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Jude Terror reviews the second issue of Larime Taylor's A Voice in the Dark, and Taylor offers you a free copy!
Last year, I posted a satirical article talking about the Kickstarter for Dark Zoey, a project by up-and-coming cartoonist Larime Taylor. This being The Outhouse, I used the article to poke fun at mainstream comics creators. Larime has a good sense of humor, and we became friends on Facebook (the same is, interestingly enough, true of Ethan Van Sciver, one of the artists I made fun of in the original article).
Anyway, I've watched the project evolve following the very successful Kickstarter (it made more than six times the funding goal). It's now called A Voice in the Dark, a catchier title for sure, and there are two issues completed, with a third underway. But, despite media coverage from top comics sites like Newsarama, Bleeding Cool, and The Outhouse, as well as the massively successful Kickstarter, Larime has yet to find a publisher willing to publish the book. We think those guys must be crazy, but Larime Taylor is undeterred. He's planning on publishing the book himself if a publisher doesn't pick it up, and to build an audience in the meantime, he's letting Outhouse readers download a PDF of issue 1 and 2 from his website (scroll to the bottom for links), a strategy that has become increasingly common in the music industry in the past decade, and which will hopefully translate well to comics here.
But that's not all I want to talk about today. I want to talk about how good this comic is, and why it deserves to get even more press than its gotten so far.
First of all, issue #2 is even better than issue #1 (review of #1 here). It seems like Taylor has gained confidence from the positive response to the first issue from both fans and industry legends like Neil Gaiman and Terry Moore, the latter of which called the comic a cross between Dexter and Strangers in Paradise. Taylor's art gets even better than before thanks to this confidence.
Little things matter here. Have you ever heard an actor talk about figuring out what to do with their body while acting out a scene? They should talk to Taylor, because every panel in this book features characters doing something that compliments their words and thoughts. Characters touch each other while conversing. They fiddle with objects when they're nervous. They gesture while talking. It makes the characters seem alive, which, of course, makes it more effective when Zoey imagines killing one of them.
Big things matter here as well. One of the things that stood out to me on reading this issue is the diversity of characters you see in this comic. From the first issue, the comic has done a great job of naturally including characters with diverse backgrounds, something that's sadly rare in comics today. But in issue #2, what stood out immediately to me was diversity of bodies as opposed to race or sexuality (though there is plenty of that as well). Characters range from slender to curvy to overweight. Not only is this a good thing from a perspective of allowing all readers to identify with the characters in the books(as a fat bearded man, i am always an advocate of fat bearded characters in comics, like Zoey's Ethics and Morality teacher, Ed Dean), but it also makes the world seem more full and realistic.
This isn't the spandex world of mainstream comics. It's the world you and I live in every day. Hell, do you see that quiet girl in the corner of the Starbucks you're reading this review in, drinking an iced mocha with breve? She could be dreaming about about stabbing you in the eye with a pencil right this minute. She probably is, actually. You're kind of annoying.
Which brings us to the story. Zoey is a college freshman at Blair's College in Cutter's Circle, California. She's just like any other 18 year old girl, except that she fantasizes constantly about killing people. She recently acted on those fantasies, murdering the girl who almost drove her recently adopted sister Seven to suicide after toying with Seven's emotions and outing her to her parents. Zoey just started a job as a talk show host on the local radio station, KILL FM, where she hosts a show for anonymous callers to talk about their darkest secrets.
That right there is more than enough for a story, and some writers might stretch that out for 12 issues, but not Larime Taylor. What really impressed me about the story in this issue is that Taylor immediately started building on these concepts, dropping new layers into the mix. There's the introduction of Zoey's uncle, a gay homicide detective, for one, which is sure to become a conflict of interest when Zoey's actions start coming back to haunt her. He's in town to investigate a brutal ritualistic serial killing that sees a naked cheerleader nailed to a tree.
Oh, and there's the cliffhanger this issue ends on, which puts a life in Zoey's hands in a way that doesn't involve stabbing, imaginary or otherwise. It's not a new situation for Zoey, who we already know can experience empathy despite her homicidal urges because of her love for her sister, but it will be interesting to see how she handles it when it's not someone close to her.
All of this comes together into the second issue of a comic that shows a lot of promise for the series as a whole. There's no shortage of story potential in all of these characters and side plots, and Taylor seems more than capable of building on it. All that's left is for the book to make it to print, and while we'd be perfectly happy to buy it out of the back of someone's 1992 Honda Civic hatchback like a junkie looking to score, it would certainly be nice if the comic were picked up by an established publisher.
Are you listening, Oni Press?
Until publishers come to their senses, we encourage you to read the first two issues at the links below, and then take to your blogs, your twitters, your facebook, your tumblrs, write a letter to your congressman, mail breakfast foods to Dan Didio's office, take twelve innocent bystanders hostage and execute them one by one until Dark Horse agrees to... well okay, maybe you shouldn't take things too far, but we think that once you read it for yourself, you're gonna want to do all you can to spread the word.
And if you don't... well, we've got an imaginary screwdriver in our hands, and we're not afraid to use it.
Check out A Voice in the Dark with these free PDF copies, courtesy of future comics superstar Larime Taylor:


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Jan 11, 2011 | 400 Pages
"A picture is worth a thousand words. In this enlightening book, and on the well-illustrated DVD, John Rush identifies the real Jesus and argues convincingly for the prevalence of the historical, religious use of hallucinogenic mushrooms in Christianity."
—Jan Irvin, author of The Holy Mushroom.
"Going beyond the identification of putative fungal shapes in the religious art of Europe, John Rush has provided an eloquent and sophisticated context for their significance, a kind of grammar of symbolic forms, lavishly illustrated, opening up an essential topic of dialogue for anyone interested in understanding the creative imagination of this vast and intriguing period of history."
—Carl Ruck, professor of Classics at Boston University and author of Sacred Mushrooms of the Goddess: Secrets of Eleusis
"The Mushroom in Christian Art is a valuable addition to the growing corpus on the question of whether hallucinogens played a central role in Christianity and, as such, is well worth the read."
—The Psychedelic Press UK

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This weekend of April 21 and 22 was a big one for the local high school sailing teams competing in the Gold and Silver Pacific Coast championships.
Newport Harbor High School qualified for the National Championship with a fifth place overall finish in the Pacific Coast Interscholastic Sailing Assn. (PCISA), narrowly beating out rival Corona del Mar after a close regatta at the Gold Pacific Coast Championship (PCC) in San Francisco.
In the Gold PCC Regatta at Treasure Island, Corona del Mar placed fifth and trophied, finishing just ahead of Newport Harbor, which placed 6th. But the course wasn't enough for CdM to go on to the national championship.
Because of Newport Harbor's third-place standing in the PCISA, the combined scores of all of the regattas of the year, plus the Gold PCC score, launched Newport Harbor above its rival CdM by one point.
On May 12 and 13 in Seattle, Newport Harbor will join three San Diego teams, Point Loma, Cathedral Catholic and Coronado, as well as the San Francisco team of Branson, to represent the Pacific Coast Region in the High School National Double Handed Sailing Championship — the Mallory Cup.
Newport Harbor High School also placed first, second and third at the Silver PCC in Cabrillo Beach, sweeping the event with all three of its Silver teams. Only one Gold team is allowed at the Gold PCC. CdM's Silver teams placed seventh and 17th.
