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Coastal Fertility Specialists are excited to announce the addition of Heather Cook, M.D., F.A.C.O.G., to their team this August. Dr. Cook is a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist who comes to Coastal Fertility from southern California. She is a strong advocate for women's health and is honored to help Lowcountry couples build the family of their dreams.
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With a commitment to teaching, Cook has been very involved in lecturing and mentorship for residents and medical students at both UCLA and Cedar Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and now as a faculty member at the Medical University of South Carolina. Her educational path has garnered her numerous awards in both academics and medical training, such as the Baxter Foundation Research Grant and USC Top Merit scholarship.
Dr. Heather Cook has been married to her husband, Brant, for eight years and they have two children, Mackenzie and Cooper.
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BARBOURSVILLE -- It was just two days ago that the U-18 Boys YMS Xplosion (Pa.-E) were literally packing their stuff at the Barboursville Soccer Complex because they thought they were going home.
Now, they will soon be packing their bags for the US Youth Soccer Nationals in Overland Park, Kan, after earning a 1-0 win over TSF Academy Celtic (N.J.) in the finals of the US Youth Soccer Region I tournament.
It was quite the turnaround of emotion from Sunday for YMS Xplosion coach John Greaves.
YMS Xplosion lost 1-0 on Sunday, and on the field opposite them, a team from Manhattan (NY-E) was tied 1-1 and needed to score for the Xplosion to advance. There was only five minutes left in the match when Greaves and his team began watching.
"The boys were watching the game and my assistant said to me 'Come on, John. We're leaving,'" Greaves said. "We picked the balls up and Manhattan crossed the ball into the net right before the ref blew the final whistle.
"We went from going home to going to the semifinal that quick. It's amazing how that happened."
Tuesday's championship match against TSF Academy (NJ) provided just as much excitement with the teams battling throughout the match.
The game went scoreless well into the second half, and it appeared TSF would get on the board after a penalty kick was awarded with just about 12 minutes remaining in regulation, much to the chagrin of the Xplosion players.
Irony was abound in the situation as last year's game between the two sides also was decided on a late penalty kick awarded to YMS, who also was the Region I champ in 2009.
It appeared that was in jeopardy with the call, but YMS goalkeeper Drew Hutchins made the play of the match, diving to his right to get a hand on the kick before controlling the rebound to leave the game scoreless.
"Our coach said coming in that it takes hard work, commitment and a little bit of luck," Hutchins said. "The PK save was a little bit of luck. I was lucky enough to get a hand on it."
Greaves wasn't buying it, however.
"He's the best penalty keeper I've ever seen," Greaves said. "We expect him to save penalties. Once he saved that, I knew it was imminent we'd win. If we'd have gone to penalty kicks, I'd have bet my life on it."
The game still appeared destined for penalty kicks as the teams fought the intense heat well into the second overtime session.
Then, following a scrum in the box, the Xplosion's Johnny Louisignau knocked home a rebound off the crossbar for the game's lone goal.
After the game, Louisignau got a Gatorade shower from his teammates.
"He had his issues this week, but he's a strong kid," Greaves said. "We kept telling him that he would get the winner this week. It's funny how it happens like that."
The US Youth Soccer National Championships are scheduled for July 21-25 in Overland Park, Kan.

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GOP tries to hide hard right agendaJanuary 29,2013Republicans have a problem. For years they could shout down any attempt to point out the extent to which their policies favored the elite over the poor and the middle class; all they had to do was yell Class warfare! and Democrats scurried away. In the 2012 election, however, that didnt work: The picture of the GOP as the party of sneering plutocrats stuck, even as Democrats became more openly populist than they have been in decades.
As a result, prominent Republicans have begun acknowledging that their party needs to improve its image. But heres the thing: Their proposals for a makeover all involve changing the sales pitch rather than the product. When it comes to substance, the GOP is more committed than ever to policies that take from most Americans and give to a wealthy handful.
Consider, as a case in point, how a widely reported recent speech by Bobby Jindal the governor of Louisiana, compares with his actual policies.
Jindal posed the problem in a way that would, I believe, have been unthinkable for a leading Republican even a year ago. We must not, he declared, be the party that simply protects the well off so they can keep their toys. We have to be the party that shows all Americans how they can thrive. After a campaign in which Mitt Romney denounced any attempt to talk about class divisions as an attack on success, this represents a major rhetorical shift.
But Jindal didnt offer any suggestions about how Republicans might demonstrate that they arent just about letting the rich keep their toys, other than claiming even more loudly that their policies are good for everyone.
Meanwhile, back in Louisiana, Jindal is pushing a plan to eliminate the states income tax, which falls most heavily on the affluent, and make up for the lost revenue by raising sales taxes, which fall much more heavily on the poor and the middle class. The result would be big gains for the top 1 percent, substantial losses for the bottom 60 percent. Similar plans are being pushed by a number of other Republican governors as well.
Like the new acknowledgment that the perception of being the party of the rich is a problem, this represents a departure for the GOP but in the opposite direction. In the past, Republicans would justify tax cuts for the rich either by claiming that they would pay for themselves or by claiming that they could make up for lost revenue by cutting wasteful spending. But what were seeing now is open, explicit reverse Robin Hoodism: taking from ordinary families and giving to the rich. That is, even as Republicans look for a way to sound more sympathetic and less extreme, their actual policies are taking another sharp right turn.
Why is this happening? In particular, why is it happening now, just after an election in which the GOP paid a price for its anti-populist stand?
Well, I dont have a full answer, but I think its important to understand the extent to which leading Republicans live in an intellectual bubble. They get their news from Fox and other captive media, they get their policy analysis from billionaire-financed right-wing think tanks, and theyre often blissfully unaware both of contrary evidence and of how their positions sound to outsiders.
So when Romney made his infamous 47 percent remarks, he wasnt, in his own mind, saying anything outrageous or even controversial. He was just repeating a view that has become increasingly dominant inside the right-wing bubble, namely that a large and ever-growing proportion of Americans wont take responsibility for their own lives and are mooching off the hard-working wealthy. Rising unemployment claims demonstrate laziness, not lack of jobs; rising disability claims represent malingering, not the real health problems of an aging workforce.
