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Carnival Fascination Cruise Review by dreamcruiser63: Fantastic First Cruise on the Fascination!
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Fantastic First Cruise on the Fascination!
Destination: Bahamas
Embarkation: Jacksonville
Our trip started in North Carolina with 7 of us in 2 vehicles. The weather was cold and snowy. I could not wait to get to the warmer weather as this winter was far colder than we usually experience in NC. We arrived in Jacksonville around 5pm the day before our cruise. Our check-in at the Quality Inn-Airport was simple and the girl at the front desk was very nice. Our rooms were clean and comfortable but a bit on the chilly side but we turned up the heat so it was warm in no time. We arranged to meet an old friend we hadn't seen in 17 years at the Mellow Mushroom and it was awesome. The pizza was much better than most pizza places.
Embarkation-It was pretty much flawless. We decided to park at the port so there would be no waiting for a shuttle. We arrived at the port around 11am and we were all on the ship by 1130am. The port was easy to find and everyone was very nice. The only problem we had was when one of our carry-ons had to be searched because my DH had his e-cig More refills in there and they thought it looked suspicious on the x-ray machine but we were all so exited it didn't bother us at all. We were all in our cabins by 1230pm.
Cabins-We had 3 cabins, 1 balcony and 2 insides. All of them were clean and spacious. Our cabin steward, Rowena, was the best!! She was so friendly and always smiling. She kept our rooms spotless and always kept our cooler full of ice. We loved the little towel animals she made us each night.
Food-The food on this cruise was fabulous. We loved the varied selection. The deli made a great reuben panini!! Loved the caribbean food they had on the buffet. The jerk chicken was so good!! The food in the dining room was very good as well. Our wait staff was amazing. Ioan, Alexander, and Inyumen were so much fun and always on time with our food.
Entertainment-We loved the Motor City Show. I thought the singers and dancers did a great job. Loved rocking out to all the Motown hits. We went to the comedy club once and it was ok but nothing really to write home about.
Ports-Freeport was not impressive. It was more like a commercial shipping port than a cruise port. We took a taxi to the Bahamian Brewery on our own. It was fun, especially the beer tasting at the end. Then we just walked around a few shops and went back to the ship.
Nassau-We loved Nassau. We walked around and shopped then we went on an island tour with a local taxi. It was a little intimidating at first with everyone trying to get you to take one of their tours but once we got through all that is was fun. We used Marco Polo Tours for our tour of the island. They did a great job and were very professional. We would love to go back at some point.
Overall, our first cruise was wonderful. We had such a good time and ate some great food. We feel we got more than our money's worth!! Thank you Carnival Fascination Crew for being awesome!! Less
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|Publication number
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|Application number
|PCT number
|Publication date
|Apr 3, 2012
|Filing date
|Jul 27, 2004
|Priority date
|Jul 27, 2004
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|Daniele Franceschini, Nicola Pio Magnani, Andrea Calvi
|Original Assignee
|Telecom Italia S.P.A.
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|Patent Citations (13), Non-Patent Citations (6), Referenced by (5), Classifications (7), Legal Events (2)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This application is a national phase application based on PCT/EP2004/008381, filed Jul. 27, 2004, the content of which is incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention generally relates to video-communication in communication networks, especially mobile communication networks.
Mobile telephony networks have experienced an enormous spread, especially after the introduction of Second Generation (2G) mobile cellular networks, and particularly digital mobile cellular networks such as those complying with the Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) standard (and its United States and Japanese counterparts). The services offered by these cellular networks in addition to plain voice communications have rapidly increased in number and quality; just to cite a few examples, Short Messaging System (SMS), Multimedia Messaging System (MMS) services, and Internet connectivity services have been made available to subscribers of the cellular network in the last few years.
In particular, a great interest is being devoted to multimedia services, that is, in addition to the voice-only person-to-person communication capability, the ability to add images, video, browser data, game board information, and so on.
