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San Francisco, CA – Kyle Kendrick scattered six hits over seven innings to guide the Philadelphia Phillies to a 6-2 win over the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday.
Kendrick (4-1) allowed two runs and struck out six batters without issuing a walk.
Chase Utley went 3-for-5 with a home run, two RBI and two runs scored. Ryan Howard homered and drove in a pair and Jimmy Rollins and Michael Young added an RBI apiece for the Phillies, who have won two straight games.
"We're getting guys over, we're putting bunts down," Utley said of his team's offense. "We're definitely doing the little things right now which is big, especially against a team like this."
Marco Scutaro went 2-for-4 with an RBI double and Angel Pagan knocked in a run for the Giants, who have dropped back-to-back games following a six-game winning streak.
Tim Lincecum (2-2) was tagged for five runs on nine hits and three walks to absorb the loss.
"He was real good at times and other times he just made some mistakes," San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy said of Lincecum. "He had good stuff tonight, but along with that, he had trouble commanding the fastball at times."
The Phillies wasted no time and pushed a run across in the first. Utley singled then moved to second on a Lincecum throwing error. After Young walked, Howard singled to right field to score Utley.
Philadelphia added two more in the second. Laynce Nix scored on a Rollins ground out and Utley followed with a single to center to score Ben Revere.
San Francisco pulled within 3-2 in the third inning. With runners at second and third with one out, Pagan lifted a sacrifice fly to center field to score Brandon Belt. Scutaro followed with a double down the line in left to score Brandon Crawford.
Utley opened the fifth with a solo homer to put the Phillies up 4-2, and Young scored Rollins with a double to right to give the visitors a three-run cushion in the seventh.
Howard's blast in the ninth accounted for the final difference.
Game Notes
Each of the Phillies last 12 homers have been of the solo variety ... Howard and Utley have homered in the same game 50 times, the highest total for any pair of teammates in Phillies history ... Lincecum had seven strikeouts ... Hunter Pence has started all 33 games for the Giants this season ... Scutaro extended his hitting streak to seven games.


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news page over at ioquake3.org. :-) I just thought I'd mention here that you can read some more about it in my earlier (first actually) blog post, and there are more pictures over here.
Thanks again to id Software and ioquake3 for a great code base! And to the people at Nokia and Maemo Summit for support and encouragement.
Btw, if you do own an N900 and have played with the ioquake3 port, please leave your comments and suggestions for improvements in case I feel the urge for another weekend hacking session. (I am aware there have been problems installing the package in the past, but they should now be fixed.)
Monday, January 18, 2010
ioquake3 on the N900
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Avatar 3D worth it...
I've mentioned before that usually these anaglyph 3D effects don't work very well for me due to varying degrees of myopia in both of my eyes, but I thought the movie was visually cool enough to give it a try with contact lenses instead of my normal glasses. I think this helped the effect significantly, but I still get the feeling that my brain starts to adjust to the effect over time so it's most impressive at the start of the movie.
This peaked my interest in ioquake3's anaglyph rendering mode, but unfortunately they ask for the glasses back after the movie, so no chance of trying it out (at least until I order a pair of my own.)
Anaglyph 3D on the N900 might be quite interesting, but of course I would either need to make much more efficient use of vertex buffer objects to make up for halving the FPS, or do a port of XreaL...
I think the later option is better for several reasons, but we'll see; Python, SCons and Scratchbox is a whole bundle of pain that I really don't want to be getting into at 02:00 in the morning.
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From building a snowman to having a snowball fight to skiing and snowboarding to sledding, snow provides endless amounts of fun!
Snow is a form of precipitation, or moisture that falls from the sky when it is especially cold. Other forms of precipitation include rain, hail, and sleet. Snow is made up of many ice crystals that are joined together.
Wilson Bentley, an American farmer who lived from 1865-1931, was the first person to study snowflakes in great detail. He absolutely loved snow, even as a child. His mother gave him a microscope as a young boy and he used it to look at raindrops, blades of grass, flowers, and best of all snowflakes. Upon looking at these snowflakes for some time he was surprised to find that no two were alike. He thought it was a shame that these snowflakes would just melt, leaving no trace of their beauty behind so he decided to come up with a way to preserve their lovely designs. One day his parents spent their savings on a microscope that could take photographs for him. He became known as the Snowflake Man, the world's expert on snow. You can check out his biography, Snowflake Bentley here at the library.
Also, take a look at these other fantastic books about snow.
Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Snow Amazing: Cool Facts and Warm Tales by Jane Drake and Ann Love
Snow Party by Harriet Ziefert
The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
The Story of Snow: The Science of Winter's Wonder by Mark Cassino
Stranger in the Woods by Carl R. Sams II and Jean Stoick
There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow by Lucille Colandro
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The staff at the Sansbury Care Center has been looking after the needs of its residents for years. Now, the center is offering services that extend beyond its own walls, and into Washington and surrounding counties.
Laura Livers, occupational therapist and director of Sansbury Care Center Outpatient Rehab, said the facility received its license in August to provide outpatient services. Previously, the rehab center could only work with those within Sansbury.
Growing up, Reuben Miller watched his grandfather make maple syrup, and he knew it was something he wanted to do some day.
Miller and his family are members of the amish community, and they moved to Willisburg in 2010 from Zanesville, Ohio. The family farms the land around its home in northern Washington County, and Reuben builds portable storage buildings that he sells. But this year, with the weather just right, he decided to take on a project he had wanted to do since he was a young boy — making homemade maple syrup.
After missing 14 days so far this school year due to inclement weather, the Washington County School Board members voted Monday night to have classes in session the first two days of what had been scheduled as spring break.
Following the decision, classes will now be in session on Monday and Tuesday, April 4-5. Students will still receive three days of spring break, and there will be no classes on April 6-8.
A $100,000 grant coming to Washington County is intended to help students be more prepared for college.
Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday has been calling on public school superintendents and boards of education to sign a pledge to improve college and career readiness in their schools. The grant coming to Washington County should be a big step in that direction, and the local school district is one of just six in the state to receive the grant.
In an effort to encourage locating the new high school within city limits or, if not, annexation into the city, the Springfield city council plans to draft a formal letter to the Washington County school board.
"I was just wondering if we as a council could write a letter to the superintendent and the school board that the mayor and the council encourage them to locate within the city limits or else agree to annexation," city council member Lisa Haydon said.
In response to Washington County Sheriff Tommy Bartley's concern about large animal neglect, action was taken by the Washington County Fiscal Court to come up with a plan to handle such situations.
