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A Brand New Knowledge Base for Ooyala Flex Media Platform
Discover the fully revamped user interface that brings our clients the best experience, increases collaboration, quality and regularity.
Better navigation, faster results
We continuously strive to bring our clients the best experience, and with that in mind, we have fully refreshed the Ooyala Flex Media Platform Knowledge Base, aligned to our new product design.
Now part of Dalet, the Ooyala Flex Media Platform and complementary offerings, are constantly being refreshed with new features and a fully revamped user interface.
We continuously strive to bring our clients the best experience, and with that in mind, we have fully refreshed the Ooyala Flex Media Platform Knowledge Base, aligned to our new product design. Ta-daah! Check out those slick icons.
Increased collaboration, quality and regularity
Learning from product development CICD best practises, we have brought this pipeline into how we document the Ooyala Flex Media Platform. This means increased collaboration, quality and regularity to which we update our documentation.
We have taken a fresh look at the information architecture and the way users access content, by looking at 3 key personas: developers, administrators and end users. To achieve this, we have created independent guides for configuring the platform, developing with the API/SDK, and using each application. Within these guides, a user can search, navigate, and identify the category their question fits into, speeding the route to the information required. Each section starts with a menu that targets hot topics and recent updates that highlights what functionality we, and you, get excited about. For any other feature, the release notes are all accessible.
Delving into the guide, the reader will find that every article has its own helpful table of contents with anchored section titles. The "copy link" icon facilitates quick and easy sharing of content.
So take a look at our new Knowledge Base, also available from the Ooyala Flex Media Platform landing page on dalet.com. We've received lots of positive feedback from our users, so please do get in touch with any suggestions for improvement.
Happy reading :)
Dalet, a leading provider of solutions and services for broadcasters and content professionals, has signed a landmark deal with a prominent North American broadcaster to build its next-generation, borderless multi-platform newsroom on Dalet Galaxy five. The broadcaster's expansive operation is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service that includes four distinct traditional and digital news entities dedicated to delivering breaking news to more than 90 million homes. The digital transformation will leverage advanced Cloud and AI technologies and move all production and distribution operations to the cohesive Dalet Galaxy five platform, a unified Media Asset Management (MAM), Workflow Orchestration and Editorial environment. Frederic Roux, vice president of sales, Americas, Dalet, comments on the multi-workflow advantages Dalet Galaxy five offers: "This particular news network is on air 24/7 and what they must deliver is far more diverse than straightforward news shows. They need to produce studio news programs and documentary-style shows, which are much closer to long-form programming workflows and often feature multi-camera productions. In addition, a new kind of storytelling is required when producing for OTT and digital, which adds complexity to the production chain." Roux continues, "Dalet Galaxy five is able to facilitate standard news, long-form programming and digital workflows simultaneously. The transition to the platform brings immense efficiency to the operation with limitless options to implement future workflows and iterate quickly with new, digital-first initiatives. The consolidation of systems required to drive these disparate workflows will also help optimize the total cost of ownership for the broadcaster. In this era of fast-changing news consumption behavior, our customers need an agile platform that can adapt quickly to their new business reality. This agility is inherent to the Dalet Galaxy five hybrid architecture." Based on a modern, video over IP infrastructure that uses the SMPTE 2110 standard, Dalet Galaxy five platform leverages the elasticity of the Cloud and offers federated production capabilities enabling the news network to effectively scale remote bureaus, field resources, and workflows at will. Cognitive services integrated with Dalet Galaxy five will accelerate the metadata enrichment of content archives making news assets easier to discover and readily available for creating deeper news stories across all platforms. Thanks to the hybrid architecture leveraging AWS, Dalet Galaxy five will provide native disaster recovery capability by offloading on-premise capacity to the Cloud when needed and processing scalability. "Today's audiences crave more detailed news information on the viewing platform of their choice, especially for major sporting and political events," adds Roux. "Broadcasters need a solution that enables them to deliver that deeper coverage whenever and wherever these events take place and create a content journey that engages audiences across all platforms. Dalet Galaxy five industry-leading remote access and editing provides a seamless news gathering and reporting experience enabling journalists to prepare robust multimedia stories whether they are in the newsroom or in the field on assignment." Dalet Galaxy five will underpin the entire multi-platform production and delivery workflow, integrating key broadcast systems and propelling game-changing field and bureau workflows with a significantly improved remote editing user experience. Dalet Galaxy five's orchestration capabilities will facilitate metadata-driven operations that automate complex media processes, distribute tasks and streamline workflows, simplifying the technical hurdles of media handling while simultaneously providing staff greater control over assets and monitoring capacities. For more information on Dalet Galaxy five and Dalet solutions, please visit www.dalet.com. About Dalet Digital Media Systems Dalet solutions and services enable media organisations to create, manage and distribute content faster and more efficiently, fully maximising the value of assets. Based on an agile foundation, Dalet offers rich collaborative tools empowering end-to-end workflows for news, sports, program preparation, post-production, archives and enterprise content management, radio, education, governments and institutions. Dalet platforms are scalable and modular. They offer targeted applications with key capabilities to address critical functions of small to large media operations - such as planning, workflow orchestration, ingest, cataloguing, editing, chat & notifications, transcoding, play out automation, multi-platform distribution and analytics. In July 2019, Dalet announced the acquisition of the Ooyala Flex Media Platform business. An acceleration of the company's mission, the move brings tremendous value to existing Dalet and Ooyala customers, opening vast opportunities for OTT & digital distribution. Dalet solutions and services are used around the world at hundreds of content producers and distributors, including public broadcasters (BBC, CBC, France TV, RAI, TV2 Denmark, RFI, Russia Today, RT Malaysia, SBS Australia, VOA), commercial networks and operators (Canal+, FOX, MBC Dubai, Mediacorp, Fox Sports Australia, Turner Asia, Mediaset, Orange, Charter Spectrum, Warner Bros, Sirius XM Radio), sporting organisations (National Rugby League, FIVB, Bundesliga) and government organisations (UK Parliament, NATO, United Nations, Veterans Affairs, NASA). Dalet is traded on the NYSE-EURONEXT stock exchange (Eurolist C): ISIN: FR0011026749, Bloomberg DLT:FP, Reuters: DALE.PA. Dalet® is a registered trademark of Dalet Digital Media Systems. All other products and trademarks mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.
