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Die Bundesstraße 194 (Abkürzung: B 194) ist eine Bundesstraße in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Sie zweigt bei Klein Plasten im Landkreis Mecklenburgische Seenplatte von der Bundesstraße 192 ab und endet in Stralsund. Die Bundesstraße 194 hat eine Gesamtlänge von etwa 77 Kilometern. Sie kreuzt bei Grimmen (Anschluss Grimmen-Ost) die A 20.

Geschichte
Als Reichsstraße 194 (R 194) war diese Strecke bis 1949 eine Staatsstraße des Deutschen Reichs.

Streckenverlauf
Die Bundesstraße 194 verläuft vom Abzweig in Groß Plasten über Kittendorf und Jürgenstorf, wo die L 203 gekreuzt wird, zunächst nach Stavenhagen, wo sie auf ein gemeinsames Teilstück mit der Bundesstraße 104 führt. An einer Kreuzung zweigt sie dann rechts ab und führt über Basepohl, durch den Grammentiner Forst, wo ein Abzweig der Landesstraße 272 nach Burow besteht, Borrentin, Metschow, Lindenhof, Lindenfelde, Vorwerk (Abzweig der Landesstraße 271 nach Burow) über die Brücke über die Tollense nach Demmin. Hier verläuft sie im Kreisverkehr als gemeinsames Teilstück mit der Bundesstraße 110. Im Zentrum führt der weitere Verlauf zur Meyenkrebsbrücke, der Brücke über die Peene und weiter nach Meyenkrebs, wo in einem Kreisverkehr die Landesstraße 27 nach Tribsees abzweigt.

Durch ein Industriegebiet führt die B 194 über Waldberg, Randow, Rustow, Voßbäk und umgeht Loitz. In Schwinge besteht ein Abzweig der Landesstraße 261 nach Greifswald, weiter in Poggendorf wird die Landesstraße 26 gekreuzt, über Barkow, den Autobahnanschluss Grimmen-Süd (zur Bundesautobahn 20), Appelshof nach Grimmen. Hier gibt es eine Kreuzung mit der Landesstraße 30. Von dort führt sie weiter über Abtshagen (Kreuzung mit der Landesstraße 222), Steinhagen (Abzweig der Landesstraße 192) und Negast nach Stralsund, wo sie Anschluss an die Bundesstraße 105 hat und in die Kreisstraße HST 26 übergeht.

Siehe auch
 Liste der Bundesstraßen in Deutschland

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The IRIS DMS develops Web Utilities for accessing seismic data and related metadata. New utilities include the MetaData Aggregator (MDA) and the IRIS Earthquake Browser (IEB).
The WebRequest tool allows users to compose breq_fast-style requests and send them directly to the DMC.
Pre-assembled event maps and lists are available for the past 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, and 1 year.
The IRIS Earthquake Browser (IEB) is an interactive map service for viewing Earthquake Epicenters superimposed on a map of the world. Data can be exported from the IEB and viewed in 3D with the GEON Integrated Data Viewer. The IEB is useful both educationally and as a research tool.
The MetaData Aggregator (MDA) returns metadata summaries from the IRIS DMC database.
Seismic Monitor allows you to monitor global earthquakes in near real-time, visit seismic stations around the world, and search the web for earthquake or region-related information.
The Searchable Product Archive and Discovery Engine (SPADE), provides a permanant data products archive that is searchable by product-specific metadata fields. *Note: SPADE has been replaced with SPUD.
A virtual network is a group of stations and/or seismic networks, representing an affiliation that goes beyond the traditional bounds of seismic networks to represent an umbrella organization or initiative.
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Omelets are one of the few breakfasts that incorporate vegetables easily. Whether at home or at a diner, you can enjoy a veggie omelet that's highly nutritious and – and that helps you meet your daily recommended servings before lunch.
Among the vegetables that work well in omelets are tomatoes, broccoli, mushrooms, spinach, sweet peppers, hot peppers, onions, potatoes…you name it.
If you're concerned about fat content, consider making an egg-white omelet (no yolks). Instead of folding in lots of cheese, eliminate it completely or use just a small amount of a strong-flavored cheese. And don't use butter in your frying pan. Either coat the pan with a non-stick spray or use a tiny bit of olive oil.


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Judge orders LA to offer shelter for homeless on Skid Row
FILE - In this April 25, 2016, file photo, homeless people sleep in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles. A federal judge overseeing a sweeping lawsuit about homelessness in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, ordered the city and county to find shelter for all unhoused residents of Skid Row within 180 days and audit any spending related to the out-of-control crisis of people living on the streets. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2021, file photo, Jeff Page, right, also known as General Jeff, a homelessness activist and leader in the Downtown Los Angeles Skid Row Neighborhood Council, walks with U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter, middle, and Michele Martinez, special master on the issues of homelessness, after a court hearing at Downtown Women's Center in Los Angeles. A judge overseeing a sweeping lawsuit about homelessness in Los Angeles has ordered the city and county Tuesday, April 20, 2021, to find shelter for all unhoused residents of Skid Row within 180 days. Judge David O. Carter also ordered an audit of all funding related to the crisis of people living on the streets. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2017, file photo, a homeless man takes food from a trash can in Los Angeles' Skid Row area, home to the nation's largest concentration of homeless people in Los Angeles. A federal judge overseeing a sweeping lawsuit about homelessness in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, ordered the city and county to find shelter for all unhoused residents of Skid Row within 180 days and audit any spending related to the out-of-control crisis of people living on the streets. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
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Mercury introduced the Sun Valley in 1954 and was a standard Monterey Hardtop Coupe with a Plexiglas section over the front half of the roof. With a price of $2,562, it was one of the most expensive body styles in the Mercury lineup. Fewer than 9,800 examples of the Sun Valleys were built and sold in 1954.
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Maintenance Soldiers from Forward Support Company H, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, put their skills to the test for "Maintenance Table VI," from May 23 to 26 at Z, South Korea.
The "Table VI" in the name is an allusion to one of the key gunnery certification exercises that Soldiers undergo in M2A3 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles and M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tanks, since maintenance is key to the success of maneuver elements.
"As a maintenance platoon, there's often other things that need to get done and training can sometimes be difficult to fit in, but my troopers really got behind it and attacked it with a positive attitude," said 2nd Lt. Nicholas Taylor, platoon leader, FSC H. "I think that attitude allowed them to learn a lot and get a lot out of the training."
Beginning with a written exam, then evaluating various equipment and vehicle systems to find pre-staged faults and concluding with recovery operations on a tracked and a wheeled vehicle, Soldiers were tested on many aspects of their job.
The questions in the exam were based on general maintenance topics that are standard across all military occupational specialties, such as preventative maintenance checks and services, the Army oil analysis program, and the different classes of leaks.
Noncommissioned officers took a separate and more in-depth version of the exam, which focused on maintenance procedures and processes that would be expected of someone with more experience.
On the second day of testing, Soldiers got a chance to get their hands on the equipment. Following the correct troubleshooting procedures, maintenance specialists had to find five pre-staged faults on equipment and vehicles ranging from common electrical generators to the M113 Armored Personnel Carrier.
Troopers were graded for safety, procedure, and how well they used procedures and technical manuals for different maintenance systems. For many members of the maintenance platoon, it was their first time working on equipment outside of their own specialties.
"I thought it was cool how different Soldiers of different MOS's got to work on stuff they don't usually get to," said Spc. Ronald Cleveland, a Bradley fighting vehicle system maintainer for FSC H, 2nd Bn., 5th Cav. Reg. "Generator mechanics got to work on wheeled vehicles and 'tracks,' which they've never done before."
On the last day of maintenance challenge, the 26 Soldiers split into three teams to compete in two different recovery missions.
The first mission was using a Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck wrecker's retrieval system to recover a Light Medium Tactical Vehicle. The second mission was to recover an Abrams tank using the primary winch on a M88 Armored Recovery Vehicle.
"We got to see where each Soldier stood and the knowledge they have with the equipment," said Sgt. Aimon McNeilly, a wheeled vehicle mechanic for FSC H, 2nd Bn., 5th Cav. Reg.
Troopers in both groups had to work as a team, led by noncommissioned officers from their squads, to set up the systems in a safe and efficient manner. The maintenance platoon will conduct their final step in the platoon validation process, "Maintenance Table XII," in August.
"It was a good experience for everyone," said Cleveland. "I honestly don't think any of the people who participated in the event have done it before."


