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This paper describes a speech recognition engine that progressively outputs the latest available results of words used for real-time closed captioning of Japanese broadcast news. The search engine called a progressive 2-pass decoder practically eliminates the disadvantage of conventional multiple-pass decoders that delay a decision until the end of a sentence. During the first pass of the search the proposed decoder periodically executes the second pass up to that time and detects a part of the final result of words. This method is not theoretically optimal but makes a quick decision with a negligible increase in word errors. In a recognition experiment on Japanese broadcast news, the decoder worked with an average decision delay of 554msec for each word and degraded word accuracy only by 0.22%.
- There is a great need for real-time captioning of broadcast news for the hearing impaired and elderly. Real-time captioning in English can be performed by stenocaptioners using a special keyboard that translates combinations of keys presenting phonetic sounds into spelled words. However, it is very difficult for Japanese to keep up with speech by such a device due to a great number of homonyms with ideograms, Kanji. To solve this problem and make captions for live broadcast news, we have developed a real-time large vocabulary speech recognition system followed by manual check and correction. NHK has started a subtitling service (see Fig. 1) by using the system at 7 o団lock news on March 27, 2000. Such a service by speech recognition is probably the first one in the world. This paper describes a new search engine used in the system.
Fig. 1 NHK's subtitled news by speech recognition.
To realize such a system and permit manual correction in real-time, high word accuracy is required. So far, we have developed two techniques especially designed for broadcast news: a time-dependent language model (TDLM) [1] adapted to recent broadcast news, and an automatic selection of acoustic training data from news anchors [2]. Besides the language and acoustic models, a search engine called a 2-pass decoder was developed with a single static tree lexicon and a pre-processed table of the maximum bigram probabilities in lower levels [3].
Another requirement of such a system is a quick response or a short delay of displayed words from speech. Although the above 2-pass decoder or a multiple-pass search strategy [4] where various knowledge sources are applied at various stages on the entire sentence has computational advantages with high accuracy, they can not make a final decision until the end of the sentence. A one-pass decoder also has a similar problem as long as an initial common path [5] in a search space does not exist. Such a decision is too slow for application to real-time captioning. DARPA-sponsored Hub-4 benchmark tests deal with broadcast news transcription, but the current target is a system running not in real-time but in less than 10 times real-time [6]. We have changed the second pass procedure in our 2-pass decoder so that it makes a quick decision during speech while maintaining high accuracy.
After describing the conventional 2-pass decoder in Section 2, this paper describes the new 2-pass decoder in Section 3. Evaluation results of the decoders on Japanese broadcast news is described in Section 4 with regard to word accuracy and decision delays from speech.
- Our conventional 2-pass decoder [3] executes the second pass just once at the end of a sentence as general multiple-pass decoders do [4]. The first pass using a bigram language model and triphone HMMs generates a word lattice time-synchronously. At a sentence-end the word lattice is recursively traced back to get N -best sentences. The second pass rescores the N -best sentences by a trigram language model to decide and output the best word sequence.
In the first pass, the word-dependent N -best algorithm [7] is carried out with a modified Viterbi beam search. During the search top-n (n<<N ) paths which have different previous words are saved in each HMM state. If multiple paths reach the same state with the same previous word, only the best path is saved. At a word-end phoneme, its word-id, the word-end frame, scores and back-pointers to the previous word-ends for the N paths are saved as a word lattice, and only the best path propagates to following words. Pruning in the beam search is based on a global beam width of log-likelihood and a narrower word-end beam width.
The first pass procedure runs on a tree-structured phoneme network [8] where initial phoneme sequences are shared by some words. Instead of copying the trees dynamically [8][9], we use a single and static tree (where n should be greater even if N =1 in order to avoid search errors). With some words sharing initial nodes of triphones, the tree-structured phoneme network can reduce the number of active nodes at the beginnings of words. However, bigram probabilities can not be applied until leaf nodes where word identity is known. To apply a language model earlier, the maximum bigram probability among words sharing a node is used for pruning [9]. It requires much computation to get the previous-word-dependent maximum bigram probability in each node whenever a list of shared words changes. For a small vocabulary, the maximum values can be pre-processed and saved in a table, but it requires huge memories for a larger vocabulary. Then we pre-process and save the table only for all nodes at frequently active lower levels (L)according to the size of the vocabulary.
A problem with this decoder for real-time broadcast news captioning is that it makes a final decision at the end of each sentence. This means that closed captions are displayed with at least a sentence-long delay from speech.