Dalet Expands Quality Control Support with Interra Systems Technology Partnership
Dalet, a leading provider of solutions and services for broadcasters and content professionals, today announced it has expanded integration of the Interra Systems' BATON platform to include the Ooyala Flex Media Platform. Cupertino, California-based Interra Systems' BATON is the media industry's leading machine learning- and AI-enabled automated file-based quality control (QC) platform. It provides comprehensive quality and compliance checks for VOD content, in the cloud and on-premises, for linear and streaming workflows. The expanded technology partnership enables Dalet Galaxy five and Ooyala Flex Media Platform customers to deploy advanced automated quality assurance and compliance workflows. "Dalet and Interra have had a long, successful partnership. In the past five years alone, we have done over 50 joint Interra Baton and Dalet Galaxy projects, worldwide," said Kevin Savina, director of product strategy, Dalet. "This has been a very fruitful relationship and we expect this success to continue with the support of Interra Baton to the Ooyala Flex Media Platform, with the next major deployment being in India." Dalet Galaxy five and Ooyala Flex Media Platform customers leveraging BATON integration include VDM, Telefe, Mediacorp, Bundesliga, MBC Dubai, National Archives of Singapore, BBC Wales, Mediaset, ABS-CBN and NOS Portugal. Acquired by Dalet in July 2019, the Ooyala Flex Media Platform is an open and extensible asset management solution that simplifies and streamlines the entire content supply chain, from production to profit, significantly reducing clients' costs and complexity while increasing their revenue. The new API-based integration is designed to address QC seamlessly throughout the supply chain, automating quality checks at various stages and powering today's media factories from ingest through production and distribution. BATON's QC reports can be populated automatically to metadata fields for each asset within the workflow, enabling users to see the results of the QC analysis. "Interra Systems' BATON integrates tightly with Ooyala Flex Media Platform and ensures content readiness throughout the value chain," said Anupama Anantharaman, VP of Product Management, Interra Systems. "This collaboration will benefit clients of both our companies, while enabling content creators and distributors to deliver high quality content." "Video quality is increasingly crucial in today's competitive M&E landscape," said Bea Alonso, director of product marketing, Dalet. "The integration of our platforms with the industry-leading BATON QC platform provides an automated solution for accelerated delivery of high-quality, tested content, opening the door for media companies to increase their operational efficiency and better monetize their catalogs, no matter their business model." For more information on Dalet Galaxy five and the Ooyala Flex Media Platform, please visit https://www.dalet.com/partner/interra-systems. About Interra Systems Interra Systems is a global provider of enterprise-class solutions that streamline the classification, quality control (QC) process, and monitoring of media content across the entire creation and distribution chain. Relying on Interra Systems' comprehensive video insights, media businesses can deliver video with high quality of experience, address new market trends, and improve monetization. Widely adopted by broadcast, cable, telco, satellite, IPTV, OTT, and post-production markets around the world, Interra Systems' products enable better quality video, reduced exposure to regulatory issues, and higher customer satisfaction. Featuring AI- and machine learning-enabled algorithms, along with a flexible, software-defined architecture, Interra Systems' solutions support a variety of deployment scenarios, including the cloud, for higher performance, scalability, and efficiency. The company's industry-leading solutions include BATON, a next-generation hybrid QC solution that delivers comprehensive capabilities way beyond standard automated QC; ORION and ORION-OTT real-time content monitors assuring high QoE; and VEGA media analyzers for compliance and debug of encoded streams. About Dalet Digital Media Systems Dalet solutions and services enable media organisations to create, manage and distribute content faster and more efficiently, fully maximising the value of assets. Based on an agile foundation, Dalet offers rich collaborative tools empowering end-to-end workflows for news, sports, program preparation, post-production, archives and enterprise content management, radio, education, governments and institutions. Dalet platforms are scalable and modular. They offer targeted applications with key capabilities to address critical functions of small to large media operations - such as planning, workflow orchestration, ingest, cataloguing, editing, chat & notifications, transcoding, play out automation, multi-platform distribution and analytics. In July 2019, Dalet announced the acquisition of the Ooyala Flex Media Platform business. An acceleration of the company's mission, the move brings tremendous value to existing Dalet and Ooyala customers, opening vast opportunities for OTT & digital distribution. Dalet solutions and services are used around the world at hundreds of content producers and distributors, including public broadcasters (BBC, CBC, France TV, RAI, TV2 Denmark, RFI, Russia Today, RT Malaysia, SBS Australia, VOA), commercial networks and operators (Canal+, FOX, MBC Dubai, Mediacorp, Fox Sports Australia, Turner Asia, Mediaset, Orange, Charter Spectrum, Warner Bros, Sirius XM Radio), sporting organisations (National Rugby League, FIVB, Bundesliga) and government organisations (UK Parliament, NATO, United Nations, Veterans Affairs, NASA). Dalet is traded on the NYSE-EURONEXT stock exchange (Eurolist C): ISIN: FR0011026749, Bloomberg DLT:FP, Reuters: DALE.PA. Dalet® is a registered trademark of Dalet Digital Media Systems. All other products and trademarks mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.
Why caption? Why subtitle? Because a large chunk of your audience either needs or prefers to watch video reading text without sound. Subtitles and captions are an essential part of business for any media organization who wants to reach the widest possible audience, for a multitude of reasons: legal requirements, international distribution, accessibility.... Captions provide a textual representation of dialogue and other important audio for people with hearing loss. They also give the viewer additional information about the video, such as context for a news clip. Subtitles provide a translation of the dialogue, essential to reach international markets. So, we all agree captions and subtitles are key, but... creating them is hard. First, you need solid speech-to-text transcription so that the right words are created from the audio stream. As many of us who have been working with this technology for a while quickly learnt, this is not enough. There is the complicated business of correctly segmenting, laying the text out, punctuation, timing and so on, often creating much manual work for captioning and subtitling teams. What if you could be smart about captioning and subtitling? What if you had a technology solution that automates most of these editorial decisions applying artificial intelligence to the output of a good speech-to-text engine? Enter Dalet Media Cortex. Over the last few months, our teams have worked tirelessly to improve the quality of our Smart Captions, part of the Dalet Media Cortex Speech service, providing users with high-quality automatic captions and subtitles for their video content. If you are using the Dalet Media Cortex API, Smart Captions will be delivered to you in the form of SRT or TTML files. If you are using Dalet Media Cortex integrated with Dalet Galaxy five or the Ooyala Flex Media Platform, captions will also be displayed as timecoded locators so that users can search and navigate through subtitles and captions easily. What is so special about Smart Captions? We have developed algorithms based on speech density, natural language processing and speaker diarization (the process of partitioning an input audio stream into homogeneous segments according to the speaker identity) to generate captions and subtitles that are as close as possible to the BBC Subtitle Guidelines. This takes care of essential elements in captioning and subtitling: such as text that flows well and is synchronized with the speakers' voice and cadence, lines that split at natural points based on sentence structure and text length that is properly adjusted to screen size. How does this help you? Beyond the improved quality of these AI-generated subtitles and captions, there are immediate and tangible benefits. You will see the time you spent in adjusting subtitles or captions cut in half, when compared to traditional speech-to-text based solutions. You don't have an automatic captioning/subtitling system today? Good news: you will save over 80% of your time in generating quality captioning and subtitles for your video content. Besides, having great captions and subtitles will increase the value of your media, and bring you new business opportunities, such as expanding to new markets or increase your online and social media engagement. No doubt Smart Captions is one of the multiple differentiators that makes Dalet Media Cortex an "IBC Best of Show Award" winner. Want to know more? Get in touch with the Dalet team here!
