Fitness, wellness fair creates healthy crowd at state-of-art facility ...

Story and photos by Don Robbins

Assistant Editor

Military personnel and their families had a chance to learn more about healthier lifestyles at a fitness and wellness fair held June 27 inside the new Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Fitness Center.

Open to all Department of Defense common access cardholders, the fair highlighted Morale, Welfare and Recreation?s fitness and group exercise classes with demonstrations. Pearl Harbor and Hickam Commissaries provided samples of healthy food and drinks.

Naval Health Clinic Hawaii?s health promotion department staffed a booth focusing on the food people are putting into their bodies and how to improve their nutrition.

Among their displays, members of the department demonstrated a device that measures body-fat percentage and explained their resting metabolic test.

?I think this fair is a great way to tell active duty military and their dependents about fitness through health promotion,? said Hospital Corps-man 2nd Class Rory Farrell of the health promotion department.

The event also featured pickup basketball games, a three-point basketball shootout, a massage therapist on location providing ?chair massages,? and giveaways.

Military members and their families participate in the June 27 Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Fitness and Wellness Fair at the new fitness center.

Machinist?s Mate 1st Class Steven Dunbar of the USS North Carolina (SSN 777) participated in the three-point shootout against military family member Daniel Andrews.

?I like the A/C in the gym. Everything is new and they have nice facilities,? Andrews said.

Maj. Jillian Torango of 13th Air Force Public Affairs received her first-ever massage at the fair. ?I figured it?s free, so I might as well try it. I actually got his card and I?ll call him to schedule an appointment,? Torango said.

Navy Cryptologic Technician Interpretive 3rd Class Ben Worman and Ashley Matthews said they attended the fair because they wanted to participate in a program called ?Boot Camp.? On their way out of the fair, they also grabbed some fresh fruit to take with them. ?We come here (the fitness center) for all the classes such as yoga, cardio and kickboxing, six days a week,? Worman said.

As he prepared to play racquetball on the second floor of the gym, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jeremy Johnston of Squadron 7 said, ?These (courts) are really nice, and the fitness center has a large number of cardio machines. You don?t have to wait in line for the machines.?

Besides serving as a modern place to become physically fit, the new center features environmentally friendly ?green? construction, including a solar hot-water heating system and 1,400 photovoltaic cells to generate energy.

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Regular time, regular place. Wait, what? For such a hectic and crazy week as this, it's equally astounding to think that we'll be doing the Engadget Mobile Podcast the usual way -- Friday afternoon at 5pm. Just like last week, this is definitely one you don't want to miss: Google announced a couple things, RIM broke a few hearts and we reviewed a few devices. Tune in and enjoy Myriam and Brad waxing poetic about the wild week that was wireless!

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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider: Supreme Court rules on health care

It has been three months since three days of arguments before the Supreme Court wrapped up on the Obama health law, and now the Justices will finally deliver their verdict.

But here is something important to remember - there is not just one health care case before the Supreme Court - there are three cases, and there are really four or five major decisions that must be made by the Justices.

What is not clear right is will there be one main decision covering those major points and all three cases? Or will there be different decisions with different majorities on the Obama health law?

* Case 11-393 is National Federal of Independent Business v. Sebelius - this case raises the issue of whether the entire law must be thrown out if the individual mandate is found to be unconstitutional.

* Case 11-398 is U.S. Department of Health and Human Services v. Florida - this is the basic case on whether Congress exceeded its powers by enacting the individual mandate which would force all Americans to purchase health insurance, and whether this case can even be brought at this point in time before the tax penalty for not buying insurance has been levied.

* Case 11-400 is Florida v. Department of Health and Human Services - this is Florida's challenge to provisions of the Obama health law that forces states to make health care changes in order to keep federal dollars for the Medicaid program.

So, maybe you can put together a flow of decisions like this:

1) Can the individual mandate be challenged before 2014?
2) If the answer is yes, is the individual mandate constitutional?
3) If the individual mandate is not constitutional, should the whole law be invalidated?
4) If the answer is that parts of the health law can survive, which ones?
5) And if some portions of the Obama health law survive, are the Medicaid provisions constitutional?

When you look at all of those possibilities, it makes sense that there is no clear answer on how this ruling will be presented.

Do you get one larger opinion in which a changing majority of Justices take different sides?

Soon after 10 am EDT on Tuesday morning, we will start to find out the answers on the Obama health law.

