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Mac game developers and publishers at this year's Macworld Expo expect 2007 to be a significantly better year for the platform, with more releases and sales. The Mac companies are looking forward to the iPhone and hope to develop for that platform, but none we spoke with over the show week expected to have that opportunity since the iPod has eluded them.
The companies said last year's transition to Intel hardware stalled the Mac gaming industry and closed or slowed several competitors. Ian Lynch Smith, president of Freeverse told us, "Everyone else in the industry ran for the hills. That's why there were very few releases last year versus the year before." His brother and vice president, Colin Lynch Smith, remained positive, saying, "2007 should be a great year for [Mac] games." (Disclosure: This writer has created occasional trailers for Freeverse.)
David Stephen, head of Feral Interactive, said the "outlook is decent" for this year. "We're benefiting from growth in Apple's installed base," he added. Stephen also looks forward to the thinner number of competitors, saying the few remaining game companies "[make] it a little less competitive."
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All of the companies we spoke with are excited about the iPhone, but none think they'll be able to make iPhone games. Colin Lynch Smith said, "We know nothing. ... My guess is that it'll be a closed system. I hope it'll be an open system. ... We'd be very excited to write games for the iPhone."
Stephen echoed the statement saying, "The Macintosh is an open platform. The iPod isn't. I don't hold a great deal of hope that the [iPhone will] be an open platform."
Aspyr Media's director of marketing, Leah Heck, thought that the company could apply its experience publishing a few Pocket PC games saying, "It'd be cool to do something for the iPhone." But she also tempered her outlook against Apple's iPod history, saying "Apple obviously holds things very close. ... It seems like a natural progression of things for us, [but] at this point, we have no plans."
Apple didn't reply to our requests for comment by the time this story went live, but a New York Times article doesn't give much hope for an open iPhone [via BoingBoing], quoting Steve Jobs as saying, "We define everything that is on the phone. ... These are more like iPods than they are like computers." Jobs latter added, "That doesn't mean there's not going to be software to buy that you can load on them coming from us. It doesn't mean we have to write it all, but it means it has to be more of a controlled environment."
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On this day in 2004, the last Oldsmobile comes off the assembly line at the Lansing Car Assembly plant in Michigan, signaling the end of the 106-year-old automotive brand, America's oldest. Factory workers signed the last Oldsmobile, an Alero sedan, before the vehicle was moved to Lansing's R.E. Olds Transportation Museum, where it went on display. The last 500 Aleros ever manufactured featured "Final 500" emblems and were painted dark metallic cherry red.
In 1897, Ransom E. Olds (1864-1950), an Ohio-born engine maker, founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Company in Lansing. In 1901, the company, then known as Olds Motor Works, debuted the Curved Dash Oldsmobile, a gas-powered, open-carriage vehicle named for its curved front footboard. More than 400 of these vehicles were sold during the first year, at a price of $650 each (around $17,000 in today's dollars). In subsequent years, sales reached into the thousands. Olds' invention inspired a 1905 song, "In My Merry Oldsmobile," whose chorus includes the lines: "Come away with me, Lucille/In my merry Oldsmobile/Down the road of life we'll fly/Automobubbling, you and I." However, by 1904, clashes between Olds and his investors caused him to sell the bulk of his stock and leave the company. He soon went on to found the REO (based on his initials) Motor Car Company, which built cars until 1936 and produced trucks until 1975.
In 1908, Oldsmobile was the second brand, after Buick, to become part of the newly established General Motors (GM). Oldsmobile became a top brand for GM and pioneered such features as chrome-plating in 1926 and, in 1940, the first fully automatic transmission for a mass-market vehicle. Oldsmobile concentrated on cars for middle-income consumers and from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, the Oldsmobile Cutlass was America's best-selling auto. However, in the decades that followed, sales began to decline, prompting GM to announce in 2000 that it would discontinue the Oldsmobile line with the 2004 models. When the last Oldsmobile rolled off the assembly line in April 2004, more than 35 million Oldsmobiles had been built during the brand's lifetime. Along with Daimler and Peugeot, Oldsmobile was among the world's oldest auto brands.


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If Justin Bieber Doesn't Know the Difference Between "Less" and "Fewer," HPV Has Won
May 17, 2010
Oh, HPV awareness ad…. It's not hard to use "less" and "fewer" correctly. Here you go:
If you can count them, you've got "fewer."If you can't count it, you've got "less."
For instance:
I have fewer leprosy symptoms than you do; consequently, I have less discomfort than you do.
I not only have less milk in my glass than I did a minute ago, but I also have fewer cartons of milk in my refrigerator than I did before the hockey team arrived.
Express Lane: 10 Items or Fewer. (No, really. It should be "fewer." Every time. Fewer).
You know who, besides the HPV prevention lobby, doesn't know the difference between "less" and "fewer"? Justin Bieber.
His song title "One Less Lonely Girl" is ambiguous — if it were about one girl who were made, by the ministrations of Mr. Bieber, to feel less lonely, than the title would be correct (although some grammatical authorities might recommend a hyphen to make the meaning clear: One Less-Lonely Girl).
However, I listened to this song. After suffering an acne outbreak, I discovered that Mr. Bieber really meant "fewer"; as evidence, he says, "I'll take her and leave the world with one less lonely girl."
In sum, I now have less respect for whoever is claiming to homeschool Justin Bieber; I hope this advice will result in fewer Justin Bieber fans. That itself should result in fewer cases of HPV.
Lindsay Lohan and the Misplaced Deodorant Modifier
September 9, 2009
In a followup to last week's post The World's Only Blog Post About Jessica Alba and the Grammatically Correct Usage of Compound Adjectives and When to Hyphenate Them, I'd like to share a hilariously miswritten item from Popeater.
First: modifiers. Here are some examples of modifier errors:
Filled with one million tons of trash, the mayor suggested that a new landfill be built.
