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Fact or Myth? You should open the windows in your house when a tornado coming.
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When a tornado warning is issued, take shelter in the lowest part of a well built structure. Underground is best, like in a storm shelter or basement. If that's not available, head to a small, interior bathroom, closet, or hallway.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The owner of a house that exploded in Indianapolis says he wonders if a faulty furnace might have been to blame for the blast that killed two people and destroyed or damaged dozens of homes.
John Shirley told The Associated Press on Monday that he received a text message last week from his daughter about a problem with the furnace at the house the girl shares with her mother and her mother's boyfriend.
John Shirley says no one was home at the time of the explosion.
His ex-wife, Monserrate Shirley, declined to comment Monday.
Indiana real estate records show the house had been for sale for a year until it was taken off the market in March.
Meanwhile, a top city official is asking for patience as investigators work to determine what caused the deadly explosion.
Indianapolis public safety director Troy Riggs said Monday he knows everyone wants to know what caused Saturday night's explosion but that the investigation "will take some time."
Riggs tells WRTV that investigators are talking with utility companies and others and that they will "forensically look at everything."
City officials say more than 30 homes were damaged so badly that they might have to be demolished. Red Cross spokeswoman Barb Coury said Monday morning that no people remained at a shelter that was set up immediately after the explosion.
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My daugthers attenebefore we North Loop before we move. I found the school to be very friendly, but the teacher did not always know their area of studies. I also felt that the princliple and admin staff did not take to outsiders. There is no music or sports
I have my 5 year old daughter there since pre-k and she is now in kinder she has learned so much that i am thinking of having my son go there soon. its a great school.
My daughter has attended North Loop Christian Academy for the last three years, since K4. The small class size offers tremendous learning opportunities. Her reading level is superior. This is a wonderful school.
I currently have 2 childern attending NLCA and cannot give the school enough praise. My son is in the 5th grade and recently rated well above his grade level in the Stanford Test. The staff is great and my son actually looks forward to school in the mornings. My daughter is 4 and will be attending NLCA for the first time this year.
My child has been attending this school since PreK and he is now coming up on his eigth year at this academy. I have only positive things to say about this learning institution. The classes are small and individual attention is always given. The teachers are caring and believe in each childs learning abilities to be of much importance. The word of God is at the top of the list and it's what makes this a Christian environment, which is what children need in todays world. This school symbolizes love for God, others, and having a true relationship with the teachers that educate our children. I feel proud to speak about North Loop Christian Academy and the many positive experiences that both my child and myself have experienced here over the years and the years to come.
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Emailing will be a major mode of communication in this class and I would like for you to email me as well with any questions/concerns.
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More information is coming soon via website. The website will be used to view spelling words, homework assignments, and other instructional activities for the week. The website will be available to view by the close of each Friday.
Again, welcome to Bouie and welcome to another great year.
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May 16, 2010
my writing desk. my small blue water bottle. my glasses. the click-clack of my favorite black shoes. moments of hyperfocus. a good discussion. the feather pillow lamb left at my detroit house 7 years ago. erasmus. deven saying my name. steven's sarcasm. anju's kindness. the blanket with the fishing village on it that my father took in trade for installing a new door on a woman's house (i took this blanket with me "on loan" when i moved to dc. it saw many of the traumatic events of those days yet is still something i can go back to for comfort). forgiveness. alex and i's shared history. evan walking down alice's stairs. andrea's sound advice. meredith's talents. wooten's wootenisms. everything carrie and i have ever been through together or apart. alana's motormouth and supreme loyalty. brittany giving me a chance to be her friend. gabriela and david's unwavering support. shaun and i's millions of crazy ideas and quiet moments. lb's fierce friendship. forgiveness. singing with abandon. two-armed hugs. bike rides. detroit. columbus. cleveland. fancy hot dogs. the buttons on my jeans jacket. our routines. connections. phone calls to those i love and those who love me. the impossibility of the city where i was born.
this is abridged, a portion. i am going to continue it, here and in real life.
You Just Want Some Chocolate
May 15, 2010
We watch as the woman makes two drinks and uses the last of the ginger ale. This means water for us. Water is okay. We are made of water.
Up the stairs is the installation by the small artist I hit on last winter. I am embarrassed to see her. When we pass each other we give one another courtesy nods. "There you are," she speaks down to me from her perch on a stool. My friend, Andy, assures me that this is the same way she was greeted by the artist. When I see the small artist's on-again-off-again girlfriend I feel real dread. Girlfriend greets me enthusiastically, her eyes shining through the darkness, catching the light from the bonfire. I actually had a crush on the girlfriend first, but several drinks will make anyone magnetic for a couple of hours. Last winter the artist told me she liked me because I am who I am and I do not try to be anyone else. Right now the girlfriend's voice is so reassuring I forget about the water, the strength of the drink. I chug.
The installation is a big worm like fabric tube that crawls up the back stairs. At the beginning is a seat and instructions. "Write what you most wish for in the coming year on a pellet and put the pellet in the pellet pouch." The pellets are made of pressed garbage and seeds. Your wishes and dreams will grow out of these. My other friend, Apple, sarcastically calls the pellet pouch "the fisting pouch" as it looks like a vagina and all of us apart from Andy are intimately familiar with pouches other than our own. To oblige, I stick my hand in and take out ALL the night's pellets. I read them aloud, each falling in my lap. Some say things like "hope" and "love" while others we laugh at say things like "for our own baby" and "my marriage." I wonder if reading them out loud like this will make them nil and void, like birthday wishes repeated after the candles are blown out. "You are just the asshole to do this," Andy laughs while writing, "I wish for a good cat," on her pellet.
I need money. Money is my main stressor right now. It comes and it goes. There is something else I want so on one side of my grey pellet I write "$ money $" and on the other side I write the other word, my want. Andy looks at it, she is sympathetic. She knows my plight. She is the ears to my mouth.
Andy takes her pellet with her, placing it in her jeans pocket for later. I put mine in the pellet pouch. I stick my arm up to my elbow inside, placing my pellet on the very bottom. "No one else is crass enough to take them out and read them," Andy assures me and I hope she is right. A part of me wants my dreams to grow larger than the peaks of the house, but most of me knows I am just drunk. I am suspicious. If I take my pellet home, plant it, and it dies I will give up. I will call it fate and cry into my pillows. I must not know what happens to that pellet.
We all sit by the fire and soak in the sing-along. I complain about the smell of hippies, but it is all in good fun. Andy and I share a cookie out of her boyfriend's knapsack. I do this with hesitation as I once saw him pull an unwrapped sandwich out of his hoodie pocket and Andy tells me his home is infested with roaches. Apple talks about how repulsive she finds food and when I laugh she caves in on herself and refuses to talk anymore. I take off in a fume of resentment, thinking about how it is hard enough to fight myself, much less other people.
As I am leaving, the artist and the girlfriend emerge from the bushes having buried the pellets at the appointed time. "We are dirty," the girlfriend says as she shakes soil from her hands.
May 13, 2010
Everything that was in the car when it crashed got thrown out in some Maryland dumpster, half of my life and all of it trash. I hitchhiked back to DC with a Tolkien fan and his dog, sharing a hotel room over some passages from The Hobbit and a cup of truck stop coffee. He dropped me off at a gas station in Tyson's Corner where Christopher reluctantly picked me up. We drove to the airport in silence to the plane booked for me. I was calling my boyfriend in Detroit nonstop to no avail. I was alone and I knew it. I was contented and serene, daydreaming of Lamb's red hair mixed up in mine, back and forth in the truck bed on the road to Richmond, as I touched down in Flint.
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Hauntings on Vicary Lane
May 12, 2010
My crib was located in my parent's office between two clunky industrial desks and their second phone line. Late night calls from tenants were the lullabies I learned to ignore. I was relocated to the bedroom at the end of the hall, furthest from my parents at age 3 because of my habit of talking through the night. I would pretend I was a radio DJ and record hour upon hour of incomprehensible babble into the small Sony Walkman my father had bought at Service Merchandise. While the next room, occupied by my then teenage brother, was a cave like habitation reeking of sweaty gym socks, acne medicine, and the spit drained from his clarinet, my room was a bright explosion of toys, a canopy bed, and rainbows. My mother had learned early to only put wallpaper on the ceiling as my brothers would lie in bed, peeling, and eating the paper like two glue starved addicts.
