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  Video Coding with Superimposed Motion-Compensated Signals

  Video Coding with Superimposed Motion-Compensated Signals ab 128.49 € als pdf eBook: Applications to H. 264 and Beyond. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Sachthemen & Ratgeber, Technik,

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  Video Coding with Superimposed Motion-Compensated Signals

  Video Coding with Superimposed Motion-Compensated Signals ab 138.99 € als Taschenbuch: Applications to H. 264 and Beyond. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Ratgeber, Computer & Internet,

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  The Turning Wheel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 52min

  If, after a great struggle, the East were to prevail over the world, what sort of civilization would be imposed by the victors? Would it be an oriental version of the societies we know - or might the great old culture be superimposed upon what was left of Western technology? The story is set in a postapocalyptic future where global civilization is governed by a hierarchical, religious society centered around belief in karmic-based reincarnation metaphorically viewed as moving forward or backward on a turning wheel. The society presented is class driven, apparently with Caucasians ("Caucs") at the bottom and Asians and Native Americans at the top. Above all is the god/messiah, the Bard "Elron Hu" (that is to say, "Elron Hu, Bard"), whose spiritual plan involves one becoming "clear" - an obvious jab at L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics, the self-help book that had been released a few years before. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Vendetti. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/001239/bk_mike_001239_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Actuator: Fractured Earth: Actuator Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 540min

  On a secret military base tucked in a remote desert mountain, a dangerous machine lies hidden from the American public. Known as the Actuator, this machine is capable of transforming entire communities into alternate realities. In theory, these often terrifying realities are reversible. The scientists in charge of this machine employ operatives called Machine Monks, who attune their minds to manifest single ideas from the realms of fantasy and science fiction. These ideas are then superimposed upon sparsely inhabited areas for testing. For a while, the enigmatic Actuator cooperates with the experiments, using dampeners to limit the affected area. But those in charge of the project eagerly anticipate exploring the full potential of this amazing device. Experiments progress to where they feed more than 20 different genre ideas simultaneously into the Actuator's database. Meanwhile, an unknown saboteur dismantles the dampeners. The effect is catastrophic. The entire world is plunged into chaos. Overnight, the Actuator becomes the worst menace the earth has ever seen, claiming lives in staggering numbers. Can a few surviving Machine Monks band together to set things right again? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roger Wayne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/007202/bk_tant_007202_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Tomorrow! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 653min

  This book may change your life. It may save it. It is one of the most important - and most shocking - books ever written. Tomorrow! is a story of average, nice Americans living in the neighboring cities of Green Prairie and River City in Middle America. It is - until the sudden blitz - the story of the girl next door and her boyfriend; of the accountant who saw what was coming, and the rich old lady who didn’t; of engaging young kids, babies, “hoods,” a bank official who “borrowed” from a customer’s account. Then, at the height of the Christmas shopping season, Condition Red is sounded, and this down-to-earth story of America’s Main Street becomes a shattering, vivid experience of the nightmare that human beings have cooked up for themselves. Tomorrow! can be listened to as a novel of pure suspense - if you dare. It is a thriller in which the apocalyptic technology of today is superimposed on the future. But the novel is also designed to show Philip Wylie’s conclusions about America’s dangerous vulnerability to dread, hysteria, and panic, as well as his recommendations about what must be done. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Keith O'Brien. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008169/bk_adbl_008169_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Village Life

  A Village Life, Louise Gluck's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or place:All the roads in the village unite at the fountain.Avenue of Liberty, Avenue of the Acacia Trees-The fountain rises at the center of the plaza;on sunny days, rainbows in the piss of the cherub.-from "tributaries"Around the fountain are concentric circles of figures, organized by age and in degrees of distance: fields, a river, and, like the fountain's opposite, a mountain. Human time superimposed on geologic time, all taken in at a glance, without any undue sensation of speed.Gluck has been known as a lyrical and dramatic poet; since Ararat, she has shaped her austere intensities into book-length sequences.Here, for the first time, she speaks as "the type of describing, supervising intelligence found in novels rather than poetry," as Langdon Hammer has written of her long lines-expansive, fluent, and full-manifesting a calm omniscience. While Gluck's manner is novelistic, she focuses not on action but on pauses and intervals, moments of suspension (rather than suspense), in a dreamlike present tense in which poetic speculation and reflection are possible.

