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Memorial Day services in Sarasota will be celebrated with a parade beginning at 10 a.m. at Main Street and Osprey Avenue. west along Main Street to Chaplain J.D. Hamel Park on Gulfstream Avenue.Marching units will include the veteran's services organizations. law enforcement agencies. fire departmetns and color guards. civic organizations. The theme of the Sarasota parade and ceremony is "All Heroes are Local." For more information. access scgov.
Parades in Venice begin at 10 a.m. at Veteran's Park at the West end of Venice Avenue in Venice. The events are coordinated by the Venice Area Veterans Council and Sarasota County's Veterans Benefits Unit.Guest speaker is Gregory Putman. commandre of American Legion Post 159.The public is invited to bring chairs to the ceremonies. Water will be provided. Following the ceremony. a grand opening and open house for American Legion Post 159 will be held at 1770 E. Venice Ave.. beginning at 11 a.m.
North Port's Memorial Day services begin at 11 a.m. at Veterans Park at the corner of U.S. 41 and South Biscayne Drive next to the North Port Area Public Library.Guest speaker for the services will be Joe Wills. service officer for the local chapter of Disabled American Veterans.For this occasion. the North Port People for Trees have made improvements to the Veterans Park retention pond. which will be rededicated following the service.
SARASOTA 'C A female driver crashed into James Tanner's car. leaving him with a gash on his head. back injury and broken thumb. She was arrested on a DUI charge that night. and Tanner went to three of her court hearings. hoping to hear her version of what happened.He never got the chance. The three hearings were short and lawyers did most of the talking. Prosecutors failed to notify Tanner about a fourth court appearance in March. where she pleaded to a lesser charge of reckless driving."I got left out. of Bradenton. "The prosecutor called me at home and apologized about it."The same thing has happened recently to about a dozen other victims of DUI crimes in Manatee and Sarasota counties. said members of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. MADD officials say prosecutors are cheating victims of their right to see justice by not following Florida's victim notification law."It's been happening a lot." said Denise Salerno-Jackson. president of the group's Manasota chapter. "It seems like in DUI cases it's starting to happen more and more."Leaders of MADD have complained to State Attorney Earl Moreland and have threatened to protest outside the courthouse if things don't change.Moreland said he wasn't familiar with the cases MADD was upset about. but added there's no excuse for not notifying victims."That was a mistake. they should have been notified." Moreland said.State law requires prosecutors to notify victims of judicial hearings and give them a chance to address the court.Cheryl Henrion. a victim's advocate for MADD in Pinellas County. said victims can't completely recover until the criminal part of the offender's case is behind them."Getting to speak at a sentencing is so very important to a victim because that's the only time they have had a chance to address the court about the pain the crime has caused them." Henrion said."Our criminal justice system is not set up to take away somebody's pain ... but it does give them a sense of justice."DUI victims in Manatee and Sarasota counties who did not get that opportunity include a Pennslyvania couple hit by a drunk driver during their stay in Sarasota for the winter. MADD advocates say. Prosecutors had told the couple they would call them immediately and pay to have them travel to speak at the offender's sentencing. said Christina Ammendola of MADD."They were still in Florida when sentencing happened and they were never notified." Ammendola said.Another victim was notified of an important hearing by U.S. Mail -- postmarked three days after the hearing occurred.Earl Varn. the chief of the state attorney's misdemeanor department. says prosecutors do their best. but can't always ensure that the notices get to every victim of every crime. So far this year. there have been more than 500 DUI arrests in Sarasota County alone.Court dates may change and court activity may happen without time to notify victims. For instance. a defendant wanting to plead to a charge can sometimes get a hearing in about three hours."There's times we just can't." Varn saidplaints such as MADD's are taken seriously and the state attorney's office will look at its notification system to make sure it working as well as it can. the MADD advocate in Pinellas County. said sometimes a change of plea will be totally unexpected. One time a hearing was set for a DUI defendant to get a new attorney.It surprised everyone when she instead told the judge she wanted to plead to the charge. Henrion said.Tanner. the Bradenton victim. said he feels like he missed out on something important."I just wanted to hear the truth." Tanner said. "I wanted to do whatever I could do ... And I didn't have a chance."
The longing to see my family. friends and boyfriend finally set in this weekend. but an impromptu drag show and fondue with a Brazilian family helped ward off any sadness which may have resulted from it.The lovely director Molly planned a get-together at our house for Friday; the guest list included any of her Brazilian friends who spoke English well enough to communicate with this (mostly) Portuguese-ignorant American. It was a 'normal' party at first. with a good deal of cheap beer and loud music. until Molly's gay friend Alexandre Cruz Souza decided to put on a drag show. He and Molly left the house to get the proper attire and. after Alexandre dressed himself in my room. a beautiful drag queen walked down the stairs toward the living room; the audience was a mixed bunch and included Alexandre's fellow gay men. a pregnant woman and her boyfriend and an Alaskan Portuguese-speaker named Calvin. The diverse crowd made it an even better experience. and I have to note that I never thought I would see my first drag show in Brazil.Saturday seemed as though it would turn out to be a dreary. rainy day at first. but Molly's father Dan received an invite for himself. Molly and the volunteers to a fondue dinner at a Brazilian family's home. Beef. bread and about six different sauces made up the main course. The sauces were something I had never experienced at the Melting Pot in Sarasota and included such flavors as mint. cherry and one sauce which was a mixture of ketchup. mustard and mayonnaise. The second course was chocolate fondue with fruit. including honeydew melon. and a fruit which I've seen in the supermarket here that looks like a underripe tomato. It is pronounced (I'll spell it phonetically. since I don't know how to spell it in Portuguese) 'cock-EE' and it is a sandy-texture. eternally-sweet fruit. I love it.In fact. I like it so much I am going to the supermarket to buy some right now. Maybe on the way back. I'll stop at the goods market near the house to buy gifts for my parents. Ciao!
A tropical storm watch is in effect for the Sarasota. Manatee and Charlotte counties. which could see 3 to 5 inches of rain. according to SNN News 6 Meterologist Justin Mosely.
TAMPA. the first named storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season. developed Sunday in the Gulf of Mexico and appeared likely to soak parts of Florida and Cuba with heavy rain. forecasters said.On Sunday afternoon. the storm had maximum sustained winds near 45 mph. up 10 mph from early in the morning. but was not likely to strengthen into a hurricane. according to the National Hurricane Center.Most of Florida's west coast is under a hurricane watch."The satellite presentation of the storm is not very impressive ... so not much additional strengthening is anticipated." said hurricane specialist Richard Pasch.Forecasters said up to 30 inches of rain could fall over the western half of Cuba. creating a threat of flash floods and mudslides. and 5 to 10 inches could fall over the Florida Keys and the state's Gulf Coast.The prospect of a wet storm without hurricane-force winds was welcomed by firefighters who have been battling wildfires for six weeks on Florida's east coast."A good soaking rain would do a lot to help stop the fires in our area. a spokeswoman for Volusia County Fire Services. "It has been a hard fire season. We've had several fires a week here."The storm's outer rainbands swept across Florida from Miami to the Tampa Bay area Sunday afternoon. said National Weather Service meteorologist Richard Rude.Patricia Haberland. whose back porch in St. Petersburg was flooded by 12 inches of rain in March. put a few valuables in plastic bins this weekend just to be on the safe side."Other than that. we're carrying on as usual. 52. "It doesn't look like it's going to have a major impact on our area."Though the storm was not expected to cross the Florida Keys. some tourists were not taking any chances in the low-lying island chain."I had a bunch of people check out this morning because of the massive tropical storm that was supposed to swamp the island." said Nikki LaMarca. front desk manager at Courtney's Place in Key West. "It's amazing. People are actually leaving."At 5 p.m. EDT. Alberto was centered about 375 miles west of Key West and about 400 miles south-southwest of Apalachicola. forecasters said.It was moving northwest at 7 mph but was expected to turn toward central or northern Florida. where it could make landfall early Tuesday. forecasters said.The tropical depression that produced Alberto formed Saturday. nine days after the official start of the hurricane season. in the northwest Caribbean. which can produce typically weak storms that follow a similar track this time of year. forecasters said."They can also meander in the Gulf for awhile. and we've seen some dissipate before reaching any land areas." Pasch said. "There is no guarantee (Alberto) will make landfall."Scientists predict the 2006 season could produce up to 16 named storms. six of them major hurricanes.Last year's hurricane season was the most destructive on record. Hurricane Katrina devastated Louisiana and Mississippi and was blamed for more than 1.570 deaths among Louisiana residents alone.The season was the busiest in 154 years of storm tracking. with records for the number of named storms (28) and hurricanes (15). Meteorologists used up their list of 21 proper names _ beginning with Arlene and ending with Wilma _ and had to use the Greek alphabet to name storms for the first time.Meteorologists have said the Atlantic is not as warm now as it was at this time in 2005. meaning potential storms would have less of the energy needed to develop into hurricanes.Last year. the first named storm of the season was Tropical Storm Arlene. which formed June 9. and made landfall just west of Pensacola in the Florida Panhandle _ the first of two tropical storms and four hurricanes to target Florida last year.The Atlantic hurricane season ends Nov. 30.Associated Press writer Jennifer Kay in Miami contributed to this report.
