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First, let's look at the syntax for a bar chart as generated by the Chart Builder. These examples use the employee data.sav file shipped with the software.
- The GGRAPH command is a standard Statistics command and follows all the normal rules for syntax. Macro can be used with it.
- The GPL block contains the actual chart specifications as indicted by the GGRAPH GRAPHSPEC subcommand. As you can see, it looks different from traditional syntax, and it follows different rules. GPL syntax is explained in detail in the Help under the GPL topic. You can do many things with it, but using macro is not one of them.
- This syntax is completely specific to the specification for this chart. To change the title, say, would require manual editing of the GUIDE statement with text.title (or generating a new command with the Chart Builder). Not very good for production work.
If you can't use macro to generalize this, what can you do? I'll show you how to use Python programmability not only to replace macro but to build a library of chart definitions that can be shared among different syntax streams. First, lets see how we could parameterize the title of the chart. (Real problems will want to do more, but the idea is the same.) Here is the first version.
- The entire GGRAPH command and the GPL code are assigned to the variable cmd inside the BEGIN PROGRAM block. The text of the command is the same as before except for the title line. In that line, in place of the title, we have the notation
That means to insert the value of the variable thetitle there. It's just like macro substitution here except that it works! (I also added a COMMENT line to the GPL.) The substitution is triggered by the notation above, and the values to substitute come from the
% locals()
at the end.
- The value of thetitle is set at the top of the program block. The value is enclosed in triple quotes, so it could be multiple lines or text that contained quote characters.
- The last line of this program uses the spss.Submit function to run the command whose syntax is in cmd.
This mechanism requires that you install the Python Essentials available (for free) from this site.
So now we have solved the problem of generalizing the GPL, but having generalized this command, we might want to use it in other job streams. Duplicating the code is always a bad idea. Python lets us remove the code from the job stream and just refer to it. It's something like the Statistics INSERT command, but it is more flexible.
Here is the third version of the code where the GGRAPH and GPL code has been removed from the job stream.
- Now in the program code, we import a library named chartlib and then call a function in that library passing in the title. chartlib could contain many functions that define different sorts of charts (or do other things). Now improvements can be made once in chartlib and used by all the job streams that import it.
- The import statement did not say where to find chartlib. Python has an elaborate strategy for finding imported modules. Refer to the Python documentation for the full story, but for now, we will just put chartlib.py in the extensions subdirectory of the SPSS Statistics installation. Python will find it there.
By putting this code inside a function, we open the door to defining many functions in this same module and selecting the one we want in the Statistics syntax stream, passing in any desired parameters.
Summarizing, by parameterizing the GPL code and moving it into a function in our library module, we have generalized the code and made it easy to maintain and share across different job streams. Although this posting is motivated by the need to parameterize GPL, these techniques can be used with any Statistics code.
There is one more thing we could do to completely hide the Python code in the job stream. We could use the SPSSINC PROGRAM extension command to provide standard Statistics code for passing the parameters and invoking the relevant function. I'll leave that for another time, but you can get that extension command from this site and read about it in the module you download.


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"We have reviewed our entire pantry of foods and have divided our foods into three groups: gluten-free, should not contain gluten but has not yet been validated as gluten-free, and contains gluten."
"Our foods labeled as 'gluten-free' undergo rigorous ingredient and preparation review, along with testing to validate that claim. We start by reviewing the label and our recipe to determine which ones should not contain gluten, and then talk to our ingredient suppliers. Next, we review our preparation and cleaning steps. Finally, we test the food to make sure it contains less than 20 ppm (parts per million) gluten."
"Based upon scientific information, FDA draft guidelines and the World Health Organization Codex Alimentarius both consider a level of less than 20 ppm (parts per million) to be gluten-free. Our foods must meet this standard before carrying a gluten-free claim."
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"What are the foods that shouldn't contain gluten, but haven't yet been validated as gluten-free?
"Once we review the label, our recipe and the ingredient specifications to confirm that no gluten was added to a food, it falls into the "should not contain gluten" group. Foods that do not contain gluten but have not been validated as "gluten-free" may still be appropriate for those people with gluten sensitivities, but these products have not completed this rigorous review. Many of these foods are undergoing the final stages of our gluten-free validation, so continue to check our website for updates as more foods are added to the gluten-free list.
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The 2010 NAIA Third-Team All-American has sparked the No. 2 Eagles to a 24-match win streak, the second-longest active streak in the NAIA behind only Spring Hill's (Ala.) 29-straight victories. She spurred Concordia to a pair of wins over top-20 teams. Marino blasted 13 kills and tallied 13 digs in a 21-25, 25-17, 25-16, 29-27 triumph over 17th-ranked Point Loma Nazarene (Calif.) on Oct. 18. She followed that performance up with 25 kills and 20 digs in a 25-16, 25-14, 20-25, 26-28, 15-13 win over No. 14 Biola (Calif.) on Oct. 22. Concordia improved to 12-0 in the Golden State Athletic Conference, three games in front of both Azusa Pacific (Calif.) and Fresno Pacific (Calif.).
The 5-foot-11 junior from Mission Viejo, Calif., boasts a team-best 328 kills and her 238 digs rank second. Marino's 3.81 kills per set places her 24th in the NAIA. She is also 46th overall in total kills.
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Several leading experts on applied mathematics will be the featured speakers at the 11th annual Prairie Analysis Seminar at Kansas State University.
The conference, which is free and open to the public, starts at 12:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, and continues all day Saturday, Oct. 22, in 103 Cardwell Hall. It is sponsored by the mathematics departments at K-State and the University of Kansas. The meeting is supported by a grant by the National Science Foundation and by K-State's Isidore and Hilda Dressler Endowment for the Enrichment of Mathematics.
The seminar will feature two one-hour talks by Andrea Bertozzi, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Bertozzi is the director of the applied mathematics program at UCLA, and has received much attention for her work that has applications to such diverse topics as understanding urban crime distribution, cleaning oil up spills and robotics. Giving one-hour talks will be Thomas Laurent of the University of California, Riverside, and Dejan Slepcev of Carnegie Mellon University, both professors.
