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marilyn makes it to ice cream form December 23, 2011Posted by eatnorthamerica in things that are not quite things we know.
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a while ago, I received a very interesting request from these creative folks at
to use my marilyn monroe head for casting purposes… although we ran into a couple of issues with the 3d printing process which was quite new to me, the casting result is actually pretty impressive! i'm quite amazed at how the casting brought out the eyelashes. a very cool idea.
dh oils April 15, 2011Posted by eatnorthamerica in artshit, productivity 101, things that are not quite things we know.
Tags: boy face, oil painting, water-soluble oils
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1.5 h, water-soluble oils — a friend gave me a set. I haven't used oils since they only came with turps in high school. these seem to work pretty well, although the colour selection and pigments weren't optimal.
the light! it changes everything
chicken#3 April 7, 2011Posted by eatnorthamerica in artshit, productivity 101.
Tags: 3d, 3d wings, alpha hair, bird model, cg model, maya
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more… still placing stuff. still haven't fixed clipping yet, that'll come last.
chicken kid #2 March 31, 2011Posted by eatnorthamerica in artshit, productivity 101.
Tags: 3d, cg model, cg wing, hair alpha, maya, painted
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tackled the wing with polygons and alpha planes.
real media March 28, 2011Posted by eatnorthamerica in artshit, productivity 101.
Tags: art, charcoal, figurative, gesture, life drawing, pencil, real media
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wordpress is screwing up my formatting. oh well. have been doing a bunch of quick drawings (there are a lot more!) to get away from the innately 'technical' world of cg.
plugman! socket to your face September 14, 2010Posted by eatnorthamerica in artshit, productivity 101.
Tags: cg, cute, lowpoly, maya, weird
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some quick-ass low poly stuff, almost finished
stuff to do: add more paint brushstrokes, highlights, refine, refine, refine, render out the alpha visor properly, stick the accessories on, attach super ghetto anim rig, add some sparks or something. i might add depth to the eye sockets. maybe. and do something about the spike on the back of his hood.
NEXT: darth plug sockets you in the FACE!!!
NEXT NEXT: koosh ball hair plug man. or maybe mohawk/dreads, as cid suggests.
edit: plugman has… a plug!
plugman also has lightning bolts sitting on his specularity layer(see top left), but a combination of my computer being a piece of shit and maya being a complete piece of shit led to some fucked up shit, so fuck this shit.
'get out of my faaaaaaaace before i stick this in your eye'
the hair is quite terrible. i need to do something about that
add some crap like rounded hearts, flowers, paper cuts, origami crap, general shitcrap like bonsai trees or paper lanterns or something.
hairtest and some TOTALLY random crap August 31, 2010Posted by eatnorthamerica in things that are not quite things we know.
Tags: cg, hair, lowpoly, marilyn monroe, maya
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making hair process – handpaint hair in photoshop, convert to alpha layer, stick on planes. halfway there! clearly i haven't optimised my texture pages yet.
also another inprogress crazyass hippy marilyn. this goes slowly. clearly there's still a hell of a lot of work left to be done.
and… my only attempt at animation.
some of the search terms that get people to my blog August 20, 2010Posted by eatnorthamerica in things that are not quite things we know.
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I notice it has surged massively in the last couple of years.
a life for two hundred November 4, 2009Posted by eatnorthamerica in things that are not quite things we know.
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Elton John keeps playing on the radio when I use the washroom at work. Three for three, these last two days.
My mother had a collection of songs by Elton John, recorded by various other people who were sometimes better and sometimes worse than Elton John. At ten, at eleven, I pored over the CD cover insert, wondering about the stories that went along with each song, and why Wilson Phillips did a better job of singing Daniel than Elton ever did.
I hardly ever buy CDs, now. Gone's the day when I used to fear tracking a greasy smear over a fold of glossy sleeve paper. Lost, long gone, dearly departed. The world at your fingertips. Too easy, like everything these days. If you don't make a substantial effort to be entertaining or entertained, you end up really bored. Danger, danger. We're so cool.
My friend, a neophyte record collector, just drove off to somewhere nowhere in BC to pick up 2,500 records, the sum total of a man's life in music. Imagine that, trading the songs of a lifetime for a mere 200 dollars, a paltry amount, less than 10 cents a record — what drives a man to that? I wonder if the old fogey who sold them bought an iPod to replace the records you can't even find catalogued on the internet — the internet, for chrissakes. Some of them date back to 1905. Think about it. That's older than anyone I know. It gladdens my heart that there are still people who worship the outmoded, that there are people who journey hundreds of miles to collect a pile of records that some people happily sell for a dime.
Low junk, high art, a little bit of both. Perhaps the stories we all leave in marginalia — those are all we are, after we leave, and pass on.
rules for rejection #2 October 25, 2009Posted by eatnorthamerica in artshit, productivity 101, things that are not quite things we know.
Tags: head model, maya, polygonal modelling, ugly man model, woman model, zbrush
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Reasons to replace books on shelves: they contain the word purring, but not the word cat.
Posthaste is a word that seems to have fallen out of fashion lately.
I like telephones more than email, but only hold conversations with a very select group of close friends. Mostly dear people in foreign parts with whom playing email catch-up turns into a segue rally of ten thousand word disquisitions. Or those in my hyperfriends zone.
We spent an inordinate amount of time on the phone when I was young. Now we buy overpriced drinks, and sit around in bars bemoaning our lost youths.
here some random art crap be oh what larks and joy
marilyn monroe quick head sculpt (pure maya box model): not quite finished, obviously; shall patch it up once body's done. it's kind of nice to work with just pure polygonal modelling sometimes. i just eyeball this stuff to get a feeling for the face rather than rotoscoping. it's all stylised anyway.
ugly man: quick zbrush doodle (couple hours)
xii October 12, 2009Posted by eatnorthamerica in farcical review bullshit, onanistic bullshit, pseudo-informative bullshit.
Tags: final fantasy xii
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I am staring up at the juggernaut glaciers of the Paramina Rift, a sole speck of warmth in a desert of ice. Snow scourges my face; fog scythes the booming peaks from view. Ice drowns the turbid river. I look around; all is time, everlasting. The cliffs stare us down. Move on, they say
but I am caught in the frigid beauty that spreads before me, all particles and polygons. A last tribute to a dying platform, the ephemeral dreams of a forsaken machine. Under heaven, slipping across hell, I stare down the last sullen triangle of light between the ravine walls. I hear it, an eerie sad song of the done.
The wolves are wailing. The dead come.
mean people suck September 29, 2009Posted by eatnorthamerica in things that are not quite things we know.
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In just under two months I will have been here for two years. I was twenty-seven. I am twenty-nine. I smell the new decade coming, and it smells like summer, falling.
2007, November, rain.
A paving stone sat on the block up from me, vandal-slashed into the idiom 'MEAN PEOPLE SUCK'. Which says it all, really. This is not a city with many problems. Or at least, this is a city that likes to either pretend it has problems, or glaze them over, and if you take a drive down Hastings you'll see, immediately, what we all try very hard not to see. Here on Seymour, you have pretty little pavement platitudes, and just a block away you have human excreta filthing down the goddamn wall. We are talking shit on Robson-fucking-strasse, the Oxford Street Light of Vancouver. The most expensive street on a Canadian Monopoly board, the fifth highest for world retail rental rates (really? Bloor looks a hell of a lot fancier. and take it all with a pinch of salt, it's no London/Tokyo). And it still smells like crap, half the time.
