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New Braunfels Herald Zeitung (Newspaper) - April 6, 2011, New Braunfels, Texas ■ SPORTS, 7Unicorns rally to top Churchill, advance ■ FOOD, 6Summer salads make for sunny barbecues ■ NEWS, 2Parks and Rec hosting River Expo on Saturday WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2011Zeitung Serving New Braunfels and Comal County since 1852. 500 NCAA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPWHO NEEDS LUCK? AGGIES CHAMPS Comal ISD cuts now at$ll.lM District applying $5.8M of fund balance to next year's budget By Will Wright The Herald-Zeitung The present and the near future were topics of discussion for Comal Independent School District's board of trustees Tuesday in a workshop session at the CISD Support Services Building. The meeting largely centered on the future use of the district's $57.1 million fund balance, which will partially be applied to maintenance and operations over the next several years. Superintendent Marc Walker's revised list of budget cuts now totals $11.1 million, and after applying $5.8 million of fund balance for next year, the district is still short. In a review of bills now before the Legislature, Walker explained Comal ISD could See COMAL ISD, Page 5 NBISD could cut positions on Thursday By Will Wright The Herald-Zeitung For the second time in nearly three weeks, the upcoming budget will take center stage at a special meeting of the New Braunfels Independent School District board of trustees, which begins at 7 p.m. Thursday at the NBISD Education Center Board Room, 430W. Mill St. The board will take action on terminating probationary contract employees, consider See NBISD, Page 5 In last 2 years, city has spent $2.5M on consultants THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT The U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a law ensuring public access to U.S. government records. FOIA carries a presumption of disclosure; the burden is on the government — not the public — to substantiate why information may not be released. Upon written request agencies of the United States government are required to disclose those records, unless they can be lawfully withheld from disclosure under one of nine specific exemptions in the FOIA. This right of access is ultimately enforceable in federal court SOURCE: The National Security Archive By Greg Bowen The Herald-Zeitung On March 3, the Herald-Zeitung submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for copies of all contracts for consultants hired by the City of New Braunfels in the past 24 months. The result was a waist-high stack of some 50 contracts totaling $2.5 miUion. Among those were 30 contracts for under $25,000 each, totaling $313,000. Another 19 contracts were issued for $25,000-plus contractual expen- ditures and totaled $2.19 million. City Manager Mike Morrison and Chief Financial Officer Debi Korin-chock said all the $25,000-and-up contracts had been granted council approval — and the $313,000 con tracted for under-$25,000 spending was a reasonable figure. "The contracts are within the context of programs that the council, whether through budget or other means, has said we want to do,'' Morrison said. With the efforts that we've got going on, no, I don't find that to be an unusual number at all." Korinchock said the city's audit places total city spending over the past two years at $150 million. "So, you look at ($313,000) against that and it's a small percentage." In the past two years, die city has spent at least $313,000 on contracts that weren't required to be taken before New Braunfels City Council for specific approval. 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Tomorrow: The Annual German-American Steuben Parade (2016)
Much like New York's German American community itself, the German American Steuben Parade maintains kind of a low, dignified profile. As compared with, say, the St. Patrick's and Columbus Day parades, the Steuben Day parade (which is just as big, I might add) doesn't get a lot of airplay. In fact, you may never even have heard of it — or New York's German community, for that matter.
In the 19th century, Germans were second only to the Irish in terms of ethnic presence here. And they're STILL here; they merely assimilated. Two World Wars had something to do with that. The irony? America got millions of desirable Germans, starting with the ones who fled the backlash after the Revolution of 1848 and the increasing militarism and oppression in Germany in the late 19th and early-to-mid twentieth century. With them came some of the world's best music, food…and beer. Need I say more? Well, I will. Here are some vaudeville-related facts about the Germans in the U.S.:
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- The Germans brought their music with them, including marches, which when played with syncopation by African Americans, gave birth to ragtime and jazz.
- The Germans (Austrians especially) brought light comic opera (operetta) with them, which rapidly morphed into the American theatrical form known as musical comedy.
- Many important theatrical impresarios of the vaudeville era had their origins in the German-speaking community: Koster and Bial, Oscar Hammerstein, Florenz Ziegfeld, Morris Meyerfeld, Martin Beck, Roxy Rothafel, Gus Edwards, and Gus Hill.
- Vaudeville performers with German origins included Fred and Adele Astaire, Mae West (half German), Eugene Sandow, Ethel Merman, Hildegarde, Van and Schenck, the Great Lafayette, Lila Lee, Fritzi Scheff, Emma Carus, Albertina Rasch and Otto Fries.
