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									Friday Already? Non-Farm Follies.
Well I promised a thrilling ride yesterday and we sure got one! We had a quick and wild drop right out of the gate, falling 75 points off Wednesday ’s drop from 10,589 at 3pm. But we rapidly gained it all back after holding our watch levels across the board, which was certainly technically bullish. Our big mistake this year has been to ignore the technicals and worry about the fundamentals and we are very much on the wrong side of this trade if we do hold our breakouts into the weekend. It’s all about the jobs report, of course - and we’ll get that news at 8:30. We are going to have to not worry and be happy about our breakouts should they come today. I think it’s all a load of ridiculous crap and we had a long discussion this morning in Member chat about my fundamental concerns but the GS trade-bots don’t care what our fundamental concerns are, especially now that the heat is on Geithner and the great gifts he bestowed on GS et al through the AIG payments (following through on exGoldman CEO Paulson’s plans). If the markets falter, the Congressional investigations begin again so everyone involved now has more of a vested interest than ever to keep these plates spinning no matter what the underlying fundamentals may be.

We’ll get a jobs number shortly but, as Mish points out, the government spent a record $14.7Bn on unemployment benefits in December, up 24% from November’s record $11.8Bn, "Yet the DOL has disclosed a mere 1.7% increase in those to whom insurance benefits are paid." Did we pay thos 200,000 newly unemployed people $7,350 a month each or is there some kind of nonsense going on with the statistics? As you can see from the chart, "emergency compensation" is flying, even as the standard-measured continuing claims numbers begin to slow down. The black line on this chart illustrates what happens when you count what the government doesn’t - the emergency and extended unemployment benefits. How long can we keep sweeping $14.7Bn a month under the rug while claiming to be in recovery? Apparently, a long time! 8:30 Update: Hey, maybe I’m wrong. Somehow we lost 85,000 jobs, which is a lot more in-line with reality than the bullish expectations we’ve been hearing all week. November was revised to +4K from -11K so we did get out positive month but it sure didn’t last long and that revision is offset by a 16K downward revision to October. Despite yesterday’s uber-bullish run in the housing sector (and see my comments on that nonsense in chat), 53,000 jobs were cut in construction last month and another 27,000 manufacturing jobs were deleted here in favor of our Chinese masters. Where did the additions come from? Well TEMPORARY help jumped 47,000 so that is just GREAT as long as "temporary" lasts. Will this send the market into a tailspin? Of course not weren’t you paying attention 4 paragraphs ago? Martians could land on the White House lawn and enslave Congress and Geithner and Goldman would still pump this market higher because (the Goldman analyst would say) this will open a new era of trade with our new Martian Overlords and we expect them to come to Earth and buy expensive Manhattan apartments and, of course, oil! What’s the positive spin of this continuing, relentless, devastating destruction of American jobs that is crippling the bottom 90% of our country? Well, no jobs gives the government an excuse to keep giving free money to the banks (because that’s been working so well, hasn’t it?) and the free money train keeps the dollar down (it dropped more than 1% within minutes of the 8:30 announcement), which keeps commodities up (gold jumped from $1,120 to $1,140 in 15 minutes following the announcement), which is great for the top 10%, who speculate in those things.

This is also great for our American corporations as a plentiful supply of workers who are desperate for work and a captured workforce that is terrified of losing their jobs leads to lower wages and higher productivity, which is great for the bottom line. As our companies learn to make more for less (revenues), the long-term danger is that austerity becomes the de facto business model for US corporations and then the market is unlikely to reward companies with expansion plans that require hiring because the comparative returns of the companies pulling back will be greater. That can lead to more aggressive job cutting and even lower wage and benefit packages and, before you know it - we’re Japan! So gambatte kudasai America - which loosely translates to "good luck" but is a combination of "work hard" and "do your best" - a very appropriate sentiment for such a sad day in our economy. Asia was flat going into the weekend and Europe was flat as well but fell off sharply as they don’t want to see a faltering dollar or another 85,000 consumers drop out of the US shopping pool. We’ll see if the fundamentals of 85,000 less people driving to work every day trump the idiotic speculative bubble that’s kept oil over $80 this week but I wouldn’t bet against gold because, if we have another year of job losses like last year, they WILL have to crank up the printing presses to keep this country from sprialing into a deep, dark pit. So happy Friday to you! We’ll see how things shake out but I’m still looking for a test of our lower levels at Dow 10,457, S&P 1,127, Nasdaq 2,242, NYSE 7,380 and Russell 630 - if we hold 3 of 5 of those, we will be more neutral into the weekend but, at the moment, we’re maintianing our very, very painful (so far) bearish stance. Have a nice weekend, - Phil