SARASOTA ' Nubiel "Bill" Perez leaned forward in his chair as he talked about his maintenance job at Renaissance condominiums. and why he believed he was fired.Housekeepers and maintenance workers at the upscale condominiums were forbidden from speaking Spanish in public areas because it made some of the residents uncomfortable. Perez said he and other Latino employees felt stifled and discriminated against."I believe in my heart I did everything to keep this building running and clean." Perez said.As he testified. members of the city's Human Relations Board scribbled notes and listened quietly. This was the first case the 3-year-old board had ever heard. and they wanted to get it right.Set up in 2003 to investigate and solve complaints of discrimination. the board has seen scant action. Only a dozen discrimination cases have been filed. and most of those were settled before the need for a hearing. City officials say the low number of cases means that the board is largely accomplishing its goal: to solve these cases before they end up in court. But even some of the board members wonder whether all the people who have been discriminated against are truly coming forward.Board member Manuel Chepote. worries that illegal immigrants are especially reluctant to complain."Maybe they don't come forward because they are afraid of their status. an insurance agent. Chepote added that the city does not ask any questions about legal status when a complaint is filed."We need to spread the word more." he said.About 12 complaints so farPerez's case was the the very first to be heard since the board was first set up in 2003. when the city passed a celebrated anti-discrimination ordinance modeled after similar rules in places like Tampa.The city prohibits discrimination in employment. housing and public accomodation. Those who use the system can claim discrimination based upon things like disability. race or sexual orientation. About 100 people have inquired about the ordinance. One man said he was fired from a local McDonald's because he was gay.A woman claimed discrimination after she was ejected from a singles dance for "unladylike behavior." A group for the hard of hearing complained that a local television station did not provide captioned information about hurricanesMany of the 100 inquiries have not qualified for consideration by the board because the alleged act of discrimination happened outside of city limits. In those cases. the complainants were referred to the the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Tampa. More than a dozen official complaints have been filed. and most have been resolved by conciliation and end up in confidential settlements."The purpose of the ordinance was to create an opportunity to air complaints." said Kurt Hoverter. Sarasota's director of human resources. "Conciliations have worked in virtually every case."Several citizens have been satisified with the board."It cuts out a lot of hassle with the courts." said George Richardson. who complained to the board that he was fired after filing a workers compensation claim. Richardson would not talk about the details of his settlement. but said coming to the human relations board meant "no more lost sleep and no more agitation."First hearing a tough onePerez. who is from Colombia. said he thought he had a good case when he brought forward his complaint about the Renaissance.Representing himself. Perez told the board that he worked hard during his five years at the Renaissance. He was sure that race played a part in his firing. which happened when a new condominium association board took over last year.Attorneys for the condominium association. painted him as a hothead who routinely berated coworkers and created a negative workplace environment.Before rendering its decision. the human relations board heard 10 hours of testimony. some of which hurt Perez's case.Spanish-speaking coworkers said they never felt discriminated against at the Renaissance. Some described Perez as a man who lost his temper and frequently spouted obscenities.The new condominium association president said he fired Perez because he stopped doing his job well. an opinion also voiced by another of Perez's bosses."The idea that this is related to race is disconcerting." said the association president. Brian Geery."I'm sorry that you feel that way." he told Perez. "I really am."It was Geery who explained the board's policy about requiring employees to refrain from speaking Spanish around residents. some of whom became uncomfortable because they thought the workers were talking about them.An attorney for the Renaissance argued that the policy "facilitated the comfort level of residents and the smooth functioning" of the building.At the end of the case a few weeks ago. the five-member board concluded that discrimination did not contribute to Perez's dismissal.But several members said they were disturbed by Renaissance's policy toward Spanish-speaking employees.Even Geery. the condominium association president. admitted that prohibiting Spanish may have been part of a misguided effort to comfort residents."In hindsight. was that a good thing to do?" he said.Slowly gaining steamBoard members also wonder how widespread it is for employers to prohibit Spanish.Chepote has heard of several such places.Lottie Swann-Crawford. the woman who helped found the board and now serves on it. said she thinks the board would be more effective if members had the power to investigate discrimination themselves. rather than simply waiting for complaints to be filed and then hearing from both sides.She and others are now trying to set up a similar board in Sarasota County government.B.J. Branson. a former city administrative specialist who handled the discrimination complaints. said the city has worked hard to make the city program visible. setting up a booth at the farmers market and making presentations at functions.Swamm-Crawford credits the low number of cases to a few things. One of those things is "apathy.""When people have been beaten down and discriminated against. they don't have the will to get up and do things." she said.She said Sarasota is a place that has largely segregated black and white communities.About six months ago. a man yelled racial slurs at her outside an Albertsons in Sarasota.She says black people who live here are still hesitant to shop and eat on Main Street. and that discrimination is "still well and living.""Of course it's going on." she said. "It's just a little more subtle than it used to be."
MIAMI (AP) -- Tropical Storm Alberto. the first named storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season. developed Sunday from a poorly organized tropical depression in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and appeared likely to carry heavy rain to Florida. forecasters said.By midday. the storm had maximum sustained wind near 45 mph. up 10 mph from early in the morning. the National Hurricane Center said.It was expected to continue growing but without developing into a hurricane."The satellite presentation of the storm is not very impressive. so not much additional strengthening is anticipated." said hurricane specialist Richard Pasch.At 11 a.m. EDT. Alberto was centered about 400 miles west of Key West and about 445 miles south-southwest of Apalachicola. forecasters said.It was moving northwest at about 9 mph but was expected to turn toward central or northern Florida. where it could make landfall early Tuesday. forecasters said.The tropical depression that produced Alberto formed Saturday. nine days after the official start of the hurricane season. in the northwest Caribbean. which can produce typically weak storms that follow a similar track this time of year. forecasters said."They can also meander in the Gulf for awhile. and we've seen some dissipate before reaching any land areas." Pasch said.Forecasters said up to 30 inches of rain could fall over the western half of Cuba. creating a threat of flash floods and mudslides. and up to 8 inches could fall over the Florida Keys and the state's Gulf Coast.Scientists predict the 2006 season could produce up to 16 named storms. six of them major hurricanes.Last year's hurricane season was the busiest and most destructive on record. Hurricane Katrina devastated Louisiana and Mississippi and was blamed for more than 1.570 deaths in Louisiana alone.The season was the busiest in 154 years of storm tracking. with records for the number of named storms (28) and hurricanes (15). Meteorologists used up their list of 21 proper names _ beginning with Arlene and ending with Wilma _ and had to use the Greek alphabet to name storms for the first time.This year. meteorologists have said the Atlantic is not as warm as it was at this time in 2005. meaning potential storms would have less of the energy needed to develop into hurricanes.Last year. the first named storm of the season was Tropical Storm Arlene. which formed June 9. and made landfall just west of Pensacola in the Florida Panhandle.