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  Mysteries of Ancient America: Uncovering the Forbidden , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 367min

  This is a compilation of historical accounts that contradict everything we have been taught about ancient America. The accounts are substantiated by the testimony of the Native Americans who lived in the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley regions of North America. American Indians speak of a people who were skilled in arts and engaged in trade whose remains could be found in the burial mounds. These legends are validated by the hundreds of miles of canals extending into the Mississippi River and the extensive copper and lead mines. Early settlers in the Ohio Valley described ancient cities with well-defined evidence of streets laid out at regular intervals and intersected at right angles with other streets. Stone macadamized roads were also evidence of an industrious people engaged in commerce. New information from the British Isles places the Celtic peoples on the Island earlier than previously believed. The Celtic pagan religion is superimposed on ancient sites in the Ohio Valley with indistinguishable characteristics. Ancient ceremonial sites in the Ohio Valley are re-examined under the looking glass of the Celtic Gods and Goddesses. The ancient mound builders practiced a cult of the dead and buried their deceased in burial mounds to act as portals to connect the living with the dead. These portals remain open today and are the gateways for much of the paranormal activity found in the Great Lakes region. While not the focus of the stories presented, many of the skeletons discovered at the ancient sites were of gigantic size. The connection to the paranormal is elaborated in the Book of Enoch, “And now the Giants, who have been begotten from body and flesh, will be called evil spirits on earth, and their dwelling-places will be upon the earth.” New documentation is presented that solves the mystery of who were the Hopewell Mound Builders. The Dakota Sioux legends place them in the Ohio Valley at the time when the great geometric earthworks ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Linda LongCrane. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/100786/bk_acx0_100786_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Chakra Crystals: Why the Crystals Are Crucial for a Better Life and Why You Need to Know How to Use Them for Healing Your Body and Mind. The Healing Stones Guide for Unblocking Your Spiritual Energy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 253min

  Are you looking to heal your body and mind? Do you want a better life?In this book, we will explore the continuity that our physical system forms with other higher energy systems. These subtle energy systems play an important and integrated role in the total functionality of the human being.The physical organism, far from constituting a closed system in itself, is only one of the various systems that are part of a dynamic equilibrium. In particular, we deviate from conventional thinking when we postulate that all these systems are superimposed, coinciding in the same physical space.These higher energy systems, which we have called our subtle bodies, are, in fact, constituted of matter whose frequency characteristics differ from those of our physical body. As we commented, and assuming that nature becomes like a frozen light, it must plausibly have a characteristic frequency. The difference between physical and ethereal matter is only a matter of frequency. We know because it is a recognized principle in physics that the energies of different frequencies can coexist in the same space without producing destructive interactions between them.For a demonstration of that principle, it is enough to think about the salad of electromagnetic frequencies that the human being produces artificially, in the middle of which we live, bombarded day and night by radio and television wave emissions that cross our homes and our bodies. That electromagnetic energy is imperceptible to our eyes and ears because their frequencies are far from the bands captured by our physical organs of perception. You will learn:How crystals worksWhy it's important to choose the correct stone and for what purposeUnderstand how to program crystalsHow crystals can help you and whyHow crystals can act for your bodyWhy have crystals been so successfulHow it's important to meditate every day to improv ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Todd Studer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/215784/bk_acx0_215784_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Video Coding with Superimposed Motion-Compensated Signals

  Video Coding with Superimposed Motion-Compensated Signals - Applications to H. 264 and Beyond: ab 128.49 €

