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More than 850 kids and the folks who love them turned out in Saturdays balmy weather to greet Santa and give them their wish list for Christmas at the second Breakfast with Santa hosted by The Summerville Journal Scene.
Chris Zoeller, Regional Advertising and Marketing Director for Summerville Communications and the event coordinator said this years crowd was bigger and more enthusiastic than last year.
We were amazed at how early families came out to see Santa! My favorite part was when we introduced Santa and Summerville welcomed him with such excitement, Zoeller said.
The event featured Santa (of course) as well as a breakfast of sausage or egg and cheese biscuits and juice provided by Alexs Restaurant.
Teresa Blitch of Alexs made 800 biscuits for the breakfast.
Thats a lot of biscuits I was still baking at 1 a.m., Blitch said, laughing. This is a great event! With her were other Alexs employees, serving breakfast and greeting attendees.
The morning had plenty to keep little hands busy as they waited their turn to sit on Santas knee. Craft and activities were set up in the breezeway between the two town hall buildings from First Citizens, Lowcountry Orhtodontics, Nicklas Dental, Pinewood Preparatory School, Summerville Pediatric Dentistry and Realtor, Trina Woods.
Century 21 returned as the North Pole Sponsor and stationed their own Santas Helpers to assist with the event.
We could not host Breakfast with Santa without the amazing support of our local sponsors and the student volunteers. They made the magic happen for Summerville, Zoeller said.
A highlight of the morning was Mayor Bill Collins reading to the children as they gathered around. This years books included Llama Llama Holiday Drama by Anna Dewdneg.
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Huntington shop continues repair tradition at new location
HUNTINGTON -- There's a difference between just fixing a problem and finding out its cause to make sure it doesn't come up again.
That latter is what goes on at Magnetech Industrial Services Inc., which just relocated from 7th Avenue into a newly renovated space at 501 West 8th Ave. in Huntington.
Magnetech repairs motors, generators, transmissions, circuit breakers and the like that are used in a variety of industries -- railroad, steel, paper, petrochemical, utilities and others.
"Those are the customers that always care about uptime," said Michael Moore, president and CEO of the Massillon, Ohio-based Magnetech and its holding company MISCOR. "They come to Magnetech because we fix things better than new."
If there's a failure, Magnetech's carefully trained crew is going to find out exactly what caused it.
"Our guys are looking at that failure to see if something was misaligned," said Keith Blankenship, operations manager at the shop in Huntington. "More often than not, it's not that the motor went bad -- it's a different piece of the puzzle."
Not only do they determine what it was, but they make sure customers know about how to prevent it.
That's the spirit of service that has kept the business operating in Huntington for more than 100 years.
The company's history goes back to the 1890s, when it opened as the Westinghouse Apparatus Service Center. It set up in the 1890s about where the Big Sandy Superstore Arena sits today.
After suffering tremendous damage in the 1937 flood, the business was moved to 10th Street and 7th Avenue, where it remained until it relocated this year.
In 1986, Westinghouse sold most of its U.S. Apparatus Repair Division to Eastern Electric Apparatus Repair Company, based in Atlanta. In 1990, Eastern added a 10,000-square-foot expansion, and then in 1995, it was sold to Grand Eagle Services, based in Chicago. It filed for bankruptcy in 2001. The Huntington operation was purchased by Magnetech in 2002, which has seven locations throughout the country.
It was prospering until the recession began in 2008.
"You learn during bad times how to do things differently," Moore said.
Things are turning around, and Magnetech has made money in the past seven calendar quarters, he said.
Now with a brand new facility in Huntington, it's hoping to see some growth.
The new shop allows it to work with medium voltage apparatuses, which is more than it had been able to handle in years past. It's hoping for some new and returning customers because of the new development. Medium voltage equates to 4,160 volts, and the new facility has the natural gas capacity for that.
In the past, it could repair or rewind motors that required that much voltage to operate. But it could not test them when the work was done. Now, it can do both.
"There is not a facility better than this within 200 to 300 miles," Moore said. "This shop can handle very big work."
And they have a great team doing the work, he and Blankenship said. Magnetech has 26 workers on the floor and five more in the office.
The floor work has four categories: Utility position, which is entry level; associate level, which is a technician in training; a repairer, a job title which has three levels of its own; machinists, which also has three levels; and winders.
They do work on-site and remotely. In fact, Moore said there are six Magnetech technicians in New York now, trying to help restore power following Hurricane Sandy.
It's labor, but it's not back-breaking, as the workers never lift more than 50 pounds, Blankenship said, adding they'd love to find more good people for their team.
"Our hope is to grow the business and bring on more people. We hope to add 10 or 12 people in the next year or two," Moore said.
Magnetech trains its own crew because it's such technical work, Blankenship said.
"You can learn theory, but you can't learn this job," and they work hard to find the right people, he said. They often turn out to be the people who like to rebuild an engine or take a tractor apart and put it back together, Moore said.
"We'd love to have young men and women with good mechanical aptitude who are not afraid to get dirty -- because you can always wash it off -- and who like to use their hands and their minds," Moore said. "You can make a good living doing this. ... I know with the economy, there are good people out there looking for jobs. We should be able to make this work."


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Losing a loved one is never easy. Some of us would pay top dollar to get back a child, a significant other, or a best friend that left us too soon. But what about a dog?
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From those to whom much is given, much is expected.
The adage is especially apt for students who receive the Royal Thai Scholarship, the top science and engineering award given by the government of Thailand.
Orasa Khayankarn was 13 years old when she was chosen in a national competition in Thailand to become a Royal Thai Scholar. Following her education in special schools, she completed a B.S. and M.S. from Thailand's Prince of Songkha University and Chulalongkorn University and enrolled in Lehigh's polymer science and engineering (PSE) graduate program.
Today, Orasa has made a name for herself by studying organic chemical compounds that promote adhesion inside the tiny packaging units that house microelectronic and optoelectronic devices.
While completing an M.S. in PSE in 2002 and a Ph.D. in 2004, Orasa won two first-place poster awards from the Lehigh Valley chapter of the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society, and a research award from the Society of Plastics Engineers.
Articles co-written by Orasa have been published in the Journal of Adhesion and the Journal of Applied Polymer Science. Orasa has given presentations in North and South Carolina and Massachusetts, and she has collaborated with Dow Chemical Co. since 2001.
