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How to a Paint Still LifeWednesday, March 25th, 2009
Painting in layers with discrete stages (as seen above) is a powerful means to create realistic and expressive artwork. In this post I describe an example of the process with still life, although the methods are appropriate for any subject matter.
The black ink in the drawing above has a high contrast against the ground. Is this a good way to start what I hope will be a subtle still life? In fact it is, because I am going to use a layered technique. The high contrast of this image introduces an important theme in layered painting: make something strong contrast, then paint over it to make more subtle contrast. [On the panel, the bowl is five and a half inches wide (i.e., 14 cm).]
The underpainting above is thin, direct and colorful, working out the basic forms without worrying too much about details in one painting session. Though the painting is thin, the drawing is now barely visible. If I had not used dark ink in the drawing, it would have been hidden by even a thin layer of paint; by using dark ink, I could still see the drawn details as I painted over the drawing. Before painting, the first thing I did was to mix the colors on my palette, where I could find a good color harmony.
In underpainting, I generally aim for warmer colors than I want in the finished work. I also added a little extra linseed oil to the colors so that they were a bit more fluid than straight tube colors. I generally paint without turpentine.
Look at how I apply the paint in the background in the underpainting stage above. It looks very streaky, doesn't it? This is another example of making something high [or medium] contrast so that, after being covered by another layer or two, it will take on more subtle contrast. This streaky background pattern will later add a bit of texture to the painting, but it won't jump out as it does now. Paintings that have smooth, perfectly blended surfaces tend to lack breath, they become suffocating and hard.
Obviously, the underpainting (Stage 2) was dry before I painted over it. For the Stage 3, I use a bit of thickened linseed oil to make the paint more rich and rounded. I painted over the entire painting in one session, but quite thinly. The only thick parts are the highlights.
I'm accomplishing different things in Stage 3. On the one hand, I'm toning down some of the contrasts from Stage 2 (look at those streaks in the background, which can be seen in close-up in this post). But I also create some contrasts that are much stronger than I ultimately want to have (for example, the highlights on the fruit). The bowl and background are mostly finished at this stage.
In Stage 4 I finished the painting with a final overpainting. I painted sparingly, but the results were dramatic. On the lights of the mandarins, I put on a very thin layer of orange to mute the overly bright highlights from Stage 3 and unify the forms. I played with the leaves a bit, and I worked on the front side of the table. I made subtle changes elsewhere as well, for example toning down the light on the left side of the bowl. Finishing a painting takes time, but most of the time is spent just looking and thinking. The actually brushwork in Stage 4 was probably no more than five minutes.
People interested in art generally think that traditional oil painting involves many layers of transparent colored glazes. This isn't quite accurate. Yes, layering is involved, but rarely did artists of the past need to make many more layers than I use here. Also, much of layered painting involves painting translucently rather than transparently. I use transparent colors for the dark colorful shadows. But in many places, I use opaque colors (e.g., mixtures containing white) that are nonetheless translucent because I paint thinly. A bit of opaque color will prevent a transparent glaze from having too hard and glassy effect. Painting with only transparent colors in oil gives an unpleasant effect, I think.
Could I have done this painting with acrylics instead of oils? Perhaps, but I think it would have been more difficult. In another post I discuss the differences between the two types of paints with respect to painting in layers.

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After 2 hours camping twilight breach and the other twilight areas I found two, one uncommon and one common. Problem with seeing them, then they despawn. Not sure if it because of the cross realm stuff or because of the zoning. Either way it is horrible trying to camp these. My husband was with me and unable to see either one of them even though he was in the same zone and grouped with me.
Just started snowing in Storm peaks. Took me about ten tries before I got uncommon one. There were not that many to be found.I started having problems trying to pet battle. It kept telling me that failed to create pet battle. So I tried a differant zone. Same thing there.husband was having a problem on a diff server. I submitted bug report. Pretty crappy considering all the rares were up both Nordrassil and Storm Peaks. The time was 9:04 am server. I caught the fox around the snow blind hills.
I had this pet before MOP came out, now he is gone. Cry...What happened? Anyone else have that happen to them?
Noticed the comment that they are in the catacombs, yes they are there, but you cannot battle them since the Ghouls spawn so quickly. I tried to kill all the ghouls in the room and they just kept respawning. I was unable to battle any of the Devouring Maggots there. I have one uncommon, but it is still not counting toward the achivem. I did put in a bug report. Update:I did get one near Westg Keep and it completed the achiv. So if you already have one, catch another one and it will complete.


