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Mark Andrew Twitchell
Born: July 4, 1979
Charged with first-degree murder: Oct 31, 2008
Edmonton-raised Mark Andrew Twitchell was a fledgling filmmaker whose first major project, a green-screen fan film called Star Wars: Secrets of the Rebellion, garnered major buzz online. It was filmed in Edmonton in the summer of 2006 but has never been released.
Through his production company Xpress Entertainment, Twitchell then shot a short crime film called House of Cards, about a killer who lures a cheating man off an online dating website and kills him. He was also gathering funds to produce a feature-length comedy called Day Players about the secret lives of extras in the film industry.
In the Star Wars film especially, Twitchell put his considerable talent for prop and costume design to work, creating replica suits for characters ripped from George Lucas's universe. He was known to attend Star Wars and comic book movie premieres as his favourite characters in elaborate costumes he designed himself. In 2007, he won best costume at both the Bear's Halloween Howler and Sonic's Monster Mash Halloween Bash for a suit based on the Transformer Bumblebee. Twitchell said he went through 240 square feet of Plexiglass and foam to make it.
Twitchell attended NAIT's Radio & Television program in 1999, specializing in radio. He has been married and divorced twice, and has a daughter, who was born in January 2008.


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Its a very interesting read and an insight into Tiny.
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Saturday, February 17, 2001
Recording of phone row gives amazing insight on the stars' troubled marriage
THE collapse of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage has been the showbiz
sensation of the year. And yesterday Australian magazine New Idea published an
extraordinary transcript of a conversation between the glamour couple.
The mobile phone call, illegally taped two years ago, reveals their marriage
was often explosive. The call was recorded by US photo- grapher Eric Ford while
Nicole was on set filming Practical Magic.
Ford got six months detention for illegal interception of the call.TOM: Nic,
come on, you've just got to f*****g let up on me for a second, OK? Yes, you do
Nic. Look at the things that I do do all right, and stop making me walk around.
That makes me feel terrible you saying that, it makes me feel like s*** and I
don't like feeling like s**t. You should make me feel good.
NICOLE: Oh, God - get off it! You don't like feeling like s***t." Make yourself
feel good!
TOM: I'm telling you Nic - I'm telling you how I feel, too.
NICOLE: We've been hanging on by a f*****g thread, OK? A thread. You know it
and I know it.
TOM: Nic, I want this relationship, OK? You know that and I have been making an
effort. I have been!
NICOLE: (sighs) Tom, you know you haven't.
TOM: (voice raised) What are you talking about? How much more of an effort? Do
you want me to f*****g drive you to work every day?
NICOLE: No...
TOM: No, I'm telling you Nic, it's like you're being unreasonable man, and I'm
sorry, but you are being f*****g unreasonable (shouting).
NICOLE: No, you know...
TOM: (shouting) What do I know, Nic?
NICOLE: Just look at your behaviour!
TOM: Because it's frustrating Nic, that's why I'm yelling. Because at a certain
point, an individual has to say: 'What are you talking about?'
NICOLE: Not an individual Tom, stop talking in generalisations! You know
exactly what I'm talking about. And you can yell and scream and carry on and
swear, but you know exactly what I'm talking about.
TOM: No I don't Nic. Tell me what I haven't done. I didn't go out to the set
tonight to see you.
NICOLE: Not tonight, Tom. Have you done anything? Have you come out to the set
once? OK? Have you sent me a rose? Have you...
TOM: Have you sent me a rose? I came home with two roses...
NICOLE: Did you give me anything? Did you give me a note, did you give me a
bunch of flowers?
TOM: Nic, did I get any flowers when I came back from Eyes Wide Shut? I was
waiting here, I had the candles lit, I had a bath ready for you.
NICOLE: I don't really want this, OK? I don't want to spend my whole dinner
break on the phone yelling.
TOM: No, because you think about what you don't have Nic. Why don't you try
thinking about what you do have?
NICOLE: No, Tom, I know what I have. I have two glorious, beautiful children, I
had a great relationship that is now not a great relationship, OK? I know that,
I know that.
TOM: (voice softens) OK Nic, all right. OK.
NICOLE: I have a career that I work very, very hard at and so do you. But I
have a loving, loving family. I know all of this.
TOM: All right.
NICOLE: And until we start admitting something and dealing with this stuff,
it's never going to go anywhere Tom. It just gets worse and worse. You know, it
surprised me that I didn't get anything on the first day of the shoot.
