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Surrey v Warwickshire, Specsavers Championship Div 1, Guildford, 3rd day
Cunning Patel spins Surrey to ten-wicket defeat
Jul 4, 2016: Offspinner Jeetan Patel sparked a Surrey collapsed and ended with a ten-wicket match haul as Warwickshire raced to victory
Surrey v Warwickshire, Specsavers Championship, Div One, Guildford
Finch sparkles on debut to power Surrey innings
Jul 2, 2016: Aaron Finch marked his Surrey debut by hitting his first ball for six and going on to complete a brilliant 90-ball hundred
Apr 24, 2016: Former New Zealand offspinner Jeetan Patel talks about his career highlights, his Warwickshire team-mates, and the best ball he has bowled
Hampshire v Warwickshire, Championship, Division One, Ageas Bowl, 4th day
Dawson's grit defies Warwickshire's strong push
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The Ford Trophy 2015-16
Rain forces Otago-Wellington tie
Jan 13, 2016: A round-up of the Ford Trophy matches that ended on January 13, 2016
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Woodcock, Papps' tons, Patel nine-for hand Wellington win
Dec 20, 2015: Centuries from Luke Ronchi and openers Luke Woodcock and Michael Papps, along with a match haul of nine wickets from offspinner Jeetan Patel shaped Wellington's 92-run win over Otago
Is the County Championship anti-spin?
Oct 7, 2015: England's slow-bowling cupboard looks bare because of the tournament's spinner-unfriendly pitches and its sapping and lopsided schedule
Somerset v Warwickshire, LV= Championship, Division One, Taunton, 3rd day
Somerset slump to Patel after securing safety
Sep 24, 2015: Somerset collapsed against the spin of Jeetan Patel 24 hours after securing their First Division future to give Warwickshire a chance of victory on the final day
Warwickshire v Middlesex, LV= Championship, Division One, Edgbaston, 4th day
English spinners don't practise enough - Patel
Sep 4, 2015: After taking eight wickets in the draw with Middlesex, Jeetan Patel now needs only two more to reach 50 first-class scalps in four consecutive English summers
Warwickshire v Middlesex, LV= Championship, Division One, Edgbaston, 2nd day
Patel's worth harks back to simpler times
Sep 2, 2015: Jeetan Patel is a priceless example of an overseas player who has achieved for his county over several seasons in an era when the schedule renders it almost impossible
Warwickshire v Somerset, LV= Championship, Division One, Edgbaston, 1st day
Patel's five gives Warwickshire early advantage
Jul 18, 2015: Warwickshire spinner Jeetan Patel secured his first five-wicket haul of the season as Somerset made uneven progress after choosing to bat in the LV= County Championship match at Edgbaston
Durham v Warwickshire, LV= County Championship Division One, Chester-le-Street, 4th day
Patel squeezes Warwickshire to two-wicket win
Jul 15, 2015: Durham had lost only two home matches in three years before Yorkshire won at the Riverside last month. Now they have lost two in a row and Yorkshire are the clear beneficiaries, the gap between themselves and Durham still a yawning 25 points
Warwickshire v Worcestershire, County Championship, Div One, Edgbaston, 4th day
Patel delivers Warwickshire first win
May 12, 2015: Warwickshire stretched their winning run against Worcestershire by wrapping up a 181-run County Championship victory before tea on the final day as Jeetan Patel picked up four second innings wickets
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Wellington bowlers rout Central Districts
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Georgie Pie Super Smash, Hamilton
Birt gives Knights share of lead
Nov 9, 2014: A round-up of the Georgie Pie Super Smash matches on Sunday, November 9
Warwickshire v Durham, Edgbaston, 3rd day
Patel completes immense season
Sep 25, 2014: Jeetan Patel once again emphasised that he must be one of the best-value overseas players around as Warwickshire finished runners-up with a three-day victory against Durham
Durham v Warwickshire, RL Cup final, Lord's
Stokes nerve guides Durham to title
Sep 20, 2014: Durham claimed their second piece of limited-overs silverware to cap another season as county cricket's magnificent overachievers
Warwickshire v Somerset, Taunton, 4th day
Warwickshire retain hopes of glorious treble
Aug 18, 2014: Twenty years ago, Warwickshire won a historic treble. Fresh from a Championship victory against Somerset, it is just possible that 2014 could yet rival 1994 as the finest year in Warwickshire's history
Essex v Warwickshire, T20 Blast Q-F, Chelmsford
Chopra and Clarke end Warwickshire's wait
Aug 2, 2014: Varun Chopra's superb form dragged Warwickshire into the knockout stage of the NatWest T20 Blast and he found his touch again
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Loose West Indies succumb to Ashwin's wiles
