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For the Pennsic Independent
After 17 War points, Midrealm Dragons 11, East Tygers 6
The Grand Armies of the East and Midrealm met for the final time this War Friday as the Tyger and Dragon fought it out in the River Battle. With the final two heavy weapons War Points up for grabs, the Midrealm could secure victory at Pennsic XXXVI with a win.
It took some time for the "river" to be assembled, but it came into form just before the battle took place. This non-resurrection battle was fought to the last man over three bridges running north to south. Fighters could also "ford" the river by crossing on their knees.
The Dragon's forces deployed themselves on the south side of the river. Calontir, Northshield and Æthelmearc were deployed to take the east bridge, while the bulk of the Midrealm army was assigned to the central bridge. Atlantia was assigned to take the west bridge with the Darkyard legion held in central reserve.
Determined not to concede to the War, the Tyger deployed its force on the north shore. The East's western allies and the Ulsterblichen were assigned to the east bridge, while the Northern Army was stationed on the central bridge. To the west, forces from Black Talon and the Tuchux were deployed with Ealdormere held in central reserve.
At the sound of the cannon, the forces ran to their respective bridges, but were reluctant to cross as neither side wished to lose their forces unnecessarily. For long stretches, the two armies stared at each other across the bridges without engaging.
It was clear the East wanted to assume a defensive posture as all three of its bridge guards did not move into the bridges. The Midrealm tried everything to entice the Tyger to attack — the Barony of Cynnabar made a false charge and the House Darkmoon performed a Zulu dance on the central bridge — but the Tyger stood firm.
When it became clear the Dragon's forces would have to press the issue, the Midrealm sent several forces fording across the river to help stretch out the Tyger's forces. The Ironlance brigade was decimated during one such action, but the fording parties had more success once the major pushes began.
The first such push came from the Atlantians, who stormed the west bridge with Darkyard behind them. Not long after, the Pentamere and Oaken army spearheaded the Midrealm's assault on the central bridge.
The East's forces put up a heroic defense, particularly on the central bridge. The Northern Army looked to be at the breaking point several times, only to the throw the Dragon back. When Ealdormerean reinforcements arrived, the East countercharged and looked like they might snatch victory.
However, one last charge for the Atlantians along with help from a Midrealm fording party at the extreme western edge of the battlefield caused a breakout on the east bridge. The Tyger still refused to yield and a long, diagonal skirmish line formed across the battlefield.
The end came when Æthelmearcian fording parties helped put pressure on the west bridge and House Darkmoon circled round from the west and charged up the central bridge, finally blowing the lid on the East's heroic defense. After squeezing the last Ealdormere defenders to the edge of the battlefield, Midrealm forces swept east, sweeping the final Tyger defenders before them. The East fought to the last man, but the cannon's roar confirmed a Midrealm victory: Two Dragon War points and victory in the Pennsic War for the Middle Kingdom.
Midrealm forces were celebrating as HRM Dag addressed his troops.
"We have put this one in the bank!" HRM Dag said, to jubilant cheers. "The sun has come out in celebration of our victory. We must also thank those who made our heroics possible this day. Without them, we would be facing an empty field."
Saturday's Big Battle: The flight of Dragons through the gates!
As always, HUZZAH, VIVAT, HOOBAH and WASSAIL to the warriors and warrior watchers of the Known World. May you have all the best until Pennsic XXXVII.


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Posted by Smokey Stover on June 12, 2004
In Reply to: Whoa there! posted by Ann Oyd on June 11, 2004
: : : : : : I can't find the phrase "Theres more than one way to skin a cat". Is it here or did I just miss it? I hear this phrase accaisionally from older folks. Thanks.
: : : : : : Try typing "skin a cat" and that should do it!
: : : : From the archives:
: : : : SKIN THE CAT - According to Charles Earle Funk in "A Hog on Ice" (Harper & Row, New York, 1948) the expression "to skin the cat" refers to a boy's gymnastic trick: "In America, as any country boy knows, this means to hang by the hands from a branch or bar, draw the legs up through the arms and over the branch, and pull oneself up into a sitting position. As we must abide by the record, we cannot say positively that the name for this violent small-boy exercise is more than a century old, but it is highly likely that Ben Franklin or earlier American lads had the same name for it. No one got around to putting it into print until about 1845. One can't be sure why the operation was called 'skinning the cat,' but maybe some mother, seeing it for the first time, saw in it some resemblance to the physical operation of removing the pelt from a cat, first from the forelegs and down over the body." Mr. Funk doesn't say WHY anyone would actually skin a cat, but anyway.
: : : : : : "Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings" by Gregory Y. Titelman (Random House, New York, 1996) lists the expression "more than one way to skin a cat" but doesn't really address the origin. Mr. Titelman does say it dates back to the 1678: "MORE THAN ONE WAY TO SKIN A CAT --There are many ways to do something. The proverb appeared in John Ray's collection of English proverbs in 1678, and is first attested in the United States in 'John Smith's Letters' . 'There are more ways to kill a cat besides choking him to death' is a variant of the saying. The words 'with butter' or 'on cream' may replace the words 'to death' in the latter version."
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: : : why even give the 1948 comment space on here?
: : : when there are clearly much older origins, to give space to Americocentric [email protected] again?
: : : FFS - the world existed before 1776 or even 1492 and English was around a long time before Americans (apart from the native ones they got rid of).
: : : if the Whole 9 yards turned out to be an American expression or first in print in the US Fine! I have no problem with that, but please spare us the fairly recent US usages for Old World phrases.
: : : If you are a frequent visitor to this site, you are already aware that the language evolves differently in various parts of the world and we have contributors from different lands and backgrounds. Those who answer requests on this site do so from a variety of sources that deserve to be read and considered. Should you have other sources on the origin of any words and phrases you are more than welcome to contribute them here.
: this board spreads across the world and folk come from all quarters of the globe to discuss words and phrases. I have become email friends with Americans through this board, so don't see me as xenophobic. what gets my goat is when a phrase of obviously old origin - often using very comonplace words is cited with a fairly modern US origin. there have been lots of examples over the time that I have posted on here.
: maybe I don't speak for many, but mentioning some bod in 1948 trying to create a link with Benjamin Franklin for an Old World English phrase is compounding an error in my opinion and it should be discouraged.
: there are times when such references are appropriate, but this is not one.
Hit one wrong key and you're in deep do-do! That's why there's a superfluous entry under my name. Anyway, would any American say "Americocentric"? We Yankees can be chauvinistic, even jingoistic, but Americocentric? Never! (We residents of the U.S. are Americans, but our land is the U.S. or U.S.A. After all, the entire New World is America. We Americans just inhabit part of it.) I tried to debunk Mr. Funk's explanation of "skin a cat" twice on this site, but it just keeps popping up. Nobody ever looks at the archives. And at least twice more before the year's end someone will ask about skinning the cat, and Mr. Funk will be cited. Give the man a break--anyone can make a mistake. He and some other authors have worked hard to assemble information about popular sayings, and occasionally they err. What a surprise! If that phrase, "There's more than one way to skin a cat," falls into desuetude I, for one, shall not be sorry. What an ugly expression! SS
- Americocentric? ESC 12/June/04
- Apologies to Mr. Funk. Smokey Stover 13/June/04
- Apologies to Mr. Funk. ESC 13/June/04
- Apologies to Mr. Funk? he has enough apologists. Ann Oyd 14/June/04
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Mike - in general, the law doesn't allow cable providers to retransmit broadcast signals by paying a nominal fee. There are actually two statutes that limit how cable providers may retransmit broadcast signals.
Section 111 of the Copyright Act requires cable providers to pay broadcasters a nominal fee. ivi is indeed paying that fee, asserting that it's a cable provider covered by the statute.
