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By: Cecily Joseph, Sr. Director, Corporate Responsibility & Compliance, Symantec
As a leading company in data and internet security, Symantec must constantly innovate and evolve to predict and address on-line threats as well as keeping pace with our customers as they push the envelope of what is possible through technology.
At Symantec, we recognized years ago that the relationship between innovation and diversity is a business imperative. It's also the premise for some of our most successful stakeholder engagement.
To understand diversity at Symantec, we need to review a few core premises:
- New ideas that generate new innovations are not only the result of differences in skin color. To foster new and better ideas requires fostering all of those differences that make us each unique individuals – whether it is race, gender, sexual orientation, cultural heritage, age, religious beliefs, etc.
- Fostering a diverse set of individuals is only the first step. Greater innovation requires that we learn to listen and understand ideas in broader context so that we can recognize and apply better solutions.
- Our innovation does not end at the doors of the Symantec office, and neither should our pursuit of diversity. We must think outside of the 'box' and seek ways to promote diversity and opportunity to our customers, suppliers and communities.
In the ICT sector, there is a particular challenge to recruit and retain women in technical roles. Last year, the National Center for Women and Information Technology reported that 56% of women leave the technology field mid-career, over double the rate for men. Technical and leadership roles are comprised of roughly 25% women throughout the sector.
Our approach to the challenge has been to engage our employees, value chain and communities to promote gender diversity in technical roles while at the same time, engaging with advocacy and specialist organizations to promote the impact that gender diversity can have within Symantec.
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- In 2007, Symantec adopted the Calvert Women's Principle and in 2010, Symantec's CEO signed a statement in support of the United Nations Development Fund for Women's (UNIFEM) "Womens Empowerment Principles: We Mean Business". In alignment with these commitments, we have worked with Calvert, Verité, the City of San Francisco and 16 other prominent San Francisco Bay Area companies to develop the Gender Equality Principles (GEP) – a set of principles based on the Calvert Women's Principles, but adapted to address local realities and broader context. The GEP are specifically designed to both increase gender diversity and to increase the impact of that women have in the workplace.
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- Symantec now has eleven chapters of the Symantec Women's Action Network (SWAN) representing over 1,350 members. SWAN promotes career progression for women in the company through personal and professional networking. SWAN is also a means for Symantec women to connect with the community to empower girls interested in technology. SWAN members have participated in third-party organized events to support girls in technology in California, Minnesota, Florida and Poland.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) - Trent Baalke and Jim Harbaugh have a man in mind for the 30th pick, if he's still around at that spot for San Francisco.
And, if the 49ers don't jump on a chance to move up to land someone they believe could help right away as the reigning NFC West champions look to make another Super Bowl push in 2012.
They might just trade down, too.
Baalke has been right on in running the past two drafts, selecting several players who contributed immediately - from offensive linemen Anthony Davis and Mike Iupati to linebacker Aldon Smith.
While it has always been the general manager's approach to snag the best possible player available, this draft is slightly different for the 49ers: San Francisco is set just about everywhere on the roster.

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On C-SPAN yesterday, I caught a clip of Bill Richardson at an event (in Iowa, I believe) in the course of which, while touting his experience as governor, he claimed that seven of the last eight presidents of the United States had previously been governors. When I mentioned this to a colleague, he reminded me that Richardson also made the same claim in this week's debate, saying "We elect governors as president. Seven out of the last eight have been either governors or ex-governors." A quick search turned up more instances of him saying so.
This is a terribly minor nit-pick…but what's blogging for? So for the record, the last eight men elected president were:
George W. Bush
Bill Clinton
George H.W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford
Richard Nixon
Lyndon Johnson
Four of them had served as governors, and four had not. So why not just say "four of the last five" instead?
Richardson talks a lot about his state's great emphasis on education. Let's hope New Mexico students aren't getting their American history education from their governor.


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mysms is the WhatsApp from Austria: The Graz company Up to Eleven, formerly sms.at , offers a messaging service that can be used through smartphone apps (iPhone, Android and Windows Phone) and a web service. Users have already send more than 300 million messages over the free service. According to CEO Martin Pansy, mysms already has over 500,000 users.
In order to enable users to archive their messages more easily in the future, mysms has entered into a partnership with the Evernote note service. This way, users can save their sent and received messages in a separate Evernote notebook. This of course requires an Evernote account; installation instructions can be found here.
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"Our partnership is ideal for anyone who has wanted to find an old message that contains an address, name or telephone number only to realize that the message is on an old phone or is buried among thousands of messages on their current phone," said mysms CEO Martin Pansy. The cooperation arose indirectly though a trip to Silicon Vally under the Go Silicon Valley Initiative of the Austrian Federal Economic Chambers, Martin Pansy said.
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Somerset yoga studio could be forced to close
A yoga studio which opened in a Somerset village without planning permission may be forced to close due to concerns over road safety.
The owners of Universal Yoga in Camerton applied for retrospective planning permission but were refused.
Bath and North East Somerset Council said it had concerns about people crossing safety outside the studio.
Hundreds of people have signed a petition to save the studio. MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has also voiced his support.
The owners said the studio runs at a loss but is a good community hub.
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Owner Charlotta Martinus said: "My main business is working in schools and in mental health institutes - that is where most of my business comes from.
"This [studio] is something I do for the community, people come into my kitchen for a cup of tea and we chat for hours. It's not my main form of income."
The studio is based at Red Hill House on a sharp bend halfway down Red Hill, which is a narrow road.
Over the past five years, the owners have applied for retrospective planning permission three times but were refused.
They have also approached the council to see if it can create parking space in the field opposite the studio to make access easier.
But the council has said adding a car park would "detract from the rural character of the area". The council also said it told the studio last year that it had to find another venue.
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By Mark
So I have been poking around on the various live music websites that are scattered across the Internet. I had no idea there were so many these days. I had been struggling with near-useless, last-generation sites like Pollstar, so was amazed how much things have changed. Now there are a multitude of websites that are trying to combine social media, data harvesting, and whatever the media 2.0 flavor of the month.