In her research at Lehigh, Orasa studied the heat and humidity that can cause a process known as aging, or weakening of the bond at the interface of the glass casing and epoxy adhesive in microelectronic packaging.
After preparing small "sandwich" samples containing a "filling" of epoxy surrounded by two glass sheets, she placed them in a chamber heated to 85 degrees C. with a relative humidity of 85 percent. She varied the "aging times" from several hours to several weeks or more, and also varied the chemistry of the glass-epoxy interface, and measured the adhesive strength of the interface bond.
"We made the temperature and humidity more severe than real-life conditions," she says, "in order to speed up the aging process and determine more quickly how strong the interface was."
Orasa focused particularly on silane, a silicon compound that promotes adhesion by forming a chemical bond between the glass surface and the epoxy resin. She found that glass treated with silane resisted hygrothermal (moisture and heat) aging much more effectively than untreated glass.
Orasa had access to Lehigh's internationally renowned electron microscopy and spectroscopy facilities, including the x-ray photo-electron spectroscopy instrument, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance.
"These instruments are not found in many places because they are expensive and difficult to maintain," says Orasa. "They give very good information about the chemical composition of a surface, the strength of molecular bonds on a surface, and where cracks are beginning."
Orasa found the professors in the PSE program to be quite good, especially Prof. Ray Pearson (materials science and engineering), her adviser, and Prof. Leslie Sperling (chemical engineering), who has written 14 books.
After completing her Ph.D., Orasa returned to Thailand to work in the polymers area of the Department of Science Service in Bangkok, one of Thailand's national laboratories.
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"accepts_nested_attributes_for doesn't validate nested records? When a form contains two of the same nested attributes and the values of these should cause a validation error (e.g., both have the same email, which has a uniqueness constraint), the form saves properly, but the nested objects are invalid when accessed later."
accepts_nested_attributes_for only validates against the database, but the records in this example would only be in memory. The best solution is to handroll a validator on the parent that iterates over the nested attributes and checks the constraints.
"A Pivot was getting some errors using minified jQuery in IE8, which went away when he used the un-minified version. Any other IE8/jQuery gotchas?"
A few have been mentioned at standup in the past few weeks, most notably some versions of jQuery crash IE8 entirely.
"Is there a way to generate a png from html server-side?"
You can use a command-line tool like webkit2png or there is some rack middleware that can generate pdfs and maybe pngs from html
"A pivot had a page that was requesting images after the page loaded, but couldn't find where they were coming from…"
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A former Idaho school district superintendent with twin granddaughters in kindergarten is suing the state, charging that cash-strapped schools are violating the Idaho Constitution by charging fees for what are supposed to be "free, common schools."
Russ Joki's granddaughters were each charged $45 to register for kindergarten this year, and his grandson, a high school junior, had to pay $85 in fees to enroll at Meridian High. He said a 1970 Idaho Supreme Court decision specifically found educational fees for public schools unconstitutional. "I don't think it passes the constitutional test at all," Joki said, "and I think someone has to raise that question."
His lawsuit was filed Monday afternoon in 4th District Court in Ada County; it seeks class-action status on behalf of all schoolchildren and parents in the state of Idaho. In addition to Joki, plaintiffs include his grandson, for whom he is legal guardian; his daughter and her twin 5-year-olds; and 15 other individuals from around the state, all grandparents of Idaho public school students.


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Mt. Brilliants success Friday in their 12-11 victory over Barrington in the 302 Polo USPA Northrup Knox 16 goal at Meadow Hill could be attributed to the teams consistency, said Julian Daniels, Mt. Brilliant.
It was Daniels who opened the games scoring, and Mt. Brilliants steady play over the course of the game contributed to their well balanced offensive attack. Barrington answered with a successful 40-yard penalty conversion by Antonio Galvan. Mt. Brilliant would counter with a successful 40-yard penalty shot of their own, this time off the mallet of Juan Monteverde.
The momnetum of the game would shift in the direction of Barrington as Adam Snow scored twice from the field.
Mt. Brilliant tied the game on a goal by Bo Goodman in the 2nd chukker. The period served as a harbinger of what was yet to come as Mt. Brilliants dominant play in the 3rd period enabled them to outscore their opponents 4-2, and they took a 7-5 lead into the half. Goals from the field by Daniels, Monteverde and a pair from Willie Hartnett allowed Mt. Brilliant to open a 7-4 lead. Barringtons goals came on 2 penalty conversions from Galvan.
In the previous tournament, we couldnt get six chukkers in any one game consistently, said Daniels. Wed play three good chukkers and three terrible chukkers. In the three terrible chukkers, we were terrible, and today was the first day where we played consistently.
Barrington won the opening bowl-in of the 2nd half, but it was Mt. Brilliants willingness to make a number of adjustments, placing an emphasis on a strategy that saw each player going to their assigned man, and that allowed them to create a number of scoring opportunities. A deep drive by Mt. Brilliant saw Bo Goodman carry the ball toward goal, only to have his shot go wide right by inches. But, it was those type of offensive rushes by Mt. Brilliant that would punctuate play throughout the second half. Antonio Galvan would reduce the deficit to 1 goal on a successful penalty no. 3 from 40 yards out. Mt. Brilliant answered with consecutive goals from Willie Hartnett, who continued to wield the games hot mallet from the previous chukker. Barringtons Adam Snow would pick up his 3rd goal of the game late in the period.
A resourceful use of the goal post by Mt. Brilliants Juan Monteverde played a role in the opening goal of the penultimate chukker as his shot hit the inside of the left upright and deflected through the goal mouth. Barrington returned the favor with Owen Rinehart scoring from the ensuing bowl-in. Rinehart was also a strong presence on defense, precluding a goal by making a heads up play in front of the goal mouth, and thwarting the oppositions offensive drives by his ability to read the oncoming play. Mt. Brilliant opened up a 3 goal lead for a second time in the game as Bo Goodman picked up his 2nd goal from the field.
Bo carried the ball a lot today, and that helped pull the team forward, said Daniels.
Goodmans goal would loom large entering the final chukker as Barrington began their resurgence with consecutive goals from Galvan, Rinehart and another by Galvan to tie the game. A well placed backshot by Hartnett late in the final chukker turned out to be the game winning goal.
