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SPOKANE, WA—Red Lion Hotels Corp. plans to launch The Leo Hotel Collection of hotels, which will complement Red Lion Hotels and Red Lion Inns & Suites.The Collection will be composed of unique, boutique and/or historic hotels in key markets.
"The Leo Hotel Collection is a new opportunity for franchising and we are currently in discussions with hotel owners about converting to the new brand," said Ron Burgett, EVP/lodging and brand development for Red Lion Hotels. "With three brand segments, we can now match the hotel, its amenities and offerings for our guests with the right brand option. The Leo Hotel Collection offers additional appeal for independent hotels looking for access to a franchise distribution system while maintaining their unique image and identity."
Red Lion Hotels also is launching a refreshed logo and rebranding efforts.
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Complaint Review: Prudential/Debbie Primack
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Prudential/Debbie Primack Debbie primack Debbie Primack promised to rent me a home,instead she lied,and verbally abuse me swore at me and did everything she could to not rent me this house after she approved me,she wanted to rent to an older Henderson, Nevada
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Greg Boyle BBl Distributors And Odor Science64 Spring Valley Road Oradell, New Jersey U.S.A.
Greg Boyle BBl Distributors And Odor Science, Jerk of the century and a true a**hole his own family probably hates him. Oradell New Jersey
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I have heard this from other vendors as well. The owner of the company thinks he should get everything for free. He is a cheapskate and will probably end up living on welfare and expect the rest of the country to pay his bills. The only thing this guy is good for is complaining. We are currently perusing legal action at this time.
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My name is Greg Boyle. There are no facts to support this report. What service did they provide? Why would this person, who does not live in Oradell, NJ use dirty nasty words that effect my family. I am surprised this web site "Rip Off Report" would allow this link and this report since their own policy is not to publish reports with dirty words or specific facts. This person has obviously spent a lot of time Optimizing their search with Google to get this to the top of the page. No one is pursuing (and that's how it is spelled), not perusing any legal action. Hiding behind false names, with no facts and no contact information should exactly explain that someone has a personal issue with me not a business issue with OdorSCIENCE.
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SLM Financial3000 lincoln Dr Marlton,, New Jersey U.S.A.
SLM Financial ripoff deception Marlton, New Jersey
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Why have the financial institutions shown no real concern??
Why do the financial institutions expect you to pay when the contract was broken by AmeriTrain??
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Why are the financial institutions negotiating if they have donenothing wrong?
You know what? It wasn't no more then the first day I was in the building getting my books for the class when I had felt that I don't need to follow through with these classes. I don't know, everything just seemed threw together you know? So, guess what I did? I called Sallie Mae asking them to help me get out of it. At first, they was like,"ofcourse! you can get out of it... Submit a letter, you only attended one class ofcourse you should be able to get a refund." I said okay. It turns out that they really didn't know what the was talking about.
Sallie Mae has been trying to set me up with another computer school as saying that is my only choice. What am I suppose to do? It took me almost a year to finally decide I wanted to go to Ameritrain. Now, they just want to throw me somewhere where I really don't want to be. They are telling me what to do with my money sort of speak. Thats crazy! But, do I have a choice? Should I complete the registration papers and sign the agreement contract saying that I will pay back every dime to Sallie Mae Financial? Scammady Scam Scam
I want the funds refunded
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Trade for Sustainable Development Forum 2016
28 - 30 Semptember 2016
Geneva, Switzerland
Organized by the International Trade Centre
- Picks in the News
NBS breakfast forum and workshop "Collaborating with Competition".The Network for Business Sustainability – NBS (INSME Member from Canada) is promoting the breakfast forum and workshop "Collaborating with Competition".
The event taking place on the 9th of September in Toronto, Canada and organized in collaboration with Ivey Business School, will be the occasion to gain:
High level speakers will share insights with managers, industry associations and NGO staff. Among them, Prof. Lori De Vito, Associate Professor at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam School of International Business, will explore the types of competitor collaboration, the process and challenges of collaborating with competitors and best practices for effective collaboration. She will also share insights from NBS study of eight competitor collaborations in Europe and Canada.More information about the workshop is available at this page.
- An understanding of 'why and how' to participate in a competitor collaboration;
- Best practices from across eight leading collaborations to avoid pitfalls and overcome the challenges;
- Access to a tool that helps creating an action plan for effective collaborations.
"Barriers to Innovation in Indian Small and Medium Enterprises": a new policy paper released by ADB
Small and Medium Enterprises play a crucial role in economic development and are fundamental for the competitiveness of any country. The Asian Development Bank (INSME Member) has recently published a policy paper that explores the current situation in India with particular attention to innovation processes.
By analyzing innovation performances and policies focusing on Micro, Small, Medium Enterprises, "Barriers to Innovation in Indian Small and Medium Enterprises" aims at answering to some key questions:
- What is the current state of SME innovation in India including different types of innovation activities, sources, and funding for innovation?
- What are the key barriers that hinder SMEs in pursuing innovation and their likely impact?
- How is the current science, technology, and innovation (STI) ecosystem and government policy placed in India to support SME innovation? Is government policy favorable or unfavorable?
- Are there any enablers that support or help SMEs innovate?
