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The National Labor Relations Board, the agency that enforces federal labor law, continues to challenge employer policies that seek to impose confidentiality constraints on employees. This is unlikely to change now that the Senate has confirmed President Obama's nominations for all five members, bringing the NLRB to full strength for the first time in years. Dominated 3-2 by Democrats, the NLRB is widely expected to continue to expand the reach of federal labor law into nonunion settings and to strike down rules of conduct that could be interpreted to interfere with those rights. Of particular concern to employers is the NLRB's approach to confidentiality policies.
This update explains how federal labor law protects virtually all nonsupervisory workers and what the implications are for employer rules of conduct.
The centerpiece of federal labor law is the National Labor Relations Act (the Act), passed in 1935 as part of the Great Depression's New Deal. Expressly designed to promote collective bargaining, Section 7 of the Act protects employees who engage in union activities. Section 7, however, is not limited to union activities. It broadly protects employees who engage in "other concerted activities for the purpose of . . . mutual aid or protection," whether or not a union is involved. Collectively, these rights are referred to as "Section 7 rights."
The NLRB has even created a public page on its website devoted to the protection of concerted activities: www.nlrb.gov/concerted-activity.
An employer that interferes with the exercise of these rights commits an unfair labor practice and can be ordered to stop interfering and to compensate injured employees for any loss of wages or benefits.
It has long been established that employer rules of conduct interfere with Section 7 rights in four different circumstances:
It is in this last area where the NLRB has been the most active in recent years, finding unlawful such things as overly broad confidentiality policies, overly restrictive social networking policies and overly broad civility rules.
Here are a few illustrative examples of rules the NLRB has found unlawful:
The NLRB's General Counsel - the official who prosecutes unfair labor practices - appears to take an even more expansive view. In his most recent pronouncement, he concluded that the following social media rule was illegal:
"You have an obligation to protect confidential, non-public information to which you have access in the course of your work. Do not disclose . . . any confidential information about the Company or any related companies . . . or about other [employees], customers, suppliers or business partners."
The General Counsel reasoned that the term "non-public information" was so vague that employees would reasonably construe it to include subjects that involve their working conditions. Likewise, the term "confidential information" would reasonably be interpreted to include information concerning terms and conditions of employment. Therefore, the General Counsel concluded that, unless the company settled the charges and revised the rule, an unfair labor practice complaint would be issued against it.
The same case also concerned language stating:
"Do not use any . . . photographs or video of the Company's premises, processes, operations, or products, which includes confidential information owned by the Company . . . ."
The General Counsel argued that this was unlawful because it would reasonably be interpreted to prevent employees from using social media to communicate and share information regarding their Section 7 activities through pictures or videos, such as of employees engaged in picketing or other concerted activities.
The rule in question also prohibited the use of any company "logo, trademark, or graphics." The General Counsel easily found that language to be illegal based on established law that employees may use their employer's logo and trademarks when engaging in Section 7 activities such as displaying them on leaflets, picket signs and the like.
Merely maintaining an unlawful rule is a violation even if it has never in fact been applied to restrict any Section 7 activity. So, when drafting rules of conduct addressing such things as confidentiality and civility, be careful not to use broad, general prohibitions.
Be specific and list examples of unacceptable behavior so that a single word will not be read in isolation. The value of this approach is illustrated by another recent case, in which the General Counsel reviewed a comprehensive ethics policy that contained the following passage:
"Employees will not engage in conduct or activity that may raise questions as to the company's honesty, impartiality, reputation or otherwise cause embarrassment to the company."
If this language had been the sole policy statement, the General Counsel could well have found it unlawful because many Section 7 activities could arguably raise questions about an employer's honesty and cause embarrassment to it. However, because the policy contained an extensive discussion of improper actions such as bribery, antitrust violations, insider trading and the like, the General Counsel concluded that employees would not reasonably construe the language as restricting Section 7 rights.
The same should be true for confidentiality policies that are limited to specific kinds of information the employer has the right to keep secret. For an example of a social media policy with confidentiality provisions that passed muster with the NLRB's General Counsel, please click here. Consult counsel if you wonder if your confidentiality policies will pass muster with the expanding reach of the NLRB.
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Interlaced video
Interlaced video is a technique for doubling the perceived frame rate of a video display without consuming extra bandwidth. The interlaced signal contains two fields of a video frame captured at two different times. This enhances motion perception to the viewer, and reduces flicker by taking advantage of the phi phenomenon.
This effectively doubles the time resolution (also called temporal resolution) as compared to non-interlaced footage (for frame rates equal to field rates). Interlaced signals require a display that is natively capable of showing the individual fields in a sequential order. CRT displays and ALiS plasma displays are made for displaying interlaced signals.
Interlaced scan refers to one of two common methods for "painting" a video image on an electronic display screen (the other being progressive scan) by scanning or displaying each line or row of pixels. This technique uses two fields to create a frame. One field contains all odd-numbered lines in the image; the other contains all even-numbered lines.
A Phase Alternating Line (PAL)-based television set display, for example, scans 50 fields every second (25 odd and 25 even). The two sets of 25 fields work together to create a full frame every 1/25 of a second (or 25 frames per second), but with interlacing create a new half frame every 1/50 of a second (or 50 fields per second).[1] To display interlaced video on progressive scan displays, playback applies deinterlacing to the video signal (which adds input lag).