My childhood bedroom may have been friendly but three major drawbacks haunted me. Outside my window was an ailing birch tree which, after a too-early-in-life viewing of Poltergeist, I was convinced was trying to kill me. I would sit guard most nights, vigilantly watching for any movement from the tree's peeling white trunk which I was sure would indicate its dark intentions. Even when playing outside on sunny days I gave the dying tree a wide berth, always veering close to the protection of the ever healthy maple trees that spotted our front yard. "It is no surprise," I would try to get my mother's attention as she was making fruit salad, "That in Scottish folklore, the birch tree is closely related to death and spirits returning from the grave." She would shoo me away, "You have been watching too much Scooby-Doo." She obviously did not take our Celtic heritage as seriously as the musty 1977 edition of the World Book encyclopedia where I had gleaned this knowledge did.
The other two situations that irked young me concerned my brother's room. The lesser, but more sensible and practical, concern was that he possessed a window mounted air conditioning unit. Our house had baseboard heat which crackled like lobsters (or so I imagined) every time it was turned on. Baseboard heat made central air nearly impossible to install. My mother insisted the lack of air conditioning would "build character" in me, but my brother was granted a loud and clunky a/c unit as a filter to the outside. He was allergic to everything in nature and had debilitating asthma. That a/c unit acted as a ventilator to his room/bubble.
More vexing was the bloody skeleton costume my mother had stowed in one of my brother's two matching closets. These closets butted up to the north wall of my bedroom. The bloody skeleton costumes was nothing more than a pressed plastic mask and vinyl tunic. The thing was more psychedelic than scary, the blood was neon pink and mounted on the skeleton's shoulder was a goofy-faced mouse, on its head a day-glo candle. On my insistence, my mother had bought it at the drugstore around the corner from my Uncle David and Aunt Mary's house for $2.99, but the closer it got to Halloween the more I panicked. I believed that if I put the costume on it would melt to my body and never come off. She reluctantly squirreled it away in my brother's closet, hoping I would change my mind and bought me a Velma Dinkley costume instead. (please note: this past winter I decided to only dress like Velma Dinkley. I now own ten wool skirts, a bunch of knee socks, and several orange cable knit sweaters)
Knowledge that the costume lurked one sheet of drywall away prompted me to move my bed to the south wall. When I took a break from my nightly marathon conversations I would have nightmares in which the bloody skeleton costume would leave my brother's room in search of me. When I was finally discovered cowering under my rainbow cloud Pegasus comforter it would crawl into bed next to me, stealing all the covers, pushing and kicking me to the ground where, of course, the monsters that lived under my bed would have an easy go at my liver, spleen, and other internal organs.
Children who are scared of everything are very inventive and effective in the traumatizing of other children. Around August, I would start setting up my haunted house ride. Neighborhood kids would line up to take rides in my little red wagon down the hill in our backyard. Wake boards would turn into tombstones. Barbies would be decapitated, mutilated, and tortured for other's enjoyment. I would throw a mixture of berries picked from the bushes, red food coloring, and corn syrup on my unfortunate customers. I would poke them with branches from the evil birch, hoping to entice the tree to take them and not me. I would tell them horribly gruesome stories about phantoms in the creek, specters in the woods, and corpses buried in the walls of their bedrooms.
I was a bully of words and images early on. The words I learned to speak came razor sharp. When the other kids picked on me for having flaming red hair, I gave them a tongue lashing that peeled the paint off of our matchbox cars. I belittled my peers for believing in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny while filling their minds with ghosts and goblins. I swore like a sailor, not grasping the words I used, but knowing they were bad.
Besides fear, I was filled with rage. I overflowed with unnameable, unfathomable anger. I had words for every rotten experience an elementary schooler can imagine, but I could not unlock the reason for my hate and malice.
Words were weapons, but sticks and stones break bones. My bullying came from being bullied. My first default "friends" before school started were a set of twins who lived in a colonial catty corner to ours. Often they devised games where I was their "slave." They would tie me up and hit me with jump ropes. They would take my shoes and hide them. They would pointedly exclude me. This exclusion made me pliable, wanting to please.
At this time the girl twin, my sole female friend, favorite game to play was "Madonna." This game involved one of us being Madonna and one of us being Sean Penn. The rules of the game involved whoever was Sean Penn hitting whomever was Madonna after which we would "kiss and make up." This meant simulating sex by grinding on top of her pretty princess bed. My friend always wanted to be Madonna. She argued that she looked more like Madonna. There was no arguing about how I looked nothing like Sean Penn as I half-heartedly slapped her around. I hated being Sean Penn, but I did not want to be Madonna either. I hated the game. When I said I did not want to play, did not want to wrestle around on top of the pink roses that dotted her bedspread, that I would not be Sean Penn she pulled her trump card. "I will tell your mom," she said.
"Tell her what?" I asked as there were a hundred things to tell her. I had snuck a fishbowl full of tent caterpillars into our garage despite this act being strictly forbidden. I had willingly and gleeful taken a dump that looked like chocolate soft serve next to the creek. I had purchased a pair of molting, mounted stuffed geese from a garage sale and repeatedly ran over them with the banana seated bike I had inherited from Steven James and Mark, bending one of the wheel's rims. I walked up to K-mart and purchased useless doo-dads with quarters stolen from my father's slot machine. I crossed Farmington Road to buy candy from Efros. I strayed further and stayed alone longer. As a child, my most frequent and debilitating nightmare involved my mother spontaneously combusting at school after being told that I was an ill-behaved and mischievous child, ie the truth.
"That you don't even try to fit in. That you talk too loud. That you are weird. That you spend too much time alone. That the other kids don't like you. That you talk funny," she was proud of herself, but I was sure these were things my mother already knew. That I felt in her touch when she tried to brush my hair and I would pull away. That I saw in her face when she looked at me as a visitor who had stopped by unannounced, like a ghost, like a phantom, a mirage. That I heard in her voice when she told me to just try, try not to stick out so much. That there was no bloody skeleton costume trying to melt onto my skin, that trees do not move, that little girls should not say "fuck" and "shit" or pretend to be radio DJs and talk all night long.
"Fine," I said, resigned, balling up my fist, ready to deck Madonna real good. My heart wasn't in it though. I was just dreaming of that year's haunted house.
This is part of a much longer piece centering around our house on Vicary which I wrote for NBV #33 and will probably never ever be put out. Not sure I am ready to "unpack" some of this childhood trauma revolving around abuse from neighborhood kids, the death of Mark, and general emotional estrangement from my family.
thoughts from a long time ago
May 11, 2010
Party Favors
May 10, 2010
I tried to remember when I started throwing up all the damn time. When I started puking so often my friends began exchanging glances when I jump up during a meal? When was the first time I puked on my handlebars during a long bike ride? Is it all nerves and exhilaration?
Walking back from the alley where I recently deposited five thick cut french fries which I swear permanently scratched my throat, I think of Jen in Baltimore and the nights we went to the amateur wrestling matches. This was one of her favorite activities. 19 year old us getting men to buy us buckets of beer. These were not buckets filled with bottles of beer, these were beach pails filled with Natty Bo. How many sand castles could we build tonight? We asked one another as we leaned against the sweating gymnasium walls.
Jen was one of my only "friends" during the short time I lived in Baltimore. After we met at a scooter rally, she started ardently pursuing a friendship with me. She had tattoos and I had tattoos and she liked to tell me how great it felt to get tattooed. She liked to pull down the waistband of her jeans and show me the poison ivy crawling down her crotch. "I fell asleep while he was doing this," could mean so many things. I admonished the tattoo artist in my head. Like with sex, in tattooing ethically speaking, you are not supposed to work on drunk people.
After years of teetotalling, Jen introduced me to a cavalcade of alcoholic inducements. She cursed me when I pushed away the bloody mary she procured from a acquiescing bartender. "I showed my tits for that," she cursed, "You fucking owe me."
