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New York Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw did not practice Wednesday and his status for Sunday's game at the Atlanta Falcons is uncertain. Bradshaw's practice time is routinely monitored due to a chronic foot issue, but he also suffered a sprained knee in the Giants' 52-27 victory over the New Orleans Saints last Sunday. "I'm not going to rule him out of anything," coach Tom Coughlin said Wednesday. "I'm not going to talk about the percentages or anything like that. You can speculate on that, knowing full well what the injury is. "It's going to be a medical decision. It will be a decision that is in the best interest of the athlete. It will come from the medical people and we'll live by it." With Andre Brown on injured reserve, it could leave rookie David Wilson to shoulder the brunt of the backfield work against the Falcons. He set a franchise record with 327 all-purpose yards against the Saints and scored three touchdowns. Veterans Kregg Lumpkin and Ryan Torain were si...
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Geoff Mosher of CSN Philly he's been informed that the Philadelphia Eagles have no intention of using their franchise tag this offseason. Mosher adds that CB Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie is only player they would even consider. Rodgers-Cromartie, 26, is set to become an unrestricted free agent in the next few weeks, but applying their franchise tag to him would run the Eagles $10.7 million next season. They could always negotiate a long-term deal to lower that figure, but it appears as though they're ok with him testing the market. There's a decent enough chance that he'll be playing elsewhere next season. We have Rodgers-Cromartie listed as the No. 44 best available player in our Top 50 Free Agents list. The post Eagles Not Expected To Use Their Franchise Tag appeared first on NFL Trade Rumors -.
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Ann Possis spoke Mar. 29 with Prof. Dale Carpenter of the U of MN Law School, an expert in the areas of constitutional law and sexual orientation and the law. He was in Washington for last week's Supreme Court arguments on two landmark cases regarding the legal recognition of same-sex marriage, and shared his impressions and analysis.
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A video system includes a plurality of frames of video each of which is defined by a plurality of scene elements. The scene elements for a respective frame together define an image of the frame. First auxiliary data is descriptive of a first scene element of the frame and second auxiliary data is descriptive of a second scene element of the frame. A sending device sends the frame of video, including its scene elements, the first auxiliary data, and the second auxiliary data, from the sending device to a receiving device.
1. A video system comprising:
(a) a plurality of frames of video each of which is defined by a plurality of scene elements, where said plurality of scene elements for a respective frame together define an image of said respective frame, wherein each of said scene elements is separately encoded with respect to other scene elements for said respective frame, wherein said image is created by a receiving device, of said video system, that composes said separately encoded scene elements within a respective frame based upon location information defining the position of said scene elements within said respective frame;
(b) first auxiliary data descriptive of a first scene element;
(c) second auxiliary data descriptive of a second scene element; and
(d) a sending device that sends, using at least two elementary streams, a bitstream representing said respective frame of said video, including respective said separately encoded scene elements and said location information, said first auxiliary data, and said second auxiliary data, from said sending device to said receiving device.
2. The video system of
3. The video system of
4. The video system of
5. The video system of
6. The video system of
7. A video system comprising:
(a) a plurality of frames of video each of which defines an image of a respective one of said plurality of frames, each one of said frames defined by a plurality of pixels;
(b) first auxiliary data descriptive of and associated with a first portion of said plurality of pixels of a respective one of said frames;
(c) second auxiliary data descriptive of and associated with a second portion of said plurality of pixels of a respective one of said frames, where said first portion is different than said second portion; and
(d) a sending device that sends said first portion, said first auxiliary data, said second auxiliary data, and said second portion to a receiving device.
8. The video system of
9. The video system of
10. The video system of
11. The video system of
12. The video system of
13. A video system having a sending device and a receiving device, said system comprising:
(a) a plurality of frames of video each of which is defined by a plurality of scene elements, where said plurality of scene elements for a respective frame together define an image of said respective frame;
(b) each of said scene elements defined by a scene description format including a scene element data object format that determines the number of elementary streams and elementary stream descriptors;
(c) each of said elementary stream descriptors including a decoder type identifier;
(d) each of said decoder type identifiers represents at least one of an audio stream, a video stream, object descriptor, and auxiliary data descriptive of a respective one of said scene elements, with at least one of said decoder type identifiers represents said auxiliary data; and
(e) a delivery multimedia integration framework (DMIF) independently instantiated by both said sending device and said receiving device, where the DMIF instantiated by said sending device assigns an association tag to each said elementary stream and sends it to the DMIF instantiated by said receiving device, said association tag having a channel handle uniquely representative of a client application capable of using said system to send said plurality of frames of said video from said sending device to said receiving device.