Fig. 2 Comparison between the conventional 2-pass decoder and the new 2-pass decoder.
- Observing the most likely word sequence by the trace back in each frame during the first pass, we find that words close to the processed frame change frequently but earlier words do not. Then it is expected that a decision on earlier words without waiting for the sentence end does not lead to a significant increase of word errors in practical use. We apply this idea to our 2-pass decoder. The second pass is executed periodically on partial N -best word sequences while the first pass is executed as usual, and stable words are detected and progressively output as a part of the final result. Since such a decision does not guarantee the optimization for the entire utterance, we try to detect reliably stable words so that the method gives a quick response with maintaining high accuracy. Fig. 2 illustrates the difference between our conventional 2-pass decoder and the new progressive 2-pass decoder.
The detailed procedure of the new second pass is as follows (see Fig. 3).
- Every t frames during the first pass the uncompleted word lattice is traced back from the word-end pointed by the node with the best score to get N -best word sequences up to that frame. The N -best word sequences do not include the premature word to which the best node belongs if the node is not a word-end. If there are words previously decided, word-end branches in that portion need not be expanded for the N -best.
- The N -best word sequences are rescored using a trigram language model to get the 1-best word sequence up to that frame.
- The current 1-best word sequence is compared with the previous 1-best word sequence obtained t frames before. If some words are repeated after the last decision, those words are regarded as likely to be correct and are decided as a part of the final result. If there are no repeated words, the 1-best word sequence is regarded as unstable and no decision is made. Since words close to the current frame are unstable, the latest M words are excluded from the target to be decided. Even if the best word in a pre-determined portion has been changed, it is ignored.
Fig. 3 Progressive 2-pass decoder.
Note that the first pass is executed as in the conventional method and does not get any feedback from the second pass or the decided partial results. Just the second pass is executed many times periodically on part of the speech or the uncompleted word lattice. There is a trade-off between decision delays and word errors. They can be controlled by the parameters of the second-pass interval t and the decision margin of the latest M words. As t gets longer or M gets larger, fewer word errors are produced by this early decision method but with longer decision delays.
More complicated methods could be used to realize the progressive 2-pass decoding: non-periodic execution of the second pass, tracing back from multiple active nodes, or regarding connections with pre-decided words, etc. However, this paper examines the degradation of word accuracy and decision delays from speech by the comparatively simple method mentioned above.
- 4.1 Conditions
- An experiment to transcribe NHK's Japanese broadcast news was performed to examine the proposed decoder. The evaluated speech data were 122 sentences (65 sentences for two anchormen and 57 sentences for an anchorwoman) consisting of 4,942 words in total. The average length of the sentences was 12.5sec. The evaluated speech data were acoustically analyzed into 39 parameters (12 MFCCs with log-power and their first- and second-order regression coefficients) every 10msec after digitization at 16 kHz and 16 bits with the Hamming window of 25msec width.
Acoustic models of gender-dependent and speaker-independent state-clustered 8-mixtured triphone HMMs were trained from NHK news data (48.3 hours for males and 38.6 hours for females including the evaluated speakers) after the above acoustic analysis. The number of Japanese phonemes was 42. The number of logical triphone HMMs was 5,873, and the numbers of physical ones were 3,093 with 1,950 states for males and 2,894 with 1,656 states for females for the lexicon of 20K words. A bigram language model for the first pass and a trigram language model for the second pass were trained from NHK news scripts extending back over 7 years after Japanese morphological analysis. They were used with back-off smoothing in the recognition. In the decoder, the number of saved paths in each HMM state, n, was 4 at most. The number of rescored partial sentences, N , was 200 at most. The maximum bigram probabilities were pre-processed onto a table up to the level L=2 of the tree-structured phoneme network for the computational saving. The global beam width was 160 in log-likelihood while the word-end beam width was 110. The weighting of the language score was 14 without an insertion penalty. The perplexities of the evaluated data by the bigram model and the trigram model were 69.2 and 28.0, respectively. The rate of words outside of the vocabulary was 0.67%. The evaluation was executed on an Alpha-21264 500MHz machine with 768MB memory.
We tried varying the second-pass interval t from 1 to 50 frames (10ms/frame-shift) and the decision margin M from 0 to 2 words. The decoder was evaluated by the recognition accuracy and the average decision delay (difference between the word-end frame and the decision frame).
