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Colleagues, I am proposing to design a small courtyard garden using an evolutionary theme, approximate dimensions 6m (20ft) by 16m, the area is situated within a College Campus is adjacent to a science teaching area and is overlooked on one side from a busy linking corridor. The area is shaded by a single storey buildings recieving reasonable light. I was hoping to convey a plant + evolutionary sequence via the planting scheme, using a linear or other model and combining this with sculpture to depict animal evolution (perhaps using footprints) along pathways and perhaps interspersed with parallell rock forms and other as yet unspecified symbolism. It is envisaged that the end product should be aesthetically harmonious and educational. I can appreciate that the idea is unlikely to be original and would welcome comments and guidance and perhaps collaboration with persons also interested in this concept e.g. discussion re possible layouts and leads to suitable reference material. help appreciated, Bernard Brennan, Lecturer, Dept of Applied Sciences, St Stephens College of FE, Cork, Ireland

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Even though the Cowboys won the division crown in 2009 and were able to knock off the Eagles in the wildcard round, picking up their first playoff victory in 12 years in the process. Unfortunately, they crashed to earth the following week against the Vikings, getting crushed 34-3 in what was easily the team's worst performance of the year.
While the Cowboys failed miserably that day, it wasn't a fair measurement of the team as a whole. With the Super Bowl in Dallas this year, there is hope in the air that the Cowboys can make it to the big game, and they have the talent on both offense and defense to make that happen.
Quarterback Tony Romo played a more measured style of game in 2009 that served him and the Cowboys well. He toned down his gun slinging ways and had a career year for the team (although not for fantasy purposes). He cut back on his turnovers but still managed plenty of big plays, finishing the year with a career-high 4,483 passing yards.
The Cowboys added hotshot rookie receiver Dez Bryant in the first round of the draft to provide another weapon in the passing game. The only significant departure on offense was left tackle Flozell Adams, but the team is confident that Doug Free, who played well at right tackle subbing for Marc Colombo in 2009, is ready to step up. They also picked up Alex Barron from the Rams, essentially stealing him in return for reserve linebacker Bobby Carpenter.
Miles Austin ascended to the top of the depth chart in 2009, coming out of virtually nowhere to set the league on fire. He is a big, strong, fast wide receiver who seemed to catch everything in sight last year. Roy Williams had another disappointing season, and this will likely be his last year in Dallas, barring a major rebound.
Tight end Jason Witten was as steady as ever, topping 1,000 receiving yards for the second time in three years. He has averaged 1,042 yards over that stretch. Martellus Bennett backs him up, and he needs to step up his game in 2010. Bennett plays well in the preseason but tends to disappear when the regular season begins. That needs to change, or the Cowboys will look to replace him in 2011.
One area of focus for the Cowboys this season will be their performance in the red zone. Despite finishing with the 2nd most total yards on offense, they ranked just 14th in scoring with 22.6 points per game.
There are big expectations in Dallas, and the roster is loaded with the talent to back up those expectations. With the offense stacked at the skill positions and the defense hoping to take another step up after a solid performance in 2009, a Super Bowl berth is within the Cowboys' grasp.
QB Tony Romo
Romo is coming off a season in which he finished as the 5th-ranked fantasy quarterback, averaging a solid 21.5 points per game. Since becoming the Cowboys starter at the midpoint of the 2006 seasons, he has averaged 268 passing yards per game and 1.9 passing touchdowns per game. During his stretch as a starter, he has averaged over 20 fantasy points per game in each of those seasons. Romo's owners get solid, consistent production, and there is little reason to expect that to change in 2010. Despite his past accomplishments, Romo is never mentioned with the big four fantasy quarterbacks (Manning, Brady, Brees, Rodgers). He might not even be the fifth quarterback taken in many drafts. That translates into value. I'm on board, you should be too.
RB Felix Jones
Given the offseason comments emanating from Dallas, it appears that Jones will ascend to the starting running back role in 2010. Unfortunately, that won't mean much if he can't stay healthy. When he is indeed healthy, Jones has proven to be a dynamic playmaker capable of producing a big play at any time. With limited touches as a rookie, he averaged an astonishing 8.9 yards per carry (which dropped to 5.9 with more carries last year). What limits Jones' upside is that Marion Barber will get the goal-line work when healthy, and Tashard Choice could even be the second option in the red zone if Barber goes down. Draft Jones as a low end RB2 or top-quality RB3 with upside.
RB Marion Barber
Barber had a second consecutive season of marginal production last year, finishing 2009 with 932 rushing yards, 221 receiving yards, and seven touchdowns. With Felix Jones emerging as a big-play option, Barber's role as a receiver was reduced, and he recorded just 26 receptions after catching a combined 96 passes through 2007 and 2008. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has suggested more than once this offseason that Felix Jones deserves an opportunity to start, so it seems as if the Cowboys are convinced Barber's future is that of a backup. At least he's in a solid offense and figures to get the goal-line and game-closing work, a role he excelled at in 2006 and 2007. For all the criticism Barber gets in fantasy circles, he still managed to post a very respectable 10.5 fantasy points per game last year. Expect fewer yards but a similar amount of touchdowns in 2010, which would translate into RB3 status.
RB Tashard Choice
Choice had another solid season, displaying nifty footwork on his way to 481 total yards and three touchdowns. He averaged 5.5 yards per carry and was also effective as a receiver, averaging 8.8 yards per reception. He has some ability to make tacklers miss but is not a burner, and his upside is likely that of a backup running back. In 2010, he will run the Cowboys version of the Wildcat but will probably need injuries to Felix Jones or Marion Barber to gain significant playing time. While he played well in his first two years, fantasy football is all about opportunity and there are no guarantees Choice will get much of them this season. He is waiver wire material in all but the deepest leagues.
WR Miles Austin
Austin was a fantasy revelation last year, bursting onto the scene with a 10-reception, 250-yard, 2-touchdown performance against the Chiefs in Week 5. He proved that was no fluke the following week against the Falcons, registering six receptions for 171 yards and two more touchdowns. Despite being barely used during the first four weeks of the season, Austin finished 2009 with 81 receptions for 1,320 yards and 11 touchdowns. While the case could be made that the presence of first-round pick Dez Bryant will cut into Austin's production, that doesn't exactly add up. More likely, Bryant will eat into Roy Williams' playing time, and that should not have much impact on Austin. Any time a player busts out like Austin did, they are a bit of a risk the following season. But Austin is obviously Tony Romo's go-to guy in a solid offense. Having vaulted himself to the top of the Cowboys wide receiver depth chart, there's no reason why he can't duplicate his 2009 performance this year. Consider him a top-tier WR1.
WR Roy Williams
Here's the thing: when you catch 44.2% of the passes thrown your way, your team may just use its first-round pick on a wide receiver to replace you and then your fantasy value may plummet—even if you were considered top 20 material the previous year. That sums up Williams' predicament. In 2009, Williams averaged a respectable 6.8 fantasy points per game on 38 receptions for 596 yards and seven touchdowns, but expecting him to catch a touchdown pass every five receptions in 2010 is expecting the unlikely. Williams was probably drafted as a WR2 last year, making his production one of the biggest disappointments among wide receivers in 2009. Williams' problems were many: he wasn't on the same page as quarterback Tony Romo, his route running was poor, and he lost the ability to separate from defenders. Perhaps he's spent his offseason studying the playbook, refining his route running, and getting in better shape. If you want to gamble on all that—along with his holding off hotshot rookie Dez Bryant—then grab him in your fantasy draft. Or maybe take the safer bet and grab somebody else.