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For about 5 months, I have been having "episodes" of extreme weakness and fatigue/faint. During the episodes, my motor coordination slows down, like I am in a different time warp. My pulse slows down to 60 and it takes days to recover. My vision is also slightly blurred as if I need to change my contact prescription. My face also swells slightly and seems to do so more on the left side. At night sometimes, the "episodes" wake me up. I feel as if I am sinking into the earth. I have had one episode of vertigo. Before I was diagnosed with menieres, but since the vertigo attack I haven't seen my ear symptoms return.

It seems like everything is a little off. My thyroid is off slightly and I am on synthroid .50
My FSH test is 28.8, which concerns me because we are trying to have a child.
My vision is blurred and my eye doctor said that it wasn't my prescription.

I have had an MRI, eeg, and emg and they are all negative. The only other thing was a ck test which was a tiny bit high of around 468 I believe.

Now, I currently am having muscle twitches in my left calf, for over a week. Any suggestions. Neuro doctor said it wasn't neuro but hasn't seen me since the twitching>
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I hope you understand the limitations of diagnosis over the internet. They symptoms you describe may suggest hypothyroidism (hypothyroidism.htm" class="postlink">click here!. When was the last time you had your thyroid functions done and what were the results?

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More details on forthcoming DVD releases has been published in the current issue of Doctor Who Magazine.

The August release of Revenge of the Cybermen will feature a commentary with Elisabeth Sladen, who played Sarah Jane Smith in the story and David Collings, who played Vorus, along with the producer at the time Philip Hinchliffe. Extras, which were first listed here, include a 'making of' documentary and archive news footage from the location.

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The September release, Time and the Rani will have a commentary with Sylvester McCoy, this time paired with Bonnie Langford who played Melanie Bush. This will be the first Doctor Who commentary by Langford. They will be joined by the writers of the story, Pip and Jane Baker. Extras on the disc will include a documentary, Last Chance Saloon, looking at the pressures on the series at the time, as well as a look at the first CGI title sequence, interviews with Pip and Jane Baker and Kate O'Mara and archive footage from Breakfast Time and Blue Peter.

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Danny Green Interview: Where To For The Aussie Slugger?
By Daniel Smart, Doghouse Boxing (Sept 20, 2013)

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I recently had the good fortune to catch up with four-time, three division world boxing champion, Danny "The Green Machine" Green to talk all things boxing. Green elaborates on his magnificent career in the ring, his recent decision to vacate his IBO Cruiserweight world title, and what the future holds for the 40 year-old Aussie slugger.

Danny Green is a relaxed character. A gentleman, who is respectful and engaging. Known for his wacky sense of humour and his demon like work ethic, the hardnosed Australian informs me during the interview that he has just decided to vacate his world cruiserweight title in what was a very tough decision.

“It was a tough decision to make, very tough, but I have fought all over the world in World Title bouts from Montreal, America, to twice in Germany, and many all over my great country, nine years in World Championship bouts, and after getting my World Title back against Cameron last year, it is going to have to be a fight that I really want that is going to excite me,” he says. “I have put it all on the line on many occasions, and to risk finishing on a high as World Champ, then it's going to have to really stack up. It's no secret I'm nearing the end of my fighting career inside the ropes, so if a bout comes up that I want to take, then I will. I smile at people being critical, it's obvious they're unhappy. I have earned the right to make my own decisions. I risked my house and money and health by promoting my own fights, so therefore I call the shots.”

It is a point that has a lot of merit. Green is now 40 years of age, has done the hard yards, won four world titles in three different weight divisions and has earnt the right to call the shots in his career. He himself puts up the money for his promotions, not a group of investors or business people that is generally the case with a lot of world champion prize fighters. Green mortgaged his house for the Roy Jones Jr fight and had to deposit over $2 million of his own money into a Roy Jones Jr account 2 months before the fight back in 2009. Very high risk in this day and age. Looking for a name and a payday toward the end of any successful fighter’s career makes perfect sense, especially bankrolling your own promotions. “People are quick to forget that Roy was coming off a five win out of six streak, that included Felix Trinidad and the bout before ours, he made Jeff Lacy look very ordinary in a scintillating display. People thought I was in over my head. I was 5/1 underdog when the bell rang. I put him away in one, he then goes on to go the distance with Hopkins and nearly defeats the Russian kid Denis Lebedev. Next day Australia-wide it was front page news. Pretty special moment mate.”

