Crestron`s DigitalMedia 8G, Featuring Valens` HDBaseT Technology, Showcases the Ultimate Networked Experience at InfoComm 2010

June 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Crestron Showcases DigitalMedia 8G, Featuring a Valens HDBaseT Chipset, Delivers
HD Video, Audio, Ethernet, Power over Cable and Various Controls, All over a
Single Cat 5e/6 Cable
ROCKLEIGH, N.J. & HOD-HASHARON, Israel–(Business Wire)–
Embedded with Valens` HDBaseT chipset, Crestron today announced its new
DigitalMedia 8G technology, which allows schools, government and businesses to
experience and enjoy HD digital entertainment content and multimedia AV
presentations like never before. HDBaseT technology, built into the
next-generation Crestron platform, provides an unrivaled feature-set that
converges full uncompressed HD video, audio, 100BaseT Ethernet, high power over
cable and various control signals through a single 100m/328ft shielded CAT5e/6
LAN cable.

“Crestron is an industry leader and an ideal partner to showcase the benefits of
Valens` HDBaseT technology,” said Micha Risling, vice president of sales and
marketing, Valens Semiconductor. “With the HDBaseT chipset embedded in these
high-performance components and Crestron`s DigitalMedia platform managing the
network, cabled-networking is now more efficient, affordable and intuitive,
providing the consumer with a single-wire solution to surpass all their
home-networking needs.”

Crestron booth #C5203 will highlight DigitalMedia 8G, showcasing the powerful
HDBaseT chipset implemented in the new DM-RMC-100-C receiver and DM-TX-201-C
transmitter.

“DM 8G utilizing Valens` HDBaseT chipset is the most technologically advanced
solution for optimum digital media distribution,” said Dan Jackson, research and
development engineer, Crestron.

For additional information regarding Crestron DigitalMedia, please visit
http://www.crestron.com/digitalmedia. To learn more about Valens and the HDBaseT
technology, visit www.hdbaset.org or www.valens-semi.com.

About Crestron

For 40 years Crestron has been the world’s leading manufacturer of advanced
control and automation systems, innovating technology and reinventing the way
people live and work. Providing integrated solutions to control audio, video,
lighting, computer, IP and environmental systems, Crestron streamlines
technology, improving the quality of life for people in corporate conference
rooms, hotels, classrooms, auditoriums, and in their homes. Crestron’s
leadership stems from its dedicated people who are committed to providing the
best products, programs and services in the industry.

In addition to its World Headquarters in Rockleigh, New Jersey, Crestron has
sales and support offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Latin
America and Australia.

About Valens Semiconductor

Valens Semiconductor is a leading provider of semiconductor products for the
distribution of uncompressed HD multimedia content. The Company has developed
HDBaseT enabling the distribution of uncompressed HD multimedia content over
longer distances and with higher reliability at the lowest cable cost.

In late 2009, together with international market leaders, Valens cofounded the
HDBaseT Alliance to promote and standardize the HDBaseT technology.

Founded in 2006, Valens is a private company with offices in Israel, Japan,
Hong-Kong, USA and local representatives in Korea, Taiwan and China.

Crestron Electronics, Inc.
Jeff Singer, 800-237-2041
jsinger@crestron.com
or
Valens Semiconductor
Mr. Micha Risling, +972-9-7626918
micha.risling@valens-semi.com

Copyright Business Wire 2010

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Bolt cruises to victory on China return

May 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Usain Bolt celebrated his return to China for the first time since his Beijing Olympic heroics with a comfortable victory in the 200 metres at the Shanghai Diamond League meeting on Sunday.

Less than two years after his sensational sprints at the Bird’s Nest arena, the Olympic and world champion treated Shanghai Stadium to a more controlled performance on a cool and windy evening in China’s financial capital.

Well ahead by the halfway stage, Bolt crossed the line 10 metres clear of the field in 19.76 seconds, outside his own world best time of the year (19.56) and well shy of his world mark (19.19).