It's amazing, actually, just how much of a problem Vancouver has with homelessness. I thought London was problematic until I came here. If London's problem is violence, Vancouver's is apathy. Apparently they're shipping all the homeless people off to some remote frigid location in Northern BC, just so the flocks of Olympic vultures won't realise Vancouver's a real cold place to be, and not just in winter. And then they're shipping them back, because fixing a problem ain't a problem if no-one's around to see it.
Enough about that. I've had many a conversation with down-on-their-lucks in London. The ones here just tend to freak me out. Which begats a whole new world of guilt.
2009, September, sun.
That paving stone is gone. Mean people still suck. You don't find a lot of those around here. What you do get is a certain strange apathy, which I can't quite fathom. Or maybe it's more like a blocked-off hope that someone will break down barriers. I can't say I don't have a certain sympathy for people who are, like myself, cautiously guarded. All things end in excess, however, and when I say that people here can be more cut-off and clique-locked than girls in an English public girls' school, that's one hell of a something.
My industry surrounds me with a lot of young-at-hearts, big friends with big souls who come from all over the world. Outside, and from others, I have the feeling that Vancouver is a lonely, frost-smeared city, that freezes you out before you get the chance to burn out.
Seriously, all Vancouverites (at least, the ones that pollute my Yaletown ghetto) seem to want is to be on a fucking boat, or more specifically to own a boat, or even more specifically (but gender non-specifically, mind), to marry someone who owns a goddamn bloody boat.
This is not to say that all Vancouverites are assholes, because generalising is generally fun, even if it isn't strictly true, and because some of my best friends really are born/bred Vancouverites, which proves that maybe it's not Robsonstrasse, or even Hastings, but I who am simply full of shit.
Someone I once knew, that I once thought myself closer-than-god to, yet who never was invited to read these words, and never will be, tellingly — someone once said something true; Vancouver as a place, as a doe-eyed force of sheer physical beauty, is one of the hardest places in the world to hate. Yeah, I was never one of Mother Nature's children, but when I clamber up a mountain and gaze out over the islands glinting in the bay, it's hard not to feel like maybe there's a lot more to this world than this transient humanity.
Vancouver has this little-big-city vibe, and big scenery, and big nature, and big hearts, if you know where to find them. It's weird. It's either the most accepting or the most unaccepting of cities, depending on whom you've come to know. It's a melting-pot or a hoarhole, whichever you fall into.
But if you're lucky you find, lurking amongst the chill concrete, the warmth of day, breaking through the endless skyscrapers, warm and welcoming souls, good words, good friends. And you will keep these hearts forever.
I've been lucky. I've been lucky all my life. Two years on, I love it here, really. I do. Enough to throw aside my fear of bureaucracy and take the plunge towards permanent residency. The year of twenty-nine smells, finally, like home.
snowballing August 31, 2009Posted by eatnorthamerica in productivity 101.
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I bought one of these, so you get one of these:
I call this song, uh, snowballing. as you can tell, I had no idea where I was going in the middle section. SoundCloud's embedded widget plays at 128k, so if you want to hear the 192k version, click the download icon.
variant here: recorded with the 'clarity' setting
(recorded on a full and resonant cedar top classical guitar, very slight volume boost and reverb from mini vox DA5 amp. I might turn down the reverb next time.)
My take? The Snowball's pretty reasonable for 130 cadbucks, although it loses quite a lot of nuance, but what do you expect? I'm too cheap to spend 500 bucks on a proper setup, and this is mostly for practice purposes anyway, so.
some other test crap:
recuerdos de la alhambra (francisco tarrega), second half
Apparently I have a psychological problem when it comes to playing first sections.
The microphone has three settings, the first being the fullest, second being my best for clarity (but softest), third being a mix of the others. I recorded the classical pieces on setting #1 without amplification. Talk about depth overkill; next time I'm setting it back to #2.
I kind of like the way the Snowball looks, although I wouldn't class it as portable, seeing as it's a fairly hefty 4 inch ball. At half a kilo, certainly sturdy enough to withstand repeated bouts of cat-poking.
It is nice and simple and mostly pretty damn good.
EDIT: fuck it, I returned it, planning to borrow swanky condenser microphone from good friend K. FOSTER BEST PERSON IN UNIVERSE.
because the snowball will never sound like this:
(sloppy but everyone likes this one (recorded by my eminent photo/videographer/all-round artstar ryan m)
for once, an art update August 15, 2009Posted by eatnorthamerica in artshit, productivity 101.
Tags: cg, maya, model, woman, zbrush
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zbrush sculpt (had to retopologise this a couple times with topogun. saved me quite a few hours of blinding annoyance despite the turbulence. sign up for the beta. I found it exactly as unstable as polyboost but less iffy. or polyboost hates me. NB: 3d coat is much, MUCH better than any other retopo tool I've tried so far, but topogun is free right now)
I recommend you click the thumbnails if you're curious.
Behold, the endless dilemma of nipples. I opted for none this time around, possibly due to the number of people making annoyingly unimaginative comments over my shoulder when they sprouted yet extant. Pfah! Plebeian sentiment should never fetter artistic truth; I shall reinstate them, when my eyes no longer bleed.
I dig current workflow trends (popularised by Epic?) towards [super simple base model] > [zbrush/mudbox highpoly mesh] > [decimate with decimation master or meshlab] > [retopo to medres ingame model]. Far more creative freedom/saves a fair amount of time — then again, it's all context-dependent. Sometimes you just can't beat purpose-building a tidy little quad base.
Hark the day we throw point clouds into engines and laugh.
nb: my computer is a pile of shit and can't handle any division levels past 5 without dying horribly.
love in the time of gonorrhoea July 18, 2009Posted by eatnorthamerica in farcical review bullshit, things that are not quite things we know, verbiage clusterfuck.
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Everybody is reading that book about the pickup artist, Neil Strauss.
More than a mack textbook, it is a memoir, a study of the ins and outs of the social condition. The man who wrote it wrote also for the New York Times. Make of that what you will.
The book's prevailing mantra is: Attraction is not a choice, and you and I and we can have everyone via hamfisted palmistry, spoon bending and ESP.
It's not too hard to see why people buy into the mystique. We pretend to be a collection of on/off switches, unanalogue, discrete.
What a beautiful conceit, that you can reduce seduction into a set of techniques that will guarantee you entry into anyone in the world. Are we waves and tremors, or sticks and holes? There is nothing absolute about being human, about neocortical impulses that feed our hearts to head.
There is nothing human in the objectification of an adversary; the gaudy prizes of bars and clubs are just ticks on a list, 8s, 9s, 10s, 11s. The more you play the game, the more you realise the game means nothing. Strauss has no small dose of pity and revulsion for the creepers trapped in their own webs, not least himself. These are some of the unhappiest men you'll meet.
Isn't it strange, that certain truisms apply to all fields? Those who blindly follow preset routes rarely achieve greatness; he who only learns by rote never grasps the whole.
Seduction, one supposes, is all very well. Then comes a point where one thinks hard and long of love, in the time of gonorrhoea.
Not much has changed since we sat in school and wondered why some lead, and others follow. We make our way through life and find the game never changes; we want what we are denied.
To those who believe we can bypass the random variance of the human heart, note this and note it well: in the end, the only woman who stole Strauss's heart was the one he could not snare with strings of theory. He played the game. She played him better.
