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It's in the McCully House Inn.
Hands down, one of the best restaurants in Jacksonville. The food is amazing, great wine list, excellent staff. Love the outdoor seating area.
We joined friends for dinner at Deja Vu Bistro before heading to a performance at the Britt Festival. I had the flatiron steak which was accompanied by some green beans and red potatoes. All in all, a nice experience.
Our B+B owner had recommended this restaurant after having excelled in her recommendation the night before, so we went. We were seated indoors which had no zest to the surroundings and cold air blowing at our friend's legs. The menu looked interesting, but we were all quite disappointed in the food preparation. Nothing stood out.
The service was also VERY...
We expected Deja Vu to be at the level of our other fine dining experiences in Jacksonville but were very disappointed: the decor is old and tired (the outdoor patio is more appealing, but we chose to eat inside - the room is strangely cold and bare, with a concrete floor, no fabrics or cushions or furniture, and empty walls)....
We had dinner the other night and were so pleased with our meal. We shared the grilled romaine salad ( they will split any salad without a charge) and my husband had the coffee rubbed flat iron steak (didn't taste the coffee). I had the salmon. The steak was great and came with roasted potatoes and green beans. The salmon...
My partner and I had an excellent meal. The food was beautifully prepared and the staff were pleasant and attentive. we ate indoors; however there is also a pleasant looking courtyard as an alternative. This was certainly not the cheapest place in town but I thought the meal good value and the beer and wine were damn good too!
The food was good - the coffee rubbed flat iron steak was a big hit and melted in your mouth. The salads were creative and the "veggie fried chicken" was so good we ordered it both nights. The décor is quiet and simple making for a slow relaxed meal.
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Disappointing and missold
Firstly, this is not a hotel.
It calls itself a 'residence', and it's a bunch of cottages with a rather limited kitchen facility and a central reception/restaurant, a bit like a small-scale Forest Holidays resort. I'd checked their website, so this wasn't too much of a surprise, but it was a bit of a shock to be asked to strip the bed and sweep the floor before leaving. But leaving that aside, the cottages are comfortable and well appointed, and the wooded location is probably a delight in better weather than New Year 2014 afforded. It's priced at over €100/night, though, so for a week or longer stay (which seems to be their target demographic) you could get a very nice gîte for the same money. It also advertises itself as a restaurant, and that's where the first of the disappointments showed its face. I arrived and enquired about dinner, and was told that the restaurant was 'exceptionally shut' for the evening. Not exceptionally impressive, and the staff showed no contrition at all. The two criteria I had used in my search were "Restaurant" and "WiFi in Rooms"; defeated in the first, I looked forward to the second. The welcome information sheet said that WiFi credentials would be printed on the key. They weren't. So back to reception, to be told "we don't offer that any more, only in the reception." That's not what they've told LateRooms, nor was it mentioned on their own website, which still claimed WiFi in the rooms at that time, though they do appear to have updated that now. And again, not a word of apology. The "fully equipped" kitchenette doesn't include a corkscrew (surely sacrilege in France!), and the TV remote-control batteries were dead flat. Other than that, a delightful stay!
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HMCS Toronto (FFH 333)
HMCS Toronto (FFH 333)
|Career (Canada)
|Toronto, Ontario
|Saint John Shipbuilding Ltd., Saint John
|Laid down:
|22 April 1989
|18 December 1990
|29 July 1993
|CFB Halifax
|"Excellence with Vigour"
|Honours and
|Gulf of St Lawrence 1944, Arabian Sea;[1] Meritorious Unit Commendation (United States)[2]
|Active in service
|Azure, a mural crown argent, masoned sable, surmounted by a beaver proper holding in the dexter paw, a marlin spike or.
|General characteristics
|Class and type:
|Halifax-class frigate
|3,995 tonnes (light)
4,795 tonnes (operational)
5,032 tonnes (deep load)
|134.2 m (440 ft)
|16.5 m (54 ft)
|7.1 m (23 ft)
|2 × LM2500 Gas turbines
1 × SEMT Pielstick Diesel engine
|30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
|9,500 nmi (17,600 km; 10,900 mi)
|225 (including air detachment)
|24 × Honeywell Mk 46 torpedoes
16 × Evolved Sea-Sparrow SAM
8 × RGM-84 Harpoon SSM
1 × 57 mm Bofors Mk3 gun
1 × 20 mm Vulcan Phalanx CIWS
6 × .50 Caliber machine guns
|Aircraft carried:
|1 × CH-124 Sea King
HMCS Toronto (FFH 333) is a Halifax-class frigate that has served in the Canadian Forces since 1993.