14. The system of
The present application is a continuation of patent application, Sezen et al., Ser. No. 60/049,078, filed Jun. 9, 1997.
The present invention relates to a system for encoding, sending, and receiving audio and video that includes auxiliary data.
Digitally encoding video, consisting of multiple sequential frames of images, is a common task that traditionally has been performed by dividing each frame into a set of pixels and defining a sample luminance value, and possibly a color sample value, for each pixel. The development of powerful inexpensive computer technology has made it cost effective to develop complex systems for encoding moving pictures to achieve significant data compression. This permits, for example, high definition television (HDTV) to be broadcast within a limited bandwidth. The international standard which has been chosen for the transmission of HDTV is the Moving Pictures Experts Group 2 (MPEG-2) standard. The MPEG-2 video compression standard is based on both intra and inter coding of video fields or frames and achieves compression by taking advantage of either spatial or temporal redundancy in the video sequence.
An additional video encoding system has been proposed, designated as the MPEG-4 standard. MPEG-4 is a system of encoding video by which a moving picture composed of a sequence of sequential frames, generally accompanied by audio information, may be transmitted or otherwise sent from a moving picture sending device ("sender") to a moving picture receiving device ("receiver") in an efficient and flexible manner. Interactive applications are also anticipated in the MPEG-4 standard, but for ease of description, this patent application describes the case in which a moving picture is sent from the sender to the receiver only. It is to be understood that this patent application includes the case in which control information may be sent from receiver to sender.
MPEG-4 supports the transmission of a "Binary Format for Scene Description" (BIFS) which specifies the composition of objects in a sequence of frames or fields representing a three dimensional scene. In BIFS a scene is divided into a plurality of "scene elements." For example, as shown in
Referring to
In an MPEG-4 system, both the sender and the receiver can use a respective "Delivery Multimedia Integration Framework" (DMIF) for assigning the data channels and time multiplexing scheme based on requests from the MPEG-4 applications. The DMIF, in effect, acts as an interface between an MPEG-4 application and the underlying transport layer, sometimes referred to herein as a "data pipe." The pipes generally refer to the physical or logical interconnection between a server and a client. As an object descriptor is sent from the sender to the receiver, the sender DMIF examines each of its elementary stream descriptors 28 and assigns a pipe to each one based on the requirements 30, 32, 34 and 36 included in the elementary stream descriptors 28. For example, an elementary stream with a more exacting quality of stream requirement 34 would be assigned a pipe that would permit high quality transmission. The pipe assignment is sent to the receiving DMIF. For example, depending on the transmission system each pipe (logical channel) could be a different periodic time portion of a single connection; each pipe could be different connection through the internet; or each pipe could a be different telephone line. In general, DMIF establishes the connections and ensures that both the sender and the receiver are in synchronization for tying a particular pipe to a particular elementary stream at both the sending and the receiving end.
The DMIF also assigns an association tag to each elementary stream. This tag provides a single identification of each elementary stream from the sending DMIF to the receiving DMIF and vice versa. Accordingly, the association tag is a unique end-to-end DMIF pipe identifier. Any channel change or reassignment initiated by the sender or receiver (for an interactive system) would require a different association tag.
Referring to
The process of sending a video stream begins with a moving picture request from the receiver application (in a broadcast system the request goes no further than the receiver DMIF), followed by a sequence of data from a sender application designed to establish an initial scene configuration. In
Another issue faced in an MPEG-4 system is avoiding collision among elementary stream identifiers when two applications run simultaneously on top of the same DMIF session. Each elementary stream ID is unique within an application. Therefore, the underlying DMIF session must be able to distinguish requests from each application in the case where elementary stream ID values collide.
Hamaguchi U.S. Pat. No. 5,276,805 discloses an image filing system in which retrieval data for a first set of images is associated with image data for a first image that is logically associated with the first set of images. For example, a user viewing an x-ray image of a patient's kidney would be able to view a list of a set of x-ray images taken from the same patient and be able to quickly view any of the set of x-ray images upon request. Hamaguchi teaches that the retrieval information is associated with the image as a whole.