TOM: Right, Nic! I bought you the most beautiful Indian jewellery a week ago
for finishing a picture and for starting your new picture. I knew everything
that was going on, Honey come on. You knew I went out of my way. You knew.
(Nicole tries to interrupt, Tom raises his voice) It's about the fact that I
love you Nic!
NICOLE: A little red rose, it's something...
TOM: Nic...
NICOLE:You want to know something? No, Tom, it's not... (tape inaudible) You
yell and scream and hurl abuse and say I'm so f***ed to have a relationship
with, and I'm so awful, and I'm such a bitch and all this stuff - well you want
to know something? That's really bad, that's bad!
TOM: I know. I know this.
NICOLE: And that's what they name in emotional abuse!
TOM: I know, also the emotional abuse that I'm under!
NICOLE: Tom, there's no love here, right, you're under emotional abuse, I'm
abusing you, you're abusing me. Tom, this isn't worth it!
You have two very unhappy people, OK, who spend too much time apart and in the
past have hurt each other too much.
TOM: Nic, everything's fine and then it's like you go on about I didn't get you
a rose for starting... a week ago, a week ago you were going and I got you the
beautiful Indian jewellery. It's like one thing, it's like I don't do right,
it's just...
NICOLE: No, no. It's not and you knowTOM: Yes, it is Nic. I come home and I've
got two roses for you, I'm so happy to see you. I come home, you come home,
I've got the candles lit, I've got the kids organised for you in bed, and what
do you say?
(Nicole tries to interrupt)
TOM: (raised voice) No, listen to me Nic, listen to me!
NICOLE: I'm not doing this now, OK?
(Tom and Nicole start talking about plans for son Connor's third birthday)
NICOLE: You don't even know this is about your child...
TOM: (sighs) I don't even care. I just want to have us a nice day. I just want
it to be us.
NICOLE: No, because Angus (husband of Nicole's sister Antonia) is coming and
you're going skiing and I'm not going to be able to come up to where you are!
TOM: Why?
NICOLE: Because I'm on stand-by. And it's too much for me anyway to be flying
up there.
TOM: You can't come up?
NICOLE:No, I can't. And I tell you something, we haven't spent any time
together Tom! You just don't make an effort. I come home and all you ever say
is: 'I'm exhausted.'
TOM: Honey, I said that last night. I did not say that the night before.
NICOLE: Yes, you did, Tom, you did. All right? You did. And then it was the
first thing you said tonight. And I'm sick of it, I'm sick of it! And if it's
not: 'I've got to get the kids from school,' it's: 'I'm working, I don't have
any time for you.'And Tom, I've heard this for so long now and you're not
working now and you're still saying it.
TOM: I just said I was tired, OK?
NICOLE: You're not working now!
TOM: Honey, listen to me...
NICOLE: I don't want to listen...
TOM: Listen to me Nic, just listen to me. I miss you. I love you. I think about
you all day long. You're a knucklehead, a knucklehead for thinking that I don't
care, I'm not loving. I'm embarrassed that I was tired last night. I apologise,
NICOLE: Tom. It's every night!
TOM: That's not true. Honey, that is not true. I'm recovering from a broken
foot, look at a little of the effects.
NICOLE: I do look at some of the things...you say you're exhausted. How do you
think that makes me feel? Im trying to do something for our son.
TOM: Just give him cake and he's happy, and a movie and dinner. And it will
just be you, me and Isabella. You know? I love you, OK? I care about you and I
care for you and I love you. Think of... a husband, you know, I mean...
NICOLE: Tom, I call, all I hear is: "You've gotta come, you've gotta come." I
don't hear any consideration for me or anything,... and then angry, yelling at
me on the phone. I come back and all the time you're saying how exhausted you
are. Well I'm sick of it.
TOM: Hey Nic, listen to me OK? Come on now. It's 11pm at night. I've been up
since 6.30 in the morning. OK?
NICOLE: But every night. Why don't you have a little bit of excitement and say:
'Hi baby.'
TOM: I did, and then I said: 'Hey baby.'
NICOLE: No, you did not, Tom.
TOM: I can take a little excitement. I've been waiting for you.
NICOLE: I don't want to go on and on, there's someone listening on the phone!
TOM: Who's there?
NICOLE: You know, people outside.
TOM: Oh, f**k 'em!
NICOLE: We're on the cellular!
TOM: Oh, f**k 'em, I don't care.