Indentifying the main barriers met by SMEs is of huge importance to improve their innovation performances and the paper lists six different categories of barriers: people, financial, information, government policy, infrastructure and market constraints.
A series of recommendations to establish a more efficient innovation ecosystem is also included in the paper.Discover more by reading the whole publication here.
The OECD recently launched the "Development Co-Operation Report - The Sustainable Development Goals as Business Opportunities"
The achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a huge challenge in today's world and if public resources are fundamental, it is proven that they are not enough. The official development assistance (ODA) provided by the global community reached $132 million in 2015, but the investment need is much higher. The achievement of SDGs in developing countries requires around $3.3 to 4.5 trillion per year. In this scenario it is crucial to involve the private sector as, according to the "Development Co-Operation Report - The Sustainable Development Goals as Business Opportunities" recently launched by the OECD, investing in sustainable development is a smart investment.
The publication demonstrates the high potential of private investments in SDGs, it is indeed proven that despite the high risk, considerable business opportunities are generated by allocating resources in developing countries.
Five pathways to exploit this potential at its maximum extent are at the core of the report:
The report also includes key recommendations, statistics, data with information illustrating how businesses are already promoting investments and offering information on the performances of development cooperation providers.Discover more by downloading the whole publication here.
- Foreign Direct Investments create jobs, boost productivity and enable local businesses to access new international markets;
- Blended Finance can improve the scale of investment in development, offering huge potential for public and private stakeholders to join the efforts and by doing so improving the scale of investments in developing countries;
- Monitoring and measuring mobilized private funds can enhance transparency and improve both financing strategies and good practices;
- Social Impact Investments that bring effectiveness, innovation and scale to sustainable business;
- Responsible business conduct enhances business and development results, matching investments quantity and business quality to produce social, economic and environmental benefits.
The European venture capital landscape: an EIF perspective
The European Investment Fund -EIF (INSME Member) is one of the leading institutions in the European venture capital market and works to establish a sustainable venture capital market in Europe to support innovation and entrepreneurship.
With the aim to present the results of the work done during the last 20 years, EIF is releasing a series of publications analysing its activities in the venture capital market and assessing the economic impact on European startups and on the whole VC ecosystem.
The first issue on "The European venture capital landscape: an EIF perspective" offers insights on the key role played by EIF in sustaining investment and fundraising activities across Europe. Interesting data are also shared, for example it is reported that the investment activity supported by EIF represented 41% of total investments in Europe in 2014 (29% in 2007). The publication also includes a focus on the geographical analysis of the portfolio of EIF-backed startups.
According to the data collected the Research and Market analysis team that produced the publication, EIF investments effectively crowded-in additional capital from other VC investors in the aftermath of the recent economic crisis.
Further publications will follow to share results and future perspectives of EIF activities in VC.The working paper is available at the following page.


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On Tap Today: It's cold again and there's stuff to do
It's nearly the end of the first month of this brand new year. We're pretty sure that means you can't wish someone "Happy New Year" or fiddle with those resolutions after tomorrow. In any case, it's a good time to offer good wishes and look over those annual goals one last time (if you haven't blown them already).
One of our goals is to be a great source for what's going on. And so let's look at what's on the agenda today. »Read Full Blog Post(2)
24 hours: More stuff for Milwaukee's weekend to-do list
7 p.m. Friday
Art Milwaukee's Art Jamboree - "The Maker" - is taking over the Milwaukee Makerspace in Bay View on Friday night for a free event with art, performances, film showings, complimentary vittles, prizes and more. »Read Full Article
Ice rink closes for the season today
If you were saving the last twirl on the ice at Red Arrow Park, get on it now.
Slice of Ice in Red Arrow Park, 920 N. Water St., will close for the season at 8 p.m. today. After that, the refrigeration is turned off. »Read Full Article
Milwaukee Rite Center hosting Sara Bareilles, Prince Poppycock concerts this spring
There's a new concert venue in town that's also very old.
Stuff to do with kids for Easter, spring break week
It's a kids' world. We just live in it.
That becomes abundantly clear this time of year, when every weekend has an egg hunt and the malls offer an audience with someone in a giant bunny suit. »Read Full Article(1)
Milwaukee movies off the grid
'Docufiction' at UWM
Movies that meld the real and the imagined are the focus this weekend at UWM Union Theatre, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd. »Read Full Article
Charles Allis music series spotlights traditional blues
The American Roots Music Series returns to the Charles Allis Art Museum, 1801 N. Prospect, every Thursday during May.
This year the spotlight is on traditional blues music, showcasing local and regional musicians working in the genre. »Read Full Article
Milwaukee Music Video: See the visual treatment for Klassik's "Forever Whatever"
Local filmmaker Xavier Ruffin has been on a roll. He's been dropping a dazzling music video every other month since November - first for Klassik (pictured above), then for Dana Coppafeel and SPEAK Easy, and now for Klassik again. »Read Full Blog Post
Milwaukee public libraries closed for the holidays
All Milwaukee Public Libraries will be closed Friday, March 29 and March 31 for the observance of Easter, library officials have announced. »Read Full Article
Tracking the Brewers' walk-up music at Miller Park
In addition to the game itself, in-stadium entertainment is an important part of the overall experience at Miller Park.