The talks of the three main speakers will focus on equations and mathematical models related to aggregation. These ideas explore how small-scale interactions lead to large-scale behavior, and are useful in studying population dynamics in biology.
In addition, about 20 shorter talks will be given by mathematicians from throughout the U.S. and Canada. Expected attendance is around 40-50 people.
Conference organizers Marianne Korten and Charles Moore, professors of mathematics at K-State, and Estela Gavosto and Rodolfo Torres, mathematics professors at KU, received a $48,985 grant from the National Science Foundation for the seminar series from 2009 through 2011. The conference alternates annually between K-State and KU.
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After eight years of perfume writing here in the on-line space, following my first works devoted to the Art of Perfumes, it's time to announce a change which has been in the air for a while. New perfume raw materials from all corners of the world were presented today in Paris at the Société Française des Parfumeurs. A very special day for those who know me closely.
My new official position doesn't allow me to publish too much about the perfumes launched under various names on the market. I have decided to permanently close this address. If there are texts you loved, you can save them the next days. After, they will not be accessible anymore on this address, excepting several introductory articles - around 10-20 from the myrrhiad of my texts. They will be put in a book with other many detailed texts I wrote when it will be possible, if I have time and a good secretary. There are more than 5000 articles written in the past 8 years in various languages and websites (about a thousand only about aesthetics, formulation and creation), for more than 1,7 million perfume lovers which speak only one language - the Perfume. You can still discover many things on various other websites & forums about the new launches. I will preserve the beautiful addresses on the right bar of this page.
We'll see each others very soon in a new Beautiful context. The round bottle you see on top is "Je reviens" in red (the original was cobalt blue, cca eighty years ago).
I wish you a fabulous summer in the Perfume universe. There are many magnificent surprises.
We'll see each others very soon in a new Beautiful context. The round bottle you see on top is "Je reviens" in red (the original was cobalt blue, cca eighty years ago).
I wish you a fabulous summer in the Perfume universe. There are many magnificent surprises.
I wish to thank all of you, my dear readers, for the kind and beautiful words you e-mailed me after the announcement I made yesterday. Hundreds of e-mails I hope to answer in private. It is not a goodbye message, but a new dawn in a new context - Beauty. It is not the critic, nor le discours which matter - but only the personal relation between the scent and the woman, an un-compromised beauty which is not changed by fashion or reformulation. The art of perfumes is a form of love - the Judgment of Pâris on Mount Ida. Hermès, a golden apple from the Garden of the Hesperides, which has the inscription "for the fairest one", Pâris, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite and the beautiful Helen.The Perfume, as wrote a beloved writer from La Sorbonne, has a mythical and divine dimension we could not neglect. It is the first form of ART.
There are several books written in the last decade that I recommend you as an introduction. Each of them represent something for me and each represent something for the new Renaissance of Perfume. First, there is Chandler Burr, who organized in 2012 the first American exhibition devoted to the 8th ART at MOD - New York. He published The Emperor of Scent and The Perfect Scent. The second book made Jean Claude Ellena famous and ensured the success of Hermès. Perfumes: The A-Z Guide by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez will guide you with the new genre which emerged in the last decade - perfume criticism. For the scientific background of the perfume, I recommend you the opus Scent and Chemistry the edition updated by the well known scientist Philip Kraft - he invented all the musks which adorn your skin in all products you use. If somebody loves your skin its because of a captive ingredient. There are also two literary novels which present the wonderful universe of perfume and its endless romances. The Perfume Lover which describes the birth of an artisan parfumeur and The Book of Lost Fragrances which presents the lost and re-discovered ancient book of formulae.
Among the modern perfume houses I presented on this blog, I wish to underline several which had a significant olfactory contribution to the new Renaissance of the perfume - Divine, Arquiste, Kilian, L'Artisan Parfumeur, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, Patricia de Nicolaï, Olfactive Studio, Francis Kurkdjian, plus a more personal choice Le Huitième ART, inspired by me and my writings. This new decade was undoubtedly dominated by the work of several great names: Alberto Morillas, who signed an impressive number of ultra original creations à Genève, Daniela Andrier and her work for Prada in Paris, Yann Vasnier with Rodrigo Flores Roux for Arquiste and Tom FORD in New York, Calice Becker for Kilian. It is, obviously, a very short list for 1300 new launches this year, but the very good start for the appreciation of the art of perfumes and its new Renaissance. I left several articles on this blog, among them my L'Heure Bleue, the key perfume I love so much. After the blue hour, a new dawn for Beauty.
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We have a great show this week, not only do we have Steve Martin, Jeff Greenberg and Chris Fenwick on the show to talk about the 2019 Creative Summit, we also have a ticket to give away as well. You must tune in!
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Today, Plugable announced its new NVMe external SSDs with Thunderbolt 3 connectivity and speed. It will be available in a 1 TB for US$299 and a 2 TB for US$499. The Plugable company targets the device for film producers and videographers. It uses the following key words to describe it: small, portable, and extremely fast. Yes, it is bus-powered. Ahead you'll find the press release and images, while I prepare a review.
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If you're reading this then you're probably an After Effects user, and if you're an After Effects user then you're probably working in a creative industry. And if you're creative – however loosely the term is applied – then there's a good chance you're not a huge fan of maths. This poses something of a problem, because Part 3 in this series on the history of After Effects and performance is all about numbers. Big numbers.
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Welcome to Episode 220! I'm speaking with the director of the new Doom: Annihilation feature film, as well as its leading actor Nina Bergman. This one will be a lot of fun! We talk all things Doom.
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Foundry has released Modo 13.2, the last of three linked updates to its modelling and animation software that will form this year's Modo 13 Series.
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In this article we take a look at several third-party plug-ins which we feel make excellent examples of how relevant AudioSuite plug-ins still are for both processing and workflow applications. It can be easy to overlook AudioSuite in some types of audio production as AAX inserted plug-ins, which process in real-time, often do most of the heavy lifting for us in the mix, but that wasn't always the case, especially in Pro Tools pre-version 11 which first introduced a 64-bit architecture for processing.