NICOLE: We're right on location, there'll be someone sitting outside...
TOM: Hey, Nic, Nic!
NICOLE: What?
TOM: Nic, it's going to be better. We'll just be alone together on Sunday with
the kids - he'll have his cake, he'll love it, he'll have a ball. All he cares
about is that chocolate cake and getting some presents.
NICOLE: And the movie.
TOM: And the movie, he'll love the movie.
NICOLE: I've been trying to find a good movie.
TOM: I know, that was good, really good. Oh Niccy babes, come on now.
NICOLE: What?
TOM: I'm a sweetheart. Why don't you just admit it? Just give in to it. Most of
the time I'm adorable. I'm just absolutely adorable, Nic (laughs). Come on,
laugh a little.
NICOLE: How is your foot?
TOM: Feeling better actually. You know, it p****s me off. I can't run, you
know, and I'm always having to put these pads on it, you know. Honey, this
school I think is terrific. I'm going to check the Montessori school out.
NICOLE: Don't bother. Hi! (starts talking to someone else in the room).
TOM: (to himself) Great (to Nicole) Do you have to go have hair and make-up
NICOLE: Yes
TOM: Hey Nic, listen to me, OK? I love you, Bubba. I love you. You know, you're
making a movie, we're just getting zeroed in here. I love you.
NICOLE: I have a fat ass!
TOM: (laughs) You don't have a fat ass.
NICOLE: (tape inaudible)
TOM: Really? Wow? (muffled) Listen, Nic, Listen to me, OK? I love you, I really
love you.You know I'm holding the fort down here and getting these kids and
doing my share. And I'm sorry if I was tired. I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry Bubba.
NICOLE: : And taking sides...
TOM: I was feeling sorry for myself having to say... 'Oh God look', you know. I
mean I was feeling sorry for myself. I was feeling bad for me. I was thinking:
'Oh God, I hate having to call people and say... oh, you know, I just felt bad
for myself. Honey, it's fine, don't even...
NICOLE: I'm not worried, I'm just telling you...
TOM: I know, I know, I know. OK.
OK. Hello? Hello? (appears to be cut off) Niccy?
NICOLE: Hi, I'm just going to go and lie down.
TOM: OK, listen to me, OK? I love you. Just know that. All right? We're not...
by a thread.
TOM: All right?
NICOLE: (whispers) I love you.
TOM: Sleep.
NICOLE: Bye.


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Digital Disruption: What Software Dev & Delivery Competencies Matter?
Posted by Kyle McNabb on September 13, 2012
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The team and I have been testing a hypothesis for the past year while meeting with business and IT leaders in large enterprises, agencies, and smaller firms, and I'd like your input. My working hypothesis is this:
In this age of digital disruption and a society empowered by software-fueled technology, firms that can cultivate competencies in software development and delivery will establish competitive advantage, as they will be better equipped to meet and exceed the engagement and experience needs of their customers, employees, and constituencies.
Why competencies in software development and delivery? First look at today's digital disruption, which as Forrester Analyst James McQuivey notes, is more swift and deadly than prior disruptive forces. It's faster, it turns historical assets - e.g., supply chain strengths - into liabilities, and it can come from anywhere. Second, look more closely at today's digital disruptors. What makes them different? James' research points out that they:
- Harness the power of digitally empowered consumers...basically, they tap into the empowered society.
- Generate more ideas, faster, by focusing on the customer and "what's next," taking a very outside-in approach to their business.
- Deliver total experiences by employing digital technology, fueled by software, to redefine products and services.
Digital disruptors aren't just startups or new social and entertainment firms. You can find them across industries. While they cultivate many competencies, one seems to stand out - they view software development and delivery differently than the industry at large. They view specific aspects - e.g., design, architecture, algorithm/analytics development, and engineering - as core, something they cannot persist without, part of their product DNA, and essential to how they engage with their customers.
Our research shows that not all aspects of software development and delivery are core or essential, but many leaders are calling into question the blanket assertions that development is a commodity. Those questions introduce big changes for what you might do internally and how you work with partners.
With the above in mind, I ask you contribute to our community discussion http://community.forrester.com/thread/8880?tstart=0 considering the following questions:
- How does your firm, your executive leadership, view software development and delivery? Do they view it as providing competitive advantage?
- What's keeping your leadership from viewing software development and delivery as a competency?
- What actions, if any, have your firm and its leadership taken to cultivate new software development and delivery competencies?
