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Welcome to Ian's Shoelace Site!
Fun, fashion & science in the Internet's #1 website about shoelaces. Whether you want to learn to lace shoes, tie shoelaces, stop shoelaces from coming undone, calculate shoelace lengths or even repair aglets, Ian's Shoelace Site has the answer!
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Are all of your shoes, sneakers and boots still laced up the way they were when you bought them? This section presents some of the many fascinating ways of lacing, either for different functions or just for appearances.
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The rhetorical question: "How long is a piece of string?" is a serious question when it comes to shoelaces. Too long and the ends can drag or get stepped on. Too short and it can be difficult to tie a knot. This section should help you work out the ideal shoelace length.
Many people search for shoelace "tips" or "ends" because they want to know the name of the plastic or metal bits at the ends of shoelaces. They're called "Aglets", and you can find out more about them here, including how to repair or replace them.
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Looking to buy shoelaces or related items? Ian's Shoelace Site doesn't yet have a web store, but in the marketplace you'll find selected merchants of shoelaces, accessories, gadgets, books (including my own book), as well as my iPhone app, "Ian's Laces".
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13-Jun-2015 - This week my videos on YouTube passed one million views! Thanks for watching, folks.
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La Coccinella è una struttura dell'800, recentemente ristrutturata, elevata su tre livelli a completa gesione familiare. Dal nostro B&B potete raggiungere facilmente la VERSILIA (VIAREGGIO, FORTE DEI MARMI, LIDO DI CAMAIORE), e le città d'arte come PISA, LUCCA, PIETRASANTA E MASSACIUCCOLI. Gli avvenimenti principali nelle nostre zone sono il festival di Puccini in estate e il carnevale di Viareggio in inverno. Disponiamo di camere triple, matrimoniali e singole, tutte con bagno privato.
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|Nearest airport: Pisa 20 km, Nearest railway: Massarosa
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|Some pets are welcome - please contact the owner, No smoking at this property
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|2 bedrooms, 9 bathrooms of which 3 Family bathrooms, 3 En suites and 3 Shower rooms
|Double beds (3), Single beds (3), Dining seats for 8
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Motion Detail Preserving Optical Flow Estimation∗
Li Xu Jiaya Jia
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Yasuyuki Matsushita
Microsoft Research Asia
We discuss the cause of a severe optical flow estima-
tion problem that fine motion structures cannot always be
correctly reconstructed in the commonly employed multi-
scale variational framework. Our major finding is that sig-
nificant and abrupt displacement transition wrecks small-
scale motion structures in the coarse-to-fine refinement. A
novel optical flow estimation method is proposed in this
paper to address this issue, which reduces the reliance of
the flow estimates on their initial values propagated from
the coarser level and enables recovering many motion de-
tails in each scale. The contribution of this paper also in-
cludes adaption of the objective function and development
of a new optimization procedure. The effectiveness of our
method is borne out by experiments for both large- and
small-displacement optical flow estimation.
1. Introduction
The variational framework [13], together with the
coarse-to-fine refinement [1], is widely adopted in optical
flow estimation [7, 8]. In the Middlebury optical flow eval-
uation website [2], almost all top-ranked methods use this
Brox et al. [6], in computing large-displacement optical
flow, pointed out that if the flow structures are smaller than
their displacements, the latter may not be well estimated.
In this paper, we show that this issue also applies to small-
displacementmotion. TakingFigure1 as anexample,dueto
the camera motion, the foreground toy deer has its motion
significantly differing from that of the background(average
displacements d = −2 and d = 21 respectively). This
example is in fact very challenging for the coarse-to-fine
variational optical flow estimation.
As shown in Figure 1(e), in a coarse level, the nar-
row neck entirely disappears and only the significant back-
ground motion is estimated. This makes the emerging fore-
ground pixels in the finer scale (Figure 1(f)) are with their
actual motion significantly different from the initial esti-
∗The work described in this paper was fully supported by a grant from
the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative
Region (Project No. 412708).