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Blast hits Damascus, Turkey sends troops to border

By Khaled Yacoub Oweis

ANTAKYA, Turkey | Fri Jun 29, 2012 1:00pm EDT

ANTAKYA, Turkey (Reuters) - Helicopter gunships bombarded a strategic town in northern Syria overnight and tanks moved close to the commercial hub of Aleppo, rebels said, but kept well clear of new Turkish air defenses installed to curb Syrian action near its frontiers.

Turkish commanders inspected the missile batteries deployed on the border region on Thursday following Syria's shooting down of a Turkish warplane a week ago, which has sharply raised tensions between the two nations.

The Turkish deployments, a graphic warning to President Bashar al-Assad, coincide with rising violence across Syria and increasingly urgent international efforts to forge a peace deal as the nation slips into full-blown war.

As the Turkish-Syrian dimension ratcheted up further pressure, peace envoy Kofi Annan said on Friday he was "optimistic" that crisis talks in Geneva on Saturday would produce an acceptable outcome, which has so far proved elusive.

However, diplomatic signals emerging later in the day were less than positive. Senior officials holding preparatory talks in Geneva on Friday failed to overcome differences on Annan's plan for a political transition. Western diplomats said Russia was pressing for changes to the text. Russian diplomats said the work continued but they would not "impose" a solution on Syria.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were to talk over dinner in St. Petersburg on Friday, a meeting that may determine whether the gathering in Geneva on Saturday can make any substantial progress.

Regional analysts said that while neither Turkey nor its NATO allies appeared to have any appetite to enforce a formal no-fly zone over Syrian territory, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan had made it clear Assad would be risking what he called the 'wrath' of Turkey if its aircraft strayed close to its borders.

Erdogan told a rally in the eastern city of Erzurum on Friday, broadcast by Turkish television: "We will not hesitate to teach a lesson to those who aim heavy weapons at their own people and at neighboring countries."

Recently, there were clashes close to the border between Syrian forces and rebels. Last weekend, Damascus said "terrorists" infiltrating from Turkey were killed and there have been reports of Syrian forces shooting into camps for refugees in Turkey.

The United States, Britain and France have said that Assad is responsible for the violence, which the United Nations estimates has killed at least 10,000 people, and is no longer fit to govern. Russia and China, however, reject what they describe as Western calls for "regime change".

Turkey, sheltering some 34,000 Syrian refugees and providing bases for the rebel Free Syria Army (FSA), is in the forefront of the efforts to bring down Assad.

SYRIAN TANKS MASS

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 190 people, including 125 civilians, were killed on Thursday.

General Mustafa al-Sheikh, head of the Higher Military Council, a grouping of senior officers who defected from Assad's forces, said around 170 Syrian tanks had assembled at an infantry school near the village of Musalmieh northeast of the city of Aleppo, just 30 km (19 miles) from the Turkish border.

"They're either preparing to move to the border to counter the Turkish deployment or attack the rebellious (Syrian) towns and villages in and around the border zone north of Aleppo," Sheikh told Reuters by telephone from the border.

Omar Abdallah, an activist in Idlib coordinating with the Free Syrian Army said: "After taking hits in rural Aleppo and Idlib, the army is re-grouping ... There is speculation that these forces intend to ring Aleppo, starting July 1."

Rebel sources in Turkey's Hatay region said Assad's helicopters attacked Saraqeb, a strategic town deep in Idlib province, but kept away from the area directly along the Turkish border in the rural regions of Idlib and Aleppo provinces.

Neither Turkey, which fears a local clash escalating into a regional sectarian conflagration, nor Syria, has any interest in a confrontation on their shared border.

Ankara, which has the second biggest army in NATO, called an emergency NATO meeting after its warplane was shot down.

Turkey has in the past talked about creating a humanitarian corridor on Syrian territory if refugee flows became dangerously unmanageable or the scale of killing in Syria became intolerable. But it had always said this would require international endorsement.

"NATO just doesn't look like it's in the mood," David Hartwell, Middle East analyst at IHS Jane's, said. "What you might get is the Turks forcing a de facto no-fly zone."

SQUARING UP?

Erdogan announced earlier this week that he had issued new rules of engagement to his border troops and said any Syrian military elements approaching Turkish borders and deemed a threat would be treated as a target. But he failed, perhaps deliberately, to specify how close Syrian forces could come to the border before becoming vulnerable.

Rebels sources said they saw two Syrian attack helicopters on Friday, flying about 4 km from the Turkish border in Idlib province and landing at an army base at Bab al-Hawa, close to Reyhanli, one of the places where Turkey has stationed anti-aircraft defenses.

