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On acting: "I hated it. I hadn't established myself as a painter, not just in the outside world, but inside. Here I am doing something that's bigger than anything I've ever done as an artist, and that could sabotage things for me."
On painting portraits: "When someone comes in and they sit down with you, you get your first impression, but if you're really paying attention all these other traits start to come out. It's like an X-ray, but not as black and white. It's a kind of magic."
On being a mother to a one-year-old daughter Rafaella: "When you're not the only person you have to think about, you suddenly grow 10 years�"in a good way. I do feel sometimes that there's this freedom I don't have that [my castmates] have and they can't really understand what it's like until they're a mother, too. Sometimes I miss it, but not enough to want to be back there."
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SOMERSET – The FEMA Disaster Recovery Centers (DRCs) in Middlesex County will close at 6 p.m. on Friday, May 21, but flood survivors can continue to register for, or receive additional federal assistance though a variety of ways. A DRC in Union County closed on May 12.
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Otoginomori (translation = "Forest Fairy"), a sparse and little-known Japanese label, released a short compilation recently which went mostly unnoticed by the netlabel scene at large. Here is a shoddy Google translation of their About page. While grammatically unsound, I think it presents a nice ethos.
It is the concept of work in the motif of nature and the seasons, the landscape, focusing on music, painting, video, modeling, photos, space design, you do not have to worry format, the oasis of artists working in various fields I aims to environment, such as dress affect next to, each other.
We are thinking, "that is to form the expression" is to those more familiar with them, and said as long as it is like snuggling in life even for the creator, but also for the recipient.
It suggests a broad detachment from the usual expressive conformity, and a shift towards channelling the artist's expression of 'snuggling' with life as opposed to creating something to which only the creator can relate. This 'snuggling' should be experienced by artist and listener, as both share an inevitable common factor: life itself! A wonderful idea, but does it work?
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Yes! This isn't an expressive, dark, ambient EP with unknown intentions. It also isn't an album which abides by convention or slips easily into one genre or another. This allows you to find an inner peace with yourself; a kind and fully intended gift from the composers themselves.
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The stand out track "Aquarium in the sky" by Kujyaku (linked below) sets the mood of the EP with calming chopped up chords and gentle glitches. As the rhythmic complexity thickens, out sprouts a lush house groove, allowing the chopped chords to carry the tune toward a great harmonic alteration. Similar to Four Tet, this is such comforting music to hear. The harmonics are fluid and natural, the mixing is neutral and soft, the piece possesses a positive energy without encouraging too much excitement. It's a great, uplifting start.
What follows is a tasteful track presented by Shinonome. Although slower and a little deeper, this track is nonetheless wonderful. Melodic passages are seamlessly weaved through swirling pads which form a bed into which all the elements can nestle. As with track 1, the stereo image here is vast, with emphasis on reverb to provide a vivid sound-stage. These tracks left me feeling like a smug cat: contented, comfortable, and at ease.
Track 3 takes a mild change in direction. The track is anchored around a harmonic exploration on the piano, with other orchestral parts acting to complement the composition. After long-rolling, melodic ideas, at 2:04 the track plunges into a full-on film score, with frequent changes in tempo and tone. Although sonically some of the artificial instruments can sound a little too digitized at times, it is a nonetheless a well-produced piece. This is like a breath of fresh air taken deep into the lungs. It clears the mind and provides new, optimistic perspective.
Next up, a more solemn and lo-fi piece by an artist named おねがいかみさま. A longing and lonely harmonica is followed by a soft piano sound. The recording here is particularly lifelike. It reminds me of the solemn and pensive tone of Aphex Twin's piano in his track "Avril 14th", or even recordings of my sister and I playing piano into an old dusty Bush tape recorder when we were seven years old. This beautiful piece seems to induce a reflective state, bubbling up joyous memories in the mind.
Lastly, track 5 finishes with excellent vocals from Fluffytails with Mayumi. It's deep and dreamy, and sits on right side of psychedelic. The blissful guitar parts and enchanting xylophone motifs compliment each other well. In my opinion, the ending comes too soon, but the powerful off-key singing and clipping on the voice brings the track to an epic close. I am happy to dwell in the depths of this track for as long as possible because it makes me happy to be alive and well and at peace with myself. The same could be said of the other tracks in this EP.
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It's up to parents to teach it.
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It's just that schools have a certain amount of required taught hours per week and they have to cram a lot in there already.
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Originally posted by AccessDenied
It's up to parents to teach it.
