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Quick Stats: Justin Reiter, snowboarder, U.S. Snowboard TeamDaily Driver: 2012 Toyota Tundra (Justin's rating: 8.5 on a scale of 1 to 10)Favorite road trip: Stelvio Pass, ItalyCar he learned to drive in: 1971 VW BeetleFirst car bought: 1982 Subaru Legacy wagonJustin Reiter, an Olympic snowboard hopeful in the U.S. parallel giant slalom and parallel slalom, loves his 2012 Toyota Tundra so much that he often sleeps in it."As a professional snowboarder, I travel a lot and I travel with a lot of gear, so having a six-foot bed was mandatory, so over the course of the summer for the past five months I've lived in the back of it while training in Park City, Utah," he says.Reiter says he put a top on it and it doesn't take away from the look of the truck. "I think Snugtop does a phenomenal job of matching the line of the vehicle so that you don't lose anything by putting one on your truck," he says. "It still looks like a truck. It looks sick, and it's got enough cargo (room) for me to carry all of my stuff in the summertime."He can haul four mountain bikes, a KTM motorcycle, and his camp gear. He also built a shelf for his bed.The only negative aspect about the truck is having to fill up the gas tank . "Nobody likes filling up a 20-gallon tank for a truck," he says. "Especially these days. That's probably the biggest downfall."Reiter was attracted to the Tundra by its aesthetics. "I love the look of the Tundra. I think it's got a really powerful stance," he says. "I love the snub nose. I think it looks pretty strong, a pretty confident look."He got it customized a bit. "I upgraded the suspension, the wheels, and the tires to level out and give it better handling, especially off-road. So I put in Icon level 1 suspension kit on it, with 18-inch Method wheels and some BFGs on there," he says. "I got the Rock Warrior package because it's all blacked out. I'm not a huge fan of chrome, so I wanted it to look as tough as possible."Reiter trains in the summers by hiking or mountain biking, and he sleeps in the Tundra when he goes to places such as Zion National Park or Fruita, Colorado. "This summer I lived in Park City, Utah, and there we have the U.S. ski team and the U.S. snowboard team training facility, and I lived out of my truck for five months there. I would train about eight hours a day, 6 hours in the gym each morning, and in afternoon I would go ride my bike, go for a run, or go backpacking or dirt biking as my cross-training to get cardiovascular, my aerobics."Reiter technically has weekends off, which just means he doesn't have to ride with heart monitors. "We don't have to ride at set levels — we don't have to make sure that we're not exceeding our lactate threshold. We're able to just go out and ride," he says. "We'll join up with a bunch of people and we'll head out into the mountains and pick a different place and ride for the love of riding, hike for the love of hiking, backpacking and everything."This is Reiter's first new car and first pickup truck. "For me to have my own truck that I can call my own, it's pretty fun. It's badass," he says. "I got a phenomenal deal from a dealership in Salt Lake called Mark Miller Toyota and they really helped me out, recognized that I was an athlete and gave me a great trade-in value on my 2006 GMC Yukon. I was able to afford this truck and it's been awesome. I love having a truck. I love being able to put my dirt bike in the back, as well as have my dog ride in the back when I don't have the topper on it.Car he learned to drive inReiter grew up in Summit County, Colorado, and learned to drive in his mom's manual 1971 Volkswagen Beetle. "It was my mom's first car and we kept it for that long. The car's name was Bertha because that was the name my mom gave it, and so you don't change a car's name," he says. "I had studded snows on it, so I could pretty much go anywhere. But with all that weight in the back, I could do donuts like nobody's business."Of course he never told his mom how hard he drove the Volkswagen. "I'd go into empty parking lots that were covered in snow and go as fast as we could, pull the e-brake, turn it hard left and spin around as fast as we could. It was a blast. Despite the fact that it could have zero off-road capabilities, we would take it on every Jeep road that we could possibly find," he says. "It had a hole in the floor and if you went through a puddle fast enough that was deep enough, it would literally gather water from outside the car and it would shoot it up straight next to the gear shifter and spray it off of the roof of the car and get everybody in the car wet. It was awesome. It was the most fun car I've ever had."Reiter said his mom bought it when she turned 16 in Baltimore, and she kept it as her daily driver until he turned 16, when she gave it to him. "The odometer stopped working at a certain point so we have no idea how many miles were on it and by the time I got a new car that was a little bit safer, more reliable, and able for me to drive longer distances than 40 miles without risk of possibly something going wrong, Bertha never broke down. She was fantastic," he says.Learning to drive was easy because the area he grew up in was sparsely populated. "Where we live there's not a lot of people, so you get to have as much fun as you want — you don't have to worry about hitting people. We don't have traffic, we don't really have to worry about that stuff, and we don't have to worry about parallel parking," he says.He got the car his sophomore year in high school and at junior prom, won a used 1992 Pontiac Grand Prix. "It was donated as an after-prom gift. They had a raffle for a car that would motivate kids to stick around at the afterparty where there was no drinking," he says. "It was faster than a bat out of hell and then some lady hit me and totaled it because it bent the frame."First car boughtReiter graduated to a 1982 Subaru Legacy wagon, which he bought with money saved up from his jobs as a mountain bike mechanic, pizza cook, busboy, and golf pro."We live at 9000 feet, so driving to Denver, which is only 60 miles away, in such an old car where the fenders are being held on by coat hangers, it wasn't realistic. So after two years I got a Subaru. So that was nice," he says. "It would actually go over 60 miles an hour, which was a huge thrill. But I'll always have a special place in my heart for Bertha."After the woman totaled the Pontiac Grand Prix he won at junior prom, he took the insurance money from that and his Subaru to buy a 1996 Subaru Legacy wagon.Favorite road tripBeing a professional snowboarder, Reiter goes to many beautiful destinations around the world."There's this pass in Italy called Passo Stelvio, and it's probably one of the most magnificent roads I've ever driven," he says. "There's a road bike race called the Giro d'Italia and it's a section of that that's infamous. I don't know how they built this road. It's absolutely gorgeous. It switches back on top of itself, and you go up to the Stelvio glacier. It's a magnificent road."He's also trained there. "A lot of different teams train there because in the fall you go find the best snow that you can to train, with the best weather. Sometimes it's best to go over to Europe because they have the high glaciers and you can be on snow earlier there than you can in the United States." U.S. SnowboardingReiter is part of the U.S. snowboarding team, and he's hoping to go to his first Olympic games in February at Sochi in parallel giant slalom and parallel slalom. The team for his disciplines will be announced January 18.Four years ago Reiter was injured, but was still a first alternate to the games, and in 2006 he had an injury and was second alternate. From 2012-2013 season results, Reiter is ranked sixth overall in slalom and 11th overall in the world."I've been snowboarding since I was 9 years old and it's been the driving force behind my life," he says.Reiter is active on social media for his fans and fans of the sport, including Twitter @Justin_Reiter. 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FESTIVAL FINALE - Local Bands and DJ Andy Ankerson
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We have a wealth of talent here in the Goring Gap and this Festival Finale showcases many of them, as well as giving you the chance to dance! DJ Andy Ankerson will anchor the evening with his lively sets between the live music. Visit our News Page where we will unveil the lineup for this exciting night as it becomes confirmed.