Toronto was laid down on 22 April 1989 at Saint John Shipbuilding Ltd., Saint John and launched on 18 December 1990. She was commissioned into the Canadian Forces on 29 July 1993 and carries the hull classification symbol 333. Toronto is the fourth ship in her class which is the name for the Canadian Patrol Frigate Project. She is the second vessel (and frigate) to carry the designation HMCS Toronto.
When not on operations she is assigned to Maritime Forces Atlantic (MARLANT) and is based at CFB Halifax. Toronto serves on MARLANT missions protecting Canada's sovereignty in the Atlantic Ocean and enforcing Canadian laws in its territorial sea and Exclusive Economic Zone. HMCS Toronto participated in Operation Artemis, commencing her first rotation (ROTO 2) in January 2013 and finishing in February 2014 (which included a crew swap in July 2013 [the first crew swap in RCN history since 1991]).
While relieving HMCS Regina in the Mediterranean Sea as part of Standing NATO Maritime Group 2, Toronto was reassigned to the Black Sea for Operation Reassurance in response to alleged Russian intervention in Central and Eastern Europe. It led Task Unit 2 (TU.02) and worked in concert with Spanish Navy frigate Almirante Juan de Borbón, and will operate with Romanian Navy frigate Regele Ferdinand and US Navy destroyer USS Ross as well as other vessels from Bulgaria, Georgia, Turkey, and Ukraine.[3]
On 8 September 2014, Toronto was circled by two Russian Su-24 attack aircraft and a Russian surveillance plane in a provocative manner.[4] In November 2014, six members of the crew helped fight a fire while on shore leave in Antalya, Turkey.[5] While in the Mediterranean Sea, Toronto suffered a fire in its auxiliary machinery room on 25 December 2014. The fire was extinguished and all personnel affected by the smoke were treated and released.[6] During the frigate's deployment, Toronto participated in three naval exercises and led Task Unit 02 while operating in the Black Sea. HMCS Fredericton relieved the ship in January 2015.[7]
- ^ "South-West Asia Theatre Honours". Prime Minister of Canada. Retrieved 2014-05-09.
- ^ Metzger, SW/AW Julianna, Chief of Naval Operation Public Affairs (20 Feb 2015). "Canadian Warship to Receive Navy Meritorious Unit Award". Navy News Service. navy.mil (85661). Retrieved 20 Feb 2015.
- ^ "HMCS Toronto will operate in the Black Sea during Operation Reassurance". Royal Canadian Navy. Government of Canada. 5 September 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
- ^ "Russian military planes buzzed HMCS Toronto in Black Sea". CBC News. 8 September 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
- ^ "HMCS Toronto crew members put out fire in Turkey after spotting burning building while dining on shore". National Post. 16 November 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
- ^ Gorman, Michael (27 December 2014). "HMCS Toronto deals with minor on board fire on Christmas Day". The Chronicle Herald. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
- ^ Pugliese, David (6 January 2015). "HMCS Fredericton arrives in Portugal, HMCS Toronto to be back in Canada in late January". Defence Watch (Ottawa Citizen). Retrieved 7 January 2015.
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Britney Spears may take on a sexy pop star persona in the video for her latest single "Work B---- ," but at home she says she feels like a "crazy mom."
Speaking in London, the 31-year old singer says these days she juggles the demands of an international singing career with taking care of her two sons, Sean, 8, and 7-year-old Jayden.
