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I love the idea, but I agree that there needs to be customization. I use Siri for alarms (I set varied ones), so that's useless to me. On the flip side I'd love the flashlight one, if only to eliminate the flashlight app I have on my first page for quick access. Let us select what we want on there. Not only does it allow us to put what WE need on there, it also lets us eliminate what we don't. If someone doesn't use one of the options it's clutter, and Apple supposedly doesn't like clutter.
Is Control Center a useful addition to iOS? [Poll]
One of the many new additions to iOS 7 is Control Center. Apple bills it as "quick access to the controls and apps you always seem to need right this second." There's plenty packed in there, too; a series of quick toggles for such things as WiFi and Bluetooth, quick brightness settings, music player controls, AirDrop, AirPlay and quick shortcuts to some of the stock apps and a flashlight. All of this is accessible anywhere within the OS with a simple swipe up from the bottom of the screen, so the quick access part is definitely correct. But, we want to know your thoughts on whether you think Control Center is really a useful addition to iOS?
The music controls have always been quick at hand, as has rotation lock. The other toggles being close at hand are new, however, as are the apps. But, while quick access to a flashlight might be handy, same with the camera, are the alarm clock and calculator apps necessarily what the majority would choose to put there? Perhaps if you could customise which apps, and which toggles for that matter, you have in your Control Center, it would be more universally appealing?
That's what we want to know from you. Granted not many will have used it yet, but on first glance, does Control Center seem like a useful addition to iOS? Would it be something you would use on a daily basis, or would you prefer to be able to customise it to meet your own specific needs? As ever, drop a vote up top and give us your thoughts in the comments below!
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Is Control Center a useful addition to iOS? [Poll]
The design of this controls center was typical apple. Give us what is supposed to be a very useful feature and make it non-customizable so it actually detracts from it's utilization. There are two other toggles I use daily that didn't even make its way in there. How you can put this out and not allow for some basic customization is beyond me.
Or this could be the toe in the water. If well received they may later allow that bottom row of links to be customized. Seems like the design could easily allow it. Who knows....still in Beta so maybe there will be customization before fall.
I'll use it every day. Having the flashlight toggle there rids me of one more app, having the calculator handy means the app itself can be relegated to another page somewhere else, and now my BT control is only a swipe away.
I'm wishy washy on some of the changes in iOS but this one item has completely streamlined some everyday tasks I do on my phone.
I can see me using it every day. Customisation would be nice but what is there is better than the option we have at the moment. I.e. none. I imagine if customisation doesn't come in 7, it will be added later.
I find it odd they left out a 3G/4G/Mobile Data Toggle. Especially as wi-fi is in there. At least twice a day (when I leave the house & when I get home) I turn wi-fi off and mobile data on. Maybe most people leave mobile data on all the time but if they have given the option for one, why not the other
The idea is fine, the UI needs work. Why are some things in circles but other things in squares? And where as Notification Center text is mostly in white, Control Center text is in grey/black. Why?
Beta UI that I really hope gets cleaned up.
Someone already explained the pretty obvious answer about circles and squares for you so I'm gonna answer the other part. Control Center and Notification Center use a different black ground. They both blur what's behind them but control center has a much brighter blur whereas Notification Center uses a darker blur. There's nothing really to clean up here.
I wish they would switch the control center and multitasking shortcuts or at least give you the option. Apple still continues to have most of the out of app experience locked down choosing what they think most people will want.
Coming from not having the control center without jailbreak (and even then not implemented in a way I liked), I'm thrilled to death with the Control Center. While I know it's different for everyone, Apple just happened to pick the exact toggles I use everyday. That's what Apple does though. They find out what the best experience would be for 80% of their users, and they throw their full weight behind it. I understand their reasons behind it, and I personally agree. Not sure that it would hurt if they gave people the option though. There are still power users out there, and there always will be. I think the question for them lies in how many Genius Bar appointments they have to field because someone who barely knows how to use their phone suddenly made their Control Center icons disappear. Coming from a consulting background, that would make me nuts. Again, it's not really an argument against letting people customize, but I think it plays a part in their decision making process.
I like it. But I wish that I could choose what settings go there. For example, I could care less about the flashlight function. Maybe I want a shortcut to some other setting or toggle instead?
Also, the frosted glass look is a bit much when you have any background or icons with multiple colors.
Very useful - one major reason why people basically JB.
Toggles, just like in SBSettings, would be great, with option to customize AND an App Dock.
I wonder why nobody has mentioned user Profiles - Office,Meeting,Movie. A toggle would be great.
Why does this poll even exist!?!? Users have been asking for this for years and SBSettings has been a huge piece of the jailbreak community!
I know many jailbreak users will like this but I personally think toggles are a waste of time. I don't want to spend my time with my iPhone toggling things on and off like some people do. I just leave Wifi on all the time, 3G all the time, and just leave it there. it's not something I want to think about. It's a bit like people who close all their apps after using them. Why do it? It's a waste of your time.