Judson U.S. Pat. No. 5,572,643 discusses an already existing technology, known as hypertext, by which an internet browser permits a user to access an internet URL by clicking on a highlighted word in a page accessed on the internet. Judson teaches that the retrieval information is associated only with the test. Cohen et al. U.S. Pat. No. 5,367,621 is quite similar to Judson, permitting a user to click on a word in an on-line book, thereby causing a multimedia object to be displayed. Both Judson and Cohen et al. disclose advances linking together data which is unrelated to the encoding and data compression necessary for MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.
In a first embodiment, the present invention is a video system that includes a plurality of frames of video each of which is defined by a plurality of scene elements. The scene elements for a respective frame together define an image of the frame. First auxiliary data is descriptive of a first scene element of the frame and second auxiliary data is descriptive of a second scene element of the frame. A sending device sends the frame of video, including its scene elements, the first auxiliary data, and the second auxiliary data, from the sending device to a receiving device.
Auxiliary data is data which does not directly represent audio or video but is at least one level of abstraction away from a direct audio or video representation or is information which is in some way related to the object. By including auxiliary data with the video system descriptive of the individual scene elements, in contrast to the entire frame, additional information specific to scene elements becomes available to the receiver. As an example, the additional information may be displayed on command or used to further process the video information. This information may or may not be synchronized to the data stream(s) conveying the scene element sequence.
In another embodiment of the present invention the video system includes a plurality of frames of video, each of which defines an image. Each of the frames is defined by a plurality of pixels. First auxiliary data is descriptive of a first portion of the pixels of the frame and associated with a first portion of the pixels. Second auxiliary data is descriptive of a second portion of the pixels of the frame and associated with a second portion of the pixels. A sending device sends the first portion of the pixels, the first auxiliary data, the second auxiliary data, and the second portion of the pixels to a receiving device.
The inclusion of auxiliary data into video systems that define each frame by a group of pixels, such as MPEG-2, allows sub-portions of each frame to be associated with the auxiliary data for subsequent use.
The foregoing and other objectives, features, and advantages of the invention will be more readily understood upon consideration of the following detailed description of the invention, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
When MPEG-4 was first conceived, it was anticipated that it would be a system for compressing and then subsequently decompressing and displaying visual and audio data. This is in accordance with previous video compressing systems, such as MPEG-2. The present inventor came to the realization that other types of data that are specific to scene elements would be useful to the user and greatly expand the potential of an MPEG-4 system. For example, information concerning a visual object, such as the height of a building, the make or model of an automobile, a basketball player's statistics, or a link (pointer) to related information may be of interest to a viewer. Also, statistical information about the visual object, for instance a color description describing and quantifying the coloration of a particular object may be of use to the receiver in correctly displaying the object. In addition, data describing audio elements may also be included. This type of data is, in this application, referred to as "auxiliary data." Auxiliary data is data which does not directly represent audio or video but is at least one level of abstraction away from a direct audio or video representation or is information which is in some way related to the object. Auxiliary data can be used to enhance the original video/audio service experienced by the viewers.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, auxiliary data may be displayed, on command, in association with a scene element. For example, a person watching a basketball game may wish to learn more about any one of the players. Television sets, or other display systems, may be equipped with a mouse, a remote command unit, or other pointing device to select scene elements being displayed. Using such a device, a viewer could point to one of the basketball players, press a button, and thereby cause the players statistics to be displayed. Such auxiliary data may be transmitted in a simple ASCII format. The user may select where the information is displayed, for example at either the top or bottom of the screen. Another use for auxiliary data is for an on-screen program guide with brief program descriptions. The brief program descriptions of the program guide provided may be selected to obtain a more complete description of the programming. Yet another use of auxiliary data is to obtain additional information about an actor while viewing a television show.
Other uses for the auxiliary data could be in conjunction with "hot buttons" displayed on the television screen. For example, there could be a hot button for a prewritten commentary on the show, or to allow the viewer to see and to add to a running commentary by viewers watching the show.
