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By now, many of you who receive The Tablet by mail have received renewal notices. For some, this is nothing new since you already are paid subscribers to the paper. Others have been getting it mailed to your home, courtesy of your pastor who has been paying the bill. This may be a revelation to some. Many time people have asked me who is paying for their paper.
We are undertaking the ambitious task of moving from a circulation plan that is sustained by the parishes of the diocese to one in which individual subscribers will pay for the cost of producing a weekly newspaper. We do not receive any subsidy from central diocesan funds.
This will mean changing a mindset that has been in place since the 1960s when many bishops in the country went to mandated parish circulation plans. It was simple. Bishops wanted its congregations to be educated in the teachings of the Second Vatican Council and the best way of doing that was through a healthy circulation of the weekly diocesan newspaper.
Today news is delivered in so many more different ways and we have stayed up to speed as the DeSales Media Group, the parent company of The Tablet, is active in TV, social media, and websites.
DeSales is also sophisticated in marketing and public relations. And we feel that we have the means and knowledge to tap into the hunger for good Catholic news and information to wean down the parish subscriptions lists. Of course, this will mean lower costs to the parishes that have been sustaining us for years. We are grateful to that.
We will be talking up individual subscriptions as the fall pastoral year approaches. I plan to meet with each deanery in Brooklyn and Queens to elaborate on how to bring down the parish subscribers and convert them to individual subscribers. As individual members of the parish sign up for a subscription, the parish's quota will be adjusted to lower the cost to the parish.
It will take a little time and a lot of cooperation but we are convinced of the necessity for a strong Catholic Press and we know that we have a loyal following and that empowers us to undertake this ambitious project.
You will begin to see in the back of your churches colorful new Tablet distribution stands. Those who were used to picking up a free copy of The Tablet in the back of church will be asked to pay the $1 a copy cover price by dropping a buck in the slot that will be built into the stand. A team of Tablet Ambassadors will maintain these sites and make sure that the pastor receives the payment to offset the delivery of these bulk copies.
There was a time when we had a system of Tablet delivery boys and church step hawkers who would call out "Tablet, Tablet, get your Tablet. Ten cents a copy!" In fact, in some places, we may even try that again.
We need to maintain a healthy circulation so that we can continue to attract the almost $1 million in advertising that we currently bring in. I hope that you support our advertisers. In particular, check out our service pages before you call a plumber or handyman. Looking for a school for your child? Don't make a choice without consulting our annual Catholic School editions. Searching for an apartment? See our real estate classified pages. When you do use one of our advertisers, make sure you tell them that you saw their ad in The Tablet.
We'll keep you abreast of how our plan is doing with periodic updates. And when we stop by your parish, please say hello. We love the personal relationships we have with our readers.


TEANECK, N.J. (Jewish Standard via JTA) — Pushing back against efforts by liberal Orthodox Jews to allow women to serve as clergy, an Orthodox rabbinical council in northern New Jersey is preparing to oust a member for allowing a woman training for ordination to serve as an intern in his congregation.
The member is Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot, leader of Congregation Netivot Shalom in Teaneck.
After the Jewish Standard reported in November that Netivot had hired Marianne Novak to be a rabbinic intern, the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County amended its bylaws to push Netivot and Helfgot outside of its communal tent. Novak is studying for ordination at Yeshivat Maharat. When she is ordained, she will take the title either of rabbah or of rabbi.
The new RCBC bylaws do not allow as members rabbis of congregations that let women hold rabbinic positions or internships that are part of ordination programs.
"Roughly three quarters voted for it," Rabbi Kenny Schiowitz, the RCBC's president. Schiowitz leads Congregation Shaare Tefillah in this New York suburb and heads the Talmud department at the Ramaz Upper School in Manhattan. He said he was among the minority that voted not to sanction Helfgot.
"People were concerned that Rabbi Helfgot's association as part of the RCBC gave his hiring of a female rabbinic intern some sort of endorsement from the RCBC, which was concerning," Schiowitz said.
The bylaw change does not take effect until September.
"We didn't want to do anything drastic like have somebody terminate an agreement that was already made," Schiowitz said.
Ordaining women as clergy, championed by Yeshivat Maharat, Orthodox feminists and the small but growing number of synagogues who have hired the ordainees, has divided a movement whose leaders hew to a strict interpretation of gender roles under their interpretation of halacha, or Jewish law. In 2017, the Orthodox Union banned its affiliated Modern Orthodox synagogues from hiring women clergy. The non-Orthodox Jewish denominations have ordained women as rabbis and cantors for decades.
The Bergen County rabbis' council met twice to debate its response to the rabbinic intern. Helfgot spoke at both meetings, Schiowitz said.
Helfgot and other Netivot leaders declined to discuss the issue with the Jewish Standard. Helfgot issued a statement both praising the RCBC as an institution and expressing his "disagreement and disappointment" with its decision.
But the decision brought sharp criticism from Yigal Gross, an attorney who lives in Teaneck and is a member of four Orthodox congregations, among them Netivot. Last year he and his wife, Tamar Warburg, sponsored Novak's predecessor, Dina Brawer, who also studied at Yeshivat Maharat.
Gross's blog post brought into the light a story that Netivot leadership had hoped to keep quiet.
"The piece was not written with input from anyone in Netivot," Gross told the Jewish Standard. "But the issues that are at stake here transcend the interests of one shul and women rabbis. They pale in comparison to the larger communal issue, which is how our rabbinic leaders treat their positions and treat our community.
"It's absolutely out of step with the values of our community. They basically took the tactics of communal ostracism and isolation that you reserve for get refusers and sexual deviants and have employed it against people who disagree with their views," he said. Men who refuse their wives a get, or Jewish divorce, are often ostracized by local rabbinic authorities.
"Never did I imagine that the reaction to the Maharat interns would be this," Gross said. "I expected scholarship arguing against it. Instead of scholarship, what our community got was cowardice and bully tactics. The community shouldn't accept it. This is something we see in haredi communities, not in the Modern Orthodox.
"This is not about members of the RCBC having to accept or support the idea of woman rabbis. Nobody ever asked or should ask them to do that.
Schiowitz said the RCBC was not trying to tell Netivot what to do.