Running on the beach, my pacemaker went info fits and starts.
America celebrated its bicentennial two hundred years after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1976.
In the first example, "Filled with one million tons of trash" should modify "landfill," but is instead modifying "mayor." Ha ha, the mayor is full of trash!
Similarly, "Running on the beach" should modify "I" (which doesn't even appear in the sentence); instead, it is modifying "my pacemaker." Ha ha, the pacemaker is running!
Finally, "in 1976″ is a prepositional phrase that should modify "celebrated its bicentennial," but is instead modifying "adoption of the Declaration of Independence." The sentence implies that the adoption was in 1976 and the bicentennial, consequently, in 2176. Ha ha, future time!
Now on to Lindsay Lohan's deodorizing needs, which appear to be profound and multitudinous:
Apparently, Lindsay's deodorizing needs are not only severe, but also very specific: she has dropped a box of deodorant "formulated to combat extreme sweating on her way out of a Rite Aid."
Does she have another variety of deodorant formulated to combat extreme sweating on her way INTO Rite Aid? And another for the DMV? Another for banging on Samantha's door during their love spats? What happens if she shops at a different drugstore? Does CVS offer competing formulations of deodorant for entering and exiting their stores?
So, let's fix it:
The modifier is "on her way out of a Rite Aid" (that's actually two strung prepositional phrases, but let's not split hairs). The modifier should modify "Lindsay Lohan," not "extreme sweating." Here:
"On her way out of a Rite Aid, Lindsay Lohan drops a box of deodorant formulated to combat extreme sweating."
Another perfectly fine option is: "Lindsay Lohan, on her way out of a Rite Aid, drops a box of deodorant formulated to combat extreme sweating."
Sweat away, Lindsay!
The World's Only Blog Post About Jessica Alba and the Grammatically Correct Usage of Compound Adjectives and When to Hyphenate Them
September 3, 2009
I have recently been apprised by the celebrity press that Jessica, Cash, and Honor Do Their Weekend Thing in LA. Resultantly, I would like to discuss compound adjectives and when to hyphenate them.
Say you want to modify a noun with two adjectives:
My, what a large, rigid Maypole you have there.
I am trying to make my mark on the small women's hosiery industry.
I'm late to a dalliance with a smoking hot librarian.
In the first example, both large and rigid modify Maypole. No problems here.
In the second example, small, women's, and hosiery all modify industry. The meaning here is ambiguous — is the women's hosiery industry the thing that's small, or are we discussing the industry that sells hosiery for small women? We may use a hyphen to express either of these things, by writing small women's-hosiery industry and small-women's hosiery industry, respectively. Looks weird, right? Well, it's better than not knowing whether you're applying for a job selling myriad pantyhose to legions of petite ladies, or peddling middling quantities of sundry hose to a clientele ranging from small to zaftig.
A similar and classic example (I can't remember where I read it) of the problems caused for want of a hyphen involved an unfortunate newspaper headline about an ORANGE JUICE SALESMAN. Poor guy got a little too much beta-carotene? The fix for this is, of course, ORANGE-JUICE SALESMAN.
And finally, the sartorial adventures of the Alba-Warren clan. It's just a chic striped dress. The dress is both chic and striped. The stripes are not themselves what is chic. Truly. If you were describing the stripes themselves — a thin-striped dress, a red-striped dress — a hyphen would be needed.
Incidentally, we do not want a comma in between chic and striped, because they are non-coordinate adjectives. A good test for coordinate versus non-coordinate adjectives is to see if you could reverse the order of the adjectives and still have the phrase make sense — if so, use a comma; if not, don't. For instance, the smoking hot librarian (who arguably could also be a smoking-hot librarian) of my third example above is entirely different from a smoking, hot librarian. One is sexily literate; the other is carcinogenic.
Also incidentally, "grammatically correct" (in the post title) and "sexily literate" (above) are both examples of adverbs modifying adjectives, which is a completely different topic wholly unrelated to Jessica Alba.
Words (Specifically Pronouns) Mean Things
March 5, 2009
I read a sentence in Us Weekly that I wanted to blog about, but then I left my magazine behind in a nail salon, so I don't have the exact text. However, here is a paraphrase of the sentence that set me off:
Jennifer Aniston finally encountered Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie face-to-face, four years after their marriage ended.
Every pronoun (with a few idiomatic exceptions, such as the "it" in "it's raining") must have an antecedent that matches in number, is unambiguous, and is actually stated in the sentence. A good rule is: If the sentence could be read another way due to its pronouns, and you're using your outside knowledge or making assumptions to know what the sentence means, the sentence is probably grammatically incorrect.
A good example is the sentence, "Mary's mother told her she should do her homework." This is wrong, wrong, wrong on two counts. First, "Mary's" is acting as an adjective — that is, "Mary" herself is not in the sentence, so, while the pronoun "her," which occurs twice and is possessive, may refer back to the possessive "Mary's," the object pronoun "she" may not. (Subject and object pronouns may not refer back to possessives, whereas possessive pronouns have much less strict rules and may refer back to other possessives or to regular nouns).
But what, really, is the problem with "Mary's mother told her she should do her homework"? We all know what it means, right? Well, sort of. If you said, "Mary's father told her she should do her homework," the "she" would still be wrong, but that's a pretty pedantic point, since the meaning is unambiguous. But in the case of "Mary's mother told her she should do her homework," it is possible to read the sentence as "Mary's mother told Mary that Mary's mother should do Mary's mother's homework," or "Mary's mother told Mary that Mary should do Mary's mother's homework," or even, "Mary's mother told Mary that Mary's mother should do Mary's homework." Most of these interpretations are unlikely or stupid. But the fact that they are possible (whereas they are not with the "father" sentence) means that the sentence is ambiguous.