The preferred embodiment of the present invention includes an elementary stream descriptor, similar to that shown in
The present invention ensures that the elementary streams and the associated auxiliary data streams can be unambiguously identified in the MPEG-4 player as a result of the DMIF assigning an association tag to each elementary stream. The association tag data is transmitted via a control message from the sender DMIF and to the receiver DMIF. A separate channel handle uniquely representative of the use of an association tag by an application is assigned at run-time by the server and the client DMIF, respectively. Not only does this provide the receiving application with a shorthand way of referencing the channel conveying the AL-PDUs, but it avoids confusion when at least two applications using the same elementary stream identifier are running simultaneously in the same DMIF session.
In an alternative embodiment of the present invention, MPEG-2 is equipped with a similar feature. The auxiliary data is inserted and multiplexed at the sending device into an MPEG-2 transport stream. In one preferred embodiment, the auxiliary at the sending device into an MPEG-2 program. This is accomplished by assigning a special stream type value specifying that the type of program element carried within the packets is auxiliary data encoded according to a particular format. Values of stream type have already been defined in Table 2-29 of the MPEG-2 systems specification (IEC/ISO 13818-1) which permit the announcement of various video, audio and command/control protocol streams. The stream type value assigned to the auxiliary data stream is then transmitted to the receiver by means of the TS program map section( ) structure defined in Table 2-28. The auxiliary data stream(s) stream type and elementary PID value(s) are added to the relevant program (defined by program number in the TS program map section( ) structure). The inner descriptor loop in the TS program map section may be used in connection with the auxiliary data stream type to provide additional, high level, information about the auxiliary data service. The TS program map section( ) allows the transmission and reconstruction in the receiver of the program map table. The program map table provides the mapping between program numbers and the program elements comprising them. The elementary PID value associated with the auxiliary data stream type specifies the packets conveying the auxiliary data in the MPEG-2 transport stream. The auxiliary data is associated and enhances the service provided by other streams (video or audio elementary streams, for example) published in the program map table. Each program may feature one or several auxiliary data streams. In another embodiment, the auxiliary data streams are announced and associated with other streams like video or audio elementary streams in an MPEG-2 program stream map structure (defined in Table 2-35 of ISO/IEC 13818-1). This is achieved by assigning a particular (stream type, elementary stream ID) tuple to announce a particular auxiliary data stream format. Values of elementary stream ID have already been defined in Table 2-18 of ISO/IEC 13818-1 which can be used to publish the presence of video or audio streams in the multiplexed stream. The inner descriptor loop associated with the auxiliary data stream type may be used to convey additional, high level information about the auxiliary data service. In either embodiments, and if the program includes reference to at least one video elementary stream, a given auxiliary data stream may be associated with only a portion of the transmitted video portion. Such portion may correspond to a specific region on the television display screen. In other words, the auxiliary data is associated with a particular block of picture elements (pixels) of a scene. Because of encoding mechanism used by MPEG-2 video specification (ISO/IEC 13818-2), it is preferable to define such picture block to coincide with boundaries of a set of contiguous 16�16 pixel blocks. Furthermore, if the data object to which the auxiliary data was associated at the sending device was moving about the screen, the auxiliary data may be reassigned to pixel sets on substantially a frame-to-frame or field-to-field basis.
The terms and expressions which have been employed in the foregoing specification are used therein as terms of description and not of limitation, and there is no intention, in the use of such terms and expressions, of excluding equivalents of the features shown and described or portions thereof, it being recognized that the scope of the invention is defined and limited only by the claims which follow.
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Virtual Open Day for Master's Degrees at UCL- Institute of the Americas on May 28 2015, 1-3 pm
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Success of 'Freedom of Expression...in Mexico...Carmen Aristegui' discussion at UCL-IA
On April 21, UCL Institute of the Americas hosted, to a full house, a seminar and discussion on the topics of freedom of expression, power and the media in Mexico. Papers were presented by Ella McPherson (Cambridge) and Jose Antonio Brambila (Sheffield). The presentations and the ensuing discussion focused on the recent dismissal of famous journalist and analyst Carmen Aristegui on grounds of loss of confidence, but perceived to be a result of pressure from the Mexican government after Aristegui's team of journalists uncovered the Mexican first lady's acquisition, under unclear circumstances, of a multi-million mansion. News of this UCL-IA event reached the journalist's popular internet news channel(Spanish). A podcast of the presentations (English) is available here.