The Gold PCC was a very challenging and competitive regatta with dramatically different wind conditions and weather each day. Saturday, April 21, was a beautiful and sunny day in the Bay Area, with temperatures in the 80s, and a light but steady breeze from the west at 8 to 10 knots through most of the day.
There were eight races in each division on Saturday, and Cathedral Catholic and Branson were tied for the overnight lead. Newport Harbor was in fifth with 89 points, with sailors Ryan Davidson and Greer Watson in A Division and Daniel Segerblom and Francesca Cappellini in B Division. CdM was in sixth with 109 points, with sailors Michael Madigan and Chloe Dapp in A Division and Conner Ketler and Caitlyn Johnson in B Division.
Like the wind, the competition became fiercer, and like all good rivalries, the bragging rights between Newport Harbor and CdM of who would beat whom at the regatta came down to the last race.
With the top four places secured, Newport Harbor was leading CdM while vying for fifth place until the fourth race. Michael Madigan and his brother Jimmy of CdM, and Conner Kelter and Christophe Killian sailed with consistency and speed to help improve CdM's score. CdM came on strong and led Newport Harbor by five points.
Keenen Chung came in as Ryan Davidson's crew in the next race and they placed fifth. Then Daniel Segerblom and Erik Higbie came in third, so Newport Harbor was now tied with CdM with 163 points after after races.
Newport Harbor continued to sail strong in the sixth race on Sunday, by scoring 4th place in both the A and B divisions, which gave them the lead over CdM by eight points.
The Madigan brothers of CdM scored a second place in the A division, and Ryan Davidson and Keenan Chung of Newport Harbor scored a fourth. This brought CdM closer to NHHS's fifth place. Now, the Sailors only led the Sea Kings by a six-point margin.
Conner Kelter and Christophe Killian of CdM came in fourth, which gave CdM a five-point over Newport Harbor, thus taking the fifth-place trophy from their rivals. Kelter, who also sailed with Clare Dahl, came in third overall in the B division.
Michael Madigan of CdM and Ryan Davidson of Newport Harbor tied for fifth place in the A division. Daniel Segerblom ended up fourth in the B division. Jackie Cappellini and Chase Wells were alternates for Newport Harbor's team. And Jack Thompson was an alternate for CdM's team.
Meanwhile, the Silver Pacific Coast Championship was held in Cabrillo Beach at the mouth of Long Beach Harbor. With 21 teams competing, Newport Harbor High School dominated the event.
The team of Wills Johnson and Megan Roach in A Division and Harrison Vandervort and Kristina Miller in B division came in first with 102 points. Newport Harbor's team of Davis Hanscom and Kappy Fuller in A Division and Bayley Davidson, Victoria Roach, and Nathan Mayhugh in B Division came in second with 139 points.
In third place overall was Newport Harbor's team of Jack Martin, Katie Calder and Baron Yahn in A Division and Camden Daily, Finn Dobkin and Colin Duffy in B Division with 156 points.
MARY CAPPELLINI is a Newport Harbor High School sailing team parent.


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A cyber-attack that targeted Iran's oil ministry and main export terminal was caused by the most sophisticated computer worm yet developed, experts have warned.
The virus appears to have been directed primarily at a small number of organisations and individuals in Iran, the West Bank, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates. This will inevitably raise suspicions that Israel or the US were involved in some way.
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The CrySys Laboratory, in Hungary, said: "The results of our technical analysis supports the hypothesis that [the worm] was developed by a government agency of a nation state with significant budget and effort, and it may be related to cyberwarfare activities."It is certainly the most sophisticated malware we [have] encountered. Arguably, it is the most complex malware ever found."
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Symantec undertook a detailed analysis of the groundbreaking Stuxnet virus, which targeted Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities two years ago, sending some of their centrifuges spinning out of control. Cox said W32.Flamer appeared to be even more complex than Stuxnet, and that it was an incredibly clever, comprehensive "spying programme".
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"The Bay Area Prepares for the Next Large Earthquake"
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- Being Smart and Social About Preparedness - Smart Phone Technology and Social Networking
- Emily White, American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter and Kristin Hogan, San Francisco Department of Emergency Management
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- Dr. Peggy Hellweg, UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory
- Earthquake Safety Program and Earthquake Early Warning at BART
- Kevin Copley and Thomas Horton, Bay Area Rapid Transit System
Speaker Biographies
Thor Poulsen, City of Hayward Fire Department
Thor Poulsen has spent the past thirty three years in fire service including working as a Firefighter, Operator, Suppression Captain, Haz-Mat Specialist, Acting Battalion Chief, Training Officer and currently serves as Hayward Fire Dept's Public Education Officer. He also works with the Disaster Preparedness Outreach Program and is in charge of communication activities including the website and CERT training. In addition to these duties, he is also the media information liaison for significant events involving fire department emergencies. Captain Poulsen brings a wealth of experience and employs a realistic approach as to what the fire department can deliver in a timely format that enables the public knowledge of what to expect during a large scale disaster.
Emily White, American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter
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In 2009 Emily and her team completed the Prepare Bay Area initiative through which more than 1 million local residents learned how to make an emergency communication plan, build a disaster supply kit and safely respond to emergencies of all kinds. Building on the success of Prepare Bay Area, her team launched the Ready Neighborhoods initiative in 2011, a four year program designed to transform 50 underserved communities into models of disaster resilience, empowering local residents with the skills, tools and networks necessary to play a leadership role in their own community's disaster response effort when the time comes.
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Kristin Hogan, San Francisco Department of Emergency Management (DEM)
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Dr. Peggy Hellweg, UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory
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- EBMUD Board Room July 22, 2010
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I looked at the recipe in disbelief. NINE eggs? Surely that was a misprint. Only 3/4 cup flour in a cake? Not likely. As I studied about coconut flour, though, I saw that, yes, it does take that many eggs to make a successful cake with this healthy type of flour, and it takes a much smaller amount of flour.
Coconut flour, as we talked about yesterday, has lots of fiber and is extremely absorbent. It also has no gluten, which makes baking with it a challenge. The info I found says that if you are substituting coconut flour for white flour in a recipe, you can't use cup for cup. You have to use 1/4 to 1/3 cup per cup of grain-based flour. Also, you have to use about 6 eggs per cup of flour just to make your baked goods hold together.
I tried this recipe, and was delighted with the results. It's moist and tasty — and guilt-free. The flour and the large number of eggs make this low glycemic and high in protein. There is a lot of fiber in the cake, lowering the GI index number even more. I made it with coconut sugar, which also gives it a lower number than a cake with white sugar. With the coconut milk frosting, it was a real treat!
My grandsons were visiting yesterday when I tried this recipe, and they gave it a two-thumbs up — although two of the three kids didn't care for the frosting.
Here is the recipe:
Coconut Flour Chocolate Cake
• ½ cup coconut oil
• ¼ cup cocoa powder
• ¼ cup coconut milk
• 9 eggs
• 1 ½ cups sugar or alternative (I used coconut sugar)
• ¾ teaspoon salt (Himalayan is best!)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• ¾ cup sifted coconut flour
• ¾ teaspoon baking powder
1. Melt coconut oil in a saucepan over low heat.
2.Add cocoa powder and coconut milk and mix together. Remove from heat and set aside.