We played one chukker where we scored a bunch of goals, the other chukkers were average, and werent terrible, said Daniels. We kept a much better balance. Thats the first time we played six chukkers consistently. We just had to make sure that they didnt have too much time with the ball. We were always close to a man, and paired up. It was just a question of maintaining our momentum and keeping our game level and at more of an even keel.
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Jane writes to Anne Sharp that she has been very ill but is feeling better. She is touched by the kindness of her family and praises Cassandra's nursing. Jane goes to Winchester to improve her health. She writes James-Edward Austen that their lodgings at Winchester are comfortable and she is gaining strength very fast. Her final letter is to Frances Tilson, stating that her attendant is encouraging and talks of making her well. Jane believes she could not ask for a better nurse than Cassandra.
Cassandra writes Fanny Knight to tell her that their loss is sad. She assures Fanny that Jane loved her very much and Fanny's letters gave Jane much pleasure during her illness. Jane's complaint returned on Tuesday and she was barely able to leave the bed. Cassandra laments the loss of such a treasure...
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6 Splurge-Worthy Gifts for Dad
This Father's Day splurge on the gadget loving man in your life with a gift that aligns with his interests. Whether an adventurer, traveler, photographer or music lover, these six gifts are sure to delight any man.
Adventurers will appreciate the GoPro Hero 3. Some of the most incredible footage from GoPros come from extreme athletes who like to catch their best moments on the slopes, water, and air but they're just as incredible for capturing everyday moments. The compact GoPro Hero 3 is a camera that can be worn, held, or mounted to your sporting equipment for ultimate versatility. Exceptional video quality, waterproof housing, and ability to operate it through an app makes it a fun gadget for dads who want to preserve all of life's important moments. This incredible camera is available in-store at Target Electronics for $199 for immediate gratification.
Dads on the go will relish having a Mophie Juice Pack, Nothing is worse than being incapacitated by a dead cell phone. Make sure dad can stay in touch constantly thanks to extra juice from the Mophie Juice Pack Helium. This battery fits on Dad's smartphone and functions like a case but fits like a glove to provide an extra charge when needed. With one cable, users can charge their smartphone and Mophie at the same time but know that your phone's synch cable will be needed to transfer any photos on to your computer. Mophie Juice Pack is available for many model of Android phones and also iPhones. iPhone users will find a good selection at their local Apple Store while Android users can shop in store at Best Buy.
Music lovers who want to be able to listen to their favorite songs throughout the house need Sonos Play 3. Sonos Play 3 is a streaming audio player that provides instant access to your digital music library and streaming internet audio settings from anywhere in your house. Sonos pulls music from your home computers (PCs and Macs) and has the ability to stream internet radio and music from many of the popular online music services such as Pandora, Rhapsody, SiriusXM, Spotify, and iheartradio. The real beauty of this system is the ability to expand by adding as many speakers as you want, being able to control the music you want to listen to through the free mobile app for Android and iOS, but also the exceptional sound quality that emanates from the speakers. Sonos Play 3 is available in-store at Target Electronics for $299 where it comes with a free Sonos Bridge and 90 days of Rhapsody with purchase.
Foodie Dads who love to be involved with meal prep will love the addition of a BlendTec Designer Series Blender into the kitchen. Made popular by the Will it Blend YouTube videos depicting BlendTec blenders blending anything from a pool cue, iPhones, glow sticks, and more, this series demonstrates the at-home power that can be unleashed as BlendTech's dual blades spin, crushing anything that may get in the way. It's the perfect appliance for whipping up a cold beverage as refreshment on a hot summer day, tasty marinades for whatever may be on the grill, and pulverizing summer's fresh fruits into ice cream. Available through www.BlendTec.com or at some Costco Warehouse Stores.
Photo happy dads who are constantly sharing artsy pictures via Instagram will enjoy the effects from the Olloclip Lens System for iPhone 5. Simply snap the fish-eye lens over the camera of your iPhone and begin capturing panoramic-like photos with the wide angle, close ups with the macro lens, and putting a new spin on favorite subjects thanks to the fish eye. Target Electronics sells Olloclips for iPhone 4 and 5 for $69.99 each.
Frequent fliers will love the efficiency of SkyRoll On Wheels, an innovative carry-on size rolling suitcase that allows travelers to lie suits and dress clothes flat before rolling them around the outside of the bag. Not only will clothes arrive less wrinkled, but this packing system is designed to hold everything Dad needs for a short business trip. Available online through Skyroll.com.
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Customise your SingStar experience by downloading the latest tracks and menu skins from the SingStore (an in-game shop that is easy to use and accessible directly from in-game) and set the world alight by uploading your best SingStar performances to the online SingStar community.
Download a selection of the PlayStation 2 back catalogue of SingStar songs, as well as new songs available online to create bespoke playlists saved to either the memory stick or the hard disk drive. Share your SingStar performances as you instantly upload photos and videos captured via the EyeToy camera, taking the best bits on the go on your PSP – so you can be a star wherever you are…
SingStar Features:
- Your Playlist: Select and sing the songs you want.
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- My SingStar: All new SingStar online community allows users to upload and share audio feedback, EyeToy performances, EyeToy Snapshots and Scores.
- Connectivity: Transfer your best SingStar bits from PLAYSTATION 3 to PSP system and take your singing performances with you on-the-go.
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Ascoli Piceno (Asculum) entered in contact with Rome mainly for reason of the trade that took place along that which would successively become the Consular Salarian Road as far back as the Alliance Treaty between Rome and the Piceno people that had been stipulated in the year 299 BC.This exceptionally important road, which linked the Tyrrhenian coast to that of the Adriatic, was of fundamental strategic and military importance for the Romans. Various theories exist regarding the origin of the citys name. According of the Latin poet Silio Italic, the Pelasgi, a Greek population, led by King Aesis, had settled along the Adriatic coast and intermingled with the pre-existing populations that were present in the Piceno territory from before the neo-eneolithic age, making their settlement the present-day hill of the Annunziata, which is called still to this day Pelasgic Hill. From the root as taken from the mythical kings name, one can possibly explain the place names such as Ascoli, Aso, Jesi.
According to the version recounted by Strabone and Pliny the Younger, the Sabine peoples made their appearance in this territory in the instance of a ritual migration known as the primavera sacra. In this voyage, guided by a woodpecker, a bird sacred to Mars, or by Pico, mythical king and son of Saturn, one may explain the origin of the name Piceno.
