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Constructing the Future
nD Modelling
By Ghassan Aouad, Angela Lee, Song Wu
Routledge – 2006 – 414 pages
Routledge – 2006 – 414 pages
This essential book introduces the concept of nD modelling, which takes the theory of computer modelling of the built environment to n dimensions. nD modelling utilizes a decision support tool for systematic assessment and comparison between various design parameters such as cost, accessibility, maintainability, sustainability, crime, energy, whole life costing, acoustics and scheduling among others.
Constructing the Future is a comprehensive book which provides a global perspective on the concept of nD modelling and examines its impact on construction, from development to application. The text offers a critique of competing views that seek to justify (or ignore) the role of nD modelling in the future of construction as well as describing developments in this area which are already happening worldwide.
Presenting a thorough critique of competing views as well as providing guidance on best practice, Constructing the Future is a bold, well-grounded and illustrated title introducing construction management professionals and researchers to this exciting new development in the quest for a single building and product model.
Part 1: nD Modelling: The Concept 1. nD Modelling: The Background2. Engineering Design3. Lessons Learned from Ten Years of Conceptualizing, Developing, Introducing and Using nD BIMs Part 2: nD Modelling: The Scope 4. Planning and Scheduling Practices in the UK5. Construction Scheduling: A Latin American Perspective6. nD in Risk Management7. Construction Safety 8. Automated Code Checking and Accessibility9. Acoustics in the Built Environment 10. nD Modelling to Facilitate Crime Reduction 'Thinking' within the Project Briefing Process Part 3: nD Modelling: The Application 11. Data Classification 12. Management of Requirements Information in the nD Model 13. Information Management in nD14. Data Visualization15. Legal Issues of nD Modelling16. Interactive Experimenting of nD Models for Decision Making17. Technology Transfer18. The Role of Higher Education in nD Modelling 19. Designing Fit-for-Purpose Schools: The nD Game Part 4: nD Modelling: The Future 20. nD Modelling: Where Next? 21. An Ontology to Integrate Building and Urban n-Dimensional Data 22. Modelling Cities 23. nD in 2D. Concluding Remarks
Professor Ghassan Aouad is Head, and Dr Angela Lee & Dr Song Wu are Research Fellows, in the School of Construction & Property Management at the University of Salford, UK
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Hammond driving the icons: E30 BMW M3
In honour of the new 3 Series, revisit the time Hammond drove one of the finest: the granddaddy M3
Posted: 17 Oct 2011
Using the right tool for the job is more than just sensible advice; it's a reason for doing the job in the first place. I would happily spend a day welding a combine harvester together or making furniture if I was given the right tools to do it. I'm not saying I'd be any good, but the satisfaction gained from using the right tool to do a job is something I believe to be fundamental to what makes us human. That explains why Jeremy is so bad at it. And it also explains why the M3 is – and always has been – such an obvious choice for anyone wanting to drive quickly. In the same way that you would choose a plane for shaving slices off a piece of wood or a broom for sweeping, anyone doing the sensible thing would take an M3 if headed for a track day or a fast scamper across Europe.
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A gorgeous Summer day here in Tokyo followed by an almighty yet cleansing thunder storm that swept through, washing down everything and shutting down the trains for some time tonight.
I am doing OK after yesterday's *thingie* but I couldn't stop thinking about it, about him all last night and today. As I walked up onto the platform this morning there was not a sign of the tragic picture that was painted yesterday. I morbidly glanced at the tracks for evidence, some flowers, a mark of what had gone on yesterday. Nothing. Forgotten. The rain tonight washed any evidence of what he did away.
This morning I told a friend about it. His first question was, "Was he wearing shoes?" Shocked that he knew the body lay there with no shoes on I asked, "No, how the hell did you know that?" He replied, as if it were common knowledge "That is what they do, they take their shoes off before they jump." When I spoke to Masao tonight about it, he agreed, "Yeah, Japanese people take their shoes off before they commit suicide." I know the Japanese are very fastidious when it comes to taking off shoes before entering homes, schools, offices, some toilets etc but… I wondered out loud, "Is it because they believe they are entering heaven?" Masao shrugged as we crammed in through the doors of the packed train, "hhmm yeah maybe."
Yesterday gave me a little shove and as with most powerful events in my life a flood gate usually opens up and wild, wonderful and often crazily coincidental things happen. Today was filled with all of the above and the sun shone in more ways than one.
In other news….
I love to dance!
On Saturday night me and my hoops danced with some very luscious ladies, sparkling men and Spider Man (projected on the wall of Super Deluxe) at GOLDEN.
Then on Sunday afternoon we took our hoops and got a little outdoorsy, a little dusty, a lot sweaty and whipped up a swirling storm at an outdoor trance party in Yoyogi Park. Filthy weekend hoop fun!


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Mustang MonthlyNews & Views
History of the Shelby Mustangs - Shelby: The Untold Stories
From The Men Who Built The Cars
From 1966 through 1969, Lew served as Shelby's Trans-Am manager. Lew recalls how Shelby got involved in Trans-Am: "The last race of 1966 was at Riverside. If a Mustang won, Ford would win the Trans-Am title. So we got a budget from Ford--$5,000--to build a car for Jerry Titus. Jerry won the championship for Ford. Then it was decided that we should run a Trans-Am team for 1967. That got interesting because Bud Moore was the official Ford team and he was running Cougars. That was the year the Cougar was introduced, so they had a big push behind it. They had a big budget and could get anything they wanted. We got limited funding through Ray Geddes, who was Ford's representative to Shelby. Ray found a little bit of money in his budget and told Shelby to take it and go racing. So with a limited budget and without any real sanctioning from Ford, we went Trans-Am racing. We got Jerry Titus as our number-one driver and successfully ran the series."
After a disastrous 1968 Trans-Am season with unreliable, Ford-built Tunnel-Port 302 engines, Shelby headed into the 1969 season with a pair Boss 302 Mustangs, along with a second team from Bud Moore. The season started well enough, with Parnelli Jones winning the first race for Bud Moore and Sam Posey, substituting for Shelby team driver Peter Revson, taking the second. At mid-season, things headed downhill. Lew relates, "At Donnybrook, Horst Kwech went off the end of the straight and destroyed one car. Then we went to Michigan in the rain; Horst went through the fence and crashed into a spectator car, killing someone. Then we went to St. Jovite with our last two cars. George Follmer (in a Bud Moore car) blew his engine and our cars spun in the oil. It caused a massive wreck. One of our cars flipped over the barrier. The wrecking crew put a chain through the window to pick it up and that destroyed the car. So at that point we had four wrecked cars. We went back to Kar Kraft, and with their help and our crew, we put two cars together. From then on we could never get the cars to handle. Nothing worked, so at the end of 1969 we really looked bad. After that, Shelby got out of racing. That ended me."
Lew was also in the wrong place at the wrong time when Ford ended its racing programs in 1970. "[Ford's Director of Special Vehicle Activities] Jacque Passino had always been good to me and he put me with Holman-Moody/Stroppe in Long Beach. We were ready to take a performance parts program to the SEMA Show when Ford shut down its racing and performance programs. That closed Holman-Moody. Jerry Titus wanted me to come with his team. I wasn't doing anything else so I went with him. I went to Elkhart Lake for my first race with him and that's when he crashed. Two weeks later, he died. It wasn't a good time."
Lew eventually returned to work for Carroll Shelby, primarily as a troubleshooter for Carroll's various businesses. "He had some problems with his Carroll Shelby Original Chili Company so I got sent to run that for a while. Then he started the Carroll Shelby Clothing Company. He was having trouble with that so I was sent in to get it sorted out, and we did. He ended up getting rid of it."
How does Lew feel about his time with Shelby American? "We knew it was unique. It was special and loads of fun. We knew it was pretty big as far as automotive performance and racing was concerned, but none of us had any concept that it would become as big as it has today."