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I was recently playing with gcc 4.4.1 and trying to implement some simple code using the experimental support for std::thread in GCC. The only thing I found about support for it was passing -std=c++0x to g++ at compile time...which allows it to compile but even the simplest example segfaults when I go to create an instance of the thread class:
Now experience tells me that there must be some other lib to link (although I would hope that the compile would produce at least a warning here or something..) but not sure.Code:
int testThread()
int nRC = 0;
thread t(workFunc, "Foo", 10); // <<== segfaults here
return nRC;
There is nothing remarkable about workFunc() though I think the problem is happening before I get there. The call stack looks like this:
Anyhow, unlike everyone else posting here this is not a rush, nothing is "due" I was just curious and wanted to play with some of the new concurrency functionality...Code:
(gdb) where
#0 _dl_fixup (l=<value optimized out>, reloc_arg=<value optimized out>)
at dl-runtime.c:139
#1 0x00f31fc0 in _dl_runtime_resolve () at ../sysdeps/i386/dl-trampoline.S:37
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#3 0x0030b156 in thread<int (&)(std::string, int), char const (&) [4], int> (
this=0xbffff398, __f=@0x30ad43, __args#0=..., __args#1=@0xbffff394)
at /usr/include/c++/4.4/thread:133
#4 0x0030aed5 in testThread () at /home/jeff/dev/threadcpp/foo.cpp:27
#5 0x08048d38 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff4a4)
at /home/jeff/dev/threadcpp/foo_main.cpp:47
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April 6–12 was proclaimed "ASCAP I Create Music Week" in Los Angeles in recognition of seven days of instructional, networking and celebratory events for emerging and established songwriters, composers, music publishers and industry leaders. Launched during "ASCAP I Create Music Week" and extending into May, the 13th Annual ASCAP Foundation/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop gave aspiring musical theater writers a free opportunity to present excerpts from their original works-in-progress and receive feedback from a panel of prominent theater producers, directors and composers. Associated events included GRAMMY-winning composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz receiving his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the 25th Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards honoring Steve Miller and Lionel Richie. During her event opening remarks, ASCAP President and Chairman Marilyn Bergman gave a special welcome from the stage to GRAMMY U students in attendance.
In related news, Miller and Schwartz also participated in the week's ASCAP "I Create Music" Expo. At the educational conference dedicated to songwriting and composing, Schwartz moderated a roundtable on opera and musical theater and hosted a master session on creating music for the theater. Miller, Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora, and Jackson Browne were expo interviewees and the convention also featured panels, workshops, song critiquing, networking, and state-of-the-art technology and product demos. The Recording Academy presented an informative panel, "Promoting Your B(r)and: Online And Alternative Marketing," moderated by songwriter/composer and Pacific Northwest Executive Director Ben London. London and the panelists addressed ways that music creators can use online and alternative resources for career advancement through methods such as building an audience, promoting shows, and marketing and selling their music.
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The summit also offered software demonstrations from SunGard and third-party vendors. "We attended a technical overview of the SunGard Document Management Suite," said Michael Cathcart, web services manager for UTS. "The session was really in-depth, and the presenters were very willing to answer questions." SunGard's Document Management Suite provides services for administrative document imaging, storing, management, and reporting.
Birds of a Feather sessions gave participants a chance to meet with their counterparts from other institutions. Jennifer Burr, associate registrar at the Columbia campus, attended a session on registration and record systems. "People from registrar offices all over the country were able to discuss various issues they face, as well as lessons learned. It was an opportunity for us to share information and helpful tips."
One working lunch session brought together teams from colleges in South Carolina to discuss common approaches to administrative and technical issues. "I had a number of opportunities to talk to staff from other institutions," said Julia Bellon, associate registrar from the Columbia campus. "The information and advice I received was very helpful, especially about the difficulties and rewards of the implementation process."
SunGard Higher Education works with colleges and universities in over 40 countries, and has been chosen by the University of South Carolina for the Student Services phase of the OneCarolina project. To learn more about the University's partnership with SunGard HE, see the SunGard HE press release.


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Metsger Talks NCUA Budget: Video CUTs
New NCUA Board Member Rick Metsger says the agency's 2014 budget is fiscally wise and the new CUSO rule will introduce new efficiencies.