- What aspects of software development and delivery do you view as core or essential to your firm? By extension, what's commodity?
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Software which can deliver
Comment from Kelvin John (not verified) on Fri, 09/14/2012 - 02:12
Software which can deliver the exact result a person is looking for.
Reduce the Cost
Comment from John Conner (not verified) on Sat, 09/15/2012 - 08:32
If they are reduce the cost of software development by avoiding costly ramp-up and ramp-down of resources so, they will be rock in them industry.
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Cost alone?
Comment from Kyle McNabb on Tue, 09/18/2012 - 04:30
Thanks John. How does reducing cost compare to speed and quality in your view?
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Nice Post....very informative and interesting....
For business, where I spend
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For business, where I spend most of my time, we need efficient software programs. Yes, they allow us to offer the best for consumers. Without software, I don't know where most of our business strategies would be. I can't program, but someone else can, and it greatly increases our ability to meet the market's needs. http://www.allshore.us/
software performance
Comment from Tim Fong (not verified) on Fri, 12/14/2012 - 01:44
This was a great article --- software is eating the world, and for many industries, it is software which can either give a company a business edge or it is just a "lights on" commodity.
I think there are ways to streamline large-scale, distributed application delivery and maintenance, and the ones who get that will win.
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Raj IT believes in building long lasting strategic alliance with its clients. We provide easy solution to make things lot easier. Our slogan (Making IT Easy) says it all. We do not predict ourselves as a provider of a solution for our clients; we are companion to the process that seeks the most effective solution paving the journey to a better tomorrow.
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text: I guess they are putting microphones on NBA coaches for nationally televised games. That is the buzz I've been hearing around the league. I am really surprised the networks and the coaches decided to do this. I just want to know who at the TV network has the job of listening in to the coach the whole game and trying to figure out what they can put on the air and what they can't play. In addition, most coaches have their right hand man that they talk to privately back and forth during the game. To draw some sort of parallel, think about someone having your family miked up for a week. To me it's tough to imagine that. In fairness, the leauge does promise that it won't use material that is too over the top, but that means the only thing they'll be able to play on TV is the real generic stuff which isn't too interesting anyway.


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2008-2013 Cadillac CTS General Discussion Discussion, help with TPMS and a all wheel drive off message in Cadillac CTS Second Generation Forum - 2008-2013; I was trying to reset my tire pressure monitor system today tire by tire on my 2009 cts because the ...
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help with TPMS and a all wheel drive off message
I was trying to reset my tire pressure monitor system today tire by tire on my 2009 cts because the reading on the DIC and the readings of my tire pressure gauge are two different readings and I didn't do it right at first and and I turned my car off and back on to try to reset then I got a message saying service tire pressure monitoring system then right after that a message said all wheel drive off...don't know why it said all wheel drive off..i ended up resetting the tire pressure monitor system correctly ( even though it is still off than my actual tire gauge readings) so the service tire pressure monitoring system message is gone now and I havnt seen the all wheel drive off message again since that one time. so anyone know why that all wheel drive off message came? and how can I assure my all wheel is on and working fine? and not off still?
also how can I get my TPMS readings more accurate to my actual tire gauge readings?
Re: help with TPMS and a all wheel drive off message
Okay, here's what you do. Get your tires at the pressure you want, say 35 lbs, with a very accurate gage. Now look at your DIC, that reading is the "New 35" so remember it.
It's purpose is to warn of a problem and it is not necessary for it to be that accurate.
PS: I took my car to Discount Tire and they used a hand held programming device to reset each tire transmitters. FREE! Not sure they always provide that service free but I've said here before, I love Discount Tire Customer Service.
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I have bought many sets of tires from them along with the wheels on my son's car and my CTS. Great service from them.


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For the past month I have been battling this. How do you write php code snippits in < pre > or < code > tags? There have been lots of times I have needed to do it in response to questions in my item discussions but have never managed to get it to display properly. Is it even possible?
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|For more than a century, thousands have enjoyed the music of the Stony Creek Fife & Drum Corps. The perpetuation of the "ancient style" of fifing and drumming is alive and well in the village of Stony Creek, located within the coastal town of Branford, Connecticut. Corps members of all ages volunteer their time and talent to continue a long tradition of dedication to American martial and patriotic music. Over the years, their efforts have brought pride and notoriety to the village of Stony Creek. Performing regularly at parades and musters, they are described as a living historic and cultural treasure.
|Stony Creek Fife & Drum Corps participating in the Northford, CT Centennial Parade held on August 22nd, 1931. Picture was taken by Clarence Burdick in front of the Northford Congregational Church.
|One of many uniforms worn by the corps over the years.