U. Olsson and M. Nilsson, in the article "Combinational services—The pragmatic first step toward all-IP", Ericsson Review No. 2, 2003, disclose, inter alia, an example of so called "combinational services", in which the ability to simultaneously handle circuit-switched and packet-switched traffic is used: sharing pictures during conversation. The authors notice that the possibility of simultaneously handle circuit-switched and packet-switched is allowed both in WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access), that gives the possibility to set-up multiple, parallel bearers over the air interface (multiple radio access bearers, multi-RAB), and in GSM, in which a standardized mechanism—dual transfer mode (DTM)—yields similar possibilities. With particular reference to the latter, the authors disclose that by means of careful slot allocation, DTM enables a single radio to have parallel, simultaneous circuit-switched (CS) and packet-switched (PS) capabilities, allowing a user to send MMS without interrupting an ongoing phone call.
Recently, another service has been proposed for subscribers of mobile networks: video-telephony. Generally speaking, video-telephony allows two users having respective mobile phones to see each other during a phone call. In practice, the mobile phones are provided with a video-camera, so that images recorded by the video-camera of the first user are sent, in real-time, synchronized with the voice, to the second user (and vice-versa), on the bearer supporting the call. This kind of communication requires high data transfer rates and high quality of service (QoS) level.
Video-telephony is currently serviced in UMTS (Universal Mobile Telephone System) networks, in which both video and voice data are carried along a circuit-switched bearer having high data rate, as permitted by UMTS. Video-telephony (or video-conferencing) is also available in fixed (PSTN) networks, in which a circuit-based (e.g. ISDN) connection is established for supporting the service.
PCT published patent application no. WO 01/03461 proposes a method for performing a communication between two terminal equipment via a communication network. The method comprises the steps of establishing a first connection for a communication signal between two terminal equipment, detecting a connection changing condition, and, if said connection changing condition is detected, dividing said communication signal at least into a first component and a second signal component, and establishing at least a second connection, the first signal component (for example a video component) being transmitted via the first connection and the second signal component (for example a speech component) being transmitted via the second connection. The second connection can be a connection similar to the first one (e.g. a UMTS multimedia call connection) or just a (lower capacity) speech call connection. Additionally, in case of a handover, in particular in a handover to a network with lower capacity or which is unable to perform a video-call (for example some GSM networks), by dropping the video component (i.e. the corresponding connection), the multimedia call or at least the speech call can be maintained. According to the authors, in general the second connection is only activated if required (low quality, preparation of handover or the like) and canceled when not needed anymore.
A recent technology developed in the mobile network field is the EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution) technology, which has been introduced to boost network capacity and data rates of both circuit switched and packet switched domains in 2G mobile networks, to meet the demand of wireless multimedia applications and mass market deployment. EDGE uses an enhanced modulation, based on 8PSK (Phase Shift Keying), that increases the data rates by up to three fold. As a modification to existing GSM networks, EDGE does not require new network elements, and can co-exist with UMTS, for instance to provide high speed services for wide-area coverage, while UMTS is deployed in urban hot spots.
EDGE modulation increases the data throughput provided by a packet switched service even over 400 kbit/s per carrier. Similarly, the data rates of circuit switched data can be increased, or existing data rates can be achieved using fewer timeslots, saving capacity. Accordingly, these higher speed data services are referred to as EGPRS (Enhanced General Packet Radio Service), for packet-based services, and ECSD (Enhanced Circuit Switched Data), for circuit-based services. The data rates specified by ETSI (European Telecommunication Standard Institute) bring ECSD rates up to 38.4 kbit/timeslot and EGPRS rates up to 60 kbit/timeslot. For ECSD, it is possible to support a 64 kbit/s real time service with a low bit error ratio (BER) by allocating two time slots of 32 kbit/s each.
Document Tdoc SMG2 EDGE 033/99, titled "ECSD (Enhanced Circuit Switched Data)—concept evaluation v. 4.0", presented by Nokia at the ETSI SMG2 Working Session on EDGE, 2-4 Mar. 1999 (Toulouse, France), presents a concept evaluation for ECSD services. According to the document, one of the main applications for ECSD are the video applications. Besides data rates there are other requirements for video transmission. Video services usually include several components, each of them with varying QoS requirements.
The Applicant has noticed that known video-telephony services have a drawback in that they do not allow a user, being party of a video-call, to have the full control of the voice and video components of the communication. For instance, they do not allow to choose to maintain alive only one among the voice and the video component. In other words, if a user activates the video-call, there is no independent control of the different communication components, so that in case the user wants to drop one of the components (e.g. the video component) during the call, the entire video-call must be, actually, dropped.