Standardized tests love to exploit these alternate meanings by using sentences such as, "Ms. Chang angered the Senator by reporting that her company had violated the new environmental statutes." What's wrong here? After reading this far, you've probably inferred that the problem is that the Senator could be female, and that the pronoun is therefore ambiguous. Whose company is it? (If the sentence were in context and we knew the Senator to be male, then this sentence would be fine, just as it is, of course, fine to use a person's name in one sentence and a pronoun in place of the name in subsequent sentences).
Back to Jen, Brad, and Angie. WHO THE HELL IS "THEIR"? (Or, more grammatically, "To whom the hell does 'their' refer?" Has anyone ever said "to whom the hell" before?)
Imagine the same sentence reworked, but in a case in which you had no outside information. "A finally encountered B and C, four years after their big fight." Whom would you think had the fight? A and B? B and C? All three of them? If I changed "fight" back to "marriage," you could quite reasonably infer that only two people may be involved, but would that tell you that A and B were the people who had been married?
Let's fix it. One option is: "Jennifer Aniston finally encountered Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie face-to-face, four years after Aniston and Pitt's marriage ended." Or maybe, "Four years after her marriage to Brad Pitt ended, Jennifer Aniston finally encountered Pitt and Angelina Jolie face-to-face." Or, "Four years after Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt's marriage ended, Aniston finally encountered Pitt and Angelina Jolie face-to-face."
Us Weekly? Call me.
Jamie-Lynn's pregnancy has eclipsed Ashley Tisdale's new nose
December 20, 2007
Britney Spears' little sister Jamie Lynn is pregnant. Okay, fine. But her employer, Nickelodeon, issued this statement:
"We respect Jamie Lynn's decision to take responsibility in this sensitive and personal situation. We know this is a very difficult time for her and her family, and our primary concern right now is for Jamie Lynn's well being."
"Take responsibility"? I think that sounds a lot like saying she needs to be punished for having sex, and that women who have abortions are "irresponsible."
When did Nickelodeon turn paternalistically weird?
Update: I just discovered that Feministing wrote basically the exact same post twelve hours before I did. There ought to be some gaydar-type word for picking up on this shit. Misogyny-dar sounds terrible. If Nickelodeon is being a big corporate douchebag, can I call it douchedar?
great gams!
May 19, 2007
Celebrity magazines apparently feel that, in a single-page feature about stars and their great legs, it would be inappropriate to use the word "legs" more than, say, twice.
- stems
- gams
- sticks
Really? Mary-Kate is "displaying her sticks"? Is she playing drums?
It is not necessary to thesaurize your prose to keep from ever repeating a noun. For instance, if the New York Times runs an article about poverty, the writer might use the word "poverty" thirty or forty times. It's not a big deal. It is fine to mention the topic of an article repeatedly throughout the article.
If I write a blog post, on my comedy blog, about comedy, I might refer to "comedy" at really any time I am talking about, well, comedy. I do not feel the need to mix it up with references to "comicalness, "buffoonery," "jesting," "drollery," "schtick," or "cracking wise."
Dear celebrity magazines — Dita Von Teese has "gams." Everyone else has legs. Thank you.
my celebrity matches
June 4, 2006
I have been amusing myself a great deal with myheritage.com, a website on which one can upload a photo of oneself and see what celebrities one resembles.
I shall now take you on a photo tour of my results.
The first photo of myself that I uploaded yielded matches to a great number of Asian women, which I found curious. Hasn't anyone seen my seriously sharp and pointy nose?
I tried another photo, and again, more Asian women…
…but also Shannen Doherty, who is the celebrity I've most often been said to look like, even though in this photo of her, the weird off-centeredness of her features is really obvious:
…and, more disturbingly, Joan Crawford! (Side note: Once, as a teenager, I sarcastically called my mother "mommy dearest" and couldn't understand why she got so mad. I had never heard of the movie).
So I tried another photo, and was told I look like Drew Barrymore…
…when she was five! And also, mysteriously…
Missy Elliott!
Kathy Bates!
And … Alfred Hitchcock? And here I was thinking I was good for another ten years, then I might spring for, say, microdermabrasion or some lip collagen. But, if this is it, I give up.
So, I tried again with one more photo, and got some more promising results:
My legs are securely crossed in this photo, I assure you.
I think Josephine Baker and I share a love of eye makeup more than anything, but okay.
And finally — this, I think, is rather inspired. Bebe Neuwirth! Nice.
Update: Jenisfamous comes clean
n'est pas jolie
April 10, 2006
I'm not always against tattoos. Some of the SuicideGirls have quite lovely, clever, and well-placed ones. I often like brightly-colored, animation-inspired tattoos over traditional, Gothic ones. One SuicideGirl even has stocking seams — with little bows at the top — tattooed up the back of her legs! And I also think it's clever when people cover up scars or distract from flaws with tattoos.
That being said, Angelina Jolie's body is kind of a national treasure. I do think she is probably the most beautiful woman alive. I also think that defacing a national treasure with these tattoos should be punished via whatever penalties would apply for, say, painting (carving?) Hitler moustaches on the Presidents of Mt. Rushmore.
Alright, enough of that. Who wants to do a line off that ass?
future heartbreaker
January 23, 2006
Maddox Jolie-Pitt is already sticking his tongue out at the press! And, my god, I know he's not genetically related, but "Jolie-Pitt"? That's so money. I was trying to make a joke about this name being so oversexed that it's like a satire of sexiness, but I couldn't think of anyone sexier to mention in the joke. Banderas-Johannsen? A pale second place. Shit, a lot of Cambodians just want a visa so they can come here and work for minimum wage. Getting plucked out of an orphanage by Angelina Jolie, adopted by Brad Pitt, and gifted with a mohawk that actually works even though you're a toddler? This is as close as we have to a modern-day Cinderella story. In fifteen years, this kid will have a band, and the hotness of Maddox's frontman act will cause the universe to fold in on itself, ending all time and space in a moist, pulsating undulation of hotness.