I rarely use the Airplane toggle so I don't mind activating that in settings and Do Not Disturb activated automatically. I rarely need to activate it manually. I use the rotation toggle quite often though.
I do like Airdrop in Control Center though as it will come. In very handy. I think the flashlight is a welcome addition as well as the camera button.
Wow. I'm amazed by your inability to see the bigger picture here.
Why do I close apps? Because as good as apple's background management purports to be, it still is seriously lacking. I can check memory usage due to Jailbreaking and the difference when apps are cleared out is amazing, even on an iPhone 5/iPad 4.
Other people want to be able to turn bluetooth and wifi on and off easily. Why NOT have it? Just because you DON'T use it doesn't mean it's not useful for the majority of the remaining population. Far too often I'm somewhere that the wifi connection is spotty, here I can just shut it off and use mobile data, then turn it back on quickly. Same with bluetooth. Why leave these radios on when not needed? Having bluetooth able to be quickly switched on and off is very nice to have.
As for do not disturb, when I'm going somewhere that I need to keep my phone, Especially the super loud vibration, completely silent it's amazing to just switch on DND. Meetings, drs appointments and so on.
However opposite to you, I don't often need the rotation toggle, yet I don't begrudge having it in. Since I don't use it, should I stomp my feet and say it's a waste of time?
It's a great feature and it's a long time coming.
You clearly didn't understand what I was saying. My point is that a user is that user is not supposed to manage all these things. It's not a PC! Enjoy your phone! Use it. Don't manage it. You'll be much happier if you let the phone do the work.
Of course apps will still use power when they run in the background but they are not fully multitasking. There is a trade off and I definitely believe it's not worth closing apps all the time. Apple did not make the iPhone and ISO do that users have to manage those things.
I didn't begrudge having the toggles. I justified that like closing apps, a user can be so much happier by not having to deal with all that. Another example is the battery percentage indicator. It's really great if you turn it off because otherwise you just look at it all the time and worry about it.
It's all about making the user do less work. You should try it.
No, we understand your point, we just think you are wrong and close-minded on this topic. Just because you don't need these doesn't mean nobody else does, or that we're kidding ourselves about needing them. I toggle my Wi-Fi on an almost daily basis, because I walk to work. As I walk, I stream Rdio. But, my iPhone hates to let go of my home wireless, so if I don't toggle off my wireless, my music grinds to a halt while my phone tries to use my pathetically weak connection instead of just dropping it and using 4G. So I welcome this addition with open arms as my walk to work will be much more enjoyable.
i hope what he meant was that the reason we buy iPhone and not some Android phone and the reason we do not jailbreak it is because we believe in Apple's vision "don't work. just enjoy". Do you enjoy toggling forth and back ? of course not. you do it because your phone does not work properly. do you enjoy closing apps ? of course not. you do it cause your phone is not ideal. but that's exactly where apple wants to aim. to the ideal phone. the one that has no need to change OS definitions for it to work properly. What Android does is very smart - let's live with faulty hardware, faulty OS, faulty software. let's not work hard on design, ease of use, smooth of touch. let's just throw a phone to the air and give the user all the possibilities to fix it. We do not want to fix our phone all the time. we just want to enjoy by using applications that we desire. that's all. so simple. and is this apple went backward in iOS 7. instead of fixing stability, performance, battery life they give you the option to "fix" their faults. and why do they do it ? cause too many people happens to not understand the concept of ideal phone that meant just to enjoy. after all apple needs money. i personally longing to the times when apple earned less but was no.1 in the graphic area and was not ashamed of it.
And yes. i will use this new options. Unfortunately.
Why can't we manage things like this? Why can't we have easy access to the things we want to access? That's crazy. Just because you never switch wifi off doesn't mean other people don't and that it's not VERY helpful to do so. Clearly this has been asked endlessly and is why Apple has FINALLY implemented it.
Hell, quick access to these toggles is why a HUGE majority of us jailbreak.
And please don't tell me what will or won't make me happier. What makes me happy is having access to do what I want to have access to.
I have had countless situations where my memory was used up by background apps, causing others to unnecessarily close or safari tabs to refresh when they otherwise don't need to.
Apple is not infallible. They do not make everything perfect for us. Just because they think we do or don't need it doesn't mean it's the case. I strongly believe that many things aren't implemented because Apple wants to make them 120% before they release. Or they want the jailbreak community to flesh out everything. Who knows.
But apple has shown us that things they say are worthless or that we should not have (iPad mini anyone? God how that was a horrible mistake. Sheesh) are not always that.