And that's a bigger part of the problem. Most parents don't (or can't because they're unskilled themselves) teach this stuff to their kids, so we can't reasonably expect our institutions to do it for us either. It just doesn't matter to most people. They think this system will continue in perpetuity and are totally oblivious to how dependent they really are.
That's the argument for a lot of "public" education programs--"The parents aren't going to do it, so the state must." But apparently the state doesn't feel that way in this case. Very revealing.


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Stroller wars on the buses: seniors vs. baby buggies
It was bound to happen, so it was no surprise to read the news item out of Halifax detailing a police incident on Tuesday in which officers where called to settle a dispute between six mothers with strollers and a Metro Transit bus driver who wouldn't continue on his route after the moms boarded the bus and then refused to collapse their strollers, instead folding up the seats at the front of the bus reserved for seniors and scooter and wheelchair users.
The six moms, aged from 17 to 25 and loaded down with toddlers and four babies in all, boarded the articulated bus after a noon parenting class. One of the mothers, 24-year-old Mandy Fitzgerald was quoted in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald newspaper (here's the story, with photos) saying the bus driver didn't take kindly to the moms' me-first attitude, telling the women, "You can't do what you want on my bus, this is my office."
The cops were called and four cruisers and some transit officials showed up and they all surrounded the bus and created a huge traffic snarl and, after an hour, the impasse had been diffused and the bus, with the moms and strollers aboard, went on its way.
It's apparently not the first such incident of stroller wars in Halifax — a case is set to go before the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission over an incident last January in which a couple was denied entry on to a downtown bus when they refused to fold up their bulky twin stroller. And a 2009 ban on non-foldable strollers on Ottawa buses prompted a protest by transit-dependent stroller moms. In 2009, the Vancouver city transit committee also discussed the issue and, if you hit the Internet, you'll find all sorts of grumbling about the stroller/bus feud.
How vociferous is this debate? There's a Facebook page called I hate baby strollers on buses. And, last year, an Ottawa mom who writes the blog titled Adventures of a Working Mom for the Ottawa Citizen posted Toddler, stroller and I board the bus, in which she explains her point of view and why she thinks strollers are equitable to wheelchairs on transit systems. Last May, Boston's Metro newspaper published the results of a survey done by its transit authority, which doesn't have a stroller policy, that found more than half of those polled said parents should not be required to fold their strollers on the buses, even though most systems in the U.S. do.
And if you think it's any different in Metro Vancouver, think again. There might not (yet) be any high-profile standoffs like the Halifax incident, but ask anyone who rides the TransLink system — ask any stroller mom or senior with a bus pass, for starters — and you'll discover that it's a battlefied out there.
So, why is that?
On Translink's website, you'll find this language, from a 2007 document titled TransLink's Policy for People with Disabilities:
An increasing proportion of the Greater Vancouver population is facing mobility challenges. Currently, up to 12 per cent of people in this region have some kind of mobility challenge, but are still able to use conventional transit (source: GVTA staff report on Access Transit, June 2007).
As well, a growing proportion of Greater Vancouver's population consists of people in older age brackets. It is estimated that by 2031, the median age will be 46.7 years (up from and almost a quarter of the population (24.4 per cent) will be aged 65 or older (source: BC Stats). They, too, often rely on conventional public transit.
In 1989, transit systems in British Columbia committed to becoming fully accessible and since 1996, TransLink and its predecessor, BC Transit Vancouver, have purchased solely low-floor buses (except for highway coaches). The new conventional buses going into service now and in the years to come provide improved access for people with wheelchairs, scooters and walkers, as well as for seniors.With this in mind, TransLink would like to remind everyone about its basic policy concerning accessible areas on our buses.
- Seating areas nearest the doors on SkyTrain, SeaBus and buses are designed for people with disabilities and for seniors.
- Seats at the front of buses – trolleys, 40' conventional and 60' articulated coaches – can flip up to accommodate people with mobility devices. Please vacate these seats immediately and help make room for them.
- Strollers may use this area; however, when demand dictates, the stroller must give way to people with mobility devices, including walkers. Children in strollers should be removed and the strollers collapsed.
- For safety reasons, the maximum size for a stroller is 122 centimetres (48") long by 60 centimetres (24") wide. Strollers must be collapsible.
- Wheelchairs and scooters up to 122 centimetres (48") long by 60 centimetres (24") wide, will usually fit on the bus.