If you go to enough ballgames, you get accustomed to hearing the walk-up music that accompanies each Milwaukee Brewers ballplayer as he enters the game. »Read Full Blog Post(28)
Summerfest adds Pitbull, Luke Bryan to lineup
Summerfest formally announced two more 2013 headliners Thursday: Chart-topper Pitbull and country star Luke Bryan.
• Pitbull will headline the Marcus Amphitheater June 30; other performers on the bill will be announced later. Information on ticket prices wasn't available, but tickets for the show go on sale at 11 a.m. April 6 and include Summerfest admission. »Read Full Article(6)
On Tap: Eggs, art and hopes of spring
On this Maundy Thursday, we have events of both seasonal reflection and seasonal fun.
Award-winning local artist Paula Hare offers both at the Cedarburg Cultural Center where she'll demonstrate her decorative egg work, and talk about the creative processes involved. »Read Full Blog Post


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020 8372 1000
29 June 2016
Our new Enhanced Managed ePO Maintenance Service
As part of our continual service improvement process and dedication to providing excellent customer service, we are delighted to announce our newest offering to our services portfolio, our Enhanced Managed ePO Maintenance Service.
In addition to the standard monitoring and management of the ePO server provided in our Managed ePO Service, the enhanced service provides additional proactive checks, and rectifies any issues that may be encountered during quarterly investigations. Our existing Managed ePO customer, will automatically be provided with this enhanced service at no additional cost.
Benefits of our Enhanced Managed ePO Maintenance Service
If you would like to know more about our Enhanced Managed ePO Maintenance Service, please contact us on 020 8372 1000 or email email@example.com
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19 May 2016
Caretower launches new Ransomware Risk Reduction Service
Caretower are delighted to announce that we will be offering our customers another layer of defence against ransomware through our new Ransomware Risk Reduction service. This new service offering will provide an enhancement of up to 80% protection against known ransomware variants.
Ransomware attacks are on the increase, and in particular encryption of data with a demand for some form of payment for decryption. Our Ransomware Risk Reduction service provides another layer of defence against a highly professionalised, for-profit malware industry, which is constantly innovating and trying to either circumvent known security measures, or exploit unsecure or outdated systems.
By identifying similar patterns of behaviour within different variants, proactive protection rules for endpoint products can be configured on the following products: VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) and Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS). These rules aim at effectively preventing the installation and / or the payload of historical, current, and evolving new variants of all these threats.
Our Ransomware Risk Reduction service is an enhanced service provided in addition to our Managed ePO Service, and can be implemented on the following products:
- Intel Security VirusScan Enterprise (VSE)
- Intel Security Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS)
For more information on how this new service can support your business, contact us on 020 8372 1000 or email email@example.com
30 March 2016
Caretower exhibits at this year's Cloud Security Expo
This year we are excited to be showcasing our cyber security solutions at the annual Cloud Security Expo for the second time. The Expo, which will be held at ExCel London from 12 – 13 April, brings together over 80 dedicated cloud security exhibitors and provides visitors with hundreds of hours of free content from over 150 of the industry's leading practitioners.
Exhibiting with our cloud security specialist partner Sophos, this year's Expo will prove an ideal opportunity to highlight our cloud-based security solutions along with our full range of Managed Security Services. As a Sophos Platinum Partner, we provide our customers with the ability to manage their endpoint security and mobile devices from one unified cloud console.
Why attend Cloud Security Expo?
- Over 150 security expert speakers
- Over 40 real life cloud security and compliance case studies
- The largest dedicated business technology event in Europe with over 15,000 industry professionals
Join us on stand S244 for give-aways and to find out how our comprehensive range of cyber security solutions can support your business. Click here to register for your free ticket.
12 February 2016
Protecting Your Endpoints From Zero Day Attacks
Join our webinar:
3pm - 4pm, Monday 22nd February
There has been a significant increase in the number of Zero Day attacks being reported, but many organisations are unaware of why they are being attacked or why their current security infrastructure does not provide them with adequate protection.
The latest in our series of webinars will focus on endpoint protection and how your organisation can prevent Zero Day attacks.
The webinar will discuss:
- Who is attacking you and why?
- How to assess your risk profile
- How to protect your organisation more effectively
- What to do if you suffer a Zero Day attack
At Caretower, we have a wealth of experience in delivering cyber security solutions to all verticals. Using carefully selected products from market leaders and deployed by highly trained engineers, we can monitor and support your solution 24x7 from our class leading Security Operations Centre. Let us help prevent you becoming the next victim of a Zero Day attack.
Caretower's Cyber Security Programme Manager, Paul Coady, will provide a vendor independent view of recent cyber threats and how to protect your business.
To attend this free webinar, click here.
17 December 2015
Bloxx product set replacement
As you may already know, on 2 November 2015, Akamai Technologies Inc. announced that it acquired Bloxx, the provider of Secure Web Gateway solutions. The acquisition will see the Bloxx product set discontinued ("end-of-lifed"), as product sales are halted in the UK after 31st January 2016. We understand that this sudden announcement has created a lot of uncertainty and worry amongst Bloxx customers.
