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A color filter array includes arrangements of green-filtered pixels to optimize performance and accuracy of color interpolation operations. Where red or blue pixels are found, green values are estimated with a high degree of accuracy. Unknown red and blue intensity values are interpolated by converting known red and blue values to hue. The interpolated hue values are then converted to intensity data.
1. A method comprising:
determining if a sub-block of image data comprising first color values, second color values, and third color values is an edge zone;
estimating an interpolated first color value using first color values from four direct neighbors in the sub-block by averaging three of the four direct neighbors whose first color values are similar to produce an edge zone average, if the sub-block is an edge zone;
multiplying the edge zone average by a value to produce a result; and
averaging the result with the remaining direct neighbor to obtain the interpolated first color value.
2. The method of
deriving a second color hue using the interpolated first color value and the second color value associated with the interpolated first color value; and
estimating an interpolated second color hue using the second color hue.
3. The method of
deriving a second color value from the interpolated second color hue.
4. The method of
deriving a third color hue using the interpolated first color value and the third color value associated with the interpolated first color value;
estimating an interpolated third color hue using the third color hue; and
deriving a third color value from the interpolated third color hue.
5. The method of
6. The method of
if the sub-block is a smooth zone, averaging the first color values from the four direct neighbors to produce the interpolated first color value.
7. The method of
identifying the first color values for the four direct neighbors; and
determining that the four first color values are substantially similar.
8. The method of
identifying the first color values for the four direct neighbors; and
determining that three of the four first color values are substantially similar.
9. A method comprising:
determining if a sub-block of image data comprising first color values, second color values, and third color values is a stripe zone;
estimating an interpolated first color value by averaging the first color values for a first direct neighbor and a second direct neighbor to produce a stripe zone average, where the first direct neighbor and the second direct neighbor form a stripe having substantially similar first color values, if the sub-block is a stripe zone;
multiplying the stripe zone average by a value to produce a first partial result;
producing a second partial result using a third direct neighbor and a fourth direct neighbor;
combining the first partial result and the second partial result to obtain the interpolated first color value.
10. The method of
adding the first partial result and the second partial result together to produce a stripe zone result; and
dividing the stripe zone result by four.
11. The method of
identifying the first color values for the four direct neighbors; and
determining that a first pair of the first color values are substantially similar.
12. The method of
13. An article comprising a medium storing a software program that if executed enables a processor-based system to:
determine if a sub-block of image data comprising first color values, second color values, and third color values is an edge zone;
estimate an interpolated first color value using first color values from four direct neighbors in the sub-block by averaging three of the four direct neighbors whose first color values are similar to produce an edge zone average, if the sub-block is an edge zone;
multiply the edge zone average by a value to produce a result; and
average the result with the remaining direct neighbor to obtain the interpolated first color value.
14. The article of
derive a second color hue using the interpolated first color value and the second color value associated with the interpolated first color value; and
estimate an interpolated second color hue using the second color hue.
15. The article of
derive a second color value from the interpolated second color hue.
16. The article of
17. The article of
18. The article of
This invention relates to image processing and, more particularly, to a color filter array and method for performing color interpolation.
A digital camera captures an image using a sensor including a large number of pixels, or picture elements. Each pixel may include a light-sensitive photocell or other circuitry that produces a voltage upon receiving incident light. The voltage is converted to digital form in the camera. The digitized image data may be stored, manipulated, or transmitted to another location within or outside the camera.
Rather than recording color, the circuitry of the pixel records intensity information of the image. Accordingly, the color information may be extracted from the intensity data using color filters. Although other color combinations are sometimes used, some arrangements of color filters extract the three primary colors: red, green, and blue. From combinations of the three colors, the entire color spectrum, from black to white, may be derived.
Cameras employ different mechanisms for obtaining the three primary colors from the incoming photons of light. Very high quality cameras, for example, may employ three separate sensors, a first with a red filter, a second with a blue filter, and a third with a green filter. Such cameras typically have one or more beam splitters that send the light to the different color sensors. All sensor photocells receive intensity information simultaneously. Because each photocell is receiving light filtered through a distinct color, each pixel value is dedicated to a single color. The additional hardware, however, makes these cameras relatively expensive.
A second method for recording the color information is to rotate a three-color filter across the sensor. Each pixel may store all three colors, in sequence. However, each color is stored at a different point in time. Thus, this method works well with still, but not candid or handheld photography, because the three colors are not obtained at precisely the same moment.