WR Dez Bryant
The Cowboys moved up in the draft to grab Dez Bryant with the 24th pick. Bryant has Pro Bowl potential and the reports out of Dallas have been glowing. However, his recent ankle injury has put a temporary bump in the road for 2010. Byrant is schedule to miss most of preseason with a high ankle sprain and it's questionable whether or not he will be ready to go Week 1. While wide receivers are notorious for not playing well in their rookie seasons, the evidence suggests Bryant may be the exception to that rule. The list of his positives is a long one. He is extremely talented, he is motivated by his draft position, he has the size to be a solid red zone target, and Roy Williams has been a bust. If he can beat out Williams by opening day, he moves way up. However, the expectation is that Williams will start in Week 1 with Bryant biding his time as a backup until part of the way through 2010. Don't reach for Bryant in redraft leagues, but try to grab him before the final few rounds of your draft. Just be sure to have a veteran such as Derrick Mason to fill in during the first few weeks of the year. Bryant is the top rookie wide receiver in dynasty leagues, considering his huge upside in a solid Cowboys offense.
WR Patrick Crayton
Even though Crayton has been a loyal soldier of Jerry Jones in Dallas, it appears that the team doesn't have a meaningful role for him in 2010. With Miles Austin coming off a breakout season, Roy Williams unlikely to be jettisoned after signing a big contract, and the team using its first-round pick on hotshot rookie Dez Bryant, Crayton will struggle to find playing time in Dallas. That being said, of all the Cowboys wide receivers, Crayton may be the best suited to play out of the slot—unless Kevin Ogletree steps up his game during the preseason. Crayton generally has a couple of solid games each year, but at number four on the depth chart, there isn't much upside here. He might be useful in PPR leagues if he's traded to another team prior to opening day.
TE Jason Witten
Witten had the 3rd most yards among tight ends last year with 1,030 but was only the 8th-ranked fantasy tight end due to his low touchdown total. It's been a recurring theme for Witten over the last two years, as he finished 2009 with just two touchdowns after having only four in 2008. The Cowboys have shown a propensity to throw to their big wide receivers in the red zone, and the addition of rookie Dez Bryant could exacerbate this trend. In addition, they have an outstanding short-yardage runner in Marion Barber. With Bryant on board and with better health at running back, look for Witten to see fewer opportunities in 2010, resulting in a lower yardage total. Unless his touchdowns increase, his fantasy totals figure to drop this season. He's definitely more useful in PPR leagues.


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Artist Winona Nelson took our breath away with the designs for some new Magic the Gathering cards.
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Sneak Peek! Brian Atwood's Gorgeous New Handbag Line
If you love Brian Atwood's sexy shoes, prepare to swoon over the designer's new handbag collection. The collection is just as luxurious as his footwear line, showcasing sexy bright snakeskin print envelope clutches and minaudiere hardcase shapes. In fact, we can already picture celebrity fans like Rachel Bilson, Zoe Saldana, and Emma Stone wearing the striking collection on the red carpet. Prices are steep (each clutch costs around 1K), but if you're looking to make a very worthy investment, you can access the exclusive sale at Gilt.com on March 28. Click the slideshow to see more pieces from the gorgeous collection now, then tell us which is your favorite dream piece.


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Apollo / Saturn V Center.
Millions of people held their breath while a single man stepped onto the moon's surface – a journey that began just a short distance from where the Apollo/Saturn V Center stands today. For those who remember, the event remains in their minds just as those footprints remain in the lunar soil. The Apollo/Saturn V Center is a tribute to the Apollo astronauts and the machines that got them there – and brought them home safely.
The United States is one of the most diverse countries on earth, jam packed full of amazing sights from St. Patrick's cathedral in New York to Mount Hollywood California.The Northeast region is where it all started. Thirteen British colonies fought the American Revolution from here and won their independence in the first successful colonial rebellion in history. Take a look at these rolling hills carpeted with foliage along the Hudson river here, north of New York City.The American south is known for its polite people and slow pace of life. Probably they move slowly because it's so hot. Southerners tend not to trust people from "up north" because they talk too fast. Here's a cemetery in Georgia where you can find graves of soldiers from the Civil War.The West Coast is sort of like another country that exists to make the east coast jealous. California is full of nothing but grizzly old miners digging for gold, a few gangster rappers, and then actors. That is to say, the West Coast functions as the imagination of the US, like a weird little brother who teases everybody then gets famous for making freaky art.The central part of the country is flat farmland all the way over to the Rocky Mountains. Up in the northwest corner you can find creative people in places like Portland and Seattle, along with awesome snowboarding and good beer. Text by Steve Smith.


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This product is no longer in production.
The first generation CC2541 SensorTag is no longer available. For new IoT designs, the next generation CC2650 SensorTag is now available as a full development platform for sensing and cloud connectivity applications. To develop on the CC2541, please use the CC2541 Mini Development kit.
The CC2541 SensorTag is the first Bluetooth Smart development kit focused on wireless sensor applications and it is the only development kit targeted for smart phone app developers. The SensorTag can be used as reference design and development platform for a variety of smart phone accessories.
TI is making Bluetooth low energy app development easier and faster with the CC2541 based SensorTag, which has all the commonly used sensors on a single board for quick evaluation and demonstration. The SensorTag works with TI's TPS62730 (step down converter), and includes TI's TMP006 IR MEMS temperature sensor, humidity sensor, pressure sensor, accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer. The versatility of the SensorTag means limitless app possibilities including those for health and fitness, medical, educational tools, toys, remote controls, mobile phone accessories, proximity and indoor locationing.
The CC2541 SensorTag kit shortens the design time for Bluetooth low energy app development from months to hours with no embedded software design knowledge required. The SensorTag is preprogrammed with the FW needed to get started with smart phone app development and TI has a SensorTag App on the App Store providing developers easy access to the tools and software examples they need.
For more information and links to apps downloads please refer to www.ti.com/sensortag.For technical information and user guides please refer to the SensorTag wiki page.
SensorTag now supports iBeacon™ technology
The SensorTag now supports iBeacon technology, allowing you to quickly and easily evaluate iBeacon for "indoor GPS" applications. iBeacon can be used to customize apps on a smartphone or tablet, based on location: a functionality that is being used by many retail shops, museums and restaurants to display relevant information to users. iBeacon technology can be integrated into mobile appcessories, asset trackers, home automation systems, alarm and security systems, point of sale devices, automobiles, industrial applications and a wide variety of consumer electronics and appliances. For more information on how to use the Sensortag with iBeacon, watch the video in the video section below or visit the SensorTag Wiki.
The new location app with iBeacon technology is available to download on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. SensorTags can be upgraded to be compatible with the iBeacon technology using the latest SensorTag App. To upgrade your SensorTag to be compatible with iBeacon technology, sign up to become an iBeacon licensee with Apple, then request access to the software by visiting the SensorTag software page.
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President Obama returns to the White House on Thursday after cutting short a holiday in Hawaii. He will hold at least one meeting with House and Senate leaders to try to avoid the "fiscal cliff."