"romantically linked"
December 9, 2005
What is it with the phrase "romantically linked"?
Celebrities get to be "romantically linked" with other celebrities, but you never say that about regular people. "Oh, Debbie, she's been romantically linked with Joe from accounting."
When you say "So-and-so has been romantically linked with Heath Ledger, Richard Gere, Keanu Reeves, and Warren Beatty," it all sounds swanky and glamorous. If you say "She has had sex with Heath Ledger, Richard Gere, Keanu Reeves, and Warren Beatty," it just sounds slutty. But it's not like we really have any indication that these people were "romantically" linked rather than merely, you know, just linked. Sometimes linking is just linking.
Apparently, college students "hook up." If you make it in Hollywood, you get promoted to a presumption of romance.
there are logic classes that cover the difference between deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning
June 23, 2005
Star magazine has reported that Britney Spears may be having twins, based on evidence that 1) she is fat, and 2) she's been shopping in both the girls' and boys' departments.
First of all, this is the very same magazine that routinely publishes photos of Britney eating Doritos and guzzling Red Bull. Women get fat when they do that. Women get fat even when they don't. Pregnant celebrities ("baby bump," how cute) aren't exactly the model of what the human body was meant to do.
Second of all, if you were fantastically wealthy, you could buy as many baby clothes as you want and then get rid of all the ones that don't properly coordinate with your baby's gender.
class in America? whatever are you talking about?
May 13, 2005
I rather enjoy the New York Observer. If you're going to be economically elitist (see previous comments re: the Times), at least offer up a collegiate-level writing style to match. An article in the Observer offers some highly thoughtful commentary on a topic that rarely begets much rigor of thought: Angelina Jolie's androgynous, man-eating appeal:
Despite her turn as gun-wielding British genius wonder woman Lara Croft…Ms. Jolie doesn't exactly get the feminist stamp of approval. She isn't uplifting in a Gloria Steinem sort of way.But in an Ayn Rand kind of way, although better-willed, she constitutes complete freedom, both kindly and voracious. She's a little libertarian and an altruist sex bomb, a man-eater and a boy-raiser. No one thinks Ms. Jolie would have their back. She's a lone vessel.
Semi-related note: an article in the Times recently referred to Mayor Bloomberg's 22 year old daughter Georgina as "a competitive horse jumper." Oh, how the freakishly wealthy live. Competitive horse jumping is not a job, and twenty-two is really about time to have a job.
At least she's not appearing in "House of Wax."


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New York Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy returned from injury yesterday for a split-squad game against the Washington Nationals. Bryce Harper made the mistake of testing Murphy and got thrown out on a highlight between-the-legs toss. Harper could just shake his head and smile.
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Wearing retainers: How often, how long? / Cleaning orthodontic retainers.
Wearing your retainers is required.
Wearing your dental retainers after your Invisalign® (or any type of braces) treatment has been completed is just as important as the realignment of your teeth itself. If they're not worn (as directed by your dentist), it's possible and even likely that your teeth will begin to shift.
In just a short amount of time, enough relapse can occur that the resulting change may not be easy to correct. Not wearing their dental retainers is the main reason why you hear of patients having to have braces a second, or even a third, time.
What will you look like when you're wearing your retainers?
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How often and for how long do you need to wear your (removable) orthodontic retainers?
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During this time period, your retainers should be removed when eating and when you brush and floss your teeth. Otherwise, they should be left in place.
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After finishing the first few months of around-the-clock wear, there will be probably be a point where your dentist decides that just nighttime use of your retainers (during sleep) will be enough. They'll also probably state that this regimen should be continued for several years, if not throughout the remainder of the patient's life.
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8.12 BRIBERY OF PUBLIC OFFICIAL (18 U.S.C. § 201(b)(1))
The defendant is charged in [Count _______ of] the indictment with bribing a public official in violation of Section 201(b)(1) of Title 18 of the United States Code. In order for the defendant to be found guilty of that charge, the government must prove each of the following elements beyond a reasonable doubt:
First, the defendant [gave] [offered] [promised] something of value, [specify the thing of value], to [name of public official]; and
Second, the defendant acted corruptly, that is, with the intent to [influence an official act by the [name of public official]] [influence the [name of public official] to commit or allow a fraud on the United States] [induce the [name of public official] to do or to omit to do an act in violation of [his] [her] lawful duty][.] [; and]
[Third, [name of public official] was a public official.]
The crime of bribery requires "corrupt intent," a higher degree of intent than is required under the provision outlawing gratuities to public officials. United States v. Hsieh Hui Mei Chen, 754 F.2d 817, 822 (9th Cir.1985). Under the bribery sections of § 201, the term "corruptly" refers to the "defendant's intent to be influenced to perform an act in return for financial gain." United States v. Leyva, 282 F.3d 623, 626 (9th Cir.2002) (citing United States v. Strand, 574 F.2d 993, 995-96 (9th Cir.1978)).
The "thing of value" given, offered, or promised to a public official is an element of the bribery charge. It is recommended that the instruction specifically describe the thing of value just as it is described in the indictment to avoid a variance. United States v. Choy, 309 F.3d 602, 607 (9th Cir.2002). Where the defense asserts that the thing given, offered, or promised had no value, the jury must be asked to determine whether it had value.
If there is any question in the case about the "official" character of the action sought by the defendant, insert a sentence following "duty" defining "official act:" "An official act is any decision or action on a question that may be brought before any public official in his official capacity." See 18 U.S.C. § 201(a)(3). "Public official" is defined in 18 U.S.C. § 201(a)(1); § 201(b)(1) also applies to a person selected to be a public official. Actual power to do what defendant wants is not an element. "[A] person may be convicted of bribery even though the action requested is not within the official's power to perform." Chen, 754 F.2d at 825.