Heather-Jayne and the Red Shoes are a quartet from Goring. They play acoustic swing and soul on guitar, double bass, drums and sax/flute/clarinet. Anything from the Andrews Sisters to Tom Waits, via Smokey Robinson and Nina Simone. Hugely popular with the Reading and Oxford swing/lindy hop dancing clubs, they'll have you dancing in the aisles and crying in your beer. Possibly simultaneously.
The Mysteries are a four piece acoustic band from Goring who were put together to play at a mutual friend's birthday party at the boat club, and enjoyed it so much they're still at it. Christened 'the Mysteries' by Goring Unplugged senior management, who had no idea what they were going to play. All four of them sing. David Caswell and Alex Mitchell play guitars with Leigh Williams on double bass and Mark Cusak on percussion. They are very fond of a bit of Motown and the occasional 70s classic rock song but will play anything, as long as it's got a good tune and lots of harmonies.


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The continued global financial crisis has been hurting the green economy. The sudden and very sharp drop in the availability of capital has dried up needed new investments and funding for many new, green economy projects and businesses. Because many green or clean tech businesses are in an early expanding phase of their growth, they have been especially hard hit by the current dearth of capital. Quite a number of green firms are at serious risk of failure because of this capital starvation. This short- to medium-term problem in the global capital markets may have long term-impacts. It is stifling the growth in the green (or clean) technology sectors that are critical to reaching the vital national (as well as worldwide) goals of rapidly reducing carbon pollution and dependence on the world's diminishing reserves of fossil fuels.
The sharply rising cost of oil from about 2005 to early 2008 helped fuel an investment boom in green technology – particularly in wind, solar and in bio fuels. Capital flows into these sectors fueled unprecedented growth– with hundreds of start-ups popping up like mushrooms after a spring rain. Now this boom has been replaced with a bust by a combination of factors acting in concert. They include the drying up of available capital and lending, a temporary drop in fossil fuel prices, and the global recession.
According to Morgan Stanley managing director Kevin Genieser — speaking at the GoingGreen East conference in Boston — more than $200 billion in market capitalization has been lost from green sector industries since then.
As oil prices (and other fossil fuel prices such as natural gas as well) begin to rise again — as they are bound to do, given the notable price inelasticity of these essential commodities, and the lack of growth in new global supplies or proven reserves for them — capital should begin to make a return to the green technology sectors and especially to the renewable energy sector. This fundamental and growing need for the future capitalization of renewable energy projects will likely be driven by the long term rise in the costs of fossil based energy sources, the Obama administration's new policy initiatives on energy and climate change, as well as funds that have been dedicated to promoting growth in these sectors that are in the stimulus package. This will likely improve the longer term outlook over the next few years for the green sector and especially for the renewable energy sector.
This was confirmed by the results of a survey of 300 venture capitalists, executives, entrepreneurs and bankers conducted over the past two months ted by KPMG. In part, because of allotments for green tech and renewable energy funding that is in the stimulus package, 53 percent of the respondents expect to see VC investment in the green technology sector increase in 2009, with over two-thirds of this new investment split between renewable energy projects and technologies for energy storage and improved efficiency. By far, most of those surveyed expect to see more federal funding for green technology initiatives for public-private partnerships.
This re-emphasizes just how important a role the stimulus package will play to ensure that renewable energy continues to grow in this country in the short to medium term as the economy is buffeted by the deepest recession in memory. Initiatives, mandates and investment by the government will play a critical role in promoting a transition of our nation's economy from one that is dependent on fossil energy sources to one that is powered by renewable sources.
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Case Study #72: Subdural Hematoma
Katherine Geraghty
"K.B. is a 21 year-old man with a past medical history of seizure disorder controlled with Tegretol. He was accidentally struck in the head by a pitched baseball while batting. He was unconscious momentarily, about 5 seconds, then awakened and was alert and responsive. After a few hours, K.B. returned home with complaints of a "splitting headache", drowsiness, slight confusion, and some nausea. K.B. was taken to the local hospital ED where a CT scan revealed a left subdural hematoma. He has been transferred to your medical center which has a neurosurgeon on call. "
K.B. is a 21 year-old man with a past medical history of
seizure disorder
controlled with Tegretol. He was accidentally struck in the head by a pitched baseball while batting. He was
momentarily, about 5 seconds, then awakened and was alert and responsive. After a few hours, K.B. returned home with complaints of a "
splitting headache
, slight
, and some
. K.B. was taken to the local hospital ED where a CT scan revealed a left
subdural hematoma
. He has been transferred to your medical center which has a neurosurgeon on call.
The ED RN gives you the previous information during a phoned report. What other information do you need to prepare for K.B.?
You have not taken care of a patient with a head injury recently. You look up subdural hematoma. What do you find?
K.B's Subdural hematoma is considered acute because symptoms have appeared within 24 to 48 hours of injury. What are the other two classifications of subdural hematoma?
What are the common signs and symptoms of an acute subdural hematoma?
Why are older patients and alcoholic patients at risk for chronic subdural hematomas?
What neurological changes and indicators would you monitor in K.B. for increased ICP?
Why is it important to make sure K.B. is taking his Tegretol and has a therapeutic sodium level?
The decision was made in K.B.'s case not to do a Craniotomy. When would a neurosurgeon decide to treat medically versus preform surgery?
The resident writes an order for D5W to infuse at 125 ml/hr. Does this order concern you and if so, why?
How would you instruct the NAP to position K.B. in bed to help control ICP?
What other interventions would be appropriate to implement while caring for K.B. that would assist in reducing venous volume?
You go in to assess K.B. and find that he is complaining of a headache. His heart rate is 120 and his blood pressure is 90/60. His urine output for the past hour was 685 mL with a specific gravity of 1.002. What do you immediately suspect is occurring?
Using SBAR what information would you like to provide to the neurosurgeon when you call?
What do you anticipate the care of K.B. will include over the next 2-3 hours?
How would you support the family?
"Meningeal hemorrhage resulting from accumulation of blood in the subdural space"
Blunt impact to the skull causes veins in the cerebral cortex to tear and bleed, which causes separation of the arachnoid and the dura
5 to 22% of severe head injury
1 -5 out of 100,00 people yearly
most common in older males (3:1)
Bilateral in infants
leads to neuro impairment, infection, seizure, coma, death
increased ICP
Blunt impact, coagulation medication
Less than 72 hours after injury
Separation of arachnoid and dura
Increased ICP
Emergency Surgery
Slowly, overtime - more than 21 days
space fills with CSF
New vessels grow and burst
More common 60+ years
Alcoholism, Epilepsy, Coagulopathy, Arachnoid cyst, Cardiovascular disease (HTN), Diabetes
between 3 and 21 days
least common
not much information
symptoms take longer
Pupil irregularity
Decerebrate posturing/flaccidity
Visual changes, double vision
Decreased level of consciousness
Difficulty with gait or balance
Cognitive dysfunction or memory loss
Personality change
Increased blood pressure
"Alcoholics are prone to thrombocytopenia, prolonged bleeding times, and blunt head trauma."