One after another, the hosts' batsmen attempted questionable flicks and drives in their second innings, disregarding the drift and dip the offspinner was generating
Ashwin emulates Botham with ton and seven-for
Stats highlights from the fourth day's play in Antigua where Ashwin's maiden five-wicket haul outside Asia bowled India to an innings victory
Stats highlights from the first day of the Antigua Test, where Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan stole the show from the hosts
Manjrekar: 'Kohli reminds me of Tendulkar'
Former India batsman Sanjay Manjrekar analyses the various aspects of the first day's play in Antigua
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Standout performers continue to carry England (68)
A crushing victory over Pakistan gave England plenty to be pleased about but familiar concerns remain over the make-up of the side
Fresh Sabina track to refresh West Indies? (65)
The likes of Alzarri Joseph and Miguel Cummins could narrow the gap between the two sides in Jamaica, on what looks set to be a green pitch
Loose West Indies succumb to Ashwin's wiles (54)
One after another, the hosts' batsmen attempted questionable flicks and drives in their second innings, disregarding the drift and dip the offspinner was generating
Herath versus the mighty Australians? (45)
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Food supply is widely regarded as one of the most important factors determining the amount of investment in breeding by birds (Martin 1987; Robb et al. 2008), and within a breeding season, reproductive output could be food limited during egg formation, incubation, and/or brood rearing (Martin 1987). For altricial species, parental feeding of young often imposes the most severe energetic bottleneck (Murphy and Haukioja 1986; Bryant and Tatner 1988; Brinkhof and Cavé 1997). Accordingly, Lack (1968) advocated that laying date, clutch size, hatching asynchrony, and brood reduction were all adapted to food limitation during the nestling period. In contrast, other empirical work with altricial species has shown reproductive limitation early in the breeding season, via proximate energetic constraints on egg-laying females (Perrins 1970; Korpimaki 1989; Nilsson 1993). Further still, some indirect evidence suggests that incubation is the most food-limited stage for certain species (e.g., Mertens 1987; Siikamaki 1995; Gende and Willson 1997; Reid et al. 2000). In recent decades, increased human modification in habitat (Brennan and Kuvlesky 2005) and changes in seasonal conditions as a result of climate change may be exacerbating the degree of food limitation, or modifying its timing, for many birds (Evans 2004; Both et al. 2010).
Because manipulation of dietary intake is the most direct way to address questions of food limitation (Martin 1987), supplemental feeding has been used frequently in avian breeding experiments (Boutin 1990). However, given that the nestling period is often assumed to be the most energy-limiting stage of breeding for most altricial species, surprisingly few experiments have provided extra food solely during that stage. Rather, in most investigations, food supplementation starts before egg laying and continues through the reproductive cycle (e.g., Hogstedt 1981; Davies and Lundberg 1985; Arcese and Smith 1988; Harrison et al. 2010). Consequently, effects of food limitation during the nestling phase cannot be separated from effects during other time periods (Dunn et al. 2011). Only a handful of studies in altricial species provided extra food to broods during the nestling period alone (Simons and Martin 1990; Richner 1992; Garcia et al. 1993; Verhulst 1994; Gende and Willson 1997; Wiehn and Korpimaki 1997; González et al. 2006). These food-supplementation studies ranged from 1 to 14 years in duration, and most found some evidence of food limitation. Unfortunately, demonstrating that food intake during the nestling period affects the number and/or size of fledglings gives no indication of the importance of food availability in the nestling stage relative to availability in other stages of the nesting cycle (Wiehn and Korpimaki 1997). To accomplish this, supplementation must begin at different stages in the breeding cycle.
Here, we present results from food-supplementation experiments in an intensely human-modified agricultural setting conducted over 5 years with the burrowing owl Athene cunicularia, Molina. To test if food typically limits reproduction during the nestling period, we compared the quality (size and mass) and quantity of fledglings between control (unsupplemented) pairs and pairs provided with extra food from hatching until fledging. In two of the years, we also fed a third subset of owl pairs from clutch initiation until fledging. To our knowledge, no previous experiment has compared fledgling production by individuals that were food supplemented during the nestling stage with those that were supplemented through the egg laying, incubation, and nestling stages.