The 23-year-old Jamaican, who ran the fastest 100 metres of the year (9.86) in Daegu, South Korea on Wednesday, was followed over the line by Americans Angelo Taylor and Ryan Bailey.

“For me tonight was definitely a good run. I felt good. I felt all right,” the 100m and 200m world record holder told reporters.

“Here it was kind of chilly and it was windy and a negative wind … But I felt good overall and that’s a good thing.

“I didn’t think of posing (to celebrate). I did it so much in Korea I guess I was kind of tired of doing it.”

The biggest name in world athletics, Bolt was making his debut in the new 14-leg elite Diamond League circuit after skipping the opening meeting in Doha this month.

With Bolt dominating the men’s side, Carmelita Jeter did her bit to balance the Jamaican-U.S. sprint rivalry with a commanding victory over world and Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser in the women’s 100m.

OVERHAULED FRASER

The muscular American, who ran the second fastest 100m of all time in Shanghai last year, was slower out of the blocks but caught up with and overhauled her Jamaican rival.

“I wasn’t expecting too much,” said Jeter, who crossed the line in 11.09 seconds.

“For this year my goal is keep healthy. It is a season of recovery, not too much pressure, not the championship season. It is just a beginning and it is much better than I expected.”

It was Jeter’s seventh win in a row since finishing third at the world championships in Berlin last year, a race won by Fraser.

“I’m disappointed,” said Fraser, who trailed home in 11.29. “But I think that I’m somewhat okay. I have to go back to train and work much harder.”

American David Oliver was hugely impressive in the 110 metres hurdles, powering home in 12.99 seconds to upset hometown hero Liu Xiang and world champion Ryan Brathwaite.

Former world and Olympic champion Liu, still dogged by the Achilles injury that ruined his Beijing Olympic dream, was third behind compatriot Shi Dongpeng, while Brathwaite pulled up in frustration after knocking down his first three hurdles.

“My foot was definitely not well,” said Liu, who clocked 13.40. “For me it was quite a challenge. Competition relies on training, systematic, intensive and high quality training. But I have had none.”

(Editing by Ed Osmond; To query or comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)

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Olympian Linford Christie discharged from hospital after head-on car crash

May 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment

London, May 19 (ANI): Olympic gold medallist Linford Christie, 50, was discharged from a hospital in Buckinghamshire on Tuesday, hours after being involved in a head-on crash.

His car collided with a taxi – in which three other people were injured.

The former 100m gold medallist staggered from his mangled Audi A8 and lay on the ground in agony clutching his stomach.

Two ambulances rushed to the country road in Buckinghamshire shortly before midnight.

Minicab driver Naeem Akhtar broke both arms and legs as well as a foot and ankle, while two male passengers in his Mercedes E220 suffered broken bones.

Of the other three injured, a police spokesman said: “They remain in hospital in a serious but stable condition.”

A woman also travelling in the taxi escaped injury. (ANI)

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US firm fights back at LiLo’s $100M lawsuit over ‘milkaholic’ baby ad

May 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Washington, May 12 (ANI): The financial services firm E*trade has struck back against Lindsay Lohan who filed a 100-million-dollar lawsuit against them for allegedly defaming her over an advertisement.

E*Trade”s lawyers filed hundreds of papers in New York”s Nassau County Supreme Court, detailing Lohan”s dalliances with drugs and alcohol, purportedly to prove she lives in Hollywood and not Long Island, where her lawsuit was filed. E*Trade”s aim: to change the court fight from Long Island to Manhattan, where its headquarters is located.

“This is the whole reason we are suing them — for demeaning Lindsay.

“They are just proving how they operate — they play dirty,” ABC News quoted Lohan’s mother, Dina, as telling the New York Post.

Lohan alleged that a “milkaholic” baby girl who appeared in a recent commercial was modeled after her, also named ‘Lindsay’. She claimed that the ad invoked in her “likeness, name, characterization and personality” without permission, violating her right to privacy.