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  Late Beethoven

  Late Beethoven It is well recognized that during his last years, especially from 1817 on, Beethoven's music underwent a transformation that redefined his legacy. Moreover, in a series of powerful masterstrokes the composer forever enlarged the sphere of human experience. There is disagreement as to when precisely the late style first appeared. There are differences over the extent to which it emerged from internal or external sources, and critics have struggled to describe it's characteristics in a coherent and meaningful way, but few have disagreed about the existence of the phase itself, let alone it's seismic character or it's chief examples: the late sonatas and string quartets, the 'Diabelli' Variations and the bagatelles, the Ninth Symphony and Missa solemmis Sonata Op.101, in A major. The Sonata in A major, op.101, published in Vienna by Steiner,in 1817, is the first of the 'final five' piano sonatas with which Beethoven brought his work on this genre to a close. The crux of this Sonata is contained not in the opening Allegretto ma non troppo, despite it's quiet, lyrical beginning in medias res on the dominant. The suspended quality of the music is enhanced by Beethoven's seamless lyricism, his placement of the exposition in the dominant key, and his avoidance throughout of strong tonic cadences. Following this short movement of yearning quality and the brusque, angular, contrapuntal march in F major which forms the second movement, a more fundamental level of feeling or state of being is uncovered in the slow introduction to the finale, marked Langsam und sehnsuchtsvoll. Here the music is drawn progressively lower in pitch, collapsing onto a soft sustained chord that will serve as a turning-point and a new beginning. This soft chord, which represents the end of the descending progression and the termination of the Adagio, also embodies the a priori condition for the first movement, since it represents the exact sonority in the precise register out of which the opening of that movement has sprung. In view of this, the opening of the Sonata in medias res assumes a new and deeper significance. The importance of this original sound is confirmed by it's transformation, after a short cadenza-like passage, into the actual beginning of the opening movement. This reminiscence lasts a few bars before it dissolves into the emphatic beginning of the finale. The finale is in sonata form, with it's development assigned to a fugato. The fugal textures in the finale unfold with uncompromising determination and virtuosity. Op. 101 is among the most difficult of the sonatas. Beethoven himself once described it as 'hard to play' The A major Sonata marks a major transition in Beethoven's style, pointing unmistakably to the unique synthesis achieved in works of his last decade. Sonata Op. 111,in C minor Beethoven's last Sonata. Op. 111, in C minor, completed in 1822, defines with absolute assurance the two polarities within which his creative consciousness evolved. The two movements completely symbolize the two primary functions of the mind: analysis and synthesis of conflicting elements on the one hand, and transcendence of all oppositions on the other. It is literally and figuratively a lifetime away from the Op.2 group. The first movement of Op. 111 represents the last example of Beethoven's celebrated ' C minor mood', evidenced in a long line of works from the string Trio op.9 and 'Pathetique' Sonata to the Coriolan Overture and Fifth Symphony. The sonata begins with a Maestoso exposing left-hand plunges of the diminished seventh in a dramatic and tightly spaced rhythmic relationship. An effect of parenthetical enclosure is created not only through the sudden thematic and tonal contrast and slowing of tempo but also through the sudden return of the original tempo and agitated musical character. Consequently, the intervening lyrical utterance is isolated, like 'a soft glimpse of sunlight illuminating the dark, stormy heavens', to use imagery of Mann's Kretzschmar in DoktorFaustus. The lyrical passage reaches C major in the recapitulation and it seems to foreshadow the atmosphere of the Arietta finale. The transition to the ensuing Arietta is built into the coda. The rhythm and register of the last bars allude unmistakably to the diminished-seventh chords of the exposition. With the Arietta we enter a new world. In this case it seems offensive to reduce to conceptual analysis a musical experience which so transcends conceptual activity. The movement establishes a sense of immediacy in which the perception of sound creates a state of contemplation. As Claude Palisca said so simply, 'the Adagio molto - a long set of variations in an arietta is so eloquent and so complete that nothing further seems to be required'. 33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli Op.120 The 33 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli. Op. 120 represent Beethoven's most extraordinary single achievement in the art of variation writing. In their originality and power of invention they stand with other late masterpieces such as the Ninth Symphony, the Missa Solemnis, and the last quartets. When Anton Diabelli invited selected composers to write a variation on one of his waltzes, to be published as a collection, Beethoven at first declined to participate but later offered to provide a set of variations on the Diabelli theme. The scope of the work grew and the 33 variations (started in 1819, completed in1823 and dedicated by Beethoven to Antonie Brentano ) were published in June 1823 under the title '33 Veränderungen über einer Walzer von A. Diabelli'. Beethoven used the term Veränderungen, following Bach's title for his 'Aria mit 30 Veränderungen ' ( Goldberg Variations). Together with the Bagatelles Op. 120 Published in 1825, the Variations Op. 120 represents Beethoven's final contribution to the piano literature. Parody lies at the heart of this composition. Beethoven expanded his draft of the work in 1822-3. He left his older variation order intact for the most part, but opened with two new variations (the present Vars. 1 and 2), added many more variations towards the end, and inserted one at the middle of the set. These added variations contribute substantially to the form of the work, imposing not a symmetrical but an asymmetrical plan, an overall progression culminating in the last five variations. The work as we know it is thus to a great extent the product of two conceptions: an original conception and a superimposed conception. The inserted variations added by Beethoven in 1823 contribute a subtle dimension to the set whose implications transcend the purely musical sphere. Most of them are, in one sense or another, parodistic variations, and while this is clear enough on close inspection, it is sufficiently subtle to be overlooked. This issue of parody in Op. 120 is complex. It is interesting that in Op. 120 the overall formal progression of the variations relies heavily on parody of the melody of Diabelli's theme, an idea that, though prominent in the finished piece, is not in evidence in the 1819 draft. Although it is possible to speak of the unity of the whole work, such as we find in other works of the composer, the variations are based on a trivial theme not of the composer's making,thus the complete work spans a tension from ironic caricature to sublime transformation of the waltz of DiabelIi. This extra-musical dimension of parody is essential to a full understanding of the piece, although by it's very nature it is not immediately obvious in the work itself. About the artist Concert pianist, musicologist and educator, Luisa Guembes-Buchanan was born in Lima, Peru, where she received her early musical education at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música. She holds degrees in Performance and Musicology from the Manhattan School of Music, C.W.Post College, New York University and Boston University. Ms. Guembes-Buchanan has given performances throughout the United States, Latin America a

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