Dalet launches new media platform - a FEED Magazine article
If there's one point everyone in the media industry can agree upon, it's that the amount of content that needs to be produced, managed and archived effectively is now growing at an unprecedented rate. For content creators, this means their choice of media asset management (MAM) technology could hardly be more critical. And for MAM developers and vendors, it means an ever-lengthening list of requirements they must work tirelessly to accommodate...Read more Read the full article
The Evolution of Sports Broadcasting – Wimbledon as a Case in Point
We have seen an abundance of live streams available to watch Wimbledon for several years. Take Virgin Media for instance – the broadcast channel surprised everyone in 2019 by announcing that it would be offering its customers access to all of the big matches on Centre Court in 4K with HDR. This was a strategic move for Virgin Media, by timing it around one of the flagship sporting events of the year it helped to increase subscriptions and provide its customers with a high-quality viewing experience. Meaning that the broadcaster remains relevant and a viable option and platform for people to enjoy major sporting events, creating a competitive edge against its market competitors. Content supply chain control Wimbledon had predicted the rise in new technologies a couple of years ago and set up its own broadcast division to future-proof its control over technology, content, and engagement. In the past, Wimbledon's broadcasting rights was outsourced to the BBC; The All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC), Wimbledon's organizer, had limited access and control over The Championship's content. It was therefore an obvious decision, in 2017, for AELTC to announce that Wimbledon Broadcasting Services (WBS) will have full ownership of the TV cameras and broadcast output internationally. This was a sports industry trend at the time, rights holders demanded greater control over their content supply chain. Tennis Australia was a pioneer in bringing TV production in-house for the Australian Open two years earlier. AELTC now oversees its individual stakes and audience engagement in-house, building on its existing stakeholder relationships (whilst staying friends with the BBC) and exploring new revenue streams. The BBC still maintains exclusive rights to Wimbledon's broadcast in the UK, but it will no longer have any say on production costs. The Championships is now capable of maximizing on its wealth of legacy content, in addition to new and archived material - an average of three matches per court, each day, video from matches can add up to hundreds of hours of footage. The audience will now benefit from added choice, access to a broader range of content, and ultimately an enhanced user experience across different platforms. A platform for monetization Enter the Ooyala Flex Media Platform, a technology solution that helps its customers future-proof their own levels of control. Whether it's an existing or new piece of technology that needs integrating into the ecosystem, content retrieval from several sources, or delivering media to more endpoints – the Ooyala Flex Media Platform empowers them to do this, and more. OoyalaMAM enables organizations to manage, search, edit and deliver to multiple destinations; helping them unlock previously untapped opportunities. Once you have full visibility of your content catalog, and how to source it quickly and efficiently, the ability to monetize becomes massive. Today, the Ooyala Flex Media Platform is helping multiple sports organizations such as Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), National Rugby League (NRL), and many more to do exactly this - help take control of their own destiny and have that direct engagement with their fans. The need for speed (and AI) Going back to the focus on efficiency and speed… AI has helped AELTC to successfully streamline its content supply chain in a time- and cost-efficient manner. It not only localizes content for the UK market, but also creates and distributes a significant number of original videos for different markets - delivering an all-round excellent user experience. Organizers will also find additional revenue coming-in from sponsors and global broadcast partners, who now have an augmented library of content to engage with fans. The Ooyala Flex Media Platform, together with Dalet Media Cortex, now provides AI-driven workflows to automatically associate that metadata against the correct content. This hands back valuable time to customers in both financial and delivery terms. Once the metadata has been automatically indexed with Dalet Media Cortex, you can then go into OoyalaMAM and review the metadata and manually add, change, and delete anything that needs that last adjustment from a human intervention. The ability to marry automation and manual workflows gives sports rights holders and distributors a powerful metadata enrichment engine, and allows them to be reassured that their metadata is being correctly inserted. The secret to optimizing speed and efficiency in a content supply chain is to harmonize and manage all its components, making it as flexible and organic as possible. Although this is not an easy feat as Wimbledon and its technology partners have been developing their strategy to improve global fan engagement for 30 years! Want to discuss your video strategy to wow fans and build a future-proof sports media platform? Contact us today. Bea Alonso Director of Product Marketing at Dalet
Dalet, a leading provider of solutions and services for broadcasters and content professionals, will showcase at IBC2019 on stand 8.B77 the new version of Dalet Media Cortex, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered media workflow service that puts content intelligence at the fingertips of media professionals. A Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that enables the orchestration of multiple cognitive services in a pay-as-you-go model, Dalet Media Cortex optimizes content production, management and publishing by enriching content and automating workflows. In addition to the existing Dalet Galaxy five augmented workflows, new Dalet Media Cortex integrations, services and features shown at IBC2019 include smart captioning capabilities, improved news and editorials workflows, and integration with Ooyala Flex Media Platform. The new AI enhancements enable both Dalet Galaxy five and Ooyala Flex media Platform customers to produce and distribute more content faster, to more viewers in less time, as well as open doors to new markets. "Over the last 18 months, we've seen the use of AI transition from experimental trials to real-world deployments. Using AI services to automate repetitive, but essential processes, as well as to augment user workflows with contextual insights and timely recommendations resonates with broadcasters and media companies who have to serve more platforms and more markets with more content than ever before," explains Raoul Cospen, Director of News Market, Dalet. "The key to success is to combine the right mix of AI engines for a given use case and expected outcome, then automatically curate and present the data generated as simple, contextual insights surfaced in end users day-to-day tools. Dalet Media Cortex does just this. It enables media professionals to dedicate more of their time to creating and collaborating effectively and media companies to better serve their audiences with higher quality content and personalized multi-platform experiences." Dalet Media Cortex orchestrates combinations of cognitive services, fine-tunes the models, versions the data sets, aligns them with customers' taxonomies, and eventually surfaces the results at various levels of the Dalet application stack to provide actionable insights and real value to the users and to the organization. A fully managed service, Dalet Media Cortex can be deployed across the workflow within hours. Its smart metadata approach to classification automatically identifies asset type, defining key search words, sentences and terms, optimizing indexing and use of content across the organization. Seamlessly integrated within the Dalet Galaxy five and Ooyala Flex Media Platform workspace, all AI curated data is presented in a contextual manner, such as a caption or recommendation. New Dalet Media Cortex integrations, services and feature highlights shown at IBC2019 include: Ooyala Flex Media Platform Integration: Populate automatically indexed metadata to OoyalaMAM for easy curation and distribution, increasing monetization opportunities for high volume catalogs and archives. Smart Captioning: Dalet Media Cortex can automate up to 90% of manual captioning work, accelerating the process five fold with high quality results. Its speech-to-text capabilities are available in more than 30 languages, opening up revenue opportunities in new markets. Improved News and Editorial Workflows: Automatically tag stories and wires. New entity detection capability (locations, persons, organizations) with smart assistant facilitates associated content recommendations for stories from planning all the way through production. Custom Dictionary: The custom dictionary allows users to add specific words that are relevant to an industry, a job, and market, optimizing accuracy and results. Enhanced Dalet Media Cortex API: Enables media companies to build versatile and extensive workflows leveraging a dynamic combination of microservices to optimize workflow performance (https://www.dalet.com/business-services/media-cortex). For more information about Dalet Media Cortex, please visit https://www.dalet.com/business-services/media-cortex. Better Together - Join us for a Very Special Dalet Pulse Event! This IBC2019, the Dalet Pulse media innovation summit will expand its platform to include Ooyala. Celebrating the joining of two great media teams and technologies, the Dalet Pulse theme this year, Better Together, will give attendees a chance to learn about the extended product portfolio and how it helps leading media organizations develop agile content supply chains, deliver unique content experiences to multi-platform audiences, and increase revenues with Dalet solutions and partner technologies. It's also a unique opportunity to meet the expanded team. Thursday, 12 September Pompstation, Amsterdam Keynote: 17:30 - 19:00 Party: 19:00 - 22:00 Register now via https://www.dalet.com/events/dalet-pulse-ibc-2019. Book a Private Briefing to Learn More About Dalet Take the opportunity to have a private demonstration or workflow consultation with a Dalet expert to learn how the latest products and solutions can help you better create, manage and distribute content. Book a meeting via https://www.dalet.com/events/ibc-show-2019. Press can contact Alex Molina at alex@zazilmediagroup.com to schedule a media briefing. About Dalet Digital Media Systems Dalet solutions and services enable media organisations to create, manage and distribute content faster and more efficiently, fully maximising the value of assets. Based on an agile foundation, Dalet offers rich collaborative tools empowering end-to-end workflows for news, sports, program preparation, post-production, archives and enterprise content management, radio, education, governments and institutions. Dalet platforms are scalable and modular. They offer targeted applications with key capabilities to address critical functions of small to large media operations - such as planning, workflow orchestration, ingest, cataloguing, editing, chat & notifications, transcoding, play out automation, multi-platform distribution and analytics. In July 2019, Dalet announced the acquisition of the Ooyala Flex Media Platform business. An acceleration of the company's mission, the move brings tremendous value to existing Dalet and Ooyala customers, opening vast opportunities for OTT & digital distribution. Dalet solutions and services are used around the world at hundreds of content producers and distributors, including public broadcasters (BBC, CBC, France TV, RAI, TV2 Denmark, RFI, Russia Today, RT Malaysia, SBS Australia, VOA), commercial networks and operators (Canal+, FOX, MBC Dubai, Mediacorp, Fox Sports Australia, Turner Asia, Mediaset, Orange, Charter Spectrum, Warner Bros, Sirius XM Radio), sporting organisations (National Rugby League, FIVB, LFP) and government organisations (UK Parliament, NATO, United Nations, Veterans Affairs, NASA). Dalet is traded on the NYSE-EURONEXT stock exchange (Eurolist C): ISIN: FR0011026749, Bloomberg DLT:FP, Reuters: DALE.PA. Dalet® is a registered trademark of Dalet Digital Media Systems. All other products and trademarks mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.