And given that world view, Republicans see it as entirely appropriate to cut taxes on the rich while making everyone else pay more.
Now, national politicians learned last year that this kind of talk plays badly with the public, so theyre trying to obscure their positions. Paul Ryan, for example, has lately made a transparently dishonest attempt to claim that when he spoke about takers living off the efforts of the makers at one point he assigned 60 percent of Americans to the taker category he wasnt talking about people receiving Social Security and Medicare. (He was.)
But in deep red states like Louisiana or Kansas, Republicans are much freer to act on their beliefs which means moving strongly to comfort the comfortable while afflicting the afflicted.
Which brings me back to Jindal, who declared in his speech that we are a populist party. No, you arent. Youre a party that holds a large proportion of Americans in contempt. And the public may have figured that out.
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Recognizing the Great American Genocide
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"Hitler's concept of concentration camps as well as the practicality of genocide owed much, so he claimed, to his studies of English and United States history. He admired the camps for Boer prisoners in South Africa and for the Indians in the wild west; and often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America's extermination – by starvation and uneven combat – of the red savages who could not be tamed by captivity."
– P. 202, "Adolph Hitler" by John Toland
This year, let's celebrate the holidays by learning a bit about the great American genocide. Never is the time wrong to address what Elie Wiesel calls the "double murder" of holocaust – first the destruction of people's lives, and second, the cover up and denial that follows.
Story time:
On May 26th 1635 in Connecticut, Captain John Mason, with his Massachusetts-Connecticut force of 90 men, 80 Mohegans, and 500 Narragansett Indians, planned to attack the Pequot with the intent to completely wipe the town out. Mason and his militia struck in the predawn. Mason instructed his men to not take any prisoners. When the Mohegans and Narragansett learned of the no prisoner order, they refused to participate, and left. Thus left to his own devices, Mason ordered his miltiamen to set fire to the entire town, burning alive as many as 900 women, children, and helpless old men. Those who tried to escape the blaze were cut down with swords and axes. As Plymouth Governor William Bradford later described the scene, paraphrasing Mason's own exultant account:
'It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire and the streams of blood quenching the same, and horrible was the stink and scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof to God, who had wrought so wonderfully for them, thus to enclose their enemies in their hands and give them so speedy a victory over so proud and insulting an enemy.' (source)
From the website of a prominent museum, pulled today:
There are no victors in a genocide, only criminals and victims. Who is the "victor," referenced by the above irresponsible organization? Who was the enemy?
Those waging genocide always call it a battle or war. This is a very common way to justify the destruction of a people.
But no justification for genocide is acceptable. Trust only a person's actions. Words mean nothing. Tell me what a person does, and I'll tell you what they believe.
The Facts & Figures
In 1500, there were roughly 20 million American Indians. In 1900, there were about 240,000. David Stanner and many others estimate the total Indian dead to be roughly 100 million. It's difficult to imagine how a genocide could be more complete.
In terms of percentages, the American genocide killed more than 98% of Indians, rendering this holocaust more efficiently lethal than any disease known to mankind.
Indian cultures were erased, libraries of oral tradition functionally burned, and the many of the survivors were effectively buried in mass graves under bibles.
To clearly understand this genocide and bring the picture more accurately into focus, it's important to view things on an inter-continental scale. No single country is responsible, and no one single tribe is a victim.
Because this genocide was so complete, every Indian death beyond the normal, projected, pre-Columbian death rate, is attributable as genocide.
This genocide is denied and downplayed by many Americans. The excuses for genocide are as many as they are irrelevant. A race of people was wiped out. This is the action. Ultimately, only actions matter.
Apply this approach to the fact that today, Indians are the most impoverished racial group in the Americas (this is especially pronounced in the US). After once controlling the whole bounty of the American continent, most Indians now own next to nothing. Andrew Jackson forcibly removed the Cherokee from Georgia as soon as gold was discovered on Cherokee lands. The Cherokee, for example, should have a right to the gold that was mined on their land. Instead, like most Indians, they live in relative poverty today. No words can justify stealing from a people and being indifferent to their centuries of later economic suffering.
A War Criminal, Licensed in Seattle
Dr. Reimert T. Ravenholt is one of the many who directly participated in the genocide against American Indians. He oversaw the involuntary sterilizations of thousands upon thousands of Indian women as recently as 1977. The presence of an ensuing cover-up suggests the conclusion that like most acts of genocide against the Indian peoples, it was far worse than we will ever know.
At least 10,000 women were sterilized against their will, usually just after having given birth. Women were forced to sign papers, often while still under birthing sedation, and they were often threatened that if they didn't authorize sterilization, their baby would be taken away by the government and put in foster care. Dr. Ravenholt oversaw all of this, recommended it, and defended it. He had the power to stop it and did not.
Ravenholt is quoted here, espousing the benefits of forced sterilization, which he thought would "better control world population," in accordance with US economic interest. The danger of Ravenholt's unoriginal theory is that such policy would be applied racistly, and could be used as justification for genocide.
These fears, of course, became reality. Ravenholt's sterilization program was implemented heavily disproportionately toward Indian women, who were sterilized far more frequently than whites during the same time period. This is a form of genocide.
It is also a crime that the sterilizations were forced, and this goes against every notion of freedom held by Americans. The freedom to choose to reproduce is a universally recognized human right.
Dr. Ravenholt is guilty of participating in genocide against American Indians.
Dr. Ravenholt's academic life's work is also flat out wrong – global population is set to plateau by 2050 at about 9 billion, and then begin decreasing. There was no need to sterilize people to stem population, because evidence shows that people will choose contraception if it's made legally and socially available. The Malthusian catastrophe Ravenholt warned us of is a myth. Dr. Ravenholt is a pseudoscientist whose life work has not only been proven academically incorrect, but has also been used to justify genocide.
Punchline: Dr. Ravenholt's medical office is currently registered in Seattle, here. I have no doubt that he walks the streets with a clean conscience.