Elderly have a higher incidence of CVD and HTN, prone to bleeding, vessels weaker
Many patients with acute subdural hematomas are given antiseizure medicationsto prevent possiblity of seizure which would increase the ICP. Because he has a known seizure disorder his risk would be higher.
Sodium is very important in osmotic therapy to reduce ICP. Subdural Hematomas are a known cause of hyponatrima although it is not really well understood. SAIDH?
Decrease ICP before surgery
Not big enough or has stopped bleeding
Patient is stable and conscious
Decrease risk of infection
Monitor and repeat CT scans
"Hypertonic saline (3% NS) has osmotic, hemodynamic, vasoregulatory and immunomodulatory effects. Reduces osmolar swelling by decreasing both intra-cellular and
interstitial fluid volume. It also improves and maintains intravascular volume and blood pressure." (5)
Extracts fluid from the cells and the brain to decrease ICP
D5W is a hypotonic solution that would only increase swelling in the brain and ICP - Contraindicated
Head of Bed 30 - 45
Improve cerebral drainage
Lower ICP and CBV
Disease and Conditions: Subdural Hematoma, Lippincotts Docucare. February 17, 2014. From http://lnareference.wkhpe.com/
Meagher, Richard J (2013 March 1). Subdural Hematoma Treatment and Management. Medscape. February 17, 2014. From www.Medscape.com
Intracranial Hemorrhage. The Mayo Clinic. February 17, 2014. From www.mayoclinic.org
Karriem-Norwood, Varnada. (2012, August 31) Subdural Hematoma. Webmd Brain and Nervous System Health Center. February 17, 2014. From www.webmd.com
Franzon, D. (2013) MANAGEMENT OF HEAD INJURY & INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE. Standford University. February 17, 2014, From peds.stanford.edu
Case Study From: Winningham's Critical Thinking Cases in Nursing 5th edition, 2013
Glasgow Coma Scale
Breathing on his own?
Vitals (Fever!)
Lab results?
Fluid and Electrolytes
Support System
Changes in LOC
Worsening of Symptoms
Increased drowsiness
Cushings Triad
Widening pulse pressures
Irregular breathing
Course of treatment
Explanation of condition
Increase MAP to compensate for an increasing ICP.
-Provide fluids, vasoconstrict
Decreased MAP from Vasodilation leads to hypoxia, hypotension, increased ICP, seizures, fever, hyperglycemia
Brain (80%) -
Dehydrate with 3% NS or Mannitol
Drainage with EVD
Blood Volume (10%) -
Decreased CO2 causes vessels to constrict
Increase volume in skull (surgery)
1) Avoid hypoxia and hypotension
Supplemental O2 or intubate
Achieve euvolemia
Support BP to maintain CPP
2) Avoid Fever
3) Intubate/sedate
4) Mild hyperventilation
Keep PaCO2 normal 35mmHg-40mmHg
5) Ventricular Drainage
6) Osmolar therapy to achieve serum Osm 320
Mannitol (0.25 to 0.5 g/kg)
Hypertonic saline (5 ml/kg of 3%NS) may be given as bolus or
continuous 3% infusion checking sodium frequently
7) More aggressive hyperventilation - PaCO2 (28-32 mmHg)
Refractory ICP—acute short term therapy
8) Barbiturates
decrease cerebral metabolic rate and lower CBV and ICP
9) Induce Hypothermia
10) Repeat CT scans
11) Decompressive craniectomy
Increasing ICP and decreasing CPP
Brain bleed increasing in size
Involves the pituitary gland
Diabetes insipidus
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Today, 220 Chinese passengers touch down in Copenhagen Airport with the first Beijing Capital Airlines flight from Hangzhou to Copenhagen.
Beijing Capital Airlines opens direct charter routes from Beijing and Hangzhou to Copenhagen. Mr. Xu Xin, the Executive Chairman of BCA, sees great potential in direct routes from China to Copenhagen:
- "In recent years, travelling abroad has increased strongly among the Chinese public. Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark, the Kingdom of Fairy Tales, with a location that provides great convenience for tourist transits to neighbouring countries. Northern Europe has plenty of special and unique countries and cities, and is a popular destination for Chinese people to visit."
- "In the region, Hangzhou-Copenhagen is the first direct route to the Nordics, which will be very convenient for residents of Hangzhou and surrounding areas."
Hangzhou is a prosperous Chinese city on the Eastern Chinese coast, 180 km from Shanghai. It is itself a popular tourist destination and hometown to the internet trade giant Alibaba.
Together with the Danish Embassy in China, Invest in Denmark has promoted the idea of establishing flights to Denmark. Invest in Denmark has assisted BCA in the process of opening the routes to Copenhagen.
Director of Invest in Denmark, Dorte Bech Vizard, welcomes the new routes:
- "Connections are essential for the collaboration between China and Denmark both in regard to tourism and business. I hope that this is only the starting point for BCA's activities in Denmark and we are here to help, if BCA considers expanding their operations in Denmark."
BCA is a joint venture between Hainan Airlines and Beijing Capital Tourism Group. It specializes in chartered flights and the majority of the passengers are tourists. The flights to Denmark are the first BCA routes to Europe. The majority of the customers on the flight will be group tourists from the Hainan Airline owned tourist company Caissa. Denmark will serve as the bridgehead for tours to other parts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia.
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Your kid loves Halloween characters ? This is the app for you!
A cute and fun game for toddlers to learn to recognize Halloween characters and their sounds.
Your kids will become more familiar with lots of Halloween characters, including:
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Halloween for Toddlers is a nice, simple, fun, and colorful game for toddlers and kids!
This app is a surprisingly addictive and fun way to pass the time.
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I don't know about you, but the tension pervading every corner of this nation since The Election weighs heavily on me. Maybe you feel the same way. Because 45 and his craziness have generated a whole lot of stress.
It's important that we not let all the negativity and tension drag us down. Which is why I think it's important from time to time to let yourself go and be wild and crazy, in the best of ways. I mean, REALLY let go!
One of my favorite (and silliest) ways I do that is to crank up some oldies, pick up my dog Riley and just DANCE. I mean, DANCE!
Sometimes, Michael and I will do that. But I must admit that it is way fun to really let go and enjoy the ridiculosity of a dance with my dog.
Crazy, right? But so much fun. So MUCH fun!
Yes, the country's become CrazyTown these days and I don't mean that in a good way. I do what I can to combat it. But I also know how important my own mental health is and how hard it is to live with stress 24/7.
So when it all gets to be too much, I crank up the Searchers or Lesley Gore or even Del Shannon, scoop Riley up and yes, just dance!
How about you? How do you let go? Inquiring minds want to know!


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CX-5 Grand Touring-(27,500 miles) Fun car but underpowered
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ReviewI think I was the 2nd person to buy in MN because I was waiting for the cx-5 or the escape whichever came first.
Bought the car in Feb of 2012 and have really enjoyed the car and now have 27,500 miles on the car.
It is fun to drive.
The tires are 19 in and were replaced at 23k and are expensive because they are not a popular size. The only problem is it is underpowered with the 2.0 especially pulling out into traffic or having the car loaded with 5 people, almost unsafe.
Would not buy this again but would consider the 2014 which has the bigger engine. I get 32 mpg on the highway and 20 or 21 mpg in the city which is a stop light ever mile or so. For a suv we were happy with the mpg.