But there's more. A section of the Communications Act, 17 U.S.C. § 325(b), requires cable providers to obtain consent from broadcasters before retransmitting their signals. (There are some exceptions to this rule, such as when cable providers are retransmitting broadcast signals to "unserved households".)
ivi boldly claims that it is a cable system for purposes of the Copyright Act, but not a cable system for purposes of the Communications Act.
Therefore, while cable companies typically pay on average33 cents per subscriber per month to each broadcaster whose signal they retransmit, ivi is paying a tiny fraction of that.
Unfortunately, the amendment to make companies liable for sharing information that causes injury (Conyers #2) was not offered on the floor, so it's not part of CISPA as passed. The final engrossed House-passed bill, with all amendments included, is here: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr3523eh/pdf/BILLS-112hr3523eh.pdf
If I operate a site that, unbeknownst to me, facilitates an act of criminal copyright infringement by one of my users, I could be deemed a 'foreign infringing site.' there is no scienter or knowledge requirement. That's a big problem, and essentially imposes a duty to monitor.
While no case law directly supports my argument (since no prosecution of an individual in Bieber's position has ever taken place), I don't think it's fair to characterize my argument as a "stretch" in light of U.S. criminal laws and precedents. 18 U.S.C. § 2(b) states that "[w]hoever willfully causes an act to be done which if directly performed by him or another would be an offense against the United States, is punishable as a principal."
Also, see United States v. Gooding, 25 U.S. 460, 469, 6 L. Ed. 693 (1827):
[I]t is the known and familiar principle of criminal jurisprudence, that he who commands, or procures a crime to be done, if it is done, is guilty of the crime, and the act is his act. This is so true, that even the agent may be innocent, when the procurer or principal may be convicted of guilt, as in the case of infants, or idiots, employed to administer poison.While Bieber's uploaded videos were not contemporaneously streamed as the uploads took place, his willful actions directly caused YouTube's servers to contemporaneously stream his videos to tens of millions of individuals. While YouTube technically engaged in the performance, the service was merely an innocent agent -- an unwitting instrumentality to Bieber's (possibly) criminal act. Bieber had actual knowledge that his action of posting a video to YouTube would result in YouTube's servers publicly performing copyrighted compositions. Indeed, that was the very reason he uploaded his videos in the first place!
I misrepresented the Napster case. Thank you for pointing it out. I incorrectly recalled the Napster technology as involving the centralized distribution of songs through Napster servers. In fact Napster servers only offered a centralized file index. As such, the case does not support my contention. My bad.
However, I maintain my original contention that Bieber, not YouTube, was the performer. While no cases support my contention directly, I do not see how the cases you cite state otherwise. In fact, the Cartoon Network court explicitly declined to answer the very question of whether Cablevision or its customers were performing for purposes of the Copyright Act. Cartoon Network LP, LLLP v. CSC Holdings, Inc., 536 F.3d 121, 134 (2d Cir. 2008):
Cablevision contends that (1) the RS–DVR customer, rather than Cablevision, does the transmitting and thus the performing . . . As to Cablevision's first argument, we note that our conclusion in Part II that the customer, not Cablevision, "does" the copying does not dictate a parallel conclusion that the customer, and not Cablevision, "performs" the copyrighted work. The definitions that delineate the contours of the reproduction and public performance rights vary in significant ways. For example, the statute defines the verb "perform" and the noun "copies," but not the verbs "reproduce" or "copy." Id. We need not address Cablevision's first argument further because, even if we assume that Cablevision makes the transmission when an RS–DVR playback occurs, we find that the RS–DVR playback, as described here, does not involve the transmission of a performance "to the public."
For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your Content. However, by submitting Content to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content in connection with the Service and YouTube's (and its successors' and affiliates') business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels
That criminal copyright infringement prosecutions occur quite rarely is a weak justification for recklessly expanding the criminal code further. Just as past performance does not predict future returns in the world of investing, a history of prosecutorial restraint tells us surprisingly little about what may happen a decade or two (or a century) down the line.
To be sure, I'm all for prosecutorial discretion, but it should augment, not supersede, carefully and narrowly crafted statutes. As former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese of the conservative Heritage Foundation has argued, overcriminalization is a serious and growing problem in America. For more about this, see this recent Wall Street Journal expose that discusses how two men were charged with federal felonies merely because they were found digging for arrowheads at their favorite campground. Here's an excerpt:
The Andersons are two of the hundreds of thousands of Americans to be charged and convicted in recent decades under federal criminal laws—as opposed to state or local laws—as the federal justice system has dramatically expanded its authority and reach. As federal criminal statutes have ballooned, it has become increasingly easy for Americans to end up on the wrong side of the law. Many of the new federal laws also set a lower bar for conviction than in the past: Prosecutors don't necessarily need to show that the defendant had criminal intent.
No, not capiche. It comes back to the definition of a "public performance" under the Copyright Act. The Second Circuit held, and the Supreme Court declined to modify, precedent requiring a contemporaneous perception of the content by the public. You haven't shows this occurs when a user uploads a video to YouTube, because it doesn't. You have shown that there is ultimately a public performance (done by someone else I might add), but not a contemporaneous one. I am aware of no precedent holding that this constitutes a public performance.
I am aware of no case explicitly holding that actions closely resembling Bieber's violate the performance right, but reading the pertinent case law as a whole, it seems to me that Bieber performed the songs publicly via electronic means.
Let's break the issue down into its elements. Here are what I view as the two questions presented in determining whether Bieber himself violated the performance right:
1) Did an infringing public performance occur?
2) If so, who is the principal (the actor primarily responsible for a criminal offense)?
As for (1), see my comment above in which I cite the ASCAP case. In ASCAP the court held at 69 that streaming songs over the Internet to the public a constitutes a public performance. Each time a user viewed one of Bieber's videos on YouTube, a contemporaneous transmission occurred in which the infringing video was perceived by the user in real-time. Based on ASCAP, and assuming the user did't download the file but instead actually watched in on YouTube (or via an embed), a public performance occurred.
As for question (2), see Napster at 1013, which I also cited in my comment above. Here is a relevant excerpt from the opinion (A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc., 239 F.3d 1004, 1013 (9th Cir. 2001)):
Plaintiffs claim Napster users are engaged in the wholesale reproduction and distribution of copyrighted works, all constituting direct infringement. . . . The district court agreed. We note that the district court's conclusion that plaintiffs have presented a prima facie case of direct infringement by Napster users is not presently appealed by Napster.In Napster, the unauthorized distribution was technically performed by Napster servers. Yet the court nonetheless held that Napster's users, rather than Napster itself, were directly liable for civil infringement. (Napster was found to be secondarily liable.) This makes sense: if you use my car to murder somebody, I am not the principal, you are. The fact that you used my property as an instrumentality with which to commit a crime does not absolve you of direct liability. Depending on the circumstances, I may be civilly or criminally liable, but not on a direct basis. In the civil context, I could be contributorily or vicariously liable. In the criminal context, I could be aiding and abetting, or an accessory to the crime (where permitted by statute).
As stated in Io Group, Inc. v. Veoh Networks, Inc., 586 F.Supp.2d 1132, 1148 (N.D.Cal.2008), such "means of facilitating user access to material on its website" do not cost the service provider its safe harbor.
It appears that Bieber may well have willfully uploaded videos to YouTube depicting his unauthorized recitations of copyrighted musical works. Bieber's uploads directly and at his behest resulted in tens of millions of streams (public performances) of these unauthorized videos, violating performance rights. Ergo, he may be criminally liable under H.R. 3261 § 201, if prosecutors could show the preceding elements beyond a reasonable doubt. Capiche?