I think with the shortcuts like the calculator, Apple can put a simple calculator that is accessible from the Control Center instead of going to the app. Same with the Clock shortcut they can put a timer and alarm on the control center once the clock shortcut is clicked. For the picture app, maybe take a quick basic picture while using any app,
It looks great but needs user customization. For example I would have liked to Have a toggle for data on or off.
I've been waiting a long time for this and can't wait to get it!! I would imagine that Apple will allow for customizing as they do for Notification Center. Either way this is the main and possibly the only feature I will update to ios7 for!
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It is very useful , apple should have adopted it last years ios6 this features . I'm bit disappointed apple not included quick access to some of the IMp toggles like 'cellulore data and personal hotspot. I do not keep my cellulore data ON alws , whenever I required I ON it, this is mainly to save battery. And I use personal hotspot also often . I hope apple will add these two imp toggles to control center
100 % agree with this change. I have different phones, and when I use my Note 2 I always use the quick setting, it is pretty much similar at what Apple did and the good thing about the Note 2 is you can customize which setting you want to see. So good job for Apple on this one.
It's probably the best addition to iOS. How could anyone not like this addition?
i think it's fine but, they could have simply put it in notification center. Second, who uses the compass, flashlight, and calculator so often that they need them to "quickly launch?" Not me. honestly i have a flashlight app that i rarely use but aside from that compass and calculator are buried on the last page in a folder with all the other stuff i barely/never use apps that i don't want to see.
I hope you can customize the toggles, because right now i almost never use airplane mode, sleep, or bluetooth (though i want to buy a bluetooth speaker). I'd rather add location services toggle.
like lots of ios 7, i'd either make it look different and/or reorganize it.
That's not the compass, that's the timer. And I personally use all of these all the time - they NAILED what to put in Control Panel for myself personally.
Millions of Android users have enjoyed this functionality for years. It's something we should have had a long time ago. Just one more catchup to Android.
for me its the most wanted feature ever!! i wanted control center since i got rid of my htc desire runing stock android!when i got to the iphone i had always the trouble to settings/wifi/toggle on or off, always and still do.i hoped this would be solved in IOS 5 but then again ... i've waited... and yes it is better than ever!!! now the iphone is the best mobile!!
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I love having the control center but I keep forgetting it's even there. Apple has gotten us so used to not having a lot of these features that I feel a lot of people will forget some of these features are available to them now. Great idea and it's easy access to turning wifi and bluetooth on and off. So far I've probably used it once or twice just to show others the features available in iOS 7, so we'll see what happens once the official release of iOS 7 is out.
Isn't it a toggle to the timer, not the alarm clock? I know they're in the same app, but I'm pretty sure it's a toggle directly to the timer function, which makes much more sense than to the alarm function. Also this is an amazing addition to iOS! My most anticipated feature!
No it's not needed. Most normal people do not Micro-manage their Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other settings. As Steve Jobs said when announcing the iPhone in 2007, the iPhone manages the radios so the user doesn't have to. As for shortcuts to Calculator and Flashlight - put those on your main home screen if you use them often. The only thing needed here is playback controls for media and airdrop. Currently it just seems like a place to chuck a load of commands, like the "Tools" menu in Office 2003.
I guess we should take your analogy further. Why should we waste time with controls for media? Put the media apps on your home screen if you need it. /s
What I'm saying without the sarcasm is that "normal" is subjective to the user and use case. You can say that the phone should be built around 80% of what average users really need. However, if you took that approach then we'd all still be using dumb phones. Honestly, the only thing that a user may "need" would be an iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator. That sounds familiar....
I feel like those abandoned Japanese soldiers that still think the war is going on but you all know webos used this from day one right? A swipe down to control all phone functions, and "notification center" to control media apps....that was August 2009. It was great, and you shouldn't have to dig into menu after menu for simple tasks as iOS in the past has done. What's crazy, is apple is talking big game about multitasking cards, and features like this as if they're new and innovative, when they even took/borrowed from webos and in the same form factor years later...wow!!! Trust me, you will LOVE these "new" features, and will use them everyday.
I'll be using the BT and WiFi toggles several times a day, that is the one major item I miss from my Droid. Though I think it should be integrated with the Notification Center instead. Quick access to the native apps? The only native apps I use are phone, clock (timers), email and music, and unless the quick-access gives me access to the playlists as well as play/pause/ff/rew, I won't have much use for that either.
What I love is the swipe up to access these shortcuts, rather than double clicking the home button. The iPad has the ability to just gesture from one thing to the next, and it is a much better User experience. I feel that using the home button constantly on the iPhone almost feels clunky in comparison. Can't wait for IOS7!!
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Was definitely one of the main things I wanted because along with tethering & FaceTime over 3G it was one of the main reasons I always used to jailbreak my iphone. I can't understand why Apple always take a long time to add such simple yet much needed to their OS but I'm glad it's finally here.