The European Broadcasting Union has argued against interlaced video in production and broadcasting. They recommend 720p 50 fps (frames per second) for the current production format—and are working with the industry to introduce 1080p 50 as a future-proof production standard. 1080p 50 offers higher vertical resolution, better quality at lower bitrates, and easier conversion to other formats, such as 720p 50 and 1080i 50.[2][3] The main argument is that no matter how complex the deinterlacing algorithm may be, the artifacts in the interlaced signal cannot be completely eliminated because some information is lost between frames.
Despite arguments against it,[4][5] television standards organizations continue to support interlacing. It is still included in digital video transmission formats such as DV, DVB, and ATSC. New video compression standards in development, like High Efficiency Video Coding, do not support interlaced coding tools and target high-definition progressive video such as ultra high definition television.
Progressive scan captures, transmits, and displays an image in a path similar to text on a page—line by line, top to bottom. The interlaced scan pattern in a CRT display also completes such a scan, but in two passes (two fields). The first pass displays the first and all odd numbered lines, from the top left corner to the bottom right corner. The second pass displays the second and all even numbered lines, filling in the gaps in the first scan.
This scan of alternate lines is called interlacing. A field is an image that contains only half of the lines needed to make a complete picture. Persistence of vision makes the eye perceive the two fields as a continuous image. In the days of CRT displays, the afterglow of the display's phosphor aided this effect.
Interlacing provides full vertical detail with the same bandwidth that would be required for a full progressive scan of twice the perceived frame rate and refresh rate. To prevent flicker, all analog broadcast television systems used interlacing.
Format identifiers like 576i 50 and 720p 50 specify the frame rate for progressive scan formats, but for interlaced formats they typically specify the field rate (which is twice the frame rate). This can lead to confusion, because industry-standard SMPTE timecode formats always deal with frame rate, not field rate. To avoid confusion, SMPTE and EBU always use frame rate to specify interlaced formats, e.g., 480i 60 is 480i/30, 576i 50 is 576i/25, and 1080i 50 is 1080i/25. This convention assumes that one complete frame in an interlaced signal consists of two fields in sequence.
Benefits of interlacing[edit]
One of the most important factors in analog television is signal bandwidth, measured in megahertz. The greater the bandwidth, the more expensive and complex the entire production and broadcasting chain. This includes cameras, storage systems, broadcast systems—and reception systems: terrestrial, cable, satellite, Internet, and end-user displays (TVs computer monitors).
For a fixed bandwidth, interlace provides a video signal with twice the display refresh rate for a given line count (versus progressive scan video at a similar frame rate—for instance 1080i at 60 half-frames per second, vs. 1080p at 30 full frames per second). The higher refresh rate improves the appearance of an object in motion, because it updates its position on the display more often, and when an object is stationary, human vision combines information from multiple similar half-frames to produce the same perceived resolution as that provided by a progressive full frame. This technique is only useful though, if source material is available in higher refresh rates. Cinema movies are typically recorded at 24fps, and therefore don't benefit from interlacing. A solution which reduces the maximum video bandwidth to 5MHz without reducing the effective picture scan rate of 50Hz.
Given a fixed bandwidth and high refresh rate, interlaced video can also provide a higher spatial resolution than progressive scan. For instance, 1920×1080 pixel resolution interlaced HDTV with a 60 Hz field rate (known as 1080i60 or 1080i/30) has a similar bandwidth to 1280×720 pixel progressive scan HDTV with a 60 Hz frame rate (720p60 or 720p/60), but achieves approximately twice the spatial resolution for low-motion scenes.
However, bandwidth benefits only apply to an analog or uncompressed digital video signal. With digital video compression, as used in all current digital TV standards, interlacing introduces additional inefficiencies.[citation needed]. EBU has performed tests that show that the bandwidth savings of interlaced video over progressive video is minimal, even with twice the frame rate. I.e., 1080p50 signal produces roughly the same bit rate as 1080i50 (aka 1080i/25) signal,[3] and 1080p50 actually requires less bandwidth to be perceived as subjectively better than its 1080i/25 (1080i50) equivalent when encoding a "sports-type" scene.[7]
The VHS, and most other analogue video recording methods that use a rotary drum to record video on tape, benefit from interlacing. On the VHS, the drum turns a full revolution per frame, and carries two picture heads, each of which sweep the tape surface once for every revolution. If the device were made to record progressive scanned video, the switchover of the heads would fall in the middle of the picture and appear as a horizontal band. Interlacing allows the switchovers to occur at the top and bottom of the picture, areas which in a standard TV set are invisible to the viewer. The device can also be made more compact than if each sweep recorded a full frame, as this would require a double diameter drum rotating at half the angular velocity and making longer, shallower sweeps on the tape to compensate for the doubled line count per sweep. However, when a still image is produced from an interlaced video tape recording, on most older consumer grade units the tape would be stopped and both heads would just repeatedly read the same field of the picture, essentially halving the vertical resolution until playback proceeds. The other option is to capture a full frame (both fields) upon pressing the pause button right before actually stopping the tape, and then repetitively reproduce it from a frame buffer. The latter method can produce a sharper image but some degree of deinterlacing would mostly be required to gain notable visual benefit. While the former method will produce horizontal artifacts towards the top and bottom of the picture due to the heads being unable to traverse exactly the same path along the tape surface as when recording on a moving tape, this misalignment would actually be worse with progressive recording.
