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While not everyone has access to a 3D printer, there are some amazing things that you can do with one. You can print iPad stands or anything else that you can think of. The overall design of this lamp is pretty simple, but the resulting Atomic Sun looks impressive. It's strange to think that a bunch of plastic pieces that were made in a 3D printer were able to assemble into something like this.
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Netflix is sailing high right now, so news that YouTube has relaunched its underwhelming streaming movie rental service again should not phase them.
In February, YouTube launched a pilot program offering five streaming independent movies from the Sundance Film Festival for $3.99. Critics were quick to label the program a dud but YouTube countered, saying it was quite happy with only 2,684 views netting $10,709.16.
YouTube has since expanded its library with more "independent, anime, Bollywood, and documentary films" and relaunched its service Thursday. Rentals cost between $0.99 – $3.99.
Google's stepchild may have a hard time turning its second run at streaming movies more successful than the first. The San Bruno-based company is quietly entering into an already saturated market dominated by iTunes and Netflix.


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Making Moondust [1]
KUHLMAN: I hate dust. Dust gets into vacuum systems and wreaks havoc. But people are going to need analogs if we ever go back to the Moon.
Kim Kuhlman is a researcher at the Planetary Science Institute. Over the last few years, her job has included studying moondust -- without any real moondust. Like many other researchers, she's studied lunar simulants -- mixtures of materials from here on Earth that are similar to certain kinds of moondust.
When people start to build bases on the Moon, they'll want to use the moondust, known as regolith, as a resource. They'll extract water from it, along with hydrogen to make rocket fuel. They may also use the regolith to make concrete, or to make solar cells for producing electricity. Eventually, they may even extract a form of helium to power nuclear fusion reactors.
KUHLMAN: Part of the work that I'm doing is to calculate the activation energy needed to get the hydrogen and helium out. You heat the regolith and collect the gases that come out and then distill it, essentially.
But the techniques for doing that on the Moon have to be developed and tested here on Earth. There's not enough real moondust from the Apollo missions to go around, so the solution is simulants. NASA scientists grind up volcanic rocks, mix in the right kinds of minerals, then dry out the mixture -- a perfect recipe for moondust.
While moondust may be a good resource, it could also be a deadly foe. More about that tomorrow.
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|September 13th, 2012, 01:38 PM
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A timeline of kufic borders in rugs
Hi all,
The kufic rug borders are a highly interesting topic, as demonstrated by the very lively discussions in a recent thread ( which was one of the longest ever in Turkotek history), brilliantly led by Martin Andersen.
This type of border pattern was rather frequent in rugs painted by Renaissance Masters and I got interested in giving a look to its history.
The result of my (dilettantish) research is an obese post of unusual length, which interested readers will find below:
|September 16th, 2012, 09:15 AM
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I will have to line up with Steve
Pierres systematical approach (to any subject), is a huge asset for the discussions here at Turkotek.
(but I can't take credit for leading the former discussion, Filiberto and Pierre sure did theirs - and pro et contra certainly has interesting dynamics in these discussion)
There is no doubt that the discussion about the rugborders being Kufic, Kufesque, pseudo-Kufic or non-Kufic is old. It goes at least back to Frederik Robert Martins discovery of the Seljuk rugs and his book "A History of Oriental Carpets from before 1800" in 1908.
Volkmar Gantzhorns "The Christian Oriental Carpet" from 1991, and its quest for giving all oriental rugs a primarily Armenian/Christian origin seem to be the, from my point of view, problematic source of the non-Kufic origin standpoint today.
best Martin
|September 23rd, 2012, 09:10 PM
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If Volkmar Gantzhorn is the main source for the non-kufic interpretation of the kufic borders it is of course relevant to look at his arguments - and his timeline, which is important because he argues that arabic Kufic is influenced by christian pseudo-kufic ornamentation. Here is an example where he is referring to the seljuk rugs:
The problem for me here is the dating of the first psudo-kufic ornament, I would personally stylistically find it much later. Gantzhorns dating must be based on the ornament being on the Byzantine emperor Romanos II sarcophagus. But according to Byzantine historic sources Romanos II were buried in Constantin's mausoleum in Church of the Holy Apostles, which were sacked by the crusaders ( http://www.scribd.com/doc/36339475/T...ntine-Emperors ). There are only a handful remaining Imperial sarcophagus, and none of them can be ascribed with certainty to any specific emperor. The monastery Hosios Loukas is on Unescos world heritage list, the monastery has a homepage and none of these sites mentions the extraordinary existence of an Byzantine imperial sarcophagus. The real explanation for the probably wrong attribution to Romanos the II is here:
"Hosios Loukas" Nano Chatzidakis http://images.icon-art.info/public/B...s%20(BAiG).pdf
The dating of the second much stylistically simpler ornament is probably correct. But this ornament can easily be explained as directly influenced by islamic Kufic ornamentation. Some have even suggested that these specific ornaments could have been made by force moved craftsmen from the re-conquered islamic Crete, the islamic Crete which is directly connected to Hosios Loukas foundation.
"In the context of the Greek School of architecture, these decorative patterns appear in impressive abundance and multiformity during the second half of the 10th century,
falling thereafter gradually into decline" The church of Kapnikarea in Athens: Remarks on its history, typology and form Nikolaos Gkioles. But these psedo-kufic ornaments never seem to appear in center of Byzantine art, Constantinopel, were they are directly associated with the rivaling Islam (p.83 http://books.google.dk/books?id=ftUs...stmond&f=false)
The argument with the third illustration were Ganzhorn uses a rather random 12th c kufic ornamented text to argue that the "christian" ornaments corresponds more closely to the seljuk borders is in my opinion totally topsy-turvy. Much more relevant samples proving the opposite are easy to find.
Ganzhorns book is as a Taaschen publication published in german, french and english. It must be the most wide spread rug book in the world today. I haven't seen any serious review or critique of it online. If the book as whole is as flawed as it seems to me, then I find it rather problematic, as it must generate misunderstandings for decades to come.
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|September 24th, 2012, 09:18 AM
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Hi Martin,
My Italian edition of the Christian Oriental Carpet is dated 1991 and I think the first original (German) one was published the year before. Plenty of time for negative in print reviews in Rugdom before the rise of the almighty web (and indeed in the 1998 edition the title changed to a more neutral Oriental Carpets). I think now the general negative opinion on Gantzhorns book is so well established that nobody bothers anymore with further on-line comments.
Even if I have the book translated in my mother tongue the prose is so badly expressed that it makes for very tiring reading. Nevertheless, Gantzhorn succeeded in convincing me that the Armenians should hold a more important position in the history of carpet weaving But the blatant overdoing of his thesis destroys most of the trust he could have acquired by using a more restrained approach.