3. In a bowl, mix together eggs, sugar, salt, and vanilla.
4. Stir in cocoa mixture.
5. Combine coconut flour with baking powder and whisk into batter until there are no lumps.
6. Pour batter into greased 8x8x2 or 9x9x2-inch pan.
7. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes or until knife inserted into center comes out clean.
8. Cool and cover with frosting, (optional) of your choice.
Here is the frosting I used: //www.beliefnet.com/columnists//beyondgorgeous/2012/04/1458.html
So you can have your cake — without wearing it on your hips. Just don't eat the whole thing!
Eating to live and living for Christ,
Susan Jordan Brown
Once there was a famous tight-rope walker. He stood before a huge crowd by Niagara Falls, preparing to do his most daring feat.
"How many of you believe that I can walk across Niagara Falls on this tightrope?" he asked the people gathered there.
"We believe you can do it!" they shouted.
So the guy got up on the rope and started across the falls. Far, far, below he could see the water thundering down the cliff. If he fell, it would be instant death. Fearlessly, he kept walking – all he way across Niagara Falls and back.
"Now, do you believe that I can walk across this tightrope pushing a wheelbarrow?" he asked the enthusiastic crowd.
"Yes, yes! You con do it," they screamed.
So the tightrope walker took his wheelbarrow and effortlessly pushed it across the slippery wet rope high above the water.
The crowd went wild, clapping and cheering.
"Now," the man said, "For my most dangerous trick. I'm going to push someone in my wheelbarrow across Niagara Falls. How many of you believe I can do it?
"Yes, we believe you can do it!" the crowd shouted.
"Okay," said he said. "Who will be my first volunteer?"
Total silence. Everyone believed that he was able to do it – but they didn't believe to the point of trusting their lives into his hands. They didn't believe enough to get into his wheelbarrow.
Can you guess why I've told you his story? It's because this lesson is about faith.
Is faith just believing something is true? No, it's more than that. It's believing to the point of surrendering your life. Faith isn't just knowing that Jesus is the son of God – that He lived a perfect life and died on the cross for the sins of His people. It's more than knowing – it's believing to the point of trusting you life to Jesus.
Once when Jesus was with his disciples, Peter had an opportunity to learn about faith. I'm sure it was a lesson he never forgot. Jesus had been speaking for hours to a huge crowd of people. At last He sent them away and told the disciples to take the boat across the Sea of Galilee. He went by Himself to a mountain to pray.
Late that night a storm came up. A strong wind blew and giant waves tossed the little boat around as if it were a toy boat. The disciples were afraid they would sink – and then something happened that made them forget about the storm.Out on the waves they saw a person – and that person wasn't in a boat. He was walking on the water.
"Aaaah – It's a ghost," they cried in terror.
"Don't be afraid," Jesus said, "It is I."
"Is that really you, Lord?" Peter called out. "If you are really Jesus, tell me to come to you on the water.
"Come," Jesus said.
With his eyes on Jesus, Peter climbed out of the boat and stepped into the raging sea. He stood up – he was doing it! He was walking on water, too!
Then as he was walking, he took his eyes off Jesus and looked at the waves shipped high by the howling wind. He began to be afraid and started sinking into the water.
"Lord, save me!" he cried out.
Immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and caught Peter.
"Oh, you of little faith – why did you doubt?" Jesus asked him.
Peter's answer isn't in the Bible – but I think we can figure it out. He doubted because he took his eyes off Jesus. He looked at the waves and began to wonder whether Jesus really was the Son of God. Did Jesus really have power over the storm? Suddenly Peter wasn't really sure. He started sinking because He lacked faith.
Sometimes we are like Peter. It's one thing to believe that Jesus is God and that He can protect us and guide us in the right way. It's something else when we believe it to the extent that we surrender our lives to Him.
Yet, that's what faith is – it's taking ourselves out of our own keeping, and entrusting ourselves into His keeping. If He says to go – we go. If He says to speak – we speak. We don't worry about what will happen to us, because we are His and it's His business to protect us. That's what true faith is all about.
When we read in the Bible, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in Him should hot perish but have everlasting life," we see Jesus talking about the surrendering kind of belief.
Believing in Jesus and trusting His sacrifice to save you – surrendering you life to Him – that's what salvation is all about. It's not just praying a prayer, or going to church. It's giving up to God.
It's getting into Jesus' wheelbarrow.
Do you have that kind to faith? Or are you like the crowd who believed the man could push that wheelbarrow across the Falls – but wouldn't get on and ride. They didn't really believe, did they? Do you really believe in Jesus?
Eating to Live and Living for Christ,
Susan Jordan Brown
"We asked 150 Parisians how they knew they were through with dinner," food psychologist Brian Wansink, PhD, said. "They said, 'When we're full.' When we asked 150 Chicagoans that they said, 'When the plate is empty.'" *
No wonder 2/3 of American adults are overweight and half that number is obese. We don't stop until the food is gone!
If we are to get our eating under control, we need to learn to listen to the cues our body is giving us and get out of the habit of eating as long as the food holds out. Here are some ideas for eating on purpose instead of mindlessly.
- If you don't need to eat it — don't buy it! Yes, you are buying it for visiting grandkids, but who is really going to eat it? Offer the kids an apple, instead.
- Don't buy large, economy sized anything — especially not chips and candy.
- Eat only in the dining room or kitchen.
- Don't read, watch television, or get on the computer while eating. Just eat.
- Eat with a fork.
- Take small bites.
- Chew your food.
- Make a vegetable tray or fruit the most accessible food in the kitchen. If you do eat without thinking, eat something good for you.
- Cook only the amount you need. Don't cook a huge casserole if there are only two of you to eat it.
These are just a few ideas to break the automatic eating habit. Each one is painless, and you probably won't even notice the missing food. You will notice the way your clothes fit better, though!
Eating to live and living for Christ,
Susan Jordan Brown
*Quoted by WebMD from a speech at the American Psychological Association's annual meeting, Washington D.C., August 5, 2011. "Modifying the Food Environment: From Mindless Eating to Mindlessly Eating Better."
H.A.L.T. — Don't get too hungry, too angry, too lonely, or too tired. But how do you do that? How do you avoid getting in a dangerously tempting position?
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South Dakota Women Open Summit League 0-1, Play at IUPUI and Fort Wayne in Week Two
The South Dakota women's basketball team isn't wasting anytime with a Summit League 'gut check' in 2014.
The Coyotes find themselves on the road for the first three games of the conference schedule, knowing that wins are hard to come by on foreign soil in this league.
The first in that trio of games was last weekend in Denver, where USD matched the Pioneers basket-for-basket for the first 31 minutes of the game, but went just 3-of-18 down the stretch and had a number of defensive letdowns, losing by 7.
It was the first time leading scorer Nicole Seekamp was on the floor after missing two games, and a considerable amount of practice time, with an ankle injury. Seekamp did log 31 minutes Sunday in Denver, but struggled to find her shooting touch from the floor (1-for-7), but did make up for it at the free throw line, where she made 11-of-12.
Head coach Amy Williams on Seekamp and the Denver game:
This week's roadtrip starts Thursday night at IUPUI.
The Jags are led offensively by DeAirra Goss, who's averaging 12 points a game, and defensively by Dee-Dee Bellamy, who's in the top ten in the league in steals.
The Coyotes had IUPUI's number in 2013, handing them their only conference defeats and beating them for a third time in the Summit League Tournament semifinals.