Green also elaborates on his early days in the sport. The sacrifices he made by leaving his family and his then girlfriend, now wife, Nina and the fact he travelled over 4000 kms from his hometown of Perth bound for Sydney with nothing more than a few essentials such as a microwave oven and other household items stacked in his car that was on a train bound eastward.

"I always dreamed of winning a world title. I was always of the mindset that if it didn't work out, I could try and earn $40-50k fighting, then come back to Perth and put a deposit on a house, and go back to being a carpenter. I worked very hard to achieve my dream. Thank Christ I could fight because you wouldn't want me building your house, it would blow over in a mild storm, I was pretty shit at that!" said the notoriously cheeky Green.

Green also spoke of his living arrangements when moving to Sydney. Sharing a unit with legendary multiple world champion, Vic Darchinyan, Green had very high praise for Darchinyan, although not so much on the "The Raging Bull's" culinary skills!

"I remember knocking on the door and Vic answered. He asked to take my bags and I told him not to bother. He snatched them from my grasp and demanded I sit down. He asks in broken English "You eat?" I just replied by saying I was OK. He then said "You sit, I cook". He grabbed this steak from the freezer and whacked some chips in the oven, by the time it got to the plate it was nothing short of roadkill! I ate every mouthful because I wasn't going to argue with Vic!"

Green has had some magic moments in his decorated career. A WBC super middleweight world title demolition of Eric Lucas in Lucas' hometown of Montreal, capturing the WBA light heavy title from Croatia's Stipe Drews, mega fights with Anthony Mundine, Roy Jones Jr, and Antonio Tarver, and a savage KO loss to WBC Cruiser champ Krzysztof Wlodarczyk after dominating for 11 rounds. More recently, regaining his IBO cruiserweight title after a 12 round war with the naturally much bigger, Shane Cameron of New Zealand. What was amazing to note, was that Cameron at the time was ranked in the top 10 at Heavyweight by the WBO and had at least a 10-12 kg advantage on Green at fight time.

There have also been downs in his career to. Green v Bayer I for the WBC super middleweight title in Germany in August of 2003 was an absolute disgrace. Green was dominating the fight and opened not a cut, but a gash over Bayer's eye with a clear and concise punch only for it to be called an accidental headbutt. It then went from being called accidental to intentional by the officials after Green worsened it by with jabs and right hands, only for Green to be then disqualified. To his credit, Green remained philosophical and went on to capture 4 world titles, a testament to the man's character.

When asked if there was one moment that stood out, I was expecting Green to mention his 1st round KO of legend Roy Jones Jr. What I got was this…

"Of course Roy is a standout, but I will always have fond memories of my first pay-per-view fight way back in 2003 against the rugged Jason DeLisle in Sydney. He beat me in the amateurs and was having a good run in the pros with a solid following from his area in Maroubra, and I was bowling everyone over by KO and it had been on the cards for a while. I was looking to square up, he was looking for revenge for me winning the Olympic Trials selection where I won the tournament by knocking out his victor from Samoa, so it was all geared up.

“I put him away in five after dropping him three times, but he rung my bell a few times before that and we gave the audience what they paid for. We fought again three years later at light heavy, I won by KO in round 9 after a real good brawl, broke his nose, a few ribs, shut his eye and he needed nine staples to hold his forehead together! He kept me very honest and again rung my bell in round 8, and we pit on another ripper stink. Two nights later we went to dinner together looking a bit rough, ate an entree and drank 20 beers each then went home , not before hugging and telling each other how much we llllooovvveeeddd each other, hahahaha, brilliant memories.”

Green's popularity in his home country is remarkable. He regularly reaches out to his Twitter and Facebook followers (an amazing 310,000 of them!) on a regular basis and is always up for a chat when not busy. It is this type of humble, down to earth persona that the average Australian identifies with and loves. It is this that has propelled him to super stardom.