"Once you've done a shoot ... you have to come in and do homework and fix dinner twice and it's a lot of work," she told The Associated Press in an Oct. 15 interview. "But I think as women we just manage it, we make it work."
Spears says she worked hard with her fitness trainer to get into top shape for her new video, sticking to two or three small meals each day. The American singer admitted, however, that she struggled to stave off food cravings in the weeks leading up to the video shoot, saying: "I love to eat my popcorn at night!"
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"Work B----" is the lead single from Spears' 8th studio album "Britney Jean" - the name her family calls her - and she says it's her most personal album to date. Produced with will.i.am, Spears co-wrote every track, including a song about her split with Jason Trawick in January.


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Amir-massoud Farahmand
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Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)
Professional Background
PhD in Computer Science, University of Alberta (CS)
(Working with Csaba Szepesvári and Martin Jägersand), 2011
NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University (SCS)
(Working with Doina Precup), 2011-2014
NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University (RI)
(Working with J. Andrew Bagnell), 2014
Research Goal
In the 21st century, we live in a world where data is abundant. We would like to take advantage of this opportunity to make more accurate and data-driven decisions in many areas of life such as industry, healthcare, business, and government. Even though many machine learning and data mining researchers have developed tools to benefit from "big data", their methods so far have mostly been about the task of prediction.
My goal, however, is to use data to control, that is, taking actions in an uncertain world with a complex dynamics in order to achieve a long-term goal such as maximizing the relief of a patient with a chronic disease, sustainable management of natural resources, or increasing the comfort of a building's occupants.
Admittedly, we are not there yet. Theoretical foundations should be laid and technologies must be developed. But I believe that data-driven decision making defines a new era in human civilization, and my research moves us toward that era. For more details about data-driven control and decision making and understanding my contributions, please refer to my Research Statement or take a look at my Publications. Also if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Since 2014 December, I joined the Data Analytics group of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL).
Approximate MaxEnt Inverse Optimal Control and its Application for Mental Simulation of Human Interactions is accepted at AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2015. Joint work with De-An, Kris, and Drew. Extended version with proofs is here.
Classification-based Approximate Policy Iteration is accepted and will appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control most likely by the end of 2015 (preprint; IEEE version). An extended version, which includes experiments and more discussions, is also available. Joint work with Doina, André, and Mohammad.
We organized Sequential Decision-Making with Big Data workshop at AAAI-2014. It had a great lineup of speakers and a room full of audience. Thank you all! Hope you enjoyed it.
Sample-based Approximate Regularization is accepted and presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2014. Joint work with Philip Bachman and Doina. Extended version with proofs is here.
I left McGill University after more than two years of working on many interesting projects with Doina Precup, Joelle Pineau and other wonderful members of the Reasoning and Learning Lab. The good news is that I am joining the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University to work with Drew Bagnell.
Two papers at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference, 2013. Learning from Limited Demonstrations and Bellman Error Based Feature Generation using Random Projections on Sparse Spaces. Joint work with Beomjoon, Doina, Joelle, Mahdi, and Yuri.
PhD Outstanding Thesis Award for the period of 2011-2012, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, 2013.
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Machine Learning and Statistics: statistical learning theory, nonparametric algorithms, regularization, manifold learning, non-i.i.d. processes, online learning
Reinforcement Learning, Sequential Decision Making, and Optimal Control: high-dimensional problems, regularized algorithms, inverse optimal control
Robotics: uncalibrated visual servoing, learning from demonstration, behaviour-based architecture for robot control
Other Industrial Applications: hybrid vehicle energy management
Large-scale Optimization
Evolutionary Computation: cooperative co-evolution, interaction of evolution and learning


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Chinese government has told foreign tech vendors including Microsoft, IBM, and Cisco Systems, that it will be gathering feedback on a new set of procurement and cybersecurity regulations involving banks.
Industry consortium hopes to solve one of the most expensive issues for new businesses - who owns the patents?
Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) shows Amazon dominant, Microsoft and Google making progress, and IBM's service - based on its purchase of SoftLayer - in relative decline...