November 12, 2019, 2:50 pm
In visual effects, 'cloud rendering' has been a buzz term now for a couple of years. But what does it really mean, and what's involved in starting the process of rendering your project in the cloud?
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THX® Certification is a globally recognized assurance of a product's audio or visual fidelity. Products that are THX Certified must meet very strict performance tolerances, and endure hundreds of qualitative and functionality tests to ensure uncompromising audio and visual entertainment.
November 11, 2019, 1:42 pm
This week marks the release of Disney+'s Lady and the Tramp, a film that utilizes live action and CG animals – which talk.
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There's often something of a gap between the introduction of a new technique and the ready availability of the tools required to work with it. Other than stereo 3D, HDR is one of the best examples of this: it can require an entirely new transformation, monitoring and display chain. Within that requirement, we're also going to need converters between formats, controls to adjust the video, and ways to solve compatibility problems. These tools are the things which tend to trickle out of the factory gates only once we've identified the problems that need to be solved, and, sure enough, one such device is helping power the uptake of HDR across a range of productions from live television to narrative cinematic projects.
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My Best Friend Is a Vampire (Jimmy Huston, 1987)
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My Best Friend is a Vampire is one of my favorite "teenage transformation" movies. It's hard looking at Robert Sean Leonard on House without thinking of him in this movie. Thank you for reviewing it!ReplyDelete
Dude, I just used that wiki page on apartheid in class tonight. Coinkydinky.ReplyDelete
Dude, part two: I keep hearing Nu Shooz's "I Can't Wait" on some Powerade ad.
Robert Sean Leonard will always be the carpe diem kid from Dead Poets Society.
Awesome use of diacritics on your fake Turkish skiier.
Morgan: My pleasure.ReplyDelete
Karim Amir: I can't believe I found a way to connect My Best Friend Is a Vampire to apartheid.
I hope the Nu Shooz guys made some major coin for letting use their super-terrific song in their ad. The members of Parachute Club got jack and a whole lot of shit when a pizza company used "Rise Up" in one of their commercials a few years back.
Whenever I see or hear the expression "carpe diem," I immediately think of the song "Carpe Diem" by BiGod20, which samples Dead Poets Society.
Thanks. I love all things Turkish moment, especially pop culture circa 1985.
This was one of those films that I ended up seeing like 10 times in my pre-adolescence. Robert Sean Leonard drinking a cup of blood always stuck with me, though not as much David Warner. That and "Waxwork" pretty much cemented my early crush on that badass British actor.ReplyDelete
That Darla chick was hot. Overall, the movie lacks both conflict and chutzpah, and still rests in the shadow of Once Bitten. Also, this review reminds me of a song:ReplyDelete
You're were on Benson, you were on M.A.S.H./You're French, you're gay, and you suck
You were in Police Academy 5, now you're on Deep Space 9
You were in My Best Friend is a Vampire/ I wish you would fucking retire
"...rests in the shadow of Once Bitten."ReplyDelete
Well put, Bullstuff.
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Creamy Dairy-Free Chocolate Pudding
Enjoy this classic comfort food — dairy-free! This recipe uses unsweetened cocoa powder to give this chocolate pudding a mild chocolate flavor and smooth finish, so you may want to double the recipe.
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Chilling time: 2 hours
Yield: 4 servings
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups vanilla or plain soymilk (or your choice of nondairy milk)
2 tablespoons nondairy, trans-fat-free margarine
2 teaspoons vanilla
Combine the sugar, cornstarch, cocoa, and salt in a medium saucepan. Add the milk, stirring to dissolve the sugar mixture.
Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens and comes to a full boil (about 10 minutes). Boil and stir for another minute. Remove from the heat.
Stir in the margarine and vanilla. Pour into a single serving bowl or individual serving cups. Chill for 2 hours before serving.
Per serving: Calories 233 (from Fat 74); Fat 8g (Saturated 3g); Cholesterol 0mg; Sodium 255mg; Carbohydrate 38g (Dietary Fiber 2g); Protein 4g.


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Point Blank Enterprises and Protective Products Enterprises Highlight New Comprehensive Line of Body Armor Systems and Accessories at SHOT Show 2012
Companies build on integrated solutions and R&D strengths, to deliver industry-leading products that meet officers' critical performance, functional and comfort needs
Jan 17, 2012, 10:30 ET
POMPANO BEACH, Fla., SUNRISE, Fla. and LAS VEGAS, Jan. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Point Blank Enterprises ("PBE") and Protective Products Enterprises ("PPE"), both leaders in the field of advanced body armor and other protective solutions, today debuted their integrated suite of ballistic systems and accessory products at the world's premier Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show (SHOT Show 2012). The conference, which is organized annually by the National Shooting Sports Foundation and runs from January 17-20 at the Sands Expo Convention Center in Las Vegas, features the most comprehensive offerings yet for the Law Enforcement, Federal and Corrections marketplaces.
"We are especially excited to showcase the powerhouse of combined body armor solutions under our four key brands – Point Blank Body Armor, PACA Body Armor, Protective Products, and Paraclete. Our teams have come together to bring to market, the most advanced ballistic systems the industry has seen and I believe, the best is still yet to come," said Mark Smith, Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "We continue to focus on building out our nationwide distribution network and providing each partner, with the tools and resources they need to be successful. Furthermore, we remain committed to providing our customers – the end-users who wear our products – with not only the best life-saving solutions, but the support and service they have grown to depend on."
