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First time job seekers, baby-boomers considering a second career, business owners, and academics in need of up-to-date labor market information can now find the information they need online at Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Network's new Web site, www.pacificgatewayworkforce.com.
"In addition to providing the numerous career pathways, and preparation and placement opportunities in our area, we've compiled the best labor/industry Web resources to complement those pathways on our new site. On our innovative ... site you can explore, plan, research labor market information, and job search -- all in one location," said Bryan Rogers, the Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Network's Executive Director.
The Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Network is about preparing adults and youth, through training and education, to work in high-demand, high-growth industry sectors so that they are not just getting a job, they are advancing their potential. For those job seekers, and for area employers, this easy-to-access Web information includes the following topics:
Training and Education
The wide variety of education and training programs the Network, its education partners, the local One-Stop Career Centers, and others provide in key industries -- goods movement and logistics; construction and building trades; clean technologies and the environment; advanced manufacturing; energy and utilities production; and healthcare -- are spelled-out for residents to make decisions.
Specific opportunities through the Network's Hire-A-Youth Program and its Youth Opportunity Center are covered on the site to help young persons to get educated, get experienced, and get employed.
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Extensive information on current high-demand, high-growth industry sectors puts career exploration, planning, and job searching assistance at one site.
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The latest Labor Market Analysis/Research on high demand -- high growth industries has been compiled and organized with the links from the best labor/industry Web sites in the nation. Extensive information on key sector industries: construction trades, transportation and utilities, professional business services, manufacturing, education and health services, leisure and hospitality, law enforcement and government is just a click away. This easy to use site will be a must-have reference for business, academics, and job seekers.
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Hartsville, SC- The Coker College Women's Basketball Team will join more than 900 other participating teams in the 2008 "Think Pink" initiative, sponsored by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA). The Lady Cobras have committed to the "Think Pink" week, February 8-17, by wearing special pink warm-up shirts during their game on Thursday, February 14, against Conference Carolinas opponent Mount Olive at 5:30 p.m. Coker joins fellow Conference Carolinas team, St. Andrews Presbyterian College, in the "Think Pink" initiative, as St. Andrews host Queens University in their own "Think Pink" game.
Coker's Head Coach, Carol Meegan, and the Lady Cobras have been helping raise awareness for breast cancer all year, by selling special Pink Coker Women's Basketball shirts, with a portion of the profit from each shirt benefiting the Darlington County Relay for Life.
Coker invites all breast cancer survivors to come to Thursday night's basketball double-header and wear pink. The Lady Cobras will recognize all survivors in attendance with a special presentation during the half-time of the men's game.
The "Think Pink" initiative is a global, unified effort for the WBCA's nation of coaches to assist in raising breast cancer awareness on the court, across campuses, in communities and beyond. In 2008, schools have raised more than $65,000 for the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund, with the WBCA expecting donations to continue to grow.
"The WBCA is very excited to promote an initiative that touches all levels of our membership and unifies them for such a great cause," said WBCA CEO Beth Bass. "It has been remarkable to watch the support of this initiative grow from 120 teams last year to over 900 teams from a variety for sports for 2008. With the help of each of our members, the women's basketball community and beyond can make a difference in the fight against breast cancer."
This is not the first time that Coker Athletics has raised money for the cancer awareness, this past October marked the 2nd Annual "Pretty in Pink" Volleyball Match, where the Lady Cobras volleyball team sported special pink jerseys in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness month, while raising money for the Darlington County Relay for Life. In their two years the Lady Cobras have raised nearly $2,000 in support of the Relay for Life.
Schools have chosen to participate in a variety of different ways. The extent of involvement is up to the individual institution; the importance comes in the awareness that the event creates. Coker chose to keep the money raised for local charities, because there are many women at the college and in the local Hartsville community that have been affected by cancer.
Thus far, several WBCA partners and sponsors have chosen to get involved in the WBCA's "Think Pink" initiative. ESPN has joined the initiative by dedicating their annual "February Frenzy" and "Big Monday" women's college basketball games on ESPN2 and ESPN360.com to promoting breast cancer awareness and supporting the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund in partnership with The V Foundation. The NCAA has also joined the "Think Pink" initiative by implementing the "Calling for a Cure" campaign where all NCAA women's basketball officials will be blowing a pink whistle February 8-17.
Following the 2008 "Think Pink" week, the WBCA will collect photos, press releases, t-shirts, and radio/video footage, and will tally total number of fans reached and donations collected during the initiative.

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Hey M Girls-
Today's a big day for horse-lovers everywhere -- the movie Secretariat hits theaters! The flick is the true story of a family who believed in the race horse, Secretariat, when no one else would. Their love and attention turned Secretariat into one of the best race horses in history. We chatted with one of the stars of the movie, AJ Michalka (you probably remember her from the music group Aly and AJ), and she spilled tons of set secrets.
M: So AJ, what was it like working with horses on the set?
AJ: I was very used to being around horses. It brought back so many memories, because I've been riding since I was 6. I competed when I was younger, which I think is so neat. When you can be a young kid around animals, you learn so much.
M:The movie is set back in the 1970s. Did you like wearing those cool, retro clothes?
AJ: I'm actually am a big fan of that kind of dressing. The clothing definitely inspired me for sure. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to keep the any of the costumes because a lot of it was actual vintage attire the borrowed from a warehouse for films. But just to being in that kind of clothing and to be in that hair and makeup made me feel that much more like I was part of that time.
M: Why do you think M Girls are going to love this movie?
AJ: I think when people see the film, they'll be really inspired whether they ride or not. Horses are such majestic creatures, and the film really captures how powerful they are!
So let's dish: Are you planning on seeing Secretariat? And do you like or ride horses yourself? Comment back!
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Success in Israeli high-tech start-ups: critical factors and process (Elsevier http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2005.06.014, 2006-02)CHOREV, S. and ANDERSON, A. R., 2006. Success in Israeli high-tech start-ups: critical factors and process. Technovation, 26 (2), pp. 162-174This paper develops a model of the factors deemed critical for success in high-tech new ventures in Israel. Israel presents an interesting forum, geographically distant from main markets but richly endowed with human ...


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Yet the portrayal of Americans as pure profit-seeking machines relentlessly on the lookout for a bargain is not entirely accurate....Nice generalities, but you're talking about making millions of people apportion a huge chunk of their income to pay for something that they are not getting any benefit from. (They can keep their money, pay their own health-care expenses, and start buying insurance only at the point where the benefit outweighs the cost... which is the standard way we make decision about what to buy: Does the benefit outweigh the cost?)
[T]here is plenty of evidence that other motivations influence our decisions: altruism, for instance. We like to believe we are fair and worthy. And we are willing to sacrifice some gain to fit the norms of society....
Social norms explain why we tip a cabdriver we will never see again, why cheaters blush when caught or why people go to the polls despite knowing their individual vote will make no difference. Government programs to help underwater homeowners have been held back for years over fear that they will encourage families who were still current with their mortgage payments to default. However, the evidence so far is that most people who can pay their mortgage do, even if they would profit from walking away.None of these examples involve getting people to suddenly start following a new norm. In the Israeli day care situation, parents were given a way to buy out of the old norm, and they did. It was worth it. (And the old norm was weak anyway.) How would you get to a new norm, especially one that expects people to ignore huge new expenses? Especially when the norm is about something a majority of the people have been trying to avoid and that comes from government norm-imposers?
Social norms can provide a much more powerful incentive than money. A few years ago, a handful of day care centers in Israel tried to get parents to pick up their children on time by imposing a fine for tardiness. Much to their surprise, tardiness mushroomed. The fine had somehow made it acceptable, erasing the shame parents used to feel when they were late. The fine, by contrast, was cheap.
Advocates of health reform argue that the individual mandate will create a social norm that will hold everything together. Without it, people merely have a subsidy to induce them to buy insurance. The mandate turns buying health insurance into the rule of the land, like paying taxes....
Tipping the taxi driver isn't a new idea, and it doesn't come from the government. It bubbled up through the culture over a long period of time. We don't know why we feel we're supposed to do it and that feeling is enough to get us to let go of a little money. But many — not all — of us do.