TransLink encourages all "able-bodied" people to be sensitive to the needs of people with mobility challenges, patient with the situations as they arise, and help make the public transit experience as pleasant as possible for everyone.
That language (that's my boldface on the seniors and strollers wording) and the expectation, which on the surface seem reasonable and which invoke those age-old societal traits once known as common sense and manners, should work. Except that common sense and manners, on the buses and pretty much everywhere else in these times of the me-first, screw-you social etiquette, are in such short supply that we have instead stroller wars. It's happening on sidewalks, and in stores and at public events.
But nowhere is it more concentrated than on the buses.
This is a battleground whereby seniors resent having to give up their seats to strollers — why are they so big, why do these moms have to pack around four days of baby supplies like diapers and sippy cups and finger foods and multiple sets of seasonal clothing, along with bags of groceries from Price Smart, and why wasn't this an issue back in the day for us old folks when we had kids and used to take the buses all the time without the need of a Smart Car-sized conveyance for our little darlings?
It's a battleground where too many self-entited new moms don't care about etiquette, don't care that an 84-year-old with arthritis in her knees on her way to doctor and worried about hanging on to her purse while that gang of cursing boys at the back of the bus gives her the hairy eyeball, has to cede a much-needed place to sit and rest her aching bones.
And so there are arguments. Bus drivers apologetically ask seniors to stand up so the strollers can fit. Seniors either meekly comply or loudly protest that those damn strollers don't belong on the bus and why should strollers take precedence over seniors anyway, and whatever happened to manners among young people. And, they say out loud, why do young people today not show respect to their elders, why don't they understand
the hierarchy of propriety, why don't they care about old people and their needs, why do they think their rolling playpens trump all the other ambulatory rules on the route.
Should buses accommodate those oversized strollers? Yes, but only when there is room, and only when it doesn't mean that seniors or anyone else with physical needs have to give up their seats. Logic and courtesy should be the order of the day.
Seniors should trump moms and strollers. Period.
Discriminatory? Hardly. Just good manners. That Halifax bus driver should be given an Employee of the Month award.
Drew Snider, Translink public information officer, said Thursday that there have been strollers complaints, and anecdotal spats between seniors and strollers, which is no surprise given the increasing numbers of seniors in the population, and on the buses. He says Translink records show there were 23 complaints involving strollers in 2009, while that number jumped to 42 in 2010, perhaps because of increased ridership during the Olympics. The first six months of 2011 have logged eight complaints.
He also sent along a November 2008 decision by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal that "steers a middle course," as Snider puts it. The decision reads:
Coast (Mountain Bus Company) is faced with many competing interests. It has to provide timely service to the general public. It has to deal with many difficult passengers. In addition, it has to accommodate many passengers with different types of disabilities, for example, those with mobility issues and those who have difficulty seeing or hearing. As well, many seniors use the transit system and have special needs as well. Adding families with strollers to this mix makes Coast's job in meeting all of the special needs of all their passengers extremely challenging. With so many competing needs, it is not reasonable to expect perfect accommodation all the time.
Adds Snider: We've made seniors and people with disabilities a priority at TransLink; but we have to keep in mind, too, that we're the region's transportation system, which means we still have to do our best to accommodate everybody."


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Over the hill MBA students
Business Week has a story this week on MBA students over the age of 40. While no precise statistics are available, 40-49 year-olds only account for 4% of those who take the GMAT used for most MBA admissions.
I think — fueled by the efforts of the colleges profiled — too much emphasis is given to the supposed benefit of three little letters on the resume for career switching. Of course, any b-school prof will tell you this credentialing is the main goal of the typical under-30 full-time MBA student.
My first semester at SJSU, I had my first student that was over 40, but he'd been a CFO and was then CEO of a small company. (Now president of a larger company). His motive was not to punch his ticket, but to actually learn something, in particular, new ways of thinking about problems he'd already seen.
That seemed to me the most realistic plan: if two decades of work experience doesn't get you a good job, the marginal benefits of the TLA will be small. However, it's realistic that anyone without formal business education can learn to do his or her job better or smarter.


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D-II Championships: Through Two, Nova Still Super
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The Sharks' performance through two rounds of the NCAA Division II women's golf championships is conjuring up comparisons with the immortal thoroughbred's 31-length victory in the 1973 Belmont Stakes.
Halfway through the event at Longbow Golf Club, the Sharks have forged a gargantuan 29-stroke lead. That leaves second-place Rollins (Winter Park, Fla.) closer to ninth place than first.