The Piceno people, also called Picenti, began to differentiate themselves from other Italic populations during the Iron Age. They had control over a vast area of the Middle Adriatic between the regions of Le
The beguiling town of
Although it is a fairly large town with a population of some 60,000 people, the historic centre can easily be seen on foot.
Start at the Piazza del Popolo, the traffic-free, travertine-paved main square. This beautifully proportioned outdoor meeting place must be one of the most elegant provincial squares in all
Closing off one end of the piazza is the great Gothic
The other main square, Piazza Arringo, is almost as impressive as its big sister and is flanked by the Duomo, or cathedral, and the town hall, or palazzo Comunale. Inside here you will find the Pinacoteca Civica, Ascoli's art gallery, a carpet-bag collection of minor works by major artists and major works by minor artists. Best of all is the 13thC cope (piviale) of Pope Nicholas IV, a dazzling piece of embroidery work made in
Inside the Duomo look out for the colourful polyptch with the Madonna and Saints by Carlo Crivelli.
Wander round the old quarter of the town that stretches from the banks of the Tronto river to the city's main street, Corso Mazzini - best streets are via Soderini and via di Solestà.
La Quintana, Ascoli's jousting tournament, is one of the most authentic and exciting of these Medieval shows in the Marche and takes place in the main square on the first Sunday of August. The
The day also includes a massive procession with around 1,400 town's people dressed in 15thC costume and plenty of side-shows and open-air eating places. Maybe not quite as famous as the Palio at Ascoli with his Ascoli Calcio, a lagend in the Italian Premier League.
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The day also includes a massive procession with around 1,400 town's people dressed in 15thC costume and plenty of side-shows and open-air eating places. Maybe not quite as famous as the Palio at
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Ascoli Calcio, a lagend in the Italian Premier League.


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The Blair Witch Project 1999
Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind...
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aussiehigh0010 26 days ago reply report
Still love this movie
and that ending still scares the willies
out of me
NanaHorrorFreak 4 months ago reply report
Now I know why I have never watched this movie. I really like the "found footage" genre, but this being the first one, it was disappointing in my opinion.
i really did not like the blair withc project, my main reason i believe is because of the lack of acting from the actors and the absent of a script, i think the idea was good but they didnt pull it off. if they had an actuall screenwriter write a script for it and gotten some people who could act i would have like it more but the producer said hey lets just cut costs by not having a screenwriter or a director shall we.
This movie is totall crap
people made a big deal about this one because it was made cheap and that apparently it was scary
This style of video shooting in horror films have been done many times before with much better results. This movie is a copycat
this movie became popular because the studios hyped it up so much just to make cash
worst horror film ever !!!!!!!! and I love horror movies
Setting aside its merit as a film, The Blair Witch Project may turn out to be one of the most influential movies of the 1990s: shot on a digital camera for an extremely low budget of $24,000, the film ended up grossing over $100 million and proved to studio executives everywhere that a movie with no stars, no glossy style and no name director could become a hit based on shrewd marketing and word-of-mouth. What is interesting about The Blair Witch Project is how tumultuous the reaction to the film has been: at first, people thought it was great (thinking they were one of the few to have "discovered" it)...then it became popular, and everyone hated it. My own feeling is that it is a mildly successful horror film with a clever premise. The movie begins by telling the audience that what they are about to see is documentary footage that supposedly belonged to three missing students and was found in a forest. Even though the audience knows that this statement is not true, it lends a certain degree of terror to the proceedings. The Blair Witch Project is shot like a home video, with a camera that shakes, goes out of focus, and sometimes just points at the ground. The three students, one female and two male, venture into a forest to study a supernatural legend about a "Blair Witch". On their journey, they are frightened by ominous signs, and eventually the group begins bickering when it appears that they have become lost. Part of the problem with the film is that the protagonists aren't particularly endearing...they frequently seem to make poor choices, and the scenes in which they argue are often shrill and over-the-top. For the most part, the actors in the film do a fine job of appearing natural, but there are moments when the illusory foundation of the movie comes crashing down because we are aware of the actors' straining for effect. The Blair Witch Project still manages to be an unusually effective horror movie because its horror is based on our primal fear of a dark forest that emits unexplained rustlings. The sense of dread is palpable near the end of the film, so much so that the climax is almost unbearably tense. The Blair Witch Project is so effective at what it sets out to do, it is a shame that some of the film's weak points could not have been smoothed over. Perhaps a film like this needs to be raw, unrehearsed and flawed, but the weak middle stage of the film makes it less engaging than it could have been. Still, this is undeniably a frightening and unsettling movie, one that will make people think twice about bringing a camera with them on their next camping trip.
I haven't seen it in a while so I decided to give The Blair With Project a COMPLETE critical analysis...
The Blair Witch Project (Myrick & Sanchez, 1999) - ***1/2
I have always loved this movie. Maybe just because everyone was tricked into thinking it was real. But some of us never believed the hype...
As a film, anyone could have made most of The Blair Witch Project. But isn't that the point? Three student filmmakers are just documenting their stay in the woods. There doesn't need to be any beauty to it. It did create a real atmosphere. Hell, I would believe it.
Later on in the semester I have to do an ethical study on The Blair Witch Project. I will be posting that later on in April or so. So, aside from ethics, I would like to write briefly about the ending...
I believe it to be one of the best endings to a horror film. The one problem with 28 Days Later was finding a suitable ending for it. Director Danny Boyle went through a lot to come up with the one he used, and I believe it works. But at first viewing it seems a little under-developed. The Blair Witch Project has one of the most terrifying endings that has seen home video; its a shame I missed it in the theaters. The dual camerawork displays both of the characters running around looking for Josh in the cabin. His voice is in the distance, but it has no definite location. Then, Heather finds the other guy standing against the wall with his back to her. We remember an interview in the beginning of the film which stated a Blair Witch myth about this. Then the camera falls to the ground...
Who knows? Maybe Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 will tell us. It is directed by Joe Berlinger, who also made the best documentary of all time - Paradise Lost, and its follow-up. Let's just say he did a better job trying to free the West Memphis Three than he did with Book of Shadows.
I think I shall give the sequel a watch before the week's out...
Could it be that The Blair Witch Project is the best film of the week???