According to the Applicant, in order to solve the above mentioned drawback a new video-communication service should be provided to the users. The new video-communication service implies: a separation in different components of the video-communication at the telephone equipment of the users, e.g. a separation in a video and in a voice component; the transmission of the different components on different connections between the telephone equipment of the users; the possibility, for the users, of selectively dropping one of the different connections. This latter possibility of selectively dropping one of the different connections (i.e., one of the different components of the video-communication service) may be provided by implementing a suitable man-machine-interface on the telephone equipment of the users.
This video-communication service is different from known video-telephony services in that different connections are used for carrying the communication signal components. However, it gives a similar, if not equal, perception to the user, further adding the possibility of selective control of the different communication components. Advantageously, this video-communication service can be provided also to users having mobile telephone equipment adapted for use in a 2G mobile network (e.g. a GSM/EDGE mobile network), for example exploiting the above mentioned DTM mechanism for establishing the different connections on which the different communication components are to be transmitted. Alternatively, multiple ECSD channels can be exploited.
In a first aspect, the invention relates to a method of performing communication between a first user and a second user in a communication network, the first and the second users being provided with respective first and second telephone equipment, the method comprising:
In preferred versions of the method, the first component comprises a voice component, wherein said first connection may comprise a circuit switched connection; and the second component may comprise a video component, wherein said second connection may comprise a packet-switched connection. Transmitting of said video component on said second connection is preferably performed at a coding rate of at least 10 kbit/s, more preferably at least 20 kbit/s.
In other preferred embodiments, the method of the present invention further comprises monitoring a quality of a communication channel between said first and said second telephone equipment, wherein the monitoring of said quality of said communication channel may comprise determining if said quality is above a first predetermined threshold; and wherein a metric representative of said quality may comprise at least one among: signal over interference ratio; block error ratio; or overall power in band. The method may further comprise adjusting a parameter related to said video component as a result of the monitoring of said quality of said communication channel, wherein the adjusting of said parameter related to said video component preferably comprises selecting a higher coding rate if said quality is above said first predetermined threshold; and wherein the monitoring of said quality of said communication channel preferably comprises determining if said quality is below a second predetermined threshold, wherein said first threshold is preferably higher than said second threshold; and wherein the adjusting of said parameter related to said video component comprises generating a plurality of still images if said quality is below said second predetermined threshold. The method may further comprise adding synchronizing information to said first and to said second components to allow substantially synchronized combination of said first and said second components at said second telephone equipment, wherein the adding of said synchronizing information may comprise associating a first number of frames of the first component with a second number of frames of the second component; and wherein the associating of said first and said second number of frames may comprise labeling said first and second number of frames with a corresponding flag.
In a second aspect, the invention relates to telephone equipment for performing communication in a communication network, the telephone equipment comprising:
In preferred embodiments of the telephone equipment, the first component comprises a voice component, wherein the first connection may comprise a circuit-switched connection; and the second component may comprise a video component, wherein the second connection may comprise a packet-switched connection. The coding/decoding unit is adapted to code said video component on said second connection preferably at a coding rate of at least 10 kbit/s, more preferably at least 20 kbit/s.
In other preferred embodiments, the telephone equipment may further comprise a monitoring unit adapted for monitoring a quality of a communication channel between said telephone equipment and said further telephone equipment, wherein said monitoring unit is preferably adapted to determine if said quality is above a first predetermined threshold; and wherein a metric representative of said quality may comprise at least one among: signal over interference ratio; block error ratio; or overall power in band. In certain embodiments, said encoding/decoding unit comprises an adjuster of a parameter related to said video component associated with said monitoring unit, and said adjuster of said parameter of said video component may be adapted to select a higher coding rate if said quality is above a first predetermined threshold. In other embodiments, said monitoring unit may be adapted to determine if said quality is below a second predetermined threshold, wherein said first threshold is preferably higher than said second threshold; and said adjuster of said parameter of said video component is adapted to generate a plurality of still images if said quality is below said second predetermined threshold.