As for your second point, care to cite any authorities? I am aware of no cases in which 512(c)-compliant OSPs have been found liable for violating the performance right on account of their users' infringing activities. Moreover, several federal courts have explicitly held that 512(c) covers not only storage but also streaming. See, e.g., UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Veoh Networks, Inc., 620 F. Supp. 2d 1081, 1083 (C.D. Cal. 2008):
UMG contends that Veoh does not qualify for § 512(c) immunity because of four functions performed by Veoh's software which are allegedly not "storage" and are not undertaken "at the direction of a user." The Veoh software functions [include] . . . allowing users to access uploaded videos via a technology called "streaming" . . . [T]he Court holds that the four software functions at issue do fall within the scope of the § 512(c) safe harbor because they are undertaken "by reason of the storage at the direction of a user."It's true that YouTube pays royalties to some rights holders, but that's part of a voluntary agreement it reached with rights holders. YouTube does lots of things voluntarily because it wants to maximize ad revenue. Working with, rather than against, rights holders helps YouTube by reducing the likelihood that popular videos will be abruptly removed. However, that does not mean YouTube would be subject to liability for videos of Bieber's covers if YouTube had no mechanical licenses (assuming, of course, it satisfied the 512(c) safe harbor requirements, etc.).
If Mike or freebieber.org are claiming that Bieber's mere act of uploading his infringing videos to YouTube is a violation of the performance right, I think that's wrong based on ASCAP. Rather, his act of uploading is a violation of the reproduction right. Had no users watched Bieber's videos, no performance rights would have been infringed.
But that doesn't mean that freebieber.org's underlying argument -- that S.978 and/or H.R.3261 would potentially subject Bieber to felony copyright infringement liability -- is wrong. Your argument that "YouTube is engaged in the act of streaming/performance" is correct from a technological perspective, but incorrect from a legal perspective. Federal courts have repeatedly held that Internet service providers and other OSPs may not be held liable for direct copyright infringement on account of their users' infringing activities. Contributory and vicarious copyright infringement liability may be found in some cases, depending on the specifics (knowledge, inducement, the 17 U.S.C. § 512(C) safe harbor, etc.). Liability for direct infringement ultimately rests with users at whose behest the underlying infringing acts occur. As the Napster court noted, there can be no secondary infringement liability where there is no underlying direct infringement.
See Ellison v. Robertson, 189 F. Supp. 2d 1051, 1056-57 (C.D. Cal. 2002) aff'd in part, rev'd in part and remanded, 357 F.3d 1072 (9th Cir. 2004):
AOL's role in the infringement as a passive provider of USENET access to AOL users cannot support direct copyright infringement liability. See Religious Technology Center v. Netcom On–Line Communication Services, Inc., 907 F.Supp. 1361, 1372–73 (N.D.Cal.1995). In Netcom, the court held that the defendant, an internet services provider like AOL, could not be found guilty of direct copyright infringement based on copies of works that were made and stored on its USENET servers. See id; accord ALS Scan, Inc. v. RemarQ Communities, Inc., 239 F.3d 619, 622 (4th Cir.2001); Costar Group, Inc. v. Loopnet, Inc., 164 F.Supp.2d 688, 696 (D.Md.2001).
Bieber's problem isn't that he made his performances available for download, but that he made them available for contemporaneous public performance by streaming them on YouTube. YouTube's servers were the facilities Bieber used to stream his videos, which he uploaded with the intent that users would access them contemporaneously. As such, he is the principal with direct liability for the streams, not YouTube. See A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc., 239 F.3d 1004, 1013 (9th Cir. 2001) (holding Napster secondarily liable for its users' direct infringement via Napster facilities).
The ASCAP court seemingly states that streaming a work constitutes a performance, whereas non-contemporaneous file transmission (e.g. downloading) constitutes a reproduction. ASCAP at 69 (emph. added):
RealNetworks performs music in audio and audio-visual contexts through a number of websites and subscription services. Like Yahoo!, these sites and services publicly perform musical works in numerous formats, including, inter alia, radio, television, movie, game, and music-video formats. Also like Yahoo!, only a portion of the content on RealNetworks' sites and services consist of performances of musical works. In addition to performing music on websites and through services, the Internet Companies offer to users copies of recordings of musical works through download transmittals."
Does it concern you that Protect IP permits the attorney general to commence an in rem action against a domain if the owner/operator does not have "an address within a judicial district of the United States?"
The new bill's private right of action is indeed troubling, but it's extremely important to note that, according to the summary, it would not allow rights holders to obtain court orders disabling domain names or censoring search results for allegedly infringing sites. The private right of action would only apply to ad networks and payment processors. A lawful site can still operate meaningfully for a limited duration pending an adversarial hearing without being able to earn ad revenue or process payments.
Also, if the new definition of websites "dedicated to infringing activities" is, as claimed in the summary, substantially narrower than the definition contained in COICA, perhaps the new bill will be properly viewed as less worrisome than its predecessor. The breadth of COICA was arguably its single biggest red flag; if the new bill would ensnare fewer potentially innocent sites, it stands to reason that it's less of a threat (although still arguably antithetical) to free speech.
You are mistaken. Courts have repeatedly held that under Section 230, online intermediaries (third parties) are not liable for defamatory or libelous user content even if they refuse to remove the material upon request.
See http://www.digitalmedialawyerblog.com/2010/01/blockowicz_v_williams_online_p.html and http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2009/11/a_new_way_to_by.htm


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Gold has typically provided the investor with an opportunity to hedge against the devaluation of paper currency and it is also a quality investment in uncertain financial times.
What we are looking at right now is some severe political and geopolitical risk based on our financial system and gold bullion may be one of the best ways for an individual to hedge against these problems that sit out on the horizon.
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The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival from the interns' point of view
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Blog post written by Shawn Steiner, Film, Photography, and Visual Arts '13, FLEFF Intern, Elkridge, MD
Elizabeth Miller has begun her presentation so there is still time to get here if you can! We are in The Park Center for Business room 111.
"The beauty of transmedia is that both of us can present at the same workshop and show drastically different things."
"Stories are at the core of understanding people."
SCREENING: Mapping Memories
This is a participatory transmedia project Miller worked on in which youths of Montreal were able to tell their stories on their terms. It is important to understand that transmedia is more than a digital environment.
Miller does a lot of her work in a documentary setting, but that hasn't stopped these projects from evolving into multiple forms across mediums. And, after watching a couple clips from some projects I am getting more excited for On the Waterfront screening at Cinemapolis tomorrow night.
"People protect people from violence."
Transmedia projects and the idea of using media to bring information to the public is necessary to helping society. Educating the public is a way to change the world.
And, as a plus, this movement between and through medias is a "mobility."
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The key is working in a group with people with similar stories. A safe environment is where it starts. But, the purpose of these stories is to create a shift in thought.
Evan: You can't outrun it. Instead of fighting it you have to get right in front of it. Accept you don't have privacy and work in that realm.
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Elizabeth Miller is a huge supporter of web documentaries. It allows people to access the databases of information available and travel through it in their own way. And while it is still evolving we don't know what will happen next.
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"If you're planning to make your event extra special by using one of Washington's quality limo services, we suggest you do your homework," Department of Licensing Director Teresa Berntsen said. "Don't be taken for a ride by an unlicensed limousine company. Always check references and make sure the company is licensed before you hire them."
Limousine operators in Washington are required to be licensed, carry sufficient liability insurance, and undergo annual safety inspections by the Washington State Patrol or City of Seattle. Chauffeurs must be at least 21 years of age, hold a valid driver license, complete a chauffeur training course and pass a State Patrol background check.
Berntsen said a website, Craigslist ad, or a simple advertisement in the phone book or newspaper does not guarantee the operator is licensed. Unlicensed limousine operators may not meet state insurance or safety requirements and it can be difficult to hold them accountable if problems arise.