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How many SAS hard drives will this 40-port switch support? And when will it be available?
Many of you may have heard of a poem written by Robert Fulgham 25 years ago called "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten." In it he provides such pearls of wisdom like "Play fair," "Clean up your own mess," "Don't take things that aren't yours" and "Flush." By now you're wondering what any of this has to do with storage technology. Well the #1 item on the kindergarten knowledge list is "Share Everything." And from my perspective that includes DAS (direct-attached storage).
Sharable DAS has been a primary topic of discussion at this year's annual LSI Accelerating Innovation Summit (AIS). During one keynote session I proposed a continuum of data sharing, spanning from traditional server-based DAS to traditional external NAS and SAN with multiple points in between – including external DAS, simple pooled storage, advanced pooled storage, shared storage and HA (high-availability) shared storage. Each step along the continuum adds incremental features and value, giving datacenter architects the latitude to choose – and pay for – only the level of sharing absolutely required, and no more. This level of choice is being very warmly received by the market as storage requirements vary widely among Web-cloud, private cloud, traditional enterprise, and SMB configurations and applications.
Sharable DAS pools storage for operational benefits and efficiencies
Sharable DAS, with its inherent storage resource pooling, offers a number of operational benefits and efficiencies when applied at the rack level:
LSI rolls out proof-of-concept Rack Scale architecture using sharable DAS
In addition to just talking about sharable DAS at AIS, we also rolled out a proof-of-concept Rack Scale architecture employing sharable DAS. In it we configured 20 servers with 12Gb/s SAS RAID controllers, a prototype 40-port 12Gb/s SAS switch (that's 160 12Gb/s SAS lanes) and 10 JBODs with 12Gb/s SAS for a total of 200 disk drives – all in a single rack. The drives were configured as a single storage resource pool with our media sharing (ability to spread volumes across multiple disk drives and aggregate disk drive bandwidth) and distributed RAID (ability to disperse data protection across multiple disk drives) features. This configuration pools the server storage into a single resource, delivering substantial, tangible performance and availability improvements, when compared to 20 stand-alone servers. In particular, the configuration:
I'm sure you'll agree with me that Rack Scale architecture with sharable DAS is clearly a major step forward in providing a wide range of storage solutions under a single architecture. This in turn provides a multitude of operational efficiencies and performance benefits, giving datacenter architects wide latitude to employ what is needed – and only what is needed.
Now that we've tackled the #1 item on the kindergarten learning list, maybe I'll set my sights on another item, like "Take a nap every afternoon."
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How many SAS hard drives will this 40-port switch support? And when will it be available?
In my humble opinion, 240 drives limit is at least 5 times too low for a 40 4x port SAS3 (12Gbs) switch given that:
1) Its overall bandwidth is 40x4x12/8=240GB/sec, out of which 120GB/sec should be available to JBODs.
2) It's possible to put at least 600 3.5″ drives/rack (using Quanta M4600H or similar 4U drive enclosures) or many more 2.5″ drives.
3) Unless using only SSD drives, having a limit of 240 drives per switch (which is already exceeded by an immediately available and I guess much cheaper SAS6160 switch) will mean a giant waste of available switch bandwith.
My vote (for what it's worth) is for it to support of at least 1,200 drives (but 2,000 would be even better).


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This massive alligator was discovered last week in Pushmataha County. Land owners, Herbert and Polly Taylor's son, Joel Taylor, found this roughly 8-9 ft alligator on his parents property located in the Finley area. Due to how the waterways connect, locals are urged to pay attention when enjoying summer recreation in local bodies of water. Little Cedar Creek, which runs in the Finley area, connects to the Kiamichi River, which in turn feeds into many other bodies of water, including Hugo Lake. Just remember, where there is one there could be more. Please pay attention and remember to never leave your children or pets unattended by the water.


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In this multi-day activity students participate in a mock-senate committee debate of a current piece of climate legislation. Students are split into the roles of either senator, special interest lobbyist, or testifying climate scientist and must debate the bill according to their assigned allegiance. Students, in their roles, must work to form coalition support for their view point, resulting in a final committee vote on the bill.


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Motor vehicle theft crime rate is increasing every year. For us, the owners of motor vehicles are necessary to provide a safe place to keep our vehicles to avoid theft. Garage is a place that we can provide to be able to park the vehicle safely without worry about thieves.
The second thing we need to think about is the quality of garage doors that we put in the garage. The garage door can be made with various materials such as wood, iron, aluminum and others. Garage door sliding model is widely used for garage door motor vehicle. Garage door model can be made with ingredients – ingredients mentioned above. Garage door sliding model system is a door that open the way behind the curve shifts to the side close to the wall and use the top rail bottom and is equipped with wheels, hinges, and latch. To get the garage door to suit tastes, we can easily search through the internet. If you live in the Palm Springs area, you can search for Garage Doors Palm Springs, it provided by Brads Garage Doors via online.


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RIM Announces the Dual-Mode Tour for Sprint and Verizon Wireless
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Jun 16, 2009, 7:18 AM by Eric M. Zeman @phonescooper
updated Jun 16, 2009, 7:46 AM
Today Research In Motion announced the BlackBerry 9630 Tour, a new QWERTY-equipped device that supports both CDMA EVDO Rev. A and quad-band GSM/EDGE plus 2100MHz HSDPA networks. The Tour also comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera with flash, autofocus and video capture. The Tour has a full HTML web browser, 3.5mm headset jack, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, supports microSD cards up to 32GB, an GPS. RIM said the device is expected to be available this summer from North American carriers. Both Verizon Wireless and Sprint have announced that they will sell the Tour. Sprint will offer it for $200 after rebate with new agreement. Verizon didn't offer pricing details right away.
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Kougar Player Profile
Ashanti Davis
Number: 23
Position: Guard/Forward
Height: 5'10
High School: Lyons Township H.S.
Year: FR
High School Honors:
FalconClassic All-Tournament Team
Leading scorer, assists and blocks
Career Plans and Goals:
Graduate school and to make it to the league.
Hobbies and Interests:
Basketball, eating, listening to music, sleeping, and watching T.V.
Class: math, Book: The Glass Castle, Practice Drill: Shooting/Dribbling drills
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For now I'll learn and settle for less.
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Feel the pulse beneath this sunken chest.
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Little Mix Star Perri Edwards Dumps One Direction's Zayn Malik For The Band
Little Mix band member Perri Edwards has made a move that One Direction fans are probably celebrating right now.
The blonde singer has shockingly dumped her rumoured One Direction boyfriend, Zayn Malik so she can concentrate on the band which is set to make her a multi millionaire. Perri said she has "not got time" for a relationship with the boy band hunk after winning the show on Sunday night.
Apparently Zayn was besotted with Perri and sources say this will come as a big blow to him because they have been very close for the last two months. But Perri has admitted with the boys being around they have helped them with the fame game she says
They were so nice and gave us loads of advice. But right now I haven't got any time for a romance. It's all about the music, the tour and then the album.
Don't worry Zayn we are sure the other hundred million girls who want to date you will be waiting to keep you company. Jade Thirwall from the group is also hinting that her relationship with electrician boyfriend, Ben, could be hanging on a thread as well she says
This is my main priority
and Jesy Nelson who dumped her boyfriend Shane before the show also admits
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Seems odd the solution to poor battery performance was to buy a wired mouse instead of just plugging the mouse you had in at night, but what do I know.
I mean, expecting (or advertising) 30 days out of a "performance" mouse of any kind is a bit silly. A decent mouse should be able to go a few days though, even my G700 can do that at the highest polling rate.
the MX can do 30 days easy. the problem was that a lot of MX mice where shipped with crappy batteries, Logitechs supplier gave them batteries that had lower maH and in general sucked, so some people got the good batteries and some got the bad. the bad ones also charged bad, so for those with replaceable Lithoum batteries logitech would send replacements, for those with non replaceable batteries logitech just replaced the mouse, and for those with regular NiCd rechargeables they sent replacements, despite the problem with these often being user fault for charging wrong. Not doing the long first time charge, and "spot" charging them instead of waiting for the battery to get low before recharging and semi regularly let the batteries drain completely or nearly so.