Anyway, heres a very short on-line review of Gantzhorns Oriental Carpets (from Amazon.com): a mildly goofy interpretation that claims Armenian Christian origin for oriental carpets, ill organized, with excruciating page layout, but the sources consulted and the rich illustration make an interesting read and as well an incredible bargain to which I fully subscribe.
|September 24th, 2012, 09:53 AM
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Hi Filiberto
uh, so its in Italian too, wonder when it will come in Danish
I am not qualified to disagree that Volkmar Gantzhorn might have some good points regarding the Armenians as carpet weavers. But I can see he has a very bad point regarding pseudo-kufic and the Seljuk rugs in writing that Romanos II was Armenian.
And sure the photographic reproductions are great, but they are all accompanied with misleading graphic illustrations which forces each and every rug pattern to be originated in christian crosses, actually terrible manipulative.
If the general level of facts and interpretations is like the section on the Seljuk rugs, and the book is the most widespread rug book in the world, then I hope someone will make the effort to put up a thorough critical review online. I do think this book will mislead a lot of people for a long time to come. Perhaps it could be a worthy topic for a tread or a salon which would pop-up in google search on Volkmar Gantzhorn along with all the good buying offers?
best Martin
(who got the book for 5,75$, sure a good bargain for the photos)
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|September 24th, 2012, 10:33 AM
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But that is the problem with this book: better to check its references thoughtfully on the Internet before taking them into consideration.
Perhaps it could be a worthy topic for a tread or a salon? What a monumental task! No, thanks, I don't volunteer!
I didn't pay my copy that cheaply – I don't remember how much exactly, but anyway it was so inexpensive, compared to the normal outrageous prices normally asked for rug books, that before buying it I asked the bookseller if that was indeed the price or it was a mistake… The price is surely the book's winning point.
|September 24th, 2012, 11:53 AM
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Hi Martin
I doubt that Gantzhorn's book is the most widely read rug book in the world, and I don't think many ruggies take it as serious scholarship - it's much too ethnocentric. His ideas are interesting, but are mostly fantasy masquerading as scholarship.
Steve Price
|September 24th, 2012, 04:09 PM
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Hi Steve
Well probably not the most read book by ruggies with some critical sense, but as a Tashen book in English, German, French and Italian (and what else?) it must be one of the most widely distributed rug books ever. Tashen sure do have an extraordinary efficient distribution of large-scale printed numbers (which of course is the reason for the book being sold for its comparatively very low price)
If you read this follow up on "the German scholar Volkmar Gantzhorn, with his groundbreaking documentation of strong Armenian participation in the craft of weaving" http://circa1440.blogspot.dk/2009/10/carpet-index.html you will see that some today do take Gantzhorn very serious.
best Martin
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|September 24th, 2012, 05:02 PM
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Hi Martin,
Yup, I see what you mean (Pierre, you should read it too ).
Not much of a following, though.
|September 24th, 2012, 06:56 PM
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I already have. Good example.
|September 24th, 2012, 10:50 PM
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Hi All
Well I will just pursue my mini anti-Gantzhorn crusade for one more post.
(and I will try to remember writing Volkmar Gantzhorns full name a lot when I criticize him, in the hope that the search engines will pick it up, probably a futile little battle against all the good offers from f.ex amazon.com)
Volkmar Gantzhorn uses a serie of very basic squared cross variations to categorize all rug types. The crosses do at the same time, according to Volkmar Gantzhorn, correspond to christian armenian ornamentation:
This is of course in itself a highly questionable method of categorization, but the actual way that Volkmar Gantzhorn uses and misuses his own method on specific non-cruciform patterns is even more questionable. Here is an example:
To make this very important 13th c Seljuk Kufic border fit into an Armenian context Volkmar Gantzhorn has to fantasize that the motif is a distorted half of another pattern which coincidently must have looked like an Armenian cross. This is in my opinion a highly disingenuously approach towards the simple fact that Seljuk pattern exist as it is, and of course primarily should be put into the context of other relevant existing patterns and motifs - and not imagined or non existing patterns.
Another example where Gantzhorn compares a geometric pattern from an Il-Khanid miniature with a minor border from a Seljuk rug:
Volkmar Gantzhorn starting point regarding the simple and very generic geometric Il-Khanid border is this: "Needless to say, what we have here is clearly a Christian symbol, in fact one of the most common among the monophysites in Armenia". In itself a gross overinterpretation of this fine little generic Il-khanid pattern, which of course might as well be turned 180 degree, making it something completely different from a cross on a hill - and turning the whole illustration the 180 degree would actually also show the Seljuk minor border as what it is: a miniature version of the larger Kufic motifs on the Seljuk main borders.
|September 25th, 2012, 12:07 AM
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Hi Martin
The Pazyryk rug, which predates Christianity, has a field of compartmented crosses.
Just sayin'
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|September 25th, 2012, 12:18 AM
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sure Steve
Cruciform patterning I suppose is inherent in the weave structure itself, weft and warp simply crossing each other. And actually when I think about it, aren't the Pazaryk felts overly curved in their design?
best Martin
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|September 26th, 2012, 12:09 PM
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Criticizing Volkmar Gantzhorn and any followers may be, as Steve hints, like beating a dead horse in the knowledgeable part of the rugworld, but still, Tashen….and so on.
I want go into details regarding Lauren Arnolds blog (long time since I read it), but her main conclusion goes something like this: the large main part of oriental rugs appearing on early european paintings are placed in a specific religious christian setting (a very large percentage with the Mary and the Jesus child) and therefor has to be interpreted iconographical on par with all other christian symbolic elements. And this leads her to the bold conclusion that the carpets must be produced by christians.
I would like to offer a very simple alternative iconographic interpretation: The biblical stories are of course set in israel/the exotic orient, the painters have with the oriental rugs made a painterly setting which to everyones understanding visually places the setting as exotic oriental. This goes for palms and turbans too, whitout palms and turbans having to be associated with christian western origin - actually exactly the contrary is the case.
best Martin
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I am currently playing Icewind Dale Gold, an outstanding D&D based dungeon crawler. It works with almost no problems on my Pentium 4 2.93GHz Prescott, 1.5GB RAM DDR2 and Radeon HD4650 1GB PciE, running Windows XP SP3 and DirectX 9.0c.
However, there is only one minor issue that I was not able to fix no matter what - it is the Mirrored Sprites option, accessible from games setup, under Graphics tab. Basically, it makes characters' sprites animation being mirrored, i.e. when character is facing right and hold his shield in his right hands, then after turning and facing left the shield is immediately swapped to his left hand, being a mirror reflection of his previous stance. In the old days it allowed to save some memory and increase game performance. Nowadays I am not able to turn this option off - it is always active.