On display at booth #11386, will be a mix of the latest and greatest concealable and tactical offerings for the Law Enforcement, Corrections, Federal, and Special Operations markets. Among the full-featured solutions at the conference will be advanced ballistic armor packages that meet multi-international agency protocols; enhanced tactical systems for rapid assault missions; and 'special-threats' solutions -- all providing key capabilities that support officer demands for richer functionality, better fit and optimum comfort. Additionally, the Company will be showcasing its new female designs, which incorporate direct feedback from female offers across the country. Some highlights include:
- New Level IIA, II and IIIA ballistic armor packages from Point Blank, PACA, PPE and Paraclete which offer the lightest weight, most flexible and high-performing solutions, and are based on multiple domestic standards and testing requirements, including the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Standard-0101.06, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). The Company will also have a specific solution that is compliant with the international German SK-1 protocol. Multiple systems have also been developed to meet combined ballistic and stab protection mandates.
Featured: The latest Level II packages are exceptionally light weight at 0.67 pounds per square feet and offer an unparalleled thinness of .19 inches.
Featured: Our new Level IIIA packages have a v50 of over 2,000 feet per second and provide unmatched protection against both fragmentation projectiles and high velocity bullets.
- Female concealable carrier re-design from Point Blank and PACA features two distinct design options, specially engineered to answer the critical comfort needs of female officers while providing optimal protective coverage. The updated Smart Seama shelf construction design ergonomically supports the natural curvature of the female form. The Tru-Fit design provides a more contoured shape with a flexible structure. Each of these unique designs, accommodate different measurements according to the officer's needs and preference.
Similarly, PPE's Female Trilhouette Series incorporates a unique three-piece panel technology to provide a form-fitting front panel, resulting in a safe, reliable, and comfortable concealable vest.
- RAM-1 (Rapid Assault Mission) tactical armor system from Point Blank is ideally suited for response teams who require convenient load bearing capabilities combined with the flexibility to adapt to any rapid assault mission. Fully loaded with more custom features than any other tactical vest on the market, the RAM-1 offers extreme versatility in fit, extraordinary functionality and brute force protection for critical assignments.
- Point Blank's Leading and Redesigned Dragon Fire™ System – "Gen II" brings even more advanced options to this performance-driven, side-opening tactical armor system. Latest enhancements include a specially designed shoulder protection system, perfectly suited for breaching operations and additional plate pocket options for maximum protective coverage in the front, back, side and biceps.
- The Hornet from PPE is the law enforcement version of the U.S.M.C. Modular Tactical Vest (MTV) and provides full 360 degree load bearing capability in a 2-point emergency release system This ultra-modular vest is fully adjustable and can adapt to any tactical mission within seconds by adding collar, throat, bicep, groin and lower back protection.
Smith continued, "These are just some of the ballistic solutions and protective technologies that will be on display. Our whole sales team and many of our research and development executives will be on-hand for the show as this forum provides a tremendous opportunity to address the issues most important to our end-users and to garner their insights and feedback most critical to the advancement of our life-saving solutions."
For more information, please visit us at Booth #11386. You can also view our websites at:
- Point Blank Body Armor: www.pointblankbodyarmor.com
- PACA Body Armor: www.pacabodyarmor.com
- Protective Products Enterprises: www.body-armor.com
- Paraclete: www.paracletearmor.com
The SHOT Show is the largest, all-inclusive trade show for professionals involved with the shooting sports, hunting and law enforcement industries. It is the world's foremost exposition of combined firearms, ammunition, law enforcement, cutlery, outdoor apparel, optics and related products and services. Professionals from all 50 states and more than 100 countries are expected to be in attendance.
About Point Blank Enterprises
Point Blank Enterprises Inc., through its subsidiaries Point Blank Body Armor ("PBBA") and PACA Body Armor ("PACA"), manufacturers and markets protective technologies, such as bullet, fragmentation and stab resistant apparel, and related ballistic accessories. The Company's solutions are used domestically and internationally by military, law enforcement, security and corrections personnel, as well as by government agencies. Point Blank is a recognized market leader in the law enforcement community with a growing international platform. With state-of-the-art manufacturing and laboratory testing facilities, strategic technology and marketing alliances, and an ongoing commitment to drive innovation, Point Blank Solutions believes that it delivers the most advanced body armor solutions, quicker and better than anyone in the industry.
About Protective Products Enterprises
Protective Products Enterprises designs, manufactures and markets advanced products used to provide ballistics protection for personnel and vehicles in the military and law enforcement markets. Products include concealable soft body armor products for law enforcement and the Improved Modular Tactical Vest, a ballistic system for military personnel. The Company produces and sells body armor to several U.S. Armed Forces, Federal Agencies, local and state police forces.
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Dionne Manchester
GW Communications for PBE
Tel: 212-786-6068
Email: email@example.com
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After a man catcalled her on the street, Samantha Peterson B.A. '14 took to the stage of the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) to deliver a poem that might change the way Americans talk about fat bodies. The piece, "Dead Men Can't Catcall," earned her a Best of the Rest individual award and a story in the Huffington Post.
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Fear of Mideast Arms Race
As world powers negotiate on how to deal with Iran's continuing development of its nuclear program, concerns about a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, prompted by Iran's determination to build nuclear weapons, are mounting.
Officials from the United States, Russia, France, Britain, Germany and China participated in a conference call yesterday to discuss how to handle Iran's flaunting of international demands to cease nuclear work. These countries, while attempting to deter Iran from continued nuclear development by offering Tehran incentives to allow more oversight of its program, are also threatening sanctions if Tehran does not stop work toward producing weapons grade uranium.
Iran, which has faced sanctions from the United Nations three times, says it is developing its nuclear program for peaceful purposes and has refused to allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency access to its nuclear facilities. It is party to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, but repeatedly has been found non-compliant.
There is growing fear that Iran will not stop work toward a weapon unless drastic action is taken. Middle East experts said that if Iran continues on its current path, a nuclear arms race in the region could ensue.
''Turkey, Algeria, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia are all potential candidates to develop nuclear weapons," Abdulaziz Sager, chairman of the Gulf Research Center in Dubai, told Deutsche Welle. ''And they will say, if [nuclear weapon development] is permitted in Iran, why can't we develop weapons as well?''
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A nuclear-armed Iran is widely seen as a direct threat to Israel, as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has pledged to ''wipe Israel off the map.'' Israel has not ruled out preemptive strikes against suspected nuclear sites inside Iran if development continues.
