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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Oct 1, 1991
|Filing date
|Dec 7, 1989
|Priority date
|Dec 7, 1989
|Fee status
|Publication number
|Danny D. Lowe, John W. Lees
|Original Assignee
|Qsound Ltd.
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|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (9), Referenced by (76), Classifications (8), Legal Events (10)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates generally to a sound system for a video game and, more particularly, to the construction of a sound processor that permits use of sound location information provided in the game software to place the sound image at a desired location.
2. Description of the Background
Interactive video games have now become so well known that everyone has either played such games or has seen others play them. These interactive games provide the player with some sort of control, such as a joy stick and/or actuating buttons to control the video display and progress of the game. Audio program material is also associated with the video display but to date the audio program material has been much less sophisticated than the corresponding video program material. More recently, however, some video game sound programs have been provided in stereo.
Typically, the sound program material is replayed over the speaker contained in the television receiver or monitor. In arcade video games speakers are generally contained within the module housing the arcade game. Some video game systems can also be connected directly to the amplifier and speakers of the home stereo system.
Even though some improvement has been made in the audio program material for video games, such program material is still far below the level of sophistication of the video program material and, thus, generally the games have not been improved as much as they might have. There have also been attempts to use surround sound equipment with video games, however, such surround sound equipment is very expensive and far outweighs the cost of the actual video game itself and, thus, has had little or no popularity.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a sound system for a video game that provides a sound program that is markedly improved over the sound programs of video games known heretofore.
Another object of this invention is to provide a sound processor for a video game system that operates upon the monaural outputs of the audio synthesizer of the video game in accordance with sound location information derived from the game software to give the game player the impression that the sound is emanating from a location other than the actual locations of the loudspeakers.
A further object of the present invention is to provide a sound processor for a video game that includes transfer functions that operate upon the monaural signals from an audio synthesizer to provide respective two-channel signals having differential phase and amplitude adjusted on a frequency dependent basis for playback over two spaced-apart transducers.
A still further object of the present invention is to provide a sound processor for a video game employing sound location information derived from the game software that includes a number of filters and gain adjusters that can accomplish the transformation of each monaural audio signal from the audio synthesizer into respective two-channel signals having a differential phase and amplitude relationship that is adjusted on a frequency dependent basis.
According to an aspect of the present invention, sound location information and the appropriate audio cues for the audio synthesizer are prerecorded or programmed into the video game cartridge at the time of its manufacture. Thereafter, upon playing the game, the audio cue information is utilized by the audio synthesizer to produce monaural signals representing the appropriate sounds. Such signals and the sound location information derived from the game program are fed to a sound processor that processes the monaural synthesized sound utilizing one or more specially derived sound processing transfer functions to produce two-channel sound information having a differential phase and amplitude relationship adjusted on a frequency dependent basis that is then fed to two spaced-apart transducers, which may be either in the existing television receiver/monitor or separate speakers or earphones, so that the sounds heard by the game player appear to be emanating from a point other than the actual locations of the speakers. By specially arranging gain attenuators and filters, a number of transfer functions are achievable, which transfer functions have different respective sound locations.
The above and other objects, features, and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of illustrative embodiments thereof to be read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which like reference numerals represent the same or similar elements.
FIG. 1 is a pictorial representation of a video game system to which the inventive sound processor has been added;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the flow of information in the sound processor of FIG. 1 in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the sound processor of FIG. 2 in more detail;
FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing another embodiment of a sound processor according to the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a further embodiment of a sound processor according to the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a number of sound processors connected together according to an embodiment of the present invention; and
FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing a number of sound processors as in FIG. 5 connected together according to another embodiment of the present invention.
In U.S. patent application Ser. No. 239,981, filed Sept. 2, 1988 and assigned to the assignee hereof, a sound imaging process is disclosed, whereby upon utilizing appropriate transfer functions to process a monaural audio signal, two-channel sound signals are produced that have their differential phase and amplitude adjusted on a frequency dependent basis. The phase and amplitude adjustments are individually made for successive frequency bands over the audio spectrum. Utilization of this transfer function to produce the differential two-channel audio signal results in sounds being produced that are apparently located at a position other than the location of the two loudspeakers or transducers. The disclosure of the above-identified patent application is incorporated herein by reference.
Represented in FIG. 1 is a typical video game system having a sound processor according to the present invention added thereto. More specifically, a game cartridge 10 is of the common configuration and is generally adapted to be inserted into a slot 12 formed in a video game base unit 14. In order to utilize the present invention, however, the game cartridge 10 includes sound location information that is used to process monaural audio signals according to the principles of the above-identified patent application. Cartridge 10 also includes the typical sound program material in the form of cues for the audio synthesizer (not shown) that is typically included as part of a video game. Also part of the video game system is the control unit 20 that includes buttons, shown typically at 16, and a joystick 18 located on the player control unit 20. The player control unit 20 then permits the game player to control the action of the game as it progresses. There are occasions where two remote control units are provided and generally such units are identical. A second such control unit is shown in FIG. 1 at 20' having buttons 16' and joystick 18'.
As explained in the above-identified patent application incorporated herein by reference, the sound processing system can employ suitable transfer functions and receives monaural audio signals and produces respective two-channel signals therefrom, each having a differential phase and amplitude relationship adjusted on a frequency dependent basis over the entire audio spectrum. The sound processing system then sums all of the respective two-channel signals to form two-channel output signals. These two-channel output signals produced from the original monaural signals are then played back over two spaced-apart transducers, which may be the speakers of a television set or which may be earphones or other external speakers. The results of this signal processing is that the sound appears to emanate from a point that is not the same as the location of either of the two transducers. For example, assuming one were facing two speakers directed generally outwardly and the center point between the speakers is considered to be twelve o'clock on a clock face, then it is possible to make the sound appear to the listener to be emanating from a point at 3 o'clock or 9 o'clock, for example, or, indeed, 6 o'clock. Furthermore, the elevation of the sound source can be adjusted as well.
