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With V2V, cars and trucks wirelessly transmit their locations, speed, direction and other information ten times per second. That lets cars detect when another vehicle is about to run a red light, is braking hard or is coming around a blind turn in time for the driver or, in the case of self-driving cars, for the vehicl... |
V2V's range is up to about 1,000 yards in all directions, even when sight is blocked by buildings or other obstacles. That gives the technology the advantage of being able to detect a potential collision before the driver can see the threat, unlike the sensors and cameras of self-driving cars that sense what's immediat... |
In May, a Tesla Model S sedan in "autopilot" mode crashed into the side of a tractor-trailer that was making a left turn, killing the Tesla driver and drawing attention to the limitations of self-driving technology. The accident is still under investigation, but auto industry experts say that if the two vehicles had be... |
The government estimates that V2V could eventually prevent or mitigate more than 80 percent of collisions that don't involve a driver impaired by drugs or alcohol. |
Ultimately, self-driving cars also equipped with V2V may be the answer to traffic congestion because they'll be able to synchronize their movements, industry officials say, so that they can merge seamlessly and travel in long, closely packed caravans at higher speeds. That would improve traffic flow and increase highwa... |
"It's these two technologies converging together that get you to the self-driving utopia that we're all shooting for," said Hilary Cain, Toyota Motor's technology and innovation policy director. |
FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel derided V2V as a turn-of-the-century technology at a forum on the matter earlier this year. "For 15 years we haven't substantially deployed a thing in this band with respect to auto safety," she said, calling for more "efficient" use of the spectrum. |
As the airwaves grow more congested with traffic such as video chat and streaming, new, unreserved swaths of spectrum are seen as key to creating the "wider pipe" needed to meet demand. |
Automakers say they're willing to share the spectrum, but only if it won't cause V2V signals to be dropped or slowed. The safety signals need to transmit 10 times faster than a typical cellphone call and be 100 percent reliable. The FCC plans to test proposals to share the airwaves. |
Meanwhile, wireless supporters have petitioned the FCC for an emergency order to put off using V2V in the contested spectrum until cybersecurity standards are developed. Automakers contend that such safeguards already are built in. |
They've replated "The Front Page" again, have slapped "His Girl Friday" on the masthead and are running it off at the Music Hall as a special woman's edition of the frenzied newspaper comedy Hecht and MacArthur first published back in 1931. Hildy Johnson is a girl reporter. She has just been divorced from Managing Edit... |
HIS GIRL FRIDAY, as adopted by Charles Lederer from the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur play "Front Page"; directed and produced by Howard Hawks for Columbia Pictures. At the Radio City Music Hall.Walter Burns . . . . . Cary GrantHildy Johnson . . . . . Rosalind RussellBruce Baldwin . . . . . Ralph BellamySheriff Hartwell ... |
Pinter’s one-act play The Dumb Waiter is the most perfect early example of his oeuvre, but it also betrays something of what Harold Bloom called “the anxiety of influence”. |
To forge something new, the playwright had to twist the shadow of the absurdist theatre that immediately preceded him, which may be why The Dumb Waiter feels closer to a feral cousin of Waiting For Godot than any of his later works. |
Don Bridges as Gus in The Dumb Waiter. |
This is the one with two hitmen in a basement: Ben (John Wood) and Gus (Don Bridges) are trapped together, bickering and passing the time as they wait for orders to kill from an unseen master. |
Like Godot, it features a co-dependent, clownish double act but unlike it an aura of menace and suspense hovers over the waiting. It’s a thriller-like scenario, the characters are dangerously elusive and the dialogue writhes with ordinary language (so many of Pinter’s big ideas are explored through small talk) that rad... |
John Wood as Ben in The Dumb Waiter. |
Words are always laying in wait, in Pinter, murder weapon in hand, and the atmosphere of corrosive paranoia, of dread the plays creates, depends on not knowing whether the next word will be a crossword clue or a bullet to the head. |
It’s luxury casting to have veteran actors John Wood and Don Bridges as partners in crime and their instincts for Pinter are sure-footed. |
Bridges plays Gus as a whiny cog in the machine, with a ferret-like scowl, nervous energy and a pathetic air; Wood can be terrifying when he knocks out his avuncular persona, but is a bit one-noted, and reverts to his mannerisms too much as Ben. |
To be fair, I attended a preview performance. There were technical issues: the dumbwaiter itself (crucial to the plot) broke down and there was a brief unscheduled interval while they oiled the pulleys or whatever. And even actors of Wood’s and Bridges’ calibre need more leisure to fully inhabit Pinter’s creatures, to ... |