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REVIEW: "Midnight in Paris"
June 12, 2013 by Keith
Without a doubt the romantic comedy is one of the weaker movie genres and has been for years. But sometimes we get a special gem that reminds us of just how fun these types of movies can be. "Midnight in Paris", written and directed by Woody Allen, is a crash course in the art of making a romantic comedy. It is loaded with heart and feeling and doesn't trudge down the same path as so many failed films of this genre. It's a movie that captures the magic of it's location and the inner workings of it's characters. It's clever and unique while maintaining a true romantic feel and sense of humor.
"Midnight in Paris" opens with a picturesque three-minute montage focusing on the beauty of Paris, France. It gracefully moves from one exquisitely framed shot to another, showing us historical landmarks, museums, cafes, and more all set to the lovely "Si Tu Vois Ma Mere". It elegantly sets up the city of Paris as not only a central character in the film, but an enchanting and magical force whose influence is seen throughout the picture. In many ways Woody Allen is celebrating Paris. He wants us to love the city and appreciate the mystique of it's rich history just as much as his main character does. Allen's desire works. I was instantly grabbed and found myself totally lost in what I was seeing on the screen.
While Paris is at the heart of the story, the main character is Gil Pender (Owen Wilson), a hack Hollywood screenwriter who is visiting the city with his fiancée and her parents. Gil loves everything about Paris and to this day regrets his decision not to move there when he had a chance several years ago. He feels he was meant for more than writing screenplays but he struggles with confidence. He doesn't feel comfortable in today's world and believes he would be a better fit in the 1920s. His fiancée Inez (Rachel McAdams) is a spoiled momma's girl who spends more time insulting Gil than supporting him. There is clearly a disconnect between the two. He loves Paris and she doesn't. He's working on a novel that he thinks will change his career and she thinks he's wasting his time. He enjoys the small details in life while she would rather milk it for it's benefits.
While in Paris they run into Paul (Michael Sheen), Inez's old friend and self-proclaimed expert on everything from art to French culture to fine wines. Inez seems infatuated with Paul's knowledge regardless of how many facts he gets wrong in his efforts to impress everyone. Needing to get away, Gil takes off on a late night walk. After getting lost, he is picked up by a group of partiers in an old classic car who magically transport him back to 1920s Paris. Here he meets many of his literary and artistic heroes such as Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Picasso, and Stein. He also meets the lovely Adriana (played wonderfully by Marion Cotillard) who he grows more attracted to with each midnight visit.
The fantasy turn of Allen's story did feel a bit out of the blue at first but it didn't take long before I was enthralled with what I was seeing. Gil's golden age is recreated flawlessly from the music and atmosphere to the careful attention to detail. I loved seeing these authors, painters, composers, and filmmakers of old fleshed out through some fantastic performances. Tom Hiddleston and Alison Pill are absolutely brilliant as F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. I also loved Marcial Di Fonzo Bo as Picasso and Adrien Brody as Dali, both in smaller but fun roles. And then there's Corey Stoll as Hemingway who steals many of the scenes he's in. The supporting cast is such a wonderful ingredient to the film's charm.
But in terms of acting it's Owen Wilson that really blew me away. In many ways he plays a character that really fits him. We've seen elements of this performance in other roles of his but here everything is perfectly measured and controlled. Even though Woody Allen has stated he gave Wilson a lot of room to work, it's clear that Allen has a solid influence on his performance. I've been really lukewarm concerning most of Wilson's past work but he really, really impressed me here. He dials it back a bit and never allows his performance to drown out the material.
"Midnight in Paris" does call for the audience to just buy into it's fantasy angle and if you struggle with that you may struggle with this picture. It also turns out to be fairly predictable in places. But these small gripes do nothing to kill the magic of this picture for me. This is certainly a love letter to Paris, but it's also a lesson on living in the present. Allen reminds us that the golden age so many long for isn't that different from where we are now. It's a beautiful film both visually and structurally and it moves along at an almost poetic pace. Better yet, "Midnight in Paris" is a film that gives us hope for a struggling genre. I love this movie.
VERDICT – 5 STARS
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FIVE GREAT SCENES FROM "MIDNIGHT IN PARIS"
Ok, I've never been what you would call a Woody Allen fan. That being said, I can't express how much I enjoy "Midnight in Paris. It's a movie that features some great laughs and the best performance from a usually annoying Owen Wilson. It's a romance film but not in the traditional sense. The true love of the movie is the city and it's magic. It's the city that brings Gil Pender (Wilson) to realize some very important things about himself and his life. It's the city that Gil's in love with and it's the city that helps him get on the right path in life.
Now I know that one reason I responded so strongly to this movie was because of my current trip to Paris. As I sit here soaking up all this glorious place has to offer, I understand what Allen in conveying in his film. Paris is a city like no other. It's living and breathing. It's a place filled with history, style, and beauty, all things that "Midnight in Paris" presents. So my opinion of the movie is most certainly influenced by my expectations of what I'm now experiencing here in Paris, France.
But let's not get bogged down in just that. "Midnight in Paris" is also laugh out loud hilarious. The characters are fantastic and for my money it features some of Woody Allen's best writing. Filmed at various locations here in Paris (some we have already visited), Allen places his characters right in the middle of this city both past and present day. The performances are top-notch and the feeling of nostalgia is impossible to deny. It's a beautiful film that I just love talking about.
So, before we head off to a local cafe and take a stroll in the Latin Quarter, I thought I would share five great scenes from this movie I love. Now, last Sunday I did a Phenomenal 5 on Paris movie scenes and #2 was the gorgeous opening montage of "Midnight in Paris". Since I've already used it I'll leave it out here. But it is an amazing opening sequence that I have watched over and over. These scenes I have picked are just samples of what makes this movie so good. Great laughs, great characters, great performances, great city!
#1 – GIL MEETS THE FITZGERALDS
One of my favorite scenes in "Midnight in Paris" is where Gil meets Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald (played brilliantly by Alison Pill and Tom Hiddleston). After getting lost in the streets of Paris, Gil is picked up by an antique car which whisks him away to 1920's Paris. He arrives at a bar where a party is going on and bumps into the Fitzgeralds. Gil's confusion mixed with amazing portrayals from Hiddleston and Pill make this a hysterical scene. And even though it's completely preposterous, the environment, the music, and the performances make this strikingly believable. Hiddleston alone makes this scene with his chipper expressions and hilarious line deliveries. I love it.
#2 – DEBATE AT THE RODIN MUSEUM
We all know people like Paul (Michael Sheen) from "Midnight in Paris". He's one of those who thinks he's a lot smarter than he actually is. He's an old friend of Gil's fiancée Inez (Rachel McAdams) and she is enamored by his immense knowledge of Paris and it's history even though most of his "knowledge" is flat-out wrong. A great example of this is the scene in the gardens at the Rodin Museum. Paul, flexing his pseudo-intellectual muscle, actually argues with the museum tour guide regarding Rodin's past relationships. Paul is clearly wrong, but you know guys like this, they'll never be convinced of it. Sheen's delivery is hilarious and Rodin himself couldn't have convinced this know-it-all otherwise. *(Yes, I know this photo isn't from the Rodin Museum scene but it perfectly captures the Paul character).
#3 – A CHAT WITH HEMINGWAY
Corey Stoll's portrayal of Earnest Hemingway was absolutely phenomenal. We're introduced to him after Gil leaves the above mentioned party with the Fitzgeralds in search of more lively entertainment. They enter a bar where Hemingway is sitting alone in the corner. We just stand there alongside Gil and watch as a hilarious conversation takes place between Hemingway and the Fitzgeralds. It's clear that Zelda doesn't like Earnest and she takes off. F. Scott soon follows leaving Gil to share a conversation about life and writing with one of his literary idols. Stoll speaks like Hemingway wrote which adds an ever funnier element to their conversation. This is a key moment in the film that begins Gil's new perspective on life. It's also extremely funny.