Heavy rainfall is headed our way tonight and tomorrow as Alberto gains winds speeds to a maximum of 45 mph. according to SNN News 6 Meteorologist Justin Mosely.
WASHINGTON -- A sun shines on Dan Yu's back. alongside a swimming koi fish. A tree soon may grow on his arm. "Your body's an empty canvas. so you almost want to continue to add to it. as he showed off his tattoos.A generation or two ago. Yu's tattoos - to say nothing of his pierced nose - probably would have placed him in a select company of soldiers. bikers and carnival workers. But no longer: The American University employee is among about 36 percent of Americans age 18 to 29 with at least one tattoo. according to a survey.The study. scheduled to appear Monday on the Web site of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. provides perhaps the most in-depth look at tattoos since their popularity exploded in the early 1990s.The results suggest that 24 percent of Americans between 18 and 50 are tattooed; that's almost one in four. Two surveys from 2003 suggested just 15 percent to 16 percent of U.S. adults had a tattoo."Really. the people who don't have them are becoming the unique ones." said Chris Keaton. a tattoo artist and president of the Baltimore Tattoo Museum.But body art is more than just tattoos.About one in seven people surveyed reported having a piercing anywhere other than in the soft lobe of the ear. according to the study. That total rises to nearly one in three for the 18-to-29 set. Just about half - 48 percent - in that age category had either a tattoo or piercing.Given their youth. that suggests the percentage of people with body art will continue to grow. said study co-author Dr. Anne Laumann. a Northwestern University dermatologist."They haven't had time to get their body piercing. They haven't had time to get their tattoo. They are just beginning to get into it and the number is already big." Laumann said.So why has body art become so popular?Laumann and others believe it allows people to broadcast to the world what they are all about. Others call it sign of rebellion or a rite of passage. The survey found nearly three-fourths of the pierced and nearly two-thirds of the tattooed made the leap before 24."It's a very easy way to express something that you think represents part of your identity - that you don't have to tell someone but you can just have seen." said Chelsea Farrell. an American University senior from Albany. N.Y. Farrell has a tattooed fish on each hip and a Celtic knot on the small of her back.The survey also found that what your mother may have told you about who has tattoos is true: People who drink. have been jailed or forgo religion are more likely to be tattooed.The same holds for piercings. though rates do not appear to vary with education. income or job category. In that sense. they appear to be "different animals. who has traditionally pierced ears but no tattoos.One obvious difference is that piercings can be easily removed. unlike tattoos."I guess I liked the way they looked and the rush of getting them pierced. as well as them not being permanent. I can take them out and the holes will close up." said Simah Waddell. of her pierced nose. belly button and ears.Waddell. who is entering her senior year at American University. said she suffered no side effects. other than the anger of her parents. The survey suggests that is not always the case for others with piercing. Nearly one in four reported medical problems. including skin infections. Among those with mouth or tongue piercings. an equal proportion reported chipped or broken teeth.For tattoos. 13 percent of respondents had problems with healing. Generally. the Food and Drug Administration receives few reports of complications from tattoos.The industry is regulated by state and local officials. and there is no such thing as an agency-approved tattoo pigment or ink. The FDA is considering more involvement. said Dr. Linda Katz. director of agency's Office of Cosmetics and Colors."If you look at the fact that a quarter of adults have a tattoo. it's amazing how safe the industry is. a Harvard Medical School dermatologist and tattoo removal expert. None of the survey respondents had ever had a tattoo removed. though 17 percent had considered it.Freedom-2 LLC. a Philadelphia company co-founded by Anderson. hopes to launch the first of two lines of not-so-permanent tattoo inks next year. though without FDA approval.To create the ink. pigments would be encapsulated in a polymer and the microcapsules injected into the skin. A tattoo would be permanent only as long as its wearer wanted it to be.It would only take a few pulses of a laser to break open the capsules and release the ink into the body to be safely absorbed. said Martin Schmieg. the company's president and chief executive officer.A second ink. would rely on the same technology. except the capsules would dissolve on their own. Depending on the version. the tattoos would naturally vanish after six months. 12 months or 24 months."It will be like wearing a tattoo like it's jewelry. where you will be able to take it off. It will just fade on its own." Schmieg said.The telephone survey on tattoos included 253 women and 247 men and was conducted in 2004. It has a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points.Associated Press writer Chhayal Parikh contributed to this report.
It looks like we may be in for some drought busting rainfall over the next few days.Tropical Depression One is moving northwest into the gulf. and even though the forecast from the National Hurricane Center has the center of the depression staying to our west. there is plenty of rain extending east of the system to bring us a potential of 3 to 5 inches of rain at least it moves by. The biggest threat to us from this system would be flooding. We are currently under a flood watch. and the chance for heavy rain through Tuesday is 70-90%.The depression is forecast to pass us to the west. but than recurve and make landfall comewhere near the big bend portion of the state.If this system continues to develop. it could (and is forecast to) bexome our first tropical storm of the 2006 season. If that happens. its name would be Alberto.-David Karnes
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1979 Miró Sculptures, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1979. Exhibition catalogue. 1983 Sculpture: A Sense of Place, Dallas Museum of Art, October 5 - December 31, 1983. 1987 A Century of Modern Sculpture: The Patsy and Raymond Nasher Collection, Dallas Museum of Art, April 5 - May 31, 1987; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 28, 1987 - January 3, 1988; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, April 4 - June 5, 1988; Forte Belvedere, Florence, Italy, July 8 - October 16, 1988; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, January 1 - March 31, 1989. Exhibition catalogue. 1996 A Century of Sculpture: The Nasher Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, October 26, 1996 - January 12, 1997; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, February 6 - June 1, 1997. Exhibition catalogue. 2003 Outdoor Garden Installation, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, October 20, 2003 - Indefinite. 2008 In Pursuit of the Masters: Stories from the Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection, Nasher Sculpture Center, September 20, 2008 - January 4, 2009. Exhibition pamphlet.
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Joan Miró rejected the constraints of traditional painting, creating works "conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness," as he once said. Widely considered one of the leading Surrealists, though never officially part of the group, Miró pioneered a wandering linear style of Automatism—a method of "random" drawing that attempted to express the inner workings of the human psyche. Miró used color and form in a symbolic rather than literal manner, his intricate compositions combining abstract elements with recurring motifs like birds, eyes, and the moon. "I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music," he said. While he prized artistic freedom, Miró revered art history, basing a series of works on the Dutch Baroque interiors of Hendrick Sorgh and Jan Steen. In turn, Miró has inspired many artists—significantly Arshile Gorky, whose bold linear abstractions proved a foundational influence on Abstract Expressionism.
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Discussion in 'Art, Media & Photography' started by Alimination, Jul 14, 2011.
...yeah I.. I kinda do this for a living.. to buy guitar gear.. LOL
Yeah, there's a lot more on my website if you guys think it's cool and all.
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Looks fucking cool.
Looks great, keep it up.
Thanks guys
thanks guys!
Wow dude! you kick ass! I love the picture with the tentacles performing surgery, it's rad. did you go to school for that 3d rendering?
Really good stuff man, particularly like the train!
The drawn hands are excellent. I always struggle with drawing hands
Outstanding art work. I have always loved to draw since childhood.
My first inspiration was about 3rd grade when my older brother had a series of Conan paper backs and Frank Frazetta art was on the covers.
To this day Frank's work is my favorite.
Here's Frank on what looks like an old Indian.
Oh and the guy in the first pic of your art work- They may have an ointment for that complexion problem of his. (insert smilie)
Hehe once again thank you guys!
Yeah I went to the Las Vegas Art Institute for Game Art and Design. I graduated last september.. I think.. and got me a job as an artists at a 3rd party slot game who makes the graphics for the slot machine/3D animations/graphic design.. etc..
oh and I struggled with hands too hehe, if you want help on that I would reccomend investing in the Gnomon videos on drawing hands! (also they help with 3D, graphics, animation, sculpting.. everything else if you don't wan't to go to school for it)
That's where I got my help from, and a lot of practice with live models as well! Not so much no more since I got a full time job now, and I play guitar. haha
Awesome work!