- And dialect humor being what it was in the vaudeville era, there were innumerable German stereotype comedians (known in the parlance of the time as "Dutch acts") beginning with the grand-daddies of them all Weber and Fields, but also including the Rogers Brothers, Kolb and Dill, Sam Bernard, Cliff Gordon ("The German Senator"), Billy "Beef Trust" Watson, Ford Sterling, and – wait for it – Groucho Marx. (Groucho actually spoke a little Plattsdeutsch; his mother's family came from Northern Germany).
This year I'll have an enhanced appreciation of the celebration, having gotten a firmer grasp of the Germans in my background. Like all Anglo-Saxons, I naturally have early Medieval ancestors from North Germany (the Angles, Saxons and Jutes) and many Frankish ancestors besides. I've discovered Medieval ancestors from all parts of Germany, Cologne, Cleves, Bavaria,Thuringia, Westphalia, Rügen and the Palatinate. In comparison with my English, Scottish, Irish, French and Dutch ancestry, my RECENT (modern) German ancestry is quite small. I've found a small handful as late as the late 1500s. My most recent full-German ancestor is my (7th) great grandmother Margaret Cypert (1716-1799), whose parents moved to Pennsylvania from Strasburg, I'm assuming for religious reasons (Margaret was a Quaker).
Come celebrate their contributions today. The parade marches up Fifth Avenue from 68th to 86th Street today from 12 to 3pm. More details here.
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For more than a century, American progressives have argued with each other over the utility of third parties running candidates in simple plurality voting systems. The few examples of successful third parties have often relied on fusion voting or at-large seats in legislative bodies.
I recently sent in my absentee ballot for Spain's elections for the European Parliament and I thought some readers of this blog might be interested in how party-list proportional representation works.
The first thing to know is that parties in Spain are actually membership organizations with more-or-less coherent platforms and disciplinary powers. Jimmy Weinstein use to say that he had no problem voting in the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party does not exist — and I think he had a point. You could argue that parties in the U.S. aren't really parties at all. Their candidates don't represent anything in particular other than the preferences of primary voters, many of whom vote in open primaries and none of whom pay dues.
When Spaniards choose their representatives in the European Parliament, they vote for a whole list of candidates from a single party. Candidates on that list will be seated depending on their rank and the proportion of the total vote received. The ballots themselves are long lists of names, with a party name and logo on top. These are bound together in a booklet from which the chosen list is ripped out and put into a sealed envelope.
The ballot booklet offers quite a range of unusual political options. I'll list just a few:
The Humanist Party, a new agey left-leaning party associated with the writings of Silo.
The Solidarity and Autogestion [worker self management] Internationalist Party. My guess would be it stands for solidarity, autogestion and internationalism.
The Phalange (Falange Española de las J.O.N.S), the old Francoist party. Not gonna link to them.
The Authentic Phalange, a party that considers itself more true to the original vision of la Falange.
The Anti-Bullfighting Party Against Animal Abuse. This party has the best logo: a bull studded with banderillas, spewing blood.
There are several regionalist and nationalist parties (all of which I consider stupid), two different versions of the Green Party, a variety of far-left parties including a couple of Trotskyist parties and many more.
The main left-wing alternative to the social democratic Spanish Socialist Workers Party is the United Left, which is a Communist-led coalition.
At any rate, while the two main parties still dominate national politics, the whole process is bit more exciting than the USA's Red Team versus Blue Team.


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By Chuck Raasch, Gannett National Writer
WASHINGTON The bad news for Democrats is there is an election in eight months.
The good news for Democrats is that in eight months, the political world can change.
After the euphoria of the Democrats' 2008 wins, the Democratic-controlled Congress now has approval levels below 1994, when they lost control for the first time in 40 years. Republican leaders believe they can take control of the House and Senate in November. The economy, which many Americans might have considered on the mend after a massive stimulus spending bill a year ago, continues to limp along with the most prolonged high unemployment leading into an election since the Great Depression. Unemployment was over 9% longer in the 1980s, but more than half of that period came after the 1982 congressional elections.
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Democrats have time to recoup. Signs of a more robust economy could cut their House losses closer to average post-World War II levels of 15-20 seats. And what impact would a major national security event, like the capture of Osama bin Laden, have?
But what Democrats can't change is the electoral map on which this year's battle unfolds. If this election remains a referendum on the Obama presidency and a Democratic Congress, there could not be much worse ground for Democrats to fight on.
Key races will be in states and districts where voters are older, whiter, and, especially in the House, more blue-collar and rural than the coalition that elected Barack Obama president in 2008.
This is also the kind of voter more likely to show up in non-presidential elections while the younger, more urban, minority voters that backed Obama stay home.
Those over 65, the group that opposes Obama most on health care reform, cast 16% of all votes in 2008 but 19% in the congressional elections of 2006.