Whilst Bloxx will be honouring existing contracts, this does mean that if you are a current Bloxx customer you will have to consider alternative solutions when your current contract expires. We can help you make this transition seamlessly, avoiding a potentially time consuming replacement project.
Our technical team, who have a strong knowledge of Bloxx from our work with the solution for a number of years, are well placed to provide advice on an alternative that is best suited for your organisation.
With strong relationships with the following partners, we can provide you with everything you need to replace your Bloxx product.
- Proofpoint web security solutions
- Sophos Secure Web Gateway
- CensorNet's web and email security solutions
- Barracuda web filter solutions
- Websense Web Filter and Security
- Trustwave Secure Web and Email Gateway
- Mimecast email security
Don't delay! With Bloxx end-of-life fast approaching, you'll need a current, supported and fully functional web and email filtering solution in place. At Caretower we're happy to provide more information and to assist you with your migration. Our goal is to make it smooth and hassle free, to incur minimal downtime and network disruption and to ensure the continued security and integrity of your web users.
For further information or to find out how we can assist your business, contact us on 020 8372 1000.
15 October 2015
Caretower exhibits at Intel Security's annual UK & Ireland Security Summit
This year sees Intel Security host its third annual Security Summit for the UK and Ireland on 18th November at etc.venues in London. The Summit, which aims to help businesses meet new security challenges, equips visitors with ideas and information on how to keep digital assets and data safe from internal and external threats.
This year's event will be hosted by BBC Click's Kate Russell and include seminars from EMEA President, Andrew Elder, along with 4 targeted breakout sessions: Cloud Security, Security Management, Endpoint & Networking Management, and Government.
As Intel Security's UK partner of the year for 2015, we are excited to be exhibiting our comprehensive range of cyber security solutions at this year's Summit.
Why attend this year's Summit:
- Receive updates on changes to security legislation and requirements
- Information about innovative ways to tackle advanced threats
- Technical product deep-dives to help you better manage your IT security
- Gain insights from government officials, journalists and Intel Security executives
Join as on our stand to learn more about how our Managed Security Services can be tailored to support your business needs.
- Real time incident response and regular communication
- Damage clean-up after attacks
- Proactive management and monitoring of security
- 24/7 support
Register now to attend this year's Summit. Places are limited and on a first come first served basis. Click here to register.
29 September 2015
BUFFERZONE Signs Distribution Agreement with Caretower
BUFFERZONE, a provider of endpoint security solutions protecting enterprises from advanced threats including zero-days, ransomware, drive-by downloads, phishing scams and APTs, announced today it has signed a distribution agreement with leading security solutions vendor Caretower to provide its cyber security solutions to the UK market.
Under the agreement, Caretower will resell BUFFERZONE products in the UK, provide customer support, technical training and installation and represent the product in marketing activities and at relevant industry events.
"Time and again, UK companies are becoming targets of zero-day exploits, ransomware attacks and malvertising," said Israel Levy, the CEO of BUFFERZONE. "It is becoming ever more evident that the most vulnerable part of the enterprise is the user endpoint. As a result, senior-level executives are looking for security solutions that complement their existing security layers and protect them from advanced threats. Partnering with Caretower is an exciting step forward in gaining a foothold in the market."
Caretower is a leading Intel® Security reseller in the UK, while BUFFERZONE is a Sales Teaming Partner in the Intel Security Innovation Alliance™ (SIA) program and has been certified as McAfee Compatible with the McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® (ePO™) platform.
The worldwide cyber security market is estimated to be worth between $77 billion in 2015 to $170 billion by 2020, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. The Europe Cyber Security Market is expected to grow to $35.53 billion by 2019, with an expected CAGR of 7.2 percent for the period 2014-2019. This market contributes 26.95 percent of the global market.
"There is increasing demand for the most cutting edge technology in endpoint security, especially in light of the rise of ransomware attacks. Because of this demand, we started researching solutions to help our customers prevent future attacks and heard about BUFFERZONE," said Susan Stecker, Enterprise Account Manager of Caretower. "We believe that the partnership between Caretower and BUFFERZONE will really propel the UK market forward in terms of cyber security, safeguarding companies from ransomware attacks and allowing organisations to protect their critical IT infrastructure and sensitive data."
22 September 2015
Caretower exhibits at this year's IP EXPO Europe
This year we are excited to be making a return to the annual IP EXPO Europe for the second time. The EXPO, which is held at ExCel London from 7th - 8th October, is the UK's number one event for the latest in IT innovations. With an attendance of over 15,000 delegates, IP EXPO Europe will examine the rapidly evolving security challenges for organisations now and in the future.
Attending in partnering with Intel Security, we are excited to be showcasing our full range of Managed Security Services at this year's event. As a specialist in Managed Security Services, we offer our customers advanced security solutions such as SIEM, along with 24/7 support for their IT security systems.
Partnering with Intel Security for over 15 years, we offer a one stop full IT security product and service portfolio.
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
- Endpoint Managed Security Services
- Firewall Managed Security Services
- Professional Services
- Dedicated SOC team available 24/7
Join us on stand CC1 for giveaways and to find out how our comprehensive range of cyber security solutions can support your business. Click below to register.