#4 – A NIGHT WALK WITH ADRIANA
After several trips back in time, Gil finds himself mesmerized by the beautiful Adriana (Marion Cotillard). He finally gets some meaningful time alone with her as they share a romantic walk on a beautiful Paris night. The cool 1920's feel mixed with the beauty of the city of lights is the perfect setting for the movie's most romantic scene. Woody Allen also uses Gil to once again speak of the allure of the city. It makes you question who he's attracted to more, Adriana or the city? This is such a wonderful scene that moves which such grace, all as the equally beautiful "Parlez-moi d'amour" plays in the background. Call me a sap but this is a great scene.
#5 – PARIS IN THE RAIN
The movie ends with Gil walking alone in the Paris night. He's broken it off with Inez and has realized his desire for the past was misguided and that every era has their own problems. Unsure of everything, he bumps into Gabrielle (Lea Seydoux) again on the beautiful Pont Alexandre III bridge. The two strike up a conversation and Gil tells her that he will be staying in Paris. There is an obvious attraction between them which is only solidified when a small rain shower pops up. The two walk off together enjoying the rain and the city. While Gil thought he once again had no direction in his life, Paris takes him by the hand and sets his course. What a great way to end the movie.
Well, that's all for now. I have fountains, paintings, a buttered baguette, and a cozy cafe in my immediate future. What did you think of "Midnight in Paris". Hopefully you liked it as much as I did. Please fell free to share your thoughts on it. And until I hit the states again…au revior.
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Hundreds of new homes in N.J. were built with toxic chemical
Updated: Jan. 16, 2019, 2:59 p.m. | Published: Oct. 24, 2017, 11:15 a.m.
By Payton Guion | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Lou and Lisa Andreozzi put more than $100,000 down on a custom home in Scotch Plains, and expected to move in this month. They bought custom furniture to fill up the new house.
Before moving day arrived, however, the Andreozzis were told their home was leaking a toxic chemical and that they couldn't occupy the house for months.
A major lumber supplier had botched a batch of floor joists late last year, causing them to emit formaldehyde, a known carcinogen that can cause acute health problems. The production mistake wasn't disclosed until months later, meaning hundreds of homes across the state and country were built with supplies leaking the dangerous chemical.
The Andreozzis' house was one of about 2,500 homes in the United States built with the bad joists, which are the beams that support the flooring of the homes. More than 300 of those houses were built in New Jersey.
The Andreozzis are the lead plaintiffs in a New Jersey class-action lawsuit seeking damages for those who unwittingly bought homes built with the bad joists. The couple did not respond to requests for comment and the information for this story was obtained in the complaint filed by the law firm Berger and Montague.
Weyerhaeuser, the Seattle-based lumber giant that produced the joists, acknowledged in July that the joists were coated in a resin that emits formaldehyde, seven months after production began. The company says it has already remediated 1,800 homes, according to a spokesman, who added that half of New Jersey's affected homes had been remediated.
"Our top priority is to take care of every homeowner and builder affected by this situation," company spokesman Andrew Siegel said. "We deeply regret the disruption and inconvenience this has caused and we're working diligently to resolve the situation as quickly as possible for everyone involved."
In an August letter, Edward Smith, the New Jersey Division of Community Affairs director of codes and standards, wrote that there were 320 homes in New Jersey built with the bad Weyerhaeuser joists. But that was based on information provided by Weyerhaeuser and homebuilders, and the DCA has since said it doesn't know exactly how many homes are affected or where they're located.
"While we have anecdotal information supplied to us by Weyerhaeuser on the scope of this problem in New Jersey, we don't have any independent information on the number of homes impacted, the builders, the sites, etc.," DCA spokeswoman Lisa Ryan wrote in an email.
Shanon Carson, the attorney bringing the class-action lawsuit, said he's concerned that there may be people in New Jersey who bought affected homes and have not been made aware of the formaldehyde risk. He also said the number of affected homes could exceed 320.
"It's possible that it's low," Carson said. "It's based on information that's being reported to that agency."
Formaldehyde is a naturally occurring chemical with a pickle-like odor commonly used in fertilizers, glues and resins used to coat manufactured wood products, according to the EPA, which has set limits on how much formaldehyde can be released from such products.
Short-term exposure can cause eye and nose irritation, and asthma. At higher levels, eczema can occur. Long-term exposure to formaldehyde is known to cause cancer.
Weyerhaeuser says the bad joists it sold to homebuilders and suppliers totaled about $9 million, less than 1 percent of wood products sold by the company. The production mistake began in December and Weyerhaeuser said it expects to spend up to $250 million to remedy the issue.
The company has recommended three potential remedies for the toxic resin. One method involves applying a coating to the joists that the company says will seal the joists to prevent formaldehyde from leaking, another calls for scraping the resin off the joists, while the third option requires full replacement of the affected parts. Weyerhaeuser is paying for the remediation.
DCA officials have not recommended which method should be used. The DCA's Smith wrote in August, "this is between the builder, the manufacturer and the homebuyer," and added that the department won't inspect homes for formaldehyde, only to ensure they are up to code.
The lawsuit claims the "remediation and replacement options are insufficient," adding that the remedy that involves applying the coating "has already been rejected by professionals in the building trades."
But some builders have had success with the coating. Darryl Derasmo, project manager with New Jersey-based Arya Builders, said the company hired a firm to conduct air quality tests after remediation and found the formaldehyde to be at an acceptable level. Arya built three homes with the bad joists and Derasmo said all have been remediated.
Other homebuilders are going beyond what Weyerhaeuser recommended. Toll Brothers has said rather than attempt to seal the formaldehyde it will be removing some joists so the noxious resin can be removed. The homebuilder said in a statement that the remediation would likely delay closing on homes for up to three months.
Toll Brothers has at least three communities in New Jersey that were built using the Weyerhaeuser joists, according to Carson, the attorney who filed the lawsuit. Those are The Enclave at Shackamaxon in Scotch Plains, Monroe Chase in Monroe Township and Mountain View at Hunterdon in Flemington. Toll Brothers said it built 125 homes in New Jersey with the affected joists.
At least eleven homebuilders in New Jersey used the Weyerhaeuser joists, Carson said. They are listed below. Only Arya Properties and Toll Brothers responded to calls seeking comment.
American Properties, including Traditions at Chesterfield in Chesterfield
Arya Properties
Bear-Ban Builders
Fleet Montgomery
Hallmark Homes, including Stratford at Monroe in Monroe Township
High Point Development, including Estates at Holmdel Fields in Holmdel
K-Hovnanian Homes
Premier Development
Procacci Development Co.
Suncrest Communities
The lawsuit seeks damages caused by the joists, demands that Weyerhaeuser turn over all profits made from the joists, and orders the company to replace the joists and monitor the homes for formaldehyde.
Berger and Montague have filed similar lawsuits in Colorado, Delaware, Minnesota, New York and Pennsylvania.
But it's not just homebuyers who have been impacted.
Derasmo said all three of Arya's affected homes were under contract when the leaking formaldehyde was discovered. Despite remediations, one buyer backed out.
"Now we're sitting on a $380,000 house," Derasmo said. "It did have an impact on us. We aren't a giant homebuilder."
A previous version of this story said Weyerhaeuser had budgeted between $50 and $60 million for remediation. The company recently revised that estimate to as much as $250 million.
Payton Guion may be reached at PGuion@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @PaytonGuion. Find NJ.com on Facebook.