Along Burrard after dinner, I watched a girl pose for a man, silhouetted by the splash of fountain spray. He said something that made her laugh; in the binary light of the camera, his smile seemed real. He blushed, or the red focus stung his skin. I didn't know.
It's for all of us to turn things over and around. The oldest friend comes out with the newest things; maybe we're too fast to fix an image in our heads. Now I understand Cubism as never before; I see Picasso struggling, presented with the problem of presenting all sides all at once.
Irrational people do rational things, rational people do irrational things. All people are unknown quantities, now and forever.
Sitting in the semi-dark, bathed in the soft penumbra of the screen, I close the game and shut my eyes. I chase the awkward beauty that only exists when we race toward a goal, unscripted, unfettered, unaware.
secret code May 22, 2009Posted by eatnorthamerica in onanistic bullshit.
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'__[jaded videogames artist]_____ (character) desperately tries to achieve __winning the state lottery_____ (their desire) or prevent ___the inevitable decline of modern society as we know it______ (someone else's desire), even as ___fate____ (their Nemesis) and ___the gods____ (other forces) try to prevent him from achieving that. In the end, he goes from being a ___rebel warrior____ (who he was at the story's start) to __disillusioned destitute_____ (something different).'
You fill it in, then.
Today I picked up The Scar (China Mi[e]ville) (here's your obligatory wikipedia link you lazy people).
The clerk looked at it, then announced he had it lying around at home.
'like it?' (I say, while signing off my credit)
'I never finished it.'
'…oh.' (now contemplating my signature for $11.42)
'well, you know, it's well-written, I just have this thing about weird names. The names were weird. I guess I'm kind of weird about fantasy like that.'
'I swing my sword, teehee'
'…anyway, you might like it, if you don't mind weird names.'
Unreasonable consonant strings (R'rhhzthahjzks swing your sword GO!!) make me throw books back on shelves, but The Scar seems acceptable. No swords yet, which either floats your boat or does not. It's well-written, which is cause enough to celebrate. In a world reduced to lisping mishmashes of three-letter acronyms, I grasp at poetry like water.
Ashley Wood did the cover. I wouldn't have guessed, although it's an exercise in understated elegance, thereby avoiding my current and exceedingly superficial code of book cover rejection
10 breasts? [increment variable r by 1]
20 got swords and big oily muscles? [ditto]
30 pirates [ditto ditto]
40 space pirates [etc]
50 is twilight? [increment variable r by ∞]
60 if r > 0, terminate with excessive intolerance
Cyrillic looks rude.
And since you are all so concerned re: my exclusive consumption of meat animals, here's my new health slogan:
switching to an ALL-CARB diet in preparation for the coming apocalypse of WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE better STORE FATS NOW
the black swan of nanowrimo October 14, 2008Posted by eatnorthamerica in farcical review bullshit, pseudo-informative bullshit, things that are not quite things we know.
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The Canadian government finally returned the money it owed me from the time I spent being joyfully-unemployed last year, so I decided to blow some of it on Nassim Nicholas Taleb's idiosyncratic Black Swan.
Very briefly, Taleb is an iconoclast ex-quant (and full time wag) who does things like buy options geared towards the inevitability of economic disaster, accepting constant losses while waiting for crashes to send his option values skyrocketing.
Commonsense dictates we go for small, constant gains when we invest, yet opens us up to getting screwed by unpredictable economic failure. For Taleb, the world has been shaped by these acts of random chance, acts that have a minute chance of occurring and carry huge impact, acts that we claim are inevitable after the fact and yet never plan for.
We carry on with life because some things are completely out of our ability to predict. You can't bank on what they'll be, you can only bank on the probability that they will happen. Hot from Taleb comes a moniker for events of this ilk: black swans. I won't get into the details, because far better minds have written more informative material on him. Eristics aside, his viewpoint radiates some uncommon sense. Sometimes it's refreshing to hear someone say, "I don't know."
I'm reminded of the Time article (this one made it to Time's 85 year anniversary compendium) on Deep Blue, the chess computer that beat Kasparov:
What is Deep Blue's secret? Grand master Yasser Seirawan put it most succinctly: "The machine has no fear." He did not just mean the obvious, that silicon cannot quake. He meant something deeper: because of its fantastic capacity to see all possible combinations some distance into the future, the machine, once it determines that its own position is safe, can take the kind of attacking chances no human would. The omniscient have no fear.
In Game 1, Blue took what grand master Robert Byrne called "crazy chances." On-site expert commentators labeled one move "insane." It wasn't. It was exactly right.
Here's what happened. Late in the game, Blue's king was under savage attack by Kasparov. Any human player under such assault by a world champion would be staring at his own king trying to figure out how to get away. Instead, Blue ignored the threat and quite nonchalantly went hunting for lowly pawns at the other end of the board. In fact, at the point of maximum peril, Blue expended two moves–many have died giving Kasparov even one–to snap one pawn. It was as if, at Gettysburg, General Meade had sent his soldiers out for a bit of apple picking moments before Pickett's charge because he had calculated that they could get back to their positions with a half-second to spare.
In humans, that is called sangfroid. And if you don't have any sang, you can be very froid. But then again if Meade had known absolutely–by calculating the precise trajectories of all the bullets and all the bayonets and all the cannons in Pickett's division–the time of arrival of the enemy, he could indeed, without fear, have ordered his men to pick apples.
Which is exactly what Deep Blue did. It had calculated every possible combination of Kasparov's available moves and determined with absolute certainty that it could return from its pawn-picking expedition and destroy Kasparov exactly one move before Kasparov could destroy it. Which it did.
Kasparov himself said that with Deep Blue, quantity had become quality.
Taleb repudiates the power of human inference; the computer is incapable of it. Sometimes you have to overthrow human frailty to succeed. Is that good, or bad?
Everyone's iPhone is Wikipedia-enabled. The showboat of knowledge sails on, leaving us only the lifeline of connective insight.
November is coming up, and that means NaNoWriMo is here again. 50000 words for the month of November, the amount that mutates novella into novel. I did not know that Brave New World contains a mere 50000 words of blazing beauty.
1,666⅔ words per day, for thirty days. If you don't make the effort, you never get the chance to be a black swan.
That, combined with spending enough time on my guitar to not screw up someone's wedding ceremony, is going to be a hell of a lot of doing. But when people are doing this, what excuse do I have? Let's go learn from failure.
Apparently it takes a minimum of 10000 hours to become world-class at anything, so I'd better get cracking.
I had a clump of songs in major keys on my playlist zoning together whilst I was writing this; all background noise, until a minor key popped out and my focus was jerked right there.
Our random lives boil down to self-imposed decisions. Unpredictability may be the new god, but it doesn't mean we can't choose which dice he throws.
"I've spent a lot of energy and many years trying to learn a very few basic things, which may turn out to be mostly crude opinions anyway. There's so little in the world we can be sure of, and maybe it's the lack, that flaw or deficiency, if you will, that drives our strongest compulsions."
– Ben Fountain
cat shit prolix beauty October 4, 2008Posted by eatnorthamerica in things that are not quite things we know, verbiage clusterfuck.
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If everything in our heads were laid out in the open, would the world be a better place? Nobody would be able to inveigle or obfuscate. Yeah, people will always come up with creative ways to take advantage of others, but surely the opportunity for them to do so would be drastically reduced.