Thus, in the embodiment of FIG. 1, game cartridge 10 contains sound positioning information that might relate to various kinds of sound information typically included in such game cartridges. For example, a game cartridge may provide stationary sounds relating to the background environment of the game, or it may include dynamic sounds relating to the particular picture being provided on the video monitor or it may include dynamic sounds that are created by the actions of the game player utilizing buttons 16 and joystick 18, for example.
Accordingly, this information is fed from the cartridge 10 to the audio synthesizer unit (not shown) that is located in the outboard sound processor unit 24 over multi-line cable 22. As well, the sound location information contained in game cartridge 10, is fed on a multi-line cable 22 to outboard sound processor 24 that is constructed according to an embodiment of the present invention and that will be described in detail herein-below. In sound processor 24, each monaural audio signal produced by the audio synthesizer is converted into two-channel sound signals in response to respective sound location information derived from the game cartridge 10. It will be appreciated that not all of the monaural audio signals produced by the audio synthesizer in accordance with the information from game cartridge 10 will undergo processing by sound processor 24 and, thus, certain sounds will appear to be emanating from the location of the actual loudspeakers 26, 28 during the time that the sound location information does not apply.
In place of loudspeakers 26, 28 the sound signals can also be reproduced over earphones 32 and, using such earphones, the sound location image can also be positioned as described above in the same fashion as if the sounds were being reproduced over loudspeakers 26, 28.
To specify the connection of sound processor 24 in the existing video game system, the video information from base unit 14 can also be fed out on cable 22 directly through sound processor 24 and fed to monitor 30 on cable 34, along with the processed two-channel audio signals.
In order to produce the two-channel signals with differential phase and amplitude adjusted on a frequency dependent basis, the present invention provides a sound position processor 40, shown generally in FIG. 2. Sound position processor 40 operates on the monaural sound signal, such as might be provided by an audio synthesizer, at input terminal 42 to produce left and right output signals at output terminals 44, 46. While the signals at output terminals 44, 46 may be thought of as corresponding to the left and right channels of a conventional stereo system, the sound image ultimately produced by the loudspeakers in accordance with the present invention does not correspond to conventional stereo. Each different position or location of an apparent sound source is controlled by applying a respective transfer function to provide a phase and amplitude differential between the left and right output signals, and this transfer function is then controlled by means of a control signal applied at input terminal 48. The information for generating this control signal is contained within game cartridge 10 and is fed through the microprocessor (not shown) typically employed in all video games. As will be explained hereinafter, the implementation of this sound positioning processor may be either digital or analog and may include some or all of the following functional circuit elements: filters, delays, inverters, summers, amplifiers, and phase shifters. The control information fed in at terminal 48 can be used to alter the parameters of the above functional circuit elements to obtain the specific transfer function required to produce the desired sound image location.
FIG. 3 represents an ideal implementation of the sound position processor 40 of FIG. 2, in which a separate filter is provided in each of the two channels, with the phase and amplitude adjustment taking place in each channel to produce the desired phase and amplitude differential on a frequency dependent basis at the two output terminals 44 and 46. Nevertheless, it is understood that it is the differential feature that is the most important and that therefore only one channel need be adjusted in amplitude and phase with the other channel being fed unchanged directly to the output. The required two channels are provided by dividing or splitting the input signal, and this is simply represented at the junction point 50 in FIG. 3. Identical signals are then fed to a filter 52 in the left channel and to a filter 54 in the right channel. The various new positions of the sound image are then controlled by varying the filter parameters in accordance with control parameter information at input 56 to filter 52 and at input 58 to filter 54. This control parameter information is derived from the game cartridge 10. For example, in a digital implementation filters 52, 54 can be finite impulse response filters whose coefficients are varied to provide different effective transfer functions.
As pointed out above, each channel need not have the transfer function implementation in it, provided that the required differential is present between the output signals of the produced two channels.
FIG. 4 represents an implementation where only a single filter 60 and four gain-adjusting circuits 62, 64, 66, and 68 produce a number of transfer functions sufficient to provide a sound image at a left position, a right position, and all intermediate positions. Specifically, filter 60 is a so-called 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock transfer function, that is, it produces a 3 o'clock or 9 o'clock position in the sound location and then the four gain-adjusting circuits 62, 64, 66, 68 are controlled to provide intermediate positions in response to control parameters from the game cartridge fed in at inputs 70, 72, 74, 76, respectively. In effect, the implementation of FIG. 4 mixes a full-left or full-right position variably with a direct signal, to provide intermediate positions and such mixing occurs in summers or mixer units 78 and 80.
As an operative example, where the sound is to be located in the full-left position, that is, at 9 o'clock, then the gain in gain adjuster 62 is set to zero by a signal at input 70, the gain in gain adjuster 64 is set to its maximum by a signal at input 72, the gain in gain adjuster 66 is set to its maximum by a signal at input 74, and the gain in gain adjuster 68 is set to zero by a signal at input 76. To move from the full-left position to approximately the position of the left loudspeaker or transducer, the gain in gain adjuster 66 is set to zero by a signal at input 74. To move from the left loudspeaker to the right loudspeaker, the gain in gain adjuster 64 is varied to zero by a signal at input 72 and the gain in gain adjuster 68 is set to its maximum by a signal at input 76. In other words, these gain adjuster settings would result in a what would be seen to be a standard stereo signal with both left and right channels being substantially equal. Then, to move from the right speaker to the full right position, that is, 3 o'clock, gain adjuster 62 would be varied to have a maximum gain by a signal at input 70.