Danny Green...the carpenter, the world champion, the husband and father, the son, the surfer, the comedian and the humble Aussie battler next door that his country adores.

In the catch cry of the man himself "THANKS LEGENDS".

No Danny... thank YOU legend.

Your contribution to the sport and to your country will always and continue to be remembered. Look forward to seeing you back in the ring soon.

Follow Danny on Twitter @dannygreenboxer or on Facebook.

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After suffering a stunning defeat last month to Breidis Prescott, Amir Khan has sought out advice from Ricky Hatton. Khan, quoted by Zehaad Hassan on setanta.com, discussed how he spoke with Hatton after his first round knockout.

Quoted on the publication, Khan stated: “I have spoken to Ricky and he has given me some good advice about how to come back from a knock out. The canvas is not the best place to be in boxing but you have
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Khan still believes he can come back from the loss and be the best, adding: “Ricky did it and I want to do the same. Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard got beaten in their careers, so it happens to the best. I know I have the talent to come back and be a better fighter.”

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The Boy’s First Grouse

Here’s a pic of the first grouse a friend of mine killed over his new pointer pup. The pointer is out of Kissamee Kennels and the two of them scored the bird in upstate New York. Way to go.

I love how the pup is still pointing the bird, even after it’s dead. That’s drive for you.

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  1. Sam says:

    Nicely done! Just the beginning of many memorable hunts. Congratulations!

  2. Giuseppe Papandrea says:

    Hey Gregg,
    Thanks for posting that pic of my pup…Fatso! All in all it was a great week and we moved more grouse this week than last trip. Not much in the way of woodcock, but never the less a great trip. Had the Pleasure in spending a few hours hunting with friends Billy and Sam as well and is always a great thing to hunt behind some great long hairs.

    Fatso, (yes is his name ;)) put on the breaks on that bird off a small embankment rolling down into a bog and lock up solid about 20 yards downwind and as I approached the bird took off and put him down. Fatso, retrieved it to hand with significant damage to the tail but it was a retrieve and in the bag! Very proud and very excited for him and immediately sent my friends those shots!

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    Fatso – Ha. That’s going to get you into trouble. I wouldn’t go to any of the dog parks in your neighborhood and yell out that name.

    Glad he’s working out. It sure is thrilling to see it all come together.

    Keep me posted on the rest of the season.

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Pia's love of teaching began over 30 years ago as a private trainer, dance instructor, and track, field and swimming coach for the Special Olympics. Her academic background was gained through the training of the world-renowned President, CEO and Founder of the famous Cooper Aerobics Center, Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper, M.D., M.P.H. She achieved the highest level of training by becoming a Regional Clinician for the first international aerobics corporation where she trained hundreds of new instructors in the field. She eventually combined her love of coaching and teaching people with her other fondness - - dogs.

Pia is Director of Training and Behavior at St. Hubert's Animal Welfare Center located in Madison, New Jersey. She has developed various courses focusing on positive, reward-based techniques, which are extremely effective in the enhancement of the bond and relationship of the dog and her human companion. The result of her efforts is an astounding 100+ classes per week, which includes 8 levels of pet training classes, specialty courses designed for dogs with extreme behavioral problems and much more.

Pia also developed a canine coach program where volunteers and apprentice trainers work with shelter dogs on a daily basis to help the dogs become more adoptable by achieving and maintaining good manners, as well as offering behavioral wellness while in the shelter. Through word of mouth and a good reputation about the behavior department, St. Hubert’s now has a very successful private consultation department for pet owners specializing in aggressive and anxiety-related problems for dogs and cats.

Pia lectures internationally, has been written up in many magazines, appeared on television and is the author of “Raising Puppies and Kids Together – A Guide for Parents.” She has made contributions to many other books and routinely writes behavioral articles for various magazines around the world. them in improving and expanding their programs.

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Toki's name comes from a cartoon, Metalocalypse, and not anything else. Since Toki's the character with brown hair, a mustache and who likes cute animals, I thought it was very appropriate.

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Getting attention from a human

Being ignored

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Oreo is our foster dog through the Capital District Humane Association (located in UpState NY).