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''The question is not whether Iran uses the bomb against other countries in the Middle East," Alani told Deutsche Welle. ''But the question is whether Iran has control of the region, and the political consequences of a dominant Iran.''
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Hawks (25-18) at Knicks (26-15)
The only real positives that could be taken out of the Knicks beating to the Sixers in Philly last night is that they have to have a short memory and bounce back today. The Knicks return home after a couple of Atlantic Division road games to take on the Hawks, who currently sit in sixth place in the East, two games behind the Knicks.
After a gutsy and much needed victory over the Celtics on Thursday night, the Knicks laid an egg in Philadelphia last night. They lost to the lowly Sixers 97-80 in a game where the 'Bockers seemed to be indifferent. It was the return of Raymond Felton to the lineup but that didn't spark much as the Knicks couldn't knock down any open shots. It was the first time we caught a glimpse of the Felton-Kidd-Shump-Melo-Chandler lineup, but it looked rusty as expected with Felton and Shumpert still working themselves back.
A bright spot from the game in Philly was Amar'e Stoudemire's play off the bench. After scoring 15 points against Brooklyn and then Boston, STAT dropped in 20 against the Sixers. Even though Melo outscored him as he poured in 25 points, Stoudemire was the Knicks lone bright spot offensively last night. His improvement from game to game, not only offensively but he has been been more aggressive on the glass and on defense, is something that is encouraging going forward for the Knicks.
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|December 10th, 2011, 07:19 PM
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Fleurs de lys arabesques in a rug
Hello to all,
Pierre, the field design of the rug represented fig.69 reminds me some architectural ornamention and tiles* forms and colors (*once again) we can find in the Alhambra Palace in Granada (Spain). The repetitive ornamentation in the field has some outlines evocating a repeated simplified "fleur de lys".
Unfortunately, I didn't find any picture of a similar rug, but there's no doubt this representation match perfectly with the "spanish" islamic/muslim taste of this period.
To illustate my thought, please, have a look at the following pictures taken in the Alhambra palace.
and also have a look at the follwing link for the typical colors and visual effect of the tiles on the Alhambra walls, in a similar maner than the rug illustrated fig.69:
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|December 11th, 2011, 09:50 AM
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Hi Yohann,
Interesting analogy, yes.
Similar arrangements of motifs can also be found in Roman and Byzantine mosaics, as in the following one ( Roman Villa in Almenara de Adaja, Valladolid, Spain).
Byzantine and Sassanid mosaics were famous and one could well imagine that rug weavers, whatever their ethnical origin, would be keen to imitate their patterns. This could have been particularly true for nomads, such as the successive waves of Arab and Turkish conquerors.
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|December 11th, 2011, 12:44 PM
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Hello Pierre,
"...mosaic tilework is considered by many to be typical of Islamic or Arabic geometry. Its scale and the degree of accuracy found in shaping and cutting the tiles differs considerably with region and time. Found all around the Mediterranean basin from Moorish work in the west, to Syrian and Turkish work in the east and Egyptian work in the south, there is also tilework to be found in Persia, Iraq and the Indian sub-continent. As the geometry that underlies these patterns is universal, it is sometimes difficult to determine where an individual design might come from..." picked from: http://catnaps.org/islamic/geometry.html
I'm not an expert of "islamic" tiles, but like in a rug attribution process I'm refering to the palette and design of this rug representation (fig.69) to build my hypothesis.
Please, have a look on the web with a picture search engine and you will quickly see the particularism of the western "islamic" tiles decoration ("spanish") compared to some others. I think the range of colors is similar in this area: orange, yellow, blue, green, white, and black, whereas most of the other "islamic" tiles have a tighter range: white, blue and black in most of the cases.
In your example the palette is tight and looks like it results directly from clay (no addition of pigment?)...
Of course "it's just an uneducated guess"!
|December 12th, 2011, 08:40 AM
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Hi Yohann,
I do of course fully agree with you that tiles and mosaics were a very important art form of the Islamic civilization, and a very colorful one too. At least from the eight- or ninth century onward.
And, yes my Roman example of fish scale mosaic features rather dull colors, probably made, as you suggest, with natural clays and no glazing.
It was the motif analogy with the rug which seamed interesting to me.
My remark about the Sassanid- and Byzantine civilizations was merely making the point that they were the most likely «teachers» of the various technologies involved in tiles and mosaics and, perhaps, of some motifs as well, since I doubt that the Arab conquerors had any notion of these technologies when they sallied out of their barren peninsula. Nor, later, the Turco-Mongols waves.
Typically most of these conquerors had a policy of sparing the life of good artisans, even when their first attempts at Architecture were to build merry pyramids of severed heads in front of fallen cities. Centuries later Genghis Khan and even Timur religiously kept respecting both traditions.
To cite Wikipedia:
«... Artistically, the Sassanid period witnessed some of the highest achievements of Persian civilization. Much of what later became known as Muslim culture, including architecture and writing, was originally drawn from Persian culture...»
As the Roman / Byzantine learned the hard way, the Sassanid were a technologically advanced civilization.
IMHO, the Islamic civilization was the true heir and a brilliant development of the Sassanid one.
Now for the other probable «teachers» of glass making, tile glazing and mosaics ( perhaps of some motifs as well), one can have an idea of the Byzantine mastery of the technology and colors, giving a look for example to this twelfth century mosaic of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. For this technology their other creative heir was Venice.
|December 15th, 2011, 10:53 AM
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Hi Yohann,
There is perhaps a clue pointing at a western-, more precisely Spanish origin of this strange rug. A hypothesis which would contradict neither an Islamic- nor a western influence.
Note the border of «stars» on a red background: There are a few paintings featuring a very similar border, where the painter's nationality and / or other motifs of the rug make a Spanish origin of the rug quite credible.
In particular the Spaniard J. Huguet (mid fifteenth century) used at least three different studio props, all featuring a star border on red background.