The burrowing owl is an endangered species in Canada (COSEWIC 2006), a species of conservation concern in the United States (Klute et al. 2003), and a species of special protection in Mexico (Klute et al. 2003; SEMARNAT 2010). Although burrowing owls nest and forage in a variety of habitat types (e.g., native and tame pastures, golf courses, roadside ditches, mowed lawns, and airport fields; Poulin et al. 2005; Marsh 2012), reduced prey availability or accessibility during the nesting season could be one of the reasons for recent population declines at the northern extent of their range (Poulin et al. 2001; COSEWIC 2006).
Ultimately, knowledge of if and when food may limit reproductive output in avian populations is essential for determining proper timing and management of habitat, or in an extreme case, when to supplement food for wild populations. In addition, understanding when food typically limits reproductive output during the breeding cycle has important implications given the current focus on climate change–induced mismatches between food availability and breeding phenology (Both et al. 2010; Dunn et al. 2011).


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Today we are digging into our archives as a result of some recent staff time discussing the validity of posts we have published in years past, realizing how good so many of them were and how applicable they are to you current readers and planning couples. Some of our men's fashion posts have been our most popular posts, we think this might be due to the fact that there is so much inspiration + information out in the wedding world that surrounds bridal fashion! Men's fashion is becoming a more prevalent topic but has a long way to go before it reaches bridal equivalent, and is more often needed, and therefor highly read.
So throwin it back a year or two to this post Jason from Beckett & Robb did for us filled with tips for the groom regarding fashion on the big day!
As a custom suit and tux maker we get to help grooms fulfill even the most unique requests. This also gives us a sense of current and upcoming trends. We also have the opportunity to help style grooms from head to toe, and are often involved in helping them during the all-important photography for groomals and on the big day. Here are our top 5 tips and trends for 2014:
WEAR A SUIT Although a tuxedo is classic choice, most guys are wearing suits these days. For practical reasons it makes more sense to spend money on a suit that can be worn post-wedding. The bride usually can't do that with her dress. And a tux is nearly as useless after the wedding. With tux rental costs rising and suit costs falling, the additional cost to purchase a suit is more accessible than it's ever been. A suit also has the advantage (over a tux) of being very flexible in terms of style and level of formality. A tux is nearly always black, and it's always formal. Many weddings are based on informal themes and tux may look out of place. A suit can support many themes, from formal to rustic, beach to prep, the options are endless with a suit.
DRESS FOR THE SEASON Another benefit of a suit is the wide variety of cloth options available. For warm weather weddings consider lighter colors and lighter fabrics. Tan and light grey are common choices, and are readily available from many suit shops. If you go custom, such as through us at Beckett & Robb, you can even get more adventurous with vibrant blues, yellow, green and more. Tropical wool is a lightweight category of wool designed to breathe in warm weather. Other good choices are cotton, linen, or blends of the three. For cooler weather weddings consider darker colors and heavier fabrics. Black, charcoal, navy, and chocolate are common choices. While wool is often the most accessible choices, it's becoming increasingly common to find tweeds, flannels, and corduroy suits at stores. And again, all are available through custom suit groups.
BOUTONNIÈRE FLOWERS SHOULD BE SMALL Too often the flower given to the groom is too large. The rule of thumb is that the boutonnière flower should be no wider than the width of the lapel on which it's pinned. A good way to achieve this is to make sure that the flower hasn't bloomed. A bud is smaller than a fully bloomed flower. This will look very tasteful and consistent with the wedding party without looking out of balance.
WEAR NEW SHOES There's nothing like a pair of older, worn shoes to ruin an otherwise perfect outfit. We see this a lot, unfortunately. Buy something new that matches the same level of formality as the suit and the rest of the wedding in general. Avoid dated looks like the extremely pointed and distressed Italian look or the old box toe shoe from 2003. For most weddings the right choice is a lace up shoe. From most to least formal: a plain toe, a cap toe, or a wingtip. And unless the suit/tux is black, you should consider wearing a brown shoe.