Voters 29 and under, the "millennial generation," were 18% of the electorate in 2008, and they went for Obama by the biggest age-group spread in exit-poll history, 66-32%. But in the previous non-presidential election, voters under 29 were just 13% of the electorate.
Democrats say their big challenge will be waking up these "drop-off Democrats." But they may not make that much of a difference because of the makeup of the most contentious House races in 2010.
Of the 59 districts deemed most in play by the Cook Political Report, 47 have higher proportions of white voters than the national average. Half of them are more than 80% white, a fourth more than 90%. Democrats are defending 50 of the 59.
This is significant because, while Obama's job approval has remained high and relatively steady among minority voters, it had fallen by 11 points since June among white voters, to 42%, in a mid-February Gallup Poll. Obama received 43% of the white vote in 2008.
White independents, especially, have abandoned Obama and the Democrats over concerns about the budget deficit, the growth of government, and the way Obama has treated terrorism suspects.
David Wasserman, the Cook Political Report's expert on House races, said a vast majority of the closest House elections will be in districts where Hillary Clinton beat Obama during the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries. Obama's struggles with these voters were offset by his overwhelming support in growing minority communities and more urban areas. But that coalition's power won't mean as much if their votes are cast in places where the outcome is not in doubt.
"Minority voters are staying with the president but minority voters are concentrated disproportionately in safe Democratic districts," Wasserman said.
Retired University of Maryland political scientist Ron Walters said he believes it will be a challenge for Democrats to get younger voters to show up for congressional candidates without Obama on the ballot.
Millennials are the most diverse generation in American history, and much of Obama's appeal as the first black president, who ran the first social network campaign on Twitter and Facebook, was as much cultural as issues-based. While he lost among whites as a whole in '08, Obama captured 54% of white voters under 29.
But the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press this week released a poll showing that the Democrats' advantage over Republicans among Americans under 29 had fallen from 62-30% in 2008, to 54-40. Half of these young voters said they were disappointed that Obama had, in their view, not changed the way Washington works.
Some argue that if congressional campaigns replicate Obama's and try specifically to engage younger voters, they'll show up in November.
"Millennials – clearly they are willing to participate," said Mike Brooks, 28, United Way's director of campus outreach. "But like anyone else I think you have to target them, invite them in."
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Very severe since 1 year - After moving to Bangalore in 2015, I started having severe hair fall.
I checked vitamin d,b12 ferritin, protein and sugar levels.everything is normal..I am taking multivitamins and biotin tablets since two months.My hair fall never reduced and my hair has reduced to a sleek pony. My family history don't have any hair fall issues.Three weeks back I started taking minoxidil 2% on dermo recommendation but no luck. Also it has started making my hair dry and brittle.Please tell me what to do?
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The minoxidil takes time to work but you may be having an issue with it. In addition to the tests you list a thyroid panel might be a consideration as low thyroid is associated with hair loss.Did your dermatologist give you a diagnosis? You should see her/him again.
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I would assume that the move added to your stress. If you have genetic hair loss genes, then that stress would set you up for acceleration of genetic hair loss. See a doctor and find out for sure
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This disclosure relates generally to the field of audio and video conferencing over a communications network.
Modern conferencing systems facilitate communications among multiple participants over telephone lines, Internet protocol (IP) networks, and other data networks. In a typical conferencing session, a participant enters the conference by using an access number. During the conference a mixer receives audio streams from the participants, determines the N loudest speakers, mixes the audio streams from the loudest speakers and sends the mixed audio back to the participants. In a video conference, both audio and video streams are mixed and delivered to the conference participants. In some cases, both audio-only participants and audio/video participants may join in the meeting.
Integrating video into an audio-only conferencing system often requires a large investment in the development of video codec technology, hardware architecture, and the implementation of video features necessary to produce a competitive product. To avoid this investment, developers have attempted to integrate an existing ("off-the-shelf") audio/video (A/V) multipoint control unit (MCU) with an existing audio-only product. Past approaches for accommodating such integration have typically involved hosting an audio conference on an audio bridge for audio-only participants and an A/V conference on the video MCU for the audio/video participants. The two conferences are then linked together by cascading the audio output of the audio conference as an input into audio/video conference, and vice versa. One problem with this approach, however, is that in-conference features are available for audio-only participants but not A/V participants. Furthermore, the audio quality as perceived by A/V users and audio-only users is different, which leads to customer dissatisfaction.
The present invention will be understood more fully from the detailed description that follows and from the accompanying drawings, which however, should not be taken to limit the invention to the specific embodiments shown, but are for explanation and understanding only.
In the following description specific details are set forth, such as device types, system configurations, communication methods, etc., in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. However, persons having ordinary skill in the relevant arts will appreciate that these specific details may not be needed to practice the present invention.