Marion County Animal Control Officer Jeff Woolridge came to speak to the fiscal court on Monday during the regular scheduled meeting.
Like many other businesses around the country, the city of Springfield is seeing its revenue drop.
The question now is how it will cut costs or increase revenue to offset that drop.
Danny Hardin, a certified public accountant, presented the city council with an audit of the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2010.
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I have another fantastic interview show for you today. I am pleased to bring you Part 1of my interview with the host of the Midwest Teen Sex Show, the ever so charming and delightful Nikol Hasler.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Midwest Teen Sex Show, here's a tip. Get your butt over there and discover for yourself what the cutting edge of sex education looks and sounds like. The show is a kick ass, no holds bared, in your face and laugh out loud sketch comedy show that tackles some of the thorniest issues young people face today. And if you think you can pass this up because you're all grown up; you have another thing coming.
The Midwest Teen Sex Show should be required viewing for everyone — young and old. Nikol and her costars deliver comedy that is both edgy and informative. And today, as part of our interview, we will be hearing snippets from the show so you can get a taste for what you've been missing.
Nikol and I talk about:
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I love watching animated Flash cartoons because they are developed and created by some very funny people that mix their personalities into pop culture making the cast hilarious and unique. I already submitted a Flash character named Salad Fingers earlier today and for some reason I had to do more of these computer generated beings that I love so much. In this tutorial you will be taught "how to draw Homestar Runner" step by step. He is a character that I can remember watching when I was like eleven years olds. Not only is he funny, he is oddly created as well. Homestar is an all white colored character that wears a cap with a wind chime on top. He has no arms and he wears a red shirt with a white star printed on the front. The series debuted in 2000 and was created by two talented guys named Mike Chapman and Craig Zobel. They released a book called "The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest" which started several characters like Pom Pom, Strong Bad, The Cheat, and some other stars that are not commonly known as of yet. If you ask me, I think the creation of the series was brilliant and I look forward to watching more versions that are going to be released in the future. For now you can tackle this lesson on "how to draw Homestar Runner step by step". I will be back soon so stay tuned. Peace out and happy drawing.
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Description: Hip Hop Kanye West, lil wayne, rick ross and cool synth elements turning more positive at end. Sized perfectly for Open, Life On Street, Crime Drama, Medical Investigation, Young Interns. Ad, Jeans, Levis, Axe, Instrumental, Aggressive Urban Groove, tugs, dirty south. T Pain,
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Duration: 3:16 Tempo: Medium BPM: 120
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Instruments: Synthesizer, Electronics, Synthesized Vocals
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Language: English
Album: IFunk
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text: Retirement-age investors have long been seen as more vulnerable than younger ones to fraud because of the normal loss of mental acuity that comes with age. More recently, retirees' growing desperation for higher investment income in a low-interest-rate era has exacerbated the fraud problem, leading otherwise lucid thinkers to fall for too-lucrative-to-be-true sales pitches. With this latter trend in mind, officials at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra), the brokerage industry's self-regulatory body, disclosed this week that they're taking a closer look at how financial advisers are marketing their products to retiring baby boomers. Mark Schoeff Jr. of Investment News (free registration required) reports that Finra is "gathering data from firms regarding the products they market to seniors, the percentage of revenue they derive from those sales and the designations firms are using to market themselves to older Americans." Baby steps, to be sure, but better than nothing.


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Football for 21 March 2019
If you're a serious punter, then you will need to keep track of all the latest live football scores. Nearly all major bookies offer some facility where you can bet on live football games.
Here at SBAT we bring you live soccer scores – all day, every day. We cover the major European leagues – the Premiership, La Liga, Seria A and the Bundesliga. We also cover football scores from continental and international competitions such as the UEFA Champions League and Europa League, plus FIFA World Cup matches and International Friendlies.
Not only do we do we provide live score updates, we go a step further than Sky Sports and the BBC by providing information on line-ups and head to head stats. For the major leagues we provide detailed match previews and head to head data. In the freshly released SBAT app, you can track in-play incidents such as corners and cards to help you make the best betting decisions.
On top of live football scores – refreshed every few seconds - we provide live text commentary for key fixtures. SBAT is your one stop shop for football insights, so be sure to check back for today's football results!
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The EPL is probably – along with La Liga and Serie A – one of the three most popular football leagues in the world. Millions of pounds are bet each year on Premier League live scores throughout the season, which runs from August through to May.
The oldest league competition in the world can trace its roots all the way back to 1888 when representatives from twelve northern and midland teams in England met and decided to form 'The Football League'. The top tier of English league football has been running ever since, although in 1992 the top twenty-two teams in the football league broke away to form the FA Premier League.
The FA ditched the concept of league sponsorship in 2016 and branded the top league in England the 'English Premier League', or the EPL for short. For many years now the EPL has been dominated by some of the richest clubs in Europe – Manchester United, Chelsea and Manchester City being the main dominating forces, with Arsenal, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur challenging the status quo on an annual basis.
Despite this dominance the odd upset still occurs – the greatest being the severely un-fancied Leicester City winning the EPL title in 2015-16 by ten clear points. Leicester had never even come close to the title before, and had been quoted at 5,000/1 to win the title at the season's start.
EPL teams can always be found qualifying for the latter stages of the UEFA Champions League and the Europa League, and EPL clubs have won the Champions League four times – Manchester United in 1999 and 2008, Liverpool in 2005 and Chelsea in 2012. For a while top flight English teams dominated the Champions League's predecessor – the European Cup. Between 1977 and 1982 English sides won the competition six years in succession.
Many of the world's top players can be found racing around the pitch wearing the shirts of the top sides in England. Sergio 'Kun' Aguero is a prolific striker for Manchester City and Argentina and vies with Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez of Chile for the title of the EPL's leading forward player. Spain's top goalkeeper David De Gea is regarded as one of the best – if not THE best goalkeeper in the world, while Manchester City fans are lucky to see the midfield wizardry and sharp-shooting skills of Belgium's Kevin De Bruyne on a regular basis.
Thanks to TV coverage English Premier League matches are enjoyed by millions of excited viewers from all over the world. You can follow all the EPL live scores here at SBAT.
La Liga Live Scores
Many consider Spain's La Liga to be the biggest, best and most exciting league in world football. It certainly attracts all the biggest footballing stars in the world, such as Leo Messi (Argentina), Neymar (Brazil) and Luis Suarez (Uruguay) at Barcelona, and Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) and Gareth Bale (Wales) at Real Madrid. It could also be argued that Barcelona verses Real Madrid is the biggest footballing derby in the world. Millions of soccer sports betting fans follow La Liga live scores each and every week.