And what did I owe her.
After marking every Charm City doorstep with piss, Jen carried me to her stuffy attic bedroom. We both lived in attics and this was a fact we bonded over. "Men are so stupid," she blurted, stripping her bed of the covers, "I fuck them and shit on them and they just take it." I knew when she said shit, she meant literally and when she said fuck, my eyes darted around nervously. I gathered the bed covers and made a nest. Jen was having none of that.
"Listen," she said, pinning me to her bed, "I don't eat pussy, but you can."
Maybe it was the buckets of cheap beer, maybe it was the weight of her on my chest, maybe it was her words, her accusation, her homophobia. This is the first time I remember throwing up with zeal.
With vomit, you have only two options – fight it or don't. The result is usually the same. You usually barf and any fighting that is done just a delays the inevitable. As a child, I was a fighter. I fought everything. I remember having a fever of 110 and lying on my parent's bedroom floor. "Stop fighting it!" my mother instructed as I thought, "A barf fountain would be so pretty." A barf fountain is not so pretty. Such a thing does not exist. My mother rolled me over as I started choking ala Hendrix. Gravity beats puke every time.
After what happened with Jen I began to embrace my urge to puke. Puke was telling me something. My body and my mind caucusing and declaring, "We do not like this."
I am thinking of my friend "the man who hates the number five" and his destroyed teeth and the smell of his apartment, Diet Mountain Dew and bile. I am wondering, "Is it wrong to help yourself along every once and awhile?"
The answer is probably yes so I plead the fifth.
I puke all the time and it is something I have accepted. Indigestion, puke. Messy break-up, puke. Coughing fit, puke. Puke puke puke.
I am pretty sure I am not bulimic, but I won't swear to it. I am never disgusted by the amount or variety of food I eat. I stopped fighting years ago, after years of scuffles with random men who call my best friend "faggot," with heroin addicts who declare "you don't deserve friends," and with myself – the most caustic of the bunch. My body, so familiar and so foreign, is host to this party.
Meaningful Work
May 7, 2010
Jass convinced me it would be a good idea to work at the non-profit my last semester of undergrad with the promise of getting high every day and skinny dipping in the "old pool" no one used on campus. Since I would have followed her to the ends of the earth these promises were just an added bonus.
My job was to drive the non-profit's van to various known brothels and meet contacts who would tell me if anyone needed new clothes, medicine, a job outside the house, fresh needles. Jass got to work in the kitchen, steaming carrots and broccoli and green beans.
On the ride home in her station wagon, I would lay my head on her shoulder, listening to her kitchen jokes, and curse the fact that I lived only 6 blocks from the non-profit.
Fatty in the Dressing Room
May 6, 2010
This happens at least four or five times a month, depending on how often I go clothes shopping. I will be squirreled away in my private, individual cubicle and the words and thoughts of other women will accost me. Always, always, always these words are about weight. There is something hideous about the mirrors, lights, and dimensions of those little rooms that sets the inner critic monologuing. It could also be wearing clothes that are not one's own, a small grieving process, the loss of potential when one feels an article of clothing is not flattering to one's person. Women of all sizes, shapes, and ages running at the mouth about what they feel is wrong with their bodies. As someone who aggressively identifies as fat and will challenge anyone who says I am not because they believe FAT is a BAD thing, the insecurities and fear I witness in women's dressing rooms sets my teeth a grinding and my hair on end.
A woman's changing room is believed, by most cis-gendered women, to be a safe place to commiserate about the woes of the womanly shape, be it too flat, too fat, too short, too tall, or just all "wrong." Communal complaining about one's body "flaws" is acceptable when one cannot see who is in the other rooms. One is sharing with everyone and no one. We are all supposedly on the same page of self-hate.
Today the women who were discussing the best ways to lose weight were not in their own private rooms. They were standing in the middle aisle between the sets of doors. Each was in a state of undress when I exited my room with my soon-to-be purchased wears. Immediately they saw me as one of their own. I do not know what made them believe they could relate to me – is it my fat? Is it that I present as femme and am assumed to be straight and non-threatening? Is it that cis-gendered women are raised in a society where they are constantly and continually told there is something "not quite right" with them and these women assumed I had received the memo? Is it just an assumed shared experience of body hatred?
For whatever reason, these women tried to engage me in their discussion of diet methods and body lament. I was a deer in headlights at first. I am often confronted with people I know, who claim to care and respect me, saying things like, "I have been eating so much, I am going to get really fat" or "I am having a fat day." To be confronted by a complete stranger, so obviously in pain and feeling alienated from the reality of their own amazingly functional, powerful, and unique body was a bit of a … excuse me … throw up moment.
So I said, "I actually like my body and do not wish to change it."
It was as if I had pulled a kitten out of my purse and bitten off its adorable head. The revulsion on these woman's face was immediate and their bodies, the ones they disparaged so, moved away from me as if I had burst into flames. I find that when I say something someone (who does not already know me) does not want to hear it is easy to set up boundaries and borders. Before these women just saw a fat, feminine, probably straight ally. Now they registered that I was not wearing a long-sleeved shirt, I was wearing sleeves of tattoos and my hair is dirty and unbrushed and that arm pit smell? It's coming from this lovely body of mine. When you say something that someone does not want to hear, something that is an affront to their worldview, you become an enemy, the other, a crazy person. In this case I was a fat crazy person. A person of fat who is crazy.


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seasons in art 129 06 2013
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color 1.119 04 2012
the choice of the right color seems to be a challenge, that's at least what I hear from a lot of my students. of course you can trust your intuition or get inspired by the right music, but I think it might be safer to collect enough information, in this case – visual reference. maybe you have enough photos in your archives to choose from, but in any case you can find everything and fast on the internet. as an example I picked the theme WINTER.
when I did the production design for BALTO I had to do a lot of research about alaska, snow covered mountains and deep forests, whatever I could find about the cold northern winter. without checking photographic- or art-reference you probably would go for a lot of white with some greyish-blue colors. in case of BALTO we wanted to avoid that cold color-range as often as possible. the white with blue color combination feels cold and you don't want your audience to start freezing.
when you look at the collected photos you will find blue as the dominant color, but as well a lot of other balancing colors you could use to go into a different warmer range.
in the second big compilation you can study a wide range of artwork from around the world and from over the last two hundred years covering the same theme. here as well the color choices of the different artists were not just blues and greys. you can check that very well in my color-picks.
that is how I usually start, in case I need to come up with a color script. you select all the colors from whatever reference you use and then condense the color-picks to the range that fits your storyline the best, and – you choose colors harmonizing with each other. according to the story you are working on, a lot more goes into the choice of the right color, especially in your color script, where you need to translate the development of the drama and illustrate the mood. in some cases your story in the climax part of the film might need even in a winter snowy environment completely different colors, colors that symbolise the idea and not the reality.
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style 10.410 10 2011
storytelling and the visual arts are very close connected. look at the stories on the walls of the caves of lascaux. or most religious art throughout the middle ages, like the illuminated manuscripts or the stained glass windows of the christian cathedrals. art helps us to perceive aspects of reality we could not see otherwise. a chinese proverb says – one picture is worth ten thousand words, or – what ivan s.turgenev wrote 1862 in his novel 'fathers and sons' – 'the drawing shows me at one glance what might be spread over ten pages in a book.'
in the compilation of artwork below I have collected some stories from all over the world. note besides the content their composition, the way the artists lead your eyes through their story. and study how the color is used to support the atmosphere, to help the viewer develop an emotional feeling.