A third method for recording the three primary colors from a single image is to dedicate each pixel to a different color value. Different photocells of the sensor are filtered with one of the red, green, and blue filters. The arrangement of differently colored filters upon a sensor is known as a color filter array (CFA). CFA sensors allow each of the red, green, and blue pixels to receive image information simultaneously. Once the image is recorded, the true color, or three-color representation, for each pixel may subsequently be derived using color interpolation.
Color interpolation depends on the pattern, or "mosaic," that describes the layout of the filters on the pixels of the sensor. One common mosaic is known as a Bayer pattern. The Bayer pattern alternates red and green pixels in a first row of the sensor with green and blue pixels in a second row of the sensor. Thus, there are twice as many green pixels (50%) as either red pixels (25%) or blue pixels (25%). The green pixels are preferred because the human eye is more sensitive to luminance in the green color region.
CFA sensors, including the Bayer-patterned sensor, are useful for some color imaging because a single sensor is used, yet all the color information is recorded at the same moment. This allows for smaller, cheaper, and more versatile cameras. Since each pixel records information from one color, information for the remaining colors is missing from that pixel. Accordingly, color interpolation is typically performed on image data produced by a CFA sensor.
A variety of color interpolation algorithms, both adaptive and non-adaptive, may be performed to synthesize the color pixels. Non-adaptive algorithms are performed in a fixed pattern for every pixel in a group. Such algorithms include nearest neighbor replication, bilinear interpolation, cubic convolution, and smooth hue transition.
Adaptive algorithms detect local spatial features in a group of pixels, then apply some function, or predictor, based on the features. Examples of adaptive algorithms include edge sensing interpolation, pattern recognition, and pattern matching interpolation, to name a few.
While CFA patterns are popular in digital camera sensors, performing color interpolation on CFA image data produces mixed results. Since color interpolation provides a more complete representation of the image than the image data recorded by the CFA, a CFA pattern that simplifies the color interpolation algorithm may increase the usefulness of some digital cameras.
Thus, there is a continuing need to provide a color filter array pattern that facilitates efficient color interpolation.
When an image is captured, the image includes a number of elements, known as pixels, each of which describes the intensity of the image for a particular location. The color of a particular pixel in a color image is typically specified by red, green, and blue color components. Where each color is described by an 8-bit value, the pixel is represented by a 24-bit value, eight bits for each of the red, green, and blue components.
However, capturing a 24-bit representation of each pixel of an image is costly. Instead, a sensor, the part of a digital camera that receives the image information, typically includes a filter mosaic called a color filter array (CFA). Each filter in the CFA covers a single pixel and permits only a specific color of a particular spectral band to pass through the filter. Under such an arrangement, at each pixel location, a single color intensity is captured while the other two color intensities are missing.
Color interpolation allows the missing color information to be "recovered." At each pixel location, the two missing colors may be interpolated, based upon available information about neighboring pixel locations. Both adaptive and non-adaptive color interpolation algorithms have been implemented on CFAs. The results for the various algorithms are mixed. Some algorithms are favored for still images while others are preferred because of their speed, complexity, or other factors.
When observing a color image, the human eye is better able to discern luminescence in green colors, whereas red and blue colors contribute to the intensity of the image. This is because human eye receptors are more sensitive to the green color than to either red or blue colors. The estimation of the green color in an image, therefore, is arguably more important for ensuring the visual quality of an interpolated image.
With this in mind, many CFAs favor green filters over red and blue filters. For example, the commonly used Bayer pattern employs 50% green filters, 25% red filters, and 25% blue filters, arranged in a particular mosaic. Because CFA-based image data is color interpolated, a CFA which enhances the color interpolation operation, whether by reducing its complexity or by increasing the quality of the interpolated image, may be desirable.
In one embodiment, the digital imaging device 30 performs a color interpolation operation or algorithm 50 on the image data 12 to produce interpolated image data 80. The interpolated image data 80 may be compressed or otherwise processed in the digital imaging device 30, or may be transmitted from the imaging device 30 to another entity, such as a computer or other processor-based system. The color interpolation algorithm 50 is discussed in more detail, below.
Like Bayer-patterned filters, the CFA 100 includes more green pixels 10 g than blue pixels 10 b or red pixels 10 r. In the CFA 100, green pixels 10 g comprise more than half the pixels 10. In one embodiment, a first row of the CFA 100 includes a red pixel 10 r followed by three green pixels 10 g, then a red pixel 10 r, then three green pixels 10 g. A second row of the CFA 100 includes the same arrangement as the first row, except the row does not start with a red pixel 10 r, but with two green pixels 10 g.