The crimes of the American genocide echo off the hills of this country. Millions of Americans live lifetimes ignorant of these atrocities, perhaps because they aren't taught about them in school. Maybe due to that ignorance, war criminals are allowed to walk the streets of America.
Absence of memorials
There are precious few memorials to the American holocaust. Memorials of the Jewish holocaust abound, and for good reason. Genocide needs to be permanently marked, in stones all over the world, which sit upon the surface of this Earth for longer than men can live, doing nothing but telling the truth. The stark contrast drawn by the relative abundance of memorials to the Jewish holocaust, and the relatively minuscule number of memorials for the Indian holocaust illustrates the relative denial of the great American genocide. There need to be many, many more memorials, all over the world.
Though we cannot undo the past, we can take steps to remove the cloak of denial and self-contradiction that enshrouds the great American genocide, and work to undo Mr. Wiesel's second type of death – ignorance.
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"Dionysians": The handwritten sign in Lilongwe airport on July 28, 2007, told us we'd arrived. Our group included a college professor, two teachers, a priest, a musicologist, an international education specialist, a psychologist, a screenwriter, a film director, a nonprofit director, and a public defender. Counting Mike Hill, there were seven Pomona '64 classmates, one spouse each from '65 and '66, plus three non-Pomona spouses.
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My dog came from Pound Buddies in Muskegon. Let me tell you he is the BEST dog EVER.
Boston might be favored to win but never count out the underdog until that buzzer sounds at the end. GO BULLDOGS!!!!!!
I could not have said it better racerchaser24. I would not live any where else but Montague/Whitehall area.
Why doesn't someone look into TV Tony? Seems to me he needs checking into.
If the store has Uscan's that is one big mistakes there. So much stuff does not get scanned and walks out the doors. Uscan's take jobs away also.
I so agree with the statements of mark, noobla, and harley4ever. We need the death penalty in Michigan but in this case not until the jerk says where Kate is at.Then fry his behind.
I LOVE my animals. They are my kids now that my kids are grown and out of my home.
Michigan NEEDS the death penalty.
Hopefully they find someone who has the compassion like she did and does.
Awesome story.
Bigredgum I so agree with you. Why should innocent animals be treated like this when there are rapist, child killers and murders being taken care of? Laws need to change. I feel like the ones in prisons are better treated than us working people trying to keep our heads above water these days. Just saying.
I so agree with this article. If the dogs are well taken care of ,has vet appointments like they should, shots and everything is up to date. Why can't she keep her dogs? I know of people in the so called village who don't keep their dogs on their land and NOTHING happens to them. Something is WRONG when they go after someone who takes care of their family members( sorry that is what they are in my house FAMILY not just pets)
And one more thing we are not covered by a union and get insurance that we have to pay for. We don't get paid in the summer that is why I work 7 days a week August thru June. So I can keep my summer job for the summer months.
I teach preschool. I have 34 3 to 4 years olds in my classroom. I have been doing this for 23 years now. I get paid for 40 hours a week but I put in anywhere from 46 to 50 a week. My coworkers and I are always buying things for our classroom out of our pockets. I am a single parent ( my son is now 25) and have worked two jobs since the preschool program I work for went into the school system 11 years ago. I make ONLY 11.37 per hour. I make more as a cashier at a store. So NO I don't think teachers in my field make enough. And yes I do have education behind me. That I paid for and have to keep taking classes to keep the job that I love.
So glad I don't live in Holland. They need to take care of their GANG problem and not worry about dogs. Think their priorities are a little mixed up.
Such a beautiful dog. I hope he finds a terrific family. The guy would did this to him should have to work(NO PAY) in a shelter for the next 10 years to see what happens to animals who are abused. There is a special place for people who abuse children and animals.
Let her keep her dogs. There are so many who do not obey the ordinances for different reasons. There is a junk yard and mini farm on my road.I live outside the village limits and I have 2 dogs. My neighbor was complaining a few weeks ago because my 2 were barking while I was a work (I work 2 jobs). If the nosy neighbor would have looked out his windows he would have seen the jerks stealing my lawn mower from my shed. My dogs bark for a reason.
bigredgum said it all. Death penalty really NEEDS to be in Michigan.
Tell him to say what he did to the baby and where is the baby then he might get a deal. No baby no deal. Beside Misty Eyes is right.
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The once prolific Spaniard has endured a torrid time since his record-breaking £50m move to west London from Liverpool in 2011, and looks set to be axed at the end of the season.
Jose Mourinho has been vocal in his criticism of the striker, openly questioning his ability to pose a threat in the biggest games.
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Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies to link with China
17 Apr 2012
The Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS) will take the first steps towards establishing ties with one of China's leading universities when it delivers two specialist logistics courses later this year.
As part of the Modern Logistics and Supply Chain Management EMBA Study Course, the Institute will export its retail and reverse logistics expertise to Shanghai's Jiao Tong University during May and August.
ITLS Founder and Director, Professor David Hensher is hopeful the initiative will herald the start of a strong and evolving partnership.
"The Business School at the University of Sydney is committed to establishing quality partnerships with universities in China and sharing our business expertise," he says. "This also gives us a way of networking into the broader market of business activity in China, and I'm confident of a great outcome."
Professor Hensher says the material conveyed in the courses (to be delivered by ITLS' lecturers Alan Win and Gareth Jude) will offer many tangible benefits.
"Both courses will enable a greater appreciation of what the global market is doing in terms of reverse logistics and retail," he explains. "These are things the Chinese are very much interested in and they definitely need a lot of help. Both of these areas are involved with the efficient manufacture and distribution of products, as well as the disposal of products at the end of their life. The Chinese are very big on manufacturing but their distribution networks are not as efficient as they could be. That's where we come in, as our programs are very strong on international product and service distribution."
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Earlier in December Google took the wraps off of the Chrome OS, the search giant's take on a modern, lightweight operating system. Along with it, Google launched a pilot program by sending out specialized laptops loaded up with Chrome OS.