"Netivot is an independent organization and its members have the right to make their own decisions for themselves," he said. "In the same way, the RCBC is an independent organization and its members have the right to define itself and its bylaws. I believe that our decision was the result of thought-out, transparent and democratic process in which all members had a voice.
What would Schiowitz say to teenage girls who look to Yeshivat Maharat and its students as role models?
"Why would you want to go into the field of being an Orthodox clergy member when the O.U. and the RCA are opposed to it?" he said. "There are a lot of places for women to take important leadership roles in the Orthodox community. In the normative Orthodox community, it will be framed as an educator, scholar-in-residence or 'yoetzet halacha,'" a woman who answers questions from other women, mainly about intimate matters.
Schiowitz took pains to say that none of this was personal.
While Helfgot's statement did not explicitly say what the synagogue will do when it comes to choosing next year's intern, it did say that the congregation "has always been a leader and pioneer in expanding the opportunities for women" and gave no indication that he wants to change that.
"It is thus, with pain and sadness, that I must express my strong disagreement and disappointment at the RCBC's recent vote to adopt a bylaw that would restrict the rabbinic authority and autonomy of its members, beginning in Sept. 2019, on learned and committed women serving in spiritual leadership roles or being trained for those roles in the synagogue context," he wrote.


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The Louisa went on to become the Virginia Central, and in 1866, it was purchased by the Chesapeake & Ohio, becoming their Piedmont Subdivision. In 1890, the name Hanover Junction was changed to Doswell. The interlocking tower was built in 1930 by the RF&P to C&O standards and manned by the RF&P. It has been unmanned since 1958, when control was moved to Richmond. It has been preserved to house the signal equipment for the interlocking. On Oct. 10, 1991, the RF&P was purchased by CSX and is now their RF&P Subdivision. CSX leased the Piedmont Subdivision (along with the Washington and Mountain Subdivisions) to the Buckingham Branch Railroad in 2004. Currently, approximately 35-40 Amtrak and CSX freight trains a day use RF&P Subdivision. Buckingham Branch Railroad has two locals based out of Doswell and power is kept there for their use. In addition, BBRR runs a number of westbound CSX empty coal and grain trains via their Piedmont Subdivision. That traffic is sporadic, with as few as one or two a day, up to ten or more.


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by Camryn BolkinDecember 23, 2021, 5:59 pmDecember 23, 2021, 5:59 pmDecember 23, 2021, 5:59 pmDaily Digest, Home Featured, News, News Feed >
Pop star Britney Spears has teased the release of new music. The singer made a post on Instagram Wednesday that claimed she would be dropping a new song soon.
In the post, Spears uploaded a 42-second video that she had recorded of herself singing in a bathroom mirror. In the video, Spears is seen doing a series of vocal runs. She also sings the lyrics, "I want you to know just what I mean."
She wrote in the caption, which has since been deleted, "Pssss new song in the works … I'm gonna let you know what I mean !!!!!"
Spears,40, has been in the spotlight for decades, signing with her record label at 15 years old and hitting her peak in the late 1990s and early 2000s. She is known by many as the "Princess of Pop" and is one of the best-selling recording artists in history. She won a Grammy in 2004 and has won various other major awards, including six MTV Music Video Awards and seven Billboard Music Awards.
However, the singer has not released an album in years. The last album that she released was her 2016 album, Glory.
This seems likely to change due to the end of her 13-year-long involuntary conservatorship. Spears's father was placed in control of her finances and personal decisions following various incidents concerning the singer's mental health. Spears engaged in years-long legal battles to end the conservatorship, accusing her family of abuse.
Last year, Spears's then-attorney Samuel D. Ingham III reportedly told California Superior Court Judge Brenda J. Penny, "My client has informed me that she is afraid of her father." He added, "She will not perform again if her father is in charge of her career."
Fans worldwide expressed support for the singer. The "Free Britney" movement gained major prominence across the media. On November 12, 2021, the conservatorship was finally terminated. Spears rejoiced at the news, telling fans on Instagram, "I'm celebrating my freedom."
Now that the conservatorship has ended, many are looking forward to seeing what the pop star does with her freedom. Fans flooded the comments of her Wednesday Instagram post to express support and excitement for her new music.
"BEAUTIFUL VOICE!" commented one fan, @caralikecareuh. "Please keep sharing your beautiful gift and soulful voice with the world."
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As a quick visit to Google makes clear, there are two things you don't discuss in polite company. Oh well. In what follows, SC will ask the reader's forbearance in rushing to judge the exposition of the ideas discussed below. Opinions about church and state are especially divisive, and many readers will find the discussion controversial. Your host will restrict this preliminary apologia to noting that while he clearly is sympathetic to the ideas of Samuel Huntington, much of the present writing is concerned with giving a reasonably neutral exposition of Huntington's motivations, a topic which SC feels he needs to defend in order to productively move on to the discussion of language policy. Aside from that, Huntingon's clams about national identity -- the overarching theme of "Who Are We?" -- are couched in a very particular conception of religion and politics, and a discussion of his views that did not take that conception into account would be doing both Huntington and the reader a disservice.
Samuel Huntington is quite a controversial figure, having come to mainstream prominence a few years ago with a provocative thesis known as the "Clash of Civilizations". Huntington is a more polarizing figure than many of his colleagues -- SC can't recall even the most angry of Francis Fukuyama's critics hurling the abuse at him for "The End of History", itself a rather triumphalist view of Western civilization, that Huntington has been subjected to. Depending on your point of view, it was either a prescient or bigoted prophecy of coming battles between Western civilization and Islam, to say nothing of China, Latin America, and other cultures that transcend merely political -- or even ethnic -- borders. Certainly since the fall of the World Trade Center, his views have demanded attention. Over the next few days, Semantic Compositions will be dedicated primarily to a review of his latest work, Who Are We?, and the salience of Huntington's views to language policy and national security.