A third row and fourth row are arranged just as the first two rows, only the red pixels 10 r are replaced with blue pixels 10 b. Subsequent rows of the CFA 100 are simply replications of the first four rows. Ultimately, the CFA 100 includes 75% green pixels 10 g, 12.5% blue pixels 10 b, and 12.5% red pixels 10 r.
The CFA 100 is arranged such that the estimation, or interpolation, of green color values may be more accurate. The pixels 10 for which green estimation is to be made include the red pixels 10 r and the blue pixels 10 b. These pixels 10 r and 10 b are surrounded on all sides by green pixels 10 g. In other words, any unknown green pixel 10 g in the CFA 100 is surrounded by a set of known green pixels 10 g in all eight directions, e.g., in its 3�3 neighborhood.
As shown in
In estimating the unknown green value, G(m,n), the color interpolation algorithm 50 observes the intensity values of direct neighbors 22 of the green value, G(m,n). As shown in
G (m,n)=(G (m−1,n) +G (m,n−1) +G (m,n+1) +G (m+1,n))/4
where G(m−1,n)≈G(m,n−1)≈G(m,n+1)≈G(m+1,n)≈x, then G(m,n)≈4x/4≈x.
Thus, by analyzing its direct neighbors 22, the color interpolation algorithm 50 may derive the green value, G(m,n). A complete representation of the green color for the image data 12 is thus obtained. The particular arrangement of color filters in the CFA 100 facilitates the interpolation of the unknown green color values. Because each unknown green color value is surrounded by known color values, a more precise estimate of the unknown value may be made, in some embodiments.
In one embodiment, the color interpolation algorithm 50 next derives color hue information. Hue is the color component of a color signal. Recall, however, that a color signal is an amalgam of three colors, such as red, green and blue. Thus, hue may be measured as the relative intensity of red or blue color with respect to the green color.
In one embodiment, the image data 12 is captured as a logarithm of the intensity of the incident light 16. Since the intensity values for each color are captured in logarithmic form, the hue for each color may be obtained by subtracting the intensity information received.
In one embodiment, the color interpolation algorithm 50 derives the red hue and from image data 12 associated with red pixels 10 r of the CFA 100. Likewise, the blue hue is derived from color values associated with blue pixels 10 b of the CFA 100. Following green color interpolation, as described above, each red pixel 10 r has an associated red value, R, obtained when the image was captured, and an interpolated green value, G. In one embodiment, the color interpolation algorithm 50 derives the red hue, HR, of the pixel 10 r, as follows:
The red and blue color values may be interpolated from the known red, R, and blue, B, color values, just as was done with the green color values, G, as described above. However, using the CFA 100, each of the red, R, and green, G, values may be obtained for only 12.5% of the image data 12. Thus, the likelihood of accurately estimating color information from known color values is diminished for the red and blue colors.
The human eye does not process image data in terms of absolute color values. Instead, the human eye discerns color in relative terms. Looking at the formulas for HB and HR, hue is defined as a relative relationship between two color values. Thus, hue information is well-suited to being used for color interpolation, particularly where the number of data samples is small. In one embodiment, the estimation of red and blue hues from known hues provided more accurate color data than estimating red and blue colors from known colors.
Using the formula above, the red hue, HR, may be obtained for each of the red values, R, as shown in a sub-block 24 b in FIG. 4. In one embodiment, the red hues, HR, for other unknown locations of the sub-block 24 are obtained by the color interpolation algorithm 50.
The unknown red hue, HR(m,n), may be part of a smooth zone, shown in
Alternatively, the neighborhood 26 may be arranged as depicted in
A smooth zone is depicted in
A smooth zone is depicted in
The above operations used to derive red hues may likewise be performed on known blue hues to derive unknown blue hues. The color interpolation algorithm 50 thus performs pattern recognition of the known color hues in deriving unknown color hues.
Once all the red and blue hues are known, the red and blue values may be derived, using the formulas, R=HR+G, and B=HB+G, described above. Since the unknown green color values, G, have already been estimated, the color interpolation algorithm 50 has a complete representation of each of the red, blue, and green colors associated with each pixel 10 of the CFA 100.
Because the CFA 100 is designed to facilitate accurate color interpolation of the green values, a better estimation of hues is possible, in some embodiments. Because green is more prominently discerned by human eyes, the CFA 100 and color interpolation algorithm 50 may provide improved image quality.
In one embodiment, the color interpolation algorithm 50 is a software program that resides in a storage 52 of the imaging device 30 (see FIG. 1). Alternatively, a portion of the operations described herein may be performed using discrete logic circuitry. The storage 52 may include volatile storage, such as a random access memory, or non-volatile storage such as a read-only memory (ROM), a flash memory, or a hard disk drive.