Coach Williams knows the challenges her team is facing with this tough early conference schedule:
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text: Many thanks for the online and offline feedback. I've been reviewing the mentioned alternatives. From what I can tell none of them allow nodes to join/leave at random. Our problem is that a user might submit 500-50,000 jobs that depend on a particular dataset and have a variable number of jobs/nodes running at any given time. So ideally each node that a job lands on would do something like: 1) Is this node subscribed to this dataset? If not start a client. 2) Is the dataset completely downloaded? If not wait. Because of the node churn we didn't want the send <file/dir> <list of nodes> approach. We also wanted to handle multiple file transfers of multiple directories for multiple users at once. From what I tell, most (all?) other approaches assume a mostly idle network and don't robustly handle cases where 1/3rd of the nodes have highly contended links. Because we are using the links for MPI, NFS, and torrents we didn't want to use an approach that wasn't robust with highly variable per node bandwidth. Any comments on how well the various alternatives work with a busy network? Seems like any tree based approach would have problems. As far as the torrent creation process. My small 5 disk RAID manages 300-400MB/sec and manages around 80% of that for creating torrents. It looks single threaded, parallel friendly, and easy to parallelize. But from what I can tell torrent creation is I/O limited at least for us. I already have some parallel checksumming code around for another project, I could likely tweak it to create torrents if people out there thing this is a real bottleneck. I like the torrent behavior of guaranteed file integrity and self-healing files. Using MPI does make quite a bit of sense for clusters with high speed interconnects. Although I suspect that being network bound for IO is less of a problem. I'd consider it though, I do have sdr/ddr/qdr clusters around, but so far (knock on wood) not IO limited. I've done a fair bit of MPI programming, but I'm not sure it's easy/possible to have nodes dynamically join/leave. Worst case I guess you could launch a thread/process for each pair of peers that wanted to trade blocks and still use TCP for swapping metadata about what peers to connect to and block to trade.


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This dish looks and tastes like summer. The vivid color of the veggies, the freshness of the herbs and the brightness of the lemon make for a healthy and delicious side during the hot summer months.
I think the corn would be tasty grilled if you have the grill on already…it helps to not heat up the kitchen. (I also like to utilize the burner on our outdoor grill.) I used shelled beans from the farmer's market and fresh basil from my garden. Also, I did not have canola oil so I used vegetable oil and it worked great.
My husband asked what exactly succotash was, so I looked up the history. Pretty interesting.
There are many ways to prepare succotash. What's your favorite?


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SCSU Hockey Forward Brodzinski And Recruit Storm Drafted Sunday
SCSU sophomore forward Jonny Brodzinski and incoming recruit Ben Storm were each selected in Sunday's NHL Draft.
The Los Angeles Kings chose Brodzinski in the fifth round of the draft, the 148th pick overall. The Blaine native scored 22 goals to lead SCSU's Frozen Four team this season.
Brodzinski joins current Huskies Kevin Gravel and Nic Dowd as LA Kings draft picks.
Storm, who played for Muskegon in the USHL last season, was selected in the sixth round by the Colorado Avalanche.


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The Keating Hotel is the first luxury "Boutique Hotel" in San Diego, a blend of Italian styling and sophisticated, personalised service. Designed by Pininfarina, at its first experience of hotel design, the Keating is located in a building dating to 1890 in the Gaslamp Quarter at the heart of the California town.
The hotel has 35 rooms on four floors, 72 beds, eight suites and an interior with an uncluttered, ergonomic, essential style in the best Pininfarina tradition, where the beauty of the forms blends with practicality in every detail.
In May 2008, the Keating was proclaimed the first winner of the Earth-Minded Awards by Hospitality Design magazine and by the American Society of Interior Designers. It received the award because the project provides a possible solution to the issue of sustainability. In June of the same year, the Keating was listed among the "33 best new business hotels" by the prestigious international magazine Fortune, which travelled the world with the design bible "Wallpaper", looking for the loveliest and most hospitable spots for businessmen.


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In 1991, the very first web browser was released. Named 'Nexus', it had very basic capabilities, and could not display much more than the most simple stylesheet.
Thankfully, technology has evolved a long way and there are now many options depending on your surfing preferences. Browsers are now able to display everything from a spreadsheet to a feature-length movie. While evolution brings choice, this is not necessarily a good thing. Now, we are faced with the problem of choosing and recommending a browser which is intuitive for both developers and users. Firefox or Internet Explorer? Chrome or Safari? Opera or Netscape? Flock? Camino? Sea Monkey? It certainly is a difficult choice. However, this article should help you to weigh out the Pros and Cons of each browser.
Google Chrome
Google Chrome was released by Google in December 2008, with promises that it would load websites significantly faster, and only one tab would crash, not the entire window.
One largely significant downfall to the browser, however, is the fact that it has no built in RSS reader. If you are rely a lot on your RSS for daily information, be warned that Chrome may not be for you. For example, when reading an RSS feed, the user is presented with many lines of text in a single block, with no spaces, which makes for a rather unpleasant reading experience.
Security is obviously paramount to any developer. Chrome regularly downloads blacklists of malicious websites, to protect the user from viruses and malware.
The user interface is very plain and simple, and there is currently no possibility to expand Chrome with plugins.
In conclusion, Google Chrome should be recommended to users of a website, but I would not recommend it for use by developers.
Development Tools: 2/10
Security: 6/10
Speed: 8/10
Reliability: 7/10
Interface: 5/10
This means that Google Chrome has scored 28/50, but how will it fare against Firefox and Internet Explorer?
The security for Firefox is standard for most browsers, but again, there are many plugins which can be downloaded to enhance the security of the browser. Firefox is well laid out, but the top quarter of the screen is dominated with toolbars and such, but these can easily be removed.
All in all, Firefox is a useful tool for the developer, and comes with some great stuff as standard.
Development Tools: 8/10
Security: 5/10
Speed: 6/10
Reliability: 7/10
Interface: 6/10
This means that Firefox has scored 32/50. How will Internet Explorer fare against this score?
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer is the default browser packaged with Microsoft Operating System. It is certainly not renowned for its development tools, and offers only a 'developer toolbar' download. The developer toolbar includes the tools which Firefox has generically. Many security vulnerabilities have been associated with Internet Explorer. The main way that hackers exploit the browser is through the ActiveX controls that it routinely uses. All a hacker has to do is write a malicious ActiveX control and then they can access all of your files.
Internet Explorer also includes a tool called the 'Favorites Center', which is a glorified version of the favorites toolbar.
The browser is typically very slow to load, and with security vulnerabilities, it's not the ideal developers browser.
Development Tools: 6/10
Security: 3/10
Speed: 5/10
Reliability: 7/10
Interface: 7/10
Internet Explorer has scored 28/50, meaning that Firefox is most likely the best browser to use as a web developer or a graphic designer.
We've talked about Firefox tools before on Elbowruminations but if you are looking for more, check out this post by Speckyboy.
If you're looking for an easy way to make sure your page looks good across all browsers or platforms, check out Browsershots.
And finally, for an exhaustive list of browsers and their history, wikipedia is the place to go.


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"As a practicing RIA and CEO of Total Rebalance Expert (TRX), I have experienced the benefits of account aggregation first-hand. As an RIA, my firm is now able to incorporate management of clients' 401(k)s and annuities, providing our clients with comprehensive management while providing our firm with additional AUM and fee revenue. TRX's seamless integration with the Morningstar® ByAllAccountsSM service makes tax-efficient management at the household level easy!"