I noticed this happens in almost every game based on Infinity engine I tried in the past years (Icewind Dale 2, Baldur's Gate Gold). I also used different hardware specs (Radeon 9550 AGP, Pentium 4 2GHz Northwood, Celeron D 3.2GHz, Athlon 2400XP+, DualCore E5200), with no results.
Do you by any chance know if it is a known bug and is there is any solution for this?
Just note I use localized, Polish versions of these games - could this problem be version-specific?
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THE doors to a new museum – and to children's imaginations – opened over the weekend.
The Story Museum, at Rochester House, Pembroke Street, Oxford, welcomed its first visitors on Saturday.
The idea started life as a "virtual" museum in 2003 but in 2009 used £2.2m of funding from mystery donors to find a new home. Since then work has taken place to get the museum ready for visitors.
Its first exhibition is 26 Characters, in which 26 authors dressed up as their favourite creation from children's fiction for a photo portrait.
Oxford author Philip Pullman chose Treasure Island, comedian Charlie Higson dressed up as Boromir from The Lord of The Rings and Terry Pratchett pulled on some short trousers and an over-sized tie to be Just William.
Flora Sutton, six, visited with mother Isabelle and older sisters Catriona, 12, and Madeleine, 14.
The Edinburgh family were visiting Isabelle's parents in Oxford. Flora, whose favourite book is Hamish the Highland Cow, said: "My favourite part was dressing up as a magical person. I got to spin the story wheel too.
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It takes a little remembering what a great run Sandra Bullock was having before her husband turned things very, very wrong with his infidelity scandal
Forbes just sent out 56 million reasons why Bullock is a major force in Hollywood at age 46. The business website claims Bullock took in $56 million earned between June 2009 and June 2010. That's tops among leading ladies by a long-shot.
First there was "The Proposal," which grossed $320 million after costing only $40 million to make. Five months later, "The Blind Side" came out. Bullock cut her usual fee to star in the movie, but brilliantly agreed to take a share of the film's profits on the back end. Then the film became the sweetheart story of the movie year, earning $310 million at the box office -- and Bullock her first Oscar.
You can't make it any more clear than Forbes states; "Bullock had one hell of a year." Reese Witherspoon was number two on the list with $32 million.
Bullock hit the emotional bump in the road shortly after the Oscar success. But she'll be back for sure. She even has the common sense to work with Reynolds again in "Most Wanted." Even though Disney passed on "The Proposal" sequel, the great chemistry the two actors showed will surely be a huge draw.
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"Aggressive" TSA Pat-Down of 7-Year-Old with Cerebral Palsy Forces Family to Miss Flight
Airport security screenings are a singularly harrowing ordeal for 7-year-old Dina Frank, who suffers from cerebral palsy and requires crutches and leg braces to move around. Compound that with the fact that Dina is developmentally disabled, and the need for care and sensitivity on the part of TSA agents becomes that much greater.
But that was not the concern of the Transportation Security Officers at JFK who reportedly forced Dina to undergo a prolonged and aggressive screening that caused the girl and her family to miss their flight.
As her medical aids require her to submit to a physical pat-down, Dina's mom Marcy attempts to alleviate her daughter's anxiety by asking agents to introduce themselves. But the TSOs on duty this past Monday "were exceptionally aggressive," according to Dina's dad, Dr. Joshua Frank.
After he began recording footage of the screening with his iPhone, one of the agents "started screaming at me and cursing me and threatening me," he told The Daily.
A supervisor had determined that a simple inspection of Dina's crutches would be sufficient, but the call was later reversed by a manager, who ordered that Dina be returned to the security area for a full pat-down.
Hurrying toward their gate with Dina in a wheelchair, the family arrived too late to board their JetBlue flight to Florida, and had to be put on the next plane out.
"They're harassing people," said Dr. Frank. "This is totally misguided policy." Added Mrs. Frank: "They still attack her like she's Osama bin Laden. It's not fair."
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Just because it's summertime doesn't mean the learning has to stop for your kids. Everyday experiences and playtime can be turned into opportunities for both education and the development of critical large- and small-muscle motor skills. Here are some ideas.
Just because it's summertime doesn't mean the learning has to stop for your kids, because everyday experiences and playtime can be turned into opportunities for both education and the development of critical large- and small-muscle motor skills. Two educators, Siena Heights (Mich.) University child development instructor Kathryn Burke and St. Joseph (Mich.) Academy Montessori Children's House teacher Valorie Veld, provided some ideas for parents.
— Read to your children or, if they're old enough to read, take them to the library to pick out a book they can read on their own. This promotes the development of vocabulary.
— For the same reason, engage your children in conversation, for example at mealtime or while taking a walk. "Talk about a variety of subjects," Burke said. If you're outside with your child, "talk about the animals you see, talk about the stuff your child finds. It's providing vocabulary, and that's a huge piece."
— The outdoors can also provide a wealth of other educational experiences. Joining in exploring the world not only "can be a real nurturing experience for a child," said Burke, but it's a chance to learn everything from science to math to how to classify things. Look with your child at bugs and rocks and plants and squirrels. Count the number of petals on a flower. Have your child look for things that are similar to each other, or different, in type or shape or color. Choose a color or shape and ask your child to find everything he or she can that fits that criteria.
"Make collections of things," Veld said. "Find feathers or pretty rocks. Go on a scavenger hunt. That's great for developing several different skills, because you have to find specific things and then you have to check them off on your list, which promotes vocabulary skills."
Both Burke and Veld said it's important that children play outside, not sit in front of a computer or TV or video game all day.
"Their large-motor muscles need to develop before we can fine-tune their fine-motor muscles," Veld said.
That's why things like riding bikes, doing inline skating, jumping rope, playing hopscotch and climbing are important.
"Kids really have few opportunities for free play, especially being outside," said Veld, whether it's because of safety concerns or schedules that are kept too busy. But "connecting with the outdoors helps develop a sense of imagination and wonder," she said. It also, she added, promotes not only physical and emotional health but some autonomy too, "when you're outside with your friends making decisions on what to do."
— Building a fort, or even making a tent out of a blanket and a rope, helps children learn how simple engineering concepts work, Veld noted, as well as promoting play, imagination and physical activity.
— Children can be involved in helping prepare meals, which helps them learn about quantities and measuring and even, said Burke, the science of what happens during cooking.
— Hand-eye coordination can also be fostered, according to Veld, by playing a game with your child like having him or her drop something like clothespins or buttons into a bottle.
— Children could also do things like count change into a piggy bank or string pasta to make a necklace.
— A child can also help sort and put away laundry, which teaches how to match items. Hanging up the clothes can also help a child with motor skills, whether it's putting the item on a hanger or buttoning up the shirt or using clothespins, which helps develop the fine-motor skills a child will need in learning to hold a pencil.
— Setting the table teaches the concept of "one to one correspondence": that a place setting gets one cup, one plate, one piece of each kind of silverware.
