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There is a Culture War, but not what the right imagines. When the limits of Earth were passed due to unlimited population, ecological constraints began to exacerbate a tension which had previously been submerged. We co-evolved with memeplexes since our ancestors used language. Information entities took new form with the invention of corporations. The reproductive tendencies of our nonbiological symbionts always had some costs, but these were mitigated by their benefits in organizing and motivating groups. But the growth mandate inherent in fundamentalist religious memeplexes and in corporations as presently constructed now put them indirect conflict with human survival.
In the context of an overpopulated climate-destabilizing planet, some of our nonbiological symbionts have morphed into a lethal infection. They're parasites. The culture war isn't between conservative and liberal, it's between growth-dependent nonbiological entities and human beings. It's a final battle which we are already losing, in part, because we fail to comprehend it.
It's no accident that in the US, fundamentalist religion allied with corporate interest. Both responded to a selective pressure, greater reproductive capacity in the niche of total control of human culture. That their drive to reproduce endangers civilization itself isn't relevant, because at bottom they respond with as much intelligence as biological viruses which kill their hosts. Richard Brodie likened corporations to power memeplexes. Memeplexes don't plan ahead, even though they control human hosts. As mind viruses they only reproduce or not, expand their "market share" or go out of business. They're informational entities evolving in their own spheres, where human beings are merely hosts, merely substrates.
A transition to sustainability requires balancing reproduction with available resources. Corporations need "growth" to survive and fundamentalist religions mandate human reproduction. Alternatives exist, but they can't compete in an economic or memetic "free market". Moderate religions have adapted to limited family size. Corporations can operate without sacrificing all other values to profit. We humans could control of the "forces" sacrificing our planet. First we have to recognize their existence.
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Excellent, Ruth, I certainly agree. You hit on my main thesis of Mirror Reversal. Humans have to break out of the chains of the Prime Directive and continue to evolve after a lengthy period of futile stasis. Technology has certainly advanced, but as humans Nero's words of give them "panis et circesen," (bread and circuses) is as true now as the time of the Romans. As a species we haven't evolved very far spiritually.
I just wrote the following in "Ten Reasons Not To Believe" last week! Reason #7 contains the following, in anticipation of this important discussion. Please check out the disturbing photo of the Vale mine of Brazil. It's by far the largest mine in the world, right in the middle of the Amazon Rain Forest. Corporate thinking would rather have people buying new cars every couple of years, than keeping the planet and thousands of species alive. It's an iron mine and it's a trade-off broads of directors gladly make.
The world's religions are meme complexes that make victims care more about a world that doesn't exist than about the real world. Carriers of the Christianity memeplex care more about a Virgin Mother made of wood or plastic, and throw garbage and chemicals in Tethys, the real mother of life.
Tethys is the Titan goddess of the sea, daughter of Uranus the sky god and the Earth goddess, Gaia.
By "bull-shit woo woo sounding predictions about the apocalypse", I assume you mean, fallacious adumbrations about nature's retribution for wanton abuse and plunder. I could rattle off dozens of areas where human greed is causing irreparable damage. In fact, there's not one area on the Earth that doesn't show signs of human depravity and greed. Even the tiny polyps of the Great Barrier Reef are being blanched, killed by acid, after millions of years of slow, slow growth, millimeter by millimeter.
It can't go on forever, that's for sure. Humans can't continue to reproduce multiplicatively.
Richard, I applaud your concern for the damage we're causing to the Earth. I don't understand your reasons for ignoring systemic forces which push people to be greedy. Blaming individuals for vices such as greed is similar to the religious moral perspective. I find it more helpful to examine the context in which individuals operate, identifying feedbacks that reward greedy behavior and punish generous behavior.
Did you perceive anthropomorphization in my discussion? "...nature's retribution for wanton abuse and plunder..." Retribution implies moral agency. "Mother Nature" is a figure of speech I didn't use. I see physics and chemistry at work, cause and effect. I try to avoid using our hyperactive agency detector in such discussions.
Yes, I am concerned about apocalypse. This doesn't come from woo woo, but science. See
'Hug The Monster': Why So Many Climate Scientists Have Stopped Down...
Ruth, thanks for the informative website on global warming. Very alarming and enlightening.
By nature's retribution I simply meant negative feedback or backlash without any moralistic connotations. Just negative results as when fisherpersons strip a lake of all the fish and an algal bloom results.
I find it more helpful to examine the context in which individuals operate, identifying feedbacks that reward greedy behavior and punish generous behavior.
Being we both have a Darwinian outlook, I surmise the context in which we operate is based on natural selection and genetic motivations. In nature, generous behavior is rarely beneficial. Animals fight off competitors for food and territory, even of the same species. Non-kinship based altruism is rare.
So I believe the problem lies in the fact that humans obey the dictates of their genes (and memes) which is not for the individual. Sardines tighten into a ball when sharks approach. Genes motivate humans to make babies no matter how overcrowded the territory. Memeplexes motivate infected carriers to "spread the word" no matter how devastating to the environment.
In short, it's my belief we have to break out of the confines of the Prime Directive. Reason has to enter the equation. We're just not there yet. It looks like Global Warming will cause some catastrophe before corporate plutocrats even acknowledge it exists.
Yes, I agree, we have to break out of the confines of the Prime Directive. We must develop and implement universally a social system that replaces evolution for human reproductive choices. I think we're smart enough to design something that's fair, just, and tuned to utilize our instincts cleverly. It's just that nobody is even imagining we need to do this.
Are you into Terence McKenna? I used to listen to him on the old Art Bell radio show early in the morning. A great man, taken by a brain tumor very young. Here's a video I'm fond of, saying similar to what we are here. Notice the reference to meme processers.
Thank you for the video, Richard. I'd never heard of Terence McKenna before. Like many, he's insightful about what's wrong but vague on constructive alternatives. Art is a useful approach to embrace alternatives to the reality we experience and communicate them. So is fiction, your specialty.
As I see it, Terence McKenna is only right insofar as he refers to Dominator Culture (which is what we have now, but is not the only possibility). When he speaks of standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other in the teeth, that's Dominator hierarchy to a T. Riane Eiser describes the alternative, Partnership Culture, in The Chalice & the Blade.
I'm dead certain that we'll need to invent a contemporary version of Partnership to organize globally for sustainability. Exploitation of the Earth is as built in to Dominator Culture as is exploitation of women, children, and men of lesser status.
Eisler is visionary about cultural basics, but her implementation has been a great disappointment to me. For example, I see her initiative for Caring Economicsas far too narrow, too shallow, too female role traditional. I think a new Partnership economic model has to face up to the urgency of our economic/political corruption/climate destabilization crisis.
As I see it it's no accident that we don't "have enough money" to develop alternative energy while the super rich hide $32 trillion. We need this level of analysis to define the economic underpinnings of our crisis, not just admiration for Norway.
Market Exchange Rules Responsible for Wealth Concentration, Physici...
Two Brazilian physicists have shown that wealth concentration invariably stems from a particular type of market exchange rules -- where agents cannot receive more income than their own capital. The authors concluded that maximum inequalities ensue from free markets, which are governed by such seemingly fair rules.
They found that over time, all the available wealth is concentrated among only a few agents.
As a result, the free market is stalled with no subsequent possible exchanges of wealth, even if wealth were distributed evenly from the start.
I know who Art Bell is Richard. I have listened to his show before.
Love the website link to Global Warming
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Joyce Shannon and David Pickles, both of Philadelphia, were united in marriage June 30 at The Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia. The Rev. Bruce Shannon officiated. A reception followed at The Trust.