To find out if the limousine service you plan to use is licensed by the state, visit the Department of Licensing website at www.dol.wa.gov/business/limousine/. Scroll down to the area for consumers, click on "Look up a business or professional license" and then "Search business license." If you do not see the business listed as a limousine company, please call 360-705-6744. They can help you verify that the limousine company is properly licensed.
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Accent Licenses ARM Cortex-M3 Processor For Wireless Platform Solutions
New Generation of Highly Integrated Products to Further Address the Low Power Wireless Market
Cambridge, UK, and Milan, Italy -- March 30, 2009 ― ARM [(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMH)] and Accent S.A., a leading fabless SoC provider offering highly differentiated platform-based System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions, today announced at Embedded Systems Conference, San Jose, Calif., that Accent has chosen the ARM® CortexTM-M3 processor for its next generation BASEsoc RF (Radio Frequency) Platform offerings. The agreement builds on Accent's long and established track record of delivering state-of-the-art ARM technology-based solutions, utilizing the ARM7TDMI® and the ARM926EJ-S™ processors, and expertise in the areas of low power, wireless, embedded, and analog/mixed-signal design.
Accent's BASEsoc RF Platform for ARM enables pre-optimized, field-proven single chip wireless systems by serving as near-finished solutions for a number of applications. This modular platform is easily customizable and supports integration of different wireless standards, such as ZigBee, Bluetooth, RFID and UWB, allowing customers to achieve the shortest time-to-market at no risk. An ARM processor-based, complex RF-IC could be fully specified, developed and ramped to volume production by Accent in less than nine months.
For ARM processor-based designs, Accent also offers its RC BASEsoc Platform for real-time control applications and AP BASEsoc Platform for application processing requiring complex operating systems. The platforms incorporate a number of features such as a multi-layer AMBA® bus, TCM/Cache memory options, smart power management, and support for a number of internal and external memory options. Accent also provides a comprehensive suite of digital and analog peripherals from its BASEip Library for a complete system. With the industry-leading performance of the Cortex-M3 processor, and up to 40% performance increase and 35% code size reduction versus the ARM7TDMI processor, Accent will continue to meet the need of challenging markets such as industrial control and wireless networking.
"The agreement with Accent underscores the growing momentum behind the Cortex-M3 processor and enables a broad range of customers to leverage Accent's System-on-Chip capabilities for customized silicon solutions based on the ARM architecture," said Eric Schorn, VP marketing, Processor Division, ARM. "By adopting the Cortex-M3 processor, Accent customers will be able to easily upgrade from previous ARM7TDMI processor or 8/16-bit architecture–based designs with virtually no silicon and software development impact."
"The ARM Cortex-M3 processor provides critical technology for our highly-integrated BASEsoc Platforms, meeting the high-performance, low-cost needs of the industrial and wireless markets," said Federico Arcelli, CEO of Accent. "When combined with our comprehensive ASIC capabilities, Accent's customers will achieve significant BOM reductions with fast time to market and guaranteed performance."
About Accent
Founded in 1993, Accent is a leading fabless ASIC provider offering highly differentiated design and turnkey services for state-of-the-art SoC (System-on-Chip) silicon solutions. Accent's unique design expertise and IP portfolio in mixed-signal and RF, together with its unrivaled system-level integration capabilities, enable cost effective and differentiated SoC solutions to OEMs, fabless and IDMs. Accent has a proven track record over the years with more than 300 ICs (Integrated Circuit) designs completed to date, with over 98% first-time-right production silicon, and with tens of millions of units delivered from Accent to market. For more information, please visit: www.accent-soc.com.
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Welcome back to day three of our June Sweet November previews!
We've been busy touring through the clam shell nursery of the Sweet November merbabies and today we get to meet little Pebble and her wacky pair of babysitters... Jumbo and Gumbo. These crazy shrimp are a couple of comedians and they keep Pebble and her fellow nursery mates in fits of giggles with their antics. And while Pebble may be one of the smallest merbabies around, this tiny diva has a big attitude as she presides over her undersea court from atop her clam shell throne. ;)
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Network Working Group D. Korn Request for Comments: 3284 AT&T Labs Category: Standards Track J. MacDonald UC Berkeley J. Mogul Hewlett-Packard Company K. Vo AT&T Labs June 2002 The VCDIFF Generic Differencing and Compression Data Format Status of this Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2002). All Rights Reserved. Abstract This memo describes VCDIFF, a general, efficient and portable data format suitable for encoding compressed and/or differencing data so that they can be easily transported among computers. Korn, et. al. Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 3284 VCDIFF June 2002 Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary ........................................... 2 2. Conventions ................................................. 4 3. Delta Instructions .......................................... 5 4. Delta File Organization ..................................... 6 5. Delta Instruction Encoding .................................. 12 6. Decoding a Target Window .................................... 20 7. Application-Defined Code Tables ............................. 21 8. Performance ................................................. 22 9. Further Issues .............................................. 24 10. Summary ..................................................... 25 11. Acknowledgements ............................................ 25 12. Security Considerations ..................................... 25 13. Source Code Availability .................................... 25 14. Intellectual Property Rights ................................ 26 15. IANA Considerations ......................................... 26 16. References .................................................. 26 17. Authors' Addresses .......................................... 28 18. Full Copyright Statement .................................... 29 1. Executive Summary Compression and differencing techniques can greatly improve storage and transmission of files and file versions. Since files are often transported across machines with distinct architectures and performance characteristics, such data should be encoded in a form that is portable and can be decoded with little or no knowledge of the encoders. This document describes Vcdiff, a compact portable encoding format designed for these purposes. Data differencing is the process of computing a compact and invertible encoding of a "target file" given a "source file". Data compression is similar, but without the use of source data. The UNIX utilities diff, compress, and gzip are well-known examples of data differencing and compression tools. For data differencing, the computed encoding is called a "delta file", and for data compression, it is called a "compressed file". Delta and compressed files are good for storage and transmission as they are often smaller than the originals. Data differencing and data compression are traditionally treated as distinct types of data processing. However, as shown in the Vdelta technique by Korn and Vo [1], compression can be thought of as a special case of differencing in which the source data is empty. The basic idea is to unify the string parsing scheme used in the Lempel- Ziv'77 (LZ'77) style compressors [2] and the block-move technique of Tichy [3]. Loosely speaking, this works as follows: Korn, et. al. Standards Track [Page 2] RFC 3284 VCDIFF June 2002 a. Concatenate source and target data. b. Parse the data from left to right as in LZ'77 but make sure that a parsed segment starts the target data. c. Start to output when reaching target data. Parsing is based on string matching algorithms, such as suffix trees [4] or hashing with different time and space performance characteristics. Vdelta uses a fast string matching algorithm thatShow full document text


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Chen Chuanxia, an exchange teacher from Chongqing, China, is one of many ways Victor schools are connecting with students in Asia.
Class sizes, student wardrobe and the length of the school day are different. Other than that, kids in Victor aren't too much different from those in Chongqing, China.
So says Chen Chuanxia, who is observing the similarities and differences of the two educational systems firsthand as an exchange teacher in the Victor Central School District. Chen, a teacher at Verakin High School of Chongqing, is spending four months at Verakin's sister school in Victor, teaching about Chinese culture, cooking and language.
"I wanted to experience a real English-speaking country's life," she said.
Chen said the curriculum in her school is pretty much the same as that in Victor, but that "most students in China have a higher level in math and physics."
A Chinese experience
The Victor Central School district will hold a program called "Focus on China" from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4, at the Victor Intermediate School, 953 High St.
