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Staying fit when you travel can be exhausting just to think about. No one likes hotel gyms. So we have a great line up of recent fitness tech ...On August 20, 2013 / By Tiffani Buteau
Hoops is going high-tech with the Evo One basketball, a Kickstarter project looking to stuff a basketball coach into a roundball. No, no basketball coaches will be harmed ...On August 16, 2013 / By Chance Kinney
Do we really need another fitness tracker on the market? You be the judge. ...On August 1, 2013 / By Chip Chick Staff
Plantronics is releasing an update to their wireless earphones with the BackBeat GO 2, improving on their original BackBeat GO earphones, which we took a listen to last ...On July 24, 2013 / By Chip Chick Staff
We got a sneak peak at Roxy's new fall fitness line and loved it. It's got the active woman covered for every sport. High end sport fabric, sleek ...On July 5, 2013 / By Tiffani Buteau
The fitness tracker market keeps on growing, but the fitness trackers keep on getting smaller and smaller. ...On June 28, 2013 / By Chance Kinney
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Fitbit is pushing yet another fitness tracker out to market, revealing the Fitbit Flex at CES this week. The Flex joins the One, the Zip, and the Aria ...On January 7, 2013 / By Chip Chick Staff
Fitbit One is essentially a suped up version of the Fitbit Zip we recently reviewed. It's also a true update to the original Fitbit Ultra. And while the ...On December 18, 2012 / By Helena Stone
Fitbit is the pedometer of the future…and the future is now. Obligatory sad story: The Fitbit Ultra was one of my favorite product reviews to date, one day ...On October 23, 2012 / By Scott Schaen
Come 2013, adidas will be dramatically changing up the way managers evaluate their teams. It could also change the way games are watched by MLS fans. Wherever you ...On July 20, 2012 / By Chance Kinney
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When Striiv hits Best Buy stores next week, it'll come with maybe the most comprehensive social fitness program we've seen yet out of the spate of mobile fitness ...On April 25, 2012 / By Chance Kinney
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The Hydro Tracker GPS from FINIS works a lot like other fitness accessories – it can map routes, track movement, and record fitness statistics. This one might be ...On February 24, 2012 / By Chance Kinney
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OPD: Ocala man arrested after fathering child with 14-year-old girl
Published: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 at 2:03 p.m.
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A 32-year-old Ocala man was arrested Tuesday on a warrant for sexual battery and impregnating a child in a case involving a 14-year-old victim.
The victim, now an adult, told an Ocala police officer that she had sex with Donald Elton Jackson in 2009, according to a police report. She had been introduced to him through friends.
The girl became pregnant and had a baby.
Jackson met with the officer last year and denied he was the father of the child, according to the report. He said he never touched the girl.
Through a search warrant, the officer was able to obtain a DNA sample from Jackson. The results showed that he was the father.
A warrant was then issued for his arrest.
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Forest inventory with Terrestrial LiDAR: what about Hand-Held Mobile LiDAR?
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For a decade, studies of the application of static Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS) in plotwise forest inventories are giving more and more effective results. In spite of the improvements occurring in ... [more ▼]
For a decade, studies of the application of static Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS) in plotwise forest inventories are giving more and more effective results. In spite of the improvements occurring in processing scan data to extract forest attributes, the occlusion effect is still limiting the processing efficiency. A multi-scan approach is recommended to reduce this effect. However, such approach needs pre-scan preparations (setting up the plot, targets positioning), it requires data registration and it comes at a higher data collection cost. In this study we explore the potential of a Hand-held mobile LiDAR System (HMLS) as new LiDAR tool to scan forest plots. HMLS data are compared to static TLS data (single and multi-scan) in terms of data acquisition, registration time and quality of automatic DBH extraction. The low weight, small size of the instrument and no targets requirements reduce the time of pre-scan preparations to the time needed for single scan which is 6 times less than scanning a plot with 5 scans. The registration time depends of the time spent to scan the plot and it is of the same magnitude than single scan. The resulting point cloud of the HMLS is noisier than TLS point clouds. Nevertheless, error on DBH estimations is similar to scanning a plot with a TLS positioned at 5 locations. RMSE is higher than multi-scan and close to single scan for trees detected by the both LiDAR technologies. This first study exhibits the high potential of HMLS by its simple use, which needs only one operator while presenting similar results in automatic DBH extraction than static TLS. Technology and registering method improvements of this type of mobile LiDAR will reduce the noise of the point cloud, which might reduce the DBH RMSE. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 224 (29 ULg)
Soil Organic Carbon mapping of partially vegetated agricultural fields with imaging spectroscopy
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Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) is one of the key soil properties, but the large spatial variation makes continuous mapping a complex task. Imaging spectroscopy has proven to be an useful technique for mapping of soil properties, but the applicability decreases rapidly when fields are partially covered with vegetation. In this paper we show that with only a few percent fractional maize cover the accuracy of a Partial Least Square Regression (PLSR) based SOC prediction model drops dramatically. However, this problem can be solved with the use of spectral unmixing techniques. First, the fractional maize cover is determined with linear spectral unmixing, taking the illumination and observation angles into account. In a next step the influence of maize is filtered out from the spectral signal by a new procedure termed Residual Spectral Unmixing (RSU). The residual soil spectra resulting from this procedure are used for mapping of SOC using PLSR, which could be done with accuracies comparable to studies performed on bare soil surfaces (Root Mean Standard Error of Calibration = 1.34 g/kg and Root Mean Standard Error of Prediction = 1.65 g/kg). With the presented RSU approach it is possible to filter out the influence of maize from the mixed spectra, and the residual soil spectra contain enough information for mapping of the SOC distribution within agricultural fields. This can improve the applicability of airborne imaging spectroscopy for soil studies in temperate climates, since the use of the RSU approach can extend the flight-window which is often constrained by the presence of vegetation. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 65 (12 ULg)


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Indians are more dependent on others while taking decisions for investments through internet compared to their global peers, as per a survey by information and measurement firm Nielsen.
Over two in five, which is 41 per cent, of online Indian consumers make their own decisions for investments with mutual funds, metals, stocks and bonds emerging as their preferred options, according to the Nielsen Global Survey of Investment Attitudes.
"Nielsen's survey shows that when making personal finance or investment decisions, nearly half (49 per cent) of global online consumers rely only on themselves," it said.