An alternate implementation of the embodiment of FIG. 4 is shown in FIG. 5. The embodiment of FIG. 5 employs two 3/9 o'clock filters 90, 92 and employs two summers or adders 78, 80 as in FIG. 4. A gain adjuster 94 is provided at the input to filter 90 and the same monaural input signal at terminal 42 is fed through a second gain adjuster 96 directly to summer 80 without any adjustment. Similarly, the same input monaural signal is fed through gain adjuster 98 directly with no adjustment to summer 78. The input of second filter 92 is provided with a gain adjuster 100 and the output of second filter 92 is fed to adder 72 that also receives the output of summer 96. Once again, by adjusting the gains in gain adjusters 94, 96, 98, 100 in response to the control parameters from the game cartridge fed in on lines 102, 104, 106, 108, respectively, it is possible to mix the full-left or full-right positions variably with direct signals to provide intermediate positions between the full-left and full-right positions.
According to the inventive sound position processor of the present invention, regardless of the number of monaural input signals that are available, the sound processor produces only two output signals therefrom. Each audio signal produced by an audio synthesizer can have its own processor according to the present invention so that certain signals can be positioned to various points. For example, as shown in FIG. 6, multi-input channels are organized to have each signal processed in accordance with its own individual control parameters and the multiple outputs are then summed to form the left and right channels. More specifically, a monaural sound signal from an audio synthesizer of a video game, for example, is fed in at input terminal 110 to a first sound position processor 112 that can be embodied as shown in FIGS. 2-5, for example. The sound position processor 112 also receives the positioning control parameters at input terminal 114 that determine whether or not and to what extent the monaural sound signal at input 110 will be relocated in relation to the loudspeakers. Sound position processor 112 produces a left-channel signal on line 116 and a right-channel signal on line 118, with the left-channel signal being fed to a first adder 120 and the right-channel signal being fed to a second adder 122. A sound position processor, each identical to sound position processor 112, is provided for each of the separate monaural input signals. For example, a second monaural signal is fed in at input terminal 124, input terminal 126 receives the (N-1) monaural input signal, and input terminal 128 receives the Nth monaural input signal that is produced either by the audio synthesizer or from some other sound source. As in the first channel, the monaural sound signal at input terminal 128, for example, is fed to a sound position processor 130 that produces a corresponding left-channel output on line 132 fed to adder 120 and a right-channel output on line 134 fed to adder 122. Once again, the positioning is controlled by a signal at input terminal 136 relating to the control parameters for the sound image location as derived from the game cartridge shown in FIG. 1. Each sound position processor that is arranged between the first sound position processor 112 and the last sound position processor 130 provides corresponding left and right output signals fed to adders 120 and 122, respectively. Adder 120 then combines all input signals and produces the left-channel output signal at terminal 44 and, similarly, adder 122 combines all input signals and provides the right-channel output at terminal 46. It is understood, of course, that the various sound position processors shown in FIG. 6 can assume any of the various embodiments described above.
While the embodiment shown in FIG. 6 comprising a so-called group positioner functions perfectly and, indeed, operates with high efficiency, it is nonetheless somewhat expensive because it has a large number of sound positioners, which comprise digital filters in some embodiments and can, thus, be quite expensive. On the other hand, only two adders are required and adders are relatively inexpensive compared to digital filters. Therefore, the present invention provides another embodiment, shown in FIG. 7, of a group positioner that is quite inexpensive relative to the embodiment to FIG. 6 because only two 3/9 o'clock transfer functions are required.
Turning then to FIG. 7, a multiple channel positioner is shown that employs only two 3/9 o'clock filters 140 and 142, but employs a number of adders and gain adjusters that are relatively inexpensive compared to the filters. More specifically, in the first channel, a monaural input signal is provided at input terminal 144 and is fed through a first gain adjuster 146 to a signal adder 148, whose output is the input to a first 3/9 o'clock filter 140. The output of filter 140 is fed to another signal adder 150. The monaural sound signal at input terminal 144 is also fed to a second gain adjuster 152 whose output is fed to another signal adder 154. The same input signal is also fed to a third gain adjuster 156 whose output is fed to adder 158, and to a fourth gain adjuster 160 that has an output fed to a fourth input adder 162. This arrangement is somewhat similar to the system shown in FIG. 5, for example. In fact, the embodiment of FIG. 7 can be seen as a specialized case of the embodiment of FIG. 5 in which a number of adders are provided ahead of the two 3/9 o'clock filters. The second monaural sound signal is fed in at input terminal 164 to gain adjuster 166, whose output is fed to adder 148, and the second monaural input signal is also fed to gain adjuster 168, whose output goes to adder 154, and to gain adjuster 170, whose output goes to adder 158, and to gain adjuster 172, whose output goes to adder 162. Any number of channel inputs can be provided and the last channel input in this example is represented as channel N input at terminal 174. The signal input at 174 is fed once again to four gain adjusters 176, 178, 180, and 182, whose outputs are fed, respectively, to adders 148, 154, 158, and 162. As indicated, the output of adder 148 is fed to 3/9 o'clock filter 140, whose output is fed to output signal adder 150, and the output of adder 154 is fed to an output signal adder 184, the output of adder 158 is also fed to output signal adder 150 and the output of adder 162 is fed to the second 3/9 o'clock filter 142, whose output is also fed to output signal adder 184. Accordingly, output signal adders 150 and 184 produce the left-channel signal at output terminal 44 and the right-channel signal at output terminal 46, respectively.
Comparing the embodiment of FIG. 7 with that of FIG. 6, it is easily seen that a cost savings in circuitry is achieved because only two filters are required regardless of the number of input channels, whereas in the embodiment of FIG. 6, at least one filter is required for each input channel.
The above description is given on a single preferred embodiment of the invention, but it will be apparent that many modifications and variations could be effected by one skilled in the art without departing from the spirit or scope of the novel concepts of the invention, which should be determined by the appended claims.
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Rooms, services 18 comfortably furnished rooms are offered by Hotel al Viale Trieste to guests looking for accommodation in Trieste. Since the hotel has an own restaurant, you may also try fine local meals on the spot. The exact scope of services offered by Hotel al Viale Trieste (including those for an extra fee) is available on the information sheet below.
Payment Credit card guarantee or advance bank card payment may be required for the reservation, depending on the chosen room, date and price.