These include:
- Hearwhere – a gig listing site that is flashy but hard to use, and not good for Asia
- Songkick – nice interface, but geared toward big shows, and very little information on Korea
- Iggli – another attempt at media 2.0 and live music (and other live events). This site's hook is the "invite" – it is all about people inviting each other to events; claims this is not social networking. Dubious. Not much on Asia.
- Bands in Town – big artists, not for Asia
- Jambase – ugly, just big Western acts, incomplete, basically another Pollstar
- Madlounge – only the US
- Superglued – social networking plus concerts; not sure how useful this could be if it takes off, but not much yet.
- Gigzee – specializes in local music, but buggy, and nothing for Korea yet
- Gig Junkie – not much in Asia, not very complete
- Gig Listing – trying to be the Google for live music. Still in beta, and it shows
- Gig Freaks – I think I like this one the best. Nothing for Korea yet, but its Japan and China listings show some promise. I like the interface (despite the big, ugly Google ad banner in the middle), which is easy to use and informative. Seems to be a one-man operation, though, so I am not sure how much it will develop in the future.
As you can see, I am biased toward sites that focus on local and indie music. Really, how much help do people need finding the next Lady Gaga concert? But hopefully these services will find a way to make it easier to find local and more unusual bands, all over the world. As the saying goes, your mileage may vary, so I link to all of them so you can check them out for yourself. If there are any you particularly like, please let me know.


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Where to get unusual burgers
Maybe you, too, have noticed. Over the past couple of years, a new wave of burger boutiques (let's not call them joints) has been steadily moving onto the Island, from the Five Towns to the East End. The allure is simple but ingenious: the designer burger created by none other than you.
So, what are fashionably dressed patties wearing these days? Try pesto mayonnaise and jalapeno peppers. Or peanut butter and pickles. Even mashed potatoes.
I ate at 10 burger spots (two have 2 locations apiece), from bistro to roadhouse, all of which opened (or branched out) within the past two years. Here's a rundown (with ratings) of what's new and newish Islandwide. -- Joan Reminick
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Costa Rican paper alleges Canadian was victim of a hit
Brad Deering (Facebook photo)
A Costa Rican newspaper says a Canadian man who was killed in that country last week was the victim of a targeted attack.
The Costa Rican Times says Brad Deering, a 42-year-old native of Vancouver, B.C. and a Costa Rican resident, was killed Thursday by three gunmen who police believe were attempting to rob his home in a gated community in San Jose.
The paper says the three men arrived at the home dressed as private security officers, entered the property and tied up a security guard. Deering and three other people inside the home were also attacked and tied up, and police said Deering was shot three times while trying to escape.
"This looks like a hit to me," the reporter who wrote the story said. "This was done in broad daylight. They had a mission, go in, kill Deering, and then get out."
Private investigator Douglas Smith told CTV British Columbia it appears as if Deering was attempting to escape when he was shot, adding that he may have been the victim of a targeted attack.
"He lived a very extravagant lifestyle," Smith said. "Three high end cars, all the toys that any nice, wealthy 42-year-old man would want."
The Times says a source told them that "Deering had money and was not low key about it."
In a post that appears below the story, a man who identifies himself as 'Tom' wrote: "For many of us who knew Brad, we all pretty much knew he made a living on the shady side of the street. He was a nice enough guy, but you would never invest or get involved with anything he was doing. From online pharmacies that never shipped medicine, to gold futures scams, he had no shortage of ex-partners/investors turned enemies. This was not the first brush with 'investors' he had. On several other occasions, his home became the scene of violence when former associates came to settle accounts."
Since January 2011, two Canadians have been murdered in Costa Rica and one Canadian has gone missing.


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We live in a neighborhood at the top of a hill in Connecticut and are surrounded by trees. Our lot is about 1 acre and most of the trees are 40 ft high (a guess) hemlocks - more of them than I can count.
We have two boys (4yo and 6 yo) and they really like swinging so I thought why not build a "swingset" in the backyard by running a beam between two of the trees supported by lag bolts and hanging the swings from that. It would take up no yard space, be cheaper, easier (I think), and act as a beginning point for the tree fort I have been dying to build them.
Have any of you tried something like that before, or generally got some advice. I can figure out how to know what type of structure I need to support a static load but I'm not sure what type of trouble I me be getting myself into with the dynamic load a boy swinging (actually boys) will create. Swingsets seem pretty simple but they do always have the angled support posts that probably support the stress from the horizontal forces of swinging. I am concerned that swinging could pull the lag bolt right out of the tree and I wasn't sure if drilling a hole fully though the trees (10" diameter) and putting a support on the other side was a good idea or not since the trees are still growing. Also, we do have high winds from time to time (but not often) so there could be some relative motion between the trunks.
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I'm not sure what type of trouble I me be getting myself into with the dynamic load a boy swinging (actually boys) will create.
I am concerned that swinging could pull the lag bolt right out of the tree and I wasn't sure if drilling a hole fully though the trees (10" diameter) and putting a support on the other side was a good idea or not since the trees are still growing.
Also, we do have high winds from time to time (but not often) so there could be some relative motion between the trunks.
Keep talking and you wil realize that permanently mounting anything to a living, still growing object is NOT a good idea. As you seem to be speculating, anything could, and will likely go wrong. Growth patterns will not be exactly the same between the two trees even though they're side by side. Soon the growth of the tree will swallow the bolt or the reaction of the metal to the sap and constant moisture will cause the bolt to rust and fail.
Tree swings are meant to be tied loose (with room for the tree to grow), on a limb that is far enough away from the trunk to swing freely, and with rope that doesn't cut into the supporting limb. Nylon twist will strip the bark off and leave the limb exposed to infestation and will cut short the life of the limb. A soft braid is better for the tree and the larger the diameter, the better.
A tree grows by forming a cellular network of tunnels every year as the moisture from the ground is absorbed through the roots and makes it's way up the tree just under the bark. The more moisture and sunlight, the larger the cellular structure. Then winter comes and the structure hardens, the tree kind of dries out and becomes dormant. Then it all starts over again the next spring. A rope too tight, a puncture wound, a bolt through, any of these can disturb the life and health of the tree.
Hardwood trees are better for swings, Oak, Hickory, Walnut, Pecan.
Softwood trees are likely to be damaged by having anything attached.
