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I feel for drug dealers, I really do. They have to juggle countless phone numbers, make sure strangers aren't cops and always stay on guard. I'm surprised more people don't slip up! Like this woman, she was trying to set up a drug deal but accidentally texted the wrong number—that number ended up belonging to a cop.
Amy Leigh Brown, the 35-year-old woman drug dealer with poor technological skills, foolishly punched in the wrong digits when she sent the text, 'Hey, it's Amy. Do you want business tonight?'. That wrong number was actually the phone number of a police officer who became curious and played along. Amy texted back saying she was selling some 'bones' (Xanax) and described the car she would be in so the officer could find her. She was promptly arrested.
Amy, who's from Scooby Doo Drive (!) in Marion, North Carolina, is probably feeling a little ripped off. And that's fair, what are the odds of that happening? Misfired texts happen all the time but misfiring on a cop? Bad, bad luck. Next time Amy, start with an innocuous text and build from there. A patient drug dealer is a free drug dealer. [Daily Mail]


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The first phase of the San Antonio shopping center is a cruel joke at best: this is the end product for a "gateway to Mountain View" and a "pedestrian friendly" development, another (goliath) Safeway and (yet another) Starbucks, topped with high-rent apartments? If this an example of visionary perspective, we should all be suspicious when inspecting the other pending monstrosities which may be deemed worthy of approval by the current City Council, from developer Merlone-Geier's phase two at San Antonio, and well beyond.
For anybody even remotely interested in the excessive quantity and scale of proposed and approved developments, both residential and commercial, visit http://is.gd/LPmhtr and you will be shocked. Sixty-eight projects, including Google's 1- million-square-foot campus (technically on federal property) for a yet-to-be specified number of workers and residents and an additional 1-million-square-foot development at the (soon to be former) Synopsis site.
Adding a million here, and a million there doesn't seem to faze the city council much and one has to wonder if more than a passing thought has been given as to the enormous impact these projects will have throughout the city which is already reeling from congestion before many of these projects have even broken ground. Cramming as many edifices and people into any available space as quickly as you can does not seem indicative of good planning. Although many consider it a blessing that we are essentially Ground Zero for national employment and prosperity, I beg to differ; we have seen the consequences of rampant development in other communities before. The corresponding Pandora's box of over-development produces less a spectrum of diversity and uniform prosperity than a preponderance of homogeneous affluence and a framework whereby we are all crammed together like rats.
As escalating real estate prices continue to displace more people, there is an erosion in the city's unique quality of life, formerly accessible to and inclusive of people of more modest means.
Just because you can build something doesn't mean you must, that you go overboard, that you say yes to any and all developments, or gravitate toward aesthetically-mundane architecture, the highest densities, the tallest buildings allowable, or the developer with the deepest pockets. One notable exception was the purchase of Frances Stieper's Rengstorff property under the assumption that it would otherwise be developed, so the council preserved it for public use as a park; too bad we haven't advocated for projects such as this tenfold instead of selling out to wholesale development.
If we continue to operate and accelerate at the current unbridled pace and wonder five years ( or three years or two years?) from now why the city is as gridlocked as downtown Palo Alto and why it is characterized by generic high-density developments from one end to the other, we will have only ourselves to blame. Once the last vestiges of old Mountain View have been exploited and obliterated and the concrete has been poured, it will be way too late to reverse the damage. "If you build it they will come" is a mantra best reserved for Iowa corn fields.
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June Havoc, Child Star
By: Legacy Staff
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The perils of being a child star – and having overenthusiastic show-biz parents – are often discussed these days. We watch Toddlers and Tiaras and shake our heads, hoping the kids will turn out all right. We follow the careers of those who hit the limelight young – Miley Cyrus, Lindsey Lohan, the Olsen twins – wondering if they'll emerge gracefully from their early stardom. And we see too many of them die young: Brittany Murphy, Corey Haim, Heath Ledger, River Phoenix, Michael Jackson.
But long before the young stars we watch carefully now, long before those who made it big in the '70s or '80s, long even before Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley Temple or Judy Garland, there was June Havoc.
Havoc was one of the first child movie stars, and she was one of the youngest. She also had one of the most difficult stage parents of all time – her seriously overbearing mother, Rose Hovick, who pushed June and her sister into vaudeville and movies when they were just toddlers as a way to support their family.
That the sisters would rebel against their mother was, perhaps, predictable. June's sister grew up to be Gypsy Rose Lee, one of the most famous strippers of the burlesque stage. And June was just 15 when she eloped with a fellow performer, trying to escape her mother's influence.
But June couldn't resist the call of the stage, the only life she'd known since earliest childhood. She continued to appear in movies and on Broadway, eventually graduating to writing and directing. Her vaudeville roots often showed through, in her great singing and dancing.
The story of June's and Gypsy's childhoods eventually became legend, thanks to Gypsy's memoir and the subsequent Broadway musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable. June wasn't happy with the way she was characterized, but she was convinced to let it go for her sister's sake.
So how did June Havoc turn out? Did she suffer the fate of so many child stars, descending into a debauched lifestyle that led to an early death? Far from it. She continued acting successfully for much of her life – and a long life it was. She died two years ago today at the impressive age of 97, long outliving her mother, her sister… and any critics who might have been watching her early career with bated breath, waiting for her to fail.
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Nokia & Vodafone Tighten Focus on High-volume Mobile Devices
Nokia and Vodafone have posted the early draft review of JSR-249 Mobile Service Architecture 2. The Java ME community has developed a unified Java application environment standard for mobile phones as part of the JSR 248 Mobile Service Architecture (MSA) specification.