The survey, however, said compared to ordinary customers, net savvy Indians are more independent while taking investment decisions.
"As opposed to the average customer, online consumers in India appear to be far less dependent on others in decision exhibiting a marked independence in being self sufficient and not entirely trusting of people around them," Nielsen India Director Subhash Chandra said.
The report said 16 per cent of Indian respondents indicated that they would take the advice of friends, relatives and colleagues while making financial decisions.
Globally, 20 per cent of respondents sought advice from a financial planner or adviser while 18 per cent relied on friends, relatives and colleagues for advice, the survey said.
When it came to investment options for the Indians, 64 per cent of the respondents favoured mutual funds among the top four asset classes, Nielsen said.
It is followed by precious metals (63 per cent), stocks (56 per cent) and bonds (40 per cent) as the most favoured investment options by online Indian consumers, it added.
"The increasing popularity of mutual funds as an important investment tool is fuelled by the aware online consumer, who sees great benefit in systematic investment plans on offer now," Chandra said.
Besides, Indian netizens continue to be enamoured by precious metals for traditional purposes as well as investments because of the perception that these are profitable over the years, he added.
The global study, which surveyed over 28,000 internet respondents in 56 countries, showed that a total of 42 per cent online Indian consumers made investments.
Interestingly, despite being net savvy, about four out of five (77 per cent) of online consumers in India conduct their transactions at the branch of their favoured bank.
While 68 per cent of respondents use online banking facilities, 42 per cent use the mobile phone for their banking needs. Less than 37 per cent use landline phone or financial planners for their banking


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Gunmen blow a hole in wall on Gaza-Egypt border, allowing Palestinians to enter Strip
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Ali Waked and AFP
Palestinians crossing the Rafah crossing (Photo: AP)
As a result, hundreds of travellers blocked at the Rafah terminal managed to cross into Gaza, forcing their way past Palestinian and Egyptian security guards.
Last September militants blew a gaping hole in the barrier, enabling hundreds of Palestinians to surge into Egypt shortly after Israel withdrew all its settlers and ground troops after a 38-year occupation of Gaza.
Since the launching of the IDF's "Summer Rains" operation in Gaza following the June 25 kidnapping of Corporal Gilad Shalit, European observers left the crossing, which was later shut down as a result.
The Arab League offered financial assistance to the thousands of Palestinians who were stuck on both sides of the crossing.
Palestinians said a number of sick people died due to the fact that they were prevented from passing through Rafah.
At the end of June gunmen managed to blow up part of the border fence, allowing many Palestinians to pass to and from Egypt.


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Roberto Martinez Spends Christmas With Girlfriend Sara Underwood's Family
You know, we're coming up to about a year since The Bachelorette Season 6's Roberto Martinez was first spotted in pics alongside model/actress Sara Underwood.
Sara first shared a photo with Roberto (and friends) in January, then dating reports hit magazines in March, and she moved to San Diego to be closer to him in April. Since then, they've been sharing photos of their many outdoor adventures — and it looks like Hottie Dimples spent Christmas with his girlfriend's family.
"Awesome Christmas Day on Mt. Hood yesterday," Roberto tweeted on December 26. "Catching some air w/ @SaraUnderwood. Good Times!"
Mount Hood is just outside Portland, Oregon, where Sara is from. Also on December 26, Sara shared a group photo of her with Roberto and her parents, writing, "Happy Holidays from the Underwood's (and a Martinez)." Beautiful pic!
Sara seems to want the kind of fairytale romance that her mom and dad share. Back on December 14, she shared a photo of her parents dancing close, with her dad beaming at her mom: "My inspiration, my Mom and Dad. Love love love."
Nice! She's on the right track, if she's looking for a cute guy to dance with for years to come. On December 1, Sara shared a pic that showed her holding Roberto's hand as they walked a trail together. She wrote, "I'll hold that hand for forever."
Sigh. She's living our dream. Roberto and Ali Fedotowsky made up one of our favorite Bachelor Nation couples, and when they split after an 18-month engagement we were pretty devastated. Now they have both moved on to new loves and we're happy for everyone involved!


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This past week I started the ramping phase of this program I'm doing. Now I have a question or two about it.
Sun 2hr endurance ride
Mon 25-65min ride with two 10 min Intervals@ 88-92%HR Rest for 5mins
Tue Off
Wed 60min ride
Thurs 30mins lifting@gym
Fri 25-65min ride with 4 1min intervals@ 92-95% with 3 min rest
Sat off(yea right no ride on sat I think not!!!!)
So here is the deal I have a 6mile round trip commute 5 days a week not real tuff. And yesterday my buddy wanted to ride after he got off work so after the interval work I met up with him for another hour. Now a two hour ride instead of only 1 hr. Then today I got the family togeather for a family spin local trails. My question is adding the extra hour tues is it going to get me into trouble with over training? My pals and I like to ride togeather after they get done at their jobs but they aren't ready to go until 5:30-6:00pm. I get off work at 3:30pm. As far as the intervals go i don't have a HRM so I'm riding them as hard as I can for the amout of time needed. Is this a bad thing or not? Thanks in advance for your help.


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For the given example, and generally for purposes similar to these, one usually uses a batch renamer. There are many of the sort, so I'd rather not give reccommendations - instead, my heartly suggestion is to read on what they do in the above article, afterwards finding one that suits your needs should be trivial.
In the above article there are also several mentioned, for both Linux and Windows.
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In Windows on command line: Use powershell, and its foreach and rename-to commands. There you can use all powershell functions (convert case, replace, sha-1 etc) for manipulating the names.
Windows or Ubuntu: Use Emacs' directory editor - you basically open a file listing in the editor, edit it (search/replace, whatever you like) and then you "apply" all the changes at once. (Note that if you don't like Emacs - and it is some kind of love-or-hate relationship - you might not like this solution either).


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SHADYSIDE - Not even Mother Nature could cool off River's red-hot bats.
After a 52-minute weather delay following the second inning, the Pilots (19-9) broke loose for half-dozen runs in the bottom of the fourth inning on their way to a 11-2 thumping of PVC rival Frontier in Division IV sectional softball tournament action in Shadyside.
River, the designated host, led 3-1 when the lightning and rain came.
"We had a good fourth inning," River coach Dave Wright said. "Coming into this game I was a little bit concerned because if you look at the team's that Frontier has played, they've played them tough.
