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Graduate student Nick Cherup provides instruction to patient Steve Krull during Yomed, a blend of yoga and meditation. Photo: Evan F. Garcia/University of Miami
By Barbara Gutierrez
A new study conducted by the Department of Kinesiology and Sport Sciences is showing improvements in balance and mobility for Parkinson's patients.
At first glance, it looks like a regular Yoga class. Four men sit on floor cushions while following the instructions of their teacher, heads bowed.
But as the class progresses at the University of Miami's Max Orovitz Laboratory, the instructions from graduate student and teacher Nick Cherup seem to be much more elaborate than a regular yoga class.
"Close your eyes and think of what it will feel like to move into the warrior pose."
"Imagining what your body may look like, travel to the front of the mat and do a full body stretch."
"Where is your pelvis in relation to the rest of your body?"
This is Yomed, a blend of yoga and meditation, which is at the core of a study headed by Joseph Signorile, a professor of Kinesiology and Sport Sciences, that strives to help Parkinson's patients improve their balance and proprioception (perception or awareness of the position of one's body).
Parkinson's disease is a non-curable neurodegenerative disorder that affects nearly 1 million people in the U.S. Patients with the condition suffer from rigidity of the muscles, tremors, and walking and balance problems. April is Parkinson's Awareness Month.
The UM study, which began last semester and has included 36 participants so far, compared two groups of Parkinson's patients. One group was trained to improve balance and proprioception with a traditional method that involves complicated equipment such as Bosu balls and balance boards; the other group only took Yomed classes twice a week for 45 minutes. By every measure, the group that took Yomed improved in almost every category.
"We start off with the elements of yoga but then we are adding two different elements designed to improve their balance and proprioception through mental exercise," said Signorile.
Those two elements are action observation—where the instructor directs the participants to watch what he/she is doing and then to mimic the movements—and mental imagery where the participants imagine themselves carrying out the movement.
Both elements heighten the patients' awareness of their bodies, muscles, and strength. Signorile said that anyone can benefit from this type of gentler training (especially older adults); but for the Parkinson's patients the movement patterns help reduce symptoms.
"We are not treating the disease," said Signorile. "We give them the intervention that will give them better balance and a better understanding of where they are in space."
Steve Krull, a retired news and sports editor from WTVJ-NBC 6, was diagnosed with Parkinson's a year and a half ago. Always an avid exerciser, Krull decided to take the Yomed class to help him with his balance and stiffness. He notices a difference.
"I feel more nimble now," he said, adding that he felt that since he always exercised, his symptoms tend to be mild.
Alfonso Penant, a retired public school teacher who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease six years ago, has been taking as many exercise classes as he can to deter the stiffness and tremors of the disease. His classes include boxing and spinning. But up until now, he could never find a Yoga class he could stick with.
"This is the longest that I have been in a class," he said. "I like the instructors and I believe that it is helping."
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Phonon and the Future of KDE Multimedia
Submitted by Jonathan Riddell
Linux.com is running a very informative article on Phonon, the new multimedia layer for KDE 4. It explains the rise and fall of Phonon's predecessor aRts and elaborates on the ups and downs of an audio abstraction layer. The article also gives an overview of common use cases and provides some example code. The Phonon website itself provides more code examples and documentation for using the Phonon API and for writing a backend. In addition to the existing NMM backend by Bernhard Fuchshumer, Tim Beaulen is working on a Xine backend for Phonon.
Meanwhile, quite a debate is raging in blogospace:
First, Christian Schaller (a GStreamer dev) explains why he thinks Phonon is a dead end: http://blogs.gnome.org/view/uraeus/2006/05/11/0
Many replies are on that weblog itself, but since blogs are the new usenet as they say, there are also separate weblogs replying:
Aaron Siego (no introduction needed, right?), for instance: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2006/05/id-like-another-black-eye-please.html, who comments on how KDE is not planning to make the mistake it made with Arts again. And on http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/91-Backends,-Phonon,-GStreamer.html, Ian Monroe, an Amarok developer, comments on the real world issues with supporting multiple MM frameworks as encountered in Amarok. On http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2007, last but not least, Scott Wheeler comments on some of the reasoning (back in 2004!) that has ultimately lead to the creation of Phonon, and how the points raised then are still valid today.
By Andre Somers at Thu, 2006/05/11 - 5:00am
Re: Debate
Christian Schaller arguments against Phonon are not valid.
He basically says: You've high-level abstraction, but what to do if you want to get down to the bits and bytes level?
Answer is simple:
Imagine you use GStreamer + Phonon.
All the basic apps like your media-player, your VoIP-Software, System notifications can rely on Phonon and be sure to work in _every_ environment. But you want to use some special audio-editing software, too. This audio software is relying on gstreamer directly. So no problem. Everything will work fine, without getting in the way of each other.
What if your special audio application uses backend XYZ? Simply choose XYZ as backend for Phonon and your "normal" desktop apps will continue working while having your audio-app open.
For me, Phonon is really the way to go!
By thomas at Fri, 2006/05/12 - 5:00am
No, that won't work. Phonon is a simplified wrapper for various backends. As such, it will provide the lowest (or at least, a relatively low) common denominator of features. It simply won't support everything you can do with a particular backend, even if you're using the best one.
For me, supporting many backends is a mistake. It makes it easy for people distros, but end users don't care; they want the best stuff, and their distro should take care of providing it reliably. KDE should choose best-of-breed technology, and adopt it wholeheartedly, rather than hedging its bets and being average.
By Lee at Sat, 2006/05/13 - 5:00am
> KDE should choose best-of-breed technology, and adopt it wholeheartedly,
> rather than hedging its bets and being average.
That's what they're doing. They decided to not rely on the broken GStreamer framework - which by the way is developed since 1999 (7 years) and still offer nothing that end users can use reliable enough.
I've been struggling with GStreamer since it became part of GNOME. It initially sounded like a good idea (and still is) but the implementation inside GNOME (3rd party components) is hackish and incomplete (from a developers point of view) and the easy of use is not given since I encounter crashes since the whole mess became part of GNOME. GNOME is known for hallfassed implementations and incomplete features. Why adopt mistakes from one desktop over to another one ?
By avatar at Sat, 2006/05/13 - 5:00am
The idea is sound. At the moment, lots of different multimedia projects exist, reproducing the same efforts to make codecs etc. This is an insane repeatition of previous mistakes, where proven approaches have already existed for decades. GStreamer is the closest we have to that approach, and if we all get behind it, then free desktop multimedia will focus and improve rapidly.
I don't like the idea of coding multimedia to a GNOME-like C api either, but sooner or later we'll all have to grow up and work together. Frankly, it's been too long in coming already.
By Lee at Sun, 2006/05/14 - 5:00am
GStreamer being the closest is an opinion. And by using the Phonon approach KDE developers can still contribute to GStreamer without having to make a fork when they break their ABI compatibility.
By Corbin at Sun, 2006/05/14 - 5:00am
We had the same problem with printing and the problem was solved.
Phonon is the way to go.
further software patents are a real risk and dependencies on one single engine could create real trouble due to legal risks.
One issue e.g. what concerned me in Suse 10 was: When I play an mp3 with Amarok and then play an mp4 audio (default format in iTunes I guess), it opens in Kaffeine, so I listen to two audio files at the same time. This should not happen.