-- I'll have to try it first
-- Meh, I don't think it it adds any value for me
-- Complete waste of time
Why are these three options even available as a choice category. If you would have to try it first, dont think that it adds any value or that its a complete waste of time you obviously don't need to have an iPhone. Either that or your are old 65+ and don't fully understand how to use an iPhone. This new feature is an absolute must for the IOS community and a feature that i will use EVERYDAY!


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It seems like every generation of young people does crazy things. In the 1920s, flag-pole sitting was all the rage and, in the 30s, those nutty college kids were swallowing goldfish. The 40s kids took it to a new level by fighting a war and the 50s kids thought it was cool to see how many people they could cram into a phone booth.
Now, there was one fad that started in the 40s and continued for a couple of decades. That was the panty raid. Although the first documented panty raid took place at Augastana College in Rock Island, IL, in 1948, the second didn't occur until 1952 when the men at the University of Michigan launched an assault on women's undies. That sparked a fad that ran into the early 60s before petering out.
Now, of all those fads the panty raid seems like the most fun. You could fall off a flag pole and break … well, just about everything; you could choke on a goldfish and just imagine getting a cramp while stuffed like a sardine in a phone booth. But a panty raid, how much danger could there be in that? I guess you could accidentally grab a soiled pair of panties, or trip and choke yourself on a garter belt, but, really, what are the odds? In most recorded raids a good time was had by all. Heck, sometimes the women cheered the men on, while throwing their unmentionables out the window.
That last bit of information reminds me of a time I locked my keys in my car after dropping the future Mistress of the Manor off at her dorm at Radford University. Realizing all I needed to break into my own car was a coat hanger, I made my way back toward the dorm. Before I got there, a couple of security guards came by and asked me ever so politely what the hell I thought I was doing. I explained the situation to them, and they promptly told me to return to my car and stay away from the dorms. If they thought I was a long-haired degenerate stalking the young ladies, you would have thought they would have wanted me out of there, but they offered no help.
Well, I returned to my car and as soon as they got out of sight, I made my way back to the nearest dorm. The doors were locked tight so I went around the side of the building and, since there were plenty of lights on, I began to holler at the young ladies. They responded by waving, talking to me, throwing some things, including some undies, and a few even showed me things I knew the future Mistress of the Manor would not want me to look at. I can say one thing, they were healthy young ladies. Anyway, I got everything, but a coat hanger before the lights of the security guards caught my eye. I returned to my car, but instead of continuing on their route, they decided to park between me and the dorm.
Now, we're going to transition from my tangent back to the subject of fads. Some people thought rock n' roll was a fad. We now know how wrong they were. As Neil Young sang on the "Rust Never Sleeps" album, "Hey, hey, my, my rock n' roll will never die." However, we did have some music fads that didn't last, thank goodness. Disco, which hit a high mark in the late 70s, and an even scarier one, "hair bands" of the 80s come to mind. "Hair bands" were more about appearance than music, as evidenced by the guys teasing their long hair to outrageous extremes and wearing more makeup than a $5 female escort.
Yes, there have been many fads through the years, but today's younguns' are looking to step it up a notch, at least according to an article I recently read. Among the fads are vodka eyeballing, car surfing, drinking hand sanitizer and trunking.
As you might guess vodka eyeballing requires pouring a vodka shot straight into the eye. This gives you a quick buzz, but may also result in impaired vision, according to doctors. Now, I'm no doctor, although I like to play one at times, but I could figure this out on my own. Drinking hand sanitizer is equally as bad. Sanitizer contains 62 percent ethyl alcohol and if you use salt to separate the alcohol from the sanitizer, you get a 120-proof shot. A few drinks that potent and medical intervention may be needed, you know, to keep you from dying. Car surfing is just as foolish since it requires a person to stand on the roof or the trunk of a moving car. Again, death is a very real possibility.
Kids may think this trunking thing is new, something they have thought up, but, in reality, it's been around for quite a long time. You see, I participated in trunking back in the long, long ago before time. Say, you're going to a drive-in … okay, an explanation may be in order for younger readers. A drive-in is a place where they show movies on a very large screen outside and you watch the movie while seated in your car. However, in order to get more bang for your buck, one or two people ride in the car, while as many people as possible hide in the trunk, thus the term trunking. Again, there is danger if your trunk gets rear-ended by a careless driver or if your friends, who may have been imbibing, forget about you.
Now, I'm not advocating any of these activities, past or present, but I especially caution against the newer, more dangerous fads I have mentioned. Maybe pick an oldie, but goodie. My choice would be panty raiding. However, I need to make this clear for anyone who hasn't done this before – the young lady cannot, I repeat, cannot be in the panties when you raid them. That is called something else entirely.