E*Trade”s ad unrolled during the Feb. 7 Super Bowl. In it, a baby boy apologizes to his girlfriend through a video chat for not calling her the night before, saying he was on E*Trade. The camera switches to the girl, who asks suspiciously, “And that milkaholic Lindsay wasn”t over?”

The camera then switches back to the boy, who replies, with apparent unease, “Lindsay?” before another baby girl, presumably Lindsay, moves into the frame and asks, “Milk-a-what?” (ANI)

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China”s rural netizens cross 100m mark

April 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Apr 17 (ANI): In China, the Internet using rural population reached 106.81 million by the end of 2009— an increase of 26.3 percent year-on-year, according to a report.

The report, released Thursday by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), said 68 percent of rural residents use desktop computers to get access to the Internet.

Rural netizens are increasingly using cell phones to surf the Internet, with 71.89 million people doing it this way, up 79.3 percent from the previous year, reports The China Daily.

A total of 69.2 percent of Internet users in rural areas are under 30 years old, and those younger than 19 account for 41.1 percent.

According to the report, 44.6 percent of China” urban residents use the Internet by the end of 2009, while in rural areas the proportion was only 15 percent. (ANI)

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Watt looking forward to Gift

April 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Mitchell Watt is eager to find out just how fast he can run at this weekend’s Stawell Gift athletics meet.

On the available evidence, the answer is very fast indeed for the Queenslander, who won bronze in the long jump at last year’s world championships.

In a rare outing over 100m on the Gold Coast last year, Watt clocked a slick 10.37 seconds using a borrowed set of starting blocks and wearing long jump spikes.

That effort was enough for the Victorian Athletic League handicappers to give him a tough mark of 2.5m for his debut appearance in the 129th edition of the Stawell Gift.

“I think I can go quicker than that,” Watt said.

“I want to do some more 100s this season just to get a bit of a grasp on how much I have improved.

“And I’m just excited about racing in the Gift.

“It’s a nice change of pace from the long jump, so I’ll be a bit less nervous than usual.”

With Australia’s leading 100m sprinters Patrick Johnson, Aaron Rouge-Serret and Matt Davies all absent, much of the interest in Stawell will be on the performances of Watt and world and Olympic pole vault champion Steve Hooker.

The pair were room-mates at the world indoor championships a couple of weeks ago in Doha and have been indulging in some good-natured ribbing ahead of their Gift debuts.

“We’ve been having a go at each other ever since,” Watt said.

“Steve called me the other day and tried to tell me he wasn’t feeling all that good.

“But it’ll be fun and I hope we both make it to the final.”

Hooker will race off a mark of 5.5m, with Bola Lawal the backmarker off 0.5m in the 120m handicap event.

Watt has had to scale back his training in the last six weeks because of a groin complaint, but has been assured by his doctor and physio that it will not affect his sprinting.

Coach Gary Bourne said the 22-year-old Watt was looking forward to having a crack at the specialist sprinters.

“I’ve done some hand-timing of Mitch in training, but often you’re standing at the end of the track in the evening,” said Bourne.

“I’m not prepared to say if those times I’m getting are spot on.

“But he looks pretty good.”

Retired Australian long jumper David Culbert – himself a former Gift semi-finalist – said Watt’s run of 10.37 last year made him Australia’s fastest-ever long jumper, surpassing Olympic silver medallists Gary Honey and Jai Taurima.

Despite spending most of his life in Queensland, Watt was born in Ballarat – about an hour down the highway from Stawell.

And he still has a lot of relatives living in the area, meaning he will enjoy plenty of support at Central Park.

The heats of the Gift are on Saturday, with the semi-finals and final on Easter Monday.

- AAP

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Bolt puts assault on 400metres world record on hold

March 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Trelawny (Jamaica), Mar 19(ANI): Jamaican sprinter and three-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt has put on hold his plans to challenge American sprinter Michael Johnson’s 400metres world record until after the 2012 London Olympics.