Interlacing can be exploited to produce 3D TV programming, especially with a CRT display and especially for color filtered glasses by transmitting the color keyed picture for each eye in the alternating fields. This does not require significant alterations to existing equipment. Shutter glasses can be adopted as well, obviously with the requirement of achieving synchronisation. If a progressive scan display is used to view such programming, any attempt to deinterlace the picture will render the effect useless. For color filtered glasses the picture has to be either buffered and shown as if it was progressive with alternating color keyed lines, or each field has to be line-doubled and displayed as discrete frames. The latter procedure is the only way to suit shutter glasses on a progressive display.
Interlacing problems[edit]
Interlaced video is designed to be captured, stored, transmitted, and displayed in the same interlaced format. Because each interlaced video frame is two fields captured at different moments in time, interlaced video frames can exhibit motion artifacts known as interlacing effects, or combing, if recorded objects move fast enough to be in different positions when each individual field is captured. These artifacts may be more visible when interlaced video is displayed at a slower speed than it was captured, or in still frames.
While there are simple methods to produce somewhat satisfactory progressive frames from the interlaced image, for example by doubling the lines of one field and omitting the other (halving vertical resolution), or anti-aliasing the image in the vertical axis to hide some of the combing, there are sometimes methods of producing results far superior to these. If there is only sideways (X axis) motion between the two fields and this motion is even throughout the full frame, it is possible to align the scanlines and crop the left and right ends that exceed the frame area to produce a visually satisfactory image. Minor Y axis motion can be corrected similarly by aligning the scanlines in a different sequence and cropping the excess at the top and bottom. Often the middle of the picture is the most necessary area to put into check, and whether there is only X or Y axis alignment correction, or both are applied, most artifacts will occur towards the edges of the picture. However, even these simple procedures require motion tracking between the fields, and a rotating or tilting object, or one that moves in the Z axis (away from or towards the camera) will still produce combing, possibly even looking worse than if the fields were joined in a simpler method. Some deinterlacing processes can analyze each frame individually and decide the best method. The best and only perfect conversion in these cases is to treat each frame as a separate image, but that may not always be possible. For framerate conversions and zooming it would mostly be ideal to line-double each field to produce a double rate of progressive frames, resample the frames to the desired resolution and then re-scan the stream at the desired rate, either in progressive or interlaced mode.
Interline twitter[edit]
Interlace introduces a potential problem called interline twitter, a form of moiré. This aliasing effect only shows up under certain circumstances—when the subject contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format. For instance, a finely striped jacket on a news anchor may produce a shimmering effect. This is twittering. Television professionals avoid wearing clothing with fine striped patterns for this reason. Professional video cameras or computer-generated imagery systems apply a low-pass filter to the vertical resolution of the signal to prevent interline twitter.
Interline twitter is the primary reason that interlacing is less suited for computer displays. Each scanline on a high-resolution computer monitor typically displays discrete pixels, each of which does not span the scanline above or below. When the overall interlaced framerate is 30 frames per second, a pixel that spans only one scanline is visible for 1/30 of a second followed by 1/30 of a second of darkness, reducing the per-line/per-pixel framerate to 15 frames per second.
To avoid this, standard interlaced television sets typically don't display sharp detail. When computer graphics appear on a standard television set, the screen is treated as if it were half the resolution of what it actually is or even lower. If text is displayed, it is large enough so that horizontal lines are never one scanline wide. Most fonts for television programming have wide, fat strokes, and do not include fine-detail serifs that would make the twittering more visible.
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ALiS plasma panels and the old CRTs can display interlaced video directly, but modern computer video displays and TV sets are mostly based on LCD technology, which mostly use progressive scanning.
To display interlaced video on a progressive scan display requires a process called deinterlacing. This is an imperfect technique, and generally lowers resolution and causes various artifacts—particularly in areas with objects in motion. Providing the best picture quality for interlaced video signals requires expensive and complex devices and algorithms. For television displays, deinterlacing systems are integrated into progressive scan TV sets that accept interlaced signal, such as broadcast SDTV signal.
Most modern computer monitors do not support interlaced video, besides some legacy text-only display modes. Playing back interlaced video on a computer display requires some form of deinterlacing in the software player, which often uses very simple methods to deinterlace. This means that interlaced video often has visible artifacts on computer systems. Computer systems may be used to edit interlaced video, but the disparity between computer video display systems and interlaced television signal formats means that the video content being edited cannot be viewed properly without separate video display hardware.
Current manufacture TV sets employ a system of intelligently extrapolating the extra information that would be present in a progressive signal entirely from an interlaced original. In theory: this should simply be a problem of applying the appropriate algorithms to the interlaced signal, as all information should be present in that signal. In practice, results are currently variable, and depend on the quality of the input signal and amount of processing power applied to the conversion. The biggest impediment, at present, is artifacts in the lower quality interlaced signals (generally broadcast video), as these are not consistent from field to field. On the other hand, high bit rate interlaced signals such as from HD camcorders operating in their highest bit rate mode work well.