"It took us until the fourth inning to get things going, but we got production from people that haven't been giving us production."
He was referring to No. 9 hitter Anna Rufener. The senior slugged a two-run single in the second to give the Pilots a 3-1 advantage. She added another RBI in the six-run uprising.
"She's a senior and this was a good day for her," Wright said.
"She's struggled some, so this was good for her confidence."
Mackenzie Marshall led the winners' 13-hit attack with a bases-clearing triple and a sacrifice fly for four RBI. Starting pitcher Renae Riley added a pair of singles and two RBI, while Haylee Bowers drove in a run with a single and double. Rachael Hutchison added an RBI single.
"This was a team effort," Wright said when told that all but one of his players that stepped into the batter's box had a base knock. "This was a good win for us."
Riley was sailing along until the rains and lightning came. She had fanned three and yielded a trio of singles through two innings. However, following the delay she couldn't get back into the flow of things.
"Renae just couldn't get back into her rhythm," Wright explained. "I went out and asked her if she was OK, and she said 'yes.' But when they (Frontier) got the bases loaded, I had to make the (pitching) change."
In came sophomore Gabby Goudy and she proceeded to strike out the next two batters to leave the bases loaded.
"That was huge," Wright explained.
After Goudy fanned the side in the top of the fourth after the leadoff batter reached on an error, her teammates gave her a lot of breathing room.
Marshall's triple that drove in a trio of teammates was the big hit of the inning. Bowers, Riley and Rufener also knocked in runs during the outburst.
"They (River) came out after the break and really hit the ball, especially in the fourth inning," Frontier coach Andy Neader said. "I think we had the momentum before the break. We were playing a good game, but then we settled down and they (River) kept on going."
River will try for its 20th victory Thursday against the winner of today's game between Shadyside and Toronto.


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October 02, 2012 01:00 PM by Stephanie Gustafson
Say it ain't so! According to the latest gossip, former Punk'd co-host Miley Cyrus will once again be trying her hand at acting. However, this time, it won't be the standard chick flick fare. Instead, Miley Cyrus could be taking on the role of Bonnie Parker in an upcoming mini-series version of Bonnie and Clyde. How'd she land that gig?
Miley Cyrus recently showed us that she was capable of more than she's shown in the past with a surprisingly impressive cover of the beloved song Lilac Wine. Now, the former Disney star is looking to revive her image in the movie industry. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Miley is currently in talks to play Bonnie Parker in an upcoming History Channel mini-series.
She may have some hidden talent just waiting to burst out, but Miley Cyrus will still have huge shoes to fill if she takes on the role of Bonnie Parker. After all, the talented Faye Dunaway earned an Academy Award nomination for her performance in the 1967 version of Bonnie and Clyde. And whatever talent she may have, Miley Cyrus is no Faye Dunaway.
Nothing has been said yet of which young man could be selected to play Clyde Barrow in the mini-series, but we do know that Neil Maron and Craig Zadan are on board as executive producers. These two have seen a fair amount of success in the past few years, having worked together on the hit series Smash. Can they do it again with a recreation of Bonnie and Clyde?
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5 Responses to "Could Miley Cyrus Be The New Bonnie Parker?"
gie Says:
October 2nd, 2012 at 1:46 pm
stMe Says:
October 2nd, 2012 at 1:59 pm
She needs to go back to the farm and live like the white trash that she is and that her daddy raised her to be–just like him.
She's a mess and her nasaly, whinny voice is so much worse than fingernails on a chalkboard.
Since she has absolutely ZERO looks or talent, she must be giving out lots of BJs to get work. But she's well practiced since she's been giving them to her daddy and any man who could give her some kind of "show biz" kind of boost since she was a pre-teen.
matt Says:
October 2nd, 2012 at 2:40 pm
yes miley can pull it off bc she is such a great actress i am truely a big miley cyrus fan
donna Says:
October 2nd, 2012 at 4:17 pm
Sure she can do justice to the role. I think she looks more like the real-life Bonnie Parker than Faye Dunaway ever did. Far as I am concerned Beatty and Dunaway were poor choices to portray BP & CB. I also think Miley has yet uncharted talent.
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As you did Rich, I am sharing my thoughts here. The comments are not meant towards you personally but they are meant to try and shine a light on the fact that way too many people are after this gig for the $$ and not for the Joy of Internetworking. > A couple of years ago, at the height of the dot com era, a CCIE in my area > could easily pull in 150k. Did I start down this road for the money? Hell > yes. I already had field experience, a good job, seniority, respect, and all > that stuff that makes work fun. Besides, CCIE would be a challenge. But a > LOT has changed in the past couple of years. Bad economy. Fewer jobs. > Lowered salaries. And apparently a butt load of CCIE's! I mean wow! And to > hear that many of them are just lab ccie's really brings the 8000+ CCIE's into > a different light. It brings my own efforts into the same light. It reminds > me of what happened to Novell certifications... I had just gotten my CNE when > I heard the term 'paper CNE' about a guy at the same company who carried cue > cards around to customers with commands written on them. Interesting--so you dont think that the growth in the Internet and the fact that companies' reliance on their own networks and the growth of networking in general has had anything to do with the increase in the number of CCIE's. There are currently over 150000 networks in a full Internet routing table. can you imagine how many devices and networks are behind these? I will acknowledge the fact that pay rates have come down to realistic ranges again. this is due more to the economy than to the number of CCIE's > > I haven't gotten my ccie yet but I'm hoping to. My chances would probably be > greatly enhanced by going to a boot-camp, but I feel that would just add to > the problem. How is going to a boot camp adding to the problem? The boot camps that are at the top of the list include instructors which Cisco itself calls on to 'Alpha" test new versions of the tests. There is probably not one of us here who can say that he or she uses ALL of the tested technologies daily. what is the difference between locking yourself in a room for months or going to a week long intensive session where you can practice in a structured environment. For me a good bootcamp means maximizing my study time and working on speed and time management which i personally have trouble doing alone in my home lab. >Maybe limiting the number of active CCIE's in a country would > keep the certification from getting too bloated. Or maybe just stop the > certification process now or at a fixed number. Or better yet, allow no more > than 1000 a year (total) to be certified. Candidate selection process could > be a weighted drawing (increased chances every year). This makes huge sense. I can hear it now from the Cisco reps...."I am sorry mr customer, we just cant sell any more routers this year. All of the qualified individuals that we have for support are too busy and we cant certify any more this year. We wouldnt want to water down the value of the certification.....Hello....Hello....hmmm mr customer must have hung up. I wonder why??" CCIE and all of the certifications are Cisco certs and it is in Cisco's best interest to have a well trained and certified support infrastructure so they can sell more product. I think if we move to Guadalupe, Puerto Rico, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe, Morocco, Bahrain, Jordan, Quatar, Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka or Vietnam you can be the second CCIE in any of those areas and probably demand a very, very high salary. > > I'm not trying to criticize anyone's efforts, but rather express the results > of those efforts. It's kind of liking moving into a new, quiet, expensive > neighborhood. It's great until everyone else moves in, and suddenly that > expensive house isn't worth what you paid for it. If all we are doing this for is to get into the fancy neighborhood, we are doing it for the wrong reasons.