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Chemoreception in single cells (sperm and bacteria)
Chemical communication is not only critical in mediating macroorganismal interactions, but plays a profound importance in controlling processes that occur at the level of the single cell. In contrast to the neural approach used for insect olfaction, the relatively simple system of the single cell permits a molecular approach towards understanding the physiological mechanisms controlling chemosensory behavior. This work integrates calcium imaging, cell motility, and microfluidics to understand the fluid dynamical basis of chemosensory behavior in sperm or bacteria.


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Roadrunner of the Month: Christian Ume-Ezeoke plans to open hospital overseas
(Feb. 11, 2013) -- The UTSA Student Leadership Center announces Christian Ume-Ezeoke as Roadrunner of the Month for December 2012-January 2013. Ume-Ozeoke was nominated by Monica Abowd, a UTSA business student.
Ume-Ezeoke is from Dallas, where he graduated from Lloyd V. Berkner High School. He is a UTSA senior studying community health. After obtaining his degree, he plans to complete medical school and residency. He aspires to start a nonprofit hospital overseas in a poverty stricken community.
"Leadership to me is being able to lead by example," said Ume-Ezioke. "It also means empowering those around me to achieve their life goals."As president of the honor society Omicron Delta Kappa, Ume-Ezeoke helps run the organization, host events and bring in new members. In May 2012, he attended the six-day UTSA LeaderShape Institute, where he exhibited exemplary leadership skills and developed a vision for change. According to Monica Abowd, "Christian is a well-rounded person who takes pride in all things he does. He leads with integrity, honesty and has respect and love for all people."
Additionally he is a student employee for the Volunteer Services in the Inclusion and Community Engagement Center and a member of VOICES (Volunteer Organization Involving Community Education and Service).
The Roadrunner of the Month award is sponsored by the Student Leadership Center to recognize outstanding UTSA student leadership contributions. Nominees must meet these criteria to be considered for the award:
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Yishai takes issue with statements made by former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who called Israel "forged and temporary." Yishai says that while Iran is a repressed society in which democratic aspirations are quashed, Israel is a beacon of human rights with proven historic staying-power. But, he warns, Israel needs to keep hitting that concept home.
Then, Yishai is joined by Knesset insider Jeremy Saltan for a lightning news wrap: Six Arab-Israeli teachers in the Negev have been found to be ISIS-supporters; the budget is being delayed; IDF service is being shortened; and more.
Finally, Yishai is joined by super-IDF-soldier Shai Ish Shalom, who remembers the hostage-rescue operation at Entebbe in 1976, recalling the precision-fighting during the fateful moments of the raid. VOI's Judy Balint joins in to recount the last official commemoration ceremony of the raid, called Operation Thunderbolt/Yonatan, held in 2001.
NY Times praises US killing of terrorist leaders; a different story when Israel kills the bad guys
I encourage the Times of Israel editors to re-balance their site before ToI loses all credibility
After decades of legal wrangling, the Tel Aviv District Court last Wednesday awarded custody of the estate of Max Brod, Franz Kafka's friend and publisher, to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem.
Major Sarel was killed last year in Gaza when Hadar Goldin's body was stolen by Hamas. The IDF released a video from Sarel's helmet cam.
The system was recently activated and installed surrounding the Gaza Strip.
A new cyber defense program has opened for the first time at an Israeli pre-army yeshiva.
No exaggeration, I estimate 3/4 of the passengers on my bus were Arabs; this is not unique
He refuses to consider Reform Jews as "Jews" but "welcomes them with love and joy" to be just like him.
"You're truly saving lives," said Stoudemire, "and to do it in a way that's fun to me, to play basketball, it's a win-win."
Here's a video made during the war of Israelis simply thanking our IDF soldiers.
Adi Kaplan, widow of Captain Zvi (Zvika) Kaplan lit a torch during a ceremony marking one year since Operation Protective Edge at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on July 6, 2015. Prime Minister Netanyahu laid a wreath of flowers at the ceremony honoring our heroes killed in battle against Israel's enemies in Gaza
"Bon Jovi couldn't care less."
The IDF is placing its four elite combat units under a single commando brigade in the 98th Paratrooper's Division. The combat units Egoz, part of the Golani Brigade; Rimon, part of the Givati Brigade; Duvdevan of the Central Command; and Maglan of the combat engineering force will be under the new command to be headed […]
Dear Pres. Obama, A "deal" in which one side makes all the concessions is, of course, a "surrender."
"Unfortunately, there are those who seek to exploit the sanctity of Ramadan, and distort its meaning in favor of … terrorism."
Nicholas Winton saved hundreds of Jewish children from the gas chambers but said nothing for nearly 50 years.
Four Israelis hurt Monday night in a driveby terror attack by terrorists near Shvut Rachel.
Perhaps on a deeper level, the mitzvah of parah adumah at this junction was not just to purify the body, but the spirit as well.
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Davon has been a competitive athlete since age 8. He started his athletic career playing baseball, basketball, football, running track, and wrestling. He was recruited to play football at Michigan State University, where he graduated in 2009. When his football career ended, he studied Muay Thai kick boxing and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for 3 years. His love for CrossFit began in 2011 when wanted to train for the Warrior Dash. He found a local CrossFit, got his butt kicked during his first workout, and hasn't looked back since. Davon is CrossFit Level 1 certified, and spent the last two years coaching and training at CrossFit Route 1 in Boston. Davon is a Type-2 diabetic and takes his health and fitness seriously. His goal is to motivate others and educate people about diabetes prevention and help those with diabetes control it through proper diet and exercise.
Andy Harder is a Boston University Graduate. Andy was a 4 year Army ROTC scholarship winner and is currently serving in the Army National Guard as a Medical Service Officer. Andy was formerly a competitive Junior Elite gymnast. Andy has competed on the state, regional and national level in gymnastics. He is a former gymnastics coach of 3 years. Andy is a Crossfit Level 1 trainer.
Blake joined the Army when he was 18 years old and did 2+ years in Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division by the time he turned 22. Moving to Southern California shortly thereafter, he discovered Crossfit and appreciated the camaraderie of it all. He liked how people of different backgrounds come together to test their limits and realized it was a seamless transition from the military. He was the first ever Mens Paleo Challenge winner when training down in Newport Beach with Orange Coast Crossfit back in 2009 and has been Crossfitting ever since. Blake recently graduated from the University of Southern California getting with a degree in Business Administration. When he's not doing Crossfit, you can usually find him reading about the stock market, foreign affairs, or eating avocado's. Blake has an endurance emphasis and has done the Long Beach Marathon along with multiple half marathons. If any of the members want to organize a team for Tough Mudder, Spartan and/or Zombie races he is the guy to talk too.
Joey has been playing sports his whole life, ranging from soccer, basketball, baseball, golf, tennis, and racquetball. He began lifting weights while playing golf for the University of Hawaii-Hilo on a full scholarship and has not stopped lifting since. He started Crossfit in beginning of 2014 while in chiropractic college and has picked up a love for Olympic weightlifting. He graduated from Life Chiropractic College West in 2014 and practicing in Westwood,CA. When he is not in the office or lifting weights you might find him eating at a new restaurant, hanging out by the beach, or hiking the LA hills.
Hoang is well traveled. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, moved south to attend UCSD, majoring in biochemistry, finally moving up to Orange County to start his career in health care. Hoang has been involved in sports since middle school, participating in track and field (long and triple jump) and basketball. Hoang also holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do since the age of 14 and also is an Eagle Scout with the Boy Scouts of America. With such a diverse background, things did not fully come to fruition until being introduced to Crossfit with Crossfit Huntington Beach. Hoang has been crossfitting for almost 2 years and credits the system for dramatic life changes. Crossfit has provided a forum in which failure is acceptable and constantly humbling. It has provided community and created an atmosphere of goal setting and achieving. Hoang has been zone/paleo for almost 2 years and has not looked back.
Vivian is a Southern California native, she grew up surfing and ocean swimming which is where her love of movement began. After college she worked as a staff accountant and it was her yoga practice that kept her from lashing out at her husband on a daily basis. She soon said goodbye to her desk job to conquer her fear of public speaking and pursue teaching people how to do a down dog with correct shoulder alignment. Vivian has a 200 hr Yoga Alliance certification in Hot Yoga where she studied under Jason Wilkerson, soon after she completed another 200 hr certification in Vinyasa flow from Corepower Yoga. Vivian is also an Integrated Yoga Tune Up® teacher and is in her 2nd year at Loyola Marymount University where she studies yoga therapeutics. Her classes are a reflection of her philosophy, that yoga can relieve your pain, improve your posture, and enhance your performance in whatever it is that you do. When she's not making killer playlists for her classes Vivian enjoys finding new restaurants and ordering way too much food. Her favorite food group is wine, especially when paired with reality TV.