Deinterlacing algorithms temporarily store a few frames of interlaced images and then extrapolate extra frame data to make a smooth flicker-free image. This frame storage and processing results in a slight display lag that is visible in business showrooms with a large number of different models on display. Unlike the old unprocessed NTSC signal, the screens do not all follow motion in perfect synchrony. Some models appear to update slightly faster or slower than others. Similarly, the audio can have an echo effect due to different processing delays.
When motion picture film was developed, the movie screen had to be illuminated at a high rate to prevent visible flicker. The exact rate necessary varies by brightness—40 Hz is acceptable in dimly lit rooms, while up to 80 Hz may be necessary for bright displays that extend into peripheral vision. The film solution was to project each frame of film three times using a three-bladed shutter: a movie shot at 16 frames per second illuminated the screen 48 times per second. Later, when sound film became available, the higher projection speed of 24 frames per second enabled a two bladed shutter to produce 48 times per second illumination—but only in projectors incapable of projecting at the lower speed.
This solution could not be used for television. To store a full video frame and display it twice requires a frame buffer—electronic memory (RAM—sufficient to store a video frame). This method did not become feasible until the late 1980s. In addition, avoiding on-screen interference patterns caused by studio lighting and the limits of vacuum tube technology required that CRTs for TV be scanned at AC line frequency. (This was 60 Hz in the US, 50 Hz Europe.)
In the domain of mechanical television, Léon Theremin demonstrated the concept of interlacing. He had been developing a mirror drum-based television, starting with 16 lines resolution in 1925, then 32 lines and eventually 64 using interlacing in 1926. As part of his thesis, on May 7, 1926, he electrically transmitted and projected near-simultaneous moving images on a five-foot square screen.[8]
In 1930, German Telefunken engineer Fritz Schröter first formulated and patented the concept of breaking a single video frame into interlaced lines.[9] In the USA, RCA engineer Randall C. Ballard patented the same idea in 1932.[10][11] Commercial implementation began in 1934 as cathode ray tube screens became brighter, increasing the level of flicker caused by progressive (sequential) scanning.[12]
In 1936, when the UK was setting analog standards, CRTs could only scan at around 200 lines in 1/50 of a second. Using interlace, a pair of 202.5-line fields could be superimposed to become a sharper 405 line frame. The vertical scan frequency remained 50 Hz, but visible detail was noticeably improved. As a result, this system supplanted John Logie Baird's 240 line mechanical progressive scan system that was also used at the time.
From the 1940s onward, improvements in technology allowed the US and the rest of Europe to adopt systems using progressively more bandwidth to scan higher line counts, and achieve better pictures. However the fundamentals of interlaced scanning were at the heart of all of these systems. The US adopted the 525 line system known as NTSC, Europe adopted the 625 line system, and the UK switched from its 405 line system to 625 to avoid having to develop a unique method of color TV. France switched from its unique 819 line system to the more European standard of 625. Although the term PAL is often used to describe the line and frame standard of the TV system, this is in fact incorrect and refers only to the method of superimposing the colour information on the standard 625 line broadcast. The French adopted their own SECAM system, which was also adopted by some other countries, notably Russia and its satellites. PAL has been used on some otherwise NTSC broadcasts notably in Brazil.
Interlacing was ubiquitous in displays until the 1970s, when the needs of computer monitors resulted in the reintroduction of progressive scan. Interlace is still used for most standard definition TVs, and the 1080i HDTV broadcast standard, but not for LCD, micromirror (DLP), or most plasma displays; these displays do not use a raster scan to create an image, and so cannot benefit from interlacing: in practice, they have to be driven with a progressive scan signal. The deinterlacing circuitry to get progressive scan from a normal interlaced broadcast television signal can add to the cost of a television set using such displays. Currently, progressive displays dominate the HDTV market.
Interlace and computers[edit]
In the 1970s, computers and home video game systems began using TV sets as display devices. At that point, a 480-line NTSC signal was well beyond the graphics abilities of low cost computers, so these systems used a simplified video signal that made each video field scan directly on top of the previous one, rather than each line between two lines of the previous field. This marked the return of progressive scanning not seen since the 1920s. Since each field became a complete frame on its own, modern terminology would call this 240p on NTSC sets, and 288p on PAL. While consumer devices were permitted to create such signals, broadcast regulations prohibited TV stations from transmitting video like this. Computer monitor standards such as CGA were further simplifications to NTSC, which improved picture quality by omitting modulation of color, and allowing a more direct connection between the computer's graphics system and the CRT.