Still, the production has popular, experienced actors delivering the guts of Pinter’s play – no mean feat – and that’s always worth seeing. |
As recently as last week, reps for three of the tunes were being told there was no time for them, but nominee solidarity may have factored in. |
UPDATED: The Motion Picture Academy, responding to a widespread backlash to its initial plan to only spotlight two of the best original song nominees on the Oscarcast, is now planning to have all five nominated songs performed on the Feb. 24 show, Variety has learned. |
Earlier today, the Academy tweeted that Jennifer Hudson would perform “I’ll Fight,” the Diane Warren-penned song from the documentary “RBG.” A subsequent tweet announced a “spoiler” that “The Place Where Lost Things Go” from “Mary Poppins Returns” would be “performed by a surprise special guest” — leaving open the ques... |
Producers last week told representatives for the remaining three nominees that there wasn’t time to perform all five songs in a streamlined show. But now, sources tell Variety that offers have gone out to reps from all five to perform the songs, although in truncated, 90-second form. |
It is not yet clear whether other performers associated including Blunt, Kendrick Lamar and SZA (“All the Stars”) would perform their songs. |
Sources say that the nominees were talking among themselves last week and that some agreed that solidarity was important, and that a united front of “perform them all” or “perform none of them” might work as a tactic. Whether that happened is not clear. |
At one point, the possibility of having still more music on the telecast was in play: Sources tell Variety a feeler went out to the members of Queen to open the show with one of the hits revived in the “Bohemian Rhapsody” film, but that’s not happening. |
Q: How are my retirement benefits calculated? |
A: Your Social Security benefits are based on earnings averaged over your lifetime. Your actual earnings are first adjusted or “indexed” to account for changes in average wages since the year the earnings were received. Then we calculate your average monthly indexed earnings during the 35 years in which you earned the ... |
Q: I know that Social Security’s full retirement age is gradually rising to 67. But does this mean the “early” retirement age will also be going up by two years, from age 62 to 64? |
A: No. While it is true that under current law the full retirement age is gradually rising from 65 to 67, the “early” retirement age remains at 62. Keep in mind, however, that taking early retirement reduces your benefit amount. For more information about Social Security benefits, visit the website at www.socialsecurit... |
Golden Eagles and pair of Bulldogs voted as best in their respective district tournaments. |
GlenOak, McKinley and Dalton were voted as the No. 1 seeds in their respective girls basketball district tournaments. |
The Golden Eagles earned the top spot in the Canton Memorial Field House Division I district, while the Bulldogs did the same in the Medina Division I district. McKinley is not permitted to play in the Canton district since it is their home floor. |
Dalton was the No. 1 seed in the Norwayne Division IV district. Buchtel (Lake Division II) and Chippewa (Wooster Division III) were also top seeds in area districts. |
In the Canton district, Hoover (No. 2), Jackson (No. 3) and Green (No. 4) rounded out the top-four seeds. All four have byes into the sectional final on Feb. 21, as does No. 5 Louisville, which will play at Green in a sectional final. |
GlenOak will play host to either Perry (No. 8) or Massillon (No. 9), who will meet at Perry in a Feb. 16 sectional opener. Hoover will face either Kenmore-Garfield (No. 7) or Marietta (No. 10), while Jackson will meet either Lake (No. 5) or Ellet (No. 11) in sectional finals. |
All sectional games are played on the home court of the higher-seeded teams. The Canton district semifinals will be played at the Field House on Feb. 25, with the final on Feb. 28. |
McKinley will play host to either No. 8 Copley or No. 9 Firestone in a Feb. 21 sectional final. Hoban (No. 2), Wadsworth (No. 3) and Wooster (No. 4) are the other top-four seeds at Medina. |
Dalton's path starts with a Feb. 23 sectional final against either No. 8 Mapleton or No. 9 Mogadore, who meet in a Feb. 20 opener at Mapleton. The other top-four seeds are No. 2 Cuyahoga Heights, No. 3 East Canton and No. 4 Lake Center Christian. |
Lake Center plays Feb. 23 against either Lake Ridge Academy (No. 5) or Our Lady of the Elms (No. 12). East Canton meets either Rittman (No. 6) or Hillsdale (No. 11) the same day. |
The district semifinals are Feb. 27 at Norwayne High School. The district final is March 2. |
The highest-seeded Stark County team at the Lake Division II district is Canton South, which is the No. 4 seed. Norton (No. 2) and Norwayne (No. 3) are the top-three seeds besides Buchtel, which will meet either Tallmadge (No. 8) or Marlington (No. 9) in a Feb. 21 sectional final. |
South plays host to No. 13 Alliance in a sectional semifinal on Feb. 16. The winner will face either No. 5 Ravenna or No. 12 Coventry in a Feb. 21 sectional final. |