The Chinese Choral Society of Rochester will provide performances from a zither player and a vocal ensemble accompanied by Ching-Han Yang, a 5-year-old piano prodigy from the Eastman School of Music. There will also be demonstrations of Qi Gong exercises, a visit by a therapist from the Qi Gong Institute of Rochester, kung fu and tai ji demonstrations by the U.S. Masters Academy of Canandaigua, souvenir photos with a panda mascot, brief Mandarin lessons, and Chinese games and arts and crafts. There will also be an exhibit by Karen Bradley, owner of the Penn Yan-based business Sassy Scrubs and mother of two daughters from China, whose "Blankets for Babies" program became an official project of the Chinese government earlier this year.
The event is free to the public. For more information, call (585) 924-3252, ext. 1407.
Verakin High School is a boarding school in Chongqing Province. There, Chen said students have longer school days and sleep in dormitories five days a week. Rules are stricter at her school, she said, noting that in Victor students can color their nails, wear earrings and dye their hair.
She said Chinese people also do things together more often. They take public transportation, live closer together and spend more time with family and friends.
"The people here, they are more individual, and Chinese people are more collective," she said. The open spaces in Victor feel to Chen like the remote countryside. The population of the urban area of Chongqinq is over 4 million.
At Verakin, Chen has 45 students in her junior-high class, compared with 20 in a class she taught in Victor last week. After seeing a photo of Verakin High School, set near a mountain with a lake in front, one student remarked that it "looks better than ours."
Chen said there are some things the Chinese could learn from Americans. In Victor, some classes are divided into groups based on ability level. In China, struggling students are helped after school.
Grouping children by ability is "useful — it's fair to each student," said Chen.
In both schools, Chen said students are polite and respect their teachers.
Fifth-grader Hannah Bogart, who has taken Mandarin Chinese about once a week with Chen, now knows about 20 words in Mandarin.
"It's a cool language," she said. "It's different, it's kind of hard, but it's fun."
Chen's visit is part of a districtwide interest in the country and Asia in general. In February 2006, the district held a summit on "The World Is Flat," a book by Thomas L. Friedman that deals with globalization and progress in the 21st century. Friedman writes of a trip to Bangalore, India, where he realized globalization is changing economic concepts. He says that the world is "flat" because globalization has leveled competitive playing fields between industrial and emerging-market countries.
In July 2006, Superintendent Tim McElheran and Dawn Santiago-Marullo, director of special projects and programs, went to China with school administrators from across the United States. There, Santiago-Marullo said, administrators got to see their students' future competition up close.
As a result of the trip, the district made goals to improve digital skills, math and science and multicultural literacy.
Santiago-Marullo said Chen's visit provided students with an insider's view of a different culture.
"I've got a lot of feedback from the teachers saying it has been a good opportunity to have someone from China in their classrooms talking to students," she said.
Chen leaves in December, but Victor's partnership with Verakin High School will continue. A student pen-pal program has been started, and there's talk of the district sending a teacher to Chongqing.
Stephanie Bergeron can be reached at (585) 394-0700 ext. 255 or firstname.lastname@example.com


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I almost went through the roof...then took nasty pleasure in chewing out the President of the University in the presence of a large group of people, by telling him that his University's medieval policies had deprived the country of trained engineers at a time when the very life of his country depended on such people.
I was concerned about the Heinlein biography I'm reading, given that it's volume one and covering his early years before his career as a writer really started. Fortunately, it's quite engaging in spite of this.
You know what's surprisingly good? This copy of the first Vampire Hunter D novel I picked up on a whim. My knowledge of this character comes solely from that shitty PS1 game I played way back. This is not high literature by any stretch of the imagination, but it has a pulp sensibility that I find refreshing in this day and age where every book I read wants to be a Tolkien-esque epic. I'll be buying more of them...and apparently there are a lot of them.


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Why I'm here
I'm the coordinator for the Computer Science and Open Source Technology (OST) programs at North Lake College in Irving, TX. I've worked my way through several versions of the Wakka->Wacko->Wikka progeny line. Wakka dead-ended on me, while my Russian never did get any better with Wacko (no, I don't speak Russian, which made it very difficult to work with Wacko beyond the level of an end user). I'm currently using Wikka to host the course notes and other miscellaneous items for the OST program. I would like to see, at some point down the road, a merger of the best of features in both Wacko and Wikka...I believe both have their strong points, and it would be such a waste to see features in one lost on the other.
Wikka stuff
Stuff I've written
- I wrote a perl script to MigrateFromWackoWiki migrate my Wacko pages to Wikka. The code is documented, so I won't bore anyone with the details.
- WordcountAction: Needed a quick and dirty wordcount action. Needs more work when time permits...
- Clone ACLs Patch: A patch you can apply to handlers/page/clone.php that will optionally copy the ACLs from the source page to the new page (see below).
Stuff others have written that I've found useful
- ACLsWithUserGroups Group ACLs -- A very elegant and simple solution for providing group-level granularity to ACLs.
- SpellcheckHack -- Another nice mod. Some typos in the code as posted; see comments for details.
- AnchorAction -- HTML anchors. Again, some minor code changes noted in comments to get this to work.
- MySkin Skins -- Testing this on my own site. Still some minor glitches to work through on this, but it's pretty slick once you get it working!
Stuff I'd like to implement if/when I get the time
- A de.lirio.us clone (maybe extend one of the existing link actions such as AddLinkAction?)
- A front-end to permit restricted pre-defined operations on a database (i.e., field updates, queries, etc.)
- A quick and dirty handler (such as {{s}}) to insert a sig in the editor
Contact infoBrian Koontz
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--- clone.php 2006/03/11 05:26:01 1.1 +++ clone.php 2006/03/11 06:03:04 @@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ * * @input boolean $editoption optional: if true, the new page will be opened for edition on creation * default is false (to allow multiple cloning of the same source) + * @input boolean $cloneaclsoption optional: if true, ACLs will be copied from the source page to the new page + * default is false * * @todo Use central library for valid pagenames. * @@ -39,6 +41,7 @@ $to = $this->tag; $note = 'Cloned from '.$from; #i18n $editoption = ''; +$cloneaclsoption = ''; $box = 'Please fill in a valid target ""PageName"" and an (optional) edit note.'; #i18n // print header @@ -65,6 +68,8 @@ $to = ($_POST['to'])? $_POST['to'] : $to; $note = ($_POST['note'])? $_POST['note'] : $note; $editoption = (isset($_POST['editoption']))? 'checked="checked"' : ''; + $cloneaclsoption = (isset($_POST['cloneaclsoption']))? 'checked="checked"' : ''; + // 3. check target pagename validity if (!preg_match("/^[A-Zƒ÷‹]+[a-zfl‰ˆ¸]+[A-Z0-9ƒ÷‹][A-Za-z0-9ƒ÷‹fl‰ˆ¸]*$/s", $to)) @@ -90,6 +95,17 @@ $thepage=$this->LoadPage($from); # load the source page if ($thepage) $pagecontent = $thepage['body']; # get its content $this->SavePage($to, $pagecontent, $note); #create target page + // Clone ACLs if requested + if($cloneaclsoption == 'checked="checked"') + { + $read_acl = $this->LoadACL($from, "read", 0); + $write_acl = $this->LoadACL($from, "write", 0); + $comment_acl = $this->LoadACL($from, "comment", 0); + $this->SaveACL($to, "read", $this->TrimACLs($read_acl["read_acl"])); + $this->SaveACL($to, "write", $this->TrimACLs($write_acl["write_acl"])); + $this->SaveACL($to, "comment", $this->TrimACLs($comment_acl["comment_acl"])); + } + // Open editor if requested if ($editoption == 'checked="checked"') { // quick edit @@ -118,6 +134,11 @@ '	'. ''. '<input type="checkbox" name="editoption" '.$editoption.' /> Edit after creation '. + '<input type="checkbox" name="cloneaclsoption" '.$cloneaclsoption.' /> Clone ACLs '. + '
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Media release –
2011 Census - one week to go2 August 2011 | CO/40
There's only seven days to go until the 2011 Census that marks 100 years of national Census taking in Australia.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will conduct the Census of Population and Housing on Tuesday 9 August to capture an accurate snapshot of Australia and our characteristics.