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Kim Kardashian's Man, Kanye West, Claims His Arrogant Outbursts Are For His Fans
December 17, 2013 02:00 PM by Suzy Kerr
Generous and self-sacrificing are two words that no one anywhere (except perhaps Kim Kardashian) would ever use to describe Kanye West. However, that's exactly what the rapper and fiancé to the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star says he is – specifically when it comes to his crazy outbursts at his concerts. Giving guy that he is, he's doing it all for us. Oh Kanye, you shouldn't have! No really, YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE. Please stop. For the love of God, STOP.
Kanye, who's currently in the midst of his Yeezus concert tour, let fans in Anaheim know the truth behind his self-centered rants and silly antics during a concert the other night. As he's done in previous performances, Yeezy halted the show to deliver an important message, but this time it wasn't about fashion or not getting nominated for a Grammy.Instead, it was about him, and us, and how his arrogant outbursts are a direct result of his abundant generosity.
Wearing one of his trademark (and creepy) masks, 'Ye told concertgoers, "I want to explain to y'all how arrogant I am. I'm so arrogant, that I actually think I can outsmart the media." I would agree with that, wouldn't you? He then continued, "One of the media's main things that they like to think is that the reason why I fight so much is just so I can, like, be doper or something." Yep, doper.But he wasn't finished. "I don't give a f**k about looking cool," he said to a cheering crowd before also pointing out that he's "been dope since age mother**king five."
Finally, Kim Kardashian's baby daddy got to the point, which was when he delivered the bit about how everything he does is really for all us nobodies. "But [the media] try to make it seem like my whole purpose in anything that I do and anything that I say….is about me. Well, where I think I have been outsmarted is, what they don't realize and what I think you all realize, is everything I do is actually about YOU."
And then people cheered. And I cried, because REALLY?! Kanye West acts the way he does because he's Kanye West, and he thrives on attention and discord. And it's kind of disgusting for him to say that his actions are done with anyone but himself in mind. Besides, what benefit does anyone else get from him mouthing off for 10 minutes during a concert, besides the brief entertainment that comes from reading an article such as this?Answer: none.Unless, of course, he chose to appear more regularly on Keeping Up with the Kardashians, which would provide even more entertainment.
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I spent a few hours yesterday at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show and, among other things, got a good dose of stove lust as a number of the high end range companies were there. Amidst all the big, beefy grills and brightly colored dials, I felt myself strongly influenced by the look and feel of each of the grills and longing for something that seemed original with not too many bells and whistles. So I decided to pull together a list of all the MOST BEAUTIFUL range companies I knew (money, no object) so you'd have plenty of eye candy on this rainy Monday and also so you'd have a starting point for the day you outfit your dream home. Enjoy!
Retro Stove Love
Maybe it's our habit of always living in older apartments or just our Mid-Century Modern sensibilities, but we love the aesthetics of a retro stove, and know we're not alone! Encompassing a number of styles and ages, retro stoves are unique and fun. Do you think they're charming or too old-fashioned?
Household Appliance Injuries
It's not surprising that some of the appliances we keep in our homes can be injury inducing if handled incorrectly or carelessly. We found this list to be pretty intriguing, though, of the 16 most "dangerous" household gadgets.
Sources for Retro Style Refrigerators?
Good Questions
Q: I'm totally in love with Big Chill refrigerators. I love their retro look and modern-day efficiency. One would look perfect in my tiny bungalow. The problem is, I don't have almost $3,000 to drop on a fridge. Do you know of any less expensive fridges that still have this retro character?
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This looks pretty promising. PS has a similar filter and with a lil tweaking you should be able to do this pretty darn easy. I'd like to see the process as I've never actually tried it, only thought about it. Nice job.
Now this has certainly been done before but I've been playing around and trying to get a good town result in Gimp using the mosaic filter and I think I've ended up with something rather nice. Here's the end result:
and a variation with a few tricks applied:
I'll go through the steps I took to get this in the following tutorial.
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This looks pretty promising. PS has a similar filter and with a lil tweaking you should be able to do this pretty darn easy. I'd like to see the process as I've never actually tried it, only thought about it. Nice job.
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Thanks - obviously that is a somewhat extreme example, and it may well be that it is best used for smaller regions as that looks a little overwhelming, but the sense of buildings seems to work there. Anyway, on with the tutorial.
1. Lay out your roads
Create a new transparent layer (shift-click the new layer button on the layers dialogue). Call the layer Roads.
First things first. Lay out the areas that will form your roads. Do this with a nice large brush (your actual roads will be a little smaller than these). Your image should look something like this:
2. Get some colours for your roofs
Now we want some nice variation in the colours of the roofs of the buildings. No town looks any good with uniform roof colours. What we will do here is create a solid colour layer that will be used by the mosaic layer as the base for the buildings further down the line. So if you want one district to have blue roofs - make sure that area is blue here.
I want to have roofs with a wide variety of browns in the roof colours. To this end I create a new layer and call it colours. I then take the brush tool and make sure that the opacity sensitivity for my tablet is off. I want the whole layer to be opaque so that the roofs that are generated are opaque. Now I pick the Use colour from gradient option and pick the Browns gradient from the drop down. I then colour in the whole map with random colours. If you want colour variations that are less random - this is the place to make sure they are in the right place. You should now have something like this:
[b]3. Using the mosaic filter[b]
Now we are ready for the crux of the process, using the mosaic filter. Make sure you have your Colours layer selected and go to Filters->Distorts->Mosaic. Now what you put in here will affect the shape and size of your buildings. Play around with either Octagons and squares, and squares and adjust the neatness slider and see what the results look like. Of course, adjust the size slider too to fit the size you want your final buildings to be. The other settings I would set to the values shown here because they give flat coloured tiles with white gaps between which we will need later.