03 August 2015
Winner of the MASP Q1 2015 prize draw for iPhone 6 Plus is Mr Lee Ford
Congratulations to the winner of the MASP Q1 2015 prize draw for iPhone 6 Plus
Mr Lee Ford
15 July 2015
Caretower awarded Investors in People accreditation for the third time
Caretower are very proud to announce it has been awarded the Investors in People (IIP) Bronze standard accreditation for the third time since 2009. As a national standard for good business practice in the UK, the standard is designed to help companies improve their business performance through their people.
In achieving the bronze standard, Caretower have demonstrated their continued commitment to empowering their employees, supporting a company-wide culture of learning and creating a high performance environment that delivers the ultimate value to customers. Of the businesses assessed in the UK, only 7% have achieved this bronze certification.
Founded in 1991, Investors in People was established by the UK Government to help organisations get the best from their people. It's simple and flexible framework helps thousands of organisations of all sizes and sectors to improve their business performance.
On receiving the prestigious accreditation, Phydos Neophytou, Managing Director at Caretower, commented ''We are delighted and extremely proud to have achieved the IIP Bronze Standard Award. We received some excellent feedback from our IIP auditor who recognised our strong values of supporting, training and developing people. It really is the skill and professionalism of our people that makes us so successful and it's great that this has been recognised.''


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Guide to Anamorphic Encoding in HandBrake
- Short visual explanation
- Enabling Anamorphic PAR
- Anamorphic DVDs
- What happens when anamorphic is turned off
- Anamorphic encoding methods
- What about QuickTime? And iPods? And AppleTVs? And iPhones?
- Other resources
- Appendices
Short visual explanation
These are scaled down 50% in size, in case you couldn't tell.
Here's the size of a movie stored on a DVD. On the disc, the film is distorted. Instead of being truly widescreen, it's squeezed into a narrower frame.
To restore the proper shape, you can either squeeze the picture vertically or stretch the picture horizontally. One shrinks the image, and one expands it.
Here's the size of a movie that's been squeezed vertically. This shrinks the image. Notice how the width stays the same as what's stored on the DVD, but the height is reduced:
Here's the display size of a movie that's been stretched horizontally -- HandBrake's default. This expands the image. Note that it preserves the full height of the image stored on the DVD:
Anamorphic in HandBrake means encoding that distorted image stored on the DVD, but telling the video player how to stretch it out when you watch it. This produces that nice, big, widescreen image.
Enabling Anamorphic PAR
You enable anamorphic encoding by selecting Strict or Loose from the Anamorphic PAR menu in HandBrake's picture settings.
Strict is more precise, but Loose is more efficient and flexible. Both will give you that big, widescreen image.
Anamorphic DVDs
An image is stored on a DVD at 720*480 (NTSC) or 720*576 (for PAL). I'm in North America so I'll be using NTSC numbers in my examples. (See the PAL appendix for the differences.)
This is what the image stored on an anamorphic NTSC DVD looks like (for information on non-anamorphic DVDs, see the Hard Letterboxing Appendix):
Notice how it's distorted? That's the anamorphic part. DVDs are stored with a 1.5:1 aspect ratio.
Aspect Ratios
Wait, aspect ratio? What?
Aspect ratio is the width, divided by the height. DVDs are stored with a 720*480 resolution, and 720 / 480 = 1.5. That means it's 1.5 times wider than it is tall.
But video isn't meant to be seen with a 1.5:1 aspect ratio. It's not wide enough for movies and widescreen TV, and too wide for standard TV. One common widescreen aspect ratio is 1.78:1, or 16/9. This is the native aspect ratio of widescreen TVs. Standard TVs use an aspect ratio of 4/3 (1.33:1).
DVD video has an "aspect ratio flag" which tells the DVD player how to distort the picture stored on the DVD to recreate the original film aspect ratio. This flag is either 4/3 or 16/9.
Of course, a lot of movies are wider than 16/9. One popular aspect ratio is 2.35:1, which is quite a bit wider. When this is stored on a DVD, it too is given the 16:9 aspect ratio flag. Of course, the content itself is wider. To cope with this, black bars (letterboxing) line the top and bottom of the picture. This can be a difficult part to grasp. At least, it was for me. So I'm going to repeat this with a few different wordings.
When anamorphic DVD content is stretched for viewing on a widescreen TV, it *always* stretches to 854*480. 480 is too "tall" for films wider than 16:9. To make it "shorter" the top and bottom are matted with black lines. So whether a movie has an aspect ratio of 1.78:1, 1.85:1, or 2.35:1, it is always going to displayed 854 pixels wide. The visible frame height (when you remove the letterboxing) just gets shorter and shorter to match the aspect ratio—480, 460, and 360, consecutively. (Those height and width values are only approximate. For details, see the Macroblock Appendix.)
The storage width is the width of the visible frame on the DVD (almost always 720) and the display width is 854 (storage height of 480 times 16/9). The display height is the height of the visible frame on the DVD—the frame after cropping away black bars. This is going to be roughly equivalent to the display width divided by the film's aspect ratio.