— Have a tea party or play pretend in some other way to stimulate imagination.
— Look for ways to help your child be creative, which doesn't have to be an expensive proposition. Recipes can be found at the library or online to make something similar to Play-Doh. Throwaway materials can be turned into art projects. A child can use a crayon and paper to make rubbing of things like tree bark or sewer tops, "which make very interesting rubbings," said Burke. With, of course, a pair of child-safe scissors, children can cut pictures out of discarded magazines. "Even an empty box of cereal has lots of opportunities," she said. "They can cut out the letters, cut out the pictures, or even cut the box apart and make a puzzle out of it." Not only is that sort of thing creative, she added, but using scissors also develops fine-motor skills.
— In the same way that using scissors or squeezing clothespins helps with those motor skills, having your child mist plants with a squeeze bottle develops the muscles needed to grasp objects or hold pencils. Both Burke and Veld also suggested that a child could help wash windows or the family car or their bike, because squeezing a fat sponge does the same thing.
— Look at photo albums with your child, or have them help you create scrapbooks. The latter helps with that crucial creative and fine-motor development, while the former helps them learn about time and about family relationships. "Children are right in the now," said Burke. "By showing them pictures like how they looked as a baby, it helps them learn the concept of time."
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Instead of standing before a wall filled with paint chips at their local home improvement store, homeowners can use a simple tool to help with the color selection for their next decorating projects. The color wheel isn't in the tool section, but it's one of the tricks of the design trade that decorators have been using for years.
Certain colors bring out the best in each other, and color wheels work better than paint chips when it comes to showing the relationships between different hues.
Getting the Right Mix
Beyond the undiluted primaries of red, yellow and blue, there are secondary colors - orange, green and purple - made from mixing two primary hues. But the most interesting shades may be the tertiary ones. They take the mix a step further by combining secondary colors to get hues like red-orange or blue-green.
ColorMatters.com suggested that homeowners try to develop an interesting color scheme by choosing three analogous colors that are side-by-side on the wheel. They often provide the easiest way to arrive at an attractive combination with one hue predominating.
While the results are decorative, the use of a color wheel has practical application, much like the addition of floor heating systems that allow homeowners to heat their homes with radiant heat. This floor warming alternative to traditional heating systems is energy-efficient and eliminates the need for air ducts while delivering a uniform heat throughout the home.
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The wheel is set up so homeowners can see the relationship of different hues, including primary colors of red, blue and yellow to secondary and tertiary shades that are various mixes of the primaries.
One easy rule to remember is that complementary hues are located straight across from each other so there's no guesswork involved. Unlike tonal schemes that involve colors with a similar brightness or darkness - such as pastels - complementary colors tend to be more intense. According to This Old House magazine, they tend to bring out the best of each other at full strength, but can be muted by mixing in a neutral gray for a toned-down look.
For those who want to choose a combination of hues but they aren't sure how they will look together, the color wheel is an invaluable tool. The right choices in a color scheme aren't only harmonious, but create a sense of order and vibrancy.
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Ortofon MC-3000 MC phono cartridge
It is my contention—hotly disputed by Larry Archibald, I should add—that good CD players give a fairly accurate picture of the tonality and spectral balance of the original master recordings from which they were made. This view is supported by the fact that the best CD players sound quite similar in those respects, and that honestly made CDs (which excludes almost anything from a major record company) sound very much like all the other program sources I have on hand. I believe the phono player should make similarly honestly made analog discs sound as much as possible like those other program sources. If, when they all sound the same, they all sound bad, the place to look for a solution is in the amplifier/loudspeaker department.
The only alternative to this approach is to live with a system that only reproduces one or two program sources "properly." I am not asking, or expecting, that all will have equal transparency, detail, depth, or "purity." What I am asking is that all of them at least sound as if they have the same frequency response from 40Hz to 10kHz. Only when that basic equality is attained can one pass valid judgment on the other attributes of the various sources. The MC-2000 comes close to providing that equality, which is why I have stood by it for all this time despite its "impracticality" as a product.
The MC-3000 differs from the 2000 in several respects. First, and probably most important, is that it has twice the output. This raises the ante to 100µV, still too low for most MC headamps to handle, but nonetheless translates into a significant 6dB reduction in hum and hiss when Ortofon's T-3000 stepup transformer is used. (I advise it; transformer distortions sound less irksome than transistor distortions.) The higher output cannot help but be an improvement.
Second, the MC-3000 has lower compliance than the 2000: 13cu, as compared with 20. This seeming retrograde change, according to Ortofon's literature, was prompted by the current popularity of medium- to high-mass tonearms, which are ill-suited for use with highly compliant cartridges. (With the mass/compliance resonance below 9Hz, disc warps generate strong subsonic interference which wastes amplifier power and can damage loudspeakers.)
Third, the cartridge uses a new Ortofon-designed stylus tip which they call the "Replicant 100" (shades of Blade Runner). In shape, this looks about as much like a cutting stylus as you can get without having a cutting stylus; it appears to be a true line-contact tip, and its specified dimensions indicate that it is a very thin line.
And there have been other changes in the MC-3000. As a result of tests conducted with a panel of "golden ears," Ortofon learned that most listeners prefer a cartridge with a high end rising to 2dB at 20kHz. Accordingly, a rise of that magnitude was designed into the new cartridge. The magnet material was changed to a more powerful material called neodymium (it used to be an alloy of samarium and cobalt) and moved closer to the coils, which doubled the cartridge's output. And because the stronger magnetic field might have an adverse effect on motions of the original aluminum armature (footnote 1), the 3000's armature is made of carbon fiber. Even the outer casing material was changed, from aluminum to aluminum oxide. This sintered (fired) ceramic compound has a hardness of 9 Mohs, 1 unit below that of a diamond's 10. The harder a material, the higher its natural resonating frequency; the new case is an attempt to get this out beyond the audible range without having to resort to a diamond case.
Oh, yes, there's another change I forgot to mention. The price. If you thought the MC-2000 and its transformer were pricey at $2000 a pair, how about $2750? That would be justifiable, I suppose, if the new system is substantially better than the 2000. But we'll get to that later.
I really must comment on the packaging of the MC-3000. It is clever, unique, and—as far as I'm concerned—just a bit too cutesy-poo. The cartridge comes in a festive-looking red and white box about the size of a cinder block, inside which is a white foam-plastic block divided in half. Separating its halves reveals a miniature packing crate, a tiny replica of the ones used to ship armaments to hostile countries. Next to it, in a little compartment in the foam plastic, is a miniature crowbar, obviously intended to be used to pry the top off the crate. I did. Carrying the arms-shipment analogy ever further, the mini-crate was lined with shredded wood packing, and nestled in that was a heavy, stitched burlap slip case, edged in black leather, containing a nonmagnetic screwdriver, a tube of mounting hardware, a stylus brush, and one of Ortofon's plastic tracking-force gauges. The cartridge? Oh, that was inside a hollowed-out clear plastic replica of Ortofon's Replicant 100 stylus, magnified 300 times. To remove it, the bottom snaps out of the "stylus."