Nick Ballasy, Credit Union Times' Washington reporter, interviewed Metsger after the agency's November board meeting.
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HPS742 - Research Methods in Psychology C
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This unit is designed to extend the knowledge and skills in research methods that you have developed over the first three years of your undergraduate study of psychology. The general aim is to provide you with research and analytic skills that may prove useful for your own research projects, as well as in your career. The course is intended to give you both a conceptual understanding and practical experience in multivariate data analysis. The subject commences from data preparation, and will progress to more advanced statistical techniques. Laboratory classes will undertake weekly practical exercises using SPSS, and focusing upon the class topic of the week.
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Preface by the Prince of Wales
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"A Theory of Architecture demonstrates how mathematics and the social sciences offer keys to designing a humane architecture. In this brilliant tome Salingaros explains why many modern buildings are neither beautiful nor harmonious and, alternatively, how architects and patrons can employ scale, materials and mathematical logic to design structures which are exciting, nourishing, and visually delightful. Anyone who is interested in how architecture and culture are intimately linked should put this on their reading list."
"Salingaros focuses on the question of why, even in societies that often embrace the silly and the stupid, the public still mostly prefers traditional architechture."
"Architecture, Salingaros argues, is governed by universal and intuitively understood principles, which have been exemplified by all successful styles and in all civilizations that have left a record of themselves in their buildings. The solution is not to return to the classical styles…the solution is to return to first principles and build within their constraints…"
"A Theory of Architecture confronts difficult issues head on. Salingaros explores ways to clarify and formalize our understanding of aesthetic forms in the built environment, using mathematics, thermodynamics, Darwinism, complexity theory and cognitive sciences. He postulates that cross-cultural universals derived from scaling rules in nature govern human appreciation of architecture. . . . Salingaros' remarkable observations suggest that concepts of complexity and scale can someday provide a full-bodied explanation for both the practice and the appreciation of architecture."
"This recently-published text has already been adopted for courses in architecture schools. A fundamental text, among the most significant of the past several years."
"A Theory of Architecture is not a cook book. It does not tell architects how to compose a building in several easy steps. Rather, it gives architects permission to do what we would automatically do if we had not been taught the style rules and the worldview of the 'Modern Movement' and its successors… What a breakthrough! What a book!"
"In the future this work, along with Christopher Alexander's, will be standard texts for Architecture 101. This book has been handled with great care to help its readers understand the complex issues while at the same time making it accessible to the largest potential audience. It clearly articulates how we have arrived at a modern world tendency away from living structure and toward non-living structure. I feel fortunate to live in a time that I believe will be the beginning of a great sea change toward living structure and a more wholesome environment. I thank Dr. Salingaros for his efforts toward that movement"
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Pray for the people of Mali
Mali enjoyed two decades of democratic rule until the growing rebel insurgency led to a military coup in March 2012, leaving the former French colony with a weakened government. World Vision began working here in 1975 and is especially concerned for displaced children and families as fighting escalates in the north. Please join World Vision in prayer for the people of Mali.
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Humanitarian organizations estimate 5 million Malians — about one-third of the population — are affected by the conflict and resulting food shortages and inadequate nutrition. Militant rebels have controlled the north of the country since April of 2012, enforcing harsh punishments on people who resist their rule.
Lord, we pray that You will provide ways for food supplies to reach those most in need and that rebels' hearts would be turned against violence. Provide children the nourishment they need to grow up healthy and strong. We trust, Lord, in Your unfailing love.
Children are especially at risk for injury, displacement, and forced recruitment in rebel-held areas.
Lord, protect children from all harm and danger. "Rescue them from oppression and violence," according to Psalm 72:14. We trust, Lord, in Your unfailing love.
About 400,000 people have been displaced, and aid groups say the number could reach 700,000 if conditions worsen.
Lord, we weep today for Malians in trouble (Job 30:25), those who have left their homes and lost all they have as a result of violent activity. Guide them to places of safety and rest, where they can find help and the hope to start over. We trust, Lord, in Your unfailing love.
Fighting is expected to increase as military from France and other African nations seek to restore the peace and democratic governance.
Lord, You pronounced a blessing for peacemakers (Matthew 5:9). We pray today for all troops who are serving to bring about peace for the people of Mali. We ask You to help their efforts to succeed, so that communities may be restored. We trust, Lord, in Your unfailing love.
Humanitarian access and delivery of aid are being thwarted by rebel control.