Coarse Level
Finer Level
(c) (d)
Figure 1. Motion detail preserving problem. (a)-(b) Two input
patches. (c) Flow estimate using the coarse-to-fine variational set-
ting. (d) Our flow estimate. (e)-(f) Two consecutive levels in the
pyramid. Flow maps are visualized using the color code in (g).
mate from the background, violating the linearization as-
sumption and accordingly leading to a highly unstable mo-
tion estimation process. The final flow result shown in Fig-
ure 1(c) includes considerable errors. This example dis-
closes one problem of the general coarse-to-fine variational
model – that is, the inclination to diminish small motion
structures when spatially significant and abrupt change of
the displacements exists.
We address the motion detail preserving problem in this
paper and propose a unified framework for high-quality
flow estimation in both large and small displacement set-
tings. Central to our method is a novel selection scheme to
compute extensive initial flow vectors in each image level.
This makes the following optimization not completely rely
rect estimation error in the top-down refinement. Our flow
result shown in Figure 1(d) contains fine structures. More
examples are included in Section 5 and in the technical re-
port [24].
This paper also contributes in the following ways. First,
we use robust sparse feature matching to produce extended
flow initialization, which helps enforce the linearization
conditionin the variational setting. Second, in the flow esti-
mation model, we propose the selective combination of the
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color and gradient constraints in defining the data term, ro-
bust to outliers. Third, we propose a fast variable-splitting-
based optimization method to refine flow maps. It is highly
parallel, compatible with modern GPU computation archi-
Finally, we employ the Mean Field approximationto en-
crete and continuous variables and is commonly regarded
challenging to solve. Extensive experiments visually and
quantitatively validate the performance of our approach in
maintaining details for both large- and small-displacement
2. Related Work
Modern optical flow estimation is usually posed as an
energy minimization problem. Black and Anandan [4] re-
placed the quadratic penalty functions in [13] with non-
convex robust functions to reject outliers. Sun et al. [21]
useda learning-basedframeworkfor boththe matchingcost
(data term) and flow derivatives (smoothness term).
constraints. Haussecker and Fleet [12] proposed a phys-
ical constraint to model brightness change. Lempitsky et
al. [14] computed the matching cost only using high fre-
quency components. Pre-filtering on the input images was
suggested in [21] and [17] to handle illumination variation.
These models are flexible, but at the same time require to
solve highly non-convexobjective functions.
In [7], Brox et al. introducedthe gradientconstancycon-
straint to complement the brightness one. L1norm is used
as the penalty function for both the data and smoothness
terms so that the energy is convex after linearization. Sim-
ilar compromise between robustness and complexity was
alsomadein[8, 26]. However,we will showlaterthatdirect
addition of the brightness and gradient terms is not optimal
and propose a selection model to improve it.
Almost all the above methods rely on the coarse-to-fine
warping to deal with motion larger than one pixel [1, 3]. As
discussed in Section 1, this strategy has inherentproblem to
recover small-scale structures in many situations. Adaptive
window is used in stereo matching [19] to handle incorrect
initialization near depth boundary. It assumes at least the
nearby disparities are correctly initialized, which might not
be true for small-scale structures that are totally eliminated
in the coarse level.
Using discrete optimization, Lempitsky et al. [14] pro-
posed fusing flow proposals obtained from different flow
estimation methods with various parameter settings. This is
proven effective to find the optimal values among the given
proposals. But the sufficiency and optimality of the propos-
als cannot be controlled. Also, the methods [16, 13] that
generatethe proposals still employ the conventionalcoarse-
to-fine warping. So it is possible that none of the proposals
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eff. energy
(a)(b) Data costs for P1 (c) Data costs for P2
Figure 2. Data cost distributions for two points. (a) shows a patch
of the "RubberWhale" example, where two points P1 (138,278)
and P2 (141,299) are highlighted. (b) and (c) plot different data
costs (vertical axis) for P1 and P2. The ground truth displacement
is moved to 0 (horizontal axis) for illustration.
preserve small-scale motion structures. In comparison, our
method computes a few high confidence flow candidates in
each level, and thus is not entirely dependent of the flow
initialization from the previous scale.
In recent large displacement optical flow estimation,
Brox et al. [6] performedregion-baseddescriptormatching.
by adjusting the objective to favor matching results, albeit
sometimes vulnerable to matching outliers. Steinbr¨ ucker
and Pock [20] extended the numerical scheme of [25] and
searched over all possible values for the large displacement
flow. As discrete labels are used in the search step, results
can be lack of sub-pixel accuracy.