We got our hands on Google's "reference design" Chrome OS Notebook, called the Cr-48. To be clear, the Cr-48 isn't ever going to be a commercial product like the Nexus One (or S) is for the Android smartphone platform, but rather its purpose is for Google to gather feedback data in preparation for when Chrome OS hits stores in 2011 (it will come installed on products from Acer, Samsung, and others).
In a product world where new products get snazzy names, Cr-48 is a little out of the ordinary – except that it fits right into the way Google does things. We asked a Googler why it was called Cr-48, and we were told, "Cr-48 is a reference to a particularly unstable isotope of Chromium. Cr-48 has a half-life of 21 hours, which we thought was a good representation of the pace of innovation we expect from our team and the platform."
Interestingly enough, the internal codename for the Cr-48 was "Mario," which can actually be found on the model stickers in the notebook's battery compartment.
The product arrived inside this imaginative box, decorated with plans for a for a jet engine and its rodent pilot. With it was a list of 10 things to do with the Chrome OS notebook, which point out that all Cr-48s come with 100MB of free Verizon data for two years, show off the "instant resume" and brag about its 8+ hours of use and 8+ days of standby time.
An included quick-start card points out some of the features of the notebook, primarily the changes to the keyboard that Google saw fit to make that differ from standard, ubiquitous designs. Because it runs a whole new OS that doesn't have to adhere to legacy features like Windows or even Mac OS does, Google did away with the Windows or Option keys, as well as all the function keys on the top row of the keyboard. In their place are dedicated keys for the following functions:
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- Full screen
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- Screen brightness controls
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Book-ending those top row keys are the escape key and the power button.
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1Silmarunya , December 18, 2010 7:07 AMThey sure spent some money on those promotional videos...
0chickenhoagie , December 19, 2010 9:14 PMSuch a very strange concept..I don't think i could ever adopt the ways of cloud computing. Much less not being able to go outside my browser.
0joytech22 , December 20, 2010 7:02 AMI'm willing to give one of those Chrome notebooks/laptops whatever they are a review, but as they say.. "US Only"..
It seems everything is one-sided these days.. but that didn't stop me from sending in a application, even though i know i won't get a response.
0mrhappy50 , December 20, 2010 7:02 AMI like the design and the idea that every "tab" is in its own little world so nothing else could potentially get infected.
0anthonyla65 , December 22, 2010 10:11 AMWaste of money for a commercial like this.
0razzb3d , December 23, 2010 1:32 AMit's a nice little gadget, but it won't be replacing my qosmio f50 anytime soon.
0forrestsun , January 1, 2011 12:38 AMCloud cloud cloud. I'll give it at least another 5 years (or however long it takes to let internet access populate the entire world). In the commercial the bad guys always take away the laptop, why not take away his "internet access", what can he do then? Not for me, I will trust my data only if I know for sure I have multiple copeis "under my roof".


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We did hit a few big pre-planned bits. Anthony and I discuss our issues with "LA Noire" after our gaga "oh, Jesus, these animations look amazing" phase, I talk about the absolute failure that "Dungeons and Dragons: Daggerdale" was, and I think we touch on the issue of video game logic versus real world, hardcore logic. Oh, and the PlayStation Vita rumor. Give this latest pod a listen to just below, or hey, subscribe to us on Zune or iTunes.
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A system is described to allow musicians to collaborate over a network such as the Internet.
1. A system for outputting sounds corresponding to music played at a remote location in substantially real time, comprising:
a. An instrument or instrument simulator;
b. A network interface operative to receive data corresponding to the music played at the remote location, the data being received with a variable delay relative to the music played; and
c. A signal interface device having an input port coupled to receive data from the network interface and an output port coupled to the instrument or instrument simulator, the signal interface device including:
i. A memory cache operable to store data received by the network interface; and
ii. A data assembly unit, operable to retrieve the stored data and provide a substantially continuous stream of data to the instrument or instrument simulator.
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11. A method of representing music played at a remote location, comprising:
a. coupling to a network;
b. receiving MIDI data from the network;
c. caching a portion the received MIDI data;
d. outputting stored MIDI data in a substantially continuous manner; and
e. producing audible sounds responsive to the outputted data.
12. The method of
a. accepting the outputted data with a musical instrument; and
b. producing the audible sounds with the musical instrument.
13. The method of
a. determining a nominal transmission delay of the data; and
b. establishing the portion of data responsive to the determined nominal transmission delay.
14. The method of
a. receiving a series of related data having a known relationship;
b. identifying deviations from the known relationship; and
c. determining the nominal transmission delay as a function of the identified deviations.
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Musicians often desire to collaborate across the Internet. For example:
Scenario 1: A musical composition teacher and her students live far enough apart that lessons cannot be conducted face to face. The teacher, for example, might reside in a rural area, while the student needs to live in a metropolitan environment that offers employment opportunity. Alternatively, student or teacher may be disabled and thus incapable of travel.
Scenario 2: A number of musicians wish to collaborate in the creation of a composition. The work continues over an extended period of time, and the artists cannot collocate frequently enough to be effective. They each need to play stretches of music for each other and communicate verbally about the evolving art.
There are a few devices presently available that will allow for musical collaboration over the Internet. We consider these in turn.
1. Video Conferencing. A number of video conferencing solutions exist for supporting meetings of geographically distributed participants. Assume for the moment the simple case that two sets of participants are attempting to meet. The two groups are each located in a specially equipped room.
In one approach, a video conferencing system simply records the sounds in each room and transmits the recorded sounds to a remote location. Once there, the sound is played back through loudspeakers to the remote participants. Similarly, cameras capture the scene in each room. The video signal is also transmitted and replayed at the remote site. Video cameras or other image capture devices, for example, Web Cams, can be deployed for the visual component of video conferencing. These are small, inexpensive cameras that transmit video signals across the Internet.
A common disadvantage of typical video conferencing approaches is that, once stored in digital form on a computer, the audio of musical performance snippets is difficult to manage. Typically, collaborative music sessions consist of numerous re-renderings of music fragments. When composition is the goal, musicians often generate a number of improvised alternatives. Often recording is very difficult to organize without expensive management software.