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The deadline for today's story about the McKinley Hill neighborhood passed before I could make contact with architect Mark McIntire, chairman of Tacoma's Landmarks Preservation Commission and vice president of the DomeTop Neighborhod Alliance. Here's a Q&A with McIntire:
How long have you lived in the McKinley Hill neighborhood?
I actually grew up in the Hillsdale Neighborhood (often referred to as Upper McKinley Hill) farther south along McKinley Avenue behind Sheridan Elementary at East 52nd and I Streets, but I have lived at my present address since purchase in 1992.
How has the area changed in the past few years?
The atmoshere and morale of the neighborhood has been changing over the last two decades and for the better. A lower crime rate and a greater number of younger families buying and renovating older homes are more recent developments. Even though revitalizing our business district is an ongoing challenge, an awareness and dedication from the neighborhood groups in mutual support has allowed progesses on a number of issues for the entire East Side.
What are some of the neighborhood initiatives that have contributed to McKinley's revival?
An embrace of Community Based Services has given an enforcement response to neighborhood concerns and code violations which was missing in years past and has helped rid our area of many undesirable situations. Friends of McKinley Park, who by volunteer labor are restoring the Park to a usable state by clearing away forty-five years of neglect. If, with some cooperation from Streets and Grounds, and Public Works, our Hillclimbs will be repaired, allowing pedestrian connections between the First Creek green space, McKinley Park, the Dome District and Downtown. DomeTop Neighborhood Alliance among other initiatives has started creating pocket parks out the forgotten City-owned parcels like the Gault Oval on Division Lane. There are initiatives on-going to create community gardens, a food cooperative and document, restore and nominate a greater share of our historic homes to the Local Register of Historic Places. These are only a few of the inititives under way.
What makes McKinley Hill stand out from other Tacoma neighborhoods?
In many ways we are like any other neighborhood in the City, but what makes us stand out is our willingness to organize, our energy, and outreach with mutual support for the surrounding neighborhood groups and their initiatives. McKinley Hill has a diverse demographic and capitalizes on its personnel resources to "connect the dots" to programs and organizations which further livabilty. We are among the older neighborhoods in the City with plats dating from 1857 and a housing stock built primarily between 1885 and 1929. McKinley Hill is the neighborhood where one can find a Victorian, a Craftsman or a Four-Square virtually intact at a price two-thirds to half that of any other neighborhood in the Puget Sound Basin.
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The timezone in Poorman is America/Whitehorse
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Latitude. 46.5086°, Longitude. -115.8869° , Elevation. 829m
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- an area, often of forested land, maintained as a place of beauty, or for recreation.
- Hanging Trees Historical Marker (7.8km)
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Video: Updating the sound system at Trinity Irish Pub
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Trinity Irish Pub, a popular dance club on the University of Virginia campus, needed an update to their sound system. We sent one of our in-house Pro Audio experts, Dallas, to help. He designed a system with plenty of clean power so Trinity could rock into the early morning hours with ease.
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(Voiceover) Trinity Irish Pub needed a new sound system, so we sent our Pro Audio specialist, Dallas, to help.
Dallas: They had some, you know, X-Y-Z brand powered speakers, two, and a powered sub that wasn't filling the entire space. The powered speakers didn't have adequate volume or power to get the volume levels they wanted, and that's when they called me for help.
Because of the height of the ceiling, we definitely knew we needed to suspend the speakers to get them over the crowd so they weren't blocking the sound. So we picked the PRX400 series 12" as the four satellites to surround the dance floor to get an immersive effect on the dance floor.
I teamed it up with Crown amplifiers that have built in limiting factors so the system could be calibrated and protected, so as visiting DJs come in, plug their rigs into the system, they would be limited and protect the speakers. All of your equipment needs to be plugged into power protection, preferably filtering and power protection.
We set up the system, calibrated the system, passed the signal through a dbx DriveRack for auto-calibration of the room auto EQ setting. It also has the ability to perform anti-feedback control for any live mic that you are using. And everybody's very happy with this system now. There's plenty of clean power and they've got a lot of headroom.
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Atlanta, GA (PressExposure) March 03, 2009 -- Spring Book Show 2009, long the Southâs largest bargain book show, opens at the Cobb Galleria Centre in north Atlanta on Friday, March 6, and runs through Sunday, March 8. All 550 vendor spaces for the show were sold out in February, but registrations for buyers are still open.
In addition to book buyers and marketers, more than 100 writers from around the nation will attend educational seminars, and separate educational sessions for booksellers are scheduled by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA).
The SIBA educational seminars for bookstore personnel will address such critical subjects as store marketing and public relations.
More than a dozen regional authors and book business professionals, including Cec Murphey, Kimberley Kennedy, Brad Cohen, Hollis Gillespie and Patricia Sprinkle will lead the educational sessions for writers.
This yearâs show will draw more than 100 remainder dealers from around the world. They will be offering more than 50,000 book titles at bargain prices to hundreds of buyers from book stores, specialty retailers, public and academic libraries and school media specialists. According to show organizer Larry May of Knoxville, Tenn., special attention has been paid to inviting the book industry public from the Southeast, from Georgia and, in particular, from the 14-county metro Atlanta area.
As in the last few years, the show is waiving the $75 registration fee for librarians from Georgia, who may attend the show free. The librarians are also invited to attend some of the educational sessions associated with the show at no cost. The offer to librarians covers all public librarians, academic librarians from colleges and universities and public and private school media specialists who function as librarians. The show provides the librarians an opportunity to purchase books ranging from childrenâs to adult titles at deeply discounted prices.
May said the largest remainder dealers from the United States, Canada, Africa, Australia and Great Britain will be attending the Atlanta show. Theyâll display their wares â the largest collection of remainder books, returns, white sales and promotional books in the nation â at 500-plus display units in over 70,000 square feet of space.