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Apple allowed to draw sword, take fight to Lodsys patent troll
Apple has been granted permission to step in against Lodsys, a holding company with alleged ties to Intellectual Ventuers, which is intent on suing iOS developers for patent infringement. Apple had originally applied to intervene nearly a year ago after Lodsys claimed the right to in-app purchasing, and consequently went after big-name devs like Square Enix, 2K, Atari, Rovio, and EA for royalties. Apple's stance has been that they've licensed the rights to the in-app purchasing mechanism to these parties, and that Lodsys should take up the fight with Apple directly.
This is a textbook case of patent trolling, and I imagine that while Lodsys might have had a shot squeezing money out of the smaller developers, and a slim chance of getting royalties from the bigger ones, they won't stand a chance against Apple. Lodsys went after Android developers too, and Google intends to intervene on that front in much the same way as Apple.
It's only unfortunate the courts took this long to decide, however, because those smaller developers have no doubt been hurt in the mean time.
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Apple allowed to draw sword, take fight to Lodsys patent troll
.... but not tired enough to still read and comment on them, obviously
Well, it's the right thing to do, if the audience is also democratic... Try to make things better via discussion and persuasion...
agreed, although this is important news which directly relates to apple, developers and users. you can't dumb down a site for the lowest common denominator when the other solution is : don't click on the link.


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I received these nice pictures and a question via email the other day. The mother was concerned as she had found this "spot" on her 6 year old son's back. He was otherwise well and she did not see any other "spots" or rash.
Her son complained that the "spot" was itchy so being the good mother she applied some over the counter cortisone cream for several days (which I always tell patients to try). After 2 days of it not improving, but not worsening, she thought it might be ringworm (also a good thought) and she applied an OTC anti-fungal cream. Again, the rash was not better, but really not worsening or spreading. That is an important part of the history.
Now in medicine you learn about red herrings, which are part of a patient's history that may not really have any bearing to their current problem....but one has to consider it. In this case, her dog developed a lesion and was taken to the vet and was diagnosed with a staph infection, but the vet told the mom that the dog was not contagious to humans. Red herring or is that the problem?
After looking at all of the pictures (which is never as good as seeing a rash in person), I am thinking that this may be nummular eczema, (nummular means coin shaped, hence the round) The history is right as is was not bothersome other than being itchy, and eczema is often called the "itch that scratches".
With all of this cold dry weather and heaters on full blast all over the country eczema is having a heyday. I have seen a ton of these little inflamed patches on skin of all ages (my own hands are a mess). The treatment of choice is to moisturize the skin and also the use of a topical steroid. But, it takes a long time to see an improvement in the spots and they may change on a daily basis depending on the weather, bathing and how much lubrication and moisturizing you are doing.
I would use an OTC moisturizer that contains ceramides (Cetaphil Restoraderm, Cerave, Aveeno for eczema) and use it liberally and frequently. I would also apply an OTC steroid several times a day (under the moisturizer). Eczema also sometimes requires a stronger topical steroid that is prescription.
Hope that helps.....but if not improving after 7-10 days it may be worth a visit to your pedi for up close and personal diagnosis.
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The tournament runs from Friday to Sunday Oct. 12-14 with three singles draws of 32 and six doubles draws of eight. Chattanooga will be sending all eight members of the 2012-13 team to play this weekend. Matches will be held on the Vols' home courts at Barksdale Stadium and the nearby courts at Tyson Park.
Seniors Manuel Barroetavena (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Jackson Tresnan (Apopka, Fla.) will be teaming up for doubles alongside Roberto Vieira (Bedfordview, South Africa) and Chris Smith (Johnson City, Tenn.). Seniors Stephen Crofford (Franklin, Tenn.) and Ankit Chopra (Chandigrah, India) will be playing together for the second tournament in a row and senior William Disterdick (Soddy Daisy, Tenn.) and sophomore Pavels Grigorjevs (Riga, Latvia) will be paired up coming off their tournament win at the UTC Steve Baras Fall Classic.
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Things I liked:Realistic weight, excellent accuracy (with 0.28 gram), and just about everything else!
Things I would have changed:Nothing!
What others should know:I wouldn't use 0.20 gram bbs because they'll swerve way off course. 0.25 or 0.28 gram bbs are the best to use in my opinion. The range of this gun is exaggerated though. It's more like 100 to 150, but with awesome precision shooting! Perfectly fine with me!
Things I liked:This IS the premier spring sniper for any airsoft player. The FPS is amazing for a spring gun. The only way to get much higher is a gas rifle, which costs a lot more and takes much more maintenance for only a little extra strength. Accurate with .20g bb's (although I recommend .25-.30g's for extra accuracy and power). Even without a scope, it is amazingly accurate and very intimidating.
Things I would have changed:Make the barrel more secure. Although it makes it easy to disassemble, it can be ripped out of the barrel (along with the clip's spring, effectively ruining the magazine) if you happen to hit the barrel into a tree while running. Also a little expensive, although much cheaper than most competition-grade AEG's. Other than that, an amazing gun.