An exacerbating fact in the context of snippet organization is that the transcription of audio recordings into musical notation can also be very difficult. This task may require an expert and considerable time investment.
Finally, sounds transmitted using this system are normally limited by the quality of the instrument that generates them. A receiving musician therefore does not benefit from his own equipment's (potentially) superior capabilities. If the remote instrument is mediocre, the receiver must work with the resulting sound.
2. Custom Instruments. Custom instruments such as Yamaha's Music Path approach the problem by custom modifying acoustic grand pianos. Special sensors measure how hard piano keys are pressed during a performance. The resulting data, and video images, are transmitted to the remote piano through a high-speed connection.
The remote piano's keys and pedals are attached to mechanical actuators that physically reproduce the motions of the originating instrument. The keys and pedals at the receiving piano move "by themselves."
This method has an advantage over the video conferencing technique: the receiving musician can hear the corresponding sounds as produced by his own instrument. Knowing his own piano well, the receiving musician can therefore judge with great refinement the effectiveness of the remote musician's key attack techniques. Similar techniques and technologies can be used for other musical instruments as well.
The custom instruments solution can be very expensive and, as with video conferencing, may be inadequate when it comes to easy snippet management.
3. Pure MIDI. Another approach is to use MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface), the well-established standard for digital communication among musical instruments. MIDI defines how two or more instruments can communicate through a wire about which notes are to be played at the receiving instrument. The standard includes instructions on how to communicate the force with which, for example, piano keys are struck.
Inexpensive computer programs exist for turning MIDI into musical notation. Once available on the computer in notation, simple cut/paste manipulations can be used to arrange snippets. The snippet management problem is thereby much alleviated. Anyone who understands music can easily interact with notation. This stands in contrast to stored audio, which requires the skills of audio engineers to manipulate.
MIDI devices cover a wide range of acquisition costs. Very inexpensive units are available. The signals they produce can be of almost as high a quality as MIDI that is produced on more expensive devices. The difference between instruments instead enters into the reproduction of sound from the MIDI data stream. The MIDI stream recipient might own a MIDI-capable instrument that can produce excellent sound, while the sender operates on a much more modest keyboard.
Unfortunately, MIDI is confined to very fast communication networks, such as those comprising point-to-point wires between instruments. These wires must not exceed 50 feet.
4. Other possible approaches. It is possible to translate MIDI signals into digital form and to transport them to other instruments over a local area network (LAN). This approach may allow musicians that are situated close together within, for example, a small building, to collaborate. However, as soon as the distance between the participants grows, network delays render this solution unusable.
The device described herein, referred to as "MIDIWan", can enable musicians to collaborate remotely, e.g., across the Internet. In operation, each musician deploys a small device at his site. The device couples to the musician's instrument and can connect to a network such as the Internet. In one approach MIDIWan transmits multiple forms of data, including (but not limited to) music encoded with MIDI signals, voice, and video between the participants. Additionally, transmitted music is stored at the recipient's site. Further, in one approach, the data is compatible with different instruments and may allow participants of a session to own instruments of widely differing quality.
In commercial products, it may be desirable to provide these attributes in an easy-to-use and inexpensive package. Various configuration possibilities are disclosed to achieve these goals. However, in some applications the approaches, devices, systems, and methods described herein may be implemented in more complex, sophisticated, versatile, costly or other approaches, including those with multiple configuration possibilities.
MIDIWan can use the Internet or similar network as a transport medium for MIDI signals. The MIDI standard assumes a near-zero transmission delay between communicating instruments. It depends on each signal arriving at the destination instrument as soon as the originating instrument generates the signal. The timing fidelity of the remote music reproduction can depend significantly on this assumption being true.
This assumption may be problematic when the Internet or other complex networks are used as the transmitting medium. Often, the Internet will introduce unpredictably long delays on data that may cause unacceptable delays between successive notes. Unless these delays are somehow compensated for, this shortcoming can produce unacceptable 'stutters' during the reproduction.
The exemplary MIDIWan system described herein provides hardware and software between two (or more) communicating instruments that can compensate for such system characteristics and may thereby smooth or remove the stutters.
Overview of Architecture
In this embodiment, the wires are standard, easily obtained MIDI cables. Standard local area network connection cables couple the MIDIWan box to the Internet. The instruments may be of widely varying quality, as long as they generate MIDI signals as part of their operation. Note that MIDI information is allowed to flow both ways across the Internet connection at the same time.
When MIDI signals are transmitted over the Internet, unpredictable delays are introduced. MIDIWan compensates for these delays by buffering the signals within the MIDIWan box in a signal memory. In this particular embodiment, the signal memory is located in the communication module of the MIDIWan device.
Note that in one approach, the MIDIWan system includes at least two independent communication paths. One is the previously described bidirectional transmission of MIDI messages (i.e. musical notes). The other is a two-way voice channel. In
Delay Compensation
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At the receiving end Box A (10) does not play Ni immediately. Instead, the box waits for a time period d to elapse before playing the note. This time lapse is selected to be large enough that with some likelihood, several notes will have arrived before Ni is passed out of Box A to be sounded on Instrument 5.
This buffering of notes makes up for time delays that the Internet introduces between the various notes. Some notes might arrive quickly, others with more of a time lapse. But because the notes are queued up at the receiver, these delays are smoothed out.
The use of relative time stamps has a great advantage over time stamps that are snapshots of real time. Using absolute time stamps would introduce the need for synchronization of communicating MIDIWan boxes. While possible, such synchronization would significantly increase MIDIWan's complexity. Instead, the MIDIWan system only needs to manage a time window of a few notes that each carry their timing information with them.
The buffering time delay that MIDIWan intentionally introduces is irrelevant to the musical integrity of the piece being played, as the performing player is typically not aware of the delay. His sounds are produced immediately by his own Instrument 5.