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Oceanview Terrace continues to increase in value
Oceanview Village continues to be a highly desirable place that buyers want to live; the one bedrooms come up most often and are the most affordable. Convenience, proximity to BART, and the exceptional value is recognized by consistent overbidding.
In the first quarter, we saw:
Four sold properties; all were one bedroom units
Overbids ranged from $22,000 – $61,000
Supply is still limited; there are only two active listings-both two bedrooms
Values since last quarter have remained constant-this seems to be typical for the whole SF market


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Nook Color Android
April 26, 2011 by USA Post
Nook Color Android, Straddling the line between a tablet and an electronic reader Rinc? N color looks set to become even more tempting offer to potential customers with a tablet-air upgrade, which will deliver Android 2.2, and various other things. Corner and color is available for and comes with a 7 "screen, 8 GB of internal memory and a 800MHz processor. While most devices this will not fly with all the functions of water for users who just want some features compressed basic e-reader, which makes it an attractive offer.
Android 2.2 Apart from a number of other interesting improvements in the update. These include full support for Adobe Flash Player, an email application and a social networking application that allows friends to corner easily share and discuss books they are reading. The email application compatible with all major email services like Yahoo Mail, Gmail, AOL and Hotmail.
In addition to the applications built into the update will be launching an application store that is ready to initially offer a selection of 125 applications optimized for Nook. Other content includes pre-installed Crossword, Sudoku and Chess and there will, of course, favorite applications like angry birds available in the store.
"NOOK color provides the best reading experience on any device, and now offers the most popular compressed features, such as participation applications that customers can play, learn and explore, free, e-mail function, an operating system upgrade Android to surf the Web and more content more interactive, "said William Lynch, Barnes & Noble.
Another great attraction of the bar is enhanced interactive content more attractive and it is an incentive for parents. The corner already has the largest collection of electronic books for children, including more than 12,000 books and 350 chapters corner children books. Other smaller improvements include a new page animation rotation and improved global search.
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Guys - I'm trying to find a solution for an internal use "store". All I need is a single list of about 20 products (easy with the templating), an ability to add to cart (preferably ajax style with a mini-cart update on screen), and then a
checkout with MINIMAL info. It's internal for a hospital so all we need is the name and department, not address, shipping stuff, anything else. We aren't tracking inventory with it.
Is this easy to do with the base product? (meaning without needing me to customize code - templates and such are ok).
I've gone through quite a few "stores" and not found what I want - hoping this can do it.
Hi Kevin,
Does it need to process payments or just record the order and who ordered it?
I'm asking because it sounds almost as if a custom form would do the job best. Something like Datasprings' Dynamic Forms would let you make a list of products and check-boxes, and fields for purchaser details, all in one page.
Something similiar to the above, but more ready-to-go for processing payments and managing orders is Active Modules' Active Purchase. That's like a single page shopping cart. It's way overdue for an update however, so make absolutely sure it will
fill requirements as-is before investing in it.
I would steer towards a proper shopping cart like NB Store only if there were lots of products, the products were changed often, the products needed extensive details views, and if a payment gateway other than PayPal were required (both of the above support
I think any cart is basically going to require more clicks than necessary, although one advantage of NB Store here is that it will process orders without having to create an account on the website.
Thanks Rob - I really appreciate your insight.
I've kind of come to that conclusion too - just hoping for an easy way out. Plus I figure if I learn a cart I can use that knowledge on the next "client".
I did get xmod pro and am thinking I'm going to try that as it will probably be more ajax-esque. I have played with Dynamic Forms (the 2.7 version) and was not thrilled with how it stored data in the database - it would be harder to mine for reports
than what xmod pro or most carts would provide. Not that my requirements are that extreme but I do need to do some summary reporting.
Again thanks!
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The SWOT analysis is a process that most companies used so as to assess how their company is performing along with their competitors. After the assessment, the formulation strategies come after. However, the details below are not just made for businesses as it can also be made for personal swot analysis example. With that, such can be very helpful and beneficial for people looking for a job or perhaps aspiring to get a promotion. Before discussing anything, you must first know the real definition of an analysis paper. This is writing out of an analysis of something that can make it a critical assessment. Thus, it likewise makes a critical analysis paper example. In such kind of writing, the writer must discuss some pros and cons of a certain topic. Here is the process that you must follow when writing an analysis paper example.
The first step is to decide for your career goal. The next would be to know one's self and your surroundings as well. Doing such, the SWOT analysis can be very helpful. This is also the example of a character analysis. The definition of SWOT is:
S for Strengths (internal): This can easily be answered by anyone because this is considered as the assets. Some examples can be good working ethics, fast learner, strong management skills, good sales skills and more.
W for Weaknesses (internal): This part is the characteristic of a person or company that needs improvement. The things that can be written here are poor listener, low self-esteem in front of many people and so on.
O for Opportunities (external): This is the ways on how to improve the weaknesses or go around the threats.
T for Threats (external): These are the possible things that can happen negatively for a person or company.
The process can take the important information regarding the internal strengths and weaknesses of a person. It is in addition with the external opportunities and threats as well. This is the way to properly write a sample character analysis.
Writing a personal SWOT analysis is very important as it can identify the actions that can meet the job requirements that you wish to apply or the promotion that you wish to get. The person who will read your analysis will be able to compare the strengths and weaknesses that you have written for appropriate job matching. Writing one is a good booster that you need when you are in the process of job hunting or applying for a job promotion.
In writing your own SWOT analysis, the first step is to get a paper. The paper must be divided into four sections. Then, it must be labeled with Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats.
The next is to fill out each of the sections. You need to evaluate your characters, skills, education and experiences to answer those.
Honesty is the best way to answer your SWOT analysis worksheet. If it is answered with sugar coating, it can simply be ineffective and useless.
When you feel that you are not able to fill out the sections as needed, you may want to ask a friend whom you trust and know you in and out. He or she can tell you more about your strengths and weaknesses. Also, by reading some personal SWOT analysis examples found online is a good way to work out on the task.