Even if the entire concept makes me shudder, I can't help thinking it would be more beneficial than not, since if that were how the world worked we wouldn't have any hangups about being open. We would just be. And there would be nothing wrong with being.
I'm drunk on Shirley Temples, and intoxicated by proxy.
I do not often weep, but I wept when I first viewed a certain scene from American Beauty. A plastic bag floats over the dust on nothing but wind, transfigured into more than it never dreamt of being. It became cinema as cinema only sometimes dreams of being, of elevating the jejune to genius. Some genius set that scene up with transcendentally beautiful cleverness because they understood both beauty and cleverness, set it to music scored to machinate a tender and lingering tristesse, and I said why not, and let them take the tears from me.
Nothing to do with anything in particular, everything to do with everything in general.
It's not too often that I get the feeling I can say absolutely anything I want to someone. This has absolutely nothing to do with establishing bonds of friendship; it's more like a detached celebration of banter. Bantering is a fine art. Some people wear self-confidence in such a manner that I pretty much know nothing I say is going to bring them down; some people, I think, like banter because they either understand it as a game, or because in a way it's a form of acceptance, or acknowledgement.
I don't know that banter necessarily brings me closer to people; it's more a mental gambit where all the players are intent on playing at being dicktrees to each other. The trick, I guess, is to get away with pretending to be as much of an asshole as you can without actually being an asshole. (If you're not just pretending to be an asshole, it's not banter, it's war.)
Banter is possibly only good in small, measured doses. I'm not sure how good it is for the soul.
Last night we were meant to be going to a colleague's leaving dance. There have been far too many of these things lately. Let's not get into that, it's depressing as hell. We got to the venue and discovered that bouncers are dicktrees. You can't even banter with them! Who knew! I didn't care for the seamy glimpses I caught through their steamy windows, so!
Under the glass forest canopy we were reduced to …what? Animals, quailing from the rain. My animal friends and I went for crepes instead and talked about bullshit like existentialism.
I am high as hell on sugar.
I slept at 4 and woke at 9.30; morning comes too quickly these days. I lay indolent beneath cotton sheets and stared at a spiral of hair on my pillow, and played with the focus of my eyes. We have the latent power to do all this trippy shit we don't usually bother thinking about. It's as trippy as thinking about what it really means that light is just a wave (or a particle, yeah), or trying to imagine an eighth colour.
I popped different parts of the hair formation in and out of focus and then I realised; there's the summation of my life at present. I can't hold it all in focus all at once. Something must give.
Beauty is realising I'm only two minutes late for lunch.
Now here we are, sitting in the food court at the mall.
To my left I keep hearing snippets of the most boring conversation in the world. It makes me wince. I don't think I need to describe it to you; we've all had our share of banal conversations. Perhaps all conversations start off as boring because they are rooted in the concrete; of this too, I'm often guilty.
Mired in concrete, people are unified only by the same interests; without commonality you're regally fucked. Comparatively, a shared interest in abstraction is often enough to make topics cohere.
There's an art to triggering viewpoints from other people, and it's not always easy. Bringing a conversation round to an abstract bent usually requires some self-sacrifice on the part of the contributors. Concretions are safe, solid things that only exist and are; abstractions are often personal and revealing. We're not talking facts anymore, we're talking opinions. Those start wars, you know. Maybe we should just bring it all back to banter.
Onward, to duty. Tick tocks the clock, tick, tick tock, the lamp greens the light, and I go.
Now here we are in the time of rain, out in the open and from under the forest, and I ask you — what would you say the chances were of two raindrops hitting you in both eyes both at once? Here I am, in the lift, having a throwaway conversation with two strangers about how it's the worst thing when the rain catches you naked and umbrellaless and lost, and then I realise my umbrella was with me all along, that it was always there.
at bay September 30, 2008Posted by eatnorthamerica in onanistic bullshit, things that are not quite things we know, verbiage clusterfuck.
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Home is how I keep the outside world at bay. My doors are almost never all the way open, save to a minute group of people who don't have to read this to know who they are.
One of those people was over at my place this weekend; I've known her since we were 9, and hadn't seen her for a couple of years. It's a rare thing, being around someone who knows you for all that you are and accepts you in your entirety. I savour the novelty of not having to be a novelty.
It's funny how you can not really talk to someone for intervals of months and years, and never need to; yet when you come together again, it's all you do.
She arrived at noon on Friday; I did hardly any work from 12 onward:
a) I was ahead of schedule
b) so fuck it. see a)
c) we were having an extended conversation about life, the universe and everything
d) this conversation ran from 1.45 pm to 1.45 am in the morning
e) she lost her voice.
f) all of it.
It takes a different perspective to put your life into perspective. From her viewpoint my workplace was a haven of cushiness. I think it's all too easy to assume that everyone has the right to a job that's at least 60% enjoyable. Meaning: we all bitch too much about shit. At least we're not working 8-2. Yet.
Sunday, it was Sunday. She was gone. I was standing on the peninsular Vancouver shore, filming my friends filming my germphobic friend crawling through hypodermic sand. One of them used to be a pornographer. They're making a zombie movie, or something. I was there for the humanity of watching people around them watch them.
"I think I have AIDS," my friend said, throwing his weight from foot to foot, sloughing the beach detritus from his skin. In his youth he was fed a diet of rice saturated with orange pop. Why any grandmother would do that to her grandchild, I don't know.
I watched the watchers. You can surround yourself with all the people in the world and still not understand what it means to be known; to never know what people know about themselves, to only know that people will never know what you know about yourself. Sometimes we need to be known; sometimes we don't.
Holding a camera that wasn't mine, I pushed the trigger again, again. I stopped carrying my own camera around a while ago. It was too tempting to turn life into a series of beautiful, bastardised pictures that show everything and say nothing. Or show nothing and say everything. Either way. The camera is broken, anyway, or I am. I could never make it say what I wanted it to say, that in a picture of a hazy sky was a certain feeling I had about the world that day.
Nighttime. I lie umber and mellow on yielding cushions and think about that very small cluster of people that I hardly ever think about. I don't need to. Some doors are always open to some people, even through this veiled impermanence called life. We don't write, or call, or look, and yet our lives are always open to each other.
Sometimes you only ever need to know that you can choose not to be alone.
I'm only lying here, tossing out cheap phrases like "you can choose not to be alone" and murmuring to you that Google only knows two other people who chose to say "you can choose not to be alone", that not till now did Google choose to know anyone who chose to say "you can choose to not be alone", and now you are here, and I am gone.
specific ambition; a long foot September 29, 2008Posted by eatnorthamerica in things that are not quite things we know.
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I had a friend who always told me she envied me for loving what I was doing;
I loved it no less and no more than she did; she could never see the amount of willpower it took me to actually get anything done.
Hell is being lazy and ambitious. It's taken me a hell of a long time to curb some of my inherent laziness. Someone told me once to constantly surround myself with people who were willing to give me a good kick up the ass from time to time. It's funny, because that's how I ended up where I am today. Encircled by ass-kickers. Not by design, but because I lucked out in terms of finding good friends.
If it's obvious that everyone must suck at something they've only just started doing, why then are people so willing to claim false competence? Why not assume we all have at least 99% more to learn? Even if you are latently gifted at something, chances are you're going to get much better at it.
People keep selling themselves short by settling, or maybe just not caring. Coasting is as seductive as any opiate.