Dalet, a leading provider of solutions and services for broadcasters and content professionals, announced today that NextRadioTV has leveraged its existing Dalet Galaxy Media Asset Management (MAM), Workflow Orchestration and Editorial platform located in Paris, France to launch the new BFM Lyon news channel. Owned by the multinational telecoms and mass media company Altice Group, NextRadioTV is one of the largest media properties in Europe with 14 TV and two radio channels, reaching more than 10 million viewers each day. A Dalet customer since 2005, NextRadioTV powers its content production, playout and multi-platform distribution workflows with Dalet Galaxy for all of their leading TV, radio and digital channel brands including, BFM Business, BFM Paris, RMC Sport, RMC Story, RMC Découverte, and BFMTV, France's most-watched news channel. The diverse program content contains breaking local and national news, world financial and business news, and full coverage of football, rugby, tennis, boxing and more. "NextRadioTV has an ambitious roadmap in terms of both new content production and new channels, like BFM Lyon," comments Antoine Robelin, Broadcast CTO, NextRadioTV. "Underpinning the entire operation with an agile platform like Dalet Galaxy enables us to centralize all of our media operations and optimize productions. More than 1,000 journalists and editors are able to work with the Dalet Galaxy system. They work collaboratively and share their content across all NextRadioTV brands. This gives us tremendous flexibility with regards to feeding channels and distribution outlets, including our new BFM Lyon channel." NextRadioTV's digital transformation with Dalet has enabled the group to launch new initiatives like the ultra-targeted regional station BFM Lyon quickly, while keeping in line with the brand's content strategy across multiple locations. With a reputation for always being the first to broadcast breaking news, the Dalet tools help NextRadioTV verify, editorialize and broadcast content before any other media outlet. "Launching BFM Lyon, the second regional channel after BFM Paris under Altice France, marks a major step in our network expansion strategy. Thanks to the advanced collaboration framework and powerful connectivity, Dalet Galaxy has helped broaden our reach while accelerating a digital transformation that allows us to continue to scale with ease," adds Antoine Robelin. A single Dalet Galaxy MAM, orchestration and editorial platform powers NextRadioTV's massive multi-channel, multi-format and multi-output programming, from news and sports to long-form and radio programs, allowing individual teams to manage collaboratively everything from content ingest, editing, graphics and playout, to multi-platform distribution and archives. Johann Zemmour, General Manager EMEA-APAC, Dalet comments, "The agility of Dalet Galaxy is very important for NextRadioTV's product-oriented production approach, in which they use a studio to produce a show and decide later where and when that program content will appear on TV, radio and digital. Dalet Galaxy allows them to use their resources independently of their channels, enabling NextRadioTV to leverage a wide range of content for new channels as well as manage distribution across their many platforms in an incredibly efficient manner." Dalet systems have supported BFMTV programming throughout their entire history, from a small newsroom of 50 people to what is today several hundreds of simultaneous users and advanced workflows covering all production and playout operations. Serving all operations across multiple locations, the Dalet Galaxy systems facilitates immediate content sharing across all departments, supporting desktop editing for fast turnaround news and sports via Dalet OneCut, and advanced packages crafted on Adobe Premiere Pro CC brought seamlessly into the collaborative workflow via Dalet Xtend. <iframe width="660" height="415" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/F_PXyJtOchs" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> About NextRadioTV NextRadioTV is an independent multimedia company. Its business focuses on five areas – general news, sports, the economy, high-tech and factual entertainment – available on television, radio and digital media. The Group has recognized know-how and expertise in managing innovative audiovisual projects. About Dalet Digital Media Systems Dalet solutions and services enable media organisations to create, manage and distribute content faster and more efficiently, fully maximising the value of assets. Based on an agile foundation, Dalet offers rich collaborative tools empowering end-to-end workflows for news, sports, program preparation, post-production, archives and enterprise content management, radio, education, governments and institutions. Dalet platforms are scalable and modular. They offer targeted applications with key capabilities to address critical functions of small to large media operations - such as planning, workflow orchestration, ingest, cataloguing, editing, chat & notifications, transcoding, play out automation, multi-platform distribution and analytics. In July 2019, Dalet announced the acquisition of the Ooyala Flex Media Platform business. An acceleration of the company's mission, the move brings tremendous value to existing Dalet and Ooyala customers, opening vast opportunities for OTT & digital distribution. Dalet solutions and services are used around the world at hundreds of content producers and distributors, including public broadcasters (BBC, CBC, France TV, RAI, TV2 Denmark, RFI, Russia Today, RT Malaysia, SBS Australia, VOA), commercial networks and operators (Canal+, FOX, MBC Dubai, Mediacorp, Fox Sports Australia, Turner Asia, Mediaset, Orange, Charter Spectrum, Warner Bros, Sirius XM Radio), sporting organisations (National Rugby League, FIVB, LFP) and government organisations (UK Parliament, NATO, United Nations, Veterans Affairs, NASA). Dalet is traded on the NYSE-EURONEXT stock exchange (Eurolist C): ISIN: FR0011026749, Bloomberg DLT:FP, Reuters: DALE.PA. Dalet® is a registered trademark of Dalet Digital Media Systems. All other products and trademarks mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.
Dalet, a leading provider of solutions and services for broadcasters and content professionals, will demonstrate how its newly expanded media product lineup manages the content supply chain from production to distribution for a much wider range of media management needs and a significantly broader market at the 2019 IBC Show (Hall 8, Stand B77), held in Amsterdam from September 13th through September 17th. The recent Ooyala Flex Media Platform business acquisition combined with new product introductions spanning broadcast graphics, AI-powered content and production workflows, and IP infrastructure add even greater breadth and depth to the Dalet media management capabilities. The expanded Dalet product offering answers the needs of existing news, sports, programs, radio and archive customers requiring solutions to enable enterprise orchestration, intensive production and multi-platform distribution workflows. For new customers and markets, including corporate brands, telcos, sports teams and leagues, Dalet now offers agile, subscription-based solutions to manage multi-platform packaging and digital media distribution workflows. "Today, the ability to launch new services quickly at reduced operational costs is essential for content owners and distributors to remain competitive, and both Dalet and Ooyala have been helping them address this challenge in our respective areas of expertise. This was one of the key drivers behind the Ooyala acquisition," states Kevin Savina, Director of Product Strategy, Dalet. "The Ooyala Flex Media Platform, with its strong OTT content supply chain and multi-platform distribution capabilities, is a perfect complement to Dalet Galaxy five, which is the platform of choice for production-intensive and enterprise media operations. We look forward to demonstrating that at IBC2019 alongside all the other innovations we will be showcasing on our other platforms." Powering the Digital Content Supply Chain & Multi-platform Distribution - Ooyala Flex Media Platform Now under the Dalet umbrella, the Ooyala Flex Media Platform is nested within a media ecosystem that will enable a steady growth path, with a number of new features being unveiled at IBC2019. The platform now includes the ability to publish to multiple online video platforms, such as Kaltura, JWPlayer and Brightcove, offering increased support for OTT workflows and multi-platform distribution. Integration with Dalet AmberFin for orchestrated, high-quality media processing, and Dalet Media Cortex for AI-augmented workflows will also be demonstrated at the show, developing the first synergies between the Ooyala Flex Media Platform and the wider Dalet product range. Leveraging AI to Augment Content Workflows - Dalet Media Cortex The AI SaaS platform, Dalet Media Cortex, automatically enriches content and provides actionable insights, contextual recommendations, speech-to-text transcriptions and automated closed captioning, offering real value for both the users and the wider organization. An add-on to Dalet Galaxy five and Ooyala Flex Media Platform, the pay-as-you-go AI platform helps media organizations leverage cognitive services and machine learning across content operations and businesses. Providing the right insights, in the right toolset, with the right context, Dalet Media Cortex helps content producers, owners and publishers across news, sports, programs and radio operations make the most of their media assets and become more productive, automating mundane tasks so they can focus on the creative editorial process. 