The bride is the daughter of Don and Mary Shannon of Chicora. Parents of the bridegroom are Albert Pickles III of Norristown and the late Joanne Discianni Pickles.
The honor attendant was Gretchen Gyrich of Pittsburgh. Bridesmaids included Lindsey Kelley of Pittsburgh, Lisa Pickles of Philadelphia, Jenel Davis of Charlotte, N.C., and Allison Mawhinney of St. Petersburg, Fla.
The flower girl was Ashley Pickles of Skippack.
Performing the duties of best man was Ryan Nyce of Eagleville. Ushers included Albert Pickles IV of Skippack, George Shannon of Greensburg, Michael Sweeney of Wayne and Brant Kercher of Philadelphia.
The ring bearer was Albert Pickles V of Skippack
The bride is a 1996 graduate of Karns City High School and a 2007 graduate of Floridia State School of Law.
She is employed by Nelson Levine de Luca and Hamilton in Blue Bell.
The bridegroom graduated from Methacton High School in 1997 and attended Indiana (Pa.) University.
He is employed by Auto Trader in Exton.
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gompels necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 28 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
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Operating from a large warehouse in Wiltshire, Gompels Healthcare are a niche supplier within the disposables and healthcare sector. Supplying to two main markets, carehomes and nurseries, Gompels deliver across the UK to as far north as Inverness and to as far south as Cornwall with an impeccable next day delivery service.
Just like Aldi & Lidl, Gompels are a discounter, with an aim to deliver good quality products at rock bottom prices. With high volumes, low margins, Gompels have built a reputation for fast & efficient service at a highly competitive price. As a supplier within the healthcare and disposables sector Gompels offer a wide range of products from disposables, janitorial, washroom, infection control, laundry, first aid, care & nursery products, suitable for everyday needs at affordable prices.
The main target audience for this project is for children under the age of 5. As one of Gompels HealthCares main markets is that of nurseries, it is very important that a design is achieved to attract a young audience and promote the message in hand.
Gompels do not only supply to nurseries, but do have a growing market share of supplying products to schools. As school children are between the ages of 5-16, it would also be very useful for the design to comply with this wide age group so the design can be used broadly throughout the different markets.
The aim of this project, is to design a tissue box with a design that is attractive to children and delivers a message. The design needs to be suitable and appealing to children or a variety of ages in order to promote the use of tissues and the "Catch it, kill it, bin it!" slogan.
"Catch it, bin it, kill it!" is a campaign to encourage the public to practice correct respiratory and hygiene when coughing and sneezing and to overall prevent the spread of germs particularly during the cold and flu season. The campaign has been launched to particularly target mothers with children under the age of 11 as they are generally the influencers within the family.
As the target audience is children, for this project we are happy to you a wide range as a colour scheme in order to attract the attension of our target audience.
Please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com for a logo which is used for the "Catch it, kill it, bin it!" campaign, an image of our tissue box at present and a template for which our existing tissue box is designed from. The template includes measurements as the tissue box does need to be of a certain size.
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Matt Smith has confirmed that he knows what Steven Moffat is planning for the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who.
"He was pitching the 50th anniversary at the end of this series and what everything was going to be about and it was... very exciting," said Smith. "No doubt he'll come up with something brilliant because that's the sort of man he is.
"I hope that we mark it in the best way possible and we honour the people that have been in the show before us and we make it as grand and brilliant and inventive and as much an occasion as possible. What I may have an idea, but I can't tell you, I'm afraid."
"Who knows?" he said. "I think it's an exciting idea. Whether it would be possible, or whether it could ever happen I just don't know, but whatever we can do to mark that 50th anniversary will be spectacular, that much I do know.
"Nothing's set in stone. I imagine there will be a script knocking around about Christmas and there we will develop further and shoot it next spring."
Everyone leaves eventually no, I'm not leaving any time soon," he insisted. "I am coming back for the 50th anniversary. To suggest I am quitting now is wrong."
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Dorien Turk needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 201 designs submitted by 65 freelance designers.
Dorien Turk
I am a seasoned HR professional (female) and I am just starting my own business. I specialize in interim HR jobs, HR projects, management training and communication.
'Dorien Turk' is purely business to business and targets on small and medium sized companies in the Netherlands. My target group is also managers who seek training in improving their managerial skills, personal growth and communication.
I am looking for a logo for my website that will include my intitials, followed by my full name: Dorien Turk.
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Silvergrey / darkgrey are my favorite colours. If you can use the colour fuchsia and still avoid that the logo will look like that of a beautysalon, it will be appreciated.
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LONDON / SEOUL, 31 May 2013 – The Organizing Committee of the 22nd World Energy Congress on Friday welcomed the endorsement of the world's premier energy event by Asian government ministers at a United Nations-sponsored energy conference. In a communique issued Thursday, ministers at the Asian and Pacific Energy Forum (APEF) welcomed the offer of […]
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Asian leaders to address 2013 World Energy Congress
Government and industry figures among 150 confirmed speakers LONDON / SEOUL, 28 May 2013 – Senior government and industry figures from Asia's leading economies are among the 150 speakers confirmed today by organisers of the 22nd World Energy Congress, which takes place in Daegu, South Korea, from 13 to 17 October 2013. This is only […]
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SEOUL – 7 May 2013: The Chinese and Russian governments have committed to sending high-level delegations to the World Energy Congress in South Korea in October. The Organising Committee for the 2013 World Energy Congress said it had been notified that China's National Energy Administration (NEA) would send a ministerial-level delegation to the event and […]
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The World Energy Council hosts event in Beijing to assess ambitions of new Chinese government BEIJING & SEOUL – 25 April 2013: The World Energy Council's China International Summit opens today in Beijing to explore the long-term energy options facing the country's new government. The one-day closed summit will be one of the most important […]
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World Energy Congress gets backing from Korean Prime Minister
The Organising Committee of the 2013 World Energy Congress is delighted to announce that the Prime Minister of Korea, Mr Chung Hong-won, has agreed to bring his leadership and support to the Congress by joining as Honorary Chairman of the Organising Committee. Mr Chung comments: "As the 22nd World Energy Congress is the most prestigious […]
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New World Energy Council report identifies the critical issues holding back the transition of the global energy sector
NEW DELHI – Continued uncertainty in the future direction of climate frameworks, political instability of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, energy price volatility, and the global economic recession are what energy leaders consider as the top 'insomnia' issues driving the world energy agenda this year, according to the 2013 World Energy Issues […]
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toddAR needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 48 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
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Fraud Fighters, Inc.
Established more than 33 years ago to help uncover and combat fraud. We specialize in surveillance and background investigations.
Fortune 500 corporations, insurance companies, and law firms.
We need a clean, sophisticated design forour tri-fold brochure on the same level as the attached brochure image from another company of ours. The brochure must be standard dimensions and compliment our stationary color scheme.
Tri-Fold Brochure - very elegant high-end look. SEE attached tr-fold brochure, which we approved for another one of our companies - Ramos Investigations. We found this to be very elegant and appropriate for the agency.
** Final sbmission, two PSD files ready for printing with proper dimensions, bleed, and resolution - one version with blank panel for mailing address.
Email Template - HTML format for use in Outlook. We will use this template for communicating with clients. We are looking for a corporate look. SEE attached logo. You can also see our stationary, as one of the other contests we ran.
- winner submits 2 files (1 ,w/standard blank panel for mailing address, while the other makes use of the panel for whatever graphics you come up with - to be used to handout to clients directly.