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Last season, we met the best friend to Susan Lucci's rich housewife Genevieve: Devious Maids ' Zolia Diaz, played by familiar face Judy Reyes. Reyes has been a part of the sizzling cast of Lifetime's summertime guilty pleasure Devious Maids since its outset, and while the show defied critical expectations with ratings high enough for a second season, it isn't Reyes' only big gig.
The actress is perhaps best recognized for her role on NBC's Scrubs as no-nonsense head nurse Carla Espinosa in eight seasons of the show. (Her character was written out of the ill-received Season 9 Scrubs reboot as a stay-at-home mom.) While we miss her character's exciting back and forth with Dr. Cox, we'd be lying if we said we weren't charmed by the scintillating intrigue of Maids.
While we'll keep on with Maids, Carla was definitely our favorite Reyes role. Somebody's gotta lay down the law, and for better or worse, in the Scrubs universe, that was usually Carla.
What has Reyes been up to outside of her work? Chumming up with the actresses on her new show, it would seem from her Twitter feed. Thank goodness the catty cast of characters are actually such good pals in real life. Now if we could only figure out how to get Susan Lucci to tweet at us.


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UPL and AIIMS Co-host National Symposium on "Clinical Toxicology"
~to create awareness on occupational health situations in Agriculture
~ Over 1200 doctors trained in AIIMS hospitals and PHCs across Hyderabad, Nagpur and Rajkot
Bangalore, December 27: Poisoning is a significant global public health hazard. The incidence of poisoning in India is among the highest in the world. It is estimated that more than 50,000 people die every year from toxic exposure. Poisoning happens due to several reasons including snakebites, occupational hazards at workplaces such as agriculture. According to a recent study, India accounts for almost 80% of global snakebite deaths. In such situations, it is critical that local PHCs and Doctors are equipped and trained to deal with such toxic emergencies.
UPL, one of the Global Agriculture industry leaders, in association with AIIMS, Hyderabad, Nagpur, and Rajkot along with local Associations of Physicians had organized symposiums to train doctors on Toxicology emergency management. The symposiums, themed 'Occupational Health- Agriculture', aimed at spreading awareness among medical healthcare professionals about occupational health-related hazards in agriculture. It further intended to directly communicate the message to the medical fraternity, especially doctors from primary healthcare centers and district medical hospitals, about the right protocol of diagnosis and treatment whenever required. Over 1200 doctors have been trained so far through these symposiums.
Recently, the symposium was held in association with PDU Medical College, Rajkot and the Association of Physicians of India, with the theme of 'Occupational Health- Agriculture'.
Speaking at the occasion, Dr. H C Kyada, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, PDU Medical College, Rajkot said, "Doctors at Primary level need to differentiate snake bites and other exposures including pesticides for adoption of the required treatment protocol. Most common poisonous cases are cobra bites, snake bite, ecstasy, dhatura, bhang etc. overdose. Different exposures need to be identified for adopting specific treatment protocols. A collaborative effort, in association with a prestigious institution like AIIMS, along with a trained workforce of doctors and health professionals, will certainly go a long way to bring best practices to the medical fraternity, especially working in rural areas."
Sagar Kaushik, President, Global Corporate and Industry Affairs, UPL said, "The crop protection industry has introduced environment-friendly crop protection products, including biologicals for pest control and plant health. Also, the expansion of Adarsh Farm Services (AFS) with mechanized machines by UPL has substantially reduced spraying exposure, for spraying workers and farmers, to almost zero levels in the last five to six years. UPL will organize such symposiums nationwide to bring awareness for safe use of agrochemicals with support from its state medical fraternity"
Dr. Tejas Prajapati, Clinical Medical Toxicologist, LG Hospital Ahmedabad said, "The lack of awareness on best practices and exposure to pesticide sprays if undeterred, will continue to threaten crop productivity, farmers' safety/health, environment protection and even export markets for some niche crops. Toxicology is still neglected part in Medical curriculum and many doctors don't have much idea on how they can treat patients of Toxic emergency exposure and using antidotes with right doses at the right time."
The symposium addressed key issues and approaches to toxicology emergency at PHC and tertiary care hospitals, Pesticides and their medical management, Preventive aspects of toxic emergencies, Initiative from UPL for safe and preventive approach to pesticide use specially with their Adarsh Farm Services with 3000 mechanized Spraying Machines for the farmers, Pesticide regulations in India, Medico legal aspects of toxic emergencies and more.
Shri Arun Mahesh Babu M.S., IAS Collector and District Magistrate, Rajkot and The Child and welfare cabinet minister, Rajkot were present along with the experts faculties includes Medical Toxicologist, Critical Care Specialist, Physicians, Pesticide Regulators, Medicolegal Expert, Management Expert and more, during Rajkot seminar and they also extended their support and appreciate efforts to make agriculture and health to come on single platform to understand occupational health in Agriculture.
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Menendez to stay course on Iran bills despite likelihood of corruption charges
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A spokesman for U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez said he would press ahead with two bills seeking a greater congressional say over Iran nuclear talks even as he faces corruption charges.
"The senator will continue to push forward on the pressing foreign policy issues of the day, to include the two Iran bills he co-authored, which are poised to move forward pending the outcome of the March 24th negotiating deadline," Adam Sharon told Bloomberg News on Friday, the same day reports surfaced that the New Jersey senator was facing charges.
Menendez is a lead sponsor of a bill that would add new sanctions on Iran should it walk away from nuclear negotiations underway with the major powers, and another that would subject any deal to congressional approval. He and other Democrats favoring the bills have agreed to wait out the March 24 deadline for a deal outline before advancing the legislation.
President Barack Obama has said he will veto both bills, arguing that they would scuttle negotiations by driving away the Iranians as well as some of the U.S. partners in maintaining sanctions on Iran.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee made both bills a centerpiece of its annual conference last week, and Menendez was given a hero's reception at the conference.
Menendez, the senior Democrat on the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, according to reports is alleged to have delivered political favors for a friend — Salomon Melgen, an ophthalmologist and businessman — in exchange for gifts.
Separately, seven Democrats in the Senate, led by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), introduced a bill on March 4 that would require administration reporting on Iranian compliance with a deal but falls short of adding new sanctions or requiring congressional approval.


Retirement marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter in your life. You are no longer working to satisfy the goals and dreams of your boss. These days, you are looking to ensure that your own goals and dreams are being fulfilled. What are some things that you can do post-retirement to make sure that you have the financial resources to stay in control of your own life?
It is a good idea to always be on the lookout for that next great investment opportunity. Whether you want to buy an income property, purchase gold bullion or invest in a business, you should always be looking to put your money where it will continue to grow for you.
After retirement, you may loathe the thought of going back to work. The good news is that you have the flexibility to choose a job that interests you. Instead of working because you have to, you have the time to work as a bartender, on the golf course or at the body shop because you want to and its a great way to make money while getting out of the house.
Your financial planner is your best friend. He or she will show you how to responsibly manage your money in ways that will allow you to live your life without fear of going broke.
Do you suffer from pain or soreness due to years of physical labor? If so, you may want to meet with Harris Federal, a federal disability attorney to see if you can start collecting social security disability checks without having to sacrifice money in the future.
Each dollar that you don't send to the government is a dollar that you keep in your bank account. Therefore, it is in your best interest to find ways to lower your tax burden whenever possible. An easy way to do this, if you are under age 70, is to keep your money in your retirement account to avoid paying taxes on accrued interest.
Once you retire, you won't have the large paycheck and health benefits that your employer has provided for you. This means that you have to think of ways to provide for yourself for the next 20 to 30 years.
Yes off-course, retirement marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter in your life. You are no longer working to satisfy the goals and dreams of your boss. But with the help of experts financial planner you can make your retirement move correctly. These days, you are looking to ensure that your own goals and dreams are being fulfilled.