In other preferred embodiments, the coding/decoding unit of the telephone equipment further comprises a synchronizer adapted to add information to said first and to said second components to allow substantially synchronized combination of said first and said second components at said further telephone equipment, wherein said synchronizer may be adapted to associate a first number of frames of the first component with a second number of frames of the second component, wherein said synchronizer may be adapted to associate said first number of frames of the first component with said second number of frames of the second component by labeling said first and second number of frames with a corresponding flag.
Features and the advantages of the present invention will be made apparent by the following detailed description of preferred embodiments thereof, provided merely by way of non-limitative example, description that will be conducted by making reference to the attached drawings.
The MSC 36 is also connected via a signaling network 40 (e.g. a Signaling System Number 7, or SS7, network) to a Home Location Register (HLR) 42, and to a Visitor Location Register (VLR) 44. The VLR 44 includes a database containing the information about all mobile stations currently located in a corresponding location or service area, as well as temporary subscriber information needed by the MSC to provide services to mobiles in its service area. Typically, when a mobile station enters a visiting network, or service area, the corresponding VLR 44 requests and receives data about the roaming mobile station from the mobile's HLR and stores it. As a result, when the visiting mobile station is involved in a call, the VLR 44 already has the information needed for call setup.
The HLR 42 comprises a database that stores and manages subscriptions of the users of the mobile network 20, such as the users owning the telephone equipment 12, 14. For each "home" mobile subscriber, the HLR contains permanent subscriber data such as the mobile station ISDN number (MSISDN), which uniquely identifies the mobile telephone subscription in the PSTN numbering plan, and an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI), which is a unique identity allocated to each subscriber and used for signaling in the mobile networks. All network-related subscriber information is connected to the IMSI. The HLR 42 also contains, in a so-called "profile", a list of services which a mobile subscriber is authorized to use along with a current subscriber location number corresponding to the address of the VLR currently serving the mobile subscriber.
Each BSC 34 also connects to the GSM packet-switched network corresponding to GPRS network 51 at a Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) 50, responsible for delivery of packets to the mobile stations within its service area. In a widespread network, a plurality of BSCs, such as the BSC 34 of
The exemplary mobile network 20 of
The call is such that the first and the second user are allowed to video-communicate, i.e. to see with each other during their conversation, substantially in real-time (but for delays introduced by the mobile network). The call is split in a first component (e.g. a voice, or speech, component) and a second component (e.g. a video component). A first connection C1 is established for supporting the speech component. The first connection C1 is a bidirectional connection between the first mobile telephone equipment 12 and the second mobile telephone equipment 14. The first connection C1 is preferably established as a circuit-based connection, so as it is routed by the circuit-switched network 35 of the mobile network 20. A second connection C2 is established for supporting the video component. The second connection C2 is a bidirectional connection between the first mobile telephone equipment 12 and the second mobile telephone equipment 14. The second connection C2 is preferably established as a packet-based connection, so as it is routed by the packed-switched network 51 of the mobile network 20. However, the second connection could be established as a circuit-based connection in a UMTS network. The voice component is transmitted by the first connection C1, whereas the video component is transmitted by the second connection C2. On the second connection C2, i.e. on the connection dedicated for the video component, a throughput of at least 10 kbit/s should be preferably available, more preferably of at least 20 kbit/s, in order to allow transmission of a video having an acceptable quality.
If the mobile network 20 is a 2G (e.g. an EDGE GSM/GPRS) network, the connections C1 and C2 may be exemplarily established using the DTM (dual transfer mode) technology, e.g. according to the DTM Technical Specification 3GPP TS 43.055 V6.4.0 (2004 February) "Dual Transfer Mode". For example, each of the connections C1 and C2 may use one timeslot on the uplink and one timeslot on the downlink. For such exemplary implementation, class 5 or class 9 mobile phones, allowing availability of at least one timeslot per direction on the packet-based connection (i.e. connection C2 in
If the mobile network 20 is a 3G (e.g. UMTS) network, the connection C1 (dedicated to the voice component) may exemplarily established as a 12.2 kbit/s circuit-switched radio access bearer (RAB), allowing a throughput of 12.2 kbit/s on both the uplink and the downlink channel, whereas the connection C2 (dedicated to the video component) may be exemplarily established as a 64 kbit/s packet-switched RAB, allowing a throughput of 64 kbit/s on both the uplink and the downlink channel. It is noticed that a 3G network allows, especially in the packet-switched domain, an available higher throughput than that allowed by an EGPRS network. Thus, a video component having a higher quality may be, generally, transmitted on the dedicated connection C2. However, even in a 3G network the available throughput can significantly change as a function of the radio conditions, and/or of the level of congestion of the network.