Perhaps the problem is that good is such a subjective quality. Are we good only when we stand next to the least capable of people? Should we not compare ourselves to the best of the best, and strive to surpass them? Why not? You got hubris, might as well flip it into something worthwhile.
Mind you, when you have a lot of general ambition but struggle with specific ambitions, things get frustrating. Maybe that's the problem; people don't ever find something they want to do. Maybe people don't find something because they don't care to look. Or maybe they just don't realise there's something out there worth looking for. Or maybe it just doesn't matter.
Probably the latter.
I am guilty of all this, and of lacking focus. Independence is learning the fine art of kicking yourself in the ass.
Stephen says:
hmm, well i think you should probably start with some goals that aren't that concrete, like getting ___ done
start by doing some things that'll increase your capacity to get other shit done, so you can take advantage of the snowball effect
Candice; says:
i want to own a planet
not a big one like jupiter, i think
just a little one. this one's pretty good.
Stephen says:
then eat it?
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Stephen says:
that's pretty good!
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Stephen says:
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Let's talk about run commuting guys!
Who does it?
Why do you do it?
….Who likes it???
I probably run commute in general once a week and more than that during the end of the uni semester when I am crazed out of my mind with essays and assignments (handed in 10,000 words last weekend… It pretty much destroyed my soul).
I LOVE it and would do it all the time if it weren't for social niceties like not turning up to places covered in sweat.
The main thing I love about it is for realsies the efficiency. Like if public transport takes me half an hour and running takes me half an hour I would way rather run, right? No brainer.
The trick to it is to be organised. Like if I'm going to uni, I'd prefer to run home rather than there because I don't want to sit through a three hour class covered in sweat. So I'll go the class fully decked out in my running stuff.
If I wasn't a student and didn't spend all my money on travelling (my financial planning is interesting 😉 ) I would totally invest in one of those badass running backpacks. Parents/Sis/Curtis/Bestie, if you're reading (which you better be), take note, only six months till my birthday.
In the meantime (full disclosure ha) I cram anything I might need in my pockets/bra. Ya. It looks really attractive and normal. I've been doing this for so long that I don't even think about it and it's actually interesting how little you really need to leave the house? Phone. Keys. Eftpos card. Lipstick. Seriously that's it. I write all my uni notes in my phone and I'm not a huge note taker anyway so it's not even a big deal. Side note- the other day I left the house with no phone and no keys and had to facebook Curtis off my friend's phone because I didn't know his number to come rescue me. Ya so apparently that stuff is optional too.
(Weird bulgy pockets full of phone/keys/headphones/lipstick).
Final random note about run commuting that doesn't really fit with anything else I said… One time I saw a guy run commuting with a coat hanger and shirt hanging off his backpack and it just really made me happy. So much respect.
So: who is a run commuter?
What are your must haves for leaving the house? lipstick is non-negotiable for me
Ever locked yourself out real bad? I've locked myself out a billion times becaaue growing up I would always just climb back in the window so I never learnt the importance of keys.


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You wouldn't know it from the outside, but I've been battling with myself for over 40 years. On the one hand I love food and on the other I love being slim. I've never been overweight and most of my life I've been on the lower end of the acceptable weight range for my height. I've never had a full-blown eating disorder, but I have controlled my … [Read more...]
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Anyone ever unexpectedly go through some life hiccups? *Raises hand* Did that driver cut you off this morning? Did you get into a fight with your friend? Or maybe there has been a new update to your relationship status? The list truly does go on and on over what we tend to focus our minds on! Instead of throwing a party for one with the theme being an infinite spiral of negative emotions; try introducing a positive framework into your life. It sounds so simplistic, right? Don't think negatively, think positively. Sometimes it really can be that simple though, when you practice gratitude as a part of your daily routine. Just as you would brush your teeth, cook yourself a meal, or anything that is now second nature to you – being very intentional about gratitude is one practice you should incorporate into your daily life in order to regain perspective on what truly matters to you. Here's some basic steps to how you can start capturing your attitude of gratitude:
Get a cute AF journal.
Especially if you are new to journaling or writing down your gratitude, getting a super cute journal to write in is always a bit of extra motivation. Here are a few samples I found on Amazon that I thought you might like* 🙂
The Five Minute Journal – $18 (This is a formatted journal that will give you simple prompts to complete within 5 minutes)
Blank Marble Covered Paper Journal – $7.99 (Sometimes you don't need prompts and just want to keep your pages with your own words!)
Grateful Moment Blush Journal – $18.99 (How pretty is this pink?? There's an area to write your gratitude as well as your to-do list, calendar, and any positive affirmations)
Write daily
Now that you've got your cute journal, you have to promise yourself to write in your journal daily. They say it takes 21 days to form a habit. Give it your best shot for 3 weeks of your life and see if it makes a difference. I know that it can be hard to remind yourself to do something new, let alone, every day, but to get long-lasting benefits of happiness, positivity, and perspective, try setting aside 5-10 minutes daily to reflect on what you are grateful for. Pro tip: Treat this, as you would a workout or a work meeting – this is a meeting appointment on your calendar that you can't ditch out on. 🙂
Be specific
If I said I was grateful for my mom, how many people do you think could relate to that? But what makes my gratitude for my mom so specific is that I have an amazing relationship with her. We're like this. 🙂 The other night, I went home to go visit my parents and when I walked into the door, the whole house smelled like my favorite Korean food. She timed dinner perfectly so that I would be able to eat food just as it was completed cooking on the stove. She wanted to make sure I ate well, I ate my favorites, and that's how she shows her love for me. I can't get enough of how cute and thoughtful she is! This is what makes me grateful. Just thinking about her makes me smile 🙂 See how much more specific that is? Try thinking of specifics and color to personalize your gratitude. It will feel so much more rewarding when you look back at what you've written 🙂
Write at the same time
To develop a habit or new addition to your daily routine, it helps to have consistency. Yes, writing daily is key to this; well, daily habit; but writing at the same time every day can also help. Some people like to journal in the morning, thinking of new thoughts they wake up to or thinking of what happened the night before. Others like to journal in the evening before bed, as a form of winding down thoughts and they are then able to go to bed with a peaceful and grateful mind and heart. And even others, use both times or take a mid-day break! There is no right or wrong time to write in your journal. Use a time that works for your schedule. I personally love writing in the morning. It helps get my brain moving, helps me feel like my life is fully in perspective (i.e. I'm not going to stress out about any upcoming work meetings as much or my really long to-do list for that day).
I hope these tips helped you – you can always contact me if you want to talk about gratitude journaling, or want to learn more about my experience with it. I really wanted to create this post to help guide people into writing their positive feelings and experiences down more. I feel like journaling has often times been used mostly to vent or to write out uncertain emotions. What would happen to our brain chemicals if we changed all of that stressful energy into journals filled with positivity? Love you guys! Let me know if you have picked up this practice!


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The concept of corporate social responsibility ("CSR") has gained prominence from all avenues. Today, CSR is considered as the most responsible way of doing business for corporates. CSR is not charity or mere donations but a way of doing business as usual, while creating shared values and contributions for social and environment good.
With Newgen's Corporate Social Responsibility initiative, we aim to actively contribute in the social and economic development of the less privileged children. We concentrate our efforts to raise the Human Development Index of our nation by enhancing their quality of lives.
Our objective is to make CSR a key business process for sustainable development of the society and to have an insightful business engagement with society at large.