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Love my new bunny!
Just got my one of a kind hand cut plywood bunny by the amazing artist Max Neutra! We were so excited when he made more of this a few months ago! For some reason the website would not let me send it to Norway, this was fixed quite fast but I was super worried that someone would buy my favorite that I had it shipped to my friend in Texas, (Thank you Anette!) and she sent it to me. It arrived a few days ago and it is awesome! Super happy with it, and I'm very happy about my choice of bunny!
This time Max Neutra made some brown and some white bunny's but he has made yellow, blue and multicolored as well before. Most are of a single bunny but some come in pairs and all are unique! They are rigged to either stand by itself via a built in kickstand, or to be mounted flat on a wall. Each is signed and dated on the back.
It was definitely worth the wait and it made it in time to play the easter bunny! If you want one for yourself there are 3 left as I'm wrighting and you can buy them here: http://www.maxneutra.bigcartel.com :)
A foggy picture
This is a picture taken in the beginning of November on a day trip we took to Hankø. That time og year we usually have a lot of snow but this winter we are still waiting, wondering why all our snow seems to be in New York…
It's not a very fancy picture, just a little fishing hut on a rock in the sea, all covered in fog, blurring the line between the sea and the sky.
My summer 2013!
Well, what to say?
Most of my summer was spent with my leg high after spraining it in the beginning of june and I'm still not able to walk more than 30 minutes at a time before I have to put ice on it. So as you can guess my summer was not the most interesting in the world. Needless to say I spent all my summer in Norway, mostly in Oslo, some at Hankø and 3 days in Vang in Valdres.
Here are some pic's, taken with my cellphone so sorry about the quality :/
Hope you guy's had an awesome summer and are enjoying the autumn :)
Posters, finally framed for you!
Hello world!
Again I'm super slow, got the posters back months ago and just forgot to post it! Might have something to do with the fact that I broke my boyfriends Mac Book (not on purpose, I tripped) and he had the pictures, so I had to look through about a 100 pages in expressobeans.com to find them again, so I kept thinking I would do it later, and obviously didn't. Sorry about that!
I'll stop saying I'll be good and blog more, and just promise that I'll blog if I have something to say. I wont fill my blog with crap just to post something!
Anyway, here are the finished framed posters for you!
For Daniel Danger's 'Sanctuary Moon' print we wanted a simple dark frame, and to bring out the blue we used a blue passepartout between two black ones.
For Ansin's 'Thor' poser we wanted to keep it similar because they are hanging on the same wall, so we used the same frame. Since 'Thor' glows in the dark we decided to keep the passepartout to one simple black.
Mike Mitchell's 'Adventure time' is also hanging on the same wall so we used the same frame, but thicker to fit the comic style of the print, followed by a black passepartout and a blue one with a hand colored core of a lighter blue to match the print perfectly!
On an other wall we have a movie poster from Ken Taylor from the Movie '20,000 Leagues under the sea'. Here we went a bit overboard with a stained brass colored frame and inner frame to give it an old navy feel and to pick up the metallic color from the poster.
If you want to know more about each print, I have blog posts up about the 3 first from before. I don't think I have one up for 20,000 Leagues under the sea' but if you want me to put one up, just let me know!
That's it for today!
Enjoy :)
The talented New York rapper Hoodie Allen is out with a new FREE mixtape called 'Crew Cuts'! It has been out a while but I have been of my blog for some time so this is a better late than never post for all you other slow people out there!
This mixtape has a slightly different feel to it then the other ones, but is still without a doubt Hoodie's style and a great mixtape as always. My favorites on this mixtape is 'Let Me Be Me' and 'Wave Goodbye (ft. Shwayze)' at the moment! That's all the review your going to get from me 'cos you need to check it out for yourself!
If you never heard of Hoodie Allen before then I recommend that you visit his webpage www.hoodieallen.com and download 'Pep Rally', 'Leap Year' and the new 'Crew Cuts' mixtapes. They are awesome and free so it just can't get much better than that! If you like it you should support him by actually paying for 'All American' on iTunes, it's a great album, really not that expensive and he gives out free music all the time so he deserves it!
I'm told he puts on some great shows as well so if you are anywhere near one of his shows you should go check it out and give me a comment on it! (Tour dates is on his webpage as well). Fingers crossed for European tour 2013!
Yes, this is what it sounds like! It's a mug with a tail from the japanese brand kinto. Super cute white matte porcelain mugs in different sizes with the handle made to look like different tail and a silhouette of the animal that belongs to the tail is on the mugs. The inside og the cups are glazed so it will be easy to clean. I don't know how practical this will be to drink hot beverages from, since the size of the tail are often small, for instance the moose tail is very tiny! The mugs are all in different sizes to match the animal on it so together they give a nice random look. If you don't like the randomness of that look you can always buy more of one animal.
If you like the cups but don't want or need more drinking mugs you can always use them as candle holders! The animal silhouette is in a thinner layer of porcelain and will stand out in a yellow light when used as a candle holder. Very pretty indeed!
As far as I know it comes 8 different animal, wich are as following: moose, bear, hedgehog, fawn, fox, squirrel, rabbit and cat.
I hope you love them as much as I do! They are definitely on my wish list!
We are watching the most amazing little pug for a week while his mommy is on holiday. He is just the cutest little bundle of cuddle ever!
Enjoy this little lovely pug!