GWT 1.5 M2 Offers Support for Java 5
Google has released the second milestone of GWT 1.5, an open source Java-to-JavaScript compiler and library for building AJAX applications in Java. The major new feature in version 1.5 is support for Java 5, including generics, enums, annotations, and the enhanced for loop. Bruce Johnson, co-creator of GWT, provides a breakdown list of the new features in this milestone release:
Now Developers Really Matter for Embarcadero
Borland's developer tools unit, Codegear, is now vying for a new lease of life after languishing on the sales block for more than six months now. Data management and admin tools vendor Embarcadero Technologies has announced it was buying CodeGear from Borland for the fire sale price of $23 million.
Mashups Making Inroads Into Enterprise
The Web is continuously democratizing how information is consumed. Today, personal Web use has led to a rapid increase in user sophistication which is naturally reaching the Enterprise. A new mode of information visualization known as a Mashup combined with the collaborative aspects of Web 2.0 is finding success where Composite Applications struggled: cost, speed of development and interactivity. By moving the integration point from the service layer to the presentation layer, driven by the user themselves and controlled by secured processes, Mashups are gaining an Enterprise facet promoting them to be the new generation of Composite Applications.
Borland's Silk 2008 Test Suite Boosts RIA
Borland has revamped its QA testing suite with important new functions. The new Borland Silk 2008 product line, released last month, offers updated versions of Borland SilkTest, SilkPerformer and SilkCentral Test Manager. The fresh offerings target software test and QA operations and mark a significant evolution in the Silk product family, which was acquired in 2006 when Borland purchased Segue Software. Borland claims it has released updates to SilkTest on an average of every six months since its $100 million acquisition of Segue.
Developers Rank MS Web 2.0 Program Over Google, Facebook
Software developers active in Web 2.0 development ranked Microsoft's MSN/Live Windows Developer Program higher than developer programs offered by Google, eBay, Yahoo, Facebook, or PayPal in the 2008 Evans Data Corp. Web 2.0 Developer Programs Users' Choice survey announced today and conducted in March of this year.


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Obama's Bush hangover
Six years in, Barack Obama is still battling a Bush hangover.
The rising chaos in Iraq — and the blame game over who's responsible — are the latest reminders that halfway through his own second term, he's still often more consumed by dealing with the legacy of President George W. Bush than building his own.
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Obama supporters see a president who found himself so deep in so many holes from his very first day in office that cleaning up the aftermath of the previous eight years was going to take at least eight of his own: getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan, stabilizing the housing market and repairing the larger economic collapse, all while chopping a $1.2 trillion deficit in half.
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To detractors, particularly those with allegiances to Bush, that argument comes off as another excuse for a president who's been unable to deliver much — a man they see as so driven to be different from his predecessor that he's often blundered into catastrophe.
To them, the 2011 withdrawal from Iraq — on what they say was a politically driven timetable, not a strategic one — was the latest clear case in point.
But the ripples from the Bush years go well beyond the Islamic militants marching toward Baghdad, larger foreign policy and the economy. There's the detention facility in Guantánamo Bay that Obama's 5½ years late in his promise to close. There's the National Security Agency surveillance apparatus he inherited (and bulked up significantly).
And with 2½ years left, that shows little sign of changing.
"The hangover was much, much worse than I think any president's been left with, with the exception of Andrew Johnson," said Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor and Democratic National Committee chairman, though he notes that in that case, he doesn't blame Abraham Lincoln. "It underlines what unbelievable damage they did in just a short eight years."
( Also on POLITICO: Obama-Congress intelligence pipeline broken)
"Barack Obama has had to clean up the mess that was left him," said Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), ticking off the end of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, cutting the deficit and recovering from the recession. "On every front, he's really moved forward for this nation."
That kind of thinking, according to Bush's first White House press secretary, Ari Fleischer, is, in a word, "nonsense."
"Every president gets the benefit and the burdens of all the presidents that came before them, including the most recent," Fleischer said. "The only question is did they make things better or did they make things worse? And on almost every measure, President Barack Obama made them worse."
"For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything — which is another way of saying they felt Bush and the Bush years were the inescapable reference point for everything they were themselves doing," said Elliott Abrams, a former top Bush National Security Council staffer. "Now in the second term, they still cannot get free of this shadow."
( Also on POLITICO: Rogers warns ISIS could target U.S.)
The White House declined comment. But Brad Woodhouse, president of the White House-allied Americans United for Change, expressed the level of outraged disbelief that many Obama allies have been feeling the past few days.
"It takes some audacious nerve on behalf of Republicans to now — after opposing the president at every turn and after six years of putting their politics ahead of the country — to blame the president for instability in Iraq that is a direct result of a failed war started by his predecessor," Woodhouse said. "The politics being played here by Republicans is enough to make you gag."
Obama's time in office hasn't been totally dominated by responses to Bush's — Obamacare, his largest legislative win, is the realization of a decades-old Democratic dream that long predates the last administration, and the significant environmental regulations he's pressed forward have little to do with his predecessor.
But Obama himself has told people that he views his 2008 election as having been less about him than about the country's rejection of Bush, and that any Democrat would have won in that environment — unlike 2012, which he views as the race that was more about people choosing him.
Still, even through that reelection campaign, Obama regularly pointed to Bush as the reason he hadn't accomplished more. Remember how bad the economy was, he'd tell voters. Remember those two wars.