By Hup at Thu, 2006/05/11 - 5:00am
Re: Printing
It would be nice if applications like these could (optionally!) play nice with each other. In case of music or videoplayers this could mean requesting other players to fade out to a pause if the user starts playback of a song or movie, but in case of an incomming VoIP call the volume could just be turned down a bit, for instance. Would be cool...
Still, it should be possible to just play two or more songs at the same time. If somebody want to do that, why not?
"but in case of an incomming VoIP call the volume could just be turned down a bit, for instance."
Thats actually going to be a planned feature of Phonon. Applications can categorize themselves into categories, like Communication, Notifications, sound... player... thingies (I don't remember what they are official, but stuff like that).
By Corbin at Fri, 2006/05/12 - 5:00am
I thought that was for things like routing sounds to a specific piece of hardware? Ah well, maybe it can and will be used more broadly for features like these. Stuff like fading out an allready playing song when starting playback on a new one could then be just policy for that category, as a service provided by Phonon... Hmmm... Sounds pretty cool to me! Go Phonon! :-)
By Andre Somers at Fri, 2006/05/12 - 5:00am
This was discussed in kde-artists before it went down. But I hadn't heard it was actually being planned. Can you confirm that or point me to the docs that say it? I was the one who proposed it, so this might be a bit biased, but if they're planning to do that through Phonon, then that's a unique feature that would justify a new layer, I guess.
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/cvs-api/kdelibs-apidocs/p...
"These categories can also become usefull for an application that controls the volumes automatically, like turning down the music when a call comes in, or turning down the notifications when the media player knows it's playing classical music."
You can't escape software patents damages. When they will decide to sue you if you decode mp3, no backend will save you (the same for jpeg and incredible number of audio/video/file format).
When they will enforce the patent of "lissening music with a computer", no frontend will save you also.
The only answer to software patents is... not let them be allowed in your country!
So never give up in fighting them, and spread consciousness about the incredible risks among developers, that too often seem not to understand the danger.
http://wiki.ffii.org/SwpatcninoEn
http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com
http://www.ffii.org
By Marco Menardi at Thu, 2006/05/11 - 5:00am
Keep Linux mutimedia DRM-free by helping GPL Xine!
Xine has a license advantage to GStreamer: Xine is licensed under GPL and enjoys the full copyleft protection of the GPL.
The Free Software Foundation warned against the use of the LGPL, but GStreamer developers didn't listen -- they instead choose to sell out their users to the entertainment cartel.
Xine will always be able to remove the DRM from any crippled multimedia plugin, since the GPL ensures that all plugins must be Open Source.
I encourage all Freedom-conscious developers to stop working on GStreamer, NMM, Helix or any other backend that allows the Media Mafia to ram DRM down consumers' throats. Work for Freedom, help out Xine!
Go Xine, Go GPL, Resist draconian DRM!
By ac at Fri, 2006/05/12 - 5:00am
Re: Keep Linux mutimedia DRM-free by helping GPL Xine!
In case you didn't notice, Helix is available under the GPL. I don't know about NMM.
By Shriramana Sharma at Fri, 2006/05/12 - 5:00am
Re: Keep Linux DRM-free by helping GPL Xine!
Helix is LGPL, and thus can include proprietary, non-free, closed source, DRM components that cripple your fair use rights. DRM in Helix is not just theory -- it's reality:
https://devicedrm.helixcommunity.org/
Just a couple of days ago, Real's executives made a push for DRM in the Linux kernel, saying that otherwise Linux will die:
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/11/152234
Yep, helix sucks. From day one on Linux, they've done nothing that cooperates with Linux multimedia efforts (such as GStreamer), except where it makes their own product more famous, since their windows market is dying quickly.
Re: Keep Linux mutimedia DRM-free by helping GPL X
"The Free Software Foundation warned against the use of the LGPL, but GStreamer developers didn't listen -- they instead choose to sell out their users to the entertainment cartel."
I agree actually. You can't reconcile the two. Does free software exist to allow usage without pointless and artificial restrictions, or does it exist to enforce those restrictions by allowing people to put them in? Xine is also a quality back-end.
By segedunum at Fri, 2006/05/12 - 5:00am
Linux needs DRM to survive in the home.
DRMs are neither a good nor a bad thing as long as you know what you are getting.
What linux users are certainly not getting today is any commercial content (unless you steal it). Linux in the work place or the geeks bedroom my not need it, but I wonder how long it will make sense to use in Linux in the living room?
By Hotbelgo at Sat, 2006/05/13 - 5:00am
No. DRM is a slippery slope, which will change everything if you give an inch. DRM *IS* bad; it enforces "rights" that content producers aren't legally entitled to, and thereby illegally infringes on users' freedom. Under no circumstances should anyone give into that just because it makes it easier to watch another holywood moneyspinner with no real depth. There are already real alternatives, like podcasting and vodcasting, which will give you more to watch and listen to than ever before, without giving up your rights.
Look, when you use a stick to lever a rock, you either move the rock, or break the stick. DRM is too heavy a rock to be moved by Linux stick, so please, don't break what market share Linux has by stripping ability to play DRM media from Linux.
By ac at Sun, 2006/05/14 - 5:00am
There is a simple reason why to not integrate DRM into linux-kernel: Linux is Open Soucre and under the GPL.
A license text does not stand above the the applicable law, and in some nations (e.g. Germany) it is a law that you are not allowed to write software or alter software in a way that makes it able to bypass a DRM system.
If we integrate a DRM system into OSS than we defacto destroy its OSS status.
So even without the GPLv3 DRM-terms DRM and OSS are implicitly incompatible.
By Eagles at Sun, 2006/05/14 - 5:00am
Re: MP3
Unfortunately, MP3 is NOT a software patent. It is a patent for a compression algorithm. As I see it, the problem is not that the patent exists but that their licensing method doesn't work for OSS. That is, I have no objection to paying Thomson my $2.50 for a license for the Fraunhofer patents. The problem is that they don't do business that way.
By James Richard Tyrer at Fri, 2006/05/12 - 5:00am
"Unfortunately, MP3 is NOT a software patent. It is a patent for a compression algorithm."
True, and that's a huge miscpnception people have. Because it is a patent for a compression and audio algorithm, what on Earth can you apply it to? Can you apply it to a format that perhaps uses the same principles? The water just keeps on getting muddier.
"That is, I have no objection to paying Thomson my $2.50 for a license for the Fraunhofer patents. The problem is that they don't do business that way."
True, and it's a trap open source projects have fallen into to the total detriment of everyone.
One issue e.g. what concerned me in Suse 10 was: When I play an mp3 with Amarok and then play an mp4 audio (default format in iTunes I guess), it opens in Kaffeine, so I listen to two audio files at the same time.
This should not happen.
It's easy: you stop the playing in Amarok, then you play your other file in Kaffeine. Since you're already listening to the first one, you'd have to be quite dumb not to realise that there's something being played.
Plus, what prevents you from changing the order of programs associated with mp4 so that it's played in Amarok instead of Kaffeine?
By Obviously anonymous at Thu, 2006/05/11 - 5:00am
mp4 is usually a video format, so Kaffeine is just fine -- as long as it is video.
It goes like this, you click on the file in your playlist and it opens with Kaffeine.
"you'd have to be quite dumb not to realise that there's something being played."
Come one, you don't manually stop song a and then play song b. you are playing song a and then want to listen to a special audio file (who cares about codecs) b while song a is still playing. As you usually only listen to one song at one time, the default is that your music player stops song a and starts song b. This is the way it *always* works.
