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JJ Peet's small scale assemblage sculptures and frenetic drawings take over On Stellar Rays' Lower East Side gallery space and turn it into a world of nonlinear connections and discord. Peet's works on paper serve as instructional abstract maps to direct the viewer through the artist's objectives. Intentionally puzzling, Defend_Station leaves the viewer to explore from an uncertain and uneasy vantage point. On view through December 16th 2012 at On Stellar Rays, 133 Orchard Street, New York. Photo and text Juliana Balestin


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LOS ANGELES -- Reserve Matt Barnes scored 19 points to help lift the Los Angeles Clippers to a 99-93 win over the visiting Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday night at Staples Center. The Clippers have won three straight games after a two-game losing slide that followed their team-best 17-game winning streak, and Wednesday they did it with the same blueprint that delivered them such early-season success. Barnes hit five 3-pointers to boost the Los Angeles effort, which lagged a bit as the starters struggled. The Clippers' starting five had just 56 points -- including 19 for Chris Paul and 15 for Blake Griffin -- but the Barnes-led bench outscored Dallas' reserves, 43-19. Los Angeles' starting unit may not have lit up the scoreboard themselves but it contributed in other ways. Paul had 16 assists with just three turnovers and added five rebounds. Griffin chipped in 13 rebounds and three steals and Caron Butler had two crucial offensive rebounds in the game's final minute to go along ...
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Iron Fist Boxing is a 3D fighting game that seems to have had a few teeth knocked out. Though the graphics are great, and I am actually pretty impressed with the look and presentation of the game, there's a couple key things missing. Fighting games in particular live and die by their control scheme, and what we have here is a missed opportunity. Players control one of 16 fighters and basically engage in a button-mashing beat-em up with little to no context. If they took this graphics engine and combined it with some real gameplay, they'd have a winner here, but unfortunately that's not the case.
- Have I Mentioned The Graphics Are Great?
No, seriously. This is the best looking 3D game I've reviewed on the iPhone to date. The shading, smoothness of texture and the solid framerate all make this game's visuals a KO.
- Soundtrack Designed To Pump… You… UP!
The music here was specially written for the game, and worked very well at conjuring images of an arena and some epic sporting event. At least they didn't go with a lame, paper-thin hair metal soundtrack.
- In The Blue Corner … Multi Touch Controls!
Well, they're in the game, but I didn't say they were any good. The lackluster controls here are perhaps the biggest deficiency in this game. Responsiveness isn't even in Iron Fist's vocabulary.
The Good:
I can't say it enough – visually and aurally, this game was a treat. The sound effects were nice and didn't get stale. The shading on the skin of the boxers was believable. Giving us 3 viewpoints from which to view the boxing was a nice touch. First person is particularly visceral – your camera reels with every hit you take. The menus and overall presentation really are top-notch, and that's what makes it such a shame that the rest of the game is decidedly not.
The Bad:
Where to begin? The controls are a mess. Fighting games are all about precision controls so that it's actually about skill. The controls here reduce the gameplay to mashing four corners of the screen and hoping you throw more punches than the other guy. Blocking is a joke, as the indicators warning you where to block seemingly come the instant the enemy punch is thrown. Even if you were given a good second to react, the lag between multi-touching to block and your character throwing up his gloves makes it all about luck, and that's a bad thing.
There is not a shred of instruction in the game. The text that is there is prone to simple mistakes (carrer rather than career). It was very unclear at first how to operate the controls, and I sought some kind of reassurance that I was just doing it wrong. Unfortunately, the developers seemed to see fit to just let the player fend for themselves, such that App Store reviewers have taken to posting mini instructions for the controls.
The "Story" mode has no story. Sparring mode is the exact same as story mode, except you can't choose your boxer. The boxer's "fighting styles" don't change anything about the way you play the game, just that some characters strikes are kicks rather than punches. The developer states that they'll be adding 8 more characters and 3 fighting styles in a future update. I do not look forward at all to their interpretation of Capoeira, (horribly misspelt "kapuera" on their App Store page … I'm vaguely aware that "kapuera" may be a Danish or some other Nordic language's spelling of Capoeira, but if you're writing in English, write in English. I digress…)
Skip it. The visuals are nice, but there's no substance to fill them out. Iron Fist falls way too far short to be worth your time – it's like they took a look at the graphics, said "Oh man, we DID it" and then cobbled together the rest of the game. There are other games that will entertain you more and are cheaper. If you know of a fighting game with good gameplay, feel free to let me know in the comments, I'd love to see it.


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June 29, 2006 2:39 PM PDT
Report blasts Mass. OpenDocument policy
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Marc Pacheco, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Post Audit and Oversight, on Tuesday released a report at the Massachusetts State House, the result of a several months-long inquiry.
The report stems from a decision by the state's Information Technology Division (ITD) last September to standardize on the OpenDocument format for executive branch state agencies by January 2007.
The move has been criticized by state politicians, including the state's director of public records. It also has attracted worldwide attention as a landmark decision among governments seeking more control over storage of public information.
Microsoft, the dominant supplier of desktop applications, does not intend to support OpenDocument in Office 2007, the company has said. It has submitted the document formats to Office 2007 to standards bodies Ecma International and the International Standards Organization.
In the report, titled "Open Standards, Closed Government: the ITD's Deliberate Disregard for Public Process," Pacheco contends that the ITD issued a technical architecture without sufficient input from interested parties or a realistic cost-benefit analysis. In addition, he said that the ITD did not have the legal authority to set a standard.
Pacheco also criticized the ITD for not taking into account the needs of people with disabilities when choosing OpenDocument.
"The principles of open standards may offer the benefits of decreased costs and interoperability of documents, but the ITD did not pursue the policy in an open, collaborative or lawful manner," he said at a press conference here in the Massachusetts State House.
Pacheco said he expects the executive branch to address the issues raised, adding that he recommends the January 2007 implementation deadline be postponed unless the needs of people with disabilities can be met.
He indicated that he has had constructive conversations with Thomas Trimarco, the Secretary of Administration and Finance, and Louis Gutierrez, the chief information officer of the ITD, neither of whom were involved in the OpenDocument decision.
In response, the office of Governor Mitt Romney issued a statement on Tuesday, saying that the executive branch would continue with the standards implementation plan.
"Senator Pacheco is wrong on the facts and wrong on the law. We are committed to an open-standards approach that fully takes into account all accessibility, cost and statutory requirements," said Felix Browne, an administration spokesman.
At the press conference on Tuesday, a disabilities advocate echoed Pacheco's criticism of the process, saying the concerns of people with disabilities were not sufficiently addressed before the ITD issued its technical architecture document.
"We need the ITD to take a step back and wait until we can verify the accessibility" of OpenDocument-based products, said John Winske, chairman of the Disability Policy Consortium, a Boston-based advocacy group. OpenDocument is currently supported in products from IBM, Novell, Sun Microsystems and the open-source OpenOffice suites.
Microsoft Office has built-in help for people with disabilities, such as voice synthesizers, special screen readers and enlargers, Winske said. But he said OpenDocument-based products do not yet.
Pacheco's findings echo his comments made at a public hearing last November, when he said the ITD acted "unilaterally" and without the proper authority. In addition, he said that the IT Division's then-CIO Peter Quinn and general counsel Linda Hamel did not do a sufficient cost analysis.