Here are the settings I use:
This will now give you a layer that we'll use later as the base of the colour for our buildings.
4. Creating a mask
First of all duplicate the layer Colours and rename it (I've called it streets in my example, but building mask would probably be more appropriate). Now go to Colours->Desaturate. The various options don't really matter here. Next go to Colours->Threshold. Now you'll see that our lovely mosaic pattern has suddenly gone very black and white. Play around with the location of the threshold value until you are happy with the density of the buildings. I left it so there were a couple of holes in the pattern, but not too many.
Now we need to cut out the roads from this as we do not want buildings on our roads - or even half on the roads. So first move the roads layer above the rest and select the magic wand tool with 'select merged' checked, like this:
Okay, I'll carry on from here tomorrow.
Now, set the threshold to 0 - this is important as otherwise you'll end up with some slightly transparent buildings. Click the magic wand on the road and you'll get a selection that encompasses the road and all the houses that are adjacent to it.
Now make sure the black and white mosaic layer is selected and go to Edit->Fill with Background colour to fill the selection with white (or ctrl-. for quick).
Do not get rid of the selection, we want to put some of those buildings back in again.
You should now have something like this:
To replace some of those houses we need a little bit of trickery. Take the following steps:
1. Make sure the Roads layer is selected.
2. Go back to the magic wand and deselect the Sample Merged option.
3. Change the selection preferences to Subtract from Selection.
Your tools window should now look like this:
Now click on the black road. Now you just have the white space selected where you want to replace buildings. However this still borders the road, so if we just fill that with black then we'll be back where we started. To get around this do the following.
1. Go to Select->Shrink... and shrink your selection by 2 pixels, leave all other options at their default.
2. Go to Select->Grow... and grow by one pixel.
This has the effect of getting rid of tiny areas and retaining larger ones.
3. Make sure your black and white mosaic layer is selected.
4. Go to Edit->Fill with Foreground colour (or ctrl-, for quick).
You should now have something that looks like this:
Essentially we are now done, having created a mask that has all of our houses in it. Now the challenge is to make this pretty. I'll address this in the next post.
Now we'll go back to that colour layer we left alone. First of all, we want to get rid of all the blocks of colour that represent houses that we no longer need.
1. Make sure your black and white mosaic layer is selected.
2. Select all (ctrl-a).
3. Copy (ctrl-c)
4. Select your colour layer.
5. Right click the colour layer in the layers dialogue and select Add Layer Mask...
6. Click okay in the dialogue
7. Select the layer mask in the layers dialogue.
8. Paste (ctrl-v) and anchor the pasted layer to the layer mask (click the little anchor at the bottom of layers dialogue).
Now the layer mask is the wrong way round at the moment - it is masking out the buildings and only revealing the white between. With the layer mask selected, go to Colours->Invert. You'll now have the mask the right way round. If you move the colours layer to the top of your layer stack you should now see something like this:
This is all very well, but the houses are just flat blocks of colour at the moment. We want to give them some substance. To do this, take the following steps.
1. Duplicate the black and white mosaic building mask layer and rename it something like "Building Bump Map"
2. Go to Colours->Invert to make the streets black and the buildings white. Remember, bump mapping takes white points to be the highest and black points to be the lowest, so we want the streets to be the lowest point.
3. Change to the Select by Colour Tool with threshold set to zero, and click on one of the white buildings to select all the buildings.
You should now have something that looks like this (note that I've turned off the visibility of the other layers so that I can see what I'm doing):
4. Switch to the gradient tool.
5. Select the Shaped Angular option in the Shape drop down.
6. Check the switch direction checkbox beside the Gradient: drop down
7. Click and drag inside one of your selected buildings to fill all of them with a shaped gradient.
8. Edit->Select None (ctrl-shift-a) to see your handiwork.
It should now look something like this:
This is now ready for use as a bump map.
9. Turn off the visibility of this layer and select your Colours layer again.
10. Right click the layer in the layers dialogue->Apply Layer Mask
11. Go to Filters->Map->Bump Map...
12. In the Bump Map dialogue make sure that your Building Bump Map layer is selected as the bump map.
13. Play with the Depth slider until the preview looks good.
Here are the settings I used:
14. Now click okay and you should have something like this:
In the next section we'll look at putting in a background and some finishing touches.
Now we'll put in some colour to finish the whole thing off. First of all, let's put in some grass background.
1. Create a new layer
2. Place it under your Colours layer and your Roads layer
3. Fill it with a nice grass texture (select a grass texture and then hit ctrl-.
Now it will look something like this - its starting to come together:
We also want roads that aren't black lines. For this take the following steps:
1. Create a new layer and call it Street Colour
2. Fill it with a nice street texture - I've found that the default Gimp pattern Slate is actually not too bad as a starting point.
Now this makes everything grey - we don't want that. We want to create a layer mask that will show only the areas we want.
3. Right click Street Colour in the layers dialogue and go to Add Layer Mask...
4. Select Black - full transparency in the Layer Mask Dialogue.
5. Select your Roads layer.
6. Select the Magic Wand tool and make sure the selection mode is Replace Current Selection
7. Click on the road to select all your roads (if you have disconnected road sections it is better to use the Select by Colour Tool here instead).
You should now have something that looks like this:
8. Select the layer mask for the Street Colour layer in the layers dialogue
9. Go to Select->Shrink and pick 2 pixels
10. Fill the selection with white.
11. Edit->Select none (ctrl-shift-a).
Now this gives a very hard edged road network. I personally think this is a little too clean. To fix this, still with the layer mask selected, do the following:
12. Go to Filters->Blur->Gaussian blur
13. Accept the defaults and hit okay.
You should now have something that looks like this:
Now the roads are a bit dark, so I used the Colours->Brightness/Contrast dialogue to up the brightness of the roads a bit:
Okay, so now we want to add some shadows.