On a personal note, your host feels compelled to point out that when he wrote in the official SC mission statement about reserving the right to digress into political science and military history, he was motivated primarily by his interest in the works of Huntington. Between 1995 and 1998, when SC was in college, he made a painstaking -- and very slow -- study of Huntington's 1957 magnum opus, The Soldier and the State. This was the serendipitous result of a chance encounter with the book outside of any coursework, but reading it had a profound effect on SC's views. While it has since been superceded by both events and theoretical advances -- Huntington's choice of the terms "objective" and "subjective" to refer to military control by civilian and military personnel respectively has been shown to be rather unfortunate -- it remains as foundational a text in its field as another prominent 1957 opus is in linguistics.
Events have conspired to produce a singularly appropriate introduction to our review, in particular the Supreme Court's dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the Pledge of Allegiance. The topic has been a matter of hot, not to say impolite, debate at Language Log (see Geoff Pullum's interesting endorsement, qualified support from Geoff Nunberg and Mark Liberman, and dissent from Bill Poser here and here). Furthermore, the Wall Street Journal has taken the liberty of republishing an article by Prof. Huntington on the flag issue which appeared in The American Enterprise, which in turn appears to be an extract from Who Are We?. The question of the phrase under G-d appears at first to be a matter of religious expression, and thus a straightforward -- if controversial -- First Amendment issue. For Huntington, however, it is merely symptomatic of a larger debate over what we might call "national ideology".
Huntington opens with a fairly abstract discussion of identity, characterized in terms of two parameters, termed salience and substance. Although they're fairly self-explanatory, we'll note that he means by them, respectively, the importance of various facets of identity to individuals, and the specific content of ideas and objects that individuals identify with. Early on, he plays an interesting game with the substance of identities, identifying some 48 attributes placed into six categories of identity which people variously have latched onto. Once absorbed, a few pages later, he observes that the reader probably missed the fact that none of them include the idea of "nation", an idea which amalgamates various attributes of race, religion, language, political frameworks, and other more basic ideas.
Clearly, this conception of "nation" must emphasize certain facts more than others depending on the people in question. For a country like Japan, with a relatively homogeneous population (the Ainu being an important exception), and a common language and history, basic demographic facts are adequate to establish a sense of nationhood. For a country like the United States, with a relatively heterogeneous population, a plurality of important languages, and an increasingly fragmented notion of history, cohering the population into a single nation requires an appeal to political principles and ideologies that transcend merely personal atributes of identity. These principles and beliefs are embodied in the founding documents of the United States, and are referred to by Huntington with a phrase popularized by Gunnar Myrdal, the "American Creed", or simply the Creed. The Creed has been formulated by various authors in different ways, which ultimately boil down to Jefferson's "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". Huntington identifies three facts about the Creed which, as much as any specifics of its content, are to be credited with America's success as a nation: its longstanding stability, its widespread assent, and its ideological origins in a uniquely Protestant form of dissent. It is not an exaggeration to state that, for Huntington, religion not only does not exist partitioned from politics, but rather inspires it, and insofar as America is Constitutional, it is because America is Protestant. Even more specifically, a point on which we will have much to say over the next few days, Anglo-Protestant (a term employed frequently by Huntington).
Brian Cronin, who litigated against a cross on public land in Boise, Idaho, complained, "For Buddhists, Jews, Muslims and other non-Christians in Boise, the cross only drives home the point that they are strangers in a strange land." Like Mr. Newdow and the Ninth Circuit judges, Mr. Cronin was on target. America is a predominantly Christian nation with a secular government. Non-Christians may legitimately see themselves as strangers because they or their ancestors moved to this "strange land" founded and peopled by Christians--even as Christians become strangers by moving to Israel, India, Thailand or Morocco.
Americans tend to have a certain catholicity toward religion: All deserve respect. Given this general tolerance of religious diversity, non-Christian faiths have little alternative but to recognize and accept America as a Christian society. "Americans have always thought of themselves as a Christian nation," argues Jewish neoconservative Irving Kristol, "equally tolerant of all religions so long as they were congruent with traditional Judeo-Christian morality. But equal toleration . . . never meant perfect equality of status in fact." Christianity is not legally established, "but it is established informally, nevertheless."
The point at which we will argue Huntington's critics go wrong on their critique of his motivations is here, at the notion that Christianity is established as normative. It's true, and there's no reason to deny it, that this places Christianity at the center of Huntington's conception of an American "national ideology", but that doesn't require an Ann Coulter-style conversion of everyone to Christianity. It does require assent by minorities to the existence of a majority, and the same respect and toleration for the majority's views that each minority expects to be shown. For this reason, the Creed is not merely the social contract of Locke or Rousseau, but is grounded instead in very particular facts about America and its Founding. To return to the notions of salience and substance, religiosity is a key part of the substance of American ideology, especially Christian religiosity. The challenge for making the American ideology salient to American citizens is to find a way to reconceptualize the substance in a way that makes non-Christians comfortable embracing it, without denying the salience of Christianity to the majority.
At this point, we've established what Samuel Huntington thinks is the foundational aspect of American culture, and we have yet to say a word about language. However, it is clear that, in order to establish a cohesive American identity, if specifically demographic facts like race and religion are to be deemphasized, other common facts must become more salient, and one of those common facts is language. This does not mean that Samuel Huntington -- or SC -- favors anything so heavy-handed as an official-English amendment; it does, however, require attention to the interplay between language, culture, and conceptions of citizenship.
One thing is for certain--Huntington is a careless "scholar". I'm the Brian Cronin referred to in the article. I'm not an atheist, by any means. I am a Christian. Furthermore, I did not, as Huntington asserts, litigate against the cross in Boise. I had absolutely no involvement in the litigation, nor did I support it. Furthermore, the cross was actually not on public land, as Huntington states. The Jaycees had obtained the land from the state several decades ago, though some questioned the legality or propriety of that acquisition.
Perhaps Huntington "Googled" the story and found that I had written a letter to the editor questioning how the Jaycees (for whom I worked for several years) could reconcile their defense of such a prominent religious symbol with their stated commitment to global fellowship, diversity, and intercultural understanding.
I'm amazed at how someone of Huntington's stature could be so sloppy, though perhaps he's willing to conveniently distort or ignore the truth in order to support his arguments.
If you feel that this world has grown smaller, what sort of reassurance can you give to the rest of the world?
Or are we still citizens of our own individual countries alone? With our own individual concerns?