3. Optical Flow Model
The Total Variation/L1model [7, 8, 25] was provenvery
effective in flow estimation. We base our data penalty func-
tion on the L1norm to reject outliers and use the Total Vari-
ation (TV) for regularization.
3.1. Robust Data Function
As the color constancy constraint is often violated when
illumination or exposure changes, adding gradient con-
stancy constraints was proposed [7, 8]. Denoting by u =
(u,v)Tthe flow vector representing the displacement be-
tween frames I1and I2, the data term for flow estimation
can generally be written as
2τ?∇I2(x + u) − ∇I1(x)?,
2?I2(x + u) − I1(x)? +
where τ is a weight. This function, due to the addition of
two terms, is less accurate in terms of modeling the confi-
dence of pixel correspondence than only using one out of
the two terms that is more appropriate.
Figure 2 shows an example where the patch in (a) con-
tains two points P1 and P2. Their data cost distributions
with respect to different displacement values are plotted
in (b) and (c) respectively (ground truth displacements are
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shifted to 0). It is noticeable that the color constraint (blue
curvein (b))does not producethe minimumenergynear the
ground truth value because the color constancy is violated
given point P1 moving out of the shadow. Adding the color
and gradient terms using Eq. (1) also results in an undesir-
able distribution (dashed magenta curve) as the cost at the
ground truth point is not even a local minimum. Similarly,
in Figure 2(c), only the color constancy holds as point P2
undergoes rotational motion which alters image gradients.
So it is not ideal as well to add the two constraints in the
data function definition.
The above analysis indicates that a good model should
only incorporate the more informative constraint, but not
both of them. We accordingly define a binary weight map
α(x) : Z2?→ {0,1} to switch between the two terms. The
new data function is expressed as
α(x)?I2(x + u) − I1(x)? +
(1 − α(x))τ?∇I2(x + u) − ∇I1(x)?. (2)
When α(x) = 1, the gradient constraint is favored. Other-
wise, we implement color constancy. Our empirical investi-
gation provided in Section 5 shows that this model can lead
to higher quality results than various alternatives.
3.2. Edge-Preserving Regularization
The regularization term for optical flow estimation is
generally edge preserving [21, 22]. We define our smooth-
ness term as
ES(u) =
where x ∈ Z2, indexing the 2D coordinates and ?∇u(x)?
is the common TV regularizer. ω(x) is the simple structure
adaptive map that maintains motion discontinuity [22]:
ω(x) = exp(−?∇I1?κ),
where κ = 0.8 in our experiments. The final objective
function is thus defined as
E(u,α) = ED(u,α) + λES(u),
where λ is the regularization weight.
3.3. Mean Field Approximation
Minimizing Eq. (5) involves simultaneously computing
two fields: continuous u and binary α, which is commonly
regarded as computationally intractable. We employ the
Mean Field (MF) Approximation [9] to simplify the prob-
lem by first canceling out the binary process by integration
over α [24]. The probability of a particular state of the sys-
tem is given by
P(u,α) =1
where β is the inverse temperature and Z is the partition
function, defined as
We then compute the sum over all possible αs (as described
in [24]) with the saddle point approximation, yielding
Z ≈ max
and the effective potential
Eeff(u) = λES(u) −
βln(e−βDI(u,x)+ e−βD∇I(u,x)).
where DI(u,x) = ?I2(x + u) − I1(x)? and D∇I(u,x) =
τ?∇I2(x+u)−∇I1(x)?. It indicates that the flow estimate
by minimizing Eq. (9) is actually the Mean Field (MF) ap-
proximation of minimizing Eq. (5). The effective energy is
therefore written as
Eeff(u) = Eeff
D(u) + λES(u),
where the effective data function is
D(u) =
βln(e−βDI(u,x)+ e−βD∇I(u,x)).
The optimality of Eq. (10) does not depend on the estimate
of α. Moreover, although Eq. (10) is non-convex and is
not easy to solve using continuous optimization, there is no
obstacle to apply discrete optimization if candidate labels
can be obtained. We propose a robust algorithm, described
in the next section, to estimate u.