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the rat catcher4 10 2011
based on a medieval german fairy tale THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN czechoslovak film director JIRI BARTA produced in 1986 the 53 min long puppet-animated movie THE PIED PIPER ( 'Krysař' in czech, what means THE RAT CATCHER ). the whole jiří trnka studio KRATKY FILM was involved in what was one of the most ambitious projects in the history of Czech animation. research and preproduction time took six months, the filming with puppets up to 60 cm tall one year. barta's 'horror'-film creates a striking contrast to the disney version of the pied piper legend as a children's comedy, his fascinating metaphor for a society focused on material demands comes to life in a very artistic style, heavily influenced by german expressionistic painters like EMIL NOLDE, MAX BECKMANN, ERICH HECKEL, CARL HOFER, ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER, MAX PECHSTEIN, KARL SCHMIDT-ROTTLUFF and KAETHE KOLLWITZ – but as well by medieval wooden sculpture artists like JOERG SYRLIN, HANS MULTSCHER and TILMAN RIEMENSCHNEIDER. interesting is the similarity in the tilted angles and twisted shapes in the environment of the 1920 silent horror film THE CABINET OF DR.CALIGARI directed by ROBERT WIENE. below some of the stylized sets of the puppet-animated film and the reference art that was probably used.
…following a collection of reference art that could have been used
© kratky film prague
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style 10.112 09 2011
it is a challenge to develop a special style for an illustration, an animated movie or just a character. the goal is to create something that nobody has done before. for that reason and of course for inspiration I recommend to gather all reference that is available. usually the amount of information we have is not sufficient, information not just about the designwork in illustration and film of the past few years, but information about what has been created in 'the arts' over the past 12.000 years. starting with the cave paintings of lascaux, early highly stylized egyptian art as well as greek- and roman sculptures and mosaics, and the whole medieval art from byzanthine to gothic. further in more recent centuries baroque, rokoko, romanticism, impressionism, art nouveau, expressionism and of course all the modern art of the past 70 years. not to forget russian-, oriental-, persian- and indian-, southern american-, african-, eskimo- and aborigine art.
the knowledge about all these different 'styles' is helpful. in the past it was pretty difficult if not impossible to find all the right publications or visit enough museums to study the vast amount of art that has been created all over the world. today it is much easier to research through the internet, with a bit detective work everybody interested enough can do it.
most of the above compiled artwork in figurative art was created over the past 500 years. the series will be continued, I want to concentrate on some more unusual and lesser known art. hopefully that will encourage you to start your own archives.
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cloudy21 08 2011
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balto reference18 01 2011
here is some of the reference for BALTO. I collected hours of TV-reference about alaska and snow landscapes in general, analyzed them all and printed hundreds of color-videoprints. a selection is below, as well as some of my designs for the aurora borealis in wolf-shape for the ending of the film.
© amblin / universal pictures
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more poortvliet7 11 2010
about two years ago I posted the first illustrations of the dutch master-painter/illustrator RIEN POORTVLIET ( here ), here now is some more. from his books HET BRIESCHEND PAARD, 1978 van holkema & warendorf bussum publ. and LANGS HET TUINPAD VAN MIJN VADEREN, 1987 uigeversmaatschappij j.h.kok kampen publ. the first is just about horses, the other about rien's family's history going back to the 1600s. both books like all of his other publications beautifully illustrated in every single technique and style you can think of.
© rien poortvliet / van holkema & warendorf bussum publ./ uigeversmaatschappij j.h.kok kampen publ.
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rowland hilder10 09 2010
he was described as THE TURNER OF HIS GENERATION, – ROWLAND HILDER, 1905 – 1993. you probably see the similarity between HILDER'S landscapes and the backgrounds in disney's 101 DALMATIANS, together with RONALD SEARLE his artwork was used for inspiration. HILDER was born in long island in the US, but returned with his parents in 1915 to england, where he lived most of his life in a kentish country village. he illustrated numerous books and was a professor at goldsmith's college school of art. someone described his style and technique as so recognisable that there are parts of England which, in tribute to his skill, seem to have grown physically like his paintings. he shares with JOHN CONSTABLE the distinction of having seen an entire region of England identified with his name and art. The description ROWLAND HILDER COUNTRY evokes a landscape as distinctive as CONSTABLE'S COUNTRY along the Suffolk Stour. That is as generous a tribute as any man could wish.
© rowland hilder
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style 9.16 07 2010
EYVIND EARLE explained how he found the style for disney's SLEEPING BEAUTY, a combination of medieval gothic art with persian miniatures mixed with his own vision. it is very interesting to look at the different animated films of the past and analyze their style development. their designers were of course influenced by the different arts of their time, some had their own style and used it for the look of the films they worked on. but a few of these artists wanted to create a style that fit the story and the culture where it took place. naturally they used elements of existing arts from these cultures and mixed them with interesting other ingredients. it shows that most of them had a good knowledge of art in general, a lot did some extensive research.
the disney studio had for that reason a huge library that still exists, the WDI research library. I spent hours there and found copies of all existing art- and design-magazines from their first edition on from all over the world. tall shelves filled with the swiss GRAPHIS magazines, the english PUNCH, the german NOVUM, all NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC editions, the american old LIFE magazine, specialized magazines about painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, fashion. then in a different room the vast collection of reference books, thousands! there was even a 'cut-out'-archives, personal collections of artists who gave them to the library. it was like being in heaven! you could spend hours. and going through the books you could find the disney-designers names with the dates when they borrowed the books from the library. when I visited the library I was usually alone, not too many artists used the chance and the offer of all these treasures.
it is easier today to get some of that information through the internet, but – you have to know what you are looking for. to give you some ideas I chose as a start one theme – TREES – and followed their very different styling through the arts. in the compilation below I mixed very different films from different studios and from different years to show the incredible variety of styles. in the next posts I will analyze where some of these looks were borrowed from.
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sullivant10 06 2010
T.S.SULLIVANT, 1854 – 1926, is probably one of the most important cartoonists in the history of this medium. I am sure you all have seen some of his work, and you might know how important he was for the development of cartoon characters in animation. his very unique style of anthropomorphism has been the inspiration for numerous character designers in animation and comic strip artists around the world. sullivant began to work cartooning professionally at the age of 32. his drawings appeared in the LIFE and PUCK magazines during the 1890s, later in 1904 he signed an exclusive contract with WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST. from 1911 until his death he continued to work for LIFE magazine. I have selected some of my favorite cartoons below.
© t.s.sullivant
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Dr. Alberg is a Professor of Public Health Sciences and holds the Blatt Ness Distinguished Endowed Chair in Oncology. In his role, he has acted to forge links between the Hollings Cancer Center and the leadership of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control to foster joint cancer-focused initiatives, including development and evaluation of the State Cancer Plan. Working collaboratively with other Cancer Control scientific leaders, Dr. Chanita Hughes-Halbert and Dr. Marvella E. Ford, Dr. Alberg is also developing initiatives that will integrate cancer population science into other Hollings Cancer Center research programs, an essential element in working toward this Center's eligibility to become a comprehensive cancer center.
Dr. Alberg's primary research interests include nonmelanoma skin cancer as a risk factor for subsequent noncutaneous malignancies; cigarette smoking, including the health effects of secondhand smoke; etiology of tobacco-associated malignancies; and tobacco prevention and control. Dr. Alberg has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications related to cancer epidemiology and cancer prevention.
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Syndicate Bank gets Govt nod for BPO unit
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Bangalore , Nov. 21
THE public sector Syndicate Bank has received the Government's approval for setting up a subsidiary for business process outsourcing (BPO) operations.
The BPO services will be headquartered at Manipal in Karnataka. Syndicate Bank also has its head office in Manipal. The operations, however, are likely to be extended to other cities, said Mr Prakash Mallya, Syndicate Bank's Executive Director. The authorised capital of the BPO will be Rs 10 crore and the paid-up capital, Rs 1 crore.
The BPO will initially service only the bank's own customers. However, Mr Mallya said that other public sector banks and financial institutions would be allowed to use the BPO's services. The modalities for the BPO operations are yet to be worked out, he added. The operations include software development, establishment of data processing centres, software training programmes, and trustee services, and acting as clearinghouse, registrar and transfer agent.
The establishment of the BPO is also intended to redeploy some of the bank's surplus staff. Syndicate Bank currently has a staff strength of 26,395 employees, consisting of 8,670 officers and 17,725 subordinate staff spread over the 1,800 branches in 23 States.
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Just curious- any California transplants out there?