Independently of the fact that a 2G or a 3G network is used, a video-communication service according to the invention allows a user, owning a suitable mobile telephone equipment, to separately control the different components of the video-communication (e.g. the voice and the video component), at its own convenience, without noticeable restrictions. A proper man-machine-interface (MMI) can be provided on the mobile telephone equipment, e.g. at the application level, for helping the user in the control of the separate components. For example:
Advantageously, a separation of the voice and video component allows a simplified billing mechanism to be implemented in order to fairly charge the users for the use of the service. For example, a first tariff may be applied for a voice-only call, a second tariff may be applied for a video-only call, a third tariff may be applied for a voice-video call. Thus, the set-up of different connections for the different components of the communication allows to charge a user of the service based, e.g., on the time of use of the established connections.
In order to limit, or even avoid, lack of synchronization between the different components sent on respective, dedicated different connections, a synchronization protocol may be preferably implemented, e.g. in an applicative client, at the mobile telephone equipment 12, 14. Acceptable synchronization levels may correspond to a maximum delay of 100 ms, preferably of 80 ms, between correlated portions of the different communication components. For the purpose of implementing the synchronization protocol, synchronization information may be added at the transmitting mobile telephone equipment to the different communication components, to allow the receiving mobile telephone equipment to correctly combine in the time domain the different components. In preferred embodiments, a first predetermined number of frames of the first (e.g. speech) component may be associated with a second predetermined number of frames of the second (e.g. video) component. For video and speech components, this may practically result in associating each image of the video component with a correlated piece of speech. The association between the frames of the first component and the frames of the second component may be carried out, for example, by stamping thereof a corresponding sequence-labeling flag. A coding rate of the transmitted first and second components may be taken into account in order to correctly correlate the frames of the first component with the frames of the second component.
With regards to the quality of service, preferred embodiments of the invention may provide monitoring of the radio communication channel used for establishing the end-to-end connections between the first and the second mobile telephone equipment 12, 14. It is not necessary to monitor the quality of service of all the different connections respectively dedicated to the different communication components. For example, the video component may be provided as a best effort service, e.g. on a best effort packet-switched bearer with no QoS monitoring, whereas the speech component may take advantage of a QoS monitored circuit-based connection.
However, the provision of a separate transmission, on different connections, of different communication components, e.g. of video and speech components, may advantageously allow to separately and independently adjust the transmission of the different components as a function of the quality of the radio channel on the different connections.
In particular, this may be of great help for coping with a problem that may arise on a packet-switched bearer used for transmission of the Video component, that is the possible variation of the maximum available throughput on the packet-switched bearer, variation that may occur due to many factors, such as for example the radio quality level, and/or the congestion level of the packet-switched network. In preferred embodiments, a mechanism is introduced, at the mobile telephone equipment 12, 14, for adjusting the quality of the video component (e.g. changing the coding rate of the video codec, or the definition of the video image, or the size of the video image), as a function of the available bandwidth on the packet-switched connection. If the network resources are properly sized, and/or the packet-switched network is configured so as to give a priority to the video-telephony service (e.g. versus best effort services), it can be assumed that the available bandwidth practically depends only on the radio quality conditions. Therefore, a mechanism can be advantageously introduced in the mobile telephone equipment, aimed at the monitoring of the radio channel quality on the packet-switched connection. For example, a suitable software program running at the application layer of the mobile telephone equipment may interact with the lower layers, especially the RLC/MAC layer, in order to monitor the radio channel quality. Available metrics for measuring the radio channel quality may be, for example, the C/I (i.e. the signal to interference ratio), and/or the BLER (Block Error Ratio, i.e. the ratio of the blocks received with errors versus the total number of received blocks), and/or the RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator, i.e. the overall power in the frequency band measured at the receiver of the telephone equipment). In this respect, it is noticed that a suitable metrics for evaluating the radio channel quality may be chosen in dependence of many factors, such as the mobile telephone equipment model, the operating system used by the mobile telephone equipment software, etc.
