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If Janet can do it, I can!"Beware...it's easy to get into the habit of eating whatever you want."
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Height: 5'6"
Age: 48
Start Date: 4/2/2008
Current BMR: 1462 calories
TTL Energy Requirement: 1587 calories
Goal Waist-to-hip ratio: 0.80 (I think I measured this wrong)
Goal Body Fat %: Between 21%
I'm originally from Texas, but have lived in beautiful Colorado for 9 years now. I've danced most of my life, and have been on some pretty competitive dance teams...the most well known of which is the Kilgore Rangerettes. Any other Rangerettes here? If ...
Height: 5'6"
Age: 48
Start Date: 4/2/2008
Current BMR: 1462 calories
TTL Energy Requirement: 1587 calories
Goal Waist-to-hip ratio: 0.80 (I think I measured this wrong)
Goal Body Fat %: Between 21%
I'm originally from Texas, but have lived in beautiful Colorado for 9 years now. I've danced most of my life, and have been on some pretty competitive dance teams...the most well known of which is the Kilgore Rangerettes. Any other Rangerettes here? If so, contact me! Maybe we can create our own team.
I think the fact that we had such strict weight limits (due to the fact that TV adds 10 lbs) has really stuck with me throughout my life. I find that I tend to correlate my self worth with my weight. I guess it keeps me in shape more than mmany women my age (I'm 47), but I tend to not be content unless I'm in that perfect weight range.
There are two potential obstacles that make losing weight difficult for me...hypothyroidism and menopause. I made the decision one day that I was going to research, research, research until I found a lifestyle plan that I can stick with forever. That's doesn't just mean food. It's the "whole self" idea...body, mind, spirit. I promised myself that Id never give up until I find the plan, &/or learn the skills, that work for me. Needless to say, I'm still on that journey, and it may be something that I'll always need to delve into...at least occasionally. But I thought since this is about helpful tips, I'd share a few with ya'll that, after years of research and reading countless books and websites, will hopefully help ya'll in your weight loss endeavors too. :o)
There's a lot of things I'm learning about why I eat when I shouldn't (i.e. mental triggers, visual triggers, unconscious sabatoging thoughts, etc.). A great book to read for this is The Beck Solution. I am slowly but surely starting to learn skills that I think will eventually result in permanent weight loss, and that makes me very happy. :o)
I own my a growing company, so I don't have a lot of time to cook. Yet I find that keeping variety in my food plan really helps me stay on track and not feel deprived. So trying to keep from getting into that slump where I eat the same things is a constant challenge. One goal I'm trying to start living by is to try a new recipe at least twice a month...whether I get it online or in cook books. The BLC cookbooks have awesome and easy recipes, BTW!
This journal is really helping me to realize not only how surprisingly bad some of the foods I thought were okay are, but it also makes me think twice before eating b/w meals, cuz I really don't want to have to write it down! LOL!
My other big goal is to move more. I sit at a desk all day for my job. I'm always looking for activities that I enjoy (i.e. dancing, swiming, biking, walking, hiking, playing w/my 13 year old son, etc. ). I don't have problems with this when the weather is nice, but now that I'm in Colorado, it's hard to get outside when the weather's cold...BRRR! So that's when I really have to work to stay motivated to workout regularly.
I posted a pic of me in my Rangerette outfit when I was in Sport magazine, because that is a visual motivator for me to get back down at least CLOSE to what weight!
Below is the current Motivation & Skills CheckList I try to read daily. It changes regularly. If you have any pointers, I'd love to hear them!
My Motivation & Skills CheckList
�NEW! Water or spray your plants. It gets you off your lazy butt and brings joy when your plants are thriving & looking so beautiful.
�NEW! Instead of eating more than you planned in a meal, stick a piece of gum in your mouth after your done eating to avoid temptation...or drink a Diet Pepsi instead.
�Make eating healthfully a higher priority than pleasing other people or satisfying a momentary pleasure.
�Tolerate cravings & hunger w/o giving in. NO CHOICE! I feel hot when I remain strong against temptation.
�Strengthen your resistance muscle. �It�s fun to say �No.� Every time you resist eating something you shouldn�t, you�re strengthening your tendency to resist in the future. Rememebr how Janet Jackson said it's easy to fall back into that pattern of eating whatever you want, so don't allow that to happen again.
�Retrain your brain: content weight of 142. It doesn't matter what you weigh, cuz you're gonna be practicing these new habits forever.
�Resist temptation of momentary pleasure vs regret or physical misery from overeating.
�Distinguish b/w hunger, desire & cravings.