Note that the effective data term can also be deemed as
a robust function which selectively combines the color and
gradient constancy constraints. This can be clarified by tak-
ing the partial derivative with respect to the variable u on
the data term, which yields
D(u) =
¯ α(x)∂uDI+ (1 − ¯ α(x))∂uD∇I,
where ¯ α(x) is the flow-dependent weight, written as
¯ α(x) =
1 + eβ(DI(u,x)−D∇I(u,x)).
¯ α(x) is the MF-approximation of α(x).
equates that of α(x) (Eq. (2)) in constraint selection. The
cost distributionsofthe new effectivedata functionare plot-
ted in Figures 2(b)and (c) usinggreen crossedcurves. They
velope of the two data costs (α = 0 and α = 1), which is
exactly what we need for accurate flow estimation.
So its effect
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Input: a pair of images for optical flow estimation
1. Construct pyramids for both of the images and set the
initial level l = 0 and ul= 0 for all pixels.
2. Propagate ulto level l + 1.
3. Extended Flow Initialization (Section 4.1)
3.1. Detect and match SIFT features in level l + 1.
3.2. Generate multiple flow vectors as candidates.
3.3. Optimize flow using QPBO (Eq. (10)).
4. Continuous Flow Optimization (Section 4.2)
4.1. Compute the α map (Eq.(12)).
4.2. Solve the TV/L1energy function in Eq.(14).
5. Ifl ?= n−1wherenisthetotalnumber of levels, l = l+1
and go to Step 2.
6. Occlusion-aware Refinement (Section 4.3)
Output: optical flow map
Table 1. Overview of our method.
4. Optimization Framework
Traditional optical flow estimation, due to the use of the
variational setting, relies excessively on the coarse-to-fine
refinement. As discussed in Section 1, this process could
fail to recover ubiquitous fine motion details due to the pos-
sible large discrepancy between the initial flow estimates
and the ground truth displacements in each level.
In this section, based on Eeffand ¯ α, we propose an un-
conventional method to optimize Eq. (5). Specifically, be-
cause Eeff
D(u) is not dependant of ¯ α, we first infer multi-
ple high-confidence flow candidates and apply discrete op-
timization to select the optimal ones. With this result, ¯ α in
Eq. (12) is then quickly estimated. We finally improve the
subpixel accuracy of the flow estimates with the estimated
¯ α using continuous optimization. This procedure is found
surprisingly effective to dampen estimation errors caused
by the occasionallybiased flow results from the coarse level
Our overall algorithm is sketched in Table 1 based on
iteratively processing images in a top-down fashion. The
steps are detailed further below.
4.1. Extended Flow Initialization
We address the general flow initialization problem in
eachimage levelby estimatingmultiple displacementsfrom
the reference to target images using the SIFT features de-
tection and matching [15]. The displacement vectors are
denoted as {uv
n}, as shown in Figure 3(a). They are
in the flow map ucpropagated from the immediate coarser
scale (Figure 3(b)). To robustly screen out the duplicated
vectors, we compute the Euclidean distance between each
iand all uc
tered at the reference feature of uv
than 1 (pixel), we regard uv
ias a genuine flow candidate.
We repeat this process for all is, and denote the m new can-
js where pixel j is within a 5 × 5 window cen-
i. If all results are greater
(b) (c)(d)
Figure 3. Extended flow initialization. (a) One of the images over-
laid with the computed feature motion vectors. (b) Flow field uc
propagated from the coarser level. (c) New displacements com-
puted using (a) and (b). They are candidate flow vectors for all
pixels. (d) Optimized flow map u0with respect to the candidates
in the current image level. (e)-(f) show close-ups of (b) and (d).
didates as uv
km−1. Figure 3(c) shows an example.
This strategy significantly reduces the system depen-
dence on the coarse-scale flow estimation. It is notable as
well that feature matching initially produces considerable
vectors distributed in the whole image, as shown in Figure
3(a); but they reduce to less than 15 candidates after local
comparison with ucin the given example. Only the most
distinctive flow vectors are retained.