1. Go back to your black and white buildings layer
2. Use the Select By Colour Tool to get a selection of all the buildings
3. Go to Filters->Light and Shadow->Drop Shadow
4. Pick the following options in the dialogue:
5. Hit okay and move the layer under your Colours Layer
That's it done. The town is finished and the houses are all there. My final screen looks like this:
and the final map looks like this
Now there are lots of things that can be done to tweak this process - if you fiddle with the settings in the mosaic filter specifically you will be able to get more or less spaced out houses and different shapes. Equally you can posterise the colours layer and apply a stroke to the houses to make it look more hand drawn. Here I also put all the colour layers over a parchment background and changed them to multiply, overlay, or hard light, to get a less intense feel. I added an overlay layer with some broad regions of light and dark for the hills. I also used the bump map layer as an overlay layer to give a bit more light and shade to the buildings.
Here's the layer layout for that map:
love the tutorial! and I think that the random village shapes look cool
btw, what did you do for that last pic? it looks awesome
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The steps I took to make it look pretty are:
1. Add a parchment texture as the background.
2. Change the layers above in the following way:
a. Duplicate the layer
b. Set the blend mode of the bottom of the two copies to overlay
c. Reduce the opacity of the top layer to between 50-80% depending on the result
This softens the colours and blends the colour scheme together a little more. Now to create some light and dark regions:
3. Create a new layer over the map and set the mode to overlay.
4. Fill with precisely 50% grey (you will see no effect at this stage as 50% grey does nothing for overlay layers. Don't worry, it will be important later).
5. Go to the dodge/burn tool and take a nice large fuzzy brush. Make sure you have the tool set to burn and the range set to shadow:
6. Now run the brush over those regions that you would like to be dark - essentially hill-sides away from your sun.
7. Now switch to dodge, and set the range to midtones.
8. Run the brush over those regions that are in the light - hill tops and the sides of hills facing the sun.
You will now have soft highlights and shadows on your map. This will give the impression of hills. Repeat these steps to get deeper shadows and feel free to use the smudge tool with a large fuzzy brush to smooth out any shadows that are too dark.
If you set your overlay layer to normal you'll see that you've really got a grey layer with lighter and darker regions on it. For the map above, my overlay layer looks like this:
That's all there is to it.
I've also uploaded the .xcf file in a zip for people who want to see the breakdown of all the layers and blending modes for that final image. I hope its useful!
Nice tutorial torstan
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Yeah, though I would not say it's cheap. The whole way of making 'Frances' is working with people and locations - if they charged you what they normally charge or they took their normal fee than this would be as expensive as anything I've made. It's really about finding the right movie for the right circumstance, and it felt like this was the right way to make this movie. Going back to the pop song thing, I did think about Paul McCartney records he made, post-Beatles, like Ram, that were made with smaller circumstances, a lower key way of making the record. But the records are no less big. They have big sounds, the intimacy and the personality is clear, but the songs are as crafted and beautiful as anything he might do with a big band in a recording studio, like Band on the Run.What about the secretive approach you took with "Frances Ha"? Nobody knew this movie was even coming out until it debuted last year.
I didn't set out to make it [that way], that was really a bonus that it stayed off the internet until it was announced for those festivals. I just wanted to focus on the movie, find a way that the actors and crew could be about the making of the movie and not expectations for it. I didn't show the actors the full script, they only saw what they were in. For all the people making it, while at the same time I think they felt part of a group and part of the process, they only needed to know what they were doing, and I think it kept everyone very much in the moment and not working for a result. It became more about the process. The fact that it actually became a secret was cool, but that wasn't my goal.
I can't say anything about what I'm doing right now. I am going to make a movie in the fall, though, with Ben Stiller, that I wrote... That I can tell you.
Are you shooting a film right now?[ed. note: this interview took place more than a month ago]
I can't give you anything on that [laughs].
Fair enough. Moving on, I have heard that there's a title already for a film you've finished, called "While Were Young." Is that finished, can you tell me anything about that?
That's the one I'm doing in the fall, and that's the title, yeah.
You mentioned Stiller will be in that, anybody else you can tell us that's already cast? Is Greta going to be in the film?
Were still making deals right now with actors so soon I can tell you, but I can't yet just in case things don't work out.
Are you excited about this film?
Definitely. It's a script I wrote before 'Frances.' At one point I thought I was going to make it first but things didn't come together so I made Frances in the mean time, but I think it's coming back together in a really great way.
Something that naturally occurred once I started making movies is that I lost the intellectual approach to watching movies. As a kid, I rebelled to some degree against my parents influence in movies because they made me aware of foreign films and movies that I wasn't interested in when I was 10 years old. But I was aware these were considered good movies, so I kind of reveled at the time in Steve Martin, Bill Murray and Chevy Chase movies, which are all still movies I love, it's just they were more appropriate for my age at the time. But when I got to college I sort of retrospectively appreciating what my parents had made me aware of in terms of movies and I started getting in to European and certain American movies. Once I started making movies, it changes, my approach is much more emotional than it was before. My brother [Nico Baumbach] is a film professor at Columbia, we both bond over movies and talk about them all the time. But his theoretical approach to movie is so hard for me to understand, I respect it but I can't really participate in that kind of conversation anymore.
Well, I made two movies right away in my early to mid 20s, "Kicking and Screaming" and then I made "Mr. Jealousy." I had a hard time making ["Mr. Jealousy"] and it didn't do as well as I hoped. "Highball" was actually never really a finished movie. It was something we tried to do with the short ends of "Mr. Jealousy." It was never meant to be shown unless I finished it but we could never get enough money to finish it so I don't really count that in the same way it's just something that's out there. It [the gap between films from '97 to '05] was a combination of things. I had wrote a couple things that I got close to making but it didn't. I think it became a period where I discovered another, more personal approach to filmmaking. I think I kind of discovered myself as a filmmaker during that period. Then I wrote "Squid and the Whale" which at the time felt like a breakthrough, like I was writing in a new way for me, less worried about what people would think or its commercial prospects, and wrote what was interesting to me. And it just took a long time to get made [laughs]. I put everything I had in to that movie at the time. I knew it was sort of my last chance. All this build up I knew exactly how I wanted to do it. everything I had I was spent after making that movie.
What do you think about the comparisons some people may make for "Frances Ha" to "Girls"?