It was the first time aircraft had been spotted close to the border and appeared to test Turkey's new rules of engagement.

"The Syrians might accept a very narrow zone along the border. Syria will remain very reluctant to get involved in any conflict with Turkey. They would be up against a very serious military foe," said Malcolm Chalmers, research director at Britain's Royal United Services Institute.

The world has been accused by Syrian opposition activists of inertia over the bloodshed. Diplomacy has failed to produce agreement between Western powers, backing the opposition, and Russia, which has used its U.N. veto to block Western and Sunni Arab moves to drive Assad from power.

Ahead of Saturday's meeting, Russia proposed changes to Annan's plan for a national unity government in Syria, despite initially supporting it, but the United States, Britain and France rejected the amendments, Western diplomats said.

Russia and the other permanent U.N. Security Council members told Annan this week they supported a transitional cabinet that could include government and opposition members but would "exclude ... those whose continued presence and participation would undermine the credibility of the transition and jeopardize stability and reconciliation", according to Annan's proposal.

Diplomats told Reuters that Annan's idea of excluding certain people was clearly referring to Assad.

Although Russia signaled to Annan this week that his plan was acceptable, Russian foreign minister Lavrov reversed course on Thursday, diplomats said. Diplomats said the Russians demanded that Annan remove from his proposal the language about excluding people from a Syrian national unity government.

Annan had made preliminary acceptance of his guidelines for a political transition for Syria a condition for organizing Saturday's meeting in Geneva. The meeting is to include the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China, Turkey, Iraq, Kuwait and Qatar. Iran and Saudi Arabia were not invited.

"I think we are going to have a good meeting tomorrow. I am optimistic," Annan told Reuters Television on Friday.

Assad on Thursday dismissed the notion of any outside solution to the 16-month-old uprising against his rule.

"We will not accept any non-Syrian, non-national model, whether it comes from big countries or friendly countries. No one knows how to solve Syria's problems as well as we do."

(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva, Erika Solomon and Mariam Karounty in Beirut, writing by Ralph Boulton and Peter Millership; Editing by Janet McBride and Alastair Macdonald)

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/29/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE85D0IS20120629?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

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Grant Cardone: Fear of Public Speaking

Are you scared to speak in public? Do you have stage fright? I have been speaking to audiences since I was 25 years old. When I first started I was terrified. I don't know why I was scared but I was. Literally could not sleep the night before I had to speak to an audience. And it didn't matter whether it was a small group or a very large group. I found myself actually avoiding speaking to more than two people at a time.

One day I realized that this fear was holding myself back from my potential to get myself and my ideas known. I asked myself, "how can you ever be successful if you aren't willing to speak to people?" It was then that I committed overcoming this fear and learn how to speak to audiences with confidence and without fear immobilizing me.

Since that decision I have delivered over 2000 speaking engagements to entrepreneurs, small businesses and even Fortune 500 companies. This week I spoke to an unbelievable audience at Google headquarters in New York. What a great experience to be able to communicate to speak to a company that is so well recognized by the entire world.

Over the years I have learned from other great speakers like John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Bill Clinton, Guy Kawasaki, Harvey McKay, Steve Jobs, Jackie B. Cooper, Joel Osteen, Les Brown, John Maxwell, Seth Godin, Gary Vaynerchuk, Tony Robbins and others. Watching them inspired me to become more confident in my abilities.

Here are a few tips that you may find helpful for handling the fear of public speaking

1) Commit to overcoming the fear. The fear will not go away until 'it' is clear that you are committing to speaking in public. Speak as often as you can to as many different groups as you can. After 2000 speaking engagements I still experience some fear but it no longer prevents me from speaking because my commitment is greater than the fear. NY Times Best Selling author, Seth Godin,says, "My only tip is.... speak."

2) Own the Stage -
When you walk out on the stage or platform, own the stage; make it yours. Plant your feet firmly in one place and anchor in at that one place. Avoid moving around much in the beginning of your presentation so the audience can see that you are confident, grounded in who you are and your position.

3) Speak to the Everyone in the Room and Connect
Be sure that you are communicating beyond the first row and all the way to the back row and to the edges of the room, left and right. Your focus should be to connect to each individual in the room. The first two years I spoke I did so without a microphone forcing me to reach, connect with and project to everyone in the audience. "Everyone Communicates Few Connect", John Maxwell.