The m new vectors uv
original uc, represent possible motion in the present image
scale. We model the selection of the optimal flow among
the m + 1 candidates for each pixel as a labeling problem,
where the objective function is given in Eq. (10). Upper
of Figure 3(d) demonstrates the color coded labels. This
problem can be solved by discrete optimization efficiently
because on the one hand the number of candidates is small,
thanks to the screening; on the other hand, Eq. (10) does
not involve α, simplifying the computation.
km−1, together with the
We adopt the Quadratic Pseudo-Boolean Optimization
(QPBO) [18] to solve this MRF problem. The fusion move
step [14] is used to repeatedlyfuse the candidates until each
gets visited twice. Also, to avoid the checker-board-like ar-
tifacts commonly produced near motion boundaries in dis-
crete optimization, we employ the anisotropic representa-
tion of the TV regularizer ?∇u? = ?∇u?1+ ?∇v?1with
8-neighbor discretization [10]. The output is the flow map
denoted as u0. One result is shown in Figure 3(d), which
contains better recovered motion structure compared to the
map ucin Figure 3(b). Close-ups are shown in Figures 3(e)
and (f).
Our method can work directly on the input images with-
out employing the multscale framework. But it will suffer
from expensive and possibly unstable computation because
hundreds of or more labels might be produced simultane-
ously in the original resolution.
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(a) u0map (b) ¯ α(x) map (c) urmap (d) Close-up(e) Close-up
Figure 4. Continuous optimization. Errors are further reduced in
this step. (d) and (e) show close-ups of (a) and (c).
4.2. Continuous Flow Optimization
The flow estimates from the previous step are taken into
Eq. (12) to compute ¯ α. One result is shown in Figure 4(b).
Considering that Eq. (11) is highly non-convex, we take ¯ α
back to Eq. (5) for optimization in the variational model.
As color images are used, we denote by Ik
{Ir,Ig,Ib,∂xI,∂yI} the set of channels to be included in
the data term and use αk∈ {¯ α, ¯ α, ¯ α,(1 − ¯ α)τ,(1 − ¯ α)τ}
to represent the corresponding weights. Then the energy in
Eq. (5) is written as
E(u) =
2(x + u) − Ik
1(x)| + λ(x)?∇u(x)?,
where λ(x) := λω(x). With the initially computed flow
u0from the previous step, we solve for the flow increments
du = (du,dv)Tby minimizing Eq. (13). The final flow
vector is u = u0+ du. By convention, the Taylor expan-
sion of Eq. (13) at point x + u0yields the linearized func-
E(u) =
xdu + Ik
ydv + Ik
+λ(x)?∇(u0+ du)(x)?
given small du. In Eq. (14), Ix = ∂xI2(x + u0), Iy =
∂yI2(x + u0), and It= I2(x + u0) − I1(x). To preserve
motion discontinuity, we employ the rotational invariant
isotropic form of the TV regularizer, written as
?∇u? =
?(∂xu)2+ (∂yu)2+ (∂xv)2+ (∂yv)2.
Our Solver
probleminto three simpler ones, each of which can have the
globally optimal solution. The key technique is a variable-
splitting method with auxiliary variables p and w, repre-
tively, to move a few terms out of the non-differentiable L1
norm expression. This scheme is found very efficient and
essential to produce high quality results.
The derivatives of each flow vector comprise four el-
ements, i.e., ∇du = (∂xdu,∂ydu,∂xdv,∂ydv)T.
each element, we introduce a corresponding auxiliary vari-
able.The set of the variables is denoted as w
(wdux,wduy,wdvx,wdvy)T. Then Eq. (14) can be trans-
formed into
We propose decomposing the optimization
xdu + Ik
ydv + Ik
t− pk?2+ αk?pk?
2θ?∇du − w?2+ λ?∇u0+ w?.
In this function,
encourages that pkapproaches Ik
2θ?∇du−w?2+λ?∇u0+ w?2makes w similar to ∇du.
It also can be observed that Eq. (16) is equivalent to Eq.
(14) upon convergencewhen θ → 0 and η → 0.
Besides efficiency and reliability, Eq. (16) makes opti-
mization highly parallel, fully compatible with GPU accel-
eration. The result optimality is guaranteed in each step.