- 4.2 Result
- Word accuracy for each condition is illustrated in Fig. 4. The average decision delay is illustrated in Fig. 5. For instance in the middle case of t=30 frames and M=1 word, the word accuracy was 96.54% and the average decision delay was 554msec (2.7sec at most). The word accuracy was only 0.22% lower than the baseline accuracy of 96.76% achieved by the conventional decoder. The degradation was negligible. The conventional decoder, which made a final decision at the end of sentence, showed an average decision delay of 7.2sec (37sec at most) as the baseline. As the interval or the margin was smaller, the decision delay decreased but the word accuracy also decreased. As the interval or the margin was larger, the word accuracy was close to the accuracy achieved by the conventional decoder though the delay became longer. When M was 2, far words from the processed frame could be decided and made very small degradations of word accuracy independent of the interval but with longer decision delays.
In the off-line experiment where all the evaluated speech data were stored in the disk beforehand, the speech recognition was done in 0.7 times real-time. It was faster than the conventional decoder running at 0.8 times real-time. This indicates that the periodic short trace back takes less computation in total than the trace back on the entire sentence once. Actually, the number of N -best word sequences listed up every time was much smaller than the expected value for the entire sentence. From the viewpoint of word accuracy, N for a shorter portion is more valuable than for the sentence because it bears more word alternatives.
In an on-line experiment where all the evaluated speech data were fed from tapes, the time lag between the displayed words and input speech was less than 1-2 seconds anytime from the beginning of the sentences. It can be concluded that the early decision is very useful for some real-time applications like closed captioning.
- 4.3 Comparison with a guaranteed method
- For comparison, we examined a conventional early decision method [5] that guarantees not to make any degradation of word accuracy. The method relies on an initial common path in a search space because that portion is supposed to be a part of the optimized path on the entire sentence (see Fig. 6). However, in an experiment on the broadcast news transcription, the method made early decisions only for 3.6% of words or 1-2 words at the beginning of sentences and the remaining part was decided by the ordinary trace back at the end of the sentences. It is because the purpose of the first pass in the multiple-pass search strategies is to generate possible word alternatives, and it obstructs the initial sole path. The possibility that an initial common path exists becomes lower as the search space becomes larger: larger vocabulary sizes, wider beam widths, or many histories (larger n ). In a practical application, our progressive 2-pass decoder would be one acceptable way of providing early decisions.
Fig. 6 Early decision not to degrade accuracy.
- This paper described the new progressive 2-pass decoder and reported its application to Japanese broadcast news transcription. The decoder has the advantage of progressively outputting the latest available words in contrast to other multiple-pass decoders which make a final decision at the end of speech only. The trade-off between decision delays and word errors can be controlled by the parameters of the second-pass interval and the decision margin of the latest words. In the experiment the proposed decoder continuously output words with very small delays with a negligible increase in word errors. The basic idea of a periodic early decision with some margins can be applied also to a one-pass decoder.


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Semi Organized-but I know where everything is!Sorry for the inverted pics-not sure how that happened?
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I have a few tubs with sorted items. I have one called "pack ready" for items that I would be using on a regular basis. That failed a bit and I need to clean it up-- and use a much smaller tub!Your post is timely. I just started doing a Spring cleaning on water bottles, cups and cook pots that have accumulated. There's more! Hellllpppp meeeeee!
It's an addiction, lets see who else needs an intervention! LOL
You guys just made me feel a whole lot better about getting a second shelter and a second/smaller cookset!!
Pull up a chair and let's chat a bit...Be careful! That is where is starts, a second this and a second that, which becomes three and then four, and the next thing you know, you're old and gray and you can barely get to the door through the avalanche of gear. STOP, NOW, WHILE YOU CAN! :DI need to get to a meeting. My name is Dale and I'm a gearholic!Heheheh-- see anything there you need, hmmmm?
Half the reason my car isn't in the garage right now is because it's taken over the garage.
But the stuff in the garage is worth more than the car :) You sure don't want the good stuff outside!Years ago I was going on a field shoot with a couple of my photography school classmates. We realized that we had three full 4x5 camera setups plus a pile of other 35mm and roll film gear in a 1965 Plymouth Valiant. The cameras were worth far, far more than the car.
Perfect timing on this thread. Two corners of my room have already been taken over, and it's been 13 months since I really got started...
No gear room to show, sorry. All my gear fits into a quarter a closet. And mine is a 1937 house -- with small closets.
Dale, you are clarivoyant!I AM old and gray and I DO have more gear than I should - but I "might need it".6 stoves3 tents,3 sleeping bags4 sleeping mats/mattresses4 cooksets4 boots/hiking shoes4 backpacks3 daypacksAnd uncounted gadgets.Not to mention the backpacking/hiking clothes.And then there are the backpacking books...I'm afraid to show a photo of all of it - might cause a divorce.
