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Let's Send a Message to the FCC: Consumers, Not Hollywood, Should Drive the Pay TV Market
The FCC is about to make a decision about whether third-party companies can market their own alternatives to the set-top boxes provided by cable companies. Under the proposed rules, instead of using the box from Comcast, you could buy your own from a variety of different manufacturers. It could even have features that Comcast wouldn't dream of, like letting you sync your favorite shows onto your mobile phone or search across multiple free TV, pay TV, and amateur video sites.
UPDATE (9/8/16): An earlier version of this blog post incorrectly suggested that no authorized audio devices or connectors that used the Lightning port existed prior to yesterday's announcement. It also implied that the only way to achieve lossless sound quality on an iPhone was through a wired connection, which was also incorrect. We've edited the post accordingly.
It has always been about gaining control over technology and never about copyright law.
Major TV producers have finally said what they really want from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in exchange for breaking up the cable companies' monopoly over set-top boxes. As they continue to push fake copyright arguments that experts in copyright law have roundly refuted, they have now made clear the price they want consumers and independent content creators to pay.
A new federal government policy will result in the government releasing more of the software that it creates under free and open source software licenses. That's great news, but doesn't go far enough in its goals or in enabling public oversight.
A few months ago, we wrote about a proposed White House policy regarding how the government handles source code written by or for government agencies. The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has now officially enacted the policy with a few changes. While the new policy is a step forward for government transparency and open access, a few of the changes in it are flat-out baffling.
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This is a bad comic. I cannot put it any other way. It's not quite Rob Liefeld bad, but it's barely readable. It's like a couple of 12-year-olds took over what had been set up in the "-ation" series, but they weren't ordinary 12-year-olds... they were 12-year-olds who had to wear helmets because they can harm themselves and others.
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VERONA – A group of students based at Verona Elementary School will have some of the coolest Halloween costumes this year.
The wheelchair-bound students in the multi-handicapped special education classes are getting specially made costumes to decorate their wheelchairs. The students have chosen their designs, and teachers in the program are helping create them.
Costumes include a tank, pirate ship, horse and fire truck, among others. The idea developed from teachers Sharon Warren and Cat Hardy.
"We are working on communication, and the most important part is being a participant in something that gives you a reason to communicate," Hardy said. "These costumes make it easier for kids and even adults to come up and approach them and communicate with them."
The class is for students in the Tupelo and Lee County school districts who are both non-verbal and non-mobile. There are 10 students enrolled, and they learn from a curriculum that is determined by their individual grade-level. Different devices help the students to communicate.
"They can understand," Hardy said. "We just need to add manipulatives so they can communicate back."
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By Sarah Story, Citizen Events Editor 02/02/12
Enjoy an evening of bluegrass music with the Slack Family Band and the God Fearin' Snake Handlers at 7 p.m. at The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen, 2880 Mountain Rd. The concert is part of CACGA's 2nd Stage Performance Series, which highlights a different musical genre on the first Friday of each month. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. For details, call 261-ARTS or visit http://www.artsglenallen.com.
The movie "Top Hat" (1935) will play at 7 p.m. Feb. 3 and at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Feb. 4 at Henrico Theatre, 305 E. Nine Mile Rd. Tickets are $1 and can be purchased at the door. For details, call 328-4491.
The Richmond Youth Peace Project will commemorate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with the 7th annual Youth Educoncert, Generation Dream 2012. Shows are scheduled for 7 p.m. on Feb. 3 at Richmond Public Library's main branch, 101 E. Franklin St., and for 2 p.m. at the Science Museum of Virginia, 2500 W. Broad St. The Friday show is being presented as part of First Fridays Artwalk; the Saturday performance is presented in conjunction with the museum's exhibit "Race: Are We So Different?" which opened Jan. 28. Both concerts are free; museum admission is required on Feb. 4. For a list of youth performers and for more information, call 232-1002 or visit http://www.rpec.org.
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, 1800 Lakeside Ave., will present a special Valentine's Day display until Feb. 29. A stroll through the climate-controlled Conservatory includes the chance to see daffodils, tulips and more. There is also a display featuring a new color scheme of pink and black foliage. The tropical wing showcases exotic, fragrant orchids. The garden is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $11 for adults, $10 for seniors and $7 for children ages 3-12. Members are free. For details, call 262-9887 or visit http://www.lewisginter.org.
This is the final weekend for Chamberlayne Actors Theatre's production of "Almighty Bob." A touching show about faith, it features Bob, a senior citizen living in an assisted living home. Bizarre things start to happen and the residents must find out if Bob is delusional or telling the truth. Performance times are 8 p.m. Feb. 3-4 and 2:30 p.m. Feb. 4-5. Tickets are $12 to $23. For details, call 262-9760 or visit http://www.cattheatre.com.