�If you're still hungry after a meal, wait 20 minutes & you'll be surprised how full you feel by that time.
Never eat from a bag or box. Always portion out single-serving sizes into a bowl or onto a plate. Put the rest away before you BEGIN to eat.
�CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS. I can be loose w/ my eating OR I can be thinner. I can't be both.
� I'll CARE LATER. I may not care right now, but I will care a LOT when I get on the scale.
� Work to enjoy life more often & get my "outdorphins" (as Coach Dean calls them) on a regular basis.
�ID triggers that evoke sabotaging thoughts & eating in unhealthful ways or times
*Sight of food around house (i.e. coffee table, kitchen, cabinets, fridge), on tv, on commercials, on billboards, �cafe� signs
*When alone, I feel safe to cheat (so no one will know my weaknesses).
*Sitting on couch (not sure if it�s that place or watching tv that does it). Solution: Move to another room or find something to do like a manicure; pedicure; brush, wash or spray Abby; water plants; play w/guinea pig or cat; exercise; clean hs; visit SparkPeople; journal; etc.
*If I�m tired, run down, or don�t feel good, I tend to overeat.
*Nerves, frustration, anxiety, anger.
*The day we buy groceries is always a day I have problems resisting overeating.
*Alcohol causes me to have a hard time resisting cravings or munchies.
*I�ll have to figure out a skill to resist that.
*Stop sabotaging thoughts like, �I shouldn�t eat this, but that looks/smells so good. I really want it so...[there it goes in my mouth].�
*Don�t let menopause & hypothyroidism be an excuse.
�If/when you make a mistake or have a moment of weakness, focus on:
*Instead of beating your self up saying things like, �I�m so weak. I can�t control myself. I may as well give up.� Instead say, �I made a mistake, but I�m determined to do it right this time so what trigger caused me to give in & what skill can I use to counter that trigger next time...because you can do this Leslie. Remember....persistence and commitment will bring great rewards! �
*No one said this is going to be an easy, flaw-free journey. The best successes are the ones you have to work for!
�Beware of people who sabatoge your efforts
�Remember! Menu w/variety keeps you from feeling deprived!
*Try one new recipe each week (online, cookbooks, hard drive �recipes� folder). Don�t forget the BLC roasted cauliflower...YUM!
*Try writing up a weekly menu on Fridays before grocery shopping.
�Plate tricks:
*Put all food on table before eating. Your mind thinks you eat more than eating one thing, then going for something else.
*Use a salad plate. Brain thinks it�s getting more food when the plate looks full & not deprived.
*Distribution: � greens, � meat, � carb.
�Yoga or meditate to destress
�Commit to working out at least two mornings @/week plus Power Plate M & W. Read article �Exercise for Non-Morning Persons.� Play MP3 for motivation. BG & I have fun walking, dancing, wrestling.
It's amazing how the little things can make a big difference when it comes to the daily caolories you can burn!
�While waiting for microwave, jog around the house opr do laps around the office to burn up to 500 extra calories/day!*
�When walking from room to room, JOG instead of walking!
�If someone wants something from another floor, you run get it!
�LAUGH! Laughing for 10 to 15 minutes (like when watching a funny half-hour sitcom) can burn about 40 calories. Sounds miniscule, but a daily chuckle could add up to a loss of about 4 pounds over a year. *
�Standing up boosts your metabolism! Rather than standing when kids are at the park, standing or walking can add up to 120 calories. *
�Fidgeting helps ward off nerves and burns extra calories! I shake my leg constantly, & it drives my husband crazy...which makes me wanna do it even more!
stand up and walk for 5 minutes every hour, at the end of the day I've walked at least 50 to 60 minutes.
�Desk job? Keep a Gaiam Mini-Stepper ($69) under your desk, and pedal while on the phone or talking.*
�Too busy for a workout? Walk for 5 minutes every hour & at the end of the day you will have walked at least 50 to 60 minutes burning an extra 240 calories/day!*
�Get a jump start on flatter abs before your feet even hit the floor, says Freytag. Simply draw your knees toward your chest 25 to 50 times to rev your energy, tone your belly, and burn 15 to 20 calories. Add a set at night to double your burn.*
�Dance to some upbeat music while you dress & burn 55 extra calories as you get dressed and pack lunch. Your kids'll love it plus you start your day off in a great mood! Burns up to 55 calories/hour.*
�Get a jump start on flatter abs before your feet even hit the floor. Simply draw your knees toward your chest 25 to 50 times to rev your energy, tone your belly, and burn 15 to 20 calories in 5 minutes. Add a set at night to double your burn.*
�Laps! Make it a rule to wear shoes comfy enough for a 5-mile walk, and look for ways to add bits of strolling all day long. Lap the grocery store before you pick up your first item, take a 15-minute midday walk, or try things like taking the stairs to use a bathroom on a different floor. Burns up to 375 additional calories/day!*Ideas from Prevention.com's Fitness section.