- PSD format - Letter sized ( 11" x 8.5" when open, when folded, in 6 panels (3 panels x 2 sides) of 3.67" x 8.5", 1/8 inch bleed, 300 DPI, and PMS colors for printing purposes.)EMAIL TEMPLATE: understated elegance..... light and fresh.......like most of the corporate America is producing right now. Winner: must submit in HTML format for us in Outlook. No use of heavy ink or designed to print only limited graphics.
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Grand Opening Friday and Saturday for the Club at Colony Creek
There's been a lot of work going on at the Club at Colony Creek. With six months of renovations behind it, The Club at Colony Creek will host its grand opening festivities. Members and their guests are invited to attend Friday and Saturday for a ribbon cutting ceremony, live entertainment, member-guest golf tournament and children's activities, according to a company news release in the Victoria Advocate. A fireworks display also joins the mix Saturday evening.
The club operates on a semi-private basis, catering to members and the public daily, Morgan Rhodes, the company's director of events, memberships and marketing, said. Amenities include a modernized clubhouse and event space, pool, tennis courts, social events and The Grille, a new Southern-style restaurant and bar.
"The grand opening is a member-guest event, but after this weekend we look forward to meeting with potential new members and invite interested parties to visit the club or give us a call," she said.
The company in February announced Robby Burdge, Elton Calhoun, Greg Norgard and Claud Jacobs purchased what was then known as Colony Creek Country Club. Southern Golf Properties was announced as the facility's manager.
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The need for critical thinking skills and a humanistic outlook in our world is great. This is no less true in the Black community than in others. Many African Americans have been engulfed by religious irrationality, conned by self-serving "faith healers", and swayed by dogmatic revisionist historians. Many others, however, have escaped the oppression of such delusions, and live happy and upstanding lives free of superstition.
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Winter garden can be lovely, too
I changed my mind. I'm not giving in just yet!
Cold frosty mornings are not going to discourage me and neither will the shorter days. My gardens are still appealing and full of interest this time of year and certainly worth venturing into even this late in the season. With varying layers of plant texture and rustic colors of gold, amber, brown and russet that truly define a "November" perennial garden, it's hard to walk away unsatisfied.
Now I'm not going to say that I enjoy it as much as the July and August garden, but I'm not ready to throw in the towel and entirely abandon the garden and landscape just yet either. With a little effort now, I might even find ways to keep the garden and its surroundings quite visual throughout the entire winter.
And why not? It seems to me that our gardens and landscape decorations should have a soothing visual impact regardless of the time of year. The garden is certainly not a dead place in the winter. In fact, there is much to be found and discovered in the garden, and it's a time of year when many plants have their moment of glory.
Buddleia (Butterfly bush) is a classic summer blooming
perennial shrub, but it is rather uncommonly thought of as a "winter specimen" plant. They do, however, develop an interesting form in winter, particularly if seed heads are left on. Many will also flower into late autumn, especially if the bush is located in a protected location.
Ornamental grasses are wildly popular these days and with good reason -- they provide a spectacular fall show as they send up interestingly shaped seedpods and maintain their tall, stiff stature until the very end of winter. Some of the best varieties to look for are Festuca glauca Blue Glow, Deschampsia caepitosa Golden Dew and my favorite, Miscanthus sinensis Gracillimus.
Of course, many planters are vacant from the once vigorous display of annual flowers that blossomed so generously all summer long. While there isn't much that can be done to replace the brightly colored annuals, I do have several planters that continue to provide garden interest the entire year.
A rather large clay pot is the home for one of the prettiest, and by far one of the slowest growing Japanese maple trees (Acer palmatum) called Shishigashira. It has dark green leaves all summer long, but in the fall the leaves turn gold and russet and are very slow in shedding them. When all the leaves have fallen, this beautiful 12-year-old specimen will unveil its elegant winter shape all winter long.
I'll continue to search for decorative ways that'll provide a bit of sparkle and interest to help brighten up dark winter days. Unfortunately, many outdoor decorations in our landscapes and on our homes are viewed as strictly a holiday chore that need to be taken down soon after the new year starts. On the contrary, winter garden decorations should be viewed as something that last the entire winter season. A few simple touches here and there can add gleams of warmth and cheer in otherwise "non-gardening" months.
Now is a great time before the snow falls to scour the woods and even your own backyard for plant gatherings that you can use as winter decorations. I've managed to collect several bushels full of laurel, boxwood cuttings, various evergreen tips, sedum, dried branches, pinecones, dogwood, ilex and artemisia. Actually, you can even use a host of spent plant materials that the cold weather has already killed and dried.
Where to begin? I'd suggest taking a good 20 steps back from the front of your house and really take a good look at it. Any design must be based on the setting of your home and it must be appropriate. Some homes look great with a soft spotlight on just a single wreath. Tie a red ribbon on it and its Christmas. Remove it after the holidays and you're left with an elegant, wintry decoration for the season.
How about those empty urns and planters? You can create wonderful focal points in a white snowy landscape with very little effort. Imagine that giant urn that flowed so wonderfully all summer long with tuberous begonias, now filled with a clustering of red-berried Ilex verticillata. Wrap some green damp moss around the base the stems as a collar and you've got a beautiful winter "planting" that'll last until spring.
Window boxes are another component of the garden and landscape that gardeners also desert during the winter months. Why not take a few moments and brighten up the outside and inside views of your window box by stuffing it full of lush garden materials!
Begin by buying blocks of florist's foam and cut them to fit precisely inside the (soil removed) window boxes. I like to have a broad variation of colors and textures in winter window boxes so I usually start out by adding tall evergreen branches of yew, fir, juniper, white pine and even rhododendron branches.
Next, a sampling of strawflowers, artemisia, nigella, herb pods and whatever else I find that will add interest and depth to the arrangement are added. Here again, if you choose too, add a bow for the holidays or simply leave it as it is.
Making my own garland is something I wish I had both the time and patience to do. That doesn't mean you can't find ways to cheat a bit and still call it you're own. I'll buy a standard, single garland from the nursery and then customize it with cuttings from my yard.
You can really create stunning roping by incorporating braids of boxwood, pine, yew and even dogwood branches. It doesn't take a whole bunch of time nor does one really need a lot of it. A few long strands swaggered over a white fence or wrapped around a fireplace indoors is quite nice.
The next few weeks is ample time to get the yard decorated -- winter is right around the corner and isn't it nice to be able to "garden" right through all of it.
Q.: My blueberry bushes didn't produce fruit this season. Normally, all bushes furnish enough blueberries for my own use as well as my friends and neighbors, as they have done for more than 20 years. Instead of producing berries this year, the bushes became "trees," more than doubling in height from April to June. I'd really appreciate any suggestions you might offer. A. Smith, Fairfield.
A.: In your letter you mentioned that a local agricultural extension service suggested a late frost this year may be the culprit as to why your blueberries did not produce fruit. I highly doubt that's what happened. I get the feeling your bushes are in desperate need of pruning. Blueberries are generally self-shaping and only need some thinning each winter to stay healthy and productive. However, if regular dormant pruning is not followed, otherwise productive plants will, over time, become less and less "fruitful."
Prune in late winter or early spring just before growth begins each year. Remove prostrate canes and canes that are less than two feet tall, cutting them off flush with the base of the bush. If more than two or three new upright canes grew the previous summer, remove the extras. Also, remove canes from the center of the bush (this opens the bush to air and sunlight), and cut them flush with the base of the bush. I'd also check the pH of the soil, as blueberries require extreme acidity (4 to 4.5). Maintaining a proper pH will help these plants enormously in all aspects.