Lord, we ask you to strengthen the bodies and minds of those who are seeking to do good for the people in Mali. Don't let them fall to weariness or discouragement (Galatians 6:9). Help World Vision's staff to be effective in their work. We trust, Lord, in Your unfailing love.
Be a part of World Vision's Hope Prayer Team and receive monthly emails of prayer points.
Your help is needed today to respond to the crisis in Mali. Nearly 5 million children and adults in Mali are at risk from escalating conflict in the country, in addition to a food crisis and inadequate nutrition. More than 400,000 people have already been forced to flee their homes, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the number is increasing rapidly.


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text: I agree with him and as far as I'm aware, so did many fans. I recall fans asking as far back as season 2, if Voyager would encounter the Borg because they were in their quad.? So yeah, if the viewers were asking for them and them being popular villains, I would think in the writers would feel obligated to write them in. Why wouldn't it be in the back of your mind that a ship(even just one), stuck in the DQ might encounter them? If you were one ship alone in the Beta Quad., you wouldn't expect to come across the Romulans?


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WTF??!?!? Et tu Brutae?
And I liked this guy!?!?!
Wait a sec.........I need to reach around and pull the knife outta my back!
Very disheartening. I really liked our banter.
Oh well, time to move on.
Jetswin, normally I would PM this, but I think this particular situation warrants a public comment.
Ban him for life!


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To ease pressure, Leyland addresses club
By Jason Beck / MLB.com
As All-Star first baseman Prince Fielder pointed out after Saturday's 2-0 loss to the Giants in Game 3 put them one loss away from a World Series sweep, "All that talk stuff's for Hoosiers and the movies."
Still, Leyland seemed prepared to make one small exception on Sunday afternoon, if only to pick up his players a bit. He sensed some frustration rising after a second 2-0 loss in as many games.
"I'm going to talk to the whole team a little bit about what they've done, what's in front of them," Leyland said. "It's not a pep talk. It's just like I said, guys are a little tough on themselves.
"There's nothing wrong with making an out. There's nothing wrong with striking out. That happens. That's been going on in the game for years. Don't beat yourself up. That's ridiculous. Guys do, but don't beat yourself up. That's not necessary."
Ninth-inning pitch breaks Infante's left hand
DETROIT -- The Tigers won't have to figure out how they would've gone on without Omar Infante. No sooner had they realized Infante had suffered a season-ending left hand injury than their season was over.
Infante suffered a non-displaced fracture of the fifth metacarpal and will spend the next four to six weeks with a cast on his left wrist and hand, but he was told he won't need surgery.
"It's the third time it happened," Infante said, "but it hit me in a different spot. I'll have to see the hand specialist tomorrow, and I'll have another [opinion]."
Infante had similar injuries before the 2008 season and in the middle of the 2009 season, both as a member of the Braves. Each of those injuries required surgery, the infielder said. Avoiding surgery this time would be a relief for Infante, especially if he can come back at full strength in Spring Training and keep his hold on the second-base job in Detroit.
Infante was one of the Tigers' few good hitters in the World Series, going 5-for-15, but he was stranded on the basepaths each time. He continued that in Game 4 with a leadoff single in the fifth inning, then stepped up in the ninth with two outs against Santiago Casilla.
With a 2-1 count, Infante caught a 94-mph fastball that rode in on his hands, leaving him little time to react. He knew immediately it was bad.
"The X-rays showed it's cracked," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "He was obviously in a lot of pain. Obviously when you get hit with one like that, plus the cold weather, that's a tough take. But he's got a long time to recuperate, obviously."
Leyland hopeful, but return not set in stone
DETROIT -- Tigers manager Jim Leyland said during this postseason that he wants to return next season. His boss, team president/general manager Dave Dombrowski, said last week that the Tigers want him back. And yet there's still no clarity over Leyland's managerial future.
The end of the Tigers' season on Sunday night with a World Series sweep at the hands of the Giants didn't help that, other than to start the timetable on a decision.
When asked if he expects to be back next season, Leyland was noncommittal.
"I don't really know that," Leyland said. "We're going to talk about some things in a day or so, and I'm sure they'll have some type of an announcement. But tonight's not the night for that."
The uncertainty could be a negotiating tactic for either side, or it could be a sign that there's something left to be addressed, whether it's the coaching staff or the terms of the deal.
Asked whether he wants to be back, Leyland paused.