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Cops reviewing footage from Delicious Restaurant murder
Following the murder of an employee of the Delicious Restaurant on D'Urban Street, investigators are now going through video footage caught on the CCTV cameras installed at the facility and Crime Chief Leslie James has indicated that a pronouncement would be made shortly.
Forty-eight-year-old Debra Blackman called 'Debbie' of Critchlow Circle, Tucville was shot and killed just around 7:15 on Saturday night in what police believe to be a botched robbery.
Speaking to Stabroek News yesterday, James said that initial investigations have revealed that two men entered the facility and one approached Blackman and ordered food. Blackman's children have said that she was employed as a cashier at the Chinese restaurant for the past 10 years. According to James, the man attempted robbery but the woman resisted and she was shot twice: in the neck and in the shoulder. The men escaped but it is not clear if they managed to take anything.
"But we are continuing our investigation and we are looking through the footage…" the crime chief said.
Residents told Stabroek News on Saturday night that one man entered the restaurant and seconds after the shooting, fled on a CG motorbike.
At Blackman's house yesterday, her grieving daughters were upset at the manner in which their mother was treated after she was shot and questioned why she was not taken to the hospital. They pointed out that their mother would have fought for her life and she should have been given the opportunity to seek medical attention.
"When I go, I saw my mother lying in a pool of blood on the floor," one of the woman's five children recalled yesterday as she wept. Instead of taking the woman to seek medical attention, the man in charge, instead, closed up the door with the woman still lying on the floor, according to reports.
On Saturday night, one man had openly voiced his disapproval that Blackman was not taken to the hospital. "The Chinee man just lock up he door and lef she shaking up pon de ground…why he didn't try to get her to the hospital?" he had asked. The man had stated too that there were persons outside who would have willingly taken the woman to the hospital. He said that in spite of the fact that her injury was serious, taking her for medical attention would have been a sign that some effort was being made to save her life.
Blackman's daughters said that the reported actions of the restaurant operator are harder for them to comprehend because of the years of dedicated service the woman gave to the restaurant. "My mother use to go to work every day and she would always say she have to go to work because she don't want Chinee quarrel," another daughter said.
Blackman's elder daughter Shelly had told this newspaper on Saturday night that the restaurant was robbed several times and her mother was encouraged to leave the job but she continued to give her services diligently.
Yet up to late yesterday, the family had not heard from Blackman's employers and several attempts to contact them proved futile as the telephone remained unanswered. "But they know our numbers; if my mother is a little late, they would call us, anyone of us to find out where she is and whether she coming to work…" one of the girls said.
They disclosed that the restaurant is owned by a couple who has returned to China and the business is presently being managed by their 19-year-old son and a friend. According to the children, the wife left several months ago and the husband left about one month ago.
At Blackman's house yesterday, relatives were making arrangements for her wake as her children and some of her six grandchildren grieved. Blackman's children described her as a dedicated mother.
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But the polls -- one in Ohio and one in Connecticut -- were largely conducted before the vote had even occurred, and none of the candidates polled actually voted on the House health care bill, as none of them are members of the House of Representatives.
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Remember: The Hill used two polls conducted largely before the House health care vote happened, and not involving anyone who serves in the House, to suggest that House passage of a health care bill is helping Republicans.