Dale, I'll pay you shipping costs for the Orange Nalgene with the blue lid? I'm trying to help you! :P
Gear Rooms is the correct terminology. I have the back bedroom full of gear. The garage is full of skis and gear. The trunk of my car holds the overflow. The dining room is full of MYOG fabric projects still in progress. The living room is full of small stove projects still in progress. Two or three closets full of winter ski clothing.--B.G.--
"Orange Nalgene with the blue lid" sounds like a bad translation of a French movie title.Okay on the shipping costs, but that Nalgene weight 50 pounds ;)I really do want to get it all down to a couple tubs plus a closet bar for the clothes, sleeping bags and backpacks.I need to work on the hiking library too... tip o' the iceberg, indeed!
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"I'm afraid to show a photo of all of it - might cause a divorce."We won't tell. You can trust us. :)
I'm so jelly right now.
"I'm afraid to show a photo of all of it - might cause a divorce.We won't tell. You can trust us. :)"Lawyers are careful about what to document and what to leave, ummmm, unsaid.
Here's mine! along with my shelves I put together to hold it all...Not a lot of UL gear when this was taken... but there is more now!!
Newton is so bad that even his storage shelves are made out of cuben fiber with titanium frame.--B.G.--
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It was early the next morning after the ill-fated evening at the Town Hall. Of all the painful results of the fire the worst for Sara had been the terrible blow to Jasper Dale's newborn self-confidence. Practically all night, Sara had lain awake brooding on it. Before breakfast, even, she had run all the way over to Jasper 's farmhouse and hammered on his door.
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No answer greeted Sara's news. The curtains were still. Sara tried again.
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Olivia, in hopes of cheering the morning, had put on her sunniest yellow apron. She stood at the stove poaching eggs. However, if she thought the idea of a good breakfast was going to calm anyone, she was mistaken. Hetty paced up and down, too agitated even to see to the teapot.
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Hetty turned her cannons in a different direction. "I knew anything involving Jasper Dale was destined for failure."
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Hetty stopped short and stared out the window past the potted geraniums to the gate.
"Oh good Lord, look who's coming over. Hide the eggs."
In astonishment, Olivia saw it was none other than Mrs. Tarbush climbing down from her buggy and heading for their door. She was clutching a handkerchief and her face was screwed up in a manner that didn't bode well for civilized conversation. Hetty opened the door a split second before the widow would have burst through it.
"Good morning, Fanny," Hetty said, pretending she didn't notice the woman's state.
Fanny Tarbush honked loudly into handkerchief.
"There's not a good thing about it, Hetty King. I'm so upset. I hope the profit of your show has made it worth the pain it has cost me."
"Profit?" Hetty wasn't about to admit to financial gain in front of a woman she detested. "We'll be lucky to buy a dozen books after we pay for the damage."
There'd been the half dozen burnt chairs, the section of flooring that would have to be put in and Mrs. McGee's dress -- not to mention the smoking ruin of Hetty's bedsheet, which broke up her most prized set. And, no doubt, Jasper Dale would want money to fix that ridiculous magic lantern contraption of his.
Fanny Tarbush sat down on a kitchen chair, treated herself to a large sob and gave her handkerchief a twist.
"What about the damage to the sale of my farm? Our deal was to close this morning," she cried, much aggrieved. What was a few dollars for a spot blaze when one had lost the benefit of a hard-won transaction in real estate.
"Well, I hardly think that's any of my affair, Fanny," Hetty said sharply. There were some things even she refused to be responsible for.
Sara came in the door from Jasper Dale's. Her face told everything about her fruitless visit. On the way back through the dewy fields, she had had time to brood upon life's unfairnesses. Stockings soaked through, she entered the house with a slow, sepulchral tread.
"Hello, Mrs. Tarbush," she said politely. "I'm sorry to hear about Mr. Campbell."
Everyone knew that Mrs. Tarbush had had to beg a ride home last night in sour old Mr. Wade's rickety buggy. Mr. Wade raised chickens for a living and his buggy was always spotted all over from the pullets roosting on it.
"Gone!" Mrs. Tarbush lamented, twisting her handkerchief until it looked ready to scream for its life. "And after him practically asking me if my period of mourning was over."
Widows were expected to mourn for their husbands for at least a year, and to dress all in black. No gentleman could court a widow while she was still in mourning. But after the mourning was laid aside -- well then, things could become very lively indeed. Mrs. Tarbush had clearly been nursing a great many hopes of Mr. Campbell in that direction.