Northwest, No. 6 in the district, opens with No. 11 Springfield on Feb. 16. The winner travels to Norwayne on Feb. 21. |
The district semifinals are Feb. 25 at Lake High School. The final is Feb. 28. |
Tuslaw earned the No. 4 seed at Wooster, and will open with a Feb. 20 sectional semifinal against No. 13 Central Catholic. The winner advances to a Feb. 23 sectional final against either No. 5 Waynedale or No. 12 Black River. |
Fairless, seeded 10th, will open at No. 7 Smithville on Feb. 20. The winner meets No. 2 Orrville. |
Manchester, seeded sixth, will play host to No. 11 St. Thoma Aquinas on Feb. 20. The winner meets No. 3 Loudonville. |
The district semifinals will be Feb. 27 at Wooster High School. The district final is March 2. |
At IBC2008, Evertz will demonstrate a range of signal processing systems covering everything from encoding, to transport. |
The 9780ENC-H264HD is a professional-grade H.264 encoder that offers high-end HD encoding of one HD SDI input or optionally SD encoding of up to 4 SD SDI inputs. The 1RU box has two slots that accept 7700-series cards to provide additional functionality. |
Evertz decoders include the 3480DEC18-MP2SD-ASI Series high density MPEG-2 SD decoder and the 7780DEC-H264HD-2 dual H.264 HD decoder. The decoders target content transport over satellite, terrestrial or IP networks and encode and decode video and audio using a range of codecs, including JPEG2000, MPEG-2 and H.264. They... |
Evertz will also highlight its Intelligain loudness and dynamic range processing technology, which provides consistent audio loudness levels within a channel and/or program; automatic detection and level adjustment for loud commercials; gain control within a program interval to preserve audio dynamic range; artifact-fr... |
This technology can be applied to a number of Evertz products, including frame synchronizers, protection switches, audio embedders and de-embedders. |
Evertz will also display the CP-2200E, an advanced panel that allows users to create an interface to an entire system to allow real-time control over signals, displays and their router destinations. The CP-2200E features two high resolution color LCD displays alongside an array of function-assignable LCD buttons, all o... |
Evertz will be in Stand 8.B40. |
Big reveal will include a facility control system, J2K encoder and decoder cards, and new optical transport modules. |
Evertz will introduce the 2408LT fiber optic transmitter for RF signals in the extended satellite L-Band frequency range. |
Broadcast solution provider shows end-to-end loudness solutions for full compliance across major European standards. |
The company’s “Loudness Family” of products offer easy-to-use solutions for monitoring the loudness of stereo, multichannel and surround signals in a wide range of applications. |
DETROIT – The Red Wings today recalled left wing Anthony Mantha from the American Hockey League’s Grand Rapids Griffins. |
Mantha, 21, currently ranks third on the Griffins with 45 points (21-24-45) in 56 games, having bested his AHL rookie-year totals in each offensive category after picking up 33 points (15-18-33) in 62 games for Grand Rapids in 2014-15. This season, he ranks among club leaders with 21 goals (3rd), 24 assists (T4th), a p... |
Originally drafted by the Red Wings in the first round (20th overall) of the 2013 NHL Entry Draft, Mantha enjoyed a prolific junior career prior to turning professional, racking up 260 points (129-131-260) in 189 games for the Val-d’Or Foreurs of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. He was named the Canadian Hockey L... |
Stan Czebruk was 51 and hiking the Highlands of Scotland in 2009 when his wife called. That cyst on his left ear the doctors had examined a few months earlier was a melanoma. He had his earlobe removed at the McGill University Health Centre, but because the melanoma was near his neck and several large veins, doctors ke... |
Two years later, they found the cancer had spread to his lungs. Then it moved to his head. He tried chemotherapy, with limited success, and then the doctors tried immunotherapy, boosting his immune system by creating more white blood cells to attack the cancer cells. In 2014, they took two large tumours out of his head... |
The treatments worked. As of last year the cancer was in remission, and now, at the age of 60, he is cancer-free. |
“I got my life back,” Czebruk said. |
He walks one to two hours a day and is considering taking up hockey again. In September, he’s going back to Concordia to do a degree in his first love — geography. |
Czebruk got lucky. Immunotherapy was successful for him, but it isn’t for 70 to 80 per cent of patients who try it. |
In an effort to find out why it works for some and not others, and improve cancer patients’ odds for survival, the Terry Fox Research Institute announced Thursday the creation of the Montreal Cancer Consortium (MCC), grouping seven hospitals and research centres that will compare notes, scientific research and patient ... |
“We brought together seven institutions in Montreal to understand why certain patients are responding to immune therapies and others are not, in order to develop stratification tools to better improve precision medicine,” said Ian Watson, the Canada Research Chair in Functional Genomics of Melanoma and assistant profes... |