The color interpolation algorithm 50 is described where the CFA 100 utilizes the RGB color space. However, the algorithm 50 may readily be applied to the CFA 100 where the pixels 10 include other combinations of color filters, including but not limited to the cyan-magenta-yellow color space.
In one embodiment, the color interpolation algorithm 50 reads the known green intensity values, G (block 502). Recall that the green values, G, are produced by the pixels 10 g of the CFA 100 that have green filters. These known green values, G, are used to estimate the unknown green values, which correspond to the pixels 10 b and 10 r that have blue and red filters, respectively (block 504). This green estimation is performed as described in
Once green values are known for all the image data, in one embodiment, the color interpolation algorithm 50 assigns red (blue) hue to pixels with known red (blue) values (block 506), according to the formula shown. The color interpolation algorithm 50 performs subsequent estimation on hue values, not intensity values, according to one embodiment. As described in
Once the red (blue) hues, HR (HB), are known, the red (blue) values, R (B), may be derived, using the same hue formula, rearranged (block 510). The estimation of red hues may precede the estimation of blue hues, or vice-versa.
Once the estimation of red and blue hues is complete, the image may be reconstructed using the interpolated image data 80 produced by the color interpolation algorithm 50. By emphasizing the accurate estimation of the green color, the CFA 100 facilitates better performance of the color interpolation algorithm 50, in some embodiments.
While the present invention has been described with respect to a limited number of embodiments, those skilled in the art will appreciate numerous modifications and variations therefrom. It is intended that the appended claims cover all such modifications and variations as fall within the true spirit and scope of this present invention.
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This is a great use of your cell phone's camera for the holiday season, since many people go out to dinner, parties, and drink wine while out. There have been many times where I tasted a new bottle of wine, decided I loved it, and tried to remember what it was called so I could purchase it later.
I never remember. I blame my bad short-term memory and the actual wine drunk.
So now I have taken to snapping a shot of the wine's label with my iPhone or BlackBerry. Now I never forget my new favorites!
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feldmanr 6 years
Great tip! We've been using this technique and actually created a feature for our mobile service to store these pics online for later! See more here: http://blog.kwiry.com/new-kwiry-features-send-kwiry-a-photo-use-kwirycom-on-your-cell-phone-72/
wren1 6 years
My brother gave me this tip. It's a good one!
malsyerpal 6 years
Good idea. Is that a pic of one you liked?
nitallica 6 years
I've had my Helio Ocean for a little over a year and use it for this very purpose, as well as compiling "wishlists" for myself and other family members. :)
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I love this idea. I can use my new Palm centro!
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Good idea because I NEVER remember the wine I like.
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I do the same thing with all kinds of stuff! Instead of writing it down, I just take a picture. So handy!
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been there done that
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I've done this and it seriously comes in handy!
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This is a total DO. I also snap the brand and year of a wine that gets good reviews in print, so I have it with me when I go to my local wine shop.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court decided Friday it would hear arguments over whether states can keep out-of-staters from using their Freedom of Information Act laws to get government documents.
The high court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal from Mark J. McBurney of Rhode Island and Roger W. Hurlbert of California, two men who wanted to use the Virginia law to request public documents from state officials. Both were both denied because they are not Virginia citizens. Hurlbert was trying to get property assessment information for his business, Sage Information Services, and McBurney was trying to information from the Virginia Division of Child Support Enforcement in a child support enforcement case against his ex-wife.
Virginia law limits access to state citizens and some media outlets. The two men sued, saying the citizens-only provision violated the Constitution by barring their access to public documents because of their state citizenship. The Constitution says "citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states."
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April 24, 1951 R. c. KERS-H 2,550,568
DEVICE FOR WEANING INFANTS Fi led Feb. 25, 1947 E .l. 5 5 I /7 Fig.5..
INVENTOR IFO/V/ILD a KERJH H [5 ATTORN EYS Patented Apr. 24, 1951 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DEVICE FOR WEANING INFANTS Ronald Kersh, Monterrey, Mexico Application February 25, 1947, Serial No. 730,659 1 Claim. (01. 128-252) My invention relates to the weaning of infants, and more particularly to a device for this purpose.
Among the objects of my invention are:
(1) To provide a novel and improved device for the weaning of infants;
(2) To provide a novel and improved device for gradually accustoming an infant to drinking from a glass without introducing any sudden changes in its natural and instinctive drinking habits;
(3) To provide a novel and improved device for the weaning of infants, adaptable to the rate at which the individual infants habits might be altered;
(4) To provide a novel and improved device for the weaning of infants, which is capable of being readily sterilized and rendered sanitary as often as deemed necessary.