While the service is ongoing, the quality of the radio channel (e.g. of the downlink channel) may be continuously monitored (e.g. at predefined time periods) by both telephone equipment 12, 14, in particular for the connection supporting the video component transmission. Based on the result of the monitoring, a parameter related to the quality (e.g. the coding rate) of the video component may be adjusted in the telephone equipment 12, 14. Threshold-based mechanisms may be exploited, in which the video quality is increased when the radio channel quality is higher than (or equal to) the threshold, or reduced when the radio channel quality is lower than (or equal to) the threshold. Exchange of signaling messages between the telephone equipment 12 and the telephone equipment 14 may be provided, in order to allow a correct adjustment of the video quality at both ends of the communication. For example, a possible implementation may adjust the coding rate of the video component according to the following rules:
It is observed that all the values in dB for the C/I thresholds, as well as the throughput values in kbit/s of the coding rate are purely exemplary; the skilled in the art can set the thresholds and the video quality according to its own requirements and/or according to the characteristics of the network used.
The antenna 121 and the radio-frequency transceiver 122 conventionally allow communication to/from the BTSs of the mobile network. The loudspeaker 125 and the microphone 127 conventionally transform an electrical signal corresponding to the speech component of the communication in a speech signal audible to a user owning the mobile telephone equipment 12, and viceversa. The keyboard 129 conventionally allows the user to manually interact with the mobile telephone equipment, in order to send commands for, e.g., a choice from a menu of different options, or for selection of a phone number, etc. The display 128 may be, for example, a liquid crystal display (LCD), and is conventionally capable of displaying still and video images. The video-camera 126, for example a CCD (Charge-Coupled Device) camera, is conventionally capable of picking still and/or video images. The GPRS module 123 conventionally includes a packetiser/depacketiser, and a buffer store, for the packing/unpacking of the data packets from the radio blocks respectively received from or to be sent to the network, via the radio-frequency transceiver 122 and the antenna 121. The CPU 130 supervisions the activities of the various modules included in the mobile telephone equipment 12. The memory 131, associated with the CPU 130, includes software programs implementing procedures and protocols needed for properly managing the communication. The monitoring unit 132, associated with the CPU 130 and with the transceiver 122, allows a monitoring of the quality of the radio channel.
More particularly, the memory 131 may store a MMI adapted to allow a user owning the mobile telephone equipment 12 to select the components of the video-communication to be maintained (e.g. both voice and video, voice only, video only), as discussed above.
The encoder/decoder unit 124 is connected to the loudspeaker 125, to the microphone 127, to the display 128, to the video-camera 126, and manages the proper coding/encoding of video and voice components of the video-communication. While in
In more detail,
The encoding/decoding unit 124 comprises an encoder/decoder (or codec) 1241, in which a proper coding rate is applied to a voice component 1271, originated from the microphone 127 (see
The codec 1241 outputs two separate coded streams, a first one 1272 for the voice component and a second one 1262 for the video component. An adjuster 1243 may interact with the codec 1241, in order to adjust the quality (e.g. of the coding rate) of the communication streams. This may particularly apply for the coding of the video stream component 1262. The adjustment of the coding rate (or of any other parameter related to the quality of the communication streams) may be based on data 1301 related to the quality of the radio communication channel, as discussed above. Such data 1301 may be made available, for example, by the CPU 130 (see
A synchronizer 1242 is also included in the codec 1241, for adding synchronizing information to the voice and video streams, as discussed above. The synchronizer 1242 takes the voice and video streams 1271, 1261, and adds signaling information thereof, for associating the video frames to the corresponding audio frames. In practice, this may result in an association, with a corresponding flag, of a number of audio frames with each single video frame.