4) Open with Your Message -
Open with that thing you want the audience to remember. "I am here to show you how to double your sales. That's right, Double YOUR Sales." Make it very clear in the first one minute what the audience is going to get from your presentation. Make your opening statement bold, promising, inspiring and hopeful of massive gain. Chet Holmes, author of The Ultimate Sales Machine and partner with Tony Robbins says,: "Open strong. If you open strong, the audience will be patient for 20 minutes."

5) Pick a Topic That You are Confident -
Speak on subjects on which you are an authority, expert and have complete confidence. Use this as a way to gain altitude over your audience. Everyone has some angle or positioning that makes them the authority in a room with the most altitude. Use your expert positioning to grow your own confidence and to have your audience know that. The great sales expert, Harvey Mackay, says "The best way to sound like you know what you're talking about is to know what you're talking about."

6) Hammer Away at Your Opening Message -
Distill your message down to a few points and then repeatedly beat it to death. A big mistake is to try to cover too many things in one presentation. Make sure your audience walks away from your event with one message ringing violently in their heads. Simplify your message down to a a thing or two rather than many. Les Brown, says, "Read, study and over prepare."

7) Close Big -
Your closes should be compelling and inspiring providing your audience with a reason to be moved. Great speakers always bring a great close to their presentation. By this time the fear has subsided so be careful not to take the close for granted. Finish big!

Everyone I know experiences some level of fear when speaking in public. Don't think you have some disability - it's normal. Commit to speaking and the fear will subside. Then learn from other great speakers. Whether it is for a simple job interview, a presentation at your office, a sales presentation to one customer or many, to your church, community or school there is no getting away from the idea that at some time in your life you will be forced to speak in public.

The ability to speak confidently and comfortably in public is one of the keys to creating success in your life.

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Nancy Todd still checking on casino spending | Arkansas Blog

Gambling Nancy Todd still checking on casino spending

Posted by Max Brantley on Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 6:22 AM

I received another brief response last night from Nancy Todd, who's leading a drive to qualify a constitutional amendment for the ballot to permit her to open four unregulated casinos in Arkansas. To date, she has not reported any money raising or spending for the extensive work being done, including paid canvassers, to bring the issue to a vote. Her latest:

I did check into it on Monday , as promised, I think the Committee members got with the CPA firm and the lawyers to see what needed to be filed. I've been traveling the state focused on the petition drive. I will ask them for a report Max

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Speaking of Nancy Todd, casino Gambling

• UPDATE: Casino campaign reports $195,000 support from Missouri investors

  June 27, 2012

  Nancy Todd alerted me that the group pushing a casino amendment initiative had filed a batch of papers with the state Ethics Commission today. They show a group of Branson, Mo., investors as the financial force behind the proposal. /more/

• Hurry sundown and the open line

  June 26, 2012

  I have to leave early for some errands. I'll try to check back. /more/

• Still no disclosure on backers of casino amendment campaign

  June 24, 2012

• Stop casinos, casino says

  May 17, 2012

  A news conference is scheduled at 10 a.m. today by the coalition I told you about earlier in the week to oppose initiative efforts to expand casino gambling in Arkansas. /more/

• A casino proposal's obvious flaw

  May 16, 2012

  I wrote yesterday that Delaware North, owner of the Southland Park casino in West Memphis into which gamblers pour more than a billion a year into the slots, was financing a campaign to fight a couple of casino amendment campaigns, particularly a drive headed by Nancy Todd, a Las Vegas consultant and poker player, to give her exclusive right to operate four casinsos, in Pulaski Miller, Crittenden and Franklin counties. /more/

• The Wednesday line

  April 25, 2012

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(reopening)when a young girl is forced out of her village she is sacrifaced to the cave gods , when she wakes up miles under the ground and thousands of ways to go will she be able to find he way out??? And not get killed by the Cave Natives.

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Can I have the girl who is sacrificed?

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Video Conferencing Display System Sizing and Location - Unified ...

As video conferencing systems become more widely installed, there are often questions about what size monitors and how many are required. While fixed Telepresence systems make this choice easy, most video conferencing systems come as a base unit (generally a small box the size of a mini-PC), and a camera and a table-top speaker. The selection the video displays and mounting/positioning is generally left to the customer or an integrator. The challenge is that often the resulting placement and room set-up leave much to be desired. To best understand the placement, distance and positioning of video monitors in a meeting space, a basic understanding of how humans see and use video is required. Using simple trigonometry it is possible to define the variables to assure optimal positioning and impact of a videoconferencing system. This white paper will review those factors and then cover basic room set-up. It will also discuss how the new 4K displays may enhance the room video experience.