"I like to manage, you know?" Leyland said. "Contrary to what some people think, I think I'm pretty good at it. A lot of people don't agree with that. I'm not the best, and I'm not the worst.
"I think that, since 2006, we've changed the culture around here. We've been in two World Series in the last seven years. That's not bad."
All that Leyland would commit to is that he won't be managing another team. If he doesn't return to the Tigers, he'll be done.
"I'm not looking, in any way, shape, or form, to go anyplace else," Leyland said. "This is my last stop."
Leyland is finishing up a one-year contract he signed last August. All year long, his chances at an extension seemingly hinged on his team winning another American League Central title.
The division title was taken care of four weeks ago. The contract situation still lingered.
Before Sunday's game, Leyland was asked about his relationship with Dombrowski. While his answer was positive, it still reinforced the uncertainty.
"I think we have a great relationship," Leyland said. "I don't think there's any question about that. We both have one thing in common: We want to win. I don't think there's anybody better at putting a team together than Dave Dombrowski, and hopefully he feels that I'm the guy to manage it."
Right forearm soreness sidelines Avila
DETROIT -- Tigers catcher Alex Avila was scratched from the starting lineup for Game 4 of the World Series on Sunday with what the team described as right forearm soreness.
Avila sustained the injury behind the plate in Game 1 when he took a foul tip off his arm, between his wrist and his elbow. He was able to play through it in Game 3 on Saturday night, but head athletic trainer Kevin Rand went into manager Jim Leyland's office Sunday afternoon and told him Avila probably wouldn't be able to go.
"It's on the bone, and it's pretty sore," Leyland said.
Gerald Laird, who has started against left-handed pitchers for most of the season while backing up Avila, will start in Avila's place.
At this point, Avila would be available in an emergency situation.
"I'd probably run him in there to catch if I had to," Leyland said. "But just as far as I know, the trainer told me just a little bit ago it's probably best not to go with him. Obviously, yesterday I talked to the trainer, felt like he was OK to go and OK to play."
Avila's bumps and bruises are well known in Detroit, given his reputation for taking a lot of foul tips off his body. He has dealt with knee issues in each of the last two seasons, spent time on the disabled list in June with a right hamstring strain, then missed a couple days in September with concussion-like symptoms sustained in a collision with Prince Fielder.
Avila was behind the plate in 22 of Game 4 starter Max Scherzer's 32 appearances this season, twice as many as Laird. Scherzer's strikeout-to-walk ratio was about double with Avila behind the plate, but his strikeout rate also wavered as the season progressed.
Leyland talks to Cabrera about media availability
DETROIT -- On Sunday, Miguel Cabrera cited family in town as the reason behind his much-chronicled exit from the Tigers clubhouse soon after Game 3 Saturday night, before the clubhouse was open to the media for interviews.
Shortly before that, manager Jim Leyland had a talk with his star slugger about availability to media before the Tigers took batting practice Sunday afternoon in preparation for Game 4.
The issue became a story in the wake of the Tigers' second straight shutout loss to the Giants, putting a lot of attention on a star-studded lineup. As the Triple Crown winner, Cabrera was the center of attention, along with Prince Fielder.
When reporters got to his clubhouse locker on Saturday night, Cabrera had already packed up and left. Fielder talked for several minutes.
It was the second time this postseason Cabrera has been scrutinized for media availability. He had an audible exchange in Spanish in the clubhouse in Oakland after Game 4 of the American League Division Series with Octavio Dotel, who told him he needed to reflect no sign of panic on the team after a 2-0 series lead had become a 2-2 tie.
For what it's worth, Cabrera was generally good about making himself available after most games during the regular season.
"I think you're not going to get the benefit of the doubt when you're on a national stage like this," Leyland said earlier Sunday, "and that's one thing that at some point I'll talk to him. But I'm also going to say this, and I'm not defending anything, I'm just making a point: As a manager you have to be careful. I will deal with the situation and check into it, because you have to be there through the good and the bad. You can't be on this podium only when you win. When we're 0-3, I've got to be up here and I'm not the happiest camper in the world. However, you have a responsibility.
"On the other side of that coin, families are here, mothers are here, young kids are here. I don't know that somebody might have been sick, I don't know that something wasn't right in the family, he had to get out."
Cabrera's wife and kids are in town for the World Series, as are his parents. They were with him Saturday before Game 3, when he was honored with the AL's Hank Aaron Award for the top offensive performer.