Three million survey participants in 50 countries say Apple is the top global brand as Microsoft gets a leg up on IBM.
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Announced today, Docker Inc's fourth round of investment gives it a $95m pot to deepen integration with AWS, IBM and Microsoft and add new features.
Nine new suppliers including Dimension Data and iiNet have joined companies such as Microsoft and IBM on the Australian government's cloud services panel.
Finnish startup Verkotan acquired mobile equipment testing facilities from Microsoft to offer wireless and 5G performance testing in Northern Europe.
When IBM signed up for Basic and DOS in 1980, Microsoft was tiny (40 staff) compared to Big Blue (341,279). But in the latest round of quarterly results, Microsoft unveiled bigger revenues, and it has 10x more cash in the bank.
Microsoft has yet to launch a single flagship model across all major US wireless carriers in the history of Windows Phone. Their focus on the low- to mid-range market may be part of why Windows Phone market share remains low.
Microsoft and IBM have forged a new alliance bringing more of IBM's enterprise software and services to Azure, and Microsoft's enterprise software to IBM's cloud platforms.
Microsoft's new wireless display adapter will allow devices running Windows 8.1 and Android 4.2.1 (and later) to connect to HDTVs, monitors and projectors.
The industry group representing Apple, Microsoft, HP and IBM has argued that if Australian competition law is changed to ban the so-called Australia tax on technology, it might drive companies out of the country.
Google's game of cloud catch-up continues as it launches Asia Pacific zone to better compete with the likes of AWS, Microsoft Azure and IBM SoftLayer, three rivals already in the region.
This new pro-patent business consortium may boast some of industry's heaviest hitters — Apple, GE, IBM, and Microsoft — but it really doesn't have much of a message.
Cloud company Salesforce.com makes it into the ranking of the top 10 enterprise software companies for the first time.
Microsoft is no longer making the Surface Wireless Keyboard Adapters that the company introduced in September 2013.
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B&B Pompei Il Fauno, Scafati
- Swimming pool
- Free WiFi and free parking
Main amenities
- 4 guestrooms
- Outdoor pool
- Rooftop terrace
- Breakfast available
- Free area shuttle
- Room service
- Airport shuttle
- Childcare
- Terrace
- 24-hour front desk
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
What's around
- Heart of Scafati
- Pompeii Excavation Site (2.6 mi / 4.2 km)
- PalaMangano (0.5 mi / 0.9 km)
- Cathedral of Pompei (1.5 mi / 2.5 km)
- Teatro Grande (2.3 mi / 3.7 km)
- Pompeii Forum (2.6 mi / 4.2 km)
A very warm welcome. Our room had a beautiful roof top terrace with sunloungers included…
The whole BandB experience was outstanding and nothing was over looked for the guests…
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Hotel Info: 020 3027 9803
- Family Room superior
- Double Room
- Single Room
- Triple room
- Pompeii room
- Triple Room
- Family Room
- Single Room
- Studio
Also popular with travellers from the UK
At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 4 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 1 floor
- Check-in time 12:30 PM-11:00 PM
- Check-out time is 10:30 AM
- Express check-in/out
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- One child (4 years old and younger) stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Babysitting/childcare *
- Pets allowed *
- Specific rooms only, restrictions apply *
- 1 per room (up to 5 kg)
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Airport shuttle (available on request) *
- Free train station pickup *
- Ferry terminal shuttle *
- Free self parking
- Accessible parking
- Free area shuttle within 3 km
- Beach shuttle *
Other information
- Resort fee included
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In the hotel
- Breakfast (surcharge)
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Beach shuttle (surcharge)
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- Outdoor pool
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Playground on site
- Scooter/moped rentals on site
- Mountain biking nearby
- Children's pool
- Pool sun loungers
- Pool umbrellas
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Luggage storage
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Year Built 2008
- Designated smoking areas
- Rooftop terrace
- Garden
- Picnic area
- Terrace
- Library
- Television in lobby
- Disabled parking
- Accessible path of travel
- Accessibility equipment for the deaf
- In-room accessibility
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- Climate control
- Air conditioning
- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Down comforter
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Soundproofed rooms
- Premium bedding
- Memory foam mattress
- Private pool
- Individually decorated
- Private bathroom
- Rainfall showerhead
- Shower only
- Bidet
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Satellite TV channels
- IPod docking station
- DVD player
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
- Access via exterior corridors
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B&B Pompei Il Fauno, Scafati's small print
Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation.