Ortofon has a reputation for exotic packaging, but this is going to be hard to top. (Hey, what about an MC-4000 shaped like the sacred scarab beetle, and packed in a miniature ancient Egyptian sarcophagus?!) I should mention, though, that the cartridge, when received, had escaped from its pin sockets and "locking" wire clip, and was rolling around loose inside the container. The only saving grace was that its stylus cover was still in place; it was okay. Perhaps a leavening of substance—like, maybe, two bolts and nuts—might enhance the high-style packaging of this costly cartridge. Meanwhile, if your dealer is a long way from your home, I suggest going to the trouble of opening up the whole thing and checking the cartridge before you leave the store. If it's loose, and the stylus cover is off, you can be confident that it's ruined.
Footnote 1: Although the term "armature" is often applied to the little rod with the diamond stylus at the end, it refers strictly to the form or bobbin—usually cross-shaped—on which the coils are wound. The stylus rod is the "cantilever."—J. Gordon Holt


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President Barack Obama said Thursday that not getting comprehensive immigration reform passed has been his "biggest failure" as president.
Asked for his biggest failure while in the White House, Obama responded, "My biggest failure so far is we haven't gotten comprehensive immigration reform done, so we're going to be continuing to work on that."
But Obama told Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, "It's not for lack of trying or desire, and I'm confident we're going to accomplish that."
The comments came while Obama was addressing a Hispanic "Meet The Candidates" forum in Miami, a day after his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, wooed voters at the same event.
Immigration was the top issue of the forum, held Thursday afternoon at the University of Miami.
Shortly after it began, a moderator asked Obama why he failed to keep his 2008 campaign promise to deliver immigration reform. Obama responded by recalling the dire economic situation when he took office and said that took up a huge amount of time in his first year. But he said he tried to work with Congress to get a deal done.
"What I confess I did not expect, and so I'm happy to take responsibility for being naïve here, is that Republicans who had previously supported comprehensive immigration reform – my opponent in 2008, who had been a champion of it, and who attended these meetings – suddenly would walk away," Obama said, referring to Arizona Senator John McCain. "That's what I did not anticipate."
"We initiated the meetings, had a series of meetings, and what we could not get was a single Republican, including the 20 who had previously voted for comprehensive immigration reform, to step up and say we will work with you to make this happen," Obama added.
Obama sought to draw a contrast between himself and Romney on immigration at the forum. The president cited his June executive order halting the deporation of undocumented youths and his commitment to the DREAM Act, which he said his Republican opponent has said he would veto.
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Romney spoke at the forum Wednesday and told listeners in Coral Gables Wednesday that he is "concerned about the fact that over the past four years, life has become harder for Americans."
He also addressed his "47 percent" comments released earlier this week, saying he is concerned about all Americans.
"My campaign is about the 100 percent of America, and I am concerned about them. I am concerned about the fact that over the past four years life has become harder for Americans, more people have fallen into poverty," Romney said.
Obama responded to Romney's comments with a rhetorical jab on Thursday.
"When you express an attitude that half the country considers itself victims, that somehow they want to be dependent on government, my thinking is maybe you haven't gotten around a lot," he said. "Because I travel around the country all the time, and the American people are the hardest-working people there are."
Obama began the forum at UM by saying that after the anti-American violence that killed the American ambassador to Libya, his administration's goal is to make sure that American embassies are safe and to bring the people responsible to justice.
The president also addressed the issue of deportations, which have risen during his tenure in the White House.
"We will continue to make sure that how we enforce is done as fairly and justly as possible. But until we have a law in place that provides a pathway to legalization and to citizenship for the folks in question, we're going to continue to be bound by the law, and that's a challenge," he concluded.
After his forum Wednesday evening, Republican candidate Romney made a pitch to Hispanic voters at a rally in Miami.
"This party is the natural home for Hispanic Americans because this is the party of opportunity and hope," Romney told the crowd.
The Republican nominee referred again to a video of Obama made in 1998. Obama, then an Illinois state senator, said he believed in income redistribution, "at least to a certain level to make sure everybody's got a shot."
"There are people who believe that you can create a stronger economy and a brighter future if you take from some people and give to other people," Romney said. "Other places that have tried that haven't done so well. That is not a philosophy that's ever been tried here. We're not going to have it here. We're going to get America back to having free people pursuing their dreams in a free country!"
Going into Thursday's presidential visit, the Obama For America campaign released a statement saying despite what Romney said in South Florida, his plan is to "redistribute hard-earned middle class income to those at the top."
At the Univision event, Obama was asked why he didn't issue his executive order before the 2012 campaign. He pointed out that he was winning the Latino vote before he took the action.
He said he issued the order because of young people he met across the country.
"If you heard their stories there's no way that you would think that it's fair or just to have them suffering under a cloud of deportation," he said.
While discussing his failures, Obama also said that not being able to change the tone in Washington is disappointing – though he said he has faced Republican opposition since the day he took office.
"The most important lesson I've learned is that you can't change Washington from the inside, you can only change it from the outside. That's how I got elected, and that's how the big accomplishments, like health care, got done, was because we mobilized the American people to speak out," Obama said. "That's how we were able to cut taxes for middle-class families. So something that I'd really like to concentrate on in my second term is being in a much more constant conversation with the American people so they can put pressure on Congress to help move some of these issues forward."


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Prime Minister Stephen Harper has staked the future of the world's 11th largest economy on natural resource wealth spreading across the country. Brandy Damm, a welder who lost her job from a locomotive factory in London, Ontario, last year, isn't seeing the benefit.
Damm was one of about 465 unionized workers fired after Caterpillar Inc.'s Electro-Motive Canada unit said it would close its London plant following a labour dispute. Now, many of the jobs in her field are paying far less than the $20 to $30 per hour common at the factory — some just above Ontario's $10.25 per hour minimum wage.
"You feel like you are spinning your wheels," Damm, 36, said by telephone from a job center created after the factory closed. "The time and energy we put into our trade to be good at it is worth something, and I think it's worth a lot more than eleven dollars an hour."
Harper and his cabinet ministers have argued that developing Alberta's oil sands, part of the world's third largest oil reserves, will bring economic opportunity across the country. Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver estimates that more than 600 major resource projects may lead to $650-billion of investment over the next decade.
"A strong resource sector in the west means high-quality manufacturing jobs in the east," Harper said Jan. 4 at a Ford Motor Co. of Canada Ltd. factory in Oakville, Ontario.