Relative Monitor Sizes

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Figure 1 - Relative Ratios of Screens

Video Display Monitors come in a variety of sizes. Generally these are described by their diagonal dimension. The diagonal relationship to the vertical and horizontal sizes is based on the aspect ratio. The aspect ratio is the ratio of the width to the height. Generally monitors come in two aspect ratios: 4x5 and 16x9. The 4x6 ratio is the older NTSC video ratio and is generally not deployed for video as it does not align well with room views. The 16x9 display is better for the width versus height of the usual participants in a room based video conference. Figure 1 shows a comparison of a similar meeting with 16x9 and 4x5 views. As can be seen, the 5x4 display with the same vertical as the 16x9 is much smaller, while the 5x4 with a similar vertical of 60" is actually larger in area by 14%, though the actual displayed images are slightly smaller, even with cropping the edges of the room. For these reasons, 16x9 is the accepted standard for video room systems. It is also the standard for home use and therefore dominates the manufacture of displays.

Figure 2 - Relative Screen Sizes - Single Display

Screen sizes vary greatly with size. The actual range of video screen sizes is shown in complete form for both single, dual, and triple screens in the associated Video Room Help Sheet on the PKE Consulting web site, but for example, a 50-inch diagonal screen is 43.6 inches wide and 24.5 inches tall. For comparison, a 60-inch diagonal screen is 52.3 inches wide and 24.5 inches tall. While the ratios of the width and height reflect the 60/50 or 1.2 times larger of the 60-inch screen, the actual viewing area of the 60 inch is 44% larger than the 50 inch. Figure 2 shows relative sizes for single screens.

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Figure 3 - Relative Screen Sizes - Dual Display

Figure 3 shows a similar comparison for dual screens as this is a common implementation in many video conference rooms.?

Pixels versus Video Value

Figure 4 - Human Eye Cone Density

As was discussed in the Video Value white papers from PKE Consulting, the value of video is the capability to see the details in facial and body movements that enable the interpretation of reactions to a conversation. This concept, defined as selling collaboration, is where the visual feedback is critical. For good visual feedback, both high resolution to see details as well as torso views (to see arm movements) are important. This generally resolves to HD video, where 1080P is generally the highest resolution available today. However, if you are too close to the display you can see pixels, the dreaded "screen door" effect of video. The challenge then is how to have that great video for most or all of the participants, without having the pixels visible to some.

First, it is important to understand video projection and how it works with the human eye. The human eye has about 2,000 cones (pixels) of resolution in the diameter of the core non-peripheral vision. This is where you see detail. Though the human eye is capable of receiving light through almost a 200 degree arc, the acute vision is limited to about 15-20 degrees. Of the about 7 million cones in the core visual field of that 15-20 degree arc (Cones are for resolution, rods are for movement - there are about 100M rods in the peripheral field), a HDTV image captures the circular field of about 3.9M as shown in Figure 4. As the rods are denser in that 15 degree core, this is probably closer to 4.5 million cones in the average eye. So, when viewed at exactly the right distance, a 1080x1920 (or called 1080 for short) image exactly matches the eye's inherent resolution.

Even if the image had twice as much resolution, and if you sat at a distance where the screen matched the back of your eye, you could not see the additional resolution. The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) recommends an angle of no less than 30 degrees and no more than 60 to watch a screen-based video. The THX standard recommends a 40 degree angle for 16x9 pictures. The point of this is that at the distances associated with these angles for a given screen size, the pixels on the screen are optimized to the cone density in the eye. The reason for a slightly larger angle than the acute angle of the cones is that slight eye movement increases the immersion in the event. Similarly for video conferencing, causing sys movement between participants creates a better "perception" that the event is like a face-to-face meeting. This is part of the reason that a telepresence room with?three screens and participants arrayed across the screens is perceived as more life-like as you have to track to the speaking participant.

Figure 5 - Home versus Theater Viewing Distance

Figure 6 - 50- and 60-inch Display Distances

Figure 7 - 60-inch Display Viewing Distances

Figure 8 - Viewing Distances for Different Display Sizes and Viewing Angles

Figure 8 shows a calculation of all viewing distances for screens at the 30, 40, and 60 degree angles.