Ignoring Mrs. Tarbush's calamity, Sara progressed funereally over to the stove.
"Do we have any hard peas, Aunt Olivia?" she asked, chin stonily set.
Olivia looked away from the poached eggs, very much startled.
"I wanted to put them in my shoes -- for penance."
Sara's face grew even longer and paler as she contemplated her multiple tragedies. If ever there was a girl who needed to do penance, it was herself. Olivia was still looking at Sara in faint astonishment, even though she was growing familiar with Sara's dramatic turn of mind.
"I don't think Presbyterians do penance, Sara," Olivia ventured. Something very like amusement lurked at the corner of her mouth.
Denied the expiation of peas in her shoes, Sara blurted out, "It's either that, or kill Sally Potts!"
This was really what was down underneath everything -- fury at Sally's low, interfering tricks.
"You'll do nothing of the kind.
Olivia was a lot more definite about murder than she was about peas in people's shoes.
"Wellington!" groaned Mrs. Tarbush, a fat tear squeezing from each eye. "Not a word. Now this!"
Olivia kept her eye on Sara, perhaps worried about the safety of Sally Potts. Like a martyr led to execution, Sara lifted a hand to her forehead.
"I led poor jasper Dale into untold humiliation," she lamented. "Maybe the little pebbles on the front walk will do just as well. What would you say if I went barefoot for the next week?"
"I wouldn't say anything, Sara Stanley," Aunt Hetty cried, completely out of patience at last. "I would simply put you over my knee and give you a good solid spanking. You'd find that penance enough."
Mrs. Tarbush chose this moment to abandon herself completely to yowling, luxurious sobs. Her hat quivered and her shoulders shook and her bosom heaved like a stormy sea.
"Good heavens, Olivia," Hetty whispered, "give her some eggs and send her home."
Sara wasn't allowed to put pebbles in her shoe, but she had pains enough from Avonlea's more insensitive citizens. Mrs. Ray had returned from Newbridge to discover Clemmie's defection to the magic lantern show and Edward's illicit camp-out in the woods. Both children had suffered her wrath. Edward, rubbing his sore backside, was not going to forgive Clemmie for many months to come. Clemmie had immediately run up a fever, seeming to justify her mother's darkest warnings. Mrs. Ray met Mrs. Potts at the general store. Mrs. Potts mentioned Sara Stanley. Mrs. Ray flung up her hands toward Heaven.
"Didn't I tell you she was no good? The Bible says, 'Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward,' and we have no better proof."
"Upward and across the room," agreed Mrs. Potts, who had been at the scene of the conflagration. "We could all have perished."
"She certainly can tell a story, though," volunteered Mr. Lawson, who had overheard them from behind the flour bins. He had enjoyed Sara's narration tremendously and wanted to defend her. The forces were two to one against him, however. Mrs. Potts immediately leaped upon his well-meant remark.
"That's exactly what she is -- a Story Girl."
As though deliberately searching out a den of lions, Olivia and Sara picked this second to walk into the store. At the sight of Sara, Mrs. Ray's bony face went rigid and she bristled like a roused-up porcupine.
"Oh, hello, Miss Story Girl, I have a tale for you," she spat out acidly. "Clemmie's real sick. And it might be the measles, and the measles go awful hard with the Rays. If they don't die completely of 'em, it leaves them blind."
At this, Sara went white and her very knees turned to ice. She had been the one who had tempted Clemmie into the buggy. Of all the things she had brought upon Avonlea, the calamity that horrified her most was to be responsible for Clemmie's untimely demise.
"Has the doctor said it's measles, Mrs. Ray?" Olivia inquired, sliding a reassuring arm round Sara's shoulder.
"Well, no, but she's feverish. Real feverish, and --"Mrs. Ray gathered herself to give Sara her strongest evil eye, "-- all because you played the devil with her. You've played the devil with all of us."
Mrs. Ray, at full battle pitch, was enough to frighten a small platoon. Seeing Sara quail under the assault made even the good-natured Olivia lose her temper.
"That's enough, Mrs. Ray. What kind of mother leaves her child alone overnight? Clemmie was far safer with us. I'm very sorry she's ill, but I suggest you consult a doctor before making your own diagnosis."
This outburst from someone as mild and pliant as Olivia was so surprising that even Mrs. Ray was confounded. With one opponent done in, Olivia turned to finish off the other.