That it opens with Kaffeine is no problem, but that Amarok does not stop playing the former file a automatically is. Same goes usually for videos. You don't want to listen to Beethoven and watch a video from Linuxtag together, at least my multitasking capabilities are limited.
It is as you point out just an annoyance, no real problem which could not get fixed by personal activities. But it does mean that I don't like sound on Linux which is not fully ready for me for that small usability annoyance.
A common sound framework is helpful here to improve things.
By hup at Fri, 2006/05/12 - 5:00am
Just for your information: The example code in the article is from the ArtsPlayer class in JuK. Of course there's a lot more code around that (for example the setVolume code in the original ArtsPlayer expands to some heavy code for inserting the volume control into the signal path). Phonon hides all those details in the backends and, of course, remembers the output volume between media files.
By Matthias Kretz at Thu, 2006/05/11 - 5:00am
Re: example code
ArtsPlayer class in JuK from KDE 3.5:
http://websvn.kde.org/tags/KDE/3.5.2/kdemultimedia/juk/artsplayer.cpp?re...
Player class in JuK ported to Phonon:
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdemultimedia/juk/player.cpp?rev=536887&...
That's really impressive. There is one thing I'm wondering about, shouldn't the destructor delete the m_media, m_path and m_output objects created in the constructor? Or is there some sort of parent/child relationship going on.
Either way, I think Phonon is looking very good.
By Bryan Feeney at Fri, 2006/05/12 - 5:00am
You guessed right: All three objects inherit from QObject and are hence deleted as soon as the parent gets deleted.
By Daniel Molkentin at Fri, 2006/05/12 - 5:00am
Those two implementations aren't comparable. In the artsplayer::play() method, there are checks for null which handle it and proceed, while in the phonon implementation, the method just returns without doing anything, as if it wasn't even called. Furthermore, the artsplayer implementation seems to handle that engine being disfunctional, whereas the phonon implementation presumably handles multiple engines internally, but is setup and checked for functionality elsewhere in juk. Having said all that, it does look a little nicer to work with.
Rant on OSDir.com
Christian Schaller of Gnome is not happy about Phonon, according to this rant on http://blogs.gnome.org/view/uraeus/2006/05/11/0 :
..My final objection to Phonon is that even if they manage to prove me wrong on their ability to provide a truly useful limited cross framework API and demonstrates that having a menu option offering your grandma to play her music using framework X,Y or Z actually solves more problems that it creates, I still think that it falls short. Because it wouldn't provide an API to do applications like Pitivi, Diva, Jokosker, Buzztard, Flumotion and so on which I think is where we want to be at today in order to provide a competitive desktop. MacOS X and Windows Vista are showing us that this is the role that the desktop is heading towards.
mutual exclusion? a little bit of confusion
What still I wonder is: there will be mutual exclusion? or media things can co-exists?
From what I understood, phonon will become the media server of kde4 every audio and video apps will output to it, and then everything will pass to the choosen media engine, that can be system-wide or application specific right?
Then non kde apps how can play and connect to their media engine?(for gnome gstreamer i suppose) and then particular apps, like music software, that most of time need realtime support can continue to use directly the hardware, or use a low liatency server like JACK?
This is a little confusing to me, how those different media interact with each other? (note I'm talking on linux platform since it's the one I use)
By ra1n at Fri, 2006/05/12 - 5:00am
Re: mutual exclusion? a little bit of confusion
1. Phonon is not a server, it's a thin wrapper API around whatever media framework you like (btw: gstreamder doesn't have a sound "server" component either.
2. Thanks to alsa dmix, it is possible to run multiple frameworks side-by-side. Thus there is no reason why phonon can't coexist peacefully with each of the multimedia frameworks when used via their native APIs.
No server => no significant latency. I have no deeper knowledge about jack and gstreamer but from what I understood you could have a jack sink in gstreamer that just pours the sound into jack. But again: there is no need for that if you use alsa on linux (which all modern distributions do).
Right, its just as problematic to run two gstreamer apps as it is to run a gstreamer and a xine app. And its only a problem if you don't have dmix or a modern sound card.
By Ian Monroe at Sat, 2006/05/13 - 5:00am
It sounds familiar
Reading all that noise sounded familiar to me. And then I remembered: Corba vs DCOP. When KDE chose DCOP over Corba, exactly the same kind of objections were reaised, the same kind of noise was made. We were dooming the project, Corba is better, DCOP will never make it, you need a super good IPC mecanism that must be hardware independant, programming language independant, network transparent or you are dead. The overhead of maintaining DCOP will kill you while Corba and orbit is there.
4 years later, Gnome has struggled with Corba to the point where they almost ditched bonobo. Very few applications in Gnome use the features that super Corba powered bonobo was supposed to provide. On the other hand, DCOP has been so successful that it was picked up as a basis and rewritten by freedesktop folks to provide a wider linux/unix IPC mecanism. All KDE applications support DCOP transparentely and you can do a lot of cool stuff with it.
So, let them talk, let them brag, let them predict the doom of KDE and its multimedia framework. KDE developers have shown that they know how to pick up excellent technical solutions that last over the years (arts being a notable exception). Phonon is the way to go and the people who refuses to see it now will be happy that KDE did that in a few years from now.
By Philippe Fremy at Fri, 2006/05/12 - 5:00am
Re: It sounds familiar
Normal users of DE like me, like the work KDE devs are doing. Keep doing what you believe is right. Phonon will turn out to be an elegant piece of software.
I am sure there are many like me who watch silently from the sidelines but trust the KDE devs to do the right thing. We are with you.
I have installed kde as the default DE on all my customer machines (even on RHEL) and they all like it. I have NEVER had a complaint.
By aries at Sat, 2006/05/13 - 5:00am
Wow! Corba, in the early days of KDE2 development... That seems so long ago! And by the way: You are absolutely right. What a good example. Take that gnomies.
By TheTeeBat at Sat, 2006/05/13 - 5:00am
what is the picked up & rewritten implementation of DCOP at fd.o?
By me at Wed, 2006/05/17 - 5:00am
He's talking about D-BUS (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fdbus).
(He didn't mean a 1:1 copy though.)
By cm at Wed, 2006/05/17 - 5:00am
GStreamer is a moving target
@Thomas Vander Stichele
Please, do not repeat again that crap about "GStreamer 0.10 begin API/ABI stable". Just a few days ago you yourself (http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.gstreamer.devel/15342) made a proposal to break API/ABI compatibility in 0.10!
That's exactly why Phonon is the right choice for KDE4. It may be right for Gnome developers to change their software everytime GStreamer changes API/ABI (which is too often, sadly), but it's not for KDE.
If KDE used GStreamer, either KDE app developers stick with GStreamer 0.10.5 for the whole KDE4 lifetime, or KDE app developers change their apps for GStreamer 0.10.6, 0.12, 0.14, etc.
GStreamer releases so many versions with so many changes so often that it's a very fast-moving target, and that's definitely BAD.
By An Onymous at Sat, 2006/05/13 - 5:00am
Re: GStreamer is a moving target
Heh yea, its kind of ironic that the gstreamer devs would want KDE4 to use gstreamer 0.10. If it actually did, it would mean KDE pretty much forking gstreamer when gstreamer's development moved on in a few years.
I don't see the problem here. If a new version of GStreamer comes out with a new API, then it's up to KDE to port to it, like they would for any other new API, like CUPS etc. This talk that's going around in blogs, that GStreamer folks should maintain KDE's audio layer etc. is totally backwards.