After a mediocre first-day score of 14 over par, the Sharks (Fort Lauderdale-Davie, Fla.) blistered the Arizona desert layout for a startling 1-over 285 Thursday.
Still, coach Kevin Marsh is taking nothing for granted.
"We're halfway there, but I know Rollins can shoot under par tomorrow," he said. "And you know the pins will be tougher the last
two days.
"It's really all about our five girls and for them to play to their potential. We just need to keep doing what we're doing."
Highlights were everywhere.
Sandra Changkija, the nation's top-ranked Division II player, tossed up a 4-under-par 67 that featured an eagle on the 495-yard, par-5 15th hole. The low round of the tournament gave her a 1-under total of 141 that left her two shots behind leader Maria Luz Besio of Newberry College (S.C.), who shot a 68 for a midpoint tally of 3-under 139.
Less heralded teammate Taylor Collins was nearly as good as Changkija. She rebounded from an opening-day 83 to fire a 2-under 69. Collins was 4 under through 15 but bogeyed two of her final three holes and is tied for ninth. Collins said she could have gone even
"I was hitting all the greens but lipping out a bunch of putts," she said. "We're trying to win by a lot. We set our goals high."
Maria Garcia Austt shot a 3-over 74 and is in sixth place. Nicole Whitmore carded a 4-over 75 and is seventh.
To illustrate the depth of Nova Southeastern's lineup, Abbey Gittings is tied for 13th in the 72-player field, yet as the fifth-best score on her team, her result is not even counted in the team chase.
Of course, even with a seemingly insurmountable lead, leave it to a coach to find reasons to worry.
"Our round was great, but it could have been better," Marsh said. "We left a lot of shots out there.
"The pace of play, I think, bothered us a little. We had to wait on some of the tees, and we lost some of our rhythm. So we need to figure out how to play a little slower.
"There's so much trouble on this course that with rulings and tough shots, things can start to bog down."
Another potential area of concern, Marsh said, is that Longbow "is playing shorter than I thought it would. It's more of a second-shot course.
"You really have to be precise on your second shot. You can hit a good drive, but then the greens are hard, so that second shot is important. There's no guarantee that a sand wedge will get you close."
Changkija played a brilliant round. She started auspiciously with a birdie on the first hole, dropped to 2 under with another birdie at No. 5 and went 3 under with another birdie at the 10th before stumbling with bogeys at Nos. 11 and 13.
But she quickly redeemed herself with her eagle 3 at the 15th hole. After bogeying the par-3 16th, she closed in a rush with birdies at Nos. 17 and 18.
Unsurprisingly, Changkija is totally focused.
"My goal is to play professional golf," she said.
And her team?
"We're ready to win big," Changkija said. "It means a lot."
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Private colleges study START-UP NY incentives
RPI, other tech schools have edge, but tax-free zone plan could aid liberal arts schools
Will any of the Capital Region's private institutions of higher learning get a share of 3 million square feet of tax-free space created by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's START-UP NY initiative?
While SUNY campuses are the main beneficiaries of the program — approved last month by the Legislature just before its members left Albany — START-UP invites private institutions to develop their own plans for submission to a three-member panel, made up of appointees from the governor, the Assembly speaker and the Senate's majority coalition.
The Empire State Development Corp. will also have a role in designing the overall blueprint of tax-free zones, which will be arranged to balance geographic representation as well as distribution among urban, suburban and rural schools.
If approved, companies operating within each school's tax-free zone would pay no state or local taxes for 10 years. Also, their employees would pay no state income tax for five years, and only pay tax on income above a capped amount for five years after that.
Although Cuomo pitched START-UP as an economic development scheme for upstate, a 600,000-square-foot chunk of the space set aside for private institutions has already been designated for downstate schools: 75,000 square feet each in Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties and the five boroughs of New York City.
"It's early, and we've been trying to keep the membership as informed as we can," said Laura Anglin, president of the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities, which represents 111 schools statewide.
Anglin said inquiries about the program weren't relegated to large research institutions.
"The interest is widespread, and I would not say focused on one type of campus," she said, noting that liberal arts campuses could find the linkage required by the program between, for example, businesses and their media or film programs.
Anglin suggested that schools like Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy could have an edge because of their existing business incubator programs. "The goal of this was to create more incubators and more places for businesses to start up," she said. "Clearly those schools that already have incubators have firsthand knowledge of how to attract businesses and grow these incubators."