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Iran has installed centrifuges at its largest nuclear enrichment plant that could be used to produce radioactive material for a nuclear weapon, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog said.
The International Atomic Energy Agency released a report Thursday claiming the Islamic Republic had recently installed 180 advanced IR-2m centrifuges at its plant in Natanz.
According to the report circulated among its 35-nation members, the centrifuges can produce between three to five times more material than the ones now being used there.
Israel said the report was evidence that Iran is continuing to "advance swiftly towards the red line that the prime minister drew in his speech at the United Nations." The British Foreign Office said the IAEA's findings were cause for "serious concern."
Tehran claims its nuclear program is needed for peaceful purposes.
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Sextus Aurelius Propertius is widely considered to be the finest Latin elegiac poet. Elegiac, technically, because he wrote in a Classically formulated couplet consisting of a hexameter and a pentameter line. Elegiac, more connotatively, because of a tonal pensiveness and themes of a personal, emotional or even mournful nature. Pound, though, rated Propertius for quite other reasons: the beauty of his cadence, even though in a single metrical pattern; the quality of his irony; the playfulness of his language, in Pound's own terminology, his logopoeia. Ironic logopoeia was, of course, Pound's exemplary mode as realized by some of his literary heroes: Browning, Flaubert, Laforgue. To discern this mode in Propertius was a …
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The Lay Clerks of Liverpool Cathedral consist of the twelve gentlemen of the choir : four counter-tenors, four tenors and four basses. They sing for the Choral Eucharist on Sunday mornings, Evensong on Sunday afternoons and Evensong on Saturday afternoons and Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evenings. In addition to this they sing for numerous special services and concerts with the boys and girls of the Cathedral Choir. As well as singing with the full choir of boys or girls, the layclerks regularly sing mens' voices services. They are supported by a number of deputies.
If you are interested in becoming a Lay Clerk or a Deputy then please contact the Music Office (closed on Wednesdays each week) for further information.
Formerly known as the "Occasional Singers", the Cathedral enjoys the musicianship and service of this mixed voice adult choir, providing music and worship at services like Midnight Eucharist on Christmas Eve, the Duruflé Requiem for All Souls, and joining forces with the main Cathedral Choir on some of the biggest occasions. In addition, the Chamber Choir performs at concerts in the Cathedral such as Handel's 'Messiah', Bach's 'St John Passion', and Vivaldi's 'Gloria'.
Please contact David Poulter, Director of Music on 0151 702 7291 or email email@example.com if you would like to audition for a place in this choir


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Soooo i was just wondering peoples opinions on Christy Hemme as the Ring Announcer?????
NXT is the best show out there !
NXT is the best show out there !
We all judge others even if it isn't our place to judge, but supposedly at the end we are all judged by one!!!
Wrestling, women and money who could ask for more???


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Peyton Manning versus Tom Brady. It used to be the NFL's ultimate matchup because it featured the modern era's top quarterbacks.
But it doesn't have the same pizzazz anymore. In fact, more attention should be given to the NFC championship game because it's old school. It's the San Francisco 49ers at the Seattle Seahawks, two teams with strong running games and really good defenses.


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text: I remember when I saw the Losi Mini-T for the first time at iHobby 2003. It was unlike anything else that had come before it. I mean there were other minis and micros out there but those were all on-road-only vehicles. With the Mini-T you could go anywhere. It handled well, looked just like a XXX-T and it was actually pretty quick right from the box. In the six years since my initial meeting with this legendary little truck the Mini-T has remained a force in RC. Sure some things have been changed along the way, some new iterations have come out as well but by and large the Mini-T has gone unchanged. That is until now. Losi has decided to shake things up a bit with its newest truck based on the Mini-T platform, the Mini-Desert Truck. Borrowing design queues from its larger 1/10-scale cousin, the Mini-Desert Truck looks and drives different. From its extended chassis, roll-tube front bumper and rear roll cage and realistic wheels, tires and body you can tell the Mini-Desert Truck is special from the first time you look at it. We've charged up a few battery packs and taken the dirt to the Mini-Desert Truck to see if it lives up to its predecessor's legacy.


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Orange City, IA Tornado Risk Level
Based on Historical Tornado Data Orange City, Iowa is located in following risk area:
Very Low Risk
*Tornado risk is calculated from the destruction path that has occured within 30 miles of the location.
According to records, the largest Tornado in the Orange City area was an F4 in 1952 that caused 4 injuries and 0 deaths. Orange City, Iowa is in Very Low Risk area.
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LG has finally started rolling out the much-awaited Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) update for the powerful LG Optimus Black smartphone. This update is currently available only via LG Update tool.Read More
The Motorola Droid Razr Maxx will be available from January 26 for $299.99 with a 2 year service agreement. This handset currently runs on the Android 2.3.5 (Gingerbread) Operating System.Read More
The follks over at PocketNow have managed to get some information about the upcoming 3D phone from LG.Read More
Samsung recently announced that, the company has finally sold more than 5 million units of this device in South Korea alone. Samsung is currently the market leader in South Korea, with more than 53% market share.Read More
Motorola and JCB recently announced the new Motorola Defy+ JCB edition. Thanks to the visco-elastic protective sleeve from JCB, this handset offers work-orientated protection for those operating in construction and engineering sectors.Read More
Google has updated the Google Search widget, available for download in the Android Market, with a new color scheme and simplified UI.Read More
Sony unveiled two new handsets meant for the Japanese market, the Xperia NX and Xperia acro HD. Both the handsets are similar to the Xperia Ion and Xperia S.Read More
Samsung recently amazed the Samsung Captivate owners by rolling out the much-awaited Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) update. Sadly, this update is not available via OTA (Over-The-Air).Read More
T-Mobile recently announced the new Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G smartphone at the CES 2012 in Las Vegas. The Galaxy S Blaze 4G will be T-Mobile's third smartphone to take advantage of 42Mbps HSPA+ technology.Read More
Sony just announced the new Sony Xperia S at the CES 2012 in Las Vegas. It is the first smartphone in the new Sony Xperia NXT series. Sony Xperia S is also a PlayStation Certified smartphone.Read More
Lenovo recently announced the new Lenovo S2 smartphone at the CES 2012 in Las Vegas. This handset runs on the old Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) OS, instead of the new Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) OS.Read More
LG and Verizon have just announced a new 4G LTE phone – the Spectrum. The handset comes with a massive 4.5-inch True HD IPS screen with 720p resolution.Read More
Motorola recently announced the budget-friendly Motorola Motoluxe smartphone. This handset will be showcased next week at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2012.Read More
Motorola recently announced the new entry-level Motorola Defy Mini smartphone. This handset is the compact version of the widely popular Motorola Defy smartphone.Read More
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PRECISION Air's new head on Thursday expressed optimism for the airline's operations, particularly increased cargo and passenger traffic in Tanzania and the regional market.
The new CEO, Ms Sauda Rajab (49), who takes over from Mr Alphonce Kioko, however, said although she has 23 years experience in aviation industry, she more time to assess the market. "Seeing the economic activities that are going on in Tanzania show how potential this market is to airline business.
"There is a lot of opportunities (from passengers to cargo) that is where our focus will be," Ms Rajab told journalists. Ms Rajab becomes the first lady airline CEO in the East African Community member states. Her predecessor, Mr Kioko, served the airline in the past 10 years.
Mr Kioko took over from the first CEO and founder Mr Michael Shirima who also piloted the airline for 10 years. The new CEO, joins from Kenya Airwayís where she was General Manager Cargo Operations. Ms Rajab takes over the airline at a time when competition is stiff after the arrival of the first serious low cost carrier, the FastJet since late last year.
However, Ms Rajab said she welcome competition as it enables players to look inwards and make changes that make them deliver better customer services and leaves them happy. "Competition creates new opportunities which were not there at the first place.
But we have our own niche which is different from budget airlines," Ms Rajab said when she was introduced to the media. The PW Chairman Mr Shirima said 20 candidates had applied for the job within and outside the country and were shortlisted to five but at the end of the day, Ms Rajab won.
"We did not consider neither nationality nor gender of the applicant but concentrated on the brain behind the person. We hope she will take us to new heights," Mr Shirima said. He added: ìShe has the potential to build on the strong foundation that Mr Kiokoís team established.
Every year the company made profit and was listed on DSE in 2011.î When Mr Kioko took over the helm of PW in 2003 the airline had only six aircraft and all of them were second hand, ten years later the firm has latest nine ATR and three Boeings 737-300. Passenger number also grew from 200,000 of 2004 to one million at present.