VCU Medical Center will present the CBS 6 Healthy Lifestyle Expo from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Richmond Convention Center. The event will feature Dr. Oz's fitness expert Stepp Stewart, yoga with "The Young and the Restless" star Judith Chapman and healthy cooking with celebrity chef Nathan Lyon. Participants can also sample healthy foods, receive free health screenings from VCU Medical Center and visit with multiple vendors. Admission is free. For details, visit http://www.wtvr.com/expo.
Richmond Parents Monthly's 16th annual Camp & Education Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Tuckahoe YMCA, 9211 Patterson Ave. Admission is free. For a list of fair participants, view http://www.richmondparents.com.
Ringling Bros. Ambassador of Laughter, Christopher the Clown, will visit the Children's Museum of Richmond in Short Pump from 9:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. In addition to story time, Christopher the Clown will have giveaways and coupons for the upcoming Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey show "Dragons" on Feb. 15-19. For details, call 474-7000 or visit http://www.childrensmuseumofrichmond.org.
The James River Film Society and the Sierra Club Falls of the James Group will join together to present the RVA Environmental Film Festival at the Byrd Theatre, 2908 W. Cary St. The event will showcase films designed to raise awareness of environmental issues relative to all residents on planet Earth. Festival passes are $15 and are available at Chop Suey Books (422-8066), Video Fan (353-7891) or at http://www.rvaenvironmentalfilmfest2012.eventbrite.com. Individual tickets are $5 and are available at the door or through Eventbrite. For a complete schedule and film descriptions, call 562-2500 or visit http://www.rvaenvironmentalfilmfestival.com.
Sisters of the Yarn African American Quilters Guild will host an opening reception for its upcoming quilt exhibit "Each Quilt, A Story" from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Eastern Henrico Recreation Center, 1440 N. Laburnum Ave. Enjoy the art and craftsmanship of these beautiful quilts and learn about their history and culture from historical interpreters and the quilters themselves. Music will be provided by a local choir and light refreshments will be served. Admission is free. After the reception, the quilt exhibit will be displayed at Walkerton Tavern, 2892 Mountain Rd., until Feb. 24. For details, call Rachel Moore at 501-5134 or visit http://www.henricorecandparks.com.
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The Brentano String Quartet, the University's award-winning ensemble-in-residence, will present a free performance at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.
Sponsored by the Department of Music, the ensemble's program will include "Four Madrigals from Book VI" by Claudio Monteverdi, "Quijotadas" by Gabriela Lena Frank, "Quintet for Piano and String Quartet" by Elliott Carter and "Quartet in B-flat Major" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Members of quartet are Mark Steinberg and Serena Canin, violin; Misha Amory, viola; and Nina Lee, cello. Pianist Thomas Sauer will join them on this occasion.
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While admission is free, obtaining tickets in advance at University Ticketing on the 100 level of the Frist Campus Center weekdays from noon to 6 p.m. is recommended. Tickets also can be reserved by calling (609) 258-9220. Any remaining tickets will be available at the door beginning at 6 p.m. Feb. 21.


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TUPELO – Tupelo's School Board approved bids for two construction projects during a special called meeting on Tuesday afternoon.
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Born Aug. 6, 1945, in Peru to Carl W. and Helen (Marks) Jais, he married Janet Lundeen July 2, 1969, in Hennepin. She survives.
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It took six months to sell 5000 tickets to the first Toast Martinborough wine and food festival in 1992. Organisers must have wondered what on earth they were letting themselves in for. Twenty-one years later it takes five minutes to sell 10,000 tickets to the festival.
Martinborough, a quirky small town displaying fine examples of colonial architecture, is in South Wairarapa, one range of hills over to the east from Wellington.
In 1880 the town's founder, John Martin, had an unusual vision, and laid out the streets in the shape of a Union Jack flag with a central town square.
He named the streets after grand places he had visited: Broadway, Dublin, Venice, Strasbourg, Texas, Naples, Suez and New York. Unlike those places, there's so little traffic in this community of 1300 souls that you could fire a canon down these streets and not hit a thing.
However, it's become a premier wine-growing region with upmarket eateries, attracting tourists as well as Wellingtonians seeking a weekend away. Once a year, usually on a sunny Sunday in mid-November, the sleepy town goes ballistic. The square becomes the scene of wine-barrel-rolling races, live music and wine stalls and there's a peak-hour traffic flow of buses ferrying thousands of festivalgoers to the circuit of 11 vineyards set up with wine and food tents and live music.
Many people dress up for the day and everyone wears the most important accessory of all - a wine glass lanyard, which is their ticket into the festival.
Martinborough produces award-winning cool climate wines, of which 70 per cent are exported.