Bolt, the world’s fastest man at both 100m and 200m, competes over 300m in May, but will delay a bid to break Johnson’s 43.18secs mark for the 400m.

“The 400m is somewhere, but hopefully after 2012,” The Daily Express quoted Bolt, as saying.

Bolt had earlier suggested that he could aim to break the 400 metres world record this year, as no major championships are scheduled for the year.

The 23-year-old holds the world record for the 100 metres, the 200 metres and, along with his team-mates, the 4×100 metres relay.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Bolt became the first man to win three sprinting events at a single Olympics since Carl Lewis in 1984, and the first man to set world records in all three at a single Olympics.

He set world records in both 100 m and 200 m events at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. He ran the 100 m event in a record time of 9.69secs to break his own previous record of 9.72secs and in the 200 m event he broke previous record of 19.32secs by Johnson at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta with a record time of 19.30secs. (ANI)

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Scientists find meteorite that came from innermost asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter

September 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Washington, September 18 (ANI): In a very rare finding, scientists have discovered an unusual kind of meteorite in the Western Australian desert and have uncovered that it came from the innermost main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Meteorites are the only surviving physical record of the formation of our Solar System.

However, information about where individual meteorites originated, and how they were moving around the Solar System prior to falling to Earth, is available for only a dozen of around 1100 documented meteorite falls over the past two hundred years.

According to Dr Phil Bland from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, the lead author of the study, “We are incredibly excited about our new finding. Meteorites are the most analysed rocks on Earth, but it’s really rare for us to be able to tell where they came from.”

The new meteorite, which is about the size of cricket ball, is the first to be retrieved since researchers from Imperial College London, Ondrejov Observatory in the Czech Republic, and the Western Australian Museum, set up a trial network of cameras in the Nullarbor Desert in Western Australia in 2006.

The researchers aim to use these cameras to find new meteorites, and work out where in the Solar System they came from, by tracking the fireballs that they form in the sky.

The new meteorite was found on the first day of searching using the new network, by the first search expedition, within 100m of the predicted site of the fall.

The meteorite appears to have been following an unusual orbit, or path around the Sun, prior to falling to Earth in July 2007, according to the researchers’ calculations.

The team believes that it started out as part of an asteroid in the innermost main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

It then gradually evolved into an orbit around the Sun that was very similar to Earth’s.

The new meteorite is also unusual because it is composed of a rare type of basaltic igneous rock.

According to the researchers, its composition, together with the data about where the meteorite comes from, fits with a recent theory about how the building blocks for the terrestrial planets were formed.

This theory suggests that the igneous parent asteroids for meteorites like today’s formed deep in the inner Solar System, before being scattered out into the main asteroid belt.

Asteroids are widely believed to be the building blocks for planets like the Earth, so the new finding provides another clue about the origins of the Solar System. (ANI)

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Bolt can smash 100m record yet again, reckons Wells

August 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, Aug. 28 (ANI): British athletic legend Allan Wells believes that Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt can break his 100 metres world record again tonight.

Just 12 days after running a staggering 9.58 seconds in the World Championship final in Berlin, Bolt makes his first appearance at the Golden League meeting in Zurich.

But Wells, who won gold in the 100m and silver at 200m at the 1980 Olympics, reckons the Jamaican sprint ace can get quicker.

“Usain is a freak among freaks – to see him run that time was mind-blowing. He is a natural runner but his strength, speed and leg stride is something special,” The Sun quoted him, as saying.

“Usain looks fit, healthy and fresh and, in the next year or two, I’ve no doubts he will run quicker. He has the ability to run 9.50 secs and below,” Wells, 57, added.

The 100 m world record has been broken three times before at the fast-paced Weltklasse meeting in Switzerland.

German Armin Hary shattered the fastest time in the world back in 1960 before USA’s Carl Lewis and Bolt’s rival and fellow countryman Asafa Powell joined the elite club there.