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A lot of countries, all over the world, can't take out religion from politics. It's just the base of the political game there - a lot of political group that represent community by its faith and beliefs, and than going on the congress of this country..nothing to do against such interests..its bad but important..
What about all the people in jail/prison that instead of contributing to the economy are forced to live in a jail cell and cost the state ten's of thousands of dollars per year??
I still like the definition I read recently online - religion is what you do when the sermon is over. Too bad some people need labels on themselves (religion or political) in order to feel complete - and that makes them go crazy when either religion or politics is discussed.
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Too bad some people need labels on themselves (religion or political) in order to feel complete - and that makes them go crazy when either religion or politics is discussed.
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Depending on your point of view, it was either a prescient or bigoted prophecy of coming battles between Western civilization and Islam, to say nothing of China, Latin America, and other cultures that transcend merely political -- or even ethnic -- borders.
are couched in a very particular conception of religion and politics, and a discussion of his views that did not take that conception into account would be doing both Huntington and the reader a disservice.


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We filed amici briefs joined by more than two dozen public interest groups and practitioners, urging the California Supreme Court to uphold the "catalyst theory" as a basis for seeking attorneys' fees under a California statute that permits fee awards for successful private attorneys general.
Gorman v. Wolpoff & Abramson
Public Justice filed an amicus brief, joined by Public Citizen, in support of the Plaintiff-Appellant's Opposition to MBNA's Petition for Rehearing. This amicus brief argues that the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) does not preempt the remedies provisions of the California Consumer Credit Reporting…
Geier v. Honda Motor Company, Inc.
We argued and won a mixed decision from the U.S. Supreme Court on whether federal law preempts and bars damage claims against the auto manufacturers by drivers and passengers injured because their cars lack airbags. The court ruled unanimously that no claims are expressly preempted,…
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As part of Public Justice's Iqbal Project, we filed a post-judgment amicus brief in this Tenth Circuit appeal, urging the court to amend some of the language in its opinion about Iqbal as applied to prisoner claims. In particular we urged the court to delete…
Freightliner Corp. v. Myrick
In this case, we helped win a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling that injured crash victims can sue truck manufacturers for failing to install anti-lock brakes. Public Justice was Counsel of Record for the plaintiff before the Court.
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A 101-year-old just became the oldest woman ever to compete in the USA Track and Field Outdoors Masters Championships on Saturday.
Julia "Hurricane" Hawkins ran the 100-meter dash at the Louisiana event in 40.12 seconds, beating the current certified world record for women aged 100 and older by six seconds, reports said.
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These ?ladies prove that age is just a number. Check out the Women's 80-100+ 100m, with 82-year-old Christel Donley (21.60), 92-year-old Mary Norckauer (33.21) and 101-year-old Julia Hawkins (40.12)! • Watch more on demand on USATF.TV+. #usatf #usatfmasterstrack #trackandfield #tracknation #inspire #track
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"I missed my nap for this," Hawkins said at the Saturday event, which took place at Louisiana State University.
Hawkins, who started running at the age of 100, reportedly practices her sprints several times a week, the Washington Post reported.
She has been an avid bicyclist for many years and is now using her strong legs for running.
"I'm always outside and the phone always rings, and I come running in is how I knew I could run," Hawkins told the paper.
Hawkins, who was born in Wisconsin in 1916, said she also likes to impress her family with her running skills.
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She has four children, three grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
"Having a momma that can do this pleases them, and it pleases me to please them," the former schoolteacher told the Washington Post.
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Elevation: Teas are grown at elevations ranging from 90 to 1750 metres above sea level.
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Nestling just below Darjeeling, at the Himalayan foothills, is a land shared by jumbos, rhinos, deciduous forests, gurgling streams and tea. The tea-growing areas in the district of Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, along with a small part of Coochbehar District, is popularly known as Dooars, which is bound by Bhutan and Darjeeling district in the northwest, Coochbehar district and Bangladesh in the south and Assam in the east. Dooars (which means doors in Bengali, Assamese and Nepali) is the gateway to the North East and Bhutan. Although tea cultivation in Dooars was primarily engineered by the British planters through their agency enterprises, there was significant contribution of Indian entrepreneurs who set up considerable number of new plantations with the issuance of grants of lands in a phased manner.
Tea Attributes: The Dooars-Terai tea is characterized by a bright, smooth and full-bodied liquor that's a wee bit lighter than Assam tea.


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She Can Only Save (Or Destroy) Christmas So Many Times: Paul Dini Talks 'Jingle Belle' [Interview]
For a long time, the only comics I really "collected" (as opposed to just buying stuff to read every week) were Christmas comics. Anything with Santa Claus or a decorated tree on the cover found its way into my collection, and to be honest, a lot of 'em were pretty disappointing. But not Jingle Belle.
Admittedly, I would've bought this one even without my love of the holidays. Jingle Belle is, after all, the creation of Paul Dini, probably best known for his work on Batman: The Animated Series, and along with artists like Steph Buscema, J. Bone, Stephen DeStefano, Stephanie Gladden, Jose Garibaldi, and more, he created a world of sugarplums and toy-making elves that was sarcastic without being cynical and cheerful without being cloying.
Now, with over 400 pages of Jingle Belle collected in a new book from IDW, ComicsAlliance spoke to Dini about creating Jingle, his approach to Christmas mythology, and why he wanted to get away from just doing stories about Christmas.
ComicsAlliance: Have you always had a connection to Christmas and Christmas stories?
Paul Dini: I was one of those goofy kids whose year narrowed down to focus on Christmas from about September on. I guess I was like Ralphie in A Christmas Story, in that I would get swept up into the anticipation of the holiday, watching the lights go up, hearing the songs in the stores, getting special Christmas issues of comics and all that. A local San Francisco radio station would play old Christmas programs, and I'd stay up late listening to dramatized versions of A Christmas Carol or Miracle on 34th St. or whatever else they were running.
Of course the downside of all that is, while the season may linger through New Years in other countries, here in the US it pretty much hits a wall on Dec. 26th. Down comes the tree, away goes the music, and the kids who were smiling and joking with you at midnight mass will be waiting to punch you out again the first day back at school. So as much as I liked the build-up to Christmas, the week after always socked me with the blues. That's probably why a bitter edge often works its way into Jingle's stories. Her world is as much about holiday disappointments as it is about happiness.