Breakfast: 175
Morning snack: 135
Lunch: 345
Afternoon snack: 135
Dinner: 340
Evening Snack: 70 calories
Then if I go a little over, I'll still be within my "range."
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Wk1 - 166.0lbs : I'm on my way!
Wk2 - 164.8
Wk3 - 162.2
Wk4 - 162.2
Reward when I hit 159: Manicure/Pedicure
Reward when I hit 150
Reward: New outfit!
I'll work on the rest later.
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Daily mediation: "Tolerate cravings & hunger w/o giving in...I promise you won�t starve!"
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-Log food, exercise daily in order to meet goals.
-Get familar w/SparkTeams to see which ones "click."
-Report weight on "weigh-in" board so you're held accountable.
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Favorite workout things:
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-Hiking trail book
Favorite Snack:
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Favorite Workout Song:
"Dance Dance" - Fall Out Boy
Favorite Cookbook:
Biggest Loser Cookbook
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Whats good everybody? It's been a while since I posted somethinig here. Now I'm officially back and will be droppin' a lot of exclusives. If you want something very bad, request it in the forum and I will drop It asap. Let's start, this joint right here is from the year 2000, the R&B group So Plush was signed 2 Columbia/Trackmasters and had a hit song featuring Ja Rule, don't remember the name tho. This is the 1st song off their promo release "So Plush Advance". It's produced by Darkchild who also produced "Can't Leave 'Em Alone" by Ciara & 50.
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Does anyone have the peony Francoise Ortegat as some pictures I look at show a bright red but another shows a burgandy. The description is dark red to black so very confusing.
I'm almost certain that they vary between those shades. Also remember that pictures on the internet are never 'true' colours - so much depends on the monitor you are using, graphics settings and the camera used to take the original picture. They only way to be certain is to buy one in bloom from a GC etc.
When photographing a dark red to black bloom it would be difficult to show the texture of the petals without lighting it well, which would then make the colour appear lighter/redder, as of course, there is no such thing as a 'true colour' because it depends upon the amount of light available to be reflected back into your eye.
Actually, Dove, there are scientific scales for measuring 'true' colours. It's just not possible to do it by looking at a photo.
Yes I know shades vary on the monitor and how strong the sunlight is when the photo is taken which was why I hoped someone was growing it and they cld tell me what they considered was the true colour. Maybe i ll just go for a white or pink.
Hi galest, what I was trying to say is that each individual plant of this cultivar will very likely vary, some being darker than others. You will probably find that if you buy several from the same supplier, they will be the same though (as propagated from the same stock plant), but one bought from another supplier will be slightly different. The stuff about internet colours was incidental.
Ok thanks. Every website describes it a deep burgandy so ive decided to take a gamble and buy it especially as its described as having a strong perfume.
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Actually, Dove, there are scientific scales for measuring 'true' colours. It's just not possible to do it by looking at a photo.
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ROLLA, Mo. (AP) — A broadcaster is reporting that a southwest Missouri judge has declared a mistrial in the case of a man accused of raping and killing a 9-year-old girl in 2007.
KYTV in Springfield attributes its report to Phelps County Circuit Court Clerk Jill Cooksey. The trial for Christopher Collings had been scheduled to begin Monday.
Collings and 28-year-old David Spears are charged with first-degree murder, forcible rape and statutory rape in the Nov. 3, 2007, death of Rowan Ford of Stella.
Rowen disappeared from her home in Newton County and her body was found several days later in a cave about 10 miles south in McDonald County.
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This group has been formed to gather the people who enjoy Japanese anime and all of its facets, to salute the people from the land of the Rising Sun.
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After playing Corpse Party(both of them),
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A few weeks after I get home from WorldCon, on August 29, I'm participating in the "2nd Annual Writing for Charity Event," which I kind of wish had a cooler name, but there you go. This is a mini-conference put together by a group of Utah authors and illustrators with a focus on children's books. It's going to have a lot of local luminaries like Brandon Mull and Shannon Hale, giving specific writing advice in panels and workshops and smaller breakout sessions. Tickets are $45 ($50 at the door), all of which goes to support the Treehouse Children's Museum, a great non-profit facility that has a strong focus on family literacy. It's going to be awesome, so if you're an aspiring writer in the area I strongly encourage you to drop by.