We believe in corporate responsibility and contributing to the communities in which we operate. While being focussed on sustained financial performance, we are also aware of the necessity and importance of social stewardship. As part of our initiatives to realise our CSR vision, we seek to, inter alia, promote education, care of abandoned children and gender equality.
The CSR Committee is entrusted with the primary responsibility of formulating the CSR initiatives of the Company. We spent ₹2.48 million ₹4.88 million and ₹10.51 million in Fiscals 2015, 2016 and 2017, respectively in accordance with our CSR policy. Key highlights of our CSR initiatives in recent Fiscals include:
- Newgen Digital Discovery Pathshala ("NDDP"): The NDDP program is based on empowering children through Digital Education. We have adopted Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Harkesh Nagar, Okhla. It is currently conducting classes for 1300 children; and
- In 2006, we founded 'Sadbhavna' to help with the education of the children from the communities around our office in Okhla, New Delhi. Children of our support staff such as security and house-keeping are also enrolled in this program.
An initiative that has emanated from the vision of our MD, the digital literacy program aims at stimulating the minds of the children through the use of iPads and internet.
The NDDP program aims at transforming classroom sessions into fun–learning activities and make education more meaningful, taking the school curriculum as the baseline.
The Digital Paathshala is a fun place to learn textbook concepts digitally through iPads. Also, Newgen's facilitators conduct sessions using methodologies like role plays, quizes, movies and presentations. Under the aegis of NDDP, Newgen has adopted Government's Girls' Senior Secondary School, Harkesh Nagar, Okhla. It is currently conducting classes for 1300 + children of classes 6th, 7th and 8th. Newgen has also equipped the school's Computer lab with colorful furniture, iPads and projector.
Newgen has adopted Government Girls Senior Secondary School at Tekhand in July 2018 under the NDDP program, for providing digital literacy to 1400+ students of class 6th, 7th and 8th. We have renovated a Porta Cabin (Portable Cabin) provided to us by the school authorities, as a lab for the students.
Newgen has adopted three families at the SOS Children's Village, Surajkund, Greenfields in Faridabad and also supports another three families at SOS Children's Village in Bhopal. Each house accommodates ten children and are looked after by a mother. Newgen volunteers occasionally visit the families and conduct fun learning activities such as arts & craft, diya painting, quizzes, quilling workshops and others.
Newgen also conducts personality development and career counselling sessions in collaboration with the "I AM" organization. These sessions are conducted once a month and are addressed to the children of SOS Youth hostel and Sadbhavna Trust. And, as part of our monitoring mechanism, the organization submits an impact report of the sessions conducted during a year.
In an endeavour to ensure that the less privileged children of the society find themselves well-positioned to take on challenges of the modern day society, Newgen incepted Sadbhavna, in 2006. Sadbhavna looks at the holistic development of children, with the members offering tutorials for scholastic curriculums as well as guidance for vocational education. Newgen volunteers also assist the program facilitators and professional trainers during these sessions. And, children from the SOS Youth Hostel are also invited to attend the Sadbhavna sessions.
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'The situation in the country is very scary.'
'There is an increasing attack on the Constitutional democratic rights of our people.'
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"People should take note of this reality: The BJP is on the decline," Communist Party of India MP Doraiswamy Raja tells Aditi Phadnis.
The Budget session of Parliament in underway. A meeting of Opposition parties in which you, as leader of the the CPI participated, took place. In your view, where is Opposition unity going?
As far as my party is concerned, the current situation in the country demands unity of all secular, democratic and Left parties and forces.
There is need to build the broadest possible, united resistance to the onslaught from the BJP-RSS (Bharatiya Janata Party-Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) combine.
In the face of this, we should move towards uniting all democratic secular forces on one platform to give a credible message to the people that the interests of the country and the people will be protected.
The situation in the country is very scary. There is an atmosphere of fear across the nation.
There is an increasing attack on the Constitutional democratic rights of our people.
Wherever we travel, we see a kind of hate being created by right-wing extremist forces.
These are forces affiliated to the RSS, having ideological affinity to that organisation. How do we stop this?
Parties which believe in secular democratic values and feel they should be protected must come together.
The prime minister himself and others in the ruling alliance have said time again that they don't support vigilante-ism, that they have no intention of making changes to the secular or democratic nature of the Constitution.
So are we seeing ghosts where none exist?
The prime minister did make a statement...
He has made at least three statements...
OK, three statements, in different contexts. That is true. But how seriously his statements are taken by his own party and outfits is another matter.
For instance, you referred to cow vigilante-ism. It is happening in BJP-ruled states -- Rajasthan, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh. Why are BJP-ruled states not acting against perpetrators of this kind of violence?
Or these 'love jihadi' groups? If this is happening despite the PM's instructions, then we should ask if the PM is helpless?
I do not agree with people who call them fringe elements or fringe groups. They are ideologically conscious groups who act with courage and a sense of impunity that they can take the law into their hands.
One Union minister (Anant Kumar Hegde) said, 'Those who believe in a secular Constitution don't know their parentage.' Is this the way for a minister to talk?
He said the Modi-led government is in power to change the Constitution.
He was pulled up for that statement.
He was not pulled up. The issue was raised in Parliament. He was present. He was not explaining or apologising.
The government did not question him. The party did not question him.
Only when an uproar was created in the House did he regret his statement and the BJP distanced itself from his remarks.
What is happening in Karnataka? The way they are posing the issue is: 'I don't want Muslim votes, I need only Hindu votes.'
People have other problems -- livelihood, unemployment, education, healthcare... these are genuine issues and people are diverted.
There is unrest among young people because of unemployment.
Instead of challenging these problems, they are getting diverted.
IMAGE: CPI leader D Raja, second from left, with Samajwadi Party MP Naresh Agarwal, Congress MP Ghulam Nabi Azad, Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien and the AAP's Sanjay Singh outside Parliament. Photograph: PTI Photo
Isn't this happening partly because you, as the Opposition, have failed to get your act together? There are parties in the Opposition which do not agree on anything, even internally, let alone with one another.
That is why you are unable to capitalise on rifts within the ruling NDA (National Democratic Alliance)...
I will put it differently. It is time that parties in the Opposition -- those who believe in secularism, democracy and the Constitution -- got their act together.
Every party will have to do serious introspection. They will have to come to an understanding internally.
Then, all the parties must come to a common understanding with each other on issues.
Then it becomes easy.
This is the effort we have been making.
Sharad Yadav was removed from the Janata Dal-United and he started a movement for composite culture. He's had meetings all over the country.
All the parties participated.
On January 26, Sharad Pawar organised 'Save the Constitution' march. There too, we had a range of people from Omar Abdullah to Hardik Patel.
Representatives of the Trinamool Congress, Left parties, Congress in full strength.
But this is the same NCP (Nationalist Congress Party) which worked to prevent the victory of the Congress in Gujarat on at least two occasions. It failed once, it succeeded the second time -- I am not saying this, it is leaders of the Congress like P Chidambaram and Prithviraj Chavan who are saying this.
I will come to that. What I am trying to say is: Issue-based campaigns did bring parties together.
When it comes to elections, it is a separate matter. Because elections are state-specific.
The CPI-M (Communist Party of India-Marxist) has been saying they cannot have an electoral tie-up with the Congress for political reasons. That is being debated in the public domain.
In Gujarat, the Congress could have reached out to the NCP and other parties. There could have been a broad electoral understanding.