Jason Lane, a senior fellow at the Rockefeller Institute of Government and co-author of the book "Universities and Colleges as Economic Drivers" — published, appropriately enough, by SUNY Press — said that even private schools that don't win START-UP status will benefit from the energy and interest the program could bring to New York. "It's a rising tide for everyone," he said.
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RPI and a handful of other local campuses contacted on Tuesday suggested they were monitoring and discussing the program. "Any role Rensselaer will play in this initiative will be determined as more details emerge," a spokesman said — a repeat of a quote from a few weeks ago.
"We have had conversations about the governor's proposal and are looking to see if it's something that fits in with our mission," said Phillip Wajda, director of media and public relations for Union College in Schenectady. The program isn't scheduled to begin until 2014.
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Atheism: Just Another Religion?
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Is atheism a replacement for religion? Or is atheism simply another religion? As non-theists and freethought groups organize, gather and even sometimes attend things like the "Sunday assembly," the charge is often heard that the godless are acting religious, that their adherence to science is "faith," and that their gatherings are just anothe form of church. In this show, we explore the question. And we hear from David Silverman, President of one of the largest atheist (religious???) organizations in the world.
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Rocker Jack Antonoff makes sure his partner Lena Dunham is the first person to hear his new music because her reaction tells him whether he has written a hit.
The fun. star has been dating the Girls creator since 2012 and they recently moved in together in New York, and Antonoff admits he values his partner's professional opinion even if it is bad.
He tells Britain's The Times newspaper, "When I get home from the studio Lena's the first person to hear anything and I can tell if something's good or not by her reaction. She's just a music fan not a musician... (Her opinions) are more important than some producer's opinion because they mirror how the world is going to see or hear it... It's not like we can get over sensitive. We're not 19. I love criticism from her."


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A catheter in your pisshole is bad enough, but nothing will ruin your day quite like tearing open your scrotum. This is why you have to be extra careful when shaving your balls. You don't want a mess like this between your legs.
served right to the man who tortures his best buddies
He doc is this a bad time to tell you I need to take a shit
thats taking self mutilation a bit to far
I'd say tell the doc to shoot me.
motorcycle accident rips you from your A to your new V.
I've seen some videos on here that convinces me "this" in some guy's dream. Sad but true!
This is why you don't put Peanut Butter on your balls and allow a Ferret to lick it off
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So this is what is meant when someone says they 'busted a nut'
I'd say "While you're in there, can you make them bigger?"
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Hope I didnt piss Clitoris off with my post last weekend and him stupid enough to try to kill himself by whacking his junk with a straight razor...Second thought it couldnt happen to a more deserving and worthless fuck.
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DH started to act like a gun photographer when he took these photos of my reversible jacket.
Anyway ... this was the result from Thursday's ASC reversible vest class with Sue Marriot. She was really accommodating because this was supposed to be a reversible vest class. I did email her so that she knew what I wanted to do, and she was really cool about it. Sue showed me how to make shoulder pads too. Because the jacket is reversible, shoulder pads can't be moulded. So I bought foam that you use to re-line your ironing board and cut them to size. Sue adjusted the shape to suit me, and then she overlocked the shoulder pads with lining.
I wasn't able to find a reversible zipper in Sydney and couldn't find one in Melbourne. I ended up buying a sleeping bag zipper, so I used it around the neckline and cut away what I didn't need. I will use the rest of the zip as trim another time.
On our way home from Ballarat, we made an unplanned stop at Bargain Box Shepparton and found reversible zippers. How good is that?
So now here's my start to add green pieces into my wardrobe. I'll keep adding pieces over the next few months to make up a collection...
Saturday, 2 October 2010
Jacket #5 is reversible
4 comments:
- Gail said...
Very cool and great fit. You could market this jacket to young mothers. When sticky fingers attack, reverse it.
- 3 October 2010 at 10:05:00 GMT+11
- Sharon said...
Great coat and trust DH to play the role :)
- 3 October 2010 at 12:37:00 GMT+11
- Sheila said...
That is an awesome jacket.
- 6 October 2010 at 09:01:00 GMT+11
- Handmade said...
Great jacket - very clever!