Teachers always give a variety of writing tasks for students. If you are in a business course, it is likely that your professors always give you a business analysis example assignment. This is a type of paper where students need to discuss more about business related terms. When writing such, using the SWOT can be very handy. Here are some ways on writing one:
a. Step one is selecting a particular industry or business that you are interested with.
b. The introduction of the paper must contain the history of the chosen company. It is good to highlight when it was founded, location and founder. In here, you must also tell more about how the company succeeded and the factors that attributed to its growth.
c. The body of the paper must have more details about the company's strengths.
d. Discuss more about the weaknesses of the company. Give details if the company is yielding low returns of assets, poor gross profits and so on.
e. Next is to write more about the opportunities that you see for the company. It can be a merger, partnership and others.
f. Then, you need to write about the threats for the profitability and success of the company.
g. Lastly is to write the conclusion. This part must have the economic forecast and company's finances.
The goal why character analysis is assigned to students is for it to describe a person's character, identify the character type he is dealing with and to write about the story's conflict. Below are the ways to write it:
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Lady Gaga has been rehearsing day and night for the big Pepsi Half Time Show at this year's Super Bowl. She even built a huge tented dance-floor in her backyard to prep for the big day.
While details of Gaga's show is still under wraps, fans do get a look inside the rehearsals with the first of many Behind The Scenes video from Pepsi. Check out Mother Monster herself and her back-up dancers going over the choreography of "Bad Romance," above.


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It's time for Mil Spouse Weekly Roundup #5! I'm thrilled by the responses we've been rounding up every week. Remember, you don't have to write a new post in order to participate. Just link up with one of your posts from the week!
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A new set of standards for ecommerce?
At the March 12 VIP Roundtable focusing on ecommerce held by MicroD in Charlotte, N.C., one of the issues that was brought up among the panel was the lack of standardization in the industry.
Charles White, owner of retailer RW Designs, cited the example set by the propane gas industry, which agreed upon a standard valve so all propane tanks will fit all grills. Jesse Akre, MicroD's senior vice president for ecommerce, noted that such a movement toward a certain degree of conformity (though not necessarily in construction or design) would probably help generate more sales across the industry.
From vendor to vendor, there are — and should be — differences in product that sets each apart. However, in the arena of ecommerce, wouldn't it be great if there were certain aspects that could be standardized to help streamline the process of retail?
Officials for RM Innovation (formerly Innovations International), the makers of POS system RMPro, say we're at that point — at least for those of us selling online the rug world.
Recently, I was permitted a sneak peek at their newest program, called RM Datalink, which streamlines digital imagery, pricing information and product details for (as of this writing) more than 190,000 rug SKUs from numerous sources, running the gamut from majors to smaller vendors.
The program, which costs $499-$999 per month (depending on the number of SKUs a retailer has access to) works by taking the offerings from manufacturers and putting them in a database that reconfigures the data into a single format that is compatible with a number of different website building programs. The result is a simplified method for showing sizes, styles, information and prices for rugs for which a retailer has a program in place with a vendor.
RM Innovation's Michael Getz called Datalink the "single source of truth," noting that since the information comes directly from the vendors, it significantly reduces the possibility of errors in coding or translation.
"That's the end goal of this database: having these retailers and vendors see Datalink as the go-to — the industry standard for product information. When it comes to Web store product data, if you search product data no matter what industry you're in, accuracy is the first thing you want to see," he said.
"Inaccurate data is the biggest headache. It will not only threaten credibility (misspelling, mispricing, inaccurate uploads) if one digit is wrong on this one item, you've got to honor the mistake. With the small inaccuracies like that, the retailer takes a hit."
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Early in the morning, heavy rain loudly crashed on the windows, the whole town was shrouded in the gloomy mist.
In the conference room of the district police station, all the police officers sat around the long black table, everybody was very serious.
The operation, this time, was very productive. Within few days, the police had arrested more than thirty suspects and rescued more than forty victims. However, "Brother Lu" was a needle in the haystack, still missing without a trace.
The province police instructed and issued arrest warrant provinces wide, to implement a large-scale hunt. The action team led by Ji Bai finished with their task had disbanded today, everybody had returned to their posts waiting for further instructions.
After the brief summary report, Ji Bai invited deputy director Liu to speak.
Deputy director Liu had always been known across the province for her vigorous and resolute personality. This time was no exception.
After affirming the achievements and values of the operation, this time, she changed the subject: "But our operation cannot be said to be successful, or even fall short in the last minute because of a negligence of a comrade, a criminal that the ministry of public security named "Brother Lu" escaped right in front of our eyes."
Within the heavy rain that was like the sound of drums, the conference room appeared to become quieter.
Yao Meng sat straight, her face changed from red to white.
Liu Cheng's gaze stopped on her, bluntly said: "Yao Meng, we made an exception for you and Xu Xu letting trainee participate in the operation because we were hoping that you will be able to play professional roles. However, "Brother Lu" was in your car, and you didn't even notice, and moreover you let her go into the bathroom alone, from where she easily escaped. I can't forgive this mistake. After going back, I will request your director, a need for punishment responsible for this matter. I hope you reflect and learn from experience and improve your professionalism, and never let a similar mistake from happening again."
Yao Meng's eyes filled with tears, and she lowered her head down: "Yes, deputy director Liu."
Liu Cheng was the type of person to point at the wrongs instead of the person. After being criticized, seeing the little girls aggrieved look, more than half the irritation in her had already gone down. She turned to Ji Bai and said: "I've no more opinion, you may adjourn the meeting."
JI Bai lifted his eyes to look at her, and said in the deep voice: "I do not agree about punishing Yao Meng."
Everyone was quiet, there was only the sound of the rain from outside the window.
Yao Meng in trance looked up, watched Ji Bai with misty eyes. He sat not far from her, behind him was the dark sky outside the window, and his face was so calm and determined.