Tune in tomorrow for the Tuesday Week-End Review!!!
The Blair Witch Project is a surprisingly excellent horror movie which kept me spell bound to the screen for the entire time I was in the theatre. I am not a horror movie lover mainly because recently all horror movies are really CRAP!!! This one though was really done well and I wish the people who made the Ring and Gothika would go and take some lessons from the people who made the Blair Witch Project on how to actually make people terrified.
This movie is good. Really, it's great. It was just so surprising all the time, you never knew really what was going to happened. Heather Donahue, wow, they couldn't have found a woman better for the role...the plot's great, the story line stunning and the actors...GREAT JOB!The acting (well, I HOPE it was acting!) was well done. The teenagers make an interesting and compelling portrayal of their characters. I have always admired Heather Donahue and this serves to keep that high opinion in tact. Technically, the direction, filming and editing are well done, but not outstanding in any way.I love a good scare, when it's not accompanied by gratuitous gore. This fit the bill nicely. I look at it as fiction, despite the notice that it's based on true events, and it was an enjoyable fictional movie. Very, very creepy.A nice idea, and good execution of that idea make this a foreign film to see. The film does have a few cliche moments, but don't let that distract you from the film itself. It's very clever, very scary in bits, and the final twist is worth waiting for.
Yesterday I went to Dakota's house with elissa. We watch Blair witch Project which i really like. The game ninja gaiden is awesome>It is a great Ninja Game.
I have been listening to smile empty soul today I love their cd. It is one of few that I could listento the whole cd without hateing one song.
At movie night I was forced to watch the Blair witch project. I didn't really like it. I couldn't really hear any of it.. what with all the comments. Everyone kept referring to "the junk in the trunk". Apparently they found the girl character's butt huge. Her voice really grated on me, she sounded so pretenious when she would read outloud. Josh commented that she sounded like some annoying drama girl. Ick. Anyway i didn't like it.
Ok here is what i got out of this movie.
There were 3 people who are making a documentary about this local urban legend type story about a woman called the Blair Witch. It starts normal with them packing and interviewing locals about it. then they go off into the woods and camp. They see these piles of rocks and these stick people things that I recognized from the cover of the video. Then the map gets lost somehow and they all start screaming at eachother. Then it escalates into more screaming and swearing. Apparently something is chasing them, then it ends.


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CEOs are often innovation cheerleaders, hoping that new ventures will eventually help reshape the industry for the better. But in tough economic times, the other senior company executives often choose to ignore innovative ventures and focus instead on the traditional core business, which reliably generate cash flow. This leads to a situation in which the CEO turns into more of a broker than a leader—trying to negotiate deals between the heads of the core units and the new units. That's a recipe for failure, according to Michael L. Tushman, Wendy K. Smith, and Andy Binns, who argue that firms can thrive only if the whole senior management team can embrace the tensions between the new and the old. In this paper, they introduce three guiding principles to help executives grow their core businesses while still nurturing their new ones. Read More
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State Owned Entity Reform in Absence of Privatization: Reforming Indian National Laboratories and Role of Leadership
Is privatization necessary? In India and across emerging markets, state-owned entities (SOEs) continue to make up a large proportion of industrial sales, yet they lag behind private counterparts on performance measures. But SOEs may be able to significantly improve performance even in the absence of property rights, according to HBS doctoral candidate Prithwiraj Choudhury and professor Tarun Khanna. As they document, 42 Indian state-owned laboratories started from a base of negligible U.S. patents, yet in the period 1993-2006 (during which the Indian government launched an ambitious privatization program), the labs were granted more patents than all domestic private firms combined. The labs then licensed several of these patents to multinationals, and licensing revenue increased from 3 percent to 15 percent as a fraction of government budgetary support. Findings are relevant to firms and R&D entities around the world that depend on varying degrees of government budgetary support and government control, especially in emerging markets like India, where SOEs control up to one-third of all industrial activity. Read More
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Health care managers are the missing link in debate over reform. Their skills and ideas are needed to sustain and improve upon multiple advances in the delivery of health care for the benefit of patients. An interview with HBS professor Richard M.J. Bohmer, MD, and an excerpt from his book Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care. Read More
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We have spent the past year mired in a global financial crisis that few saw coming and that will plague us for years to come. Such crises are gut-wrenching. Collectively and individually, we search for causes and solutions. Too often, we look for quick fixes that do long‐term damage, or we put the equivalent of duct tape on obvious problems, missing the true root causes. HBS professor William A. Sahlman argues that the macroeconomic problems were the result of terrible microeconomic decisions. The root cause of bad decision‐making resides in the nexus of culture, incentives, control and measurement, accounting, and human capital. We now have a unique opportunity to force a review of all the players in the financial system, from individual consumers to politicians and regulators to management teams at financial services firms. Read More
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Jakarta. Tensions between Malaysia and Indonesia are heating up again following the arrest of three Indonesian maritime officers over an apparent border dispute.
The three officers were in Bintan waters off Riau Islands when they were arrested on Friday night by the Malaysian Marine Operations Force, according to Aji Sularso, the director general of supervision at the Indonesian Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries.
He said the officers were arrested shortly after detaining seven Malaysian fishermen who were part of a group aboard five boats illegally fishing in Indonesian waters. "Malaysia said that it was their territory, but they are our waters," Aji insisted on Sunday.
The three had been part of a five-strong patrol team when they encountered the fishermen. Two officers took seven of the fishermen to Sekupang, Batam, while three boarded the fishing boats, where they were arrested.
Malaysian state news agency Bernama has reported that the incident took place in Kota Tinggi waters, off the southeastern coast of Johor state.
"The incident occurred about 9:30 p.m. when the 15 fishermen, between the ages of 23 and 63, were four nautical miles south-east of Tanjung Punggai [in Johor] before they were approached by an Indonesian fisheries enforcement boat and detained," Kota Tinggi Police Supt. Osman Muhammad Sebot was quoted as saying.
Initial reports also said the Malaysians fired at the Indonesian patrol boat, but officials denied this.
"The Malaysian police only fired warning shots," said Djoko Suyanto, Indonesia's coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs.
Most reports said that after the warning shots were fired, the Indonesian patrol boat fled to Batam along with seven of the detained fishermen.
Widyarka Ryananta, social and cultural information counselor at the Indonesian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, said Malaysia would give its official version of events today.