President Barack Obama and lawmakers were launching a last-chance round of budget talks days before a New Year's deadline to reach a deal or watch the economy go off a "fiscal cliff."
NBC News has confirmed that Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will meet with House and Senate leaders on Friday afternoon to try to revive negotiations to avoid tax hikes and spending cuts -- together worth $600 billion -- that will otherwise begin to take effect on Jan. 1. Scheduled to attend the Oval Office meeting are Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), House Speaker John Boehner and (R-Ohio), and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Members were divided on the odds of success, with a few expressing hope, some talking as if they had abandoned it, and a small but growing number suggesting Congress might try to stretch the deadline into the first two days of January.
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In order to be ready to legislate if an agreement takes shape, the Republican-dominated House of Representatives convened a session for Sunday.
And House Majority Leader Eric Cantor advised members to be prepared to meet through Jan. 2, the final day before the swearing-in of the new Congress elected on Nov. 6.
Under pressure to show up even without a deal in hand, Congress will work this holiday weekend as the top Democrat and Republican leaders sit down with President Obama to discuss the fiscal cliff. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reports.
It "doesn't feel like anything that's very constructive is going to happen" as a result of the meeting with Obama, said Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.). "It feels more like optics than anything that's real."
Politics: Lawmakers brace for blame
The two political parties remained far apart, particularly over plans to increase taxes on the wealthiest Americans to help close the U.S. budget deficit. But one veteran Republican, Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona, held out the prospect that if Obama came through with significant spending cuts, Republicans in the House might compromise on taxes.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Asus has unveiled its latest handset at MWC 2013 - the Asus Fonepad, which it describes as 'a phone that's also a tablet'.
The company has obviously seen that, hey, that Samsung Galaxy Note's doing quite well, and decided it wants a piece of the 'phablet' action.
So what we're looking at here is a 7-inch device with a 1280x800 IPS screen, Intel Atom Z2420 processor and a 3MP rear-mounted camera.
There are dual microphones to play with, 720p video, 3G connectivity and a microSD slot.
Take a look at our hands on video below:
It's not exactly the most beautiful device we've ever seen but the big news here is the Fonepad price - the phone-tablet-thing will start from $249 (£165 / AU$241) when it goes on sale in March.
That's a helluvalot cheaper than its bigger sibling, the Asus Padfone Infinity, which was also announced today.
We'll be braving the media scrum shortly to bring you our hands on Asus Fonepad review so stay tuned for that.


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Anyone who's had their laptop or cellphone run out of juice at a crucial moment can attest to the limitations that present power storage methods have on technology, but a product from Aqua Power Systems Japan may indicate an amazing new advancement: the water-powered battery.
At their present capability, NoPoPo (No Pollution Power) Eco batteries have enough power to save lives during a disaster since they can run on the smallest amount of fluid (drinkable or bodily), which means that someone lost in the woods or trapped under rubble could recharge their flashlight easily with a few drops of whatever is available.
But don't start peeing on your laptop just yet: For the time being, NoPoPo batteries have significant limitations — just the double-A form is available and can only run low-powered items like flashlights and toy trains (see video above) but if they find a way to expand capacity, the NoPoPo could revolutionize how – and for how long – we work and communicate on electronic devices.
They may also represent an interesting twist in environmental policy, as the mercury, lead and other hazardous chemicals in today's used batteries cause considerable harm when burned or left to rot in landfills.
In earthquake-prone places like Japan, however, practicality will sell more units than quixotic concerns. I mean, what's going to power your Wii and Nintendo DS when the "big one" hits?


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WESTPORT -- In keeping pace with its torrid start to the season, the Greenwich High boys tennis team delivered what senior Blake Niehaus termed "a big statement" on Monday.
In a match between the last remaining unbeatens in the FCIAC, the Cardinals got the best of rival Staples, topping the Wreckers 5-2 on the road.
Greenwich was victorious in four of the five singles matches, including at No. 1, where Niehaus defeated Staples' Jake Hirschberg 6-3, 7-6 (7-5).
The Cardinals, the conference champions in 10 of the last 11 years, improved to 12-0 on the season. The Wreckers, a runner-up in eight of those years, fell to 13-1.
"We know that to be the best in the FCIAC, we're going to have to beat Staples," Niehaus said. "It's just really great that we beat them today."
Greenwich began its string of success on Monday by taking No. 3 singles, as Tatsuya Tasaki bested Zack Levin 6-2, 6-3. Tasaki, a senior, said he stayed consistent with an aggressive approach.
"My main topic for this match was to just get everything in. That's one of my biggest problems I had last year," Tasaki said. "I had the power but I missed a lot, so that brought me down. I tried to break that habit."
Staples' lone singles win came at the No. 4 spot, where Luke Foreman beat Ari Cepelewicz 6-2, 6-1 to put the Wreckers ahead 1-0. The Cardinals, however, won the next five matches, routinely notching points at crucial times.
"I really thought we competed well, I thought we played well. We came up a little short in some scenarios where we've been very good at this year, in game points," Staples coach Kris Hrisovulos said. "We can't lose our spirits for this. You put ourselves in this situation again, I'll take it.
"We had plenty of set points across the board. We had our teeth right in the match."
At No. 5 singles, Greenwich's Chris Salisbury edged Baxter Stein 6-3, 7-5 to put the Cardinals up 2-1 overall. Zach Niklaus followed with a victory at the No. 2 spot by topping Staples' Josh Moskovitz 7-5, 6-4.
The afternoon's clinching match came at No. 1 doubles, where Louis McKenzie and Shaw Speer defeated Staples' Connor Mitnick and Jack Reardon 6-4, 7-6 (11-9) to go ahead 4-1.
Greenwich coach EJ Haskell was pleased to see her team succeed against one of its strongest opponents.
"Our team always knows that they've got to come with their best game. And even sometimes at your best game, they (Staples) could win," Haskell said. "But today it was us. I was very proud of my players. My players played really well."
Although most of the matches went in Greenwich's favor, Hrisovulos was remindful that Staples still has time to improve its play and answer back.
"We couldn't even get one scenario to kind of click our way and drive the momentum," Hrisovulous said. "But I like where we are. The good thing is there's tomorrow. This wasn't a championship match or an end-of-the-season match. It's going to motivate us a little bit more. I want another shot at them."
Monday's match marked the start of a challenging back-to-back for Greenwich, with a home match against 11-1 Ridgefield set for Tuesday. Haskell explained that the Cardinals must continue to play at an elite level moving forward.
"We knew that today was the day that the season would get really tough, and it did," she said. "Tomorrow we have Ridgefield, it will be another tough match. Then we have to do this again in FCIAC's. ... We have to show up with our A-game. We showed up with it today, we'll have to show up with it at FCIAC's and we'll have to show up with it at states."
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Greenwich 5, Staples 2
Singles: Blake Niehaus (G) def. Jake Hirschberg 6-3, 7-6 (7-5); Zach Niklaus (G) def. Josh Moskovitz 7-5, 6-4; Tatsuya Tasaki (G) def. Zack Levin 6-2, 6-3; Luke Foreman (S) def. Ari Cepelewicz 6-2, 6-1; Chris Salisbury (G) def. Baxter Stein 6-3, 7-5. Doubles: Louis McKenzie/Shaw Speer (G) def. Connor Mitnick/Jack Reardon 6-4, 7-6 (11-9); Jared Eisenberg/Jason Chaskin (S) def. Marcos Eslava/Mark Chien 6-4, 6-2. Records: Greenwich 12-0; Staples 13-1.