How do you "create a social norm"? Surely, it takes more than passing a statute — especially a statute that barely squeaks through the legislature and that is widely denounced for years as unconstitutional. The government tried to require it, that violated our deeply treasured fundamental law, but, yeah, now I'm going to internalize the now-not-required requirement and do it by force of psychological urge to follow norms! That makes no sense.
And yet... for social norms to work, they probably need to be perceived as legitimate.Yeah, probably.... Actually, I don't even see how something gets to be called a "social norm" until it's been internalized psychically, which takes a lot more than perceiving it as legitimate. And what we have here is something that's perceived as illegitimate. And this is before any announcement from the Supreme Court saying the government overreached its powers.
Making the mandate work requires convincing Americans that the new health care law is not a plot to destroy the nation. Americans would have to embrace universal coverage as a desirable goal for a rich industrial society.... The Supreme Court's decision will be beside the point.No, it won't be. The Supreme Court decision will add to the perception that this is not a norm. And your point is that people will need to feel it is a norm. How do you get there? All you're saying is: It could work if we got there.
The if is utterly empty.


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Through its clinics and centers, UC Hastings provides students with hands-on opportunities to gain valuable skills in the ever-evolving filed of immigration and asylum law.
UC Hastings offers several clinical opportunities in immigration law that allow students to tackle complex domestic and international issues. Both on campus and out in the community, students handle refugee cases and deferred action matters; they also travel to other continents for fact-finding missions related to human rights.
Immigrants' Rights Clinic
At the Immigrants' Rights Clinic (IRC), seven students a semester spend up to 20 hours a week working at local nonprofits, including the Immigration Legal Resource Center and the National Immigration Law Center, and in select private practices. Earning six credits a semester, students assist on a range of immigration cases, such as acquiring permanent residency, citizenship, and deferred actions. The organizations and law firms hosting students are selected for their devotion to teaching and mentoring. Professor Richard Boswell explains. "They're interested in developing good, ethical practitioners in this area, where, in my opinion, clients are much more vulnerable."
The IRC is what Boswell calls a hybrid externship model. "Students gain a real sense of what immigration law practice is like, and the clinic provides them with the fundamental skills,' he says. Students also take a companion course focused on ethical and practical matters, including fact investigation, case planning, working with interpreters, and interviewing and counseling clients. Before taking the clinic, students must complete the upper-division course in immigration law.
Refugee and Human Rights Clinic
Though similar in mission to the IRC, the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic is run more like a teaching hospital, says Professor Karen Musalo. Each semester, eight students represent individuals who have fled persecution and are seeking asylum in the United States or they engage in cutting-edge human rights projects. The refugee cases, referred by local nonprofits, are those with compelling and complex issues. Musalo and her clinical teaching fellow, Christine Lin, search for cases where the resources the clinic offers can make the difference in outcome.
Working as counsel and attending a companion seminar, students acquire a range of skills, such as learning to gather facts using interviewing techniques, and frequently, interpreters. They also research a country's conditions and develop legal theories regarding eligibility for relief, draft requests for protection and legal briefs, and prepare the client for an asylum interview.
Center for Gender & Refugee Studies
Related to the Refugee and Humans Rights Clinic is the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS), which was founded and is directed by Musalo. The nation's leading organization supporting women asylum seekers fleeing gender-related violence, CGRS has a long and successful track record of breaking new ground in women's and refugees' rights. In addition to helping shape gender asylum law through appellate advocacy, CGRS serves as an expert consultant to attorneys, participates in trainings and conferences, and publishes studies and reports that influence policymakers.
Some students find that the exposure they gain to these complicated issues while still in law school directly informs the career paths they choose. Such is the case with Blaine Bookey '09, who joined CGRS as a staff attorney in 2011. Bookey had worked at the clinic as a law student, and the experience fueled her desire to become a social justice lawyer. At CGRS, Bookey handles appellate litigation and works on human rights projects, such as investigating and documenting human rights conditions for women, children and LGBT individuals. One of Bookey's most successful results centered on a case involving an Albanian woman targeted by the mafia. The Second Circuit published an opinion upholding the immigration agency's denial of asylum. Following CGRS's submission of an amicus brief in support of rehearing, the Second Circuit withdrew its published opinion.
November's election made clear that immigration issues are of great importance across the country, Musalo says. "We live in a transnational world. Lawyers have a big role to play in policy and in the individual representation of those seeking remedies and relief. We're training students to engage in work that's really important."
Case Study: Fact-Finding in El Salvador
For the human rights component of the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic, Director Karen Musalo seeks out timely and important projects that will serve as "a challenging pedagogical experience for students." To that end, last fall, Musalo; staff attorney Blaine Bookey '09; and two students, Elva Linares '14 and Stewart Pollock '14, traveled to El Salvador to evaluate the implementation of two laws related to gender equality and violence against women.
Before they left, Linares and Pollock did extensive research on El Salvador's history, politics, and legal system. They then spent a week there interviewing experts—including members of El Salvador's Parliament and the judiciary, activists, and women in the community—as to their evaluation of the implementation of the laws.
Preliminarily, the students learned that Salvadorans view the laws as positive developments, though there was recognition that compromises were necessary to obtain sufficient support for their passage. "It required negotiation to reach a consensus," Musalo says, "but it didn't result in polarization. That's a great step forward."
Students also discovered that the effective implementation of laws is a matter of not only political will, but also resources. Experts remarked that the many requirements of the laws could not be carried out unless the Parliament allocated a sufficient budget. "Now, quite a bit of the advocacy is about allocation of funds," Musalo explains.
Learning that the answer is not a simple case of "judges must apply the laws," the students gained "a nuanced and sophisticated understanding about how laws are made and implemented," Musalo says.
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Truman Capote, the writer of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "In Cold Blood," is fascinating as a "personality" (to use the jargon). He was one of those early television talk show couch-warmers who clearly saw that his fame and popularity were derived as much from being his own self-created character as they were from what he had actually accomplished. Of course, in recent decades this media-marketing of the celebrity self evolved to the point where many today are known chiefly for being colorful, not for doing anything at all.
The play "Tru" by Jay Presson Allen, now showing at the Bay Street Theatre and starring Darrell Hammond, captures Capote right around the time when he began creeping into caricature.
It is Christmastime, and he is alone in one of those ubiquitous white-brick postwar modern apartments on the East Side of Manhattan, overlooking the United Nations, complete with all the mid-1970s accouterments: wood wall-bracket shelving units, a stereo system with built-in cassette player and turntable, a phone with multiple lines and a red "hold" button.
(It is a well-reconstructed interior that a person from a certain generation can read at a glance. Watching the play, I found myself entering a strange reverie, nostalgic for what was a rather ugly time by design standards.)
Capote finds himself in the midst of a very 1970s dilemma. Esquire magazine has just published an excerpt from his most recent novel, a thinly veiled roman a clef about life among the ladies who lunch on the Upper East Side; affronted by this indiscretion, all his famous society friends have turned their skinny backs on him.
If this happened today, Capote might suffer a short-lived backlash, but all he would have to do to set things to rights would be to admit, tearfully, that he had a drinking, drug, or sex addiction, and all would soon be forgiven. In "Tru," Capote admits he should not drink, but he continually indulges himself — in marijuana, cocaine, chocolate, and even the booze he tries to resist. There is something rather thrilling in his easy abandonment to vice, another relic of a bygone era.
While fretting about his social ostracism, he fields phone calls from lawyers, associates, and those friends who still deign to speak to him. He doesn't actually lack for company.
The play, in two acts, is a one-man juggernaut that explores the past and present of a tortured soul. It is all one character, one voice, occupying one unchanging and at times claustrophobic set. It is quite an undertaking.
Mr. Hammond's performance has been well received. I happen to be a fan of his impersonations and his comedy, but I was a bit disappointed on Saturday night: He had been sick and had canceled the previous two performances. On Saturday, he played to a full house.
Physically, Mr. Hammond was in charge of all his character's tics and inflections and gave a performance that was in perfect measure exasperating, off-putting, and inspiring of sympathy; he captured all the complexities of Capote's personality and personal issues. His embodiment of the character helped deepen a play that was, otherwise, a rather summary treatment of its subject's problems.
Despite Mr. Hammond's gameness to go on, there was a slackness and lethargy in the production as well. Part of the problem was acoustics. It was almost impossible to catch the subtle nuances of what he was saying — or, in some cases, to hear what he was saying at all. I was surprised to see a small microphone taped to his face. It should have been turned up a bit, to a volume that was audible but still intimate.