Maybe now, lessons have been learnt.
Gujarat is over. What next?
One, till now, a myth was created. The myth was: The onward march of the BJP cannot be stopped. The other myth was: Narendra Modi is invincible. These myths have been broken.
For instance, even in the elections -- the last round of elections: The BJP did not win in Punjab.
In Goa and Manipur, if you see electorally, the BJP did not win. They manipulated to form the government. But in the election they...
I did not see anyone from any party challenging government formation in these states in any meaningful way.
In Arunachal Pradesh some time ago, it was the Supreme Court that restored the Congress-led government, not a people's movement...
The issue was raised!
In Bihar, the BJP did not win the election. They broke the alliance and joined the government, that's a different thing.
But morally and politically speaking, they did not win the elections. And then, by-elections. Including Gurdaspur in Punjab -- huge margins of victory.
And the recent elections in Rajasthan and Bengal. All won by the Opposition. The BJP lost badly.
This is what I am saying. People should take note of this reality: The BJP is on the decline.
And that is where parties which are in the Opposition -- I would say, parties which believe in secularism and democracy -- have the opportunity to go to the people.
You would be content to give the leadership to the Congress...
Who leads is not the issue.
The more important thing is, we all should work together, move together... not only in Parliament, also outside.
There can be difficulties in some states. But at the national level, we all should work together.
On that, there is agreement.
Whichever party has the largest presence in a state, must lead. At the national level, of course, the Congress is the largest.
You have had dealings with the Congress in the past. What do you like about them and what do you think is unhealthy?
In 1996, when the United Front was formed, the Congress supported it from outside.
We agreed on a common minimum programme. Later, that government went out of power.
Then, the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) was formed. The Left parties supported the government from outside.
There was a common minimum programme, but when there were deviations from the CMP, there were problems.
Once, on the divestment of BHEL (Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited) we had differences. Sonia Gandhi intervened, it was put on hold and we started working together.
What I am trying to say is, there was a programme which bound us together. There was commitment.
During the prime ministership of P V Narasimha Rao when the neo-liberal economic policies were put in place, the Left resisted and opposed these policies vigorously.
But the situation was changing, the BJP was emerging and the context was changing.
During our tenure in government, we did influence the government in a pro-people direction.
But UPA II steamrolled certain policies that gave a handle to Modi. Many have been adopted -- and adapted -- by him.
The Congress is struggling to distance itself from its own policies.
The Congress will have to recapture the Nehruvian legacy of standing with the people's cause. And the Left too will have to do some introspection.
We will have to rejuvenate ourselves. It is a hard task.


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BENNINGTON, Vt. – The Southern Vermont College men's volleyball team didn't make it easy, but visiting Mount Ida College still worked to a 3-0 non-conference victory Tuesday night at the Mountaineer Athletic Center.
The Mustangs edged SVC 25-21 to win the opening set, and they would go on to take the next two by 25-19 and 25-17 margins.
The Mountaineers (0-16) conclude their three-match home stand on Saturday with a 1 p.m. New England Collegiate Conference showdown against Dean College. Mount Ida (11-15) is back on the court Thursday with an 8 p.m. non-league contest at Lesley University.
Southern Vermont sophomore Te Hayward (Baltimore, Md.) notched a match-high nine kills in addition to popping up seven digs on the defensive end. SVC senior captain El Olivares (Miami, Fla.) registered a match-best eight digs, and junior Isaiah Backels (Derry, N.H.) had 10 assists, six digs, and four kills in the effort.
MIC freshman Isaac Reed (Keene, N.H.), who spent the first set in the libero uniform, finished with a team-high eight kills while tallying a pair of digs. Junior captain Nate Gyampo (Providence, R.I.) had five kills and a team-leading seven digs, and sophomore Kevin Keohane (Jefferson, N.J.) facilitated the offense by assisting on 35 of the Mustangs' 37 kills. Sophomore Kevin Vanderhorst (Lawrence, Mass.) and junior captain Brett Southworth (Orange, Conn.) each had six digs while adding seven and six kills, respectively.
A pair of Southworth kills helped Mount Ida take the first five points of the night, and two from Gyampo then highlighted a 6-0 run which put the visitors in front 13-5. SVC would come back and get within one late in the frame, but the Mustangs took five of the last seven points to win the set. Gyampo and Southworth each had four kills while Vanderhorst added another three in the opening game.
The front-end of the second set was a close back-and-forth as there were four lead changes and seven times in which the score was tied. Three Hayward kills helped make it a 10-8 Southern Vermont edge, but Mount Ida then rattled off five straight to open a 13-3 run; Reed had three kills in that stretch while Keohane had a kill and a service ace. After SVC went on a 5-1 spurt to pull within five, Reed closed out the game with his sixth kill of the set for the 2-0 advantage in the match.
Stellar MIC efficiency to open the third saw the Mustangs tally seven kills for an 11-5 upper hand; Reed, Vanderhorst, and freshman Tyler Dorfman (West Hartford, Conn.) each had two of those. The Mountaineers trimmed their deficit to three after a timeout—only to see Mount Ida go on a 10-3 run to open it up and walk out with the sweep
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Vehicle ad-hoc networks (VANETs) are designed specifically for vehicles, aiming at ensuring road safety and improving road efficiency. As highly dynamic networks, VANETs have a higher requirement of security to ensure real time communication. Traditional cryptographic methods are necessary but not enough to secure VANETs, especially when facing attackers inside the networks. Besides, how to establish communications between strangers is also challenging. To tackle these problems, trust and reputation system has been indispensable. In this thesis, we construct a trust model based on Dirichlet distribution that is robust against badmouth attackers and ensures honest vehicles are selected as platoon heads. Furthermore, we identity the potential risk of location privacy disclosure in trust and reputation system and propose a privacy-preserving method to tackle that issue in relay selection. Last but not the least, an effective privacy-preserving trust-based platoon crowdsourcing mechanism is proposed to improve the sensing reliability.


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Senate committee approves bill requiring information for foster children.
Honeycutt Spears, Valarie. March 14, 2012.
Chelsea Hoover told state lawmakers on Wednesday that when her years of being a Kentucky foster child ended, social workers did not give her enough information about programs that could ease her transition into adulthood.
The social workers "were significantly less than helpful. They would not tell me what I needed to do," Hoover said in an interview.
After hearing from Hoover, the Senate Health and Welfare committee unanimously passed a bill that requires state social workers to give foster children specific information and support when they are 17 ½ . The bill also gives them extra time to decide whether they want to extend their commitment to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
Senate Bill 213, sponsored by state Sen. Ken Winters, R-Murray, now goes to the full Senate for a vote.
In 2011, 556 foster children between the ages of 18 and 21 extended their stay in foster care to get help with housing, living expenses, health care and other vital services until they turn 21.
Advocates are increasingly hearing concerns about barriers for foster children such as those expressed by Hoover, 19.
Under Bill 213, when a foster child turns 17½ social workers would have to inform the teens of their right to extend their commitment. The cabinet also would have to provide specific options on housing, health insurance, education, mentors, and employment, Winters said in an interview after the meeting.
Currently, foster children have six months after their 18th birthday to decide whether they want to extend their commitment to the Cabinet. Bill 213 would give the teens an additional six months — or until the age of 19 — to make the decision. Additionally, under the proposed legislation, foster youth can initiate going to court to extend their commitment instead of being dependent on state social workers to go to court as is currently the case.