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Things I would have changed:The price from 129 to 149
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ROSEMONT, Ill.---The Chicago Wolves pulled within one goal late in the third period but couldn't find the equalizer as the Rockford IceHogs earned the 3-2 win before 11,255 fans at the Allstate Arena Sunday night.
Trailing, 3-1, in the third period, Chicago (37-28-3-6) pulled to 3-2, with 6:22 to play. Center Jason Krog chipped the puck up the ice to left wing Carl Klingberg from the blueline and the forward took it, moved to his backhand and flipped a shot past Rockford netminder Alec Richards to earn his first American Hockey League goal.
"It's very disappointing," said Wolves Head Coach Don Lever. "We just couldn't get on track. Eddie was fabulous in goal, but we just didn't play with any desperation until the last five minutes."
Rockford (32-32-4-5) took a 1-0 lead, 4:53 into the first period with a power-play marker from Mathis Olimb. Center Peter LeBlanc carried the puck into the zone and flicked a shot from the right circle, which Pasquale kicked out, but the rebound squirted out to Olimb, who fired it back past Wolves goaltender Edward Pasquale.
Pettersson evened it up for the Wolves, 1-1, at 11:21 of the first frame. Krog sent a pass across the zone to Pettersson low in the left circle and he wound up and ripped a shot past Richards and into the corner of the net.
Richards (15-21-1) turned aside 21 shots in the win for the IceHogs.
Rockford regained the lead, 2-1, at 10:18 of the second period when LeBlanc held the puck behind the Wolves net and slipped a pass to right wing Ben Smith who was standing in front of the crease and snapped a shot through Pasquale's legs.
The IceHogs jumped ahead, 3-1, when left wing Rob Klinkhammer and center Jeff Taffe came down the ice on a two-on-one rush and Klinkhammer one-timed a shot from the near circle that Pasquale got a piece of, but the puck trickled over the goal line at 17:08 of the middle frame.
Pasquale (10-9-1) posted 37 saves for the Wolves.
The Wolves hit the road for a pair of games in Texas next week, beginning when they visit the Houston Aeros at the Toyota Center on Thursday at 7 p.m.
Rockford 1 2 0 -- 3
Chicago 1 0 1 -- 2
First Period---1, Rockford, Olimb 8 (LeBlanc, Brophey), 4:53 pp; 2, Chicago, Pettersson 10 (Krog, Sifers), 11:21. Penalties---Welch, Chicago (hooking), 3:29; Garbutt, Chicago (interference), 7:26; Olsen, Rockford (tripping), 9:17; Colbert, Chicago (hooking), 13:10; Hagel, Rockford (fighting), 15:41; Huxley, Chicago (fighting), 15:41.
Second Period---3, Rockford, Smith 17 (LeBlanc, Olimb), 10:18; 4, Rockford, Klinkhammer 14 (Taffe, Pirri), 17:08. Penalties---Bench, Rockford (too many men), 3:35; Garbutt, Chicago (slashing), 12:23.
Third Period---5, Chicago, Klingberg 1 (Krog, Zubarev), 13:38. Penalties---Garbutt, Chicago (hooking), 6:46; Klinkhammer, Rockford (holding), 10:53.
Shots on goal---Rockford: 22-14-4--40. Chicago: 6-6-11--23. Power plays---Rockford: 1-5. Chicago: 0-3. Goalies---Rockford, Richards (21-23). Chicago, Pasquale (37-40). A---11,255. Referee---Marcus Vinnerborg. Linesmen---Aaron Mills and Mike Hamilton.


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The Summerville Journal Scene is taking nominations for men who make a difference in the Greater Summerville area.
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SISSONVILLE, W.Va. -- A sport utility vehicle found with the bodies of an MTV reality show cast member and two others inside was stuck in a mud pit with its muffler below the surface, authorities said Monday.
Twenty-one-year-old "BUCKWILD" cast member Shain Gandee, his 48-year-old uncle David Gandee and 27-year-old Donald Robert Myers were found in the vehicle Monday near Sissonville.
Kanawha County Sheriff's Cpl. B.D. Humphreys said the 1984 Ford Bronco's muffler was below the surface and that mud covered the passenger side. No foul play is expected.
Authorities said the cause of the deaths was still under investigation and they refused to speculate on what happened. If the muffler was submerged and the engine kept running, it's possible the cabin of the vehicle could have filled with fatal carbon monoxide from the exhaust. Humphreys said the trio was last seen around 3 a.m. Sunday at a bar and they told people they were going driving off-road.
State police were getting ready to send out an aviation unit to search for the men when authorities received a call Monday morning that a vehicle was found wrecked in a muddy area a few miles from Gandee's home in Sissonville, about 15 miles outside of Charleston.