Liu Ying turned sullen. Ji Bai as if not seeing her expression continued to say slowly: "This matter happened not because of Yao Meng's oversight but because she's a trainee policeman, and lacks real life experience. Combining all her performance in this operation, I think her performance is basically good."
The room turned even quieter, and the young police officers didn't dare to even breath loudly, and all the old police officers expressions didn't change as if not feeling the tense atmosphere.
At this time, Da Hu said in a low tone: "I agree with Ji Bai's opinion." Xu Xu nodded: "I also agree." Her voice was crisper than Da Hu's.
Yao Meng sat between the two of them, buried her head even lower.
Liu Ying glanced over them, and stared at Ji Bai: "As you say, who will be responsible for "brother Lu's" escape?"
Ji Bai: "I'm the commander of the operation, if you want someone to be held accountable, I'll be responsible for everything."
Liu Ying threw the notebook on her hand on the table: "Ji Bai, do you think I won't discipline you?"
Ji Bai turned silence with an indifferent expression. Others stayed silent, the tense atmosphere in the room turned to extreme instantly.
Suddenly, Yao Meng raised her head and chokingly said: "It's my responsibility, discipline me. This has nothing to do with him… nothing to do with boss."
The conference room became increasingly quiet, only the sound of Yao Meng's sobs were heard.
At this, an official from province police laughed: "Look, you scared the little girl. Don't cry anymore. Ji Bai, Liu Ying just wants to improve the quality of the police team from Lin city of yours by having such strict requirements. Up in the province, the one who praised you the most was deputy director Liu, how could she punish her little brother?" Ji Bai and Liu Cheng both graduated from criminal investigation department of the office of public security university and were considered to be from the same sect.
The official looked at Liu Ying: "I think what Ji Bai said is reasonable, how about we go back and discuss it later?"
Ji Bai nodded: "You're right, I speak without paying attention to my words. Deputy director Liu, I hope you lessen your anger."
Liu Ying was now in a fit of anger, but touched with Ji Bai's calm eyes, she was unable to release her anger and could only sullenly say: "Adjourn!"
The afternoon that day, deputy director Liu drove back to the province, Ji Bai personally saw her off for a distance. Liu Ying was sullen on the way till the end, finally smiled and said: "Alright, I accept your opinion, I won't discipline anyone. But this matter, you must personally report to the province police."
"No problem, I will listen to you. After going back to Lin city, I'll go to the province to apologize."
"This brat… tell Yao Meng, I'm like that, I was too harsh today, tell her not to think too much."
After the provincial leader left, the rest of the people that stayed behind immediately relaxed quite a bit. Su Mu suggested that they invite Ji Bai and other guests that came from Lin city to eat lunch, and enjoy the local specialties. After a night's rest, he would send a car to drive them back to Lin city next day morning.
The location was set in a riverside restaurant, and very close to the police station.
The rain outside hadn't stopped yet. When Yao Meng arrived, there was only Su Mu, Ji Bai, Da Hu and two police officers sitting by the window, the others weren't there yet.
After being criticized today, all the familiar police officers had gone to comfort her. The unfamiliar police officers had looked at her with gentle and encouraging eyes. However, it was not important to her, what's important was Ji Bai's attitude. Although the day was very sad for her, but thinking of his attitude today, the sadness became sweet.
The Sichuan police were the host, Lin City people sat at their seats. The seat on the right-hand side of Ji Bai was still empty. Yeo Meng's heart was throbbing; she quietly walked by Da Hu. Surprisingly, just as she walked behind him, he used his hand and pulled her to sit next to him: "That seat is taken, you should sit here."
Yao Meng didn't get to react before several other men laughed with tacit looks. Ji Bai sat without a word but he didn't deny anything.
Yao Meng's mind was a bit hazy, her temples started throbbing painfully.
After a while, Xu Xu came and naturally sat beside Ji Bai. Because Da Hu had already directed, "not to tease", the men didn't laugh and pretend not seeing anything.
The meal was carried out in a very joyful atmosphere. A young police officer drank too much and forgetting the order, held up a cup to Xu Xu, said "Sister-in-law, toast, toast to you!"
Xu Xu was about to explain when Ji Bai lightly pulled her sleeves: "They're all drunk, we're going back to the city tomorrow anyway."
Yao Meng didn't hear their conversation. She barely touched the dishes nor did she say anything but still had a smile on her face throughout the meal.
In the afternoon, the rain poured down heavier; the sky was dark as if it was already night.
This time, they were resting in the district hotel, each person had their own room. The police officers gathered in one room to play cards noisily. Because this person and that person toasted Xu Xu, she ended up drinking in total a bowl of white wine. Fell asleep right away after she went back to the room.
Yao Meng sat by the window in her room, watching the rain. After a while, she noted that Ji Bai's room next door was quiet, she got up and went out.
Ji Bai opened the door to see Yao Meng, he was slightly stunned.
She wore a very thin white shirt with simple trousers. It seemed that she got wet from the rain, the half wet hair hung off her shoulder, her face was pale. The look in her eyes was calm but surging with emotions.
"Ji Bai." She said softly.
As the torrential rain fell, the small town police compound in the rain seemed, even more, empty and quiet within the heavy rain.
Ji Bai stared at her eyes, slowly said: "Yao Meng, you're very talented and a well-rounded talent. As a superior and colleague, now and in the future, I'll spare no effort to help you achieve greater success in work. Other than that, I have no other feelings for you."
Yao Meng stood in trance looking at him, felt shame. Although knowing the answer, she still opened her mouth to ask a question that would make it, even more, shameful: "In your heart… you already have someone else?"
"Yes, I already have."
After he closed the door, Ji Bai walked into the room.
Da Hu was in his room watching soccer; he had already heard the conversation at the door. After a while, he said: "Yao Meng, this girl is good in other aspects, she just has too many intentions, and often talks in circles, which is honestly not really necessary."
Ji Bai nodded and said: "Do not mention this to other people."
"I know." Da Hu understood that Ji Bai wanted to save the girl's face.