By the mid-1980s, computers had outgrown these video systems and needed better displays. The Apple IIgs suffered from the use of the old scanning method, with the highest display resolution being 640x200, resulting in a severely distorted tall narrow pixel shape, making the display of realistic proportioned images difficult. Solutions from various companies varied widely. Because PC monitor signals did not need to be broadcast, they could consume far more than the 6, 7 and 8 MHz of bandwidth that NTSC and PAL signals were confined to. IBM's Monochrome Display Adapter and Enhanced Graphics Adapter as well as the Hercules Graphics Card and the original Macintosh computer generated a video signal close to 350p. The Commodore Amiga created a true interlaced NTSC signal (as well as RGB variations). This ability resulted in the Amiga dominating the video production field until the mid-1990s, but the interlaced display mode caused flicker problems for more traditional PC applications where single-pixel detail is required. 1987 saw the introduction of VGA, on which PCs soon standardized, Apple only followed suit some years later with the Mac when the VGA standard was improved to match Apple's proprietary 24 bit color video standard also introduced in 1987.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, monitor and graphics card manufacturers introduced newer high resolution standards that once again included interlace. These monitors ran at very high refresh rates, intending that this would alleviate flicker problems. Such monitors proved very unpopular. While flicker was not obvious on them at first, eyestrain and lack of focus nevertheless became a serious problem. The industry quickly abandoned this practice, and for the rest of the decade all monitors included the assurance that their stated resolutions were "non-interlaced". This experience is why the PC industry today remains against interlace in HDTV, and lobbied for the 720p standard. Also the industry is lobbying beyond 720p, actually 1080/60p for NTSC legacy countries, and 1080/50p for PAL legacy countries.
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- Field (video): In interlaced video, one of the many still images displayed sequentially to create the illusion of motion on the screen.
- 480i: standard-definition interlaced video usually used in traditionally NTSC countries (North and parts of South America, Japan)
- 576i: standard-definition interlaced video usually used in traditionally PAL and SECAM countries
- 1080i: high-definition television (HDTV) digitally broadcast in 16:9 (widescreen) aspect ratio standard
- Progressive scan: the opposite of interlacing; the image is displayed line by line.
- Deinterlacing: converting an interlaced video signal into a non-interlaced one
- Progressive segmented frame: a scheme designed to acquire, store, modify, and distribute progressive-scan video using interlaced equipment and media
- Telecine: a method for converting film frame rates to television frame rates using interlacing
- Federal Standard 1037C: defines Interlaced scanning
- Moving image formats
- Wobulation: a variation of interlacing used in DLP displays
- ^ "Interlacing". Luke's Video Guide. Retrieved February 12, 2014.
- ^ "EBU R115-2005: FUTURE HIGH DEFINITION TELEVISION SYSTEMS" (PDF). EBU. May 2005. Archived from the original on 2009-05-27. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
- ^ a b "10 things you need to know about... 1080p/50" (PDF). EBU. September 2009. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
- ^ Philip Laven (January 25, 2005). "EBU Technical Review No. 300 (October 2004)". EBU.
- ^ Philip Laven (January 26, 2005). "EBU Technical Review No. 301 (January 2005)". EBU.
- ^ "Deinterlacing Guide". HandBrake.
- ^ Hoffman, Itagaki, Wood, Bock (2006-12-04). "Studies on the Bit Rate Requirements for a HDTV Format With 1920x1080 pixel Resolution, Progressive Scanning at 50 Hz Frame Rate Targeting Large Flat Panel Displays" (PDF). IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Vol. 52, No. 4. Retrieved 2011-09-08.
It has been shown that the coding efficiency of 1080p/50 is very similar (simulations) or even better (subjective tests) than 1080i/25 despite the fact that twice the number of pixels have to be coded. This is due to the higher compression efficiency and better motion tracking of progressively scanned video signals compared to interlaced scanning.
- ^ Glinsky, Albert (2000). Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-02582-2. pages 41-45
- ^ Registered by the German Reich patent office, patent no. 574085.
- ^ "Pioneering in Electronics". David Sarnoff Collection. Archived from the original on 2006-08-21. Retrieved 2006-07-27.
- ^ U.S. patent 2,152,234. Interestingly, reducing flicker is listed only fourth in a list of objectives of the invention.
- ^ R.W. Burns, Television: An International History of the Formative Years, IET, 1998, p. 425. ISBN 978-0-85296-914-4.
External links[edit]
Look up interlaced video in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
- Fields: Why Video Is Crucially Different from Graphics – An article that describes field-based, interlaced, digitized video and its relation to frame-based computer graphics with lots of illustrations
- Digital Video and Field Order - An article that explains with diagrams how the field order of PAL and NTSC has arisen, and how PAL and NTSC is digitized
- 100FPS.COM* – Video Interlacing/Deinterlacing
- Interlace / Progressive Scanning - Computer vs. Video
- Sampling theory and synthesis of interlaced video
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Good luck with recruitment, Reg
I also have an MSN account: email@example.com
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got the info about your add, CA thanx! Any other takers?
You is on my list, ner'vod
BTW, there are rumblings for a new RPG to spice up the mix. It seems Val is coming up with a very interesting one; I suggest PMing him for info. Me thinks it will be a winner *I call Predator *
Um, not fair..... I call the better predator
hey AA...you should get your shebs in gear and post for that fight on AoS...lets get the ball rolling...:P
Wow, long time no posts here.
I have an RPG concept to throw out there. Because of school/work, however, I'm not sure I'll actually have the time to be active in it myself. So anybody who'd like to use it, feel free. If you'd like, I can do some behind the scenes advisory work, and maybe have a bit role.