La Liga (now sponsored by Santander) is Spain's 'Primera División' and has been since its inception in 1929. The idea came from José María Acha, who was a director at the club Arenas Club de Getxo. Ten of the best football clubs from around Spain – including both Barcelona and Real Madrid - were either selected or qualified to form the league's top division. Despite Barcelona's initial win in 1929, and Real Madrid's wins in 1932 and 1933, the early dominant team were Athletic Bilbao, who won four out of the first seven titles. By coincidence, those three teams are the only three that have never been relegated from Spain's top flight.
Real Madrid and Barcelona have utterly dominated La Liga right from its inception. Real Madrid have taken the title a record thirty-two times, with Barcelona winning twenty-four. The only other teams to have won La Liga are Atlético Madrid (ten times), Athletic Bilbao (8), Valencia (6), Real Sociedad (2), Deportivo La Coruña (1), Sevilla (1) and Real Betis (1).
Real Madrid have also dominated Europe's top competition – the UEFA European Champions League (or the European Champions' Cup as it was formerly known). 'Los Blancos' won the trophy for the first five years of its existence from 1956 until 1960, plus on another six occasions on top of that. Barcelona are the only other side to win Europe's top title (six times), although Atlético Madrid (three times) and Valencia (twice) have both played in the final.
Matches from La Liga are broadcast to every football-loving nation in the world, and millions of fans can watch the undisputed talents of Ronaldo and Messi week-in, week-out. You can follow all the latest La Liga live scores right here at SBAT.
Serie A Live Scores
To say that Italians are passionate about their football is like saying Italy is quite famous for pizza and pasta. Football is simply just a way of life for the majority of Italians, and Italy can boast many of the biggest clubs and brightest footballing stars in the world. Italian football is largely dominated by three footballing giants – Juventus and the two Milan clubs Internazionale or 'Inter Milan' and Milan or 'AC Milan'. Millions of euros, pounds and dollars exchange hands every year via betting on Italy's top league – Serie A – and hundreds of thousands of supporters follow Serie A live scores each and every week.
Now sponsored by TIM (Telecom Italia), Serie A is the top professional football league in Italy, and has been since its official inception in 1929. A previous 'challenge tournament' had existed since 1898 (in the first ever Italian football tournament, all the games were played at the same venue in the same day), but 1929 was the year of the first 'round robin' tournament.
The first season of the 'true' Serie A was 1929-30, and Internazionale won the first Serie A title. Juventus then cemented their initial claim to be recognised as Italy's premier team, winning each of the next five titles. Juventus have gone on to win the title a record thirty-two times, with both Milan and Internazionale winning Serie A eighteen times each.
Internazionale and Milan are somewhat unique in world football as they share the same stadium – the 80,000 capacity San Siro. The two league matches every year between these two Milan giants are regarded as the biggest derby games in world football, aside from perhaps Real Madrid verses Barcelona in Spain's La Liga.
Despite Juventus's dominance of Serie A, it was Milan whom first blossomed on the European stage, winning the UEFA European Cup in 1963. Milan have gone on to win the top European prize seven times – the second-most successful UEFA European Cup/Champions League team in history behind Real Madrid. Internazionale first won the trophy in 1964 and then 1965. They completed their hat-trick of wins in 2010, jumping ahead of Juventus who have only won it twice – in 1985 and 1996. Italian sides Fiorentina, Roma and Sampdoria have all reached the final, but all were beaten.
Millions of global football fans are just as passionate about Italian football as the Italians themselves, and you can follow all the latest Serie A live football scores right here at SBAT.
Bundesliga Live Scores
Now one of the biggest leagues in world football, the Bundesliga is the most recent addition to the collection of leading European leagues, having been created as recently as 1963. The top German league is now home to some of Europe's biggest clubs, notably true European giants such as Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund. Betting on the Bundesliga ('Federal League') is big business across all major sports books, and many thousands of punters keep a keen eye on Bundesliga live football scores each and every weekend.
Prior to 1963, the majority of football in Germany was played at an amateur or semi-professional level in regional leagues, however, a surprise 1-0 defeat of the West German national side by Yugoslavia spurred the German footballing authorities on to consider creating a national, professional German league. Forty-six clubs applied for inclusion, but only sixteen were selected.
The first title was won by 1. FC Köln, but then seven different teams won the first seven titles. However, from 1968 onwards two sides – Bayern Munich and Borussia Mönchengladbach – began to dominate the league. Although Mönchengladbach haven't won the title since 1977, Bayern have continued to dominate, winning twenty-five titles since 1969, which is twenty more than any other side.
Bayern Munich are not only considered the current best side in German football (they've won the Bundesliga every year since 2013), they are also considered by many to be the current best side in European football. They certainly have many of the best talents in world soccer, including France's Franck Ribéry, Spain's Xavi Alonso, Holland's Arjen Robben, Poland's free-scoring striker Robert Lewandowski and home-grown talents Philipp Lahm, Thomas Müller and Jérôme Boateng. Fittingly Bayern have won the UEFA European Cup/Champions League more times than any other German club, with victories in 1974, 1975, 1976, 2001 and 2013. The only other Bundesliga sides to win Europe's most prestigious trophy are Hamburg (in 1983) and Borussia Dortmund (in 1997).
The Bundesliga is the most-attended football league in world football, with average attendances of over 43,000. Only the NFL is a better attended league in world sports, and vast crowds gather for games at the biggest stadiums in Germany, such as the Allianz Arena (Bayern Munich, capacity 75,000) and the Signal Iduna Park or Westfalenstadion (Borussia Dortmund, capacity 81,360).
As one of Europe's biggest soccer leagues, many thousands of punters gamble on the Bundesliga on a daily basis, and you can follow all the latest Bundesliga live scores here at SBAT.
Champions League Live Scores
Whether you agree with it or not, modern-day football is first and foremost a money-making venture, and there is no football competition on earth that can match the UEFA European Champions League as a finely-tuned money-making machine. An engrossed TV audience watches every round of the Champions League each year, and hundreds of thousands of sports bettors eagerly watch the live Champions League scores, hoping that their fancied teams will be victorious.
This is all a far cry from when the tournament commenced, way back in 1955. The brain-child of journalist Gabriel Hanot, the 'UEFA European Champions Cup' invited championship-winning sides from all over Europe to compete in a straight knock-out competition. Sixteen sides from the top European countries (not including England – the FA already 'knew' that English teams were the best in Europe and didn't see the point of such a competition) competed, and Spain's Real Madrid beat France's Stade de Reims 4-3 in the final at the Parc des Princes in Paris.