The voice channel could act as a potential return carrier of the delayed music. To avoid this feedback, the receiving voice channel sound reproduction is deactivated or otherwise limited at Player 2's site while Player 2 is playing, and a "squelch" is provided to allow Player 1 to 'break through' to Player 2 if she wants to interrupt Player 2's performance. A squelch is a standard method for suppressing audio below a threshold level of intensity. When audio above this threshold is received the audio will begin to be heard.
In some applications it may be desirable to minimize the delays introduced as much as possible or to trade off delay time versus probability of stutters or other artifacts. In one approach, the tradeoffs can be established using delay parameter tuning. In one implementation, delay parameter tuning follows a two-step process: worst-case analysis and dynamic adaptation.
Worst-Case Delay Need Analysis
The most aggressive (long) delays are typically introduced in the signal paths of highly proficient players when they perform very fast pieces of music. The inter-note pauses in such a performance are small, so many of these fast notes are queued up at the receiving site in order to compensate for the intermittent Internet delays. The note reproduction delay will therefore be high, compared to the inter-note spacing.
A second reason for aggressive delay adjustment is a slow or unreliable Internet connection. An unreliable connection will usually still deliver all notes, but this delivery will entail a number of retransmissions, each after some time has elapsed. Unreliability thus translates to long delays and irregular playback speed.
Whenever a connection is established between two boxes, both of the above conditions can be considered when determining a suitable delay. The following procedure is employed: as soon as two boxes connect, they each automatically send musical scales to the other. They adjust the inter-note times such that the scales mimic the warm-up scale playing of a very skilled human player. Again, the scales are transmitted in both directions at the same time.
While the scale notes arrive at each end, the receiving box progressively decreases the delay until it begins missing notes. This process establishes the lowest allowable delay. Once this value is determined, the receiving box signals the sender that further transmission of scales is not required.
The initial delay as determined via the scale exchanges reflects the state of the Internet connection. It is a very conservative delay, however, since many players do not perform at the level of an expert. This is particularly true for the student/teacher scenario. Each box therefore monitors the rate of incoming notes. If the rate is low, the delay is shortened. For a slow player the inter-note pauses serve as Internet delay buffers themselves.
While an appropriate delay can be determined using the above two techniques, other techniques may be employed. For example, one or both of the boxes can generate one or more pulses or "pings" to give an estimate of transmission delays. Based upon the estimate and a variety of other data and/or algorithms, the system can establish the appropriate delay.
Simplicity of the User Interface
It is further desirable that MIDIWan be simple to use and not evoke the notion that it is a computer. Though it is not necessary to the ultimate operation of the MIDIWan system, achieving this may increase the acceptance of the device by a broad spectrum of musicians. In the preferred embodiment this is achieved through both hardware simplicity and software simplicity, though either can be used standing alone.
Hardware Simplicity
In one approach, MIDIWan can be deployed without a standard computer keyboard or separate monitor. In one relatively simple embodiment, a small LCD display, two lines of 16 characters each, forms the visual connection to the human user. In one typical embodiment, the MIDIWan can be deployed by using three sockets (though for some applications more, or even fewer may be acceptable), a power adapter, and an on/off switch. One of the three sockets accepts a MIDI cable that feeds notes from the local instrument to the box, another is for the cable that passes the incoming MIDI signal to the instrument. The third socket, finally, accepts the Internet connection.
A Web server may allow more extensive interaction with the box. Any browser can be used to enter into a maintenance session with the box. In the preferred embodiment, Microsoft's Internet Explorer is used. However, in many cases the invocation of this facility is not needed at all. For example, in many cases the box can automatically obtain its Internet (IP) address via a standard DHCP service. The preferred embodiment, for example, is capable of interacting with such a service. Similarly, the addresses of potential remote MIDIWan partner boxes can be retrieved automatically from a name service. Additionally, every MIDIWan box retains the communication details of other boxes that it was connected to in the past.
Software Simplicity
In the preferred embodiment, the only interaction with a MIDIWan box, other than plugging in the cables, is the selection of the remote musician(s) that the local musician wishes to interact with. This can be accomplished without a computer keyboard by utilizing the musical instrument that is attached to each MIDIWan box. Each box contains a directory of possible remote partners to interact with. Each entry holds an easy-to-remember name, such as the name of a remote musician. The entry also contains all information that is necessary to establish an Internet connection.
When a MIDIWan box is first turned on, the top line of the LCD display shows the name in one of the directory entries. The musician then scrolls the directory up by hitting a piano key above Middle-C. Scrolling down is prompted by keys below Middle-C, while hitting the C-key itself signals to the box the user's final choice of connection partner. Other solutions can be used as well.
Addition of Directory Entries. In the preferred embodiment, MIDIWan offers two methods for inserting a new directory entry. The first is through the Web interface mentioned earlier. A Web browser can connect to a MIDIWan box, and entries can be submitted by filling out a form.
This Web-based method is, however, not the most desirable, because it is counter to the goal of user interface simplicity. Another possibility is described in
In the preferred embodiment, when a MIDIWan box is turned on, it announces its presence to the MIDIWan server 15. From this 'I am alive' message the server gleans not just the name of the newly joining box, but also its Internet contact data. The server remembers this information. Whenever another MIDIWan box at a later time wishes to contact the newly joined box, the server can furnish the contact address. This mechanism allows the user of a MIDIWan box to be aware just of the names of the other boxes, rather than having to contend with Internet addresses. Because of the automatic check-in when each box is turned on, it is not a problem if MIDIWan boxes are moved to other locations and different Internet access locations. The server will be brought up to date as soon as the roaming box is turned on while connected to the Internet.
For security reasons, though, many access points to the Internet are protected by firewalls. These devices partition the Internet into multiple 'islands'. A firewall creates such an island by controlling network traffic between the open Internet and the set of computers that are attached to the inside of the firewall.
Firewalls will not normally impede a box's check-in to the server, or the contact address acquisition that we described above. Firewalls do not interfere with Internet connection attempts that originate from any of the firewall's local computers. However, firewalls may prevent MIDIWan boxes from communicating with each other.