At the end of the month, I'm further continuing my quest to visit all the Major League ballparks, and on my agenda are the following:
Sunday, May 25 - Dodger Stadium - St. Louis Cardinals vs. LA Dodgers
Monday, May 26 - Angel Stadium - Detroit Tigers vs. Anaheim, California 92806 Angels of Los Angeles
Tuesday - May 27 - Petco Park - Washington Nationals vs. San Diego Padres
If anyone's from LA/Southern California, and can help a brother out, I'm clueless on what there is to do in between games. Good food (novelty, giant foods), places to see, things to do, etc... I'd be much obliged.
The only downside to all this is that those are all days that I won't be able to sit at home and blog (read: complain, bitch) about the Braves with the rest of yous, while they probably do battle with the Diamondbacks, and then go on the road to struggle with the Brewers and Reds - After the ballparks, it's off to Las Vegas for the remainder of the week.


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Nicole Peters (born February 18, 1983) is a British glamour model from Yorkshire, England, known for her naturally large breasts and voluptuous figure. Her height is 5ft 3in (1.60m) and her bust size is a massive 32J. Nicole is a model for the Score Group, who distribute both Score and Voluptuous magazines. She is a nominee for model of the year, and has appeared in two Score group videos, Costa Del Sol, and Stacked and Packed 6.
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Canadian Indirect Tax News, October (09-9)
October 2009
Harmonized sales tax – Top 10 questions to think about
CBSA aggressively expanding tax base
Harmonized sales tax – Top 10 questions to think about
With all this talk about the harmonized sales tax (HST) in Ontario and British Columbia, it can be overwhelming to prioritize the risk areas, system changes, and other implementation requirements for your business. Here are the Top 10 questions to help guide your thoughts:
- How will HST impact your cash flow and budget for next year?
- Does your system have the capability to keep track of restricted input tax credits separately?
- Will the timing of system and process change implementation conflict with year-end or quarterly reporting?
- What types of provincial sales tax (PST) capabilities need to be retained in the system after HST implementation?
- What will happen with existing contracts that straddle the pre- and post-HST effective date?
- How will transitional rules apply to goods/services purchased before July 1, 2010 and delivered after that date?
- Is it possible to defer or restructure PST taxable purchases of equipment to avoid paying PST and take advantage of HST input tax credits?
- Are wording changes required for brochures, flyers, advertisements, catalogues, signs, coupons and rebate forms?
- What type of training will the accounting or tax department need to be prepared for HST?
- When should pricing be adjusted in order to pass on PST savings to customers?
For more comprehensive articles on the impact of HST, please see Deloitte's point of view on this topic.
CBSA aggressively expanding tax base
Did you know that management or administrative fees you pay to your foreign vendor may need to be included in the dutiable tax base when you import goods into Canada?
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) recently issued its policy on the dutiable status of certain payments made by importers to their foreign vendors. Aimed squarely at related-party importers, the CBSA's position is that "post-importation payments" must be added to the dutiable value of imported merchandise (subject to certain exceptions) irrespective of whether such payments are made in respect of imported goods. These include payments made by an importer, directly or indirectly, to its merchandise vendors for, among others, research and development, management and administration, and marketing or promotion.
Given the CBSA's statement that it will presume all payments sent by a purchaser to a foreign vendor are dutiable, importers are strongly advised to initiate an assessment of these payments in order to determine potential exposures.
The CBSA will consider exempting certain payments from the application of its policy. These include arm's length management and administration fees that are justified and rendered for the operation of a business in Canada and certain financial transactions such as qualifying dividends and payments related to financing activities (e.g., issuance, assumption, redemption, or repayment of a debt, etc.).
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Dereck Taylor Holt goes to prison for assaulting elderly Mennonite sisters in Lancaster County
A man convicted of robbing and assaulting three elderly Mennonite sisters in Lancaster County has been sentenced to 12 to 40 years in prison.
The sentencing judge said Dereck Taylor Holt is a danger to the community. Holt, 22, will undergo psychiatric treatment in prison.
Holt pretended to be an insurance salesman to get inside the Clay Township home in December, then bound the 85- to 91-year-old victims, hit them with a stun gun, sprayed their home with household chemicals and left them for dead, authorities said.
Mennonites share a common heritage with the Amish but are generally more assimilated into mainstream culture than the Amish, who shun modern life.
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|Standard Name
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|Feature Type
|ORF, Verified
|Uroporphyrinogen III synthase; catalyzes the conversion of hydroxymethylbilane to uroporphyrinogen III, the fourth step in heme biosynthesis; deficiency in the human homolog can result in the disease congenital erythropoietic porphyria (1, 3 and see Summary Paragraph)
|Name Description
|HEMe biosynthesis 1, 4
|Chromosomal Location
|View Computational GO annotations for HEM4
|Molecular Function
|Manually curated
|Biological Process
|Manually curated
|Cellular Component
|Manually curated
|Classical genetics
|Large-scale survey
|reduction of function
|3 total interaction(s) for 3 unique genes/features.
|Genetic Interactions
|Length (a.a.)
|Molecular Weight (Da)
|Isoelectric Point (pI)
|PhosphoGRID | PhosphoPep Database
|Last Update
|Coordinates: 2011-02-03 | Sequence: 1996-07-31
|Subfeature details
|Retrieve sequences
|S288C only
|S288C vs. other species
|S288C vs. other strains
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|All Associated Seq | E.C. | Entrez Gene | Entrez RefSeq Protein | MIPS | Search all NCBI (Entrez) | UniProtKB
|Primary SGDID
About tetrapyrrole biosynthesis
Tetrapyrroles, such as heme, siroheme, chlorophyll, and cobalamin (vitamin B12) function as cofactors in a variety of essential biological processes. Tetrapyrroles are comprised of four pyrrole rings linked together by single-carbon bridges in a linear or cyclic fashion. The cyclic tetrapyrroles heme and siroheme contain an iron-atom coordinated in their central cavity and function in respiration and sulfur assimilation, respectively. Saccharomyces cerevisiae synthesize heme and siroheme de novo via a common pathway up to the intermediate uroporphyrinogen III; oxidative decarboxylation of uroporphyrinogen III leads to the synthesis of heme while its methylation leads to siroheme synthesis.
The first committed precursor in the biosynthesis of tetrapyrroles is the five-carbon compound 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) (5). Animals, fungi, apicomplexan protozoa (such as the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum) and photosynthetic bacteria synthesize ALA from succinyl CoA and glycine (6, 7), while higher plants and other bacteria (including Escherichia coli) synthesize ALA from glutamate (6, 5)
In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, HEM1 encodes for ALA synthase, the enzyme catalyzing the first committed step in the biosynthesis of tetrapyrroles (8). Pyridoxal 5'-phosphate is an essential factor for Hem1p (8). The second step, the condensation of two molecules of ALA to form the pyrrole porphobilinogen, is catalyzed by ALA dehydratase (also known as porphobilinogen synthase; EC 18.104.22.168), a homo-octameric enzyme encoded by HEM2 (9). Hem3p and Hem4p catalyze the third and fourth steps of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis, respectively. HEM3 encodes for porphobilinogen deaminase (also known as hydroxymethylbilane synthase; EC 22.214.171.124), which catalyzes the condensation of four molecules of 4-porphobilinogen to form the linear tetrapyrrole hydroxymethylbilane (10), and HEM4 encodes for uroporphyrinogen III synthase (UROS; EC 220.127.116.11), the enzyme catalyzing the cyclization of hydroxymethylbilane and rearrangement of the fourth pyrrole to form the important intermediate uroporphyrinogen III (1). In the absence of UROS, the linear tetrapole hydroxymethylbilane undergoes non-enzymatic cyclization without rearrangement of the fourth pyrrole ring to form uroporphyrinogen I, which is not an intermediate in the synthesis of biological tetrapyrroles. Uroporphyrinogen III is a major branch point intermediate leading to biosynthesis of different tetrapyrrole-derived compounds, such as siroheme, heme, cobalamin (vitamin B12), and the methanogenic coenzyme F430 (5). S. cerevisiae is not believed to synthesize cobalamin de novo (11, 12).