Madrid went on to win the next four titles as well, most notably with a 7-3 defeat of Eintracht Frankfurt in 1960 which is regarded as one of the greatest football victories of all time. Real Madrid hold the record for the most wins in Europe's top trophy with eleven victories.
In 1991 UEFA began the idea of 'rebranding' the then ailing European Cup into a much broader competition. The result was the UEFA European Champions League. Previously, only champions from UEFA-member countries were invited to take part in the tournament, but this was expanded to allow runners-up and even teams finishing third and fourth in their domestic leagues to enter. As opposed to the sixteen teams that took part in the first European Cup, seventy-eight teams now enter the competition at the season's start. Some teams are now faced with competing in twenty-one games if they wish to lift the trophy at season's end.
Teams from ten different countries have won the European Cup or Champions League, with Spain (Real Madrid & Barcelona), Italy (Milan, Internazionale and Juventus) and England (Liverpool, Manchester United, Nottingham Forest, Chelsea & Aston Villa) leading the way. A few unexpected teams have made it all the way to the final, including Greece's Panathinaikos in 1971, and Sweden's Malmö in 1979.
As well as huge revenues from TV broadcasting rights and advertising, the UEFA Champions League attracts sports betting fans like no other competition, and you can follow all the very latest Champions League live scores right here at SBAT.
Europa League Live Scores
Although very much classed as the 'secondary' European domestic clubs competition, tons of cash changes hands each year as people place wagers on the UEFA Europa League. Eager punters follow the latest UEFA Europa League live scores to see which of Europe's 'not quite' top clubs will take home the continent's second-most important trophy.
The forerunner of the Europa League was the UEFA Cup, but the forerunner of that was a very strange competition indeed – the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. This tournament began in 1955, and the first competition took three years to complete. The competition was created to promote international trade fairs, and any city with such a fair could qualify. The first tournament was won (eventually) in 1958 by Barcelona (a combined team of Barcelona and Espanyol) who beat London (Arsenal, Chelsea, Fulham, Tottenham, Leyton Orient and West Ham) 8-2 over two legs.
UEFA took over this long-winded tournament in 1971 and made it a competition for teams who had finished high up in their domestic league but not as champions. This was run in tandem with the European Cup Winners Cup, which was a tournament for domestic cup winners.
In 1999 the Cup Winners Cup was merged with the UEFA Cup, then in 2009 the competition was expanded to create the UEFA Europa League. Each year now one hundred and sixty teams compete to see which of them will be crowned the UEFA Europa League champions.
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The UEFA Cup has not been without its controversies. In 1984 Anderlecht defeated Nottingham Forest 3-0 at home in the semi-final after losing the first leg 2-0. The vital 3-0 victory was aided by a laughably soft penalty and the chalking off of a legitimate Forest goal. It later emerged that Anderlecht had 'loaned' Spanish referee Emilio Guruceta Muro £27,000 before the match.
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For four years, Anita Woodley has performed "Mama Juggs" - a play about her family's experience with breast cancer - for audiences nationwide and in Africa. Now Woodley is set to bring that play to Indiana State University along with the collegiate debut of her new creation, "The Men in Me," about the struggles of the men in her life.
"Mama Juggs" will play at the university's New Theatre on Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. "The Men in Me" will play in the same theatre on Feb. 9 at 5 p.m..
"Mama Juggs" channels the voices of three generations of women in Woodley's family as they deal with bra stuffing, breastfeeding and last stage breast cancer. Written as a promise to her mother, who died of breast cancer before age 50, it seeks to challenge cultural taboos and stereotypes surrounding breast health and body image. Woodley wrestles with these issues through a diversity of theatrical styles, including a cappella Negro spirituals, comedy, straight talk, improvisation and audience interaction.
"When she's at her peak, it feels like she's channeling these characters, not performing them," said theatre critic Byron Woods of The Independent Weekly.
College hosts have also praised Woodley's shows, highlighting their value for students and community members.
"Indeed, the audience is transfixed by 'Mama Juggs,' as she relays to you the rather vivid and emotional consequences of womanhood; the phenomenology of motherhood; the complex meaning of having breasts," said Jessica Knouse, student life coordinator at Harrisburg Area Community College-Gettysburg.
In "The Men in Me" Woodley tells the stories of the men in her life as they fight to survive in the Oakland projects amid the temptation of drugs, the threat of violence and the specter of prison. Yet in this bleak environment, the narrator connects with her future husband, discovering the regenerative power of a healthy relationship after having endured domestic violence. And in her son, she sees the promise of a new generation raised outside the projects. Woodley shows how these men shaped her life, including by helping her narrowly avoid being sold into prostitution.
The Durham Arts Council named Woodley, based in Chapel Hill, N.C., its 2012 Emerging Artist in Drama. She is a national award-winning journalist and former producer for North Carolina Public Radio's "The Story with Dick Gordon." She recently stepped away from her journalism career to focus on performing full-time. Following her shows at Indiana State, Woodley will continue touring, with performances scheduled in Pennsylvania, Nebraska and Hawaii.
Admission is free, but seating is limited and tickets must be obtained in advance by contacting the Indiana State University Office of Diversity, Rankin Hall, room 426, at 812-237-8513
For more information about Woodley's productions, including video clips, press, biographical information, show dates and more, visit: www.mamajuggs.com
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Some interesting sites I've visited in the last few days.
Free handouts from WDYTYA Live available from Society of Genealogists. Some good stuff there, especially if, like me, you couldn't be there in person. http://ning.it/fu9bOR
Joined the "Genealogists who Twitter" group on GenealogyWise – I'm trying to stop myself from joining too many, but it's hard!
Quick browse in Cyndi's List – she was interviewed on Geneabloggers Radio, but I haven't had time to listen yet.


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BOSTON, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Officers from a federal counter-terrorism "behavior detection" program at Boston's Logan Airport say the program has become rife with racial profiling.
About 32 officers at Logan provided Transportation Security Administration officials with written complaints last month about alleged racial profiling within the TSA program that is meant to spot mannerisms of potential terrorists, The New York Times reported.
The officers said as many as 80 percent of passengers searched by trained behavioral "assessors" at Logan are stopped not because they are acting suspiciously, but because of the color of their skin.