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Have left it for a while to let you all think it is not going to happen, but a month or so ago I suggested a Forum new years ride. Along the lines of the Birthday ride, and I wish I could find out who to blame for that one.
This is what I will be doing on January 1st 2006. At 3pm GMT (or London Time) I will on my bike doing a 1 hour ride. Not certain if the 3pm will be at the start, the middle or the end of the ride, but My 1 hour ride will be around 3pm. This will allow many of you on the forum to participate in a Forum Virtual ride. Knowing that some of you will not be up to a 6am ride at your local time, then this time is completely flexible, and so is the day if you are off visiting relations or having to work, or are just completely under the weather from the previous nights celebrations.
Object is to have as many of us riding the new year in, and as many as possible doing it at the same time.
Then there are those of us that will have weather that will not allow you to ride. It doesn't matter if you do it on a trainer, or down the gym, or even just go for a brisk walk. Then there are those of us that will not be able to participate , so their objective is two slices of Pie- preferanby of Irma's standard, to keep up the spirit and to provide Virtual sustinence to the rest of us.
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I decided to bring a taste of Brittany home with me, and so the day before we left I bought a couple of crabs.
I boiled and prepared them (You can see how I prepare crabs, here) and once they were cool I wrapped them and put them in the fridge.
We brought them home packed in a cool bag with several ice packs around them. I am glad to say they travelled well, and were still cold when I unpacked them. We ate them with a soda bread that I had baked in Brittany and a delicious wholemeal loaf that my younger son had baked. (His brother is serving in Afghanistan and I don't think home cooked crab would really travel well there!)
I think I may make this a regular 'coming home from France' treat.
|Wonderful crab and home baked bread
|The French fish counter
|You may recognise this shop
It was the one featured in Monty Hall's
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|Mussels, oysters and other wonderful delights
|These oysters are farmed just along the coast from us
at Carentec
|How much of this food is just left sitting on the rocks
here in the UK?
|The water the crabs are in has distorted this photograph
|The cooked crab
|Once sorted I packed the crab in foil and a large
zip lock bag
|It travelled well, and only required unwrapping before
|This tasted better and fresher then any crab I have
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Winner of the National Book Award for The Noonday Demon and a board member of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Columbia Medical School, Solomon began seeing illness and identity as related when he covered the deaf pride movement in the 1990s. Here, he expands on this notion by exploring how families deal with children who fall outside the perceived boundaries of normal--those with dwarfism, Down syndrome, or exceptional genius, for instance, or who commit serious crimes--showing how both family and children redefine themselves. Not specialized; there will be broad interest.[Page 52]. (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
A profoundly moving new work of research and narrative by National Book Award-winner Solomon (The Noonday Demon) explores the ways that parents of marginalized children--being gay, dwarf, severely disabled, deaf, autistic, schizophrenic, the product of rape, or given to criminal tendencies or prodigious musical talent, to name a few he chose--have been transformed and largely enriched by caring for their high-needs children. These children are marginalized by society, classified traditionally as ill and abnormal, and shunned; in the cases of those who are deaf or homosexual, they were forced to conform to mainstream strictures. A seasoned journalist and LGBT activist, Solomon relies on anecdotes to convey the herculean tasks facing parents and caregivers of special-needs children because "stories acknowledge chaos," and he takes great pains to probe the dark side of parental despair and anger, as well as ennobling efforts of resilience and strength. Sifting through arguments about nature versus nurture, Solomon finds some startling moments of discovery, for example, among Deaf activists who ferociously cling to their marginality, parents of children with Down syndrome who express their children's infinite "mystery and beauty," and the truculent compassion of Dylan Klebold's parents, 10 years after the Columbine High School shootings. Solomon's own trials of feeling marginalized as gay, dyslexic, and depressive, while still yearning to be a father, frame these affectingly rendered real tales about bravely playing the cards one's dealt. (Nov.)[Page ]. Copyright 2012 PWxyz LLC


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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- An expensive legislative fight between a professional organization for North Carolina dentists and companies that help manage dental practices has ended for now with legislation both sides say is a good step forward.
A legislative committee said Wednesday it supports a bill labeled as a compromise by lobbyists representing dental service organizations and the North Carolina Dental Society.
The society has pushed since last year legislation that would have regulated more closely dental organizations to ensure they were not determining patient treatment.
The management groups formed an alliance that hired several lobbyists to stop the bill and ran television ads pushing their case. The society ran its own commercial.