Me, too. All are good, but that one really.
Looking back to see what else I did back in the old college days XD
Here is a level I made in my level design class using the Unreal Editor
This one is REAL REAL REAL old probobly like the second character I've ever done. It's a remake of Freya from Final fantasy 9
Looking back.. I could do soo much better lol
Also just for laughs this was from my first 3D class. First model I've ever done.
lizards with boobs! GENIOUS. lol You do good work, I have a lot of respect for the graphic artists, I couldnt do it for the life of me!
Just decided to do this one for fun. Mostly just practicing lighting and materials in 3D studio Max. Didn't take a whole lot of time.
I did this one for fun last night..
Just my version of a Dingwall guitar. (not a fan of their guitar designs, but their basses are gorgeous!) So I photoshoped one around it.
(not sure if the scale is right or wrong, I based it off a sherman guitar)
^wicked man, just plain wicked.
Great work, you are really good. My favorite would have to be the snowy mountain range, the sense of scale and the vibrant green sprout just make it for me. Awesome, just awesome.


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As initially reported by Forbes, the new season of Game of Thrones will begin to air in 176 markets around the globe within a week of the U.S. premiere. A source within HBO who asked not to be identified confirmed the scheduling to TechHive.
International audiences often have to wait weeks or months for their favourite HBO shows to be broadcast by their local cable providers. That's why HBO's accelerated release rate isn't just for Game of Thrones, our source said, but for all of HBO's original programming.
HBO's accelerated international schedule comes after the second season of Game of Thrones earned the dubious honor of being the most pirated TV show in 2012. The medieval drama set in an imaginary world saw more than three million pirated downloads per episode in 2012, according to TorrentFreak. The premiere season was also one of the most pirated shows for 2011, TorrentFreak said, coming in second to the sixth season of Showtime's Dexter.
International audiences are a good place to start if HBO wants Game of Thrones to stay off the piracy charts in 2013. TorrentFreak reported in December that 80 percent of TV show pirates are outside of the United States, and our source confirmed that piracy for Game of Thrones is a bigger problem overseas than within the US But piracy isn't the only issue prompting the new release window, this person said; technology is also making it easier to transmit content around the world faster than in the days when everything shipped on physical media.
Show scheduling
Airing most of Game of Thrones within 24 hours would make far more sense for international audiences rather than waiting a week for each successive episode. Why wait seven days after all, when you can just download it in a few minutes and watch it right away for free? But when the download window closes to just one day or a few days, the lure of piracy may not be as attractive.
Pirates hoping to watch Game of Thrones still have to wait for a new episode to pop-up on The Pirate Bay or another BitTorrent tracking site. Since Game of Thrones airs on Sunday night in the US, international downloaders could be waiting until Monday morning or afternoon to get the show, depending on their time zone.
Since you've downloaded the new episode on a work day, you may not have time to watch it before your local cable provider airs it that night. Under those circumstances, waiting for the broadcast or recording it on your DVR makes more sense. But that's purely speculation – it's not clear if this is the schedule HBO's international partners will follow with Game of Thrones and other HBO shows.
By Ian Paul, TechHive.
Ian is an independent writer based in Tel Aviv, Israel. His current focus is on all things tech including mobile devices, desktop and laptop computers, software, social networks, Web apps, tech-related legislation and corporate tech news. Follow Ian on Twitter: @ianpaul


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1. Make Apache listen in any other port other than 80. Here I am making Apache to listen in port 8080. It can be done in two ways. Either editing the httpd.conf file or editing the Tweak settings in WHM
a) Editing httpd.conf file
# vi /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf
Locate the following line in /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf file and change the port from 80 to 8080
Listen 0.0.0.0:80
Once edited, the Apache config file for "Listen" should be as follows:
# grep -iw listen /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf
Listen 0.0.0.0:8080
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WHM > Tweak Settings > Apache non-SSL IP/port
Set the port to 8080 and save the settings.
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Download and install the varnish repository depending on your architecture. For CentOS 5 and Redhat5 use el5 whereas for CentOS 6 and Redhat6 use el6.
For me, it was el5.
# wget http://repo.varnish-cache.org/redhat/varnish-3.0/el5/noarch/varnish-release/varnish-release-3.0-1.noarch.rpm # rpm -Uvh varnish-release-3.0-1.noarch.rpm
3. Install Varnish
# yum install varnish
4. Edit the configuration file for varnish /etc/sysconfig/varnish and change the value of VARNISH_LISTEN_PORT to 80
# grep VARNISH_LISTEN_PORT /etc/sysconfig/varnish
5. Edit Varnish config: /etc/varnish/default.vcl . Correct the IP address in this file to your IP address and port to 80
backend default {
.host = "YOUR IP ADDRESS";
.port = "80";
6. Start Varnish service on your server
# chkconfig varnish on
# service varnish start
# service varnish start Starting Varnish Cache: [ OK ]
That's it!!
You can check this by using the netstat command.
#netstat -plan | grep :80
# netstat -plan | grep :80
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 15129/varnishd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8080 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 12897/httpd
Now, you can start monitor your Varnish with varnishstat
If you need to change your Varnish configuration file and you can test the configuration before restarting Varnish service by
# varnishd -C -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl
Note: While doing "yum install varnish" if you are getting libedit error, then follow the steps below:
varnish-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.x86_64 from varnish-3.0 has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: libedit.so.0()(64bit) is needed by package varnish-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.x86_64 (varnish-3.0)
Error: Missing Dependency: libedit.so.0()(64bit) is needed by package varnish-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.x86_64 (varnish-3.0)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
package-cleanup --dupes
rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
The program package-cleanup is found in the yum-utils package.
In this case, you need to install the libedit rpm which is suitable for your architecture. You can find the rpm from http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html
# wget ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/dag/RPMS/libedit-20090923-3.0_1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
# rpm -ivh libedit-20090923-3.0_1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
# rpm -ivh libedit-20090923-3.0_1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
warning: libedit-20090923-3.0_1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
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As I perused the publisher's rejection letter, I felt like I was in middle school gym class all over again, waiting for one of the team captains to call my name. The words "unable to place" and "good luck" stood out in crisp contrast to the white of the page. Although this wasn't the first time, nor would it be the last, I felt the need to crawl back into bed even though it was 3:30 in the afternoon.
One of my first writing teachers had prepared me for this. He once told me he'd considered using all of the rejection letters he'd received over the years as wallpaper for his office. His writing space. A twisted sort of motivation to keeping trying, and to submit only his best work.
As much as we try to prepare ourselves for rejection, it always stings. We make ourselves vulnerable, wrapping the essence of ourselves in words and then bravely put them on display for the entire world to see. And sometimes the world simply doesn't have the have the same connection with the words that we do.
We call out to God in prayer, asking him to bless our pursuits while telling ourselves that we really do desire his will and his timing, but when we receive the dreaded answer that we must wait, we hang our heads in despair. We don't like it. We tap our feet with restless uncertainty, trying our best to tame the fire that burns within us. Wondering how we can possibly handle another decline, another "no." But when He finally answers, we realize that his plan far exceeded anything our wildest dreams could've set in motion.
Our culture fervently screams "now is best," but God calls us to yield and rest.
"'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord. 'Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future.'" Jeremiah 29:11


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In a significant triumph for consumers, the medical community and food safety advocates, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will restrict the unprescribed use of the antibiotic drug Cephalosporin in livestock production.
The FDA will restrict antibiotic use in several types of livestock. (Photo Credit: Brian C. Frank, The New York Times)
Cephalosporin's overuse has been linked to the development of antibiotic-resistant strains of diarrhearal and strep throat infections. The FDA is banning off-label label uses of the drug, including using it in large doses to treat infections in cattle, or in the routine treatment of fertilized eggs.
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I wonder how can I add some effects when updating a collection
<li ng-repeat="item in items | filter:filterFunction">
items is a collection, 30 for example.