Though sunny, the region is prey to southerly gales roaring up from the Antarctic, which means output is more on a boutique scale.
Palliser Estate owner Richard Riddiford, one of the founders of Toast, says occasionally the festival is hit with hail, gale-force wind and frigid temperatures. "But people just toughen up and get on with it."
Palliser Estate was part of the first wave of wineries to become established, first planting in 1984 and concentrating initially on pinot noir, chardonnay, riesling and sauvignon blanc and, more recently, pinot gris.
The food queen of Toast is chef, caterer, teacher and food writer Ruth Pretty, who runs her own food empire from the rural area of Te Horo, back over the hills. Pretty's signature dishes, served at Ata Rangi Estate, include: whitebait fritters, asparagus with hollandaise sauce; lamb, sage and olive pie served with Ruth's own chutney, and a white chocolate and black currant creme brulee served with big, fat strawberries from her garden. Accompanied by Ata Rangi pinot noir, of course.
Toast is a frantic day for Pretty, with 30,000 portions of food needed. But she and husband Paul, on their feet for 12 hours straight, barely seem to work up a sweat.
"After 20 years, we're used to it," she says. "We relish this day."
Ata Rangi is owned by Clive Paton, who bought a barren 5ha paddock on the edge of Martinborough in 1980, which now includes celebre, a sought-after blend of merlot, shiraz, cabernet sauvignon and cabernet franc. United States wine guru Robert Parker gave Ata Rangi the top Outstanding: 5 Stars rating in his 7th Edition of the Wine Buyers Guide.
Paton's passion extends to native forest conservation and he produces a special pinot noir to raise funds.
With 10,000 people guzzling about 7500 litres of wine at the festival there's bound to be a bit of argy-bargy. Alcohol restrictions and toned-down live music content were among changes brought in at last year's event.
Toast general manager Rachel Fletcher says unflattering headlines aren't a true reflection of the festival.
However, ticketholders can no longer buy bottles of wine from Martinborough Square. Bags will be searched for alcohol at every festival gate.
Toast is also reviewing the music content. "The music should be more of an accompaniment than a key attraction," Fletcher says.
I hope they don't tone it down too much. The live acts at all estates are first class, and by the time many people descend on Palliser they still have energy to dance the late afternoon away before there's a disorderly rush for the buses which return to the square.
Accommodation around Martinborough is sold out months in advance. The area is well endowed, from casual B&Bs to five-star hotels.
I was lucky enough to stay at The Old Manse, a Martinborough homestay run by genial hosts Sandra and John Hargrave, who can spin a good yarn or two by the fire.
Room prices at the Old Manse range from $160-$200 a night, and include a cooked breakfast that includes made from strictly local produce. John whips up a mean scrambled egg with field-picked mushrooms. The large colonial homestead has sweeping lawns, a rose garden and vineyard views.
The other guests were also Toast fans and we swapped festival gossip over breakfast. It had been a big day and there was a lot to tell.
GETTING THERE: Martinborough is a 65km drive from Wellington.
DETAILS: Toast Martinborough will be held on Sunday, November 17.
ACCOMMODATION: The Old Manse B&B.
The writer was a guest of Positively Wellington Tourism and Air New Zealand.


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Dr Anna Lavelle, CEO, AusBiotech, says Australia needs to improve its governance, ethics approval process and costs to encourage clinical trials
Singapore: Australia, which celebrated International Clinical Trials Day on May 20, is looking to strengthen its clinical trials industry. AusBiotech, the bioscience industry association of the country, has urged the government to complete the Clinical Trials Action Group (CTAG) change program, to strengthen Australia's position as a destination for clinical trials.
For the first time in four years, 2011 figures from the TGA indicated an increase in the number of new clinical trials in Australia. The number stood at 635 new trials, up from 574 in 2010. However, the figure was still 25 percent below the 2007 high of 865 new trials.
Clinical trials are pivotal to the biotechnology sector in Australia and is worth $450 million annually in investment, spill-over benefits and savings. "Australia is in competition with many other countries to secure trials and needs to improve its governance, ethics approval processes and costs to secure significant improvement," said Dr Anna Lavelle, CEO, AusBiotech.
"The 20 CTAG recommendations, although accepted by the government, have not been implemented in a timely manner. This is disappointing for the industry, which is waiting for change, and also the patients who have missed out on an opportunity to decrease morbidity or extend longevity. We need the governments, Federal and state, to complete the change program expeditiously," said Dr Lavelle. "The Australian skills in this area are recognized worldwide as Australia can boast quality healthcare facilities with efficient and effective clinical services, good trial support units and reliable reporting."
Dr Lavelle added that the upturn is encouraging but "should not be over-interpreted". "We still need to respond to the challenges if we are to secure needed trials for Australian patients. Often the most important aspect is under-represented and that is no trial being available for a particular condition in Australia, which precludes Australians from having the option of early access to needed therapies."