He helped to start the MCC project along with Dr. John Stagg of the Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM). |
Immunotherapy has been shown to produce long-term, durable responses to cancer, lasting for as long as 10 years, Watson noted, whereas patients often develop resistance to other therapies. |
“We want to better understand how that works and bring it to other patients,” he said. |
Patients will be asked to participate in studies, and experts in a variety of research areas will carry out studies on patient samples. |
Also in the consortium is the Goodman Cancer Research Centre, the Centre de Recherche Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, the Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, the Université de Montréal and Génome Québec Innovation Centre and the Research Institute of the McGill... |
The MCC will receive $6.5 million over the next two years from several organizations, including the Terry Fox Research Institute, Oncopole and the Institute de Cancer de Montréal. The Terry Fox Research Institute is working to create a Canada-wide network of linked cancer centres to share knowledge and techniques. |
There have been countless great voices to enter through the famous doors at Ibrox. But how many of them had such an impact that years, even decades, later, echoes of their voices can still be heard? |
In this video, we look through six of the most valuable and try and what made them true Rangers legends. |
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They needed leaves. Lots of leaves. Leaves all over the big trees on the Kanebs’ lawn, which sweeps down to the harbor. Where were the leaves, asked Nelson Coates, the production designer. |
Mrs. Kaneb, who left her career as an investment banker to stay at home with her four children, explained New England winters: They’re really, really long. “I told them, ‘You’re not going to get full foliage until the end of April, beginning of May,’ ” she said as she gave a tour of what is now known in these parts as ... |
“Hollywood shipped in branches with fake leaves,” Mrs. Kaneb said. |
She watched from the second-floor balcony off the master bedroom as some men spent several days attaching the fake leaves to the real trees with twisty ties. |
That was just one of the lessons in moviemaking Mrs. Kaneb got when she and her husband turned their house over to Touchstone and Disney Studios for two months in the spring of 2008. |
The Kanebs’ early-20th-century cedar shingle and natural stone house, with 9 bedrooms and 10 bathrooms, in Manchester, a 40-minute drive north of Boston, was transformed to look as if it was in Sitka, the small town on a remote Alaskan island where a corporate titan played by Ms. Bullock was going to fall in love with ... |
Mr. Coates had discovered the house after sending a location scout to scour Boston’s rocky shore for the perfect place. The studio was taking advantage of the generous tax credit that the state of Massachusetts has used to draw moviemakers. |
He told the scout that it should feel coastal, and most important, have a dock. “The family needed to look like they were isolated from town — like they needed a boat to get there,” Mr. Coates said. |
As soon as he saw the house on a scouting trip by fishing boat, he knew it was the right place. “It was the way it was on a slope,” he said. “It looked grand. It looked like the people owned half the town, which they do in the movie. It had this really great presence to it.” And it had a wooden dock. |
An effervescent young location scout made multiple visits to the Kanebs. |
“She was so nice,” Mrs. Kaneb said. “But at first we thought, ‘No way.’ ” It was just too much upheaval. Mr. Coates had let them know that their airy, light-colored interior was all wrong for the rough-hewn Alaskan look he was after, so he would have to build his own interior set. |
And while they did it for the experience, not the money, Mrs. Kaneb said, Disney did compensate them for their trouble. The Kanebs declined to discuss the amount, other than to say it was fair; industry sources say fees can range from $1,000 to $2,000 a day for preparation, to the actual filming, which can range from $... |
The movie people began blocking out scenes for filming in mid-March and fell in love with the Kanebs’ antique barn. “They loved the space so much they changed the script,” putting the wedding scene there rather than on the lawn, Mrs. Kaneb said. |
She soon learned another lesson in moviemaking: “It takes a village.” Once filming started, in April, more than 100 people — the actors (Ms. Bullock, Mr. Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen, Betty White, Craig T. Nelson and others), publicists, makeup artists, sound techs, camera crew, lighting specialists, landscapers, stand-i... |
“I still walked my dog every day, despite having to scoot through the 100-plus folks in our yard,” Mrs. Kaneb said. |
Her dog, a Havanese named Mocha, became a favorite of Ms. White’s. Ms. White was a favorite of the Kaneb family. |
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