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Digital Video HacksOverview A compilation of tips and tricks ("hacks") for organizing, shooting, editing and distributing video in DV formats, Digital Video Hacks is an encyclopedia "how-to" guide to making digital video. This book is not for the "video virgin", someone who has never picked up a video camera - while professionals who've been making their living in the industry for several years will probably find only a few (if any) of the tips in this book to be helpful. Professionals at that level could probably write the entries in this book - which is in fact what happened. Digital Video Hacks is an assortment of video techniques, written by multiple authors in various specialties. As such, the entries vary in their presentation, style and thoroughness. The article on "making your own green screen" lays out all the materials you will need, their relative expenses, potential hazards and pitfalls and goes into quite a bit of detail on how to finish your project, while the "bullet-time effect" article gives you a more basic layout of how to set up multiple cameras, and then glosses over the final steps with just a few obscure sentences on finishing your effect in post-production.Organization The book has a great "bird's eye" layout, as well as a fine-tuned internal referencing system. Cbapters are organized by large topics like "Pre-production" and "Distribution" while individual entries are segmented into single-task topics like "Labelling your media" or "Creating Matrix-style bullet-time effects". Each "hack" is given a number, and within each entry, references to other techniques are noted with a reference to other "hacks". 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Though I've read one or two instructional books thatwere witty and clever, the "humor" in Digital Video Hacks was neither - usually statements of the obvious with some very predictable absurdism or sarcasm thrown in.. The writers are good video specialists, but poor comedians. Highlighted Content Some of the most helpful things in the book were truly invaluable. Advice on how to "Succesfully Complete a Project" gave the low-down on what a realistic video-maker should expect out of doing video. Tips range from "Compiling a cheap lighting kit" to creating a black and white movie with only one color showing through. There is even a section on making a movie without using a camera, which details (among other things) online free-video-footage databases that I had really known nothing about! This book even contains odd-ball ideas like backing up your computer to a DV tape, and "seeing through walls"! 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Rather than making nebulous statements about how effects generally be acheived in non-linear editors, entries break down practical, step-by-step instructions for each of the major editing systems intermediate video professionals are apt to use (Premier, FinalCut, Avid, MS Movie Maker and iMovie). As such, advice on converting file-formats, applying CODECs or effects and other tasks, usually centers around specific products or software. With each software item (or most physical products to buy, in the case of production), an web address is given, along with a cost in (presumably U.S.) dollars. This is excellent for those ready to immediately put these techniques to use, but also puts something of a cap on the shelf-life of this book. Keep it handy, but if you're going to get it - now's the time! Even though most of the information in this book is probably available online in numerous "how-to" sites, much of it I would not have even thought to search for! 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One of the best tech books I have ever read. Good stuff here for people who do digital video. No long winded review here except for the fact it saved my butt on a video design job I did for a non-profit. Buy this if you need practical info on how to get video done on time and within budget.Bob Moran
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Jakeday4 from Amazing Waited from 9:30, met new friends and had one of the best views..!
Date published: 2017-02-17
Rated 4 out of 5 by McFee297 from Typically Excellent As I've come to expect from Green Day, a relentless, frenetic, two and a half hours of rock n roll. Bombast, politics and the odd tender moment, with a couple of throwbacks for the old school fans. No matter what era a song came from, it sounded exactly right in context of the songs before or after. They've been at this long enough to know that actually, you can please all of the people all of the time - and they totally nailed it again.
Date published: 2017-02-17
Rated 5 out of 5 by San1 from MUST SEE CONCERT Seen Green Day once before and they were brilliant then and were brilliant this time as well. Go and see them if you get the chance
Date published: 2017-02-16
Rated 5 out of 5 by Jellybabies from Brilliant gig Attended this event with my boyfriend and family. Green Day were amazing . Exceptional value for money . Came on stage at 8 and finished around 10.45. Not many acts give a performance like that. The sound was fantastic . Best bit of all was when they got a young member of the audience on stage to play chords . They then let him keep the guitar . Brilliant idea and memories that last a lifetime .
Date published: 2017-02-14
Rated 5 out of 5 by Nanny Mac from Amazing So professional, so brilliant live - cannot fault the guys they came on stage bang on time and didn't even have a break! All the classics too - amazing
Date published: 2017-02-14
Rated 5 out of 5 by Dora09 from Bloody brilliant!!! Went with my best friend and it was amazing. Next time wanna take my boy!
Date published: 2017-02-14
Rated 5 out of 5 by Grubber65 from Awesome Green Day I just love Green Day and they never fail to entertain;). I love how they get the crowd involved, music is great to.
Date published: 2017-02-11
Rated 5 out of 5 by Shoney from What a show I wouldn't have wanted it any other way what a performance rock on!!
Date published: 2017-02-10


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Pattern Overlays and Detail Textures
Whether you were working on a normal texture, or a so-called detail texture, High Pass can greatly help you in creating patterns that can be overlaid on top of textures.
Sometimes it's a nice idea to mix several layers of gritty textures together with the Overlay blend mode. High Pass simply ensures that the small details overlay the underlying texture without larger details interfering, and that the overlay is centered around 50% gray, minimizing the overall luminosity-changing effect of the blend.