"The behavior detection program is no longer a behavior-based program, but it is a racial profiling program," one officer wrote in an anonymous complaint obtained by The Times.
"They just pull aside anyone who they don't like the way they look -- if they are black and have expensive clothes or jewelry, or if they are Hispanic," said another officer.
A TSA spokesman said in a statement that officials recently learned of the racial profiling allegations in Boston.
"If any of these claims prove accurate, we will take immediate and decisive action to ensure there are consequences to such activity," the statement said, adding that the behavior detection program "in no way encourages or tolerates profiling" and bans targeting passengers based on nationality, race, ethnicity or religion.
TSA defended the program's overall value, saying behavior detection "is clearly an effective means of identifying people engaged in activity that may threaten the security of the passengers and the airports and has become a very effective intelligence tool, enabling law enforcement to bust larger operations and track any trends in nefarious activity."
An investigation into the claims has been initiated, TSA officials said.
Meanwhile, the Massachusetts Port Authority, which runs Logan airport, will review the findings of the TSA investigation, said David S. Mackey, executive director of the agency.
"There is no place for racial profiling in any security program," Mackey said. "It is illegal, and it is not effective."


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There's something bewitching about red shoes. The arts have made them an object of unethical desire – from Hans Christian Andersen's tale of a little girl who dared wear red shoes to church and as punishment had her feet cut off, to MGM's The Wicked Witch of the West's attempts to steal Dorothy's ruby slippers. That didn't end so well for her either; "What a world, what a worrrrld!"
Andersen's The Red Shoes inspired the 1948 film of the same title, wherein Moira Shearer plays a prima ballerina in a tale that is equally as dark and tragic as it's predecessor.
I can still see clearly in my mind's eye the illustrations in a childhood book of the skeletal little girl whose red shoes become stuck to her feet and force her to dance "over field and meadow, in rain and sunshine, by night and by day." Even after the executioner slices off her feet, the shoes continue to dance. It says something of reverse psychology that although my mother knew this haunting tale off by heart, for my first pair of walking shoes she couldn't resist these cherry red 1984 Clarks beauties.
Apparently I screamed and flailed so much in the fitting for these that the only way my Gran and Mum could get them on my feet was by telling me they'd magically enable me to tap dance. All I needed was Grandpa's walking stick as Fred Astaire's cane and my world became a black and white musical where I danced better than the Nicholas Brothers. I'll have no one tell me otherwise.
Here are some shoes I defy you not to stop dancing in.
Kate Bush also paid homage to the taboo footwear in her 1993 album.
L. Frank Baum's original Dorothy wore silver slippers, but wanting to take advantage of the new Technicolor, MGM felt ruby slippers would be more aesthetically alluring.
Several pairs were made for Judy Garland and in 2000 one pair was sold at auction for $666,000.
If you've been searching for your own Emerald City, perhaps skipping down the road in these will help:
Pope Benedict XVI has reintroduced the tradition of the red leather papal shoes.
Inside his residences the Pope wears papal slippers which are made of red velvet or silk. I like to imagine that when the Pope's taylor, Gammerelli first placed the red papal shoes on Benedict XV's feet, the Pope did a little tap dance, just to psyche himself up for the day ahead.
For Cardinals, the use of red shoes is abolished. It's no wonder then, that for her vanity in stepping through the church's doors in red shoes, Andersen had to cut off his character's feet.
Due to religion's hang-ups with red shoes I was so pleased my cousin chose to wear red shoes on her wedding day – they looked fantastic peeping out from under her pure white dress.
Part of the traditional rituals that take place when a pope dies is to bury him in his red shoes. This sounds like something a non-catholic girl from Swansea could pull off well.
As Andersen wrote, "There is really nothing in the world that can be compared to red shoes!"


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The deadline for those wishing to mail holiday care packages to troops overseas is nearing, post office officials said Tuesday.
The deadline for those wishing to mail holiday care packages to troops overseas is nearing, post office officials said Tuesday.
Sgt. Guadalupe Nicks, assistant postal finance officer on CampLejeune, said family and friends planning to mail holiday care packages to troops overseas should do so by Dec. 10 using the Priority Mail option. However, Priority Mail is the most expensive shipping option, Nicks said, so for those hoping to save money on shipping costs, the cheapest option is space-available mail. Those packages should be shipped by Monday, Dec. 3.
However, Nicks said, arrival by Christmas is not guaranteed, regardless of which method is used to ship the package.
�These dates are just projections so it gives us enough time to sort the mail and get the packages there in time,� she said. �But it�s not guaranteed.�
While Christmas is the most popular time to send care packages to troops overseas, not all gifts are create equal. Nicks has a few suggestions on what service members would like to receive this holiday season.
�They really love snacks,� said Nicks, who sees thousands of care packages sent each year. �Cookies, candies and anything that flavors their water are really popular, because water is all they have to drink over there.�
The food needs to be non-perishable to ship and should not need to be refrigerated during shipping, but packages of hot chocolate and other products that need to be heated are welcome as the service members typically have microwaves when they are back on the home base, Nicks said.
The province in which the service member is stationed � southern or northern Afghanistan� will determine what kind of items they�d like to receive in regard to clothing, but most like hand and feet warmers during the cold winter months, as even the southern provinces will get chilly at night, Nicks said.
In addition to food and clothing, service members stationed overseas always appreciate hygiene products like soap, razors, shaving cream and baby wipes, games and electronics to keep their minds busy and Christmas decorations, which help put them in holiday spirit and remind them of home.
Family members and friends sending care packages should keep in mind that shipping and package content restrictions apply, Nicks said. Flammable or hazardous items will not be shipped, and neither will perishable food items or alcohol.
Obscene articles, to include prints, paintings, cards, films and videotapes; any matter depicting nude or seminude persons; bulk quantities of religious materials contrary to the Islamic faith; and pork or pork by-products are also prohibited in boxes shipping to Afghanistan, according to the United States Postal Service website.
Extreme temperatures should also be considered when shipping electronics, as desert temperatures typically exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit, which can damage delicate goods, according to USPS.
As of Nov. 15, lithium batteries can be shipped overseas as long as they are pre-installed into the item in which they will be used and not shipped separately, Nicks said.
Packages can not exceed 46 inches in height, 35 inches in width and 46 inches in length. The total length and girth of the box cannot exceed 108 inches if shipping overseas, and the weight limit is 70 pounds, Nicks said.