Now, if KDE needs a certain interface for the lifetime of KDE4, all they have to do is open a specific gstreamer library version. It has always been the way, that a simple symlink lets that requested version point to the latest compatible version. And if building with multiple gstreamer versions present is an issue, it only takes an argument to configure, to say where the older header files are located.
Hmm, I think you should go and care for your own business. The KDE people have decided to use Phonon and that's it. We should stop forcing a broken multimedia framework like GStreamer down the throats of users.
By avatar at Sun, 2006/05/14 - 5:00am
> If a new version of GStreamer comes out with a new API, then it's up to KDE to port to it
Having the layer called Phonon and porting only that layer is an efficient
way of doing just that.
> Now, if KDE needs a certain interface for the lifetime of KDE4,
Yes, that's a "hard" requirement.
The KDE team cannot automagically port any third party
apps that it has promised ABI stability to. Not without Phonon.
> all they have to do is open a specific gstreamer library version.
That would mean missing any improvements not done in that
old library version, e.g. performance or bug fixes.
- Who wants to support a five year old version?
Does the GStreamer team guarantee that long a support? I don't think so.
- Can the KDE team do it? Not easily, as it's unfamiliar C code and
maintaining a multimedia framework is not necessarily everyone's forte.
- Would maintaining an otherwise obsolete version be a duplication of effort
(that's what some ignorant people keep accusing the KDE project of)? Hell, yes!
By cm at Sun, 2006/05/14 - 5:00am
Xine
I don't know why this is, but xine has always worked best for me. It's either an accident or not an accident. In case it's not an accident, please keep xine available.
By xin at Sun, 2006/05/14 - 5:00am
Re: Xine
Same here, Xine is the only backend thats at all reliable for me in amarok on both of my systems (gstreamer has NEVER worked once), also Kaffine has always been great at playing back at any movie I throw at it (using the Xine backend of course). I've often wished that I could replace aRts on my laptop with a xine based program (when arts plays a sound its all crackily, but not when played with a Xine based player).
The problem is, xine is just a playback framework. It doesn't help people who want to do other multimedia things, like actually make a video. And, mplayer duplicates much of that effort. GStreamer, on the other hand, breaks this all down into components, so that people who know how to encode/decode Quicktime really well can do that, and people who know MIDI can do that, etc. Even if each person has their own project, like Amarok, or Xine, or Blender, they could all contribute whatever improvements they want to gstreamer, and EVERY project would benefit. So, having that common multimedia layer that everyone puts their weight behind is much better in the long run, even if it takes a little longer to make it really come to life. It's been too long already; we really need to start working together on this.
> GStreamer, on the other hand, breaks this all down into components
The thing is.. GStreamer is broken.. It's in development for 7 years now and still is nowhere where people can rely on it or use it.


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On August 3, Wang Hua, Deputy Minister of the United Front Work Department of the Provincial Party Committee and Director of the Provincial Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, visited Changhong Intelligence for investigation. Qiu Yunjie, Chairman of the board and President of Changhong Intelligence extended a warm reception.
The research team visited the Changhong Design Institute, office building and other areas successively, and listened to the introduction of the company's development by Chairman Qiu. Changhong Intelligence, founded in 1989, is a national high-tech enterprise engaged in the planning and design of automobile factories, and the integration of painting, final assembly and welding systems in the fields of automobiles and aerospace. In recent years, 3 overseas subsidiaries have been established in Italy, Japan and India, and 8 overseas high-level talents have been introduced successively. Among them, the new generation of dip rotational conveying equipment is developed by Abbiati Gianni and Zaza Antonio, which has obtained the identification as scientific and technological achievements by China Machinery Industry Federation and the first (set) of major equipment in Jiangsu Province. With this technology, the Italian subsidiary has entered the supplier list of Volkswagen and BMW in Germany, and won several orders valuing 100 million yuan from large multinational automobile groups such as Volkswagen and Ferrari.
During the investigation, Minister Wang had a cordial exchange with Chairman Qiu and inquired in detail about the introduction of overseas high-level talents and the operation of overseas subsidiaries. He gave recognition to Changhong Intelligence for promoting the innovation and entrepreneurship of overseas high-level talents in building platforms, revamping mechanisms and optimizing services, and gave affirmation for Changhong's actions to actively integrate into the industrial layout, constantly increase the investment in scientific and technological research and development, unremittingly accelerate the pace of "Intelligent reform and digital transformation", fully expand overseas markets, and continuously promote the company to become bigger and stronger.
Chairman Qiu declared that Changhong will continue to implement the innovation-driven development strategy, unswervingly follow the road of independent innovation, introduce outstanding talents at home and abroad, constantly promote the integrated development of innovation chain, talent chain and industrial chain, and unremittingly reinforce the core competition of enterprises and products to build a world-class company of intelligent equipment.
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Latin Grammys: 12 Things You Didn't See on TV
Although the Latin Grammy Awards 2015 edition was filled with big wins and memorable performances by some of Latin music's biggest names, there was lots bubbling behind the cameras that was equally…
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Although the Latin Grammy Awards 2015 edition was filled with big wins and memorable performances by some of Latin music's biggest names, there was lots bubbling behind the cameras that was equally intriguing.
Here's a round-up of some things you didn't see on TV:
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There's a big boxing match happening right here in Las Vegas on Nov. 21 between Miguel Cotto and Canelo Alvarez, and salsa icon Victor Manuelle is not going to miss it. "It's going to be one of the best fights of the last five years. Cotto has a big challenge ahead of him, and Canelo is at his peak, but my heart has to go with Cotto because he's from Puerto Rico. He's the underdog but I'm rooting for him."
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Speaking of the Cotto vs Canelo fight, the reggaeton star told Billboard he's going to be performing on Friday night. "I'll be singing 'Encantadora,' 'Calentura' and 'Moviendo Caderas,'" he shared.
In the press room, where he talked about winning best urban performance, Nicky revealed that a collaboration between him and Chris Brown is in the works. "We were FaceTiming recently, and I'm excited about what we're working on," he said.
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On the red carpet, ahead of Major Lazer's opening performance of "Lean On" with MO, Farruko and J Balvin, Diplo gushed about Balvin, who was standing right next to him. "I've been a fan of Balvin's for a long time, so thank you to Toy Selectah for connecting us," Diplo told Billboard. "For the song to have the impact that it did all throughout Latin America is amazing for us, so we're just happy and honored to be here. The song represents this post-global attitude. Colombia has so many different genres and Balvin is a part of all that and it comes through in his music. We have pop music in America but everything fuses together. We have MO from Denmark here; their voices mix perfectly."
Major Lazer's Walshy Fire chimed in on the Balvin love-fest: "He seems to be one of the most revered artists on this carpet here today. Girls love him, the streets love him, he's got a pop attitude, and he's not afraid to do what he wants to do and he has the heart behind it."
Speaking of Balvin, the Colombian sensation stopped by the press room after winning the award for best urban song for "Ay Vamos." The king of cross-genre collaborations, he says there's not one sound he'd shut out — yes, even a Latin urban-flavored opera. "Sure, why not?" he joked, adding, "so long as I'm not the one singing!"
Andres Levin & Cucu Diamantes
The Venezuelan-born producer, who worked on Miguel Bosé's Latin Grammy-nominated album Amo, is considered the unofficial mayor of Havana. When Mick Jagger visited Havana recently, he called Levin up and asked him to be his personal tour guide. "He was super chill, we took him to places that no one knows, we took him partying in underground clubs. Havana is magical for any person, whether you're an artist or not. Everyone who has visited us has had a blast. He came with his son. Havana is going through lots of changes in this moment so what we try to do is show the real Havana to our friends."