Head of the Population Census program, Paul Lowe says for the past week, 29,000 Census Collectors have been delivering approximately 14.2 million Census forms to Australia's 9.8 million households.
"Don't worry if you haven't received your Census form yet. Forms will be delivered until Sunday 7 August," Mr Lowe says.
Everyone in Australia on Census night has two options to accurately complete their Census form-via the traditional paper form or online using eCensus.
Mr Lowe says your Census Collector will provide the information you need to be able to participate in the Census.
"The ABS is expecting 30 per cent of the population will use the eCensus option, a fast, easy and secure alternative to the traditional paper form that is protected by the strongest encryption technology available," Mr Lowe adds.
Another advantage of using the eCensus is your Collector won't have to return to your home to collect your form.
More information is available online at www.abs.gov.au/census or call the Census Inquiry Service on 1300 338 776.
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Triggering and Reversing Contraction
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The coupling process leading from electrical signal (excitation)
to contraction in skeletal muscle
The trigger for a muscle contraction is an electrical impulse. The electrical signal sets off a series of events that lead to crossbridge cycling between myosin and actin, which generates force. The series of events is slightly different between skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscle.
Let's take a look at what occurs within a skeletal muscle, from excitation to contraction to relaxation:
- An electrical signal (action potential) travels down a nerve cell, causing it to release a chemical message (neurotransmitter) into a small gap between the nerve cell and muscle cell. This gap is called the synapse.
- The neurotransmitter crosses the gap, binds to a protein (receptor) on the muscle-cell membrane and causes an action potential in the muscle cell.
- The action potential rapidly spreads along the muscle cell and enters the cell through the T-tubule.
- The action potential opens gates in the muscle's calcium store (sarcoplasmic reticulum).
- Calcium ions flow into the cytoplasm, which is where the actin and myosin filaments are.
- Calcium ions bind to troponin-tropomyosin molecules located in the grooves of the actin filaments. Normally, the rod-like tropomyosin molecule covers the sites on actin where myosin can form crossbridges.
- Upon binding calcium ions, troponin changes shape and slides tropomyosin out of the groove, exposing the actin-myosin binding sites.
- Myosin interacts with actin by cycling crossbridges, as described previously. The muscle thereby creates force, and shortens.
- After the action potential has passed, the calcium gates close, and calcium pumps located on the sarcoplasmic reticulum remove calcium from the cytoplasm.
- As the calcium gets pumped back into the sarcoplasmic reticulum, calcium ions come off the troponin.
- The troponin returns to its normal shape and allows tropomyosin to cover the actin-myosin binding sites on the actin filament.
- Because no binding sites are available now, no crossbridges can form, and the muscle relaxes.
As you can see, muscle contraction is regulated by the level of calcium ions in the cytoplasm. In skeletal muscle, calcium ions work at the level of actin (actin-regulated contraction). They move the troponin-tropomyosin complex off the binding sites, allowing actin and myosin to interact.
All of this activity requires energy. Muscles use energy in the form of ATP. The energy from ATP is used to reset the myosin crossbridge head and release the actin filament. To make ATP, the muscle does the following:
- Breaks down creatine phosphate, adding the phosphate to ADP to create ATP
- Carries out anaerobic respiration, by which glucose is broken down to lactic acid and ATP is formed
- Carries out aerobic respiration, by which glucose, glycogen, fats and amino acids are broken down in the presence of oxygen to produce ATP (see How Exercise Works for details).
Muscles have a mixture of two basic types of fibers: fast twitch and slow twitch. Fast-twitch fibers are capable of developing greater forces, contracting faster and have greater anaerobic capacity. In contrast, slow-twitch fibers develop force slowly, can maintain contractions longer and have higher aerobic capacity. Training can increase muscle mass, probably by changing the size and number of muscle fibers rather than the types of fibers. Some athletes also use performance-enhancing drugs, specifically anabolic steroids, to build muscle, although this practice is dangerous and is banned in most athletic competitions.


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Growing lettuce is quick and easy in cool weather
Lettuce is a healthful, fast food option to grow in home gardens fall through spring.
The leafy vegetable grows quickly, from planting to harvest, and is packed with vitamins A and C, iron, calcium and potassium. The nutritious crop also is ornamental, adding cool-season color and texture in beds and containers on decks and patios.
Three types of lettuces are best for our climate:
• Leaf or loose-leaf lettuces are the easiest to grow, ready from seed in 30 to 40 days and much quicker if you start with transplants from the nursery. These lettuces form rosettes of leaves that may be green, red, burgundy or speckled. The leaves are not as crisp as those of head lettuce, but leaf lettuces are more heat-tolerant and are slower to bolt, or flower and go to seed.
• Loose-head or butter-head types form tight rosettes of medium-green leaves that are somewhat crunchier than leaf lettuces and ready for harvest in 60 to 65 days when grown from seed.
• Romaine or cos lettuces form elongated heads that may be firm or loose. Harvest in 55 to 75 days, depending on the cultivar.
For extended harvests, transplant or sow lettuce every two or three weeks in a compost-enriched, well-draining soil now until April. Full sun is ideal, but lettuce tolerates less.
Spacing depends on the lettuce type and harvest method.
Many salad lovers opt to plant loose-leaf types densely for cut-and-come-again harvests. For example, we grow bowls of lettuce just outside the kitchen door and find an 8-inch pot holds about four loose-leaf plants. We harvest the outer leaves of each plant when they're 3 to 5 inches tall or cut an entire plant about an inch above the soil line with clean, sharp kitchen scissors. Leaves will regrow, giving us weekly cuttings for about two months. But successive plantings allow us to enjoy continued harvests until the heat arrives in late spring.
Loose-head and romaine types generally are harvested when plants are mature. An 8-inch pot will accommodate two to three loose-head plants, depending on the variety. A 15-inch pot holds five or six plants.
Lettuce also is easy to grow from seed when soil temperature is 60 to 75 degrees.
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Leaf or loose leaf:
'Black Seeded Simpson': A popular heirloom with a delicately flavored, light-green, crinkly foliage.
'Deer Tongue': An heirloom with red-tinged, triangular leaves.
'Oak Leaf': A heat-resistant, sweetly flavored variety that forms a tight rosette of medium-green, deeply lobed leaves. There's also a 'Red Oak Leaf.'
'Salad Bowl': A heat-resistant All-America Selections winner with irregularly shaped leaves.
'Red Sails': Beautiful bronze-red leaves intensify in cool weather.
Butter head or loose head:
'Butter crunch': A heat-resistant All-America Selection that lives up to its name.
'Tom Thumb': A tasty miniature.
'Merveille des Quatre Saisons': A gourmet French lettuce with burgundy outer leaves and pinkish-cream inner leaves.
Romaine or Cos
'Paris Island Cos': A medium-green ready for a Caesar salad in about 75 days.
'Rosalita': A deep-red beauty ready to eat in 55 days.
Sprinkle seeds ½ to 1 inch apart onto smooth, moist soil. Gently press in or cover with about 1⁄8 inch of fine, light soil. Mist with water.
Seeds may germinate in three days but more often take six to 10 days.
Thin seedlings according to lettuce type (loose leaf, loose head or romaine) and harvest method. When seedlings are 2 inches tall, thin loose-leaf varieties about 4 inches apart if you're going to cut-and-come-again. Thin about 6 to 8 inches apart if you wish to harvest more mature plants or if you're growing heading types.
Transplant the portions that have been thinned to other containers or toss them into a salad. Thin again if needed.