|Amillet JM and Labbe-Bois R (1995) Isolation of the gene HEM4 encoding uroporphyrinogen III synthase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast 11(5):419-24
|Gachotte D, et al. (1997) A yeast sterol auxotroph (erg25) is rescued by addition of azole antifungals and reduced levels of heme. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 94(21):11173-8
|Tan FC, et al. (2008) Identification and characterization of the Arabidopsis gene encoding the tetrapyrrole biosynthesis enzyme uroporphyrinogen III synthase. Biochem J 410(2):291-9
|Gollub EG, et al. (1977) Yeast mutants deficient in heme biosynthesis and a heme mutant additionally blocked in cyclization of 2,3-oxidosqualene. J Biol Chem 252(9):2846-54
|Warren MJ and Scott AI (1990) Tetrapyrrole assembly and modification into the ligands of biologically functional cofactors. Trends Biochem Sci 15(12):486-91
|Avissar YJ, et al. (1989) Distribution of delta-aminolevulinic acid biosynthetic pathways among phototrophic bacterial groups. Arch Microbiol 151(6):513-9
|Sato S, et al. (2004) Enzymes for heme biosynthesis are found in both the mitochondrion and plastid of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Protist 155(1):117-25
|Volland C and Felix F (1984) Isolation and properties of 5-aminolevulinate synthase from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Eur J Biochem 142(3):551-7
|Borralho LM, et al. (1990) Purification of delta-aminolevulinate dehydratase from genetically engineered yeast. Yeast 6(4):319-30
|Keng T, et al. (1992) Structure and regulation of yeast HEM3, the gene for porphobilinogen deaminase. Mol Gen Genet 234(2):233-43
|Hansen J, et al. (1997) Siroheme biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae requires the products of both the MET1 and MET8 genes. FEBS Lett 401(1):20-4
|Raux E, et al. (1999) The role of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Met1p and Met8p in sirohaem and cobalamin biosynthesis. Biochem J 338 ( Pt 3)():701-8


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Ken Jorgustin
March 6, 2013
Of the nearly 9,000 delivered MaxxPro units to the military, the Department of Homeland Security is apparently taking delivery (apparently through the US Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico VA, via the manufacturer – Navistar Defense LLC) of an undetermined number of the recently retrofitted 2,717 'Mine Resistant Protected' MaxxPro MRAP vehicles for service on the streets of the United States.
As these MRAP's return from overseas/Afghanistan, and although it is apparently unknown exactly how many are being delivered, or have been delivered to DHS, I decided to dig slightly deeper and discover more about the vehicle itself...
The new DHS sanctioned 'Street Sweeper' (my own slang due to the gun ports) is built by Navistar Defense (NavistarDefense.com), a division within the Navistar organization.
Under the Navistar umbrella are several other companies including International Trucks, IC Bus (they make school buses), Monaco RV (recreational vehicles), WorkHorse (they make chassis), MaxxForce (diesel engines), and Navistar Financial (the money arm of the company).
From Navistar Defense:
The International® MaxxPro® is Navistar Defense's Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle and incorporates the latest design in armoring technology. Extensively tested by the military and used in theater today, the MaxxPro features a V-shaped hull and other design features that greatly improve survivability.
MaxxPro® MRAP specifications:
Length: 254″ (21.2 feet)
Width: 102″ (8.5 feet)
Height: 120″ (10 feet)
Wheel base: 153″ (12.8 feet)
Curb weight: 37,850 lbs. (18.9 tons)
Engine: MaxxForce® 9.3
The MaxxPro MRAP is built to withstand ballistic arms fire, mine blasts, IEDs, and other emerging threats. Its V-shaped hull helps deflect blasts out and away from the crew and its armoring can be customized to meet any mission requirement.
The installation contract retrofits 2,717 vintage MaxxPro vehicles (work performed in West Point, Mississippi) with a new rolling chassis. This chassis enhancement included the addition of the DXM™ independent suspension, a MaxxForce® 9.3 engine, and a 570 amp alternator and driveline. The work was completed at the end of May 2012. A subset of the work was completed May 2012, while all work is expected to be complete by the end of October 2013.
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These MRAP's are being seen on US streets all across America by verified observers with photos, videos, and descriptions.
Regardless of the exact number of MRAP's being delivered to DHS (and evidently some to POLICE via DHS, as has been observed), why would they need such over-the-top vehicles on US streets to withstand IEDs, mine blasts, and 50 caliber hits to bullet-proof glass? In a war zone... yes, definitely. Let's protect our men and women. On the streets of America... ?
It is understandable that these may be beneficial to ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) in hot zones on our southern border, however these are being seen all over America, far from her borders...
There are rails along the perimeter windows/gun ports to help displace the impact of RPG rounds... seems a bit much for a Police/Rescue vehicle...
They all have gun ports... Gun Ports? In the theater of war, yes. On the streets of America...?
Seriously, why would DHS need such a vehicle on our streets? What is DHS expecting or preparing for?
It is a ridiculous over-the-top display of force that is intended to intimidate, and associate the DHS name and logo with 'FEAR'. The new normal. The new way of American life.
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1999's "Pitch Black" was a nifty little sci-fi horror film: nothing special, but a solid genre entry, which used a decent cast, including Cole Hauser and Radha Mitchell, and in particular granite-voiced man mountain Vin Diesel, to good effect. The film made Diesel a star, and off the back of the success of "The Fast & The Furious," Universal took a gamble that the actor's breakout character in David Twohy's film, brutal convict Riddick, could be the star of his very own franchise, with 2004's "The Chronicles of Riddick."
Unfortunately, it was terrible, with deeply ropey CGI and some of the worst dialogue on record, lines that even Dame Judi Dench (in one of the most what-the-fuck pieces of casting of all time) couldn't sell, and the film tanked at the box office, seemingly killing the franchise. Or did it? Diesel's back on top again with a pair of hugely successful "Fast and the Furious" sequels, and the character lived on in a series of acclaimed, best-selling video games, and it was announced last year that a third film in the franchise, "Riddick," was in the works, with Diesel and Twohy both signing on to return.
Word's been quiet for a while now, but Diesel announced on his Facebook page (which has 24 million fans: who knew?) that the independently-financed project is moving forward, with writer-director Twohy telling him that the film will shoot in the summer. However, there's a downside for the star of the half-a-billlion-dollars-and-counting-grossing "Fast Five": he won't get paid his full fee. Diesel starts his post with "GRRRR" and goes on to continue "there is a catch... in order for us to make a true R-rated film, I must work for scale upfront. Not unlike the "Find Me Guilty" experience (which I wouldn't have changed for the world)..." Here's his full post:
D T the writer/director just landed in New York with the good news. We can start filming this summer. However, there is a catch... in order for us to make a true R rated film, I must work for scale upfront. Not unlike the "Find me Guilty" experience (which I wouldn't have changed for the world)...
Money is always second to art, integrity and spirit... but the real issue is deeper. Can I suspend my life, to momentarily venture to that dark place... called Riddick.
Now, I need to hear from Our collective... you.
Wisdom and clarity appreciated.
Even putting aside the comparison of "Pitch Black 3" with a Sidney Lumet-helmed project, our heart doesn't quite bleed for the star: we're not sure that anyone bar Diesel and Twohy have a burning desire to see "Riddick," so you sort of feel sacrifices need to be made by a man who, considering how much he'll likely be paid for "Six Fast Six Furious," could probably finance the film from scratch himself. Although it does perhaps go some way to explain why Diesel's signed on to family action-comedy "The Machine," we suppose.
On a more serious note, Diesel adds "Money is always second to art, integrity and spirit... but the real issue is deeper. Can I suspend my life, to momentarily venture to that dark place... called Riddick." We're not Stanislavsky or anything, but we'd suggest to Diesel that, to stop himself from slipping into a Daniel Day-Lewis-style dark abyss of Method acting, he do what he did in the first two Riddick films, and play the character like a second-tier cast member from "Con Air" while growling all his lines. Anyway, barring any unseen disaster, "Riddick" will shoot later in the summer, and will likely hit theaters sometime in 2012. When it comes to unnecessary sequels to David Twohy films, we'd rather have follow-ups to underrated genre offerings "Below" or "A Perfect Getaway" instead. [via Coming Soon]
Maurice Flores | May 26, 2011 9:44 AM
I think I understand Vin Diesel's dilemma. He has had hefty salaries, and now he will be paid minimum wage for actors. However, if he truly loves his art and the character Riddick (who is a kick-ass character, truth be told one of my favourites), then he should proceed with the project. I believe there is a substantial fanbase for the Riddick movies. Go Vin, GO!