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Equities: The JUN13 emini SP 500 continues to trade in a very bullish manner, trading up 8 points from yesterday's close to current levels of 1655. We believe the market could continue higher and might find key resistance at 1665, or the mid 1660′s. We would not be surprised to see a small pullback to the high 1630′s sometime very soon. Overall, the bull market frenzy is picking up and we still believe the market will finish this year at 1690 or higher.
Bonds: With "fedspeak" from various US Fed officials starting to get more hawkish, the bond market has taken clear notice and yields have started to tick higher. Today, the US 30yr bond (JUN13) is down over 1 point to 144 '07. We still have our first key downside target at 141. We also are watching the MAR16 Eurodollar interest rate futures contract. We believe this market is highly susceptible to further downside action. It is trading at 9896.5 now, and our next key downside target is at 98.90 and then 98.84. If the markets continue to start to price in higher interest rates, or at least a slowing of the US stimulus program, this contract could trade a lot lower.
Commodities: Gold continues to trend downwards, trading down $25 to $1362. We continue to have our first downside target at $1340, but we would not be surprised for gold to head lower than that this year. We believe gold could easily approach $1250 by end of year. Crude oil continues to reverse its recent down movement on anticipation that a growing global economy will exert more demand pressure on crude oil. It truly is a tug of war right now in crude oil, with one force being an abundant US supply, but the other force being a growing potential for demand as global growth emerges.
Currencies: The currency markets have truly been one of the big stories of May. The US dollar rally has cause many key FX futures to slide significantly lower, namely the Yen, Euro, Pound, and Aussie Dollar. The Aussie Dollar found tremendous selling last week upon news that Soros and Druckenmiller were bearish. The Aussie continues to trade lower today to 97.16, down almost 100 ticks. The Yen, even after falling 3000 ticks, trades down 90 ticks today. The trend for the US dollar has clearly been up.
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Anton Graff (1736-1813), an artist from Winterthur in Switzerland, was the most important portraitist of the German Enlightenment. Like no other painter at the time, he shaped the image of the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie, of poets and thinkers, and of emancipated women at the cusp of modernity. In the words of Swiss philosopher and aesthetics scholar Johann Georg Sulzer, Anton Graff's talent lay in his ability to look "into the depths of the soul".
When Graff died in 1813 at the age of 76, he left behind an exceptional panorama of the era in which he lived, from portraits of Frederick the Great and Friedrich Wilhelm II to Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn, Henriette Herz, Friedrich Schiller and Johann Gottfried Herder. These portraits of prominent figures and his numerous portraits of his family and of himself demonstrate Graff's outstanding ability to capture the individual essence and mindset of the person standing across from him.
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of his death, the Alte Nationalgalerie is hosting the first comprehensive monographic showing of his work in fifty years, showcasing about 90 paintings and 45 works on paper, which illustrate Graff's great artistic achievements.
The exhibition 'Anton Graff - Faces of an Epoch' was organised in cooperation with the Museum Oskar Reinhart in Winterthur. An exhibition of about 80 works will be held there from 22 June to 29 September 2013.
The retrospective at the Alte Nationalgalerie has been made possible by the support of the Verein der Freunde der Nationalgalerie and funded by the cultural foundations of the German states and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.
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An online-sharing interface designed to give "kosher" the same cachet as other trendy foodie experiences won $10,000 in seed money at the culmination of a three-day conference.
Developing new-media projects that encourage young people's engagement with the Jewish community was the focus of the conference.
The winning team members are video game designer William Robinson, a PhD humanities candidate at Concordia University associated with its Technoculture, Art and Games research centre; Marley Sniatowsky, creative director at Tête Carée Films, and Alina Maizel, a project manager at the multimedia company Moment Factory.
The inaugural NU: Media Innovation Initiative conference, from March 17 to 19, was hosted by Federation CJA with ROI Community, an international organization supporting young Jewish activists. The 30 participants were Jewish new-media experts from Montreal and the United States, selected for their differing areas of expertise.
The conference convenor was Mike Savatovsky, director of federation's A Bit Off the Top, a "venture social-capital initiative" launched in partnership with the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Family Foundation, and supporting innovative ways of connecting young adults to their Jewish identity.
On his blog, Robinson wrote: "This event sought to answer one very strange question: what happens when you put money and 30 young new-media savvy people in a room for 50-plus hours and ask them to make Judaism relevant?"
On the final evening, nine teams of three had five minutes to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges, consisting of philanthropist Claudine Blondin Bronfman; Amy Friedman, senior adviser to Viacom's MTV Scratch; actor Meghan Rath of the television show Being Human; Na'eem Adam, founder of Poutine Week MTL, and Dean Mendel, co-chair of the federation's Gen J grants program.
The judges' top three picks were then put to the invitation-only audience at Espace Reunion, which chose the winner.
Robinson describes the theory behind his team's #kosh, which uses the microblogging platform and social media webite Tumblr, thus: "Jews today are losing ways to act Jewish, but if you can call Instagramming a fine meal 'kosh,' then you might find some ways of identity building around meaningful experience."
The winning team intends to use the $10,000 to launch an online crowdsourcing campaign to "elevate people's awareness for #kosh foods."
Each team member also received $500 toward conference travel or professional training.
"Going in I was one of the least Jewish people there, but that experience was secularly Jewish and lovely, and I was surprisingly thrilled to be part of it," Robinson blogged.
Savatovsky explained: "Gone are the days of young adults swearing allegiance to one-dimensional identities. Now is the era of unprecedented connectivity, flattening the world and bringing diverse cultures closer together while broadening global citizenry."