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Pink Shares 'The Truth About Love' Album Artwork + More
- Are you ready? The album artwork for Pink's upcoming album 'The Truth About Love,' is finally here! As usual, the new mom looks fabulous in it. Pink also recently mentioned that she regrets tweeting right after having her gallbladder removed saying, "Next time someone gives me an anesthetic they should take away my iPhone." [Pink's Page + WENN]
- Even though she's only 19 and newly-engaged, Miley Cyrus is wasting no time on starting a family. A Cyrus family source said they want to have a baby "quickly." [US Weekly]
- Seems like DMX can't seem to keep his place in obscurity. The rapper was hospitalized with a concussion after flipping a four-wheeler he was riding near his home in South Carolina. C'mon, man! Put your Ruff Ryder days behind you! [TMZ]
- For those of you who are still keeping track, Katy Perry and Russell Brand's divorce has been finalized. Finally. [US Weekly]
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A framework for the development of personalized, distributed web-based configuration systems
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For the last two decades, configuration systems relying on AI techniques have successfully been applied in industrial environments. These systems support the configuration of complex products and services in shorter time with fewer errors and, therefore, reduce the costs of a mass-customization business model. The European Union-funded project entitled CUSTOMER-ADAPTIVE WEB INTERFACE FOR THE CONFIGURATION OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES WITH MULTIPLE SUPPLIERS (CAWICOMS) aims at the next generation of web-based configuration applications that cope with two challenges of today's open, networked economy: (1) the support for heterogeneous user groups in an open-market environment and (2) the integration of configurable subproducts provided by specialized suppliers. This article describes the CAWICOMS WORKBENCH for the development of configuration services, offering personalized user interaction as well as distributed configuration of products and services in a supply chain. The developed tools and techniques rely on a harmonized knowledge representation and knowledge-acquisition mechanism, open XMLbased protocols, and advanced personalization and distributed reasoning techniques. We exploited the workbench based on the real-world business scenario of distributed configuration of services in the domain of information processing-based virtual private networks.


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MONTREAL — It wasn't unlikemany crushing bodychecks you see in a hockey game. But as Friday's Bell Centrecontest between the Hamilton Bulldogs and Syracuse Crunch wore on, the newsabout Blake Geoffrion went from bad to worse.
The Canadiensprospect had successful surgery on his head Friday night and remains in an intensive care unit of a Montreal hospital after being thunderously but legally checked by Syracuse defencemanJean-Philippe Côté, himself a former Habs project.
On Saturday morning, the Canadiens issued an update on his condition: stable in intensive care after treatment for a depressed skull fracture. "He is out indefinitely, and the medical staff is expecting a complete recovery from his injury," the brief statement read.
Bulldogs head coach Sylvain Lefebvre said after his team's 4-1loss that Geoffrion's parents, inMontreal for the game, were with their son.
Geoffrion wascarrying the puck toward the Syracuse zone, along the far boards, when he waslined up and crushed by Côté. The Bulldogs forward fell heavily to the ice;Côté's skate appeared to strike Geoffrion's head, which also hit the ice, hishelmet still on.
The 24-year-oldmade it to his feet and skated off, directly to his team's dressing room, as amelée ensued, Hamilton's Michael Blunden battling Côté in a short fight.
Geoffrion lostsome blood in the incident, ice crews needing to scrape the ice, and he didn'treturn to the game.
Late in thecontest, on their Twitter account, the Canadiens announced that Geoffrion hadbeen transported to a hospital.
It was after thegame, to the media, that Lefebvre detailed the situation as much as he could.
The gravity ofthe injury was learned after an excellent crowd of 18,582 had left the BellCentre, having witnessed the first hockey game in the arena in seven months andtwo days.
It was on April7 that the Canadiens had defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1 in the NHL clubs'82nd and final game of the 2011-12 season, Montreal finishing 15th and last inthe Eastern Conference in a campaign that gave the word dysfunctional a wholenew meaning.
At the finalsiren that night, the Canadiens sent six players down to the Bulldogs, theirsenior farm team: goalie Robert Mayer, defenceman Frédéric St-Denis andforwards Louis Leblanc, Geoffrion, Aaron Palushaj and Gabriel Dumont.
That brought usto Friday's Bulldogs game at the Bell Centre, which since its last hockey gamehad staged 30 different musical acts, five boxing cards, pro wrestling, an NBAexhibition game, Disney on Ice and about a dozen miscellaneous shows.
Goalie Mayerreturned Friday with a 4-2-1 record this season, a 2.37 goals-against average and.921 save percentage. Geoffrion was his team's leading scorer with four goalsand two assists in nine games; Palushaj had five points on three goals and twoassists.
Dumont andSt-Denis were in Friday's lineup as well, though Leblanc remained out, sidelinedOct. 20 for four to six weeks with a high ankle sprain.
The doors to theBell Centre opened an hour before the 6:30 p.m. start, joyful fans streaming into make up what was a record crowd for the Bulldogs.
The farm teamhas a special corner in the hearts of hockey-starved Habs fans, the teamstocked with players that will someday — in some cases soon — be members of theparent, currently locked-out Canadiens.
No one knowsexactly when that will be, of course. The NHL lockout might be inching toward aresolution. Or, it could be in quicksand.
Gary Bettman washardly the picture of enthusiasm in New York as the Bell Centre's doors wereopening, a sombre Don Fehr following him to a microphone a couple hours later.
If anyonebelieved the NHL commissioner and the NHLPA executive director were makingsolid progress in narrowing the gap that separated them, you should rememberthe River Kwai and the sturdy bridge that spanned it.
But no matterthe gloominess hanging over the NHL, Friday's Bell Centre — notwithstandingGeoffrion's injury — was positively radiant.
Most obvious wasthe brightness of the rink itself, thanks to a new $700,000 lighting systemthat made its game debut. The 16-year-old setup was deemed obsolete, so withits impressive replacement, expect even the dimmest play to look spectacularlybright in person or on high-definition television.
The Canadienswere acknowledged, sort of. A Movember-moustached, CH-jersey'd Youppi! was inthe house and a pregame scoreboard tribute to Bulldogs alumni featured CareyPrice, Max Pacioretty and David Desharnais to raucous cheers. The clips ofdeparted brothers Andrei and Sergei Kostitsyn? Not so popular.
For those whocame for the dukes, hulking Habs blue-line prospect Jarred Tinordi and Syracusedefenceman Radko Gudas dropped the mitts and had a free-swinging tilt deep intothe second period.
With theCanadiens still in a state of suspended animation, the Bulldogs' visit was abit of a one-night salve for Montreal hockey fans.
No one expectedthe subplot that was the injury to Geoffrion, who was traded to the Canadiensfrom Nashville last February, choosing the No. 57 as a tribute to hisgrandfather and great-grandfather, Habs icons Bernie Geoffrion and HowieMorenz.
Everyone washolding their breath for the young man late Friday night. That's not how thisgame, the first in Montreal in 216 days, was supposed to end.


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Chinese anti-censorship campaigners have rejoiced at the news that the man considered to be the architect of the country's 'great firewall', Fang Binxing, has announced plans to retire his post after suffering ill health.
In a speech to graduating students at Beijing's University of Post and Telecommunication at which he holds a professorship, 53 year-old Binxing cited a serious illness as the reason for his departure.