— — USE A TAILOR Whether you purchase your suit from H&M, J. Crew, or Nordstrom, you should spend the time and money necessary to have your new suit altered to perfection. Assuming the fit is close already, pay attention to a few common oversights: slim the sleeves, taper the pants, and make sure you have just a little bit of "break" on the length of the pants. Adjusting those three things shouldn't cost more than about $40 and will make a big difference. Plan on two weeks to make these changes. We find that even slim fit suits from major department stores are still too big in some of these areas. Of course if you commission a custom suit you can address these issues at the outset. Either way, 20 years from now you'll be glad that you paid attention to the details.
TIES & POCKET SQUARES SHOULD COMPLIMENT, NOT MATCH I promised 5 tips, but this bonus tip needs to be shared! Often neckties and pocket squares are sold in matching sets. Our rule: buy them in sets, but never wear them in sets. A pocket square should compliment the rest of the look. It should draw a color from somewhere else in the look, including the tie, shirt, flower, or even the bridesmaid dress. But it shouldn't be identical. It's tacky. When in doubt go with a sleek white square folded to just barely peek out. Like James Bond. Although he's never married.
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Stanislaw Kapuscinski, (aka Stan I.S. Law) an architect, sculptor and prolific writer, was educated in Poland and England. A refugee from Poland at 13, then at 33, having overcome numerous difficulties, he began his search for the secret of life. Now, he is a successful writer, happily married for 30 years, with an assured future. His special interests cover a broad spectrum of arts, sciences and philosophy. At times he seeks inspiration in the Peruvian Andes, or solitude under sail. His books (articles, short stories, poetry) attest to his particular passion for the scope and the development of Human Potential. He authored more than thirty books, eighteen of them novels. His non-fiction explores Ancient Myths, Biblical Symbolism, Immortality and the mystery of Visualization. Three volumes of Essays (Beyond Religion) investigate the Nature of Being. Generally, if you suspect you are more than flesh and bones, read Stan Law. If you want to be sure, read Stanislaw Kapuscinski.
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As we read this novel we experience initially in an honest and unsentimental way the journey of a man in his nineties towards his end. He suffers from Alzheimer's. On reflection, he does not actually "suffer". He lives with Alzheimer's, which is not the same as "suffer". The old man and his ten year younger wife, Mrs. Kordos, spend their remaining years in the Institute of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Mrs. Kordos is around eighty at the beginning of the novel. She is also the mother of the first person narrator of the novel. His name is Steven. Apart from the people already mentioned, there are another three central characters in "The Gate – Things My Mother Told Me". They are a female nurse, a male nurse and a retired priest. Other interesting characters in the novel, albeit playing minor rolls, are the narrator's younger wife and his brother.
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The story focuses on an elderly Polish woman who is reflecting on her life experiences and her life in general. The book is declaration of her life and her thinking about her memories, growing old, friendship, family, love, loyalty and also religion, disease and death. Through the reading we can notice dramatic and also some humorous moments.
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AbstractThis Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) proposal introduces a stationary gimbal-less multiple beam optical transceiver for future high bandwidth free-space laser communication. With a near 4p field of regards (FOR), the transceiver surpasses theshortcomings of a gimbal based device in terms of bulkiness, slow slew rate, heavy weight, power hungry, and difficult in achieving accurate and multiple beam pointing. The core component is a planar structured wave-guide (WG) optical transmitter [alsotermed as beam steering device (BSD)] integrated with an optical receiver. Other features include compact and motionless package (4 inches and 2 inches in length), random, accurate, and multiple beam pointing with a fast speed in sub-millisecond range,high efficiency, wide receiving angle, and broad spectral bandwidth. Finally, the device is rigid, lightweight, low power consumption, and low cost, meeting the requirements as demanded in the broadband optical reachback for free space laser communicationin military, space, and commercial industry.In Phase I, a feasibility study on the WG transmitter will be carried out to address the concept. In Phase II, prototype transceiver will be developed and tested, followed by Phase III for commercialization not only for military but also for telecom,medical and entertainment. The proposed transceiver primarily suits military application purposes. In addition, the transceiver can find broad applications in commercial fields such as optical wireless communication, display, medical, entertainment, to name a few.