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Celebrating the joining of two great media teams and technologies, the Dalet Pulse theme this year, Better Together, will give attendees a chance to learn about the extended product portfolio and how it helps leading media organizations develop agile content supply chains, deliver unique content experiences to multi-platform audiences, and increase revenues with Dalet solutions and partner technologies. It's also a unique opportunity to meet the expanded team. Thursday, 12 September Pompstation, Amsterdam Keynote: 17:30 - 19:00 Party: 19:00 - 22:00 Register now via https://www.dalet.com/events/dalet-pulse-ibc-2019 Book a Private Briefing to Learn More About Dalet Take the opportunity to have a private demonstration or workflow consultation with a Dalet expert to learn how the latest products and solutions can help you better create, manage and distribute content. 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Dalet, a leading provider of solutions and services for broadcasters and content professionals, has signed a deal with Austrian private broadcaster group ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4 to fully revamp their media operation with the agile Dalet Galaxy five Media Asset Management (MAM), Workflow Orchestration and Editorial platform. ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4 is home to hits such as Austrian's Next Top Model, iconic UEFA Europa League and international sports coverage such as National Football League and popular thematic news, talk and show programs. The Dalet Galaxy five installation will equip the well-known broadcaster with a state-of-the-art media production workflow that realigns production and delivery to optimize cross-functional team collaboration and multi-platform content output across its three channels PULS 4, ATV and ATV 2. ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4 Broadcast System Engineers, Christoph Stadlhofer and Dirk Raschig comment on the vision for the leap forward and partnering with Dalet to better manage the news, sports, archives and program preparation workflows, "We have a rapidly growing pool of content that needs to be centralized and enriched with metadata. In addition, we need tools that enable our staff to easily search, prepare and distribute that content. Facilitating these needs combined with managing a much higher output of program and news content to our digital platforms is what we expect to accomplish with the move to Dalet Galaxy five." Tobias Stößel, Project Manager of this Project at ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4 continues, "The Dalet Galaxy five core media asset management and orchestration capabilities will free our users from many manual processes and technical duties that currently weigh them down. It will enable them to reach a higher level of collaboration, giving them more time to focus on the project at hand." The full implementation of Dalet Galaxy five will allow ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4 to build an end-to-end, cohesive digital content supply chain that unifies all operations and processes from the newsroom to program preparation to post-production to distribution and archives. Key components include: a centralized content catalogue (MAM) that houses enriched metadata for ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4's three channels; Dalet Webspace for browse, search and media management; Dalet Workflow Engine for the orchestration of operations and processes; the Dalet Brio I/O platform for centralized ingest management; and Dalet AmberFin scalable transcoding. The Dalet installation will facilitate seamless collaboration between all users including editors on Adobe® Premiere® Pro through Dalet Xtend and Avid® Pro Tools®. "Dalet Galaxy five will unify the infrastructure with an underlying component-based workflow that enables ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4 to scale at will its content production and multi-platform delivery and thrive in an ever-changing media landscape," comments Johann Zemmour, General Manager, EMEA and APAC, Dalet. "We look forward to working closely with ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4 to revamp its infrastructure and deliver on the ambitious roadmap that will undoubtedly transform the way they produce and deliver their premium product to the delight of ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4 audiences." Philipp Beuchert, Head of Broadcast & Production Systems at ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4 concludes on partnering with Dalet, "We are also looking into future technology and here, we think Dalet is one of the key players on the market. ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4 is happy to improve the in-house technology together." 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Dalet solutions and services are used around the world at hundreds of content producers and distributors, including public broadcasters (BBC, CBC, France TV, RAI, RFI, Russia Today, RT Malaysia, SBS Australia, VOA), commercial networks and operators (Canal+, FOX, MBC Dubai, Mediacorp, Mediaset, Orange, Charter Spectrum, Warner Bros, Sirius XM Radio) and government organisations (UK Parliament, NATO, United Nations, Veterans Affairs, NASA). Dalet is traded on the NYSE-EURONEXT stock exchange (Eurolist C): ISIN: FR0011026749, Bloomberg DLT:FP, Reuters: DALE.PA. Dalet® is a registered trademark of Dalet Digital Media Systems. All other products and trademarks mentioned herein belong to their respective owners. For more information on ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4, visit http://www.prosiebensat1puls4.com.
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AMSTERDAM—TV Technology's sister publication TVBEurope has announced the winners of the Best of Show at IBC 2019 Awards. Awards honor innovation and outstanding product development in media and entertainment. The new version of Dalet Media Cortex, our AI SaaS platform, won "Best of Show" award at IBC 2019! This platform is now seamlessly integrated with Ooyala Flex Media Platform and offers smart captioning capabilities that enable more efficient productions and delivery and contextual recommendations that boost creative work from planning through production. Read more
Dalet, a leading provider of solutions and services for media organizations and content professionals, today announced that Philippines media group ABS-CBN Corporation has deployed Dalet Unified News Operations powered by the Dalet Galaxy five Media Asset Management (MAM), Workflow Orchestration and Editorial platform, at its regional Cebu City station. The turnkey news solution deployed by Dalet enables the broadcaster to break news faster and offers the agility to expand seamlessly to support multi-site workflows. ABS-CBN Corporation, headquartered in Quezon City, is the Philippines' largest entertainment and media conglomerate by revenue, assets, and number of employees. The group owns and operates the ABS-CBN television network which includes the flagship national channel ABS-CBN as well as regional radio networks. An existing Dalet customer, the ABS-CBN group invested in Dalet in 2008 to manage the facility-wide media asset management and archiving workflow which resulted in the digitization of 21-years' worth of material. The investment also enabled ABS-CBN to add new media channels for web and mobile TV. The new Dalet deployment upgrades the broadcaster's Cebu news production capabilities and lays the foundation for further strategic enhancements. "Previously, we had no studio automation at our Cebu City station and were laying programs to tape for playout with no ability to save news programs. We needed to move to a solution that would automate our workflows, better support our social channels and enable future expansion," explains Leilani Alba, Station Head for ABS-CBN Cebu. "Backed by 10 years' of trust and collaboration with Dalet we knew we could rely on their proven technology and professional services for this important project. With Dalet, we have transformed and simplified our operations by moving to a single solution that manages the end-to-end production and playout of news. We are already seeing the value of our assets increase by being able to track and gather metadata at all points across the news story development." The Dalet Unified News Operations solution is powered by the market-leading Dalet Galaxy five platform. The built-in Dalet NRCS functionality includes agency wire acquisition, collaborative planning, script editing, notifications and approval processes, rundown and graphics management with full timing control, and many other features. Designed for journalists, the embedded Dalet OneCut multimedia editor enables easy and fast news editing at every desktop. The Dalet AmberFin media processing farm transcodes any incoming content into the mezzanine format, making it immediately available for use across the station. Dalet Brio video servers deliver rock-solid performance and high-density ingest and playout. "Designed as a fully packaged, end-to-end, newsroom solution, Dalet Unified News Operations offers tremendous value to ABS-CBN. They can now break news faster thanks to a streamlined, fully integrated and automated news workflow. In addition, ABS-CBN can amplify their social media and digital output to meet the needs of new audiences," says Cesar Comacho, general manager, Dalet Asia Pacific. "ABS-CBN has a platform they can grow with and realize future ambitions, including connection to its main hub and regional radio networks. Since the system fully supports HD from ingest to playout, the infrastructure is ready for them to transition." Comacho concludes, "The ease of deployment and the excellent working relationship we have is reflected in the fact that we were able to get the Cebu newsroom up running in just two months." Dalet, a leading provider of solutions and services for media organizations and content professionals, today announced that Philippines