"Due to excessive demands on my body, and without enough time to replenish, I have experienced a serious illness and lost the capacity to stay up working day and night," he said in translated comments on the University's website.
"I can no longer put both academic research and administrative duty on my shoulders. This is why I have told the authorities that I will not serve for another term."
No date for that departure has been confirmed but already some of his critics expressed satisfaction at the news.
"We are glad that you are gone!" read one of the more polite comments translated from a post on China's equivalent of Twitter, Weibo.
The technocratic Binxing has become a touchstone for unhappiness at the State's censorship of Internet content. In May 2011, a campaigner reportedly threw eggs and shoes at him during one of his speeches. Some months before that incident his growing unpopularity was underlined by the defacement of a blog he published. Such open expresions of disrespect were considered highly unusual.
If as appears the case Binxing is gone for good, the 'golden shield' censorship system he helped create will mark him out as the key figure in the early period of China's digital growth. Whether it survives in in the long term is uncertain but few expect any short-term relaxation of its filtering.
With US politicians angsting about possible spying backdoors in equipment from telecoms firm Huawei, Binxing was also one figure willing to accuse US companies such as Google and Cisco of playing the same game to carry out surveillance on China.


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On July 4, Secretary Clinton met with Armenian President Sargsian at the Presidential Palace in Yerevan, Armenia. Before their meeting, Secretary Clinton said:
"Mr. President, it is a particular pleasure and honor for me to be here in the Republic of Armenia. It would be so on any day, but it's especially appropriate to be here on the celebration of our Independence Day. And I understand tomorrow is your Constitution Day. So it's another connection between the United States and Armenia.
"I appreciate the very kind words about the efforts of the United States Government and the Obama Administration to work with you and bring about a peaceful, durable solution to the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, based on the Helsinki Principles.
"And I also appreciate the effort that you personally, along with your government, have expended on behalf of normalization of relations with Turkey. As you and I have discussed on previous occasions, the United States hopes to be able to support the eventual successful resolution of that, as well. We continue to believe that resolving these matters is in the best interests of the development and opportunities for greater regional peace and stability for the people of Armenia."
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Otto D. in the U.S.A. writes:
The Armenians are truly patient. Perhaps Sec'y Clinton can even allude to the "G" word while there.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in the plane of the trap to look I saw on cnn. She's also a good time to spend in New York, United Kingdom and the United States to overcome differences between the highly emotional, I thought to tell you how.
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Applied linear statistical models: regression, analysis of variance, and experimental designs
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Norman's Bistro is located on Muddy Waters Drive. Muddy Waters was the most influentinal Blues Singer of all time. Muddy Waters McKinley Morganfield lived in this area during when he first arrived in Chicago from Mississippi. He lived in Kenwood area of Chicago from 1954 to 1974.
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This meal has been fighting me for a while. A few weeks ago I mentioned on my Facebook page that I was making this dish and several people expressed interest and said they couldn't wait for the blog post and recipe. That night I set about the task of getting this all cooked up and must have lost my brain for a bit during the process because I forgot to add the salsa and the cheese. We just added them on top afterward and it tasted wonderful, but I didn't feel right taking a picture and posting if I didn't make the dish exactly as the recipe I am posting calls for. So I knew I had to make it again, and soon.
A few days later I was talking with my son's girlfriend about how much we missed seeing them and asked her if they would like to come over for dinner. I figured I could kill a few birds with one stone, see the kids, make the dish again, and have more
guinea pigs tasters available. In the end it was a fantastic night. I saw my kiddos, I prepared the dish correctly, and everyone loved it!! But then my camera batter died and I ended up using my iPhone to take the pictures! It fought me, but I won!!
I modified this from a recipe I found on Pintrest. I loved the idea of it, but wanted to add some flavor that I just felt the dish was lacking. I knew I didn't want to just go for jalapenos and blow peoples heads of with that kind of heat. So I went with chipotle, and nice warm heat. The kind that makes your mouth tingle, but in small amounts is just nice and warm. If you are extremely sensitive to spicy food you can cut the chipotle chili powder in half, or even use regular chili powder in its place. But I can tell you we all love the flavor of this dish as is.
I have made this dish with puff pastry dough and crescent roll dough. I was able to stretch the puff pastry dough much more so I was of course able to add more chicken mixture to the braid. The second time I used the crescent roll dough. It was smaller so I reduce the chicken mixture from my original recipe. It worked out well both ways. With the crescent roll braid I was able to comfortably have 4 entree size portions.
Chipotle Chicken Braid
adapted from a recipe on pilsbury.com
serves 4
1 can (8 oz) Pillsbury® Crescent Recipe Creations® refrigerated seamless dough sheet
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 small bell pepper, any color, sliced thin
1 small onion, sliced thin
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 small, or one large boneless skinless chicken breasts, sliced thin
1 tablespoon chipotle chili powder
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 jar chunky salsa (I used a 16-ounce can of a specialty white corn and *black bean salsa, medium heat), drained
2 cups Mexican blend cheese
1 egg white, beaten
Heat oven to 375°F.
Spray large cookie sheet with cooking spray. Unroll dough onto cookie sheet; press to 8×12 inches
In a small bowl, mix the chili powder, cumin, garlic powder, and salt. Set aside
Heat the olive oil in a 10-inch skillet, over medium-high heat. Add the onions and peppers and sautee until the onions begin to soften, 2 to 3 minutes then add the garlic and cook for an additional minute. Add the chicken and sprinkle the chili powder mixture over the contents of the skillet. Stir to combine and cook just until the chicken begins to turn slightly white on the edges (it will finish cooking in the oven). Remove from heat.
Spoon chicken mixture in 4-inch strip lengthwise down center of dough. Top with salsa; sprinkle with cheese. With a sharp knife, make cuts 1 inch apart on long sides of dough within 1/2 inch of filling. Alternately cross strips over filling; press edges to seal. Lightly brush with egg white.
Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until deep golden brown. Cool 5 minutes. If the dough begin to get to dark to quickly cover with foil to stop the browning process.
*The first time I added black beans to the mix, but since I found the black bean salsa I omited them this time. You can drain a can of black beans and add them if you want a higher protein/fiber content
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At a glance Prey 2 is quite a bit different than its predecessor. It's still a first-person shooter, but stars a new protagonist, Killian Samuels, is set in a vastly different environments and is structured in a new way. Instead of a linear corridor shooter through the gurgling corridors of an alien ship, the sequel is set in open-world style environments across urban alien sprawls on a planet called Exodus.
The drastic shift in style and setting between games doesn't mean all elements are being left behind. Tommy, the protagonist from the original adventure, is back in Prey 2. According to Human Head's Chris Rhinehart, he's meant to play a significant role.
"He's a character that you encounter many times throughout the game. It's not just a single cameo where he shows up and takes off. He's integral to the story and events on Exodus. One of the big things is, the unique abilities that Tommy has, specifically spirit walk and death walk, are integral to his role and how he actually fits into the story."
According to Rhinehart, it was part of the plan to include Tommy as soon as work on Prey 2 began. "When we started we didn't want to reveal Tommy initially. We wanted to hold it back and make it a surprise for people that Tommy is still an important part of the game."
So why not make Tommy the main character in Prey 2? "Really what it comes down to is we wanted to tell other stories in the Prey universe. We wanted to expand it and show the breadth of this universe that we were creating. New character, different mechanics, new visuals, but Tommy is still a critical character."