"It was so cool for a rock icon to come to Cuba to see the country's folk artists live," added Levin's wife and singer/actress Cucu Diamantes, "and they don't even know who he is. So I think it was very refreshing for him."
A presenter at this year's awards show, the budding Hollywood actress and daughter of beloved Venezuelan crooner Jose Luis Rodriguez set the record straight once and for all about her non-existent musical aspirations. "Hell no, I know too much, I've seen too much, and I respect it too much. I found my path and I feel comfortable doing what I'm doing."
What's the legend's secret to looking so young? "There's no secret," laughed Moreno. "The secret is not letting this [she pointed to her strapless dress] fall down." This was after Moreno displayed her dance moves to a reggaeton beat and right before she sang "Somewhere" from West Side Story in Spanish, the version off her recent all-Spanish album, Una Vez Más. Her parting shot and her number one pet peeve at awards shows: "I hate to see people chewing gum in the audience. I was standing there and I saw this young man chewing gum and I asked, 'Who is that?' Turns out it was the husband of someone famous. I felt like going to him and saying, 'Throw it away!'"
Chocquibtown
Did you see that stunning coat that Goyo from Chocquibtown was wearing? It was made for her by Colombian designer Juan Pablo Socarrás and hand-painted with colorful graffiti, to represent "music, rhythm and the urban side" that is the group's music. The trio took home the award for best tropical fusion album for El Mismo.
ChocQuibTown perform at the 2015 Latin Grammy Awards on Nov. 19, 2015 in Las Vegas. Getty Images
Tego Calderón
Fresh off his win for best urban album for El Que Sabe, Sabe on Thursday night, the reggaeton pioneer seemed genuinely surprised yet happy to be taking home the trophy. In an era when his younger counterparts are making chart-topping party music for the ladies and the lovers, Calderón's brand of Latin urban music is on the more socially conscious side, and, in turn, remains somewhat underground. "The mother of my kids kicked me out of the house so this is a slap in the face to her," he said with a laugh, though he declined to elaborate on the exact reasons for their fallout.
A mini Alejandro Sanz? Not so fast, says the Spanish pop idol. Turns out his eldest son Alexander wants to follow in his musical footsteps — but in a slightly different direction. "He loves hip-hop and I support him 100 percent," Sanz told Billboard backstage. "Sometimes as parents we make the mistake of pushing our kids to be mathematicians when they have an artist's soul. If he's happy, I'm happy."
Fher of Maná
Though the iconic Mexican band used tonight's performance to make an important point about Latinos' power in America and the need for them to register to vote in the next election, he also took time in the press room to speak on the most recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Beirut. "There are a lot of Muslims in the world and there are good people amongst them. You can't put people in a bucket. As Latinos we know what that feels like. These first-world countries have to be very careful in their response [to ISIS]. Violence breeds more violence, and I don't think violence is the answer. They [the leaders of the U.S. and the world] have to see who the bad guys are, and be strategic and careful in their response. You can't attack children and women indiscriminately and wage an all-out war; that's wrong."
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By Garth Foster, Ederlyn Magno & Sarah Benoit on September 30, 2019
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On September 12, 2019, the Ontario Securities Commission (the OSC) issued a news release regarding certain amendments as to who can certify a registrant's annual fee calculation form in Ontario (a Form 13-502F4), which also applies to foreign registrants relying on an international registration exemption in Ontario (each an unregistered registrant).
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On June 5, 2019, the Ontario Securities Commission (the OSC) sent out a notice by means of a broadcast e-mail (the Notice) with respect to certain amendments regarding the suppression of terrorism or Canadian sanctions (STCS) applicable to all registered firms, exempt dealers and exempt advisers (each a Firm).
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The Ontario Securities Commission released OSC Staff Notice 33-749 – Annual Summary Report for Dealers, Advisers and Investment Fund Managers on August 23, 2018 (OSC Staff Notice).
In the OSC Staff Notice, OSC staff identified that some investment fund managers (IFMs) have outsourced fund administration functions (including fund accounting and transfer agency) to related parties. Under National Instrument 31-103 Registration Requirements, Exemptions and Ongoing Registrant Obligations, IFMs are required to establish a system of controls and supervision to ensure compliance with securities legislation and are responsible and accountable for all functions that they outsource to a service provider. Accordingly, IFMs should not rely solely on the related service provider and assume that all obligations under securities legislation are being met.
Sale of ETFs – Proficiency Standards Approved
By Munier Saloojee on August 10, 2017
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Last month, provincial securities regulators approved Policy No. 8 (Policy) of The Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada (MFDA). The Policy establishes proficiency standards for mutual fund dealing representatives (Representatives) who wish to sell exchange-traded fund (ETFs).
Although Representatives are legally permitted to sell certain types of…
Securities Regulators to IIROC: Get Tougher!
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The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) have demanded that the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) boost business conduct compliance activities after the CSA noted serious deficiencies in multiple consecutive oversight reviews. In an Oversight Review Report on IIROC published July 4, 2017 (Report), CSA flagged 'Business Conduct Compliance' as a high priority area requiring immediate action. This public censure will likely result in stricter enforcement of IIROC dealer members.
The Report comes out of an oversight review of IIROC conducted by staff of seven provincial securities regulators, covering a period from April 1, 2015 to July 31, 2016. The purpose of the review was to assess whether the selected regulatory processes of IIROC were "effective, efficient, and applied consistently and fairly, and whether IIROC complied with the terms and conditions of the [CSA members'] recognition orders." The Report also evaluated whether recommendations in the previous Oversight Review Report published on March 3, 2016 (covering the year before the period addressed by the current Report) (Previous Report) had been dealt with satisfactorily. The Report categorized deficiencies as high, medium, or low priority. High priority items "will result in IIROC not meeting its mandate" and require IIROC to "immediately put in place an action plan," the implementation of which is to be directly monitored by the CSA.
New disclosure obligation: What you should know about the "Financial Information – Annual form"
By Anabel Quessy & Élise Renaud on June 28, 2017
Fasken Martineau's Investment Products and Wealth Management team wishes to remind dealers and advisers registered under the Securities Act (Quebec) (the "registrants") that as of June 19, 2017, registrants are subject to a new financial information disclosure obligation. Registrants whose main regulator is the Autorité des marchés financiers (the "AMF") must…
The Repeal of Ontario's Bulk Sales Legislation
By Ryan Mapa on May 12, 2017
On March 22, 2017, Ontario's Bulk Sales Act (BSA) was repealed by way of Schedule 3 of Ontario's Burden Reduction Act. This repeal marks the end of bulk sales legislation in Canada as Ontario was the last Canadian jurisdiction to have such legislation.
Enacted in 1917, the BSA was intended to protect creditors from…
Rights Offering Prospectus Exemption – Warning for Reporting Issuers
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On January 12, 2017, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published Multilateral CSA Staff Notice 45-322 Potential Concerns with the Structure of Rights Offerings. The notice, issued on behalf of the securities regulators in Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta, is a warning to issuers who may be perceived as taking improper advantage of the…
CSA Introduces Updated Cyber Security Guidance
By Mark Bowman on November 3, 2016
In light of the growing risk of cyberattacks on issuers, registrants and regulated entities (Market Participants), the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) recently published CSA Staff Notice 11-332 Cyber Security (Staff Notice) providing guidance to Market Participants on the subject.