Our algorithm proceeds with the following iterations where
the initial u = u0.
xdu + Ik
ydv + Ik
xdu + Ik
t− pk?2+ αk?pk?
ydv + Ik
t, and
1. Fix u to estimate p. The simplified objective function is
xdu + Ik
ydv + Ik
t− pk?2+ αk?pk?.
Single variable optimization can be achieved in this step.
The optimal solution is given by the shrinkage formula [11]
pk= sign(ok)max(|ok| − ηαk,0),
where ok:= Ik
tis the optical flow constraint.
2. Fix u and solve for w. The function reduces to
2θ?∇du − w?2+ λ?∇u0+ w?2.
Similarly, unique solution is guaranteed by the shrinkage
wdux= max(?∇u?2− θλ,0)
− ∂xu0,
where u = u0+ du. Solutions for wduy, wdvx, and wdvy
can similarly be derived. The computation in this step is
also quick and is highly parallel in nature.
3. Fix w,p and solve for u. The objective function is
xdu + Ik
ydv + Ik
t− pk?2+1
2θ?∇du − w?2.
It is quadratic and thus the corresponding Euler-Lagrange
equations of Eq. (21) are linear w.r.t. du and dv. Globally
optimal solution can be directly obtained by solving the lin-
ear system [13] in this step.
Our method iterates among optimizing (18), (20) and
(21) until convergence. Note that θ and η are critical pa-
rameters that should have very small values. It was found
howeverfixing them constants typicallyresults in slow con-
vergence. We thus adopt the continuation scheme [11],
which initially sets θ and η to relatively large values to al-
lowwarm-starting, andthendecreasesthem initerationsto-
ward the desired convergence. Our algorithm is sketched in
Table 2, where ηminand θminare set to 0.1 and 0.01 respec-
tively. η0and θ0are the respective initial values, configured
as η0= 3n×ηminand θ0= 3n×θmin, where n denotes the
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Sony Xperia T pictures and hands-on
Sony has finally unveiled a phone to replace the Xperia S as a flagship product. The Xperia T packs quite a punch, although isn't exactly powerful compared to the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S III or HTC One X.
Inside is a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Krait dual-core chip paired with 1GB of RAM. In the hand, with Ice Cream Sandwich on board, the phone ticks along pretty nicely. In fact, dare we say, this is the snappiest handset Sony has ever released.
The real highlight with the Xperia T though is the screen which, like most of Sony's other smartphones, is very impressive. The 4.6-inch 720p HD Reality Display dominates the phone's design and boasts some good viewing angles. Even under the messy lights of IFA, this phone was turning out bright and saturated images as well as really great-looking video, thanks to the built in Bravia engine. This is definitely a phone you need to see up close to understand what makes it so special.
As for the handset's design itself, it isn't hugely exciting. Taking a leaf out the Xperia S's book, it looks more or less the same, except with a larger screen. Think of phones like the HTC Titan and you aren't far off. The materials are good quality and the handset has a nice solid weight to it, something that you would expect from a flagship handset.
Also thrown in is NFC. Sony is continuing to push its NFC capabilities, showing off how the phone can pair instantly with things such music players. This is all well and good, providing you stay within Sony's product ecosystem. Then the NFC works very well.
The 13-megapixel camera on the back with 16x digital zoom is another highlight. Capable of Full HD 1080p video, this really is as close to a compact as a smartphone has come. Couple this with a responsive enough performance and you have a phone that can take on the likes of the One X and the SGS III. The 1850 mAh battery should also ensure it outdoes them in the power department, which is no bad thing. Oh yeah, and James Bond is going to be using it in the new Skyfall movie, which is damn cool.
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I mean, let's turn it around. Will Riker was one individual who was then split into two by a transporter accident. The two separate Rikers developed distinct personalities and lives. But does that mean that neither Riker was "alive" before the transporter split? No -- in a sense, they were both there in potential within a single individual.
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Lasseter is one of the most successful animators in Hollywood. That he would take time to personally shepherd Miyazaki's "Spirited Away" into a release by Walt Disney is a tribute to the older craftsman. The movie opens on Friday. Lasseter, who directed the English-language soundtrack for the film, joined Miyazaki at the recent Toronto film festival.