Jody | May 26, 2011 6:27 AM
I would much rather see Vin Diesel in another "Riddick" movie, than to read another blog written by someone as asinine as the person that wrote this one.
Lix | May 26, 2011 6:17 AM
Whoa, why all the hate for Chronicles of Riddick?! That movie was quite fantastic, and many people find the CGI and casting spot on. It gets a lot of hate for departing so far from Pitch Black, but the new path and character development of Riddick is well done.
I for one am looking forward to a sequal.
leo | May 25, 2011 11:21 AM
I understand how you feel being an A-list actor getting scale for a movie that may well do better than the first Riddick it can be careless and a misfotune if the movie gross more than expected.
But I'am curious to see you as king and the battles you encounter as king and don't forget those killer eyes and nasty attitude. If you do decide to do it thanks in advance I really like Riddick you are the coolist thanks.
A fan
hank | May 25, 2011 8:41 AM
sp | May 25, 2011 5:25 AM
padre , I agree with you. It is important for A-list actors to be picky. After a while, he will not be able to rely on the box -office successes of ' Fast & The Furious ' films , so he truly needs quality films that will be part of his backup plan for a long movie career . You would think many of these actors would learn from the mistakes of their predecessors . It is not always about the big paydays.
padre | May 25, 2011 1:33 AM
As one of the few action actors we have (that isn't also a senior citizen) I wish good things for Mr. Diesel. However, his jag into family comedies is ominous. This is what killed The Rock's career as an action star. Only many years later was his cred restored. IMO once an action lead loses his perceived edge and becomes cuddly and harmless in the public mind, he loses all appeal as an action lead. Vin is trading career longevity as an action star for a quick payday hit. Stupid move to me. After seeing how the The Rock's career went off the rails, there is really no excuse.
Kevin Jagernauth | May 25, 2011 1:18 AM
Yeah, but what he isn't saying is that in exchange he probably has a healthy back-end percentage deal. Dude will get mad paid either way.
Edward Davis | May 25, 2011 1:17 AM
Considering how much Fast Five made --#1 grossing film of the year so far -- I'd be pissed if i was getting scale for a movie too.


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The Morris School District will close early on Jan. 21, 2014, in anticipation of the predicted snowstorm.
All after-school activities, including the Sunset program, are canceled, and the open house for realtors is postponed until Thursday, Jan. 23, according to the district website.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning, effective from 10 am on Tuesday to 6 am on Jan. 22. Five to nine inches of snow are possible, with bitter cold and gusty winds.
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From Jill Brose:
Our October meeting was a hive of activity as most of us worked on pieces for our exhibition at Richard Randall Art Studio.
Angela cut philodendron leaf sheaths and palm inflorescence sheaths into thin strips. The strips were knotted together to make two balls of thread. Angela then cast on 18 stitches to 3+1 knitting needles and began to knit a grub to go on the twisted vine of our wall piece in the exhibition. She had problems with the thread breaking due to very hot dry conditions on the day.
Carmel used a modified Lazy Squaw stitch to wrap her coiled basket using burgundy crystal organza. She was helped with this project by our expert wrap and coil person Glenys.
Lynda (a prospective new member) worked on a coiled basket using Lazy Squaw stitch without the decorative twist. She was also helped by Glenys.
Therese worked on a turquoise ceramic 'rock-pool vessel'. She stitched fibre she had collected on a beach in S.A., through holes around the top of the piece. Therese has had some fibre-related work in the Stump Hill Gallery in Onkaparinga Council area, S.A. as part of the Double Vision Art Exchange with Logan City Council.
Glenys found time to work on her own coiled basket, in-between helping Carmel and Linda. She used fine strips of heavy green Kimono fabric over rope. The stitch was a modified Lazy Squaw.
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Jill continued her current fascination/obsession with wire, to weave another large piece which might make it into the exhibition if there is room and if she gets it finished. This one is woven with recycled aluminium wire of different weights and is a lotus shape.
George was constructing a large hen basket, using grape vine for the frame and banana for the weavers.
Georgina Marriott
Christine had woven a water-fall shape using the whole of a large Alexandra palm inflorescence (horns and all). She had added light highlights to the fall by using strands from a different palm of a lighter colour.
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Tricia wrote lettering on wide paper strips which Jill will use to make a diagonal weave basket. This will be a collaborative piece for the Basket Cases exhibition in October.
Trish Smout and Jill Brose
Nat spent most of the day talking about Fibre Fest as she is the organiser of this event in March next year and there is much to do before then. Thanks Nat for taking that on!!! She did manage to do a few stitches on her eco dyed coiled fabric baskets which were very impressive.
Nat Billing
Sandra spent some time talking to people about the set up of our exhibition as she is curator of this event. Thanks to Sandra for organizing this for us, designing our invitation and getting it printed.
Floss worked on three small 4 over 4 basketry shapes, using Cat's claw vine and banana strips. These will be the heads of grubs for our wall piece. Seems to me we will have more grubs than leaves on this piece.


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CHATEAUGAY — A state report found Chateaugay Correctional Facility could make a good site for senior housing, a college campus or a high-tech-company.
An 88-page reuse plan submitted to Empire State Development also suggests if the state prison closes as scheduled on July 26, it could be used for an agricultural-processing plant, a call center, a medical facility, a public or private-office hub, a retail and hospitality destination, an event space or entertainment venue.
On the other hand, the study says, "the greatest unknown to repurposing the site is not the uses that the site can handle; it is the interest from the private market.
"Given the dearth of institutional and major-commercial users surrounding this particular location, it is difficult to ascertain market interest at this time."
Chateaugay is one of four facilities Gov. Andrew Cuomo expects to close this year although an effort continues to persuade the governor to keep it open.
The medium-security prison has 240 beds that house repeat parole violators.
It opened in 1990 at a cost of about $47.1 million and was the State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision's first comprehensive alcohol-and-substance-abuse treatment program for inmates.
It was reclassified for parole violators in May 2005.
Cuomo made the news public on July 26, 2013, that Chateaugay Correctional, McGregor Correctional in Saratoga County, Butler Correctional in Wayne County and Monterey Shock Facility in Schuyler County would close within a year.
Plans began immediately to reassign correction officers, sergeants and lieutenants to other facilities, based on seniority, which, as of March 5, left Chateaugay with just 46 working security jobs and 15 in civilian positions.
State Corrections Law states that a report about possible reuse of targeted correctional facilities must be completed six months before its closure date.
Last summer's announcement was followed by a town meeting in December, when local business and development stakeholders discussed alternate uses for the Chateaugay site, which has 30 buildings on 100 acres and consists of 100,000 square feet of space.


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i've read the topics on .bin files etc and have done all that using magicISO absolutley fine. got SWAT 4 onto 2 disks and have installed it no probs, but when i come to run the game it tells me to put the original disk in.. neither disk works...
anyone got any idea of how to solve it?
dunno if this will help but when i d/led the game there were 2 .bin files that were the bulk of the d/ling, but there were 2 .cue files that magicISO doesn't pick up (i.e. i havent written them to cd) that are tiny, like 78Kb each.
dunno if i need to do something to these 2.. :s
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YANKTON, S.D. (AP) - It's taking the city of Yankton longer than expected to hire a new city manager.
Former city manager Doug Russell left in mid-June, and the city has hired a consultant to help find Russell's successor. They'll be paying the company a maximum of $19,500.
Yankton Mayor Nancy Wenande says the consultant interviewed the commission and community leaders about what they'd like to see in a new city manager.
Wenande says that profile hasn't been finished yet.
The consultant hoped to have a new city manager in place by mid-October. Wenande says it shouldn't be a problem if the process takes longer.