"And whether she's told you or not, Mrs. Potts, it was your girl Sally who caused the fire in the first place with her mean-spirited taunting of Jasper Dale. So, before I spread the story all over Avonlea, I would suggest you take your wagging tongues elsewhere!"
Olivia finished up with a great, hot rush of breath. With her feet planted apart, she stood glowering until Mrs. Potts and Mrs. Ray picked up their purchases and decamped. Only when they were gone did Sara realize that Olivia was shaking. She gazed up at her aunt with open admiration.
"Oh, Sara!" Olivia gasped, letting her breath escape her lungs, "that felt good!"
Having tasted battle and victory in almost the the same moment, Olivia grinned at Sara with all her might. She ought to have tried losing her temper years ago.


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When the American Red Cross needed to return the Emergency Response Vehicles (ERVs) used in Superstorm Sandy to home chapters across the country, the agency turned to CSX and other railroads for help.
"As it always does, the Red Cross provided a critical humanitarian service when Superstorm Sandy damaged thousands of homes and businesses throughout the East Coast and left millions of people without power," said Jack Vierling, CSX assistant vice president-car management. "We thank them for their terrific response and saw this as an opportunity to express our gratitude."
To prepare for the free movement on CSX of 119 ERVs, from which thousands of meals were handed out to victims of Sandy, the Red Cross staged the ERVs at a central point in New Jersey. From there, they were loaded into rail cars designed specially to transport them on CSX to their home states in the Southeast or Midwest, or to other railroads to take back to locations in the West.
"The American Red Cross is grateful for the unique and much-needed donation CSX provided," said Anna Trefethen, vice president, Southeast and Caribbean Division, American Red Cross. "The ERV is more than a truck — it's an iconic image that represents hope and comfort wherever it goes. Once these vehicles are returned to their homes, they continue to serve people in need."
This joint CSX-Red Cross effort is the latest in a five-year disaster relief partnership that builds on CSX's support of the Red Cross for more than 25 years. In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, CSX matched employee donations to the Red Cross dollar-for-dollar.
The company also provided more than $1 million of support through Dignity U Wear, a program to supply new clothing to needy children and families, and worked with customers to reroute rail shipments of building materials to areas most in need. CSX also is moving substantial amounts of construction and demolition debris from the storm-impacted area to approved disposal sites.


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Even though the GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 haven't exactly been selling for very long, the web is already filled with talk of the upcoming Fermi model known as the GTX 465. So far, this card's specs have only been hinted at or speculated, but an unusual situation has arisen that seems to have shed light on the complete set of performance numbers. To be more specific, a possible manufacturing or shipment mix-up led to what looks like a GTX 465 mis-labeled as a GTX 470.
This forum thread reveals how a user decided to buy a Galaxy GTX 470 GC. Sure enough, he eventually got his order, packed in the appropriate package and equipped with the correct custom cooler. However, when it came to installing the driver, a red flag was raised as the adapter was not recognized as compatible.
The user resolved this by changing the PCI device ID of the GTX 470 line in the NV_DISP.INF. Predictably, things only got more interesting as the consumer investigated further. A subsequent navigation to the system information tab, and tests using GPU-Z, revealed that, in fact, the adapter was flagged as a GTX 465.
The only conclusion drawn was that, perhaps, the product was a GTX 470 mistakenly loaded with a 465 bios. This means that the upcoming 465 is nothing more than a GTX 470 with some disabled stream processors, less memory and a lower interface.
For better or worse, this incident, at least, revealed the specifications of the upcoming video board. The GF100 runs at 608MHz, while the 1GB of GDDR5 has a clock speed of 3208MHz. Furthermore, the shaders operate at 1215MHz and the memory interface is of 256 bits. Finally, the graphics controller seems to support CUDA, despite the fact that previous rumors said this feature would not be included on this model.


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Back in October, I attended the Eurogamer Expo in London. It was a great opportunity to meet some members of the LittleBigPlanet community including GruntosUK, rtm223, jackofcourse and the guys and girls from Sackcast. Tom and Spaff from Media Molecule were also there to show-off LittleBigPlanet 2 and give out some free goodies. The thought of some LBP swag got me pretty excited until, the night before the event, the guys announced that if you wanted to get your hands on merch, you'd have to present them with something "artistic".
The creative stuff isn't really my strong point – hence 70 or so videos and only two actual levels. I was pretty devistated. So, at 10pm on Thursday night, the packing stopped and the brainstorming started. After about 10 minutes I gave-up on actually trying to craft something using my own hands and instead turned to technology. This was the result.