media group ABS-CBN Corporation has deployed Dalet Unified News Operations powered by the Dalet Galaxy five Media Asset Management (MAM), Workflow Orchestration and Editorial platform, at its regional Cebu City station. The turnkey news solution deployed by Dalet enables the broadcaster to break news faster and offers the agility to expand seamlessly to support multi-site workflows. ABS-CBN Corporation, headquartered in Quezon City, is the Philippines' largest entertainment and media conglomerate by revenue, assets, and number of employees. The group owns and operates the ABS-CBN television network which includes the flagship national channel ABS-CBN as well as regional radio networks. An existing Dalet customer, the ABS-CBN group invested in Dalet in 2008 to manage the facility-wide media asset management and archiving workflow which resulted in the digitization of 21-years' worth of material. The investment also enabled ABS-CBN to add new media channels for web and mobile TV. The new Dalet deployment upgrades the broadcaster's Cebu news production capabilities and lays the foundation for further strategic enhancements. "Previously, we had no studio automation at our Cebu City station and were laying programs to tape for playout with no ability to save news programs. We needed to move to a solution that would automate our workflows, better support our social channels and enable future expansion," explains Leilani Alba, Station Head for ABS-CBN Cebu. "Backed by 10 years' of trust and collaboration with Dalet we knew we could rely on their proven technology and professional services for this important project. With Dalet, we have transformed and simplified our operations by moving to a single solution that manages the end-to-end production and playout of news. We are already seeing the value of our assets increase by being able to track and gather metadata at all points across the news story development." The Dalet Unified News Operations solution is powered by the market-leading Dalet Galaxy five platform. The built-in Dalet NRCS functionality includes agency wire acquisition, collaborative planning, script editing, notifications and approval processes, rundown and graphics management with full timing control, and many other features. Designed for journalists, the embedded Dalet OneCut multimedia editor enables easy and fast news editing at every desktop. The Dalet AmberFin media processing farm transcodes any incoming content into the mezzanine format, making it immediately available for use across the station. Dalet Brio video servers deliver rock-solid performance and high-density ingest and playout. "Designed as a fully packaged, end-to-end, newsroom solution, Dalet Unified News Operations offers tremendous value to ABS-CBN. They can now break news faster thanks to a streamlined, fully integrated and automated news workflow. In addition, ABS-CBN can amplify their social media and digital output to meet the needs of new audiences," says Cesar Camacho, general manager, Dalet Asia Pacific. "ABS-CBN has a platform they can grow with and realize future ambitions, including connection to its main hub and regional radio networks. Since the system fully supports HD from ingest to playout, the infrastructure is ready for them to transition." Camacho concludes, "The ease of deployment and the excellent working relationship we have is reflected in the fact that we were able to get the Cebu newsroom up running in just two months." See Dalet at BroadcastAsia 2019 BroadcastAsia 2019 attendees can book a meeting to see Dalet solutions in action on stand 4T4-01. Attendees can also register for the Dalet BroadcastAsia Executive Breakfast, held on June 20th at the Pan Pacific Hotel. About Dalet Digital Media Systems Dalet solutions and services enable media organisations to create, manage and distribute content faster and more efficiently, fully maximising the value of assets. Based on an agile foundation, Dalet offers rich collaborative tools empowering end-to-end workflows for news, sports, program preparation, post-production, archives and enterprise content management, radio, education, governments and institutions. Dalet platforms are scalable and modular. They offer targeted applications with key capabilities to address critical functions of small to large media operations - such as planning, workflow orchestration, ingest, cataloguing, editing, chat & notifications, transcoding, play out automation, multi-platform distribution and analytics. Dalet solutions and services are used around the world at hundreds of content producers and distributors, including public broadcasters (BBC, CBC, France TV, RAI, RFI, Russia Today, RT Malaysia, SBS Australia, VOA), commercial networks and operators (Canal+, FOX, MBC Dubai, Mediacorp, Mediaset, Orange, Charter Spectrum, Warner Bros, Sirius XM Radio) and government organisations (UK Parliament, NATO, United Nations, Veterans Affairs, NASA). Dalet is traded on the NYSE-EURONEXT stock exchange (Eurolist C): ISIN: FR0011026749, Bloomberg DLT:FP, Reuters: DALE.PA. Dalet® is a registered trademark of Dalet Digital Media Systems. 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Mvt. I-'Twas Brillig. Many will recognize this title as the opening of the Lewis Carroll poem Jabberwocky in which the young protagonist seeks out and slays a fictional beast, the Jabberwock. The Jabberwock has always been, for me, a symbol of the beginning of some action: the impetus which sets one on a particular course, whether rapturous or perilous. The music in this movement follows a course from gentle, to more jagged, with a return to gentle.
Mvt. II-In Memoriam Christopher Lewis is an expression of grief over the tragic loss of a brilliant musical scholar, educator and friend. The movement opens with a lyrical cello solo which introduces all of the main musical ideas.
Mvt. III-Rudimentary Machine explores the largely clockwork existence that is so often our lives. As the music suggests, however, this metronomic pace is often derailed by unpredictable events. The rhythmic momentum and harmonic rhythm of this movement owe much to rock and roll and minimalism.
Movements I and II are similar in formal design (generally ABA structures), and movement III, which balances movement I and II in terms of length, is through-composed with much developmental repetition. Gravity and Light is approximately 13 minutes long.
Gravity and Light was commissioned by the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra in 1993. The premiere was given in that same year. Simon Streatfeild conducted.
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Grigory Tarasevich Issues Statement Post-Positive Meldonium Test
Russian backstroker and 2016 Olympian Grigory Tarasevich has released a statement concerning his positive meldonium test. Archive photo via Peter Sukenik/www.petersukenik.com
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As reported earlier today, Russian backstroker Grigory Tarasevich has tested positive for meldonium, the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) announced.
According to the USADA, 20-year-old Tarasevich, who swims stateside for the University of Louisville and will be representing Russia in Rio, tested positive via an in-competition urine sample he provided on March 4th of this year, as well as via an out-of-competition urine sample taken on March 29th. The former sample was collected at the Arena Pro Swim Series in Orlando, where Tarasevich claimed 2nd in the men's 100m backstroke (53.84) and 3rd in the 200m backstroke (1:58.04). Those medals are now forfeited, per the USADA.
In response to our report, a spokeswoman for the University of Louisville has provided a statement from Tarasevich, whose intent, in his own words, is to 'clarify the circumstances of his positive drug test in March 0f 2016.' Additionally, the spokeswoman has conveyed that Tarasevich has tested negative for prohibited substances, including meldonium, in three subsequent tests administered by both WADA and FINA after the positive March test.
Below is Tarasevich's statement as provided:
I wish to use this statement to clarify the circumstances of my positive drug test in March of 2016, when trace amounts of meldonium were detected. I took it three times in 2015, the last being Oct. 11, as prescribed by a doctor from the Siberian Olympic Reserve with permission from my personal coach, who is also my father. The substance was not banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) or the NCAA when I took it. When I found out it was being added to the prohibited substance list by the WADA in January of 2016, I stopped taking it immediately. I have since tested negative in three tests in April and May administered by FINA and United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). WADA still has not established how long meldonium stays in an athlete's system and the NCAA has not added it to its list of performance enhancing drugs. The literature on meldonium cited it as being effective in the prevention of cardiovascular system diseases during periods of intensive training and according to supplement instructions and to "use during physical and mental strain". I am accepting my sanction and focusing on training for the Rio Olympics as well as looking forward to my senior season as a Cardinal. I deeply respect the sport of swimming and I wish to represent my country and my school as the best possible example of hard work, training and competitive spirit.
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While it appears that Grigory has followed the letter of the law, he doesn't appear to have followed the spirit of it. The fact of the matter is there are very specific reasons to take Meldonium and "prevention of cardiovascular system diseases during periods of intensive training and according to supplement instructions and to 'use during physical and mental strain'" is not one of them.