Best FeaturesIt's cool and sporty looking. It will zoom zoom for you as long as you only have one person in the car. Leather and quality of the car is good. Seating is spacious.
Worst FeaturesNeed to get more power. It is almost unsafe with the way it is. I am glad to hear the new ones have a bigger engine. Transmission seems to downshift funny especially when you stop quickly
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|Dec 16, 1997
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|May 18, 1995
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|Eyal Shlomot, Michael J. Simpson, Qiang Ye
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|Rockwell International Corporation
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The present invention relates to communication systems and more particularly relates to communication systems capable of transferring both voice and data.
PSTN Analog telephone lines are still the dominating medium for communication. The analog line, initially designed for analog speech, is now used extensively for digital data communications between computers through "modems", i.e. modulator-demodulator.
In the information society, there is a growing need for people at different sites to communicate with each other such that greater resources may be shared and synergized. Conventionally, if speech and data should be simultaneously communicated between two sites, two communication channels, e.g. two telephone lines, would be required, one for analog speech and the other for digital data. As modems become faster and more capable, they open the door to simultaneously transmitting digitized speech and digital data over the same channel (line).
Also, research and development is under way in the industry for having voice, data and video transmission in an multiplexing environment for multimedia applications.
Such systems, which combine the simultaneous real-time transmission of digitized speech and data, are called DSVD ("Digital Simultaneous Voice over Data"). The speech, as input to such a system, is sampled, digitized, compressed and packetized to form a speech package, which is denoted as "Coded Speech Package" (CSP). The CSP's may then be multiplexed with data packages and transmitted by a modem through a telephone line to the other system.
It should be noted that in the following description, the terms "package" and "packet" are used interchangeably and should be understood as such by those skilled in the art.
A typical DSVD communication system is illustrated in a simplified block diagram in FIG. 1. A communication channel such as a telephone line 45 is connected between two communication systems 1, 2 with each system having a modem 40, 50, a controller 30, 60, a speech codec ("coder/decoder") 10, 80, and a data terminal 20, 70, respectively. If, for example, speech is to be transferred from the system 1 on the left to the system 2 on the right of the diagram, the speech can be first applied to the speech codec 10 through a headset, handset or a microphone. Once spoken, the speech is sampled (typically around 8 KHz), digitized and compressed. The compression algorithm, such as a CELP (Code Excited Linear Prediction) as would be appreciated by those skilled in the art, divides the speech signal into time units commonly called "Frames", and the basic features, such as energy, spectral envelop, pitch etc., for each frame of the speech signal are extracted and quantized to binary representations. For each frame, all the binary representations are concatenated into a bit stream to form the CSP's.
The controller 30 takes the speech packets, multiplexes them with packets of data from a data terminal 20, if any, for a modem 40 to transmit to the other system through the communication channel 45.
The receiving modem 50 demodulates the analog signal received from the telephone line and sends the received multiplexed digital data into the controller 60. The controller 60 de-multiplexes the data packets from the speech packets. The data packets are sent to the data terminal 70, while the speech packets are sent to the speech codec 80. The speech codec 80 then de-packetizes the CSP into the binary representations of the speech parameters and uses them to build the synthesized speech, which is converted from digitally sampled signals (sampled at about 8 KHz) to analog signals to be output to a handset, a speaker or a headset. It should be noted the whole system can provide a full-duplex operation, i.e. packets of speech can also be sent from the speech codec 80 to the speech codec 10, and from the data terminal 70 to the data terminal 20 simultaneously.
It should also be noted that speech packets should be multiplexed, transmitted, received and demultiplexed in real-time basis to maintain their continuity. Data packets should be efficiently handled for fast transmission and reduced overhead.
Video packets 22 may also be multiplexed with speech and data packets for transmission, thus complicating the task. Similar to speech packets, video packets 21 may need to be in real-time to preserve the video quality.
When speech packets are used for real-time communications multiplexed with data packets or even video packets, a few timing-related problems may occur.
First is the problem of clock skew, which occurs when the codecs 10, 80 of the systems 1,2 experience different sampling rates. For example as shown in FIG. 1 (a), when the analog-to-digital (A/D) clock of the codec 10 skews from the digital-to-analog (D/A) clock of codec 80. If the clock of the A/D of codec 10 at the transmitting system I is faster than the clock of the D/A codec 80 at the receiving system 2, the slower codec 80 will lag the faster codec 10. The number of received CSP's will increase intolerably as the slower codec 80 is unable to process successive CSP's in real time. On the other hand, if the clock of the A/D of codec 10 is slower than the clock of the codec 80, codec 80 will lead the slow codec 10. Periodically there will be no received CSP for the faster codec 80 to process, forcing codec 80 to intolerably pause until the next CSP arrives. It should be noted that for full-duplex communication with clock skew, one end will lag while the other end will lead. The clock skew problem is not unique to DSVD applications and to full duplex operation of a communication system. Any speech communication system, in which the A/D clock on the transmitting end is skewed relatively to the D/A clock on the receiving end, will experience the lag/lead phenomena of speech samples.
When clock skew occurs, one possible practice has been for the controller to perform a crude correction whenever needed. When there are more packets than the codec can process in real time, the additional packet is discarded. If, on the other hand, the codec is not receiving packets regularly, certain packets can be duplicated to prevent pausing. If the clock skew is not too severe, then such a correction takes place once every few minutes, which may be perceptually acceptable. If, however, the clock skew is severe, then a correction might need to happen more frequently, up to once every few seconds. In this case, a crude correction will create perceptually unacceptable artifacts. Thus, it becomes essential for the DSVD system to be able to perform corrections to the speech packets such that the artifacts are eliminated.
A second problem associated with the DSVD system is the asynchronous operation of the controller and the speech decoder portion of the speech codec. The controller 30 receives the bit stream from the modem 40, demultiplexes the data packets from the CSP, which is put, one at a time, into the buffer 11. The speech codec 10 takes the CSP from the buffer 11 and processes it to produce analog speech. When the speech codec 10 finishes outputting of the previous frame, a new CSP should be ready for the decoder in the buffer 11. Due to the asynchronous controller to decoder CSP transfer, the next CSP might not be available to the decoder when required.
The third problem arises from the conflicting requirements of maintaining continuity and minimizing the delay of the speech across the communications channel while simultaneously and efficiently transmitting data in a multiplexing environment. In the absence of data packets, the CSP's are received at the local decoder and processed at regular intervals. During data packet transmission, the remote encoder continues to produce CSPs. To maintain speech continuity, these CSPs will have to be delayed by the remote controller until the data packet transmission is complete. During this time the local decoder will not receive a CSP and consequently will pause until the next CSP arrives producing a perceptually unpleasing stuttering effect. The maximum number of pending CSPs may be pre-determined for a given channel data transmission rate and maximum data packet size, and a buffer constructed at the remote decoder of equal size such that the remote decoder will always have at least one CSP to process. However, even for moderate channel data transmission rate and data packet size the corresponding decoder buffer size will be of such a size that the speech delay may become unacceptable. Reducing the data packet size or aborting data packet transmission will minimize this delay, but also significantly reduce the data transmission efficiency because more of the data packet will consist of overhead control information and less of data or frequent data packet retransmissions will be required respectively.