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US Studies research funding success
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Individual Fellowships provide opportunities to acquire and transfer new knowledge and to work on research in a European context (EU Member States and Associated Countries) or outside Europe. The scheme particularly supports the return and reintegration of researchers from outside Europe who have previously worked here. It also develops or helps to restart the careers of individual researchers that show great potential, considering their experience. Applicants should contact the potential supervisor as soon as possible and no later than 1 August 2015.
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Updated: 07/23/2008 - A millage not on the ballot this November means trucks in Leoni Township will be stretched further.
Updated: 07/23/2008 - A millage not on the ballot this November means trucks in Leoni Township will be stretched further.
Updated: 07/23/2008 - Thrift stores and consignment shops can be some of the best places to save money in tough economic times
Updated: 07/24/2008 - Woman kills self over foreclosure
Updated: 07/23/2008 - Abraham to face trial on drug possession charges
Posted: 07/23/2008 - Marvin Sapp's single "Never Would Have Made It" is a record-breaking phenomenon far beyond the world of gospel.
Updated: 07/23/2008 - The proposed legislation could change misdemeanors into felonies.
Posted: 07/23/2008 - The City of Lansing is considering a ban on some small, motorized vehicles. But that doesn't mean all mopeds or scooters.
Posted: 07/23/2008 - Experts say a 2% percent decrease in demand for gas is driving down the prices at the pump.
Posted: 07/23/2008 - Northwest Airlines posts $377 million second quarter loss.
Posted: 07/23/2008 - Toyota beats GM in worldwide sales in first half of the year.
Posted: 07/23/2008 - Local man's invention aims at saving lives of kids.
Posted: 07/22/2008 - Utilities say grid can handle rechargeable cars.
Posted: 07/22/2008 - A state audit of the Department of Human Services concludes their background checks were inadequate and 1,900 "unsuitable" people watched children.
Posted: 07/22/2008 - The power of dung.
Posted: 07/22/2008 - Will be sentenced to life in prison.
Updated: 07/23/2008 - More and more Lansing students are depending on free lunches from the district.
Posted: 07/22/2008 - Prosecutor amends charges against Detroit mayor
Updated: 07/23/2008 - Jackson County Sheriff's Deputies ticket 9 Jackson County bars and businesses after they served to a 19-year-old decoy.
Posted: 07/22/2008 - NBC Late Night changes. Leno leaving in May. O'Brien takes over in June.
Updated: 07/23/2008 - It's the city's 6th homicide of the year
Posted: 07/22/2008 - A state audit shows Michigan put thousands of children at risk by authorizing sex offenders and other "unsuitable" day care providers
Posted: 07/21/2008 - Falling circulation hitting newsrooms.
Updated: 07/22/2008 - The Lansing Police report 12 motorcycle thefts this summer.
Posted: 07/21/2008 - Last round fell short of mark.
Updated: 07/22/2008 - New poll numbers show Michiganders feelings about the race for President and Senator.


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Check out our blogs for an in-depth look at interesting topics from public health to recycling to gardening. There's even a unique and fun cartoon blog! After reading, feel free to post your thoughts, concerns and questions.
I love an abundant garden, with lush, full plants, whoppers even, elbowing each other to provide a lavish display. This is true no matter if the design is formal, informal, or cottage style. Actually I am hardly alone---this is the look that winks out at us from every garden magazine---we're trained to it. This is why we (over)spend on gallon or larger pots of annuals and of course, perennials, instead of a more thrifty size. It is so tempting to take a short cut to beauty.
However, the lush style is not so easy to pull off. I don't mean there are problems getting the plants to fill in the space, I mean getting it to look good. There is such a short distance between Abundance and a Big Mess!
I love being greeted by containers, whether window boxes, troughs, or pots large and small, spilling over with colorful plants as I approach my house or cabin. At home I tend my babies faithfully, At the Lake it is a little harder---being greeted by desiccation and death is not so much fun. After all, who's up there watering from one weekend to the next, if Mother Nature is doing what we ask, being sunny and warm?
The weather is finally cooperating, the rain has abated, the sky is blue, and true summer temps are on the way. At last. Is your garden like mine, growing by leaps and bounds? I can almost see it happen!