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We loved our time at the cabin! It was so relaxing and nice. The cabin is beautiful and pristine. Ignore some of the other reviews about towels and minor things they had issues with. Basic amenities were all there, the towels are good, the faucet works great (I think some people couldn't figure out how to operate it), and there are definitely no bugs. The hot tub was awesome and my husband and I enjoyed everything. We will definitely be back and highly recommend this cabin.
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Root canal treatment (or endodontics) removes infected pulp from the innermost part of the tooth. This prevents the infection from spreading and can help save a tooth that may otherwise have to be extracted.
The infected pulp is removed under a local anaesthetic and root canals are flushed with an anti-bacterial solution.
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Dane Cook offends the unoffendable: Other comedians
by Caroline Goddard
Jan 19, 2012 at 10:23 pm EDT
Dane Cook is well known for his particularly harsh brand of comedy, but a performance in LA last night crossed the line — and you know it's bad if fellow comedians are saying so.
Comedians are generally a pretty forgiving sort — but if you act like an entitled jerk, they'll turn on you pretty fast. That seems to be what happened when Dane Cook took the stage at The Laugh Factory in Los Angeles last night.
Cook's surprise appearance bumped several other performers from the lineup, but that doesn't seem to be the source of the ire — rather, it was his incredibly misogynistic, egotistical set that was the big turn-off.
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Several comedians expressed their disgust on Twitter, including Late Night with Jimmy Fallon writer Ali Waller who described exactly what was so horrible about what Cook said.
"Glad Dane Cook stopped by the Improv tonight, otherwise I'd never hear the story about how he 'chainsaw-f****d' a 'disgusting whore's c**t,'" she wrote.
Several other comedians spoke out about the nasty set, but T.J. Miller wrote an entire diatribe about it on Twitter.
"F*****g Dane Cook is eating s**t at the laugh factory. He bumped [Bobby Lee] and is being just mean… The hubris of this man unfortunately led to his fall, but I'm afraid he is a damaged man & well, that's about it," Miller wrote.
"He [is] certainly not a comedian… Watching him try and work through his own s**t on stage when he is saying, 'Go f**k a dirty whore. That's the best therapy.' #lord… Dane. You've been doing standup for so many years and you still believe it's okay to bomb and talk about your issues? You. Didn't. Earn This…"
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"Here's an idea, Dane: have some f*****g respect for the audience that gave you the chance to be what you dreamed of being, and don't be mad at them because you f****d it all up from hubris and thirst for fame," Miller continued. "Don't disrespect the people that gave you a chance. Don't do an hour of mean-spirited trash. And Dane Cook, certainly don't ask anyone to feel sorry for you. If you are the person you were onstage last night then you are not a good person. And the way you talk about women is disgusting and pathetic, but really just hurtful. So Good Luck Chuck. [You] need all the luck in the world to realize you need to go to therapy & figure out how to not be a hateful person. Stop performing until [you] do so."
As for Cook himself, he seemed to think things went swimmingly, writing on his own Twitter, "…incredible night — felt connected/something special happening…"
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Updates on what Have I been doing lately.
I just remembered I can post the projects I been doing at the beginning of this year now. This gives a rough Idea of what I been doing lately. Due to nature of this job, I can't really post anything I have completed before the game release, which is roughly half a year to be safe.
This drawing is for a 3 Kingdom game published By Gree, sadly the game it self is Japan only and I couldn't even try the game my self due to that lol.
What's up guys, I haven't written anything for my blog lately, so I guess it's a good time to give a update of what I have been up to.
First of all, I got contracted by Wakka for Digital illustration XD, got packed with jobs lately. Hopefully I won't screw everything up and maintain this job long enough until making money independently as Illustrator~ Although communicating in Japanese is very hard for me, but it work out nicely so far thanks to an Artist friend of mine. http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=1352690 She's a very talented digital illustrator, and improving in a very fast pace. Please check out her drawing if you had time.
Updates on Alice Overture, our group leader decided to use our current resource and get into the game production industry. He's currently working on game proposal and Resource. As for Comiket, the Kancolle book will definitely be made, however let's just hope we can get a table in the first place. The working will be sold in AFA 2014 at Singapore and Winter Comiket at Japan by end of this year. I will be stay in Singapore for a few days and then Japan for the rest of the month.
As my self, my plan is to keep improving my speed and skills on illustration while working as a digital illustrator.


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Solar Powered Unmanned Aircraft Makes First Flight
February 18, 2020 ; By: Team BharatShakti
A 35m wingspan solar-electric aircraft has successfully completed its maiden flight. The landmark flight paves the way to this new aircraft – PHASA-35 – becoming a game-changer in the air and space market, plugging the gap between aircraft and satellite technology.
PHASA-35 has been designed, built and now flown in less than two years as part of a collaboration between BAE Systems and Prismatic Ltd, which the Company agreed to acquire last year. Designed to operate unmanned in the stratosphere, above the weather and conventional air traffic, PHASA-35 offers a persistent and affordable alternative to satellites combined with the flexibility of an aircraft, which could be used for a range of valuable applications including forest fire detection and maritime surveillance.
Sponsored by the UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) and Australian Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG), the successful flight trials took place at the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Woomera Test Range in South Australia.
The trials marked the first fully integrated flight test of the PHASA-35 system, delivering rapid proof of capability from design to flight in just 20 months. They are the culmination of efforts from a collaborative team of British experts from Prismatic in Hampshire – where two full-sized concept aircraft were built last year – working alongside BAE Systems engineers in Lancashire, where the aircraft underwent further integration testing before to flight trials.
As a High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) vehicle, PHASA-35 is powered by the Sun during the day and by batteries overnight. The long-life battery and highly efficient solar technology could allow the aircraft to maintain flight for up to a year operating in the stratosphere, the upper regions of the Earth's atmosphere.
PHASA-35 is designed to provide a persistent, stable platform for monitoring, surveillance, communications and security applications. When connected to other technologies and assets, it will provide both military and commercial customers with capabilities that are not currently available from existing air and space platforms. The Unmanned Air Vehicle also has the potential to be used in the delivery of communications networks including 5G, as well as provide other services, such as disaster relief and border protection, at a fraction of the cost of satellites.
Ian Muldowney, Engineering Director for BAE Systems, said, "This is an outstanding early result that demonstrates the pace that can be achieved when we bring the best of British capability together. To go from design to flight in less than two years shows that we can rise to the challenge the UK Government has set industry to deliver a Future Combat Air System within the next decade."
Further flight trials are scheduled for later this year, with the possibility that the aircraft could enter initial operations with customers within 12 months of the flight trials programme completion.
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\section{Introduction}
\IEEEPARstart{T}{he} recent concept of Smart Cities influences the town planners, investigators and researchers to strengthen the security and safety of a resident. Increasing demand for residential security needs an infrastructure of surveillance cameras deployed for video analysis. A leading challenge in analyzing surveillance videos is the detection of abnormal events or anomalies which require exhaustive human efforts.
Most of these smart surveillance applications create massive contextual data that require significant storage and computing resources. An Internet-of-Things (IoT) framework provides excellent flexibility and scalability to handle increasing surveillance needs. Embedding smart surveillance in IoT framework needs computer vision tasks such as human detection, classification, and tracking to be performed essentially at the perception or sensor layer of an IoT architecture to ensure response time, accuracy, and energy efficiency. In safety-critical applications such as anomaly detection, response time is an important parameter. The visual tasks at the sensor layer of an IoT architecture depend on the ability to capture, process visual data, and making decisions in real-time. Thus, it solves the application problem using only a single available frame without storing the intermediate frames for processing. This need is not fulfilled by cloud computing, although high accuracy can be achieved for visual tasks. The need of extensive bandwidth and inevitable network latency will prevent real-time response for targeting moving objects \cite{kumaran2019anomaly}. Some approaches have been proposed for combining the edge and cloud to reduce network traffic and latencies \cite{ghosh2020edge}, however, due to the data-intensive nature of computer vision tasks, the network latencies are inevitable.