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There were days when it was very tough to compare the insurance quotes because in those times there were only phone calls which were used to compare the rates of the insurance and this was a very tough process too. It was very tough in those days because the concerned person who desired to get the insurance quotes had to move from one brokering agent to another brokering agent with all the necessary quotes and then you would come to a rate, which would be the cheapest as well as the most reliable.
Today there is an easy facility of Internet, which has changed everything from start to end. It has made it possible to get free insurance quotes as easily as obtainable. Before searching the Internet for the insurance quotes, you should first determine the requirements, which you need and based upon that only you would be asked to submit the data. Your work will be done in just few minutes. All you would be asked will be some simple questions and based upon your answers your results will be displayed on the screen of your computer.
There are just few keystrokes in the Internet and this is much better as compared to the older one when you had to wait endless hours outside the office of brokering agents. There were meanings to these practices in those days not like today when we dont have that much amount of time and we dont pay such amount of respect to this process. In the process you will know the company or the agency, which will be offering you, the best deal in this business and it is your duty then to choose between them. There are many benefits of subscribing to a particular insurance plan for your things like vehicles or home or life etc.
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Migration Patterns are as interesting as genealogy lineages. They actually can hold the key to resolving some genealogical questions. They definitely can help steer you to the data you may need to look at when a family becomes missing or a person has gone away.
Since the birth of man we have created Migratory patterns. With the development of the Ydna and Mtdna search fields we can more significantly hone in on our lineage, farther back than what we could thirty years ago. We may not know the persons name or who he was in real time but we know from whence he came and where he went.
A great visual of the potential routes used, that DNA is tending to prove out.
Out of Africa then migrating across the world.
Purported to have started about a million years ago, moving out of Africa 80 millennia ago, and spread across Eurasia and to Australia before 40 millennia ago. The Americas migration took place about 20 to 15 millennia ago and then the Pacific Islands around 2 millennia ago.
The Indo-European came at the end of the Neolithic Period. The language is believed to have originated north of the Black Sea (Ukraine and Southern Russia). Then spreading their language to Anatolia, Europe and Central Asia, (Iran) and South Asia.
I am using languages because it represents peoples.
These people are implied hunter-gatherers. Basques owe their language to this early group and the indigenous in the Caucasus region.
Sami (Laplanders) are genetically different and encompass northern parts of Sweden, Norway, Finland and the Kola Peninsula of Russia.
Sami peoples have inhabited the northern regions of Scandinavia for thousands of years.
These peoples were seriously affected by the Ice Age and cut off from others for long period of time (is the theory). They lived along the southern shores of Lake Aaninen and Lake Ladoga in Russia, reaching the River Utsjoki, modern border between Russia and Norway, as early as 8100 B.C. . . After this the West European came into their region.
With the basics set, here is a brief up to 1600's in the USA.
Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age
Maps on the site can assist in understanding their movement.
Africa of today's movements early are depicted on these sites.
400 ethnic groups of Bantu peoples
The Sahara starts drying up and migration pushes peoples into the southern region of Africa. Bringing them to what they have today as they moved about.
Next was the Early Iron Age, between 12th and 9th centuries B. C. E., little is known but major movements were happening.
The Great Migrations Periods
This area covers much for us doing research today and Y and mt DNA.
Quickly moving along we are now into an era we can find records for doing research in Europe. It was called the Medieval Period. Our ethnicity has a lot to do with this time period and the cultures of today.
Late Middle Ages brought the BLACK DEATH one of the most lethal pandemics in human history struck Europe in 1340's. It reduced the population by 1/3 to ½ across the continent.
Not being eradicated until the beginning of the 19th Century in Europe, but is prevalent even yet in the Americas and other areas.
Early Modern Europe
Major migration within Europe started: Protestants from Spanish Netherlands to Dutch Republic after 1580's, expelling of Jews and Moriscos from Spain in the 1590's and the removal of Huguenots from France in the 1680's.
Serbs (14th century forward) started leaving their medieval Kingdom and Empire that was over run by the Ottoman Turks and migrated north to the lands of northern Serbia,, which was ruled by Kingdom of Hungary.
The Serbs were welcomed by the Habsburg Monarchs, also offered land and freedom for service in Habsburg army. The Serbs shared space with the Turks there. The two greatest migrations took place in 1690 and 1737.
Plantations of Ireland settled with Protestant English colonists during 1560-1690.
Germans were recruited by Catherine the Great of Russia to settle the Volga region in the 1800 century.
As we know the Americas where settled by refugees in search of freedom, the want of land and a different way of life, creating the colonization of the early eastern seaboard region by France, Netherlands, England and Spain.
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Can a mileage tax go the distance?
Imagine paying into the nation's roads and bridges based on how far you drive each year, rather than how much gasoline you consume.
That future is not far off, transportation experts and some lawmakers say. But the United States has not yet fully committed to researching a replacement for the outdated federal gasoline tax, which increasingly brings in fewer dollars relative to the trillions in investment needed for roads, rails and ports.
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The main impediment thus far to a vehicle-miles-traveled fee: It's easily cast as a policy that will bring more government intrusion and the specter of Big Brother.
"There's a fair amount of ignorance on the subject. It is a new concept," said Jack Basso, a transportation financing expert.
But Basso said that with the wide acceptance of electronic tolling schemes — which track car movements through plazas — the privacy flag raised "is a red herring." Instead, the real problems to solve are selecting from myriad technological choices and evolving away from collecting taxes at the fuel pump to charging vehicle owners directly.
The reasons for shaking up the funding mechanism for road repairs, public transportation funding and interstate coordination are many. The federal gas tax has proved near-impossible to increase since 1993 and isn't indexed to inflation. President Barack Obama has led the federal charge to increase fuel efficiency in the nation's auto fleet, which means fewer gas tax dollars. And a new class of alternative-fuel vehicles promises to not use a drop of gasoline.
Those factors have necessitated deeply unpopular general fund bailouts for the national infrastructure program in recent years and led Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) to introduce a bill to establish a $150 million national study of a distance-based fee during the dying embers of the 112th Congress.
The long-shot bill died in committee, but Blumenauer plans to submit another effort sometime this Congress. He said the country needs to get a jump on a new way to pay for the country's beleaguered infrastructure, which plummets further down competitiveness lists each year.
"This is going to happen, I think, faster than people recognize," Blumenauer said of a move away from the gas tax. "There are a variety of states that are dealing with a transportation fund that's in a downward spiral and there are more and more vehicles that aren't paying their fair share."
Nearly everyone who has given the issue even a cursory look is aware of the problem — but that has not yet translated to action. The White House has said a vehicle-miles-traveled system is not a policy the administration would embrace. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) has called VMT the long-term option that "seems to be the only way to stop the decline" in slackened revenues but isn't backing Blumenauer's national study.