Additional objects of my invention will be brought out in the following description of a preferred embodiment of the same, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawing wherein- Figure 1 is a three-dimensional view of my improved weaning device as applied to a glass;
Figure 2 is a front elevational view of the same;
Figure 3 is a view in section in the plane of symmetry of the assembly of Figure 1;
Figure 4 is a plan view of the assembly of Figure 1.
Referring to the drawing for details of my invention in its preferred form, the same comprises an elastic band I of a diameter enabling the same to be stretched over the mouth of a drinking glass 3, said band having an inwardly directed lip 5 along its upper edge to overhang the rim of such glass when applied thereto.
A guard 1 formed integral with the band spans at least an arcuate portion of the same, and extending upwardly from the guard adjacent an edge of the band and preferably at such an angle as to overhang the rim of the glass, is a spout 9. This spout tapers from a narrow oval-shaped base II to a blunt tip l3, and inwardly thereof, the spout is formed with a tapering passage l5 terminating at the tip of the spout in a drinking opening 11 of pinhole size suitable for a nursing infant.
The spout, at least, should be formed of a severable material or one capable of being cut with a pair of shears or sliced with a knife. Preferably the device is formed integrally by repeated dippings of a suitable mold or form in liquid latex, whereby the same may be built up to any desired wall thickness and yet remain highly elastic and pliable and at the same time be soft and soothing to the gums of the infant.
One of the important features of the device resides in the tapered passage through a spout of severable material, which, as the infant grows and becomes accustomed to taking milk at an increased rate of flow, may be trimmed off in succomes accustomed to the feel and appearane of the glass and is gradually brought closer to the same as the spout is trimmed shorter and shorter, until ultimately when the rate of flow has been increased to the point where the infant can drink directly from the glass, he will have been drinking so close to the rim of the glass that the ultimate removal of the weaning device from the glass will not represent a material change in the inf ants drinking habits.
Also with this ultimate purpose in mind, the tapered construction of the spout automatically causes the spout to become larger in section with successive trimmings, thus accommodating itself to the mouth of the growing infant. In this manner, it gently accustoms the infant to assume the proper lip position which the infant should take when it ultimately discards the weaning device and drinks directly from the glass.
The device when formed of rubber latex or the like may be repeatedly boiled to sterilize the same andrender it sanitary, and the structural design lends itself readily to such treatment.
From the above description and illustration of my invention in its preferred form, it will be appreciated that it fulfills all the objects previously recited therefor, and while I have described my invention in considerable detail, the same is subject to alteration and modification without departing from the underlying principles thereof. I accordingly do not desire to be limited in my protection to such details, except as may be necessitated by the appended claim.
I claim:
A weaning device for infants, comprising a re- The following references are of record in the file of this patent:
UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2,098,128 Bailey Nov. 2, 1937 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 160,343 Great Britain Mar. 24, 1921 411,379 Great Britain June '7, 1934 609,924 France May 22, 1926
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Actually this sounds like a line from Star Trek XI?
I could be wrong, I've only seen it twice.
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Definitely Khan in Star Trek II, on the bridge of the Reliant.
And since I got one, a new line for everyone!
"I believe that's my line stranger"
Sorry guys, you're both incorrect. It is from Nemesis...spoken by Romulan Praetor after Senator Telora's table-sized Thaleron weapon goes off...right before they all become crispy critters. Although it
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You see, he was her beginning, and she was his end. And it continued on and on. After all, she promised him forever.
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Rose,her name was. Rose. And…we were together.
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How long are you going to stay with me? Forever.
Welcome to The Doctor and Rose Shippers Club
OK guys. This moment does not have enough love. In fact, it has some unfortunate anti-love that I aim to resolve here.
Yes, this episode heavily references Girl in the Fireplace. And yes, that episode is pretty much the most anti-shippy thing to happen in canon for Doctor/Rose.
Twelve can't remember Clara's name at first. Nor Vastra nor Jenny nor Strax. He leaves Clara in danger and he won't even give her the screwdriver. He does questionable things–he's darker, I get that.
But even so, and even though he's trying to figure things out with the bad guy, and does not have all his memories intact ('Handles'? Really, Doctor??) he CANNOT leave the bunch of roses on the floor.
The bunch of yellow roses–yellow which signifies remembrance. There are centuries-old ballads ('Round Her Neck She Wears a Yeller Ribbon') and old movies ('She Wore a Yellow Ribbon') and folk songs ('Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree') all about yellow being the color of remembrance–specifically in all these pop-culture cases, remembrance of a lost love.