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This mosaic is created from around 12,000 stills from the hours of LittleBigPlanet 2 Beta footage I had captured at the time. The full image is nearly 24,000 pixels wide and around 14,000 pixels tall. I used a piece of brilliant free software called AndreaMosaic to create it. Considering it was compeleted hastily at around 2am, I'm pretty pleased with it.
As it turns out, not too many printers are open at 7am so in the end I wasn't even able to get it printed before I had to catch the train to London! Thankfully, Tom and Spaff took me at my word, and at the sight of a USB stick which I assured them held something awesome (but which was unfortunately useless without a laptop to use it with) and I bagged myself an awesome t-shirt and a handful of badges. Well worth it.
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Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedomby Carole Boston Weatherford and Kadir Nelson
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We know Harriet Tubman as the Moses of her people. The quintessential American hero, Tubman guided enslaved Africans along the Underground Railroad — a loose network of racially diverse helpers and top secret hideouts — from bondage of the South to freedom in North.
Yet little is known about Harriet's first trip. Born into slavery, how did she become free? What was her first trip North like? And what inspired her to make nineteen more trips escorting hundreds of slaves, including her own parents, to freedom? Never once getting caught. Never once losing a passenger.
In this elegy to Tubman, award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford and star illustrator Kadir Nelson imagine all of this and more.
Weatherford's poetic narrative and Kadir Nelson's magnificent paintings bear witness to an ecstatic event — the Spirit of God communing with the flesh-and-blood of true humanity. It is one of the most emotional, inspiring reading experiences ever.
"In this gorgeous, poetic picture book, Weatherford (The Sound that Jazz Makes) depicts Harriet Tubman's initial escape from slavery and her mission to lead others to freedom as divinely inspired, and achieved by steadfast faith and prayer. The author frames the text as an ongoing dialogue between Tubman and God, inserting narration to move the action along. On the eve of her being sold and torn from her family, Tubman prays in her despair. In response, 'God speaks in a whip-poor-will's song. 'I set the North Star in the heavens and I mean for you to be free.' ' The twinkling star encourages Tubman: 'My mind is made up. Tomorrow, I flee.' The book's elegant design clearly delineates these elements — Harriet's words in italic, God's calming words in all caps drifting across the pages, the narrator's words in roman typeface — and makes this read like a wholly engrossing dramatic play. Nelson's (He's Got the Whole World in His Hands) finely rendered oil and watercolor paintings, many set in the rural inky darkness of night, give his protagonist a vibrant, larger-than-life presence, befitting a woman who became known as the Moses of her people. His rugged backdrops and intense portraits convey all the emotion of Tubman's monumental mission. A foreword introduces the concept of slavery for children and an author's note includes a brief biography of Tubman. Ages 5-8. (Sept.)" Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"It is a stunning marriage of text and illustrations and a story that should inspire all." Children's Literature
"The words and pictures create a potent sense of the harsh life of slavery, the fearsome escape, and one woman's unwavering belief in God." School Library Journal
"In elegant free verse, Weatherford imagines Tubman's remarkable escape from slavery and her role in guiding hundreds to freedom." Kirkus Reviews
In lyrical text, Weatherford describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her North to freedom on that first trip to escape slavery.
This poetic book is a resounding tribute to Tubman's strength, humility, and devotion. With proper reverence, Weatherford and Nelson do justice to the woman who, long ago, earned over and over the name Moses.
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Carole Boston Weatherford's first act as an author was at six years old, when she dictated a poem to her mother. Today, she is an award-winning author of nineteen books of poetry, nonfiction, and children's literature, including Walker & Company's The Sound That Jazz Makes, winner of the Carter G. Woodsen Award. As a writer, she wants to make sure that kids are always free to pursue their dream, just like Jesse. She resides in High Point, North Carolina, with her husband, Ronald, and their children, Caresse and Jeffery. Visit her Web site at www.caroleweatherford.com.
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Alabama Second Fattest State in the Nation
I used to work for government, so I know how much of a pain that type of employment can be (if you're doing a job that involves case processing, it all boils down to numbers, processing, and supervisors who are ideally the subject of many Dilbert cartoons).
In Alabama, some state government workers are beginning to wonder if things are turning a bit too Orwellian. The state has given its employees (who number more than thirty-seven thousand) a year to get into better shape...or they'll be hit with a $25 surcharge for their unfitness. In short, they'll be forced to pay for their health insurance, which is currently free.