Fig 1: J. Huguet. Virgin and Child. Rug with «Cockerel motif». 1445. MNAC Barcelona.
Fig 2 and Fig 3: J. Huguet. Martyrdom of St Vincent. 1455-1460. MNAC Barcelona.
In a more recent painting (1615) by W. Larkin (already shown in a previous essay), we can notice in the background a rug featuring both a «star» main border and the undulating motif which, according to Onno Ydema, is an indication of gothic influence.
FIG 4: W. Larkin. Lady Dorothy Cary. Detail. 1615. Kenwood House.
Star borders, are apparently extremely rare in extant fourteenth to sixteenth century Anatolian rugs. Surprisingly so, given the frequency of all kind of star motifs in their field. The only other case of frequent use of «star borders» I am aware of, are nineteenth century Caucasian Tchelaberd and Chondsoresk rugs.
Sure this does not amount to a proof of the Spanish / Al Andalus origin of this puzzling «fish scale» or «palmette tile» rug, but it makes do, perhaps, for a credible theory.
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With New Orleans in ruins and the city's AIDS workers scattered throughout the region -- some of them living in shelters alongside the very people they normally help -- the picture of HIV/AIDS care in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina is still foggy at best.
Until the morning of Aug. 29, New Orleans was the center for HIV care in Louisiana with many of the state's 15,000 HIV-positive residents. The city had the highest number of newly diagnosed cases and the second-highest HIV/AIDS case rate in the state, below only the Baton Rouge area. It's no surprise, then, that the city served as the headquarters for the Louisiana state HIV/AIDS program, or that it was the primary setting for HIV research in Louisiana.
But as New Orleans found itself transformed, in the course of one week, from bustling city to ghost town, the city's HIV-positive people were suddenly scattered to the winds, along with its vital core of HIV services.
Relocated to Houston, but Still Helping
One of the HIV care providers displaced by Hurricane Katrina is Noel Twilbeck, the executive director of the largest AIDS organization in the city, the New Orleans AIDS Task Force.
Before the hurricane struck, the New Orleans AIDS Task Force fielded calls to the state's AIDS hotline and in 2004 helped more than 700 individuals with primary medical care, medication assistance, housing, transportation, mental health treatment, substance abuse treatment and other needs. It also provided robust HIV prevention services, HIV testing services and food delivery services. Now, there is nothing.
Twilbeck himself has fled to Houston, Texas, where he's been given office space in the Montrose Clinic, a Houston HIV medical facility that has begun stepping up its efforts to reach out to displaced HIV-positive people in the area.
"The immediate need is identifying individuals and giving care," Twilbeck said during a cell phone conversation while on his way back to New Orleans to survey the damage to his house. He has heard from some of his New Orleans staff members through a link he placed on his Web site and through calls to his cell phone. Some say they have run into clients in some of the shelters throughout the region where they are being housed.
Twilbeck is gratified that so many of the AIDS agencies in the southern United States have stepped up to the challenge of assisting a sudden rush of people in need. Baton Rouge alone, he said, has three HIV/AIDS agencies trying to pool their resources in order to provide services. He has stayed in close touch with many of the Louisiana AIDS organizations trying to provide services to the evacuees.
"We are trying to identify [HIV-positive clients] and see what we can do [for them] in the future, if we can ever open our doors again," Twilbeck says. "My focus is: What are the next steps? There is no precedent for what happened to the infrastructure."
In addition to his efforts on the ground, Twilbeck is also trying to keep his Web site updated with information, just in case some people with HIV can benefit from it. "No one knows where things are, but the communities are rallying together to help," he explains. "Everyone has to wait in line ... but it seems like there are people there to help. At least that's what we know now."
The biggest problem for AIDS workers in areas where evacuees have ended up has been identifying the widely dispersed community of HIV-positive people. "One of the problems with helping people with HIV who have evacuated the hurricane areas is that few identify as HIV positive," says Claude Martin, executive director of Acadiana C.A.R.E.S, in Lafayette, La., a small city of about 180,000 40 miles to the west of Baton Rouge.
Lafayette was largely spared from the direct impact of the hurricane, but is now one of the many cities that have become a new home for people who lived in Katrina's path.
Martin acknowledges that disclosure is a particularly big issue in rural areas and in the southern United States. Sharing housing facilities with a large number of strangers, particularly in shelters where there is little to no privacy, makes the prospect of disclosing even less appealing. Many people with HIV fear how those in the next bed will react, Martin says. To be safe, many people may avoid disclosing to the medical staff at their shelter.
But Martin is undaunted. The need to identify people with HIV and give them access to specialized care is too great to ignore, he says. He has temporarily hired four HIV case managers -- all New Orleans evacuees. They will be helping with a variety of things, including visiting local shelters in the hope that they will be able to recognize New Orleans clients and share with them information about the extensive HIV care available.
Martin says that his staff have so far managed to identify and house 30 HIV-positive people and their families who were found at the shelters. It is important to move HIV-positive people out of the shelters being used to house hurricane evacuees, Martin says. This is particularly true for people with a low CD4 count.
"People with compromised immune systems shouldn't be in these large facilities with lots of sick people," Martin says. His organization, Acadiana C.A.R.E.S., owns a 7,000 square-foot residential facility in Lafayette. So many people were in need of housing that they turned a large conference room in the facility into a dorm.
Outside of Acadiana C.A.R.E.S.' facility, however, housing in the Lafayette area has been increasingly hard to come by. Although Martin's organization has funding on hand to pay for permanent housing for people with HIV, he says that they can't find any apartments -- in the last week, the available housing has disappeared, just as it has throughout the area as evacuees from the coast have migrated north. (Baton Rouge, which is closer to New Orleans, has seen an influx of 200,000 or more people that has also caused a major housing crunch.)