Capote, as many readers know, spent a great deal of time on the South Fork. He owned a house near the ocean in Sagaponack from 1961 until his death in 1984. Parts of "In Cold Blood," perhaps his greatest book, were written there. According to a 1976 article in Architectural Digest, he called Sagaponack "Kansas with a sea breeze," and he told the interviewer who visited his house that day that "this is a place to be alone."
Clearly, from what we see in the play, New York City was not.


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Willhite, Martin, Morgan, Katz Recognized For Work In Classroom
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Four Yale players – Reggie Willhite, Sam Martin, Austin Morgan and Brian Katz – were honored for their work in the classroom this past season. All four were named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Honors Court, which recognizes those collegiate basketball student-athletes who excelled in academics during the 2011-12 season.
The qualifications for the Honors Court are:
- Academically a junior or senior and a varsity player
- Cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher at the conclusion of the 2011-12 academic year
- Students must have matriculated at least one year at their current institution
- Member of an NCAA Division I, II, III or NAIA institution
Yale's four selections were the most of any Ivy League school.
For more information, visit nabc.org
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First execution by lethal injection
On Dec. 7, 1982, Texas became the first state to use lethal injection for executions when it put convicted murderer Charles Brooks Jr., above, to death. The intravenous injection, usually a series of drugs given in a set sequence, was considered less painful than the previous execution methods which included hanging, firing squad and the electric chair. It is now the most common form of execution in the United States. Above, Charles Brooks Jr., the first man in the U.S. executed by lethal injection.
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Warren Golf Course at Notre Dame
South Bend, Ind. • July 27 - 30
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Adam Sumrall of South Bend, Ind., stayed consistent in the second round with a 1-under-par 70 Wednesday, to take the lead by two strokes with a two-day total of 2-under-par 140. Banchalee Theinthong of Bangkok, Thailand, held on to her first round lead by six strokes with a two-round score of 1-over-par 143.
Conducted by the American Junior Golf Association, the AJGA Notre Dame Junior Open is a 54-hole stroke play event being held at Warren Golf Course at Notre Dame. The tournament field consists of 75 Boys and 24 Girls, ages 12-18, from 15 states and four foreign countries. The par-71 course is being played at 6,908 yards for the Boys Division and 5,888 yards for the Girls Division.
Sumrall, who plans to play at Duke this upcoming fall, started out with an early birdie on No. 3 to contribute to a 2-under-par 33 on the front nine.
"I made a birdie on No. 3 which was a nice start," Sumrall said. "I had a great shot into the fairway, then a good iron to the green and sunk a 10 foot putt."
Sumrall's toughest hole of the day came on the par-4 464 yard No. 6 hole after he drove into the fescue. Fortunately he was able to hit a great shot with his 4-iron then got up and down to save par.
The South Bend native who won the 2009 Indiana individual high school state championship, said his driving kept him out of trouble today and plans to hit all the same clubs off the tee in the final round.
Sitting in a tie for second by two strokes at even-par 142 are Kyle Kmiecik of Avon, Ohio, Theodore Lederhausen of Hinsdale, Ill., Corey Ziedonis of Indianapolis, and Morgan Dobbins of Jackson, Ohio.
In the Girls Division, Theinthong was lucky enough to finish her first round Tuesday after a second thunderstorm forced 12 girls to resume their round Wednesday morning. After the first round concluded Wednesday morning, Theinthong was in first going in to her second-round after carding an impressive 3-under-par 68.
Theinthong played solid and enters the final round still in the lead after carding 4-over-par 75 in the second round.
"Yesterday on No. 10 I nearly made an eagle from 50 yards but today I was able to save par after hitting into the water," Theinthong said. "It was windy outside and the direction was constantly changing. Tomorrow my game plan is to stay in the fairway."
Jordan Lippetz of Bradenton, Fla., is in sole possession of second at 7-over-par 149. Two strokes back, sitting in third place is Maria Jose Benavides of Mexico City, Mexico, with a two-round score of 9-over-par 151.
The American Junior Golf Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the overall growth and development of young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf. The largest Association of its kind, the AJGA has an annual junior membership (boys and girls ages 12-18) of more than 5,000 junior golfers from 50 states and more than 30 foreign countries.
Titleist, the AJGA's National Sponsor, has been the catalyst and driving force behind the Association's success since 1989. Rolex Watch USA, which is in its third decade of AJGA support, became the inaugural AJGA Premier Partner in 2004. In 2007, after 12 years of support, Polo Ralph Lauren became the AJGA's second Premier Partner.
AJGA alumni have risen to the top of amateur, collegiate and professional golf. More than 200 former AJGA juniors currently play on the PGA and LPGA Tours and have compiled more than 350 wins. AJGA alumni include Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Jim Furyk, Stewart Cink, Davis Love III, Cristie Kerr, Pat Hurst, Paula Creamer, Brittany Lincicome, Morgan Pressel and Julieta Granada.
Final-round tee times for the AJGA Notre Dame Junior Open will run from 7a.m.-12:20 p.m. off the No. 1 tee Thursday, July 30 at Warren Golf Course at Notre Dame. For more information about the AJGA Notre Dame Junior Open, please contact Tournament Headquarters at (574) 631-9792 or visit ajga.org.


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The Sports Xchange
By Chris Goff, The Sports Xchange
EditorsNote: Eds: Updates with Indiana quotes Ohio State spoils Indiana's Big Ten title party
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The wild celebration never materialized.
The Sports Xchange
By Chris Goff, The Sports Xchange
EditorsNote: Eds: Updates with Indiana quotes Ohio State spoils Indiana's Big Ten title party
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The wild celebration never materialized.
Ohio State spoiled the final home game for three Indiana seniors and kept its hopes alive for a share of the Big Ten title. The Hoosiers were denied in their first opportunity to win the league crown outright for the first time since 1993.
The No. 14 Buckeyes did it with a 67-58 win Tuesday night over second-ranked Indiana in which they led by at least six points for the last four minutes. The Buckeyes have won at least a share of the regular season title in each of the past three seasons.
"We've got a great chance," Ohio State forward Deshaun Thomas said. "Hopefully we can get it. We'll root for Michigan."
Indiana, guaranteed at least a share of the title, can have it all to themselves with a victory Sunday against the Wolverines. Ohio State concludes its regular season earlier Sunday at home against Illinois. Michigan, Michigan State and Wisconsin are still in the chase, too, sitting in a three-way tie for third at 11-5.
Thomas led Ohio State (22-7, 12-5) with 18 points and eight rebounds. Aaron Craft contributed 15 points, four assists, four rebounds and four steals. The Buckeyes shot 45.8 percent from the field, committed just eight turnovers and out-rebounded Indiana 37-32. Seeking their sixth conference title in the last eight years, they have won five of their last six games to make a late surge.
"I'm proud of this team," Ohio State coach Thad Matta said. "We were knocked down and kicked to the ground. We're back up. We're not done yet. I love these guys. They've learned and responded."
Thomas and Craft teamed to score all the points in a 7-0 run that made it 59-50 with 4:15 left, causing Hoosiers coach Tom Crean to call a timeout. Indiana (25-5, 13-4) would never recover.
Cody Zeller led the Hoosiers with 17 points and Christian Watford added 12. None of their teammates scored more than eight as Indiana lost for the second time in three games and only the second time in 19 games at home.
"We didn't move the ball, work the ball as well as we needed to," Watford said.
The Hoosiers started the second half by making their first five shots but slumped on offense most of the night against the suffocating defense of the Buckeyes, who entered allowing just 58.9 points per game, second-best in the conference. The Hoosiers shot 39.6 percent from the field, their second straight outing under 40 percent, scored just two points in transition and committed 12 turnovers leading to 16 Ohio State points.
"The big thing was to not make defensive assignment mistakes," Matta said.
In accordance with tradition, seniors Jordan Hulls, Derek Elston and Watford addressed the crowd after the game. Only the Ohio State fans in Assembly Hall left their seats.
Hulls and Watford fought back tears in describing their journey from a 10-win season as freshmen to the rebirth of the program as a national contender in their final years. Hulls, who finished with eight points, earned the loudest cheers when he thanked his friends and coaches from Bloomington South High School. He was the 25th Indiana Mr. Basketball to play for the Hoosiers.