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- Allan, Sarah (ed), The Formation of Chinese Civilization: An Archaeological Perspective, ISBN 0-300-09382-9
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This invention relates in general to communication systems having a transmitter and a receiver, and more specifically to an apparatus and method for generating comfort noise in an open system where there is no defined protocol between the transmitter and receiver.
In asynchronous voice communication systems, it is possible to take advantage of the silence periods in a speech signal to reduce the amount of data sent from a transmitter to a receiver. For example, Discontinuous Transmission (DTX) systems are known whereby the transmitter sends a minimal amount of information during the silence periods rather than continuously transmitting the actual background noise. This Silence Insertion Descriptor (SID) information describes the spectral and level characteristics of the background noise not sent by the transmitter. The receiver uses this SID information to regenerate the background noise (this is known in the art as Comfort Noise Generation (CNG)). Many such CNG schemes have been described and implemented with success. However, all such systems require the transmitter and receiver to use a predefined protocol for exchanging the SID information (i.e. they are "closed systems").
The following are examples of such prior art systems:
[1] ITU, G.723.1 Annex A, Silence Compression Scheme
[2] ITU, G.729 Annex B, Silence Compression Scheme
[3] ITU R M. 1073-1, Digital cellular land mobile telecommunication systems, annex 2: General description of the GSM system
[4] U.S. Pat. No. 5,960,389, Methods for generating comfort noise during discontinuous transmission
[5] U.S. Pat. No. 5,630,016, Comfort noise generation for digital communication systems
[6] U.S. Pat. No. 5,537,509, Comfort noise generation for digital communication systems
[7] U.S. Pat. No. 5,794,199, Method and System for improved discontinuous speech transmission
In the case of "open systems" where there is no such protocol, the transmitter simply stops transmitting during silence periods. The receiver then enters an underrun condition. A few straightforward schemes have been implemented in prior art "open systems" in order to avoid such an underrun condition during transmitter silence periods. These schemes include playing out zeros at the receiver, playing out white or coloured noise at a fixed level, as well as estimating the level of the background noise (for instance with the level of the last frame received) and playing out fixed white or coloured noise at that level. It is well know in the art that these schemes result in noticeable transitions between the background noise of the signal being transmitted and the comfort noise generated by the receiver. These artefacts greatly affect the overall speech quality. In order to achieve good speech quality, the generated comfort noise has to be of substantially the same level and spectral characteristics as the background noise of the speech signal.
According to the present invention, a Comfort Noise Generation (CNG) system is provided for use in "open systems" where there is no predefined protocol for transmission of SID information from the transmitter to the receiver. As discussed above, in such systems, the transmitter simply stops transmitting during silence periods. The receiver then enters an underrun condition and generates comfort noise with the least possible impact on the overall speech quality. More particularly, according to the present invention, the computation of the level and spectral characteristics of the background of the speech signal is done within the receiver, thereby overcoming the lack of a protocol to transmit the SID information during silence periods. These characteristics are computed as a gain parameter and a set of Linear Prediction Coding (LPC) parameters which are applied to a filter which filters flat-spectrum noise in order to generate noise that sounds like the background noise of the speech signal.
Embodiments of the present invention are hereinafter described with reference to the following drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a comfort noise generation system according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic representation of a filter block used in the comfort noise generation system of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing operation of the comfort noise generation system of the invention;
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing details of an LPC parameter calculation step in FIG. 3; and
FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing operation of the comfort noise generation system according to an alternative embodiment of the invention.
With reference to FIG. 1, a circular buffer 1 is shown in a receiver for storing packets of speech received from a transmitter and subsequently reading out the speech at a constant data rate for transmission to a digital telephone (not shown). The speech signal is transmitted in frames over the transmission channel. The exact size of the frame is not critical to the invention, but could be, for example, 10 ms as set forth in G.729, 30 ms as set forth in G.723.1, or any other frame size. An example of such a circular buffer is set forth in co-pending commonly-assigned Application Mitel #398. The buffer is large enough to contain several packets of voice data (e.g. typically of sufficient size to store approximately 0.5 seconds of voice). Data packets containing voice samples are written into the circular buffer 1 at the addresses pointed to by write pointer 3, as they are received. TDM data is read out of the buffer 1, sample by sample, from the location pointed to by the TDM sample pointer 5. This pointer is incremented after each sample is read. The method by which packets are written to the buffer (1) and TDM voice samples are read from the buffer does not form part of the present invention. However, a preferred method is set forth in co-pending commonly-assigned Application Mitel #398, referred to herein above.