Martin says that most of the HIV-positive evacuees he has talked to have gone without their HIV meds for days. Some people, he says, left their homes in a panic without their meds; once they arrived in Lafayette, it took several days for Martin's organization to get them their meds, particularly if they didn't know all the names of all the meds in their regimens. Even those who brought their HIV meds with them encountered problems. Some of their meds required refrigeration, but evacuees had no such luxury; instead, they stopped taking that med and eventually, perhaps because they realized it was not a good thing to take only part of their regimen, they stopped all of the meds. Which actually is a good thing, since taking only one or two meds in a three-drug regimen risks the creation of HIV drug resistance.
An Unforeseen Problem: Access to Meds Is Harder Outside New Orleans
Unexpectedly, the massive displacement of people caused by Katrina has brought to light a fact that normally goes unnoticed by most people with HIV: federal AIDS funds tend to be doled out mainly to the cities hardest hit by the epidemic, leaving the rest of the country to make do with whatever funding remains.
Compared to the rest of Louisiana, for instance, Martin says that New Orleans received most of the money ($7 million out of $11 million) doled out to the state through the Ryan White CARE Act. A person with HIV living in New Orleans who qualified for the state's AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) received up to $1,200 a month for HIV-related medications other than antiretrovirals. However, when those New Orleanians were forced to leave their city, they entered a region -- comprising most of Louisiana and the rest of the South -- where the cap on non-antiretrovirals is $1,200 a year. How this will eventually play out is unclear. New Orleans has no services functioning now and it has a huge amount of money in federal HIV/AIDS monies that will have to be redistributed.
In the meantime, the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) has been working hard to make sure that all the HIV-positive evacuees on ADAP who need meds will get them, no matter which ADAP program they were on. NASTAD has asked states to approve the provision of services or drugs and medical services to evacuees if state regulations allow. Most, if not all, states have responded and are waiving residency and other requirements in order to provide services and medications for people who ask for assistance.
Murray Penner, who is deputy executive director of domestic programs for NASTAD, began to work on arranging this since just three days after the hurricane.
"There are lots of impediments [patients face] getting to services," he says. "I think we are just starting to see people who are making it to ADAP. We expect there will be plenty more people and states are bracing for it."
He says that, as of Sept. 8, there were 35 patients from Louisiana on the Texas ADAP and even though Alabama has more than 300 people on a waiting list, five evacuees with HIV were allowed to continue their treatment regimen and are now on the Alabama ADAP program. Penner notes that six of the eight pharmaceutical companies manufacturing HIV medications have agreed to replenish at no cost all the medications that these state ADAP programs provide to evacuees from other states.
This is good news for the 1,700 HIV-positive patients from New Orleans who are on ADAP. However, New Orleans' dubious status as the epicenter of the state's HIV epidemic also meant that the entire state's AIDS infrastructure was located there. With offices now closed, there is no way to access the medical records housed there. This makes it impossible to verify someone's membership in the ADAP program if they don't have their ADAP card or their prescription bottles. But with the NASTAD agreement, ADAP patients from New Orleans won't have to worry about proving their ADAP membership, although they will have to still fill out an ADAP form.
Doing Their Best
If people have their ADAP card or prescription bottles on hand, Martin says, he can get them meds with that. If not, he sends them to physicians who will examine them and write prescriptions. Martin says his organization tries to get each patient a week's worth of all of the HIV meds he or she normally takes, in hopes that it will carry them through until the statewide ADAP system is back up. This may take some time, although there are plans underway for the Louisiana state HIV/AIDS program to be relocated to Baton Rouge.
By all accounts, Louisiana's AIDS organizations are trying their best to meet the needs of the relatively few people with HIV they have so far been able to find. They are, in a way, now preparing for a different type of storm: the urgent medical, supportive and housing needs of a large population that is right now scattered, but which is almost certainly already in need of their help.
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This is the second in a series of articles examining the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the U.S. AIDS community. To read other articles in this series, click here.
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Let me start off by thanking God for being able to write down my story and making me stronger in this time. I think it's important for people to know why some babies are still being born with HIV.
I didn't even know I was pregnant until I was about three months along. I was in a situation where I was being abused. In order to stay where I was staying, I had to have sex with the man who lived there. He drank heavily and hit me several times. Sometimes, he would lock me in closet. It was terrible but I had nowhere else to go.
I was staying with my sister before that but she had so many problems that I couldn't stay there anymore. So this man who was just a friend told me he was going to get a place and I could stay there. But I didn't know he expected me to have sex with him. If I wouldn't have sex with him, he would throw out my clothes and put me out on the street.
I was drugging all the time. I wouldn't eat or even take a shower. I would just stay out all night long. I knew I was pregnant, but I never went to the doctor. I was afraid of going out to the "real world" because I was drugging so bad. Every penny I got went to buying cocaine. I never thought about going to the clinic to get prenatal care.
My sister got me prenatal vitamins and iron and I was taking them. I was trying to do the right thing for my baby. I finally went back to my sister's house and asked her if I could stay with her, because I knew I couldn't take any more abuse from the man I was living with.
One day, I went to the bathroom and there was something coming out of my vagina. My water had broke and my baby was starting to come. It wasn't time yet for her to be born, but I was in labor already. My sister called an ambulance and they took me to Woman's Hospital in Baton Rouge. It was the first time I had gotten any medical care in months. Before that, I just wasn't able to.
I had my baby, and after that the doctor and nurse came in the room and told me I was HIV positive and my baby was, too. I felt like everything was over for me. I didn't have a place to raise my baby, but I didn't want to let her go.
They told me about the HIV clinic and gave me a booklet with a whole lot of numbers. I was so down and out I just didn't want to go through all that. I couldn't face it. In the next couple days, I told them I wanted to make an adoption plan for my daughter and signed all the paperwork. Lord knows it took a lot but I did believe I did what was best. I was discharged and went back to my sister's house.
I visited my baby a few times because she had to stay in the hospital since she was premature. I never went to the clinic for myself. It was just like I was running away from everything and I didn't want to hear anything. The drugs were taking over my life.
I finally stopped the drugs and was living in Baker with another friend. He was really good to me and was right by my side trying to help me. I got really sick and had lost about 50 pounds. I screamed to God, "Help me! Help me!" I was admitted to Lane Hospital and they helped me get into an assisted living residence for people who need support due to HIV. They've helped me get on my feet with different programs.