"It's been awesome," Hulls said. "I will never forget running out of that tunnel for four years. It's something we'll miss. Being able to play for these fans is special."
In a subdued ceremony, school president Michael McRobbie presented the Big Ten championship trophy to the Hoosiers -- it is the team's 20th title and first since 2002 -- while players clipped pieces of the net and wore commemorative hats.
The game turned when Indiana's stars departed because of foul trouble. Victor Oladipo sat the final 11 minutes of the first half with two fouls, and Zeller didn't return after picking up his second personal with just under six minutes remaining. Ohio State succeeded without Zeller and Oladipo on the floor, outscoring the Hoosiers 9-3 over the final 5:47 of the half to build a 28-25 lead at intermission.
The Buckeyes held Indiana to just 10 field goals on 30 shots, which produced the Hoosiers' lowest-scoring period of the season. In their last home game, three days earlier, the Hoosiers scored just 26 points in the first half in a 73-60 win over Iowa.
"When we took Vic and Cody out, we got stagnant," Crean said. "This is the epitome of bittersweet. Both teams played hard. They played smarter."
Zeller's step-back jumper against Evan Ravenel put the Hoosiers in front 19-17. After Ravenel tied the game with a rebound and slam on the next possession, Maurice Creek answered with a 3-pointer for Indiana that made it 22-19. Then the Buckeyes, just 4-5 on the road coming in, finally found a rhythm, scoring seven straight points, capped by Craft's three-point play in transition, to take control.
"We did a great job sticking together," Craft said. "Those guys are tough. We stayed in our offense, and it wasn't all one guy."
NOTES: Former Hoosiers Steve Alford, Kent Benson, Scott May, Keith Smart and Isiah Thomas were recognized at halftime. They were chosen by the NCAA, on the 75th anniversary of the NCAA tournament, as all-time players in the event's history. ... Ohio State last beat a top-two team on the road on January 24, 1987. ... The Hoosiers are trying to win the Big Ten title outright for the 12th time in school history. With a win on Sunday, they would secure the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament for the first time. ... Thomas passed David Lighty for 20th place on Ohio State's all-time scoring list.


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After Martin Olsson had been brought down on the left side of the area, McCarthy's curling right-footed cross appeared to evade everyone in the box and nestled in the far corner beyond Paul Smith's desperate dive.
It was harsh on the Championship club, who created the better chances throughout and missed a second-half penalty when Jason Brown superbly saved Dexter Blackstock's kick.
Allardyce made 10 changes from Sunday's dismal defeat at Everton with former Real Madrid defender Michel Salgado the only survivor.
Blackburn were slow out of the blocks and Forest almost forged a fortunate early lead after Blackstock was fouled 30 yards out.
Chris Cohen's free-kick to the far post was headed back across goal by Blackburn-born Joe Garner, a former trainee with Rovers, before Blackstock unknowingly guided the ball goalwards with his thigh but Brown was on hand to smother.
Nathan Tyson showed his pace down the left to set up a 10th-minute chance for Robert Earnshaw. The Wales international controlled the low cross but had the ball nicked off his toe by Rovers captain Ryan Nelsen as he was about to shoot.
Forest went close after another Cohen free-kick was not properly cleared. The ball ricocheted into Wes Morgan's path but the defender blasted his first-time effort wildly wide.
Blackburn stretched the home defence for the first time after 20 minutes when David Hoilett got down the left to cross, but Nikola Kalinic got his header all wrong and the ball looped harmlessly onto the roof of the net.
Forest continued to look dangerous and skipper Paul McKenna sent a rising shot just past the top corner midway through the first half.
Blackstock would surely have scored had pressure from two Blackburn defenders not caused him to lose balance and mis-hit his 10-yard shot in the 26th minute.
Hoilett and Kalinic combined again just after the half-hour. This time the Croatian's downward header had Smith scrambling across his goal but the ball bounced narrowly wide.
Rovers took the lead eight minutes before the break but the hosts came close to equalising through a free-kick of their own when Earnshaw's curling effort clipped the bar.
Forest emerged after the break lacking the fluency they had in the first half and took time to get going.
McCarthy should have scored his and Blackburn's second goal 10 minutes after the restart following hesitation in the home defence, but he directed his glancing header wide.
Brown had to get down quickly to take Joel Lynch's whizzing low cross off the toes of the arriving Blackstock and Earnshaw soon afterwards.
Tyson then sent a low shot narrowly wide just after the hour after cutting inside from the flank before Cohen's mis-hit cross had to be pushed over the bar by Brown.
Billy Davies' side were gifted the chance to equalise in the 72nd minute when Steven Reid mistimed his jump to head clear and the ball struck the Republic of Ireland player's flailing arm, leaving referee Michael Oliver with little choice but to award a penalty.
Blackstock stepped up but his spot-kick was superbly pushed away by Brown, diving to his left.
The hosts continued to push for an equaliser and many of the 11,553 inside the City Ground thought they had got it in the final minute when a cross was flicked on at the near post, but Earnshaw somehow managed to scoop the ball over the bar from on the goalline.
To the Welshman's relief, the offside flag had been raised.
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Investigators do not believe that the woman was the intended target, but they have no suspects at this time.
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Generally, you know how you feel about a car after about, oh, five minutes. Call it the fizzy nethers or simple gut instinct. But after 24 hours, 500 miles, and several of the world's best mountain passes at the wheel of the Alfa Romeo 4C, we still can't make the definitive call. Why? Because Alfa's new baby is a car that manages to be both hugely seductive and irritatingly inconsistent, often on the same stretch of road.
Let's start with the positives, of which there are many. This really is a stunning bit of design. Yes, those head lights – apparently reworked at the behest of Fiat group CEO Sergio Marchionne, saving a rumoured €4m – undermine the 4C's junior supercar look, but the launch edition's carbon surround off-sets any visual disappointment. There are no bad angles on this thing, and several bracingly good ones – head on it looks lower and meaner than the pictures suggest, while the rear three-quarters showcase a typically Italian interplay of curves and sinuously sculpted elements. A chap called Alessandro Maccolini designed the 4C, a name worth keeping an eye on.
Alfa is to be heartily congratulated for daring to downsize; small and light, the 4C posits a way forward for fast cars that adds intellectual muscle to the Lotus Elise's well-established philosophy. Central to this is the technology at the heart of the 4C, specifically its pre-preg carbon fibre monocoque. 'We plan to make up to 3500 cars per year,' Alfa Romeo's boss Louis-Carl Vignon told topgear.com a few months ago during a visit to the production line in Modena, 'which will make us the biggest manufacturer of a carbon chassis-ed car.' The 4C's carbon tech is a major USP, and a great pub boast to back up the Alfa's 21st century Ferrari Dino looks and Alfa 33 Stradale references. It's effectively a small McLaren 12C…
In actual fact, the tub only accounts for 10 per cent of the car's structure – it's mainly a steel and aluminium mix – but on the move the 4C feels amazingly rigid. With a dry weight of just 895kg (that's a slightly misleading figure, taken without any fluids on-board, but impressive nonetheless), the 4C's power-to-weight ratio of 268bhp-per-tonne emphasises Alfa's claim that this is a 'politically correct super sports car', a notion that's backed up by CO2 emissions of just 159g/km and a combined fuel economy average of 5.6 L/100km. (Compare that to the base Porsche Cayman, the car the 4C must inevitably do battle with, which chucks out 192g/km and averages 6.8 L/100km.)
It's also properly fast. It'll do 257 km/h all out, and 0-100 km/h in 4.5 seconds. Its unassisted steering is terrific, its Brembo brakes are fabulous, and it has a colossal amount of grip. Turn-in on those relatively skinny 205-section tyres (235 on the rear) is also sensational. Snap160 the throttle shut abruptly on a high-speed corner and the 4C's mid-engined configuration means that it'll oversteer readily, but you need loads of space to try that sort of malarkey. On the endless up- and downhill hairpins of the Aosta valley, where we spent most of our time, it's mostly well balanced and engagingly neutral, with some understeer to warn the unwary, and generally rides well, too. Drive it like you have sides of ham for hands and clods of mud on your feet and you might get into bother, but the 4C prefers and rewards a more intelligent approach.