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The Seattle Seahawks' biggest offseason acquisition has barely taken the field for the team this season. That makes Percy Harvin the ultimate X-factor in Super Bowl XLVIII.
One day after practicing fully again with the team, Percy Harvin was asked if one big play could make his entire season worthwhile.
"I'm not trying to save any season. I'm trying to go out there and win a Super Bowl," Harvin said, via Tom Pelissero of USA Today.
Harvin, who was concussed in the divisional round, says he doesn't believe the New Orleans Saints targeted him with the intent to injure. Harvin believes he "tuned up" his hip at practice Wednesday, but he still needs to pass the official league concussion protocol. Coach Pete Carroll said Harvin "should be fine" to play against the Denver Broncos.
On paper, Harvin presents a unique challenge for the Broncos' defense. They don't have a lot of film to see how the Seahawks plan to use him. And Harvin could test the depth of the Denver secondary, especially in the middle of the field where they are missing cornerback Chris Harris.
Then again, Harvin has always looked good on paper. His biggest challenge has been staying on the field.
UPDATE: The Seahawks confirmed to NFL Media on Thursday that Harvin passed concussion protocol and has been cleared to play in Super Bowl XLVIII.
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For years, the NBA and NFL have put out their best selling jersey sales. It's the best measure of marketability and popularity, since it's fans voting with their wallets.
Major League Baseball, which set a record for merchandise sales last year, is entering the game with its top selling jerseys over the past year. Sales are from the 2010 calendar year and recorded by its official jersey maker Majestic.
So, what were the best-selling MLB jerseys, by player, in the past year? Click ahead to find out!
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UltraCombo necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 57 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
We are a young company that provides software to gyms and the health and fitness sector and we are looking for an exciting new logo to represent out brand.
Our web based software provides fun and easy to use tools to help people reach their health and fitness goals - examples include exercise maps, workout plans, body measurements, goals, fitness testing, charting.
We have 5 distinct products, each targeted at a slightly different audience. (See Target Audience).
We have a strong focus on bringing technology to individuals in an easy to use interface and we would like our logo to be clean and clear reflecting that usability focus.
Our core target audience are people interested in their health and fitness. Male and female, specifically in the age range of 18-45.
Our software is made of 5 product lines with audience as below:
Gym - Targeted at gym members
Home - Targeted at people exercising home
Elite - Targeted at elite athletes
Trainer - Targeted at personal trainers/nutritionists
Corporate – Targeted at workforce
Some of our audience will be tech savvy, but we want to appeal to the broader audience especially those who are a little daunted by new technology.
We need a logo for our business that appeals to our wide audience, and conveys the user-friendly technology aspect of our health and fitness software
The first point is that our products are all based around helping people improve their health and fitness through exercise and nutrition and staying motivated by seeing their progress on graphs. This is key and must come through in the design.
The second key design point is it has to convey that what we offer is clean, simple to use for everybody.
Please no stock photos.
We would be interested in seeing both designs that focus just around the name Cybergym or alternatively have a standalone logo design with the word Cybergym following.
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Bachelor of Music in Performance-Collaborative Emphasis
Due to the specific focus and intensive nature of this degree program, it may not be combined with other degrees (such as music education).
Liberal Arts
The 31 credits of liberal arts listed in this group must be taken outside the School of Music. (For more information see above.)
Other Liberal Arts Requirements
Music Requirements
+ Students may fulfill the requirement for Fundamentals of Music Theory by scoring 84 percent or higher on a placement exam administered by the Department of Music Theory, History, and Composition. Students who score below 84 percent on the exam must take the course, and they take the lower number of music electives.
* Students entering the School of Music in a non-performance degree will take two credits of private lessons each semester until they are accepted into the performance-collaborative emphasis program. Students entering the performance-collaborative emphasis program prior to the sophomore year will substitute music electives for any missing private lesson credits from the previous semester.
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The iPhone 5 camera isn't radically different from the hardware present in the iPhone 4S—it has a 1/3.2" 8 megapixel CMOS sensor with backside illumination, a hybrid IR filter, and a five-element f/2.4 lens. Analysis by Chipworks reveals that the sensor is still provided by Sony and is similar—if not identical—to the Exmor R sensor in the iPhone 4S.
However, the new camera module is thinner, to fit within the iPhone 5 casing. The lens' focal length is ever so slightly wider—4.13mm versus 4.28mm (33mm versus 35mm in 35mm format equivalence). And the lens is also protected by a sapphire crystal cover, which iFixit claims couldn't be scratched with a pair of steel needle nose pliers.
Beyond that, the improvements are largely due to a dedicated image signal processor embedded in the iPhone 5's A6 processor, as well as subtly improved software. Improvements include dedicated adaptive noise filtering, a dynamic low-light mode which trades resolution for additional sensitivity, an automated panorama mode, and a slightly tweaked UI designed for the extra screen real estate on the iPhone 5. None of these improvements are revolutionary, though the panorama mode is impressive and nearly foolproof. However, all of the improvements taken together really make the experience of shooting with an iPhone more enjoyable.
Apple claims the A6 can capture and process images 40 percent faster than the iPhone 4S. It certainly feels faster. High-dynamic range images, which take ages to process on an iPhone 4 and cause a perceptible pause in shooting with an iPhone 4S, take less than a second on the iPhone 5. Multiple images can be shot in rapid succession. Even launching the camera or switching between video and still mode feels instantaneous.
The Camera app's interface has hardly been changed, but it does feature a larger, circular shutter button on the iPhone 5 due to the extra vertical pixel space. The larger button doesn't sound like a big deal, but it's actually quite a bit easier to hit than the smaller pill-shaped button on earlier iPhone models.
While I primarily used an iPhone 4S for comparison purposes here, I have used an iPhone 4 as my personal smartphone for the last two years. Based on my experience, I expect users upgrading from an iPhone 4 to be blown away by the iPhone 5; the camera feels as though it works instantaneously, and it does so with better tonal range, resolution, and sharpness. Users upgrading from an iPhone 4S likely won't be as impressed, but everything does work faster.
Taking in the panoramic view
The other addition to the Camera app is a new panorama mode, which Apple demoed extensively during the iPhone 5's introduction. It works by letting the user sweep the phone across an arc; the iPhone itself handles all the image alignment and stitching automatically, and in real time. Images up to 20 megapixels in size are then saved.
To activate panorama mode, tap the "Options" button and then the "Panorama" button. You'll see the panorama interface pop up, showing a small preview of the left edge of the finished panorama and a large white arrow pointing to the right. By default, panoramas are made by sweeping left to right, though if you tap the arrow it will switch directions.
Once you have set the start of your panorama, tap the shutter button and then sweep steadily to the right (or left, as the case may be). The app tells you to slow down if you move too fast (which can result in some comical effects). It also helps you stay aligned by showing a guide that you are supposed to keep lined up with the arrow. The arrow moves up and down if you shift or tilt your iPhone as you sweep through the arc; it takes a little getting used to, but with a bit of practice I was able to make an almost perfectly straight movement.
You can either sweep across a full 240° arc or tap the "Done" button if you don't need the widest possible view. The iPhone uses input from its gyroscope to determine how to align images as you move from side to side. It also automatically crops out the best part if you move up and down a lot, to make a rectangular image.