CA: I'm definitely familiar with that kind of post-Christmas hangover that comes in once it's time to take down the tree. Is that something that you still find in your life, or do you just start writing new stories on Boxing Day to keep the feeling alive all year round?
PD: The post-holiday blues aren't as bad these days. It helps is to have something to look forward to in January, whether it's a trip someplace fun, or a visit with friends I didn't get to see over Christmas. I don't wait until Boxing Day to start writing, though. I take copious notes for future Jingle stories starting in early November, while it's all happening around me. Everything from the awestruck look on a kid's face as they toddle through Bronner's Christmas Wonderland for the first time, or a bitter verbal barb hurled from one drunken family to another gets filed away for future use.
CA: Was there anything in particular that formed your take on Santa mythology? Jingle Belle comes from a world that seems very Rankin-Bass.
PD: The old Rankin-Bass animated specials seemed to exist in a loosely shared reality, which is what attracted me to them. Santa, Snow Miser, Rudolph, Frosty, even the Easter Bunny seemed to be on nodding acquaintance with each other, even if only in cameo appearances in each other's cartoons.
I can see where elements of that shared universe idea worked into Jingle Belle's world too, along with bits and pieces of other Santa Claus and Christmas myths. In an early story, I put it forth that Santa, or some version of St. Nick was a brawny, heroic Nordic type who freed the elves from an evil winter tyrant. I never much cared for the grandmotherly version of Mrs. Claus, so I made Santa's wife the ageless queen of the elves. To me, that explained why the elves liked working with Santa, and it set up Jingle's mixed human/elf parentage.
CA: Have you ever thought about going back and showing more of Santa in that light? Doing a big action story that would serve as the origin story for Jing's universe?
PD: There was a little bit of that in the first solo Jingle Belle issue.
I have roughed out a bigger story that would fuse elements of the original history of St. Nicholas with the modern version of Santa as seen in the comics. However it's also a heavier story than I've done before, and I haven't entirely figured out Jingle Belle's role in it. Maybe someday.
CA: Getting into the character herself, how much came fully formed with the simple idea of "Santa Claus's rebellious daughter?"
PD: Once I latched onto that idea, I broke out my sketchbook and the gags stared coming very quickly. The first one I drew showed a disgusted Jingle at dinner, where Santa was pouring her a huge glass of eggnog and telling her to drink it if she wanted to grow up just like him. The next panel showed Jing secretly pouring it out into the dish of a horrifically fat cat under the table.
That set the tone for their relationship, and I realized that whenever I could put them at odds over a family situation, I would get a funny story out of it. That included dating guys the parents don't like, sneaking out late to parties, skipping out on household chores (in Jingle's case, toy making) or throwing a tantrum and moving out, but only as far as a hastily constructed igloo in the backyard.
CA: One of the interesting things about Jingle Belle is that for a character so tied to Christmas, she seems really adaptable into different kinds of stories that don't necessarily have to take place in December. How did you approach that? Is it just a matter of putting her into different situations, or does it go a little deeper?
PD: I take inspirations from newspaper strip cartoonists who look for ways of expanding their characters' worlds once they have established the initial concept of their strips. Like Charles Schulz revisiting Charlie Brown's baseball team, or Berkeley Breathed returning to Binkley's anxiety closet.
Jingle can only save (or destroy) Christmas so many times, so to keep her fresh and funny, I now look for stories that are good family or teen stories first, and use the holiday elements for atmosphere. The "Mighty Elves" story I did with J. Bone was a turning point for Jingle, in that it established her as an athlete with a love for winter sports.
It seemed a natural fit, given the North Pole setting and the fact that Jing is competitive and confrontational by nature. Giving her a hockey team to lead and a rival team, The Snow Leopards, to battle broadened her world quite a bit. I always like putting her in that scenario.
CA: That adaptability is one of the reasons I think I'm really drawn to those stories, even when they're not set at Christmastime. She's got that Scrooge McDuck quality where you can drop her in and she brings a whole mythology with her already that you can adapt to any situation. Is there any sort of situation that you think she can't work in, though? Or anything you've tried that just didn't work?
PD: In the earlier issues I went back and forth on the tone of the stories, and I sometimes found myself wavering between being funny and being crude. I wasn't sure how far to take Jing toward an older or even adult audience, which was one of the things I learned by trial and error.
I looked at the other books Oni Press was publishing at that time, and as much as I liked Clerks and Barry Ween, I realized trying to take her in that direction was moving her into Bad Santa territory. That was not only a bad fit for Jingle tonally, but also it worked against the look of the charming artwork created by Stephen DiStefano, Lynne Naylor, J. Bone and many other talented cartoonists.
As for situations I don't think she works well in; aside from the hockey stories, she's not much of a team player. Other than hanging out sometimes with Polly the Witch, or more rarely, Ida Red from the Mutant, Texas stories, I don't like making Jing a group leader. It diminishes what's unique and funny about her.
CA: Can you talk a bit about expanding Jingle Belle's supporting cast to include characters? Are there eventually just going to be versions of Jingle Belle for every holiday?
PD: I think for now I'll hold it to just Christmas and Halloween. I really like the dynamic between Jingle and Polly Green, and I'd rather continue doing stories about them as friends then bring in new characters just for the sake of padding out the cast.
I like using Polly because she's a good contrast to Jing. On the surface Polly seems more agreeable and innocent, but, being a witch, she has a macabre side and can get pretty dark when she starts casting hexes and curses. Also, she crushes on Jingle's demonic "Uncle" Krampus, which I find charmingly twisted.
Speaking of Krampus, Stephanie Gladden and I seemed to have perfectly timed his introduction into the series. The year after he appeared, Krampus was suddenly everywhere in the public consciousness, and in nearly every Christmas comic. I don't know if his appearance in Jingle Belle had much to do with that, but I do think the time was ripe for older kids who had grown tired of Frosty and Rudolph to embrace a more dangerous holiday icon. I really love the design Stephanie worked up for him, and I can't wait to use our version of Krampus again.