Every movie has its reasons why I make that one and not another one. Generally in the early stages when I have a blank page and I'm thinking about what I want to work on, there's usually a few things that are out there. "While Were Young" for instance, I've had ideas that have connected to this for a while that just needed time to become the movie it did. It's true for all them. I've been wanting for a while to do something stripped down and I wanted to shoot digitally too which I hadn't done. I feel like technology has gotten to a point now that would hold up with everything else I've made. Musicians get to make b-sides and acoustic albums and they can say, "That's not a real album it's a side project." You can't do that with movies, every movie you make is your next movie. So I knew if I was going to do something in this new way I had to find a way that it would be great. And I wanted the movie to be beautiful and elegant. I didn't want it to be grungy or feel indie. I wanted something grand and cinematic and formal, in a way. All of this are right at home with the character of Frances. Working with Greta and developing this together definitely brought out new things in me, though I'm not as aware of it when I'm making the movies as someone who writes about them. I'm just going with what is interesting to me and what I think will make an enjoyable movie and not put too much thought in it.
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BARCELONA, June 12. THE final day of the XXIII Gran Premi Internacional Ciutat de Barcelona concluded this evening with some close, exciting and excellent racing.
The meet's end also saw the conclusion of this year's Mare Nostrum Series which also featured excellent competition throughout the four meets.
One of the most impressive wins here was by Romania's Camelia Potec, defending European 200 free champ who won her that race yesterday. Tonight Potec won the 400 free in a seasonl-best 4:10.23, a mere .01 off her
meet record from two years when she went on the win the Euro title.
Countrymen Dragos Coman (400 free, 3:53.33; mile, 15:24.28) and Cezar Badita (400 IM, 4:20.80) also collected golds. For Badita it marked the second consecutive meet where he swept the medleys, as he did it at Rome last weekend.
When Olympic 100 back champ Diana Mocanu, whose 1:00.21 from Sydney is history's third-best performance, is added to the mix Romania has a small
but potent squad that could win more than a few medals — even perhaps some of the golden variety — at the European Championships in Berlin beginning
July 25.
Mocanu will likely be thinking about a potential matchup with America's Natalie Coughlin, who won the World Championships last sumemr in Fukuoka, that may well take place a year from now in this same Barcelona Olympic Pool at the 2003 World Championships.
Coughlin's pr-AR, which came leading off Team USA's gold medal-winning 400 medley relay, is 1:00.18, just .02 off the current world-record by China's
He Cihong. That swim was done leading off China's gold medal-winning medley relay at the '94 World Championships in Rome.
Unclw Sam got on the board when Olympian and NCAA champ/American record-holder (100 yard bacsktroke) Neil Walker won the meters version in 56.51 to South Africa's Gerhard Zandberg's 56.82. Walker's pr is 54.51 from the U.S. spring Nationals at Federal Way two years ago and the former University of Texas All-America ranks fourth all-time on the U.S. list. The
only active swimmers ahead of him are world record-holder Lenny Krayzelburg and 200 back wr-holder Aaron Peirsol, whose pr 54.47 won the U.S. Nationals in Minneapolis this spring ranks him No. 1 globally.
Walker's an excellent 50-100 free sprinter too with prs of 22.05 (ninth all-time performer) and 48.55 (fifth all-time performer). He'll be looking to make the plane to Yokohama (Pan-Pacs) at the U.S. Nationals in early August at Ft. Lauderdale.
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Just as they battled for breaststroke supremacy in the other three meets at Monte Carlo, Rome and Canet, America's Amanda Beard, Sydney 200 breast bronze medalist and former University of Arizona All-America for Coach Frank Bush, and China's 200 breast world recored-holder Qi Hui went head-to-head in the 100 breast tonight. The outcome was the same as the double-century last evening, i.e., a win for the Chinese woman.
But it was oh-so-close, with Qi touching in 1:08.95 to Beard's 1:08.98. Ar the 50 Beard was ahead by nearly a second (33.19-34.13) but Qi caught her at the end. A rematch at Yokahama is likely, and with Olympic gold medalist Megan Quann possibly in that race and NCAA champ-American yards' record-holder Tara Kirk also a likely participant, Penny Heyns' world-record (1:06.52) could be history.
(It could also go at Lauderdale if this trio — as expected, makes the finals plus perhaps 200 AR-holder Kristy Kowal.)
Heyns, the former University of Nebraska All-America/
NCAA champ who swam internationally for South Africa, set her wr at the Pan-Pacs in the Sydney Olympic Pool three years ago. That time plus her 1:06.95 from the Janet Evans Invitational at the McDonald's Olympic Pool at USC — and two other 1:06 highs — make her one of only two women ever under 1:07.0.
The other is China's Xuejuan Luo, who went an NR and Asian record 1:06.96 at last fall's 9th National Games in Guangzhou. However, as with other Chinese swims done at various National Games iterations, it has a certain questionableness about it. Luo did win at Fukuoka in a Championship record 1:07.13 so she has swum fast when it counts.
China scored a second gold when sprinter Yanwei Xu won the 100 free in 55.32. Runner-up was Finland's Hanna-Maria Seppala in an NR 55.88.
The men's 100 free saw Algeria's Salim Iles defeat former world record-holder Alex Popov (49.98-50.03). Hungary's Attila Zubor — 200 free champ — was third (50.42). Iles led at the 50, 24.34-24.42.
Russia collected golds in the 100 fly (Igor artchenko, 53.00) and 100 breast (Roman Sludnov, 1:01.79) with the World Champion collecting a second straight win after his 1:01.60 golden swim at Rome. Second was
Ukraine's 50 breast World Champ Oleg Lisogor (1:01.98).
The host country saw its star backstroker, Nina Zhivanevskaya, win the 100 back (1:02.29) to go with her 200 win Tuesday. Only Spain's Martin Lopez-Zubnero, a former University of Florida NCAA champ/world record-holder, has won a World Championship gold among his country's swimmers.
He's also the only Spaniard to ever win an Olympic gold — the 200 back in this same pool a decade ago. Zubero's world-record (1:56.57) lasted from November of '91 until August of '99, when Krayzelburg broke it with a his 1:55.87, which Peirsol reduced to 1:55.15 at Minneapolis.
Zhivanevskaya would like to become the first Spanish woman to emulate that feat but she's got some "heavy lifting" to do before she mounts the top step of the podium here next summer or at Athens in two years.
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Poland's Otilya Jedrzejczak took home her second gold with a 1:00.02 100 fly win, the Czech republic's Hanna Retrefova won the 400 IM (4:47.42) to wrap up the competition.