In the context of the present application, a communications network is a geographically distributed collection of interconnected subnetworks for transporting data between nodes, such as intermediate nodes and end nodes (also referred to as endpoints). A local area network (LAN) is an example of such a subnetwork; a plurality of LANs may be further interconnected by an intermediate network node, such as a router, bridge, or switch, to extend the effective "size" of the computer network and increase the number of communicating nodes. Examples of the devices or nodes include servers, mixers, control units, and personal computers. The nodes typically communicate by exchanging discrete frames or packets of data according to predefined protocols.
In general, an endpoint is a device that provides rich-media communications termination to an end user, client, or person who is capable of participating in an audio or video conference session via conferencing system. Endpoint devices that may be used to initiate or participate in a conference session include a personal digital assistant (PDA); a personal computer (PC), such as notebook, laptop, or desktop computer; an audio/video appliance; a streaming client; a television device with built-in camera and microphone; or any other device, component, element, or object capable of initiating or participating in exchanges with a video conferencing system.
Similarly, video endpoints 17 a & 17 b are sources and sinks of both audio and video content. In other words, in addition to sending an audio packet stream to audio bridge 12, each of video endpoints 17 also sends a video packet stream to a video multipoint control unit (MCU) 13, also referred to as a video mixer, comprising video data received from a camera associated with the endpoint. Audio bridge 12 mixes received audio content and sends appropriately mixed audio back to video endpoints 17 a & 17 b. Note that all audio, whether it is from audio endpoints 16 or video endpoints 17, may be mixed in some manner.
It is appreciated that audio bridge 12 and video MCU 13 shown in
In the embodiment shown, audio bridge 12 and video MCU 13 may each include a digital signal processor (DSP) or firmware/software-based system that mixes and/or switches audio/video signals received at its input ports under the control of a video conference server (not shown). The audio/video signals received at the conference server ports originate from each of the conference or meeting participants (e.g., individual conference participants using endpoint devices 16-17), and possibly from an interactive voice response (IVR) system. Conference mixer 12 may also incorporate or be associated with a natural language automatic speech recognition (ASR) module for interpreting and parsing speech of the participants, and standard speech-to-text (STT) and text-to-speech (TTS) converter modules.
As part of the process of mixing the audio transmissions of the N (where N is an integer ≧1) loudest speakers participating in the conference session, audio conferencing system and mixer 12 may create different output audio streams having different combinations of speakers for different participants. For example, in the case where endpoint 16 a is one of the loudest speakers in the conference session, conference mixer 12 generates a mixed audio output to endpoint 16 a that does not include the audio of endpoint 10 a. On the other hand, the audio mix output to endpoint 16 b does include the audio generated by endpoint 16 a since endpoint 16 a is one of the loudest speakers. In this way, endpoint 16 a does not receive an echo of its own audio output coming back from the audio mixer.
It should also be understood that, in different specific implementations, the media paths from endpoints 16 & 17 may include audio-only and A/V transmissions comprising Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) packets sent across a variety of different networks (e.g., Internet, intranet, PSTN, etc.), protocols (e.g., IP, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)), with connections that span across multiple services, systems, and devices.
In the embodiment shown, audio conferencing system and mixer 12 handles all of the control plane functions of the conference session and manages audio media transmissions and audio signaling with audio-only endpoints 16 a & 16 b, as well as audio media transmissions and audio/video signaling with video endpoints 17 a & 17 b. In a specific implementation, conferencing system and mixer 12 may run a modified or enhanced IP communication system software product such as Cisco's MeetingPlace™ conferencing application in order to perform these functions. In addition to establishing audio media channels 19 a & 19 b with audio-only endpoints 166 a & 16 b, audio bridge 12 also establishes video media channels 22 a & 22 b directly between respective video endpoints 17 a & 17 b and video MCU 13.
The example of
It is appreciated that the signaling protocol used between audio bridge 12 and video MCU 13 may be the same as, or different, from the protocol used for signaling between audio bridge 12 and endpoints 16 & 17. For example, the H.323 standard may be utilized for signaling connections between audio bridge 12 and endpoints 16 & 17, whereas the signaling connection between audio bridge 12 and video MCU 13 may use SIP. Non-standard signaling protocols may also be used for the signaling connections between the endpoints and the audio bridge, or between the audio bridge and the video MCU.
The actual audio content transmitted on channels 14 b & 15 b is used to indicate to video MCU 13 that a corresponding one of the video endpoints is currently an active speaker. The audio content, therefore, may comprise a small amount of default audio content consisting of audible speech transmissions (e.g., recorded speech consisting of "LA, LA, LA, LA, LA . . . "). This default or generic audio file ("clip") for use in transmission to video MCU 13 over channels 14 b & 15 b may be stored in a memory of audio bridge 12. When audio bridge 12 determines that the active speaker (or one of the N loudest speakers) originates from a video endpoint, the stored default audio clip containing predefined audio packets is sent to video MCU 13 via the dummy audio channel corresponding to that video endpoint. The audio clip may be repeated as many times as necessary so that the audible speech is continuous as long as the corresponding endpoint is an active speaker.