Lettuce is best in moist soil as dry conditions encourage a bitter flavor. Heat also triggers bitterness. Refrigerate leaves for a few days to break down that taste.
Apply fish emulsion or a water-soluble 14-14-14 or 20-20-20 fertilizer weekly or biweekly, depending on how much you water. Frequent watering leaches nutrients from the soil.


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Flash – a-ah – saviour of the universe.
Here's part one of my weekends shootings. More to come soon.
This week Soldiers Can't Dance were treated to the Deadl.ie treatment and were the first in line to scoop up a free shoot. The shoot took place in an abandoned building in the city that was as scary as it was amazing. With thin corrugated iron crumbling beneath our feet, pigeons taking flight and shaking the walls in the process, not to mention the eerie discarded children's toys littered about the place, the building is one that after this weekend, I've probably seen enough of.
The band arrived as I'd hoped. Stylish, on time and up for a good explore of the place. The building was huge so after a good 30 minute search of the place, we'd found our locations. First up the 'X' wall (picture 1). A flat wall, with one light pointing at it, with a smoke bomb between the guys and myself and a light above the smoke and the band was how the shot was set up.
As I couldn't have the light directly above me – given I was shooting quite zoomed in, and the assistant would've been visible in the shot, I had the light come from the left. This gives a small fall-off in the light come the right side of the image, but nothing I don't find acceptable.
The second shot was in the main body of the building. It was full of thick, thick dust, pigeon shit and oddly, rolls of film. There was a large walkway that led down the building about 9 feet above the ground. I raced down this and placed a light at the first crossing of walkways, point back directly towards the camera and a smokebomb in between the two. The flash behind the smoke was set to full power to really blow out the background, and as the light was slightly tipped up, it also gave a slight fill to the dungeon-like background.
The smoke bombs run for above 30 seconds outdoors normally. Given the dark conditions in 'the cave' and the lack of wind, they ran about twice as long. Even after this, they hung around in some sense for a while. Initially they looked too thick, but after a few moments it became manageable. Unfortunately – I missed a few ideal conditions of the smoke given my flash recycling time, but overall I'm happy.
This time I was closer to the band, shooting wide, so I could have my assistant behind me lighting the scene evenly. You can really see the difference. It's much more even and it's my personal favourite of the shoot.
I deliberately left Luke (in the orange shirt) to either side of the shot. The guys were all wearing dark colours initially (Luke had a leather jacktet) but I needed to make them stand out slightly. We ditched the jacket and I felt it too obvious to put the only guy in black in the middle.
So there y'are now. Any questions, just ask. I'd be more than happy to help.
Big thanks to Aaron Corr and Aisling Finn for assisting on the shoot!


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[[ Download ]] ➾ Tweet Cute Author Emma Lord – Electronic-foodcart.info
Well, this was VERY CUTE.It s like You ve Got Mail but slipped into a modern jacket Two classmates from rival food chains start a full blown Twitter war, not knowing that they re pouring their hearts out to each other on an anonymous chat app every night It s brilliant and it s disgustingly cute.You should definitely pick this up if you re into heart warming books, enemies to lovers romances, Mean Girls references, and a whole bunch of amazing baking scenes Honestly, I love MCs who bake so much It s so comforting But maybe don t read this book on an empty stomach, because you will go craving pastries Definitely gonna need me a few slices of that Monster Cake to go, thanks Thank you to NetGalley St Martin s Press for providing me with a copy 3.75 5 stars e ARC received from NetGalley Is it weird if I say that its title is Tweet Cute butI HATE THIS TWEET THING THE MOST IN THE BOOK Not because it s bad but I feel so annoyed irritated with this tweet thing throughout the book In the first 40%, whatever Jack and Pepper are trying to play against each other on Twitter is totally CHILDISH I wouldn t say like this if they tweet against each other by using personal account but they don t They use their restaurant official account to tweet which I don t think anyone would do it in real life since it might cause a lot of problems to their business But after that, I m annoyed because when Jack and Pepper already stop tweeting, Pepper s mom and Ethan Jack s identical twin don t They continue tweeting and tweeting against each other It annoys me so much that ughhh I want to burn Twitter down Which is in fact, I absolutely cannot do that because Twitter is my life Despite that, I truly enjoy the rest of the story especially the WEAZEL app thing I really love the idea of this application that I wish I could hire Jack to create this application in real life To sum up, I would say that this book is a fun and quick read for everyone It s really easy to enjoy because the story is cute and the characters are hilarious as hell Sorry for an inappropriate word but this word can describe best And if you think this book seems cheesy, I can confirm that you re right, it s cheesy But who cares Sometimes we just need a cheesy book to read KEYWORD dating app swimming grilled cheese secret ingredient twitter warThank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this e ARC to me in exchange for an honest review. A Fresh, Irresistible Rom Com From Debut Author Emma Lord About The Chances We Take, The Paths Life Can Lead Us On, And How Love Can Be Found In The Opposite Place You ExpectedMeet Pepper, Swim Team Captain, Chronic Overachiever, And All Around Perfectionist Her Family May Be Falling Apart, But Their Massive Fast Food Chain Is Booming Mainly Thanks To Pepper, Who Is Barely Managing To Juggle Real Life While Secretly Running Big League Burger S Massive Twitter AccountEnter Jack, Class Clown And Constant Thorn In Pepper S Side When He Isn T Trying To Duck Out Of His Obscenely Popular Twin S Shadow, He S Busy Working In His Family S Deli His Relationship With The Business That Holds His Future Might Be Love Hate, But When Big League Burger Steals His Grandma S Iconic Grilled Cheese Recipe, He Ll Do Whatever It Takes To Take Them Down, One Tweet At A TimeAll S Fair In Love And Cheese That Is, Until Pepper And Jack S Spat Turns Into A Viral Twitter War Little Do They Know, While They Re Publicly Duking It Out With Snarky Memes And Retweet Battles, They Re Also Falling For Each Other In Real Life On An Anonymous Chat App Jack BuiltAs Their Relationship Deepens And Their Online Shenanigans Escalate People On The Internet Are Shipping Themtheir Battle Gets And Personal, Until Even These Two Rivals Can T Ignore They Were Destined For The Most Unexpected, Awkward, All The Feels Romance That Neither Of Them Expected Okay Okay, I admit I was a bit too enthusiastic earlier with that five star rating But in my defence I had a fever So clearly you can t trust me when I m sick I ll hand out five stars to anything Five stars WHAT yep and I will not apologise.I had a bad day yesterday and this book really turned everything around Yes it was cheesy and gooey in its cuteness But it was exactly what I needed Full review to come Pre ReviewTwitter wars and family business rivalry.I m sold Thank you to Wednesday Books for providing me with an e ARC Publishing date 21 January 2020 I watch him go, all tall legs and long strides, and realize just before I turn back that I m still smiling like an idiot Somehow, though, I don t have it in me to stopPre order This Book on Series No Genre YA Romance POV Alternating Cliffhanger No Content Warnings Expect fluffiness and memes Read if you are a fan of What If It s Us and other light and fluffy romances I was given the chance to read this book via the publisher granting my Netgalley wishlist It s the first time it ever happened to me, so thank you so much, St Martin s Press Wednesday Books I requested for this book because of the promise of cutesy giddy slight love hate romance between the two leads Before I go further with my review, let me just say this the book met my expectations.In this story, we meet Pepper and Jack Pepper is the smart overachiever and the daughter of giant fast food chain Big League Burger s owners Jack is the class clown who feels that he is overshadowed by his twin and he is the son of the owner of the deli, Girl Cheesing.When BLB introduces a grilled cheese on their menu, Girl Cheesing called copycat on Twitter which began a Twitter war Both Pepper and Jack have control on each company s twitter account and they focus on trying to one up the other.In the world where Twitter wars happening everyday, and brands being snarky and meme addicted, this was such a fun book to read.I love getting inside the minds of both Pepper and Jack, especially when they use the anonymous chat app, Weazel Both Pepper and Jack were loving and responsible children and watching them learn about each other while learning about themselves