Now for the negatives. Sadly, the 4C's powertrain falls short of its chassis. Not disastrously so, but enough to drive you a bit nuts. On paper, we love the idea of a 1.75-litre, turbocharged four-cylinder, and it fits perfectly with the 4C's PC remit. Its 240bhp power output and 258lb ft of torques also sound more than ample, especially in such a lightweight package. The engine has direct injection, clever scavenge tech, and variable valve timing on intake and exhaust. The gearbox is a dual-clutch flappy paddle set up which, Alfa claims, has faster shift times in specific increments than even the Ferrari 458 Italia can manage.
The reality is different. Granted, we spent a lot of time at high altitude, but the engine still feels strangely uptight, and simply doesn't generate the sort of grunt the figures suggest. At sea level, the 4C is fine when you keep it in the zone – between 2000-5000rpm – but it's not what you'd call effortless. The turbo runs 1.5bar of boost and dominates the 4C to such an extent that, depending on your point of view, it becomes detrimental to the overall driving experience. Throttle response is also frustratingly soggy; the 4C looks like a car that'll respond to pedal blips with superbike-style intensity, but instead feels like there's a heavy flywheel. The revs decay lazily, too. Blame the anaesthetising effect of the turbo, the EU6 compliance, and the need to peg back emissions.
The launch edition features the optional sports exhaust as standard, and while it sounds fabulous from the outside, like an old Alfa racing car, inside it's rather strident and a touch droney, especially at steady motorway speeds. And when it's not doing that, the dump valve is chumpfing and chirruping like an excessively tuned mid-'90s hot hatch. On occasions it even manages to summon a sound worryingly reminiscent of the Morris Minor's flatulent over-run parp. It's not a classically sonorous Alfa, that's for sure.
The 'box is even more distracting. Quite simply, you have to drive round it to wring the best out of the car rather than working with it. Italian engineers have a habit of justifying an overly jerky paddle-shift on emotional grounds, but the 4C's gearchanges initially made me angry before inducing melancholy at the bungling of another golden opportunity. You could argue that the Cayman is a bit soulless in comparison, but then you drift into simplistic stereotyping. The truth is, it's a car powered by a glorious flat-six engine, harnessed to a mighty dual-clutch PDK transmission, both of which work seamlessly to allow the driver to revel in an equally remarkable chassis. The Alfa erects too many barriers.
The Porsche is also unimpeachable when it comes to the detail stuff. For example, you'll look in vain for exposed screw heads or any loose wiring in the Cayman's cabin, but won't have any trouble finding unacceptable quality glitches in the Alfa Romeo. The 4C's driving position is fine, and its configurable TFT instrument screen is clever. The passenger seat is fixed, eliminating the need for a seat runner and thus saving weight, but it's also less comfortable as a result. The interior plastics are, at best, a mixed bag, even if the material covering the dash and seats is the result of highly efficient manufacturing processes. There's still evidence of cost-cutting inside, yet this is hardly a cheap car.
We sooooo want to love the Alfa Romeo 4C. And up to a point we do. It will be bought and enjoyed by people who get huge pleasure from simply looking at it, which is fine by us. Nor is it all mouth and no trousers, because it backs up its beauty with some great technology. It also goes like hell, and handles beautifully. It has a philosophical beauty, too, which we approve of. But that same thinking means the 4C has to endure some compromises, mainly in the powertrain department. We'd happily trade some of the weight saving and CO2 numbers for a normally aspirated V6 – Alfa's good at those – and an old school manual gearbox. Alfa Romeo could call it the 6C, and we reckon that really would get the nether regions fizzing. What do you think?
The Alfa Romeo 4C certainly ticks a few of the key boxes. As I write this, TG.com's test car is parping and popping lustily up and down a sinuous road in the glorious Aosta valley. This is where much of The Italian Job was shot, and the 4C is a very Italian job indeed.
So, it looks fantastic, a mid-engined two-thirds scale version of Alfa Romeo's 8C Competizione, a car in which even the world's geekiest specimen of mankind could - to paraphrase Daft Punk - get lucky. Ours is blood red, and its body panels fall blithely across the 4C's chassis - carbon fibre, remember - like a piece of haute couture on a lissom supermodel. See, it's technically impossible to write about a new Italian sports car without talking about sex. Or at least romance.
It also follows, therefore, that there are aspects of this car that are teeth-grindingly frustrating. We'll get back to you later with fuller impressions but so far this is what we're thinking: great chassis and steering, supple ride, great performance. It's properly quick. But its flappy paddle gearbox is a pain in the bum, the blown 1.75-litre engine is too laggy until the boost kicks in with a chirruping whooompfhh, and you have to stand on the thing to really get it moving.
So far, so Alfa Romeo. There is obvious pain to go with the equally abundant pleasure.
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Topeka Capital Markets's Victor Anthony today reiterated a Buy rating on Facebook (FB) shares, and a $40 price target, writing that the company's potential acquisition of Israel-based mapping technology startup Waze "could help drive FB's mobile penetration and open up the platform to local advertising."
Among the latest buzz on the matter, BoyGeniusReport's Zach Epstein yesterday wrote that the deal had hit a "serious snag," that being Facebook's desire to shut down Waze's R&D efforts in Israel and move key personnel to the U.S., citing an article in Israel's Calcalist newspaper, which first broke word of the potential deal.
Anthony comments that in testing the Waze app over the weekend (it is available for download on various mobile platforms), he observes that "First, we were surprised at the numerous Waze users during our multiple trips," and "the information supplied by Waze users was 100% accurate along the routes
we tested." The app was "very helpful in planning our commute," he concludes.
Anthony's larger point is that Google (GOOG) and Amazon.com (AMZN) rose to the top of the Internet pile by investing heavily, including in their internal, or "organic," efforts, and through acquisitions, versus Yahoo! (YHOO) and AOL (AOL), which failed to do so prior to new management coming in:
Investors are concerned that Facebook's heavy investments (+50% YoY growth in opex in 2013), launch of multiple ad units, and talk of
acquisitions show that management is swinging for the fences rather than developing a cohesive long-term strategy to grow engagement and monetize the platform. Perhaps the best way to understand management's vision is to point to the history of successes and failures in the Internet space over the past 10-plus years [...] Google's success today was in part driven by several acquisitions, the most notable of which were Applied Semantics (AdSense's monetization model), YouTube, DoubleClick, and Android. Hindsight has shown those to be brilliant acquisitions, even though at the time of the acquisitions of YouTube and DoubleClick, investors were skeptical. In addition, Google has spent ~$20b in nominal terms (only 7% of today's mkt cap) on equipment to support its growth over the past 10 years [...] Amazon.com's growth has been largely organic, with investments in the 3P platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), advertising, and e-Readers/tablet devices, solidifying its position as a dominant online retailer and technology company [...] On the flip side, we point to AOL, prior to Tim Armstrong, and Yahoo!, prior to Marissa Meyer, as examples of Internet companies that under-invested. AOL missed investing early in online search, and its acquisition of Bebo was too late. In most instances, AOL chose to partner, rather than build; it did so with online search, online classifieds, auctions, online personals, and online job listings. As AOL's traffic declined and the businesses of its partners began to scale, AOL lost leverage. Yahoo! ceded it's leadership position in online advertising due, in part, to a lack of investments. Not only did the company largely ignore investing heavily in online search, we understand that Yahoo! missed chances at acquiring Google, YouTube, and Facebook.
Facebook shares today closed up 25 cents, or 0.9%, at $27.07.


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The release will have object-centric animation, meaning the object retains its integrity during the animation process. FormZ animates well-defined objects complete with their parameters and attributes, which can also be freely animated. This potentially makes the animation process a modeling venue that can generate forms beyond what is possible through conventional means. At any stage during the animation process, models can even be captured as different types of objects. FormZ 6.0 also offers a seamlessly integrated animation environment, where objects, lights, and cameras can be animated and transformed over time.
In addition, AutoDesSys offers a venue to prototype its objects not only in color but with textures, as well, through Z Corp.'s new ZPR file format, which is optimized to support geometry and color capabilities of current 3DP systems, providing an option for those needing a tangible example of their project in color and with textures. FormZ also sports a new 3D print preparation tool.