As discussed above, when implemented in an open system, no predefined protocol is provided for transmission of SID information, as contrasted with prior art DTX systems. Therefore, according to the present invention, the receiver includes a comfort noise generator 7 and a signal gain and LPC estimator 9 for estimating gain factor and LPC parameters for generation of silence noise via comfort noise generator.
The comfort noise generator block 7 is shown in greater detail with reference to FIG. 2, comprising a multiplier 21 and an all-pole filter 23. As discussed briefly above, and in greater detail with reference to the published prior art, the gain parameter and Linear Prediction Coding (LPC) parameters are applied to multiplier 21 and filter 23, respectively, to filter flat-spectrum noise into the desired background noise of the speech signal.
A high-level operational flowchart for the invention is set forth in FIG. 3. In the event that buffer 1 contains voice packets to transmit (step 31), the frame of packets is played out of the buffer in the usual manner (step 33). However, in the event buffer 1 enters an underrun condition, silence is detected and, for the first frame of silence (step 35), the signal gain and LPC parameters are estimated (step 39). For subsequent frames of the buffer underrun condition, the previously computed gain and LPC parameters are used to generate comfort noise within the receiver (step 37).
Turning briefly to FIG. 4, the LPC coefficient parameters estimation procedure is shown according to the preferred embodiment. Because most algorithms for silence detection require a minimum period of silence before triggering a silence state, the LPC parameters of the background noise can be estimated from the last approximately 20ms of speech received prior to the underrun condition (step 41). Any classical method of windowing (step 43) may be used prior to the calculation of the autocorrelation coefficients of the speech samples (step 45). According to the preferred embodiment, the well-known Levinson-Durbin procedure is used (step 47) to estimate the LPC parameters, similar to classical LPC-based vocoders (as set forth in references [1], [2] and [3], above). In order to increase the stability of the LPC estimation, it is contemplated that the estimated LPC coefficients may be averaged with those of the previous silence periods (step 49). This, however, may result in some loss in tracking ability in the event of variations in the background noise of the speech signal between consecutive silence periods.
It is known in the art that a minimum of ten LPC parameters is necessary to represent a reasonably wide range of spectral characteristics of the background noise. In the present invention, because the LPC parameters are estimated within the receiver instead of being transmitted over the transmission channel, more LPC parameters are preferably used in order to be able to better represent the spectral shapes of the background noise. Because the calculations are performed within the receiver, there is no impact on the bandwidth used for voice transmission. The only impact is on the complexity of the algorithm, both in terms of LPC analysis (i.e. estimation of the LPC parameters) and all-pole filtering (filter 23 in FIG. 2). It has been discovered that using twenty parameters instead of ten results in a substantial improvement in the quality of the generated background noise. The complexity of the algorithm is roughly doubled as a result of doubling the number of LPC parameters used, as discussed in greater detail.
Returning to FIG. 3, a similar methodology is used to estimate the gain of the voice signal (step 39). Specifically, the gain factor is first estimated on the basis of the last approximately 20 ms of received speech, and then smoothed using the gain factor of the previous silence periods. The initial gain estimation (prior to smoothing) is derived from the LPC coefficients and the autocorrelation coefficients via the Wiener-Hopf equations, as set forth in references [2] and [8] above.
The flat-spectrum excitation signal is generated utilizing any technique used in conventional DTX systems (step 41). Thus, the excitation signal may be in the form of pure white noise generated via a pseudo-random number generator, or any mixture between pure white noise, adaptive excitation and CELP fixed excitation as described in reference [2]. The excitation signal is then used to generate frames of comfort noise (step 43), as described in FIG. 2, which are then played out of the buffer (step 45).
Returning to the issue of algorithm complexity, with M LPC coefficients and N last received samples of the speech signal (M=20 and N=160 in the description above), the estimation of gain factor and LPC parameters for the whole silence period takes N instructions for windowing, M�N instructions for generation of the autocorrelation coefficients and O(M2) (more precisely approximately 10�M2) for the Levinson-Durbin procedure and derivation of the gain factor. Generation of the flat-spectrum excitation signal takes approximately 5 instructions per sample to output, and the all-pole filtering and gain factor require on the order of M instructions per sample to output. Thus, the total cycle count for M=20 and N=160 is less than 10,000 instructions to compute the gain factor and LPC parameters for the whole silence period, and then approximately 25 to 30 instructions per sample to output.