In a typical embodiment, only one of the dummy channels is active (i.e., is transmitting audible speech) at any given time, which minimizes the extra compute workload on the audio mixer. In certain implementations, audio bridge 12 may also attach a proper sequence number and time stamp to the dummy audio packets prior to sending them to the video MCU, so that the repeating clip represents a valid RTP stream. In any event, when a video endpoint participant stops being the active speaker, audio bridge 12 immediately halts the dummy audio RTP packet stream sent to video MCU 13 on the corresponding dummy audio channel. It is appreciated that inactive audio channels 14 b and 15 b may send a small amount of voice data to maintain the voice channels. This data may be sent, for example, using the RTP and/or RTCP protocols.
Multiple dummy audio packet streams can also be sent to video MCU 13 when the video mixer is configured to output a composite image comprising the N loudest speakers, and where the N loudest speakers consist of end-users participating via video endpoints. For example, if video MCU is configured to output a composite image that includes the two loudest speakers, and the two loudest happen to be the participants associated with endpoints 17 a & 17 b, then audio bridge 12 may output predefined dummy audio packet streams to video MCU 13 on dummy audio channels 14 b and 15 b.
Note that all of the control functions are handled by audio bridge 12. That is to say, all of the conference participants dial into the conference session via audio bridge 12, with audio bridge 12 providing the IP address, port numbers, etc., of video endpoints 17 to video MCU 13 to allow video MCU 13 to connect with endpoints 17 a & 17 b via media paths 22 a & 22 b, respectively. User interface commands (e.g., in the form of dual tone, multi-frequency (DTMF) keypad sequences/commands) for controlling the audio and video portions of the conference session are input to audio bridge 12. Commands sent to audio bridge 12 by users of endpoints 17 a & 17 b for controlling video content are translated by audio bridge 12 into the format appropriate for input to video MCU 13 via respective signaling connections 14 a & 15 a.
It is appreciated that in certain cases, a separate dial-in server may be utilized by the conferencing system for authenticating and connecting individual participants with the conference session handled by audio bridge 12.
In the example of
To restore lipsync, audio bridge 12 delays the output of its mixed streams. This delay may be determined by computing the difference between the video MCU delay (i.e., the amount of time that an input video image is delayed before it appears on a mixed output containing that image) and the audio bridge delay, then adding the difference between the video transport delay (i.e., the average amount of time it takes for packets to travel from the endpoint to the video MCU) and the audio transport delay. The mixer delays are constant and therefore configurable. The audio transport delay may be computed by using half the round-trip time, as computed using the real-time transport control protocol (RTCP).
The video transport delay may be estimated by the audio bridge, e.g., as a constant period either longer or shorter than the audio transport delay. Alternatively, the video transport delay may be assumed to differ from the audio transport delay by an amount equal to the transport delay of the dummy audio session between the audio bridge and the video MCU. This value may also be computed as half the round-trip time that is computed using RTCP timestamps.
In another embodiment, dummy audio channels between audio bridge 12 and video mixer 13 may also be associated with each of audio-only endpoints 16. These dummy channels may function in the same manner as dummy channels 14 b and 15 b. By conveying loudest speaker information for audio-only endpoints, the video MCU may be able to provide visual information about active audio-only speakers to the video endpoints (e.g. a video text overlay of the active audio speaker's name).
The audio bridge responds by beginning a process of setting up a video session (channels 22 in
The audio bridge then waits until it receives the requested information from the video MCU. That is, after some time, the audio bridge receives the information required for setting up media sessions to the video MCU (e.g., IP addresses and ports for audio and video streams), as well as audio and video characteristics of the video MCU. This is shown occurring in block 26.
In block 27, the audio bridge continues the dialog between itself and the endpoint by supplying the endpoint with audio characteristics, IP address, and a port on the audio bridge for receiving audio media, as well as the video characteristics, IP address, and port, which the video MCU previously sent to the audio bridge for receiving video media. The audio bridge then waits to receive, from the endpoint, the respective characteristics, addresses, and ports that will allow the endpoint to receive video from the video MCU and audio from the audio bridge (block 28).
The audio bridge completes the setup with the video bridge by providing the video bridge with the video information (i.e., characteristics, address, and port) that the audio bridge previously received from the video endpoint. At this point, the audio bridge may also provide the video bridge with the port on the audio bridge for the dummy audio connection.
