. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
- ^ Dolcourt, Jessica (7 October 2009). "Shazam debuts in Windows Marketplace for Mobile". CNET. Retrieved 30 September 2012.
- ^ Dolcourt, Jessica (9 November 2009). "Shazam iPhone app gets premium Encore". CNET. Retrieved 30 September 2012.
- ^ Saint, Nick (15 October 2009). "Shazam Draws Investment, Is Already Profitable". Business Insider. Retrieved 30 September 2012.
- ^ Reisinger, Don (19 January 2011). "Apple reveals top apps of all time". CNET. Retrieved 30 September 2012.
- ^ Shazam: How to preserve the "unlimited tagging" feature after REFLASH and Root? – Android Forums
- ^ Reisinger, Don (10 November 2010). "AT&T ladles out GetJar apps – iPhone excluded". CNET. Retrieved 30 September 2012.
- ^ Morris, Natali (13 January 2011). "Space love". CNET. Retrieved 30 September 2012.
- ^ McCarthy, Caroline (22 March 2011). "Music app Shazam gets new Facebook features". CNET. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
- ^ Parker, Jason (3 April 2012). "Shazam for iOS adds TV to its list of media it can identify". CNET. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
- ^ Sawers, Paul (7 August 2012). "Shazam: Five billion songs, TV shows and ads tagged". The Next Web. Retrieved 30 September 2012.
- ^ http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/08/20/shazam-now-100-million-monthly-active-users-mobile/
- ^ http://www.siliconrepublic.com/digital-life/item/38714-15-billion-songs-have-been
- ^ Jared Newman (1 July 2013). "50 Best Android Apps for 2013". Techland. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
- ^ Important News About Shazam(RED) — Shazam Support
- ^ http://www.jbgnews.com/2014/09/shazam-partners-with-apple-to-bring-music-recognition-to-siri/504608.html
- ^ http://appadvice.com/appnn/2014/10/shazam-8-0-features-interactive-notifications-in-ios-8-revamped-news-feed-and-more
- ^ http://mashable.com/2014/07/31/shazam-mac-app/
- ^ Cabebe, Jaymar (18 April 2012). "Path: The smaller, simpler alternative to Facebook". CNET. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
- ^ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.ears
- ^ Ogg, Erica (14 May 2009). "Apple, AT&T, Samsung, Verizon, and others sued over Shazam app". CNET. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
- ^ Wauters, Robin (6 January 2010). "Shazam Settles Patent Infringement Case With Tune Hunter".
- ^ Kincaid, Jason (22 June 2011). "Shazam Raises A Huge Round to the Tune of $32 Million". TechCrunch. Retrieved 20 September 2012.
- ^ Carlos Slim invests $40m in music app Shazam – FT.com
- ^ http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/5930359/shazam-confirms-20m-in-new-funding-raising-value-to-500m
Further reading[edit]
- Dredge, Stuart (27 February 2013). "Shazam: 'TV advertising is going to become our primary revenue stream'". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 27 February 2013.


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I've always managed to sync my phone to Outlook 2007 via Outlook Social Connector, so that the calendar and contacts are in sync. Today I have upgraded Office to Office 2010 and I can't sync it any more. The diary dates are still in Outlook but not on my phone. I've followed all the advice I can find on the internet: Working my way through the Apple advice, I've
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- checked in the info window of Itunes that it is still supposed to sync with Outlook
I've also tried making multiple entries in the various calendars that Outlook has for each of my email accounts. But the only ones that are syncing are the Birthdays (which is odd, since the Birthday calendar isn't set to sync!)
Does anyone have any idea how to get it working properly?
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Aint that always the way - I sorted it soon after posting this. Somehow the setting on the phone itself, in the calendar options, had unticked the option to take data "From my PC Calendar". When I reticked it, it now works just fine! Problem solved.
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The launch follows a social media campaign devised by agency We Are Social, which identified and mobilised a group of 'superfans', termed 'The Marmarati'.
The Marmarati worked closely with the Marmite marketing and research teams to help devise the formulation of the spread, now on sale to the general public.
We Are Social began by recruiting a small group of devoted fans and bloggers, referred to as the 'First Circle', which then expanded to include more than 200 members, or 'Second Circle' members, through social media.
Participants were rewarded for uploading content, such as a film or poem or photograph to www.marmarati.org, and the best were considered for membership.
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text: Pinball Game Timeshock [Archive] - Glock Talk Glock Talk > The Main Room > Tech Talk > Pinball Game Timeshock PDA View Full Version : Pinball Game Timeshock Gadgetman01-26-2005, 14:05Does anybody know where I can buy the PC pinball game made by Empire called Timeshock? Thanks Furant01-26-2005, 14:13I'll beat Washington DC to it: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00002STKC/002-1048469-5352843?v=glance Tons of hits on a Google search. Washington,D.C.01-26-2005, 17:51I don't know much about games but that link looks like a Sony Play Station game.I don't think it will work on a PC.I think he is looking for the PC version. Washington,D.C.01-26-2005, 17:55You download the demo version here http://games.softpedia.com/get/Games-Demo/Pro-Pinball-Timeshock-Demo.shtml Washington,D.C.01-26-2005, 18:00http://games.softpedia.com/progDownload/Pro-Pinball-Timeshock-Demo-Download-5586.html Furant01-26-2005, 20:52darn fastvfr01-27-2005, 01:08Jferrante says, "*Curses*! Foiled again!!" http://www.planetunreal.com/expectations/pwned.jpg Gadgetman01-27-2005, 08:24Thanks for the reply guys! We have purchased the full game along with a couple other pinball games from a seller on Ebay. It's our first item we have ever bought on there. I hope everything goes smoothly with the transaction. Thanks again. Washington,D.C.01-27-2005, 14:35http://www.jeeens.de/t/t.html vBulletin® v3.8.7, Copyright ©2000-2015, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.