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April 30, 2012
Guests Update
We are proud to announce that Terri Doty, Stephen Hoff, Brittany Karbowski, and Josh Grelle will be guests for AnimeIowa 2012. If you like to find out more them, be sure to check out the Guests page.
April 23, 2012
Cosplay Rules and Sign-up Posted
Rules and online sign-up for the Mainstage Cosplay competition have now been posted. Mainstage Cosplay is a great venue to show off your latest Cosplay masterpiece and compete for Cosplay dominance! For those who wish to show off their Cosplay in a less public manner, there is also the Hall Cosplay competition. For any questions or concerns, be sure to email email@example.com.
April 19, 2012
Marriott Room Block is Full
What does this sell out mean for those of you who still would like a room at the Coralville Marriott? You should sign up for the Hotel Room Waiting List! Full details and FAQs are HERE.
April 15, 2012
Hotel Room Reservations Begin Monday, April 16 at 10:00 AM
Ready to make your hotel room reservation for AnimeIowa 2012? Our room block officially opens on Monday, April 16 at 10:00 AM! So finalize your roomie plans and set your alarm clock! Historically, we completely fill the Coralville Marriott in just a few days, so we STRONGLY recommend that you make your reservations as soon as possible after the room block opens.
Check out the details on the AnimeIowa Location page. If you have additional questions, follow the links to the Room Reservation FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page which is HERE on our Forums. You may also wish to consider the special "extra half-day" option, that allows you to delay your Sunday checkout time until after closing ceremonies (6:00 PM)!
April 5, 2012
Registration Reminder
A reminder that Pre-Registration for AnimeIowa 2012 ends May 31st, 2012. After that you will have to wait in line to register at the convention and pay full price. There is also the possibility that we will reach our registration cap and have to turn people away. You can register online using Paypal at the Online Registration page.
April 5, 2012
AMV Contest Submissions Now Open
Submissions for the AnimeIowa 2012 AMV contest are now open! Show off your editing skills in a no holds barred competition (fine print: some holds may be barred)! Contest submissions close on July 6th, 2012 so don't delay. If you have any questions or concerns be sure to contact email@example.com.
April 4, 2012
Dealers Room Sign-up Posted
Are you interested in selling your wares at AnimeIowa 2012? Good news! The contracts, pricing, and policies for obtaining a booth at AnimeIowa 2012 have been posted to the Dealers Sign-up page. Be sure to sign-up in a timely manner. Same as last year, those interested in Artist Alley sign up for the same booths as Dealers. Any questions can be directed to firstname.lastname@example.com.
March 26, 2012
Dealers Room Update
Sign-up for the AnimeIowa 2012 Dealers Room and Artists Alley should be opening before the end of March. More details (pricing, contract details, etc) will be posted to the website when they become available, so be sure to check back.


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The Maoists Sunday night carried out a deadly attack on a patrol party of paramilitary Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district in which six jawans and a civilian driver were killed, police said.
"Dozens of armed Maoists ambushed a vehicle carrying a patrol team of the CISF jawans and sprayed bullets all around. Six troopers were killed besides a civilian driver," Narendra Khare, district superintendent of police, Dantewada, told IANS.


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Thursday's NBA Capsules
Friday, April 6, 2012
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Carmelo Anthony scored 19 points, Tyson Chandler had 12 points and 12 rebounds and the New York Knicks defeated the Orlando Magic 96-80 on Thursday night.
J.R. Smith and Toney Douglas each added 15 points for the Knicks, who won for just the third time in their last 13 visits to Orlando. New York also hit 13 3-pointers.
Jason Richardson scored 16 points and Glen Davis 15 to lead Orlando.
The Magic's loss came on the heels of coach Stan Van Gundy's comments Thursday morning that including him saying he'd heard from top team officials that Dwight Howard has asked that he be fired.
Howard was held to just eight points and eight rebounds.
Orlando has now lost five straight games for the first time since 2007.
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — Greg Monroe had 18 points and seven rebounds, Rodney Stuckey scored 15 points in his return from injury, and Ben Wallace made five key free throws down the stretch to lead Detroit.
Even with Monroe playing well, Pistons coach Lawrence Frank went with the 37-year-old Wallace down the stretch to help stop John Wall's penetration.
The Wizards were missing Nene and Trevor Booker with foot injuries, but rallied from a 20-point deficit to pull within five late in the game. Wall finished with 28 points and 10 assists, while Kevin Seraphin had 15 points before fouling out.
CHICAGO (AP) — Luol Deng scored 18 of his 26 points in the second half and Joakim Noah added 17 points and nine rebounds to rally Chicago from 13 points down in the first half.