I finally got the help I asked the Lord for and my life has changed dramatically. I am eating well, praying well, making all my appointments, taking my medicine, and I have a life I never thought I could have being HIV positive. My life is getting better each day. I strive for more. HIV changed my whole life and my way of thinking, so now I seek counseling when I need it. I'm even getting my GED .
I want other women in my situation to know that there is hope and there are people out there who will help you. Don't give up. Be strong. Don't quit. There is a life as long as you do the work. HIV is not the way people say it is. If you take your medicine, there is hope. Keep going to your appointments and taking your medicine. If you have sex, make sure you have safe sex.
I reached out to other people and God let me know that I was not alone.


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Trials for wounded warriors to begin Feb. 24
By Richard Salomon, Air Force Personnel Center Public Affairs / Published February 17, 2017
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas -- For months, about 100 Air Force wounded, ill and injured service members and veterans have honed their skills in their chosen sport, with many overcoming significant hardships, in preparation for the Air Force Trials Feb. 24 to March 2 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.
The Air Force Trials is an adaptive and rehabilitative sports event designed to promote the mental and physical well-being of participants. The trials' events include wheelchair basketball, sitting volleyball, swimming, track and field, air pistol and rifle shooting, rowing, archery and cycling.
An additional 37 wounded warriors from the U.S. Army, U.S. Marines, Great Britain and Australia will also be among the mix of competitors at Nellis AFB. The Air Force athletes will be vying for a spot on the Air Force team that will compete at the 2017 Department of Defense Warrior Games in Chicago in June.
"It's an honor to be part of this event and to work with these courageous men and women who everyday demonstrate resiliency and strength," said Marsha Gonzales, Warrior Care Support Branch chief. "For many of the athletes, this competition is more about maximizing their abilities and striving for their personal best – not so much about winning or losing. Adaptive sports helps our wounded warriors get back into the game of life and physical activity."


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DOVE VALLEY — The Broncos' signing of Keith Brooking this week, the team now has two of the 10 players left from the 1998 draft class. The other, of course, is quarterback Peyton Manning, the No. 1 pick in that draft. Brooking was selected at No. 12.
As we waited for the start of today's Broncos training camp practice, Jeff Legwold and I played a trivia game with members of the Broncos' PR staff as we tried to come up with the other eight.
Now, you guys can play along, too. No cheating!
The others were also first-round draft picks. Two others are quarterbacks. Three were selected in the sixth round. Can you name them?
- This player is on the roster of the Broncos' Week 1 opponent and was active in the players' negotiations with the NFL during the lockout.
- This player is a linebacker for one of the Broncos' divisional rivals, and he's never been to a playoff game.
- This player is a defensive lineman who was a one-year member of the Broncos, and was very outspoken in the media.
- This often-disgruntled wide receiver has been close to retirement before, but is taking another shot with a west coast team this year.
- This player beat out Peyton Manning to win the Heisman Trophy in 1997.
- This player was a starting quarterback in the NFL last year. He was the starting quarterback for a different team in the Super Bowl within the last six years.
- This player plays on the offensive line for the Baltimore Ravens, and last year, won the league's Walter Payton Man of the Year award.
- This player will handle the long-snapping duties for the Broncos' first preseason opponent.
We'll post the answers in a blog later today! Until then, see if you can figure it out, and then go quiz your officemates.
Answers after the jump!


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copyright, Steven Klein.
For years and years, Steven has been wowing us with provocative imagery for D&G. From the softer side of Madonna to sexy, futuristic science experiments to elaborate period piece setups, the campaigns always have a visual complexity and hammer-to-the-head stopping power. Which is exactly what you want in an ad (and probably why Dolce continues their long relationship with Steven).
This SS 2008 shot of a group of strapping, smartly suited, young men walking with utter disregard for the notion of personal space is no exception. I'm guessing it's inspired by that opening scene from Reservoir Dogs with the gang walking down the street in slo-mo. Minus Chris Penn in the light purple nylon jacket, of course. Among other tricks from his goody bag, Steven uses colored gels to animate an otherwise drab background and allow the dark suits to really pop from the page. The layered lighting effect was created with 7 lights.
Camera: Medium format, 50mm lens and Kodak Portra 400NC film. Set on a tripod 10 feet back. Shot at 1/250, f8, ISO 400.
Lighting: Think about it. A dark, industrial, razor wire-dotted stretch of city isn't necessarily the coolest of locations. But Steven makes it just that. Let's start by looking at the background lighting since that's where most of the interest lies. Two, standard reflectors covered in red gel at f11 (+1 stop) are set on floor stands and aimed up against the wall on camera left. A magnum reflector at f11 (+1 stop) is set high behind the guys and aimed down at the background street. Another magnum reflector at f11 (+1 stop) with a yellow gel is also set high in the rear of the shot and aimed down toward camera, coating the wet cobblestones with a lush, warm glow. A medium striplight at f11 (+1 stop) with a full CTB gel is attached under the scaffolding to camera right, mimicking industrial lighting. It's fun to notice that not only do the variety of colors affect the shot, but the shape of the light modifiers, as well.
Now on to the dudes. The soft key light is a giant parabolic reflector at f8 sitting high and directly behind camera. A white beauty dish at f11 (+1 stop) with a full CTO gel is boomed in from camera left directly over the group's head. This gives the cool (looking) warm highlights on their hairdos. Steven also had some industrial-strength fog machines on set to accentuate the colored light's dramatic effect.
Comments: A rebel visionary who enjoys pushing the envelope and sometimes crossing the line, Steven originally proposed that the models wear only their neckties and each walk their own invisible dog. After fully covering that scenario, he Skyped with Quentin Tarantino who insisted that Reservoir Dogs would not have been what it was without the black suits. So Steven obliged the client and Quentin and went "safe."


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Postmortem:The Newsroom Star Breaks Down That Shocking Death
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