“For the other athletes and the British sprinters, they have to accept Usain is a great athlete and finishing second has now become the new first,” Wells said. (ANI)

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MJ’s mum may sue his doc for $100m over ‘wrongful death’

August 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, August 19 (ANI): Michael Jackson’s mother plans to sue the star’s personal doctor with a 100-million dollar “wrongful death” claim.

Katherine Jackson aims to target Dr Conrad Murray who admitted administering the sedative Propofol via an IV drip to help the King of Pop sleep. He now is at the centre of a manslaughter probe.

“The wrongful death action has been floated…no decision has been finalised,” The Sun quoted Jackson family lawyer Burt Levitch as saying.

Miami-based wrongful death lawyer Stewart Greenberg said the medic could end up facing a 100 million dollar payout.

He said: “If Katherine brings the case on behalf of herself and the kids, she only has to show what Michael lost in earnings by his premature death.

“He was only 50 and had plenty of years left in him as a top level entertainer. It could be 100 million dollars, could be more.” (ANI)

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Bolt sets world record over 150 meters

May 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, May 18 (ANI): Usain Bolt stormed to a world’s best of 14.35 seconds over 150 meters on the streets of Manchester last night.

Bolt, the reigning world record holder at 100m and 200m, left the rest of the field – including British sprinter Marlon Devonish comfortably behind, The Sun reports.he Olympic champion now insists he can lower his own 100m world mark of 9.69 seconds – set in Beijing last summer – to 9.4sec.

Jamaican Bolt almost had to pull out of last night’s race in Deansgate when he crashed his car into a ditch back home on April 29.

He only returned to full training last week having had stitches in his left foot.

But in his first outing this year, he covered the first 100m in an astonishing 9.9sec.

And he went on to smash the previous best of 14.8sec for the 150m set by Italian Pietro Mennea in 1983 – when Bolt was not even born.

Bolt, 22, admitted: “I didn’t expect to run that fast. It’s my first major run of the season and I was happy just to come out and run. I don’t even think I’m in the best of shape and I still have a lot of work to do.” (ANI)

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Bolt to compete in Golden League meeting in Paris

March 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Paris – Triple Olympic champion and men’s 100-metre and 200m world record holder Usain Bolt will compete in the Golden League meeting at the Stade de France in Paris on July 17, organizers confirmed Thursday.

It remains unclear whether the 22-year-old Jamaican will compete in the 100m or 200m. Bolt will make his European season debut in Manchester on May 17 in a 150m race in the city centre.

The sprinter, who won gold in the 100m and 200m at the Beijing Olympic Games in world record times and also triumphed in the 4x100m relay, will use both events partly as a tune-up for the World Championships in Berlin in August. (dpa)

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Stephanie Rice cuts back on butterfly training to take care of shoulder injury

March 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Melbourne, Mar 04 (ANI): Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice is currently looking after her shoulder injury to make certain that it doesn’t worsen.

Rice cut back on her butterfly training in a bid to avert aggravating an inflamed right shoulder.

However, her coach Michael Bohl is confident the problem is not serious, and will not prevent Rice from contesting her heavy program at the trials, starting in Sydney on March 17.

“It just flares up from time to time,” the Daily Telegraph quoted him as saying.

“We have just got to keep an eye on it. We have had to adjust things a little bit because of it. She is not doing quite as much fly as we would like, but it hasn’t interrupted her too much. Hopefully it should be right. We have just got to make sure she is getting the right physio and getting the right treatment for it,” he added.

Bohl even revealed that Rice had the same problem with her shoulder leading into the Beijing Olympics, but it had settled with physiotherapy.It has been lingering a little bit, she has had it on and off. It (the bursa) gets inflamed and causes a little bit of aggravation when she recovers,” Bohl said.

Meanwhile, Rice has entered seven events at the trials: 200m and 400m individual medley, 200m freestyle, 100m and 200m butterfly, 100m freestyle and 100m backstroke.

She is unlikely to race all of the 100m events beyond the heats. (ANI)

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