CA: Were there any other pieces of weird Christmas folklore that you've wanted to bring in, apart from Krampus?
PD: So many, but I'm going to keep a lid on them for now. I have to leave some surprises for Christmases Yet to Come.
Next: Comics And The History Of The Misunderstood Krampus
Filed Under: Jingle Belle, paul dini
Categories: IDW, Interviews


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Opening the Doors of Policy Making in Central Asia and South Caucasus
Armenia Azerbaijan Georgia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
Grantee: Policy Association for an Open Society - PASOS
The project sought to strengthen policy processes in eight countries — Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan – by improving the capability of independent civil society organizations to engage in policy debates. Activities included two training workshops, two regional networking conferences, and supervised research during the course of which eight policy fellows produced research papers. The project promoted sharing of experiences among CSOs operating in often isolated and difficult settings. The project also allowed NGOs to benefit from the experience of NGOs in countries such as the Baltics and countries in Eastern Europe where CSOs were a positive force for democratic development.
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The policy research papers produced by fellows gave the training an "on the job" aspect and guaranteed that at least one significant output would be produced as a result of the training. All policy papers were translated so as to be available both in English and Russian and published on the internet and in a bilingual hard-copy volume that was assigned an ISBN number.
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Tailgaters embrace Mizzou opening day
2 years 4 months 2 weeks ago Saturday, September 02 2017 Sep 2, 2017 Saturday, September 02, 2017 1:12:00 PM CDT September 02, 2017 in Top Stories
By: Adam Duxter, KOMU 8 Reporter
COLUMBIA - The sun had barely started to rise over Columbia on Saturday, yet there was a line of cars waiting down Tiger Avenue. Black and gold clad fans waited patiently outside of Lot L for the 7a.m. open time.
For the first time in eight months, it was football Saturday.
The chirping of morning birds was quickly drowned out by the sound of whirring generators, music and the smell bacon crisping on the grill.
For the fans in Lot L, tailgating is an art. Many have been parking in the same spot for every tiger home game for decades. To some, tailgating is just important as the game itself.
"A lot goes into it. There's like four or five couples that plan everything. We meet in the summer to plan out the menus for the fall.We have everything all organized. It takes us about half an hour to get set up," said Melodie Powell. Powell is the woman in charge of the "Lot L Lair and Bistro," a compound made up of four large tents that features a chandelier and TV viewing area.
Mizzou football is coming off of a 5-7 season, which featured heartbreaking losses to Middle Tennessee State and Georgia, both at home. These fans have forgotten about that. Now, it is a new season.
For some, a sense of renewal for the season created a sense of hope for the University itself.
"We are so proud of the school at this point," said Powell. "We got some bad press this summer, which was totally unnecessary, and we are so excited about the way Mizzou is stepping forward and how we're moving up and getting this wonderful university back to the stature that it was a few years ago, if not better."
Saturday's season opener had an especially special atmosphere, as Mizzou set to square off against in-state competitor Missouri State for the first time in 94 years.
The match up against the Bears is personal for some Tiger supporters. In August, Missouri State President Clif Smart stated that his school had plans to become "the undergraduate choice for Missouri." For some Mizzou fans, that claim has no value.
"I don't think there's any doubt that the University of Missouri is right here in Columbia. This is the flagship institution of the state. The amount of research that goes on here, the amount of dollars raised through research, the patents that are issued, and all of the money we've raised for fundraising," said Powell.
Missouri State fans made their presence felt at the tailgate, however. Dozens of maroon and white shirts dotted the black and gold crowd. Among them is Jerry Short, a Missouri State alumnus, who now regularly tailgates Tiger football games.
"I've always been a Mizzou supporter, even when I was at Missouri State. But when Missouri State plays Missouri in either football or basketball, I'm going to wear the colors of my alma mater. I'm proud of them," said Short.
Missouri State is in its third year under former Mizzou assistant coach Dave Steckel. The bears are 5-17 under the former Tiger defensive coordinator.
"Hopefully they'll be better this year. They struggled a bit last year, and they've struggled a bit in the past, but I'm looking forward to a really good season for Missouri State," said Short.
Yet, on Saturday morning in Lot L, there were no worries. There was no animosity among fans from different sides. Fans laughed, ate, and celebrated the return of a beloved tradition.
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Ivy League hoopsters understand, but disappointed
Harvard's Reed Farley, who graduated from La Jolla High, was hoping for a big basketball season, but the Ivy League canceled all winter sports due to COVID-19.
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Local players take classes but can't play this season
By John Maffei
Injury-plagued Reed Farley is finally healthy and was looking forward to his final basketball season at Harvard.
Freshman Kimo Ferrari has yet to start his college career at Brown.
Ryan Langborg's freshman season at Princeton was interrupted by an emergency appendectomy. This was to be a bounce-back campaign.
Taurus Samuels was looking forward to building on a solid sophomore season at Dartmouth.
All four players have been caught squarely in the middle of the decision by Ivy League presidents to pull the plug on the 2020-21 men's basketball season amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
"This is terribly disappointing, especially for the seniors," said Farley, a former All-CIF standout from La Jolla High who suffered a torn ACL late in his senior season. "The Ivy League doesn't allow graduate students to play. You have eight semesters of eligibility in the Ivy League. So this year's graduating seniors are done.
"I'm in a little different situation. I was hurt in my freshman season at Harvard and missed my sophomore year."
Farley, who scored exactly 1,500 points at La Jolla and averaged 15.7 points in his four-year career, suffered a torn meniscus at Harvard, then had a stress fracture and blood clots.
He went 755 days between games, finally playing two games last season.
"Shutting down the season might be a blessing in disguise," said Farley, who is at home and taking classes online.
"I'll graduate in the spring, and can shop myself as a graduate transfer, but with two years to play.
"The decision to not play this season has given me a sense of clarity."
Farley, who would like to work in sports, is looking for a college with an MBA program.
"But given my lack of playing time, I don't really have a body of work for schools to look at," he said. "So I'm reaching out to teams that recruited me out of high school.
"I'd love to play at UC San Diego. It has a great business school and plays Division I basketball."