This list only shows items that verify the filterFunction. The scope is regulary updated.
It works, but it's a bit violent!
Adding transitions with jquery could be great (fade in and fade out).


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this music is from Mario, rofl
Simon, after the whole book catastrophe, is sitting alone in a house. The house belongs to a friend of his. He hid there to avoid the press, who would be very interested in him after the infamous police murder psychosis case. Looking at the old CD game cases, he recalls precious moments when he played them in the past. And so, after playing them again, with the memories now refreshed, he decides to write it in the one and only book that once had saved his life. I'm guessing, you know what happens next...
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Which one? The Metal Gear MSX one?
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Video: Navy Reserve Commander Returns Home, Surprises Son at School
(Updated at 4:25 p.m.) Jonathan Blyth, a commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve who spent the last nine months overseas, promised his son he'd be home by the time school let out.
Blyth made it home today (Tuesday), with one day to spare.
He arranged to surprise his son, David, just before class let out at Arlington Science Focus School. Staff led the second grader away from the room briefly, giving his dad some time to sneak in and wait for David to return.
"I was very shocked," David Blyth told ARLnow. "I was just expecting books."
Jonathan Blyth says seeing his son again after nearly a year apart "gives you a greater appreciation of the United States of America," particularly because this was his first deployment.
He was stationed at NATO's Resolute Support Headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan for the last seven months, so he finds himself appreciating even the little things like "the ability to walk and be outside."
"It's amazing to be back," Blyth said. "It's great to be back."
He brought with him a preserved scorpion — David's verdict: "It's creepy looking," but he still showed it off to his classmates — as well as a Washington Nationals baseball cap.
David will head back to school for his last day of class tomorrow (Wednesday), then the family will take off for a lengthy summer vacation.
"I promised him if he did well in school, he'd get a trip to Disney World," Jonathan Blyth said.
Letter to the Editor: Arlington Public Schools Turns Its Focus Away from Science
The following Letter to the Editor was written by former U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and his wife Rohini. The Chopras are Arlington residents and parents of Arlington Public Schools students.
While many Arlingtonians are mobilizing to protect much needed science investments in the wake of proposed Trump administration budget cuts, a more pressing local threat has emerged that needs our immediate attention: the June 1st Arlington School Board vote that, if passed, will unnecessarily weaken our best shot at helping lower-income kids succeed in science and, thus, prepare for the jobs and industries of the future. And it does so without adding a single new seat to handle APS-wide over-crowding challenges.
The School Board notes that the proposed changes to its enrollment and transfer policy are to "make it easier for families to understand the school options available." However, what the proposal actually does is arbitrarily change those options – re-classifying some schools to eliminate neighborhood access and others to eliminate choice or lottery access. How the Board re-classifies each school appears arbitrary with no published explanation, justification or criteria including whether it is a reflection on school quality, student demand, or any other factor.
Absent School Board transparency, a group of families have "crowd-sourced" as much publicly available data to piece together the net impact and the answer is bad news for families interested in boosting their child's performance in science, especially for lower-income families. Roughly 20% of Arlington Science Focus enrollment is via choice/lottery, a figure that falls to zero if this passes. Worse, by eliminating the neighborhood zone for Key Elementary, up to 240 students who could lose in the lottery, including native Spanish speakers, will be forced into an already overcrowded ASFS (runing today at 120% capacity).
Why should this matter? For a low-income family wishing for their child to succeed in science, here's the bad news: unless you live in the Key Zone neighborhood, you will not have access to ASFS, an award-winning school that delivers, for 93% of low income kids, proficiency or higher on the 5th grade science exam, a rate that places ASFS among top 5% of elementary schools statewide.
The School Board COULD have proposed to treat Key Elementary and ASFS similarly to allow that low-income family to apply for enrollment via lottery, but without justification as to why, they are poised to choose to limit access for ASFS while expanding it for Key.
More insidious is the risk to ASFS' impressive results. Despite a taxpayer-funded evaluation of APS science results in 2014, not a single publicly available evaluation explains why ASFS is so successful. A fellow Obama White House policy maker and neighbor, Ben Harris, notes that children benefit–or suffer–from being in a classroom with children at a different educational level as their own. Stanford economist Caroline Hoxby found that economically disadvantaged African-American and Hispanic children in Texas showed marked benefits from being in a classroom with kids who had higher test scores.
In other words, diversity matters. And this policy hits right at the diverse enrollment mix currently at ASFS. Coupled with its award-winning integrated curriculum that embeds science and discovery in all classroom instruction, ASFS results need further study before materially changing its composition, curriculum, or level of parental engagement on account of family choice.
I urge you to call, write, or show up to the June 1st School Board meeting and demand a return to evidence-based policy-making that we have so loudly called for at the federal level when attempting to fight back the Trump Administration's attacks on science, health, and the social safety net. Such a call will result in a call to expand access via choice/lottery slots to Arlington Science Focus. Anything less would be irresponsible.
(Update: APS just posted this FAQ which includes this depressing quote: "Ensure that no students who live outside of the current Science Focus/Key boundary zone are enrolling in Science Focus for the first time, beginning with the 2017-18 school year.").
ARLnow.com occasionally publishes thoughtful letters to the editor about issues of local interest. To submit a letter to the editor for consideration, please email it to [email protected]. Letters may be edited for content and brevity.
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"Six-Plex" Relocatable Classroom Complex Coming to Arlington Science Focus School
As Arlington Public Schools continues to grapple with ever-increasing enrollment, the school system is continuing to add relocatable classroom trailers to over-capacity schools.
Superintendent Dr. Patrick Murphy included $2.6 million in his proposed budget for the purchase of relocatable classrooms next school year. As the trailers are parked outside of schools, there is increasing concern about the loss of open, recreational space.
At Arlington Science Focus School, near Virginia Square, the PTA recently expressed concern that two additional relocatables, slated to be added next school year, would have to be placed on the school's blacktop — thus resulting in the loss of a recess and phys ed area. (Four relocatables are already placed on a field outside the school.)
The PTA, working with APS, came up with a solution already at place at some other schools: a "six-plex" modular school unit that houses six classrooms and a common space, not unlike this one. The consolidated unit would cut down on the amount of open space taken up.
There are already five "six-plexes" in Arlington: two at McKinley Elementary and one each at Claremont, Oakridge and Taylor elementary schools.
APS spokesman Frank Bellavia says the school system works with schools, parents and neighbors to figure out the best way to place relocatables at schools. But the need for the modular classrooms, he said, points to the need for APS to continue building new schools and school additions expeditiously.
"We work with school leadership and the neighboring community to find the best location for the relocatables," Bellavia said. "This is why we need more seats for more students."
After the jump: the letter from the Science Focus PTA to parents.
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Dear ASFS,
As many of you know, we will need at least one more classroom next year, if not two, to house the projected number of students at ASFS. As announced at last week's PTA meeting, Arlington Public Schools staff (APS) suggested placing two relocatables on our blacktop, in addition to the four we currently have on our greenspace. While this would meet our needs for classrooms, it would take up what is left of our children's playspace for recess and PE instruction.
Many of you contacted me after this announcement and expressed this was simply not reasonable for our kids. I received many creative solutions and am grateful for all the input. One solution that was discussed was replacing the four relocatables we currently have with a 6-Plex unit (one relocatable that houses 6 classrooms and a common space). APS considered our proposed solution and found that this was the best option for ASFS.
Thank you to all who shared their opinions with me, as well as those who showed up at a meeting on very short notice on a Friday night to let our school board know this is the best option. Thank you also to all those that offered to get in touch with school board members' to speak with them if necessary.
At this point, the 6-Plex unit has been approved by APS. If for some reason anything changes I will let everyone know but for now we look forward to receiving this 6-Plex unit this summer!