The exchange begins with a SIP INVITE message sent from the video endpoint to the audio bridge (block 61). The SIP INVITE message indicates, via information in an attached Session Description Protocol (SDP) MIME body part, that the endpoint is willing to communicate with bidirectional audio and video, wishes to receive the audio on socket 10.1.1.1:1111, and also wishes to receive video on socket 10.1.1.1:1222. Upon receiving the SIP INVITE, the audio bridge recognizes that it should set up a dummy RTP session between itself and the video MCU and allow bidirectional video to flow between the video MCU and the video endpoint. The audio bridge therefore sends a SIP INVITE message to the video MCU (block 62) with attached SDP indicating that it wishes to only to send audio RTP to the video MCU, and that it wishes to establish a bidirectional video RTP session between the video MCU and the video endpoint, with the video to be received by socket 10.1.1.1:1222 (i.e., the receive socket of the video endpoint).
In response to the SIP INVITE message received from the audio bridge, the video MCU replies back to the audio bridge with a SIP 200 OK message, with SDP indicating that it will receive audio on socket 10.3.3.3:3111 and receive video on socket 10.3.3.3:3222 (block 63). The audio bridge, upon receiving the SIP 200 OK message, sends a SIP 200 OK response message to the video endpoint (block 64) with SDP indicating that the audio bridge will receive audio RTP from the endpoint on socket 10.2.2.2:2111, with socket 10.3.3.3:3111 (on the video MCU) receiving the video from the endpoint. In compliance with the SIP standard, audio bridge then sends the video MCU a SIP ACK message (block 65). The video endpoint also sends the audio bridge a SIP ACK message. These two SIP ACK messages indicate that the previously sent SIP 200 OK response messages were successfully received (block 66).
At this point, all of the audio and video streams are fully established. This means that dummy audio RTP messages may be sent from the audio bridge to the video MCU whenever the endpoint is an active speaker. In addition, bidirectional audio RTP messages may be exchanged between the endpoint and the audio bridge. Bidirectional video RTP messages may also be exchanged directly between the video endpoint and the video MCU.
It should be understood that the audio stream sent from each video endpoint is transmitted to the audio bridge, not to the video bridge. The audio bridge negotiates a dummy audio session between itself and the video bridge. This dummy audio session is used to send dummy audio packets to the video bridge when a corresponding video endpoint becomes the active speaker in the conference session. A separate dummy audio session may be established for each video endpoint detected by the audio bridge.
All DTMF control signaling from the endpoints, whether signaled out-of-band, in-band, or in voice-band, also flows to the audio bridge. This insures that user interface features work properly for the various endpoints, regardless of whether the endpoints are audio-only or video endpoints.
When a new loudest speaker is detected, the flow proceeds to block 33, where the audio bridge stops sending audio packets on any previously established dummy audio channels between the audio bridge and the video MCU which are no longer active speakers. The audio bridge then determines whether the new loudest speaker endpoint is a video endpoint (block 34). If not, then the audio bridge again waits for the next loudest speaker event. On the other hand, if the new loudest speaker endpoint is a video endpoint, dummy audio packets are sent by the audio bridge to the video bridge via the previously established channel that corresponds to that video endpoint (block 35).
The dummy packets represent audible speech, which triggers the video MCU to treat the session associated with the dummy channel as the new active (loudest) speaker and also take whatever actions are necessary to represent that endpoint as the active speaker. These actions may include, but are not limited to, switching video output streams to include the video image received from the video endpoint that is currently the active speaker, switching an output stream to the active speaker endpoint to display the image of the previous speaker, compositing the active speaker's image into a continuous presence display, and overlaying text indicating the name of the active speaker on a video image.
At this point, control returns to block 32 to wait for the next loudest speaker event. In this way, dummy audio packets representing audible speech continue to flow over the associated audio channel between the audio bridge and the video MCU until the speaker changes. Because the audible speech is used for active speaker detection and is not returned to any of the participant endpoints, the dummy audio clip may be very short, thereby consuming minimal memory on the audio bridge.
Practitioners will appreciate that the compute load required to send the dummy audio is relatively low, since pre-recorded, pre-encoded, pre-packetized speech may be used. Insertion of a valid RTP header onto the audio packet may include inserting an RTP sequence number that increments by one for each subsequent packet and a current RTP timestamp for each packet.
In certain embodiments, the video bridge may handle multiple active speakers. In such cases, the dummy packets may be sent simultaneously on more than one channel between the audio mixer 12 and the video MCU 13.
In the event that the media information received from the endpoint contains video information, the audio bridge connects to the video MCU (block 44). The connection information sent out by the audio bridge may indicate or identify the scheduled meeting. Once a connection has been established, the audio bridge sends the video MCU the video characteristics, address, and port number it previously received from the endpoint, along with a set of audio characteristics, address, and port number for establishing a dummy audio channel between the audio bridge and the video MCU (block 45).