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Crime is a part of everyday life across Baltimore, but many residents in Southeast Baltimore — including this writer — have watched a cloud of concern grow darker over the neighborhood since the start of the year. In Canton and the adjacent Patterson Park area, recent grisly, high-profile incidents involving homicide and robberies have reminded many that a sense of constant vulnerability comes with living here.
The palpable uneasiness has only added to an already cold winter, so it came as a relief last week when we found a warming antidote to our glum in Candi Marie's, a Canton corner bar that celebrated its second anniversary last month.
Even with a large mural stating the bar's name on a brick wall outside, Candi Marie's blends easily, almost too easily, into the neighborhood. A couple of friends living in Canton had been there once before, but others, like myself, only knew it by name. A few had no clue it existed.
On a recent Thursday night, the atmosphere and crowd at Candi Marie's made it clear many of us were missing out on an instantly comfortable corner bar. The neighborhood has its share of those, but in Baltimore, there is no such thing as too many.
Thursday is Trivia Night at Candi Marie's, and approximately 40 players filled the bar with laughter and playful competition on our visit. Our foursome did not have a team but it did not matter, as being surrounded by smiling and joking locals was fulfilling enough.
We knew we were in the right place when the Charm City Trivia host read the results after the first round, and one team was announced as "Sucks to be You" and the following team was "Sucks to be Sucks to be You." Compared to the usual, worn-out sex-position puns and inexplicable inside jokes found at trivia nights — and this one had its share, too — this simple joke left me barreled over. We followed the crowd's lead and settled in with ease.
Candi Marie's is not a beer destination and even less of a craft cocktail bar, so it relies heavily on its comfortable, down-to-earth setting. But it tries to make good use of its four beer taps: Heavy Seas Powder Monkey (empty at the time) and Flying Dog's Truth Imperial IPA represented Maryland this particular night, while National Bohemian and Samuel Adams Winter Lager filled the other two spots. It's not a perfect foursome — let's swap the Winter Lager for a better Baltimore beer for starters — but it's enough for a laid-back night. The price of a Boh draft ($2, all of the time) makes it harder to complain.
In terms of design and decor, Candi Marie's looks like a lot of other corner bars: Fluorescent alcohol logos line the walls, a few TVs behind the bar are set to sports, and a glowing electronic jukebox provides the soundtrack. Even on your first visit, Candi Marie's feels familiar and homey.
At times, the homeyness hurts the bar. Just past the main bar area is a wider game room with a pingpong table, pool table, hunting video game and a swinging ring-toss challenge. The potential for fun is there, but the room felt thrown together and under construction, like an unfinished man cave, thanks in part to a wooden board covering the pool table.
In the main bar area, we were reminded of why Candi Marie's charmed us when we first entered. A team had just ordered Chinese food — Candi Marie's lacks a kitchen — and its members happily passed around takeout cartons as they shared possible answers to a trivia question. We were jealous not only of the food, which smelled great, but of the good time the team was clearly having. Judging by the looks on the faces throughout the bar, they were not alone.
Candi Marie's
Back story: In January 2012, owner Candace Schaech opened Candi Marie's as a casual alternative to O'Donnell Square. Two years later, the corner bar is still home to a cast of regulars. Walk in on any given night, and there's a good chance Schaech is behind the bar.
Parking: Free on the streets
Signature drink: Don't ask for a fancy cocktail here. A bottle of Yuengling runs $4, but we recommend a Natty Boh draft for $2.
Where: 2501 Fleet St., Canton
Contact: 410-675-3910, facebook.com/candimaries
Open: Monday-Saturday 4 p.m.-2 a.m. (closed Tuesday); Sunday noon-midnight


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In the 1998 song "This Kiss", country singer Faith Hill describes the way she feels for the person she loves as "centrifugal motion". Either Hill wants to get away from the song's subject ASAP or she mixed up the term centrifugal with centripetal. We'll forgive the 20-year-old song's inaccuracies — besides, understanding the effect of centrifugal force is more important when designing components in a wide range of industries, such as centrifugal pumps for automotive applications, than in songwriting.Read More
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Wastewater often contains organic and inorganic materials, which can be nonbiodegradable and even toxic. To reuse wastewater, these contaminants are removed via physical, chemical, and biological processes. Clarifiers treat wastewater by separating the particles via sedimentation, but their performance is affected by factors such as settling, turbulence, the ratio of the particles' outer surfaces to mass, sudden direction changes in the flow, and the velocity profile. To design clarifiers for effective wastewater treatment, engineers can turn to fluid flow simulation.Read More
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Mixers are used for different purposes in many modern industries. If you are looking for an efficient mixer design process, you need a simulation tool that enables you to mix and match different mixer elements. With the COMSOL Multiphysics® software, you can create a mixer geometry that fits your own needs. Today, we'll discuss modeling a laminar mixing problem with a flat-bottom mixer and two turbulent mixing problems with dished-bottom mixers that utilize the k-epsilon and k-omega turbulence models.Read More
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The rotation of the impellers in a mixer or stirred reactor creates ripples on the liquid surface when the agitation is moderate. If the ripples are small in comparison to the height of the fluid in the vessel, the shape and height of the free surface can be explicitly calculated from the velocity field in a separate solution step. The latest version of the Mixer Module in COMSOL Multiphysics includes a Stationary Free Surface feature for such computationally inexpensive calculations.Read More
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Since we released version 5.0 of the COMSOL Multiphysics® software, you have the ability to create simulation apps — either starting from scratch or with a demo app from the Application Library. Today, we'll introduce you to an app that can be used for understanding and optimizing mixer design and operation for a given fluid. The exemplified app models and simulates stirred tank mixers, which are used for reactors in the fine chemical, pharmaceutical, food, and consumer products industries.Read More
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There are two aspects of home brewing: the culinary side and the engineering one. Many beer lovers start brewing either to improve a recipe, try to clone their favorite beer, or even simply just to see how it works. After brewing a few batches, however, it turns out that the brewing process can also be very challenging from an engineering point of view.Read More
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The Mixer Module provides ready-made interfaces for describing the difficult problem of laminar and turbulent flows in rotating machinery with free liquid surfaces. COMSOL has been developing different techniques for modeling CFD, moving geometries, and free surfaces during the past few years for a number of different applications. This has now culminated in the new Mixer Module that was released with version 4.4, and it clearly showcases the improved CFD capabilities of COMSOL.Read More


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Meet the hydrogen-powered Aston racer
Each May, manufacturers and men in sheds from all over Europe brave a day-long death by a thousand cuts to compete for the crown of 'King of the Ring'. In the stands and Mad Max style shelters dotted around the infield, a quarter of a million German race fans escape cities of squared-off concrete to worship their Nürburgring heroes. This is a pilgrimage. And it's possibly the greatest motorsport event… in the world.
This year TopGear.com was there to follow a true world-first: Aston Martin's Rapide S race car, a joint project with hydrogen fuel cell evangelists, Alset Global. Aston's centenary celebrations forced a rather fast birth for this car. Alset planned an eighteen-month gestation, but the pregnancy lasted just half that…
"Aston Martin is approached by many crazy people every year," says David King. "We initially felt Alset might be another bunch of crazies, but were quickly convinced by their passion, and the science behind it. Alset brought remarkable technical expertise to this project. We've had no arguments, and no disappointments: it's a model relationship."