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Herbalife isn't having an easy a time finding an auditor to replace KPMG, which resigned earlier this month in the wake of the scandal surrounding ex-partner Scott London. Skechers, the other company that KPMG had to drop, found a new auditor outside the Big 4 in BDO USA. Herbalife said in its quarterly filing on Monday that there can't be assurance that it will be able to find a new auditor. Its "substantial international operations that require significant capacity and capabilities" mean the pool to choose from is limited. And it has historically used other big firms for tax, consulting and advisory work, which may, "in certain instances, impair the ability of certain firms to serve as our independent registered public accounting firm." Until a new auditor can vouch for its financials, Herbalife will be ineligible to use shelf and other registration statements that incorporate its financials as reference. CFOJ will be diving deeper into this topic later today, so stay tuned.
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|"Admission" hits theaters this Friday—a comedy starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd about a Princeton admissions officer. While the "30 Rock" star graduated from her alma mater with a drama degree and Rudd was a theater geek at the University of Kansas, neither majors are too surprising. Hence, we bring to you a list of the most unexpected college degrees earned by the glamorous—from the spacey "Friends" cast member with a fondness for biology to the brawny action actor who was on the path to becoming a chemical engineer. By Jean Trinh
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|Fans of "Californication" have seen Hank Moody—played by David Duchovny—as a troubled writer over the past seven seasons. However, the role in some ways is a perfect fit for Duchovny, as he earned his master's degree in English literature at Yale University in the late '80s. "I was interested in writing for screen and television but I wanted to know what it was like to speak the words," he said in the Yale Daily News. "So I started hanging around the Drama School like a stray dog and sat in on classes." (Duchovny also began, but never completed, a PhD program in comparative literature.)
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The MARYLAND WATERFOWLERS ASSOCIATION announces the 2012 MARYLAND RETRIEVER GUNDOG CHAMPIONSHIP. This stake is open to all canine breeds and handlers and you do not have to be a member of MDWFA to enter. This stake will determine the best gundog in Maryland for 2012.
WHEN Sunday December 2, 2012 at 8:00AM
WHERE Vicinity of Trappe, MD.
Judges: Butch Chambers, Trappe, MD
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PRIZE The winning dog is the champion for 2012 and the handler wins a Championship trophy. The winner and all finalists get ribbons.
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Similar to FIFA's all-tournament team, Washington Youth Soccer introduced the Golazo Best XI during the 2013 State Cup tournament. The best 11 players in each gender and age group at the semi-finals and finals weekend were selected. Players were voted by coaches of the participating teams in their age group regardless of their position on the field. Congratulations to these WA Rush players for their special recognition.
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Posted April 25, 2003; 05:52 p.m.
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory will observe Earth Day on Thursday, May 1, with a presentation on hydrogen.
Andrew Bocarsly , professor of chemistry, will speak on "Fuel Cells: Bringing Hydrogen to the Marketplace" and give a fuel cell demonstration at 1:30 p.m. in the lab's Gottlieb Auditorium. Bocarsly's lab is one of several Princeton research groups investigating the science, technology and public policies needed to bring hydrogen fuel into widespread use.
The day also will include pollution prevention displays in lab's lobby on the Forrestal Campus from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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I got this and it is pretty cool
Don't get me wrong because it's a free tweak and well done, but just a heads up if u use a clear notification center background it looks kinda funny cuz u still see your wallpaper the whole time. So no complaints, but it wasn't for me.
Now THIS is a tweak. Clean, attractive, and functional. I saw in a previous article somebody said "another great review by bouchard" with sarcasm. In this case, i saw another great review by bouchard without sarcasm, which people should say more often.
Um didn't a similar tweak get released 2 months ago that did this an more animations?
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Posted December 3, 2003; 03:37 p.m.
SuChin Pak, a correspondent with MTV News, will speak on her experiences as an Asian-American woman in the entertainment industry at 8:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5, in 101 McCormick Hall.
The event is sponsored by the Korean American Students Association in conjunction with the Program in American Studies, Program in the Study of Women and Gender, Program in East Asian Studies and the Undergraduate Student Government Projects Board.
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Ended up with the Panasonic GV70D (3 CCD) for a steal, very happy with it.
I am now looking at wide angle lens and polarization filters.
Can I screw on the polarization filter and gang up the wide angle lens on top of it as needed?
My other circular polarizing filters have threads on the outer rim so I assume this is possible. I guess what I am asking is has anyone actually tried this?
Anything below .3 is going to start to "bracket" the edges--- the fisheye effect. Check what the manufacturer sells for a WA adaptor and then get one from a high quality competitor in the same power (XX.x)- Century Precision Optics or some maker in that price range--- crappy WA adaptors truly prove the Garbage In/Garbage Out theory.