On Tuesday, Pacheco said that the process running up to the ITD's decision last fall was closed and dictated by Quinn and former Secretary of Administration and Finance Eric Kriss.
"The process, quite frankly, was driven by one individual in a very powerful position (Kriss) issuing a memo to an individual in a less powerful position (Quinn). Then he was told to get it done and forget about any obstacles," Pacheco said.
Although OpenDocument is not yet widely used, other government entities, including Belgium, have expressed interest in OpenDocument as a standard as well.
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- Sour Grapes?
- I'm speculating that this guy is just pissed off because he expected
MS would win. He enthusiastically endorsed the process last year
(http://www.techweb.com/wire/software/showArticle.jhtml?
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- Accesibility
- Seeing as you can open an OpenDocument document on a
Windows system I would hope those built-in screen-readers,
text-to-speech and enlargement options would work just as
The good senator also seems to have forgotten the needs of
disabled users of systems that do not support Microsoft Office.
Well, if we're going to start speaking on behalf of people that
haven't raised any complaint themselves, I might as well invent a
special interest group.
(For what it's worth, I don't believe these guys are in the pay of
Microsoft or some such conspiracy - they just hate the fact that
some techie has suggested change for reasons they can't
understand - 'If it's not broken, don't try and fix it'. As with IE,
the majority cannot see anything IS broken).
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- Run the good Senator through google
- Search on his name, and the words Microsoft donations
You'll see that he gets money from Microsoft lobbyists.
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- Moronic statement
- That was kind of a moronic statement to make. Take the tin-foil hat off for a second and realize that some people do actually think for themeselves. If Quinn and Kriss did violate the procedure for getting this standard adopted, what do you propose they do? Let it slide?
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- By "people with disability", you mean Microsoft?
- another mASSachusetts politican at it again.
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- By "people with disability", you mean Microsoft?
- Mass. politicians at it again.
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- formats don't determine accesibility, it's the programs.
- Perhaps the good Senator should be encouraging programmers to create more disabled friendly programs using the Open Document format. After all, since the format is open, anyone can make a program for it, even Microsoft.
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- text to speach is a function of the OS anyhow
- text to speach is generally a function of the OS anyhow. Sure, PDF Reader 7 and Office2007 have it built in but you generally it's an app that services all other programs as needed. It's nothing to do with the file format or shortlist of early adopters.
If process was cercomvented then that issue needs to be adressed but another polition who's toe got stepped on cause he didn't win his argument; bite me.
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- Formats do determine accessibility
- The main villain is PDF, a format which does not store text as continuous strings but rather, as small fragments (individual letters in some cases!), each tagged with its position on the page.
A continuous string of text can be read in natural order by screen reading software.
Though text fragments with position tags *appear* to humans to be in order when represented visually, it is quite difficult to recreate the ordered, *machine-readable* representation. Acrobat's search feature won't find words that are split across lines, for example. From Acrobat's (and the underlying format's) perspective, the end of one line is in no way related to the beginning of the next.
OpenDocument and the Microsoft Office formats are not subject to this particular accessibility problem, but they have accessibility problems of their own.
Interestingly, HTML prepared in accordance with the WCAG guidelines is one of the most accessible formats. See, in particular, the way the HTML standard and the WCAG guidelines address the linking of table cells to row and column headers.
So yes, format does affect accessibility.
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- it says "Microsoft Office has built-in help for people with disabilities, such as voice synthesizers, special screen readers and enlargers, Winske said. But he said OpenDocument-based products do not yet. "
i.e. the product that do support opendocument don't support these features. MS has no incentive to support a format which was created by its competitors and distributed free with a primary goal to kill the office market since they cant really compete head on.
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- This just in...
- The public blasts the senate for being closed, unlawful and insensitive to people.
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- Read the auditor's report yourself...
- http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/st02/st02612.htm
It is thorough and correct.
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'Dancing With the Stars': Carrie Ann Inaba tweets in defense of the judgesAdd to Favorites | Dancing With the Stars
Well, Inaba has taken to Twitter to defend the judges. (She's the only judge with a Twitter account.)
"FYI: Everyone has different abilities on DWTS," she tweeted. "Every journey is unique to each contestant and everyone's ten looks slightly different. Another FYI: I forgive you because you don't know better- scores are locked in before we speak. So we have scored before any words spoken."
Goodman made an appearance on "Access Hollywood" to give his own opinion. "I was a little bit aggrieved at the time, but now I've slept on it, and I'm sure Maks has slept on it," he said. "What he's saying is so untrue. I am the defender of all the pros, I think all those professionals do a fantastic job."
Zap2it was actually backstage that night, and we asked recently booted couple Lacey Schwimmer and her partner Chaz Bono (who felt that judge Bruno Tonioli's statements about Chaz looking like a penguin were bullying) about whether or not the dancers have the opportunity to speak to the judges after blowups like this. She said it wasn't allowed.
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Emily White will become Snapchat's new COO. ncwit.org / Snapchat
The UpTake: Emily White is a rising in star in the tech scene. Now she'll move into the same position at Snapchat as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, who hired her away from Google.
Emily White took over a daunting task earlier this year: turn Instagram into a money-maker for its owner Facebook as the service's first-ever director of business of operations.
Somebody was impressed by White's work, because Snapchat just poached her from Facebook. AllThingsD broke the news that White will takeover as Snapchat's first COO, second in command to CEO Evan Spiegel.
Spiegel has been kicking a lot of sand in Mark Zuckerberg's face lately, first rebuffing a $3 billion acquisition offer from Facebook, now snatching up one of its rising stars.
"It happened really quickly, but to have an actual COO role in one of many companies that is disrupting the communications arena is one I could not pass up," White told AllThingsD. "I have always been captivated by the creativity that has gone into the product … and I think that Evan has been looking for someone who can help him grow and scale what is already something that has changed a lot of the way people think about the mobile experience."
White will also become one of tech's most high-profile women executives. It's also a parting of ways for White and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, who recruited her to Facebook.
The next big question: how will White apply her business chops at Snapchat, which makes no money despite a massive valuation of as much as $4 billion? While she presided over the rollout of advertising on Instagram, it's not yet clear how successful they will ultimately be.
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Julius Randle was probably one of them. Willie Cauley-Stein, likely. The Harrison twins probably intrigued them. And in all likelihood, Marcus Lee made their jaws drop a couple of times.
But the guy they talked about the most, the one that left them wowed when they boarded their planes and headed home, wasn't who most people think it would be.
"Everybody that walks in the building, the guy that they're saying is the standout is James Young - like every day," John Calipari said Tuesday at UK Media Day. "We've had NBA scouts in here every day. They're all speaking about him."
It wasn't as if Young wasn't one of the gems in this year's top-ranked recruiting class. Ranked No. 11 overall by Rivals.com, Young signed with UK with a reputation as a great shooter, a top-level athlete and an explosive driver.
What Calipari and everyone else are finding out is those superlatives are just scratching the surface.
"I never got the opportunity to play against James except at a camp or whatever, but I've seen his growth and development," said freshman teammate Julius Randle. "He's gotten bigger. He's gotten taller, faster, stronger. He could always really shoot the ball, but now he's learning how to attack. His game is really evolving."