- 6 October 2010 at 09:22:00 GMT+11
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bonus track 1 – daytona usa 2
stage 1: intermediate stage (fun park)
stage 2: expert stage (city)
stage 3: beginner stage (speedway oval)
bonus track 2 – scud race
stage 1: beginner stage day (bayside)
stage 2: beginner stage night (airport)
stage 3: intermediate stage (asian culture – mountains, statues, and the like)
stage 4: expert stage (european culture – castles and lakes)
so far sega has only confirmed that tracks from other sega racers will be included, not which ones specifically. i think outrun 2 is turning out to be quite a collection for the older gamer who remembers all the great arcade racers from sega, and for the new gamer who hasn't had a chance to experience them before. let's hope this xbox release makes it to both u.s. and european shores.
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|more crappy racing games? (7:33am est tue aug 24 2004)
are there any good racing games for consoles? i get about 3 hours out of most, then i am board. need 4 speed porsche for pc was good, but consoles havent matched that, yet. yes, i know. that was years ago. i'm still waiting. – by korn-flake
|racing games (7:38am est tue aug 24 2004)
rallisport challenge 2 is a safe bet when it comes to console racing games. – by playax
|hey korn-flake (7:42am est tue aug 24 2004)
"then i am board"
you are? is that a 2×4? learn how to spell moron. – by spell check
|tracks or tracks? (7:49am est tue aug 24 2004)
i wish it was music and not places.
– by eta hinin
|flopbox is dead – who cares (7:58am est tue aug 24 2004)
how about some hot dreamcast news, too?
shouldn't there be a dead console section for stories like this?
– by xploitman n virusboy
|re: xploitman n virusboy (9:11am est tue aug 24 2004)
really i wasn't aware of this with the xbox stll being in stores and all and still selling well (not as well as the ps2 but then again what does). guess your reports of it's death may be a bit premature.especially in light of the fall line up coming up. by the way i own all three of the current generation of games systems and my xbox gets the most play followed closely by my ps2, then my gamecube (whenever i blow the dust off that one). – by notnormal23224
|re: normal and spell check (9:47am est tue aug 24 2004)
anyone who owns an x-box will tell you that it is the most advanced gaming system out there, even though it is a couple of years old.
however: please, don't feed the trolls!
re: spell check.
learn to capitalize and type in complete sentences, you moron! seriously, don't hammer people on their spelling or grammar. it's bad netiquite and bad taste.
|archerb (11:36am est tue aug 24 2004)
"it's bad netiquite and bad taste"
you idiot. "it's" not a word in english language. "it's" should be written as "it is"
now enough of this correcting grammar you bunch of no good geeks. stop it's. or else brotha is gonna put his foot up in ur arse. – by spell check daddio
|re: archerb (11:42am est tue aug 24 2004)
awwww, but the trolls look so sad with those big round eyes and ribs showing it's so pitiful you always wanna through them a bone. :d couldn't resist. the whole pc/console-ps2/xbox/gamecube thing always rubs me the wrong way, when it's about games folks should just pick up the system they like that has the games they like and play, not bash (as my mostly empty wallet cries keeping up the care and feeding of 4 different platforms). – by notnormal23224
|sweet…. (11:48am est tue aug 24 2004)
more goodies exclusive to the xbox.
can't wait.
to the pc racing whiner, kornflake: pgr2, rscii, toca2, and (eventually) forza….
i guess this is why console racing game sales completely eclipses the pc racing genre many, many times over…..
steering with arrow keys? no thanks.
– by me.
|remember… (12:00pm est tue aug 24 2004)
…rad-mobile? heck, even after burner had more substance then or.
it had its time……its over now – by get over it
|crashday (8:48pm est tue aug 24 2004)
if your into car racing and old enough to remember "stunts" then you should check out "crashday"
hopefully out by christmas – by wally wolfwhistle
|dedicated gaming pc (1:38pm est wed aug 25 2004)
just wait for the sony ps3 or x-box 2. {:-p gaming systems are dinosaurs compared to pc's. jaguar was the last system i bought, and will ever buy.
want a stable gaming environment that you can upgrade? make a dedicated gaming pc. no apps, no conflicting .dll's, no nothing. (except windows critical patches, and a firewall for internet games.)
just a fully ripped pc you load and play only games. performance will rock.
you heard it here first! – by tron3
|re: tron3 (2:28pm est wed aug 25 2004)
too bad you don't have the splitscreen multiplayer, voicecom with all online titles, and the choice of genres available for consoles.
enjoy your $1,000 machine that can only accomodate one player at a time while i play my xbox at $150 that handles more than a pc at a fraction of it's cost. leaving me more money for software…..
p.s: the idea of continuously spending money on hardware, doesn't sit well with me. i'd rather spend it on the games… – by me.
|xbox2 (11:02pm est wed aug 25 2004)
xfloppers!!! j00z 411 sux0rs!!!
my dad and uncle work for sony and i have a ps3 and psp already!!!
im better that all j00z!! – by g-bah
|hey xbox2! (12:34pm est wed sep 08 2004)
i bet you were that kid that had the whole collection of everything growin' up huh.
lying ass. – by xbxonzu


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He has also worked on such features as "The Ant Bully," "The Spy Next Door" and "The Spiderwick Chronicles," as well as the direct-to-DVD features "Open Season 2" and "Open Season 3."