Therefore, it will be desirable to solve the clock skew problem associated with the operation of any speech communication system.
It will also be desirable to solve the problem of asynchronicity associated with the operation of speech decoders and controllers, as well as solving the problem of multiplexing speech packets with data packets.
A timing recovery scheme for packet speech in communication systems in general and in multiplexing environment in particular is disclosed. The timing recovery scheme is performed by the speech decoder and is transparent to the controller operation. The speech decoder utilizes the speech nature for smooth and perceptually unnoticeable timing recovery even under severe clock skew.
The controller and the speech decoder exchange packet speech in the form of CSP's through common buffers. Whenever excessive or missing speech packets are detected by the speech decoder it switches to a special corrective mode. If excessive speech data is detected, it is played out "faster" than usual. For the sake of illustration, this event will be denoted as a "slow" event, since the local decoder is slower relative to the remote encoder. If missing data is detected, the available data to the decoder is played out "slower" than usual. We will denote this event as a "fast" event, since the local decoder is faster relative to the remote encoder. For the slower event, some speech information has to be discarded, while for the faster event some speech-like information has to be synthesized and inserted.
The discarding or creating of speech information is done by the speech decoder in units, which can be frames, sub-frames, samples or any other multiplicity of samples. Manipulating silence or unvoiced units results in modified speech with perceptually unnoticeable quality degradation. In the preferred embodiment, sub-frames of 52 samples were chosen as a good compromise between complexity and performance.
In almost all modem speech decoders, such as CELP, the final stage of the decoder consists of a spectral shaping (commonly called LPC--"Linear Prediction Codes") synthesis filter followed by optional post-filtering. Manipulating the decoded signal at the excitation phase, before the final filters, adds to the perceptual naturalness of the synthesized speech. This timing recovery scheme, utilizing the above methods, results in a perceptually transparent effect on the manipulated speech even under severe clock skew.
The size of the buffer interfacing between the controller and the speech decoder should meet the needs of the timing recovery scheme. If the local speech decoder is slower than the remote speech encoder, it needs an additional space for an extra CSP. This excessive CSP will be played out fast when presented. If the local decoder is faster than the remote speech encoder, it needs a reserve of at least one unplayed CSP. This CSP will be played out slow in order to wait for the next CSP from the slower remote end. Hence, the basic structure of the buffer may comprise 3 locations for CSP's: one for holding a reserve CSP, one for holding the played out CSP and one for holding additional locations. However, extra CSP or missing CSP can be, temporarily, the result of the controller-decoder asynchronous CSP transfer. Since the decoder cannot distinguish between temporary extra/missing CSP due to an asynchronous controller-to-decoder CSP transfer or due to a genuine clock skew problem, four (4) padding CSP locations may be added, such that the buffer has seven (7) locations for CSPs. In this structure, one extra/missing CSP does not trigger the decoder for timing recovery operation.
This timing recovery seven (7) CSP buffer will also be shown to solve the problem of multiplexing CSPs and data packets while maintaining data packet transmission efficiency, speech continuity, and minimizing speech delay in a multiplexing environment.
Further objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be understood by those skilled in the art in the following description, wherein:
FIG 1(a) is the simplified system block diagram of a typical simultaneous voice and data system.
FIG. 1(b) is a diagram of an end unit, including a buffer, a speech codec and an A/D and D/A converter.
FIG. 2 is the simplified block diagram of a Code Excited Linear Prediction ("CELP") decoder which may be a part of speech codec.
FIG. 3(a) shows a buffer and FIG. 3(b) shows a buffer in another embodiment.
FIG. 4 is a flow chart illustrating the process of correction in accordance with the present invention.
1. Speech Modification Embedded in Speech Decoder
In almost all modem speech decoders, and in all CELP-type decoders, the final stage consists of a spectral envelope (LPC) filter followed by an optional post-filter. Hence, as noted above, speech modification might be embedded in the speech decoder for a perceptually more natural modified speech.
FIG. 2 illustrates a simplified block diagram of a CELP decoder as may be implemented in the speech codec 10, 80 and in which the speech modification might be embedded in accordance with the present invention,
Referring to FIG. 2, the CELP decoder takes the CSP received through a controller by a modem from a remote modem and generates the speech signal 145 for output. For each frame, a number of parameter codes am transmitted, which generally comprise codebook indices, gain, frame energy and LPC parameters.
The codebooks 100 (CB1), 110 (CB2) and 120 (CB3) consists of vectors which will be used to generate the excitation signal 125. More than 3 codebooks may be used in the CELP decoder, and one or a multiplicity of them are usually adaptive. The information in the codebooks are also compensated by some gain factors g1-g3 101, 111, 121, summed up at an adder 124 and a common energy multiplier 129. The result is called "short-term residual" or "excitation signal" 125. The LPC filter 140, through frequency envelope filtering, generates the synthesized output speech 145. Additional post-filter can be employed for enhanced speech quality, as will be appreciated by those skilled in the art.
Modification of the speech, such as deletion or insertion of units, can be carried out on the excitation signal 125 or on the speech signal 145. In either cases, manipulation of smaller duration units and silence or unvoiced units will result in better quality of the modified speech. In the preferred embodiment, unit deletion or insertion is done on the excitation signal 125, and the manipulated units are the speech coding "sub-frame" units. Since the sub-frame units are "natural" units of the speech decoder, they can be manipulated easily and with very low complexity.
It should be noted that the "fast" or "slow" event is detected when there is missing/extra CSP to the decoder, and since a CSP can represent a multiplicity of correction units, a multiplicity of deletions or insertions might be needed to correct one CSP.
Note that the excitation modification 130 in accordance with the present invention may either modify (a) the excitation signal 125, or (b) the speech signals 145 at node 142 when embedded in a CELP. However, it would be appreciated by those skilled in the art that modifying the excitation signal 125 may be more advantageous in that its output may be further smoothed by the LPC filter 140.
2. Clock Skew Correction
FIG. 3(a) illustrates the schematic design of a buffer 30 to be implemented for clock skew correction. Functionally, the buffer 30 interfaces between the speech decoder portion of the codec (10/80, FIG. 1(a)) and the controller (30/60, FIG. 1(a)). The buffer 30 is filled by the controller and emptied by the decoder as "First-In, First-Out" (FIFO) buffer. The buffer 30 is partitioned into three sections: Slow 33, Normal 34, and Fast 35. The controller pushes the next CSP 32, which was received from the modem, into the buffer. Note that at initialization the controller pushes two CSP's into the buffer. The decoder then takes the next, or first-in-line, undecoded CSP from the buffer and decodes its content to produce a synthesized speech. While a CSP is being decoded by the decoder, the controller should get the next CSP from the modem, such that the next CSP will be in place as the previous CSP is decoded and played out. Note that the rate of playing out is determined by the D/A converter sampling clock (FIG. 1(b), 90) of the local decoder. If the local decoder D/A clock 90 is synchronized with the A/D clock of the remote encoder, and if the transmission path is fully synchronized, the decoder will always find the next CSP right after it finishes to decoded its present CSP.