Randle was labeled a month ago by Calipari as being the "alpha beast" of the team, a role many predict he will still assume once the season starts, but Coach Cal said Tuesday that Young has been just as good, according to the scouts.
"I just listen to it and try not to think about it as much," Young said. "I keep trying to go day by day and make myself even better than they think I am. I'm trying to shock everybody."
Young has certainly shocked his teammates and coaches with a number of things.
- There's his ability to absorb contact and get to the rim: "In transition, he's kind of like Michael Kidd(-Gilchrist)," Coach Cal said. "If he's out ahead, you throw him the ball (and) something good will happen."
- He has a better-than-advertised shooting touch: "You can't leave him open," Alex Poythress said. "He hits all of his shots."
- And his speed is second to none on this team: "No one knows how fast he is," Jarrod Polson said. "I think he's definitely probably the fastest person on the team. He can fly up and down the court if you get it to him."
But what's taken Calipari by surprise more than anything else is Young's potential to be a lockdown defender. At 6-foot-5, 215 pounds, he has the ability to shut down two guards and wings on the college level.
"He has really long arms," Polson said. "He's 6-7 right now and he's quick. That's really the perfect build. He kind of reminds me of DeAndre (Liggins)."
Liggins didn't buy in to being a defensive stopper until midway through his second year at UK, but once he did, he was one of the best defenders in the country. Like Liggins, Young is still getting accustomed to giving the type of energy it takes to defend on the college level, but the pieces are there.
"He's so long, he's so quick," Hood said, "you just have to make him want to do that all the time. That's what every freshmen that's ever come through here (has had to deal with). You have to make them want to do something all the time."
In due time, Young could become the next great defender. In the meantime, he seems to be doing enough right to catch the attention of NBA scouts.
"I've just been doing me actually, just going hard in practice," Young said. "People I guess didn't think I was going to come out and show my talent but that's what I came here to do."
Defensively dominant?
For all the talk about the Dribble Drive Motion Offense, Calipari's best teams have all shared a different staple: defense.
From his 2008 national runner-up team at Memphis to the 2010 Kentucky squad and the 2012 national champions, they've all been terrific at locking down when they need to, blocking shots and holding the opposition to a paltry field-goal percentage.
With more size, more athletes and perhaps more depth than he has ever had, does Coach Cal think this has a chance to be one of his best defensive teams ever?
"I don't know," Calipari said. "You don't have an Anthony (Davis) even though we have some good shot blockers. And I don't know if we have a Michael Kidd because Michael had the combination of toughness, mental toughness and length to do it - and athleticism. So that ended up making that team the best defensive team in the country."
Even without Davis and Kidd-Gilchrist, Calipari said this team has the makings of a dominant defensive team because the guards are bigger than ever (see the Harrison twins and Young). And though there may not be a Davis on this team, Marcus Lee terrorized high school players last year with a 6.9 blocked shots average.
The hesitation by Calipari to call it a great defensive team is because he hasn't worked with his players on defense yet.
Where some teams and coaches like to institute defense first, Calipari prefers to go over the Dribble Drive to start the season because it forces the players to learn how to guard the driver anyway - what he calls the hardest thing to teach in the game - while schooling the offense.
"There's all kinds of ways of doing this job. ... We just do it the other way," Calipari said. "That doesn't mean it's the right way, but you want to establish that. We've always become a pretty good defensive team, but we've done nothing. Haven't done pick-and-roll defense, post defensive, playing the screen."
If this team is indeed in the mold of those other great teams, the defense will come in time.
The players determine their playing time
If there are potential traps for this Kentucky team, some people will tell you it's one of UK's greatest strengths: depth.
With so many players, with so much talent, how will Calipari find enough minutes for everybody? How will he manage egos?
Apparently he won't.
"They're in control," Coach Cal said.
Calipari dismissed the notion put forth by a reporter at UK Media Day that he held the strings to this team and would ultimately be the one who decides who dances and who sits the bench.
"They earn it," Coach Cal said. "No one's promised anything here. You're going to have to earn minutes."
Calipari said he doesn't have the luxury of some of those Dean Smith-coached North Carolina teams that would substitute five guys at a time - the "bomb squad," he termed it - because of youth and inexperience.
Instead, he'll preach that playing time and shots aren't what this team and the players' futures will ultimately being judged on. As he's noted before, Davis and Kidd-Gilchrist took the fourth- and fifth-most shots on that 2012 title team and still went one and two, respectively, in the NBA Draft.
"Go rebound, defend, run the floor, make baskets," Calipari said. "Do the things that help us win and make you look good. You just have to explain it."
Calipari does that early in the recruiting process and makes sure his players understand that a players-first program doesn't mean it's all about one player doing what he wants.
"As long as you're about them, they'll listen," Coach Cal said. "They trust you, they'll play hard. You're not getting as many minutes because of this and this, but we've got your back. You're fine. You're going to be good. That's a challenge when you have a good, full team."


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Here in Northern California we have beautiful Infineon Raceway, which many of you have seen on TV while watching either the NASCAR road race or the NHRA Autolite Nationals. However, for us local drag racers who need our monthly fix of speed and competition, we get the short end of the stick; the Road Course gets most of the dates, and the Russell Racing School has its road-racing instruction here. That said, we'll take the track just about anytime they'll let us have it. The drawback is that it gets rather cold around here in January and February, which leads me to this month's title.
I race my Super Gas Don Davis roadster in the Summit ET series in Super Pro. When I bracket race the car, I run it wide open with no throttle stop and it runs 8.90s at 148 mph. With the track being somewhat traction-limited from of the cold, it helps me get down the tarmac without driving 1,400 feet in the quarter-mile! Well, last weekend we had our second points meet, and on my first time run the temperature was a brisk 43 degrees. By mid-afternoon we had a high of 58 degrees. Needless to say, if you get out of the groove at all, you're driving the car. By the time we got through six rounds and I was in the final, it had once again gotten colder, and what little sun we had went behind the main grandstand. Unfortunately, at about the 330-foot mark it started spinning the tires and I missed my dial by about 0.02 second, handing me the loss. Ex-Super Gas World Champion Dan DiVita is our chief starter for these races and gets to watch all of us try to get down the track. After the final he said to me that the back of my car was too stiff. Well, I've adjusted my shocks over the years based on the power output of my engines and the track conditions. However, I've never run the car that much at full power. When the car is on the throttle stop and competiting in Super Gas class, I run the compression on the shocks as loose as possible. If I run them any looser, it'll actually draw the suspension up into the car when I close the throttle on the stop and spin the tires slightly, making it inconsistent. Well, running the car at full power I never see this transition. I'm sure I can soften it up a few more clicks. Just slight changes like this can take you from the winner's circle and make you a first round duck. Watch the little details!
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Q My father and I are restoring a '65 Nova. We have a Heidt's Mustang II frontend with disk brakes and drop spindles, and a Moser rearend with 3.73:1 gears, and we haven't decided whether to use a TH400 or a 700-R4 trans. My father is stuck in the old school and wants to build a 396. I told him we should build, at minimum, a 427 or a 496. I cannot find any good combinations on 396s and he would like to get over 500 streetable horsepower.