The Bulls again played without Derrick Rose, out due to a strained groin for the 12th consecutive game. Chicago, which has been without Rose for 22 games this season, improved to 15-7 in his absence — including 8-4 during the latest stretch.
The Bulls pulled away in the fourth quarter to end its first two-game losing streak of the season.
Paul Pierce scored 22 points for Boston, who has lost two in a row after a winning a season-high five straight.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Blake Griffin made three straight jumpers in the closing minutes to finish with 14 points and nine rebounds, lifting Los Angeles past Sacramento.
Griffin's last jumper with 2:18 remaining put the Clippers ahead by three, and they held on to rebound from a loss to the Lakers a night earlier that ended a six-game winning streak — the franchise's best in 20 years — and slowed momentum to overtake its crosstown rival in the Pacific Division.
Randy Foye scored 20 points and Chris Paul had 13 points and eight assists for Los Angeles, closing to two games back of the Lakers. The Clippers host Sacramento on Saturday night.
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British scientists have edged closer to developing a "holy grail" universal influenza vaccine that would tackle all strains of the illness.
Researchers at Imperial College London (ICL) have drawn on the results of a study into the 2009 swine flu pandemic, which found those with more virus-killing immune cells in their blood at the start of the pandemic avoided severe illness.
They believe a vaccine that stimulates the body to produce more of these cells - known as CD8 Ts - could be effective at preventing flu viruses, including new strains that cross into humans from birds and pigs, from causing serious disease.
Professor Ajit Lalvani from the National Heart and Lung Institute at ICL, who led the study, said: "New strains of flu are continuously emerging, some of which are deadly, and so the holy grail is to create a universal vaccine that would be effective against all strains of flu."
Influenza kills between 250,000 and 500,000 globally per year, according to the World Health Organisation.
The ICL announcement comes after scientists in America said they thought they might have developed "universal" protection against the killer virus.
Speaking in May, the US researchers said the vaccine was created by a team working for US healthcare company Sanofi using techniques that have also raised hopes of a new generation of vaccines against other diseases.
Prof Lalvani's team recruited 342 staff and students at Imperial to take part in their study in autumn 2009, following the outbreak of the flu.
Volunteers donated blood samples and were given nasal swabs, supplying regular updated information about their health.
Researchers found those who fell more severely ill with flu had fewer CD8 T cells in their blood, and those who caught flu but had no symptoms or only mild symptoms had more of these cells.
Prof Lalvani said: "Our findings suggest that by making the body produce more of this specific type of CD8 T cell, you can protect people against symptomatic illness. This provides the blueprint for developing a universal flu vaccine.
"We already know how to stimulate the immune system to make CD8 T cells by vaccination.
"Now that we know these T cells may protect, we can design a vaccine to prevent people getting symptoms and transmitting infection to others.
"This could curb seasonal flu annually and protect people against future pandemics."
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Wow,looks demonic) Nice!
The Haunted is a fast paced thirdperson horror-action game with focus on a intense multiplayer experience that is all about making a stand and liberating cursed places from the minions of evil. The game features several multiplayer modes such as coop or demons .vs. humans, where enemies are spawned and controlled by players. The outstanding visuals lay a perfect tone for the gameplay.
Wow,looks demonic) Nice!
Look at the details... just amazing!
Nice! GJ, can't wait :D
cant wait to play it with nobody
still cant believe UT has failed so hard :'(
look around how many people say "awesome" everywhere around.
But to play it frequently it's not awesome enough? Or why can't we find players playing it?
Maybe there's too many other good games around.
Looks so sweet! :D
That is intensely awesome. Lighting looks brilliant! I am enjoying this engine's potential.


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25-30 years old your chances are about 20% each cycle.
30-35 years old your chances are about 15% each cycle.
After 35 years old your chances are about 10% per cycle
I realize now how blessed I am. I had no idea how low the odds are to get pregnant each cycle!
I got pregnant on the first try, but later miscarried. It took 3 months after my miscarriage to get pregnant with our first. I was 23. Our second was a happy surprise, so, yeah... I was 25.
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Indiana University
Join fellow I Association members and their families for our pre-game tailgates before each IU home game. The tent will be located across from Gate E9 – look for the I Association flag – and the tailgates will start approximately two hours before kickoff. Enjoy great food, a pre-game "pep talk" from Coach Mark Deal and an opportunity to mingle with great friends and former teammates. GO IU!
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the reigning champion in self-contained rear-lights, the dinotte 300r
has anyone done a side-by-side with the niteflux red zone 4?