Or, let's imagine you're working on a photo-based leather jacket texture. To seam the different photos of the jacket taken from different angles together, you've had to smudge and fade the edges of the layers a lot. Smudging blends the colors nicely, but results in a lack of small detail.
FIGURE 15. Original texture + High Passed overlay = A cool new texture.
To restore the leather pattern onto the texture, select a section of leather that contains an intact bump map, copy it to a new image, and desaturate, then High Pass it. This keeps the small detail you need, but removes the large ones that would make tiling the pattern difficult. You may also want to Offset the pattern with Wrap Around to bring the edges to the center, then use the Clone tool to make it tile seamlessly - however, you may notice that the smaller High Pass radius you've used, the less seam-sealing you have to do.
FIGURE 16. Smudged leather jacket texture.
FIGURE 17. (left) Crop a section of intact leather pattern; (right) High Pass, Desaturate, and Define as Pattern.
Nevertheless, when you're satisfied with the results, turn this image into a Pattern, and use the Pattern Stamp tool in "Overlay", "Soft Light" or "Hard Light" mode to paint the leather pattern right back on. If the pattern doesn't seem prominent enough, simply increase its contrast before turning it into a pattern.
FIGURE 18. The leather pattern can then be painted back on with the Pattern Stamp tool.
Detail Textures
The same rules apply for so called detail textures (a fine example of them can be found in games that use the Unreal engine.) Since the very purpose of detail textures is to add small, sharp details to textures up close, they are obviously ideal targets for the High Pass filter. Because the details needed are indeed very small, feel free to use High Pass quite harshly with small radius values.
Multiplicative detail textures are a pretty straightforward case. Just make sure that they are mostly white, and only contain small crisp black details - otherwise they will darken the underlying textures too much when they get MIP-mapped. That, or you need to increase the brightness of all the underlying textures to compensate.
Some newer 3D accelerators support the Indexed Additive blend mode. This blend mode works the same way as the Hard Light blend mode in Photoshop: everything in the bitmap brighter than 50% gray, brightens the underlying bitmap, and everything darker than 50% gray, darkens it. This blend mode is ideal for detail textures and decals, but because not all the older hardware out there supports it, most games still use alpha blended detail textures. Since High Pass automatically shifts the image luminosity to around 50% gray, its results are immediately applicable.
Alpha blended detail textures are probably the most common application today. When working with alpha blended detail textures, it is best that the color map only contains black and white (no grays), and that the total average brightness of the bitmap when summed together is 50% gray. This ensures that the detail texture doesn't lighten or darken the underlying texture when it gets MIP-mapped.
How do you
create an alpha blended detail texture that looks and behaves like an
indexed additive one? First, start working on the texture as if it was
indexed additive, creating a bump map on a 50% gray background. You can
actually keep it in Hard Light mode in Photoshop while working, to see
what the result will look like. Use the High Pass filter to remove any
larger details. Make sure it tiles perfectly and everything.
When you're satisified with the results, turn the texture into a layer, and switch its mode to Difference. Create a new 50% grey Background behind it. As you can now see, all the pixels in the texture, that were either darker than gray, or lighter than gray, show bright against a black background this is the alpha map for the texture. Copy Merged the result into a new layer. As you can see, the more contrast the original detail texture has, the more opaque the alpha map will be. Make sure the contrast isn't too high, or the detail texture will be too prominent and may overrun the underlying textures.
Finally, take the original gray detail texture, switch its blend mode to Normal, and increase its contrast to maximum, so that all colors brighter than gray turn white, and all darker than gray turn black. This eliminates the grayness from the final result. Use this bitmap as the color map, and the "Difference bitmap" as the alpha map for it. The resulting texture behaves very much like an indexed additive detail texture.
FIGURE 19. Creating an alpha blended detail texture from a greyscale bump map.
And this concludes our feature. These were the primary uses I've come up with for the High Pass filter. Get creative, and you may invent something I never figured out. I sincerely hope these tips will help the texture artists in the industry. Now go impress your project lead.


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" Refuse to be a victim, make sure there is a round chambered ! "
Just call me a pessimistic optimist !
U.S. Navy vet 1981-1992
That is great
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
Now that was funny....
"I pledge allegiance to the war banner of the united states of Totalitaria. And to the Republic, which no longer stands, several bankers, who are now god, indivisible, with Bernanke bucks and credit for all."
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I believe in gun control...... Thats why I use TWO hands.
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"The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose."
-James Earl Jones
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For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the son of man be. Mathew 24:27
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