Omit the bracketed third element of this instruction when the recipient's status as a public official is not in dispute. Depending on the facts in evidence, it may be appropriate to amend this instruction with language requiring specific jury unanimity (e.g., "with all of you agreeing as to what the defendant intended the public official to do in return for the bribe"). See Instruction 7.9 (Specific Issue Unanimity).
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He added: "I will do whatever you guys want me to do, but I have not had sex with any of my kids," he said. "I've not tried to molest them. I hope you believe me."
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Miller knew that another student was saying he had sex with kids, but he denied it. "Now, y'all got to clear this up because y'all know I'd never hurt y'all," one of the alleged victims remembered Miller telling her. "And after that... he said he's not going to touch us no more, and he just like said he was going to give us a handshake."
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"I asked him, you know, Heath, is this true?" she told Mintus in a sworn interview. "And he said no, it's not true." But when she pressed him, he changed his story.
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"Did he say he had sexual intercourse?" Mintus asked.
"He had sex with her in the band room... in the closet behind his desk," the woman said.
But Miller told his lover not to worry. Late one night, after being interviewed by Mintus, he had cleaned up any damning evidence from the band room.
Miller pleaded not guilty to felony charges of sexual activity with a child, lewd and lascivious molestation, and tampering with evidence. He's been in jail ever since. He was denied bail, and no trial date has been set.
In the band uniform room at Watkins, Palm Beach County sheriff's investigators found semen on the floor underneath a chair. The 16-year-old student who accused Miller of rape was examined by a nurse, whose overall findings were "positive for sexual abuse," according to Mintus' probable-cause affidavit.
DNA samples from that victim, Miller, and the 14-year-old with whom he allegedly had sex are still being analyzed, according to the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office.
In the wake of the sexual assault allegations, Palm Beach County sheriff's detectives began reexamining the shooting death that Miller said changed his life. Speculation swirled about possible connections between Robert Rashard Tomlin and the band teacher. The events leading up to the break-in only added mystery.
Tomlin, known to friends as "Shard," had roots in Pahokee. He had been living with a cousin in subsidized rental housing in Wellington, watching the cousin's kids during the day while she went to school. Investigators would later learn that Tomlin was living there illegally, because both he and his cousin had rap sheets, in violation of federal housing rules.
Tomlin was arrested in October 2006 for domestic battery, pleaded guilty, then was arrested for violating probation. In April 2007, he was charged with aggravated battery against a victim who was pregnant. Court records show he was convicted of a reduced misdemeanor battery charge. In January 2008, he was arrested again for violating probation.
On the night of February 15, 2009, Tomlin's sister, Toccara Thompson, told detectives that she and her brother were drinking at a friend's place in Wellington, down the street from Miller's home. Around 10:30 p.m., the party's host kicked them out because she wanted to go to sleep, Tomlin's friend, Sheldon Leung, told detectives.
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A Swedish immigrant Bror Julius Nordfeldt became one of the better known of the early 20th-century American modernist artists. He was an etcher and engraver as well as oil painter. He gained early attention for his abstract, non-academic depiction of everyday subject matter such as still lifes, portraits and figures. His treatment of Indians was startling to many as he showed them with stylistic distortion and abstraction, which conveyed an air of mystery that invited viewers to regard them as human beings of psychological depth and not just curiousity-arousing ethnic figures.
Bror Julius Nordfeldt came to the United States in 1891 at age fourteen and went to Chicago, where he took a job as a typesetter in a printing firm with a Swedish-language newspaper. His employer saw his artist talent and encouraged Nordfeldt to get formal training. Beginning 1899, he enrolled at the Chicago Art Institute and returned for several extended periods of time, living at one point in the outbuildings of the 1893 Columbian Exposition as part of the 57th Street Artists Colony.
While a student at the Institute, Nordfeldt became a mural assistant to Albert Herter who was filling a commission for the McCormick Harvester Company's entry in the Paris Exhibition of 1900. Nordfeldt went to Paris for the unveiling and remained in Europe for three years, spending most of his time in France where he studied at the Academie Julian with Jean Paul Laurens. Nordfeldt was much influenced by the painting styles of Manet, Gauguin and Cezanne and was especially taken with the strong, bold coloration of the newly introduced Fauves style. He also went to England and learned etching and woodblock cutting in London from Frank M. Fletcher. He exhibited work at the Royal Academy of London.
Returning to Chicago in 1903, Bror Nordfeldt worked as a portrait artist, a set designer for the Little Theatre, and teacher, whose students included Raymond Jonson, modernist painter whom he later joined in New Mexico.
Although he moved East in 1907, Bror Nordfeldt had two successful, attention-getting solo exhibitions in Chicago in 1911 and 1912. The first show had paintings of Chicago subjects and was held at Albert Roullier's Gallery, and the second at Thurber's Gallery featured abstract, impressionist city genre scenes and portraits. Many persons found his French-influenced modernism stylistically shocking, but others such as reviewer Harriet Monroe had a positive reaction. In the "Chicago Tribune", May 12, 1912, she wrote that the paintings were "the most ambitious and successful pictorial interpretation of Chicago which has been achieved as yet."
During World War I, Nordfeldt was in California where he worked as a camouflage painter for the Navy and was also in Europe on military duty. Previous to that, he had an exhibition entry in the San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915, winning a silver medal for an etching. Throughout his career, especially when he was living in New Mexico, Nordfeldt made many trips to California. In 1937, he exhibited work with the San Francisco Art Association.
From 1917 to 1940, he lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico and initially painted sympathetic Indian figures and used Indian motifs as design elements in his canvases. He was one of the founding members of the Indian Artists Fund, an organization dedicated to preserving the heritage of the Pueblo tribes. Encouraged by his artist friend, Russell Cowles, Nordfeldt added landscapes to his subject matter beginning 1929, but destroyed many of these paintings before leaving New Mexico.