Hemlock is a softwood, stronger than Spruce, lighter and much weaker than Yellow Pine, which is also a softwood. It's more comparable to Fir, another softwood.
Yadda yadda yadda, they're your trees. Do what you want. If you have plenty of trees to keep you happy, enjoy what you can from these.
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Now, I really love this one! Larry from Michigan sent me an image I couldn't miss sharing with you. What we have here is a classic example of "Slanted Lines" illusion, just like the one we published on Monday. The usage of the effect is more advanced this time, since it additionally exploits the nature of the object presented. A seesaw (also known as a teeter-totter or teeter board) is a long, narrow board suspended in the middle. As one end goes up, the other one goes down. When we first see the example below, it looks logical that the right end went down due to heavy triangle positioned on it. The illusion shows just what you naturally expect, but the raw truth is that the seesaw is balanced perfectly horizontal, and doesn't outweigh – nor left, nor right. You can easily prove this by squeezing your eyes, till you just see the outlines of the seesaw. Thanks for stumbling and sharing this!
Update 1 (02/22/2009): Since yesterday, I have received this enhanced animation from visitor that goes by the name Mr. Anonym. His version might help you in seeing the effect little better. You should be able to spot the moment after which the seesaw gets slanted.
Update 2 (02/22/2009): Alessandro aka SuperSandro sent another example where he modified this illusion. Now the seesaw is actually slanted, but appears perfectly balanced. Here is what Alessandro wrote – "Hi! Today I'm happy to send you this attached file. It's the same as slanted Seesaw, but rotated for 4 degrees on the rectangle's side. It seems to be horizontal, but of course it is not."


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Canada v Ireland preview
by Ian Kennedy
June 14, 2000
The Irish should not consider this match a foregone conclusion after their massive win over the US.
Canada has a huge incentive. Ireland is the only member of the Six Nations that Canada has not beaten and Clark would dearly love to take that scalp this Saturday at Fletcher's Field's in Markham, just north of Toronto. Most predict, however, that in order to gain that victory, that Canada will have to play out of its socks and Ireland will have to have enjoyed the hosting in Canada so much, that it falls flat on its face. And, Ireland, on previous games against Canada, is capable of doing just that.
Last time Ireland came to Canada in 1989 with Willy Anderson as captain and under the dictates of coach Jimmy Davidson, that very thing nearly happened. Playing in Victoria, B.C., Ireland were losing 21-18 in the dying minutes of the test, and Canada looked poised for an historic win. Then, with the referee about to blow the final whistle, Canada failed to find touch on a clearing kick, Ireland fielded near halfway, set up a ruck, won quick ball, and fired it out to wing John Sexton who streaked for the line unopposed. Michael Kiernan kicked the conversion: Ireland 24 Canada 21.
In 1987 in Napier, New Zealand when the two met for the first time in the first World Cup Ireland was ahead by only 19-15 mid-way through the second-half before it got their act together. In the end, Keith Crossan scored two tries, Michael Bradley, Brian Spillane, John McDonald and Ringland one each while Michael Kiernan scored 19 points with a drop-goal,five conversions and two penalties for 19 points with Tony Ward hitting a penalty to win 46-19. " We knew they were well organized; now we know they have an awful lot of skill as well,"` said Irish captain Donal Lenahan, after the match.
In the only other test played between the two, Canada fared poorly at Lansdowne Road in November, 1997 losing 33-11.
Hoping to gain the win on Saturday, Canada will welcome back Newport professional prop, Rod Snow, missing from the South African test with a bout of tick fever. He suffered the bite when on safari with his touring Newport club, the week before he joined the Canada team in East London for last weekend's test. Snow's experience will surely help as, without him,Canada suffered in the sets in South Africa. Jon Thiel on the other side of Canada's front-row will have the opportunity to demonstrate to John Hayes,the Irish loose-head, how much he has learned since he last played for Canada A vs Ireland A on a wet night at Ravenhill Park, in Belfast when Ireland A prevailed 26-10.
Since then Thiel has played in fifteen internationals, and has a year of professional rugby at Narbonne under his belt.
Another interesting match-up will see two former team-mates face each other. Irish and British Lion Jeremy Davidson, and Cardiff and Canada's John Tait played together at the University of Ulster in 1993 when Tait crossed the Atlantic to attend university in Colraine.
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Andrei Kelarev is an author of two books, a volume of refereed conference proceedings and more than 180 refereed journal articles in high quality international refereed journals. The two books published by Andrei Kelarev are [1] A.V. Kelarev, "Graph Algebras and Automata", Marcel Dekker, New York, 2003. [2] A.V. Kelarev, "Ring Constructions and Applications", World Scientific, River Edge, NJ, 2002. Andrei Kelarev has more than 10 years of full-time teaching experience in Australia, and one year of teaching work experience in USA on sabbatical from Australia. In 2003 Andrei received a large ARC Discovery grant from Australian Research Coundil as one Chief Investigator. Andrei Kelarev's main research interests are in ring constructions, Cayley graphs, groups, semigroups, finite state automata, error-correcting codes, classification systems, and their applications.
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How valuable is David Lee to this Knick Team and their 6-4 start?
Would teammates Nate, Chandler, or Zach be happy campers in New York if David Lee was traded?
And what player could replace all the things David Lee brings to the Knicks?
The real big talk about the Knicks success is directed at them only having "TWO-BIGMEN" in their rotation "Zach & Lee".
The last Bigman teammate that Zach had that pushed him to play at the level he been playing at was Rasheed Wallace.
Zach runs back on defense now.


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Much as its cover casts a strangely hopeful light on the decay of urban civilization, through the luminous waterfall sifted through its ruins, so too does the music of Wither possess a strange, ironic warmth for its chosen sound. An admixture of depressive black metal and doom tinted aesthetics sparsely threaded with dreary, folksy acoustic passages providing an added, faint elegance to the music's sense of escapism, and Necropolis becomes more hypnotic the more I listen. This is in part due to the Australians' constant knack for aural exploration and willingness to eschew the normally endless and monotonous repetition one might naturally associate with this sort of hybrid style, creating tunes that are substantial but concise for this airy sense of pacing.