The synchronized voice and video streams 1272, 1262, outputted from the codec 1241, are then sent towards the radio-frequency transceiver 122, possibly via the GPRS module (for the video component) 123 (see
The behavior of the encoding/decoding unit 124 during reception from the separate connections C1 and C2 may be inherited by
Although the present invention has been disclosed by way of some embodiments thereof, it is apparent to those skilled in the art that that several modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention, defined by the following claims. In particular, it is noticed that although the present invention has been disclosed with particular reference to a mobile network, the teachings of the present invention may be adapted also for implementing a service according to the invention in a fixed (e.g. PSTN) network.
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Herzog was interviewed by another outstanding director, Ramin Bahrani ("Goodbye Solo," "99 Homes"). Both were championed by Roger Ebert, who brought them together for a collaboration — the wonderful short film "Future States," with Herzog providing the voice for the existentially troubled central character, a plastic bag.
Herzog's documentary may cover some of the most advanced technology in the world, but he does not have a cell phone, he says, "for cultural reasons. Our examination of the world should not only be through applications." When Bahrani complimented his "location-based" images, Herzog said, "I'm good with locations. I can direct landscapes." Whether he is shooting burning oil fields in Kuwait ("Lessons of Darkness"), the face of a deaf/blind woman on her first airplane flight ("Land of Silence and Darkness"), or the soft-drink-machine size computer that sent the very first two-letter message over the internet ("Lo and Behold"), his camera movements and images are vital and engaging. He spoke of the importance of being on top of the mechanics of filming ("I am a very pragmatic filmmaker") and of the poetry, a sort of choreography of the camera, as he conveys "the dance between the actors and the location."
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Last week's Brexit vote was just the latest example -- albeit a giant one -- in this wild political year when workers have been sending the clear message that status quo economic policies are unacceptable. Politicians here in America and in Europe ignore the concerns of workers at their great peril. For the Democratic Party in this country in 2016, the lessons are especially clear.
In the 35 years since Ronald Reagan became president, we've seen a steady erosion in the attention political leaders have given to the economic and political concerns of the working class. From the dramatic decline of union membership to the excessive deregulation of Wall Street; from trade deals that enrich multinational corporations but not American workers to a lack of antitrust enforcement that's allowed near-monopolies in too many sectors; from a lack of significant wage increases for all but the top 10 percent of Americans to ever-escalating inflation in the costs of health care, groceries and college, our political system breakdown and our persistent "trickle down" sense of economics have combined -- and conspired -- to weaken the well-being of most American working people and retirees.
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A ridiculous huckster and nativist named Donald J. Trump is only days away from officially being the Republican Party nominee for president. And in the United Kingdom, Brexit has just validated that working class anger isn't only an American phenomenon and concern.
The Democratic Party and the Hillary Clinton campaign need to understand that this reality matters, and that -- in spite of some national polls showing a significant lead right now -- beating Donald Trump in 2016 will be no easy lift. For all the people Trump has offended over the last year and for all of his racism and misogyny, for all the mistakes he has made in recent weeks, he is in a near tie with Secretary Clinton in several key swing states, and is still within striking distance nationally. And don't forget that Trump outperformed his polling numbers throughout much of his primary run.
Democrats at all levels are going to need a big turnout of our base, as well as a message that appeals strongly to working class swing voters.
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I read with interest Judy Johannessen's report suggesting that politics stay out of education.
I trained as a primary teacher 30 years ago. I am currently a school trustee and have been so for 10 years at two different schools. I am also married to a teacher and have many teacher friends. I own a business that employs school leavers and see the end results of our education system.
I believe that the biggest issue is not keeping politics out of education, but actually getting educators to have a clear understanding of what parents expect, and ensuring that they have some real world experience with which to educate the future of New Zealand.
National as a government was clearly elected with National Standards as its education platform. We, the parents, asked for it. They, the teachers, need to get on with it,
Just a week ago I had a highly regarded principal admit to me that the good thing about the implementation of national standards is that at principal association meetings, discussion nowadays is centered on improving student achievement and ensuring consistency of assessment across schools.
Historically, those same meetings had been more focused around operational issues that faced schools.
Certainly parent teacher interviews I have been in are now focused on achievement in curriculum areas and guiding students to improve rather than fluffy meetings on what a great child I have.
What do we want our educators focused on? I am convinced even Judy would say student achievement should come first.