And as he's struggling to remember why droids harvesting parts rings a bell with him, does he look at the droid? No. Does he have flashbacks to women making double entendres with cleavage spilling out? No. (And the eventual reference to MdP is blah blah bland). But what does he do? He twirls the roses and holds them just a little bit closer. This is so reminiscent of the Journal of Impossible Things, where even as a human Ten can't remember the name of the TARDIS, or the sonic screwdriver–but he keeps drawing roses in his journal and hers is the only face he can canonically put a name to.
Moffat may be many, many things, and do many, many things that I do not particularly like, but this… this is pretty awesome guys. This isn't anti-shippy at all. This is shippy and sweet and subtle in the extreme.
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Bruno Mars
Unorthodox Jukebox
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Having helped to usher in the retro-soul resurgence with his Grammy-nominated debut album "Doo-Wops & Hooligans," Bruno Mars has turned his attention toward revisiting and revitalizing even more genres with his sophomore album.
The appropriately titled "Unorthodox Jukebox" jumps around from the Police-like "Locked Out of Heaven" to the disco-funky "Treasure" to the Michael Jackson-minded "Moonshine" to the reggae-vibing "Show Me" (complete with unfortunate affected vocals), then back to '50s soul with "If I Knew."
It's more cohesive than it should be. Mars, along with his producing and songwriting partners Philip Lawrence and Ari Levine, are masters at writing addictive, instantly accessible hooks and lyrics that are significant and easy to sing along to.
"Hooligans" hits like "Grenade" and "Just the Way You Are" pushed melodrama to their acceptable limit. Even though the "Jukebox" track "Gorilla" crosses that line (Mars sings about a lady's "legs up in the sky with the devil in your eyes" and making love with a SWAT team pounding on the door), the song, like the rest of the album, heightens the senses and stays in your brain.
Credit's due as much to Mars' smooth, emotionally charged vocals as to his songwriting and production. The best song on "Jukebox" is also the simplest: "When I Was Your Man," in which Mars laments over a lone piano about how "my pride, my ego, my needs and my selfish ways caused a good, strong woman to walk out of my life."
If "Just the Way You Are" was the ultimate ode to romantic idealism, the more realistic and mature "When I Was Your Man" is Mars' take on lost love's regret, and once again, it approaches near pop perfection.
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Big Boi
Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors
Def Jam Recordings
"If y'all don't know me by now, y'all ain't ever going to know me," Big Boi says atop ethereal acoustic melodies on "Ascending," the opening track of his sophomore solo album. That setup statement suggests that the album is a rehash of what the Atlanta rapper's already done as half of OutKast and on his first solo album, "Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty."
As it turns out, Big Boi's second full-length is plenty colorful in a variety of ways.
"Objectum Sexuality" rides a twitchy vibe to its ultimate melodic destination. The music on "Lines" flutters in and out like a heart skipping a beat. "In The A" is a fast-spitting, speaker-vibrating ode to alpha-male swagger, while "Mama Told Me" nicely channels Prince-worthy funk, and "Shoes for Running" races atop Wavves' peppy, poppy garage rock.
Yes, OutKast was pretty great, and hardly a month goes by without some news story speculating about a possible reunion of that dormant partnership. But there's no need to wait, and no need to whine. Big Boi is doing a bang-up job by himself.
- Piet Levy
Green Day
And so ends Green Day's year of apparently competing with Guided By Voices, the Ohio indie-rock band whose reformed "classic" lineup also released three albums in 2012. Both opted for quantity over quality control, but fans of either can't complain about a dearth of new material.
"¡Tré!," the California pop-punk trio's final entry in its trilogy, lingers more in the mid-tempo area than the two previous albums, "¡Uno!" and "¡Dos!" Even late-sequenced digressions into other Green Day styles - the shifty miniature epic "Dirty Rotten Bastards" and the speedy would-be anthem "99 Revolutions" - precede "The Forgotten," which closes the album with non-ironic piano balladry and too-tasteful strings.
Songcraft prevents "¡Tré!" from being less of a whimper than it might have been. The melodies of "Brutal Love" and "X-Kid" meet the band's usual standards of catchiness, and the lyrics of "Amanda" meet the standards of self-deprecation.
Nevertheless, after this, it is perhaps time for Green Day once again to expand its ambition beyond churning out tons of stuff.
- Jon M. Gilbertson, Special to the Journal Sentinel
Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale
Buddy and Jim
New West
This album could have been called "Buddies" if Buddy Miller's name didn't preclude it: He and Lauderdale are obviously friends, and the pleasure they take in playing together informs every note of "Buddy and Jim."