Path 1 (11) is the simplest case. Neither MIDIWan box is behind a firewall. Once they know each others' address through the interaction with the directory server they can communicate directly with each other through the open Internet. In this case the directory server is often not needed at all after two boxes have connected at least once. Each MIDIWan box retains the connection information of the boxes it has communicated with before. In the Path 1 case both boxes will retain their Internet addresses across sessions.
Path 2 (12) shows the case where Box A is protected by a firewall, but Box B is not. This configuration is navigated by ensuring that Box A initiates communication with Box B, rather than the other way around. The latter would fail, because Box A's firewall would block the incoming connection attempt.
Path 3 (13) is the opposite case, where Box B is firewalled, while Box A is open. MIDIWan boxes cannot know which configuration they must navigate. In order to contend with both Path 2 and Path 3 MIDIWan boxes 'reach out to each other.' That is, once each box knows the contact information of its peer-to-be, each of the boxes tries to contact the other. In case of Path 2, Box A will succeed, in case of Path 3 Box B will successfully complete the connection process. Only one needs to succeed; as soon as such a success is registered, the futile contact attempts cease and the two boxes can begin work.
A more complex case is Path 4 (14). Neither box can be contacted from the outside. Each only allows outgoing connections through their respective firewall. In this case MIDIWan falls back on the relay server 15, which may or may not be the same computer as the one serving the directory. Each MIDIWan box separately constructs a connection to the relay. The relay then passes all traffic from one connection to the other. This configuration is, of course, the least desirable, because it introduces delays and requires the server to be up and running throughout the MIDIWan session.
Configuration on an Unknown Subnet. Sometimes, when a MIDIWan device is attached to the Internet, it will be necessary to interact with the device through its built-in Web server. This is the case when the network location to which the device is connected does not provide automatic IP address assignment services (DHCP). In that case the user of the MIDIWan device must manually configure the device. This configuration is accomplished by accessing the MIDIWan device through its Web interface.
Unfortunately, the user cannot know at which Internet contact address (IP address and port) the device is listening. It is therefore not possible for the user to provide his Web browser with a proper working URL. Without that URL the user cannot configure the MIDIWan device; the problem is circular. If the device were configured, it would be reachable from a browser. But in order to go through the configuration process, the device needs first to be configured.
MIDIWan solves this problem by generating a temporary Internet address, which it communicates to the user on a display. In case of the preferred embodiment this is the small LCD display. The problem is, however, that one cannot simply invent an IP address and expect the device to be reachable from a Web browser. The address must be appropriate for the portion, or subnet, that the MIDIWan device is attached to.
The MIDIWan device must therefore find an IP 'template' from which it can construct a temporary address at which it can listen for the configuration request. The template consists of, usually, the first two or three numbers of an IP address. For example, the template of the address 188.8.131.52 might be 205.23 or 205.23.5. This notion extends to the newer IPv6 addressing scheme.
MIDIWan employs three Internet standards in combination to find a proper IP template if at all possible. The following standards are used:
The ICMP and RIP protocols are intended for Internet clients to find nearby Internet routers. A router is a traffic directing device that connects subnets to other subnets and to the larger Internet. Normally, Internet applications do not need to know the address of their subnet's router. The importance of knowing a router address in the present context is that such an address is guaranteed to be a proper address for the subnet to which the MIDIWan device is attached. The router address is therefore a good source for an IP template. The MIDIWan device thus needs to coax the nearest router into sending a packet that the device can receive and use to extract the template.
A MIDIWan device that finds itself unconfigured on an unknown subnet without DHCP service will send out both ICMP and RIP packets in the hope that a router will respond with a broadcast reply. If a response is received, the template is extracted and a random number generator is used to create an IP address.
The device cannot, however, simply use this address, because another Internet device might already be using that IP address. The Internet does not allow multiple devices to use the same address. After the IP generation the MIDIWan device therefore uses a third Internet standard, ARP, to ensure that no other device is currently operating with the randomly generated address. If another device is found, the random number generator creates another IP address candidate.
When a valid address is finally found, it is shown on the device's display. The user can then generate the configuration request from a browser and provide the MIDIWan device with a more permanent address.
Possible Extensions to MIDIWan
A potential extension of the basic MIDIWan system integrates some features of advanced audio editors into each MIDIWan box. For example, each box may identify stretches of music that are likely to be coherent units, such as repeated attempts to play a particular few measures of a composition. Pauses in a performance that are longer than common rests could be interpreted as boundaries of such stretches. Alternatively, the use of the voice channel might be taken as a signal that a coherent stretch of music rendition is finished. A related application of this capability arises from scenario 2. Successive attempts at playing a solo could each be retained as a unit. At the end of a session a MIDIWan companion music editor on an attached desktop computer could then organize all the snippets into tracks and recording 'takes.'
Technical Conclusion
At the same time, the IT connection listener begins to listen for other MIDIWan boxes that might wish to establish a connection. Both, the connection seeker and listener modules employ the LCD screen to continuously inform the user about their status. Once a connection is established, the connection seeker and connection listener cease operations. They stand by in case the connection breaks down for any reason. In that case they immediately resume their work.
Incoming MIDI information is passed into the performance queue, which is managed by the queue and timing manager 17. It is responsible for delivering notes from the queue to the local instrument at precisely the correct time.
Outbound, the local instrument's signal is passed into the time stamper 18, which packages the MIDI messages into Internet packets after prepending the relative time at which the outgoing note needs to be sounded at the remote end.
The HTTP module 19 is available at all times. The voice over IP module 20 also operates in parallel to the other modules.
Range of Embodiments
Those having skill in the art will recognize that the state of the art has progressed to the point where there is little distinction left between hardware and software implementations of aspects of systems; the use of hardware or software is generally (but not always, in that in certain contexts the choice between hardware and software can become significant) a design choice representing cost vs. efficiency tradeoffs. Those having skill in the art will appreciate that there are various vehicles by which processes and/or systems described herein can be effected (e.g., hardware, software, and/or firmware), and that the preferred vehicle will vary with the context in which the processes are deployed. For example, if an implementer determines that speed and accuracy are paramount, the implementer may opt for a hardware and/or firmware vehicle; alternatively, if flexibility is paramount, the implementer may opt for a solely software implementation; or, yet again alternatively, the implementer may opt for some combination of hardware, software, and/or firmware. Hence, there are several possible vehicles by which the processes described herein may be effected, none of which is inherently superior to the other in that any vehicle to be utilized is a choice dependent upon the context in which the vehicle will be deployed and the specific concerns (e.g., speed, flexibility, or predictability) of the implementer, any of which may vary. Those skilled in the art will recognize that optical aspects of implementations will require optically-oriented hardware, software, and or firmware.