Cybersecurity a Priority Area for the CSA
The Staff Notice identifies cybersecurity as a priority for the CSA, and states that the CSA has a central role to play in "assessing and promoting readiness and cyber resilience" of Market Participants. To this point, enhancing cybersecurity is identified as a key initiative to facilitate fair and efficient markets and the reduction of risks to market integrity under the CSA's 2016-2019 Business Plan (Business Plan). This Business Plan includes tasks related to improving collaboration and communication on cybersecurity issues with Market Participants and improving Market Participants' understanding of the CSA's cybersecurity activities, to which the Staff Notice speaks.
Previous CSA Notice on Cybersecurity
The CSA previously released guidance concerning cybersecurity in 2013 with Staff Notice 11-326 Cyber Security (2013 Notice). The 2013 Notice provided general recommendations for the steps that Market Participants can take to manage cyber threats. These recommended steps were to:
educate staff on the importance of cybersecurity and their role of ensuring such security;
follow industry best practices in regards to cybersecurity; and
conduct regular third party vulnerability and security tests and assessments against the Market Participants' systems.
In addition to these steps, Market Participants were advised by the 2013 Notice to review their cybersecurity measures on a regular basis.
Ontario Business Law Panel releases report recommending changes to key corporate and commercial legislation
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In June 2015, a 13-member panel created by the Minister of Government and Consumer Services (Ontario), known as the Business Law Agenda Stakeholder Panel, released "Business Law Agenda: Priority Findings & Recommendations Report".
The panel reviewed corporate and commercial statutes in Ontario and made recommendations encompassing five key themes:
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Trevor Steinhauser Launches "Stigmatized" Podcast
Fort Thomas resident, Trevor Steinhauser, started a podcast called Stigmatized.
Mark Collier interviews Trevor about why he started it, what listeners can expect and why it will appeal to everyone.
It's launch will begin in August 2019 and will feature stories of awareness, education, hope and community.
RELATED: Trevor Steinhauser's story on Fort Thomas Matters
From his website:
"I am a fearless advocate for all things to do with behavioral health. Having been down this road, I am passionate about helping others. I myself am in long term recovery and have talked to hundreds of people over the last few years. I feel it is time for everyone to have the opportunity to hear from a wide range of amazing people. Listening to the stories of others is a therapeutic way to address these issues. In this podcast we will explore the human condition through real and raw conversations. We all have a little crazy is in us so we are going to have fun along the way while raising awareness for this community that seems to be perpetually STIGMATIZED."
How to Hack Disney World
Interview with resident Disney expert and Fort Thomas Independent School Superintendent, Dr. Karen Cheser.
Fort Thomas Education Foundation Fundraiser - Disney World Package Giveaway ($3000 value)
Hotel accommodations donated by Dr. Karen Cheser and Scott Richards, benefits go toward Fort Thomas Education Foundation.
$20/ticket, drawing Friday, May 24. To buy tickets email FTEFDisneyRaffle@gmail.com
Taryn Taugher Talks Alleged Abuse and Bully Behavior at NKU
NKU Basketball Player Writes Scathing Editorial on Coach's Behaviors
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A Northern Kentucky University basketball player published an editorial on the behavior and antics of Head Coach Camryn Whitaker, in which she characterized the coach of bullying and abusive behavior.
Taryn Taugher, a redshirt junior from Freeland High School in Michigan, published an article today in The Odyssey Online in which she describes the tarnished relationship she and other players have had with Whitaker.
The Odyssey is a crowdsourced media model, allowing authors to submit content to be placed on their site.
Taugher took to social media to release her editorial.
"I am finally speaking out about the abuse my teammates and I have endured for 3 years now at Northern Kentucky University. This needs to stop now," she wrote.
The article, entitled, "Behind Closed Doors: Abuse In Northern Kentucky University Women's Basketball Program" details Taugher's conversations and alleged abuse that she and other athletes have been exposed to under Whitaker.
She writes: "The emotional abuse by current head coach has lasting effects on its players. But, it ends here.
There is a deep, dark, hidden secret that lies within the women's basketball program at Northern Kentucky University which has been swept under the rug by the athletic department for three years."
Taugher, has appeared in 84 games for the Norse since 2016, starting in 21 of those games.
A fellow NKU basketball player, Shar'Rae Davis, posted video corroborating Taugher's story. Other teammates have since agreed with Taugher's story on Facebook and Twitter.
Northern Kentucky University released a statement on the allegations:
"The well-being of our student-athletes is of the utmost importance and when concerns are raised about our programs, they are appropriately reviewed, evaluated, and addressed.
The university is aware of complaints surrounding the women's basketball program. We recognize the courage it takes to share personal stories. We have taken these complaints seriously and they have been thoroughly reviewed separately by the Title IX and Athletics offices, and addressed in accordance with university policy. There are ongoing efforts to improve communications and relationships between the program's leadership and student-athletes.
We are committed to fostering a safe, healthy and inclusive learning environment for anyone who is a part of our campus community. Our students' voices will be heard and the Athletics office will continue to monitor and assess our programs, taking appropriate corrective actions as needed."
Whitaker was named the fifth head coach of the Northern Kentucky University women's basketball program by Director of Athletics Ken Bothof on May 6, 2016.
Whitaker had coaching stints at Kentucky, Dayton, Missouri State and Austin Peay. A native of Cynthiana, Kentucky and Harrison County High School, she played five seasons at Western Kentucky University, leading the Hilltoppers to 97 wins and postseason berths in each of her seasons.
Jay Poston, Michelle Snodgrass Talk with Mark Collier
Ryan Poston was murdered on October 12, 2012.
Mark Collier talks intimately with Jay Poston, Ryan's father, and Campbell County Commonweath's Attorney, Michelle Snodgrass.
After a sensational trial in the Campbell County, Kentucky circuit court, Shayna Hubers was convicted of murder on April 23, 2015. She was sentenced to 40 years in the Kentucky Department of Corrections on August 14, 2015.
On August 25, 2016, Hubers' conviction was overturned on appeal when one of the jurors in her murder trial was revealed to be a convicted felon. Hubers was convicted of murder during her second trial on murder charges for the killing of Ryan Poston on August 29, 2018.
The jury recommended a life sentence and she will be sentenced on October 18, 2018.
Breaking Down The Data in the Campbell County Primary
Joined by Tyler Owen.
Why Didn't Fort Thomas turnout?
What happened in the Southern end of the county?
What does this mean for general elections.
Mark Collier and Owen take a deep dive into the data.
Connie Grubbs, Campbell County Commissioner Candidates, On Her Campaign
Connie Grubbs (D-Fort Thomas) spends time in-studio to talk about her campaign. She spends time on why she's running, why her candidacy is different and her thoughts on the 2018 General Assembly in Frankfort.
This podcast was recorded in April. She will be running against Brian Painter (R-Alexandria) and Dave Guidugli (I-Fort Thomas) in the November General Election.
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Mr. Brent Cooper: Have you heard from the businesses who will now be charged sales tax on their services?
Dr. Karen Cheser: What were you most frustrated with during this session?
Mr. Jay Brewer: Do you think lawmakers listened to public school advocates?
Mark Collier (Living Media, Inc. & Fort Thomas Matters) talks with four people smack dab in the middle of the General Assembly process this year.