Actual Videoconferencing Rooms

The information above and the modeling can be used to show how actual rooms would look with different sizes of monitors. Most meeting rooms are rectangular, so to accommodate the largest number of participants, the video system is generally placed on a narrow wall. Figure 8 shows a typical small conference room with the ideal viewing distances shown for different display sizes. This room is 12 feet by 11 feet. It has a 7' x 4' table accommodating 5 participants for the conference and the displays mounted directly to the 11-foot wall. The ideal viewing distances can be seen, with the ideal display size probably either the 60 or 65 inch. With the 50-inch display, three of the participants will have poor visibility and with the 70 inch the two closest participants will have serious issues with seeing pixels.

?Figure 9 - 12x11 Video Conference Room

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Figure 10 - 14x11 Video Conference Room

Telepresence Rooms

?Figure 11 - 10x16 Telepresence Room

4K Video Conferencing Displays

In the home theater world, there is discussion of 4K video displays for the home. In fact, a number of the companies that make displays and projectors for home theater have announced their intent to deliver a 4K video experience to the home. As the monitors used as displays in video conferencing are based on these displays and technology, is 4K coming to video conferencing soon? While it may not mean more resolution for the video stream, the use of 4K displays in video conferencing rooms may have great value in video conferencing rooms.

Figure 12 - Home versus Theater Viewing Distance

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The additional resolution of 4K displays could be very valuable for video rooms. One of the key reasons that telepresence rooms have better perceived experiences is that all of the viewers are typical located at a common distance from the displays as shown in the telepresence figure. As can be seen in Figure 11, a 65-inch motor delivers ideal (40 degree) viewing in this type of system. By fixing the viewers to one side of a fixed distance table, the experience is optimized. However, this has two significant drawbacks; the number of participants and the relatively fixed nature of the space, not enabling non-video meetings.

Figure 13 - Visual Range Comparison of 2K and 4K 60 inch Diagonal Displays

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Figure 14 - Comparison of 2K and 4K Visual Ranges for 60 and 65 inch Diagonal Displays in 11x14 Foot Room

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With the video display vendors moving to 4K, this is a real potential. Both Sony and JVC have shown 4K projectors that use interpolation to create a seamless 4K image from a 2K video stream. And Canon has announced a commercial 4K flat panel display for video mastering that is claimed to not be pixel visible, regardless of distance. It is of relatively small size, only 30 inches, and more tuned to desktop use (the same issues apply for a large display at short viewing distances). LG has indicated they plan on introducing at least one 4K LCD/LED flat panel display late in 2012. With challenges in how to differentiate and compete in video displays becoming clear, 4K is probably the next frontier of competition.

As it is probable the video conferencing stream will stay 2K due to bandwidth and the cost of codecs, the adoption of 4K displays will really just eliminate the pixel visibility for close viewers. As is clear from the earlier discussions of how we see information, in reality, 2K is all most of the participants can actually see. However, the "clear" conclusion is that 4K displays could have a major impact on the perceived quality of the viewing experience in non-telepresence video conferencing rooms. For telepresence rooms with their fixed viewing distances, the 4K displays may be of little value. If the display vendors and installers respond, room-based video conferencing in traditional meeting rooms may get significantly better.

In addition to the 4K display resolution value, the next generation video systems, such as Vidyo, use SVC with a video router instead of an MCU. In this type of system, each video stream is sent to the core and then forwarded at the useable rate to each end point. So if an end point user is watching one image large and the others small, the bit rate on the smaller images can be reduced. 4K displays will open a new opportunity when combined with this technology. As long as any individual image is less than 25% of the entire screen, the image resolution will match the display resolution. This opens a new potential for the room displays to be used in new ways with the users of the room able to assign images to spaces as they see fit. As the room can receive many images at full 1080P/60 resolution, this will enable a new experience, even beyond telepresence. So a two-display room can now be seen as a 8000x2200 pixel space to use. Images of other transmission, whether video from rooms, users, or even content, could be moved and assigned wherever they fit best to optimize the experience.

Conclusions

With the data and information in this white paper, it should be possible to optimize both the seating and distances for most video conferencing rooms. If possible, the telepresence orientation should be used, but for dual purpose rooms that must function as both normal meeting rooms as well as video rooms, choosing the right display can optimize the video experience.

As 4K video monitors become available, their use in room systems will significantly enhance the user experience by enabling the use of larger screens with broader (closer) viewing distances.

On the PKE Consulting web site there is a?two-page pdf?titled,?"Video Room Help Sheet" that can be used in designing rooms. Using this sheet with masking tape and a tape measure, it is possible to lay out ideal distances from display locations in a room to determine both orientation and optimal size. This design effort will pay off in assuring optimal video value and room use.

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