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A Jon, sometimes you should really listen to your father. There are years there you have yet to cover. Maybe he wants a 396 for other reasons than just old school-maybe he wants to limit the power of your first project.
Getting to your question, yes, it would be much easier to reach your 500hp bogy with the larger-displacement engine. Also, good 396 cores are becoming harder to find, and it will cost you the same money to build the 396 as it would be to build, let's say, a 454. For that reason alone, you should build the 454. You will be working the 396 much harder to build 500 hp. On a 496, you are just asking for 1 hp per cubic inch. With the 396, you will need 1.26 hp per cube. That is quite easy to reach with a small-block; however, with the weight of a big-block's rotating assembly and the port size of the cylinder heads, it can be rather tricky reaching that power with good street manners. You'll need a camshaft that comes in around 240 degrees duration at 0.050 tappet lift, rectangle-port heads (preferably aluminum), and a single-plane intake that will let the engine make good power in the 6,500-6,800 rpm range. The torque will suffer with the package, but you should make your horsepower.


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Kanye West Announces His Latest Wacky Project: An Amusement Park?!
Kanye West is a man of many projects, and he recently declared that he hopes to make one of his next an amusement park.
"I want to work on cities," the rapper declared during the Cannes Film Festival. "I want to work on amusement parks, I want to change entertainment experiences or life." He plans to do it with the DONDA, his design company.
We know that Kanye likes a spectacle, so it's not really a surprise that he'd want to take entertainment to that level. In fact, we'd love to see what he comes up with. We just don't know if it will be crazy awesome or just plain crazy...
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-Stephen Worth
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-Stephen Worth
Friday, August 1st, 2014
My friend Joseph "JoJo" Baptista worked with Ralph Bakshi making an animated commercial for his Kickstarter campaign. JoJo produced an excellent bit of animation for Ralph, so I asked him to share his process with you. I've uploaded the videos to YouTube in HD, so click through the link below each video to go to its page and select HiDef. -Stephen Worth
Over the past few weeks I've had the opportunity to work for Ralph Bakshi. I've been a fan of Ralph's films since I first saw them when I was in college. The fact that I was able to test and receive direction from him was an absolutely amazing experience. I've done some design jobs and even a little bit of storyboard too, but I had never animated before, so I was very fortunate that Ralph took this chance on me because it was the first scene I had ever done. Ralph was very encouraging. He and I communicated over phone and e-mail. He would come up with ideas and tell me how to improve the performance by adding more frames to certain actions. He also explained to me the importance of anticipations.
I drew the animation on a Cintiq using Toon Boom Animate Pro. Toon Boom has been a tremendous help to me. No more shooting your animation with a camera. It's been so easy to delete the drawings you're unsatisfied with and start over. I even get to be my own ink and paint lady!
Here is the doodle Ralph sent me. Ralph explained that the characters think they're total hot shots, but they're really not. He wanted them smoking, scratching, spitting, yak yak yak! So before I did any animation I decided to pose them first, just to get a feeling of how to draw them and hopefully get a better sense of their personality, as well as a feel for Ralph's unique proportions and design sense.
I felt the relationship between these two characters was natural: The short bossy little guy and the big dumb oaf. The little guy, or "Nifty" as we ended up calling him, really doesn't care about the oaf, unless he's got something he wants.
So I began to do some rough layouts of situations the characters could enter. I sent these to Ralph, but he thought they were way too tight. He was right, they were. In fact, it wasn't until I started animating where I really started to loosen up. So I jumped into it.
First I began animating some simple stuff where I could easily showcase some personality. I wanted to figure out how these designs would move. No interaction yet.
This drawing showed me how I could really show a relationship between the two. One has something the other wants, the perfect concoction to drown his years of sorrows and regrets, alcohol!
The oaf has had his fill, and complies with Nifty's request. I originally came up with this fountain pose for the pour. Ralph didn't like it. Looking back I think it looks too flamboyant and doesn't display how drunk he is. Instead he suggested leaning the oaf back as he pours, he said he didn't care how long his arm got! I came up with the head wobble before the lean. I think this helps give a clear sense that he's tanked.
One of the things I learned on this scene through Ralph was the importance of anticipations and breathing spaces between actions. Anticipations are crucial when you want to jump into one action from the next. For example, many of the broad actions done by Nifty have anticipations before they're executed. Pay close attention to the way Nifty goes into a squashed pose before shouting, "HEY!!" It's very short, but it's there. This is what helps give the following extreme pose some oomph. If it wasn't there it just wouldn't read well. Putting spaces between actions is also essential when you want certain actions to read against another character who may be in a moving hold or doing a much more subtle gesture. Otherwise, with so many actions happening at once you won't know where your eyes are supposed to look. It's all about the control of motions.
Once the animation was done it was time to add color. Steve provided me with color cards, and I made color models in Photoshop. Kent Butterworth had been experimenting with colors earlier on some of my sketches (above) so I went with those. As soon as that was figured out I began painting the characters. This part was very time consuming. Because the drawings are very rough, I had to create another layer in Animate Pro and paint each frame of animation and in several passes too. One for the main color, another for open mouths, hats, shading, etc. It took forever!
Next, it was time for music and sound. Steve was a great help here; he knew the perfect piece of music for this sequence, Naftule Brandwein's, "Nifty's Froelich". It's also where we got the name for the little guy. With the music in we added sound effects. We not only added sound to actions but also where an accent was hit in the music. Just like anticipations add the space to the action clearly, the placement and choice of sound effects make the sound clear.
I hope you enjoyed this and found it helpful. Since this article was published originally, Ralph's kickstarter achieved its goal and then some! As we speak, Ralph is hard at work in New Mexico animating "Last Days of Coney Island". I'm really proud to have helped him get the chance to make a personal film. Ralph's work is totally unique to everyone else in animation, and his films are still very relevant today. The Last Days of Coney Island short is sure to be another incredible experience.
Ralph regularly posts updates on his progress to Facebook. Like his page and cheer him on!
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February 15, 2013
Friday, May 16th, 2014
Ray Patterson's career in animation spanned seven decades. He was responsible for the animation of Jerry Mouse dancing with Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh as well as animation for Dumbo and the "Pastoral" sequence of Fantasia. In 1954 he formed his own studio Grantray-Lawrence and he worked at Hanna-Barbera and Sanrio Productions as well.
Today, his family is sharing some of his earliest work with us… Ray began as an inker in 1929 at the Charles Mintz Screen Gems studio, working on Krazy Kat and Scrappy cartoons. By 1930, he had worked his way up to a position as animator. Here are some rare sketches and model sheets from his tenure there… Enjoy!
Many thanks to the family of Ray Patterson for sharing these treasures with us.
Stephen Worth
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From 20 Feb 2013 to 23 Feb 2013
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How do you become the last man alive, and what would you then say to God if you happened to meet him? What would God say to you?
Wellington playwright Harry Meech has created a puzzling conundrum in See? a taster from Plains, which won Harry the Playmarket Young Playwright's Award in 2009.
The script has since been developed with assistance from expert dramaturgs and received a staged in reading in the United States. This is the first time that the script will hit the stage in its native country.
See? shows its colours most clearly as it approaches its genuinely tragic subject material with a wry smile and quiet chuckle. Harry's script tip-toes the line between meaningful and meaningless effortlessly, presenting the audience with something that transcends its narrative; a resounding question … What happens if you push the button?