The numbers suggest otherwise. Companies in the mining, quarrying and oil and gas industries have increased payrolls by 11,700, or 4.4% over the five years to the end of 2012, according to Statistics Canada data. Over the same period, manufacturing employment has dropped by 182,900, or 9.4%, as factories struggle with the impact of a strong currency and weak global demand.
Factory Firings
Put another way, for every natural resource job that's been added in Canada since the end of 2007, more than 15 factory jobs have been lost.
"It may be easiest to think of the Canadian labour market as two labour markets linked by only partially mobile workers," said Paul Beaudry, an economics professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver whose research has been sponsored by the Bank of Canada. "While there has been substantial migration toward the resource-rich areas, many individuals are reluctant to move for either family reasons or because their skills may not match what is needed."
Canada's benchmark Standard & Poor's/TSX Composite Index rose 4% in 2012, trailing the performance of markets in every developed nation except Spain and Portugal. Canadian government bonds returned 2.2% last year, compared with 3.8% for government bonds of the Group of Seven nations.
Slow Growth
Canada's economy expanded 0.1% in October, the first gain in three months, while inflation fell to the slowest in three years at 0.8% in November. Unemployment has remained near 8% for almost two years in Ontario, Canada's most populous province, even as companies such as Calgary's Imperial Oil Ltd. develop the oil sands. While Canada's jobless rate fell to a four-year low of 7.1% in December, unemployment in London averaged 8.6% over the past three months, Statistics Canada said, compared with Calgary's 4.6% and Edmonton, Alberta's 4.3%.
Infrastructure Priority
The government has no special policies in place to encourage resource companies to use domestic suppliers. "Our priority is getting the infrastructure built," Oliver spokesman Chris McCluskey said by telephone. "Any project that moves forward is a benefit to manufacturers."
The oil sands have "immense value to the future economic prosperity of all Canadians," Oliver said in a speech last month. Three months earlier, he talked about visiting an Aecon Group Inc. factory in Cambridge, Ontario, which "fabricates and assembles piping modules for an oilsands project in Alberta and employs 550 people in well-paying, high-quality skilled jobs."
Aecon, a Toronto-based construction company, cited "increased module assembly, pipe fabrication and site construction work in Western Canada" for helping to boost profits in the third quarter of last year.
Limited Benefits
Still, Statistics Canada data suggests the benefits of the oil sands to Ontario have been limited. Average hourly wages for Alberta workers in the "other trades" category, which includes welders, machinists and electrical workers, are 25% higher than Ontario ones. As recently as 2005, Ontario workers were paid more.
Manufacturing jobs have been declining as a share of Canada's workforce, falling to about 10% at the end of 2012 from about 15% in 2000. Ontario is home to about 45% of those jobs.
Some have even said the investment in natural resources has made the decline in manufacturing worse. The argument, advanced by Tom Mulcair, leader of Canada's main opposition New Democratic Party, is that capital inflows to the oil sands have artificially boosted the value of the Canadian dollar. A 58% rise in the currency over the past 10 years has made Canadian factory goods more expensive abroad, Mulcair says, hobbling an economy that relies on exports for one-third of its output.
Worldwide Decline
Others, including Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, disagree. In a speech in Alberta last year, Carney said the increase in the currency couldn't be tied only to high commodity prices that have spurred investment in resources. As well, he said Canada's "decline in manufacturing is only partially in response to the rising exchange rate and, in fact, is part of a broad, secular trend across the advanced world." Globalization and technological advances have spurred factory job losses in the major industrialized economies, he said.
Regardless of the cause, manufacturing's share of Canada's labour force will keep falling, said Toronto-based BMO Capital Markets deputy chief economist Doug Porter, who grew up in London.
"We can debate what exactly has caused that rise in the currency but it's still having an effect on the job market," Porter said. "We are seeing employment and industry adjust to that new reality."
Oil Shift
The energy industry has a history of adjusting. Imperial was founded in London in 1880 after oil was discovered nearby. It later moved its headquarters to Toronto, and then to Calgary, after much of southwestern Ontario's oil was taken out of the ground.
Now, skilled workers in London will struggle to find local energy-related jobs because much of the work on oil sands projects must be done on site, said Mike Moffatt, assistant economics and public policy professor at Western University in London. Older workers will also struggle to adapt their skills, adding to long-term or "structural" unemployment, he said.
"Just because those skills are in demand doesn't mean they are in demand in London," he said. "You should give tours of it, abandoned plants, because there are dozens of them."
Only about 150 of the unionized staff at the closed Electro-Motive Canada plant have found work according to Bob Scott, who runs the job center created after the factory closed. Workers who made between $20 and $30 an hour are being offered about $14 or $15, he said.
Dim Prospects
Damm has been taking shift work at the post office to help pay bills. While job prospects in London are dim, she said she won't move to Alberta. "The work is hard and they do pay well for it but eventually it will dry up, it's not going to last forever," she said. "My partner is very stable here so it would not even cross my mind to pack up and move out there."
As for the energy boom bringing orders and jobs to Ontario, she said, "here in London I don't see any direct links" between local manufacturing and energy demand.
Scott said the Electro-Motive job center is scheduled to close in September and he is worried about colleagues who will run out of severance and unemployment benefits before finding new work.
"A lot of divorces are coming out of this closure," he said. "It's been very difficult on a lot of people."


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Laurent Rivard now ranks fifth in team history with 135 career 3-pointers (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Laurent Rivard drained 5-of-10 3-point attempts, as the Harvard men's basketball team improved to 2-1 on the year with a 79-45 win over Manhattan at Lavietes Pavilion Friday evening.
Siyani Chambers dished out seven assists to go along with 14 points, and Christian Webster added 12 points for Harvard, who had five players reach double figures in scoring. Agunwa Okolie (11) and Wesley Saunders (10) also had the scoring touch for the Crimson. Emmy Andujar had 12 points, and RaShawn Stores talled 11 points for Manhattan, who falls to 0-2 on the season.
Harvard's 34-point is the largest for the Crimson since defeating Daniel Webster by 43, 94-51, Dec. 28, 2008, and Manhattan's 45 points was the fewest Harvard has allowed since topping Brown, 69-42, of last year. The Crimson held Manhattan to 14-of-41 shooting (.341), and helped cause 26 turnovers by the Jaspers.
After a slow start for both teams, Steve Moundou-Missi sank two free throws at 17:42 to give Harvard a 2-0 edge. Moments later, Wesley Saunders went up for an offensive rebound and finished with the hoop and the harm. Saunders make the ensuing foul shot, putting the Crimson up, 5-2. With just over 15 minutes left, Siyani Chambers sent a pass to Rivard, who buried a wide open trey. On Harvard's next possession, Rivard hit another 3-pointer, making it an 11-2 contest at 14:47.