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Miyazaki and his partner at Studio Ghibli, Isao Takahata ("Grave of the Fireflies"), have created work of astonishing depth and artistry; his "Princess Mononoke" was one of the best films of 1999. "Spirited Away," which won the Berlin Film Festival, has passed "Titanic" at the Japanese box office and is the first film in history to gross $200 million before even opening in North America.
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When I went to talk with Miyazaki, who is 62, I reminded him that in 1999 he said he was going to retire. Now here was another film. "I wanted to retire," he said, "but life isn't that easy. I wanted to make a movie especially for the daughters of my friends. I opened all the drawers in my head they were all empty. So I realized I had to make a movie just for 10 year olds, and 'Spirited Away' is my answer."
Revealing. Many directors pitch their movies at 10-year-olds and then claim they are for the "whole family." Miyazaki makes a film that adults found fascinating at the Berlin, Telluride and Toronto festivals, and claims it is for 10-year-olds.
Speaking through a translator, he said Lasseter "turned into a human bulldozer" to assure the American release: "Without him I don't think we'd be sitting here."
Miyazaki, who is suspicious of computers, personally draws thousands of frames by hand. "We take [handmade] cell animation and digitize it in order to enrich the visual look, but everything starts with the human hand drawing. And the color standard is dictated by the background. We don't make up a color on the computer. Without creating those rigid standards we'll just be caught up In the whirlpool of computerization."
He grinned. "It was an absolute order from the commander." He is the commander.
He defines hand drawing as "2-D" and computer animation as "3-D." "What we call 2-D is what we draw on paper to create movement and space on a piece of paper. The 3-D is when you create that space inside a computer. I don't think the Japanese creative mind is very suited for 3-D."
I told Miyazaki I love the "gratuitous motion" in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit for a moment, or they will sigh, or look in a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are.
"We have a word for that in Japanese," he said. "It's called ma. Emptiness. It's there intentionally."
Is that like the "pillow words" that separate phrases in Japanese poetry?
"I don't think it's like the pillow word." He clapped his hands three or four times. "The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it's just busyness, But if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb."
Which helps explain why Miyazaki's films are more absorbing and involving than the frantic cheerful action in a lot of American animation. I asked him to explain that a little more.
"The people who make the movies are scared of silence, so they want to paper and plaster it over," he said. "They're worried that the audience will get bored. They might go up and get some popcorn.
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He has been amused, he said, to see a lot of animation in live-action movies like "Spider-Man."
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There has been nothing middling about the Anderson County Mustangs this fall.
At least when it comes to sports teams there's been nothing middling.
Absolutely nothing.
Everything has been first class.
Itt has been a time of joy. A time of excitement and a time to celebrate.
In case you have missed it, the Mustang football team finished 12-2 and was runner-up in the state tournament. The boys' soccer team went 8-2-1. A newer team, archery, was invited to go to Disney World for the world championships of the National Archery in the Schools Program.
All they did was win it.
And then there is the Mustangs' girls' basketball program. The three teams, representing each of the three grades, are a combined 72-1 this fall. The Lady Mustangs have to be one of the favorites to take the state championship next month in Lexington.
It has been a fall of good crowds and painted faces. From adults.
Face it. When was the last time you ever saw that at a middle school game?
The successes have been so numerous that we might just need to sit back and enjoy the precious present. After all, even though they still have at least four years to go before high school graduation, the players on those teams will never be completely together again.
Enjoy. The Mustangs deserve it. What they have done is a big, big deal for sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders or anyone for that matter.
But let's also remember that as good as the Mustangs have been, it would be a disservice to the kids to view this fall as the end of a journey.
In fact, it is one of the early steps.
There are people whose feathers might get ruffled, but the truth is that middle school prepares kids for high school. It doesn't matter if we're talking about history or hoops, first downs or the first person. One of the main missions of middle school is to prepare students for the next level.
Anderson Middle School football coach Chris Glass seemed to be saying that to the Mustangs in his final post-game speech of the season Sunday evening in Lexington. The tears had been shed because the Mustangs had learned to be competitors. They gave everything they had. But to a competitor, losing, even to a team that clearly has more weapons and is better than he is, still hurts.