From wikipedia, "Meldonium may be used to treat coronary artery disease.[4][5] These heart problems may sometimes lead to ischemia, a condition where too little blood flows to the organs in the body, especially the heart. Because this drug is thought to expand the arteries, it helps to increase the blood flow as well as… Read more »
Andrei Vorontsov
Reply to goalrilla
LEWIS: "Who cares I fail drug test?" – an article in "The Guardian", Thursday 24 April 2003. Very interesting reading on massive use of steroids by USA track-and-field and other sports athletes in preparations towards Seul Olympic Games 1988. Carl Lewis said he was just ONE OF HUNDREDS. PED in sport are not only and purely the Russian problem…
Reply to Andrei Vorontsov
Meldonium in particular does appear to exclusively be a Russian and former USSR state issue though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meldonium
(My apologies to moderator, this my message appeared on the wrong page. It should be published here!)
My Friends it is not so simple. Do not hurry to blame people for medonium use. Out of 150-160 positives there were only 47 Russians. Now we even have the best USA volleyball player performing for Russian club, who was positive for M.
PLS, ANSWER TO YOURSELF (for me it is cry
slal clear) ON FOLLOWING QUESTION:
Does Creatine loading technique enhance sport results in sprint events (and not only in sprint)?
YES IT DOES! THERE ARE HUNDREDS IF NOT THOUSANDS ACADEMIC STUDIES THAT PROVE IT. You can find in in Internet very rapidly (in 5 minutes time) dozens of articles… Read more »
I brought up the baking soda (bicarbonate) issue recently as well, as a question on where to draw the line on substances taken exclusively to enhance performance. I think there is more data backing baking soda than meldonium as far as improving athletic performance, yet it is still legal to take in vast quantities that far exceed any reasonable diet.
I think the question is one of availability and safety. Taking some baking soda once in a while for meets is unlikely to affect one's health. I don't remember reading about any side effects of meldonium, but there is also not a lot of data on long term use. I can only say baking soda is in every grocery store… Read more »
Andrei, more than happy to buy you a drink for your earlier comments on this web site how the corrupt doctors approached the Russian team while you were coaching- thanks for being big enough to admit.
Obviously in Russia currently, other places now and in the past doctors are being enlisted to find any possible performance enhancer- your challenge to find evidence that the heart medication is a performance enhancer makes it even funnier that why would he be taking/percribed heart medicine for no reason other than he states 'recovery enhancer'. If it was good practice it would be in recovery drinks and coke would be all over it.
He obviously did not declare this on his TUE… Read more »
We don't need Tarasevich to remind us of when WADA or USADA or FINA or the NCAA put Mildronate/meldonium on the banned list…we know when it was. His statement is puffed up, evasive damage control and the University of Louisville should be ashamed to stand party to it.
Tarasevich and his father should be grilled on their 'intent' in using the drug (cue a responsible WADA official)…run down the list of legitimate clinical reasons for using Mildronate/meldonium as a medication and make them answer for it:
Grigory, have you ever been diagnosed with ischemia? myocardial infarction? angina? have you had a stroke? are you guarding against cardiovascular system diseases as you referenced in your statement? are you experiencing excessive… Read more »
G.I.N.A
Reply to Matt
Maybe he is an alcoholic. It is used for this also .
Tom from Chicago
So despite it technically being legal in 2015, you took it because you have congestive heart disease?
E GAMBLE
So smoking cigarettes and hard training both can lead to cardiovascular disease? Wow.
Reading this "clarification" of his, I must say that Tarasevich comes across as a schoolboy reading a note from his parents. Pathetic.
DrSwimPhil
"A doctor from the Siberian Olympic Reserve" prescribed the supplement explicitly to help "intense training".
Do other Olympic federations have doctors who specifically say "hey, take this script to help you perform better"? I understand Olympic federations having doctors as part of their team to make sure health is kept up from illness, etc, but do they all act in the same way re: specifically training "better" (assuming health is already ok)? Serious/naive question….
spectatorn
Reply to DrSwimPhil
Another question is – why would a Russian athlete be getting medical advices from a doctor (Serbian Olympic Reserve) of another country where he was not related to or trained in?
Leclave
Reply to spectatorn
Siberian, not Serbian. Siberia is a part of Russia FYI, like Texas in the USA.
Marley09
So confused. Didn't good guys already lose the meldonium argument? Q1 to USADA…If WADA allows trace amounts of meldonium post Jan 1, why pick on a little fish (ok, medium sized fish) where this will likely lose once appealed? Q2 to NCAA. Why isn't Meldonium on banned list yet? Q3 to NCAA/Lousville, Was this guy subject to any doping tests while during the swim season? How often are your swimmers tested out of competition? Are Foreign athletes tested as often as they would be for the 8 months or so they're competing in the USA as they would be back in their home countries? Q4 to USA swimming. Will you redistributing any prize money from PSS Orlando he may have… Read more »
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When did his father join the staff at Lousiville ? That's such a crock.
About Retta Race
Former Masters swimmer and coach Loretta (Retta) thrives on a non-stop but productive schedule. Nowadays, that includes having just earned her MBA while working full-time in IT while owning French 75 Boutique while also providing swimming insight for BBC.
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APhA Attends Swearing-In Ceremony of National Drug Control Policy Director
The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) congratulates James W. Carroll upon his swearing in as the Director of the Office of the National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), our nation's "Drug Czar." The swearing-in was conducted Jan. 31 by Vice President Mike Pence in the White House. APhA's CEO Thomas E. Menighan, who attended the swearing-in, said "America's pharmacists support ONDCP's efforts to curb the opioid crisis." Shortly after the ceremony, Director Carroll announced the release of the National Drug Control Strategy which is comprised of three fundamental elements – prevention, treatment and recovery, and reducing availability. APhA's members have been on the frontlines in the fight against prescription drug abuse and misuse from the early onset.
Menighan issued the following statement:
"APhA is eager to collaborate with ONDCP and newly confirmed Director James Carroll in the fight against the opioid crisis. The SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act provides for several different roles for the ONDCP Director, including the release of a National Drug Control Strategy, among other programs and initiatives. We appreciate Director Carroll's and ONDCP's commitment to curbing the opioid crisis. We believe pharmacists, the medication expert on the care team, can serve increasingly meaningful roles to address opioid misuse, abuse and treatment. Better utilizing pharmacists in team-based approaches to patient care is essential to meeting our country's needs for quality and accessible health care, and help reduce the impact of this crisis on American families."


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Arleta and I met when we were both teaching seminars in Monterey, California in 1998. I was immediately drawn to her sense of humor and down-to-earth nature and totally amazed at her sparkling, detailed floral and still-life watercolors.
Q. Arleta, what inspired you to begin painting?
A. It started as a hobby as a child. My mother kept me supplied with paint, pencils, books, even paint-by-number kits. I didn't take art in school. When my husband saw my early artwork, he wondered why I didn't paint anymore. I said I didn't have paints, and the next day he bought me a set of acrylics. At first I worked in oil and acrylic, but when I tried watercolor in 1973, I knew I had found my medium. Now I work exclusively in watercolor.
Q. How have you developed your skill?
A. Mainly from books, as there was little money for classes. I really loved my watercolor books. I would get a bit of information from this one and that. I think that's why my style is my own. No one teacher's method or techniques influenced me. I advise artists to paint every day so your preferences will emerge and your style develop. As an instructor I see students who continually take classes are afraid to trust what they know.
Q. Do you paint every day? For how long? How long does it take you to do one of your intricate watercolors?
A. I paint almost every day. The business part of my career takes up some days. Last year I traveled 15 weeks teaching. A detailed painting can take three or four months from inspiration to finish. A simple floral can be a few weeks. If I'm having trouble, it can be a year, since I put it away and bring it out off and on till it's finished.
Q. Have you always preferred still life and flowers? Do you ever paint landscapes or portraits?
A. I've painted just about every subject, especially when I was learning. Florals have been my passion since the early 80s. Still lifes were an extension of the floral, and my fascination with lace came from my grandmother, who taught me to crochet. I realized early on that to become nationally known, you need a recognizable style and subject.