My name is Oreo. I am a 12 year old Dachshund boy. I have been neutered and I am house broken. What makes me happiest is when I am getting attention from my master. I love to go on walks. I get along great with cats and dogs. I should not be in a home with young children because I have had minor back injuries in the past. I hang out in my crate when I get tired, I sleep there at night, and stay there when you are not at home. I am vocal when I need attention, but I am working on my patience. I have had some bad experiences with grooming, so I need a patient owner with a gentle and firm touch (especially with my nails) and I need to be bathed weekly because of a skin condition I have. I had been allowed on furniture in the past, but it puts stress on my back so I am learning to be happy at my masters feet.

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It sure is fun staying here. I had never been to a dog party before I cam to live with Ese and Lola, now I've been to two.

1. This picture is from Ese's birthday party last year. Everyone got presents, including me!

2. It was really hot at Ese's party this year. Here I am sneaking a drink.

3. Here I am being petted by a little friend that lives up the street. I love getting attention!

4. Here I am walking by my foster-mom's herb garden. she has so many gardens, I don't know where to pee first in the morning!

5. This is Ripley, she lives two lawns away. We "talk" a lot. There are some human friens in the background getting appetizers. Please drop SOMETHING!

6. This is Max. She is a friend of Ese and Lola but this is the first time I have met her. She has a brother named Taffy.

7. This is Taffy. She is doing a dropped-food patrol. Didn't she get the memo, that's my job!

8. This is Dixie. She and her sister, Maggie, live down the street. They are both super-nice and just my size (although they say size doesn't matter...).

9. This is Happy. What a great name. She's taking a moment to cool down under the palms and it made a beautiful picture. She is a sucess story of the Capital District Humane Association. The same rescue group rthat I am with. I hope I get a great home like she did.

10. This is Mischka, Happy, and Julie (heinie only in picture) saying hi. They gave themselves jobs as official food tent protectors.

That is all the pictures that I could post. They were some of my favorites. You can see some others by visiting my brother's and sister's dogster pages

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You'd have to be deaf, dumb, and blind not to see this one coming: Richard Gasquet, who I've been none-too-kind towards for his failings this season, has decided to split with his coach since 2004, Eric Deblicker. The Frenchman will now be coached Guillaume Peyre from Team Lagardere, his management company.

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  3. At least he's making the effort to get things in order. Maybe this is the push he will need to straighten out his head. Let's hope so - it's such wasted talent otherwise.

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Richard wrote:

Beach Bum wrote:

Richard wrote:

And Mirrorless is dead. Now before you go getting emotional, ponder the logic.

1.DSLRs act like mirrorless as they are right now.

They don't act like mirrorless for a number of reasons. Most mirrorless cameras have a shorter flange focal distance due to the lack of a mirror, which allows greater leeway in lens design and possibly the option of making smaller or cheaper lenses while maintaining image quality.

So, who cares, the lenses right now are very expensive so this logic does not fly.

Who cares? Like I said, when the mirror is long dead and buried, the Nikon and Canon body designs will be unnecessarily large and cumbersome.

You said that CaNikon existing DSLRs could function like mirrorless cameras, and my point is that when the mirror is no longer needed or even wanted, their body/lens design will be unnecessarily large and cumbersome and won't be competitive. In simpler terms, the smaller bodies will do the same thing as CaNikon bodies when the mirror is gone. What do you think people will want?

Stop thinking in the short term. The mirror box is doomed. It won't happen immediately, but it will happen.

I will disagree, I will say that Canon and Nikon did not put much thought into this and did not think it was going to be competition, when it becomes competition, they step it up.

Highly doubtful that they haven't put much thought into it. They're outgunned by larger competitors, and, until now, they've sold cameras on name alone, even when competitors are producing better products.

Panasonic and Sony are far larger than Canon or Nikon and have far more resources available to them to develop tech. It's really the same reason Panny and Sony are so good at video while Canon and Nikon (especially Nikon) are not so good.

This is the reason why Panasonic and Sony are so consistent in quality across their line-up while Canon and Nikon have to cut corners in some models.

Sony and Panny products quality is not that great, sorry, accros all products including cameras.

These two companies put out some of the best and most reliable electronics on the planet. I'm watching a Panny TV right now with a Sony Blu-ray player, BTW.

Look at the reliability ratings for TVs, cameras, etc. You might be surprised at who's on top and who isn't.