300r red zone 4 $200 $100 135g 75g 4-12 hours 8-100+ hours a few settings a lot of settings li-ion li-ion usb charge usb charge
i wouldn't expect the RZ4 to be as bright as the 300r, but from what i can find the RZ4 may be better for city riding while the 300r may still be the king of the open road.
another small detail that favours the RZ4 is the smooth finish, which should shed crud better than the 300r's ridged finish over the lenses.
i'm kind of thinking that the RZ4 would be hard to beat, paired with a hotshot or moon shield/serfas TL-60 (as one reviewer called it, the rifle and hand grenade approach). but i can only tell so much without having the RZ4 or the 300r in front of me.


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Bolarus IX (also known as Bolarus, Bolius IX, or Bolias) was the ninth planet in the Bolarus system in the Bolian sector of the Alpha Quadrant. It was a Federation member and homeworld of the Bolians, a warp capable humanoid species. (TNG: "Allegiance"; DS9: "The Forsaken"; VOY: "Unity", "In the Flesh")
During the 2360s, Bolarus IX shared an uneasy cease-fire with the Moropa. (TNG: "Allegiance")
Petty officer Zim Brott's wife, co-husband and two children lived on Bolarus while he was serving on Deep Space 9. (DS9: "Field of Fire")
In an early draft of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Reckoning", it was Bolarus and the Bolian system, and not Benzar, that had been captured by the Dominion and liberated by the Romulan Star Empire. [1]
The Star Trek: Star Charts (page 56) and the chart "United Federation of Planets I", inadvertently had the Bolarus system in the Beta Quadrant. The Bolarus system was a single star system. Its primary was a Class B star with a magnitude of +3, which was ten times brighter than Sol. Bolarus IX (Bole) was listed as a member planet of the Federation in 2378.


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In March 2010, Joe Kennedy of Pandora, Patrick Hurley of Skytide, Alex Bernstein of North Social and other Oakland business leaders came together to figure out a cool way to connect innovative technology companies in Oakland. "InOak" was born.
As a group of volunteers, our first two years were focused on hosting a variety of networking and educational events. In late 2011, we realized we had outgrown our inwardly focused InOak brand and sought to find a new name that clearly reflects our intentions to connect technology companies. In March 2012, we launched our new 2.Oakland (pronounced Two Point Oakland) brand at the Pandora headquarters and have never looked back!
Today, 2.Oakland is an organization comprised of companies and individuals working and living in Oakland, California who are dedicated to creating a thriving tech and innovation ecosystem for Oakland and the East Bay. Through programs and events, 2.Oakland supports existing tech companies as well as those organizations seeking to relocate here. Founding member companies and organizations include Pandora, Skytide, Oakland Local, Tech Liminal, North Social, the Downtown & Lake Merritt Community Benefit District, IDotConnect and a variety of Oakland-based professionals.
The Steering Committee (all members are pictured above!) are a passionate group of volunteers who are committed to grow 2.Oakland into a financially sustainable organization. Through 2016, our key activities will be:
- hosting public tech events (networking / workforce recruiting) and educational
- building a tech network of Oakland and East Bay tech companies to become ambassadors in our Business Attraction efforts
- advocating with City of Oakland and other public organizations to resolve issues that impact a tech-friendly business environment.
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The Digital World, inhabited by the Digimon, is a virtual space created by network developers. The project was prepared by creating an island or a continent where Digimon could be made closer to humans. The result of this became "visualized" as the Digital World. This world is located within the host computer, which is called Yggdrasil, and is controlled and managed by artificial intelligence. The Digimon is an Analogous Life Form, and each Digimon has an independent A.I. Digimon grow up solely by the Law of the Jungle. This causes them to go through several steps of Digivolution to become more powerful in order to survive. The Digital World is another world, which exists on human computer networks. It exists alongside the Real World of the humans, but it is in a different dimension. By growing larger and stronger, it will become possible for the Digital World to be actualized in the Real World.
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Single European corporate tax base moves a step closer
The European Parliament has welcomed the EU Commission's proposals for a single basis of tax assessment for companies operating in more than one member state.
The proposals will form part of a debate later this year, but MEPs have already indicated they support the idea of introducing an optional common consolidated tax base which will allow businesses to choose between existing national tax bases and an EU tax base.
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It's not just enough to watch a movie anymore. We have to interact with them, to watch the special bonus features, to discuss and dissect them until they become something even greater. But what better way to truly interact with the movies we love than to see where they were born?
Fortunately, there's probably one near you.