I really got into the TV show "Firefly." Ironically enough, I didn't discover it until after it had been canceled; it was being reaired on SciFi Channel. I really think that in a lot of ways it was taken from the same mold as StarWars. It's ver much like what you'd expect Han and Chewie would have been doing before Ep. IV. Biggest differences is that there's no aliens, and it's future earth people rather then a seperate setting.
Here's the background for those who've never seen it: * Wiki link for those who don't want to read my take on it Head to the bottom and check the plot*
It's a distant future setting. Earth and the Milky Way galaxy has pretty much been used up, which caused a massive migration to a new star system. Many new planets and moons were terraformed into Earth like planets. Although much smaller then the SW setting, there is an 'Centeral Core' of powerful worlds surounded by an "Outer Rim" of worlds that have in many ways devolved back to western style tech due to neglect and lack of attention from the inner core.
At some point, the Inner sphere of planets decide they want to centeralize power, and force the self governing planets in the outer rim to submit to their power. A Civil War erupted, with the powerful centeral worlds crushing all opposition.
This post-war setting is where the TV show picks up. Captain Malcom Reynolds *the lead actory* and first mate are former "Brown Coats," or members of the failed seperatist faction. The crew and passengers is very diverse, all there for different reasons and add something unique to the story.
MY idea for an RPG is not to BE the crew of the Serenity *the name of the ship in the TV show,* but rather to be in a similar situation. Small ship, small crew, finding odd jobs across the galaxy as mercs, smugglers, etc.
Please ask if you have questions
I'd also like to dust off the idea of a Mech Warrior RPG. For details, so my earier post on that one
Any thoughts?
Never saw it. Always thought it was like B grade sci fi/ fantasy. I like my A grade SW thank you very much
Never saw Firefly but i am familiar with the serenity movie that spun off from the series and Ive played the Serenity tabletop RPG once or twice...
sounds cool.
not so sure if my current activities would allow me any more time...
good luck, ner vod
Could be interesting. Not sure.
I'd love to reboot one of the old, unfinished ones, like Naboo or FF. Those just died out, and could be brought back. Or a slightly post-KotOR era RPG could be cool. Old Republic, in general. Not really KotOR related.
Those are both great ideas. Anybody got a next post in mind? I'll have to check them and see who's turn it was to post roughly...
Naboo--I had last post, but it was a "anyone goes" situation.
Freedom Fighters--Just waiting for anyone who wants to take the first shot.
A KotOR era one would be cool simply because it'd give both Mandos and Jedi/Sith fans a chance to work up some pretty sweet characters, or use old ones.
Ok I dont remember if I'm apart of this clan or Werda Verda's...I forgot
But I'd rather be with this one if thats ok.
Anyway I'm coming up with a 'Regular Use Character' (who is a mando) and I thought id let you guys look over it and let me know what you think.
Name: Jax Talos
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Organization: Mandalorain (specialized Merc)
Weapons: Highly Customized E-11 blaster rifle, complete with 15x25 scope, enhanced power cells for long range, and longer lightweight gunbutt to minimize recoil when on rapid fire mode, and to steady shots when sniping.
Armor/Type: Mandalorain Assault Armor. ( http://starwars.yahoo.com/photos/mando-13 ) (Same Colors) Armor increases strength by 25% due to servomortors in the armor. Vibroblades on both Gauntlets.
History: Jax Talos is a Mandie Merc who is recruited by different goverments to train milita troops and spearheads assaults with said troops. His reputation for training milita men has become know in a fairly large portion of the galaxy. His experience is of high value to riseing/falling goverments, and he has yet to have a lull in the work flow.
Well, both clans are posting in this thread these days, so I'll let you clearify before welcoming you into Aliit Drakus
Nice character btw. Never seen that type of armor before
Hey there, people!
It's been a looong time..
Been busy with the University, no internet and all... I think, at last, I have returned.
I'm a huge Firefly fan, got the series, movie, comics and pen and paper rpg pdfs.
I'd be really interested in a game like that.
Anyways, it's really good to be back, i'll be seeing the lots of you!
Hey there, people!
It's been a looong time..Been busy with the University, no internet and all... I think, at last, I have returned.
I'm a huge Firefly fan, got the series, movie, comics and pen and paper rpg pdfs.
I'd be really interested in a game like that.
Anyways, it's really good to be back, i'll be seeing the lots of you!
HEY HEY!!! Was worried about ya ner vod; good to have you back in action!
Another idea for a RPG is simple, basically, an entire RPG dedicated to Force users. Basically, a Jedi/Sith/Grey Jedi war, with ridiculous force powers and some interesting custom characters. Basically, like Force Unleashed, but with a TON of people all going at it. Not sure the time period, though.
That's a good idea. A Force Unleashed-style RPG would be awesome.
Another idea for a RPG is simple, basically, an entire RPG dedicated to Force users. Basically, a Jedi/Sith/Grey Jedi war, with ridiculous force powers and some interesting custom characters. Basically, like Force Unleashed, but with a TON of people all going at it. Not sure the time period, though.
Wow, that could be amazing!! Probably set during KotOR era, or maybe deep in the EU after the Yuzong Vong invasion.