In short, I don't believe either Canon or Nikon are "smarter" in any way, shape, or form

I think they are and only time will tell. That is not to discount that Sony and Panasonic are good brands, they just are not as good as Canon and Nikon in cameras

Definitely better in the compact market. Better autofocus, better video, and, for the most part, better glass. They're not in the DSLR market so they can't really compete in it.

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Df is an excellent camera and best to compare it to the $5500 D4 than any other camera.

No offense, but the Df and D4 are about as different as a point and shot and a Df.

For someone who has been shooting with and carrying around a P&S an Olympus Pen camera and zoom lens would probably be a better choice.

Agreed. This is good advice. Not to mention the style of the Pen or even OM-D! Nice.

The Fuji is a good camera but it is very specific in how it can be used and it is one thing if someone is looking for an inexpensive alternative to the Leica digital camera but it is not the best camera for a beginner or a casual shooter.

I love my XE-1 to death, but it is not a great camera for a beginner. It looks good (style) and used carefully, it can produce excellent results. But used like a point and shoot, it is not great.

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Interesting shots. I think I prefer the mystery of the 2nd. It's a lens I wouldn't mind having in my armoury.

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I am so excited to upload this new tutorial of the day. This character is from a movie that left an imprint on people’s minds throughout the world. I am not talking about a life changing imprint, I’m talking about a pop culture stain that will forever be remembered and added to the list of all time best movies. With this lesson I will be showing you how to draw Sweeney Todd step by step. Sweeney Todd or a.k.a. Benjamin Barker is a character based movie that stars Johnny Depp who as you know, plays the butcherous barber that is seeking revenge on those responsible for the life that was stolen from him when he was committed for a crime he didn’t commit in the flick. With the help of Mrs. Lovett he lures London’s Aristocratic population into his shop for a quick shave or cute. The unfortunate reality for each person that sits in his chair, the only cut they receive is one across their necks with his straight edge razor. A tutorial on Sweeney Todd was requested by several members that visit the site on a regular basis and even though it took me some time to fulfill, I finally accomplished what I said I would do. As you can imagine this lesson will not be easy, in fact it very well may be a real challenge. I know for me I had to use a reference picture from a poster my brother has on his wall. This was a very difficult face to draw because I had to make sure that all the definition and detailing lines came out in a way to show his insanity through a sketch. I also had to make sure that I colored the image to the best of my ability to emphasis the vivid colors that were often faded throughout the movie. All in all I am very pleased with the way the sketch and finished image came out. It took me a total of three days just to get this image right before I felt confident enough to submit it to the site as a drawing tutorial lesson. I know that all of you will love learning how to draw Sweeney Todd step by step. And remember if you are a novice artist it is still okay to tackle this lesson just to better your drawing skills. I shall return with more drawing fun so stay tuned to see what gets submitted next.

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Implementation Using Two Slice Queues

The H.264 encoder is divided into three parts: input pre-processing, encoding, and output post-processing. Input pre-processing reads uncompressed images, performs some preliminary processes, and then issues the images to encoding threads. The pre-processed images are placed in a buffer, called the "image buffer". Output processing checks the encoding status of each frame and commits the encoded result to the output bit-stream sequentially. After that, the entries in the image buffer are reused to prepare the image for encoding. Although the input and output processes of the encoder must be sequential due to the inherent parallelism of the encoder, the computation complexity of input and output processes is insignificant compared to the encode process. Therefore, you can use one thread to handle the input and output processes. This thread becomes the master thread in charge of checking all the data dependency.

You would use another buffer, called "slice buffer", to exploit the parallelism among slices. After each image is pre-processed, the slices of the image go into the slice buffer. The slices placed in the slice buffer are independent and ready for encoding; the readiness of reference frames is checked during the input process. In this case, you can encode these slices out of order. To distinguish the priority differences between the slices of B frames and the slices of I or P frames, use two separate slice queues to handle them. The pseudocode in Example 1 implements this two-slice model.

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               Encode one slice
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               encode one slice
            else if ( all frames are encoded )
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Example 1: Slice-Queue Model for Parallelism in the H.264 Encoder

Figure 4 shows how the video stream is processed by the final multithreading implementation of a parallelized H.264 encoder. In the code segment, one thread processes both the input and the output, in order, and other threads encode slices out of order.

Figure 4: Implementation with Image and Slice Buffers.