"I'd like to see the states step up," Shuster said. "The federal government doesn't, I think, need to do that. The federal government should be talking to the states and saying: 'If you want to do this, let's all get together. Let's all chip in.'"
States including Washington, Nevada and Oregon are already researching the issue; and Congress initiated a nationwide study in a 2005 transportation bill. But technology has evolved exponentially in the intervening eight years, and Blumenauer said more needs to be done.


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The Stamford Advocate ran a large ad for a gun show next to a story Thursday about Sandy Hook Elementary School students going back to school for the first time since the shooting that killed 26 women and small children.
Hearst Connecticut Media Group executive editor Barbara T. Roessner issued a public apology:
"Our newspapers should not be running gun ads — including ads for antique and collectible gun shows — next to stories about Sandy Hook. It's insensitive, and it shouldn't have happened. It was an oversight, and we apologize for it. We have taken steps to make sure it doesn't happen again."
But this isn't the first time a newspaper has made this mistake.
Days after the shooting, the South Carolina Rock Hill Herald put a large gun ad for a pre-Christmas arms sale next to coverage of the Newtown massacre.
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Editor's note: This is the final story in a series looking at how federal funding cuts are affecting local nonprofits.
MIDDLEBURY –– Many Addison County nonprofits have struggled with financial uncertainty in the wake of the 2008 recession. Federal funding for these organizations decreased, causing many to scale back services or operational costs.
VERGENNES –– Fourteen-year-old Damian Bougor knew the Vergennes skate park needed seating and decided to do something about it.
"I go there every day and we just needed something to sit on after we're done skating, so I figured we needed a bench," he said.
His friend Ian Shalek took the idea further and suggested a bench made out of skateboards.
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MIDDLEBURY –– From Bristol to Burlington, Greensboro to Granville, Eric Wegar has seen it all.
Wegar, 62, recently finished compiling a set of collages documenting his trips to all 251 towns, cities, gores and grants in the state of Vermont.
A Pittsford resident and retired postal worker, Wegar found inspiration from an older project. He tried to make a large photographic map of the state, but could not find a scale that would fit. During a May 9, 2009, drive to Warren, Wegar noticed a welcome sign for the town of Granville that sparked a new idea.
Lightning flashed and cars crashed at last Thursday's Demo Derby at Addison County Fair and Field Days. About 1,000 fans turned out despite the stormy conditions to watch derby drivers compete in the muddy ring.
NEW HAVEN –– Paper, stickers, foam, glue, string, ribbon, buttons, markers, pens and pencils covered the table located in the entrance of the 4-H Exhibit Hall at Addison County Fair and Field Days last week. A few kids sat at the table, making greeting cards and neatening up, always on the lookout for people willing to stop by.
The Addison County Maple Sugarmakers Association runs their sugarhouse every year at the fair. They make homemade maple goods including cotton candy and milkshakes.
ADDISON COUNTY –– While enjoying the summer, many people probably have explored the Trail Around Middlebury, scampered around Moosalamoo Mountain, hiked on the Long Trail or taken binoculars out to Dead Creek for birdwatching.
Some may not realize that these areas, and many others in Addison County, are maintained by nonprofits.
NEW HAVEN –– Each year the inviting scent of warm, sweet maple syrup pulls fairgoers into the Addison County Maple Sugarmakers Association building at Field Days. The sugarhouse is a must-see for most people at the fair, many of whom have a favorite maple treat.
"Everybody has their thing that they like," said sugarhouse volunteer Maggie Seeley on Tuesday, the first day of Addison County Fair and Field Days. "I come in for the cup of coffee and the doughnut, that's my thing."
MIDDLEBURY –– World-class opera usually comes to Addison County but once a year at the June Opera Company of Middlebury performance. And even then it is not usually opera sung entirely in German.
But over the past six weeks 11 singers have studied, prepared and rehearsed in German for performances here this weekend of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro."
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury's Will Smith saw an opening to bring more music into the community and took it, because he believes it is important to everyone to have music in their lives.
"It brings the community together and it's just very good, especially for a place like Middlebury that doesn't have much live music outdoors," he said. "It's a very quiet town and I want to get something going here."
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It ships when it ships
Predicting when a task will be completed is hard. Engineers have struggled with this everywhere I've worked, including me. Some overestimate the time needed to build a certain feature and others might greatly underestimate their actual work load. But is this even a real problem? No, not really.
Not sure who started these artificial deadlines for things, but they make no sense. Even when dealing with an all-hands-on-deck situation, there isn't a real deadline in the room. The goal is to ship a fix asap. Similar to a soccer game when your opponent leads 0:1 and there are only 5 minutes left on the clock. The team will try everything to score asap. But outside of such pressured situations the team simply focuses on ball possession and making good plays. There is nobody asking the players at what time they will score the first goal. Not before the game and especially not during it.
I believe managers shouldn't worry about deadlines so much. They should simply make sure that everyone knows what goals the team is trying to achieve, how to get there and ensure the players play well together. A team that works together extremely well can't help but be super productive. And that's the only true measure: Productivity.
To clarify: There are situations where deadlines are non negotiable, but establishing deadlines for the sake of having deadlines isn't an approach that works well. Try establishing goals, because that's what these things really are.


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Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" abruptly halted production for Wednesday and Thursday, sending an email to audience members who had tickets for the rest of the week's tapings, The Huffington Post reports.
Today, word comes that there was a family emergency in the Colbert family, according to the Wall Street Journal:
Stephen Colbert has suspended production of his satirical comedy show temporarily because of an emergency in Mr. Colbert's family, according to people familiar with the show.
The show is expected to resume production soon, perhaps as early as next week, the people added.
The Huffington Post reported Wednesday:
Third Beat and Mediaite are reporting that audience members were informed late Tuesday night via email, "Due to unforeseen circumstances, we have cancelled our taping for the date of your ticket reservation, February 15, 2012." And ColbertNation.com has been updated with a rerun scheduled for Thursday night's episode.
Stephen Colbert's website, Colbert Nation, offers no explanation.
Third Beat noted:
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The first-to-market, detailed guide to hotspots--the "killer app for 802.11"--provides need to know information on these open-to-the-public wireless networks that are springing up in hotels, airports, cafes, and even parks. Using this resource, engineers can cost, design, configure, implement, and install hotspots, or develop service applications in this hot new market. Written by Dan Minoli, one of the top voices in networking, this reference tells readers how to deliver wireless Internet and telecom that's 40 times faster and 1/10th the cost of conventional networks.