Kotor I beg of you
I has the perfect character for it
Well, I would either do a Starkiller style character (really, a guy using one of the costumes and lightsabers, not a secret apprentice.) or a Halcyon (Corran Horn's family line) I just doubt it would have existed that far back. A Old Republic One would be cool, but we'll see what other people think.
I'd totally be in for said force battle royal....
Sounds like a hack'n'slash fest..... I'm In
Would be a nice change of pace to not play a Mando...maybe make it a rule that EVERYBODY who joins is a Force user; that would be another reason to chose Jedi Civil War era or before...there were so many of them that it's possible
Anybody interested in Moding said RP? I'd consider it, but school's got me to busy for more then an occasional post
Whoever does it, lets not do it too soon. We've got two semi-active RPG's going, and I don't want them to just die. Lets wait until they die down, hopefully a few weeks from now.
Yes, that's a good point. BattleDome looks like it's gonna be loads of fun; don't want to kill it off
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The sweater doesn't look too thick to wear with a jacket, but if I were picking out a jacket to go with those shoes, pants, and shirt, I'd want one in that tan color you're already wearing in the sweater -- but it would look weird to me to have a sweater and jacket in the same colors. Maybe a mid-gray tweed would work?
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Has the part about who actually did that been missed out? At what stage does it properly come up in the books? I should really read them again.
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he distance is getting longer,
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hmm, I couldn't reply to all these. Because the pain was hooked up in my throat…
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- Whether I use nail polish remover or just let it wear off naturally, this stains my nails really badly for up to two weeks after. The greenish tint it leaves on my nails is NOT pretty, and is a major flaw of the formula.
- The sparkles look gorgeous in dim or indirect light, but look a little too gaudy under direct light, so I use this more for Events than as an everyday thing to wear to school or work.
I'm glad I bought this, but I don't think it'll ever be a must-have. I love blue/green/teal polishes, so this was right up my alley, but the shimmer is a little too harsh for my tastes, and the staining thing is really annoying. At least the price means that I'm not too disappointed, since, to a certain extent, I got what I paid for.
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I layered it over blue and it was stunning!
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Absolute junk. The color is pretty on the bottle, but it took 3 coats to even get a semi-opaque finish. The drying time was longer than expected for a quick dry, and the glitter looks cheap and not distributed evenly. The polish chipped in the first day of wear for me. I guess you really do get what you pay for sometimes.
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This color is such a pretty teal with shimmery flecks. It dried fast enough for me, though i always give my polishes a little time to set before going about my day. I didn't have problems with stained nails, but I always use a basecoat with any polish. It lasted 3-4 days before my manicure started chipping. Overall, a pretty color and a great value!
FYI: I recommend that before you buy a polish, open it and take a look at the brush. Wet 'n' Wild sometimes has quality control issues with their brushes.
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I think I'm in the minority when I say I really like this brush. I get a medium amount of polish on the brush, then push the brush towards my cuticle, causing the bristles to fan out, creating a perfectly clean edge - no pooling, either. Before applying this color, I put down two layers of basecoat so I didn't experience any Smurf fingers. I have yet to try other shades in the Fast Dry collection, but based on my experience with this one, I'll definitely be getting more.
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Eyes: Green
I really love this polish and Wet N Wild Fast Dry polish in general. You get decent opacity at one coat and total opacity at two. It does dry fast- about 5 surface dry and 15 hard dry under a base coat that has completely dried first. It lasted until I wanted it off.
It did stain my nails somewhat even with a base coat and I had to do some work on my cuticles to get it off them. But overall it looks great on if you like shimmery, slightly glittery teals.
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Eyes: Brown
I love this color. When I was a kid, I went to classic car shows with my dad. I always loved the old cars with metal flake paint. Thats what this color reminds me of. An old '57 Chevy with metal flake paint. I wish it was a little glossier but maybe thats just the texture of the glitter. It applied opaguely with two coats.
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Eyes: Blue
I love this color, but my main issue is the brush. Not sure if mine is just defective or what, but the bristles are all over the place, making it hard to evenly apply. I wouldn't say it dries any faster than other polishes either.