Aji also denied reports Malaysia had offered to trade the seven Malaysian fishermen for the three Indonesian officers.
In a news conference on Sunday evening, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Fadel Muhammad said Jakarta would send a diplomatic note to the Malaysian government over the incident.
"Three steps will be taken by our government to resolve this matter," Fadel said.
Firstly, "the Foreign Ministry will issue a reprimand, or in diplomatic language a diplomatic note, to the Malaysian government as its police crossed into Indonesian territory."
Second, the government would also secure the release of the three officers, and third, it would ask Malaysia to ensure this kind of incident did not happened again.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the matter must be resolved diplomatically to avoid straining relations.
Fadel said there had been at least 10 border violations involving Malaysian and Chinese fishing boats this year, and 14 such violations by Malaysian boats last year. "We will work with the Navy and water police to help us with border security," he said.
Indonesia is highly sensitive about its territorial integrity since losing the tiny islands of Sipadan and Ligitan off the northeastern coast of Borneo — disputed since 1969 — to Malaysia following a 2002 ruling by the International Court of Justice.
Lawmaker Tjahjo Kumolo, from House of Representatives Commission I for defense, information and foreign affairs, said the government must make a strong protest over the incident.
"Malaysia is Indonesia's close friend. But the government must not turn a blind eye to this," Tjahjo said. "The Malaysian police have humiliated our sovereignty."


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General Motors Co., hoping to capitalize on its hot-selling sedans and a growing trust in American-made cars, says it will invest $257 million in plants in Kansas and Michigan.
GM CEO Ed Whitacre used an appearance at the company's Fairfax Assembly Plant to formally announce the automaker's early payback of $8.1 billion in government loans to the U.S. and Canada.
He also said GM would expand production at Fairfax and the Detroit-Hamtramck plant, both of which will build the next generation of the popular midsize Chevrolet Malibu.
Whitacre said $136 million would establish Fairfax as the Malibu's main production facility, news that drew an extended round of applause from workers and dignitaries gathered for the announcement.
"I like that reaction so much I might have to say it again," Whitacre said.
Another $100 million would expand production at the Detroit facility and deliver a boost to Michigan's bleak economy, Whitacre said.
GM got a total of $52 billion from the U.S. government and $9.5 billion from the Canadian and Ontario governments as it went through bankruptcy protection last year.
The U.S. considered as a loan $6.7 billion of the aid, while the Canadian governments held $1.4 billion in loans.
The U.S. government payments, made Tuesday, came five years ahead of schedule, and Whitacre said they are a sign that the automaker is on its way toward reducing government ownership of the company. The payments on the Canadian loans were also made Tuesday.
"We've developed a healthy, clean balance sheet and we've developed a cost structure that allows us to be competetive," Whitacre said.
The factory investments in Kansas and Michigan won't create new jobs, but will preserve jobs at both plants.
The Kansas plant, which employs 3,869 workers, also builds the midsize Buick LaCrosse luxury sedan. The Detroit-Hamtramck plant, which has 1,048 employees, now builds the Cadillac DTS and Buick Lucerne large sedans and is gearing up to make the Chevrolet Volt rechargeable electric car.
During the financial crisis that led to GM filing for bankruptcy protection last year, the automaker closed 14 factories and shed more than 65,000 blue-collar jobs in the U.S. through buyouts, early retirement offers and layoffs. The company now employs about 40,000 hourly workers in the U.S.
After the event at the Kansas City plant, Whitacre was scheduled to fly to Washington, where he will meet with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other lawmakers.
GM's moves come as a new poll finds that slightly more Americans now say the U.S. makes better-quality vehicles than Asia, with 38 percent saying U.S. cars are best and 33 percent preferring autos made by Asian companies, according to an Associated Press-GfK survey.
The poll suggests the shift in sentiment is largely fueled by a plunge in Toyota's reputation and an upswing in Ford Motor Co's. The poll was conducted in March, as Toyota was suffering bad publicity over its recall of more than 8 million vehicles around the globe.
When the same question was asked in a December 2006 AP-AOL poll, 46 percent said Asian countries made superior cars, while just 29 percent preferred American vehicles, reflecting a perception of U.S. automotive inferiority that began taking hold about three decades ago.
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Report / April 10, 2001 / Project number: CT114142 - B Category
Location: CFB Comox, British Columbia
Date: 2001-04-10
Status: Investigation Complete
The Flight Safety Investigation Report (FSIR) is available from DFS.
The aircraft was number five of a 9-plane formation landing after an on-field air show practice at 19 Wing Comox. During touchdown on runway 29, the aircraft experienced a firm landing and the right-hand main gear and nose-gear collapsed.
The aircraft was kept on the runway and came to a stop without interfering with the rest of the formation. The pilot shut down the aircraft without further incident. There were no injuries.
The positions in the formation are depicted as follows:
As the formation touched down, number five overcorrected from being slightly high on number 4 and experienced a firm landing. The aircraft then bounced and became airborne. The aircraft then, being affected by the preceding aircrafts jet wash and down wash, quickly descended towards the ground, struck the runway surface again and all three landing gears contacted the runway surface heavily. The right-hand main gear was forced upwards through the top surface of the right wing and collapsed. The nose-gear also partially collapsed. The aircraft became airborne again as the pilot attempted an overshoot, however, the engine had been rendered non-functional, as it had ingested FOD from the damaged nose gear. The aircraft was then settled back down on the runway surface, slid along the runway on the right-hand smoke tank, left-hand main gear and partially collapsed nose-gear, and came to a stop. The pilot egressed from the aircraft with no injuries.
The investigation is now complete.
The damage sustained by aircraft #5 occurred due to a hard landing after a bounced touch down exacerbated by preceding aircraft jet wash and down wash.
The inability to practice overshoots from this manoeuvre and possible ambiguity on overshoot options as well as a low level of experience during the "9" or "7" plane landing were potentially contributing factors in this accident.
Other peripheral issues with 431 (AD) Sqn such as; Team Lead duties; recent Team accident rates; internal pilot rotation and tour length; and generally lower CF pilot experience levels, were also highlighted.
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With the second season full of massive surprises, shocking deaths and plot twists around nearly every corner, we have already started obsessing over where season three will take the survivors, and which new upcoming characters and zombies will take over toy aisles and office cubicles nationwide this fall.