In accordance with national/local laws, air conditioning may be restricted to certain hours from 1 November to 31 March.
Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation.
Noise-free guestrooms cannot be guaranteed.
Children under 10 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool without adult supervision.
Parking height restrictions apply.
For transfers, guests must contact the property 72 hours prior to arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
Pet deposit: EUR 30 per stay
- Airport shuttle transfer per adult: EUR 80 (one way)
The charges below are included in the total price displayed:
- Resort fee
Optional extras
Late check-in after 11 PM can be arranged for an extra charge
Late check-out can be arranged for an extra charge of EUR 25
Rollaway beds are available for an additional charge
Breakfast is offered for an extra charge of EUR 8 per person (approximately)
Cribs/Infant beds are available for EUR 15 per night
Babysitting/childcare is available for an extra charge
Pets are allowed for an extra charge of EUR 30 per pet (may vary based on length of stay)
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of EUR 35 per person (roundtrip)
Airport shuttle for children between the ages of 5 and 10 costs EUR 25 (roundtrip)
Ferry terminal shuttle service is offered for an extra charge
Beach shuttle service is offered for an extra charge
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.


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I just stumbled across a banana (Musa basjoo) in a plant catalog that is hardy to zone 4! I live in zone 5, so I'd love to try it out. But, I don't want it to grow to the 12-18 foot height that it says in the catalog... I know I could grow it in a pot, but is there ANY way I could keep it to a height of ~3-5 feet—or even shorter??—if planted in the GROUND??? (When it comes to tropicals, I'm leery of cutting back/pruning the way you would a perennial or shrub—I simply don't know how to do it…???)
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Top Summer carry guns Imo are:
Kahr CM9
Glock 43
S&W Shield
These are small, reliable, affordable and quality built. I had a PT111 but sold it.
I have a question. I'm going to buy a handgun for carry. The two I have come down to is the Taurus PT111 Pro G2 9mm and the Smith & Wesson SD9mm VE. What one should I get.
Top Summer carry guns Imo are:
Kahr CM9
Glock 43
S&W Shield
These are small, reliable, affordable and quality built. I had a PT111 but sold it.
I have no personal experience with the S&W, but I've bought 3 PT111 G2s. There are those who will talk smack about Taurus, but I can only say that none of the ones I've bought (for myself, my son, and my son-in-law) have had any problems whatsoever.
It's not my preferred carry gun, primarily because I don't like thumb safeties on carry guns, as a rule. The G26 with magazine extension is the same physical size as the PT111 G2, but without the risk of accidentally engaging the thumb safety, and has 1 more round.
I would go to a range and test drive both and maybe a few more and find what fits you best. You are the only one this firearm needs to fit and carry.
It might save you money in the long run if you buy one and find its not for you.
Shoot safe and have fun doing it.
Since you're familiar with the M&P system, you might want to consider the M&P 9c. Excellent little gun and great for summer use... or any other use for that matter.
You could buy a new barrel and magazine in 9mm for your M&P. You then would have handgun you are familiar with in 9mm.
I have both. Are you going to carry open or concealed? Concealed I would go with the PT111 open the SD9. Never had a problem with either. A 9mm barrel for your M&P is a good option to.
I have both also. The Smith will carry 15 rounds, I think, the Taurus only 12 or so as I recall. I just like the Smith better. Just personal preference.
I discovered S&W doesn't make parts for it, it's a discontinued model.
I was warned to get a replacement firing pin for it because they are prone to breakage
and couldn't find any from the usual and some not so usual sources.
I would recommend you look at the S&W M&P 9 Compact, it's a better carry gun because it
is lighter and just a hair smaller than the SD9VE over all, even with the same barrel length.