What happens on a TV
When you play the DVD on a widescreen 16:9 television, it keeps the height and stretches the width (854*480). This is what it means when a DVD box proclaims "Enhanced for widescreen." When you play the DVD on a standard 4:3 television, it reduces the width to 640 (the maximum width for a standard TV) and squishes the height to 360 to match the aspect ratio.
Both ways recreate the film's aspect ratio. The first way multiplies the height (480) by a 16:9 aspect ratio, and uses that for the width. The second method takes the width (720), reduces it to the maximum width of a standard TV (640), divides it by the film's aspect ratio (1.78:1 aka 16:9), and uses that as the height.
To put this another way, "anamorphic" means the movie doesn't have a single, native shape that you watch. Instead, it shape-shifts. If you're watching it on a standard TV, it morphs to fit it. When you play it on a widescreen TV, it morphs to fit it, too.
What happens when anamorphic is turned off
When Anamorphic is disabled, HandBrake corrects the aspect ratio by maintaining the width and squishing the height to match. The result looks like this:
This is very similar to what happens when you play a DVD on a standard 4:3 television. The only difference is, HandBrake leaves the width at 720, instead of reducing it to 640. So it divides 720 by the aspect ratio, giving you output dimensions of 720*404. (If you're testing me on this and you get a width of 704 or a height of 400, please see the Macroblock Appendix.)
Of course, that means you're reducing the vertical line count from 480p to 404p... a significant reduction in picture quality.
There are other ways to go about encoding the anamorphic video, in order to keep that from happening.
Anamorphic encoding methods
Crude anamorphic
The crude way (which is easily done from !HandBrakeCLI), is to maintain the height and "hard" stretch the frame width to 854 (for details, see the CLI Appendix). The problem with this is that you end up storing an image that's got a higher resolution than your DVD source—it takes up more space. Instead of a 720*480 frame or a 720*404 frame, you're writing a 854*480 frame to disk.
Strict anamorphic
The second method is far less wasteful. Why not do the same thing a DVD does? Store in one aspect and display in another.
With this method, you can preserve the full frame on the DVD, without having to store it at its wider display resolution. Compared to storing 854*480 on disk, storing 720*480 reduces file size while maintaining exactly the same quality.
Now, how do we go about doing this?
Vide on a computer is stored in a container file, be it .mp4 or .mkv or .avi or .ogm or something else. Inside that container are tracks or streams. Usually, there will be one video track and one audio track.
The smart way of handling anamorphic is to store the display information in the video track. And this is exactly what HandBrake does:
This technique is so clever, VLC doesn't even realize what's going on. It thinks it's displaying 720*480 when it's really showing 854*480.
Pixel Aspect Ratio
In fact, it is displaying 720*480. Only, the video track is telling VLC: "Display this with wide pixels instead of the square ones you usually use." So instead of an image of square blocks, it becomes an image of wide rectangular blocks.
Because computers think of video in terms of square pixels, VLC has to figure out what arrangement of square pixels is needed to reproduce the image in its correct dimensions. It does this by multiplying the storage width (720) by a ratio: the Pixel Aspect Ratio, or PAR. By default, the PAR is 1:1. With that ratio, what you see is what you get—square pixels. The video is stored and displayed with the same dimensions. In order to recreate 16:9 pixels from 1:1 pixels, the ratio is 32/27 (16*2 / 9*3). For every 32 square pixels across, it uses 27 square pixels up and down. You already know this, another way: it produces the same results as multiplying the height (480) by 16/9. Multiply 720 by 32 and divide that by 27, and you end up with 854, the display width in square pixels.
This is anamorphic PAR, and it is very, very sexy.
The downside of strict anamorphic
Strict anamorphic concentrates on one thing and one thing only: preserving the exact visible frame of a DVD, displayed to exactly the same size as it would be from the DVD.
This means it will sometimes use odd dimensions, ones that don't divide cleanly by 16. When this happens, the video encoders cannot work as efficiently — x264 warns that "compression will suffer."
It also means that, when using strict anamorphic, it is impossible to change the stored size of the encoded frame. It will simply use the exact frame size of the DVD and apply cropping.
Loose anamorphic
Loose anamorphic starts off the same way as strict -- with the exact visible frame on the DVD. But then it adjusts the dimensions to be sure they divide cleanly by 16. After that, it adjusts the display size so the film's aspect ratio is preserved with the new dimensions.
You can also scale the width of the storage frame, using loose anamorphic. For example, the full-sized storage frame has a width of 720. You could scale that down to 640. HandBrake will automatically keep the aspect ratio of the storage frame. So as the full-sized is 720*480 (a 1.5:1 aspect ratio), a scaled down one would be 640*432 (as close as one can get to 1.5:1 while keeping dimensions that divide cleanly by 16). HandBrake will then calculate the proper display size for that scaled frame, one which preserves the source's film aspect ratio.
There are some other minor differences in the output of loose versus strict, but they are nerdy. Only the curious and sleepless need bother reading about them in the ITU appendix.
What about QuickTime? And iPods? And AppleTVs? And iPhones?
In order to preset anamorphic video in QuickTime, HandBrake adds extra display information to the .mp4 container wrapping the video, called a picture aspect atom.