After Harvard led, 14-7, Chambers made a steal in the Manhattan zone and dribbled down the floor before being fouled. He headed to the line and made both, making it 16-7, with just over 11 minutes left. The Crimson added to its lead with a jumper in the lane by Webster, and Rivard connected on another triple as Harvard opened a 21-7 advantage. A Chambers floater on the next Crimson possession made it 23-7 and forced Manhattan to call timeout.
Rivard knocked down his fourth 3-pointer with just over six minutes left, as Harvard owned a 26-11 lead. At the final media timeout of the half, Harvard was up, 31-11, causing 14 Manhattan turnovers to that point. At the half, the Crimson took a 39-17 advantage into the locker room, as the Jaspers shot just 5-of-19 (.263) in the first half. Rivard led all players with 12 points on 4-of-7 shooting from beyond the arc in the first 20 minutes.
In the second, the Crimson defense continued to shut down the Jaspers and led, 48-20, with 14:49 remaining. After Webster drilled a 3-pointer, Jonah Travis went to the line and made both, giving Harvard its largest lead to that point. With just under 13 minutes left, Webster connected on a jump shot, and then Agunwa Okolie threw down a dunk as Harvard went up by 37, 59-22.
Harvard continued to control play on both sides of the floor when Chambers stepped up and nailed an open 3-pointer at the 9:32 mark as the Crimson led by 39, 63-24. With 5:50 to play in the second, Okolie put an exclamation point on the evening as he threw down a monster, two-handed jam on the break, making it 67-30.
The Crimson will visit Saint Joseph's in a game shown live nationally on NBC Sports Network Tuesday, Nov. 20 at 8 p.m.


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03 April 2013 | Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau
Dr Sukumar Nagendran - The new vice president of medical affairs at Quest Diagnostics
Singapore: Quest Diagnostics, a diagnostic information service provider, appointed Dr Sukumar Nagendran, as vice president, medical affairs. In this role, Dr Nagendran will provide medical oversight for the company's diagnostic information services.
Dr Nagendran served as vice president and head of medical affairs at Reata Pharma. Prior to that, he was therapeuti-area head for new product development, medical affairs, clinical operations and biometrics, in which he oversaw several therapeutic areas, including oncology, cardiovascular disease and diabetes, for Daiichi Sankyo.
He has held other senior positions related to clinical development and medical affairs for Pfizer and Novartis. Dr Nagendran's research on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, oncology, pulmonary medicine and other areas of medicine has been published in a number of peer-reviewed publications, including Endocrine Practice, Current Medical Research & Opinion and Journal of Clinical Lipidology.
Dr Jon R Cohen, chief medical officer and senior VP, Quest Diagnostics, said that, "Dr Nagendran has an impressive record of successful medical affairs in several clinical areas as well as in new product and business development and clinical trial operations. These experiences, combined with his relationships with top medical and healthcare experts, will help us to engage medical opinion leaders, payers and clients in more productive dialogues about the composition and value of our services. These competencies are critical as our company strives to be more externally focused and responsive to market needs."


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Editor Note: Intel or GIGABYTE did not sanction this preview in any way. We are posting this well ahead of launch since some other well-known tech sites have already covered Ivy Bridge performance and the CPU is readily available and for sale right now.
The Ivy Bridge launch has got off to a bit of a shaky start with the dates changing a lot over the last few weeks. If you really start to dig around, though, you'll probably find yourself quickly discovering that the whole Ivy Bridge platform seems to be fairly ready.
We've been seeing a fair bit of testing on the new crop of Ivy Bridge CPUs, more specifically the i7 3770k chip which at launch is going to be similar to the i7 2600k. Today we're looking at the Core i5 based 3570k which falls in line with the i5 2500k from the Sandy Bridge platform. There is a good chance you haven't seen any performance numbers on this 3570K chip until today.
Outside of all the CPUs being shown we've been seeing motherboards previewed and tested for weeks now. It really leaves us wondering why we are not seeing Ivy Bridge shown off in all its glory.
It seems to be due to stock more than anything else. While there's plenty of stock to hit the retail channel, the system integrated (SI) channel can't be as heavily populated. With the SI segment being huge for Intel it's important to keep all those guys happy and that's coming at the cost of the official Ivy Bridge launch being pushed back.
With the official launch of Ivy Bridge still being a little over a month away we don't want offer the i5 3570k as a normal full review because we could see a little change from a motherboard point of view over the coming month. We doubt it, but it's possible, so for that reason we're keeping this as a preview.
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No one's saying it, probably because so few actually know anything about the Planet of the Apes franchise's history, but Rise of the Planet of the Apes is basically a remake. Set in the same universe as the classic 1968 Charlton Heston film in which an astronaut finds himself stranded on a planet where Apes are an intelligent ruling class who keep humans as slaves, Rise tells the story of how the Apes came to power in the first place. It's a story that's already been told in the 1972 movie Conquest of the Planet of the Apes , but told poorly. The original Apes film is a science fiction masterpiece but the sequels and eventual prequels that followed were of increasingly lesser quality and as a result increasingly less seen. That makes Rise the best kind of remake, the kind that sets out to right what once went wrong.
In doing that Rise ditches most of the specifics of the 1972 movie, which was set in a future society on planet Earth, and instead sets itself in modern times. It keeps only a few nods to that movie's premise, such as the name of the movie's simian lead: Caesar. James Franco may get top billing on the movie's posters, but at best he's only a supporting character, the irresponsible but well meaning scientist who accidentally gives a baby chimp super-intelligence in the course of searching for a cure to Alzheimer's.
Franco's character, who should definitely have been named Dr. Zaius but ends up being called Dr. Rodman instead, sneaks his super-intelligent chimp out of the lab and raises him at home as a pet. He names the baby ape Caesar and marvels at his hairy friend's rapid mental development while taking him for occasional walks in the park. Except as you'd expect from any sentient creature, as the chimp grows older and starts to test the limits of his human intelligence, he begins to resent being kept on a leash. Worse, he worries at the bondage his ape brothers are kept in, seen through his eyes it's almost as though his cousins are being kept as slaves. All of this is conveyed without words by a creature created entirely by computer generated effects, thanks in no small part to a performance given by the never seen on screen Andy Serkis, sweating away on stage while wearing a motion capture outfit.
As he did with Gollum in Lord of the Rings, Serkis gives Caesar a life beyond that of any normal animated creation. He feels real, worse he feels utterly frightening. Most of that is conveyed with a glance, or a look, sometimes it's conveyed with crazed fits of rage. Caesar may be intelligent, but the wild heart of an ape still beats within his chest. That could have been a problem because Rise of the Planet of the Apes needs someone for the audience to root for, and for all his gentleness sometimes Caesar seems as though he wants to rip your arms off.