ADDENDUM: For casting, you should figure out the XxX' area that you think you want to shoot and give me that info. I can then figure out the lens needed at a particular distance with the aim to resolve a particular size object (we CAN figure this out since the granularity- lines of resolution- is fixed.)
That said, there is no way to do a casting video well and have only one view of a cast. You'll need either multiple cameras trained at various Field(s) of view and/or multiple takes with different lens Field of Views. And PLEASE forget about zooming during the shot. Far too much visual info for the viewer to decode.
Keep me in the loop- happy to help.
Always happy to help.
Another thought for production facilities is to talk to the communications dept or film/video production depts. at any of the universities near you. The kids at these places are ITCHING for something interesting and they might do it for credit as an internship and provide you not only with the equipment, but the ability to let someone else worry about the tech details so you can make a great product.
Those Disc cameras are not a good way to go for anyone because they use expensive media, use non-standard compression and transfer schemes, and do not "play well" with other related technologies. Steer clear until they are the standard (3-4 years)
What are the specs I should be looking for on these WA glass lenses? For instance I see one with .45X... what is the best general power for taking casting video, in your opinion (which I totally trust!)
JimW -
that's a great idea I have been thinking about that resource for a while now especially for free access cable programming of volunteer kids events in the community etc.
|Check out your local cable company, I remember many years ago we had access to professional studio quality camera, rolling tripods, video switching racks and lights. It was a long time ago but I know the local channels still broadcast, you may be able to sign out some top end equipment por nada. You may be required to take a course at the local studio.
DVD vs Tape...
Are the small camcorders that use a Disc worth trying for just general purpose around home and camp?
Got my TRV900 from Profeel (www.profeel.com), nice people, great price, wasn't grey market. Lots of people got theirs from www.onecall.com, but you have to, ummm, CALL, don't try to do anything with them on price over the web.
Great site for info about the TRV900, but also LOTS of info about cams in general. http://www.bealecorner.com/trv900/
B&H is a great place, very reputable. Concerned about the (-) reference to Chasidim, who also run the best run places in NY as well, including the ones above.
FWIW, the (albeit) low resolution stills I take with this now 6 year old (3CCD) TRV900 have better color accuracy than most 3-4 megapixel digital cams. Several shots I've printed to 8x11 and look great. Not film quality and I won't even claim "close", but still very very nice. The still feature requires very little cost above what they've already put in these things - it's a gimme for marketing I'm sure.
Check these out: http://www.vfs.com/%7Epeter/
One More Thing!
BEWARE this screaming deal if it comes from a "chop-shop" camera place in NYC or LA.
ALWAYS check B+H's price as their's is the lowest that the item can be sold for and make enough of a profit for a company NOT to need to resort to pressure selling and bait/switch tactics.
I want to save you the heartache of having to call the BBB on something like a "48th Street Camera" that turns out to be two Hasidic guys in a closet in Queens.
compression tools
Jack of all trades master of none is not what you want. that Pana is the one for the dough. The forget the digital still feature on video cameras--- it still doesn't have the cost-benefit ratio that simply buying a video cam and a separate digi still cam do. Maybe in 2 years, but not now.
I think that the video compression toolkit from Microsoft is excellent and free- can't remember what they call it now.
Most DVD authoring software has the encoding engine for converting your DV to the correct flavor of MPEG2 for DVDs--- and it is very easy. Go for DVD It or one of the other DVD authoring applications in the $100-200 range. Above that and you'll be getting lots of stuff that is off-topic to your needs. Below that and the software sucks.
For doing the BEST possible encoding for web, go with Media Cleaner from Discreet. Or Canopus Procoder. Of for very little dough, Canopus Procoder Express.
The video compression codecs that are the best are from Sorenson.
BTW - It seems MS Movemaker with SP2 update offers video capture from camcorders into various web friendly formats for free. I am downloading it as we schpeek.
MiniDV does in fact capture line fairly well but at the distances necessary to capture the cast progressing over the water it takes either cameraman with a tripod or a far off shot like Dana's recent one. I can really appreciate how well everything came togehter for Dana on that beautiful casting video he just put up with lighting, background and of course a graceful cast.
Sure isn't the easiest thing to capture good casting video!
Thanks Joe -
I found a s-c-r-e-a-m-i-n-g deal on a Panasonic 3 CCD PV-GS70 about what I charge for two days on the flats so am thinking about pulling the trigger on it.
I played with a loaner Pentax Optio MX that had a supermacro with 0" focus capabilities and 10x optical that took absolutely sick 3.2 mp images of flies but the video could not capture even my slowest overhand casts against a dark background despite slow moving mpeg4 clips being absolutely great for web or presentations. The problem as you detailed is in the movement and with something like a fly line it was toast.