They watched soccer for a moment before Da Hu suddenly started humming: "In my heart, there's only you, don't have her, you have to believe in my sincere feelings…"
Ji Bai laughed.
When twilight hours came, everybody gathered at the hotel's courtyard and strolled together around the Sichuan town night streets. Da Hu knocked at Yao Meng's door before but she said that she was tired and didn't want to go.
After the rain, the air was very fresh. Although the ground was still wet, but there were more and more pedestrians walking on the streets. A bunch of energized and tall strong men walking beside Ji Bai and Xu Xu attracted the attention of many passersby. Ji Bai looked indifferent while Xu Xu was slightly embarrassed, walked with her head lowered as if not existing.
After walking for about ten minutes, the group of men was bustling with conversation while JI Bai and Xu Xu didn't say a word to each other. Ji Bai glanced at her, stopped and asked: "I'm going to buy some souvenirs for friends, you want to go?"
Xu Xu honestly also wanted to buy: "I'll go."
Ji Bai looked up to ask the crowd: "Me and Xu Xu are going to buy some specialties. What about you guys?" His eyes passed once over each of them. Meeting his eyes, they one after another shook their head.
"Not going, not going. The two of you go."
"Nothing exciting about buying specialty."
Su Mu said: "Captain Ji, I recommend a shop to you, good quality is guaranteed, it's just a little far.
It wasn't just a little far, JI Bai and Xu Xu walked for half an hour before they finally arrived.
But the two of them were secretly very much satisfied with the recommendation of Su Mu. Both of them thought: "I can walk quietly with her (him), no one is there to disturb, it feels great."
Coming out from the specialty shop, the two were silent for a moment. Ji Bai quickly looked around, finally picked a place alongside the river: "Let's go over there."
The river surrounded the small town. In the recent years, new constructions had grown alongside the long river of dark water like a string of gray pearl. Ji Bai and Xu Xu walked for a while, they heard lively music come from ahead. At the other end of the embankment appeared a large square.
Because of the rain, there weren't many people on the street. But the rain couldn't dampen the enthusiasm of the people living in this small town. "Summer summer quietly passed, leaving behind the … " a song echoed from the square. Dozens of couples, mostly middle-aged, were dancing under the lights.
In the eyes of young girls like Xu Xu, this scene was very warm and lovely, but also a bit funny.
Ji Bai also thought that dancing among a bunch of middle-aged people was quite ridiculous. But after being silent for a few seconds, he turned around and looked at Xu Xu: "You want to dance?"
Xu Xu: "It's your choice."
Ji Bai immediately threw the bag of souvenirs he had just bought, down on the floor, until the time for leaving, he didn't remember the bag of souvenirs.
Xu Xu had only danced with Xu Jun at home. She gave one hand to Ji Bai and placed another on his shoulder, Xu Xu immediately lowered her head and her face began to heat up.
Ji Bai held the sweating little hand tightly, the other hand finally held the fragile waist that he had looked at countless times.
After a few seconds being hand in hand, his heart surged up a pleasant feeling that was calming. Xu Xu's body slightly trembled. Ji Bai felt that, and he quietly clasped her so her body stuck even closer to his.
The sound of music was right beside their ears but seemed very far away. The silhouette around them kept moving but everything became an irrelevant background. Xu Xu's whole body was in his arms and she felt an unprecedented dizziness.
In fact, they weren't all that good at dancing and their movements were not very compatible. But not to the point where Xu Xu would step on his shoes but from time to time, she would move in the opposite direction to him. Whenever it happened, Ji Bai would use his hand to forcefully pull her right back into his arms immediately, not a moment of separation. At this time, Ji Bai subtly revealed his strength more than he usually did. Xu Xu looked up at his calm and dark eyes, she wanted to look straight into his heart. She obviously was just a little dizzy since she couldn't think clearly about anything.
The song ended then another song started.
From the song "Pink memories" to " The most dazzling folk style" and to "the first snow of 2002".
When Dolan sang to the verse " Like a butterfly flying…" Xu Xu suddenly felt Ji Bai hug her waist a bit tighter, his hot breaths indistinctively blew on the short hair on her head.
"It's raining!"
"It's raining again, Let's go home." The music stopped, the couples who were dancing on the square fled. Ji Bai slowly released Xu Xu, two pairs of eyes stared at each other.
Rainwater was falling beside their feet, and also on their heads.
"Boss, we're here" It was Da Hu's hearty voice coming from behind: "Get on in the car fast, there will be a rain storm."
The rain was getting harsher in the blink of an eye.
Ji Bai looked at Xu Xu: "Let's get on the car."
It turned out that Su Mu had gone back to get the car, and was taking everyone on a ride to feel the wind along the riverbank, and had happened to see them.
The group went back to the hotel, Ji Bai stood at the porch to say goodbye to everyone. Several young police officers surrounded him to express admiration before his departure. Xu Xu went to her room and looked at him across the crowd. Ji Bai immediately noticed and raised his brows looking at her, his eyes were calm and deep.
After she took a shower, Xu Xu sat cross-legged on the bed and looked at the rain pouring down outside the window.
After dancing to the last moment, she had felt his head lower down, and something lightly touched the top of her head. Did Ji Bai kiss her hair or was it the first raindrop that fell on her head?
Thinking of this, her heart started to beat faster. Xu Xu stood up and opened the window; raindrops immediately got in and fell down on top of her head.
She didn't know how long she experienced it, but it was until her hair was half wet, then only did Xu Xu withdraw her head. She had one hand supporting under her chin and lips curled up into a smile.
She was disappointed that she had no experience, so she couldn't compare.
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The much-awaited romance =) How do you like it? It was awkward and adorable…
Ji Bai rejection was quite nice, well rejections are never nice but he was straightforward and to the point. Not giving Yao Meng any lingering expectation that they could be… It's the best for her since they will never be anything more…
Anyway, two regular chapters released so moving on to the extra chapters from donations.
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