The community, he believes, must be creative in how it uses emerging media to make being Jewish meaningful, especially to the technologically oriented "millennial generation" – those aged approximately between 18 and 30.


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Color depth, also known as bit depth, is either the number of bits used to indicate the color of a single pixel, in a bitmapped image or video frame buffer, or the number of bits used for each color component of a single pixel.[1][2][3][4] For consumer video standards, such as High Efficiency Video Coding (H.265), the bit depth specifies the number of bits used for each color component.[1][2][3][4] When referring to a pixel the concept can be defined as bits per pixel (bpp), which specifies the number of bits used. When referring to a color component the concept can be defined as bits per channel (bpc), bits per color (bpc), or bits per sample (bps).[1][2][5] Color depth is only one aspect of color representation, expressing how finely levels of color can be expressed (a.k.a. color precision); the other aspect is how broad a range of colors can be expressed (the gamut). The definition of both color precision and gamut is accomplished with a color encoding specification which assigns a digital code value to a location in a color space.
Indexed color
With relatively low color depth, the stored value is typically a number representing the index into a color map or palette. The colors available in the palette itself may be fixed by the hardware or modifiable within the limits of the hardware (for instance, both color Macintosh systems and VGA-equipped IBM-PCs typically ran at 8-bit due to limited VRAM, but while the best VGA systems only offered an 18-bit (262,144 color) palette from which colors could be chosen, all color Macintosh video hardware offered a 24-bit (16 million color) palette). Modifiable palettes are sometimes referred to as pseudocolor palettes.
- 1-bit color (21 = 2 colors): monochrome, often black and white, compact Macintoshes, Atari ST.
- 2-bit color (22 = 4 colors): CGA, gray-scale early NeXTstation, color Macintoshes, Atari ST.
- 3-bit color (23 = 8 colors): many early home computers with TV displays, including the ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro
- 4-bit color (24 = 16 colors): as used by EGA and by the least common denominator VGA standard at higher resolution, color Macintoshes, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC.
- 5-bit color (25 = 32 colors): Original Amiga chipset
- 6-bit color (26 = 64 colors): Original Amiga chipset
- 8-bit color (28 = 256 colors): most early color Unix workstations, VGA at low resolution, Super VGA, color Macintoshes, Atari TT, Amiga AGA chipset, Falcon030.
- 12-bit color (212 = 4096 colors): some Silicon Graphics systems, Color NeXTstation systems, and Amiga systems in HAM mode.
Old graphics chips, particularly those used in home computers and video game consoles, often feature an additional level of palette mapping in order to increase the maximum number of simultaneously displayed colors. For example, in the ZX Spectrum, the picture is stored in a two-color format, but these two colors can be separately defined for each rectangular block of 8x8 pixels.
Direct color
A typical computer monitor and video card may offer 8 bits of color precision (256 output levels) per R/G/B color channel, for an overall 24-bit color space (or 32-bit space, with alpha transparency bits, which have little bearing on the color precision), though earlier standards offered 6 bits per channel (64 levels) or less; the DVD-Video and Blu-ray Disc standards support video with a bit depth of 8-bits per color YCbCr with 4:2:0 chroma subsampling.[6][7]
8-bit color
A very limited but true direct color system, there are 3 bits (8 possible levels) for each of the R and G components, and the two remaining bits in the byte pixel to the B component (four levels), enabling 256 (8 × 8 × 4) different colors. The normal human eye is less sensitive to the blue component than to the red or green (two thirds of the eye's receptors process the longer wavelengths[8]), so it is assigned one bit less than the others. Used, amongst others, in the MSX2 system series of computers in the early to mid 1990s.
Do not confuse with an indexed color depth of 8bpp (although it can be simulated in such systems by selecting the adequate table).
High color (15/16-bit)
High color supports 15/16-bit for three RGB colors. In 16-bit direct color, there can be 4 bits (16 possible levels) for each of the R, G, and B components, plus optionally 4 bits for alpha (transparency), enabling 4,096 (16 × 16 × 16) different colors with 16 levels of transparency. Or in some systems there can be 5 bits per color component and 1 bit of alpha (32768 colors, just fully transparent or not); or there can be 5 bits for red, 6 bits for green, and 5 bits for blue, for 65536 colors with no transparency.[9] These color depths are sometimes used in small devices with a color display, such as mobile telephones.
Variants with 5 or more bits per color component are sometimes called high color,[10] which is sometimes considered sufficient to display photographic images.[11]
Almost all of the least expensive LCD displays (such as typical twisted nematic types) provide 18-bit color (64 × 64 × 64 = 262,144 combinations) to achieve faster color transition times, and use either dithering or frame rate control to approximate 24-bit-per-pixel true color,[12] or throw away 6 bits of color information entirely. More expensive LCD displays (typically IPS) can display 24-bit or greater color depth.
True color (24-bit)
True color supports 24-bit for three RGB colors. It provides a method of representing and storing graphical-image information (especially in computer processing) in an RGB color space such that a very large number of colors, shades, and hues can be displayed in an image, such as in high-quality photographic images or complex graphics. Usually, true color is defined to mean 256 shades of red, green, and blue, for a total of 224 or 16,777,216 color variations. The human eye can discriminate up to ten million colors.[13]
"True color" can also refer to an RGB display-mode that does not need a color look-up table (CLUT).[14]
For each pixel, generally one byte is used for each channel while the fourth byte (if present) is being used either as an alpha channel, data, or simply ignored. Byte order is usually either RGB or BGR. Some systems exist with more than 8 bits per channel, and these are often also referred to as true color (for example a 48-bit true-color scanner).