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| Newport, RI
|Newport Harbor Walk North
|Newport Harbor Walk South
Since the discovery of America and its early colonization by the British, Newport specifically stood out from the rest of the colonies as it was one of the five major commercial seaports in the New World.
Because of its location, resources, and geography, Newport became an ideal center for industry and commerce to flourish and thrive. In the early seventeenth century Newport quickly transitioned from a farming community into a bustling, growing urban landscape in which laborers, artisans, craftsmen, and merchants alike tried to establish their businesses and take part in the boundless opportunities that America offered.
Newport continued to prosper and develop at a rapid rate throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, changing the landscape of Newport from farms and windmills to streets, neighborhoods, and shops. However, by 1760 this growth eventually slowed and came to a stop when British-Colonial relations became tense.
Restrictive trade taxes and regulations such as the Stamp, Tea, and Sugar Acts put immense strain on Newports economy and increased anti-British sentiments. Finally, in 1776 Newports maritime economy literally ground to a halt when Crown troops occupied the city.
With the conclusion of the American Revolution in 1783, Newport hoped to see the rebirth of its economy. However, by this time commerce and trade had shifted northward to Providence which had been less affected by the war. Attempts to jumpstart Newports economy through the illegal slave trade, the whaling industry, and the textile industry in the early nineteenth century were temporary solutions and ultimately failed.
Newports economy finally turned around in the 1830s when the city became a popular choice among affluent families from the South, New York, Boston, and Philadelphia looking for a summer seaside resort. As the socially elite began to flock to Newport and build summer homes, a huge demand for laborers, carpenters, masons, plumbers, chefs, clerks, bookkeepers, gardeners, and servants arose.
In order to meet this demand, Newport underwent a drastic revitalization in which the population swelled and construction increased in order to accommodate both the visiting upper class and the growing working class.
Today Newport continues to attract visitors because of its picturesque scenery, history, cultural festivals, and variety of shops just as it did since its humble beginnings.
Newport Harbor Walk is broken into two segments Harbor Walk North [The Point] and Harbor Walk South [Main Harbor].
Harbor Walk North covers Newport's historic residential Point Section which was the original colonial center of the city and waterfront. While the British managed to destroy Newport's colonial waterfront by breaking up and burning the wood docks for heat during the War for Independence, this section of the city has retained a surprisingly large number of colonial homes dating in the 1700s. Combined with a number a Victorian gems, this area of Newport is architecturally rich.
The full Harbor Walk North tour starting at Perrotti Park is just under three miles.
Harbor Walk South [Main Harbor] covers Newport's "Active" harbor with a wide selection of boating, sailing, entertainment, history, and night-time action. Here's the typical New England waterfront that now mixes everything from T-shirts, to trendy boutiques, to antique shops, to "Chowda" tasting, to lobster tank looking, to tall ship sailing, to learning how to pour brass marine fittings and bend oak ribs.
While Harbor Walk South is about 2 miles from Stone Pier at King Park to Perrotti Park, the harbor explorer is exposed to multiple diversions ... this is not an area to be rushed. A walking round trip is about four miles.
Harbor Walk North [The Point]
Harbor Walk South [Main Harbor]
North Trust Historical Marker Sign Dedication
King Park Path Dedication
Earth Day Action at Coddington Wharf Park
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Cliff Walk
Ten Mile Drive [Ocean Drive]
Newport Harbor Walk Home Page
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501(c)(3) not for profit, public interest group with a mission to:
Protect public access to the water;
Preserve historical uses and rights of way, and
Help foster the development of the waterfront in ways that maximize public access.
Friends of the Waterfront web sites include:
TenMileDrive.com, and
We are always looking for volunteer help with our mission tasks. Contact the President
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Web Master Vic Farmer, WebGhosts, Editorial Credits to Liz Mathinos, Amity Mack, Dave Wixted, and Vic Farmer. Map credit to Linnea Amtson
This Newport Harbor Walk web site is still under construction. We welcome information or photos anyone would like to share with Newport's Friends of the Waterfront for possible inclusion into this site. Contact Vic Farmer