Brandi Bhojwani
ASFS PTA President
Morning Notes
Gas Leak Causes Evacuation in Clarendon — A Saturday gas leak forced the closing of Clarendon Blvd. near the Clarendon Metro station. Approximately 50 people evacuated six nearby buildings during the incident. Nobody was hurt. [Washington Post]
Proposal to Turn Basement into Classrooms — On Thursday, Arlington School Board members are expected to approve a $2 million project to turn basement crawl space into classrooms at Arlington Science Focus School. The project would end the need for the four relocatable classrooms on the school's property, as well as a planned fifth. [InsideNova]
No GOP Treasurer Candidate So Far — The Arlington County Republican Committee doesn't have any contenders so far to run in the special election for county treasurer. If no names are added by the August 15 deadline, Treasurer Carla de la Pava will be unopposed. [InsideNova]
Photos: Ashley Wagner Visits Arlington Science Focus ES
U.S. Olympic figure skater Ashley Wagner paid a visit to the children and faculty of Arlington Science Focus Elementary School this afternoon to campaign against underage drinking.
Wagner, sporting the bronze medal she won this year as part of the U.S. figure skating team, told the hundreds who gathered in the school's gymnasium that after she started training to become a figure skater when she was 5 years old, she vowed to do whatever it took to get to the Olympics.
"When you're an athlete, your body is a machine," she said. "You want the ultimate machine, so you want to take care of it. So I made a lot of important decisions. I ate my fruits and veggies, I drank a lot of water and, when the time came, I said no to underage drinking."
After the crowd of kids answered questions on the basic facts of underage drinking, they got a chance to ask questions of their own. One student asked how old the 22-year-old is –"someone should teach you not to ask a lady that," she gamely replied before answering question — and another asked how much her medal weighed, which led to Wagner giving the little boy her medal to hold.
"This medal stays in a sock," she said when asked where she keeps her hardware from Sochi, Russia. "I should probably find a better place for it."
In addition to students and faculty, attendees at the event included state Sen. Barbara Favola, Del. Patrick Hope and Ralph Blackman, president and CEO of the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibly.
Morning Notes
Ft. Myer Daycare Investigation Widens — What started as allegations of assault against two workers at a daycare center on Ft. Myer has widened into a worldwide probe of military child care hiring practices. At least 31 daycare staffers at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall have been suspended after investigators found "disqualifying factors in their records, including history of drug use and past allegations of assault." One official called it "a severe lapse in the background checks system." [Washington Post]
DoD Relaxes Security Standards for Some Buildings — A loosening of the Department of Defense's security standards for commercial office buildings may make it easier for the DoD to lease office space in Arlington (and elsewhere). Earlier this month, the Pentagon reversed a policy put in place in response to 9/11 that required that leased office space meet stringent anti-terrorism security standards, even for administrative offices within the DoD. [Washington Business Journal]
Marymount Seeking to Redevelop Ballston Property — Marymount University is pushing ahead with a plan to redevelop its 50-year-old "Blue Goose" building at the corner of N. Glebe Road and Fairfax Drive in Ballston. The university has proposed replacing the aging building with an office building and an apartment building. [Sun Gazette]
Science Focus Teacher Wins Recognition — "Arlington Science Focus School Principal Mary Begley was named Administrator of the Year by the Greater Washington Reading Council at its annual conference in Fairfax" on Wednesday, says a school press release. [Arlington Public Schools]
Flickr pool photo by Damiec
Stolen Pickup Truck Crashes into Park Fence
A pickup truck that was reported stolen crashed into a fence in front of Hayes Park on Wednesday evening.
The incident happened just before 5:45 p.m., when police received a call for a truck that had crashed into a fence and a utility pole on the 1500 block of N. Lincon Street. The crash happened in front of Hayes Park and across from Arlington Science Focus school, in the Virginia Square neighborhood. The driver of the truck ran off after the accident, police were told.
After a short investigation officers determined that the truck's owner had parked it with the keys still inside, and had just noticed that it was missing, according to police radio traffic. Police dogs were called in to try to track the suspect, but as of this morning there was no report of an arrest in the case.
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Arlington Teacher Named Va. Lottery "Super Teacher"
Elizabeth Abraham, a second grade teacher at Arlington Science Focus School, was the surprise recipient of a Virginia Lottery "Super Teacher" award at a school-wide assembly yesterday.
Students, faculty, PTA representatives, school board members, Superintendent Dr. Patrick Murphy, and Del. Patrick Hope — along with Abraham's husband and two children — were on hand when Abraham was told she was the first of eight teachers statewide who will receive the award this year.
Abraham will receive a $2,000 cash prize from the lottery, as well as $2,000 classroom supply credit.
"Beth's commitment to students of all levels is unmistakable," said Arlington Science Focus School PTA President Noah Simon. "Whether it is the differentiated guided reading groups she established or her firm yet supportive classroom management style, her students develop and keep the will to learn and excel."
Simon also noted that Abraham has been working beyond her contract hours to help an at-risk student "whose behavior has not only improved, but is serving as an example classmates can follow."
Funds raised by the Virginia Lottery provided more than $430 million last year for Virginia public schools, representing about 8 percent of state funding for public education.
Photo courtesy Frank Bellavia/Arlington Public Schools


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Vitamin A
The role of vitamin in the human body cannot be ignored. In fact, the immune system depends on these food supplements to make sure that a person is healthy and strong. However, when vitamin A is consumed excessively, things are bound to change. Many people confuse the fact that the body needs vitamins and that is why you are likely to come across people who consume excessive vitamins to keep their body healthy.
This is not the case. The body needs the right amount of vitamins but not excess. The right amount of vitamin A is normally stored in the liver. But the excess is deposited to other parts of the body. This leads to some factors such as nausea, headache and of course, loss of hair.
The other truth about factors that lead to hair loss is the presence of some elements such as manganese and iron in the diet. When one consumes foods with high concentration of these elements, they have higher chances of losing their hair.
Vitamin E
According to most clinical findings, Vitamin E has been found to cause hair loss. The paradox of this vitamin is that it is very useful for hair growth. Things only turn the other way round when it is consumed beyond the expected levels. This creates hair thinning. However, this can be prevented by consuming the right amount of vitamin E.
It is true that the body needs this vitamin to increase the growth of hair but it should not be consumed beyond the standard levels. The body only requires the optimum levels and when the consumption levels are excessive, it might not be ideal for proper health.
It is worth noting that all vitamins are very useful in the body. They help to propagate growth and development of bodily features. It is just a matter of consuming the right amount to make sure that the body gets the right supply.
The consumption level should not be excess. This turns out to be a little bit ironical simply because vitamins are known to help the immune system in tackling some infections. This is true. But the right amount is what the human body is looking for and not excessive supply of this element.
Vitamin B9
This vitamin is also helpful for the growth and development of human beings. Just like other vitamins, it should be regulated to make sure that it is introduced in the body at the right levels. This vitamin is commonly referred to as foliate. This means that some diets that have higher foliate levels should be avoided. If it becomes hard to avoid them, they should be regulated to get the right supply of vitamins but not excessive.
There are many options of treating hair loss. There are some natural and scientific methods that can be considered to prevent this condition. However, it is recommended that before you decide to seek for the right treatment, you should ensure that your condition is not corrected easily by taking vitamin supplements or improving the diet. This gives room for better diagnosis of the problem by a health expert.


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Adam Driver is going from "Girls" to a galaxy far, far away as a cast member for "Star Wars: Episode VII."
After tons of speculation, Lucasfilm and Disney announced Tuesday the cast for the upcoming "Star Wars" film, but not what characters the actors will play. Expect zero plot details to be revealed as well.


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Performer Series
- F-attachment trombone with open wrap for full, free-blowing sound.
- Lacquer finish with nickel-silver slide and handspun 8.5″ rose-brass bell for superior performance and resonant, warm sound.
- 0.525″ bore (TB780LF) for controlled, focused one, or 0.547″ bore (TB781LF for rich, free-blowing sound.
- Hand-lapped stainless steel rotor for dependable, durable service.
- Direct action ball-and-socket linkage for smooth transition to the F-side.
- Silver-soldered trigger base for supreme durability.
- Nickel-silver outer and chrome-plated inner slide tubes resist corrosion and provide durability.