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Number of Americans killed in Mexico continues to rise
Deadly violence strikes areas once considered peaceful for U.S. retirees
By Lise Olsen | April 28, 2012 | Updated: April 29, 2012 11:40pm
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The rise in drug-related violence in formerly peaceful areas is of growing concern to Americans living in Mexico. Lorraine Kulig, originally from Walden on Lake Houston, said retirees feel like they are "caught in the crossfire."
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The peaceful boardwalk scene beside Lake Chapala in Jalisco state belies the fears of American expatriate residents who call the lake's communities home.
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Boats of the local fishing fleet and water taxis on Lake Chapala.
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Lorraine Kulig is shown with some of her neighbors in the Barrio San Miguel of Chapala, Jalisco. Kulig and her husband retired to the quaint, small city three years ago.
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"We all know this is a gang problem. We have no connection with drugs," said Kulig.
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A large billboard advertises new homes for sale in dollars, not Mexican pesos, in a gated community in Ajijic, Jalisco.
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Judy King, a writer originally from rural Iowa, conducts weekly orientation briefings with newcomers to Lake Chapala.
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The early-morning street scene in Ajijic, Jalisco.
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The boardwalk along Lake Chapala in Ajijic is a favorite place for an early-morning walk.
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Retirees from the U.S. and Canada dance at a restaurant in Ajijic.
CHAPALA, MEXICO - Mexico's violence came crashing into the retirement dream of Houston's Lorraine Kulig and hundreds of other Americans last fall when gangsters shot it out and set off a bomb in this usually bucolic town on the shore of the nation's largest lake.
"We all know this is a gang problem. We have no connection with drugs," said Kulig, 55, who retired to the quaint small city of Chapala three years ago with her husband Michael and now helps run the Lone Star Club, a monthly gathering of Texans living in the area. "But we can be caught in the crossfire."
And not just crossfire.
In the neighboring town of Ajijic, where foreigners have been settling for decades, 69-year-old American Chris Kahr was unloading groceries from his car when a thief jumped him from behind, fired a single bullet into his chest and fled. The November murder was the third last year to strike an American from the communities along Lake Chapala in Jalisco state.
Last year, a record 120 Americans were killed in Mexico, compared with just 35 in 2007. Most happened in areas bordering the U.S. But for the first time, a significant number of murders occurred in previously peaceful areas like Jalisco state, where 14 Americans were killed, according to a Houston Chronicle analysis of U.S. State Department data.
'Heads in the sand'
The Chapala shootout and Kahr's death punctuated months of insecurity - burglaries, assaults, gangland shootouts and executions - in the area since last summer.
American and other foreign residents with financial and emotional commitments to their adopted homes, tend to downplay such events. But more than a few have felt rattled.
"We weren't seeing anything here so we all, foreigners and Mexicans alike, kind of put our heads in the sand," said writer Judy King, 67, who has lived in Ajijic for 21 years and works part time dispensing real estate and advice to foreigners looking to retire. "And now it's here."
As Mexico's heightened criminal violence grinds into its sixth year, Americans traveling or living in the country increasingly find themselves at risk: caught in crossfire, assaulted in their homes or on the street, targeted by criminals for a range of reasons.
While still miniscule compared to the more than 50,000 Mexicans claimed by the violence, the annual tally of Americans slain has risen steadily since 2007.
Half of last year's American homicides happened in Mexican border cities and towns - a third in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez alone. Many involved lifelong border residents born in the United States. But the killings increasingly have occurred deep inside Mexico. The State Department issued a travel warning in February that advises U.S. citizens to avoid 14 of Mexico's 32 states and to use extreme caution when visiting four others.
The risks remain small given that 19.9 million Americans visited Mexico last year, and as many as 1 million U.S. citizens live there, according to U.S. government estimates.
Mexican gangsters aren't "going after Americans specifically in any way, either tourists or people involved in that business," said Hugo Rodriguez, head of the State Department's citizens services section for the Americas.
Highway shootings
Many U.S. citizens killed by cartel members involved cases of mistaken identity or being in the wrong place at the wrong time, he said.
Five teenagers were among the Americans killed or seriously wounded after being accidentally caught in cartel shootouts in hotly contested areas in Michoacan, Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana last year, Rodriguez said.
Others fell victim to highway robbers or illegal roadblocks in volatile states like Veracruz and Tamaulipas. A U.S. citizen and her Texas-born daughter on their way to visit relatives for Christmas were killed when gangsters sprayed a passenger bus near the Gulf port city of Tampico. And a 59-year-old Texas-based missionary was fatally shot while traveling with her husband on a highway about 70 miles south of the U.S. border.
'My town has changed'
Though not necessarily tied to the drug war, recession-related increases in crimes such as ATM robberies, home invasions and kidnappings affect Americans as well as Mexicans, said Rodriguez. Peaceful ex-pat communities like colonial San Miguel de Allende and Lake Chapala each lost longtime residents to homicide.
Kahr's killing came days after the break-in and brutal assault of an American woman in her Ajijic house. The incidents spurred hundreds of American, Canadians and other residents to form a community watch group and pressure officials both for arrests and for better security.
"I hate that my town has changed," said Realtor Linda Fossi, who moved to Ajijic 14 years ago from California. "You can't hide behind a curtain and pretend everything is fine. Things are not fine. I am devastated by it."
Other victims
In addition to Kahr, last year's American victims from the Lake Chapala area included 65-year- old retiree Allan Turnipseed, apparently shot in the head by two U.S.-born teenaged brothers that he had befriended and invited into his home. Another longtime resident, David Reitz, was killed days before Thanksgiving in Puerto Vallarta by two men from Chapala, one of whom police say had a "sentimental relationship" with the slain American.
Kulig, who moved from the community of Walden on Lake Houston, and many other foreign residents refuse to be daunted, reveling in the new lives they've chosen.
David Truly, 56, who did his doctoral research on the foreign retirees 15 years ago, added, "The types of people who come here are very adventurous. They are used to adapting."


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Well, we are nearly complete with the new WFO build... And really looking forward to learning how to cook in this new back yard appliance!
I still have two significant projects to wrap up on this oven; the stucco exterior, and a counter top. In the mean time, the curing process is in full swing.
As part of the 'curing' I will attempt a slow cook pork dish. The pulled pork dish you all were talking about caught my attention, so when I get the temperatures up a bit in the oven, I'll toss a pork shoulder in the oven with a bit of sauce and let it simmer over night...
I started this build in the middle of March '08, and have a bit over $1,100 USD invested so far.. and shouldn't need to buy much more stuff to finish the build.
The picture-story of this build is in the photo gallery...
This image is the curing fire from today. Kind of have to work at it to keep the fire from getting to big!
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I've seen your pics in the photoblog. Nice build Jed. Take a pic of that first pulled pork dish. What a nice way to start while you cure the oven.
Coldish Spring out there in Bend this year, huh? I was considering a trip to the Deschutes downstream at Maupin, but I figured the hatches were way off schedule. Normally, it should be 90 degrees and blazing hot during the days. Not this year.
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We are moving here from Anchorage, so although it may be colder than 'normal', it's all good to me!
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Looks great!!!!