Even with true color, monochromatic images, which are restricted to 256 levels, owing to their single channel, can sometimes still reveal visible banding artifacts.
True color, like other RGB color models, cannot express colors outside of the gamut of its RGB color space (generally sRGB).
Macintosh systems refer to 24-bit color as "millions of colors".
RGBA color space, or 32-bit color, is a variant of true color in which the additional 8-bit is allocated to transparency and indicates how transparent is the element to which the color is assigned, when overlaid on other elements.
Deep color (30/36/48-bit)
Deep color consists of a billion or more colors.[15] The xvYCC, sRGB, and YCbCr color spaces can be used with deep color systems.[16]
Deep color supports 30/36/48-bit for three RGB colors. Video cards with 10 bits per one color (30-bit color RGB), started coming into the market in the late 1990s. An early example was the Radius ThunderPower card for the Macintosh, which included extensions for QuickDraw and Adobe Photoshop plugins to support editing 30-bit images.[17]
Systems using more than 24 bits in a 32-bit pixel for actual color data exist, but most of them opt for a 30-bit implementation with two bits of padding so that they can have an even 10 bits of color for each channel, similar to many HiColor systems.[18] 10-bit professional video displays are actually providing 10 bits per color channel, and use a value of 95 for black and 685 for white; the values from 685 to 1023 are used for "whiter than white" images like glare, specular highlights, and similar details.[19]
While some high-end graphics workstation systems and the accessories marketed toward use with such systems, as from SGI, have always used more than 8 bits per channel, such as 12 or 16 (36-bit or 48-bit color), such color depths have only worked their way into the general market more recently.[citation needed]
Images can have 64-bit pixels with 48-bit color and a 16-bit alpha channel.
As bit depths climb above 8 bits per channel, some systems use the extra bits to store more intensity range than can be displayed all at once, as in high dynamic range imaging (HDRI). Floating point numbers are numbers in excess of 'full' white and black. This allows an image to accurately depict the intensity of the sun and deep shadows in the same color space for less distortion after intensive editing. Various models describe these ranges, many employing 32-bit accuracy per channel. In 1999 Industrial Light & Magic released the OpenEXR image file format as an open standard that supports 16-bit-per-channel half-precision floating-point numbers.
High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) defines the Main 10 profile which allows for a bit depth of 8-bits to 10-bits per sample with 4:2:0 chroma subsampling.[2][3][4] 8-bits per sample allows for 256 shades per primary color (a total of 16.78 million colors) while 10-bits per sample allows for 1024 shades per primary color (a total of 1.07 billion colors).[20][21] The Main 10 profile was added at the October 2012 HEVC meeting based on proposal JCTVC-K0109 which proposed that a 10-bit profile be added to HEVC for consumer applications.[4] The proposal stated that this was to allow for improved video quality and to support the Rec. 2020 color space that will be used by UHDTV.[4] The second version of HEVC has five profiles that allow for a bit depth of 8-bits to 16-bits per sample.[22]
Industry support
The HDMI 1.3 specification defines bit depths of 30 bits (1.073 billion colors), 36 bits (68.71 billion colors), and 48 bits (281.5 trillion colors).[16] In that regard, the Nvidia Quadro graphics cards manufactured after 2006 support 30-bit deep color[23] as do some models of the Radeon HD 5900 series such as the HD 5970.[24][25] The ATI FireGL V7350 graphics card supports 40-bit and 48-bit color.[26]
The DisplayPort specification also supports color depths greater than 24 bpp.
At WinHEC 2008, Microsoft announced that color depths of 30 bits and 48 bits would be supported in Windows 7, along with the wide color gamut scRGB (which can be converted to xvYCC output).[27][28]
Television color
Virtually all television displays and computer displays form images by varying the strength of just three primary colors: red, green, and blue. For example, bright yellow is formed by roughly equal red and green contributions, with little or no blue contribution.
Increasing the number of color primaries can increase the color gamut that a display can reproduce.[citation needed] Recent technologies such as Texas Instruments's BrilliantColor augment the typical red, green, and blue channels with up to three other primaries: cyan, magenta and yellow.[29] Mitsubishi and Samsung, among others, use this technology in some TV sets to extend the range of displayable colors.[citation needed] The Sharp Aquos line of televisions has introduced Quattron technology, which augments the usual RGB pixel components with a yellow subpixel. See also list of color palettes.
Analog CRTs, whether color or monochrome, use continuous voltage signals which do not have a fixed number of intensities. The signals are subject to noise introduced in transmission.
See also
- Audio bit depth – corresponding concept for digital audio
- Bit plane
- List of color palettes
- List of colors (compact)
- Mach banding
- RGB color model
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1. Battle of the Brazos. Texas A&M's rivalry with Baylor is called "The Battle of the Brazos," as the team's campuses sit 90 miles apart, near the Brazos River. The teams have been playing each other since 1914, but no year has been as eventful as this one. The fun started with a five-overtime thriller in College Station, with Baylor emerging with a 116-110 victory. The game wasn't shown on TV, but ESPN Classic later rebroadcast it using footage from A&M's in-arena cameras and
audio from the radio broadcast. In the rematch, Baylor fans ended the game by throwing plastic soda bottles onto the floor after the Aggies' Donald Sloan capped a 71-57 blowout with an off-the-glass dunk dubbed by Aggie fans as "The Baptism."
2. First Half Good, Second Half Not So Much. Few teams have had the rollercoaster season that A&M has. The first half of the season couldn't have gone better, as a 15-1 start took them to the edge of the Top 10. Then came a three-game losing streak and a 7-8 record over final two months. Even within that stretch, the Aggies decided to to things in a big way, including a pair of 27-point losses and a 44-point win.