(possibly the 3.5" barrel I may have misstated the length)
This is the gun S&W was sued by Glock over, the SD9VE and the full size SD9.
Another good firearm for carry is the Ruger SR9C a little less expensive than the S&W Compact,
I carry one because I couldn't afford the S&W Compact, and they fit the same holster!
Glock has come out with a really nice 9mm pocket gun you might want to look at.
I'm not a great fan of Taurus, and I'll probably stir some folks up by saying so, I'm just not
impressed by the fit and finish and the horror stories about poor inspections I've seen on the net.
I suggest you spend a little more time getting the ones you are interested in actually in your own hands
before you lay your money down. There is nothing like picking up a gun that feels like it was custom
made for you. That was how the S&W M&P9C was for me.


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Alain Bielik talks with the visual effects artists assigned the sensitive and difficult duty of recreating 9/11 for Oliver Stones film, World Trade Center.
For any visual effects artist, recreating a real life event is always a particularly challenging assignment. But when this event is as well documented and as deeply emotional as the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it can be a daunting prospect. When dealing with such an iconic moment in history, you should better get it just right In World Trade Center (released by Paramount on Aug. 9), director Oliver Stone recreates the 9/11 tragedy from the perspective of two Port Authority Police Department officers who were trapped beneath the collapsed towers. Since the script is based on a true story, authenticity and accuracy were of paramount importance for the filmmakers. To recreate what happened outside and inside the World Trade Center, overall visual effects supervisor John Scheele split the effects shots among four vendors: Double Negative, Giant Killer Robots, Animal Logic and CIS Hollywood.
The visual effects encompassed three different categories of shots. The first one involved recreating the whole Lower Manhattan area, including the Twin Towers, in its pre-collapse stage, and then producing the raging fires on the Towers. In the second one, visual effects artists had to reproduce the collapse of World Trade Center, as seen from the interior of the buildings. The final category entailed recreating the post collapse environment. Since the collapse itself had been seen hundreds of times on television, Stone felt that it was not necessary and probably not appropriate to recreate it digitally. Instead, he preferred to focus on the point of view of some individuals and to show the events unfolding from their intimate, but truncated perspective.
Half A Million Reference Stills
Lead vendor Double Negative had the unique task of creating effects for scenes before and after the collapses, eventually producing 85 shots. Visual effects supervisor Michael Ellis and vfx producer Andy Taylor oversaw the project, with CG supervisors Peter Bebb and Ryan Cook handling the tricky 3D builds and smoke research and development. Double Negative started working with the production in May 2005. and provided a previsualization that was used for the New York shoot in October. A team was sent to New York to gather photographic material for reference. The crew was never allowed to get close to the Ground Zero site to shoot plates, Ellis recalls. All the street scenes were actually shot in downtown Los Angeles. Greenscreens were used to block the perspectives, but we still had a lot of rotoscoping to do to be able to replace the environment with our CG Lower Manhattan. In fact, we not only had to recreate the Towers and the whole WTC complex, but also all the surrounding streets, which encompassed several blocks.
Since we couldnt shoot any plate, we decided to use the system that we developed last year for Batman Begins, in which Gotham City was basically built out from thousands of architectural still photographs. For WTC, we went out and shot over half a million stills from the area surrounding the Ground Zero site. We started by taking overall panoramic views of each street, and then moved on to photograph each building, using a 50-foot scissor lift to get a clear point of view. We shot 8.0 megapixel stills with bracketed exposures that captured 3-foot square sections of a façade. Back at Double Negative, we used proprietary software STIG to tile all the images together and remove the distortion. That allowed us to reconstruct each façade as a high dynamic range image that we could then project onto a corresponding 3D geometry built in Maya. In terms of modeling, we really focused our efforts on six or seven main buildings that were going to be seen up close. All the CG elements were then rendered in RenderMan using Double Negatives in house renderer management software dnRex.