I'm hoping to start curing next weekend. I think I'll christen the oven with the first fire and let my wife have the honor of lighting it. She's been putting up with my obsession for over a year now.
Can't wait to see the finished product.
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Did you use the word "obsession"?
I guess I'm not the only guy with a near single focus...
I've enjoyed watching your build also, the oven is looking great and even more importantly, it looks like your family is really enjoying the process...
Good luck with the curing - have you decided when to start cooking, or will you wait until you can get the oven hot enough for pizza?
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Anchorage to Bend. Grab a water bottle. It's going to get hot soon! Keep us posted on the curing and cooking.
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Black Rice
recipe by SANG YOON
Most people don't give rice much thought beyond considering its utility as a neutral backdrop for flavors cast off by more glamorous counterparts. Chinese black rice, however, challenges such a pedestrian characterization by projecting an aura of intrigue and exoticism that belies its humble status.
Ancient Chinese legend has it this "forbidden rice" was reserved for the exclusive use of the royal family, and consumption by commoners was punishable by death. Sang Yoon, chef-owner of Father's Office and its Asian neighbor Lukshon, both in the Helms Bakery complex, says of its uniqueness, "Black rice isn't traditionally used for fried rice, but I like it for its firmer texture and nuttiness. It pairs really well with sweet Chinese sausage."
And it's not just the chic coloring that makes this heirloom rice stand out. Packed with flavor and antioxidants, the dark husks help the grains hold their form during cooking, resulting in a pleasantly resistant bite.
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
6 ounces dried Chinese sausage, thinly sliced or diced
16 ounces black rice, cooked
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 inch of ginger, peeled and minced
2 ounces Shaoxing wine
2 ounces Chinese light soy sauce
½ cup chopped scallions
Salt and white pepper
Heat vegetable oil in wok. Add sausage, ginger, garlic and rice until coated. Add wine, soy sauce and scallions. Toss about 3 minutes, adding salt and pepper as you like. Serves 4–6.


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College Football Consensus: Filtering the Numbers in Week 10
- Updated: November 2, 2012
The college football week 10 schedule kicks off on Thursday night and so now is the time to look at the college football sports betting numbers to see who the public is on. The key is to go completely against the public whenever possible and pick the spots that may yield profit win Week 10.
The two big games this week will be Alabama vs. LSU and Oregon vs. USC so let's hit up those premier games first.
The Alabama Crimson Tide are giving double-digits to the Tigers in Baton Rouge on Saturday night, but they are only attracting 54 percent of the public action, so this game is getting relative betting action.
That is not the case in the game between Oregon and USC. The public has given up on the Trojans after losing to Arizona. A whopping 71 percent is on the Ducks this week to cover the seven points against the Trojans.
The biggest public road play heading into ths week is on the Stanford Cardinal. The Cardinals is a very big 27.5 point favorite over Colorado. Colorado was just dismantled by the Oregon Ducks and they are not a very good football teams, so it is not too hard to imagine that 72 percent of the public is will to part with the points and take the favorite.
The biggest road dog on the schedule comes from a matchup in the Big East. This week the Cincinnati bearcats battle the Syracuse Orange and the Bearcats are getting big looks from the public only giving 4.5 points. The Bearcats are the most bet on play in college football this Saturday, so be cautious before betting on the Bearcats.
This formula has proven to be successful in the past. It is not the only handicapping tool, but if used properly the end result could be big profits in college football.
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This first film version of H.G. Wells' Island of Dr. Moreau stars Charles Laughton as Dr.Moreau, a dedicated but sadly misguided scientist who rules the roost on a remote island. Shipwrecked sailor Edward Parker Richard Arlen finds himself on Moreau's island, agreeing to stick around until another boat can come along and take him home. But that's not quite what Moreau has in mind: he'd rather Parker stay on the island and marry the exotic Lota (Kathleen Burke), who curiously possesses the characteristics of the panther. In fact, all the island's natives seem more animal than human, especially the hirsute Bela Lugosi. And why not? They are animals who've been transformed by Moreau into humanlike creatures via surgery. Moreau's plans to mate Parker and Lota are complicated by the arrival of Parker's fiancee Leila Hyams, who has been brought to the island by ship's captain Stanley Fields, one of Moreau's flunkies. When Moreau kills Fields for this insubordination, he makes the mistake of breaking one of the rules he himself has imposed on the island: That no creature shall kill another. Island of Lost Souls does its job of inducing goosebumps so well that one can forgive the cherubic excesses of Charles Laughton in his portrayal of Dr. Moreau. The film would be remade under Wells' original title in 1978, with Burt Lancaster in the Laughton role.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Ibuypower Battalion 101 W170HR
SpecificationsNotebook: Ibuypower Battalion 101 W170HR (Battalion 101 Series)
Processor: Intel Core i7 2670QM
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M
Display: 17.3 inch, 16:9, 1920x1080 pixels, glossy: yes
Weight: 3.1kg
Price: 1100 euro
Sold in: Anglo-America
Average of 1 scores (from 1 reviews)
Reviews for the Ibuypower Battalion 101 W170HR
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With a base price just under $1100, the iBUYPOWER Battalion 101 W170HR is certainly going to an attractive option for those wanting a large gaming laptop but are on a tight budget. The system overall has a good set of features that does make it for a decent gaming system but power gamers will be disappointed by the graphics processor that can't always handle the 1920x1080 resolution LCD panel.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 01/10/2012
Rating: Total score: 60%
NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M:
As the successor to the GeForce GT 445M, the GT 555M is available in many different versions based on different chips (GF106, GF116, GF108) with different graphics memory (128 Bit, 192 Bit, DDR3, GDDR5) and varying core speeds.
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Core i7: The Intel Core i7 for laptops is based on the LG1156 Core i5/i7 CPU for desktops. The base clock speed of the CPUs is relatively low, but because of a huge Turbo mode, the cores can dynamically overclock to up to 3.2 GHz (920XM). Therefore, the CPU can be as fast as high clocked dual-core CPUs (using single threaded applications) but still offer the advantage of 4 cores. Because of the large TDP of 45 W / 55 W, the CPU is only intended for large laptops.
2670QM: Fast Quad-core processor clocked at 2.2-3.1 GHz based on the Sandy Bridge architecture with an integrated graphics card and dual-channel DDR3 memory controller. » Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
17.3": Meanwhile the 17 inch display size is a more frequently offered standard format for desktop-replacements. The DTR-laptops can't be carried easily, need much energy but on the other side texts can be read easily and high resolutions are no problem. DTR mainly are intended for stationary usage on desks, where the weight and the energy need are unimportant.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
3.1 kg: This weight is average for notebooks. Therefore the numerous mass of laptops with 15 inch display fits in this class of weight.
Ibuypower: iBUYPOWER Computer is a enterprise located in Southern California. The product lines include gaming desktops, gaming notebooks, workstations, media center PCs, peripherals, and multimedia products. The global market share according laptops is low.
60%: Such a bad rating is rare. There exist hardly any notebooks, which are rated worse.
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What do you get when you gather a group of 22 high schoolers and opera fans and give them unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to Lyric? Pure joy!