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June 9, 2012 lks3232 9 posts | hamstring Major hamstring issue-----pulled up right out of the box --no bruising and can walk and a 5-6 on pain scale.If it was torn how would I know for sure, or is it a bad,bad pull/strain.Any home remedies? |
June 9, 2012 HJ Men's 70 457 posts | If it is bad you will see a bruise develop at the back of your leg which will slowly descend down your leg. If it reaches the back of your knee it is probably bad. Depending on your health Alleve twice a day for a few days is good (generic naproxen is really cheap). You should have iced it for first day. I like heat the next few day if not too bad to start healing process. Warm up well before you try to play but don't do static stretches before playing (do them after). I am a big believer in epson salt warm bath soaks. Some wrap tight but others don't before playing. I think long walking helps speed healing. If muscles tight generally, magnesium supplements can help. Stay well hydrated at all times. Many wear tight compression shorts all the time. Rest is best but hard if you want to play. Try to avoid fast starts and stops and if possible play catcher and have a runner for the base paths. Good luck. |
June 9, 2012 Olden Slow Men's 65 194 posts | Did the same thing in Vegas..Iced and wrapped and continued on..Major bruise but that took care of it..Didn't miss a game...Did the same thing to the other leg in Reno...Repeated the same process and once again, didn't miss a game..I might add that I have been running 4-5 times a week for 20+ years, but just got back into Softball after 15 years off...I am, as my wifr would say " A hard head " |
June 9, 2012 Wayne 37 Men's 60 348 posts | If it was torn, you could probably put your fist in the hole where it tore at. Sounded like you pulled it pretty good. The bruising will a few days to fully develop. |
June 15, 2012 canIjack Men's 60 322 posts | No bruise, Just ice. Ice the area AND strech, Streching while you ice the area for 3 days and you will be fine by the weekend. |
June 15, 2012 the wood Men's 65 1123 posts | IKS: Now that you've heard from the Mayo Clinic you might want to try other sources. The very best advice is to go to a physical therapist. Short of this, Google offers quite a bit of input on this and other types of injuries. Just type in a specific question and go from there. The response usually comes from a licensed practitioner, directly or indirectly. Hamstring injuries come in a wide spectrum of severity and can become chronic if treated improperly and/or abused. Quick starts and stops are difficult for this type of injury... until you're well into the healing stage. BW |
June 15, 2012 Olden Slow Men's 65 194 posts | Wood, He just asked for advice, not a diagnosis. Physical therapist is the best way to go. But didn't you suggest accupuncture on a previous post ? :-o) |
June 15, 2012 the wood Men's 65 1123 posts | In the first post he stated 'if it's torn, how will I know for sure' and 'any home remedies?'... He is looking for answers in the wrong place. This isn't like 'which bat works best at sea level'. Yes, I went to an acupuncturist in '99 for treatment after visiting my ortho. The Dr suggested rest (shocker) and the acup took a more proactive course, which helped me fairly quickly. What I didn't say before is that I didn't go to the Dr until after the 2nd time (re-injury). Until then, I had listened to teammates and such and used their feedback. I'd like IKS to avoid the recurring problem that I had. On top of everything else, his primary problem may not be his hamstring. It may well be a referred pain... i.e. a lower back or hip issue. Having had 2 hip replacements I'm somewhat familiar with this concept. Bottom line = he ought to get a professional opinion. BW |
June 15, 2012 Olden Slow Men's 65 194 posts | BW: I agree that he definately needs to se a Dr for the proper diagnosis...BTW: What bat does work best at Sea level ? :-o) |
June 15, 2012 the wood Men's 65 1123 posts | I do not know. I'm 60 feet above. |


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Dates are flexible, my first guess would be an 11am low tide to give us a hard rushing outgoing morning tide at the rip, warm sound water pushing into the shoals followed by access to the shoals on the west side at low near the drop off point (Powder Pt) for a lunchtime picnic; then a hard rushing incoming tide through the afternoon bringing cold atlantic current from the east side. July 8/9 or 22/23 fall into that category.
The opposite would work in terms of rip tides, both sides of the high. The trench between shore and the outer bar on the west side just might fill up with big fish on the flood... one never knows. This weekend, also July 14/15, 29/30th all fall into that category.
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You may think I am paranoid, but I ve still found US articles about Steffi (her victories), strange, almost "mean" (i don't know how to explain). Those last two are good examples.
Maybe you will like this one a little better....
Martina Blows Best (Last?) Shot at Steffi
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NEW YORK -- Steffi Graf gives away nothing. No emotion. No passion. No anger.
She just plays quietly -- her ponytail flapping in the breeze, her feet lifting off the ground, her right arm lurching into a wind-up, ready to crank that monstrous forehand. The score, the crowd, and the stakes are simply background elements to be ignored.
"I have no idea what's going on in her mind and in her heart," said Martina Navratilova.
Saturday, Navratilova made Graf sweat, forced her to display grace under pressure and finally opened her competitive heart on the desert-like floor of the Louis Armstrong Stadium.
Graf survived. Again. She beat Navratilova, 3-6, 7-5, 6-1, to win her second consecutive U.S. Open title.
"I like the sport very much," said Graf. "If that doesn't show, I don't care. I just like it."
Graf's deeds speak loudly for her love of the game. She has won seven of the last eight Grand Slam singles titles. Only a case of food poisoning and menstrual cramps prevented her from making it eight of eight in this year's French Open final.
"Every time I see a chance, I try to take a point," said Graf, 20.
Graf came close to caving in. Friday afternoon, she was battle-weary and unsteady, but rallied to beat Gabriela Sabatini in three sets before dashing off the court with leg cramps.
"I didn't see any way to get out of it," she said. "I was glad it was over with."
But she had to come back again on less than 24 hours' rest, coming face to face with the reality that television runs American sports.
"This is very bad," Graf said. "I don't understand how they work it with television. They have too much influence and control over what is going on. There is so little time to recuperate and be ready for the finals the next day.
"I had hot baths and liquids Friday and two massages today," Graf said. "I felt quite good and very fit. That makes it mean so much more to win it."
Saturday, Graf was in trouble. Big trouble. Navratilova, seeking her 18th Grand Slam singles title at age 32, displayed an effective serve-and-volley game, pulling ahead a set and then breaking Graf's serve in the first game of the second set.
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