"I've got a lot of family here," Cabrera said Sunday during batting practice. "I [had] to go home."
Leyland sticks with lineup despite drought
DETROIT -- Even in the World Series, Tigers manager Jim Leyland is hearing it over lineups.
Back-to-back shutouts to the Giants raised the question of whether Leyland would shake up his batting order for Sunday night's Game 4, needing a win to prolong the World Series. He ended up sticking with the same lineup.
"I think everybody talks about the lineup," Leyland said. "That's a real big topic around Detroit most of the time. But when you say whether you're going to change the lineup, I'm not sure what people mean.
"Do they mean hit somebody in another position or do they mean put somebody else in? With all due respect to everybody, Danny Worth, [Ramon] Santiago or [Jhonny] Peralta, there are only so many changes you can make. Sometimes they pick out a player that's struggling and they don't want him to play, but I've never really figured out that lineup stuff too much."
Just six Major League teams used fewer lineups than the Tigers in terms of players this season, and 10 had fewer different batting orders than the 121 that Leyland filled out. Yet Leyland still heard criticism in the local media over the starts he gave to backup players to make sure his regulars remained well rested.
In this case, Leyland's loyalty to his regulars would be the debate.
"Our lineup is what it is," Leyland continued, "and we're playing in a World Series. I'm not afraid to make adjustments, but down three games to none, it's a little late for changing a lineup, I think."
Jason Beck is a reporter for MLB.com. Read Beck's Blog and follow him on Twitter @beckjason. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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TO SAVE A LIFE - THE MOVIE - On Blu-ray & DVD August 3, 2010
Starring: Randy Wayne (Jake), Robert Bailey (Roger), Deja Kreutzberg (Amy), Joshua Weigel (Chris), Kim Hidalgo (Andrea), Sean Michael Afable (Jonny), Bubba Lewis (Danny), Steven Crowder (Doug)
Screenplay By: Jim Britts
Directed By: Brian BaughProduced By:Jim Britts, Steve Foster, Nicole Franco, Scott Evans
Plot: To Save A Life is an indie movie about the real-life challenges of teens and the choices they face.
Ever since Jake Taylor was a kid, he was the type of guy you couldn't help but like. For Jake, life is good. He has a ton of friends, a basketball scholarship, a hot girlfriend and a really bright future. Not much to get down about, right?
Enter Roger Dawson. He was Jake's childhood best friend before Jake's growing popularity pushed him out. Tired of not fitting in and having a place to belong, Roger walks onto campus and, with a gun in his pocket and pain in his heart, makes a tragic move.
Jake is devastated by what Roger has done, and something in him changes. In seeking answers in his own life, one question plagues him the most: Could I have saved him? He finds himself deeply compelled to reach out to kids on the fringe – kids who aren't viewed as cool enough. But this decision among other things, threatens Jake's world. He may lose his friends, his scholarship and even his reputation by asking "What do I want my life to be about?"


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The USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg was used as a troop transport ship in World War II. When Japan surrendered, the Vandenberg was the first Navy ship to return to New York Harbor. The ship was then used to bring refugees from Europe and Australia to America, to track missiles for the Air Force, and for tracking rockets and space shuttle launches. On May 27, 2009, the Vandenberg underwent its final mission: to become the world's second-largest artificial coral reef. It took the ship less than two minutes to sink.
Strategically made holes in the Vandenberg's body, along with carefully placed explosives, allowed the 17,250-ton ship to find its place upright on the ocean floor between 10:20 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday. The Vandenberg now lies about 140 feet below the ocean's surface, seven miles south of Key West in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Although the ship sits over 100 feet deep, certain sections of it rest only 40 feet beneath the surface.
According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Website, the Vanderberg artificial coral reef "will contribute stable, long-term habitat for scores of marine fish species and provide exceptional diving and fishing opportunities for Florida residents and visitors."
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shared another encouraging project outcome, estimating that the reef will generate an annual increase of approximately $7.5 million in expenditures in Monroe County, which encompasses Key West.
The project also completes the Florida Keys Shipwreck Trail, which consists of an arrangement of purposely sunken vessels ranging from the area around Key Largo to the Vandenberg's new location, as reported by the Associated Press.