Also, the new release contains a number of new modeling capabilities, including a morphing ability that allows users to pick two objects, the source, and the destination, and have the shape of the former change to the shape of the other by a certain percent. The operation can be executed dynamically or in one step, and can be used as part of an animation or by itself. FormZ 6.0 will be priced at $1495. Updates from previous versions are available for a reduced cost.
E-frontier has accessorized its product line with the new release of Virtual Fashion Basic for Poser, easy-to-learn design software for the creation of dresses, jackets, skirts, shoes, and other 3D design garments. Originally developed for high-end designers such as Gucci, Prada, and La Perla, Virtual Fashion Basic for Poser was modified to incorporate Poser characters and export "dynamic clothing" directly into Poser libraries.
Virtual Fashion has an intuitive user interface that makes creating garments for Poser figures easier than ever. The work flow-based interface moves users through a series of steps to quickly create almost any garment. After the garment is designed, fabric choices such as silk, cotton, denim, or fur are selected and simulated in the Fitting Room module. In PhotoStudio, lights and camera angles are set, and print-ready images are produced in a virtual photo shoot. The last step uses the Material Editor module to adjust materials and change fabric colors.
Poser users export garments created in Virtual Fashion in the native Poser file format. The program creates its own runtime folders in Poser and automatically uploads every new garment into the Poser library.
Virtual Fashion Basic for Poser sells for $99.99.
Image-processing software developer RealViz has unveiled VTour, the latest addition to the company's content creation offerings. VTour draws on the technology of RealViz's Stitcher and Image Modeler products, offering users a solution for creating photorealistic 3D environments from 2D photos or panoramas.
Starting directly from digital photographs or full 360-degree panoramas (crafted, for example, using Stitcher), VTour facilitates the creation of 3D scenes such as interiors or urban areas using polygonal photo-textured primitives. The results can then be exported and published as a 3D movie or an interactive application using 3D viewers such as Spi-V3d (based on Shockwave).
VTour is ideal for a range of applications such as virtual walkthroughs of buildings and monuments, 3D simulation, virtual reality, urban planning, and video games. It can also be used for the creation of digital sets in film and television. In this way, the product complements RealViz's StoryViz, 3D previz and storyboard software for creating photoreal backdrops for previsualized projects.
VTour is available for Windows 2000/ XP for $499. A Mac version will be available in September.
Houdini 8.1 Appears in 3D for Animators
Side Effects Software has released Houdini 8.1, featuring an animator-friendly Auto Rig, Muscle System, Character Picker, and Pose Library, as well as other enhancements to the Rigid Body and Wire dynamic solvers. The new version also supports the importation of Collada files, an open digital asset exchange schema for interactive 3D applications.
A new Biped Auto Rig tools lets artists quickly position their character's joints and generate production-ready rigs at the touch of a button. It creates both an animation rig with built-in proxy geometry for blocking and a separate capture rig for deforming geometry. These rigs are created as Houdini Digital Assets and form the backbone of the character pipeline. Moreover, technical directors can customize the animation team's rig to conform to their preferred way of working.
For capturing and binding geometry, Houdini 8.1 includes a new approach that is ideal for setting up fully functional muscle system using a system of meatball-based muscles that can be used in place of bones for capturing the geometry.
Houdini 8.1 is priced at $17,000; through September, users also can save up to 40 percent on Houdini Master.
Eyeon Fuses Together Updates
Eyeon Software continues to build momentum with the release of Fusion 5.02 by adding approximately 100 new features and enhancements to the compositing software's core architecture. Fusion 5.02's OpenGL acceleration with display views makes interactive viewing more flexible, while the new GPU-accelerated plug-in architecture and LUT system make for easy transitions between multiple-display LUTs.
Tailoring and improving the product based on demand and ongoing artist feedback, Eyeon has added a plethora of cutting-edge innovations, such as format improvements, to give Fusion the ability to read DV OMF and 32-bit float PSDs from Photoshop CS2. OpenEXR format options now display a drop-down list that shows available channels. The product also has new enhanced optimization tools that affect all blur-based tools and functions, resulting in as much as a 30 percent increase in performance. And, the company has added more than 20 new scripting functions.
Fusion 5.02 pricing starts at $1295 for the DFX+ video version, and $2995 to $4995 for the film versions.
ArtVPS, Mental Ray Team on New Raytracing Solution
Two of the industry's largest commercial forces in rendering—ArtVPS and Mental Images—have formed a partnership that will result in an integration of their respective products, which will cater to the increasing demand for photorealistic visualization of 3D data within the design sector.
ArtVPS, developer of a unique graphics processor for photorealistic raytracing, and Mental Images, developer of the high-end Mental Ray rendering software, will further the evolution of advanced raytracing solutions. As part of the deal, Mental Images will license intellectual property from ArtVPS with the exclusive right to its sub-licensing. In turn, ArtVPS will become an OEM partner of Mental Images for the integration of Mental Ray into future 64-bit versions of its RenderDrive products. Also, the company will become a system integrator for RealityServer, a unique software platform for the development and deployment of 3D Web services and applications from Mental Images.
According to a Mental Images spokesman, the partnership will allow the duo to explore the use of dedicated graphics processing hardware architectures for the acceleration of raytracing algorithms within Mental Ray and RealityServer without compromising on image quality. The collaboration will cater specifically to the demand for photorealistic visualization in product marketing, design, architecture, and the automotive segment, where photorealism and real-world lighting is a requirement for that market's 3D imagery.
Working Under Extreme Conditions
West Post Digital, a boutique postproduction facility specializing in HD and SD online finishing and color correction, recently completed work for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition—After the Storm. The work was for a series of four shows featuring rebuilding projects in
Louisiana, and
following major destructive hurricanes.
West Post Digital had been handling online finishing for the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition reality series since its premiere in 2003. "We've been able to streamline processes to where we can completely finish an entire show in about 24 hours," says West Post Digital co-owner Kenny Fields.
It was this ability to make "Extreme" deadlines that led producers to select the facility to complete work on the special editions. The group did all the finishing process— assembling, conforming, and color-correcting the shots, as well as titling, in standard definition. The assembly/conform/ titling was done on an Avid Symphony system and a Symphony Nitris running on a Unity. Meanwhile, the group performed the color grading on a daVinci 2K system.
According to colorist Paul Roman, the ability to color-correct the show in real time on the daVinci while conforming and titling simultaneously on the Symphony played a big role in helping the group finish the episodes quickly and at a high quality. Pre-digitizing fine cuts (a show in progress that will change but has a lot of what will end up in the final version) and digitizing only new shots in the locked picture instead of the whole cut also helped bring the show in under deadline.
"The most challenging aspect is time," says Fields. "The locked cut is not delivered until the last minute. We pre-digitized with handles, so if slight adjustments were made in the off-line, we didn't have to re-digitize the clips. By pre-digitizing the fine cuts with handles, we were able to relink once the locked cut came in—late in the process— making the digitizing of the locked cut much faster. So, instead of digitizing 1500 clips from scratch, we only had to do about 200 to 300 at that point."
Each Extreme Makeover: Home Edition features a construction project that is essentially a race against time. Similarly, shooting, editing, and posting it is another race against time— one that West Post Digital has consistently won under these
Extreme conditions. —
Karen Moltenbrey
A TV Commercial Hits its Target
The department store Target is known for its whimsical, stylized television commercials that feature men, women, and children—and, of course, the signature Target dog— moving at a fast pace within a setting dominated by its other signature of red and white colors and bull's eye. Recently, the store began a new "Product People" campaign that contains a similar colorful, active, and theatrical look as the previous commercials. But, on the other hand, it is a marked departure from the earlier design-oriented spots: In place of the energetic actors are energetic 3D characters made from everyday items that can be purchased at the store.
After completing the design phase, Radium, which crafted the spot, used Autodesk's Maya to model all the objects that would later comprise the characters, from a "woman" composed of nail polish and cosmetic–related items to an "athlete" made from sporting goods: a football face, tennis ball eyes, and a basketball belly.
Next, the crew photographed the actual products under studio lighting, first to enhance their natural color and texture, and then to give them a photoreal quality and retail appeal that would be retained in CG. The lighting pipeline was based on global illumination techniques to achieve the desired mix between photorealism and stylization, notes Aladino Debert, lead CG artist and head of CG at Radium.