From Relativity Media and Reel FX Animation Studios, "Free Birds" is the first theatrical full-length computer-animated film to be made at the award-winning Reel FX studios in Dallas, Texas.
"Free Birds" tells the story of two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks who much put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history -- and get turkey off the Thanksgiving menu for good. The film opens nationwide on November 1st.
Q: What kind of effects can people look forward to seeing in "Free Birds."
A: The effects work in the film covers everything from fire and explosions to smoke, fog, dust, sparks and debris. In particular, the film leaned heavily on fire and fluid simulations, but the team had the most fun with the explosions, fireballs and flamethrowers. There is never a shortage of artists wanting to burn and blow stuff up when it comes to making a film!
Q: How do you approach a scene and decide what needs visual effects?
A: We evaluate the effects that are coming up in a shot and look closely at both the complexity and how much of each effect is needed. If it's an effect that will be used a lot throughout a scene or throughout the movie, we'll develop a tool system and a workflow that we're able to easily reproduce so that we can push out all those effects in a fair amount of time. We'll discuss the approach to each effect with a digital director and art director, figure out how we're going to create it, what's required technically and then move things forward from there.
Q: What was the most challenging effect to achieve in the film?
A: The first time the time pod (aka S.T.E.V.E.) is getting ready to be launched, we had to create a massive vortex around it. Just based on the amount of information that needed to render in that football field-sized spinning volumetric was daunting. It was about a five-month process to develop the right look and rhythm for that effect. The massive fog volume effect was not hard to create, but due to the sheer size of the effect, it was very tricky to get manageable render times without dropping desired attributes such as light scatter and motion blur." The team experimented with various render techniques such as point cloud look-ups to adjust brightness and shading within volumetrics, but ultimately ended up using lightning geometry as a light source while physically-based rendering the fog, which gave a nice scattering throughout the volume.
Q: I also noticed quite a bit of fire effects in the film, what was involved there?
A: In the film's third act, a huge fire overtakes the wild turkeys' lair, which is basically a series of tunnels. This was extremely challenging for the effects team to create. Population of the fires was achieved by pre-simulating multiple fire assets and developing a delayed load instancing placement and rendering tool set. The tool set allowed the artist to paint in pre-simulated fire as point data, visualize the placement in a proxy form, promote instanced points to geometry for hand placement and, if needed, push hand-manipulated assets data back into the instance point cloud for rendering, and finally render multiple passes and export animated proxy geometry to the lighting team.
Q: What types of tools were used to create the majority of the effects in the film?
A: The team primarily used Houdini software to generate effects and Nuke to create slap comps for compositing. Proprietary tool sets were created in Houdini and used to generate and animate the foliage on trees and bushes, and then to place the plant assets and populate vast amounts of grass. They also developed quite a few general tools to automate massive amounts of effects like torches, sparks and fuses.
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A: We strive to create great effects, but we don't want them to stand out to the point that they take away from the story. Of course, I do want audiences to think 'Wow, that is a great explosion!,' but not necessarily on a conscious level. My hope is that they will be so immersed in the film that the effects never distract from the story that we wanted to tell.
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The closure was due to indiscriminate destruction of properties within and outside the University premises by some students.
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- If you require or strongly prefer prior work experience in a certain technology (such as .NET or JSP) and it's not anywhere on my resume (which they're not), don't contact me. I don't want my time wasted if I don't have the kind of experience you're looking for, and if I had the experience you're looking for but for some reason omitted it from my resume, I probably don't want to work with that technology.
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So, in my previous blogs I noted the need for a standardized language so that we can all speak IT and the Business that is. This brings up the old saying: One dictionary breed understanding, two or more breed confusion. When it comes to Business Architecture the definition of the business (who, what, where, when, etc.), this is one of the least understood areas in Information Technology (my opinion). We in IT struggle with understanding the business or is it the business that struggles with explaining themselves (and their needs or requirements) to IT. Either way, there is a gap or disconnect that we have to bridge.