Such a shame as I would love to have had that still image capability with even a reasonable video capture (30fps, VGA 640px, 1/2000 max shutter but not adjustable for video as far as I could tell).
The PV-GS70 goes up to 1/8000 but only 1mp images, miniDV tapes and the DV looks real good on moving objects with the "sport mode" recording option based on some little test clips I took.
One question - what software would you recommend for getting the DV into web and DVD format? I guess this is one way that a higher priced digital like a used Canon saves money - no need for the extra software.
BTW - great to have a resident video expert on board!
Any of the models I mentioned will work OK.
You need to set the shutter speed higher- depending on the speed of the line (you'll have to test) you'll probably need something faster than 1/2000sec--- most cameras go up to the 1/10000sec range. Remember that you'll still only get 1/30 sec time slices, but they'll be perfectly in focus.
As you compress this down for the web, you're going to have a trade-off between ability to see the fly line and file size/datarate. The two are not presently reconcilable.
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Joan and I have purchased several camera's, 35 mm, ' 2 movie,' 4 dig. still(s), etc., from these folks over many years. Couldn't recommend a company more highly.
Everything is as advertised; problem (one minor one) they were RIGHT THERE to solve the issue.
Joe -
I do have one question though...
do ANY consumer cameras have the ability to track a fast moving flyline?
I tried the 30 fps digital video and it was pretty bad. The line would appear and disappear through the cast.
On video in this instance
Forget Hi-8...outdated technology.
Adrian is on to something... www. analysisprogram .com would be perfect for your application. See if he'll send you a test copy...or I could get it and try it...
NOW, the meat of the matter:::::::::
Developing complex video systems for research and high-end sports/entertainment use is my business. A book could literally be written adressing the topics you've brought up. A source for the products you want is B&H in New York. www dot bhphotovideo dot com. They have everything I speak of.
There are three discrete things that you are looking at here
#1 capture
GIGO is the rule, of course.
Tape, and DV specifically, is the only record format to consider today as it is the highest quality, easiest to integrate into a post-production environment, and most tested as well as being the cheapest.
The visual resolution of this and all formats is currently about 720 x 486. While there are some high-end consumer HD cams, their sensors lack some characteristics that are needed in your situation. And their proprietary capture format is a hearache for post and playout.
If I can assume that your budget is not high, I'd suggest a high quality, 3-CCD, DV (tape) camera with a good lens-- a used Canon XL-1 would be best. However, at 1800+, that still may be more than you want to spend. In that case, just about any of the Panasonic consumer cameras with 3-CCDs will be appropriate. Below that, the sony TRV series is excellent.
ALL consumer camcorders record at about 30 frames per second (it is actually much more complicated that that, but for our purposes, let it be). most cams will have the ability to do high shutter speeds, but this will only increase the clarity (less motion blur) of those 1/30 sec time slices. The actual temporal resolution of the recorded material is maxed out at 1/30sec time slices.
If you want 120 frames per second (probably about right for this application, you can hire me and a high-speed film camera, but you'll pay a lot more than the cost of a very nice camcorder.
Wide angle--- most consumer cams' lenses are not wide enough. A wide angle (WA) adaptor is recommended. Spend the extra one on one with a glass lens. Any current cam will have the ability to accept a WA. The lens screw of a camera may have a diameter of 38mm. You'll match that diameter to the range of WA's (and adaptors if your cam uses an odd size) available. Very simple and easy.
#2 Post production.
Once you've got the footage, how to edit and manipulate it (titles, etc)? You cam will have a Firewire (IEEE-1394) I/O port on it. You can buy a hardware/software package for your WINTEL PC for about $300 or less that will have everything you need to do the post AS WELL AS the compression to WEB-compliant and STREAMING video. Finally, it will include software for authoring a DVD (you'll still need a DVD burner, of course)
#3 Output
A DVD is great, probably the best short of giving a DV tape to your customer (as this would not entail an additional codec's distortion-- but DVD's distortion (compression artifacts) are of the same general sort (discrete cosine transform) as the DV codec, so you'll usually not have a great deal of interference distortion created.
The problem of a small, fast moving object. An associate of mine developed the Fox "hockey puck" that you may remember from some years past. I think his solution is the inspiration for my solution: rotoscope (think Ralph Bakshi's 'The hobbit'). With a wacom tablet and a suitable editing or compositing program (Premiere or after effects), you could very quickly "paint" over the image of the line in each frame of a few seconds video.
Solution two-- Be extremely careful to have as great a contrast in Hue, Saturation, and Brightness (HSB) between the fiducial (the line) and the background. A bright green line against a dark brown background is MUCH better than that same green line against a blue sky. This will entail selection of the line as well as careful shot framing.