If the local decoder D/A clock is slower than the remote encoder A/D clock, the remote encoder will generate, per time unit, more samples than the local decoder can output. For example, if the far-end A/D clock is 8080 Hz and the local D/A clock is 8000 Hz (a 10% clock skew), then extra 80 samples per second are generated by the far-end. If every CSP represents, for example, 240 samples, an extra CSP will be generated each 3 seconds.
In the very same way, if the local decoder D/A clock is faster than the far-end encoder A/D clock, the far-end encoder will generate, per time unit, less samples than the local decoder have to output during that period of time.
Referring to FIG. 3(a), the operation of the buffer 30 in accordance with the present invention will now be described. The buffer 30 is operated as a "two ways" stack buffer: the controller pushes a CSP from one side while the decoder pops a CSP from the other end. Note that the total operation is of a FIFO buffer. At initialization, the controller should push 2 CSP's into the buffer 30. If the decoder and the controller are synchronized and there is no clock skew, the decoder will pop a CSP from location `N` (34), decode and output it, and will find the next CSP at the same location. If it finds the next CSP at location `S` (33), the decoder knows that its D/A is too slow, triggering a "SLOW" event. If it finds the next CSP at location `F` (35), the decoder knows that its D/A is too fast, triggering a "FAST" event.
It should be understood by those skilled in the art that "Fast", "Slow" or "Normal" modes are indicated by pointer 31, which points to the CSP in buffer 30 to be decoded next. The decoder starts to decode the first CSP when pointer 31 points to "N". When pointer 31 coincides with "N" 34, it is "Normal". When pointer 31 moves to "F" 35, it represents that the inbound flow is slower than the outbound flow, hence a "Fast" scenario. Conversely, when pointer 31 moves to "S" 33, the inbound flow is faster than the outbound flow, hence a "Slow" scenario.
In the case of a "SLOW" event the local decoder has to delete some samples in order to catch-up with the far-end encoder. In the case of a "FAST" event, the local decoder has to create and insert some samples, to let the far-end encoder catch-up with it. Note that clock skew correction is initiated by the detection of an extra or missing CSP, which corresponds to a frame of about 120-240 samples. Corrections may be done on any number of sub-units of the speech data in both "FAST" and "SLOW" situations. The "natural" correction units for the decoder are the frame, the sub-frame and the sample. A frame corresponds to a CSP, and deletion or insertion of a frame will correct the whole CSP. A frame is usually built of a few (typically 3-4) sub-frames, and a few sub-frame corrections are needed to correct the extra or missing CSP. Another correction unit can be the speech samples, and as many of the speech samples in a frame are needed for correcting the extra or the missing CSP. The perceptual quality of the correction is better for smaller correction units.
While corrections may take place any time, corrections done in silence or unvoiced unit result in better perceptive quality. Currently, a correction is done on silence or unvoiced sub-frames. The parameters used for classification are the energy and spectral slope, i.e. first reflection coefficient, which are parts of encoded information, as will be appreciated by those skilled in the art. The sub-frame unit is also a good compromise between implementation complexity, corrected speech quality and convergence time.
A correction does not need to take place immediately after it is detected. Referring to the previous example of a 10% clock skew, a CSP correction must be performed within 3 seconds. For a 208-sample frame, which is divided into 4 sub-frames, there are more than 100 frames or 400 sub-frames in 3 seconds, of which only four (4) sub-frames have to be corrected in order to solve the clock skew problem. Statistically, there should be enough silence or unvoiced units in this 100 frames to perform correction. A more robust system can than be achieved by adaptively adjusting the classification threshold.
For example, a strict set of threshold may be used when the correction starts so that only silence frames can be repeated or deleted. Then after certain number of frames during which no silence frame is found, the threshold can be relaxed so that unvoiced frames can be picked to achieve correction. Furthermore, a safeguard may be established to force a correction every 100 frames if no silence or unvoiced frame is found within that period. Also, correction frequency can be tracked such that if it is less than the predetermined value, usually the worst case of 10% skew, a stricter threshold can be applied to make sure that corrections happen only at silence frames. Those skilled in the art will be able to determine their own correction schemes based on their specific needs and resources.
Referring to FIG. 2, as described above, information in codebooks 100 to 120 are gain adjusted and summed to create the excitation signal 125. The excitation modification operation 130, if no correction is needed, would pass the excitation signal through to the LPC filter 140 to obtain the synthesized speech. When the local decoder is faster, i.e. insertion of data is needed, the excitation modification operation 130 waits until the excitation signal 125 has low energy before duplicating the silence or unvoiced sub-frame (or any other correction unit) and concatenating it to the sample stream of the excitation signal 125. As a result, for a 208 sample frame, the frame will now have 208 samples+52 samples=260 samples to synthesis and output. When the local decoder is slower, i.e. deletion of data is needed, the excitation modification operation 130 waits until the excitation signal 125 has low energy before deleting the silence or unvoiced sub-frame (or any other correction unit) from the sample stream of the excitation signal 125. As a result, for a 208 sample frame, the frame will now have 208 samples-52 samples=156 samples to synthesis and output. Note that the "correction unit" is assumed to be a sub-frame, i.e. 52 samples, in this example. When four (4) sub-frames are corrected, a whole frame is thus corrected. Alternatively, this correction unit can also be a silence or unvoiced frame, a sample or samples of silence and unvoiced frame. FIG. 4 illustrates a flow chart of the timing recovery scheme in accordance with the present invention. During normal operation 45, the local decoder (10, FIG. 1(a)) monitors the buffer (30, FIG. 3(a) or 11, FIG. 1(a)) to determine whether it is a FAST or SLOW event. Upon either a FAST or SLOW event, the excitation modification operation (130, FIG. 2) waits for a unit of silence or unvoiced frame to occur, whether the unit is a frame, a sub-frame, a sample or any combination thereof. When detected, the silence or unvoiced unit is either duplicated or deleted in either FAST or SLOW situation 48. This step is repeated as the number of units are needed for correction and then looped back to normal operation 45.
The above clock skew problem and the method for its correction have been presented in the frame work of a DSVD system, as a two way communication system which multiplexes speech, data and possibly video. However, clock skew appears in any communication system where the clock of one end A/D converter is not synchronized with the other end clock of the D/A converter. The correction scheme described above can be applied to such a system, regardless of the other components such as the controller or the modem, regardless of the mode of transmission and regardless of any additional data multiplexing.
3. Controller Asynchronicity
As previously described, the controllers often do not operate synchronously since there is generally a lack of common clocking scheme among the speech codecs 10, 80 and the controllers 30, 60 for the DSVD system as described in FIG. 1(a). A typical asynchronicity-related problem, even in the absence of clock skew, is that the CELP decoder may take a frame (CSP) from the buffer (30, FIG. 3(a)) and when required to take the next frame, it finds itself having to take the frame indicated by the faster "F" 25 or slower "S" 33 pointer, even though there is no fast or slow problem.