Alas, that is also true for the WEEDS.
The last of the spring ephemerals has made its appearance in my garden, and I am so proud of it!
It grew from a pip given to me by a skilled MG friend about ten years ago. She didn't tell me what it was, just that it was special, indicated its needs, and told me to go plant it.
Is your yard/garden kinda on hold right now? Mine is. The roller-coaster weather we have been experiencing is making this gardener dizzy, to say nothing of the plants themselves.
Kermit the Frog's plaintive song to the contrary, actually it is EASY BEING GREEN.
To help you make the most of this season we invite you to come and celebrate at our MG annual plant sale and garden fair.
What to do and when for a head start on lawn care!
I've been checking the uncovered garden beds in front of my house for signs of spring. And sure enough, these last few days of warmth have caused buds to emerge on the rose canes, a sure sign of beauty to come.
Yea, now it IS Spring! And unlike our experiences of the last two years in Central MN, the snow is gone and temps are moderate. Of course, it's not as warm as it was last week, but that couldn't last, you know that, people!
That's the Big Question for a lot of folks. Is it SPRING yet? It sure feels that way, doesn't it---I am not going to point to the calendar, I'm just going to experience the good days in grateful acceptance. And GET READY for the season to come. How do I do that?


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The Rise of Italian Fascism (RLE Responding to Fascism)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Responding to Fascism
The rise of Italian fascism is often seen as a pre-condition, as well as a precursor of, later developments in Europe most notably in Germany. As such they were also much discussed in the English speaking world throughout the 1930's. First published in English in 1938 this book gives an account of...
Published May 10th 2013 by Routledge
Writing in Psychoanalysis
A beautiful and thoughtful collection of essays on reading, writing and learning, Writing and Psychoanalysis grows out of a colloquium. The results are wondrous and impact on the reader at many different levels. In the act of writing, we all discover something about what we know...
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Recently read a collection of essays I picked up a while back called "Meditations on Middle Earth." It was interesting and sometimes fun, as well as serious. Several writers wrote about their first encounters with LOTR and the Hobbit; there was even a mention of the then upcoming Peter Jackson movies. This in turn sent me off on a project that has been niggling at the back of my mind for a long time: to read all of the posthumous Tolkien works, that great collection assembled and edited by his son, Christopher. So I started with a rereading of the Silmarillion, which I had read only once before. I'm nearly done and will go on to Unfinished Tales and then tackle the other massive volumes, which I've had for a while and have been sitting unread in one of my (many) bookcases. (I am an avowed biblioholic.)
I've also found myself browsing the Tolkien-related art here on DA. There is some magnificent work, both in technique/style and interpretation. Among my faves is Breathing2004 (I have several prints of his work and plan to buy more, thank you DA). His style is unique and amazing, and as different as it is, I think it brilliantly fits the feel of Tolkien's creation.
And now for a mild rant: I know a lot of Deviants love the Peter Jackson movies. I like them, but have many nits to pick, even more so with the Hobbit movies. (IMHO, the best part of the first Hobbit movie was when Jackson stuck very close to the book, such as the "Good day!" sequence between Bilbo and Gandalf, and the Riddle Game.) I think Jackson has done some very good things with these movies (Smaug was wonderful, even if he was made into a wyvern rather than a proper dragon). In general, I think Jackson got the FEEL of Middle Earth correct. But, even with all that, I have a complaint about Tolkien art here on DA: there are too many copies of images from the movies. Not just reinterpretations, but copies. Certain portrait shots are repeated by too many artists. Too many are directly from the movie, showing the characters as the actors who played them (I have never liked who Jackson chose to play Elrond, he's just too plain and almost ugly). I really really encourage everyone who wants to do LOTR and Hobbit art to use more of their own imaginations and the books themselves. Please! Thousands of us love those books, admire Tolkien and his creation. Why subject yourselves to merely copying one man's interpretation? We all have images in our heads from the books—at least I hope so—and to me it's much more interesting and a better tribute to Tolkien to try to show what's in our heads, not just what we saw on screen.
To all of you who have given us your own images inspired by Tolkien's works, thank you! I truly appreciate them.