3. Not Exactly "Win One For The Gipper.". Aggies Coach Mark Turgeon may have gotten an early sense that his team was headed for trouble down the stretch. After two straight losses in January and just prior to the five-overtime bonk to Baylor, Turgeon let it fly: "I know what I'm doing. Have I gotten the most out of my team the last two games? No. But I know no matter what I do, if we win, (former coach Billy) Gillispie's getting the credit, and if we lose, it's my fault. I'm in a no-flippin-win situation this year, and that puts me in a bad mood." The result? Seven more wins from January to March, and losing five of its final seven. — Jeff Beckham
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Guestfolk: In the clearing stands a boxer…May 21st, 2008 — 03:07 am
Hi everybody. I'm Jamie from Fong Songs, a cover blog you may know since Boyhowdy has been over once or twice (or thrice) to guest post. Unless I completely imagined it, there was an open invitation at some point for me to return the favour and guest post here on Cover Lay Down. Boyhowdy's still hampered with technical difficulties at the moment, so it's a perfect excuse for me to step into his usual Wednesday timeslot and lay down some folk covers for you. If you go back to the very first post ever on Cover Lay Down, Boyhowdy once praised my "incredible ability to compile cross-genre coverlists the likes of which [he's] never seen". That just warms my little ego, but I think what he's getting it at is that I sometimes come up with bizarre excuses to thematically link random cover songs. With the prospect of producing an all-folk cover post, I struggled to come up with an appropriately Fong Songs-esque theme of folk covers, but luckily whatever I do is inherently Fong Songs-esque.
As Boyhowdy can attest to, the definition of folk music is rather elusive with modern folk festivals pushing the boundaries of what's considered folk music. I've gone with some relatively safe bets: Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, and a couple "man and an acoustic guitar" covers. I strongly associate folk music with storytelling and that certainly applies to the following batch of cover songs… even if it's the story of Rocky Balboa.
Today on Cover Lay Down: tales of boxers as told via folk covers.
- Ani DiFranco, Hurricane (orig. Bob Dylan)
In 1966, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a pro middleweight boxer, was arrested and later convicted for a grisly triple murder, a crime for which he steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 1974 while in prison he wrote his autobiography, which inspired Bob Dylan to take up his cause and write this protest song. Eventually he was released on appeal in 1985 after nearly 20 years in prison. Canadian filmmaker Norman Jewison directed a film version of Carter's story, 1999′s Hurricane, with Denzel Washington in the title role. Even though there was controversy regarding the fictional liberties taken in the film (in addition to debate of Carter's innocence in the first place), I remember it being an excellent film with strong acting as usual from Mr. Washington who seems to be drawn to these real-life roles. Just don't ask me what really happened.
- Lucas, Harry Kein (orig. Bob Dylan)
Here's an acoustic Spanish language cover of Hurricane by a musician that simply goes as Lucas. My Spanish is downright non-existent, so for all I know this very well may be a Spanish parody about a guy named Harry Kein.
- Colin Linden, The Boxer (orig. Simon & Garfunkel)
I remember taking my dad's Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits CD, lying in the dark, and cranking The Boxer on my discman. Li-la-li, kaBOOOM! Still gives me shivers when I'm in a particular mood. I first heard this cover by Colin Linden (woo, Canadian content!) during the end credits of the Coen Brothers film Intolerable Cruelty. I'm somewhat notorious among friends for lingering around to watch movie credits and sometimes it's just because I'm listening to the music (plus the song credits always come at the very end!).
- Bob Dylan, The Boxer (orig. Simon & Garfunkel)
I'm not particularly well-versed in the Bob Dylan canon, so needless to say I was shocked to hear this "other" voice he sometimes sings with, completely unrecognizable from the oft parodied Dylan vocals. From 1970′s poorly received Self Portrait, a double album of mostly cover songs, Dylan takes on the now classic ballad by Simon & Garfunkel, though the original itself had only been recorded in the previous year. Some have speculated that Paul Simon actually wrote The Boxer about Bob Dylan, but there doesn't seem to be any solid evidence behind this claim.
- Josh Joplin, Eye of the Tiger (orig. Survivor)
This great acoustic cover is from the Australian cover compilation Andrew Denton's Musical Challenge, which features artists covering unlikely songs. Want to hear children's group The Wiggles cover Lou Reed? Now you know where to go.
Today's bonus coversongs (and bonus non-coversongs):
- Cassius Clay, Stand By Me (orig. Ben E. King)
Yes, Muhammad Ali recorded an album titled I Am the Greatest under his birth name Cassius Clay in 1963 at age 21 before his name change and even before he became World Heavyweight Champion. I haven't actually heard the whole thing, but I understand it's a spoken word album with poetry readings, sketches, and him answering questions from a live audience. The track listing includes titles such as I Am the Double Greatest, Funny You Should Ask, and Will The Real Sonny Liston Please Fall Down. Luckily for our purposes, Ali also recorded a cover song of Ben E. King's classic Stand By Me.
- Bette Midler, Boxing (orig. Ben Folds Five)
From their debut self-titled album, Ben Folds wrote this poignant song about an imaginary conversation between Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell, in which Ali contemplates hanging up the gloves. Probably the only studio-released cover of any Ben Folds Five song is by, of all people, Bette Midler, who recorded this for her 1998 album Bathhouse Betty.
- Friendly Rich & The Lollipop People, The Ballad of George Chuvalo
"Meet George Chuvalo, he's from Toronto, he is the hero of this here story."