- Includes mouthpiece and deluxe case.


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The Illinois Tollway will dispatch "zero weather patrols" tonight to help motorists who need help in the arctic cold.
The hourly patrols will search for stranded motorists and respond to calls made to *999, Illinois Tollway dispatch or Illinois State Police District 15. The Tollway says the most common problems encountered by the patrols are cars or trucks with empty fuel tanks, flat tires, batteries needing a boost, or overheated radiators.
There are a minimum of 11 such patrols, at least one from each maintenance garage section. They are launched when temperatures or wind chills drop below zero.


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Date of Award
Spring 1-1-2014
Document Type
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering
First Advisor
Li Shang
Second Advisor
Qin Lv
Third Advisor
Michael P. Hannigan
Fourth Advisor
Alan Mickelson
Fifth Advisor
Gary Phillis
Personal computing devices have gone through more than four decades of evolution. The form factor of computing devices has gone down dramatically, while computation workload for each computing device has increased significantly. Moreover, people spend much more time interacting with computing devices than before. In short, everyone has a pocket supercomputer.
Delivery of intelligent services today is only possible thanks to rich context information from wearable devices, an emerging personal computing platform. Power efficiency is one of the determinant factors for the adoption rate of wearable devices, as people expect it to work 24/7.
Most existing works often pay careful attention to the energy and processing cost from the component level and show significant power efficiency gain by utilizing device level power management. Even with an abundance of such work, power optimization on wearable devices remains as an open problem, and available solutions only manage to provide weeks of continuous user experience before a battery recharge. To this end, this dissertation systematically measures and quantifies power characteristics of a wearable computing system, then explores adaptive approaches to best balance power consumption and user experience. A methodological application agnostic, yet practical, power optimization framework built upon adaptive sensing and communication management, is proposed and tested in several research projects. On top of that, we propose Gazelle, a personalized running analysis wearable system. Gazelle has been tested in the real world on more than fifty users over a year. It provides one order of magnitude better battery life comparing to other commercialized wearable platforms. The methodology and proposed framework can be readily extended to other application dependent wearable computing platforms.
Recommended Citation
Li, Kun, "Low Power System Design for Emerging Pervasive Platforms" (2014). Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering Graduate Theses & Dissertations. 102.
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Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces Commons, Hardware Systems Commons, Software Engineering Commons


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Since 2015, Enduring Edge has been a required textbook for a Johns Hopkins University Masters degree course on "Leading Change in Biotechnology" taught to current and future healthcare leaders. Each year, the students engage in lively discussions, share their experiences honestly and deeply, and leave me feeling I learned more than I could teach. Some of their thoughts are below. —Amita
Additionally, in the "Training the 2D Mind," the Do or Die section (p. 136) was another section that resonated deeply with me, given my current work situation… This statement sums it up perfectly for me: "As we learn how to navigate with this compass for the mind, awareness shows us where we are, and perspective where we would like to be. Being positive and bringing focus into our thoughts and actions then guides us there." (p. 138) You book has brought me great perspective and because of this I am in a better place and better equipped to deal with not only what is currently going on at work, but also future challenges that I may face, so for that, thank you. (2016)


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With so many PlayStation 2 games in development, but so few actual original new games on deck, it seems funny to talk about the PS2 games sometimes. Luckily, several game companies have sunk some cash into developing brand new titles, like THQ and Volition. After their original RPG, Summoner launches with the PS2 on October 26, Volition will be cramming to complete the PC and PS2 version of Red Faction (in due in Q1 2001), a first-person shooter that takes place on Mars, and uses an interesting new technology that enables players to manipulate the game environment.
The lead character in Red Faction is a fellow named Parker, a young military volunteer who signed up for a mining team on Mars, of all things. This is the story of Parker, and how he decided to get involved with Ultor, the mining company on Mars, and Eos, the strange group that becomes a big part of life.
"I can't believe how stupid I was. Yeah, 'Come to Mars, Help Make a New World!' How could I have believed that crap? I remember laughing at that stuff with my friends. We'd drive up to Chicago and do the big city. We could always tell we were in the wrong parts of town when we started seeing prop-balloons floating over the streets, blaring out corporate BS. You'd hear incredible lies from the Army, Merc Corps, PDNC, Ultor -- all the big orgs that wanted to put warm bodies in bad places. You wondered who'd buy those lines and sign up. Now I know.
"Jake, you could see doing it. He signed up for the Navy right out of high school. He had no choice, really. When you barely make it out of HS and there aren't any jobs, you take what they offer you. He's on a Navy cruiser out in the Belt somewhere, last I heard. It's like the Wild West all over again, he says. Prospectors, claim-jumpers, company goon squads, you name it. Life's cheap out there and it's a seller's market. He'll end up sucking vacuum before his tour's over.
"I always thought I was different, better than most. Mom and Dad -- Dr. and Dr. Parker, if you please -- had my life all scoped out. Private schools, tutors, prep school, Ivy League for undergrad, then grad school and on to a glittering career in academia. They had me running their little maze. Lots of twists and turns, but only one way it could possibly end up. Who'd have thought their lab rats would be the only ones to reach the cheese?
"I just couldn't take it anymore. Never being able to separate what I really wanted from what they'd trained me to want. Not knowing where I began and they ended. No achievement was praiseworthy. When the acceptance letter from Harvard came, they took it like no big deal, just an expected turn in the maze. I went nuts. I ripped up the letter and stormed out of the house, hardly able to see straight. I wanted to do something that wasn't another item to mark off on their progress chart. Signing up for Ultor's mining operations on Mars sure fit that bill. I drove downtown, saw one of their recruiting offices, and it just clicked.
"It was like my brain was running on autopilot. I walked into the office and it all went so smooth and fast. The whole place was designed to ooze inside your head and let you know Mama Ultor was gonna take good care of you. Thick, neutral carpeting, bland, gently curving walls, soft lighting, a friendly helper to lead you through the whole process. If Hell opened a tourism office downtown, they'd do it just like that. Maybe they already have.
"I was still in a daze when they took me to the shuttle and strapped me into a shallow indentation in the floor. There were dozens of other new recruits in the passenger compartment, all cocooned into dents of their own. After the shuttle took off for Mars, I finally snapped out of it. When freefall hit, I unbuckled and dodged floating globules of vomit (people, I realized, don't properly chew their food) and made it to the door relatively unscathed. I opened it, but before I could step out of the room, the toughest-looking guy I'd ever seen filled the doorway and told me to get back in or he'd "rip me a new one." I stepped back inside and he slammed and locked the door.
"Landing was another bad omen. Strapped into our dents, watching the puke blobs float around, wondering how many of them were going to land on you, hoping they hit the people to either side of you instead. The sounds and smells of planetfall were beyond description. It was a good introduction to life in the mines.
"We were herded out of the ship and into the new arrival processing area. I've got to hand it to Ultor -- they let you know your place in the food chain right away. We were shoved into a tile-floored chamber, told to strip and then fire-hosed from sprayers in the walls and ceiling. People were flopping all over the floor. Once we were thoroughly soaked, stunned, and disinfected, they issued us uniforms. Mine didn't fit right; no one's did. Someone tried to return his and get a different size. He was beaten by security guards and dragged away to the infirmary. The rest of us just huddled a little smaller and went where they told us to.
"The barracks are a nightmare. Narrow bunks are stacked in dank rooms, trash litters the floor, graffiti covers the walls -- every horror story I'd ever heard of worker barracks has come to life. Turns out everyone shares a bunk with another miner. He sleeps while you work and you sleep while he works. The other eight hours, I guess the bed lice get a rest. It's pretty gross, but you get used to it. I don't even want to think about the trough urinals and communal showers.
"Drugs spread like mold in the barracks. It's hard not to give up in this place. Tossing in the towel and paying for a few hours of oblivion really appeals to some. Giving up's not for me, but lots of the people who arrived with me are already half brain-dead. Ultor's gotta know about it, maybe they even get a cut. Zombied-out workers don't complain as much, so I can see Ultor having a hand in it.