The foregoing detailed description has set forth various embodiments of the devices and/or processes via the use of block diagrams, flowcharts, and/or examples. Insofar as such block diagrams, flowcharts, and/or examples contain one or more functions and/or operations, it will be understood as notorious by those within the art that each function and/or operation within such block diagrams, flowcharts, or examples can be implemented, individually and/or collectively, by a wide range of hardware, software, firmware, or virtually any combination thereof. In one embodiment, several portions of the subject matter described herein may be implemented via Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), digital signal processors (DSPs), or other integrated formats. However, those skilled in the art will recognize that some aspects of the embodiments disclosed herein, in whole or in part, can be equivalently implemented in standard integrated circuits, as one or more computer programs running on one or more computers (e.g., as one or more programs running on one or more computer systems), as one or more programs running on one or more processors (e.g., as one or more programs running on one or more microprocessors), as firmware, or as virtually any combination thereof, and that designing the circuitry and/or writing the code for the software and/or firmware would be well within the skill of someone skilled in the art in light of this disclosure. In addition, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the mechanisms of the subject matter described herein are capable of being distributed as a program product in a variety of forms, and that an illustrative embodiment of the subject matter described herein applies equally regardless of the particular type of signal bearing media used to actually carry out the distribution. Examples of a signal bearing media include, but are not limited to, the following: recordable type media such as floppy disks, hard disk drives, CD ROMs, digital tape, and computer memory; and transmission type media such as digital and analog communication links using TDM or IP based communication links (e.g., packet links).
In a general sense, those skilled in the art will recognize that the various aspects described herein which can be implemented, individually and/or collectively, by a wide range of hardware, software, firmware, or any combination thereof can be viewed as being composed of various types of "electrical circuitry." Consequently, as used herein "electrical circuitry" includes, but is not limited to, electrical circuitry having at least one discrete electrical circuit, electrical circuitry having at least one integrated circuit, electrical circuitry having at least one application specific integrated circuit, electrical circuitry forming a general purpose computing device configured by a computer program (e.g., a general purpose computer configured by a computer program which at least partially carries out processes and/or devices described herein, or a microprocessor configured by a computer program which at least partially carries out processes and/or devices described herein), electrical circuitry forming a memory device (e.g., forms of random access memory), and/or electrical circuitry forming a communications device (e.g., a modem, communications switch, or optical-electrical equipment).
The foregoing described aspects depict different components contained within, or connected with, different other components. It is to be understood that such depicted architectures are merely exemplary, and that in fact many other architectures can be implemented which achieve the same functionality. In a conceptual sense, any arrangement of components to achieve the same functionality is effectively "associated" such that the desired functionality is achieved. Hence, any two components herein combined to achieve a particular functionality can be seen as "associated with" each other such that the desired functionality is achieved, irrespective of architectures or intermedial components. Likewise, any two components so associated can also be viewed as being "operably connected" or "operably coupled" to each other to achieve the desired functionality.
While particular aspects of the present subject matter described herein have been shown and described, it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that, based upon the teachings herein, changes and modifications may be made without departing from this subject matter described herein and its broader aspects and, therefore, the appended claims are to encompass within their scope all such changes and modifications as are within the true spirit and scope of this subject matter described herein. Furthermore, it is to be understood that the invention is defined by the appended claims. It will be understood by those within the art that, in general, terms used herein, and especially in the appended claims (e.g., bodies of the appended claims) are generally intended as "open" terms (e.g., the term "including" should be interpreted as "including but not limited to," the term "having" should be interpreted as "having at least," the term "includes" should be interpreted as "includes but is not limited to," etc.). It will be further understood by those within the art that if a specific number of an introduced claim recitation is intended, such an intent will be explicitly recited in the claim, and in the absence of such recitation no such intent is present. For example, as an aid to understanding, the following appended claims may contain usage of the introductory phrases "at least one" and "one or more" to introduce claim recitations. However, the use of such phrases should NOT be construed to imply that the introduction of a claim recitation by the indefinite articles "a" or "an" limits any particular claim containing such introduced claim recitation to inventions containing only one such recitation, even when the same claim includes the introductory phrases "one or more" or "at least one" and indefinite articles such as "a" or "an" (e.g., "a" and/or "an" should typically be interpreted to mean "at least one" and/or "one or more"); the same holds true for the use of definite articles used to introduce claim recitations. In addition, even if a specific number of an introduced claim recitation is explicitly recited, those skilled in the art will recognize that such recitation should typically be interpreted to mean at least the recited number (e.g., the bare recitation of "two recitations," without other modifiers, typically means at least two recitations, or two or more recitations). Furthermore, in those instances where a convention analogous to "at least one of A, B, and C, etc." is used, in general such a construction is intended in the sense of one having skill in the art would understand the convention (e.g., "a system having at least one of A, B, and C" would include but not be limited to systems that have A alone, B alone, C alone, A and B together, A and C together, B and C together, and/or A, B, and C together). In those instances where a convention analogous to "at least one of A, B, or C, etc." is used, in general such a construction is intended in the sense of one having skill in the art would understand the convention (e.g., " a system having at least one of A, B, or C" would include but not be limited to systems that have A alone, B alone, C alone, A and B together, A and C together, B and C together, and/or A, B, and C together).
Although the present invention has been described in terms of the presently preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that the disclosure is not to be interpreted as limiting. Various alterations and modifications will no doubt become apparent to one skilled in the art after reading the above disclosure. Accordingly, it is intended that the appended claims be interpreted as covering all alterations and modifications as fall within the true spirit and scope of the invention.
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