Lyric Unlimited's Youth Opera Council was launched as a new initiative in the 2013-14 season, and their first year was an unqualified success. This dynamic group of young opera lovers met regularly, speaking with Lyric staff about the operations of an opera company, attending productions, and meeting guest artists.
"Lyric Unlimited established the Youth Opera Council to engage students who are passionate about opera, giving them an inside look at an opera company and the many career paths they can take as they look toward college," said Cayenne Harris, director of Lyric Unlimited. "Through in-depth discussions with company members and artists, Council members develop the ability to engage and involve their peers, creating opera house experiences that are appealing to young audiences. This first year has been a delightful exploration marked by successful events and boundless enthusiasm, and a noticeable increase in youth presence at opera performances."
Stephanie Smelyanski, a 17-year-old junior from Chicago, was an inaugural member and has reapplied for membership next season. Her interest was initially piqued because she wanted to learn more about how an opera company works. But even more than that, Stephanie says she was looking for a way to spread the word: "I really wanted to get more people my age involved in opera because I think it's a shame that today's youth don't even get an exposure to it. Opera is one of my favorite art forms, and I want to share that with the world."
As part of their regular gatherings, the Council had the opportunity to meet some of the stars of productions, including Nathan Gunn, Isabel Leonard, and Alek Shrader of The Barber of Seville. They also spent a very special evening with La Clemenza di Tito star Joyce DiDonato, which was one of the highlights of Stephanie's entire year.
"Meeting Joyce DiDonato was amazing, especially after getting to see her live in La Clemenza de Tito as Sesto. Her voice was so stunning that it left me in tears, and she—as a performer but also as a person—has been a role model for me for a while now," she noted. "I felt like I was meeting an icon because in my mind, Joyce DiDonato is the Beyoncé of opera."
Council members also got special behind-the-scenes access, including an exclusive backstage tour led by Lyric's Audience Education Manager Jesse Gram and visits with Lyric General Director Anthony Freud, Lyric Unlimited Director Cayenne Harris, Public Relations Director Alexandra Day, Barber of Seville Assistant Director Elise Sandell, and Assistant Stage Manager Bill Walters.
Seeing Lyric from the inside gave Stephanie an even greater appreciation for opera. "I think what surprised me most is the number of people who are part of the production process and how long it takes to make a production," she reflected. "Opera feels overwhelming at first, but that feeling of being overwhelmed is nothing compared to the production of an opera and the breadth of people involved in an opera. It truly stuns me and brings about a profound admiration for the art form."
After experiencing this amazing year, what does Stephanie love most about opera? "I love the mixture of music, theatre, and stage design. It's food for the eyes, ears, and soul all at once. Nowhere else have I laughed as much or cried as much in one day as at the opera."
This sold-out pre-concert reception gave 200 of the Council's close friends and family a chance to meet Lyric Opera Orchestra and Chorus members and even try on costumes!
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The PNC Park jumbotron has introduced the Pirates' lineup with some strange and cheesy videos in the past (such as this one), but when I saw this new one on Youtube I couldn't stop laughing: So much awkwardness. Some players (Gaby Sanchez) embraced the silly Saturday Night Live theme, some (Pedro Alvarez and Clint Barmes) clearly wanted nothing to do with it, and some (Wandy Rodriguez) are just flat out ridiculous. Great stuff. Apparently they've already used it for a few games and I hope they stick with it. The Pirates Scoreboard Youtube account has also posted the new 2013 pregame video (which is pretty cool) and Jason Grilli's entrance video.
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Night Lights pays tribute to the holidays in the mellowest of moods.
It was 1961, and America had a new, young president...the Cold War turned up a notch…and jazz continued to evolve in ear-opening ways.
The swing era may have been the age of the big bands, but bandleaders often found it worth their while to break small groups out of their larger orchestras.
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Attendees at the recent ZendCon 2010 PHP conference in Santa, Clara, California, expressed the opinion that even though "cloud computing" is the future; the concept is a highly over-hyped one and is largely vendor-driven.
Despite the fact that the message of cloud computing is being greatly touted by technology vendors, PHP developers did not appear to be in agreement on the advantages of the concept.
The somewhat lukewarm response of the PHP developers to the cloud computing concept came after Zend Technologies CEO Andi Gutmans described the company's cloud computing plans, which involve developing Zend PHP Cloud Platform.
During the course of his presentation, when Gutmans asked the attendees whether cloud computing was a game-changing concept or a mere hype, most of the developers appeared underwhelmed. Later, after his presentation, Gutmans admitted that people were apparently too tired of hearing about cloud computing as there has been "so much talk about it."
Meanwhile, referring to the concept, Phillip Winn, back-end developer for games builder Tapulous, said: "I guess I have a feeling that 10, 15 years from now, maybe we'll all be using this stuff, but right now, it's entirely pushed by vendors."
Furthermore, noting that there did not seem much value in cloud computing, as of now, Winn added: "I don't have a strong opinion. I don't care. It doesn't affect me."
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Conversations on cities and towns in India have traditionally focused on either physical infrastructure such as roads and bridges, metro rails, parks and sewerage systems or on quality of life outcomes such as safety and crime, pollution and garbage. But the systems that determine the ability of municipal corporations to deliver quality infrastructure and services — and thereby a good quality of life — have not found sufficient space in the public discourse. A recent study by Janaagraha, the Annual Survey of India's City-Systems, points to why the conversation needs to move from outcomes to systems.
City systems refer to the laws, policies, institutions and institutional processes, and accountability mechanisms, that pervade the functioning of municipal corporations and which determine the quality of life of citizens. City systems are, therefore, root causes. The second annual survey evaluated 21 Indian cities and two global benchmarks on the city systems of urban planning and design, urban capacities and resources, empowered and legitimate political representation and transparency, accountability and participation. A key finding was that, on average, Indian cities scored between 2.5 and 4 out of 10, against London and New York, which scored 9.6 and 9.3 respectively. Clearly, India has emaciated city systems that need significant strengthening. But where do we begin?
Any attempt to reform city systems needs to begin with the municipal acts. Town and country planning acts that apply to most Indian cities are archaic. Twelve out of the 21 cities that were evaluated are covered by planning laws enacted between 1960 and 1980. Hyderabad is covered by an act from the 1920s. The demographic transition since then and contemporary realities do not find a place in the planning process of cities. Building violations, lack of affordable housing, haphazard construction, pollution and environment degradation can all be traced back to the lack of comprehensive and contemporary planning acts.
In order to fulfil their service obligations, municipal corporations require skilled human resources, and the power to raise finances. However, the laws governing them have deliberately weakened municipal corporations, which are our city governments. Except Delhi and Patna, no major Indian city has the power to recruit and manage its own staff. Without exception, municipal corporations have a large number of vacancies. They do not have the strength to fill these because their powers of taxation and borrowing are limited. Except Mumbai, Thiruvananthapuram and Pune, no Indian city has a per capita capital expenditure of more than Rs 4,000. Of these, only Mumbai and Pune have reasonable own revenues as a percentage of total expenditure — 67 and 96 per cent respectively. Municipal acts need to be reformed to give corporations more financing and staffing powers.