Bror Julius Nordfeldt lived his last years in Lambertsville, New Jersey, and in 1955, died of a heart attack in Henderson, Texas.
Elizabeth Kennedy, "Chicago Modern, 1893 to 1945"
Michael David Zellman, "300 Years of American Art"
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art"
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Panama Pacific Exhibition, 1915; Kansas City Art Institute Exhibition, 1921
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Born Tulstorp, Sweden, April 13, 1878[1873?]; d. Henderson, Texas, April 21, 1955. Painter, Etcher, Engraver, Teacher. Family came to U.S.A. in 1891 and settled in Chicago, IL. First job was as a printer's devil with a Swedish-language newspaper in Chicago. Became a student at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1899; became an assistant to Albert Herter of New York, helped him paint a mural for the Paris Exhibition.
In 1900, went to France and remained there to study and teach. Attended the Academié Julian in 1900 as a pupil of Jean Paul Laurens, then went to London to study etching and woodblock cutting as a pupil of Frank M. Fletcher, then went to Sweden for a year. Returned to Chicago in 1903 and moved east, then to Europe. After WWI, moved to Santa Fe and remained there until 1940.
Taught at the Wichita Art Association in 1933 and spent the winter in Wichita painting Kansas scenes and portraits.
Silver medal in Milan, Italy in 1906 for a 159 woodblock print; silver medal for etching at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915; Logan medal at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1926.
Amon Carter Museum; Delaware Art Museum; Denver Art Museum; Museum of New Mexico; Art Institute of Chicago; New York Public Library; Toledo Art Museum; National Museum of Norway; Detroit Institute of Art; Toronto Art Museum; Sandzén Memorial Art Gallery; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Tucson Museum of Art; Phillips Collection; Spencer Museum of Art.
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Wichita Eagle (Jan. 29, 1933); Who's Who in American Art. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1936- v.1=1936-37 v.3= 1941-42 v.2=1938-39 v.4=1940-47.1; American Art Annual. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1898-194720-22; Museum of New Mexico; Harmsen, Dorothy. American Western Art; a Collection of One Hundred Twenty-Five Western Paintings and Sculpture with Biographies of the Artists. [Denver}: Harmsen Publishing Co., 1977.; Julian; Porter, Dean A, Teresa Hayes Ebie, Suzan Campbell. Taos Artists and Their Patrons, 1898-1950. South Bend, IN: Snite Museum of Art, 1999.; Coke, Van Deren. Nordfeldt, the Painter (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1972); B.J.O. Nordfeldt, An American Expressionist. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984); The Woodblock Prints of B.J.O. Nordfeldt: a Catalogue Raisonne. (Minneapolis: University Art Museum, 1991); AskArt, "http://www.askart.com" www.askart.com , Accessed Dec. 21, 2005; Dawdy 3: Dawdy, Doris Ostrander. Artists of the American West: A Biographical Dictionary. Volume 3. Chicago: Swallow Press, 1985..
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Bror Julius Nordfeldt was a Swedish immigrant to the United States who moved to Chicago as a fourteen year-old boy. There, he worked as a typesetter at a Swedish-language newspaper, where his superiors noticed his artistic talent and urged him to pursue a career in art. To that end, Nordfeldt enrolled in the Chicago Art Institute in 1899 and began studying etching, engraving, drawing and painting. He developed quickly, and moved into the 57th Street Artists Colony. A prominent local mural painter, Albert Herter, eventually hired the young Nordfeldt to assist him with his latest project: a commission from the McCormick Harvester Company to paint their entry in the Paris Exhibit of 1900. Nordfeldt accompanied the piece to Paris when it was shipped and installed, and ended up staying in Europe for three years.
Nordfeldt's time in Europe was primarily in Paris, where he studied at the Academie Julian with Jean Paul Laurens. He was heavily influenced in his time there by the work of Manet, Gauguin and Cezanne, and a Fauvist influence became quite apparent in his work. He had an opportunity to study woodblock cutting in London, and displayed work at the Royal Academy of London. The experience was eye-opening, and the style that resulted didn't sit well with some American audiences upon his return. America was still very much enamored of the academic realist style that had sustained painting since the renaissance, and Nordfeldt's embellishments of color and form were not appreciated by some. He had two shows in Chicago in 1907, one of which was academic in style and one of which was more closely Fauvist. The latter show caused much consternation amongst those in attendance, though it received positive write-ups in the city press.
Nordfeldt was getting close to the style that would define much of his later work, but the outbreak of the First World War brought him to California, where he painted boat camouflage, and Europe, where he served in combat units. Military service was a great distraction from a career that seemed to be emerging from obscurity, as Nordfeldt had just won a silver medal in etching at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition.
Upon returning to the U.S. in 1917, Nordfeldt moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he painted jazzy, motion-filled palettes of Indian figures and ceremonies, as well as untraditional portraits and still lifes. His pieces were, conceptually, a step further towards modernism than the material being produced by most New Mexico artists of the day. He was deeply involved not only in documenting Pueblo Indian tribes, but in attempting to preserve them. He helped found the Indian Artists Fund, which attempted to foster and preserve the arts of the Pueblo.
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Known variously as a post-impressionist or American expressionist painter, B.J.O. Nordfeldt worked in diverse styles and media, including etchings and prints, portraiture, still-lifes, and landscapes. Born Bror Julius Olsson in Sweden, Nordfeldt lived in Chicago, New England, Santa Fe, and ultimately in Lambertville, New Jersey.