Authorities found the Bronco that belonged to the Gandee family in a ditch with all three men inside. Humphreys did not provide details on the condition of the bodies.
The terrain in the Thaxton Hollow area was "very muddy, very rough," Humphreys said, and responders had to use all-terrain vehicles to get to the site.
Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper said the news was devastating for the small community near Charleston.
"It's a very sad day for the Sissonville area and for these families," he said. "This is a small community, and most of us know directly members of these families. We're keeping them in our hearts and prayers."
Shain, nicknamed "Gandee Candy" by fans, was a breakout star of the show that followed the antics of a group of young friends enjoying a wild country lifestyle. It was filmed last year, mostly around Sissonville and Charleston.
MTV issued a statement saying it was shocked and saddened to learn of its star's death.
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Shooting for the second season of "BUCKWILD" had begun, but MTV spokesman Jake Urbanski said Monday afternoon it has been suspended. He had no further details.
MTV said the half-hour series in the old "Jersey Shore" time slot was pulling in an average of 3 million viewers per episode since its premiere and was the No. 1 original cable series on Thursday nights among 12- to 34-year-olds.
Shain Gandee is the third BUCKWILD cast member to make headlines.
Last week, 24-year-old Salwa Amin was sent back to jail for violating the terms of her bond following a February arrest. She was charged with two counts of drug possession with intent to deliver and initially jailed on $200,000 bond. That was later reduced to $100,000, but Amin remained behind bars without bond on Monday.
State Police say a multi-agency task force arrested Amin and two other people at a Summersville residence after receiving a tip from an informant. A search found oxycodone pills, heroin and $3,000 in cash.
Another cast mate, Michael Douglas Burford, was charged in February with driving under the influence.
Urbanski said none of Gandee's cast mates was available to do an interview Monday, and none immediately planned to issue a statement. But their feelings came through on Twitter, where Ashley Whitt called her friend "the most amazing person I've ever known."
"I know you will be watching over me every time I hit a mudhole. You will always be my best friend, I love you!" she wrote.
Cast mate Cara Parrish and others asked fans to pray for Gandee's parents, Loretta and Dale. "This is the emptiest I've ever felt," she wrote in a tweet.
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A multi-scanner scans a signal according to several different patterns. A scanning pattern selector determines which scanning pattern produced the most efficient coding result, for example, for runlength coding, and outputs a coded signal, coded most efficiently, and a selection signal which identifies the scanning pattern found to be most efficient.
1. A apparatus in a video signal decompression system, the apparatus selector comprising:
receiver which receives a scanning mode signal from a demultiplexer which extracts variable length coded data and scanning mode signal from a received signal in the video signal decompression system, the scanning mode signal not being variable length coded, the receiver further receiving variable length decoded data from a variable length decoder;
selector which selects a scanning pattern from a plurality of scanning patterns by using the scanning mode signal; and scanner which scans the variable length decoded data based on the scanning mode signal,
wherein the selected scanning pattern reorders a set of video spatial frequency coefficients of an individual sub-block to an original order;
wherein the selected scanning pattern comprises a scanning order for n�n coefficients in the following sequence: M(0,0), M(1,0), M(0,1), M(0,2), M(1,1), M(2,0), M(3,0), M(2,1), M(1,2), . . . , M(n−1,n−1) from lowest frequency to highest frequency to produce a set of reordered coefficients.
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This is a Continuation Application of application Ser. No. 11/873,282, filed Oct. 16, 2007 now abandoned; which is a Continuation Application of application Ser. No. 10/612,013, filed Jul. 3, 2003, and issued on Nov. 6, 2007, as U.S. Pat. No. 7,292,657; which is a Continuation Application of application Ser. No. 09/703,649, filed Nov. 2, 2000, and issued Jan. 20, 2004, as U.S. Pat. No. 6,680,975; which is a Continuation Application of application Ser. No. 08/024,305, filed Mar. 1, 1993, and issued on Jul. 17, 2001, as U.S. Pat. No. 6,263,026; the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference. One (1) Reissue application Ser. No. 10/609,438, filed on Jul. 1, 2003, of U.S. Pat. No. 6,263,026 has been abandoned. Continuation application Ser. No. 12,338,647, filed Dec. 18, 2008 is a Continuation application Ser. No. 11/873,282, filed Oct. 16, 2007.
The present invention relates to a signal compressing system. A system according to the present invention is particularly suited for compressing image signals. The present disclosure is based on the disclosure in Korean Patent Application No. 92-3398 filed Feb. 29, 1992, which disclosure is incorporated herein by reference.
Image signals may be compressed by motion-compensated interframe discrete cosine transform (DCT) coding such as is defined by a MPEG (Moving Picture Expert Group) international standard. This form of signal compression has attracted much attention in the field of high definition television (HDTV).