The electric guitars here have a grainy, driving sensibility to them which sets up a grand contrast to the other sounds. Riff construction is often minimal, simplistic chord progressions gliding along at a moderate tempo and used as a basin for the vocals, which are a mix of hoarser growls and rasps and solemn, psychedelic cleans that oft felt like Johan Edlund of Tiamat or some other Goth-tinted, Floyd-ian embarkation. The acoustics are both graceful and numbing, neither exceptionally composed or novel, but at the same time not ever distraction against the more emotionally weighted, heavier processions of notes. The drums have an incredibly stripped down feel to them, almost as if they were being played on a tinny kit with only a few pieces, but since Necropolis is not the sort of record that subsists on explosions of accelerated energy, these fit in well within the leeching, somnolent environment they support. I quite enjoyed the bass lines, which are these tiny, classic metal grooves and builds thumping along under the straightforward guitar patterns, enforcing that free-flowing sense of atmosphere and passionate sadness that the pessimism of the lyrics would impart.
Despite the downcast flavor of the material's theme though, Necropolis can in places provide a strangely uplifting feel due to the choices in notation. For instance, there's a thriving, hopeful undercurrent to the track "Seeming", and despite the grating, harsh vocals in a piece like "Transpression", which was redolent of another Australian act (Austere), the chords harbor a sullen majesty. Some might find the acoustic breaks or the dungeon synth/ambient piece "Lost" to be mildly inconsistent filler against the broader, superior metallic tracks, but I found that in terms of the empty, abandoned spaces they evoked, they gelled together well enough that I welcomed the diversity. I wouldn't have minded some better riff-writing overall through the course of the 43 minutes, but as atmospheric vehicles the whole of Necropolis is pretty smooth. More sad than bright, perhaps, but I get the impression that a bed of flowers was growing up through its considerable heaps of ash and decay, giving Wither an element of depth that wouldn't exist if they were performing with a full-on, caustic, snarling abandon.


text: One of the few annoying things about the Select Branches panel in Branch Visualization is that it looks like a modal dialog that cannot be moved or resized. We are going to address this in V.Next! :) Though not resizable, the panel can be "maximized" to fill the container document window to gain more space. Click the maximize button near the top right corner. While maximized, resizing the document window (by resizing VS, for example) also resizes the Select Branch panel. This technique gives you more screen real estate to work with the branch tree, list, and mini view.


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what's wrong with this statement? I keep getting parse errors.
Note: The variable q1 refers to a 'char' variable, declared as follows:
Code:char q1 = 'y';Code:if (q1=='y') or (q1=='Y') printf("Correct!");
i've also tried adding braces..
and i've even tried without the parenthesis..Code:if (q1=='y') or (q1=='Y') { printf("Correct!"); }
Code:if q1=='y' or q1=='Y' printf("Correct!");
I just had this working!! I messed around with it a little, re-wrote it, and now I'm getting parse errors. Is it something i'm not seeing?
Anyone know of a few code examples that use conditionals with operators? (and, or, not)


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Hi, I'm trying to create a program which checks to see if another program is running and if it is, shut it down.
It's working as long as I keep the program in focus, but when it loses focus the loop holds I guess.
Code:while(GetMessage(&Msg, hWnd, 0, 0) > 0) { static HWND hIexplore; TranslateMessage(&Msg); DispatchMessage(&Msg); hIexplore = FindWindow("IEFrame", "Session control window - Microsoft Internet Explorer"); if(hIexplore != NULL) { SendMessage(hIexplore, WM_DESTROY, 0, 0); SendMessage(hIexplore, WM_NCDESTROY, 0, 0); } }
Is there a way to make the loop run while minimized ?
Or am I doing it the wrong way ?


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One of the staples of action cinema is the buddy cop films, and the Hong Kong film industry is as inundated with them as Hollywood. Whether it's John Woo behind the camera or Jackie Chan, Mel Gibson, or Eddie Murphy in front of it, the formula remains the same. A particularly enjoyable entry is 1988's "Tiger on the Beat", starring Chow Yun Fat and Conan Lee, who incidentally bears a striking resemblance to a young Jackie Chan. "Tiger on the Beat" is a comedy first and a crime drama second, and is a lighthearted take on the usual gritty potboiler. The film features all the usual characters, including the cagey veteran, the hot-headed upstart, the stern but kind-hearted commanding officer, and of course the corrupt but pragmatic police commissioner.
The film revolves around veteran Hong Kong CID inspector Francis (Fat), who is grudgingly teamed up with new hotshot Michael (Lee) in order to root out a violent gang of cocaine smugglers. And that's about the extent of the story. The rest of the film is composed of one crazy action set piece after another, interspersed with silly banter between the two cops and Marydonna, the sister of one of the drug couriers, played by the busty Nina Li Chi.
The treat of "Tiger on the Beat" is that nearly all the furious action is presented with tongue planted firmly in cheek, and the situations the cops find themselves in are set up to garner laughs, from their banter with their captain to their pursuit of the criminals. In one such scene, Francis is taken hostage by a fleeing thief and soils his pants before passing out in front of fellow cops. Later, the dynamic duo corners a drug courier who takes two women hostage after ripping the seat of his boxer shorts. Not wanting to be immodest, the courier manages to get both cops to throw him their pants so that the remainder of the pursuit involves them running around in their underwear. The climactic battle with the drug gang features everything from bungee cord shotgun slinging to an insane chainsaw duel, essentially taking the ending of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2" and cranking it up a notch. The final 20 minutes feels tacked on, but the battle is so over the top that no one will care.
This is the charm of "Tiger on the Beat"; while it's also a gritty action film, director Chia-Liang Liu does a great job of keeping the mood light and balancing hard-hitting violence with slapstick. And audiences are so used to seeing Chow Yun Fat as the silent, brooding avenging angel in the films of John Woo that it's a treat to see him playing against type.
Unfortunately the script's thematic schizophrenia does leave a few strands blowing in the wind. The drug gang itself is not entirely convincing. Led by a British kingpin and his flamboyant right-hand man, the gang is neither ruthless nor organized enough to keep control over an international trafficking network. The poorly developed romantic threads between Francis and Marydonna, as well as Michael and Francis' mousy sister, are so obviously thrown in for the sole purpose of balancing out the action that their amorous interactions come across as forced and unconvincing.