Ferrari is a dynamic, two-time All-CIF point guard, who averaged 16.6 points, 6.0 rebounds and 6.2 assists his senior season at Francis Parker.
Brown decided not to bring its freshman class to its Rhode Island campus. So Ferrari, whose sister Paulina is a senior tennis player at Columbia, is taking online classes from home and working on outdoor courts with his brother Vinny and former Parker teammates.
"Of course I'm disappointed," Ferrari said. "My heart goes out to our seniors. This isn't at all what I expected. I had hoped to be on campus in the fall and competing for playing time.
"The whole thing has flipped 180 degrees. Maybe we can get back on campus in the summer, take in-person classes."
Langborg is one of the most-prolific scorers in San Diego Section history with 2,456 career points at La Jolla Country Day. A three-time All-CIF selection, he led the Torreys to a State Division III championship his senior season.
"Was I surprised the Ivy League pulled the plug on the season?" Langborg said. "No. Was I disappointed? Yes. Especially because right now everyone else is playing.
"The Ivy League is taking the science-over-dollars approach. Our health is the league's first priority. And I appreciate that. But it's still disappointing."
Langborg played 20 games for Princeton last season, averaging 4.4 points and 1.8 rebounds. He had a career high 13 points against Indiana.
A couple hours before a Jan. 4 game with Penn, he was diagnosed with appendicitis, was rushed to the hospital for surgery and missed six weeks of the season.
The Princeton training staff didn't immediately inform the coaches of Langborg's condition, leaving the coaching staff wondering where he was.
"I'm at home now, working with Reed Farley, doing whatever we can do to stay in shape," said Langborg, an economics major.
"I've been able to use this time to take an internship with a pharmaceutical firm in San Diego. Great, great experience. It has given me a broader understanding of the business world.
"I'm definitely going to stay at Princeton. I picked Princeton because of its academics. It fits me.
"This sucks now, but maybe it's a blessing down the road. I don't want basketball to stop.
"A graduate transfer is a possibility. I'll have two years of eligibility. Maybe I can get a master's degree and get it paid for while I play basketball."
Samuels, a two-time All-CIF performer at Vista, has played 59 games in two seasons at Dartmouth.
He made 19 starts last season as a sophomore, averaging 8.4 points and 2.7 rebounds with 60 assists. He scored a career high 22 against Boston University and had 18 against Harvard.
"I'm not too surprised with this decision, but I'm very disappointed," Samuels said.
"There are a lot of mixed emotions. You can't blame the decision-makers. The Ivy League isn't in control of this pandemic.
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Justia Patents Anthony Vetro Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications
Patents by Inventor Anthony Vetro
Anthony Vetro has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
Systems and Methods for Compressing, Representing and Processing Point Clouds
Abstract: Systems and methods for a point cloud decoder including a processor to decode each block in a set of blocks from a point cloud, so as to obtain a decoded point cloud. Wherein each block includes a set of points, such that for each block the processor is to decode a set of prediction residuals from a compressed bitstream. Use a predetermined location in the block, and compute for each prediction residual in the set of prediction residuals, a position of a point by adding the prediction residual to the predetermined location, so as to obtain a set of decoded points for the block. Wherein the decoded points for the blocks in the set of blocks represent the decoded point cloud.
Inventors: Robert Cohen, Dong Tian, Hideaki Ochimizu, Anthony Vetro
System and method for Inter-Frame Predictive Compression for Point Clouds
Abstract: A point cloud encoder including an input interface to accept a dynamic point cloud including a sequence of point cloud frames of a scene. A processor encodes blocks of a current point cloud frame to produce an encoded frame. Wherein, for encoding a current block of the current point cloud frame, a reference block is selected similar to the current block according to a similarity metric to serve as a reference to encode the current block. Pair each point in the current block to a point in the reference block based on values of the paired points. Encode the current block based on a combination of an identification of the reference block and residuals between the values of the paired points. Wherein the residuals are ordered according to an order of the values of the points in the reference block. A transmitter transmits the encoded frame over a communication channel.
Inventors: Dong Tian, Eduardo Pavez, Robert Cohen, Anthony Vetro
Methods and systems for fast resampling method and apparatus for point cloud data
Patent number: 10229533
Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a pattern in time series data representing an operation of a machine. A memory to store and provide a set of training data examples generated by a sensor of the machine, wherein each training data example represents an operation of the machine for a period of time ending with a failure of the machine. A processor configured to iteratively partition each training data example into a normal region and an abnormal region, determine a predictive pattern absent from the normal regions and present in each abnormal region only once, and determine a length of the abnormal region. Outputting the predictive pattern via an output interface in communication with the processor or storing the predictive pattern in memory, wherein the predictive pattern is a predictive estimate of an impending failure and assists in management of the machine.
Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
Inventors: Dong Tian, Siheng Chen, Chen Feng, Anthony Vetro
System and method for processing images using online tensor robust principal component analysis
Abstract: A set of input images are acquired sequentially as image tensors. A low-tubal rank tensor and a sparse tensor are initialized using the image tensor, wherein the low-tubal rank tensor is a tensor product of a low-rank spanning tensor basis and corresponding tensor coefficients, and for each image, updating iteratively the image tensor, the tensor coefficients, and the sparse tensor using the image tensor and the low-rank spanning basis from a previous iteration. The spanning tensor basis is updated using the tensor coefficients, the sparse tensor, and the low rank tubal tensor, wherein the low rank tubal tensor represents a set of output images and the sparse tensor representing a set of sparse images.
Inventors: Dehong Liu, Zemin Zhang, Anthony Vetro
Systems and methods of fusing multi-angle view HD images based on epipolar geometry and matrix completion
Abstract: Systems and methods for image processing including a memory having stored multi-angled view images of a scene. Each multi-angled view image includes pixels, and at least one multi-angled view image includes a clouded area in the scene, resulting in missing pixels. A processor configured to align three multi-angled view images in the multi-angled view images to a target view angle of the scene, to form a set of aligned multi-angled view images representing a target point of view of the scene, at least one aligned multi-angled view image of the at least three multi-angled view images, has missing pixels due to the clouded area. Form a matrix using vectorized aligned multi-angled view images, wherein the matrix is incomplete due to the missing pixels. Complete the matrix using a matrix completion to combine the aligned multi-angled view images to produce a fused image of the scene without the clouded area.