In my role as a trustee I am fortunate that the principals I work with have always been very much data driven. This meant the implementation of National Standards assessments was relatively easy, and many of the methods were already in place.
There are several reasons why it hasn't been easy elsewhere, among them the lack of resource during the implementation, and poor leadership, but also the politically negative noise made by teachers and principals resisting change.
When Judy Johannessen suggests keeping politics out she can't have it both ways.
Perhaps the green environmental teachings in our schools should be removed for the same reasons? I wonder how many parents have been bombarded by newsletters reminding parents who imposed National Standards, is it right that teachers should try to influence our children and their parents on how they should vote?
If TVNZ employees are not allowed a political opinion in the work place why should our teachers be able to promote their opinions on a future generation?
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A girl whose organs were slowly being crushed under their own weight because of a spinal defect has been saved - after doctors amputated her legs and inserted the bones into her back.
Rosie Davies, five, was born with a massive gap in her spine, and her legs were folded up under the back of her thighs.
The missing segment meant Rosie's body did not have enough support and she may have died from organ failure.
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Rosie Davies was born with a rare spinal condition (pictured left as a baby). She now faces a brighter future after surgeons amputated her lower legs and supported her reconstituted spine
Rosie's mother said the young girl had never considered herself to be disabled, and would always find away around obstacles
But doctors at Birmingham Children's Hospital saved her life after coming up with a radical solution - amputate her lower legs, which had very little feeling in them, and use the bone to forge the gap in her spine.
Rosie, from Walsall in the West Midlands, became the first child in the UK and only the second person in the world to undergo the pioneering surgery last month and is now recovering well.
Her mother, Mandy Collett, could not be more proud of her.
She said: 'Rosie has never considered herself as
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'She has always been very active enjoying dance, sport and playing with others. She is an exceptionally bright young girl who is above average academically.'
Rosie is the only person in the UK to have the extremely rare spinal condition, spinal segmental dysgenesis of the lumbar spine, where the lower segment of her spine is missing. Earlier attempts to straighten her legs had been unsuccessful, leading doctors to consider the risky surgery.
Rosie with big sister Mia. Her mother said she would one day like Mia to teach her how to walk
Pioneering: Rosie received a bone graft from one of her amputated legs. Metal scaffolding was then implanted to support the spine
During the complex operation by a team of seven, Rosie's lower legs were amputated where she
had little or no feeling, and bone was taken from one of her legs and
grafted to the base of her spine.
15cm long rods were screwed in place – carefully avoiding the nerves –
to create a type of 'scaffolding' from the upper part of her spine down to
the hip bone. The operation took a grueling 13 hours.
Before the operation Rosie did have some feeling in her lower body. At eight months old she was able to move herself around adopting a commando style crawl suggesting that her spine and nerves were working after all.
Now, after the operation Rosie already has more sensation in the upper part of her legs. It is a huge development and opens up the possibility that Rosie may one day walk using prosthetic limbs.
Ms Collett said: 'The only thing that Rosie has been
unable to do is walk, which is her ultimate goal in life. After her
operation and with the correct support we're confident now that she will
be able to find a way to do that - to some degree.
'She loves her older sister Mia dearly, and has always aspired to be like her. She always says she would like to walk like Mia one day and that Mia would teach her.'
Mr Guirish Solanki, who was one of the three operating surgeons, said the team were very pleased with the results
The family on the way home from a check-up at Birmingham Children's Hospital. They are looking forward to their first worry-free Christmas
Both she and Rosie's father Scott, thanked staff at Birmingham Children's Hospital.
'I know from talking to the surgeons that
there were some very tough decisions that needed to be made as the
surgery progressed, and I am grateful for their ability to work through
difficult circumstances to give our daughter the best chance of reaching
her full potential,' Ms Collett said.
Consultant Neurosurgeon Mr Guirish
Solanki from Birmingham Children's Hospital, who was one of the three
surgeons to operate on Rosie, said: 'We
are delighted with the results of this operation. This is only the
second time in the world that a surgical team has attempted to fix the
thoracic spine to the hip side bones for a condition as rare as Rosie's.
'This case was very complicated as normally children with this condition do not have a working spinal cord or nerves but Rosie did. So in carrying out this procedure we had to be extremely careful not to damage her nerves.'
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