But before those tears had a chance to dry, Glass said he had watched many of the Mustangs grow up, then issued a challenge. "I told them that if they really work at it and get in the weight room, they can be contenders for a state championship in the next four years," he said.
Glass was talking about the high school state champion, of course.
"You look at Bowling Green (which had just beaten Anderson 34-6) and they are a little farther along than we are," Glass said. "Some of those kids look like they have been in the weight room."
What Glass was pointing out is the fact that success can be fleeting. Things change.
Athletically, any number of things can happen. Kids transfer in and out. Some kids decide they want to concentrate on another sport. Some get hurt. Others burn out.
Some kids grow. Others stop growing. And, of course, some unfortunately stop studying.
And some counties do things differently. In football, for example, one conference rival (East Oldham) sends graduates to a pair of high schools. Some high schools have two (or more) middle schools serving as feeders.
So, a great middle school (you name the sport) team no more guarantees high school championships any more than a stellar report card is a ticket to success in the business world. The difference between middle school and high school can be enormous in the classroom and on the playing field.
But what the great team and great report cards share in common is an indicator of potential.
What I know is that what the Mustangs have accomplished in all of their fall sports is a very big deal.
But, I've also been in this business to know that through hard work and attention to little things, even bigger deals can be a part of the future.
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Fall session of Supportive Family Training
From Sheila Le Gacy, Director of the Family Support & Education Center, ACCESS CNY
The fall class in Supportive Family Training will begin on WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, at the offices of ACCESS CNY (formerly Transitional Living Services). The 12 week class meets weekly from 6:00 pm to 8:00pm. at 420 East Genesee St., the offices of ACCESS CNY.
Supportive Family Training is offered at no charge to the parents, siblings, adult children, spouses and partners and friends of persons diagnosed with serious psychiatric disorders (schizophrenia, serious depression, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder). Although there is a waiting list for this class, as we get closer to the starting date there may be cancelations.
Interested individuals are encouraged to contact Patricia Hetrick, MSW, the assistant director of The Family Support & Education Center, if they are interested in becoming part of the class. Her direct number is 315-218-0816.
Register Now for the Fall Educational Conference
Fall Educational Conference
Thursday October 8th, 9 am – 3 pm
Empire Room
New York State Fairgrounds
Syracuse, New York 13209
Registration closes October 2nd!
More information about speakers and registration can be found here, or register online right here!
RSVP now for the Harvest Hopela – Don't Miss Your Chance!
The RSVP deadline for NAMI's is September 7th – be sure to email email@example.com or call 315-487-2085 to join us!
Buy your tickets here and support the many services NAMI provides!
Harvest Hopela is NAMI Syracuse's major fundraiser of the year made possible due to the generosity of many individuals and companies.
Mental illness is still a topic people shy away from discussing. How do we try to tackle the stigma if we don't bring it to people's attention through education, personal stories of recovery and promoting the hope of recovery? Harvest Hopela is another tactic in the effort to inform our community of the supports available to families.
Join us in thanking our Harvest Hopela sponsorers
NAMI Syracuse sends a GREAT BIG thank you to the following businesses and individuals who are making the Harvest Hopela (more info here!) possible:
Vino Mania
Mohegan Manor
Twin Tree Too
Middle Ages Brewery
Sterling Optical
Bersani's Jewlery
Sara Paolini
Judy King
August Cornell
Dr. Karen Winters Schwartz and Dr. Paul Schwartz
Viv Derrikson
Deb Mahany
Deb Ultsch
Behind the Iron Gates
Kris of Om Home
Floyd Little signed football
Chuck Brady
Wendy Kates Photography
Wicky Wicks
Stephanie Antshel Photography
B'ville Supply
Accents of Armory Square
CNY Massage
Syracuse Behavioral Health
Susan Zdanowicz
Ann Canastra
Sue Petrantoni
Get your tickets here and join us for this wonderful fundraiser!
Last Week for See Me Too
Be sure to visit the Community Folk Arts Center by August 15th to see the beautiful work on display in See Me Too. Check out some of the art on view here.
Join us for the Annual NAMI Picnic this Saturday
Don't forget to RSVP for the NAMI Picnic THIS SATURDAY, August 8th!
RSVP by phone at 315-487-2085 or by email to email@example.com
More picnic details here