You can stitch together multiple images using desktop software like Photoshop, and there are iOS apps that help you do the same thing. (I've been generally pleased with Pano in the past; others include Microsoft's PhotoSynth and Occipital's 360 Panorama. In my experience, Apple's native solution is still easier to use.) The native panorama feature gives better results than I have seen from these other methods; the end result truly looks seamless. Objects that move can introduce some interesting effects (see the super long bus that cropped up in one of our samples), but the software generally is clever enough to keep such aberrations to a minimum.
iPhone 4S users that haven't yet upgraded to iOS 6 take note: you'll get this panorama feature once you do, and it works almost as fast as on the iPhone 5.
FaceTime HD
The front-facing camera on the iPhone 5 has been noticeably improved. The iPhone 4 and 4S had a 640×480 pixel, VGA quality, fixed focus camera capable of the grainiest of still images. The new FaceTime HD camera now records video at 720p HD and snaps 1.2 megapixel stills. It uses a backside-illuminated sensor, manufactured by long-time Apple supplier OmniVision, according to Chipworks.
The image quality isn't amazing—this is a pretty inexpensive sensor part and it still has a fixed focus lens. But it's visibly better than older iPhone models.
FaceTime video chats can look better at 720p, but whether they actually do or not depends highly on the quality of the connection between the two devices. This isn't really any different from earlier iPhones, but when the connection can handle it, you'll appreciate the extra sharpness. The improved exposure from the BSI sensor also helps reduce compression artifacts, and a quick test chat did seem slightly better compared to previous iOS devices.
Image comparisons
Here's a nice bright shot in late afternoon sunlight in downtown Chicago. What you'll notice immediately is that images from the iPhone 5 and 4S have much more dynamic range and subtler tonal gradations than images from the iPhone 4. This is true for every image—the iPhone 4 just takes contrasty images due to its older, more limited sensor. For this reason, most of our comparisons will be limited to the iPhone 5 versus the iPhone 4S, but a few iPhone 4 shots will be included for those considering moving two generations ahead. Bottom line: if the camera is a deciding factor for you, and you currently have an iPhone 4 or earlier hardware, upgrade at your earliest convenience.
Comparing the iPhone 5 to the iPhone 4S, the differences are much more subtle. As noted previously, both cameras feature an 8MP BSI Exmor R sensor made by Sony, and there don't seem to be any radical differences in the sensor design or construction. Given this, it's no surprise that images from both devices are very similar.
One difference that seemed to be consistent is that images from the iPhone 4S were slightly warmer than those from the iPhone 5. The difference in screen gamut and color balance made this very obvious on the devices themselves, while the difference when viewing on a desktop is more subtle.
Looking more closely at the pixel level, I was surprised to see that Apple's new adaptive noise filtering—enabled by the dedicated image signal processor built in to the A6—tends to be far more aggressive than the more subdued and limited noise reduction of the iPhone 4S. At a high level, the adaptive noise filtering tries to only apply noise reduction to areas of the image that are supposed to be areas of smooth, flat color, while leaving areas of high detail alone. At normal viewing distances, I don't think the difference will be noticeable, but close examination at the pixel level shows that the iPhone 4S retains more subtle detail. I've said before that Apple's light touch on the noise reduction was a worthwhile tradeoff in most cases, and the more heavy-handed approach to noise reduction here feels like a step backward.
In bright sun or in indirect shade, the iPhone 5 does a good job of controlling contrast. Overall, it looks like the iPhone 5 tends to add a little extra exposure when you tap on subjects in darker areas of the frame.
While I personally prefer the extra exposure, the bump can blow out more details in the highlights. The good news is that the HDR algorithms in the iPhone 5 seem to be improved to account for this difference, and they do a really good job of balancing shadow and highlight detail without creating odd-looking, flat images typical of the iPhone 4.
Low-light images are definitely improved over the iPhone 4S. Apple added a dynamic low-light shooting mode that automatically kicks in when light levels get too dim. Images from the iPhone 4S (as well as the 4) look fairly similar up to about ISO 800. However, when light levels drop too low, the iPhone 5 can boost ISO further by pixel-binning. Pixel-binning essentially combines multiple adjacent pixel locations into one "super pixel" (similar to Nokia's "oversampling" in the 808 PureView). When the boost kicks in, you will notice a dramatic difference in exposure in the viewfinder. The results speak for themselves; this isn't as good as top DSLRs, but it is as good or better than most smartphones available today.
Above, I did one exposure by tapping on the subject's face, while in the other I tapped on her jacket. If you look closely, you'll see that the iPhone 5 is trading detail and sharpness for better exposure.
Finally, for completeness, here are some sample images using the built-in LED flash. The iPhone 4S image looks to have slightly better white balance and exposure, but both images look awful to me. Some people don't mind the flash; I can't stand it. Your opinion won't be changed by the iPhone 5.
Shooting video
Video appears identical to footage from the iPhone 4S. Both devices shoot in 1080p and have a software-based shake reduction applied. Apple says this is improved in the iPhone 5, but I personally didn't notice a difference. It did appear as though the iPhone 5 lens was more susceptible to lens flare in bright light (perhaps due in part to the shallower camera module design), but it otherwise looked fine. Rolling shutter effects seem well-controlled, and overall exposure looks good.
I have personally witnessed numerous videographers using an iPhone 4 or 4S in a pro-looking rig with a mic and an auxiliary light, so serious iPhone video shooters definitely exist. One daring videographer compared an iPhone 4S to a Canon 5D mkII last year and came away impressed with the results. Such users should be likewise pleased with the iPhone 5. It won't turn the average user into Steven Spielberg, but the footage is as good as any low-end, dedicated camcorder.


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Cinzia Fossati | costumes |
Polizeiruf | Staatstheater Stuttgart | Schauspiel Stuttgart Nord
Stage design for "La Cantatrice Chauve" | director Cyril Kaiser | premiere November 2018 | Theatre Alchimic Carouge CH
Costumes for "MÉLODIE! MALADIE! MÉLODRAME!" | director Sébastien Jacobi | premiere November 2018 | Saarländische Staatstheater Saarbrücken.
Production design for the shortfilm "Fortissimo" | director Richard Szotyori | featuring Janine Piguet.
Costumes for "A View from the Bridge" | director Armin Petras | premiere March 2019 | Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
You can still see some of my productions on stage this season 2017/18:
"Glückliche Tage" | director Armin Petras | with Franziska Walser and Oskar Musinowski | Premiere 03.03.2017 Kammertheater Stuttgart.
Will be on stage throughout the season.
"Fräulein Else" (director Wolfgang Michaleck) premiered in January 2016 and is still (!!!) running in Schauspiel Stuttgart Nord.
I designed the costumes for two productions on board of the cruise ship MSC Meraviglia which was inaugurated in June 2017. The shows will run with different casts for the next 5 years.
About a Girl: the film directed by Mark Monheim and featuring Heike Makatsch and Jasna Fritzi Bauer was released in german theaters in summer 2015 and is now available on DVD, amazon prime (Germany) and on Itunes (Germany), it came on german television on May 10th 2017. I was in charge of the production design.
Licca Line performed 2011 for an audience of 5000, winning the Ellionor Holland Kunstpreis in 2012, and was on stage again in 2015
Silent River, the short by Anca Lazarescu where I did the production design, premiered at Berlin Film Festival 2011 and has since been invited by over 100 film festivals winning 78 awards.