Yet these two are also roots-music professionals, and the loose-limbed nature of this collaboration never conceals the trueness of their ears or the agility of their fingers. They put just as much of their love and skill into a cover of the downcast "It Hurts Me" (by Buddy's wife, Julie) as into their own jovial strut, "Looking For a Heartache Like You."
Lauderdale and Miller's harmonies are imperfect, but their musical sense is spot-on and their amiability is infectious: Whether rolling flamenco-style through Lauderdale's "Vampire Girl" or reviving Jimmy McCrackin's 1959 rockabilly hit "The Wobble," they invite listeners to become friends as well. After all, there can be no pickin' without some grinnin'.
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When Lifehouse released its 2000 debut, "No Name Face," the Los Angeles outfit landed on a commercially successful formula that made its first and still defining single, "Hanging By a Moment," that year's biggest hit.
In its subsequent work, including the quartet's sixth album, "Almeria," Lifehouse has taken the approach that if it isn't broke, don't fix it. The result is a homogeneous effort with an instantly recognizable and commercially successful sound that lacks excitement. Tracks like the opening "Gotta Be Tonight," "Nobody Listen" and "Only You're the One" are rife with familiar, inoffensive rock riffs, pop melodies and Jason Wade's vocal pathos.
It takes a collaboration with Peter Frampton to knock the band into new territory. Together, on "Right Back Home," they channel a roiling roadhouse blues riff more reminiscent of early ZZ Top than modern pop. In those sounds from four decades past, Lifehouse seems fresh and new.
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Jesus Piece
Game's penchant for controversy has occasionally overshadowed his music. The depiction of an African-American Jesus-like figure in gang colors - including a red bandanna covering his face - on the cover of his new album, "Jesus Piece," is the most recent example.
Luckily for Game, most of his fans will ignore the distracting faux-religiosity that permeates much of "Jesus Piece," opting instead to focus on star appearances by rappers Big Sean, 2 Chainz and Rick Ross, plus Meek Mill on the blazing "Scared Now" and Pusha-T on "Name Me King."
The album is already overflowing with star power, so adding the Cool & Dre-produced "Celebration" is just an embarrassment of riches: Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, Wiz Khalifa and Tyga all come together on the radio-friendly lead single.
However, the album's best moments come when Game is pushed beyond his usual macho posturing. The introspective "Can't Get Right," the Jamie Foxx-assisted "Hallelujah" and the soul-stirring "Freedom," are as rousing as a Sunday church service.
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You are 20% Independent, 50% Idealistic, 90% Intimate, and 90% Indulgent!
The Lonely Heart
Dependent, Realistic, Intimate, Indulgent
You are the most misunderstood of hearts, the Lonely Heart. Your desire for love and your want of harmony and intimacy are all very loving qualities. At the same time you are very down-to-earth, which may present a more cold or hard demeanor than you actually possess. Your qualities are all of the quieter types, so you may be shy, leading to difficulties in love, which is hard for you, being so caring as you are. You want love, but your realistic nature may work against these more idealistic desires.
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The Healers's Heart The Healer's Heart is both realistic and values harmony, just as you do. The Healer is more passionate than you are, but you can appreciate this quality. The Healer in independent, and while you may wish them to dote on you more, you can can appreciate their self-sufficiency. The Healer will always be there for you when you are down, and you will find that they make a wonderful match.
The Patron Saint's Heart The Patron Saint is, like you, dependent, realistic and values harmony. The Patron Saint will understand your more down-to-earth views as wells as your need for love and want for unity in a relationship. The Patron Saint is more passionate than you are, and this is something you can definitely appreciate. The Patron Saint's protective nature will leave your lonely heart feeling loved, and you will appreciate them watching over you, as well as the fact that they seem to understand you well.
Your exact opposite is The Lively Heart.
Avoid Explicits if you can. You need love and the feeling of being loved, and an Explicit may not understand or appreciate this, leading to conflict. Idealists may also be difficult to get along with if you are stubborn. But if you can adapt and appreciate their ways of thinking, a relationship with an Idealist can work.
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They scored 20% on Independent, higher than 13% of your peers.
They scored 50% on Idealistic, higher than 36% of your peers.
They scored 90% on Intimate, higher than 89% of your peers.
They scored 90% on Indulgent, higher than 84% of your peers.
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Annette Bening finds her Face of Love character 'cruel' but 'interesting'
Annette Bening doesn't pass judgment on her latest character, a widow who pursues romance with a man who strongly resembles her late husband.