This is different from the information in the video stream, but achieves the same effect.
In this manner, HandBrake creates anamorphic video that can be displayed with QuickTime, as well as with iPods, as well as with iPhones, as well as with AppleTVs, as well as with open source video players like VLC and MPlayer.
Other Resources
http://c133.org/blog/tech/screeching_handbrake.html (the birth of the feature)
CLI Appendix
Hard stretching to anamorphic in !HandBrakeCLI
It's really easy. You just have to specify the visible frame height. Say your command is:
./!HandBrakeCLI -i dvd -o movie.mp4
What you add for anamorphic encoding depends on the film's aspect ratio.
- 1.78:1 means adding "-l 480" to the end of the command.
- 1.85:1 means adding "-l 460"
- 2.35:1 means adding "-l 360"
So for a 1.85:1 movie your complete command would be:
./!HandBrakeCLI -i dvd -o movie.mp4 -l 460
What this is going to do is give you output dimensions of 854*460. That means you are storing a movie with a frame size 33% larger than the DVD. So only use it to play around. It's a total waste of storage space.
Instead do...
Anamorphic PAR in !HandBrakeCLI
This is even easier. For strict anamorphic just add a "-p" like so:
./!HandBrakeCLI -i dvd -o movie.mp4 -p
And for loose anamorphic, use a "-P":
./!HandBrakeCLI -i dvd -o movie.mp4 -P
That will output a movie with dimensions of 720*480 (for a 1.78:1 NTSC film) but which QuickTime, VLC, and MPlayer will display as 854*480. The same display as a hard stretched anamorphic DVD, without storing a 33% larger image.
Note that when using loose anamorphic, you can also include a storage width to use. In addition, you can choose what number the dimensions should divide by cleanly. By default, this is 16, the size of MPEG macroblocks. It is passed as the optional argument to -P.
So, for example, to do an anamorphic encode to a frame sized 640*424, you could use:
./!HandBrakeCLI -i dvd -o movie.mp4 -w 640 -P=8
Hard Letterboxing Appendix
Some widescreen DVDs, especially older ones, aren't anamorphic. These DVDs are specifically designed to play on standard 4:3 TVs. The "aspect ratio flag" for these discs is set to 4:3 even though the content's aspect ratio is wider.
When you play it on a standard square TV, everything's shiny. However, when you play it on a widescreen TV, you will have black bars not only on the top and bottom, but also on the sides. This gives you a far smaller picture. Those side-bars are often called "pillars." This technique is often used in broadcast television to deliver 16/9 content to standard definition sets. Because it gives you an even smaller picture than letterboxing does, it's sometimes called postage-stamping.
Macroblock Appendix
MPEG video encoders (like the MPEG-2 used on DVDs or the MPEG-4 variants used by HandBrake) work by dividing the video frame into blocks. The entire frame becomes a grid of blocks, 16 pixels high and 16 pixels wide. These 16x16 blocks are called macroblocks. When you encode video, you have to use height and width values that are multiples of 16. When the height or width doesn't divide cleanly into 16 (that is to say, when there is a remainder), the video encoder has to make up extra "garbage" information for the edges of the frame. This increases the file size or decreases the video quality, depending on whether you're targeting a constant quality or a size/bitrate.
An unhappy side effect of this is that aspect ratios can only be approximate. 720*360 is the storage dimensions of a 2.35:1 movie after cropping. But because 360 is not divisible by 16, you have to bump up to 368 or down to 352. Suddenly the display aspect ratio is 2.32:1.
This is why sometimes, using HandBrake with anamorphic encoding disabled, you will get an output width of 704 for a 1.78:1 film. For whatever reason, HandBrake has decided it needs a width that is slightly lower than 720. But in order to honor macroblocking requirements, widths have to be divisible by 16. 704 is next possible width lower than 720.
Similarly, even though the "perfect" height for a movie 720 pixels wide with a 1.78:1 aspect ratio would be 404, that number isn't cleanly divisible by 16, while 400 is.
When using "strict" anamorphic, HandBrake ignores macroblocking requirements for anamorphic encoding. It makes perfectly preserving the visible frame with a precise aspect ratio its top priority.
When using loose anamorphic, HandBrake uses dimensions that divide cleanly by 16. Using the CLI, you can also tell it to use a different number. Sometimes using 8 instead of 16 allows dimensions that are far closer to the correct aspect ratio.
PAL Appendix
PAL storage frame size is 720*576. That means the display width is always the height times 1.78 (16/9), or 1024. Both the storage and the display height are 1024 divided by the aspect ratio.
- PAL output dimensions:
- 1.78:1: 1024*576
- 1.85:1: 1024*554
- 2.35:1: 1024*436
- PAL storage dimensions:
- 1.78:1: 720*576
- 1.85:1: 720*554
- 2.35:1: 720*436
ITU pixel aspects
The standard pixel aspect ratios for NTSC video are 32/27 for widescreen and 8/9 for fullscreen.
That means if a frame is 720 pixels wide, it will be displayed at a width of 720 * 32 / 27, or 853.333... if it's widescreen, and it will be displayed at 720 * 8 / 9, or 640 pixels wide if it's fullscreen.