And so begins the tale of George Chuvalo, legendary Canadian heavyweight champion who twice went toe to toe with Muhammad Ali, though lost both by decision. Known for having never been knocked down in the ring in 93 fights during a professional career that spanned over 20 years, perhaps his greatest legacy evolved outside the ring. As told in this tribute by Ontario musicians Friendly Rich & The Lollipop People, Chuvalo tragically lost three of his sons and his wife in drug-related deaths (full story in this in-depth Maclean's article). True to his stalwart nature, since 1995 Chuvalo became a tireless anti-drug advocate and today still gives talks to students, parents, and other support groups. In 1998, he was appointed to the Order of Canada for his work. Visit George Chuvalo's Fight Against Drugs for more on Chuvalo's story and cause.
- Colin Linden, George Chuvalo
Colin Linden, who is also one-third of folk group Blackie & The Rodeo Kings, wrote his own tribute to George Chuvalo. Little bit of trivia for you: Chuvalo took on some bit parts in films over the years including a bar patron named Marky who has an ill-fated arm wrestling match with Jeff Goldblum in David Cronenberg's The Fly. Check the CBC digital archives for numerous fascinating video and audio clips of George Chuvalo including the original CBC radio broadcast of his fight with Ali and his 1977 appearance on a CBC talk show with his thoughts on the newly released Rocky. Amusingly, when he's introduced by host Peter Gzowski, the house band plays a 15 second muzak version of The Boxer as Chuvalo walks on stage.
Thanks to Boyhowdy for letting me stop by and share some folk covers with you. Hopefully his computer issues get sorted out soon!
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Dear teachers,
I have three questions to ask:
The town is surrounded by mountains.
My question is: Can I use 'encircled' to replace 'surrounded'? To me if there is any difference between the two it is 'encircle' may mean 'to surround something in a regular circle' while 'surround might be in irregular shape'. Is that right?
I could not express the difference better.
The following is the definitions of 'give off' and 'give out':
give out: to produce light, heat, or a gas or a sound (he gave out a yell when he discovered gold.)
give off: to produce heat, light, a smell, or a gas
The only difference is in 'give off' 'a smell ' is added.
My question is: If I refer to the other three except 'a smell' the two phrases are interchangeable. If I refer to 'a smell' I can only use 'give off'. Is that right?
hmmmm....let us see....
#1 The radiator gave off enough heat to keep us warm through the night.
#2 The radiator gave out enough heat to keep us warm through the night.
Both seem correct but I would probably use #1
#3 The flashlight gave off a weak beam of light just before the batteries died.
#4 The flashlight gave out a weak beam of light just before the batteries died.
Both seem correct but I would probably use #3
#5 The rotting body gave off the stench of death.
#6 The rotting body gave out the stench of death. (definitely wrong)
#7 The stagnant water gave off bubbles of marsh gas.
#8 The stagnant water gave out bubbles of marsh gas.(this doesn't sound right to me)
#9 He gave off a yell when he discovered gold. (this doesn't sound right to me)
#10 He gave out a yell when he discovered gold.
When she finished drinking he left the bar.
My question is: Can I use 'ended' replace 'finished'?
You could but it is not often said that way. However "stopped" is a common alternative.
When she stopped drinking he left the bar.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Thank you in advance.
...you are welcome.
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Our latest installment of "how you definitely shouldn't drive at a car show" comes to you straight from the Auto Italia Show in Brooklands, England.
It seems like this Ferrari 360 driver wants to show off his sweet engine note to all the crowd around. He gets really into it, accelerating all the way up the hill.
What he doesn't realize is how the hill becomes a jump when taken quickly.
The car jumps in the air and gets a nice, expletive filled reaction from everyone in the crowd. It lands, the engine cover opens, and everyone probably shared a hearty laugh.
Everyone but the driver, that is.
(Hat Tip to James!)


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 40 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
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Although our existing customer base is mainly household young professionals, we hope to attract new business from existing traders. Traders are a savvy lot and base everything on price - we have to appear professional as a spare parts suppliers.
New site recently launched requires a new logo indentity to reflect a professional and personal service to our customers. We are open to suggestions and not restrictive to colours although you may get inspiration from our new site design. We like the new blue/grey theme we have at present but we like creativity and hate clipart.
The logo would need to be printable on invoices and and easily transported in emails.
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House On The Rock Episode 18
A contemporary soap opera that reflects the life of Dehumo & Jumobi Adeyokunnu; a young newly-married, middle class Christian couple. Having just been married; the new couple goes through all the normal stress and crisis that are characteristics of early married life. The couple also have to cope with the challenges of life within the neighbourhood and their immediate neighbours. Being Christians and zealous for the work of the Lord, the couples religious life affects their relations and colleagues at work. Apart from the young couple, there's also the Odewole's an habitually troubled family whose background is though Christian but completely the opposite of true Christian living. The soap also shows the godly influence of Dehumo's mother Madam Olatawura Adeyokunnu over the new couple. Other characters in the soap are guest appearances and are supposedly the friends, relations, neighbours, colleagues and co-church members of the Adeyokunnus.
a Zionstone Media Production. Starring Sam Adigun, Tope Adigun, Kolade Segun Okeowo, Dupe Folahan, Nike Olonisin and other annointed ministers.


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LOS LIMONES, Guatemala — U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel got a firsthand look Friday at the U.S. military's goodwill-building humanitarian work — its dangers as well as its benefits.