However, these are minor quibbles, as "Tiger on the Beat" is undoubtedly supposed to be little more than popcorn entertainment. An action film should entertain and "Tiger on the Beat" delivers in spades.
Chia-Liang Liu (director) / Kwok Chi Tsang (screenplay)
CAST: Yun-Fat Chow …. Francis Li
Nina Li Chi …. Marydonna
Conan Lee …. Michael Tso
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text: Harare - Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwean Prime Minister and president of the Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai, has urged the country's young people to register to vote ahead of elections in 2013. In a guest column published by NewsDay, Tsvangirai said the unity government was moving "with utmost speed to finalise the constitutional making process to enable Zimbabweans to go to a national referendum preferably in first quarter of 2013. "I appeal especially to the young people of our country, who form the largest group of our population, to take this responsibility seriously and to register to vote," said Tsvangirai.He added that young people who do not register to vote must be reminded that they are outsourcing an important right which is critical to the determination of their future. "Some young people might think it is not 'cool enough' to stand in a queue to register to vote, but actually what is not 'cool' is to stand aside while other people determine your future," said Tsvangirai. He urged supporters and political activists not to get angry on his behalf and cause harm to each other. "If we the principals, can sit down and share our thoughts in a respectful and mature manner, there is no reason why our supports should not do the same," he said, referring to his meetings with President Robert Mugabe and Deputy Prime Minister Author Mutambara. Tsvangirai said the year ahead is replete with challenges for Zimbabwe. "We are facing a year with a clear potential to define our national destiny," he said. In 2013 Zimbabwe is looking at concluding the constitution-making process; the national referendum; holding a watershed election; and hosting the United Nations World Tourism Organisation conference. - Fin24


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Barak Expected to Use Harsh Criticism, Vagaries to Stay in the Cabinet
Defense Minister and Labor party chair Ehud Barak is expected to decide how to respond to the final Winograd Report at the beginning of next week. The report was publicized on Wednesday.
Senior Labor Party members and sources outside politics agreed yesterday that Barak would outline a plan that includes harsh criticism for how the Second Lebanon War was managed, but would allow him to remain in office despite pledges to bring about Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's downfall.
Barak is expected to make vague statements about bringing forward elections, but to rely on "national considerations and the importance of stable government and the army's rehabilitation against the Iranian threat" to stay in office.
Olmert yesterday sent a personal message to Barak. Senior Labor Party emissaries delivered Olmert's pleas that Barak not withdraw from the coalition "for the good of the nation and the army's continued rehabilitation."
Olmert sought to tell Barak that the Winograd report, which addresses the army's failures in the Second Lebanon War, mandates that he stay at the defense ministry in the coming years. Olmert associates confirmed yesterday that the message was sent to Labor Party figures.
Last night, Barak met with two leaders of the reservists' protest, Tomer Buhadana and Yakir Segev, and told them the Winograd report was "harsh."
However, he did not reveal his plans.
Inside Labor, Barak faces conflicting pressures: cabinet ministers are pushing him to stay in the Olmert government while Knesset members Ophir Pines-Paz, Eitan Cabel and Danny Yatom are calling on him to fulfill his promise to have Olmert replaced or to bring about early elections, a pledge he made in a speech at Kibbutz Sdot Yam in early May.
Pines-Paz is acting to hogtie Barak and has officially asked Cabel, Labor's secretary general, to convene the party's central committee to ratify the "Sdot Yam declaration."
Barak has been accelerating his consultations with Labor ministers Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, Isaac Herzog and Shalom Simhon, as well as with other MKs and former MKs. However, he has refrained from holding any broad forums or revealing his final decision.
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What Is The Best Pranks For Summer Camp?
I am suprised no one has said this yet! Its sooo awesome... so what you do is you get a can of shaving cream, and you get a nail and pierce the can, making sure you cover it up or else it will spray ALL over you, and you just through it into a different cabin and shaving cream goes everywhere. (~ 0 ~)
A more advanced and evil version of this is (at night) you completely duct tape walls around someone with a bottom bunk (so if they were to wake up they would see nothing but duct tape enclosing them and the top bunk) and then you put a small slit in the duct tape and you put the shaving cream can inside!!!! (* 0 *)
what if it lands on the side
Oh i have some dirty ones
hehe put laxative in someone's meal or drink bottle.
Put toothpaste in the bottom of their sleeping bag so they like step in it.
I am suprised no one has said this yet! Its sooo awesome... so what you do is you get a can of shaving cream, and you get a nail and pierce the can, making sure you cover it up or else it will spray ALL over you, and you just through it into a different cabin and shaving cream goes everywhere. (~ 0 ~)
A more advanced and evil version of this is (at night) you completely duct tape walls around someone with a bottom bunk (so if they were to wake up they would see nothing but duct tape enclosing them and the top bunk) and then you put a small slit in the duct tape and you put the shaving cream can inside!!!! (* 0 *)
so when you get there take the lugger and all their clothes and hide. remember to act normal. when the find there lugges are gone they will panic that will be funny.
You guys got nothing on this one.
So, my brother was a counselor at church camp. It was the last night, and all the cabins were starGazing.
Now, we have a big, old barn by the boys cabins. One of the counselors hid a jeep in this old barn, and he also got a giant conga drum. All these sweet little boys were staring a the stars at 2 AM, when suddenly, the counselor in the barn bangs the drum. Once. The boys think its thunder, but all the counselors know better. When it comes again, the counselor flashes the jeep's lights on and off. They keep doing this afew times, and by now the boys are scared.
suddenly, the counselor starts pounding faster. And faster. He starts to rev the engine of the jeep, and then screams. By now, most of the campers are backing away. And when he rides the jeep out into the meadow, everyone starts running. By the time they figure out I was a prank, they have been loked out of their cabins by scared campers.
Haha! I did that to my little sister's bed room door knob for April's Fool's day But I did the slippery substance instead I did Vasoline.