The very best way to do this would be to use multiple cameras (I actually developed a multi-camera system that was used in some major sporting events around the world, that would be perfect for this application, but it's way too expensive, again, to be applicable--- I'm actually going to be doing some consulting work for this company again soon, so i may try to capture myself fly casting with 16 or 32 cameras (think The Matrix meets Derek Brown!). I'll pass along the video when I get it finished.
Cortland (Climax) still makes a black/white line...the Strike Indicator, I think.
Please consider me a resource...
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I do quite a bit of camping and combo camping/fishing trips and here's a few things I wouldn't be without:
Headlamp - When setting up your tent in the dark, or doing just about anything else that takes two hands, a headlamp is invaluable! If you have a red filter, bring it. Otherwise, you can use a red plastic bag or something like that. I misplaced my red filter and that's all I do is use a little red bag that came with some random thing I bought. This way you won't ruin your night vision. And don't forget the extra batteries, even if you put in brand new ones. More than one person has had a flashlight turn on in their bags and kill the batteries.
Swiss army knife or Multi-tool- Pretty obvious why this is needed. Bring the multi-tool if you have it instead . The pliers can be a huge help.
Plastic garbage bags - Throw a couple of these in your gear. Whether it's using one as a poncho, or using it to throw wet gear in on your way home, they can really come in handy. They also take up pretty much zero space and weigh nothing so there's really no reason not to bring them.
Chap stick - Another must have, especially when wading in hot, sunny conditions for days. You can also use it to lubricate a reel in an emergency. Just remember to clean it when you get back!
First aid kit - I hope there's no need to explain why this is a must-have!
Bug spray - Use the stuff with at least 25% deet.
Duct tape - The original multi-purpose tool. Some places sell small rolls of it, or else I'd just buy a roll and cut 1/2 of it off to save weight and space.
Rope - Bring along a 10' piece of nylon braided rope, you never know what you can use it for.
Wire - Bring along a few feet of lightweight wire. Can be used to fix a whole lot of stuff from broken kayaks to broken reel seats to broken guides and more.
Medicines - Take a small medicine vial and pack it with a variety of different medications including aspirin, allergy, anti-diarrhea, Tums, and any others that you normally use.
Hydrocortisone cream - As somebody that gets poison ivy (or poisonwood in the tropics) extremely badly, this is a must-have. It's also great for those sand flea bites.
Nylon zip-off leg pants - If you don't own a pair of these, then buy one. They're one of the best pieces of gear for the flats/tropics you can get. You can wade in them and protect your legs from the sun without being hot, and they'll also protect you from the sand fleas and mosquitoes in the evening. And you can take off the legs if you want to wear shorts and throw the legs in your pocket since they're really small and lightweight.
I've also attached a list that I've put together and expanded on over the years that is my standard list that I review for all camping and fishing trips.
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I'm getting my gear together for a week+ long camping/fishing trip in the tropics. Coiuld anybody comment on a piece of gear you found useful on a longish trip? Any favorite gizmos that ended up being inordinately useful? Thanks in advance.
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Pipeline State Monitoring
D3D11 rendering
My last couple of commits to Hieroglyph 3 addressed a performance issue that most likely all graphics programmers that have made it beyond the basics have grappled with: Pipeline State Monitoring. This is the system used to ensure that your engine only submits the API calls that are really necessary in your rendered frame. This cuts down on any API calls that don't effectively add any value to your rendering workload, but still costs some time to execute them anyway. This is a problem that I have worked through a number of times, I am quite fond of the latest solution that I have arrived at. So let's talk about state monitoring!
More Precise Problem Statement
Before we dive into the solution that I am using, I would like to more clearly identify what the problem is that I am trying to solve. We will consider the process of one rendering pass, since any additional, more complicated rendering schemes can be broken down into multiple rendering passes. I define a rendering pass as all of the operations performed between setting your render targets (or more generally your Output Merger states) and the next time you set your render targets (i.e. the start of the next rendering pass). These could include a sequence like the following:
- Set render target view / depth stencil view
- Clear render targets
- Configure the pipeline for rendering
- Configure the input assembler for receiving pipeline input
- Call a pipeline execution API (such as Draw, DrawIndexed, etc...)
- Repeat steps 3-5 for each object that has to be rendered
This is a fairly straight-forward definition, but the devil (as usual) is in the details. Since step 6 has you repeating the previous three steps, you are most likely going to be repeating some of the same calls in subsequent pipeline (step 3) and input assembler (step 4) configuration steps. However, the pipeline state is an actual state machine. That means the states that you set are not reset or modified in any way when you execute the pipeline.