An object of curiosity for mountain villagers unaccustomed to visitors from Washington, Hagel toured a health clinic and a construction site where U.S. Army soldiers are using prefabricated materials to erect a new wing to a tiny schoolhouse.
The soldiers, including members of the Missouri Army National Guard, are participating in an exercise here dubbed Beyond the Horizons. It gives noncombat troops experience in interacting with civilian populations and applying engineering, medical, construction and language skills in ways that foster goodwill.
There was an air of pride among the Americans, tempered by grief. Just three days earlier, Army Spc. Hernaldo Beltran Jr., 24, was struck and killed by a branch that broke off a towering conacaste tree that stands a few feet from the school.
With the damaged tree as a backdrop, Hagel addressed a small gathering of soldiers. He thanked them for their work, which he said is helping "make a better world." He did not mention Beltran by name but expressed remorse "for what happened here." He added: "Our prayers and thoughts are with the families of those who were injured, and I know it's difficult when we lose one of our own people."
Guatemalan President Otto Fernando Perez Molina, who accompanied Hagel on a helicopter flight to the remote site, also thanked the Americans for their work and said he deeply regretted the fatal accident. "We're really sorry about it," he said.
Later, on the flight back to Washington, Hagel told reporters that he was told the branch may have been broken by reverberations from the blades of a helicopter while U.S. troops were moving supplies to build the school. He said the matter is under investigation to determine the cause and whether it was preventable.
U.S. soldiers at the site Friday said weather was not a factor.
"You try to minimize those accidents in every way you can, but these things happen," Hagel said aboard his plane, adding, "Everybody is stunned by it, saddened by it, but they keep going."
When it announced Beltran's death, the Army said he was a radio operator assigned to the 56th Signal Battalion at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. It said he enlisted in the Army in December 2009, and that he had deployed to Guatemala once before, in 2012, as part of an earlier "Beyond the Horizons" exercise.
Three others were injured by the tree branch. Hagel said they included a colonel who serves as the U.S. defense attache at the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala City.
Reflecting on the value of such humanitarian missions, which get little public attention outside the country in which they are conducted, Hagel said the U.S. has long sought to use its military power as a force for good beyond its own shores.
"We make mistakes," he said. "We overplay our hand, and we get ourselves in trouble, but overall I think our record, when you stack it up with the other sovereign nations of the world, is pretty good about trying to do the right thing, most of the time."


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I'm seeking something similar to what ustream.TV & livestream.com does for video, I want for audio. Do we have such service online or on iOS/android app store? I should be able to record our discussion via mobile phone or mic on PC.


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The feud between Newark Mayor Cory Booker and "Tonight Show" host Conan O'Brien has gotten so heated that the nation's preeminent master of conflict resolution -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton -- is staging an intervention.
It turns out the former First Lady-turned-senator-turned-chief diplomat has a sense of humor – or at least someone in her office does.
"I've been following the ongoing feud between Conan and Newark Mayor Cory Booker with great interest," Clinton said in a video appearance on the "Tonight Show" last night. "And by this I mean, I haven't been following this feud at all, but my staff just gave me the gist of it five minutes ago."
Clinton went on to say that since it's her job to make peace between warring parties – whether they're nations around the globe or a mid-sized American city versus a mildly amusing talk-show host – she had to make a point to tell everyone the top 10 reasons why Conan and Cory had to make up.
Notice the play on Letterman's regular "top 10" skit. Nice one, Hil!
The battle between Conan and Booker started a few weeks ago when Conan made a joke about Newark that Booker didn't appreciate.
"Let's just chalk it up to Conan's head injury and be done with this whole mess," Clinton said. Then Booker can go back to leading Newark to prosperity and growth and Conan can go back to "dancing around the stage and making lame jokes about my pantsuits."
"Thank you. And Conan, please don't bother me again."
We'll see if Clinton's peace-making attempts hold up. The back-and-forth between Conan and Cory has escalated into an all out word war between cities, airports and everything in between.
After hearing Clinton had stepped in, Booker on Friday said he was "very excited that the Secretary of State has intervened."
"We've got to bury the hatchet, celebrate the city of Newark and hopefuly get Conan to respect that," Booker said.
Booker had initially banned Conan from Newark and then from the entire state of New Jersey, but earlier this week he lifted the ban so the comedian could come see what a wonderful city Newark is. (Cough.) Then he showed a photo of Conan in patent leather. Hmm ...
Conan banned Booker from Burbank Airport and then said Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger banned him from the state of California, but we've yet to get confirmation on the latter. Then there was some garble about aligning with Newark's neighboring towns to flush New Jersey's biggest city down the figurative toilet – or something.
Whatever. We just want to see them face off on live TV.


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SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) Ty Greene scored 24 points to lead South Carolina Upstate over Jacksonville 79-64 Saturday in Atlantic Sun Conference play.
The Spartans (11-10, 5-3), up 38-34 at halftime, stuck it to the conference-leading Dolphins (11-11, 6-3) in the second half. SC Upstate led by as many as 21 points before coasting home to an easy victory.
Greene scored 13 of his 24 points in the first half and the Spartans led by as many as 10 points before the break. Greene then got help from Adrian Rogers (14 points off the bench) and especially Torrey Craig.
Craig's layup and 3-pointer put the Spartan up 50-37. He contributed two foul shots in that spurt leading to a 21-point advantage.
Jodd Maxey chipped in 11 points for SC Upstate.
Keith McDougald and Glenn Powell scored 12 points apiece for Jacksonville, which hit just 2 of 12 3-pointers to the Spartans' 6 of 13.


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