Just a quick test to try out the wordpress app for the iPhone and see if it’s any good. On first impressions it seems to be quite good an lets you type in landscape mode which is a bonus, the inclusion of photos goes without saying but I’ve yet to find out how to embed vidoes or link from websites, but hopefully I’ve just missed something or it’s due in an update..… fingers crossed.
After running through Guitar Rig and Amplitube and getting quite good results i decided i needed somthing to take with me when i played live, that wasn’t a laptop.
1st came a Vox valvetronic AD30VT
with built in effects and a 30 watt amp, it’s great for practising at home and quiet practice jams, but is a bit stumped when you need that volume and another big problem is not being able to turn the effects off so you can use your own pedals and so on (this amp is currently for sale if anyone is interested)
And so to our next contender…. the Marshall AVT50H Valvestate
(here’s the sales pitch)
The AVT50H, is the head version of the AVT50 combo and is armed with the exact same features.
Powering the purpose built AVT412A (angled) and / or AVT412B (straight) 4×12″, 200 Watt, Celestion loaded cabinets, the AVT50H will deliver crisp clean sounds and roaring crunch in abundance. Switching to Overdrive takes you from those classic rock tones right through to the most contemporary slamming sounds. You will feel all the extra depth and sheer tonal weight of which only a head with a 4×12 is capable!
For even greater power and projection, the AVT50H will also drive our ‘industry standard’ 1960 4×12″ cabinets.
Needless to say it does the job very well, and along with the 2nd cab (to come soon) it can be used at home or for gigging with too and works well with the Pocket Pod to get those tones you’ve been searching for!
Just minutes ago the verdict in the case of The Pirate Bay Four was announced. All four defendants were accused of ‘assisting in making copyright content available’. Peter Sunde: Guilty. Fredrik Neij: Guilty. Gottfrid Svartholm: Guilty. Carl Lundström: Guilty. The four receive 1 year in jail each and fines totaling $3,620,000.
While only a few weeks ago, it seems like an eternity since the trial of The Pirate Bay Four ended and the court retired to consider its verdict. The prosecution claimed that the four defendants were ‘assisting in making copyright content available’ and demanded millions of dollars in damages. The defense did not agree, and all pleaded not guilty - backed up by the inimitable King Kong defense.
Today, Friday April 17, the court issued its decision: article continuously updated
“The court has found that by using Pirate Bay’s services there has been file-sharing of music, films and computer games to the extent the prosecutor has stated in his case,” said the district court. “This file-sharing constitutes an unlawful transfer to the public of copyrighted performances.”
Universal’s action sequel “Fast & Furious” screamed off the starting line over the weekend, smoking domestic competition with a franchise record $72.5 million in estimated opening boxoffice.
Miramax’s R-rated comedy “Adventureland” bowed quietly, with $6 million in sixth place.
DreamWorks Animation’s “Monsters vs. Aliens” finished in second place as the Paramount-distributed animated feature dropped a modest 44% from its week-earlier opening to ring up $33.5 million on the frame and shape a 10-day cume of $105.7 million.
Lionsgate’s supernatural thriller “The Haunting in Connecticut” was third, falling 58% in its sophomore session to $9.6 million with a $37.2 million cume. And Fox’s cop thriller “12 Rounds” tumbled 57% in its second weekend to $2.3 million in ninth place with a $9 million cume.
The session’s $157 million in collective coin is more clear evidence of a supercharged marketplace, marking a huge 64% increase over the same frame last year in Nielsen EDI data.
Year-to-date, 2009 is pacing 5% ahead of the same portion of last year, at $2.39 billion. But the annual uptick appears more modest than it might, due only to fluctuations in EDI’s seasonal boxoffice calendar.
If measured on a calendar-year basis, the year-over-year improvement in U.S. and Canadian boxoffice is in the double-digit percentages thus far. Ticket sales are outpacing last year’s by at least a healthy single-digit margin.
In a limited bow this weekend, Sony Pictures Classics unspooled the baseball drama “Sugar” in 11 theaters to gross $71,187, or a sweet $6,472 per venue.
SPC opened its French-language drama “Paris 36″ with seven playdates and registered $72,174, or an auspicious $10,311 per engagement.
Regent’s Iranian drama “The Song of the Sparrow” bowed on one screen in New York’s Lincoln Plaza cinema, fetching a solid $9,287.
And First Independent’s romantic comedy “Gigantic” rung up a big $10,500 from its single New York playdate.
Elsewhere in the specialty market, Overture’s Amy Adams-Emily Blunt starrer “Sunshine Clearing” added 312 locations for a total of 479 and grossed $1.9 million, or a sturdy $3,923 per site, with a $4.8 million cume.
A complex chemical interaction in the meat is what produces the winning combination of taste and smell in a bacon buttie, according to an expert.
The reaction between amino acids in the bacon and reducing sugars in the fat is what provides the simple snack with its appeal, according to Elin Roberts, science communications manager at the Centre for Life education centre in Newcastle.
She explained that the chemical changes that take place when the bacon is heated are more important than other variables such as brown sauce distribution or toaster settings.
At the centre of it all is the Maillard reaction, a chemical reaction between an amino acid and a reducing sugar which often requires heat. The acid and sugar react to release a huge amount of smells and flavours.
Ms Roberts said:: “The smell of sizzling bacon in a pan is enough to tempt even the staunchest of vegetarians. There’s something deeper going on inside. It’s not just the idea of a tasty snack. There is some complex chemistry going on.
“Meat is made of mostly protein and water. Inside the protein, it’s made up of building blocks we call amino acids. But also, you need some fat. Anyone who’s been on a diet knows if you take all the fat from the meat, it just doesn’t taste the same. We need some of the fat to give it the flavour.”
She added: “Fats mean that there are some reducing sugars in there as well. When it’s really hot – that’s when the Maillard reaction starts.”
She explained that the reaction released hundreds of smells and flavours but it is the smell which reels in the eater. “Smell and taste are really closely linked,” she said. “If we couldn’t smell then taste wouldn’t be the same.”
Alexander Kirilov, 44, was on a drunken weekend with friends when he leapt on the terrified animal.
“When I saw the raccoon I thought I’d have some fun,” he told stunned casualty surgeons in Moscow.
Now Russian plastic surgeons are trying to restore his mangled manhood.
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