The group had to design characters that would be not only photorealistic, but also fun to watch. Their anthropomorphic nature dictated that the artists use motion capture for the animation. So, first the artists created simple rigs of each character within Maya that mocap facility House of Moves (HOM) used during motion-capture sessions. At HOM, the animation was derived by motion-capturing a set of live dance performers (seven dancers responsible for a total of 14 actor/character combinations) within a 40x40-foot capture space using a Vicon MX 40 camera setup. During the process, all the "Product People" characters were shown in real time to give the director and the actors/dancers the ability to see how each of the characters moved. Real-time video feeds allowed the client and Radium creative team to approve the performance prior to animation.
"There were a lot of character rigs, and they were very complex and needed attention from our technical directors to ensure that there would be reliable real-time feedback and a high-quality final product that matched exactly what was seen on set," says Scott Gagain, executive producer at HOM. "It was one of our larger commercial productions. The set was packed with dancers and clients, but it was also fun, and it shows in the final product."
Once the animation data was delivered, Radium used its layered controls to finesse the motion, which Debert says was "90 percent there." Next, the group textured the images, and then rendered them using Mental Images' Mental Ray. "We were modeling, lighting, texturing, and rendering so that everything had a real feel. The animation comes to life via motion capture," he notes.
The biggest challenge, though, resulted not from the complex motions but from the complexity of the entire piece, with 16 3D characters and full CG environments—a kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, hallway, and more, all textured using Target's signature red-and-white color palette throughout for brand recognition.
"The project required that many parallel processes move forward in a smooth way. For example, as we were finishing the character design, the set designs were moving ahead, along with the final storyboards and rehearsals with the dancers," says Debert. "In the end, though, all those at-times disjointed processes came together to give the spot a unique look."


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The First Church of God in New Martinsville would like to say "Thank You" to those who made our third Fall Fun Fest, held on Oct. 12, a success. We are so grateful that the good Lord blessed us with an absolutely beautiful day to share his love with our community. Some of the day's activities included: Trunk or Treat, a bounce castle, a hayride down Hydro Drive, Bible handout, the "Bubble Wagon", games, face painting, sand art, food, fun, and lots of fellowship.
Special thanks to Bridgeport Tool for the use of a tractor and trailer for our hayride. Also, thank you to Cathy Westfall for bringing the "Bubble Wagon". We would also like to thank some other businesses for their donations and support: Bridgeport Tool, Wal-Mart, The Old Barn in Sardis, and the Hannibal Greenhouse.
Finally, without the love and support of our church family, this would not have been a success. Because of all the help mentioned above, seeds were planted and relationships were built-all for the Glory of God.
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Study examines ethnic disparities in Hawai'i's juvenile justice systemUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Tai-An Miao, (808) 226-4751
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Posted: Nov 14, 2012
A recent study commissioned by the Juvenile Justice State Advisory Council and conducted in partnership with the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Department of Urban and Regional Planning, found that Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and mixed‐race youth are disproportionately represented at many of the major decision points in the juvenile justice system, beginning at the point of arrest. The research findings also concluded that Hawaiian youth are over‐represented at more decision points than any other group and account for the largest share of arrests.
The Disproportionate Minority Contact in the Hawaiʻi Juvenile Justice System: 2000‐2010 report analyzed the arrest and court records of 56,978 individual juvenile offenders ages 10-17 years old during the 2000-2010 time period. Completed this past summer, according to the researchers, thisis the first major study conducted since 1995 that examines ethnic disparities in Hawai'i's overall juvenile justice system and demonstrates that little progress has been made in addressing persistent disparities over the past 17 years.
The Juvenile Justice State Advisory Council and UH Mānoa's Department of Urban and Regional Planning presented the main findings and recommendations of the study at a Joint Information Briefing on Wednesday, October 24, at the State Capitol.
"The juvenile justice system has major holes and gaps that the youth fall through, and we really need to fill them or we will see the same results years from now," said Karen Umemoto, lead author of the report and UH Mānoa Department of Urban and Regional Planning professor. "These gaps are in what we call the continuum of care, and in the early stages of juvenile youth involvement in the system, there isn't a close enough collaboration between the courts, the schools and community-based organizations. So many youth are not connected at the early stages of getting into trouble with services that could help them. Then what happens is many of them get into more serious problems, committing more serious offenses or repeating them."
The State of Hawai'i Office of Youth Services is initiating a Civil Citations Task Force in each county to begin to address the disparities by diverting youth arrested for low‐level offenses away from the courts and directing them to appropriate culture‐based programs and services that focus on healing and family strengthening.
The Task Force will include community-based organizations, Native Hawaiian trust organizations, and representatives from the Judiciary, Family Court, Honolulu Police Department, and other partner agencies.
A series of community presentations open to the public are being held on O'ahu; the next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, November 29, 2012 from 6-8 p.m. at the Queen Liliʻuokalani Children's Center Honolulu Unit at 1300-A Halona Street, Honolulu, HI 96817.
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The romantic and rich look of this plaque will be the perfect addition for any room or decoration for a wedding shower. Personalize these Nicole Crafts wood letters to match any motif. This is a good beginner decoupage project for those that are new to Mod Podge!
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1Paint the plaque Ebony Black, except the top. When dry, trace the top of the plaque on the back of the decorative paper and cut out. The paper is not as wide as the top of the plaque, so it will have to be pieced together.
2Glue paper to top of plaque using Mod Podge. Sand edges to expose some wood.
3Paint front of letters Deep Burgundy and the sides and edges Ebony Black. Paint wood plugs Ebony Black. Let dry.
4Glue rhinestones on letters; use photo for reference.
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David A. Sanchez, president of the 325,000-member California Teachers Association, released this statement about the controversial documentary "Waiting for 'Superman'" by Davis Guggenheim, which debuts in Los Angeles theaters today:
"Davis Guggenheim's latest documentary is evoking strong emotions from viewers. Unfortunately, its simplistic approach fails to provide even a glance at the real challenges and successes in America's public education system. At a time when public schools across the country, and especially here in California, are reeling from state budget cuts and need the support of all parents, communities and legislatures, along comes this unbalanced film that scapegoats teachers and their unions. We deserve a better script, and so do our students.
"Largely left out of this compelling narrative is an honest view into our public schools. There are millions of educators across this country overcoming amazing obstacles every day to deliver the best education with the resources they have. In fact, there are incredible things happening in public schools that others could learn from and build upon, but you wouldn't know it from watching this film.
"We all want the best for our students, and that includes making sure all children have access to great teachers in quality neighborhood schools. This should be our national focus and what drives our conversations. We must move on to a responsible conversation about public education in this country -- one that focuses on how we can work together to improve student learning, instead of a partial one that manages to disrespect millions of teachers in just one sitting.
"Our students in our California classrooms aren't waiting for Superman, they're just waiting for updated textbooks and other basic school supplies they need to learn -- and for the return of art, music and physical education programs so they can have a well-rounded education.
"A 90-minute documentary can't sum up the full story of public education. To get the real picture, you are going to have to start talking to teachers."
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Nothing better than more entries on the Horry Scale. Or, in this case, Mo entries.
The Jazz have been hovering around .500 all season, but a recent stretch of wins against the Lakers (in L.A.) and a nice rally against Toronto has Utah finding its rhythm. Being in a flow hasn't been a problem for the Spurs, who — surprise!! — have been in and out of the No. 1 spot in the West all season. A nationally televised date between San Antonio and Utah in Salt Lake City wouldn't seem to be a thriller in the making, especially given the Spurs' defensive rating (6th) and the Jazz's propensity for poor defense (20th in defensive rating). Yet down the stretch, we were treated to a Jazz-Spurs game that brought back memories of their 1990s rivalry, with Mo Williams putting on the hero cape this time.
For those that are new around these parts, the Horry scale examines a game-winning buzzer-beater (GWBB) in the categories of difficulty, game situation (was the team tied or behind at the time?), importance (playoff game or garden-variety Kings-Pistons game?), and celebration, and gives it an overall grade on a scale of 1-5 Robert Horrys, the patron saint of last-second daggers.
How does Williams' shot Wednesday night stack up? Let's take a look.