FIG. 3(b) illustrates a buffer 35 capable of safeguarding the system from the asynchronous controllers or others. Instead of having space for just 3 frames as in FIG. 3A, the buffer 35 is implemented to provide added protection of one extra frame to both sides of the fast 39 and slow 37 frames. The buffer. 35 can therefore allow the decoder to operate in any of the 2 extra frames around the Normal frame 38 without having to declare a Fast or Slow event. When either a Fast or Slow event is declared, the decoder can still compensate for asynchronicity with the Slow 37, Normal 38 and Fast 39 frames.
With the expanded buffer 35, the impact of controller asynchrony, as well as clock skew, upon the DSVD system can be eliminated.
4. Controller Multiplexing of Speech and Data Packages
Reference is to FIG. 1(a). The controller 30 of DSVD system as shown may also multiplex speech data from the speech codec 10 with data from the data terminal 20. When speech data are packaged, bulk delay is introduced as a number of CSPs are often held by the controller as part of the multiplexing scheme before they are transmitted to the decoder in the speech codec 80.
In the absence of controller-to-decoder asynchronous CSP transfer and clock skew, the buffer in FIG. 3(b) maintains a constant four (4) CSPs when there is no intervening data packet transmission. With controller-to-decoder asynchronous CSP transfer, the buffer may contain three (3) to five (5) CSPs. With clock skew added, the buffer may have as few as one (1) or as many as seven (7) CSPs.
To preclude CSP buffer underflow during data packet transmission, the transmission must be aborted, the CSP buffer size increased, or the data packet size limited for a given channel data transmission rate. Aborting the data packet transmission requires inefficient and frequent data packet retransmissions, and increasing the CSP buffer size significantly contributes to the speech delay. Therefore, to maintain data transmission efficiency and speech continuity without adding to the speech delay, for a given channel data transmission rate, the data packet size is restricted. No more than four (4) CSPs may be processed during a data packet transmission.
If the initial number of CSPs in the buffer when the first data packet is transmitted is four (4) or more, then the buffer will not underflow since the data packet size has been restricted such that a maximum of four (4) CSPs may be processed during a data packet transmission. It is possible that the number of CSPs in the buffer will reach two (2), at which point the clock skew correction for "Fast" will be initiated and an additional frame of speech created and inserted. This additional frame of speech will be removed whenever the CSP transmission resumes and the CSP buffer extends to six (6), thereby initiating the clock skew correction for "Slow".
If, on the other hand, the initial number of CSPs in the buffer is less than four (4) and the maximum data packet size is used, then the first data packet transmission will cause the local decoder to process all of the CSPs, emptying the buffer and consequently pausing the decoder until the next four (4) CSPs are received and the CSP pointer is pointing to `N` (38). Now that the number of CSPs in the buffer is re-established at four (4), the CSP buffer will not run out of CSPs and the decoder will not pause during subsequent alternating data packet and CSP transmissions.
When the data packet transmission is complete, the delayed CSPs will be transmitted and additional CSPs may be generated while this transmission occurs. Therefore it is possible for the decoder to receive a number of successive CSPs greater than four (4). Seven (7) CSPs is the buffer size currently required, which is sufficient to prevent buffer overflow for the restricted data packet size discussed above. The clock skew correction for "Slow" will be initiated when six (6) CSPs are in the buffer to return the number to four (4) for minimum speech delay.
It is possible that the decoder will not receive CSPs at regular intervals regardless of data packet transmission. This loss of CSPs may or may not be deliberate. For example, to increase the data packet transmission throughput, the remote controller may elect not to transmit encoder CSPs during periods of no speech activity. The number of lost CSPs will be typically much greater than four (4) which consequently forces an underflow condition at the decoder buffer. Until CSP transmission is resumed the local decoder may choose to repeat decoding of one or more prior CSPs whose encoded speech parameters individually or jointly may be modified in some predetermined fashion, mute the decoder output, generate and playback a pseudo random noise signals or deterministic signals both having energy levels chosen by some predetermined means to be consistent with the energy of the background noise experienced by the remote encoder, or any combination of the above. Similar to receiving the first CSPs, only after four (4) CSPs have been placed into the buffer does decoding resume. As described above, four (4) CSPs are necessary for proper timing recovery operation.
Although only a few exemplary embodiments of this invention have been described in detail above, those skilled in the art will readily appreciate that many modifications are possible in the exemplary embodiments without materially departing from the novel teachings and advantages of this invention. Accordingly, all such modifications are intended to be included within the scope of this invention as defined in the following claims. In the claims, means-plus-function clause are intended to cover the structures described herein as performing the recited function and not only structural equivalents but also equivalent structures. Thus although a nail and a screw may not be structural equivalents in that a nail employs a cylindrical surface to secure wooden parts together, whereas a screw employs a helical surface, in the environment of fastening wooden parts, a nail and a screw may be equivalent structures.
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Hi sweet friends!
Did you miss me? I've been feeling under the weather quite a bit lately, and it's really knocked me on my butt. I have barely had the energy to get through work every day, let alone keep up with housework, projects around our home, blogging and just having a life in general. And I really miss it!
I have days where I start to feel better, and I'll try to push myself to get a few projects on my to-do list done. But then I'll just go right back to being sick again. Honestly, it's been pretty frustrating because I'm naturally a person who is always busy doing something. And I hate the feeling of being unproductive.


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Breaking Bad, possibly the best show I have ever seen aired on television, is coming to a close this Sunday. It has had a five season run in which no episode has felt extraneous, old interesting details have come back around instead of being forgotten about, and it is promising to actually have a true finale instead of petering out.
I don't know that I've ever seen this happen before.
The Wire, a show I have claimed justifies the invention of television, fizzled in its final season.
The Shield had a fantastic run and finale as well, but there were some flabby seasons in the middle.
And that's it.
Some arguments can be made for other shows obviously, The Sopranos comes to mind, but overall the number of shows that have been strong throughout their entire run is very low.
I'm always frustrated by that. I hate that so many creators allow their shows to go soft or vapid or end on a complete clusterfuck of a note. I understand that the network a show airs on has a lot of say, and the time constraints that writers have to work under are grueling, but still I feel like I should be able to list…you know…some other shows that have stayed strong for their entire run.
Granted I'm pretty picky, and this is art so it's all open to interpretation, but with most other television viewers I've talked to the list is painfully short.
Yet, as I said, this coming Sunday Breaking Bad will be joining this list…and it is so much fun! The social aspect of it is astounding. On text and on twitter and in bars I can strike up a conversation about this show with anyone. I was wearing a t-shirt this Saturday with a Breaking Bad reference on it and strangers were coming up to share their thoughts on how the finale might go. I was walking down the sidewalk and a random doorman shouted out, "Hey there, nice shirt, Mister White!"
I've heard a lot of arguments about how this sort of thing is dying in the age of Netflix, DVRs, and lightning fast DVD release, and I tend to agree with those arguments.
Compare your average finale and the buzz surrounding it nowadays to what it was like in the past. The finale of M*A*S*H is often cited as one of the pinnacles of television viewing. There are stories, possibly apocryphal, that the New York water system experienced painfully high usage whenever a commercial came on because so much of the city was taking bathroom breaks at once. While that may or may not be true it does capture how much of the population was all watching the same thing at once; the M*A*S*H finale garnered 105.97 million viewers in an age when there were 83.3 million households that had televisions.