The audio bridge then waits to receive corresponding audio and video information from the video MCU (block 46), completing the establishment of the dummy audio session between the audio bridge and the video MCU. Once that information has been received, the audio bridge completes session establishment with the endpoint by sending, to the endpoint, the video characteristics, address, and port the audio bridge previously received from the video MCU. The audio bridge also sends to the endpoint the audio characteristics, address, and port that the audio bridge generates locally (block 47). A bidirectional audio session is thus established between the audio bridge and the endpoint, and a bidirectional video session between the endpoint and the video MCU.
The video MCU responds by sending audio and video information back to the audio bridge (block 54). At this point, the dummy audio session between the audio bridge and the video MCU is completely established. This dummy audio connection is used to send a default or generic audio clip from the audio bridge to the video MCU when the video endpoint becomes the active speaker (or Nth loudest speaker) in the conference session.
The audio bridge completes the establishment of the video session with the endpoint by forwarding the video information from the video MCU to the endpoint, thereby directing the endpoint to send video directly to the video MCU while preserving the existing audio session between the endpoint and the audio bridge (block 55).
It should be understood that elements of the present invention may also be provided as a computer program product which may include a machine-readable medium having stored thereon instructions which may be used to program a computer (e.g., a processor or other electronic device) to perform a sequence of operations. Alternatively, the operations may be performed by a combination of hardware and software. The machine-readable medium may include, but is not limited to, floppy diskettes, optical disks, CD-ROMs, and magneto-optical disks, ROMs, RAMS, EPROMs, EEPROMs, magnet or optical cards, or other type of machine-readable medium suitable for storing electronic instructions.
Additionally, although the present invention has been described in conjunction with specific embodiments, numerous modifications and alterations are well within the scope of the present invention. For instance, while the preceding examples contemplate a single audio bridge handling the entire conference session, the concepts discussed above are applicable to other systems that utilize distributed bridge components, or which distribute user interface control over the conference session. Accordingly, the specification and drawings are to be regarded in an illustrative rather than a restrictive sense.
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Alone, more than a game in itself, you'd have to say is an engine for virtual immersion within a game ... strange as it sounds. Through the Rift Oculus peripheral, virtual reality glasses that are changing our concept of this technology, and reintroducing them in the world of video games, Alone lets you experience firsthand, and as never before, a terrifying horror adventure.
Specifically, an adventure called The Witching Hour, which will be the 'game within a game' when you play (since in Alone you're the main character). It's an adventure you begin playing, yes, but it will gradually take over your virtual environment, leaving the television screen to enter the world of Alone ... where it's just you, as is made perfectly clear by the name of this application.
And you'll hear, see and almost feel the terrors of Alone around you, thanks to the Rift Oculus glasses ... you decide if you keep playing alone, because the atmosphere is really scary!


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With Scott Bakula, Andre Braugher and Ray Romano at the helm, this show should be a home run flying out of the park, but like many pilots I couldn't find the hook. To be fair, as a middle-aged female, a series about men's dysfunction might be too far off the mark for me to interpret. It was more than that. The very first episode was so full of hopelessness, I couldn't even get all the way through it.
I remember when I heard David Duchovny would be starring in "Californication." I couldn't wait to see him back on the screen. When I got halfway through that pilot I also realized I was in the wrong waiting room. My enjoyment of David Duchovny's acting wasn't enough to embrace what he was representing, although I know plenty of women who swooned at his sexual prowess onscreen. I simply couldn't get past the drugs and senseless sex coming from someone who's character was also a dad. It didn't make any sense.
I don't know what I was expecting from "Men of A Certain Age." My only reason for tuning in was Scott Bakula. I've loved everything I've seen him do. He is an amazing actor and knows how to pull at the audience's heart strings, but to be honest I've only seen him in good roles.
Knowing Bakula's traditional roles were the good guy and that generally speaking in the world of fame he himself is also one of the good guys, I was shocked to see him personify a bad boy. It was more than that. Scott Bakula is a REALLY GOOD actor and as such, the one thing that drew me to the show repelled me as well. I probably wouldn't have been as offended by his character had I never seen him in any other role. He made an exquisite scum bag.
On the other hand, I have never liked Ray Romano's work. I was surprised to find (after reading a TV.com staff writer's review) the piece was his brainchild as all the advertising I had seen was for Scott Bakula. I've never been a fan of New York "it doesn't really matter" style humor that "Seinfeld" or "Everybody Loves Raymond" embraced. I champion shows that contain hope at their core, not diatribes about how bad life is and how it will never get better.