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TODAY'S GAME: This morning, the Buffalo Bisons face the Durham Bulls in the finale of a four-game series at Durham Bulls Athletic Park (11:05 a.m.). The Bisons need a win today to earn a split of the set as the Bulls have won two straight since Buffalo's 9-3 victory on Friday. After this morning's game, the Herd will travel to Norfolk for a four-game series against the Tides, June 2-5.
ON CLOUD NINE: With INF Argenis Reyes on the disabled list with his nine-game hit streak, INF Javier Valentin can become the first Bisons batter to hit in 10 straight games this year. Valentin has averaged .324 (11-34) in nine games since May 23. He has three doubles, a home run and four RBI during the stretch. Valentin has reached base in all but two of his 17 games as a Bison.
FEELIN' SULLY: One behind Valentin, OF Cory Sullivan comes into today's game on an eight-game hit streak. Sullivan has hit .452 (14-31) during his stretch to raise his average 57 points since May 21 (.202 – .259). He has five runs, three doubles, three RBI and four walks during his streak.
HOMER HAPPY: C Rene Rivera got the day off yesterday, but that probably won't cool off his hot bat. Rivera has homered in each of his last two games, Friday and Saturday in Durham. The only other Bisons player to homer in consecutive games was OF Fernando Martinez, who hit three out, May 18-19 in Lehigh Valley. Rivera has now hit in six straight games, averaging .333 (8-24) with five runs, five doubles, two home runs and three RBI.
GREAT DEBUT: LHP Adam Bostick was great for the Bisons yesterday, just hours have being promoted from Binghamton (AA). The southpaw allowed just a walk in two hitless innings of relief yesterday. Prior to joining the Bisons, Bostick was 3-0 with a 2.60ERA in 11 relief outings with the B-Mets.
UNHAPPY LIST: The Bisons have seven players on the disabled list: RHP Dillon Gee, INF Andy Green, INF Mark Kiger, OF Bobby Kielty, RHP Carlos Muniz, C Mike Nickeas and INF Argenis Reyes. On the year, the Bisons have already lost 140 man-games to injury. Because of all the injuries, the Bisons have already had 45 different players in their first 48 games.


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Arguing. Is there a good way to do it without hurting someone else? Yes, said Cynthia Rudick, psychologist and mediation professional with Barbara Fordyce and Associates of Plain Township.
Arguing. Is there a good way to do it without hurting someone else? Yes, said Cynthia Rudick, psychologist and mediation professional with Barbara Fordyce and Associates of Plain Township.
"I don't think there is a fair way to argue, but there are safe ways," she said, noting that individuals can get out of control when feeling cornered or threatened. "People have to have safeguards built in when arguments get too heated. You need to take a walk, get a drink of water, just calm down."
Listening to what the other person is saying is key to resolving issues between couples, Rudick said. To do that, she tells her clients to try putting themselves in the other person's position -- to the point of putting on the spouse's shoes. It's a symbolic way of trying to get each to understand the other person's life.
"Then I try to help people listen to each other, because I don't think we really hear what someone else wants or needs. Communicating is as much about listening as talking sometimes," she said.
Valorie Fulton of Cadiz said her communicating skills have improved with time. When dealing with disagreements with her husband, Bob, she still fights the tendency to stay silent.
"I simmer for a while, then erupt, and, just as quickly, it is over. I never hold grudges or stay angry. I assume that, if my eruption doesn't change anything, staying angry won't either."
During an argument, Rudick said, there is no need to put the other person down with insults to their intelligence, looks, or actions. She said there are more positive ways to let someone know you are disappointed or upset without making that person feel rejected or unloved.
"If you have a relationship where the other person feels affirmed and loved through the rest of the week," she said, "then when you get into a conflict, that person will know you care."
It doesn't take much to give someone a compliment, such as telling someone how much you appreciate something they did.
Philip Mazi of North Canton has learned that expressing yourself without being hurtful can be difficult but necessary.
"I just say what I have to say. Sometimes I stupidly say hurtful things, but I just try to be honest about what I believe and try not to say just what I feel," he explained. "Too often my emotions enter the picture and it becomes spiteful or angry, so I must be careful."
Justin and Stephanie Meusel of Canton also understand the importance of not hurting each other's feelings.
"We try not to use words like 'you always' or 'you never' and leave out petty words so feelings don't get hurt," she said.
The first rule of arguing is to argue in the present, said Rudick. Bringing up things from the past is not going to get you any bonus points in the present. It is important to resolve the issue at hand and not go backward.
Lisa Shanklin of Massillon believes this.
"Depending on what the arguing is about, I can sometimes hold grudges," she said. "As I am getting older though, I am learning to put myself in other people's shoes more often and be a bit more understanding than I used to be. I never rehash old wounds or issues from the past. I think people that do that are just insecure with themselves and their relationships."
If the first rule is staying on track, the second rule is listening to what the other person is saying, said Rudick.
Matt Schwab of Canton said it hasn't always been easy, but he has learned to listen when his wife talks.
"One point we had to work out was not interrupting each other. It really annoys me, but now when we disagree, we each try to let the other complete their thought before responding."
He said that when she gets angry with him, she goes to her bedroom and watches TV and he leaves her alone. Similarly, the last time he was angry with her, he just didn't talk to her for a day, and she apologized that night.
Another Canton resident, Paul Weber, said he believes time has a way of bringing people closer together.
"My wife and I rarely argue," he said. "After 33 years of marriage we are very much alike in our tastes and what we don't like. At one time we had loud, yelling arguments, but they just seemed counter-productive."
They were, said Rudick. Loudness equals powerlessness, she said. People tend to up the decibels as they start to feel powerless. "The louder a person becomes, the more powerless they become. That is what happens in conflict."
A third rule of arguing is to learn to compromise.
"My wife was born in Canton. I was born in Alliance. We have lived in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for more than 20 years now," said John Binius of Escanaba, Mich. "We do not argue. I simply say, 'Yes, dear.' Hey, it works!"
Then there is the manner in which Marilyn and Bob Nehus settle a conflict -- no argument gets to spend the night. It seems to have worked for the Minerva couple. They have five children and celebrated their 50th anniversary.
"I can count on one hand the times we have argued," said Bob Nehus of Minerva. "We have never gone to bed angry, and there is not a single night that we did not kiss each other goodnight. We love each other deeply and treasure our love for each other. It has always been that way for us."
Making Changes
How couples work out their differences is up to them, but, Rudick said people have to be willing to work out their differences so everyone is happy with the results.
Still, change isn't easy. If you want change, it has to come from within.
"It has to be your choice," Rudick said. "People come in here at the last ditch of their marriage, and say they are going to change everything, but it won't work. If you want to become a better person, you have to do it for yourself, not because your partner is leaving you."
Reach Canton Repository writer Denise Sautters at (330) 580-8321 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Well it is official. My doctor jerked me from work for 7 days. I am on a mental health vacation. Broke down at work all day. So, I am home until the 26th. Now what? A lot of painting, alot of writing hopefully. The who net week will be a challenge.