As a young man Nordfeldt sought creative ways to earn money from his art, illustrating magazines, painting camouflage for American ships during World War I, and, most importantly, producing prints and etchings. Nordfeldt invented a method of printing more than one color with a single impression. The young Nordfeldt also painted portraits of eminent people, including novelist Theodore Dreiser and economist Thorstein Veblen.
In his mid and late career, Nordfeldt turned to semi-abstract painting, developing a stripped-down style. Interested in conveying the symbolic or emotional core of his subject, its "idea-bones," Nordfeldt strove for a flattening of form and distortion of space, creating stylized images. He chose subjects laden with emotional power, especially nature and religious scenes. Nordfeldt's profound spirituality dominated his late work.
Reference: www.michenermuseum.org
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Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt
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B. J. O. Nordfeldt was born Julius Olsson in 1878 in Tullstrop, Skåne, in the south of Sweden. He later took his mother's maiden name, Nordfeldt, to avoid being confused with another painter (Julius Olsson) who had become well-known in Europe and America. Nordfeldt's father, a farmer of modest circumstances, immigrated in 1891 to Chicago, where he became a house painter and contractor.
Bror, one of ten children, was thirteen when he arrived in America. In Sweden he had attended grammar school which was the equivalent of junior high school in the United States. When he came to Chicago he attended high school and worked after class hours at various tasks, the most important being a job as a printer's devil and compositor for a Swedish newspaper. This experience with printer's ink introduced Nordfeldt to the work of art. Although his sister Clara recalled that he always loved to draw and did it very well when he was a youngster in Sweden.
Because of his drawing ability his employer at the newspaper advised him to enroll at the Art Institute of Chicago. He was nineteen when he began the formal study of art and began to improve his English. During his years of study at the Institute he maintained an exhausting schedule in order to earn a living.
He worked together with his teacher Albert Herterm in 1900 on a commission for a display at the Paris Exposition for the McCormick International Harvester Company. As a reward for his major role Nordfeldt was sent to Paris to see the mural in place and to further his study as a painter.
In Paris Nordfeldt attended classes at the Académie Julian for about two weeks. Nordfeldt wanted to stay in Paris so he set himself up as a teacher. During this time he not only attracted students to his studio but also had his work hung in the Paris Salon des Français in 1901 signifying a degree of acceptance that must have been quite exhilarating for a young artist from Chicago.
After staying less than a year, Nordfeldt left France and went to England where he learned wood-block printing in the Japanese manner.
He returned to Chicago in 1903 and established a studio on 57th Street near Jackson Park. The area had a number of one-story wooden buildings originally built to serve as shops during the 1892 Chicago World's Fair. Some of his friends and neighbors were Carl Sandberg, Vachel Lindsay, and Sherwood Anderson. It was during this time that he began to use his mother's maiden name, Nordfeldt.
In 1907 Nordfeldt worked in New York as a journeyman for Harper's and other periodicals. The following year he returned to Sweden to illustrate a series of articles for
by Emily Pottle. In addition to his stay in Sweden, Nordfeldt spent some time in France, Spain, Italy, and North Africa doing rather stylized drawings to accompany travel articles written by journalist Mary Heaton Vorse for
From 1932 to 1938 Nordfeldt tended to paint in a more realistic style. In 1933 he became a guest teacher at the Minneapolis School of Art where he was a popular and inspiring teacher to his students. A trip to England in 1936 was followed by a return to New Mexico where he had first visited in 1910.
His last years of painting were involved with the invention of abstract forms and themes of the sea. He was invited to teach at the University of Notre Dame in 1954 but declined to devote his time to painting. After his death in 1956 he was honored by an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum.
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Though there names were not called in the seven rounds of the NFL Draft, three former Arizona State players have signed with pro teams in the immediate wake of the draft.
According to reports posted to Twitter, senior defensive back Alden Darby has signed with the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent.
I'm proud to say I am officially a San Diego Charger !!! I grew up a Charger fan and now I'm playing for them. God is good !!!! 🙏🙏🙏
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Darby grew up in Long Beach, Calif. and was a two-time All Pac-12 player, accruing 10 career interceptions in 50 games (28 starts) for ASU.
Fellow Sun Devils defender Chris Young, a senior linebacker from Seattle, has also reportedly signed as an undrafted free agent with the Houston Texans.
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Young earned second-team All Pac-12 honors in 2013 and was the conference's Player of the Week in late November of that year.
Senior defensive end Davon Coleman, meanwhile, has reportedly signed with the Dallas Cowboys.
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ASU former CB RT @NELSON_ISLE Proud to say that I'm a #ClevelandBrown!!!! #UnDrafted I'm more hungry then I have ever been in my life....
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Nelson was a first team All Pac-12 defender in 2013, tallying nine career interceptions at ASU, where he spent two seasons after transferring from Western Kentucky in 2011.
And yet another ASU defensive signed with an NFL team following the draft, becoming the seventh player from coach Todd Graham's defense to go pro in 2014, when Jarrid Bryant signed with the St. Louis Rams.
Former ASU CB signed as a free agent RT @BMagee58 My boy Jarrid Bryant to the Rams show time !!
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Bryant, a junior cornerback, transitioned from receiver over the course of his career in Tempe.
On the other side of the ball, offensive lineman Evan Finkenberg reportedly signed with the Miami Dolphins.
Congrats to Evan Finkenberg going to the Dolphins!! Forks up!
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And fifth-year senior tight end Chris Coyle is now primed to join Young in Houston, according to a personal tweet.
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TinEye: powerful reverse image search engine
Posted By Ashraf On March 29, 2012 @ 12:20 PM In Tips 'n Tricks,World Wide Web | 16 Comments
Me 1: Remember that great background you downloaded a while ago?
Me 2: Yeah! Of course, I accidentally deleted it.
Me 1: Really? You deleted it? Oh.
Me 2: Yeah…. all I was able to find of it on the internet was a thumbnail.