"What we are really interested in is that there is a transitional living support structure," said Winters.
Former foster children such as Hoover who are members of a movement called True Up had the idea for the legislation, said the movement's executive director Gene Foster. True Up members are trying to eliminate barriers in the state's current system.
Hoover said she is now taking advantage of programs available to foster children who do not extend their commitment to the Cabinet. She is attending community college in Louisville.
From July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2011, 7,000 Kentucky children of all ages were in foster care on any given day. In that same period, 531 foster children turned 18 and left state custody.
"What we know is that 75 percent of the children who age out of foster care are not successful. Only one out of four children aging out of foster care enter adulthood on a successful note," said Terry Brooks, executive director of Kentucky Youth Advocates, the state's leading child advocacy group. "The provisions of this bill have the capacity to reverse those proportions."
"It could make three out of four successful. The reason for that is it extends the decision making time. It empowers the young person to be an active agent in decision making," Brooks said.
"It makes sense," said State Sen. Julie Denton, R- Louisville, chair of the legislative committee, "It's such an investment in our children who have been in state care."
In explaining his affirmative vote for the bill, State Sen. Joey Pendleton, D-Hopkinsville said that "every now and then we have to do the right thing up here. This is certainly one of the right things I've seen we've done this session."


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ONEOK Partners L.P. ( OKS ) completed its three important projects - Bakken natural gas liquids (NGLs) pipeline, Stateline II plant and an ethane header pipeline. All the three ventures are part of the partnership's $4.7-$5.3 billion growth program through 2015.
ONEOK Partners invested $450-$550 million in its 600-mile Bakken NGL Pipeline. The pipeline will carry 60,000 barrels per day (bpd) of unfractionated NGLs from the Bakken Shale in the Williston Basin in North Dakota. to the Overland Pass Pipeline in northern Colorado. Later, NGL volumes will be transported to the partnership's Mid-Continent NGL fractionation and storage facilities in central Kansas. This is the first pipeline to deliver NGL from the Williston Basin to an NGL fractionation and storage infrastructure in the Mid-Continent and Texas Gulf Coast.
The completed Stateline II plant has a capacity to process 100 million cubic feet per day of natural gas. The partnership has spent $135-$150 million for this project, located in western Williams County, ND. Since late 2011, ONEOK Partners has completed three natural gas processing facilities in the Williston Basin, including the Garden Creek, Stateline I and Stateline II plants. The new installation will enable the partnership to increase processing capability by more than 4 times from the 2011 level.
The third project, a 12-inch diameter ethane header pipeline, cost the partnership $23 million. This new pipeline has a capacity of 400,000 bpd of purity ethane and generates a new point of interconnection between the partnership's NGL fractionation assets in the Mont Belvieu, Texas and numerous petrochemical customers. The partnership has already received contractual commitments from some petrochemical companies.
Bakken Shale is situated in western North Dakota, Eastern Montana, and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in the Williston Basin. As per a U.S. Geological Survey, Bakken Shale has 4.3 billion barrels of crude oil and 2.0 trillion cubic feet of gas and another 150 million barrels of natural gas liquids.
The Stateline II plant is in sync with the existing infrastructural development initiatives undertaken by the partnership in Bakken Shale. ONEOK Partners is in the middle of a 270-mile natural gas gathering system and a related infrastructure project in Divide County, N.D. After completion, this pipeline will gather natural gas from the operators in Bakken Shale and deliver the same to the Stateline II natural gas processing facility.
ONEOK Partners has decided to invest more in Bakken Shale to cater to the increasing demand from natural gas operators. Apart from the partnership, another pipeline major Plains All American Pipeline L.P. ( PAA ) also intends to expand its operations in this natural energy-rich region and has started construction of a cryogenic gas processing plant in this area.
To reap the benefits of the vast resources of Bakken Shale, the operators are making strategic investments in the infrastructure projects. ONEOK Partners plans to invest roughly $100 million to set up additional pumping stations on the Bakken NGL Pipeline to strengthen its coverage in the region.
This will enable the partnership to increase its capacity by 125% to 135,000 bpd. We believe that Bakken Shale will play an important role to meet the ever increasing demand for fossil fuel.
ONEOK Partners currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). Other stocks from the industry that are presently performing better include Delek Logistics Partners LP ( DKL ) and NuStar Energy L.P. ( NS ). All the stocks carry a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
Tulsa, OK-based ONEOK Partners is one of the largest publicly traded master limited partnerships and a leader in gathering, processing, storing and transporting natural gas in the United States.
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"Throughout the month of July, the Zune Originals store, an offshoot of Zune.net, is offering many of its Zune accessories at 50% off, and quite a few more at smaller discounts. If you own a Zune, there is no better time to pick up those accessories you've been wanting."
This is a pretty good time to buy! The challenge is figuring out what is on sale. If you go to the Zune Originals store then you'll find that the prices have been adjusted on their info page. The only way to know for sure is to compare the prices to those at Zune.net since those have not been adjusted. A quick check revealed that the sync cable and the premium headphones mentioned in the article at htmlcenter are both on sale. Unfortunately it appears that the speakers are not. I'd have loved an iHome for $50! (How about that, iHome? I'll send you a check for $50 and you send me a speaker? Let's make this happen.)
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SEO.com Announces Bing's rise in Popularity is due to Improved Search Experienceon 02 Oct Posted by Admin Category: News
Bing has partnered with Facebook and Klout to provide users with "social-search" results and now fields about 30 percent of Internet search queries
Draper, UT - October 02, 2012 -- Since its creation in June 2009, Bing has fought to gain market share in a sector already dominated by Google. Evolving from MSN Search and Live Search, Bing's algorithm is now used to provide all Yahoo search results.
"While Google is clearly the market leader, we view Bing as a dark horse," SEO.com President Ash Buckles said. "Nearly a third of all Web searches now go through Bing. This is considerably more share than Microsoft achieved previously with MSN and Live Search."
Bing turned heads with the way the search engine integrated social media into its search results, said Claye Stokes, director of SEO at SEO.com.
Facebook and Bing partnered to provide a search experience that integrates elements of the social networking website into the search engine. Once the user enables the Facebook-Bing application, related posts from the user's Facebook friends will appear on a separate sidebar. Bing has also aligned with Klout, a tool that measures social influence, to provide users with expert opinions on certain subjects.
"Our design focuses on unique ways to bring friends and experts into search results," said Kevin Anderson, a spokesman for Bing. "These social results complement the standard search results without compromising them."
The focus on social media in search was part of Bing's recent redesign, which was rolled out in May. The changes marked Bing's first major tweaks in its three-year history. Aside from incorporating social media into search, Bing also focused on cleaning up its results pages, combating what they call "search overload syndrome," by making results more human-friendly.
All of the redesigns and updates seem to be working. A new campaign launched by Bing, Bing it On, allows users to compare Google search results right next to Bing results and decide which ones they like better. Microsoft claims that in blind side-by-side comparisons, users prefer Bing results over Google, 2:1.
"Bing's a major search engine and traffic source, so marketers should definitely be considering it," said Danny Sullivan, editor-in-chief of Search Engine Land. "It has also indeed been on the rise."
Search marketing expert David Mihm said optimizing a website to rank well in Bing is a little easier than it is for Google. This is because Bing's algorithm is less reliant on link signals than Google's and more reliant on traditional keyword-related factors.
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