If you know anything about the original film then you know that in the end the humans are going to lose. Franco's character may be likable but you know going in that anything he tries to do is ultimately hopeless. That means we have to sympathize with Caesar's revolution and, when apes start roaming the streets ripping apart our best Victoria's Secrets, it's hard not to resent that. Yet, amazingly, Rise of the Planet of the Apes pulls it off. It does it slowly, allowing us to be scared of Caesar while also admiring him, it builds an ethos around him, makes more than a monkey out of him. Maybe for some it won't happen until the movie's final few frames, but eventually, you may just find a little place inside yourself that's rooting for those damn, dirty apes.
All of that works in part thanks to special effects technology, but in larger part because of the Rise script. The truly shocking, unforgettable, genre changing moment of the Heston film in which both he and the audience learn the true identity of the planet on which he's been stranded can never be topped, so Rise of the Planet of the Apes doesn't try. Instead it sets out simply to be a well-crafted, carefully woven, big budget summer movie. It contains elements of smart science fiction, maybe even a few ideas which some might find challenging, but for the most part it knows its place and simply sets out to be the best it can possibly be as a solid summer movie. It works exactly as it should.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes isn't a game changer or a brain teaser or the kind of movie people will be talking about years from now. It's not without its problems either. While the special effects are for the most part incredibly convincing, with that many computer generated apes running around on screen every once in awhile at least one of them is bound to look a little cartoony. There's a strange bit of unexplained fudging when it comes to sense of scale too, the movie never seems sure just how big Caesar is supposed to be. Is he a normal sized chimpanzee or is he some sort of giant, genetic freak? It's never addressed in the subtext, but by the end of the film he's suddenly eye to eye with James Franco, almost looming over him, even though earlier in the day he seemed about waist-high. This Caesar, for all his skills, would never work as a stand-in for BJ's best friend Bear. I doubt he could fit inside the big rig's cab.
So this isn't the Heston movie reborn or even particularly compelling science fiction, but it is solid blockbuster filmmaking. This is a well made movie, the kind that deserves praise for setting out to do something and doing it very well. Rise of the Planet of the Apes deserves your ticket dollars, and since it isn't in 3D, you don't even have to spend all that many of them to see it. Support it and maybe in the next one they'll bring back good old Dr. Zaius.


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While President Barack Obama will get a lot of attention for what he says as he kicks off his second term, a good chunk of the world will be focused on what First Lady Michelle Obama—and her daughters—wear.
Mrs. Obama chose a navy Thom Browne coat and dress with fabric designed on the style of a man's silk tie. The first lady wore the ensemble as she and her family entered St. John's Episcopal Church across from the White House for a service, a tradition on Inauguration Day.
Mrs. Obama's belt and shoes are from J. Crew and the cardigan is designed by Reed Krakoff, according to a White House official. Her necklace was designed by Cathy Waterman.
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Much of the fun of your cruise vacation is in the hands of a very important crew member – the cruise director. The cruise director is responsible for all activities and entertainment on the ship, from musicians and lecturers to deck parties and evening shows.
The cruise director is also one of the most visible crew members, serving as emcee for events, attending receptions and making announcements on the public address system. In fact, the cruise director's voice is likely to be the first you hear each morning, announcing the port call for the day. In fact, you may wonder why your cruise director sounds so cheerful at 8 a.m. when you saw him or her talking and laughing with passengers on deck just a few hours before.
Cruise directors are dedicated professionals and skilled managers. Some have deputies and assistants, especially on larger ships. The activities and entertainment arranged by cruise directors vary by cruise: some focus on lectures and educational pursuits, while others emphasize parties and games. Whatever type of entertainment is offered, the cruise director ensures that it all runs smoothly.
Many cruise directors begin their cruise careers as entertainers. Your cruise director may be a talented singer, dancer or comic. Some have experience in other segments of the hospitality industry, such as hotel management. What they all seem to have in common is an outgoing, fun-loving personality combined with great organizational skills.
While the cruise director's job looks like fun and games, there's more to it than most passengers see. As officers of their ships, cruise directors must have full knowledge of safety and security procedures. They manage and train their staffs. They are also masters of the contingency plan: when a performer's illness or an equipment malfunction occurs, cruise directors are always ready to implement "Plan B" so that all you and your fellow passengers see is a polished line-up of entertainment.
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Botox, commonly referred to as fillers, is the cosmetic name for botulinum toxin. Botox is commonly used as a filler to temporarily reduce or eliminate wrinkles in the forehead, fine lines around the sides of the eyes, and frown lines in between the eyebrows. Botox injections are also solutions to ailments such as blepharospasm (uncontrolled blinking), strabismus (lazy eye), and excessive sweating.
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Portland is updating its Comprehensive Plan, as required by the State of Oregon, through a process called periodic review. Below, you can find information on the City's periodic review work plan, which defines the steps for how the Comprehensive Plan will be updated. You can also find information and materials on each periodic review task as they are available.
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This report documents succession events of CEOs of S&P 500 companies. In addition to updates on historical trends, the report features discussions of the most notable cases of CEO succession in 2011 (based on press announcements and other publicly available information) as well as the results of a survey of corporate secretaries and general counsel on the succession oversight practices of their boards. Among this year's findings: 19.2 percent of successions involved an outsider CEO appointment, which is consistent with the continuing trend of hiring outsiders that has been recorded since the 1970s.


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This weekend – August 11th and 12th – my bride Jennifer Van Meter and I will be attending Geek Girl Con in Seattle. This is the second year of a show that was stunningly successful last year, and one that I've been looking forward to since it was announced for this year.
If you're in the Seattle area and are still undecided about attending, I urge your to come off the fence and dive into the pool, so to speak; this isn't a comic book show nor a Whedon Celebration nor a cosplay extravaganza; this is all of those things and more. Programming covers discussion of the Voyager Missions to the Myth of the Female Perspective in Video Games to a Q&A with Gail Simone and the list goes on and on and on.
Odds are you'll find me (and Jen) at our table in Artists Alley – Table 400. We'll have lots of our books for sale, including Lady Sabre shirts and posters, as well as comics, novels, and etceteras. If we're not there, we'll be returning shortly. Or longly. But eventually.
You will also find us at the following panels:
Saturday August 11th
Capes and Canes – Room 301/302 – 10:30am to 11:20am.
Chicks Dig Comics – Room 301/302 – 12:30pm to 1:20pm.
Signing – Media Table w/ Chicks Dig Comics Crew – 3:00pm to 3:45pm.
Saturday August 11th
Capes and Canes – Room 301/302 – 10:30am to 11:20am.
Sunday August 12th
Writing with a Y-Chromosome – Room 303 – 10:30am to 11:20am.
Signing – University Bookstore Table – 11:45 to 12:30pm.
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