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Even as Hollywood survivor Dennis Hopper battles prostate cancer, he is being celebrated in a multimedia show that's touring the world. I caught a glimpse of it on my recent trip to Australia, where the exhibition called Dennis Hopper and The New Hollywood is on display through April 25 at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne. The touring show of photographs and artwork by Hopper is accompanied by a coffee-table book of the same name, published by Flammarion in conjunction with the ACMI and La Cinematheque Francaise. The book was on sale in the Centre's lovely gift shop, but I didn't want to lug it home, figuring it would turn up on our shores soon enough: in fact, it is scheduled for U.S. publication in April. But I did purchase one Hopper-related goodie: a replica of his stars-and-stripes-decorated Harley Davidson cycle from Easy Rider.
Not so incidentally, the ACMI in Melbourne is a fairly new but world-class cinematheque with daily screenings of new and vintage films, traveling programs like the Hopper show, and an amazing two-part museum tracing the history of cinema, television and digital imagery and celebrating Australian film and television. The first part takes a world view, with impressive multimedia displays and hands-on demonstrations (a zoetrope, a mutoscope, etc.), and touches of national pride.
For instance, I'd forgotten that the creator of Felix the Cat, Pat Sullivan, was an Aussie. They are quite proud of that fact, and have a nice Felix exhibit with a model I'd love to have in my collection!
The part of the museum devoted to Australia's leading lights has more personal memorabilia to show off: one of Cate Blanchett's gowns from Elizabeth (Alexandra Byrne's Oscar for Best Achievement in Costume Design stands next to it), one of the original cars from George Miller's Mad Max, a miniature windmill from Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge, and much, much more.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has put its ambitious museum plans on hold since the economy took a nosedive, but when they resurrect the project they would do well to visit Melbourne and see how well the Aussies have pulled this off. You can visit the centre online at www.acmi.net.au.
DRW | February 2, 2010 11:29 AM
Leonard, The "Stars and Stripes" bike was Peter Fonda's (aka Captain America). Dennis Hopper rode the "Billy Bike" -- a much less radical, better handling, HD pan which was more Bobber than Chopper. Yeah, more info than you need or want, just want you to be accurate in your comments. Glad you enjoyed Australia. I have had a blast on my visits there. Great place, wonderful friendly people, party time!
Joanne Warrener | February 2, 2010 4:09 AM
ACMi is one of the main reasons I love living in Melbourne :) Its a filmbuffs dream. If fact the whole city is.
PS. Im amazed you were here! If only I knew. Would have a treat to meet you. You should have done a seminar or something?! Melbourne's film culture is very rich!


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Can a mature retailer remain nimble and relevant to its market and hence stay as an investor's darling? It certainly can, as HSN (NASDAQ: HSNI) has shown in the 28 years since its establishment. After its debut in St. Petersburg, FL, in 1985 as a broadcaster of TV home shopping programming, this company has successfully reinvented itself as a multichannel retailer. It did this by adopting the very same more »
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Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) reported fourth quarter earnings after the bell on January 29, and the company didn't disappoint in providing a menagerie of fresh evidence for bulls and bears alike to make their respective cases. Despite the fact that Amazon reported lower-than-expected earnings and revenue for the third consecutive quarter, investors sent the stock higher by more than 9% in the after-hours session. The price action in Amazon more »
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It was announced recently that Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) will enter into a partnership with HSN to tap into a whole new customer base. The collaboration will result in multi-year marketing for both the brands. As a result of this partnership, the Coca-Cola brand will be intertwined with all the HSN's programming events throughout the year. HSN (NASDAQ: HSNI) intends to launch new campaigns that will merge both the brands more »
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Two companies who thrive the most when the snow falls, when the carols come on the radio, and when the season of buying blooms are uniting this holiday season. Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), the beverage producing extraordinaire, and HSN (NASDAQ: HSNI), the television and online home shopping giant, are combining forces starting this December in an effort to boost the sales and marketing of both companies.
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text: Where is Malcolm Williams (only a two reciever depth chart though)? I also noticed C. Brown is pushing Beasley for the starting job. There really aren't many questions answered like who's the starting safeties, RB's, and LB's. The TE position suprised me with Ullman getting bumped all the way to #3 TE. I'm sure things will change between now and when Texas plays Colorado.


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What: AIA Houston and C2 Creative Gingerbread Build-Off and Exhibition
When: December 14, 2013, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; awards at 4 p.m.
Where: Hermann Square at City Hall, 900 Smith Street
Architecture Center Houston (ArCH) in partnership with C2 Creative is now accepting team registrations and sponsors for the 5th Annual Gingerbread Build-Off at City Hall's Hermann Square. Competing teams will create their masterpieces using 100-percent edible materials. More than 3,000 spectators are expected to attend and cheer on the teams, play in the kids' construction zone, and see Santa!
Team Registration is $125 and is open to local architecture firms, design professional, students, and enthusiasts seeking the coveted Grand Prix de Show for their edible structure. Additional awards will be given in categories including 1st and 2nd Runner Up, Best Architectural Icon, Tallest Standing Structure, Best Traditionally Themed, Best Non-Traditionally Themed, Most Creative Interpretation of Materials, and Public Favorite. Gingerbread buildings will be judged by an independent panel of food, design, art, and architecture professionals.
Following the Build-Off, winners and select competitors will be featured in a one-week exhibition December 16-20, free and open to the public at ArCH at 315 Capitol, Suite 120, in Houston. Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Parking is available at the Hobby Center Parking Garage.
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LANESVILLE, IN (WAVE) - A man running from police led them right into more than 200 pot plants.
Officers from Lanesville police, the Harrison County Sheriff's and other agencies followed their K9s who tracked the scent of Damon Schnellenberger right into the grow operation behind the house at 3341 Crandall-Lanesville Road.
They started searching around 8 a.m. Thursday after getting a call that Schnellenberger and William Shawn Berkely were standing in the middle of the road nearby the home. When the officer approached the men, they took off. The officer caught and arrested Berkeley immediately. The K9s tracked Schnellenberger's scent behind Berkley's home where they uncovered the plants, but not Schnellenberger.
Police say they got a search warrant to look inside Berkley's home for Schnellengberger. They did not find him, but located remnants of a meth lab, and a white substance appearing to be meth or cocaine.
"That's shocking. I didn't know he had that much. That's getting into the business," said neighbors June and Chuck Norris. The couple said they knew Berkeley's parents who passed away, but had no idea what police say was going on behind and inside his home.
They said Berkeley had been laid off and they knew he'd gotten in trouble at least once before, which police confirm. "We've had complaints of drug activity at this particular residence," said Captain Brad Shepherd of the Harrison County Sheriff's Department.
Captain Shepherd couldn't say the street value of the plants, but says even at a young growing stage, the bust was unusual for the area.
"A person who normally grows for personal use 10, 20 plants at the most," Shepherd said. "When you get over 200 marijuana plants in one area that becomes an issue where it's not just for personal use it's for monetary gain."
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text: With all the hubub surrounding 'Clutch', it has come to my attention that Reds manager Pete Mackanin is pretty 'unclutch'. I started out liking Pete pretty well. He had a plan, involved his players, was open to talk with them and gave players roles. The team has done resaonably well under him. But I feel that he's done just about all that he going to do. By that I mean I don't see much in the way of any 'outside the box' spark in Pete. What we've seen up to now seems to be pretty much the whole repetoire. And often I've been baffled by some of his choices. Then again I'm baffled by lots of things, none more than why Dunn's contract has not been picked up. But that aside, how do we grade Pete given the team he has had to work with and the results that he has achived? I struggled with this because I believe that his approach of invovling as many players as possible and providing roles for the bench guys is a solid one. But for Pete this has lead to some very strange moves e.g. Jason Ellison in LF for Dunn when we are leading in the 8th. And the use of Stanton for more than one batter etc. Also his use of the bull pen while infinately better than his predecessor still leaves a fair amount to be deisred. Anyhoo....I'd give him a B-. Although his results have been pretty good, I don't think he's shown that he's 1st tier MLB manager and he's too old. I think we need a young, smart and a guy who has some people skills as manager to help push this team to a higher level of achievement.How 'bout yous ? want to talk a little Pete?