We'll detail the play itself below — which the Spurs defended well twice — but overall the shot wasn't too, too difficult for an NBA player of Williams' caliber. San Antonio's Danny Green was all over Williams on two different inbounds plays the Jazz tried to run and played him well once he got the ball. Williams wasn't having a pretty night at this point — he was 3-for-8 from the field and 0-for-3 on 3-pointers. But Utah traded Devin Harris (a career 31.4 percent 3-point shooter) and picked up Williams (a career 38.6 shooter) in the offseason in separate deals because of Williams' ability to make big 3-pointers. He came through this night.
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Utah rallies from a 90-83 hole with 4:50 left to eventually tie the score off Paul Millsap's short jumper in the paint with 40 seconds to go. After a missed jumper by Tony Parker — which Williams rebounds and brings up court — Williams takes a 3-pointer that goes off the front of the rim. Millsap rebounds it and the Jazz call timeout and set up a play, but Gordon Hayward struggles to find an open man and calls another timeout. Hayward is the trigger man again and Williams tries to work off an Al Jefferson screen with Green right on his hip, but eventually gets the ball. Williams dribbles out near the wing, gets about two feet behind the 3-point line and lets fly with Green closing out nicely. All net and buzzer, though.
As we mentioned above, the Jazz have been up and down all season, nearly matching a bad win with a good win game by game. But thanks to a West-leading 9-1 mark in front of the always-faithful Jazz fans at EnergySolutions Arena, Utah is No. 6 in the West and staying in the thick of things. San Antonio, as mentioned, is as elite as ever and came into the game having won 10 of its last 11 and sporting the best record in the NBA. It's hard to imagine either team swapping positions once May comes around, but for both teams, wins and losses against playoff-level/elite-caliber opponents are what can build (or break) confidence, especially in the case of the youthful Jazz.
All that said, this one probably had a little more importance for the Spurs. They're in a dogfight with Memphis and OKC for the No. 1 spot in the West and, in case you forgot, the third tiebreaker for playoff seeding is better winning percentage against teams in the conference.
Say what you want about Jazz fans, but those folks know how to celebrate a moment. Williams basks in the glory of the home crowd's adulation as he runs to the opposite end of the court and is mobbed by Hayward, Enes Kanter and others. Exactly what we've come to expect from Jazz players in Utah, but nothing too over the top.
3 1/2 Horrys. We gave the Parker-over-OKC shot 3 1/2 and this one fits many of the same criteria. Early-season matchups between playoff teams from 2012? Check. A game that — depending on your point of view — will help or harm a playoff case a few months from now? Check. Great celebration in front of an always-loyal home crowd? Check. This is prime 3 1/2-star territory.
Much like our last Horry Scale participant, J.R. Smith, Williams shows the calmness and mental toughness to shake off a rough shooting night and be the hero when his team needed it.That's something ol' Mr. Horry used to do. That's what we like about this one.
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More than one in four U.S. teens and young adults admit they are binge drinkers, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In the United States, binge drinking is defined as having four or more drinks for women, and five or more drinks for men, over a couple of hours — numbers that are different because men and women metabolize alcohol differently.
And it's not just teens who are affected, more than 33 million adults have reported binge drinking in the past year, according to the report.
"Binge drinking is a very large health and social problem" and one that has gone largely unnoticed, CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden said during a noon press conference Tuesday. "Most people who binge drink are not alcoholic. It may be because binge drinking has not been recognized as a problem (that) it has not decreased in the past 15 years."
Nonetheless, the toll of binge drinking is enormous.
More than 79,000 deaths each year in the United States result from drinking too much, with about half of these attributable to binge drinking, according to Dr. Robert Brewer, alcohol program leader at CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
Binge drinkers also put themselves and others at risk for alcohol-related car accidents, violence, HIV transmission and sexually transmitted diseases, drug rehab Florida, and unplanned pregnancy, according to the CDC.
Moreover, drinking too much can lead to liver disease, certain cancers, heart disease, stroke and other chronic diseases. Pregnant women who binge drink can also harm their developing fetus, resulting in permanent mental retardation and other birth defects, the CDC says.
And among teenagers, damage from regular binge drinking may far outlast a hangover the next morning. An earlier study found that in MRI scans, the brains of teens who drank heavily showed damaged nerve tissue compared to those who did not.
These findings are particularly worrisome in light of the current CDC report, which reveals that high school students tend to binge drink whenever they consume alcohol.
"Ninety percent of the alcohol consumed by high school students is consumed in the course of binge drinking, and more than half of the alcohol consumed by adults is consumed in the course of binge drinking," Frieden said.
Among drinkers, one-third of adults and two-thirds of high school kids binge drink, Frieden said.
"If excessive alcohol consumption every day is problem drinking, what is the occasional stint of up to five drinks at one sitting? The answer for many might be 'a party,' and that's just what makes binge drinking so dangerous," said Dr. David L. Katz, director of the Prevention Research Center at Yale University School of Medicine.
"While it resides in the realm of social acceptability, it is, in fact, a major cause of alcohol-related death, and the major cause of such deaths among adolescents and young adults. No party is worth the cost of a young life, full of promise," Katz added.
"Avoiding that cost starts with awareness. Adults need to know, and show, that a drink or two is fine — five or six is not. They need to pass on that awareness to their children. The tragic problem with not knowing when to say 'when' ... is that you may never get another chance," according to Katz.
Men are more than twice as likely to binge drink as women (21% compared with 10%). In addition, binge drinking is more common among whites (16%) than among blacks (10%).
While the report indicates that binge drinking is common, it is probably even more widespread than this report found.
"There really is a substantial under-reporting of binge drinking and alcohol consumption," said the CDC's Brewer. "Even though we are reporting high rates of binge drinking among adults and youth, there is good reason to believe it is significantly under-reported," he said.
Interestingly, binge drinking becomes more common as incomes rise. In fact, adults with incomes of $75,000 or more were more likely to be binge drinkers. About one in five reported binge drinking, Brewer said.
A possible reason that binge drinking increases with income is because it is not recognized as a risky health behavior, Frieden said. "Another possibility is simply with more money, people are able to afford more alcohol and do so," he said.
For the report, the CDC used the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and the National Youth Risk Behavior Survey to collect data on self reports of binge drinking during the past month for 412,000 adults aged 18 and older and over 16,000 high school students.
Binge drinking also varies from state to state, ranging from 6.8% of adults in Tennessee to 23.9% in Wisconsin and leading to alcohol rehab Florida. Binge drinking is most common in the Midwest, North Central Plains, lower New England, Delaware, Alaska, Nevada, and the District of Columbia, according to the report.


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Mt. Diablo school board candidate Ernie DeTrinidad drops out of race
By Theresa Harrington
Tuesday, September 25th, 2012 at 2:31 pm in Education, Election, Mt. Diablo school district.
I have received the following statement from Mt. Diablo school board candidate Ernie DeTrinidad, announcing his decision to withdraw from the race. Please note that he will still be listed on the ballot.
"As residents of the Mt. Diablo school community continue to face really tough challenges, the need to change the makeup of the School Board is without doubt the most important and vital. It is critical for residents to elect new members, members with new ideas, solutions and, most important, new approaches. We must build a more positive, productive, collaborative, and inclusive environment for our students, teachers and district staff, to achieve their very best – because successful students are essential for a healthy and prosperous community.
It is my belief that two candidates offer the Board exactly what is necessary, a genuine passion for positive change. Barbara Oaks and Debra Mason bring educational, community and organizational experience to the table. They are independent, yet can collaborate on creative solutions for the benefit of our students and our community.
We don't need someone who will use the Board as a stepping-stone in his political pursuits, and falsely labels himself as an educator. We don't need someone who has had ample opportunity as a current Board member, and yet has failed to lift our School District out of low performance results, instead filling the Board with negativity and distancing the Board from the very communities it serves, alienating District employees and staff.
In order to bolster our opportunity to achieve positive change, I have decided to withdraw from candidacy for School Board. This is a most difficult decision, but one I make in the best interest of our students. Instead I stand ready and ask that our community join me in support of the two best candidates for MDUSD School Board; Barbara Oaks and Debra Mason.
Ernie DeTrinidad
Parent/Candidate for MDUSD School Board"
Do you agree with DeTrinidad's decision to drop out of the race?
OCT. 15 UPDATE: Here is the link to the CCTV MDUSD candidate forum: http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_21661051
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