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Annette Bening understands that some people aren't going to like Nikki, the protagonist of The Face of Love, a woman who tries to assuage her grief over the loss of her husband with a man who looks exactly like just him.
"I do understand why she (Nikki) does what she does and it's not always easy to take. I found that when I played it. I had moments when I felt 'this is just awful.' There's a cruelty to it that, quite frankly, I find interesting," Bening said, in an interview.
Bening sees Nikki as "an ordinary woman in an extraordinary circumstance."
"The fact is that this is a woman sort of lost and I like that she doesn't know where she's going. She takes herself on this adventure and she really has no idea of what she's doing and it's very dangerous and tenuous. And at the same time, she is strong, she is intelligent. She's not a crazy person who's out of control," she added.
The four-time Oscar nominee said she chose the role of Nikki, as with previous roles, for its emotional power.
"What I look for when I read something is that I'm moved. I want to be moved and I think that's primarily why we go to the movies or we go to the theatre. I know that's what I want," Bening said.
"I love to be entertained. But I also like to be told stories that have more complexity, that are even tragic. If it feels true, I don't mind it even if it's dead sad," she added.
Bening said it helped immeasurably that veteran actor Ed Harris played Tom, the man with whom she initiates the fateful romance.
"He's (Harris) so kind of real and amazing as an actor, so present. I felt so present with him so that, for me, was a great gift. It's like you don't have to act, you just have to be there because he's so there," Bening said.
As to her own feelings about Nikki, who deceives herself as well as those around her while pursuing the affair, Bening is relieved not to have to decide one way or the other.
"For me, I felt like I understood what she (Nikki) was doing. Is it the right thing to do? I don't know. That's not my job and I'm so glad," Bening said, with a laugh.
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Editorial: Republicans search Galilee for facts
There is a lot of disciplined work to do in Washington.
According to an extensive account in Politico, discipline rather broke down on a House Republican fact-finding tour of Israel, resulting in "a late-night swim in the Sea of Galilee that involved drinking, numerous GOP freshmen lawmakers, top leadership staff and one nude member of Congress," Rep. Kevin Yoder of Kansas.
The trip was sponsored by the pro-Israel American Israel Educational Foundation, which spent about $10,000 a head to help the lawmakers, their wives and aides find facts. AIEF set them up with meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres, other top officials, and even the Palestinian prime minister.
House Republican leader Eric Cantor and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy were the senior members on the trip, but both left the festivities at the lakeside restaurant before the group collectively decided that jumping in the lake was a good idea.
The fact that this incident happened in August 2011 and is only just now coming to light probably points out how embarrassing the Republican leadership found the whole episode.
Galilee was where Jesus is said to have walked on the water. It is also Israel's largest source of fresh water, but if congresspeople jumping into their drinking water bothered them, they were too polite to bring it up.
And if the Republicans turned up any facts on their fact-finding tour — other than keep your swimsuit on — we're still waiting to hear them.
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I am an avid hunter and am currently training my bird dog for her championship test in September. I am curious if it is still safe to shoot a gun and be around gun shots. I don't have to shoot a lot but those shooting the birds are about 10 yards or a little more away from me. Is the loud sound dangerous to my baby's hearing?
Is it safe to shoot a gun while pregnant?
Wow this is an interesting question. When I read the title I thought you were made at someone . I'm not sure, I've never shot a gun before.
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I can't imagine why it wouldn't be fine. The baby's hearing isn't developed yet and even when it is, outside sounds are muffled. Unless your Dr. says differen't I'd say enjoy yourself!
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Technically, they say you shouldn't shoot when pregnant because of possible lead transfer. It's a minimal risk, but it is discouraged. Additionally, it is discouraged later in pregnancy due to the the impact on hearing. Some doctor's argue the amniotic fluid is enough cushion; others do not. It's at your discretion.
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I am around 7-8 weeks right now. I haven't had my dr. appt. yet but my friend has the same dr. When she was pregnant she was shooting trap weekly and she asked him the same question. He didn't know because there aren't any studies done on that particular thing. I will be training until Sept 18. I know I can always have someone else finish my training and handle in the test but I would love to do it all myself. I just don't know much about how it may or may not affect baby's hearing....
From what I understand, the hearing is not the major concern. It's the absorption of the gun powder into your skin and blood stream. This has trace amounts of lead and other harmful things. That is why it is so strongly discouraged, especially early on.
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Also, I mainly would have to shoot blank shots and I don't deal with the others shells. So the lead transfer shouldn't be a problem.
I took hunters safety while 5/6 months pregnant with my last... no problems or concerns from anyone there.