Sen. Wil Schroder (R-Wilder)
Brent Cooper, CEO/President Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce
Dr. Karen Cheser, Superintendent, Fort Thomas Independent Schools
Jay Brewer, Superindendent, Dayton Independent Schools
Fort Thomas School Leadership District Update
Dr. Karen Cheser - Superintendent Fort Thomas Independent Schools
Bill Bradford - Asst. Superintendent, Teaching/Learning
Jamee Flaherty - Asst. Superintendent, Student Services
- What direction is FTIS positioning itself to benefit students in a global marketplace?
- End of school date is discussed, with reasoning.
- STOP cyber bulling anonymous tipline.
- Moyer Elementary update
County Commissioner Candidate Speaks on Alcoholism, Campbell Co. Politics
Campbell Co. Commissioner candidate in District 1, Tyler Owen, joins Mark Collier in studio.
He talks about his reasons for running, the current rundown of countywide politics and the biggest differentiatior for what sets him apart from his opponents in a crowded race.
"If we want to get anywhere beating the stigma of addiction, it's okay for me to say I'm an alcoholic."
What New Restaurants may be Coming to Cold Spring?
We talk with Campbell Countian, Brandon Voelker, who is in the know about all things happening in northern Kentucky.
Brandon is an attorney; you can contact him at 859-781-1900 or at his website, here.
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By João Machado
Azul May Buy Brazilian Regional Carrier to Secure Additional Congonhas Slots
While Avianca Brasil's slots may have been auctioned last week, the discussion may not yet come to an end. As legal uncertainty looms over the validity of this auction, the slot sale could be reverted.
The main fight is over the slots in the oversaturated Congonhas Airport in São Paulo, which is part of the important "Ponte Aérea" to Rio de Janeiro's Santos Dumont Airport. Many parties have different views over it, being such a valuable asset. Legal bodies such as the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Office of the Attorney General of the Union have asked for a change in the distribution rules of Congonhas Airport's slots.
Bradesco BBI, an investment branch of one of Brazil's biggest banks, has released a report that forecasts big changes in the Brazilian aviation market, if such a change happens, told Brazilian investment news website TradersClub.
According to the bank, there is the possibility that the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC), the civil aviation regulator in Brazil, would consider airlines with up to 39 slots as "new entrants", distributing the Avianca slots between them. In this case, Azul would benefit, since the airline has 26 single slots in the airport. This could potentially double the operations of the airline in Brazil's most important domestic airport.
There are also other airlines which would be considered as "new entrants" in Congonhas since they have no slots there. One of them is Passaredo, a small regional company which operates five ATR 72-500 turboprop aircraft. Passaredo has been dealing with ongoing financial issues from its past.
Bradesco forecasts Passaredo could get 10 slots in Congonhas, which could possibly draw Azul's attention for a takeover. The bank prices them at about $93 million, although the airline possesses a relatively large amount of debt.
This would be not new in Brazil. In 2009, TAM – currently LATAM – bought the small and near-bankrupt Pantanal Linhas Aéreas, taking over all of its Congonhas slots. This was considered by many analysts as a virtual slots sale, which is technically not allowed in the South American country.
The only takeover in which Azul was ever involved happened in 2011. Then, the airline merged with the regional company TRIP Linhas Aéreas creating the holding Azul/TRIP S.A., a maneuver to avoid the entrance of TAM in the regional market, but granted no Congonhas slots to Azul.
What Azul wants is to start operations in the Ponte Aérea to Rio without canceling any current operations in Congonhas, which feed two focus cities and one major hub of the airline, giving the Avianca slots high importance. The action put the airline in a public discussion with accusations against LATAM and Gol.
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Various - Hogan's Heroes Sing The Best Of World War II Album
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Title: Hogan's Heroes Sing The Best Of World War II
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–Larry Hovis Lili Marlene 3:03
–Robert Clary Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree 2:43
–Richard Dawson This Is Worth Fighting For 2:25
–Hogan's Heroes This Is The Army Mister Jones 2:46
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History of the Holocaust: Auschwitz Oven Factory Reopens as a Memorial
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Photo Gallery: The Auschwitz Oven Factory
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History of the Holocaust Auschwitz Oven Factory Reopens as a Memorial
For years, the site was left to crumble and decay. But now, following extensive renovation, the factory where the Auschwitz ovens were designed and built has reopened as a memorial. It shows the intimate involvement of German industry in the mass murder of the Holocaust.
For years, the site was little more than a typical industrial ruin -- the kind of modernist decay that became synonymous with Eastern Europe after the collapse of communism. The crumbling buildings just outside the city center of Erfurt were fenced off and left to the squatters who made the complex their home.
But ever since the company which owned the plant went bankrupt in 1994, historians have had their eyes on the location. Its history, after all, is intimately tied with the darkest chapter of Germany's past. The factory once belonged to Topf & Söhne, the company which supplied the Nazis with the ovens used at Auschwitz and other death camps to cremate Holocaust victims.
And on Thursday, after years of planning, a memorial exhibit in the former administration building opened its doors -- just in time for Jan. 27, Holocaust Remembrance Day.
"Nowhere else in Europe is the involvement of industry in the Nazis' machinery of death as visible as it is in the company in Erfurt," Rikola-Gunnar Lüttgenau told the German news agency DPA on Tuesday.
Systematic Mass Murder
The exhibit describes how Topf & Söhne, which began life in 1878 as a specialist for industrial ovens, brewing equipment and chimneys, soon became a leading manufacturer of crematoriums. The SS first commissioned crematorium ovens from the company in 1939 for concentration camps in Dachau, Buchenwald and Flossenbürg.
Once the Nazis embarked on the systematic mass murder of Jews, Gypsies and others, however, the SS needed much greater capacity. Soon, Topf & Söhne engineers set to work calculating the most efficient method to burn thousands of dead bodies. In 1942, company engineer Fritz Sander applied for a patent for a "continually operating corpse incinerator for mass use."
The company also designed ventilation systems to pump poison gas out of the gas chambers once the killing was complete -- and Topf & Söhne employees visited Auschwitz and other camps to help install their products. Ultimately, the company equipped Auschwitz with ovens capable of incinerating 8,000 bodies each day.
"The company was not a place where people were tortured or murdered," memorial head Annegret Schüle told DPA. "Rather it is a place where people thought and calculated how to incinerate as quickly and effectively as possible."
'Always Glad to Serve You'
Topf & Söhne's complicity with the Holocaust was largely ignored and then forgotten following World War II. CEO Ludwig Topf committed suicide once the war ended and several employees, including Sander, were arrested by the Soviets and sentenced to 25 years of hard labor. It was only in the mid-1990s that interest in the company's World War II activities began to gain momentum. Ultimately the state government of Thuringia and the federal government in Berlin provided €600,000 for the creation of a memorial on the site.
Documents now on display in the newly refurbished factory administration building clearly illustrate the pride the company took in the services it provided to the Nazi killing machine. Original drawings are part of the exhibition as are drafting tables where the ovens were designed.
Hundreds of urns made by Topf & Söhne to hold the ashes of deceased Buchenwald inmates are also presented. The urns were found in 1997 during work on the roof of the crematorium at the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial. Early in the Nazis' reign of terror, ashes of deceased concentration camp prisoners were sent back to their home towns for burial. Later, the ashes were stored on site. Once the Holocaust got under way in earnest, however, the ashes were simply dispersed or buried.