My first year at my church camp, I was in a cabin with on coming seniors and my friend and her sister. We did pranks on the boys cabin and we stuck pads and tampons in their cabin. Then they totally fell for it they thought it was the other boys cabins( They are so dumb where would the boys get pads or tampons?!) then they found out it was our cabin so the next night they burst through the door and sprayed Axe all over our room. Best camp experience ever!!!!! I suggest u try it.
Another thing that happened another time, was some people took another person's tent (it was a tent that just went over the people, and easy to take away if not staked,) and tied it upside down on a building called the "craft lodge."
Steal the lifeguard tower if movable and take it to the other side of the camp.
randomly walk up to a large goup of talking peeple. is best if yur partners alredy there. right off the bat say "who wants to do that?" and rais yur hand at this point your partners should rais ther hands 2 everybody else will be like "whaaaaaaaaaat????"
do the same thing but insted say "all in favor, raise your hand" raise yur hand so do yur helpers. your statement wil be met with the qestion "all in favor of what?" to this u and yer accomplices reply "no, just all in favor". this should be said in a way that makes everybody else feel like an idiot.
Get the counselors in on it. Get them to tell the bunk there there will be a solar eclipse tomorrow, and when you wake up it will be completely dark. The solar eclipse also messes with electronics, so please give all of your watches ipods clocks to them to keep them in a safe place. Wake everyone up at 2 and tell them it's 7and it'll be completely dark out. Listen to their stupidity and reaction. Also, tell the smart kids about it in advance. I did this at my camp and it worked perfectly.
Another great one is to acquire as many paper cups as you can, and place them all across the floor and beds of a fellow cabin. Then fill each cup with water and wait for the hilarity to ensue.
Also, placing the cabin's matresses / clothes / etc. on the cabin roof is always a good standby.
The look on a counselors face (if you can see his face) is HILARIOUS if you pull of this prank well.
One idea I had was when the girls have a cabin switchover, and were still sleeping at the boys camp, we sneak to the cabin where the girls are secretly sleeping. There, we duck tape their bunks so when they wake up, all they see is a wall of duck tape. Also, we steal their shoes and dump glitter and other stuff all over the shoes and put them all in a big bin.
Now, at my camp there is a large pebble pathway that is full of really sharp pebbles that leads up a REALLY steep and high hill to the dining lodge. To walk up there barefoot, it hurts and is very amusing for people to watch. At the top of the hill is where we put the bin of shoes for them to come get it.
Considering the girls have no shoes and that they need to walk up the hill of pebbles to GET their shoes and eat breakfast, they walk barefoot up the hill and it is so funny to see the look on someones face when they climb that hill barefoot. This is a great prank because no one gets hurt, it is really funny, and the girls eventually get their shoes back so they aren't completely pissed as heck.
advanced variation : get metal pipe and bury it right from under the fire (end pointing up between the coals) to the plastic pipe and bag. now the water jet comes right in the fire. keep in mind that metal is heat conductor and heat melts the plstic pipe under the earth too. so the connection between pipes underground should be at some distance from the fire
if you really have place that can be digged easily - bury a deep container of water. build a traditional team rocket trap over it - sheet of cardboard and some sand (not much). prepare the fire right over the place. at some level the entire fire will fall into the underground water container. plastic may work better but is harmfull o environment and makes awful smell
prepare pyrotechnocally-enhanced spudz for the fire. long delay (wrapped in more aluminium and ordinary paper inside) recommended
if you bring beer - refill empty beer botles with ordinary water (or soda :P) and close the caps
build a strong blue and red light flasher(s) with leds and 555 chip. at nigh wake everyone up with it from outside the tents and cell phones on loudspeaker speaking around (like if the camp is surrounded with police)
high voltage = guaranteed excitement. take there some flash circuits from cameras + batteries + long thin wires. remove the big capacitors first cause they make the thing dangerous
plate the bottom of pots (used for food making) with pyrotechnically active substances
diet coca cola and mentos make lots of gases. i wonder if together with some liquid soap it will make a good foam bomb
in a lighter that uses electric spark - add a thin wire and connect to the metal part / point out under it (so that hidden untill you press) - when the lighter is pressed the user is shocked
bring big speakers on long wire sealed in 2 layers of plastic bags. place them in the earth under another tent and take the wire under earth to yours. at night put sounds at full volume in them (first for few seconds and pause. then again after few minutes etc). i'd put there short stuff cut from soundtracks of movies like expecto patronum!!!!11 etc (recommended a folder of mp3s where each is few words sound and 5 min silence)
grind matches and take the dust with you. usefull
if you have showers - replace a shower head with garden sprinkler and wait for some1 to opemn the water (and spray whatever else wet instead of himself)
smd leds (from phone) on thin magnet wires hangd in air - that looks like shining stars of magic and makes girls scream the heck. you can also place on earth (then normal leds are cool too)
metal halide lamps (floodlights that have bright cool white light - common in camp parks) take lots of time to restart if shut down when working. they may kick out if you hit the pole strong enough
Whoa, someone could seriously end up in the hospital from poison ivy, but the feathers and cheese in a can is hilarious!
Or tie a MILLION strings all around the room so you can't walk around, and put their shoes/ all of their stuff in the very back of the room.
and build this and drive them nuts
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Where I work there are only a few options if you happen to have a spare second to go out and get food to bring back (which happens almost never). We have a chain fast food stop, local asian food, local pizza, local mexican food and a SUBWAY. While the local options are great, they also take time. Time we do not have when you have about 2.5 seconds to grab food and get back to work. So, I generally go with SUBWAY because it is fast and fresh.
Here is where I admit how boring I really am. I always eat the SAME thing from SUBWAY. Every. Single. Time. My go to sandwich is a turkey on whole wheat with provolone cheese, lettuce, tomato, light mayo, mustard, oil and vinegar. That's just what I've always done and it works so why mess with it? Well, I was recently sent a SUBWAY gift card for the sole purpose of trying out the new Tuscan Chicken Melt. I can tell you I was hesitantly excited about trying something new.
My verdit? Good. The only thing I would warn you of is that if you are hoping for a pile of chicken on your sandwich you are just not going to get it. You may want to ask for a double serving of the chicken because I think the are pre-portioned and it was not enough for me. However, the flavor of it all was quite good. I could still add my regular toppings and the chicken had a great zing of spice (still wish there was more of it). Keep in mind that if you do add more chicken you are going to change the nutritional content. The SUBWAY Tuscan Chicken Melt only has 380 calories and 8 grams of fat if you get a 6″ sandwich with 9-grain wheat bread.