The Vandenberg was selected for this 13-year project over approximately 400 other decommissioned military vessels. According to Andy Newman, spokesman for the Florida Keys Tourism Council, the deciding factors included: "her topside structure, her smooth, interesting hull lines, big girth," and, referring to the Vandenberg's role in the 1999 motion picture "Virus," with Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin and Donald Sutherland, "her starring role in a motion picture."
Seventy percent of the project's $8.6 million in funding went toward ridding the vessel of contaminants, according to the Associated Press. This work, which occurred in two shipyards in Norfolk, Va., cost around 75,000 man-hours.
A number of the Vandenberg's veterans made up the crowd of approximately 300 boats that gathered to watch its sinking. One of them, Patrick Utecht, worked on the ship for more than 20 years. He said his reaction toward the Vandenberg's final mission was one of elation.
"I can say that many of us [crew members] were thrilled that where she was going, she would keep her name and place in history," said Utecht.
The Associated Press reported on another veteran, 64-year old Charles Patrick Sherlock, who served as a telemetry technician from 1976 to 78.
"It's kind of scary to think about, actually, we used to live on that ship, and see how quick it went under," he said. "I am planning to come back in a few weeks with a group of guys (fellow Vandenberg veterans) who could not be here today, so we can all dive it."
Divers were scheduled to evaluate the Vandenberg's structural stability on Wednesday. Upon the completion of these assessments, the new reef will be opened to the public, at which point Sherlock and any other interested divers can begin to explore.


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Lee residents curious about FBI investigation
LEE -- Two days after FBI agents carried out a search of the town's police department, Lee residents are left wondering what is prompting a federal law enforcement inquiry and the town's police chief to get a lawyer.
However, federal, state and local law enforcement agencies involved are refusing to detail the circumstances behind the search, what they were looking for and what, if anything, they seized.
"It sounds serious. No one wants to make a guess about this potentially serious allegation," said Lee resident Phil Smith, while sitting on a bench a few blocks from the Lee Police Department.
The FBI carried out a court-authorized search at the Lee Police Department on Monday and at an unspecified home in Pittsfield.
The FBI, which is leading the investigation and does not release details on ongoing investigations, stated no arrests have been made as of Wednesday afternoon.
Lee Police Chief Joseph Buffis, a 33-year veteran of Lee law enforcement, wouldn't comment on the investigation, but he did say he has retained an attorney. No one would say if the investigation is focusing specifically on Buffis.
On Wednesday, Buffis was not at work because of a scheduled day off.
About a dozen people walking along the town's center said they were aware of the FBI search as reported in the media, through Facebook or from word-of-mouth.
After hearing about the FBI search, Smith said he was curious enough where he checked media news outlets Tuesday night specifically trying to learn more about development.
"I hate to make a strong statement without know why, but it's something I want to know about," said Smith, who expressed a positive opinion about the department.
Frank Consolati, who runs a downtown insurance company, said that since Buffis took over the department last year, the police have taken a more visible presence in Lee.
He said that Buffis is a regular presence downtown, whereas "people never know who they were" before, said Consolati, who said the presence in the community is better than it has been for the last decade.
The FBI is working with Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the Berkshire District Attorney's Office, FBI Supervisor Mark Karangekis said. The DA's office confirmed Tuesday that state police attached to its office assisted in Monday's investigation, but an office representative would say nothing more.
If you'd like to leave a comment (or a tip or a question) about this story with the editors, please email us. We also welcome letters to the editor for publication; you can do that by filling out our letters form and submitting it to the newsroom.


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One of the first books I read this year was Drew Westen's The Political Brain, which I've found absolutely fascinating. Westen is a clinical psychologist and a supporter of the Democrats in the US, who had been progressively frustrated over a period of years by the party's inability to fight back against the Republican method of doing politics. In The Political Brain, he sets out to examine politics and political communications from a psychological perspective, and to propose ways in which Democrats can fight back.
Westen's main hypothesis (as reflected in the book's subtitle) is that emotion is a key component in successful political communication. One of the reasons Al Gore and John Kerry lost their elections was because they didn't connect emotionally with the American public while George W Bush did. Both men believed that they had the right answers to the questions that faced America, but they were too busy convincing the voters of that case intellectually to make the case emotionally. The Republicans, on the other hand, exploited emotional appeals – especially to fear – perfectly, and thus swung the elections their way.