So our task is to take advantage of this state retention to minimize the amount of time spent in steps 3 & 4. If there are consecutive states which are setting the same values in the pipeline, we need to efficiently detect that fact and prevent our renderer from carrying out any additional calls that don't actually update the pipeline state in a useful way. Sounds easy enough, but it isn't really that easy to have a general solution to the problem.
The God Solution
One could make the argument that your application code should be able to do this on its own. A rendering pass should be analyzed before you get to calling API functions and by design we would only make the minimum API calls that are needed to push out a frame. Technically this is true, but in practice I don't think it is realistic if your engine is going to support a wide variety of different lighting models, object types, and special rendering passes.
In Hieroglyph 3, each object in the scene carries their desired state information around with them, so that would be the state granularity level - an object. Other approaches would be to collect all similar objects and render them together (I guess that would be 'group' granularity). Whatever granularity you choose to write your rendering code in, it will probably not be at the scene level, where no rendering code resides at lower levels than the scene. For this reason, I discount the 'God' solution - it isn't practical to say that we will only submit perfect sequences of API calls. It isn't possible to know the exact order that every object will be rendered in for all situations in your scene, so this isn't going to work...
The Naive Solution
Another approach is to use the device context's various 'Get' methods to check the value of states before setting them. This might save some small amount of time if you save an expensive state change API from being called, but then again you are losing time for every 'Get' call that you make without preventing an un-necessary call... This one is too variable on the states being used, and can actually end up costing more time than not trying to reduce API calls at all!
State Monitoring Solution
At this point, we can assume that we are going to have to keep some 'model' of the pipeline state in system memory in order to know what the current values of the pipeline are without using API calls to query its state. In Hieroglyph 3, I created a class for each pipeline stage that represents its 'state'. For the programmable shader stages, this includes the following state information:
- Shader program
- Array of constant buffers
- Array of shader resource views
- Array of samplers
This is indeed an improvement, but it can actually be implemented a bit more efficiently. The issue here is that for any of the states that contain arrays, we could potentially call the 'Set' API multiple times when all of the values could be set in a single API call. In fact, from our list of steps above, we can actually collect all of the desired state changes right up until we are about to perform a draw call. If we do this, then we can optimize the number of calls down to a minimum. If we add a second state object to each pipeline stage, which we will call the 'DesiredState', then we have an easy way to collect these desired state changes.
However, the addition of a second state object means that for each draw call, we would have to compare the CurrentState and DesiredState objects. Some of these states are pretty large (with hundreds of elements in an array), so doing a full comparison before each draw call can become quite expensive, and would probably eclipse any gains from minimizing state changes...
You may have already guessed the solution - we link the two state objects and add some 'dirty' flags. Whenever a state is changed in the DesiredState object, it compares only that state with the CurrentState object. If they differ, then the flag is set. If they don't differ, we can potentially update the dirty flag to indicate that an update is no longer needed (saving an API call). Especially when working with the arrays of states, the logic for this update can be a little tricky - but it is possible. With this scheme, we can set only the needed state changes right before our draw call, effectively minimizing the number of API calls with a minimal amount of CPU work. We even have a nice object design to make it easy to manage the state monitoring.
State Monitoring in Hieroglyph 3
That was a long way of arriving at my latest solution. Up to this point, I was implementing individual state arrays and monitoring each one uniquely in each of the pipeline state classes. However, this is very error prone, since there are many similar states, but not all are exactly the same, and you end up with repeated code all over the place. So I turned to my favorite solution of late - templates. I created two templates: TStateMonitor<T> and TStateArrayMonitor<T>. These allow me to encapsulate the state monitoring for single values and arrays into the templates, and then my pipeline stage state objects only need to declare an appropriate template instantiation and link the Current and Desired states together. The application code can interact directly with these template classes (of only the desired state, of course) and you only need to tell the pipeline stage when you are about to make a draw call and that it needs to flush its state changes.
In addition, since they are template classes, you can always use them regardless of what representation of individual states are used. If your engine works directly with raw pointers of API objects, that is fine. If it works with integer references to objects, that's fine too. The templates make the design more nimble and able to adapt to future changes. I have to say, I am really happy with how the whole thing turned out...
So if you have made it this far, I would be interested to hear if you use something similar, or have any comments on the design. Thanks for reading!


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Republic of China.
Pursuant to Wellichem's the purchase and sale agreement with Stiefel, the latter also received a conditional right to acquire the exclusive rights to develop and commercialize WBI-1001 in China, Taiwan, Macao and Hong Kong at a future date, upon satisfaction of certain conditions, including the acquisition of such Rights by Welichem, and upon making an additional payment to Welichem of $14.75 million (Cdn $15 million).
The transactions contemplated under the Stiefel agreement, including the purchase of the rights from the vendors and the payment of the signing payment, was previously approved by the shareholders of Welichem at a special meeting held on July 5, 2012.
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