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Obama's bargaining strategy and tactics with regard to deficit cutting over the past three years have proven to be an unmitigated disaster. From the idea of seeking a 'grand bargain' with Teapublicans in the House of Representatives in May 2011, to the debt ceiling and sequester deals of August 2011 that resulted in $2.2 trillion in spending-only cuts and no tax hikes whatsoever on the rich, to caving in on the so-called 'Fiscal Cliff' this past January 1 agreeing to a deal to tax only the richest 0.7%—Obama's bargaining strategy and tactics have proven a case example of exactly what not to do in negotiations.
Obama's first error was to believe that by offering hundreds of billions in entitlement cuts back in the summer of 2011 in exchange for revenue hikes that Republicans would agree to raise taxes a mere year before the 2012 elections. Obama and the Democrats subsequently further believed that by linking $1.2 trillion in sequestered spending-only cuts in August 2011, as part of the debt ceiling deal, that Republicans would not allow $500 billion in sequestered defense spending cuts to take effect and would agree to some tax hikes in exchange. Obama then made the error this past December thinking Republicans would continue to discuss tax revenue proposals after they agreed to the minimal $60 billion in Bush tax cut extensions (aka 'Fiscal Cliff') on January 1, 2013.
Since January, his strategy has been no less effective than it had for the preceding two years. His assumption has been that Republicans would have to agree to some kind of tax revenue enhancement deal on March 1 to prevent the January 1 postponed sequestered defense cuts from taking effect. Or on March 27 when the government ran out of money he, Obama, could strike a deal to avert a shutdown that would include tax revenue enhancements. But the Teapublicans proved him wrong in every one of these accounts. How and why did this all happen? And will Obama and the Democrats continue to get outmaneuvered in the coming final round of deficit negotiations that commences with Obama's latest budget, to be announced on April 10?
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"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">The answer to the first question is Teapublicans in the House got a tax deal they simply couldn't refuse on January 1, a deal which their big corporate campaign benefactors, the Business Roundtable, wanted and helped engineer together with the Obama administration. They got to keep $4 trillion of the Bush tax cuts, which are now permanent and which include nice 'sweeteners' (i.e. further tax cuts) like no more Alternative Minimum Tax and an even more generous Inheritance tax than Bush himself had introduced.
"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">In February 2013, the Roundtable came out with its position paper on the matter of sequestered cuts and entitlement spending. It proposed to cut the social security COLA adjustment, introduce a means test for Medicare, raise the eligibility age for both Medicare AND social security to 70, and convert Medicare into a voucher system in 2022. That's exactly the Teapublican-Paul Ryan program. With big corporate interests now in their corner firmly with regard to entitlement cuts as the primary focus of deficit cutting, why should the Teapublicans agree to any further tax hikes on the rich? And with the Roundtable and CEOs now firmly on their side, and the tax cuts successfully decoupled from the spending cuts, why should the Teapublicans go to the brink over shutting down the government on March 27? By March 1 they were already almost three-fourths of the way to the $4 trillion deficit target, with a total of $2.8 trillion in spending cuts and token tax hikes. That leaves only $1.2 trillion to go!
"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">It's not surprising that Republican Senator, Lindsey Graham, and others in Congress, in recent weeks have offered 'deals' amounting to another $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction. That number is not coincidental. Graham's proposal is for $600 billion in social security and medicare cuts and another $600 billion in unspecified tax revenues. $1.2 trillion is now the remaining 'target' number.
"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Having agreed to decouple tax cuts on January 1 and having been outmaneuvered on March 1 and March 27, and with Teapublicans signaling there will be debt ceiling crisis in May, Obama has been stripped of all his leverage points in bargaining. He has no 'stick', only more 'carrots' to offer and his opposition knows it. Obama has left only the option to offer even more social security, medicare and Medicaid cuts. And throughout March he has continued to do so, unilaterally once again. Not just offering once again to cut COLA adjustments for social security but to suggest his willingness to confront big cuts—in the $600 to $700 billion range—for medicare and social security and more for Medicaid. Even more specific reductions will be forthcoming in weeks to come.
"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">And what are the Simpson-Bowles recommendations for Medicare cuts?
"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">In his typical bargaining approach of 'let's make a unilateral offer and see what the Teapublicans do', in recent weeks Obama has again unilaterally offered to reduce social security COLA increases that will take more than $230 billion out of the pockets of seniors. He has also proposed to introduce a means test for the wealthy, which Teapublicans will begin to extend down to the middle class. As for Medicare, watch for the Simpson-Bowles recommendations in some form to appear, likely scaled in over time. If not in the budget itself, then surely in negotiations that follow. Readers should also note that Obama last week announced higher payments to medicare health providers, while simultaneously planning in his budget cuts for seniors. But Medicare 'cuts' will not be mandated benefit reductions. Instead, seniors will have to pay more for the benefits they have, or opt for lower benefit coverage. Social Security Disability recipients will be also significantly impacted by the forthcoming proposals. And Republican state governors will be permitted to reduce their spending in part on Medicaid. And of course, almost certainly there will be the changes to social security: reduction of cost of living adjustments, means testing, and a raising of the eligibility age at least to 67 and later possibly even higher.
"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Expect defense spending cuts of no more than half the $500 billion proposed in the sequester, and nearly all of which will be from withdrawals from middle east (Afghanistan, Iraq) operations and not equipment spending. After 2014, most will be recouped as defense spending on naval and air force equipment and operations will 'ramp up' for the shift of US military focus to the pacific. They Army brass had its land wars in Asia; now it's the turn of Navy and Air Force in the pacific.
"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">In retrospect over the past three years, and especially since November 2012 elections, the 'grand bargain' looks less like a bargain and more like a 'grand collusion' between the various parties—Teapublican, Big Corporate, Obama, and the pro-corporate wing of Democrats in Congress that have had a stranglehold on the Democratic party since the late 1980s.
"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">It's not a grand bargain; it's a charade and a 'grand collusion' from the very beginning from Simpson-Bowles to the present.
What Should Be Done
"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Jack Rasmus is the author of 'Obama's Economy: Recovery for the Few', 2012, which provides a history of deficit cutting in the US and predictions of its impact. His blog is jackrasmus.com. For a video presentation on social security and medicare given recently to the Progressive Democrats of America, see his website at www.kyklosproductions.com/videos.html.


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Second-half goals from Carlos Tevez, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Vladimir Weiss steered Manchester City into their first domestic cup semi-final since 1981 as they beat Arsenal 3-0.
Against an Arsenal side trying to bounce back from Sunday's hammering by Chelsea, City got their noses in front thanks to Carlos Tevez, who picked up a winners' medal in last year's competition with Manchester United.
Wright-Phillips added a second with a fierce drive from the edge of the area 20 minutes from time and Vladimir Weiss also scored at the death to keep City on course to end a trophy drought which extends back to their win in this competition 33 years ago.
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I started playing alone when it came out, as Brick (though I never finished that playthrough). Then I started over with friends, playing as Lilith--we went through the second playthrough.
I just bought the expansion packs (wanted to finish them before the second game came out) but haven't touched the game in over a year, and since I no longer have my save on my HD, I had to play through the entire game again in order to play those. It went fast, since my boyfriend decided to give Willowtree a go.
I do really like the original. But I'm not obsessive over it, either . It's genuinely a great game! I usually play the hell out of my games, and that one just happens to have a lot of replay value, for me.
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I haven't bought the expansion packs myself, but I have played them. On another system.
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