Those sorts of things don't happen anymore. The high that M*A*S*H hit was partly because there wasn't as much competing with it due to far fewer channels, and partly because if you missed that one showing you were kind of screwed. Things didn't re-air back then and, as best as I can tell, M*A*S*H wasn't available on VHS until the 90s. There used to be a holiday-like sense to the finale of a popular show that seemed like it would never occur again. I'm as stunned as anyone to see that it is happening now. I don't know anyone who is planning on watching a later airing of the Breaking Bad finale and I've heard of parties being thrown as well as bars holding mass viewings.
I am loving every aspect of it.
There is a sense of closure coming, of saying goodbye to these amazing characters, but there's also something else that's harder to pin down. There is something about storytelling that commands our attention; we become still and our eyes grow intense and we forget where we are as we become enveloped in another person's world. It's a magical feeling. Normally my brain bounces from what to eat to if I've paid my credit card to do I have to do laundry to where is my current book going and on and on and on. But a great show, a great book, a great story can halt all of that if only for a while. It can produce a sense of focus that lets us shed our lives and exist in unfettered place in our minds.
That is what greatness can give us. That is what storytelling does.
Or at least that is what it should be doing.
Too damn often I come out of a movie or watch an episode of something or put down a book, and I just feel sort of "meh" about it. And when I talk it over with someone I mention how parts made no sense or there were plot holes, and all too often the response I get back is, "Well what did you expect?"
This. This is what I expect. Breaking Bad. Solid writing with consistency. This.
When did that become too much to ask?


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Resurrecting some old tweets buried in a
massive 140-character-or less pile.
Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect.
~ Margaret Mitchell.
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I was never insane except upon occasions
when my heart was touched.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
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Women belong in the kitchen.
Men belong in the kitchen. Everyone belongs in the kitchen!
Kitchen has food :D
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
~ Winnie the Pooh :)
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There is nothing better than a friend,
unless it is a friend with chocolate. :P
~ Linda Grayson


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Danny Pullen
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- Date of passing: Nov 2, 2011
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UK POLICE are set to review information they received from "a number of other people" during the trial of Coronation Street star William Roache, who was cleared of historic sex offences against five women.
Roache, 81, who plays Ken Barlow in the ITV soap, was found not guilty by a jury of two counts of rape and four counts of indecent assault following a four-week trial at Preston Crown Court.
Lancashire Police said on Saturday that they had been contacted with "further information", but said there is "no current investigation".
A spokeswoman said during Roache's trial a number of other people have contacted the police with further information.
"This information will be reviewed to ascertain what action, if any, needs to be taken in relation to it," she said.
Speaking on the steps of the court after his acquittal on Thursday, Roache said "in these situations there are no winners and I think we should all be much kinder to ourselves".
Roache did not respond when asked if the trial had been "a witch-hunt".
In her closing speech to the jury, prosecutor Anne Whyte said that if Roache was telling the truth and the complainants were all liars then he could be seen as a victim of "a huge, distorted, perverse witch-hunt".


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In 2012, a handful of families began Christ Community Church after years spent in the faith at Lakeview Christian Center in New Orleans. Since then, God has grown our faith family and answered prayer after prayer as we seek to be a vehicle for God's grace to touch lives on the Northshore. Our vision can easily been understood from our name.
Christ: We desire for Christ to be preeminent in all things (Colossians 1:18)…in every aspect of our lives. We strive for Christ to occupy first place in our hearts, our homes, our neighborhoods, our workplaces, and our church. To set Christ as preeminent is to exalt his redeeming work through his life, death, and resurrection. We want to behold the glory of God in the face of Jesus (2 Corinthians 4:6) and experience his love that compels us to obedience. We desire to see his worthiness and greatness so it will be displayed through us.
Community: We are convinced that God calls us out of the darkness and into his light as expressed in the community of believers as the local expression of the body of Christ. We are joined together to fellowship, grow, and serve with one another as we journey in becoming more like Christ. We pray to be a family of God as CCC. We will strive to love one another toward the glory of Christ when it's easy and when it gets hard. Community that engenders care, encouragement, and loyalty to God's redeemed. We also desire to be a charismatic family of God seeking the gifting and fruits supplied by the Holy Spirit.
Church: God's mission is to cover the earth with the knowledge of the glory of Jesus. We, as his disciples, participate in his mission by being transformed by his glory in order to go display it in a lost and hurting world. We desire for the Lord to use us so the light of Christ will reach our neighbors and the nations.


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It's been 'snowing' ashes and the wildfires in Oregon have jumped the gorge. meanwhile there is a category 5 hurricane hurling towards the east coast. Don't get me started about politics.
I've been experimenting with some watercolors, trying to do a more muted and effervescent feel.This one was a based on some dahlias I grew in my garden but I added some petunias and bougainvillea. This one I purposely tried to make the background flowers fade into the white of the paper. What do you think?
Here is the most recent watercolor of some chocolate cosmos that may have died because it 's been so hot here in Portland. I've been trying to get the right shade of pink and I think I nailed it. And I really like the way the blue interacts with the flower on the left. I should've held my ground and not gone darker with the red on the right. But there's always next time!
I'm off to Pennsylvania and Colorado to visit some friends and family. Hopefully I'll get some good shots!


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The JamLabel: UMC
Release Date: 28 October 2016
Format: LP Triple Vinyl
|The Jam About The Young Idea: The Very Best Of The Jam Limited 180gram Vinyl 3LP Set
Vinyl version of the anthology, to tie in with the exhibition at Somerset House, includes hits, album tracks and rarities, remastered at Abbey Rd. Featuring Down In The Tube Station At Midnight, Strange Town, Going Underground, Town Called Malice, Start! and many others. Pressed onto 180g vinyl with download card included.
Featured Tracks:
Disc: 1
1. In The City (radio ad)
2. In The City
3. Art School
4. Away From The Numbers
5. Takin' My Love (demo)
6. All Around The World
7. The Modern World
8. In The Street Today
9. News Of The World
10. David Watts
11. Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
12. Billy Hunt
13. To Be Someone (Didn't We Have A Nice Time)
14. English Rose
15. In The Crowd
16. 'A' Bomb In Wardour St.
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1. Strange Town
2. The Butterfly Collector
3. When You're Young
4. Smithers - Jones
5. The Eton Rifles
6. Thick As Thieves
7. Private Hell
8. Saturday's Kids
9. Burning Sky (demo)
10. Going Underground
11. Dreams Of Children
12. Start!
13. Liza Radley
14. Pretty Green
Disc: 3
1. Monday
2. That's Entertainment
3. Man In The Corner Shop
4. Boy About Town
5. Funeral Pyre
6. Absolute Beginners
7. Tales From The Riverbank
8. Town Called Malice
9. Precious
10. Ghosts
11. Just Who Is The Five O'Clock Hero?
12. The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow)
13. Beat Surrender
14. Move On Up


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The Mariners actually play better on the road this year believe it or not than they do at home and that trend continued last night with their win in L.A. Their offense which can struggle at times had 8 runs on 10 hits, getting clutch hits when needed. Blake Beavan, winner of his last two starts, will get the ball tonight. Beavan has been average this season allowing 29 earned runs in 55 innings for an ERA of 4.72.
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