The Twin Towers Challenge
The challenge was completely different for the Twin Towers as, for obvious reasons, no texture maps could be gathered. The structures had to be entirely recreated with geometries and shaders. The CG team faced an unexpected problem with the look of the buildings. The towers were basically two unexciting big grey blocks, Ellis notes. It turned out to be quite difficult to make them look real! CG artist and shader developer Kath Roberts spent a lot of time adding in extra detail and building up the specific way the panels reflected light. We also created building interiors that were put behind every window. They were only wide-angle photographs of some New York interiors that we had shot, but they added another layer of reality to the buildings. Also, the linear design of the façades created moiré patterns at rendering stage. These linear features had a tendency to jump as they crossed from one pixel to the next, which resulted in a bizarre strobe effect that was very hard to get rid of. Eventually, we had to render the towers at 4K resolution, and even at 8K in some cases, to reduce the problem. For the same reason, we also had to set the shaders sampling rates at very high levels. It took a lot of time to render those towers
Ellis team tackled another tricky challenge with the recreation of the billowing smoke coming out of the burning towers. The crew knew that the shots had to look exactly like the news footage that the whole world had seen When the first smoke simulations required a two-day run to produce realistic results, Cook decided to look at other options. One of them was to start building a smoke library very early on. We knew exactly what the smoke had to look like. It meant that we could start running smoke simulations right away, and not wait for any approval or artwork. By the time we got to actually create the shots, we had a nice library of simulations that we could use at will. We found that the best results were obtained when we combined many different smoke simulations, and rendered them together. We actually developed a system in which we took these simulations and created a wireframe of them. It allowed us to easily reposition each simulation without Maya having to deal with the whole simulation.
The simulations were rendered in DNB, a proprietary voxel renderer that allowed the team to work in an economical way. Had they been rendered in the regular pipeline, the simulations would have clogged up the companys entire render farm.
Of Rubble and Debris
The most demanding shot arguably was a huge pull back which starts in the midst of the Ground Zero rubble and rises through a fully CG post collapse environment, past the remains of the towers and up into the environment. The shot was broken up into three different parts an underground set, a Ground Zero set and a CG environment that were combined in one seamless camera move. The final aerial view on the environment was exceptionally complex, Ellis says. We had thousands of debris on the ground, city blocks all around, and a huge amount of dust and particles in the air Using photographic reference, we managed to build up the correct topography of Ground Zero, as well as the key structures. We first positioned large pieces of geometry, which we then dressed and covered with hundreds of thousands of individual smaller chunks of debris. It gave us the overall impression of mayhem without having to build every single piece of debris. Since the shot was comprised of some 150 layers, we had to get the camera move signed off pretty early, as each modification meant a two-week turnaround!
To create the thousands of debris and papers floating all over the area, Double Negative developed Dynamite, a rigid body simulator that plugs into Maya. Each type of debris was treated and rendered as a separate element, and then combined with the other elements in Shake. Dynamite was also used to add floating debris in many live action street shots.
The Interior Perspective
While Double Negative tackled the exterior shots, Giant Killer Robots and Animal Logic focused on interior shots of the towers collapsing. The concourse disintegration was produced by Animal Logic, with Andrew Brown acting as visual effects supervisor. The lobby and concourse environment models were based on a LIDAR scan of the set done by Robert Gardiner, a freelance scanning expert. The geometries were then textured with photographs of the real set. The crew also used locked camera projections for the shots where the floor splits open. All the elements were produced in Maya, rendered with RenderMan through the Mayaman interface, and then composited in Shake. Most 3D elements were pre-composited to a base beauty pass stage in Digital Fusion before being sent to 2D. All 3D elements were produced as floating point OpenEXR image sequences to give the Shake artists enough range to work with.
To animate the disintegration, we used two main methods, 3D lead Will Reichelt explains. The first was a sleight-of-hand trick where we would strategically break and animate the large areas of geometry (like a concrete pillar) by hand, and then fill in the gaps with animated particles instanced with smaller pieces of debris, to give the illusion of one complete structure breaking down. This worked well for areas, which werent seen particularly clearly. For areas of the set which needed to break properly, we used Rubble, a collection of proprietary tools designed to break up solid volume meshes into solid fragments with useful texture coordinates. The Rubble interface simplified the process of simulating fragments using a combination of Maya rigid bodies and the Novodex physics engine, which we could then bake into keyframes for later tweaking.