So, while legions of fans are anxiously waiting for season three to start, McFarlane Toys is increasing the anticipation with the announcement of its second series of
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U.S. Sen. Ralph Yarborough fought hard for Padre Island National Seashore
CORPUS CHRISTI - To some the founding of Padre Island National Seashore 50 years ago represented the taming of a wilderness.
To a handful of reclusive beach fixtures a public park meant the loss of the loneliest place on Earth. Proponents wanted to preserve a national treasure against development for future generations. Opponents with property on the island wanted to cash in on a national treasure to help finance future generations.
Fortune hunters wanted to preserve the right to pocket treasures left in the sand by ancient shipwrecks. While most believed the true treasure was the sand itself.
Among those who believed the latter, U.S. Sen. Ralph W. Yarborough of Texas stood tallest and fought hardest, by most accounts.
President John F. Kennedy signed the bill that established Padre Island National Seashore in September 1962. Yarborough stood over Kennedy's shoulder that day to make sure the ink dried on the culmination of his five-year effort.
Looking over the president's other shoulder was Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, who did not share fellow Democrat Yarborough's enthusiasm. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton noticed Johnson's reticence in 1959 when Johnson was a senator, according to author W. Dwayne Jones, who wrote a 1998 National Park Service publication titled "Padre Island National Seashore: An Administrative History."
Jones referenced a 1960 Seaton quote from the Caller-Times: "Johnson could push through the legislation at any time if he wanted." Jones wrote that Johnson's famously tepid attitude stemmed from "his antipathy toward the junior senator" and his "deep seated opposition to the whole national seashore idea."
Public support for the park overwhelmed the opposition at public hearings in Corpus Christi. About 100,000 people from hundreds of communities supported the park through petitions.
At the time, the parameters of the park were undecided. Yarborough wanted to give it all to the park service, despite existing development at both ends. Attorneys representing six Padre Island landowners earlier argued the government would be happy with less, perhaps 30 to 50 miles of seashore.
Yarborough insisted that private developers who wanted to limit the size of the park posed the greatest threat.
Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Sadler staunchly opposed the park because it denied funds to Texas schoolchildren. In a 1961 speech to the South Texas Chamber of Commerce in Corpus Christi, he said the Permanent Public School Fund had 200,000 acres at stake.
He said handing over the island to the federal government could put at risk $1 billion in potential revenue. He vowed to fight, while advocating the seashore as a state park.
"The proposal is that we give the federal boys our beaches and offshore lands and then we lick their boots until they invest a little money and realize a great income from our present," Sadler said in his speech. "I am willing to do anything for the future of Padre except give away the property rights I have sworn to safeguard."
Current Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson said he believes Sadler influenced the rewording of Yarborough's enabling legislation to tighten the state and the public's hold on mineral rights within the park.
Legislation proposed in the early 1960s by the Texas House of Representatives also broke with Yarborough's plan by calling for a downsized park carved from the island's middle. This would have created a park mostly of soft sand or shell banks accessible only by four-wheel-drive vehicles and where swifter currents make swimming hazardous, Jones wrote in his report. The House bills reduced the park to 65 miles of shoreline.
After the hearings and public comments, the debate continued over whether Padre Island should be a state or national park. Gov. Price Daniel remained concerned about the retention of hunting and fishing privileges along with oil and gas activity in waters surrounding the park. The concerns of Sadler remained an issue. Vice President Johnson continued to express disapproval of Yarborough's legislation. Jones wrote that at one point Johnson approached Yarborough with a compromise plan for a smaller park named after the junior senator. Yarborough declined and fought on.
The Yarborough-Johnson disagreement, Jones wrote, lost some of its impact when then Vice President Johnson was called to tour Southeast Asia, allowing the bill to pass almost as Yarborough had written it.
On Aug. 23, 1963 Texas deeded the land to the federal government. Lady Bird Johnson was on hand in 1968 to officially dedicate Padre Island National Seashore, without her husband.
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Competition and predation as mechanisms for displacement of greenback cutthroat trout by brook trout
McGrath, C. C.; Lewis, W. M., Jr. 2007. Competition and predation as mechanisms for displacement of greenback cutthroat trout by brook trout. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 136: 1381-1392.
Cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarkii frequently are displaced by nonnative brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis, but the ecological mechanisms of displacement are not understood. Competition for food and predation between greenback cutthroat trout O. c. stomias and brook trout were investigated in montane streams of Colorado. A replicated field study was used to describe the population density, diet, stomach fullness, and body condition of the two species in allopatry and sympatry. Population data confirmed that brook trout displaced greenback cutthroat trout at sites where the species occur together. The diets of the two species were different; cutthroat trout consumed more prey items and a wider variety of prey than brook trout. Sympatry did not influence gut fullness or body condition for either species. Predation occurred at low rates that did not account for declines in populations of greenback cutthroat trout. Instead, population data suggest that the displacement of greenback cutthroat trout by brook trout occurs through a bottleneck on recruitment due to the mortality of eggs or juvenile cutthroat trout.
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SoftKinetic brings hand and finger recognition to virtual reality
SoftKinetic has announced that the DepthSense Close Interaction Library (CILib) has been modified so it is adapted for augmented and virtual reality environments. Based on its middleware, SoftKinetic hopes this is the first piece of the puzzle for 3D technology custom designed for the AR and VR markets.
The ability to physically use your hands while interacting in a VR or AR environment allows for gesture recognition and physical interaction. The CILib ReachVR toolkit will be released in Q2 2015, and will allow developers to use the SoftKinetic tracking library if they have the company's 3D depth-sensing camera.
"Virtual reality is incredibly exciting for the gaming community, as it provides a truly magical engagement with the world around us," said Eric Krzeslo, chief marketing officer of SoftKinetic. "SoftKinetic's CILib, coupled with our advanced 3D Time of Flight depth sensing camera, is uniquely suited to the demands of both the AR and VR environments, and provides the 'feeling of presence' gamers crave."
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Apple recruiting engineers to help develop virtual reality devices
It looks like Apple is interested in developing some type of virtual reality head-mounted display or projection system, after new job listings appeared on the company's website. Specifically, there is a need for Optical Display Engineers, Sr. Display Software Engineers, and other roles pointing towards virtual reality.