However, Westen isn't arguing for Democrats to ape the Republicans in fear-mongering and demagoguery. What he does instead is look at significant academic research into how the brain works to explain why certain types of messaging are effective and others aren't. He doesn't argue that Democrat policy should change, merely the way that policy is communicated. The book was originally written in 2006, so there's very little mention of Obama in it, but the point is made effectively in looking at Bill Clinton. Because he could make a powerful emotional connection with voters either through TV or one-on-one, people felt an emotional connection to him they didn't feel to his opponents or rivals. (One thing I've heard in various accounts of people meeting Clinton is that no matter how trivial the encounter, he always gives the impression that listening to that person is the most important thing in the world to him at that moment)
One of Westen's principal arguments is that the core of any political communication has to be a narrative about the party and/or the candidate, and that while having a list of worthy policies is important, they need to fit into an overall framework. However, that doesn't mean that just any narrative will do. Westen sets out a set of rules for effective narratives that I think often get missed by people who appear to have read the book. A narrative can't just be 'we're for nice things and against nasty things' and it shouldn't designed to appeal to everyone. Any compelling narrative has the structure of a story, and that needs antagonists to work. For instance, Westen points out that the successful Republican narrative in the US relies on demonising a 'liberal elite' who want to stop the brave Republicans from making America great again. Westen argues – quite persuasively – that Democrats need to take the fight back to the Republicans, though that doesn't mean going in the same low vein as them.
In that spirit, he provides notable examples of what defeated Democrat candidates could (and should) have said in some famous circumstances. As he points out, the responses of candidates like Dukakis, Gore and Kerry to attacks on them were factually correct but didn't connect emotionally. This was originally written and published before the 2008 US election but one key to Obama's victory then and last year was that he was willing to take the fight to the Republicans.
Westen explains that our brains work by making networks of associations between people, concepts, images and ideas. Political communication needs to activate certain networks to be more effective, and the most effective way to activate networks is through the use of emotion. People are mostly making emotional judgements about candidates and parties based on what they perceive as their narrative long before they make ones based on specific policy points.
What's also important about the book is that Westen writes as an academic who's moved into politics, not as a political operative trying to justify his viewpoints and angle for more work. Usually, when he makes a point about the effectiveness or not of certain tactics and language, it's because there's evidence to back it up, and his wide knowledge of psychology means he can bring in studies that weren't explicitly political but have an important bearing on the subject.
I heartily recommend reading The Political Brain to anyone with an interest in politics and political campaigning (and buying it through the link above makes me a few pennies) but it's also prompted some thoughts on British politics in the light of it. It's clear that there are people in British politics who've read The Political Brain – and some of them have even understood it – but a lot of it hasn't broken into regular discussion yet.
I was going to take a look at some of Westen's points and how they relate to British politics in this post, but it's already getting quite long, and I think they're best put into a separate post to follow this before it turns into a book in itself.


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Apple Maps is a little confused about where Mildura is
Australian police are warning citizens and tourists not to use
Apple Maps in iOS 6
when traveling through the dangerous terrain of Mildura.
Police from the city of Mildura, which is a regional city in northwestern Victoria, Australia, are concerned that Apple's new homemade mapping service in iOS 6 is taking people to inaccurate (and dangerous) areas -- where they've become stranded.
The problem is that Apple Maps places Mildura in the middle of the Murray Sunset National Park, but in reality, Mildura is about 43 miles (or 70 km) from that location.
Not only is this a lengthy inconvenience, it's also a danger to the lives of motorists who were duped by Apple Maps. The area in Murray Sunset National Park, which it claims is Mildura, is a very hot and dry area that can reach temperatures of nearly 115 degrees Fahrenheit (or 46 degrees Celsius).
Mildura Police have already found stranded motorists who were lost out in the Murray Sunset National Park without food and water for as long as 24 hours.
Mildura Police have contacted Apple to fix the issue.
Earlier this year, Apple ditched Google Maps as its main iOS maps app in favor of its own in-house maps service. Apple Maps debuted with the iOS 6 launch, but the application failed miserably when it
came to navigation and geography
. It displayed locations that didn't exist, represented existing locations in an unrecognizable way or gave false directions.
This forced Apple CEO Tim Cook to have to apologize to customers for the company's poor job on the new app.
Shortly after,
Apple Vice President of iOS Software
Scott Forstall was booted
from the company. He oversaw much of the mapping development, and aside from that, failed to get along with other company executives and employees.
Richard Williamson, manager of the Apple mapping team, was fired as well for the horrible job on Apple's new maps service.
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