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The William & Mary Environmental Law & Policy Review presents:
Diversify Your Portfolio: Regulating Energy Sources with Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards
January 29th and 30th, 2010
at the William & Mary School of Law, Williamsburg, Virginia
Renewable Energy Portfolio standards are regulation that require energy providers to integrate alternative/renewable energy sources into their portfolio in certain percentage by certain deadlines (i.e. 10% by 2020. This area has seen significant legislative action recently. 25 states have mandatory standards and 5 have voluntary guidance. There is currently national legislation on the table that passed in the House, and is awaiting a vote in the Senate. At this year's Symposium, leaders in government, academia, and industry will make presentations at this year's Symposium discussing the legal, political, and economic effects and considerations associated with renewable energy portfolio standards on a state and national level.
Thanks to those who participated in this year's symposium (despite the inclement weather pictured above).
Friday, January 29, 2010
Renewable Portfolio Standards, Renewable Energy Certificates, and the Rest (Ivan Gold, Perkins Coie)
Dominion: New Direction in Energy (Mark Webb, Dominion Resources Services, Inc.)
Reconciling Renewables: Impediments to a Broad-Based Renewable Portfolio Standard (Joshua Fershee, University of North Dakota School of Law)
China's Renewable Energy Law: The "Green" to China's "Black" (Joel Eisen, University of Richmond School of Law)
Promoting Locally-Owned Renewable Electricity Generation and Effective Energy Efficiency Investments for Households: the Case for Feed-In Tariffs and Property Assessed Clean Energy Bonds (Tyson Slocum, Public Citizen)
Discussion of House Bill 1994 and Virginia Initiative (Delegate David Bulova, Virginia House of Delegates)
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Are Renewable Portfolio Standards A Policy Cure-All?: A Case Study of Illinois' Experience (David Loomis and Adrienne Ohler, Illinois State University)
Clean Power, Green Jobs: How Renewable Electricity Standards Can Boost the Economy and Protect the Environment (Jeff Deyette, Union of Concerned Scientists)


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The cronut is in town people! OK, I have to say that I had never heard of such a thing until recently. I know, I know.
Anyhoot, I went to school for 3 years right next to this place and even though I had noticed it (it's been opened for about two years), I had never gone inside. It is SO cute. It LOOKS like a cupcake place, you know? It's all nice and clean and white. I was very pleasantly surprised and happy to get invited by Jade Nguyen (turns out she did her Bachelors in Management and had some classes at ITHQ).
Oh and they sell a bunch of cupcake paraphernalia. It's all very cute. You want to have a birthday party for your little girl? Well, they have Hello Kitty stuff. Your boy? They have robot stuff. Oh and when I said 'your little girl', I meant me. Y'all know I'm a bit of a Hello Kitty freak.
The two owners were once in finance and in pharmaceuticals but decided to follow their dream and open a cupcake shop. Nice! And they just seem like two very happy-go-lucky guys. They also told me that they don't use shortening... just butta... oh yes... BUTTA :p They try to use natural ingredients and to just, well, make it as good as possible!
|The croooooooonuuuuuuuuut!
Alright, let's get down to business; the cronut. The cronut, as wikipedia explains, was developed by Dominique Ansel, a French, NYC based pastry chef, not too long ago. It's basically a mix of doughnut and croissant. Basically, they take the croissant dough, put some crème pâtissière in there, there's some frying, some powder sugaring and voilà. Ish. So Simplement D Liche tried many recipes before getting to this one, as Jade was telling me. And it's a huge one (for 5$); I had to bring 1/4 of it home with me! Apparently only one other bakery in Montreal serves up the cronut and it's in Little Italy. D Liche has been selling the cronut for only weeks now and already, their getting lines around the block and selling out every day!
|Holy decadence batman!
The cronut, or at least D Liche's cronut, is not overly sweet. Way less sweet than you would think, which is a good thing because it's very decadent. It's moist and fluffy all at once. Some parts seemed to be a bit undercooked but that has never stopped me :) As I've mentioned before, I loves me some raw dough. The crème pâtissière added some moistness, which was welcomed because of the richness of it all. It's a good thing I had a glass of water! I'm not much of a doughnut girl so I think I had a hard time appreciating the full value of ze cronut.
And now, the scores.
Food: 7
Service: 9,5
I will definitely go back to try their good lookin' cupcakes (many friends have gone and loved them) but I think the cronut and I were a one time thang.