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Into the City (updated)
Here is a guest blog entry by our friend Simon Maddocks, in his own words and with illustrations he supplied. Enjoy!
UPDATE - Simon's linetests:
I started work at Richard Williams Studio in the summer of 1990, originally employed as Ramon Guillaumet's assistant. On my first day however, Dick gave me a scene to animate on the War Machine destruction sequence. The second and final scene I animated was the animation of the city from a long shot of the palace to a close-up of the three gold balls. This lasted about 194 frames, and took me a year. I've dug out a few drawings from the scene below:
Prior to the city scene were scenes of swirling clouds and other abstract patters within a glass ball held between a disembodied pair of hands. This is a layout drawing guide to the framing of those scenes.
The city in which much of "The Thief" takes place was depicted in many backgrounds in the film, and among the most spectacular was a large painting by Errol Le Cain of the whole city on a hill. The palace in its grounds surrounded by a moat is seen here in this detail. The whole painting was probably about 6 feet wide.
The design for the city was drawn up by Roy Naisbitt as a huge line drawing about 10 feet wide. I was concerned with animating the palace section at the top which was to be at the end of a track in to that section from a wide shot of the whole city.
I stared at this drawing for hours on my first day on the scene, wondering how on earth I was going to start the process. The style of the film was that of Persian miniatures, which had naive perspective which did not really lend itself to the kind of dimensional breakdown that would make animating around the form easy, but I noticed - to my relief - that Roy had actually used perspective on the palace, and the towers around the walls were actually definable on a perspective grid. There was no vertical perspective, all the vertical lines were parallel.
This is an early drawing to try to break down that structure before getting into some detailed grid animation on which I would construct the city. The underpinning of the grid would stop the buildings losing form and swimming around as the animation progressed.
With some basic grids drawn up I started on some rough keyframe drawings as a test of the process and also the composition.{
This is one of five or six layers of gound level where the grid is sub-divided and the plans of the buildings are then drawn in. The reason for using subdivideable grids almost everywhere is that you don't need any measurement, which is impractical in a perspective drawing. The subdivision works naturally within the perspective and allows smooth animation based on only a few initial points being laid down. Of course you have to get those right!
This drawing shows the plans of the buildings and walls for the various ground levels for one of the animation frames.
From the plans the heights of the buildings are "extruded" upwards to act as a template for the more detailed drawings.
This is the finished drawing of the main details of the architecture and landscape for the first frame. Further detail would be added on additional cell layers for bricks and smaller details, such as the chains supporting the leaning minaret.
As I had done with the city, the palace needed to be broken down into a constructable set of shapes. The palace was the most detailed building in the scene by far and was to fill the screen, so it needed particularly fine detailing.
This is a test drawing for the detailed lines of the palace for frame 103.
The finish of the artwork was another issue that required much care, detail and sheer craftsmanship. Under Dick's direction, it was decided that the city would be photocopied onto yellow paper, which would then feature coloured pencil rendering with additional layers of hand traced detail such as bricks and highlights on frosted cells. This picture is of a colour test by Dee Morgan. Dee had also worked on the flower renders in the film. Rendering in this sense refers to the subtle coloured pencil shading of the animation frame by frame. This is extremely demanding work because the tendency is for the randomness of the shaded pencil strokes to "boil" from one frame to the next, distracting from the more subtle main animation.
This is a demonstration frame I made up with laser copied city drawing rendered by Dee, with further detail and rendering work on a frosted overlay cell. There is also a flat painted cell for the sky. This is by no means the finished look as there would have been additional exposures to highlight the sky brightness and the gold domes. The cells no longer perfectly align in this artwork unfortunately but I hope it gives some indication where the scene was heading. The disc is about 11.4 inches in diameter
This is a test render of the final frame, centred on the gold balls at the top of the minaret, which were a key plot device in the story. Subsequent scenes in the prologue took over from this frame.The scene was called "Into City". I did the principal animation but others contributed, including Elaine Koo ( in-betweening ), Mark Naisbitt ( detail work ), Robert Somerville, ( in-betweens, detail ), and Dee Morgan ( rendering )Sadly this scene was never finished. The studio had a break for Easter in 1992, and when we came back 12 of the drawings from the middle of the scene had gone missing. These were near-finished highly rendered drawings from Dee that would have taken a long time to replicate. Shortly after that the film fell into the hands of the Completion Bond Company and all artwork was shipped off to the States. No-one picked the scene up again.Working on "The Thief" was very hard work but it was extremely rewarding. Seeing the rough cuts as the film came together was inspiring. It seems rare now to see the close collaboration the team all had directly with Dick Williams, you didn't have to go through a chain of leads and supervisors to communicate with the director you just walked up to him. I learned a lot on that production and made a lot of friends, who I am still in touch with. There's a wide range of opinion concerning the fate of "The Thief". I believe had we been allowed to finish it it would have certainly been an artistic success and probably a popular one too. We'll never know.
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Hengisbury Head visitors centre is opening soon. See the latest photos. Hengistbury Head is a nationally and internationally renowned landmark in respect of its ecology, archaeology and geology. It forms part of the Christchurch Harbour Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) which is a haven for both people and wildlife in an otherwise predominantly urban setting. It is, in fact, one of the most poplar nature reserves on the south coast with around 1 million visitors annually.
Habitats include heathland, woodland, grassland, salt marshes, dunes, cliffs, ponds, sea and harbour shorelines. These habitats support 500 plant species, a quarter of the national flora including eight red data book species, 14 nationally scarce and 39 locally rare species. There are 700 moth species, again a quarter of the national total. More than 300 species of birds have been recorded here and Hengistbury Head is recognised as an important migratory point. The nature reserve is home to the Natterjack toad, Britain's rarest native amphibian.
The internal layout is designed around the visitor flow through the building and the needs of the staff. From the arrival courtyard there is a generous glazed entrance leading to the reception and shop area where visitors can speak to a member of staff. This area leads through into the existing barn and the main exhibition space where a series of interpretation installations tells the story of Hengistbury Head.
The ModCell® strawbale panel system was chosen as the main wall element of the building. ModCell® also supplied and fitted the roof beams as well as additional flitch plates to support the roof system, this was required due to the extreme wind conditions that are frequently experienced at this exposed site.
The centre is being funded with £300,000 from developer contributions, £432,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund and £300,000 from landfill tax.
The centre is due to open in summer 2013.