Q. What brought about your beautiful, informative book?
A. Painting Fresh Florals in Watercolor followed my article in The Artist's Magazine in 1995. The response to the article was so good that North Light Books contacted me. I decided to do it to help get into teaching more workshops. It was one of the best things I've done since Mill Pond Press, the two highlights of my career as an artist.
Q. Tell us about your association with Mill Pond Press.
A. Mill Pond was my publisher of limited edition fine art prints for several years. I was showing my work in local galleries and when they saw my work they asked to represent me. My florals became internationally known practically overnight. Pretty heady stuff! They were my publishers and agents from 1989 t 2001. My images received exposure to collectors world wide and were licensed to appear on gift items. It's not all a bed of roses. There's a lot of competition and not every painting gets reproduced. The up-side is it has gained me exposure and recognition I couldn't have achieved on my own. Now I'm with another reputable publishing company, Hadley House.
Q. Do you enter juried shows very often? Why or why not?
A. At first I entered competitions and got lots of rejections, but I achieved signature membership in the Rocky Mountain National with five acceptances. It's nice to have that acceptance, but I soon learned that I would rather sell paintings to support my family than do competition pieces.
Q. What are your goals for your students?
A. Observe, Understand, Practice and Apply. I give my students manageable projects so they come away with a positive learning experience.
Q. You've also done your own Web site. How did you manage that? Any advice for artists about this?
A. I did my own Web site and I'm no computer expert. I used Microsoft Publisher, which was simple and fun. It's good exposure for me to potential students and galleries. If an artist wants to make a Web page or site, you need to know what you want it to accomplish. And you still have to advertise so people will know where to look for you.
Thanks to Arleta Pech for a delightful interview. You can email Arleta at arleta@arletapech.com. Be sure to visit Arleta's Web site.


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Elections don't end political debates; they reset them.
Join us for Politics in the Pub, as we unpack the 2016 Federal Election and answer your questions about the campaign and the new Parliament.
You've seen the social media reactions, listened to the radio and read the paper. We know who will form government and a large chunk of who will be in the Senate.
But now for the hard part: what does it all mean?


Despite the importance of the agricultural sector in reducing poverty and food insecurity, and its critical role in meeting the MDGs, serious weaknesses in agricultural statistics persist. Difficulties in properly estimating crop productivity in particular are further compounded by the length and frequency of harvesting for certain types of crops such as cassava, which are harvested in small quantities over extended periods of time because of better in-ground storability, often even spanning across agricultural seasons.
Cassava is a particularly important staple crop in many sub-Saharan African countries and discrepancies in estimation from different sources point to substantial problems. As a result, traditional recall methods commonly used in household surveys may be highly inaccurate and thus questionable.
While different methods have been proposed and applied in the field, the lack of best practices remains a constraining factor in providing opportune technical advice to countries on the correct method. Although crop cutting remains the gold standard, it is impractical in most large scale surveys, particularly if multi-purpose in nature. At the other end of the spectrum, it is increasingly accepted that using recall methods spanning over several months yields highly inaccurate estimates of continuous crops like cassava.
Consequently, the LSMS team has set out to determine whether collection of harvest information on a more frequent basis, using diary methods, possibly combined with the use of mobile phones, may be a sufficiently accurate and cost-effective way to collect this information. To date, experiments have been conducted in Tanzania and Malawi.
Tanzania Measuring Cassava Productivity (MCP) In an effort to improve the quality of agricultural data, particularly with respect to extended-harvest crop production measurements, the LSMS team collaborated with the Zanzibar Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources to execute the Measuring Cassava Productivity (MCP) study in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The MCPexperiment compared three different methods for the estimation of cassava productivity, namely crop-cutting, recall, and diary methods, using three different land area measurement techniques, namely traversing, GPS and farmer self-reporting.
All households were randomly selected for measurement of cassava production either through the keeping of harvest diaries or by the administration of recall surveys (either 2 6-month recall surveys or 1 12-month recall survey). In the specific case of the diaries, mobile phones were introduced in one of the groups to assess the feasibility and accuracy, as well as the costs, of using mobile phones to collect production data on a more frequent basis, as well as to monitor the keeping of the diary by the selected respondents. For the other diary group, agricultural extension officers visited households twice a week to monitor and assist with diary completion.
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Q: Store image canvas to database php local storage I've been stuck for so many days on this.
I'm seeing a lot of the same problem like this, but some of the codes from them won't work on me. To be precise, I'm not using php 5 nor 7. But this is what I've got so far.
(Assuming there are drawings in this canvas) my html:
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    <canvas id="display_text" height="400px" width="700px" style="position:absolute;" > </canvas>

<input type="button" name="btn" id="submitBtn" value="display" class="btn btn-primary" />

And I successfully converted my canvas to image and displays it!
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display part of the image: (works fine)
<img id="show_canvas" name="show_canvas" height="400px" width="700px"/>

now after displaying, I have a button "save" which means to store the image or canvas in my database and it executes at the "submit.php".
but I'm stuck on how am I going to store it in my database...
right now I only have a primary key on my "Image_table", not sure what are the right attributes to add.
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Honda's secret designs for a 650 (possibly... Hornet-ish... ) exposed in new patent file.
Honda's secret designs for a 650 (possibly… Hornet-ish… ) exposed in new patent file.
So this is a NEW set of patents from Honda for a new motorcycle that's heading our way. There's no mention of when we'll see this bike, or exactly what capacity the motor it uses is – but here's the drawings.
Now, we might be adding up a bit too much here. But there's a reason for that. First up, take a look at the side-on view of the bike that the patent is based around – do you reckon that this could be the 650 we're waiting for, a new version of the old Hornet only, this time, with familiar Honda Neo-Sports styling?
It makes sense if it is. Largely for two reasons, the first is that Honda boss Fabrice Recoque said the following back in August when asked if the Hornet middleweight was officially dead as a model in the firm's future plans: "Absolutely not! Our roadster strategy will be established in two phases.
"Medium-term we will have a new bike which will be about 650cc and that will be presented in the coming months. I cannot say more about this.
So we've been told by Honda directly that there's going to be two 650s coming year, one won't be mainstream and one will. The first part of what Recoque said has now come true, leaving the second part of the claim by the Frenchman to happen.
And yes, we've now seen the non-mainstream 650 at Paris, and today these plans have appeared for another Honda that looks pretty much like a 650 road going version of something a bit cool.
The patent includes designs for a single-sided swingarm which is something that the Paris 650 prototype (above) doesn't have (but the current CB1000R does) we've put the patent drawings for the new 650 below and below those is a picture of the CB1000R so that you can compare the two.
So there it is, two and two. Might make four, might make five. What do you reckon? Is this going to be what the new 650 (Hornet… kinda…) looks like when it arrives at some point this year, ready for a 2019/2020 model line up?
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I recently received an e-mail in my inbox regarding Grilling Guidelines and though it was pretty handy. Would love to share it with you. I know you are going to start eating more and more meals that have been cooked on the grill, especially since summer is here. This post will take the challenge out of grilling with this guide to cooking times and proper heat.
The cooking times that follow refer to cooking without the grill cover, unless otherwise indicated.
To see more, visit the Grilling Guidelines post from Real Simple magazine.
Also, did you know they have a "Easy Grilling Guide" that features Grilled Dinner Recipes, Perfect Burger Tips and How to Fire Up the Grill. Check it out, you might find something you like!
Emily shared a post a bit ago that included a delicious grilled zucchini recipe! That's definitely something I'd love to try, soon.
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Here's a delicious grilled recipe from Emily!
Thanks so much for sharing, this will come in handy!
this is really helpful, b/c last week my husband was trying to grill kabobs..and we weren't sure how long they should be on. i'm going to bookmark this page..for future reference!