Next stop: Berlin for the Europeans (save Great Britain, which will host the Commonwealth Games in Manchester at the same time the Euro meet goes off); and Ft. Lauderdale and Yokohama forthe U.S. and its Pacific Rim competitors.
Australia, New Zealand, Canada and a few other countries that will swim at Mancehster will also compete at the Pan-Pacs, and of couse China will be in
Japan too.
Meantime, the U.S. Grand Prix Series resumes in two and-a-half weeks at Santa Clara, then comes to Los Angeles (Janet Evans Invitational) the second weekend of July, then concludes a week later at Long Island ('98 Goodwill Games Pool ands ite of last year's women's NCAA Championships).
The Mission Viejo Meet of Champions, featuring Coach Dave Salo's power house Irvine NOVA team (Peirsol, sprinter Jason Lezak, Olympians Gabriel Rose and
Michael Cavic plus 100 bsck world-leader Diana MacManus) is a week from this weekend too.
The Nadadores have some fine talent of their own including Olympian Chad Carvin and U ofA All-America Juan Veloz, a Mexican Olympian.
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Affidavit: Iraq War vet refers to stolen truck
FORT WORTH, Texas Police documents say the Iraq War veteran charged with killing a former Navy SEAL sniper and his friend on a Texas shooting range told a relative that he "traded his soul for a new truck."
An Erath County arrest warrant affidavit obtained by WFAA-TV says Eddie Ray Routh also said he wanted to drive to Oklahoma to avoid Texas authorities.
Routh is charged with one count of capital murder and two counts of murder in the shooting deaths of ex-Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield at a shooting range Saturday.
Authorities say he was driving Kyle's pickup when he was arrested. The three had gone to the range together.
The affidavit says Kyle and Littlefield were shot multiple times and numerous guns were at the scene.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
The Iraq War veteran charged with killing a former Navy SEAL sniper and his friend on a Texas shooting range had been taken to a mental hospital twice in the past four months, police records show.
Eddie Ray Routh was taken to a mental hospital on Sept. 2 after threatening to kill his family and then commit suicide, according to police records in Lancaster, where Routh lives. Authorities found Routh walking nearby with no shirt and no shoes, and smelling of alcohol. Routh told authorities he was a Marine veteran who was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
"Eddie stated he was hurting and that his family does not understand what he has been through," the report said.
Routh's mother told police that her son had been drinking and became upset when his father said he was going to sell his gun. She said Routh began arguing with them and said he was going to "blow his brains out."
Police took Routh to Green Oaks Hospital for psychiatric care.
Dallas police records show Routh was taken back to the same mental hospital in mid-January after a woman called police and said she feared for Routh's safety.
Routh, 25, is charged with one count of capital murder and two counts of murder in the shooting deaths of Chris Kyle, author of the best-selling book "American Sniper," and his friend Chad Littlefield at a shooting range Saturday in Glen Rose. He is on suicide watch in the Erath County Jail, where he's being held on $3 million bond, Sheriff Tommy Bryant said.
Routh, a member of the Marines Corps Reserve, appeared ready to assault jailers Sunday night when they entered his solitary confinement cell because he refused to return his food tray, Bryant said. After warnings, jailers used a stun gun once and then put Routh in a chair that restrains his arms and legs, Bryant said.
Bryant said Routh has an attorney but hasn't met with him at the jail in Stephenville, about 75 miles southwest of Fort Worth. Routh has not said anything to investigators, Bryant said.
Authorities say the three men arrived at the sprawling Rough Creek Lodge on Saturday afternoon, and a hunting guide discovered the bodies of Kyle and Littlefield about two hours later and called 911. Bryant said Sunday that the men were shot more than once.
Routh then drove Kyle's pickup to his sister's house in Midlothian and told her that he killed two people, and she called police, Erath County Sheriff's Capt. Jason Upshaw said Monday. Routh was arrested after a short police pursuit in Lancaster, near his home.
Attempts by The Associated Press to reach Routh's mother and sister were unsuccessful Monday.
Sundae Hughes, an aunt of Routh's, said she watched him grow up but hasn't seen him since his high school graduation in 2006.


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The host of TV's 'Top Chef Masters' and 'America's Next Great Restaurant' is cooking a special dinner for Penfolds.
The host of TV's 'Top Chef Masters' and 'America's Next Great Restaurant' is cooking a special dinner for Penfolds.
He didn't really want to take a picture with some random douche on the street.
Aida Mollenkamp gives her top 11 foodie destination spots around the Bay.
Tyler's a "Huge Fan!!"
Irons was here filming a BBC documentary about recycling.
Blake Lively and Selma Blair both dined at Cotogna recently.
But Britney didn't even go inside, from the looks of it.
Also, Michael Chiarello's favorite English muffins are available by mail order.
Also, Robert Duvall and Keith Urban both stopped into Cafe Des Amis.
Paltrow calls Arthur one of her favorite mixologists.
Clearly Clive is more the foodie than Nicole, because the now-mustachioed Brit actor has graduated from Zuni and was spotted dining at A16 two Sundays ago, and also spotted at Frances on Friday, though we only have this random twitteration...
The funny lady gave a shout-out to the restaurant on her show.
He's dined there five times in a week.
She also dined at Cindy's Backstreet Kitchen in St. Helena.
Cotogna, P.S., is the hardest reservation to get in town, and all the Hollywood celebrities seem to know this.
Jude dined at Boulevard, Farallon, and had a drink at Rickhouse.
Jude was shooting at Brain Wash.
Twittering of the day, ca. 2 p.m.: "Crowds (and police) hovering outside of Chez Panisse in Berkeley. Waiting for Justice Sonia Sotamayor [sic] to finish her lunch." [Ienso/Twitter via Berkeleyside]...
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Ontario hospital uses local items to enhance quality, flavor of meals.
Aug. 9—It may look and taste like a roti from any one of this city's many Caribbean takeout joints: firm, flavourful chicken, well-spiced potatoes, a hearty wrap and throat-tickling mango chutney.
But this $7.65 lunch comes with a few surprises.
First, it's hospital food. Second, it's fresh, not processed. Third, the ingredients are all local. The chicken's from a farm near Bradford, Ont. The bread was made by Norman Sue Bakery in Scarborough. As was the mango chutney. And the potatoes come from Essex Country in southwestern Ontario.