CEO and former World Taekondo Champion, Jose Ignacio Galindo (known as Nacho), has built an impressive team of scientists and strategists. And ahead of the race, his passion is highly contagious…
The Nurburgring's all about passion. We've blasted from Frankfurt in gloriously unexpected sunshine, and as we arrive at the track, spirits are high (and - in liquid form - ubiquitous around the campsites). The world's loudest beach buggy zooms past on the perimeter road, trailed by old army trucks, tuned quad bikes, a Unimog with a garden shed for its owner to sleep in, and every wacky racer imaginable. Through the trees,fine-sized schweins are meeting their demise on spits.
'Ring Time passes faster than a Vantage through Fuchsröhre (the Foxhole). In what seems like an instant, two days have passed, two qualifying sessions have been & gone and we're into the third and final contest: the Top Forty Shootout. The forty fastest runners leave the start in measured intervals, to storm the Nordschleife in free air for a pair of fast laps.
Top Forty always brings a few surprises. This year, the 007 Aston of Pedro Lamy throws down a solid opening challenge, but is instantly eclipsed by a slippy R8 Audi. Lamy goes even harder, firing the car into its second lap and bidding for the front.
The helicopter cameraman only has eyes for the Aston as it approaches ultimate velocity, streaming through the trees in golden evening light. Lamy looks a dead cert for pole, but the Audi has also done well and top guns the shootout. The start will see Audi before Aston, but there's an awfully long race tomorrow…
Three hours before race start we enter the Aston garage. A month's rain is predicted to fall on the Eifel tonight and tomorrow. The race is often wet, but has only been stopped for rain five times, since the first 24-Hour in 1970.
The Aston mechanics shrug off the prediction. This crew's been racing at the 'Ring since 2006 and has seen enough water to sink the vast grandstands. Aston road cars are developed at the Nürburgring: a key part of sign-off is 10,000 kilometres of 'Ring durability. The group has a technical centre over the road, to retreat to when testing shows problems.
Two hours before the start, the cars are rolled to the grid, where Germania is in full swing. Liberal use of latex and cheap makeup is the order of the day for one soft-porn-sponsored team (there had to be at least one), while fans wearing model Nürburgrings on their heads shout "Save the Ring!". No one can move on this sardine-tight grid; not an ideal protest start.
"Save It, Don't Sell It" is everywhere. Posters are taped to all trucks in the paddock, banners line the track, and the motto is painted on the asphalt. After years of political mishaps and failed attempts to bolt a theme park onto the side of the track, the Nürburgring is up for sale. While this might please a certain James May, the circuit itself actually still makes money, so someone must want it. Potential buyers are being wooed this weekend.
At twenty to five, the fastest group starts its formation lap. So far, no rain: the sky is still bright and it's a dry kick-off. As the field turns onto the old circuit, the second group leaves the start/finish line, followed in turn by a third. One hundred and seventy-five racing cars are now on the Nürburgring circuit.
Flares begin to rise from the forests. Ten minutes into their tour, the leaders run through the aptly-named Angst Kurve, then Klostertal, and round the Karussell, making noises that cars make nowhere else on earth. With the lead cars in the wilderness, the umbrellas go up in the grandstands. And then… the rain. Right on worst-case schedule.
Ferrari has never won this race, nor has Mercedes. BMW, Porsche and Audi have won the last three races respectively, and the Aston pit thinks this could be their turn. Sir Stirling Moss, James Bond and Aston CEO, Dr Ulrich Bez have joined us. Bez has his helmet: the avid racerwill do a few stints in the hydrogen-powered Rapide, and has pushed the effort since day one.
David King shares his chairman's excitement. "We could have put this technology in a road car and done some test drives in the USA, Europe or Dubai, but what would that prove? This place is the ultimate test of a vehicle, and is home to the only 24-Hour where we could race the technology."
Contrary to public perception of Germany, the Nurburgring has plenty of give in its rules. If you can prove the car is safe, you can race. Aston and Alset had a big job convincing the FIA and Germany's motorsport governors that a hydrogen car would be safe to race, but with detailed research, modelling and crash testing, they eventually got the thumbs up.
Fraser Dunn is the hydrogen Rapide's race engineer, and has managed engineering and testing from Aston Martin's side on the car with race number 100. "When David came into the office and asked me to lead this hydrogen project, my first thought was a German word. Hindenburg. Classroom experiments showed all of us kids how fast this gas burns, so I couldn't imagine a less safe fuel to race with. Alset's guys had all the answers."
"Hydrogen burns very well, releasing zero carbon plus water, which makes it the best choice for fuel," says Thomas Korn, Alset's resident physicist, recruited from BMW's fuel cell programme. "It is also the lightest of molecules. When petrol escapes in a crash, the liquid soaks into and covers material. Hydrogen just floats away, but the aim is that is does not escape."
The Rapide uses tanks made in Canada, with aluminium inner skins and a carbon fibre exterior. The sandwich tanks have incredible strength: a square inch of material from the tank's weakest point can withstand more force than three-foot-thick concrete. Add gas under pressure and the strength increases. These tanks take some serious breaking, but thereal test is the race.
The formation lap continues. Rain is still falling in the pits as the cars approach Döttinger Höhe. RadioLeMans.com reporters talk of rain on the long straight, and all predict Pedro Lamy will go for broke, to lead the first lap in the 007 Aston. As the water still falls, will these first sixty cars stop for wet tyres, or try for a first lap on slicks? It's a long way to go on dry rubber in rain.
One minute later, the question is answered. Grid one blasts beneath a waving green flag and the Aston makes a move down the outside. The canny R8 Audi holds its line through turn one and begins to stretch a gap. Marco Holzer's fourth place Manthey Porsche slips up to third. The cameras cut to a McLaren grenading, and an Audi TT in the pit lane for tyres.
The camera flicks back to the track. The Mamerow Audi R8 is moving on Holzer, when something goes bang. In a big way. By the time it returns to the pits, the Audi's adrift, down in 33rd place. The number 1 Audi hustles past Manthey Porsche: this race is most definitely on.
Within two laps of the start, the lead group catches the backmarkers and the Nürburgring carnage begins. Being passed by the world's most committed pro drivers in full attack mode scares the bejesus from amateur pilots, so part-timers have to know their stuff.
How exactly do you get enter this race? All drivers running the N24 must have completed at least two VLN Nürburgring championship rounds before getting an entry, and rightly so. If you've driven at speed on an Autobahn, looked away to check your side mirror and looked back to find a supersonic S-Class up your chuff, then imagine caning an old M3 around here flat-out, glancing away and then back, to see a blitzkrieg GT3 race car behind you. The tenuous thread of amateur concentration is easily snapped by a front-running car, closing at speed. Once that goes, your nextdestination is scenery.
A Union Jack-roofed BMW ends up stuffed in a barrier, bringing out the yellow flags. Further around the circuit, a Clio-shaped pinball bounces between armco flippers, as it attempts to exit the path of the leaders. The succession of caution flags compresses the lead group: Lamy in Bulldog 007 sniffs opportunity and hounds the Audi harder than ever, putting fresh air under his tyres as he leaps across the Flugplatz crests.
Le Mans has some speed, and track days at Sarthe are always a favourite, but doesn't compare to this madhouse: real elevation, the light and dark forests, scary-skinny Tarmac, Oh, and the relentless rain.
A Merc SLS pits for fuel just five laps in, with the leaders still thrashing around. Hard to see a Merc win if this is as far as they go on a tank, but you just never know at the 'Ring. Fuel economy can make or break an endurance car, and this is part of the deal with Rapide: to validate hydrogen tech and really test the limits.