How will all this work? According to the article I read, workers will need to submit to health screenings (I assume these will be similar to the lifeline screening I myself had once--though this was not connected to a job). If the result of a screening is that an employee is determined to be obese, or to have high blood pressure, diabetes, or high cholesterol, then the employee will be required to see a doctor (at no cost), enroll in a wellness program (whatever that means, but possibly meaning a fitness facility), or take their own steps to get in better shape. Progress is rewarded with not having to pay the $25 toward their own health insurance.
Is this fair? Some Alabama state government employees don't think so. And even I have to wonder if their system has some built-in problems. For instance, the insurance charge will apply to anyone with a body mass index of 35 or more. Well, what if you are a five foot six inch tall male but are engaged in the sport of bodybuilding and weigh 200 lbs? That person probably, if they are truly engaged in competitive bodybuilding, has a low body fat percentage and is exceptionally fit. Yet they would be considered obese by these standards.
At the same time, however, I don't think Alabama is necessarily on the wrong track here. Think about it. A great chunk of medical health care costs in this country are derived from diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, obesity, and the various conditions that often result such as coronary artery disease and heart attack, strokes, musculoskeletal problems (including arthritis), etc. What Alabama is doing may seem big-brotherish, but, ultimately, it may not only make their state employment system more sound; it may help, over time, to drive down health care costs in general.
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Churches in Germany have remembered the 70th anniversary of the systematic attack by the Nazis in 1938 on Jewish Germans, saying that many Christians failed then in their duty to speak out.
The Pope has received a delegation of the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultation with which the Holy See says "for over thirty years has contributed to understanding and acceptance between Catholics and Jews".
As the State of Israel marked the 60th anniversary of its founding, the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) made an unequivocal statement against anti-Semitism but also urged full recognition of the rights of the Palestinians.
US-based Jewish groups have praised a Vatican declaration that it will consider the elimination of a prayer of conversion that exists in the Catholic Church's traditional Latin Mass, and that has caused much offence.
Inciting racial and xenophobic hatred is now a crime across the European Union. But Britain's law is tougher and includes religion, Holocaust denial was not specified, though it is illegal in some countries.
A common European platform based on inclusivity and anti-racism was established at a conference of Muslim and Jewish organisations in Brussels, Beligium, last week. The ain is to combat animosity and encourage dialogue.
Independence from those who claim to represent the country's diverse Jewish community is being declared today, by a group of prominent British Jews, both, secular and relgious. In particular, they raise concerns about an uncritical stance on the policies of the state of Israel.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, spiritual head of the world's 77 million Anglicans, has denounced the political manipulation of the Nazi Holocaust for current political ends, and has called for a renewed struggle against anti-Semitism and prejudice in all its forms.
As a record 5,300 events take place across Britain this weekend to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2007, organisers and supporters are warning about complacency over whether "it could happen again".


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I've just moved to NY from NC. Typically I do most of my hiking in the fall and winter in gore-tex runners and very rarely overboots, but it's obviously lots colder here.What types of boots are any of you out there from this region using for hiking and snowshoeing? And what do you like or not about them? The Finger Lakes Trail is very close to me, and it's likely where I'll do my first few trips this winter, but I'd like to get out to the Adirondacks this winter and up to the Presidentials, Whites, etc over the next few years as I have time to expore the region and exhaust the closer trails.Thanks
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By TERRY WILLISSun Advocate sports reporter
It's tough when you are struggling to have to face the top 3A team in the state. But that is exactly what Carbon had to do on Tuesday night against Wasatch. The outcome was fairly predictable as Carbon went down to defeat 72-48.
For the Dinos in the first half, it was like the rim was made of flubber. Everything they shot bounced right back out. It wasn't even like they were forced to take high percentage shots, the wide open layup would not penetrate the hoop. Several times they got two or three second chance efforts off of rebounds and still couldn't get the ball to drop. In the first quarter Wasatch had everything fall in for points and they had amassed an 11 point lead. By the half Carbon was trailing the Wasps 39-21.
The Dinos had a better second half of play and were only out scored by six points all half. The Wasps had Clint Finkbiner's number and kept him well contained all night. Gage Bigelow was able to step up and lead the way with 14 points. He was the only Dino with more than 10. Nine Dinos were able to find a way to contribute and help spread scoring.
Assistant Coach Jeff Cisneros remarked, "You don't get to be ranked that highly without a reason. They (Wasatch) are a great team. I thought our boys played hard all night. We had a lot of shots that just wouldn't go in. Some nights are like that."
He went on to add, "We just need to stay looking ahead and we have two really big games ahead of us against Union and ALA."
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