The discrete cosine transformed signal is quantized by a quantizer 20. The image signal is scanned in a zig-zag manner to produce a runlength coded version thereof. The runlength coded signal comprises a plurality of strings which include a series of "0"s, representing the run length, and an amplitude value of any value except "0".
The runlength coded signal is dequantized by a dequantizer 21, inversely zig-zag scanned and inversely discrete cosine transformed by an inverse discrete cosine transforming portion 11. The transformed image signal is added to the motion-compensated estimate error signal by a second adder 8 b. As a result the image signal is decoded into a signal corresponding to the original image signal.
Refresh switches RSW1, RSW2 are arranged between the adders 8 a, 8 b and the motion compensator 40 so as to provide the original image signal free from externally induced errors.
The runlength coded signal is also supplied to a variable length coder 60 which applies a variable length coding to the runlength coded image signal. The variable length coded signal is then output through a FIFO transfer buffer 70 as a coded image signal.
In motion-compensated adaptive DCT coding, the interframe signal can be easily estimated or coded by way of motion compensation, thereby obtaining a high coding efficiency, since the image signal has a relatively high correlation along the time axis. That is, according to the afore-mentioned method, the coding efficiency is high because most of the energy of a discrete cosine transformed signal is compressed at the lower end of its spectrum, resulting in long runs of "0"s in the runlength coded signal.
However, the scanning regime of the aforementioned method does not take account of differences in the spectrum of the motion-compensated interframe DCT signal with time.
A method is known wherein one of a plurality of reference modes is previously selected on the basis of the difference between the present block and that of a previous frame and the image signal is scanned by way of a scanning pattern under the selected mode and suitably quantized. With such a method, however, three modes are employed to compute the energies of the intermediate and high frequency components of the image signal in accordance with the interframe or the intraframe modes in order to determine the appropriate mode. This mode determining procedure is undesirably complicated.
According to the present invention, there is provided a signal compressing system, comprising coding means for scanning an input signal according to a plurality of different scanning patterns to provided coded versions thereof and selection means for selecting a said scanning pattern which produces efficient coding according to a predetermined criterion and outputting a scanning pattern signal identifying the selected scanning pattern.
Preferably, the input signal is an inherently two-dimensional signal, for example, an image signal.
Preferably, the coding means codes the input signal according to a runlength coding regime.
Preferably, the system includes a variable length coder to variably length code the coded signal, produced by scanning according to the selected scanning pattern.
Preferably, the system includes discrete cosine transformer means to produce said input signal. The transformer means may be a motion-compensated interframe adaptive discrete cosine transformer.
An embodiment of the present invention will now be described, by way of example, with reference to
Referring to
The motion vector is supplied to a motion compensator 60 which, in turn, compensates the delayed frame signal for movement. A first adder 8 a produces a difference signal representing the difference between the present frame and the delayed, motion-compensated frame. A DCT coder 10 DCT-codes the difference signal. The DCT coded image signal is quantized by a quantizer 20 and then dequantized by a dequantizer 21. The dequantized signal is supplied to a second adder 8 b, via IDCT 11, which adds it to the output of the motion compensator 11. This produces a signal corresponding to the original image signal.
The output of the motion compensator 50 is applied to the adders 8 a, 8 b by refresh switches RSW2 and RSW1, respectively.
The quantized image signal is also supplied to a multi-scanner 80 which scans it according to a plurality of predetermined patterns.
A scanner pattern selector 90 selects the scanning pattern which produces the minimum number of bits to represent the current sub-block. The scanning pattern selector also produces selection data which identifies the selected scanning pattern.
The image signal output by the scanning pattern selector 90 is variable length coded by a variable length coder 60. The variable length coder 60 compresses the image signal output by the scanning pattern selector 90. The variable length coder 60 operates such that a large proportion of the data samples are each represented by a small number of bits while a small proportion of the data samples are each represented by a large number of bits.
When a discrete cosine transformed image signal is quantized and runlength coded, the number of "0"s is increased over all, while the number of "0"s decreases as the magnitude of the signal increases. Accordingly, data compression is achieved because "0" can be represented by only a few bits and "255" can be represented by a relatively large number of bits.
Both the variable length coded signal and the selection data are supplied to a multiplexer MUX1 which multiplexes the variable length coded signal and the selection data, and optionally additional information such as teletext.
Since the variable length coded signal has data words of different lengths, a transfer buffer 70 is employed to temporarily store the multiplexed signal and output it at a constant rate.
The original image signal is reconstructed at a remote station by performing the appropriate inverse scanning of the runlength coded signal in accordance with the multiplexed scanning pattern selection data.
As described above, according to the present invention, the quantized image signal is scanned according to various scanning patterns, and then the most efficient pattern is selected.
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The Alpha Tau chapter of the Alpha Delta Kappa Teachers' Sorority announced it's 2013 recipient of the annual scholarships recently.
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