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Undergraduate School/Major: I attended the University of Chicago and majored in economics.
Prior to Booth: I worked for six years at the Swiss National Bank and for two years in foreign exchange trading in Washington DC.
Activities: Member of the Investment Banking Group, the Corporate Finance Group, the Wine Club, and the Epicurean Club.
Why did you choose to attend Chicago Booth? I chose Booth for the flexible curriculum, rigorous academic environment, great support from school administration regarding recruiting and admissions, and the infrastructure.
What do you consider a "must visit" place in Chicago? Wrigley Field, several steakhouses, blues bars across town, art museums, and architecture tours.
Ask me about...: How to move from Switzerland to Chicago, get settled, and start LEAD in five days time.
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A special election court convened at Uppermill Civic Hall by two high court judges under the Representation of the People Act will deliver its verdict tomorrow on a case brought against former immigration minister Phil Woolas, the Labour MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth, by his defeated Lib Dem 2010 general election opponent Elwyn Watkins.
Woolas won the election by 103 votes, but Watkins says the result was swayed by 'dirty tricks'. He alleges Woolas 'doctored photographs', 'misrepresented facts', and 'stooped to fomenting racial and religious divisions' to guarantee his victory.
Under section 106 of the Representation of the People Act 1983, making or publishing a false statement of fact in relation to a candidate's personal character or conduct is illegal unless you have 'reasonable grounds' for believing the statement to be true.
In September, Watkins's barrister Helen Mountfield QC told the court Woolas had 'made an overt and, some may say, shocking decision to "make white folk angry" by depicting an alleged campaign by Asians to 'take Phil out' and then present Mr Watkins as in league with them'.
'They falsely suggested that Mr Watkins took this craven stance to the point of refusing to condemn death threats which Mr Woolas claimed had been made against him because he was "in the pay" of a rich Arab Sheikh,' she said. 'This was intended to galvanise the white Sun vote against him.'
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'In the 2005 election in the neighbouring seat of Rochdale the Liberal Democrat candidate Paul Rowen defeated the sitting Labour MP, Lorna Fitzsimons.
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'A similar campaign was waged against Jack Straw MP in Blackburn. These campaigns featured in a Channel Four News Documentary.
'Our campaign was subject to similar tactics: Labour supporting British Asian voters were subject to a campaign "to oust the Jew". There are many testaments to such activity and leaflets delivered attacking me as being anti-Muslim...
'My view was that the local Lib Dem party was trying to get support from the side of the spectrum which was being persuaded by those views. By their wooliness on the issue they were giving succour to that vote.'
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'My strategy was to mobilise mainstream Muslims and the white community against the extremists and to do that I had to highlight it to the white community.
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If found guilty tomorrow, Woolas could be forced to pay a fine and banned from public office, which would trigger a by-election in the constituency.
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What makes monster musicmonster music?
What are the differences between sci-fi, fantasy, and horror film music and music from other film genres? The answers might surprise you.
The argument that science fiction and horror music sounds different from other film music can be easily disproved by the fact that the same cues have been used in both monster and
non-monster movies.
As fans of our Monstrous Movie Music series know, a lot of the music that is so indelibly linked to the monsters they love is, in fact, equally indelibly linked to other visuals as well. Herman Steins powerful Main Title (click on audio link) from Universals 1955 Tarantula perfectly
conjures the menace of a colossal arachnid running loose in the desert. Except for one thing. The piece was originally written in 1952, where it served as the Main Title for Universals Rock Hudson western, The Lawless Breed. This process of tracking -- re-using cues from the studios music library in subsequent pictures -- shows that what makes something sound
monstrous is often merely in the ear of the beholder.
When that same Tarantula causes a landslide and John Agar returns to investigate the site, a spooky sci-fi motif plays on piano in a cue written by Henry Mancini. What inspired Mancini to come up with this piece that perfectly evokes the mysteriousness of the situation? The 1955 Dana Andrews/Piper Laurie western Smoke Signal, for which he originally wrote this Indian-inspired cue known as Down River.
One final example from Tarantula occurs when the creepy critter approaches Professor Deemers house. This Herman Stein cue perfectly enhances this scary scene. But the cues title -- Great Truck Robbery, Part 1 -- is a dead giveaway that it wasnt written for this monster picture. This marvelous suspense cue was originally composed for Universals Tony Curtis crime drama Six Bridges To Cross.
Universal-International wasnt the only studio to re-use their non-monster cues in monster movies. Some of the music written for Warner Brothers The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms came from both Chain Lightning and the 1950 Robert Wise soap opera, Three Secrets, and that Bronislau Kapers score for that studios Them! had some music derived from the 1942 Tracy/Hepburn film, Keeper Of The Flame. The Main Title from Columbias Earth vs. The Flying Saucers was a slowed-down version of Trial And Escape, a Daniele Amfitheatrof cue written for that studios classic 1942 political comedy Talk Of The Town, starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, and Ronald Colman. More examples include Stravinsky's ballet music from The Rite Of Spring, which was later used
to depict dinosaurs in Disney's Fantasia, Also Sprach Zarathustra, which is inextricably linked to 2001: A Space Odyssey,
and some of Jerry Goldsmith's cues from Freud, which were re-used in Alien.
Not only did western, crime, and political comedy music function perfectly well in monster movies. It also worked the other way around. Herman Steins classic sci-fi cue Visitors From Space, from Universals It Came From Outer Space,
later appeared in a life raft scene in the Jeff Chandler tearjerker Stranger In My Arms. Bits of music originally composed for The Deadly Mantis, This Island Earth, and The Monolith Monsters were all stitched together to become the Main Title of the 1961 western, Posse From Hell.
The reason music from one movie genre can be successfully re-used in another is because there really isn't much of a difference between various types of film music.
Divorced from the visual, its often impossible to guess what genre of film a particular cue was written for. While some film composers wont admit it, a cue theyve written for a specific situation
might not work any better than music theyve written for another sequence in a completely different picture. A chase in a film noir can often be inserted into a western chase or a horror chase and
nobody would be any the wiser. Irving Gertzs masterful Eskimos Attacked from The Deadly Mantis was later used when the dam is blown up in The Monolith Monsters, and after that it augmented a scene where a car speeds toward a caveman in Monster On The Campus. Its not as
difficult for music to fit a scene as you might think, because as different as these three action-filled visuals are, in the hands of a good piece of action music, they can all sound the same.
Of course, not all cues can be re-used in any scene, even if the scenes are similar. If a musical cue had quirky instrumentation to it, like honking
woodwinds resembling geese, chances are it wouldn't get used again unless the studio had a successful goose series. As beautiful a cue as Frederick Hollanders Heaven is, it was rarely re-used by Columbia after it was composed for Here Comes Mr. Jordan, as its celestial
feeling made it unsuitable for most of that studios pictures. One exception was when it was adapted as part of the Main Title for 20 Million Miles To Earth, to be heard on our forthcoming MIGHTY JOE YOUNG CD.
Nothing Special About Musical Recycling
It shouldnt be surprising that studios re-used music from one genre to another, as music departments werent the only departments recycling
preexisting material. In addition to the music libraries, studios had their own stock footage and sound effects libraries, and they re-used these same resources across a wide range of pictures. The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms opens with a great optical whirlpool effect, an effect that Warner Brothers had already used a number of previous times, including a
flashback scene from their 1950 melodrama Three Secrets. Explosions in Universals Audie Murphy biography To Hell And Back looked
suspiciously similar to ones the studio used in This Island Earth, because they were manufactured by the same special effects team. Republics
gunshots and Warner Brothers thunder sound effects were recognizable no matter what genre of film they were used from, and some of the same stock footage and sound effects were used by more than one studio, as
some source material was made available to more than one production outfit.
There are many ways to score a science fiction or horror film, but the composer's writing style is the main factor in determining what the music will sound like.
A Dimitri Tiomkin score sounds like Dimitri Tiomkin regardless of whether he wrote the music for a crime thriller or a fantasy. Bernard Herrmann always sounds like Bernard Herrmann, John Williams sounds like John Williams, and Hans Salter sounds like Hans Salter. Just like Mozart and Bach sound like Mozart and Bach. Tiomkins classic sci-fi score for The Thing more closely resembles his non-sci-fi scores like Fall Of The Roman Empire and Duel In The Sun than it resembles Bernard Herrmanns sci-fi score for The Day The Earth Stood Still or Leith Stevens score for War Of The Worlds.
No composers only scored horror films -- they scored every type of film that was assigned to them.
Almost all film composers scored at least one monster, science fiction, or fantasy film, and for those few who didnt, it was probably because they didn't get the opportunity rather than because they didn't want to. When a composer had to score a horror film, he didnt learn a whole new way to compose in the few weeks he had to complete his assignment. Instead, he treated the picture with the same stylistic and dramatic tools he used in his other films. Theres no mistaking the fact that The Golden Voyage Of Sinbads score was written by the same Miklós Rózsa who composed the music for Ivanhoe and The Red House; Angelo Francesco Lavagninos monster movie Gorgo was clearly the product of the same composer who scored The Last Days Of Pompeii and The Naked Maja.