was such a great experience.Though fun and cheesy, this book also hits serious notes like pursuing your passions, sibling rivalries, friendship, honesty, education, and deciding on your career paths.All in all, this was a great debut for other Emma Lord Congratulations I cannot wait to get my hands on the final copy when it hits the shelves next year THE CRITERIA Blurb Main Character Significant Other Support Characters Writing Style Character Development Romance Pacing Ending Unputdownability Book Cover FINAL VERDICT 4.55 5Much thanks to NetGalley, Wednesday Books, and St Martin s Press for this complimentary copy This review is voluntary and opinions are fully my own Also, all quotes are taken from the ARC and may be different in the final published copyBlog Bookstagram INITIAL REVIEW This book looks like those social media AUs I ve been reading on Twitter. Haters to Lovers Twitter Food Sounds fluffy AND PUNS AS IF I CAN RESIST ARC provided by the publisher in exchange of an honest review 4.25 at a meet cuteThis book is for you if are looking for a relatable teenage love story that involves tons of baking inspirations and cute fights with a slight Gossip Girl filter with all the over the top intrigues and drama Overall.When the publisher granted my wish to read and review this book in advance, I was totally over the moon Seriously, the e mail made me smile like a doofus at 6.45 am I am n.o.t. a morning person, so this says loads about the hopes I had for this book I expected a cute and funny love story with a lot of teenage angst and issues my past teenager self could relate to I was not disappointed.I felt especially invested in the book when the main characters had arguments with their parents Having turned 25 myself this year, I still have these kind of arguments with my mom where you seem to work all the logic into arguing your case and also knowing it is definitely you who should leave the courtroom of family arguments as the winner, whereas my mother is hell bent on staying convinced she did nothing wrong and it is, in fact, her being victimized and not she making herself the victim just because that seems to be the easier role Only midway through the book I actually consciously realised that I was following the story of teenagers, not in fact, kids about to graduate from college And it really disagreed with me Recalling just too well how I was at the age of 17 it just seemed a bit implausible, to name their self confident, wise beyound their years attitude And before y all hit me with thatThat s what happens when you work at your parents business from a young age oncrap s.h.u.s.h I worked at my fathers bakery and tutored younger kids before from a very early age on.Throughout the 3.5 days it took me to get through this lovely book I always caught myself being excited to get back to it.What s happening.Pepper She can t remember the last time she was able to let go of all the stress and pressure of handling being at a prestigious high school where she has swim captain duties and needs to keep top of the class grades, the booming franchise business of her parents burger place Big League Burger, mediating between her mother and her sister Paige, and keeping up their food blog Pepper, much like me, has peculiar ways of dealing with her stress bakingAdd chocolate chips, butter, flour, salt, cocoa powder, eggs, and embarrassment than the body of a teenage girl can possibly contain, set the oven to a bajillion degrees and set the whole damn thing on fire There are only two things that bring Pepper relief the blissful hours she spends at the swimming pool and chatting at anonymously with the mysterious Wolf Being able to be herself is a rare enough thing with her mother burdening her with the task to make their business a twitter sensation.Jack Although he loves his family s deli Girl Cheesing to bits, it is hard to always compete with the older twin for some recognition, both from his family and his fellow school mates Golden boy Ethan always seems to excel at whatever he is doing, even though sometimes it s actually Jack doing those things for himI resent the assumption that just because I don t have debate club practices or someone to make out with on the steps of the Met, his time is somehow worth than mine It is adorable how Jack is almost like the great Chandler Bing in his way to deal with all the uncomfortable situations he finds himself inTwo people asked for my number , Ethan says You already have a boyfriend , I remind him, poking one eye out to glare And I told them that But you didn t think to mention you have an identical twin His two opportunities for a timeout from the life he feels alienated from are his passion for building apps and chat time with Bluebird She seems so honest and at ease with him even though there are only few intimate details they share with each other as not to reveal their true identities PepperJack Being a student at a school that enforces a competitive spirit that goes way beyond what is healthy and productive for a decent learning environment sure ain t child s play It is aspects such as this one that makes me shake my head in disbelief when I catch people making jokes about students and how they have it easy They don t.Whereas their paths only cross for official school matters in a somewhat detached way, is is the online time they spend with each other unknowingly that gives them a reason to smile But all of a sudden, their real life interaction becomes much personal in than just one way on the one hand, they need to arrange their two teams to share the pool and on the other hand, they unknowingly begin a twitter war each being the business opponent of the other that get s way too personal way too quickly As the tweets become meaner one cannot help but wonder if the connection that is coming together between the two will survive the spitfire between Girl Cheesing and Big League Burger Especially, since it seems to surpass the borders of friendshipWriting quality easy of reading 5 pace 4 plot development 4 characters 4 enjoyability 4 insightfulness This eArc was provided by Wednesday Books via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review Thank you very much 2.5 starsAn Okay ish read, but a little bit cheesy for my liking A copy was kindly provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review Thank you. Y all this book was SO GOOD I CAN T EVEN HANDLE IT If you enjoy lighthearted, witty YA contemporary, you absolutely NEED to add this to your 2020 TBRs This book was just so fun and current and sassy while also being just the right amount of serious and I am just so enad with it I hesitate to compare it to anything else because it is so very much it s own thing, but I will say that this was like a mix of Jenn Bennett and Emma Mills with extra large dash of humor thrown into the mix and I JUST REALLY REALLY LIKED THIS AND YOU ALL NEED TO READ IT OKAY OKAY Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for providing me an advance copy in exchange for this review I discussed this book in detail in this video on my BookTube channel FOUR CUTEST SWEETEST FLUFFIEST TWITTING CYBERDATING SMARTEST STARS Welcome to the present time retelling of You ve got mail DIFFERENCES There is no competition between local book shop and Barnes and Noble store, we had a local deli famous with its signature cheese sandwich versus burger joint that stole deli s special cheese sandwich recipe and declares the secret recipe belonged to them We don t have stubborn as hell but charming as well adults like younger version of Tom and chick lit version of Meg We have overachiever, responsible, competitive, serious, swim team captain PEPPER and smart, witty, sarcastic, technical genius JACK is also responsible, family oriented, hard worker boy who hated to be overshadowed by his popular, leader, charming identical twin brother They don t send EMAILS They sent TWITS Actually they fight via TWITTER But they also secretly cyber date on the application Jack designed And in their normal life, they re FRENEMIES who don t stand with each other but unfortunately they sit next to each other at the classes They know the rule about keeping enemy closer There are lots of PASTRIES, SWEETS,DESERTS on this book which gave me real cravings and threw a 3 am baking party at my kitchen I m the worst cook so I woke my husband up to cook for me Shame on my sweet tooth SIMILARITIES Tension between characters, story development enemies to friends to lovers.Undeniable chemistryThe complication when they find out their secret identities.Never ending rivalryStory located in NYC.They didn t meet the famous French Caf Lalo was the best location of the movie Please try its Nutella cheesecake when you stop by then write me thank you notes But the characters met at the coffee shop Pepper actually has great gift about creating different, tasteful deserts which helped her seduce Jack at the first bite SUMMARY It s fluffy, swoony, smart, entertaining, fast pacing, full of memes and popular culture references and social media forms Sometimes their cyber fight overshadowed the romance part which a little disturbed me but mostly I really enjoyed this debut novel It made me smile, feel good and have so much fun Such a funny, positive, joyful reading Thanks to Netgalley and Wednesday Books to share this incredible ARC COPY with me in exchange my honest review