Along with the petrol cell, four tanks carry the Rapide's hydrogen: two in the boot, and two in place of the passenger seat. The tanks carry 3.2 kg of gas: enough to run flat-out for almost two laps. Each nine-lap stint will have one run solely on hydrogen. In hybrid mode, adding ten percent of petrol to the gas lifts power to ninety percent of petrol alone. Impressive.
To replace power lost by burning the less dense gas, Aston added a pair of small turbochargers. As this gives 600-plus horsepower when running all-petrol, the manufacturer has limited output to standard car levels by means of a custom ECU, complying with technical regulations.
Hydrogen releases more heat when it burns, making thermal management critical. Airflow through the front was optimised, welds on the exhaust manifolds were strengthened and Alset added the gas fuel injectors. Overall alterations to the production car are minimal: David King estimates that the full hydrogen package adds just 80 kilograms to the basic race chassis.
One hour in, the Audi still leads, 007 has pitted from fourth, and the hydrogen Aston Rapide lies P166. The hydrogen hybrid will win its class - it's the only car in it - but number 100's event is not for position: it just has to get to the finish. A split power steering hose and snapped bonnet pin have pushed it down the order, but spirits are high. The car is running well and staying out of trouble.
Night falls and the carnage continues, as an E36 M3 explodes through a gravel trap, entwined in a bent Renault Clio. Around the dark Nordschleife, the rain falls in earnest and it's all getting messy. Fog creeps from the forest, visibility sinks and floodwaters gather at high speed corners. The führers throw the red flag.
At 08.30 next morning, the race restarts with an interrupted rhythm. Aston 007 sinks down the field and the former leading Audi runs out of puff. Scotland's Peter Dumbreck in the Falken Motorsport Porsche 997 shows his class, making up places and reaching P4: "If only I had six Peter Dumbrecks for my drivers," as his Opel DTM team manager used to say.
The morning grinds on, and Aston 100 gains more and more airtime from TV cameras charmed by its elegant reliability. Porsche's hybrid from a few years back carried more duct tape than B&Q by the finish, but all the Aston will need is a wash. In truth, this project is different: the Porsche was trying to win it, but the Aston Rapide S is just here to demonstrate lap after lap of the Nürburgring while creating zero carbon emissions.
With an hour left to run, we watch the final hydrogen refuel at the Linde truck -topping up prototypes since 2006 - and decide to make tracks for the ferry. The race result looks settled, and the Rapide S has made its significant point. As we exit the circuit, the beach buggy passes: driver sodden, but satisfied. I wave and he waves - we'll both be back next year.
Crossing the line into Belgium, the clock strikes five, and an SLR crosses the line into history: first Mercedes to win the 24-Hour. The prototype Aston winds up P10: their powder will dry out for next year. Questions of winners now answered, one other question remains: what next for hydrogen?
"This was the technical validation," says Nacio. "We've proved the technology works. Now comes commercialisation: working with global partners to clean up our air and bring a new understanding of energy." Can the Alset team do it? Right now, it looks distinctly possible.
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Movie fans, those with too much time on their hands, love to ponder the imponderable.
Movie fans, those with too much time on their hands, love to ponder the imponderable.
Why did America flock to see "Ted"? How did Tyler Perry build an empire by donning a dress? What is new about "The Hunger Games," other than its haven't-seen-many-movies audience?
And why isn't Jeffrey Dean Morgan a star?
In an era when Hollywood has all but given up that Leo DiCaprio's voice will ever change and has cast its net far afield looking for macho leading men — Gerard Butler from Ireland, Jason Statham from the UK, and Russell (Crowe), Joel (Edgerton) and Eric (Bana) from Australia — why isn't the burly-baritoned Morgan the sleepy-eyed heir to Bruce and Sly?
"Luck," Morgan, 46, says. "It's so much to do with luck and timing. Until I get that piece of luck, I will keep plugging away and hope that this next project is 'the one.'"
The "one," this time, is "The Possession," a horror picture built around Jewish mythology's "Dybbuk Box," a container able to contain a demon. Until an innocent (in this case a child) lets it out.
Morgan has tried his hand at many genres, but always avoided horror.
"They sent it to me with the caveat, 'It's a horror movie.' I wouldn't even read it. It sat around for days. But Ole (director Ole Bornedal) sent me this great (butt)-kissing letter, telling me how right I was for this part, referencing other things he'd seen me in, and what I could bring to Clyde. I was so impressed with (his) ability to kiss (butt) that I finally read the script."
The salty, swarthy Morgan might have broken out had "Watchmen," which had him playing a rapist-costumed comic book "hero," been a blockbuster. The graphic novel adaptation "The Losers" actually played like an "Expendables" without the cobwebs, plastic surgery and steroids of the cast. That didn't blow up, either.
Morgan did not one but two movies set at Woodstock, bombs made by big-name directors ("Taking Woodstock" and "Peace, Love & Misunderstanding"), so maybe it's a judgment thing — his or his agent's. Then, there was "The Accidental Husband," cursed to be left unreleased thanks to a studio that went belly up, and "Shanghai," a Far East period piece with Chow Yun-Fat and John Cusack that was not released in the United States.
Go to the movie buff's website IMDb.com and here are "Possession" enthusiasts, referring to Morgan as "Jeffrey Dean Anderson" by mistake, or saying "I thought that was (Oscar winner) Javier Bardem" in the trailer, a sentiment film critic Carrie Rickey echoes.
"Whenever I see him, I think 'Javier Bardem,'" Rickey jokes. "Maybe he needs a Spanish accent or marriage to Penelope Cruz?"
Well, they do look alike.
But a more likely answer to Morgan's big-screen low profile is his work on TV. He broke out on "Grey's Anatomy," had a long stint on "Supernatural" and is currently star of "Magic City." Working film roles in between TV seasons is tricky for anybody.
"The best storytellers right now are in TV, cable," Morgan says. "That's the world we're living in now. And indie film and Hollywood just aren't making as many movies."
What an actor ends up doing is picking the best script offered that he or she can film in between TV seasons. Sometimes, that's a remake of the high schoolers-battle-commie invaders picture "Red Dawn" (due out later this fall). And sometimes, it's a horror movie.
"The horror genre is drowning in a sea of horse (excrement)," Morgan says. "It's all shaky cameras, found footage, crappy acting, no character development. I didn't see any of those things in this ("Possession") script — well-formed characters, a place you could do some acting. A family going through a divorce, a child under attack by a demon, all these things I could relate to. That made it more real to me."
A Seattle native, Morgan, a father of two, found the idea of a child in jeopardy compelling, reminding him of his favorite horror movies — "The Exorcist," "The Omen." He was impressed by the children cast in "The Possession."
"The little girl had to be great. The film would ride on her performance. And Ole Bornedal had auditioned the perfect girl. He sent me a tape of Natasha Calis reading a little off the script, and him prodding her, getting into her head and seeing where she would go. She was chilling. I was in."
The other thing Morgan is "in" these days is "Magic City," the drama about the Miami mob in the late 1950s. Morgan says that now that the series has its "first year behind us, introducing the story, a world and characters, we can move things along much faster. Mach speed."
And after a season of that, he'll be fishing around for that next potential big break on the big screen.
"There are a lot of weenie American actors, and a lot of foreign actors are having the luck," Morgan growls. "Not naming names, but it shocks me, some of the people who get the breaks.