I also found Ray Romano's acting in this piece far from the quality of both Bakula and Braugher. It was painful watching two amazing drama actors and someone who looked like he was still trying to be a comedian without a line of comedy in the script. I don't know a lot about Andre Braugher, but he had the goods on screen. Both he and Bakula put much more value into what was written in the script with their performances than Romano. I would go even further to say even the supporting actors were of such intense quality, had the script been better constructed I would have continued to watch the series.
I'm not against shows about men finding their way. One show I was incredibly disappointed to see go was "In Case of Emergency." Sure, not a lot of people watched it, but it was hysterically funny regarding the very same topic "Men of A Certain Age" addresses - what do middle-aged men who's lives haven't exactly turned out to be the American dream do? From the very beginning "In Case of Emergency's" characters hooked you. There was something about the way they were composed that evoked compassion and hope, which is a commodity far too scarce these days.
"Men of A Certain Age's" characters seemed to be composed of two guys who don't deserve our compassion and Ray Romano's character who drowning in his own self-pity and lack of self-esteem we don't even want to be around. Even thinking about the group, I start to feel like this piece was written with such a desperate need for Ray Romano to be a star that he purposely made the other two characters (an egotistical actor who sleeps with one woman after another and a spoiled lazy son expecting to inherit his father's business) archetypes that would seal that deal. If that was the case, it failed miserably.
"Men of A Certain Age" may attract those who like stewing in the darkness of the underbelly of self-pity, but I personally want that 30 minutes of my life back. I don't fault Scott Bakula for wanting to stretch his acting skills by portraying a darker character, but in the future it would be nice if those types of roles came with a surgeon general's warning for those of us that would follow him anywhere. ;D


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The reflectance of a graphene monolayer, as well as of a system of monolayers, is calculated in the infrared range. A quantum expression for the conductivity in the collisionless regime that depends on the frequency, the temperature, and the concentration of carriers is used in the calculations. Above the threshold of the interband electron absorption, the reflectance decreases with increasing frequency. With decreasing temperature, excitation of plasmons in the system of layers is possible in a narrow range near the threshold, which results in the occurrence of a deep and sharp minimum in the frequency dependence of the reflectance.
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quote:Originally posted by CarolynNeil - Very interesting. I have severe heartburn and acid reflux. It's torture. I did a little research on this and I think I'm going to order some as well. I believe I'm also going to try the oil and soap. You know - teenagers and acne. Let me know if you get some and how it worked. Carolyn
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Hi Neilep!How are your bitransplanted knees doing?What do you need Manuka honey/oil for...infection? Explosive rejection? I told youthat it was a cheap clinic and that Mr. Whoknowswhat not such top-notch...professional!Free radical production and quenching in honeys with wound healing potential.Henriques A, Jackson S, Cooper R, Burton N. School of Applied Sciences, University of Wales Institute Cardiff Llandaf Campus, Western Avenue, Cardiff CF5 2YB, UK.OBJECTIVES: Honey-impregnated wound dressings are now available on drug tariff in the UK, though the modes of action of honeys with antibacterial and wound healing properties are not entirely clear. The action of some but not all of these honeys is linked to the production of hydrogen peroxide on dilution of the honey with wound exudate. The present study investigates both free radical production and the antioxidant potential of some honeys, properties which may have a role to play in wound healing.METHODS: Free radical production and quenching of three honey types (manuka, antibacterial but non-peroxide-producing; pasture, antibacterial peroxide-producing; commercial heat processed, non-antibacterial) was investigated by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy; quenching was also examined using a superoxide quenching assay.RESULTS: All honeys tested had antioxidant potential, with manuka able to completely quench added radicals within 5 min of spiking. Only the peroxide-producing honey (pasture PS9) was found to form radicals on dilution.CONCLUSIONS: The ability to modulate production and quenching of free radicals may contribute to the demonstrated ability of some honeys to help in resolving the state of inflammation typifying chronic wounds.J Antimicrob Chemother. 2006 Oct;58(4):773-7. ...sorry, you cannot view external links. To see them, please
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Hey Iko, Thanks I thought that was what it was..I know there must be some health benefit somewhere, but I am not sure I want to go grab a bunch of it and start using it! LOL Maybe some of the things look interesting... Benefits would be great!
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Some doctors use this natural remedyon a routine basis and share positiveexperience reporting their data:Manuka honey dressing: An effective treatment for chronic wound infectionsVisavadia BG, Honeysett J, Danford MH.Maxillofacial Unit, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Egerton Road, Guildford Surrey, UK.The battle against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) wound infection is becoming more difficult as drug resistance is widespread and the incidence of MRSA in the community increases. Manuka honey dressing has long been available as a non-antibiotic treatment in the management of chronic wound infections. We have been using honey-impregnated dressings successfully in our wound care clinic and on the maxillofacial ward for over a year.Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2006 Nov 17;
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