"The only good thing about the work is that it gets you out of the barracks. Those envirosuits are hot as hell to spend eight-hour shifts in, though. To make it extra nice, three workers share each suit, one per shift. The suit's sweaty, hot, and smelly when you climb into it, and it's worse when you climb out. They spray them down between shifts, but it doesn't do much good. Once you're down in the mines, it's pure grunt work. Smashing rock out of walls, trying to follow a vein of noachite when your faceplate's all fogged up from the humidity inside your suit, stupid bots ramming into you when they grab chunks of ore -- I'm surprised more miners don't go berserk during their shifts.
"I don't know why Ultor has human miners doing this. It's gotta be cheaper to have bots do it, and they certainly have enough bots. I've asked around, but no one knows. Most don't seem to want to think about it, maybe figuring they'd be out of jobs if Ultor decided to use bots. Or maybe they're just too zoned-out or discouraged to care. There's something soul-draining about doing a job that doesn't seem important. There's a cancer here, eating away at us, hollowing us out from the inside.
"Seems like everything that can go wrong around here does. Everyone's at the breaking point. Fights are erupting all the time. A guy got knifed yesterday in my barracks. The argument started over nothing, escalated into shouting and pushing, a blade came out, and then the guy bled to death right on the floor. The guards didn't even investigate. It seems to be happening a lot lately.
"We're scared and angry. It's not just the fights or the work or the living conditions. Something else is happening to us, beating us down. Miners are getting sick. Not flu-sick but something worse. Every day, dozens of miners collapse, in the mines and in the barracks, without warning. One minute they're fine, the next they're on the ground, writhing in pain or sometimes unconscious even before they hit the floor. And there's something wrong with their faces too. They seem...puffy or stretched. Some say that they've seen sick miners whose faces are bulging or pulsating. People call it the Plague. Everyone's on the verge of panic.
"Ultor denies there's any problem. First they said that it was just a stress response on the part of weaker individuals. When everyone got done laughing and then screaming about that one, they came up with a new rationale. They now claim that it's a Martian virus, infecting miners by some unknown means. That scared people; did Ultor think we'd be reassured to hear that there's something in the air that's killing us? There were riots in a few of the barracks after hearing that. Ultor claims they're doing everything they can to combat the virus. Their doctors and technicians are all over the barracks and even in some of the mines, giving everyone shots and pills. They say that their efforts are all that's keeping the virus from killing a lot more.
"Lately, there've been pamphlets slapped up on the barracks and cafeteria walls. They're calling for miners to go on strike against Ultor, to refuse to work. Some of the flyers even urge us to attack the guards, to get back at them for all the years of mistreatment. No one knows who writes them. The pamphlets are signed 'Eos.' Some say it's the name of a group; some say it's the name of a woman who's trying to stir up the miners.
"The security guards tear down the pamphlets as soon as they see them, but the damage has already been done. Dozens of people read them. In a few hours, hundreds of miners are talking about the latest pamphlet. People are grumbling, glaring at guards, and openly muttering about a strike or worse. It gets uglier every day.
"I don't know what to think or do. I just want to get out of here alive, somehow. Harvard sounds better all the time."


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Zoo Interchange project: Major traffic switch set for late December, early January
MILWAUKEE — A major traffic switch on westbound I-94 is scheduled to occur by late December 2016/early January 2017 as part of the Zoo Interchange project.
I-94 West traffic will be shifted onto new pavement between WIS 100 and Elm Grove Road as crews begin reconstruction of the current I-94 West lanes. With this traffic switch, the following changes will take place:
- The WIS 100 entrance ramp to I-94 West will be closed long-term through late fall 2017
- The WIS 100 entrance ramp to I-94 East will reopen
Please note that your GPS may not yet be up to date with the new freeway design, so watch directional signage closely. As always, plan ahead, allow for extra time, and watch directional signage closely.
**All work is weather dependent and subject to change


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FOOTBALL: Pontiac's Ja'Mar Antwine lands first offer from Central Michigan |
I didn't realize how much receiving a scholarship to play football at the next level meant to a lot of high school athletes, until I met Ja'Mar Antwine, and his father Jermaine. The two drove all the way from their home in Pontiac, Michigan, to downtown Detroit, to do a story with me, hoping for more exposure for Ja'Mar.
The younger Antwine had just finished up his sophomore year at Orchard Lake St.Mary's, but had eventually transferred back to his home school of Pontiac High. The Antwine's had been to every camp possible, just hoping to get his name out there more, but almost to no avail. He had little to no college interest still, and he and his dad where just eager to start getting him some.
"Anything you can do to help, we are grateful," his dad said at the time. "Because I know he can't keep getting looked over for long. He has 2 years left in high school, and by his senior year, they will definitely wonder why he hasn't been contacted."
Well now neither one has to worry anymore, as Central Michigan offered the 6-0, 175-pounder on yesterday. It had been a long time coming for Ja'Mar, but finally his patience has paid off.
"It feels like all of the pressure to succeed has been lifted off my shoulders," he said. "I really feel I am one of the top three defensive backs in the state, and hopefully this is just the start for everybody to recognize that."
Antwine had just camped at Central Michigan over the weekend, but didn't leave with an offer from them. Several other recruits did though, and Antwine thought it was because he didn't have the best performance he could have had.
"I thought I performed well at their camp," he said. "But still, my play wasn't up to my expectations."
Well Coach Dan Enos thought so, and was the one who informed Antwine that they would be offering him a college scholarship. The one thing he and his dad had put in work to get since he was playing little league football in Pontiac.
"He (Coach Enos) just told me they liked me, and he offered me a scholarship, and wanted me to talk to my family about it," Antwine said. "I had no idea it was going to happen, and it all came as a surprise."
Father's Day is just a couple of days away, and yes the Chippewas offered Ja'Mar the scholarship, but it definitely mess means just as much to his dad. Ja'Mar said it got tough on the both of them going to all of the football camps, and walking away empty-handed. But he owes it all to his dad for sacrificing so much for him.
"He has had a major impact on my life," Antwine said about his father. "I wouldn't be the player I am now if it wasn't for him. Also as far as my recruitment goes, he has gotten me to this point in it."
Of course Antwine said that Central Michigan is in the driver's seat to land him, being that they were the first to offer. The first offer is always the hardest, but after that, they always seem to roll in, as other schools scramble to catch up.
"It couldn't have came at a better time," said Antwine. "And now with Sound Mind Sound Body tomorrow, I can show why I deserved it."
Toledo, Southern Illinois, and a handful of Division 2 schools have shown interest in Antwine, so expect more offers to come his way. I Expect the Chippewas to have a big say-so in where he chooses to play his college ball, but for now he's still going to be patient, as he always has.
"I like their program, and the coaches seem to have the desire to win, and to get you to the next level," Antwine said. "The offer means a lot, but I am going to talk it over with my family, and go from there."


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On Sunday, June 22, 5pm ET, Community Cinema will bring you The New Black *LIVE* from Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC. Watch the The New Black online then stick around for a live panel event with Samantha Master (appears in The New Black), hip hop recording artist Tim'm West, with moderator Kimberley McLeod, founder and editor-in-chief of ELIXHER magazine. Co-presented with WHUT. This Community Cinema event is part of The New Black national Freedom Summer tour. Tune in at bit.ly/NewBlackChatDC.
The New Black tells the story of how the Black community is grappling with protections for LGBT people in light of the recent marriage equality gains and the fight over civil rights. OVEE is a social TV experience from Independent Television Service (ITVS) serving public media and other partners with free streaming video from PBS Video, YouTube, and Ustream. It connects audiences anytime to watch together and interact with content.
The New Black aired on PBS Sunday, June 15. In conjunction with the television premiere, TED posted out filmmaker Yoruba Richen's passionate talk from this year's conference in Vancouver. Check it out here.
Whether you caught the PBS premiere or you've been able to catch the film at a local community screening, don't miss this opportunity to interact with and pose questions to panelists at bit.ly/NewBlackChatDC.