"That being said, I'm not going anywhere. I know that my foot is firmly wedged in the door, and I'll be damned if I pull it out, even for a second."


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Be Amazed by the Incredible Advancements of Interactive Technologies, Virtual and Augmented Reality at SIGGRAPH Asia 2013
Hong Kong – This year sees the sixth annual SIGGRAPH Asia grace Hong Kong, promising to immerse attendees with the best in animation, human-computer interaction, new media art works and speculative ideas across the globe. From 19 to 22 November 2013, over 7,000 artists, designers, researchers, manufacturers and developers, as well as trade visitors from all over the world, will convene at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) to exchange spectacular ideas and excellent examples of computer graphics (CG) and interactivity that may help to shape the way we live our lives in the future.
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Leading this convergence of creativity will be two keynote speakers. At this year's SIGGRAPH Asia, Thad Starner and Philip Rosedale will be exploring the topics of augmented and virtual reality, both of which are rapidly advancing sectors in the industry.
Have you ever imagined a future where computers are so discreet that you can wear them anywhere on your body, performing specific functions to make your life easier? Where perhaps a glove teaches you new melodies on the piano or a wearable device can help you to interact with animals? SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 gives visitors the opportunity to come face-to-face with the first man to fully integrate a wearable computer into his everyday life, "augmented reality" pioneer and the Technical Lead of Google Glass, Thad Starner. As the first keynote speaker at SIGGRAPH Asia 2013, Starner will address the very real topic of "Wearable Computing: Through the Looking Glass", focusing on Google Glass and the future of wearable computers; what they are currently used for and ways that they will be applied in the future, including descriptions of some of the more surprising and unusual projects being explored by Starner and his group at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Virtual reality has been at the heart of the science-fiction genre since it first emerged and has retained its place as technology has advanced. As our relationship with technology becomes more symbiotic, the question of virtual reality and how it will manifest is increasingly pertinent in our physical world. SIGGRAPH Asia 2013's second keynote speaker, Philip Rosedale, has been providing answers to that question for years. He is the founder of the online virtual world Second Life and co-founder of High Fidelity, a company dedicated to creating a next-generation immersive 3D experience like nothing we have ever seen before. The subject of Rosedale's talk is "The Revenge of Virtual Reality", an in-depth look into the history and aspirations of virtual reality and how advances in technology, mobile devices and sensor technology have brought it closer to widespread use. Rosedale will illustrate his lecture with live demonstrations of unreleased technology and audience participation.
Developments that will change the way we interact with technology
Just as augmented and virtual reality have become more important and complex as the field has matured and we have advanced within it, so too have other interactive technologies. Developments in this sector are as groundbreaking as any other, transforming the way that we relate to the world around us through an ever increasing depth and sophistication of interactivity and graphics.
This year, SIGGRAPH Asia invited submissions around this pertinent topic, looking for interactive technologies which could potentially benefit our future lives. Among the many submissions received, one that stood out was Cuddly, a smartphone application developed by Keio University that enchants and animates soft objects using the phone's camera and light to bring your soft objects to life.
SIGGRAPH Asia's Emerging Technologies' Director, Yoshifumi Kitamura from Tohoku University in Japan, said of this program, "Interactive technology has been one of the most important inseparable wheels of SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia, and the Emerging Technologies program plays a vital role in driving the development of research communities all over the world to pursue technical innovations that will have a great impact on everyday life."
Symposium on Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications
This year's Symposium on Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications explores the opportunities and challenges of mobile applications that exist within the global graphics community, highlighting the novel uses of graphics and interactivity on mobile devices.
Among those selected for presentation is Mobile Virtual Archery, submitted by the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf. They have created a system that attaches a real archery bow to a mobile device, providing a realistic and believable archery experience that supports users when practicing the motions of traditional archery in a virtual environment.
At the other end of the spectrum is Can You Copy Me?, a touch-based tablet game that provides a conducive, engaging and effective platform to encourage emotional development in children, particularly children with autism. Created by the University of Technology in Sydney, the application shows children a range of facial expressions which they then have to copy and uses state-of-the-art facial expression tracking.
Learn the skills of sophisticated animation
For the first time ever, SIGGRAPH Asia will offer industry master classes conducted by leading professionals and pioneers in their field, allowing attendees from the industry to have a more hands on learning experience and develop new skills whilst at the conference.
Academy Award-winning animator, John Kahrs, will lead one of the industry master classes, giving participants the opportunity to learn about visual storytelling and the future of animation in today's technologically advanced climate. Best known for his Academy Award-winning animated short, Paperman, Kahrs has worked for two of the biggest animation studios in the world; Pixar and Walt Disney. Over the course of a day, he will be sharing his in-depth knowledge and passion, discussing how to create an emotional impact while using cutting-edge technology and dissecting the filmmaking decisions behind Paperman for any budding animator. In the second part, he will present a discussion of one of Walt Disney's animated classics, Peter Pan, looking at the way that it effortlessly combines animation, layout and story to create a rich and immersive film that is still as powerful today as it was when it was released 60 years ago. For the final session, Kahrs will interpret what it is to bring acting into contemporary animation and how to approach it from the inside out, emotionally and physically, to provide wholly formed characters for the 21st century.
Entitled "VFX in Creature Features – An MPC Master class", the second of these full-day training sessions will be led by animator Paul Chung. Another leader of the field, Chung has over 30 years of creature animation experience, working on films such as the Academy Award-winning Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Shrek, and has witnessed the industry transform from traditional 2D to computer-aided 3D animation. His master class will use elements of feature films from MPC to demonstrate and teach the working process of VFX work in creature features. Participants will be given the opportunity to examine and learn the different techniques that are applied when animating bipeds and quadrupeds and explore how VFX is used in creature animation.
In addition to these selected highlights, SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 provides a comprehensive Courses program, which sees experts and industry leaders present a wide variety of topics in CG and interactive techniques, with a special focus on user-interface design and interactive technologies. This program will also cover Asian arts and large-scale visualization, with all content tailored to professionals and students, offering them a glimpse of the future of CG and interactive technologies and giving them the opportunity to explore their potential uses and applications.
Insights from some of the world's leading academic research institutes
SIGGRAPH Asia 2013's Technical Papers program saw participation from many of the world's leading academic research institutes. This year, the highly-revered platform presents the latest technical research findings on CG and interactive techniques, focusing on both video applications and computational photography alongside a variety of topics, as seen in the submission from National Tsing Hua University and University College London, Halftone QR Codes. This paper proposes an approach to producing high-quality visual QR codes that are aesthetically pleasing and machine readable.
Another highlight in the Technical Papers program, 3-Sweep: Extracting Editable Objects from a Single Photo, submitted by Tsing Hua University, The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and Tel Aviv University, introduces an interactive technique for manipulating simple 3D shapes by extracting them from a photograph. Using a combination of human, cognitive capabilities and the computational accuracy of a machine, users are able to quickly and easily create editable 3D elements.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2013's Conference Chair and Professor at the University of Hong Kong, Wenping Wang says, "For Hong Kong, as a pioneer in the Asian film industry as well as a leader in console and mobile games consumption, hosting SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 is akin to coming full circle, embracing not only the art of computer animation in Asia, but also the technology and innovation that goes on behind the scenes. Indeed, SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 in Hong Kong will serve as a bridge, connecting the Chinese computer animation industry with the best in the digital animation market globally, ultimately contributing to the dynamism of the local industry."