But this depends on the video actually using all 720 pixels of width. A lot of material that was originally prepared for analog broadcast (a lot of older stuff) doesn't use the full width. They knew that old analog television sets used overscan. That means they would zoom in on the image, cropping away the outer image. This is all ITU specification.
Since viewers would never see it, any visible detail they put there would be lost. Instead, they matte the left and right sides with thin black bars, each around 8 pixels wide. This reduces the width from 720 to 704. As a result, a different pixel aspect ratio is used.
After all, 704 * 32 / 27 is only 834.37 pixels! The whole image is still there in the frame, they just used a slightly different aspect ratio to squeeze it in. Mirroring that, to display it properly, you have to use a slightly different aspect ratio when stretching it out.
Fortunately, there's no guessing involved. It's all laid out by MPEG (Yes, the ITU PAR numbers !HandBrake uses come from MPEG not ITU. This is because they are very similar, and better for use with MPEG-4 video like HandBrake produces. So when you read in the following lines something like "The ITU PAR numbers for foo are..." it really means, "The MPEG-4 PAR numbers equivalent to the PAR values established in ITU 601-R BT.601 spec are...").
The ITU PAR numbers for NTSC are 40/33 for widescreen and 10/11. And indeed, 704 * 40 / 33 = 853.333, and 704 * 10 /11 = 640.
For PAL, the ITU PAR numbers are 16/11 for widescreen and 12/11 for fullscreen. 704 * 16 / 11 = 1024, 704 * 12 / 11 = 768, so there too the results are the same as they would be using the normal pixel aspect ratios and a full 720 pixel wide frame.
When using loose anamorphic, HandBrake will use the ITU pixel aspects whenever it crops more than 14 pixels from the width. This applies whether it is detecting the cropping itself using autocropping, or custom cropping from user input.
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J. Beckstrand - Twin Cities Group - Novastar Home Mortgage - First Metropolitan Mortgage8001 W. American Blvd. Bloomington, Minnesota U.S.A.
J. Beckstrand - Twin Cities Group - Novastar Home Mortgage - First Metropolitan Mortgage ripoff Horrible business practaces, will screw over over anyone he does business with including employee's Bloomington Minnesota
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Last year a friend of mine was interested in purchasing a home and looked to an associate of J. Beckstrand to help him with this. Well once this associate went to Mr. Beckstrand and let him know what he was trying to do for one of his friends Mr. Beckstrand was more than willing to try to help in this situation by creating false documents and also raising the appraised value on the home since the borrower was only approved for 90%.
Well after a couple careless mistakes on the purchase agreement that J. drew up he had to bring $33,500 for the loan to close which out of that money the builder was supposed to give back to J. Beckstrand roughly $23,000 which then J. still had a little over $10,000 left in the property that he needed to be paid on. It was agreed between him and the client that J. would place a lien on the property for the amount and they would refinance the money out in one year.
Well the client was fine with this whole transaction untill one day he gets served papers that they are foreclosing on his home. It turns out J. who brought the cashiers check to the table to close waited untill the closer made copies of the check and then disbursed funds and then took the check back and never said anything to anyone.
Now that the client has figured out what has happend it is too late. J. knowingly took the check from the closing which was drawn out of his account but had the clients name on it and took it and wrote on the check not used for inteded purpose. Now I can understand if he did this for fear that the builder was not going to give him the 20 odd thousand that was agreed upon but WHY would you not let your client know that you took the check???
Now the sheriff sale has occured the property is being lost and you put someone with a wife and two kids in a situation that no one should have to face. This is just one of many horror stories that J. Beckstrand has created from being in this industry.
I could go on and on about things that he has done to me to rip me off but I think this one is by far the most severe. All that I have to say is anyone looking to do anything along the lines of mortgages or real estate steer away from J. Beckstrand or you will learn like the rest of his staff that you will only be RIPPED OFF!!!!
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AUTHOR: Gene - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, January 26, 2011POSTED: Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Here's his Facebook page: facebook.com/derechisto
He's living in Latin America doing commercial real estate under the name of J James Wendell
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He does not have a real estate license anymore since it expired in 2006 and his company has a unsatisfactory record with the Mpls BBB.
To J, Jay, John Jay Warren Beckstrand: Did the self inflicted injury that you suffered in 1995 due to a pole vault mishap affect your judgement in any way when it came to business sense and ethics? I read all about it in an archive in the Minnesota Daily web site. With that being said, you go around ripping off employees and consumers throughout the state of Minnesota and the Twin Cities region with your lending "practices." Why don't you come clean and pay the people back that you ripped off?
Since the injury that you suffered 12 years ago makes you constitutionally incapable of being honest with yourself and others, the only thing I would expect from you would be engaging in the same underhanded behavior that comes naturally to you. How you sleep at night with a clear conscience is beyond me. Since the housing bubble has bursted, you must not be living that high off the hog like you were so accustomed to.
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In Des Moines, six members of the group Progress Iowa – a statewide group that promotes progressive values – delivered 835 signed letters to Grassley's downtown office. Their goal, said organizer Matt Denner, was to get an answer on whether or not Grassley would support ending the tax cuts for households earning over $250,000 as part of a deal.
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