Considering VR is a booming business, and has great future potential, it shouldn't be surprising if Apple wants to begin seriously developing its own product. In 2014, Apple started recruiting employees to develop "virtual reality experiences," including specialists in augmented reality and 3D graphics.
Microsoft, Facebook, Razer, Steam, and other major companies are throwing down in the augmented reality and VR markets, so Apple will have some competition to deal with in the future. However, Apple has the time and resources to make sure it is able to launch a large-scale development of VR hardware for consumers.
Virtual reality slowly beginning take over of video game industry
Virtual reality still has numerous problems to overcome before it goes fully mainstream among gamers, but already has greatly influenced the video game market. At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next week, game studios, developers and influencers are expected to discuss VR-focused hardware and software.
At GDC, Oculus will show off Rift, Razer is expected to promote its OSVR headset, while Steam is going to unveil the SteamVR headset.
"Nobody buys a piece of gaming hardware because they think it looks cool," said Lewis Ward, analyst at IDC, in a statement published by CNET. "Until there's a great experience to go along with it, the hardware simply opens the door."
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Report: AR and VR devices will surge, 3M units in 2015 to 55M in 2020
Augmented and virtual reality devices will drastically increase in popularity, rising from 3 million units in 2015 up to 55 million in 2020, according to ABI Research. Head-mounted displays (HMDs) will lead the way, but mobile-reliant devices will see early success, with tethered solutions needing a bit more time to mature.
"There is a lot of excitement and hype focused on getting consumers to try out virtual reality, including the LG G3 shipping with an HMD in some markets, and Mattel's View-Master AR toy," said Michael Inouye, senior analyst at ABI Research. "These early experiences will be like any new toy-novel for a while and then fall off in use, with new content potentially driving periodic re-engagement."
It's unknown if gaming and movies will help drive VR, even though hardware developments are being made. Meanwhile with AR, which is increasingly popular in the enterprise, consumers find a lack of apps difficult to help embrace the technology - and ABI Research thinks it may be a matter of time:
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3D-printed food far from mainstream, but still capturing attention
It's going to take a while before 3D printers go mainstream, but consumers have shown a genuine curiosity about 3D-printed food.
3D food printers operate by printing out layers of edible materials, capable of creating pastries, chocolate, pasta, pizza, and other delicious snacks and foods. Unfortunately, supporters are struggling to find ways to turn this curiosity into a long-term business model - and whether this is an ideal strategy for home cooks or restaurants.
"The really exciting thing is the food we can't even imagine today because we don't have any way to make it," said Hod Lipson, Cornell University Creative Machines Lab director, in a statement to the AP. "That's the part I don't think anybody has really figured out."
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3D printing technology developing, still struggles to go mainstream
3D printing technology has evolved at a fast rate over the past few years, but 3D printing still struggles to go mainstream among consumers. Prices for 3D printers and filaments are dropping, but consumers simply don't need one, even as more 3D-printed products and foods are introduced.
A wider selection of consumer 3D printers are available, but most consumers appear willing to wait for the market to develop further.
"Other than some of these cool examples, when does 3D printing go mainstream?" questioned Guy Kawasaki, tech analyst and former Apple chief evangelist, in a statement to CNBC. "I understand you can 3D print food. That's kind of a stretch for me. The fact that someone can 3D print a car doesn't mean you're gonna do it. So it may be that we're just a little bit too early to see what's really gonna happen there."
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Oculus plans to create virtual reality movies for its headset
The Oculus VR Story Studio, an in-house laboratory, will be focused on creating movies and other content designed specifically for VR. Facebook opened up the checkbook to acquire Oculus, and while VR continues to impress many consumers, the company understands there must be an incentive for users to adopt the Oculus Rift.
"Oculus is getting focused on films," said Edward Saatchi, producer for Story Studio, in a statement to the Wall Street Journal. "Story Studio is designed to inspire and educate - inspire by making awesome movies and educate by sharing our information with the community."
Story Studio consists of about 10 people, and includes Pixar Animation Studios and Lucasfilm veterans, to help streamline film production.
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Fable creator ponders HoloLens, and whether a killer app is available
Microsoft's recent unveiling of its HoloLens has generated a lot of interest from consumers, but developers understand it will be up to them to create appealing apps for the new platform. Microsoft is promoting HoloLens as something different than Oculus Rift or Sony Morpheus, and will likely try to build its success piggybacked on Windows OS and Xbox One integration in the future.
"I think [HoloLens], for me, more exciting than even VR but it shares a similar problem as VR does and that is: what is the application going to be?" said Peter Molyneux, creator of Fable, in an interview with Gamesindustry.biz. "This is the problem with VR - the applications that we think are going to be great on it quite often are exhausting or very challenging. My hope is that their concept video doesn't over promise what the technology can deliver."
Molyneux is basing his opinion on a HoloLens prototype that was tested more than two years ago, however.
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Zuckerberg: VR still 'very rough,' but sees it as important trend
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gambled on the future of virtual reality when Facebook purchased Oculus VR, and admits it will take time for VR to make a major impact. Facebook spent $2 billion to acquire Oculus VR last year, as the company continues to move forward with hardware development.
"It's extremely early stage and the early stuff is very rough still, but I think that's going to be a really important trend," Zuckerberg recently said regarding virtual reality and augmented reality, speaking during a question and answer session in Colombia.
Zuckerberg also believes VR could help eventually replace smartphones and PCs one day, though development will have to evolve. "We're really excited about that as well. We're building that with Oculus which I think is by far the leader in virtual reality and it's going to be very exciting to see how that develops."
Toyota using Oculus Rift to teach about distracted driving
Developers are finding a wide variety of different uses for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, and Toyota has demonstrated its TeenDrive365 distracted driving simulator. Participants sit down in a stationary car wearing an Oculus Rift headset, taking them through a simulation that involves multiple distracted driving scenarios.
Scenarios include other vehicles on the road, in-vehicle passengers, radio, and text messages - with drivers suffering the "consequences of distracted driving within the virtual setting," providing a more realistic view of everyday distractions that drivers face.
"Oculus Rift provides a virtual reality driving experience that mirrors real life behind the wheel, giving us a powerful, one-of-a-kind way to show parents and teens how everyday distractions can affect their ability to drive safely," said Marjorie Schussel, corporate marketing manager of Toyota, in a statement to the media.