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Edit: Tuesday Dec 7, 2010 3:30pm.
I fixed the nose but the wing broke across the chord on the next flight attempt. About 6 tries in the wind and finally the hard crashes and the cartwheel landings did it in. One problem was the popbottle aileron horns. Way too flexible. Popsicle-sticks are the answer. Also I added way too much nose weight and it was not responding to the elevator well at all.
I have video but it's not pretty. I'll spare you that.
New bird plane on the board but with the Taube wing and similar Vee-Tail. No fuselage, just a small pod for the gear. Will make large ailerons for this one and probably use the same Vee-Tail as on the recently deceased bird.
I think this is a plane that will fly well but needs a little more TLC in setting up. anyway I have tons of cheap foam.
Will update!
Last edited by Cybernaught; Dec 07, 2010 at 03:41 AM.
Deltas are better than most in the wind, but what is best is a heavier plane. 20oz + so a big delta perhaps... my best two for windy days are yes..the superfly clone and also a multiplex twinjet (butchered to use just a single motor)
Usually down at 10 oz or so the wind is a pain but my smaller 24" superfly clone is also ok...
Probably any fast plane is going to be better than any slow plane when the wind is up.. and the small superfly is a bit rapid..
I guess the original implementation of the Clark Y was flat bottomed for the aft 70% of the chord and the wing thickness was 11.7% of the chord.
With just that much for a description, most people with a passing acquaintance with building and flying would probably come up with similar looking wings.
I think the major difference is the amount of "TLAR" that seeps in for any individual build and the influence of the materials and working conditions.
I have produced some pretty similar wings with the biggest difference being that mine generally had less than 30% curving up to the leading edge, were less than 11.7% thick, and, of course, they were very different on the top of the wing because of the step and what happened to the rear of it.
When I consider the amount of work that it would take to make FFF Clark Y wing and a FFF KFm2 or KFm3 wing, I'll probably go with the KFm build every time.
Jack: the Clark Y profile I found had a straight line from the low point at bottom of section to the TE that I discovered when tracing in Sketchup so I could scale and squash it which sounds just about exactly like what you describe. And I concurr that there seems to be an awful lot of different "clark Y" foils in use. And finally, your last statement is perfect, I when tinkering with a new design always sketch in a KFM wing, just because it's so easy to do and I know it'll work well. The only reason I'm playing with the conventional foil on this redo of the PV2 is the "experiment". Otherwise it wouldn't be nearly worth the extra gluing and sanding!
Ain't it great when we all agree? 8^)
Experimenting with variations of wing airfoil shaping is a lot of the fun! We know we can fly a flat plate wing, & by keeping the weight low, we can really have a fun flying aircraft.
And we've proven we can add KF stepped discontinuities to a variety of shapes in a variety of ways, and have benefits to the handling that we didn't have without the KF structure. The process of adding a KF step is fairly forgiving- especially at the power loading factors used these days!
Some people say they can fly a concrete block by putting on a big enough motor, & gluing on some tail feathers, and while they're not technically wrong in claiming that, there may be something that's missing when the "Just throw on a bigger motor" approach is proudly put forth...
There are a lot of 'conventional' airfoils in the airfoil databases which have suitable applications at much higher speed ranges, and only perform when built at much higher Reynolds Numbers.... when shrunk down to typical 'scratchbuilt foamie' size, they just don't perform. And there are also some specific airfoils which do perform very well at low Reynolds Numbers [ which can be simply translated as small wing surface areas, narrow wing chords.]
The actual Clark Y is not my idea of a high performance airfoil... (sorry to those who are fans of it...) I've seen it do a poor job too many times on RC model aircraft- especially up here in Colorado's rarefied air. It's too fat, too blunt at the leading edge, and it's camber line has too much curvature in the rear 50%, making it more prone to boundary layer air separations & high speed stalls... From my viewpoint, it really needs significant reshaping to fly decently when built at low Reynolds Numbers (small foamie scale model sizes.) And it would definitely benefit from having turbulator structures and KF type stepped discontinuities added to it's structure, since what you are starting with just doesn't get the job done very well when built at these sizes. And once you reshape it, it really isn't a Clark Y anymore.
When we start to talk about doing 'comparisons' between 'conventional airfoils' and KF airfoils and calling it 'science', it makes sense to me to start with a 'conventional airfoil' that is proven to perform very well when built in the narrow chord wing sizes that we're actually building. That's why I've mentioned the specific airfoils I listed when Springer asked- (E180, E205, E387, RG14, RG15, MH32).... because starting with a bad wing shape and adding a KF structure to it, then comparing it to the bad wing shape we started with may not really advance our understanding much at all...
(A flying outhouse is still an outhouse...)
You really don't have to make it complicated, & yes, I certainly agree that adding KF type stepped discontinuities can improve handling & performance on a wide variety of designs. But the addition of KF style stepped discontinuity features are not totally 'magic', and there are poorer choices of ways to implement them that have already been demonstrated, too. The idea is to begin to understand more of how to get the best performance & handling from the scratch-built foamies which we build- however simple or complex the build- and that's some of what all of these discussions are really about.
I wish each and every one of you the best of success in all of your efforts! May this approaching Holiday season be a happy time, and may the new year find you healthy & happy!
Last edited by viking60; Dec 09, 2010 at 09:03 AM.
Sorry, but I just have to chime in here. If you were born in California, and now live in Maine, that does not make you a "Mainah". If you have children born here, they may be "Mainahs", but unfortunately, you can never be a "Mainah". You will always be from away.
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The bird plane in memorium. See screen-grabs below. Looked good but flew like crap. Totaled before I got the kinks out. My fault entirely. Killed by impatience, don't maiden in high winds!
Just part of the game!
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I know all about the "from away" thing. The only cure for it is death. And then the only change is that instead of say "he's from away" they would say "he was from away."
I like it, it is my home, I have mastered all of the winter chores and sports, I'm a Mainer!
I recognise the first picture.