A gathering of top brands and creative talents
The SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 Exhibition invites participation from numerous industry frontrunners who will showcase their latest innovations allowing attendees to gain a holistic view of the exciting developments in hardware leaders Christie Digital, Intel, NVIDIA, Stratasys, TechViz and software giants Autodesk, Chaos Group, Pixar Animation Studios and Side Effects Software.
The exhibition floor will also play host to leading educational institutions, the Academy of Art University and SCAD Hong Kong, that will offer new curriculum possibilities and share alumni's success stories, as well as research institutions showcasing their latest research and ideas that may potentially push the industry forward.
Reflecting the ever expanding potential of the CG market in the region, world-renowned studios, including Lucasfilm, will be recruiting at the event.
For detailed conference program updates, please visit the SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 website at http://sa2013.siggraph.org
More information about ACM SIGGRAPH can be found at:
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SIGGRAPHConferences
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/siggraph
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/ACM-SIGGRAPH-42742/about
- YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/ACMSIGGRAPH
About SIGGRAPH Asia 2013
The 6th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia will take place in Hong Kong at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from 19 – 22 November 2013. This year, the line-up of conference programs will include an Art Gallery, the Computer Animation Festival, Courses, Emerging Technologies, Posters, a Symposium on Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications, Technical Briefs and Technical Papers. There will also be a trade exhibition from 20 – 22 November 2013, offering participants, ranging from hardware and software vendors to studios and educational institutions, a platform to market their products and services to computer graphics and interactive techniques professionals and enthusiasts from Asia and beyond.
About ACM SIGGRAPH
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGGRAPH sponsors SIGGRAPH Asia 2013. ACM is an educational and scientific society uniting the world's computing educators, researchers, and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources, and address the field's challenges. ACM strengthens the profession's collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence.
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Voyager 1, the spacecraft that launched on a tour of the solar on Sept. 5, 1977, is getting ready to enter interplanetary space.
The spacecraft's journey started in 1966 when Gary Flandro, then a graduate student working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, discovered that the planets were about to align. Not just for him, but for the whole solar system.
ANALYSIS: Voyager 1 About to Become Interstellar Emissary?
He found that in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto would be at the right relative positions in their orbits that a spacecraft could visit each of them on a grand tour. The secret was gravity assists, using the planets' gravity to slingshot the spacecraft from one to the next.
To take advantage of the opportunity, NASA developed the twin Voyager spacecraft. Both would fly by Jupiter and Saturn, adding valuable scientific data to what was then a very scant knowledge of the outer solar system. Ground-based studies revealed the planets' most basic properties, and hinted that there were fascinating discoveries still to make.
In the early 1970s, Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 made the first flybys of the gas giants and their instruments began revealing just how complex those worlds are.
NEWS: Voyager Probes Give Us ET's View
With this as the background, Voyager wasn't just a great opportunity, it was the logical next step is understanding our solar system.
Voyager 2, which was actually the first to launch on August 20, 1977, ended up with more opportunities on its trajectory. After flying by Jupiter and Saturn, it would be in the right place to continue its mission and fly by Uranus.
Voyager 1 was a little more limited. Its orientation after flying by Saturn would send it out of the ecliptic, the plane where all the planets orbit the sun.
But even without another planetary target, Voyager 1 would keep on going. It would, as the 1977 pre-launch press kit described, continue "outward from the solar system and across the boundary of the wind of charged particles (solar wind) that streams outward from the Sun, thus penetrating into interstellar space." At the time, there was no concrete plan to keep in touch with the spacecraft after it left Saturn.
ANALYSIS: Voyager: Solar System Edge is Bubbly and 'Frothy'
On Nov. 12, 1980, Voyager 1 began its trip out of the solar system. The spacecraft was on its path "searching for the outer limit of the solar wind –- that presumed boundary... where the influence of the sun gives way," as NASA described it in a 1980 press release. It kept on going, and NASA hasn't lost touch despite arguments that its continuing budget spent on the mission every year could be put to "better use."
Currently, Voyager 1 is at the furthest reaches of our solar system more than 107 times as far as the Earth is from the sun. Data suggests that the spacecraft is in a region where the environment is changing rapidly and that the protective sphere of the sun's magnetic field -- the heliosphere -- is failing. More cosmic rays seem to be hitting the spacecraft without the cushioning effect of the heliosphere.
From the edges of the solar system, it takes a signal traveling from the spacecraft fifteen hours to reach Earth. Voyager 2 isn't too far behind. It flew by Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s before slipping below the ecliptic. Both have since returned stunning portraits of the whole solar system.
HOWSTUFFWORKS: How Voyager Works
Nothing is stopping Voyager 1 from talking to Earth after it passes through the heliosphere save its steadily dwindling power supply. Both Voyager spacecraft are powered by radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) that use the electricity generated from decaying plutonium 238 to make heat to keep the spacecraft working. At launch, Voyager 1's RTG was releasing 470 watts; by 2010 its output had fallen to about 285 watts.
For now, it looks like Voyager 1 will last until about 2020 before mission scientists start powering down instruments and systems to conserve what remains of its power. By then it will be through the heliosphere having exceeded its primary mission by over thirty years.
Image: Artist's rendering of Voyager 2 in the outer regions of the heliosphere, the magnetic bubble around the solar system generated by the solar wind. Credit: NASA
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Steph, this is a great story of engineering and imagination! I wonder what unknown-unknowns they will reveal in the course of their journeys? Try this with intelligent design!
Thanks, Steph. I am always amazed and appreciative of the contributions grad students make to new discoveries.
It appears that Voyager 1 has gone beyond the edge of the Solar System at the end of August 2012, when the number of particles/sec detected dropped from 24 to 2.
I get goosebumps when I think of the planning, organization and cooperation it took to get that machine on its way, and just think how far it has gone and is going. Thanks for sharing.
If you thought finding a definition for Pluto was contentious, try defining the edge of the solar system:
Thank you Spud for the link. I appreciate it.
Here's something to think about, too. Voyager 1 is 35-year-old technology, older than the space shuttle, older than the Hubble Space Telescope ... probably older than more than a few of those who read this. Yet it's still out there, still functional, and still telling us things we never knew about where it is, in what now must be considered interstellar space.
If we set our minds to it, what can we accomplish with 21st century technology and expertise? This is the wonder set before us. Please, someone grasp it.
Let me do a little dreaming: every USA home goes off fossil fuels and uses renewable, sustainable energy, more neighborhood markets within walking distance, efficient public transit, everyone has access to basic health care, education is available for life-long learning, because production jobs have gone overseas to cheaper labor markets current jobs and future services and production provides a living wage, mentally and physically healthy child care services and elder care, more effort into education and opportunity for small businesses, don't even think of privatizing prisons or schools or hospitals, don't privatize basic needs such as water and power, more emphasis on skilled labor training, get the banks and financial institutions regulated, end teaching to a test and more emphasis on critical thinking skills, more effort at arbitration and negotiation before using court systems, I guess that is enough for tonight. Hope your eyes aren't too strained.
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The da Vinci® Surgical System enables surgeons to perform operations through a few small incisions and features several key features, including:
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The da Vinci System is powered by robotic technology that allows the surgeon's hand movements to be translated into smaller, precise movements of tiny instruments inside the patient's body. One of the instruments is a laparoscope – a thin tube with a tiny camera and light at the end. The camera sends images to a video monitor in the operating room to guide doctors during surgery. The surgeon is 100% in control of the da Vinci System at all times.
The da Vinci System has brought minimally invasive surgery to more than 3 million patients worldwide. da Vinci technology – changing the experience of surgery for people around the world.
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