Implementation Using Task Queuing Model

The implementation in Example 1 uses the OpenMP pragma, making the structure of the parallel code very different from that of a sequential code. A second proposed implementation uses the taskqueuing model that is supported by the Intel C++ Compiler.

Essentially, for any given program with taskqueuing constructs, a team of threads is created by the run-time library when the main thread encounters a parallel region. Figure 5 shows the taskqueuing execution model. The run-time thread scheduler chooses one thread (TK) to execute initially from all the threads that encounter a taskq pragma. All the other threads wait for work to be put on the work queue. Conceptually, the taskq pragma triggers this sequence of actions:

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The task pragma specifies a unit of work, potentially to be executed by a different thread. When a task pragma is encountered lexically within a taskq block, the code inside the task block is placed on the queue associated with the taskq pragma. The conceptual queue is disbanded when all work enqueued on it finishes and the end of the taskq block is reached.

Figure 5: Taskqueuing Execution Model.

The first proposed multithreaded H.264 scheme uses two FIFO buffers: an image buffer and a slice buffer. The main thread is in charge of three activities:

  • Moving raw images into the image buffer when the image buffer has space
  • Moving slices of the image buffer into slice buffers when the slice buffer has space and the image is not yet dispatched
  • Moving the encoded images out the image buffer when the image is encoded

The working threads are in charge of encoding new slices when a slice is waiting in the slice buffer to be encoded. All these operations are synchronized through the image buffers. Hence, you would find it natural to use the taskqueuing model supported by the Intel compiler.

The code segment in Example 2 shows the pseudo-code of the multithreading of the H.264 encoder using the taskqueuing model. This multithreaded source code is closer to the way you would write singlethread code. The only difference is the pragma, which is a key characteristic of OpenMP. Furthermore, in this scheme, you no longer have a control thread, only a number of working threads in total.

// Pesudo-code of Threaded H.264 Encoder using Taskqueuing
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      if ( there is no free entry in image buffer )
         (1) commit the encoded frame;
         (2) release the entry;
         (3) load the original picture to memory;
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If you've used ASP.NET AJAX then you've likely used controls from toolkits such as the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit in your applications. Microsoft has also released a Silverlight Toolkit with new controls and functionality that can be used in Silverlight 2 applications. The controls are grouped into "quality bands" with the existing controls currently fitting into either the "Preview" or "Stable" bands. Additional information about quality bands and the toolkit controls can be found on Shawn Burke's blog.

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Tobacco contains many compounds capable of damaging DNA and causing cancer. When a woman smokes during pregnancy, tobacco compounds from Mom’s bloodstream slip across the placenta. They can be found both in fetal blood and in the amniotic fluid that bathes the baby inside and out. We’ve known for some time that smoking during pregnancy can be associated with many negative consequences, including infertility, ectopic pregnancies, bleeding and clotting problems, growth retardation, and SIDS.

A landmark study in the March 9, 2005 Journal of the American Medical Association carries this a step farther and suggests that Mom’s smoking is directly toxic to her baby’s genes. The study was performed in Barcelona, Spain. Researchers analyzed the cells obtained during amniocentesis from smokers versus nonsmokers. All of the women were otherwise healthy. The smokers in the study were smoking at least 10 cigarettes a day, and had been for at least 10 years. The nonsmokers never smoked, their partners did not smoke, and they were not exposed to passive smoke at home or at work. Neither group drank any alcohol, coffee, or tea.

As you might imagine, it was difficult to find women who met the strict criteria. It took 175 interviews to find 25 smokers who fit the criteria, and 496 interviews to find the 25 nonsmokers. When the amniocentesis results were analyzed, the risk of identifiable chromosome damage was more than tripled in the women who smoked! The structural chromosome damage in the babies of smokers was not randomly distributed among the chromosomes, but clustered on chromosome 11, at band 23 of the long arm (11q23).

Damage at 11q23 can cause leukemia. Between 40 and 60 percent of infants with blood cancers such as leukemia (and up to 7 percent of adults with these cancers) are known to have had damage to 11q23, which may have happened before they were even born. This study is the first report of tobacco-associated direct genotoxic damage to fetal cells from mothers who smoke. More research is needed to clarify the relationship of cancer to tobacco before birth. I hope that large studies will soon consider whether babies whose fathers or mothers smoked during pregnancy will have an increased risk of cancer throughout their lives.

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