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I debated for a long time whether I should write about this particular post, because admittedly this can be quite controversial. However, before I continue, I would like to clarify that I'm not a theologian and neither I do consider myself as an expert in these matters. Nevertheless, what I'm about to write right now is a simple fact and anyone who will simply research on it will know this basic truth.
When people are interested in getting the WISH FULFILLING AND BUDDHA'S BLESSING MANTRA PENDANT, a lot of the inquirers will inevitably ask me whether this goes against their religion. Whether it's still as effective even if they're Catholics.
I've always wondered why would religions draw so much attention to their difference and not concentrate on the similarities. I believe that in the end, all major religions only teach love at its very core.
I'm writing this blog article in the hope to make people realize that at the end, its not your religion, but it's how you treat yourself, your fellowmen, and the world that makes the difference. Because I believe most if not all religions came from a single source of consciousness, and the difference was just incorporated by the people to make it more comprehensible and accessible to us. You see, I think the spiritual world, is beyond our comprehension and understanding. However, we call the Buddha, Buddha, and the God the Father, God the Father because this what makes us understand them. What do I mean?
To be able to write this clearly, I will borrow an example from yet another religion, which is Hinduism. In Hinduism, there three different forms on how they look at their gods. First, is called Brahman, then Brahman Nirguna, and Brahman Saguna, stated here in no particular order.
I think it's Yann Martel, the author of the bestselling novel 'Life of Pi' was the one who described all three accurately and clearly. In 'Life of Pi' he wrote that Brahman is the world soul, the sustaining frame upon which is woven, warp and weft, the cloth of being, with all its decorative elements of space and time. He described Brahman Nirguna as without qualities, which lies beyond understanding, beyond description, beyond approach. Lastly, he said, Brahman Saguna is with qualities, where the suit fits. We call it Shiva, Krishna, Ganesh. We approach it with some understanding and discern some of its attributes – loving, merciful, and frightening. There is a gentle pull of relationship. It's Brahman and Brahman Nirguna manifest to our limited senses. I don't think anybody else could have explained it better than how Yann Martel did in his book 'Life of Pi'.
The Virgin Mary or Kuan Yin are only seen and called as such because that's how we perceived them. That's how we understand them. Avalokitesvara, Chenrezig, Kuan Yin, Thousand Hand Kuan Yin, are all but Kuan Yin in different forms. Our Lady of Penefrancia, Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Fatima, are all but The Virgin Lady!
Going back to the topic. Christianity and Buddhism, as the title implies are more similar to each other. For example, the concept of the Holy Trinity, which is God the Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit is actually Amitabha, Shakyamuni, and Medicine Buddha in Buddhism. The Virgin Mary is Kuan Yin in Buddhism. The Second Coming of Christ is comparable to the Future Buddha, Maitreya Buddha (aka Happy Fat Buddha). That's just the start. There are a lot more similarities. This is because; personally I believe the Christianity has its roots from Buddhism, which is more than 2000 years older than Christianity. This doesn't make Buddhism the better religion, but it just shows that whatever religion we believe in, it's how we make use of its teachings and how we use it to benefit ourselves, other people, and this world that we live in that makes its better than the other one. Also, this shows that instead of looking at the difference, it might be better if we just concentrate on the similarities, and again I believe that the core of the teaching of all religions is LOVE.
Remember Jesus Christ was not a Christian, Buddha was not a Buddhist, and Mohammed was not an Islam. But if you closely look at their teachings, and take away all the rituals, all they teach is love.


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Boston Marathon survivor Rebekah Gregory, who has undergone 13 surgeries to save her left leg. She was medivaced to Houston, where she is from, two weeks ago.
RICHMOND, Texas – After 13 surgeries aimed at saving her lower left leg, including one that used live back muscle to cover an open and infected wound, a mother seriously hurt in the Boston Marathon bombings has managed to keep that injured limb – for now.
But the days are full of pain and exhaustion for Rebekah Gregory, 26, who is believed to have been the last patient connected to the Boston bombings released from hospital when she was discharged on June 10. She spent 56 days total in hospitals in Boston and Houston, near her home.
Though tales of triumph and comeback abound among the 275 injured in the April 15 bombings on the city's famed road race, some victims like Gregory have a long and uncertain path ahead -- one that does not guarantee full recovery.
"I am kind of just taking it one day at a time because we don't really know what's going to happen," Gregory said Thursday as she sat in bed and an IV drip fed antibiotics into her body to keep at bay a bone infection – first detected around the fourth week of her recovery – that could force amputation of her limb. "I have a leg today, but I could not have it tomorrow."
Gregory's case is rare even among the more seriously wounded: while amputees are moving ahead with prosthesis training and others are recovering in rehabilitation, she is stuck many steps back, wondering what will happen with her leg.
Doctors have told her at least ten times that they would need to amputate, but then would quickly walk back as her condition changed. One time, they asked her to make the call.
"How do you make that decision? Because I could say, 'Okay, yeah this hurts really bad," she said, " … and all these other people that didn't have the choice to have the amputation are out and they're being fitted for their prosthetics and going on about their lives."
"But how do you make that decision to just say, 'Okay, just take it?'" she said. "At that point, I still didn't feel like that was the way to go. So at least now if I lose my leg tomorrow or next week, I can at least say I tried to keep it."
A catalog of injuries
Gregory's injuries are primarily to her left side and include: losses of a lot of soft tissue to her foot and in what she calls a series of "craters" going down her leg, the destruction of about 30 percent of her fibula bone, fractures to her tibia and hand, and multiple fractures to her foot as well as the loss of part of her fourth and fifth metatarsals.
She was medically evacuated to Houston after nearly 40 days in Boston to continue her care near home.
When she got there, doctors at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center tended to a pressing matter: irrigating and cleaning the infected open wound on her foot that, if not remedied, could lead to amputation.
After doing that, they removed a small piece of muscle from her back, with a blood vessel attached, to connect to her foot and a corresponding artery and vein. They placed skin grafts from her thigh on top of it, said Dr. Emmanuel Melissinos, a microsurgeon who performed the procedure.
So far, Gregory has responded well to treatment and her recovery is in line with doctors' expectations, he said. He believes the chances of amputation are remote but possible, especially if the six weeks of antibiotics doesn't squelch the infection.
That recovery is now happening at the home of Gregory's parents, which they moved into the weekend of the bombing. Her mom, Tina, and dad, Tim, packed up her house in Houston and moved her and her son Noah, 5, in with them and her two younger sisters.
Back home
Though Gregory was anxious to get out of the hospital, the transition hasn't been easy.
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Michael Umana, RN, performs wound care on Boston Marathon survivor Rebekah Gregory, who has undergone 13 surgeries to save her left leg.
Every move she makes must be calculated in advance. That's because she can't bear weight on her leg and she has to keep her left foot raised above her heart for at least 50 minutes of every hour to protect the transplanted muscle and skin graft.
"My leg hurts really bad every day, all day," she said. "It's a constant pain."
Going to the bathroom, steps away from her bedroom, is a workout. It entails her getting in the wheelchair, rolling to the door and then using a walker.
"That process alone, I mean, I could take a nap for three hours afterwards. ... It's very difficult right now," she said as she laid in bed with her left foot propped up on three pillows: "What you see is what I do."