Convolutional Neural Networks (CCN) are becoming popular as they provide near-human accuracy for object detection and tracking. Convolutional Siamese Network, a type of CNN is used in modern object detection and tracking, establishing benchmark \cite{8649753, nawaratne2019spatiotemporal, DBLP:journals/corr/abs-1810-04108}. However, to achieve the required accuracy, CNN-based object detection and tracking depend on the high processing power of underlying hardware/computers. They involve a huge quantity of computations making them unsuitable for edge devices.
Employing edge computing for surveillance is considered as the answer to these shortcomings \cite{8422970}. Consequently, its integration with the IoT framework possesses the following advantages: real-time response, reduced network workload, lower power consumption, and higher data security and privacy. Despite the promising benefits of edge computing, one of the critical challenges is how to efficiently process the data-intensive computer vision tasks in real-time on a resource-constrained device. Various smart video surveillance approaches for object detection and tracking propose to use Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL) algorithms and they usually have huge computational requirements. How to migrate these data-intensive and high-computing tasks to the edge devices at IoT nodes are still significant challenge.\par
The research contributions of this work are as follows:
\begin{enumerate}
    \item A lightweight framework for anomaly detection in residential video surveillance is developed for CPU-only edge devices to achieve real-time performance.
    \item Optimization of framework elements to run on CPU-only edge device.
    \item Effect of configuration parameters on the overall accuracy and efficiency of the anomaly detection system.
    \item Performance analysis of anomaly detector on real-world residential surveillance video streams for CPU-only edge devices.
    \item Integration of the proposed system with the IoT framework for real-time automated alerts.
\end{enumerate}

The rest of the paper is organized as follows: in section II we present the learning-based approaches for anomaly detection and then the attempts made for anomaly detection at the Edge/terminal devices are discussed. Section III presents the methodology and framework for the proposed anomaly detection. Experimental analysis for different configurations of parameters is presented in Section IV. Results and benchmarking on standard datasets are presented in Section V. Finally, Section VI concludes this paper.

\section{Related Work}
Currently, most of the video surveillance systems function as an archive of footage and need huge storage and processing in the background. Very few are real-time smart surveillance systems that perform object detection and tracking tasks with the backbone of networking servers and Cloud operations. It has been recognized that heavy communication overhead observed in the cloud is not tolerable in many delay-sensitive, mission-critical tasks such as anomaly detection \cite{7979979}. The terminal processing at edge devices for automated surveillance is considered to be the alternative for cloud and network-based processing \cite{8422970}, especially when response time is a relatively important parameter. Over the decade, some approaches have been crafted for automated surveillance/object tracking using edge devices. However, very few of them talk about the detection of an anomaly in video surveillance.\par
Though the notion of anomaly is not the same in all application contexts \cite{6544585, sodemann2012review,loce2013computer} but it follows a general framework comprising mainly; object detection, tracking, trajectory association, behavior understanding, and abnormal event/anomaly detection as shown in Fig. 1.\par
Object detection and tracking solutions range from traditional computer vision algorithms to more recent applications of learning-based approaches. Both require computationally powerful machines, making the product unsuitable for field deployment. Traditional algorithms; Scale Invariance Feature Transformation (SIFT) performs human detection using distinctive invariant features that are used to reliably match different views of an object or scene \cite{lowe2004distinctive}. Histograms of Oriented Gradient (HOG) descriptors significantly outperform existing feature sets for human detection \cite{1467360}. Further, HOG+SVM algorithm \cite{pang2011efficient} shows better performance in human detection. Whereas, the potential of modern learning-based strategies has led computer vision to a new extent during the last few years \cite{nature521}. Deep learning methods and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) along with recent computational advancement has opened a new way to handle computer vision tasks such as object tracking \cite{DBLP:journals/corr/GundogduA17}. Although the training phase usually demands high computation capability, the benefits of CNN can be exploited using computationally constrained hardware resources once the CNN has been trained. Few approaches have proposed the hardware-efficient neural networks to deliver state-of-the-art performance on embedded systems \cite{Zhang2020SkyNetAH, 8945145, 7533003,howard2017mobilenets}.
Recently, learning-based approaches specifically designed for anomaly detection are observed in the literature \cite{8649753, 9116533, nawaratne2019spatiotemporal, wei2018unsupervised}. Wei et al. detected anomalies in traffic surveillance, utilizing background modeling followed by Faster RCNN to detect vehicles in the extracted background and decide new anomalies under certain conditions \cite{wei2018unsupervised}. Following an unsupervised approach, Bhakat et al. used an autoencoder model trained to minimize the reconstruction error between the input and the generated output \cite{bhakat2019anomaly}. Further, the scalability issues due to the different-sized anomaly and their occurrence in a short time in pedestrian pathways are resolved by Region-based Scalable Convolution Neural Network (RS-CNN) \cite{murugan2019region}. An AnomalyNet by Zhou et. al detects anomaly by the synergic association of feature learning, sparse representation using sparse long short term memory (SLSTM) \cite{8649753}. Despite the rapid development computer vision applications using deep learning methods and CNNs, the gap between software and hardware implementations is already considerable \cite{8114708}.

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\caption{General flow of Anomaly Detection}
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With the advancement in the terminal or edge devices, few contributions are observed in detecting anomalies at the edge or terminal devices. Schneible et al. present a federated learning approach in which autoencoders are deployed on edge devices to identify anomalies. Utilizing a centralized server as a back-end processing system, the local models are updated and redistributed to the edge devices \cite{8170817}. However, having a costly back-end server is not a feasible idea for residential surveillance.

Nikouei et al. presented a lightweight-Convolutional Neural Network (L-CNN) architecture specialized for human detection. The computational cost of the CNN itself is reduced by employing depth-wise separable convolution \cite{howard2017mobilenets} which splits each convolution layer into two parts. Such computational pathways are more suitable for edge devices without much sacrifice on the accuracy of the whole network \cite{nikouei2018smart}.
To reduce the memory and storage requirements of using raw image/video data for training, Yuan Cheng et al. used structured, and tensorized time-series features to train a LSTM-based Spatio-temporal model instead of directly working on the raw video frames or non-structured features \cite{9116533}. Tensor decomposition and an 8-bit trained quantization were performed to achieve deep compression. Experiments on large-scale video-labeled dataset UCFCrime \cite{8578776} is performed using GTX-1080Ti GPU. However, the development and performance analysis of anomaly detector algorithms on CPU-only edge/terminal devices is underexplored.

\section{Methodology}
This section presents the hardware experimental setup and proposed framework for anomaly detection in residential video surveillance.
\subsection{Hardware Setup}
Our system is intended to detect anomalies in the residential video surveillance streams. The surveillance camera deployment is critical to ensure that the people are within the view and should not be far away to compromise the object detector. \\
Our CPU-only edge node is Raspberry Pi 4B, it is a Broadcom BCM2711 SOC with a quad-core-A72 based on ARM v8 architecture. This 64-bit processor runs at 1.5GHz and has a RAM of 4GB.
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The edge node is actively cooled using an armor aluminum alloy case with a dual cooling fan enclosure; powered and controlled through a GPIO interface. 12,000 mAh Lithium-Ion battery (optional if the power supply is available) is used to power Raspberry Pi and 433MHz LoRa Module. The LoRa module serves as an IoT link between the edge device and the LoRa-based IoT network. We used a fixed view camera, Logitech B525 for recording in full color. An optional, 7-inch LCD is interfaced via HDMI for troubleshooting and visual output. The complete system is packaged in a metal casing for ease of handling and deployment, shown in Figure 2. We use OpenCV, TensorFlow with TensorFlow Lite engine controlled by Python running under Raspbian, a Debian-based operating system optimized for raspberry pi hardware.

\subsection{Proposed Framework}
Anomaly detection in residential video surveillance focuses on spatial association and dynamics between the people in the scene. This is possible by utilizing the trajectories of the people in the scene.
Muti-Object Tracking (MOT) can be employed to estimate the tracking trajectories as it can directly provide object-level interpretations in the scene. However, posture deformations and heavy occlusions limit the ability of the multi-object tracker. We cope with this limitation by associating trajectories of different objects in the scene. The spatio-temporal feature representation corresponding to each person is developed and used for trajectory association and re-identification. If a person is new and does not have a history in tracking, a fresh identity is assigned and a person that fails to be found over a certain number of frames is considered to have left the scene. The track vectors of the known persons are compared to understand the dynamics between the persons. Based on the estimated dynamics, different anomalies are identified. The workflow of the proposed anomaly detector is shown in Figure 3.

The object detection model is a quantized version of a pre-trained SSD MobileNet v1 \cite{howard2017mobilenets} model optimized for low computational overload. Depthwise separable convolution \cite{sifre2014rigid} technique reduces the computational overload in the MobileNet. A standard convolution is factorized into a depthwise convolution and pointwise convolution which is a 1x1 convolution. In standard convolution, inputs are filtered and combined into one step to generate the output whereas, depthwise separable convolution performs the same operation into two steps, a separate step for filtering and a separate step for combining. This reduces the computations of detphwise separable convolution as compared to the standard convolution. We use images of size 300x300 as an input to the MobilNet and from the output, the detection corresponding to the category of 'person' is used for feature extraction and trajectory association.