Visitors to the new exhibition are greeted with the sentence: "Always glad to serve you." It was taken from a letter from Topf & Söhne to the management of the Auschwitz death camp.
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5 Bilder Photo Gallery: The Auschwitz Oven Factory
Until recently, this factory was lying in ruins, abandoned to the elements. Now, however, the former Topf & Söhne site, where ovens for Auschwitz and Nazi-era factories of death were manufactured, has been turned into a memorial. The factory's former administrative building has been completely refurbished.
The company was founded in 1878 and began manufacturing crematoriums in 1914. In World War II, Topf & Söhne was contracted by the SS to make highly efficient crematoriums for the Nazis' concentration- and death camp system. On display are drafting tables where the ovens were designed.
"Nowhere else in Europe is the involvement of industry in the Nazis' machinery of death as visible as it is in the company in Erfurt," Rikola-Gunnar Lüttgenau told the DPA on Tuesday. In 1942, company engineer Fritz Sander applied for a patent for a "continually operating corpse incinerator for mass use."
Hundreds of urns made by the company for the Buchenwald concentration camp are part of the permanent exhibit. The ashes of prisoners they once contained have long since been reburied.
Documents now on display in the newly refurbished factory administration building clearly illustrate the pride the company took in the services it provided to the Nazis' killing machine. Original drawings are likewise on display as are drafting tables where the ovens were designed. Hundreds of urns made for Buchenwald are likewise part of the exhibition. Visitors are greeted with the sentence: "Always glad to serve you." It was taken from a letter from Topf & Söhne to the management of the Auschwitz death camp.


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The U.S. May Soon Have the World's Oldest Nuclear Power Plants
Neighbors and scientists are worried, but operators argue there's no better way to provide carbon-free energy.
Bonnie Rippingille looked out at the wisps of steam curling from the Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant across Biscayne Bay with a sense of dread. In December federal regulators approved Florida Power & Light Co.'s request to let the facility's twin nuclear reactors remain in operation for another 20 years beyond the end of their current licenses. By that point they'll be 80, making them the oldest reactors in operation anywhere in the world.
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"That's too old," said Rippingille, a lawyer and retired Miami-Dade County judge who was wearing a blue print shirt with white sea turtles on it. "They weren't designed for this purpose."
With backing from the Trump administration, utilities across the nation are preparing to follow suit, seeking permission to extend the life of reactors built in the 1970s to the 2050s as they run up against the end of their 60-year licenses.
"We are talking about running machines that were designed in the 1960s, constructed in the 1970s and have been operating under the most extreme radioactive and thermal conditions imaginable," said Damon Moglen, an official with the environmental group Friends of the Earth. "There is no other country in the world that is thinking about operating reactors in the 60 to 80-year time frame."
Indeed, the move comes as other nations shift away from atomic power over safety concerns, despite its appeal as a carbon-free alternative to coal and other fossil fuels. Japan, which used to get more than a quarter of its electricity from nuclear power, shut down all its plants in 2011 after a tsunami caused a nuclear meltdown at three reactors in Fukushima. Only a handful have restarted while others that can't meet stringent new standards are slated to close permanently. Germany decided that year to shutter its entire fleet by 2022 and is now having trouble meeting its ambitious climate goals. Other nations such as France and Sweden are allowing reactors to retire while they diversify into solar and wind power.
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True life story: My 5 days kidnap ordeal in the hands of Fulani Herdsmen in Enugu
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The menace of kidnapping in the country has become a worrisome development that has continued to send fear across the land. The tales of how suspected Fulani Herdsmen have resorted to kidnapping has become so recurring that in every part of the country, many stories of the deadly group keeps exposing the parochial state of the nation's security architecture.
For OzougwuChukwuemekaFrankline, a staff with an Estate development company, he never believed that a time will come when he will be forced to face the kind of fate he experienced in the hands of suspected Fulani Herdsmen Kidnappers in Enugu.
At first, he never believed that such a thing is happening in Enugu, he recalled how he used to get bored over the story of a visiting Priest in his Parish who always tells them the story of his days in the hands of kidnappers, littledid he know that his own day was coming.
Ozougwu Chukwuemeka Franklinis a native ofAbo in Udi Local Government Area and works with an Estate company called Tony Frank Estate, Nigeria Limited.
Few days ago, Ozougwu Chukwuemeka and two of his colleagues where rescued from the hands of a deadly kidnap gang that picked them at Ugwuomu in Amorji, Enugu East Local Government Area of Enugu State.
Chukwuemeka and his colleagues were however let off the hook by the kidnappers who were suspected Fulani Herdsmen after parting with 2.5 million naira (two million five hundred thousand naira) as ransom for their release.
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To paint a clear picture of what happened and what transpired within the 5 days they spent in the kidnappers den which he described as the 5 most horrible days of his life; Ozougwu Chukwuemeka while narrating said;
"We bought a land at Ugwuomu in Amorji and we have been working there for about two weeks now.
"Throughout those days, the Fulanis do come by to feed their cows. We were working on a Friday and as usual they came around,but this time, without their cows. When we were done, we packed up our equipment and washed up. We were about leaving when we heard gunshots.
"At first we were confused. I ran out, only for me to run into them instead. They caught us (I and my colleagues) and started flogging us with machetes. They took us to a bush path when night came, walked and walked, covering a very long distance. If I can remember correctly, we crossed up to five rivers. We kept walking till it was 4am. Only then we were allowed to rest for a bit. We seized the opportunity to ask what the problem was and they said they needed 100million naira from us.
"We tried making them understand that we didn't have such amount of money but they remained adamant and threatened to kill us. The next morning, they agreed to let us call the office and let them inon what was happening and we did. The office said they had just 5 hundred thousand naira. The news only made them keep threatening to kill us. At some point, we were asked to bring 50 million naira. They almost killed one of us,but we pleaded and agreed to pay. Their price kept coming down to 20 million naira and then, to 10million. We had to make calls to be able to raise 5 million naira which they agreed to take.
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"It was on a Sunday, so we agreed the transaction would be made the next day being Monday. When we couldn't get the money,they made serious threats to kill us this time.
"We let the leader know we were to sell a land in order to raise the money and surprisingly, he took pity on us. He then asked that we just brought the money at hand (which was 2.5 million naira).
"Someone was sent to deliver the money to them while we were kept somewhere with some of them.
"We were set free after some time. They even gave us 10,000naira for transport while we were leaving. It was when we left that we realized we were at Umudingbevillage. We stayed there for 5 days in all.
When asked if the person that delivered the ransom came with some police men, Chukwuemeka answered in affirmative; "Yes, the person who came to deliver the money came with the police."
He further said that after their release, they made useful statements in the Police anti-kidnapping office in Enugu. However, out of excitement on their safe return, their boss threw a party in celebration.
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He called for vigilance and advised the security apparatus of the country to work more with intelligence. According to him, they only operate in the evening so that the time they pick you and take you to the bush, night will come and it will be had to track them.
He revealed that the suspected herdsmenkidnappers where not concerned about the threat of being caught by Police, as a matter of fact, they didn't see the police as a real threat, however, he said they warned them sternly not to put a GPS tracker in the money being paid as ransom to them.
He revealed that the way they moved in the bush showed that the herdsmen have mastered the road and they operate like Nigeria especially Igbo land is a conquered territory and unfortunately the said Fulani guys have taken over the bush in our communities. He further called for strategic security measures to counter their moves because they are well organized and understand very well the terrain of the environment.
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