But that's only part of the adjustment.
"It's not only the physical part of it but it's just the getting back to normal routine as best as I can," she said, noting the humdrum sounds of everyday life made her anxious.
"Noises really bother me right now ... especially loud noises, I know that Noah's the same way," she added, noting both her eardrums were ruptured in the blast. "It sends your body into freakout mode … because that day is very much relived. It's like it happened yesterday."
That day for Gregory was the culmination of what up to then had been a perfect weekend. It began on Friday with her birthday celebration in Rochester, N.Y., at the home of her boyfriend, Pete DiMartino.
The couple, Noah, DiMartino's sister and his parents, and others then traveled to Boston to watch his mother compete in the marathon. They were at the finish line when the first bomb went off.
"All of a sudden, everything was gray," she said. "I was on the pavement and I couldn't move my body."
Her main concern was Noah. "Out of all the people screaming and crying, and all the commotion going on around us, I could hear his little voice saying, 'Momma, momma, momma.'"
DiMartino's aunt whisked Noah up and brought him to Gregory. Noah had been struck by shrapnel in the back of his head, where he now has a bald patch, and straight to the bone on his right leg, where he has a long scar that he has dubbed the "swordfish." He was in the hospital for five days.
Bystanders wrapped Gregory in jackets and she was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance with another victim. She could hear the medics saying, "We have an amputee," and thought they were speaking about her. When she gained consciousness, her parents had to show her a photo of her leg to convince her that she still had it.
"I'm just hoping that I'll be able to keep it," she said. "But if not, my leg is not my life."
The costs of recovery
Complicating matters for Gregory, who had been working as an account executive at a corporate housing relocation company, is that her health insurance expired on her birthday, just two days before the attacks.
She had been on her parents' plan and had planned quickly to apply for the one provided by her work, but instead is paying $400 a month for Cobra coverage on top of the costs that her insurance doesn't cover.
Doctors have told her a full recovery could take up to 16 months and she will likely have more surgeries. To help with the medical bills, she applied for the One Fund set up by authorities in Massachusetts to aid the marathon victims.
"It would make a huge difference," she said. "There's a lot. I mean right now, home health (care from a practitioner) and all of the medicines I am on. ... I have $1,000 at least worth of prescriptions a month, and a lot that insurance doesn't cover."
Taking it slow
Eric Kayne
Boston Marathon attack survivor Rebekah Gregory, with her son Noah. She has faced the possibility of amputation many times, and is resigned to the fact that may be a possibility. She says her life is not about her leg and is just happy to be alive.
Dr. Edward Ken Rodriguez, one of the doctors who treated Gregory in Boston at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, said he believed Gregory was the most severely injured marathon patient at the hospital who had kept such a wounded limb.
He was very optimistic about her prospects going forward with her leg but cautioned: "When you salvage a limb like that, it's never a normal limb. What's hard to predict is the level of chronic pain she will have in the future, how functional the limb will be, how strong it will be."
"We understand that you can go through many, many surgeries and end up with a very unsatisfying limb, a limb with chronic pain. So it's not unusual for patients who have even started down the course of salvage (to) have changed their minds after a few months," he added.
At least 15 of the people wounded in the marathon had amputations. Gregory's case was an example of the debate and conflict between salvage and amputation that has been going on for many years, said Rodriguez, the hospital's chief of orthopedic trauma.
"Salvage is a very time intensive, slow first phase. It could be a good year before you get to the point where you have a bit of a picture of how it's going to turn out," he said.
"She could do very well with an amputation, but she could also do very well with her own leg," he added. "This is the uncertainty and how long a road you want to ride before you find out."
Gregory plans to ride that road out for the time being. She is also mindful that she and her son need also to recover from the emotional scars and lamented that Noah "remembers too much" from that day.
He doesn't want them to leave the house and brings his mom breakfast daily: one day it was soggy Froot Loops, another it was toast slathered with an inch thick of jelly.
"I take care of my momma and she takes care of me," he said.
Gregory maintained a positive attitude and a constant smile while talking about some of their darkest days. She keeps up with her boyfriend, DiMartino, who was also injured and is recovering at home, by video chatting online.
The experience has made her "appreciate everything just a little bit more," she said.
"I'm grateful for every single day that comes because it's just reinforced what I've known all along -- that we don't have as much time as we think we do."
How to help: To donate to Gregory, her employer set up this fund: http://corporates.com/rebekah/
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In addition current employees will be given the opportunity to retain shares in the new company, following the sale to Lake Capital, while ex-employees have only been given the option to sell their shares at the lower rate.
Shareholders received letters today (Friday) outlining details of the offer, with those receiving the lower offer now calling for a fairer deal.
One shareholder told PRWeek: "The announcement of the sale [to Lake Capital] seems very premature because a third of shareholders are yet to agree to the offer."
The rules of the prospective sale are that 75 per cent of Engine's shareholders have to agree and if a third are unhappy with the offer, it raises the prospect that the deal could be scuppered.
The shareholder said there had been no formal consultation on the terms of the deal and added: "We feel the offer is unfair because the two sorts of shareholders are being offered different deals. All we are seeking is a fair deal. If those shareholders who wanted to were able to retain their shares in the new company, they could be worth a lot more in the future. This is not a great time to be getting out with the recession now over."
The shareholder would not be drawn on what action those who are unhappy with the deal would take if the offer was not improved, but a second shareholder went further.
The second shareholder said: "Unless fair value is received by all Engine shareholders, a number of us would prefer to see Engine Group retain its independence and seek a different deal in the future that offers fairness for all shareholders."
A spokesperson for the Engine Group said: "The Board of Engine has carefully considered the strategic alternatives open to the Group and has concluded that the offer from Lake Capital is in the best interests of all stakeholders - shareholders, employees and clients.
"The offer document which has only just been mailed to shareholders explains the Board's thinking in some detail."
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Michael Mulder from Loaded Precision shows us the X-Lite Ultra XC wheelset that weighs under 1500g. Also featured are the AmXc trail/enduro stem in 70mm, 85mm and 100mm designed for a flip-flop 6° or -6° compatibility and the AmXc lock-on grips with its unique rubber compound that's hydrophobic and oleophobic resistant. Loaded Components was also showing off some of their products on this Ibis Mojo HD on the back of a mini-Hummer.
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Earlier this year, I fulfilled a dream: I visited Middle Earth (also known as New Zealand). As a huge fan of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, it was everything I'd hoped it would be and more. While on set with a few other online reporters, we got to watch a few scenes get filmed, interview almost the entire cast and most of the crew, and we saw firsthand how much love is being put into making The Hobbit trilogy as amazing as the LOTR trilogy. It was an experience I'll never forget.
With the first film, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, opening December 14, WB has lifted part of the embargo and after the jump you can check out my list of 65 things to know about the film plus links to a number of on set interviews.
The first thing to know is when I visited the set, the plan was to release two Hobbit films. However, since that time, Peter Jackson and WB have decided to release The Hobbit as a trilogy, with the following release dates:
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (December 14, 2012)
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (December 13, 2013)
- The Hobbit: There and Back Again (July 18, 2014)
While I'm incredibly excited to get even more of The Hobbit on movie screens, the change to a trilogy does present one big problem: everything I saw on set is now in the second film and it's still under embargo.