 The feature extraction for the detected persons is performed by extracting spatio-temporal features using DeepFlow \cite{6751282}. The DeepFlow provides variational optical flow and also handles large displacements. It uses dense sampling to retrieve dense correspondences from single feature correspondences with deformable patches. The matching component of an algorithm builds upon a multi-stage architecture with 6 layers, interleaving convolutions and max-pooling, a construction akin to deep convolutional nets works with a restricted set of feasible non-rigid warpings. This produces almost smooth dense correspondences while allowing computationally efficient comparison of non-rigid descriptors.

The feature extraction step must be run separately on every detected person, which scales the algorithm linearly with the number of persons to be tracked. The trajectory associations of the detected persons with known history are performed using computationally light DeepSORT \cite{wojke2017simple} method. DeepSORT estimates cosine metric distance on extracted feature vectors and combines it with the Mahalanobis distance estimated on Kalman Filter distributions. Based on the feature threshold, a new person entered into the surveillance scene is given a fresh identity and a person that fails to be found over the subsequent 30 frames is assumed to have left the scene. The trajectory of a person and corresponding features are used in re-identification during the subsequent frames. These trajectories and dynamics between them are employed to detect anomalies in the scene.

Premeditated anomalies are defined based on the person's movement in the typical residential video surveillance streams as follows.\\
• A person standing still for a long time\\
We consider, standing still for a the considerable time does not fit the normal behavior of a human being and it looks suspicious. If the person's tracking trajectory is confined in a very small area for a long time, we define that as an anomaly.\\
• A person with a fast motion\\
In residential campuses, running is not a usual practice. if a person exceeds the finite fluctuation around the average velocity, we consider this behavior as anomalous.\\
• A person with the circular/spiral movements\\
The spiral motion of a person is very rare and surely suspicious. Generally, such motion is observed when anybody is inspecting something or someone. The tracking trajectory corresponding to a person is utilized, if it is circular in nature the motion is considered as circular/spiral.\\
• A person with jumping from the fence or gate\\
Unauthorized entry or trespassing into the residential campus is always attempted by jumping a fence or gate. If the vertical fluctuations in the trajectory exceed the average vertical fluctuations, the situation is declared as an anomaly.\\
• Gathering of four or more persons simultaneously\\
Gathering in a residential campuses is common, however, the simultaneous gathering of four or more persons is not expected as common event and thus considered abnormal. Trajectories with different identities approaching towards the common meet point are identified and declared as anomalies.\\
• Dispersion of four or more persons simultaneously\\
Dispersion is the same as gathering except for the directions of trajectories are opposite and are extending from the common meeting point.

At each frame, the most recent trajectories of known persons are compared against the pre-meditated anomaly situations using cosine similarity. If any of the aforementioned situations occur, the anomaly is declared and the alert is sent to the authorized personnel via the LoRa-based IoT-framework. Further, the only data transmitted using LoRa network is the alert of anomaly detection securing complete privacy which is sensitive in residential surveillance.

\section{Experiment}
The proposed anomaly detection approach employs Muti-Object Tracking (MOT) to obtain object-level interpretations in the scene. For the given circumstances, we use SSD MobileNet for person detection, as it provides good performance and accuracy. We compared the performance of two versions v1 and v2 of MobileNet at normal CPU clock and also with the overclocked settings on Raspberry Pi 4B. During the tests, the CPU is overclocked from 1500MHz to 1900MHz to analyze the boost in performance of MobileNet at these clock rates as shown in Fig. 4.\par
We analyzed the performance of feature encoder and trajectory association together on Raspberry pi at normal CPU clock and also at overclocked CPU. We found that the operation took 109ms for a single detection. As the feature encoding and trajectory association are scaled with the number of persons detected in the surveillance scene, the current settings of the operation are not suitable for real-time processing of the surveillance scene with multiple people. Most of the processing time out of 109ms is consumed in the DeepFlow feature encoder which is a CNN trained on MARS dataset with an image input size of 128x64. We retrained it with an image input size of 64x32 and got a speed improvement of about 62\%. With this, the feature encoding and trajectory association took 45ms and even improved by overclocking to 42ms per detection. This setting is considerably faster and practical for computer vision applications running on CPU-only edge devices, as it provides sufficient speed for anomaly detection in residential video surveillance.\par
Setting hardware for the optimum performance,i.e. CPU clock at 1900MHz and DeepFlow with input image size 64x32, the overall execution time can be estimated as;\\
(a) Object Detection (OD) in the surveillance frame takes 92ms.\\
(b) Feature Encoding (FE) per detected object takes 38ms.\\
(c) Trajectory Association (TA) takes 4ms.\\

\begin{figure}[!t]
\includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{Figures/CPUclockvsMobileNet.jpg}
\centering
\captionsetup{justification=centering}
\caption{Effect of overclocking on MobileNet performance.}
\end{figure}

Thus, the overall execution time \(T\) considering \(p\) persons detected  in the surveillance scene is given as,
\begin{equation}
    T = 96 + 38*p
\end{equation}
With this setting, we can detect anomalies with eight people in the surveillance scene maintaining 2.5 FPS, five people with 3.5 FPS, two people with 6 FPS, and one person with 8 FPS.\\

\begin{table}[!t]
    \centering
    \caption{Execution with Movidius Neural Compute Stick}
    \label{table_1}
    \begin{tabular}{c|c|c|c}
        Element & Without MNCS & With MNCS & \% Improvement\\
        OD & 92 ms & 73 ms & 20.6\%\\
        FE & 38 ms & 31 ms & 18.4\%\\
        TA & 04 ms & 03 ms & 25.0\%\\

    \end{tabular}

\end{table}

Hardware accelerators like, Movidius Neural Compute Stick (MNCS) are very useful to achieve higher processing speed for real-time applications. We used Movidius Neural Compute Stick V1 which is powered by Myriad Vision Processing Unit (VPU) and an AI-optimized chip for accelerating vision computing based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Integration of MNCS with Raspberry pi 4B provides considerable improvements in the results as shown in Table I.
The hardware accelerator (MNCS) boosts the overall performance by about 20\% and facilitates detection of anomalies with a sufficient frame rate for residential surveillance applications.

\section{Result and Discussion}
The experimental setup accepts live camera feed as input to the algorithm. However, to test the algorithm using standard datasets, we set up a system to accept pre-recorded video sequences instead of the live camera feed. We used UCSD Ped1 \cite{UCSD_2010} and UMN \cite{mehran2009abnormal} dataset to test a proposed system both qualitatively and quantitatively.\par
The anomaly detection score is estimated from the vectors drawn from the ground truth and from test runs of the system. A cosine distance ranging from [0 1] is used to compare trajectory vectors. Estimated distance subtracted from 1 provides an ideal score of 1, the worst score as 0. The system is tested extensively and the obtained anomaly detection scores for the set of experiment is given in Table-II.\par

\begin{table}[!t]
    \centering
    \caption{Anomaly detection scores at different parameter configuration}
    \label{table_2}
    \begin{tabular}{c}
        UCSD Ped-1 Dataset\\
        \begin{tabular}{c|c|c|c}
            Feature Encoder & max-cos-distance & nms-overlap & Avg. Score\\
            128x64 &    0.6 &   0.3 &   0.892\\
            128x64 &	0.6 &	0.6 &	0.921\\
            128x64 &	0.6 &	0.9	&   0.873\\
            128x64 &	0.9 &	0.3 &	0.925\\
            128x64 &	0.9 &	0.6 &	0.848\\
            128x64 &	0.9 &	0.9 &	0.802\\
            64x32 &	0.6 &	0.3 &	0.885\\
            64x32 &	0.6 &	0.6 &	0.913\\
            64x32 &	0.6 &	0.9 &	0.838\\
            64x32 &	0.9 &	0.3 &	0.918\\
            64x32 &	0.9 &	0.6 &	0.851\\
            64x32 &	0.9 &	0.9 &	0.835\\
        \end{tabular}\\
    \end{tabular}\\
    \vspace{0.4cm}
    \begin{tabular}{c}
        UMN Dataset\\
           \begin{tabular}{c|c|c|c}
            Feature Encoder & max-cos-distance & nms-overlap & Avg. Score\\
            128x64 &	0.6 &	0.3 &	0.923\\
            128x64 &	0.6 &	0.6 &	0.895\\
            128x64 &	0.6 &	0.9 &	0.931\\
            128x64 &	0.9 &	0.3 &	0.927\\
            128x64 &	0.9 &	0.6 &	0.891\\
            128x64 &	0.9 &	0.9 &	0.886\\
            64x32 &	0.6 &	0.3 &	0.931\\
            64x32 &	0.6 &	0.6 &	0.917\\
            64x32 &	0.6 &	0.9 &	0.891\\
            64x32 &	0.9 &	0.3 &	0.936\\
            64x32 &	0.9 &	0.6 &	0.872\\
            64x32 &	0.9 &	0.9 &	0.882\\
           \end{tabular}\\
    \end{tabular}