Its true that theres a sound sometimes associated with Grade Z horror scores, but this is generally due to the fact that these scores were written by Grade Z composers, or at
least composers who werent as good as some other composers. But their horror scores sounded more like Grade Z mystery or Grade Z adventure scores than they sounded like Grade A horror scores. [It
should also be noted that many Grade Z scores were written for projects with almost no music budget whatsoever, meaning the composer wouldnt be able to hire as many musicians as he would have liked, he probably
had less time to write the score, and very little time to record it.]
As low-budget and as silly a film like The Mole People is, the score by Hans Salter, Heinz Roemheld, and Herman Stein could
easily have accompanied a far more expensive and prestigious picture. Good composers generally write good music for all types of films, and bad composers generally
write bad music regardless of the genre theyre writing for.
Composers Acting Like Actors
Composers were no different from the other personnel working on motion pictures. Even actors had a certain style that they used in every type
of picture they starred in. In the 1950s, Universal-International had stars under contract like Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, John Agar, Jeff Chandler,
Charles Drake, and Julia Adams, many of whom appeared in their science fiction films as well as westerns, romances, swashbucklers, and every other genre imaginable. Warner Brothers had Humphrey Bogart, Errol
Flynn, and Bette Davis. And like the composers who contributed their same compositional style for different types of films, the actors thespian
style dictated their performances more than the film genres they were acting in. Had Errol Flynn appeared in a monster movie (thank goodness
he didnt!), he wouldn't have acted like Boris Karloff or Vincent Price -- he would have acted like Flynn. The same also applies to directors, producers, and technicians.
Now that youre convinced that there's absolutely no difference between science fiction/monster music and other genres of film music, here are some differences:
Sometimes, electronic instruments were used, often played solo or in the foreground, helping to create an unearthly sound to lend an air of strangeness to the proceedings.
Novachord and Hammond Organ were both used for this purpose, but these keyboards were a staple of many studio orchestras, and they were used in almost all of their films. However, while they were sometimes
used to bolster the small string section of the orchestra, in science fiction films these instruments sometimes had a more prominent role. You can hear them throughout the Creature From The Black Lagoon series (listen to Prologue from the first Creature film) and This Island Earth.
These instruments were eventually replaced by modern-day synthesizers, which allowed for a wider range of musical and sound effects, but they often mimic their precursors in adding an appropriately mysterious
atmosphere to a film.
The electric violin thankfully wasnt popular for very long, because it could tend to drive people to madness if they were forced to listen to it for extended periods. This was
partly because it was often played as a droning sound effect, something you can hear in many modern synth-dominated scores. Although there's no sound in outer space, you couldn't tell Hollywood that,
because the electric violin often became the sound of space, as in It! The Terror From Beyond Space. Cut to a shot of outer space and it sounds
like you've got ringing in your ears. The electric violin was used effectively and melodically by Irving Gertz in The Alligator People.
The ultimate electronic instrument is the Theremin, which was used by Miklós Rózsa for films like Spellbound, The Lost Weekend, and The Red House. It's a box of electronics with two metal rods, one controlling pitch and the other volume, and it makes its weird sounds when your hands
move near the rods. Rózsa used it to convey the abnormalities of the human psyche in these earlier films, so it was a short step for the Theremin to also be used for other abnormalities like monsters and space
aliens, and it was used by Bernard Herrmann in The Day The Earth Stood Still, By Dimitri Tiomkin in The Thing, and by William Lava in Phantom From Space.
The Theremin can be a very temperamental instrument, as it is difficult to play, and Universal was aware of this when they used it in It Came From
Outer Space, recording the orchestra first, and later overdubbing the Theremin onto the orchestral tracks. Heres what the Main Title sounds like in its finished form with Theremin, and what it would have sounded like when the orchestra recorded the cue without that instrument. In the late 50s, the Electro-Theremin began to be used in films and TV
shows. Easier to play than the Theremin while sounding similar, it can be heard in The Giant Gila Monster and in TVs Lost In Space, not to
mention making an appearance in The Beach Boys classic song, Good Vibrations.
While the compositional and orchestrational devices used in science fiction films are generally the same as those used in other genres, there
are sometimes exceptions. Flutter-tongued brass probably wouldnt work very effectively in your standard romance or western, but it certainly has been used with great success in monster movies.
Even today, when sampled and electronic sound effects are combined with music to create decidedly sci-fi-sounding scores, these scores are still
very similar to those written for contemporary non-sci-fi scores. And many contemporary monster movies (Jurassic Park) still have very
traditional-sounding scores.
Another difference between monster music and other film music is that the musical themes signifying the creatures are usually shorter than characters themes in other pictures like
romances and spectacles, although there are certainly many exceptions.
It would appear as if long, involved melodies don't work well with powerful, brutish monsters. These monster themes were usually played prominently by brass, although Theremin or Novachord might also carry the theme at times.
King Kong's three-note motif probably started the trend in 1933.
In the 1950s, many cinematic monsters had four-note themes, starting with The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, followed by It Came From Beneath The Sea and 20 Million Miles To Earth.
Of course, four-note motives are not the exclusive property of monsters, as Beethoven showed with his fifth symphony. While Bronislau Kapers ant theme from Them! was
longer than four notes, it was a far cry from one of Max Steiners extended romantic themes from Bette Davis pictures.
While long, pretty melodies are seldom the primary themes in monster/sci-fi movies, such themes are often assigned to the love sub-plots or to the plight of those
dealing with the loss and destruction caused by the killer critters. If you go back to the horror films of the 1930s and 40s, longer melodic statements
sometimes categorized those monsters. Those earlier creatures were more human, and that humanity often manifested itself in the music. A longer
melodic motif seemed more appropriate to an invisible man or a werewolf than to a gigantic leech or a dinosaur running amok in a big city.
And although most monster movies certainly have more brass-dominated action music, they dont necessarily have any more than war films, swashbucklers, or other action films.
What Makes Monster Music Special?
One of the biggest differences between monster/sci-fi music and other film music is what makes it so special. If two people are kissing on the screen,
any one of a million pretty melodies will convey the love the couple is feeling. The visual by itself is enough to make us believe they're in love, and the music can almost be superfluous.
But how do you convince your audience that mole creatures are living underground with beautiful albino dancers, or that crystals from outer space
have landed on Earth and are growing to gigantic proportions? The ideas and visuals can be so bizarre that conventional film music might not be
enough to support the concepts, and can actually hurt the believability of the premise. Therefore, composers working on horror films sometimes have to
let their imaginations run wild in order to make these concepts as plausible as possible. It takes more creativity to convince the audience that a
300-foot mantis is an actual threat, especially when it looks like a huge, plastic puppet. Composers can definitely get a little outlandish at times and
it will work in a way that the same music wouldn't fit in a more conventional drama. Irving Gertz felt that The Monolith Monsters could be characterized a certain way. Try to picture this music describing anything in a Jimmy Stewart or Henry Fonda movie.
Because science fiction and horror films can push a composers creativity better than other genres, many composers best work has been done for
these types of pictures, including Max Steiner's King Kong, John Williams The Empire Strikes Back, Bernard Herrmanns Psycho and Mysterious Island, Miklós Rózsas Thief Of Baghdad, Herman Steins This Island Earth, Sir Arthur Blisss Things To Come, Franz Waxmans The Bride Of
Frankenstein, and Hans Salters House Of Frankenstein.
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Naming the girl drum corps queen for the Viradouro samba group is raising eyebrows even in a city that has seen everything during the annual mega-party.
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"Any man who looks at a seven-year-old child and feels any sort of excitement should go see a doctor," Marco Lira said. "She has the aptitude to be a drum corps queen … she has a seriousness inside of her when she is on the stage."
At the delicate core of Julia's case is the queen's traditional role in Rio de Janeiro's carnival: that of sexy muse. Unlike other participants, she is usually not bare-chested and wears more than just glitter. But queen costumes would be considered revealing by any estimation.
Brazil has long had a problem with sexual exploitation of children. Allowing Julia to be a drum corps queen "would increase the treatment of children as sexual objects in society," said Carlos Nicodemos, head of the state Council for the Defence of Children and Adolescents.
"We're not against kids participating in Carnival," he added. "But what we can't allow is putting a seven-year-old girl in a role that traditionally for Carnival has a very sexual focus."
The competition among the 12 top-tier samba groups is fierce, and the winners are hailed by fans across Brazil. Viradouro is no stranger to controversy. In 2008, a judge blocked the group's use of a dancer dressed as Hitler on a float loaded with naked people representing Holocaust victims, after the display caused an international outcry.
Julia's fate is now in the hands of a family court in Rio. The judge examining the case has declined to comment.