What that means is, while I'd like to tell you about ____ fighting ____, or talk about how incredible to was to watch Peter Jackson direct ____, for now you'll just have to trust me when I say The Hobbit trilogy is going to be everything you hope it would be and more.
In addition, while I'm still under embargo from talking about The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, in about a year, you can expect a massive in depth write up about everything I saw and even more on set interviews.
70 Things to Know About The Hobbit:
During my group interviews with the cast and crew I learned a lot of cool little facts about the films. I'm going to assume everyone reading this is familiar with the cast, knows the films were shot in 3D/48fps (frames per second), and has been paying attention over the last two years as we've covered these films in detail.
- There are two film units shooting all the time. Peter Jackson directs the first unit and Andy Serkis is directing second unit.
- Peter Jackson is once again pushing film technology forward with something called "SLAVE MOTION CONTROL." This technology allows characters of different sizes to do scenes together at the same time. What happens is one camera is "on" and on camera is slave to the other one, so actors will be on two different soundstages but filming the same scene. This was used when Ian McKellen (Gandolf) filmed his scenes with the dwarfs and Bilbo in Bag End as he was in another stage acting with all of them. While it's complicated technology, it allows for more movie magic to be done in camera.
- The Hobbit takes place 60 years before the event of Lord of the Rings
- The shoot is scheduled for 254 days.
- The Hobbit is has a fairy tale quality to it as the group is chasing gold and there is a dragon.
Here's some more highlights broken down by who said them.
- Jackson explains the difference between Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Rings is "good and evil, black and white"—the world is at stake. The Hobbit has more of a fairy tale quality, "slaying dragons and going for gold."
- In Tolkien's book, Bilbo doesn't feel the negative effects when he puts on the ring because he added those effects two decades later for the Rings trilogy. The effects of the ring will gradually build up over the course of the Hobbit movies. Jackson says, "So the first time he puts it on it's simply a magic ring, but each time he puts it on the effect of it gets to him a bit more."
- They turned to Tolkien's appendices for more backstory on why Gandalf chose Bilbo for this task. Gandalf remembers Bilbo as a young child who loves adventure and danger, and is disappointed to find that Bilbo has become stuffy and conservative 18 years later.
- Jackson was reluctant to take the director's chair even after Guillermo del Toro left because the ensemble of thirteen dwarves "terrified" him. But he's done a complete turnaround, and now calls the dwarf ensemble the "great joy of the movie."
- They didn't redesign Gollum, but using the advances in technology over the last decade they were able to make him behave more natural and realistic.
- 48fps forced the visual effects team to do twice as much work in terms of processing and calculation, but the people at WETA say the change from 2D to 3D was more impactful from a creative standpoint.
- The visual effects team didn't reuse any backgrounds or digital elements from The Lord of the Rings because their approaches had been developed over the past decade. In fact, advances in the visual effects realm moved so quickly that they had to digitally rebuild Gollum from Two Towers to Return of the King.
Martin Freeman:
- Freeman paid attention to Ian Holm's performance of an older Bilbo in The Lord of the Rings films, but didn't worry too much about basing his own performance off of his predecessor.
- Freeman's first day on set was filming the cave scene with Gollum (Andy Serkis).
- Due to differences in height, Freeman, as Bilbo, and the company of Dwarves shot their scenes separately from Gandalf (Ian McKellen), even though they will all appear on screen together in a given scene.
- According to Freeman, Peter Jackson falls somewhere between a minimal amount of takes (like Clint Eastwood) and an exhaustive amount (like David Fincher), shooting an average of six takes, normally for technical reasons.
Sir Ian McKellen:
- At first, McKellen had to act on a separate green screen set from his dwarf co-stars to make Gandalf look taller. McKellen says this made him "miserable," so Jackson found a way to cut down on this style of shooting going forward.
- Gandalf will at times be more light-hearted in The Hobbit than Lord of the Rings, but there is added intensity in his relationship with Thorin.
- McKellen would like to see a TV miniseries that adapts the full detail of the book in about thirteen hour-long episodes.
- McKellen says he doesn't make much connection between Gandalf the Grey and Gandalf the White, and that he never warmed to the White. Grey is "full of all sorts of life."
- McKellen thinks the script makes Gandalf a bit less bossy than he is in the book.
Richard Armitage:
- Richard Armitage grew his own beard, rather than donning a fake one, in order to play Thorin.
- At 6'2", Armitage never expected to be playing a dwarf; Thorin comes in at 5'2" which is very tall for a dwarf.
- Thorin's father and grandfather were touched by the "dragon sickness," a deadly obsession and attraction to gold.
- Dwarf kingdoms are designed in a way that overcompensates for their short statures.
- The first shot for all of the Dwarves was the scene at Bag End, including the song heard in the trailer.
- There is an antagonistic relationship and power struggle between Thorin and Gandalf throughout the films.
- Armitage used the devastation at Hiroshima as a reference for his Smaug's destruction of his people's homeland.
- Most of the script was edited or changed in some way to reflect the voice of the characters, as portrayed by their respective actors, over the course of filming.
- Armitage smashed his own shield into his mouth during one scene and continued onto a second take with a broken lip and bloody mouth.
- Vast improvements were made in makeup since Lord of the Rings, so the new type of silicone used on the dwarves doesn't require constant maintenance as the one for Gimli did. It's easier to apply and paint and it's virtually heat-proof, water-proof, and fire-proof.
- Gimil's makeup took three-and-a-half hours, but the face application for Thorin is only an hour.
- The longest makeup of the dwarves is Bombur, and he takes an hour and 45 minutes to apply. The shortest makeup is Kili who takes 30 minutes or less because he just has a nose prosthetic.
- They had to do a lot of camera tests for 48fps, because when you put an actor with a face prosthetic in front of the RED Epic at 48fps, the prosthetic came up yellow and you could see exactly where it was. To overcompensate, they had to apply more red to the makeup.
- The one makeup technology that's been kept exactly the same since LOTR is the Elf ears, for which they use gelatin.
- They used foam latex feet that were glued on for LOTR, but for The Hobbit they've created "slip-ons" that are much, much easier to apply and can come on and off during the day. The new Hobbit feet are also able to make the toes move.
- The dwarves wear prosthetic arms and hands so that the proportions add up after they've done the scale effects work.
- Dwalin's arm tattoos are painted on his slip-on prosthetic arms, but his head tattoos are done in makeup using a stamp.
- They use an expert wig-maker for the film, and some of the wigs cost $10,000.
- Galadriel, Legolas, and Frodo's wigs in The Hobbit are the same ones that were used in LOTR.
- Thorin was the most difficult dwarf design to get right. He had the most wig changes and prosthetic changes throughout the design process.
Visual Effects and Makeup:
- Weta Workshop created about 500 primary illustrations for conceptual designs; the same team churned out over 8,000 digital paintings for The Hobbit trilogy.
- The design team not only had to overcome the challenge of making each of the individual Dwarves unique and recognizable, but also to adjust their head-to-body ratios through padding and prostheses to achieve the proper look.
- None of the Dwarves have facial prostheses below the nose line or past the crow's feet in order to save application time and keep the actors' mouths free from restriction.