The large amounts of geometry making up the debris quickly made the scenes quite large. So, before any image could be rendered, the more complex meshes were stored as delayed read-archives. The photoreal look of the concourse was achieved by using an indirect illumination pass in conjunction with the standard diffuse, specular, reflection, ambient and incandescence layers.
Many additional live-action elements including fire, dust, smoke, ash, etc. were shot specifically to enhance the digital effects or as visual reference for what would finally become CG, 2D lead Krista Jordan says. The type of live action element dictated whether or not it was shot on blue, black or green. In the end, the larger shots had well over 200 layers each. These layers were constantly changing and being updated as the shots developed.
To develop the ash cloud, the team employed a fusion of volumetric and geometric elements. We used a combination of Maya fluids, particle simulations and custom tools designed to control localized areas of the fluid and enhance the interaction between the fluid and particle simulations. Our proprietary volumetric rendering system Steam, originally developed for Stealth, was extended and used to provide procedural detail and lighting. This was supplemented with instanced shrapnel and debris particle simulations to provide internal hard detail, boiling around the leading edge of the cloud.
On their part, Giant Killer Robots and visual effects supervisor Richard McBride combined multiple 2D and 3D elements to create the scene in which firemen run away from the blast wave of dust and debris from the collapsing Tower Two.
A Very Special Project
When one works on a project like WTC, the feeling is clearly different from creating effects shots for your regular superhero fare. There was indeed a certain degree of emotion, and the desire to get everything absolutely just right. We didnt want to take any liberty with the truth of what was actually happening, Double Negatives Ellis concludes. The whole production team was very sensitive to that. With WTC, we were basically asked to recreate a key moment in history. That made it all very special to us.
Alain Bielik is the founder and editor of renowned effects magazine S.F.X, published in France since 1991. He also contributes to various French publications and occasionally to Cinéfex. Last year, he organized a major special effects exhibition at the Musée International de la Miniature in Lyon, France.


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BOCA RATON, Fla. — Office Depot is planning to close at least 400 U.S. stores, as its merger with OfficeMax resulted in an overlap of retail locations that can be consolidated.
The combined company's financial results beat Wall Street estimates for the January-March quarter and it raised its full year forecast for operating income on Tuesday.
Its shares jumped 17 percent in morning trading.
The office supply retailer had 1,900 stores in the U.S. at the end of the first quarter, so the plans call for closing about 21 percent of them. Office Depot and OfficeMax Inc. completed their $1.2 billion deal last November.
Office Depot said it has not quantified the number of jobs that will be affected by the store closures but that it will look to place its best talent impacted by the store closings into new roles, wherever possible.
Chairman and CEO Roland Smith said in a statement that one of the company's goals this year was to improve how its stores are positioned in North America to meet customer demand better and ensure that it's well positioned in the markets it serves.
"The overlapping retail footprint resulting from the merger provides us with a unique opportunity to consolidate and optimize our store portfolio, while maintaining the retail presence necessary to serve our customer," Smith said.
Office Depot said Tuesday that it expects to close 150 U.S. stores this year, mostly in the fourth quarter. It closed 14 stores in the first quarter, a company spokeswoman said.
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Edwin Outwater Conducts Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5
In the final classical performance of a season saturated with the creative talents of the next generation of symphonic conductors, experience one of North America's most creative, dynamic and engaging conductors, Edwin Outwater. Music Director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in Ontario, Canada, Maestro Outwater has gained international attention for his innovative projects and brilliant performances as he revitalized the orchestra. This up and coming star leads The Phoenix Symphony in one of Prokofiev's most popular works, his Symphony No. 5. Also, listen as William Wolfram, bronze medalist at the prestigious Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow and silver medalist at both the William Kapell and the Naumburg International Piano Competitions, attacks Liszt's poetic yet unconventional Piano Concerto No. 2.