Me 1: Wait- you were able to find a thumbnail of it on the internet? That's great!
You may have heard of Google Similar Images. It searches for images which are similar to one that you find in an images search result:
So what if you want to know where you got that great desktop background, a higher quality version of a picture that's been circulating the internet, or [insert reason to find images here]? First you'd need to find it on Google's specialized image search before you can get a better version from Google Similar Images. After you find it, the similar image match-up is not as perfect as some would hope. That's where TinEye comes in. TinEye takes a picture – either from the internet or from your computer – and find ones that look alike.
For an image of space, Google might show this…
…but TinEye will show this:
The obvious difference is TinEye is finding identical images with greater accuracy than Google Image Search. The not-so-obvious difference is TinEye is not only finding identical images, but each identical image is of different quality and resolution (high, low, medium, etc.) than the next one so you have a variety of choice to pick whichever image fits your need.
Additionally, you have multiple ways to sort out the search results. You can choose biggest, best, or even worst match!
Me 2: This is all really cool, but you haven't showed me how to do this.
Me 1: Well, it's actually not all that hard. You just go to TinEye's website and click along:
Easy, and useful, isn't it? To make TinEye user friendly, the developers have created an extension for Firefox users, an addon for Internet Explorer users, and a bookmarklet for everyone else which allow you to do quick TinEye queries instead of having to visit TinEye.com every time to start a search.
To start using TinEye, visit these links:
TinEye homepage [6]
[Firefox extension [7]]
[Internet Explorer addon [8]]
[Bookmarklet [9]]
[This article has been contributed to dotTech [.org] by Locutus [10] with minor edits from Ashraf [11]. Locutus is still searching for that thumbnail, that lonely little thumbnail. He wants that higher quality wallpaper!]
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[6] TinEye homepage: http://tineye.com
[7] Firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8922
[8] Internet Explorer addon: http://tineye.com/TinEye_Image_Search.msi
[9] Bookmarklet: http://tineye.com/bookmarklet
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Kenmore 5.0 cu. ft. Freestanding Gas Range w/Variable Self-Clean; - Black
Item# 02274139000 | Model# 74139Specifications & Dimensions
Dimensions: | |
Width: | 30 in. (standard) |
Depth (In.): | 28.406 |
Depth with Door Open (in.): | 46.625 |
Height (in.): | 47.75 |
Main Oven Interior Dimensions (WxHxD): | 24.375" W x 18.625" H x 19.125" D |
Main Oven Capacity (cu. ft.): | 5.0 |
Weight (lbs.): | 180 |
Width (in.): | 29.875 |
Color and Styling: | |
Color Family: | Black |
Safety: | |
Safety Features: | Oven Control Lockout |
Controls and Features: | |
Clock Type: | Digital |
Control Type: | Electric |
Cooking Surface: | Gas: sealed burners |
Oven Cleaning Method: | Self-cleaning |
Oven Light: | Standard (incandescent) |
Storage Drawer: | Yes |
Warming Drawer: | No |
Product Overview: | |
Weight, Shipping: | 190 |
Power: | |
Broiler Burner BTUs (NG/LP): | 13500 |
Main Oven Bake Burner BTUs (NG/LP): | 18000 |
General Features: | |
Power Cord Included: | Yes |
Power Source: | |
Minimum Circuit Rating: | 15 amps |
Voltage: | 110/120V |
Warranty: | |
General Warranty: | 1 year limited |
Certifications: | |
ADA Compliant: | No |
ANSI Certified: | No |
UL Listed: | Yes |
General Configuration: | |
Burner Configuration: | 1 - 14,200 BTU, 2 - 9,500 BTU, 1 - 5,000 BTU, 1 - 18,200 BTU |
Main Oven Number of Rack Positions: | 6 |
Number of Elements/Burners: | 5 |
Number of Oven Racks: | 2 |
Number of Ovens: | Single oven |
Oven Door Window Type: | Extra-large |
Oven Type: | Standard |
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Kenmore 5.0 cu. ft. Freestanding Gas Range - Cooking Versatility
The Kenmore 5.0 cu. ft. freestanding gas range 7413 features five individually controlled, sealed, electronic-ignition gas burners. With the Turbo Boil burner, you can bring any amount of liquid to a boil in no time flat. Pots and pans slide easily over the continuous, dishwasher-safe grates, while baking and roasting is easy with the spacious, self-cleaning oven. The warming feature is perfect for keeping dishes at just the right temperature to serve. Every meal is a pleasure to cook with the Kenmore 7413.
- Delivering an outstanding 18,200 BTUs of heating power, Gas Turbo Boil™ brings pots, pans and kettles to a boil rapidly, saving time and getting meals made fast
- The 5,000 BTU Simmer Burner was designed to deliver reliable warming and ultra-low simmering with a consistent, precise flame, cutting down on scorched sauces and dried out dishes
- Warm & Hold keeps dishes at the perfect serving temperature for hours without overcooking and works with timed bake and delay cook settings, so meals are ready when you are
- Built to cut down on soaking and scrubbing, dishwasher safe grates deliver a stable surface for cooking, while cleaning up quickly alongside your pots and pans
- Easy Set™ electronic oven controls automate temperature, timer and other features so you can bake a pie, roast beef or cook a casserole with just the touch of a finger
- A convenient storage drawer underneath the oven provides valuable space for storing baking sheets, pans and pizza trays, so they're out of the way but still within reach
- The Variable Self Clean feature lets you choose the cleaning time from 2 to 4 hours, so you can save time and energy when the oven only needs a quick touch-up
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A fun supplement, Latin Monkey Match 2 Flashcard Game features all the vocabulary from Song School Latin Book 2. In groups or individually, students can play Memory or Go Fish by collecting Latin and English matches. The cards can also be used as flash cards for extra practice. Each card lists the corresponding chapter number from Song School Latin Book 2.