Inventors: Dehong Liu, Yanting Ma, Hassan Mansour, Ulugbek Kamilov, Yuichi Taguchi, Petros Boufounos, Anthony Vetro
Method and apparatus for keypoint trajectory coding on compact descriptor for video analysis
Abstract: A method processes keypoint trajectories in a video, wherein the keypoint trajectories describe motion of a plurality of keypoints across pictures of the video over time, by first acquiring the video of a scene using a camera. Keypoints and associated feature descriptors are detected in each picture. The keypoints and associated features descriptors are matched between neighboring pictures to generate keypoint trajectories. Then, the keypoint trajectories are coded predictively into a bitstream, which is outputted.
Inventors: Dong Tian, Huifang Sun, Anthony Vetro
Method for Predictive Coding of Point Cloud Geometries
Abstract: A method for encoding a point cloud representing a scene using an encoder including a processor in communication with a memory includes steps of fitting a parameterized surface onto the point cloud having input points representing locations in a three-dimensional space, generating model parameters from the parameterized surface, computing corresponding points from the parameterized surface, wherein the corresponding points correspond to the input points, computing residual data based on the corresponding points and the input points of the point cloud, compressing the model parameters and residual data to yield coded model parameters and coded residual data, respectively, and producing a bit-stream from the coded model parameters of the parameterized surface and the coded residual data.
Inventors: Robert Cohen, Maja Krivokuca, Anthony Vetro, Chen Feng, Yuichi Taguchi
Method and system for segmenting pedestrian flows in videos
Abstract: A method and system determines flows by first acquiring a video of the flows with a camera, wherein the flows are pedestrians in a scene, wherein the video includes a set of frames. Motion vectors are extracted from each frame in the set, and a data matrix is constructed from the motion vectors in the set of frames. A low rank Koopman operator is determined from the data matrix and a spectrum of the low rank Koopman operator is analyzed to determine a set of Koopman modes. Then, the frames are segmented into independent flows according to a clustering of the Koopman modes.
Inventors: Hassan Mansour, Caglayan Dicle, Dong Tian, Mouhacine Benosman, Anthony Vetro
Point Cloud Compression using Prediction and Shape-Adaptive Transforms
Abstract: A method compresses a point cloud composed of a plurality of points in a three-dimensional (3D) space by first acquiring the point cloud with a sensor, wherein each point is associated with a 3D coordinate and at least one attribute. The point cloud is partitioned into an array of 3D blocks of elements, wherein some of the elements in the 3D blocks have missing points. For each 3D block, attribute values for the 3D block are predicted based on the attribute values of neighboring 3D blocks, resulting in a 3D residual block. A 3D transform is applied to each 3D residual block using locations of occupied elements to produce transform coefficients, wherein the transform coefficients have a magnitude and sign. The transform coefficients are entropy encoded according the magnitudes and sign bits to produce a bitstream.
Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
Inventors: Robert Cohen, Dong Tian, Anthony Vetro
Abstract: A method processes keypoint trajectories in a video, wherein the keypoint trajectories describe motion of a plurality of keypoints across pictures of the video over time, by first acquiring the video of a scene using a camera. Kkeypoints and associated feature descriptors are detected in each picture. The keypoints and associated features descriptors are matched between neighboring pictures to generate keypoint trajectories. Then, the keypoint trajectories are coded predictively into a bitstream, which is outputted.
Depth-weighted group-wise principal component analysis for video foreground/background separation
Abstract: A method separates foreground from background in a sequence of images, by first acquiring the sequence of images and a depth map of a scene by a camera. Groups of pixels are determined based on the depth map. Then, the sequence of images is decomposed into a sparse foreground component, and a low rank background component, according to apparent motion in the sequence of images, and the groups.
Inventors: Dong Tian, Hassan Mansour, Anthony Vetro
Publication date: May 18, 2017
Method for extracting low-rank descriptors from images and videos for querying, classification, and object detection
Abstract: A method extracts a low-rank descriptor of a video acquired of a scene by first extracting a set of descriptors for each image in the video. The sets of descriptors for the video are aggregated to form a descriptor matrix. Iteratively, a low-rank descriptor matrix is determined from the descriptor matrix, as well as a selection matrix that associates each column in the descriptor matrix to a corresponding column in the low-rank descriptor matrix. The low-rank descriptor matrix is output upon convergence.
Inventors: Hassan Mansour, Shantanu Rane, Petros T. Boufounos, Anthony Vetro
Method for estimating parameters of a graph spectral filter using training data
Abstract: A method processes a signal represented as a graph by first determining a graph spectral transform based on the graph. In a spectral domain, parameters of a graph filter are estimated using a training data set of unenhanced and corresponding enhanced signals. The graph filter is derived based on the graph spectral transform and the estimated graph filter parameters. Then, the signal is processed using the graph filter to produce an output signal. The processing can enhance signals such as images by denoising or interpolating missing samples.
Inventors: Yongzhe Wang, Dong Tian, Hassan Mansour, Anthony Vetro, Antonio Ortega
Method for graph based processing of signals
Abstract: A method processes a signal by first constructing a graph from the signal, and then determining a graph matrix from the graph and the signal. A Krylov-based subspace is determined based on the graph matrix and the signal. A filter for the Krylov subspace is determined. The filter transforms the signal to produce a filtered signal, which is output.
Inventors: Dong Tian, Hassan Mansour, Andrei Kniazev, Anthony Vetro
Method and system for segmenting an image based on motion vanishing points
Abstract: A method segments an image acquired by a sensor of a scene by first obtaining motion vectors corresponding to the image and generating a motion vanishing point image, wherein each pixel in the motion vanishing point image represents a number of intersections of pairs of motion vectors at the pixel. In the motion vanishing point image, a representation point for each motion vector is generated and distances between the motion vectors are determined based on the representation points. Then, a motion graph is constructed wherein each node represents a motion vector, and each edge represents a weight based on the distance between the nodes. Graph spectral clustering is performed on the motion graph to produce segments of the image.
Inventors: Dong Tian, Jiun-Yu Kao, Hassan Mansour, Anthony Vetro