According to the alternative embodiment of FIG. 5, where like reference numerals denote identical steps in the embodiment of FIG. 3, the peaks of complexity arising at the beginning of each silence period are averaged out. Thus, the LPC parameters and gain factor for each new frame of 20 ms are estimated based on each previously received (i.e. last) frame. In the event that the "last frame" turns out to be immediately before a silence period, then the previously estimated parameters are used for the generation of comfort noise during the entire silence period. Thus, the worst-case complexity for active frames is less than 10,000 instructions per 20 ms (i.e. less than 0.5 MIPS), and the complexity for silence periods becomes approximately 30 instructions per sample (i.e. approximately 0.25 MIPS).
It will be appreciated that, although a particular embodiment of the invention has been described and illustrated in detail, various changes and modifications may be made. For example, alternate methods may be used to compute and smooth the LPC coefficients, or to generate the flat-spectrum excitation signal. Indeed, as explained in reference [4] flat-spectrum white noise may not be the best candidate for the excitation signal of the computed LPC parameters to generate the comfort noise. Instead, a random excitation signal may be generated and modified by a spectral control filter. The principles of the present invention may also be applied to any application where DTX is used in a "closed system" where no protocol is defined for transmission of the SID information.
All such variations are believed to be within the sphere and scope of the invention as defined by the claims appended hereto.
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Posted by Oscar M. Cantu Categories: Hot Deals, PC / Laptop
Sharp has announced the availability of its anticipated Actius MC24 notebook computer. This notebook computer is designed with the home/small office user in mind; it is a fully equipped notebook computer including a 60GB hard drive for a selling price of $999.00. The list of features are the following:
- AMD Mobile Athlon XP-M 2400+ with AMD PowerNow!TM Technology Support
- Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service 2 with Advanced Security Technologies
- 512MB DDR SDRAM (PC2100) standard (expandable to 768MB)
- 12.1" XGA TFT LCD (1024 x 768), 16 million colors
- 60GB Hard Drive
- CD-R/RW&DVD-Rom drive
- 4 USB 2.0 ports, Audio output jack, External mic. jack, External Display Connector
- 56kbps fax modem (V.90)
- Wireless (IEEE802.11b/g, 11 channels), 100BASE-TX/10BASE-T
- Approx. 2.0hrs Battery Life
- 5.07 lbs
As you can see, this is a pretty good deal at less than $1000. Sure some parts could be better, but at $999 almost anyone can afford this stylish notebook.
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Next week, Ben and I (and possibly Joe) are going to have a podcast where we talk about the Super Bowl after the dust has settled. But for now, we've had half a week to think about the Super Bowl, and I think it is time to talk about press conferences.
Cam Newton behaved like most expected him to. He played with emotion, and when it didn't go his way, he quit. He didn't jump on a fumble because he was afraid of injury. He didn't last too long in the press conference because he was tired of hearing Chris Harris, Jr., literally right behind him, answering happy questions about how easily they stopped Cam. He gave the legion of Newton Nukers (trademark pending) a ton of fuel in their hot take effigies of the 26 year old from Auburn.
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I'm just curious, it seems a CEO could make a lot of money by shorting a huge amount of shares on his company through a third party and then purposefully tanking the company before being fired. Surely this is illegal right?
That would be the ultimate in insider trading. They made a stock transaction knowing in advance what was going to happen to the share price.
They could easily expect to face jail time, plus the CEO would still face lawsuits from the board of directors, the stockholders and the employees.
mhoran_psprep has answered the question well about "shorting" e.g. making a profit if the stock price goes down.
However a CEO can take out insurance (called hedging) against the stock price going down in relation to stocks they already own in some cases. But is must be disclosed in public filings etc.
This may be done for example if most of the CEO's money is in the stock of the company and they can't sell for tax reasons. Normally it would only be done for part of the CEO's holding.
(yes, this should probably be a comment, not an answer ... but it's a bit long).