- On the Dwarves' character traits: Ori is a mama's boy and still sports purple bows she tied into his hair before leaving, Dwalin is a war-hardened soldier and wears his battle scars proudly, Gloin controls the money during the voyage and is also fond of grooming his hair in an elaborate fashion, Bifur has an Orc axe embedded in his skull which causes a nervous tic and some mental impairment, Bombur is the most massive and the strongest of the Dwarves who also uses his beard as a garrote to draw enemies in against his stomach to dispatch them, Gloin exhibits shades of The Lord of the Rings' Gimli, and Nori has the most dramatic silhouette, Balin has no mustache, Thorin gave the team the toughest challenge as he goes through a series of prosthetic and costume changes.
- Jed Brophy (Nori) also played numerous characters in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
- Nearly 800 individual weapons were made for the 13 Dwarves, accounting for the principal actors, scale doubles, stunt doubles, picture doubles and sometimes a riding double.
- One of the weapons is a sort of stirrup spear the team calls a "pig-sticker" which allows the wielder to stand resolute against a charging board.
- Many of the props are now made using 3D printing, complemented by hands-on fabrications. The technology is limited only by the size of the printer and the design software used for it. Theoretically, 3D printers could be used to create large-scale props and, eventually, even full sets.
- Swords, for example, have 3D-milled blades that are hand-tooled by swordsmiths, while the grip and cross-guard is 3D printed; a much more efficient process than making them all by hand.
- All of the Dwarves wore enlarged prosthetic hands. The design team even improved upon the prosthetic feet by developing silicone leg boots and integrating running toe-shoes into the design.
- The shoot averaged between 36 and 48 prostheses needed every day.
- Due to increased definition of current filming practices, it's become harder to fool the eye and blur the line between prosthetic and actor. The design team uses extremely thin acrylic and silicone-layered applications that are even impregnated with corpuscle (free floating cells, i.e. blood cells) that scatter and reflect light similarly to skin.
- Facial prostheses, which can be as thin as 0.1 mm, are made using molds with a material called syntactic dough.
- Somewhere between 600-800 Elven ears were produced for the films.
- Film captures the moisture in the air between the lens and the actor, blurring the lines between prostheses and skin. Digital camera technology has challenged the effects team because it has the ability to see through this moisture barrier.
- They amped up the color in the costume department to keep with The Hobbit's lighter tone in relation to The Lord of the Rings.
- Gandalf's costume is the same as in the trilogy except he now has an Elven scarf.
- In crafting the look and costumes of Bilbo, Peter Jackson wanted to emulate Tolkien himself since both are "country gentlemen."
- They created six stages of Bilbo's costume to reflect the things that happen to him throughout the course of the movie.
- Pretty much every thing you see in the film, costume-wise, was made from scratch, including the buttons.
- Shooting at 48 fps "oomphs" up the color and picks up more detail, so the costume department had to be conscious of this when crafting the costumes.
- The dwarf costumes were made slightly larger so it looks like they were made by people with fat fingers, and also so they would still look realistic when they're scaled down.
- In the book, the dwarves are distinguished by hoods of different colors. They didn't want to be that literal in the film, so the colors have been pulled into other aspects of their respective costumes.
- For the dwarves' shoes, they had the bigger actors wear size 22 shoes and the smaller actors wear size 18. In order to keep them from falling off, they actually had a smaller shoe built inside the large shoe.
- Since Gloin is related to Gimili from LOTR, they wanted to keep a connection with the costumes of the two characters.
- All the original costumes—like Gandalf's—from the LOTR trilogy are locked up in storage and preserved, so they can't be reused.
Art Department
- The consensus seems to be that the scale of The Hobbit is bigger than The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
- The version of Rivendell in The Hobbit is brighter because the season is midsummer, whereas in LOTR the season was autumn. In Hobbiton, the season is late spring/early summer.
- The film includes flashbacks to the city of Dale, which isn't elaborately described in the book, so the art department had to create it from scratch. They took their cues from its position in Middle Earth (an alpine city) and the fact that it has a lot of water running through it, so it's slightly Venetian. They created a "weekend fairground" feeling for Dale.
- The false perspective tricks don't work as well in 3D, so they've had to find different ways to block scenes that feature characters of differing size (ie. Gandalf and the dwarves). They build two scale sets, one small and one big, and actors play out the scene on both sets at the same time.
- Shooting in 48 fps forced the art department to push more detail into the sets and props. Instead of using prop materials like plastics and such, many of the props are now made out of real materials like glass and ceramics.
- The use of the Technocrane—which can put the camera into any area of the set—has also forced the art department to fill out the backgrounds more.
- The biggest physical standing set they built for the first film was Hobbiton.
Art Department quotes on how 48fps impacted their jobs:
"It meant that we're being a little bit more careful about what the finished surfaces are like. How our texture treatments are done, and just by pushing that much more detail into everything. It's actually enriched the propage and the sets a whole lot more, I think, because we're quite often using real materials instead of prop making plastics and things. I think it's better as an interactive thing as well for the actors because they're interacting with glass instead of plastic and ceramics instead of card."
"It has made our job more interesting. If you walk into a set and you don't feel you're there, it's not working. It's that active. Normally you could cheat a bit here and cheat a bit there."
"Gone were the days where you could say, 'Aw, that's just background, we won't have to worry about that too much.' "
Makeup Department On the Makeup and 48 fps:
"Yeah, it's the color. What we learned, because even though I've been working with this material for about five years, I've never seen it on the Epic, at that rate. And what we found when we made these guys up, to the eye, if I was standing right in front of you and I had a piece on, you wouldn't be able to tell. In front of the camera, they way it was reading, it was kicking yellow. And so you can actually see where the piece was. It was like the camera was picking up something that the human eye wasn't seeing, and so they were kicking yellow. So what we had to do was overcompensate for the camera and put more red into them."
"Yeah. And then when we're on green screen, we have to kick the reds even more, because the green screen sucks out the reds as well. And that happens just on film as well. But yeah, painting for the invisible eye, we call it. And it's a fine line, you can go too red and it appears really wacky. But if you go too little, you have this jaundiced guy."
Final Words:
As you might imagine, getting to spend two days on the set of The Hobbit is something I'll never forget. I got to see up close the time and energy Peter Jackson and his team are putting in to make sure this trilogy is as good, if not better, than the Lord of the Rings films. From what I saw, I'm beyond confident they will meet their goal.
Finally, as I already mentioned, in about a year, when The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is getting ready to come out, you can expect a much more in depth report. Until then….
Here is more from my Hobbit set visit:
- Peter Jackson Talks Similarities and Differences to Lord of the Rings, Shooting in 3D and 48 fps, His Initial Reluctance to Direct, and More on the Set of The Hobbit
- Ian McKellan Talks Returning to Middle Earth, Differences from the Book, Advances in Technology and Filming in 3D, and More on the Set of The Hobbit
- Martin Freeman Talks the Impact of The Ring on Bilbo, Ian Holm's Performance, Being a Fan Favorite for the Role, and More on the Set of The Hobbit
- Richard Armitage Talks Dwarf Humor, Script Changes During Production, Parallels Between Thorin and Frodo's Journeys, and More on the Set of The Hobbit
- Weta Workshop Head Richard Taylor Talks Turning Actors into Dwarves, Developing the Film's Weapons, and More on the Set of The Hobbit


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