\end{table}

We tested several parameter configurations; for DeepSORT, we tested size of feature encoder 64x32, 128x64, and 256x128, the max-cos-distance threshold for trajectory association, and the 'non-maximum suppression' (nms-overlap) threshold to avoids spurious overlapping detection boxes.\par
It is observed that, reducing the size of input feature encoder dose not affect anomaly score significantly but reduces the processing time drastically. We also observed, lower non-maximum-suppression effectively suppress some spurious boxes that are generated by clusters of people and achieves slightly improved performance.\par
Further, for trajectory associations, setting the max-cos-distance threshold to higher value achieves better performance. Lower values of the threshold may result into unwanted identity swaps as the cosine distances between two encoded feature vectors are not large enough to differentiate people wearing similar color clothing.\par

\begin{table}[!t]
    \centering
    \caption{Comparative results of anomaly detection on CPU-only edge device}
    \label{table_3}
    \begin{tabular}{l|c|c}
        Methods & UCSD Ped-1 Dataset & UMN Dataset\\
        Xu et al.\cite{8422970} & 0.781 & 0.816\\
        Xue et al.\cite{xue2020anomaly} & 0.863 & 0.872\\
        Nawaratne et al.\cite{nawaratne2019spatiotemporal}  & 0.890 & 0.912\\
        \textbf{Proposed} & \textbf{0.918} & \textbf{0.936}\\

    \end{tabular}

\end{table}

\begin{figure}[!t]
\includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{Figures/PowerConsumption.jpg}
\centering
\captionsetup{justification=centering}
\caption{Power consumption in running and sleeping state.}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[!t]
\includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{Figures/CPUclockvsTemperature.jpg}
\centering
\captionsetup{justification=centering}
\caption{Effect of overclocking on core temperatures.}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[!t]
\includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{Figures/Abnormalities.jpg}
\centering
\captionsetup{justification=centering}
\caption{Anomalies in surveillance videos from UCSD Ped-1 and UMN datasets}
\end{figure}
Based on the results obtained for different parameter configurations, we set the best configuration for the proposed system as feature encoder size to 64x32, max-cos-distance to 0.9, and nms-overlap threshold to 0.3. With this optimum configuration, we analyzed the power consumption for running and sleeping states at different CPU clock rates as shown in Fig. 5. We also noticed that the core temperature spikes up to about 68$^\circ$C without active cooling and about 59$^\circ$C with active cooling. The effect of overclocking on CPU cores is shown in Fig. 6. However, without active cooling, further increase in the CPU clock, increases the core temperature and halts the system due to overheating.

Finally, with the optimum setting, we compare the proposed approach with existing methods on UCSD Ped-1 and UMN dataset as shown in Table-III. Images capturing anomalies in the surveillance scenes are shown in Fig. 7. Results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the other approaches by achieving higher scores. The spatio-temporal feature encoding effectively works in associating trajectories and ensures consistency in person identities even in complex scenes, deformed postures, and partial occlusions. Furthermore, the improvement in time efficiency, though not suitable for large-scale surveillance environments, is considerable for facilitating anomaly detection using CPU-only edge devices in residential video surveillance systems.

\section{Conclusion}
In this work, we used CPU-only edge device to detect anomalies in residential video surveillance. The object detector, feature encoder, and trajectory associations are performed on edge to detect abnormal behavior of people in surveillance scenes. The alerts for the anomalies are sent through LoRa network maintaining complete privacy in the residential environment. Through several experiments, we optimized the feature encoder to achieve optimized processing time and FPS by slightly compromising on the performance. The experimental results on datasets validate the competitive advantage of the proposed approach on CPU-only edge devices. Moreover, we also establish that the use of hardware accelerators can significantly increase the FPS in detecting anomalies on CPU-only edge devices.

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Nearly 90 percent of the French now disapprove of their president
French President Francois Hollande waits to welcome Austria's Chancellor Christian Kern during the Western Balkans summit at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, July 4, 2016. (Regis Duvignau/Reuters)
Rick Noack
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July 5, 2016 at 6:13 AM EDT
French President François Hollande was never expected to become the most popular head of state in the nation's recent history. But the extent to which his countrymen dislike him has surprised even his political opponents.
Nearly 90 percent of the French disapprove of their president, a poll has revealed. Only 12 percent of those surveyed by polling institute TNS Sofres said they thought Hollande was doing a good job. It is the worst score of any French president since such surveys were first conducted more than three decades ago.
It's somewhat familiar ground for Hollande. In 2013, Hollande was called the "most unpopular president in recent French history" for the first time, following approval ratings of 26 percent. His predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, had never fallen below the 30 percent benchmark.
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Since then, however, Hollande has set new negative records. His popularity briefly rose above 30 percent following the Paris terror attacks in January 2015, which targeted the staff of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket. Hollande was also praised by some for his reaction to the Paris attacks in November 2015. But it was a bump that quickly disappeared.
A continuously high unemployment rate and more terror attacks have rattled the country and its Socialist Party president. Those who are now most disappointed by Hollande's performance are middle-class employees older than 35 and younger than 49.
Hollande was criticized early in his presidency for appearing indecisive. But the president insisted that he was trying to make consensus-based decisions to unite a country that has faced a growing rift between the left and the right-wing supporter base of Marine Le Pen's National Front. France holds elections next April and May.
Measured by how other world leaders have performed in polls, Hollande is far behind. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is still supported by 54 percent of the public — despite allowing waves of refugees into the country in 2015 in a decision which provoked strong criticism from some of her conservative allies.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau might be the West's most popular leader at the moment, with an approval rating of 63 percent.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is said to have the support of 83 percent of his people. My colleague Michael Birnbaum observed earlier this year that Putin's approval ratings do not necessarily reflect agreement with his policies. Many people "drew a sharp line between their support for Putin and their feelings about Russia's direction," he wrote.
Elsewhere, the popularity of leaders is more closely connected to their actual political performance. Brazilian interim President Michel Temer — who has been in power since May — fares worse than Hollande at the moment.
But why are the French so unhappy with their president?
His opponents would mostly point at Hollande's allegedly unsuccessful tenure: The country's economy has only gradually recovered from recession, but many of the nation's problems remain unresolved.
Interestingly, though, Hollande's popularity strongly recovered amid the darkest hours after attacks.
The same effect has been observed elsewhere, including in the United States, where George W. Bush's popularity rose rapidly after the 9/11 attacks. Bush's approval rating rose from 51 percent before the attacks to 86 percent only days after.
What might contribute to Hollande's low ratings is a general tendency among some French to lean toward pessimism. Claudia Senik, a professor at the Paris School of Economics, recently explained that a pessimistic outlook might be more inherent to France than to other countries where optimism is more highly valued -- leading to a "multi-dimensional dissatisfaction" among French.
In other words: Despite a common perception that François Hollande might not be the best president in France's history, he might have higher approval ratings if he were the leader of a different country.
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