I don't know what the laws are specifically about this, but my grandfather used to be on the board of a company that he helped to found ... and back in the 1980s, there was a period when the stock price suddenly quadrupled
One of the officers in the company, knowing that the stock was over-valued, sold around a third of his shares ... and he got investigated for insider trading. I don't recall if he was ever charged with anything, but there were some false rumors spreading about the company at the time (one was that they had something that you could sprinkle on meat to reduce the cholesterol). I don't know where the rumors came from, but I've always assumed it was some sort of pump-and-dump stock manipulation, as this was decades before they were on the S&P 500 small cap.
After that, the company had a policy where officers had to announce they were selling stock, and that it wouldn't execute for some time (1? 2 weeks? something like that). I don't know if that was the SEC's doing, or something that the company came up with on their own.
If we take only the title of the question "can the CEO short the stock": It was probably different before Enron, but nowadays a CEO can only make planned trades, that is trades that are registered a very long time before, and that cannot be avoided once registered. So the CEO can say "I sell 100,000 shares in exactly six months time". Then in six months time, the CEO can and must sell the shares. Anything else will get him into trouble with the SEC quite automatically. I don't know if shorting a stock or buying options can be done that way at all. So it's possible only in the sense of "it's possible, but you'll be in deep trouble".
Selling shares or exercising share options may indicate that the company's business is in trouble. If the sale makes that impression and everyone else starts selling because the CEO sold his shares, then the CEO may be in trouble with the board of directors. Such a sale would be totally legal (if announced long time ahead), but just a bad move if it makes the company look bad. Shorting sales is much worse in that respect. If the CEO wants to buy a new car, he may have to sell some shares (there are people paid almost only in share options), no matter where the share price is going. But shorting shares means that you most definitely think the share price is going to drop. You're betting your money on it. That would tend to get a CEO fired, even if it was legal.
Yes. It's called executive hedging, and it's a lot more common than most people know. As long as it's properly disclosed and the decision is based on publicly available information, there's technically nothing wrong with it.
Krispy Kreme, Enron, MCI, and ImClone are the most notable companies that had executives do it on a large scale, but almost every company has or had executives execute a complex form of hedging known as a prepaid variable forward (PVF). In a PVF, the executive gives his shares to an investment bank in exchange for a percentage of cash up front. The bank then uses the executive shares to hedge in both directions for them. This provides a proxy that technically isn't the executive that needs to disclose.
There's talk about it needing to be more public at the SEC right now. http://www.sec.gov/news/statement/020915-ps-claa.html
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Updated at 3:26 PM ET — As commenters "mv" and David Nethery noted, people in San Diego County felt the shaking caused by the earthquake and its aftershocks.
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Within minutes of the tremor, respondents to an earthquake Web site reported light shaking felt as far away as Las Vegas and Phoenix. The strongest shaking was felt in Mexicali, Calexico, El Centro and Holtville.
In California, reports of shaking came as far away as Tehachapi and California City, both in Kern County.
In Mexico, officials evacuated government buildings in Tijuana and Mexicali while they assessed the situation, said Alfredo Escobedo, civil protection chief for Baja California.
There were no immediate reports of damage to San Diego County buildings. The quake could be felt on the fourth floor of the police department headquarters in downtown San Diego, as the building swayed for several seconds.
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The U.S. Geological Service is reporting that a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Baja California, Mexico Wednesday.
According to the USGS, the earthquake occurred at 1:48 pm ET and occured at a depth of 4.3 miles which makes it a relatively shallow earthquake. The epicenter was placed at 13 miles northwest of Guadalupe Victoria, Baja California, Mexico and 106 miles east of Tijuana, Mexico.
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Microsoft is not making any money off Classic VB anymore, and there is a lot of libraries and source code examples for it.
I made my living writing in Classic VB in the 1990s and up to 2002. It was easy to learn because it was like every other form of BASIC from the 8 bit era. VB.Net changed things and made it more like Java.
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We consider ourselves extremely lucky that we are both interested in managing our finances without an expensive adviser and wonder why so many people whether single or attached don't. With many couples it is usually one who is trying to get his or her spouse interested, or the differences are similar to ours, one is overly aggressive and the other is overly conservative.
We all know the importance of saving, and while it's ideal to save six months of income for a rainy day, I know first-hand how intimidating that can be for most of us. So, instead of looking at lofty savings or financial goals, I challenge you to take micro steps to reach your personal finance and debt reduction goals.
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