In the development of my very first Services Based Architecture (SOA) in 1995-6, the team I was working with conquered this challenge by inventing a graphical language to define the business requirements graphically. We used circles and arrows, something that was easily understood by all the business people we worked with. Behind the scenes, we were error checking and validating that there were no missing links, open connectors, etc. The reason it worked, I believe, was that it was very simple for the business to grasp and take ownership of. From this, we were able to decompose the business into granular services and wholla the first SOA was built. This system is still in use today!
In the previous blog I noted that The Zachman Framework works and it truly does! Although, my only critique would be that some of his diagrams (like swim-lanes) are not highly expressive and business people sometimes have their eyes glass over when looking at it. It does what is needed however creating a common language between the business and IT and John was truly a pioneer in this space. It is not designed for the development of Services Based Architectures since it does not include Actors, Artifacts and Processes on one diagram, but you can easily add this by separating the How into Processes and Functions or by adding a new diagram to his set.
Recently, I came across a very expressive language that was developed in South Africa by a gentleman by the name of Bert Engelbrecht. He had spent years developing this very easy to understand graphical language (pictures that were truly worth a thousand words) that had a background in mathematical theory and engineering. He used Microsofts Visio and added a repository to the back end to capture metadata and his tool is very in-expensive (I think about a thousand dollars) and very powerful. You can look into his language at: www.discon.co.za
I am sure that more tools will come out to assist in this area, but my old boss once said: A fool with a tool is still a fool! and he was so right. You can do this with crayons as long as both teams (business and IT) understand the drawings.
Anther thing that drawings do is graphically envision the subject areas and other distinctions that will be used in iterative development. Since very few organizations try to build enterprise SBA / SOAs, the drawings allow us to circle the iteration and then place stubs where the future iteration will require input.
A common language can also be enhanced or facilitated with Governance something required when building an SOA and working with data and will be the focus of my next blog.
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June 26, 2013 (CHICAGO) --Chicago police have issued a warning about a series of purse snatchings in the city's Chinatown community on the South Side.
Police say there have been five attacks in the last week.
They happened in the 300 and 400 blocks of West 25th Place, the 300 block of West 24th Place, 500 block of West 26th Place and the 4500 block of South Western Avenue.
In each case, the attacker jumps out of a vehicle takes a woman's purse by force and then jumps back in their vehicle to get away.


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Nadine Artemis: Vital Wisdom For the Best Breast Health
Perched on your chest as beacons of beauty, symbols of sustenance and offering an ever-present erotic window into sensation, perception and pleasure are your breasts–the tender tug on your torso reminding you that you are a woman.
And yet, pummeled by petrochemicals, perfumed pit sticks and pink ribbon campaigns to sell more teddy bears, our breasts have become infected with toxins and indoctrination that they are a burden, a diseased problem easily eliminated with a hot knife and a mild anesthetic.
Slung into straps with tight wires and padded plastics we hold hostage not just our breasts, but our health, well-being and dignity. We can do better than raise funds for another pink ribbon race around the block. We can do better than cake our face with covert carcinogenic cosmetics for the cure. We can restore authentic notions of beauty. Remember the true purpose of our breasts and our bits and pieces, and reconnect with botanicals that boost immunity, eliminate toxins, nourish and restore every cell of our body and beauty back to health.
Privileged to call Nadine a friend, I was able to watch her deliver this presentation live and it still stands as THE most moving and eloquent presentation on women's health I have EVER seen. The degree of care, attention and intention she puts into every word and action she undertakes is incredibly rare. This is a powerful presentation and one that is consider rich with wisdom that is vital to the health and well-being of all women.


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On Thursday, Charles Barkley called out Clippers superstar Blake Griffin for being soft and not defending himself.
"You've got to draw a line in the sand," Barkley said during TNT's post-game show. "Say, 'hey listen, I'm going to start hitting y'all back.'"
Barkley said that "other guys are starting to knock the hell out of you all the time" and that "the toughest guy on your team can't be 5-3," which was a joking reference to Chris Paul–who is 6′ 0″–the point guard who is rumored to have also told Griffin to be tougher.
"You gotta stop these guys from picking on you," Barkley said before noting that people are starting to talk about Griffin's being "soft."
On Wednesday, Clippers player Matt Barnes got ejected from a game against the Thunder after he came to Griffin's defense and got in a fight with OKC's Serge Ibaka.