On a trip to Mexico I had the same affliction as seen in your first picture. It comes from swallowing the ice, made from the local water when you drink large numbers of Margaritas.
They call it "Dihariario Blanco".
And that tan line is a dead giveaway too.
He did have part of the disguise about right, the untied boots and the laces flopping would fool some people...
We got that winter wonderland thing going on even as I write this. We have about 6-8" of snow on the ground and it is slowing lightly right now. Some of the them big, slow falling, flakes coming straight down, no wind at all. Almost perfect "during the snow" flying conditions but I prefer the "after the snow" flying.
DANCER IV Update: Ailerons & internal battery bay added- build notes
I find my aging eyes much happier flying 'after the snow' - when the skies have cleared & the visibility has improved... it's not much fun watching your aircraft disappear up into low-hanging cloud bellies!
Our last snowfall amounted to only 2", and the sun will eat that away soon... I'll be back to bare short grass prairie for my flying surface very soon!
DANCER IV Update
I just completed adding the ailerons to the most recent KF3P glider wing; this is the 'simpler build' 46" span wing. With the 2-3/4" of 'virtual dihedral' provided by the curved upswept wing tips, I have been flying this wing with RET control only for the last few weeks, and it does turn adequately with only rudder working against these upswept wing tips... But now that I had verified this, I find myself fonder of the more immediate & precise attitude / roll control response which ailerons provide- especially useful for higher speed slope flying tasks- so I cut away a set of ailerons 1-3/4" wide x 15-3/8" long from the trailing edge.
Since the Bluecor is normally too flexible & prone to twisting under flight loads without some method of stiffening, I ironed on a layer of the thin lightweight 1.7 mil Doculam clear iron-on covering film, covering all surfaces of each aileron. This stiffened them dramatically, so that they are now very adequate, as far as twist-resistance, for an aircraft of this size / weight. I then tape-hinged the ailerons back to the wing with Scotch transparent 'multi-purpose' tape.
The HXT900 servo was mounted just in front of the wing's CF tubular spar, with the servo's bottom set flush with the wing's bottom surface. The control rods are .032" music wire, which run through a plastic guide tube to keep them from flexing under load. (Aileron control horns are cut from clear 1/32" Lexan polycarbonate sheet.)
I had previously verified the battery mounting position during flight testing by shifting the velcro-mounting position until I had optimum glide & handling; it was time to mark that battery position, eliminate all of the velcro, and cut in a compartment within the EPP foam fuselage where the battery could then be carried inside, out of the (cold) airflow. This would get the battery closer to the lateral center & eliminate the drag of having the battery sticking out in the wind... and minimizing drag on this DANCER IV design has been a lot of what the project is about.
I cut away a snug-fitting pocket in the EPP, then reinforced the foam with more of the iron-on clear covering film- (it really is fairly tough stuff!) I then cut a cover from thin clear plastic sheet, attached & hinged it with tape at the front end, and made a tape latch at the aft end.
The result is that the battery is out of the airflow, closer to center line of the fuselage, protected form the chilling effects of the cold air, and protected from rocks, etc. during rough-terrain landings. And the only aspect left as far as drag is the battery wires & plug extending out, which can be taped out of the airflow on top of the forward fuselage just in front of the wing during flight.
More 'visibility' was then added to the wing, in the form of iron-on Oracover in fluorescent colors, on both top & bottom surfaces. (My aging eyes can use all the help that they can get to keep track of my gliders when hunting & riding thermals several hundred feet up in the sky!)
Final flying weight after all of these final modifications is at 12-7/8 ounces. With 2.3 square feet of wing area, that works out to a wing loading of 5.6 ounces per square foot, which is good for both thermal riding and for slope flying in up to about 25 MPH winds on a wind ship with minimal drag. (Adding ballast is always possible when the winds really get blowing on the slope.)
I'll post a flight evaluation report before long.
Last edited by viking60; Dec 08, 2010 at 09:59 AM.
I thought that guy was posting because he was a friend ribbing you. Now we know it was your angry neighbor because you shot a photo of him swimming in his Mainah pool! Besides the tan line, shoelaces, a Ginger Ale 'Pop'-cycle would have been a sure givaway too!
BTW, North America had no inhabitants until someone walked the ice bridge from Asia, so we are all from away at some point in the 'great timeline'. Don't know why so many people dislike Californians, since they all want to, and do, move there.
KFm airfoils are interesting, and have some great attributes in many situations. I wanted to thank you for all the great work and time you put in here on this thread, and helping and explaining lots of topics in so many other threads. Although I too have been around a long time, helping newer modelers get on board with a good knowledge base up front is really a cool thing. Not too many people take the time as they should to give the gift of knowledge.
Thanks for the kind words, Fred.
I'm just paying back the favors I've received. I came here pretty much ignorant of a lot of the details a few years back and have gotten a lot of help.
As a retired Navy cryptologist and then a gunsmith/machinist/general tinkerer and Jack of all trades I've always been a little anal about the details.
What I did not know then would fill a book, and I love being able to help other along too. They don't have to view my way as the only way, just something that worked for me...
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Background modeling and subtraction is a natural technique for object detection in videos captured by a static camera, and also a critical preprocessing step in various high-level computer vision applications. However, there have not been many studies concerning useful features and binary segmentation algorithms for this problem. We propose a pixelwise background modeling and subtraction technique using multiple features, where generative and discriminative techniques are combined for classification. In our algorithm, color, gradient, and Haar-like features are integrated to handle spatio-temporal variations for each pixel. A pixelwise generative background model is obtained for each feature efficiently and effectively by Kernel Density Approximation (KDA). Background subtraction is performed in a discriminative manner using a Support Vector Machine (SVM) over background likelihood vectors for a set of features. The proposed algorithm is robust to shadow, illumination changes, spatial variations of background. We compare the performance of the algorithm with other density-based methods using several different feature combinations and modeling techniques, both quantitatively and qualitatively.
Background modeling and subtraction, Haar-like features, support vector machine, kernel density approximation.
Larry S. Davis, Bohyung Han, "Density-Based Multifeature Background Subtraction with Support Vector Machine", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, vol. 34, no. , pp. 1017-1023, May 2012, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2011.243


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