This is for the film geek on the move, someone who'd like a few extra stops on their summer road trip. It's not enough by a long shot, but here's one for every state – filming locations that you can visit.
Alabama – Big Fish
The film was shot in several areas around Montgomery, including Wetumpka, Lowndesboro, and Millbrook. While the town of Spectre was a set, the fictional town Ashton was actually Prattville and Wetumpka combined, the latter is where you can also find Ed Bloom's house.
Alaska – Insomnia
This is pretty borderline. Actually it's literally borderline, because this film was shot right on the border between Hyder, AK and that other country… you know the one. The lake itself was in the valley of Bear Glacier – which is in Stewart B.C. – however much of the film was also shot in the neighboring town of Hyder.
Arizona – Psycho
While the Bates Motel is resting comfortably over at Universal Studios in Hollywood, it certainly wasn't the only hotel in that film. Remember?
The film starts with Marion post-getting it on at the Jefferson Hotel in Phoenix, a building that still exists today. Unfortunately for anyone looking to have a love affair and steal a bunch of cash, it isn't a hotel anymore.
Arkansas – Gone With The Wind
Nope, not Georgia. In fact – you can count the number of places in Georgia this film was shot in on one hand if you multiply the answer you get by zero. Freaking movie magic, right?
That being said – if you have a chance you can see what is said to be the only standing location left from this film: Pugh's Old Mill in North Little Rock. It's the mill featured in the beginning credits of the film and it's on the corner of Fairway Ave and Lakeshore Dr.
California – Die Hard, T2, & Back To The Future
Obviously a lot of films to pick from – so I'm just going to take you on the tour that I took myself on when I was in LA.
First, take a trip to Century City where you'll find the Fox Plaza AKA the Nakatomi Plaza from Die Hard. Next stop was the intersection of Hayvenhurst and Plummer – where the truck in T2 jumped off the bridge. Next there's the Gamble House at 4 Westmoreland Place in Pasadena – there you'll find Doc Brown's place of residence.
Finally if it's shopping you like you'll want to head to the Puente Hills Mall in City Of Industry. If I were you I'd park in the south lot and keep an eye out for any Libyan Nationalists.
Colorado – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Feel like taking the same plunge as Paul Newman and Robert Redford? Turns out that despite certain claims – the fall won't probably kill ya; the jump was only made to appear much more perilous than it really is at Bakers Bridge in Durango.
Connecticut – Mystic Pizza
There is a Mystic, Connecticut as well as a Mystic Pizza in which the film was named after. However the film was actually shot all over the place and while the real pizza place makes a cameo in the film, the fictional restaurant was shot in Stonington at 70 Water St.
Delaware – Dead Poet's Society
If you're looking to do a little rebelling look no further than St. Andrew's School in Middletown – a school that no doubt never gets tired of their students stands on desks while snickering. When you're done there shoot on over to the Everett Theater at 47 West Main St. in the same town and perhaps see a show. Finally – do not, I repeat, DO NOT go check out Beaver Valley Cave and start any kind of 'society' because it's actually private property. Seriously don't do it.
Florida – Edward Scissorhands
Yeah – that neighborhood actually is a place. If I had to bet if what I was seeing was a set I would have actually lost. It's a place called Lutz – and if you check out Tinsmith Circle you can actually find Edwards suburban home (just don't get arrested because, you know – people live there). You can also check out Lakeland's Southgate Shopping Center at 2512 S. Florida Ave if you feel like getting a haircut or seduced.
Georgia – Forrest Gump
No, before you ask the bench was moved into some stupid Museum. However you can still take the trip to Savannah and sit on whatever bench people think is the bench in Chippewa Square, the location where this famous scene was shot. Just be sure to bring either a box of chocolate or a dim-witted friend.
Hawaii – Jurassic Park
Pretty much any movie where people are sword fighting or killing dinosaurs or getting lost or sword lighting dinosaurs while lost is going to be shot in Hawaii. No time to go over them all – so my advice is to visit Hanapepe Town in Kauai (whatever that means) and take a helicopter descent next to Manawaiopuna Falls while humming yourself some sweet John Williams.
Idaho – Dante's Peak
No idea why they went to the town of Wallace and digitally added a volcano to make Dante's Peak, but that's what they did. It's pretty cool when you think about it – no doubt every angst-ridden teenager in the area likes to pop this one in and watch their stupid town get blown to pieces when they're feeling exceptionally insubordinate.
Illinois – The Dark Knight
I lived in Chicago for a while – and it's a great city. The best part is that countless films have taken place there. One particular location that seems to come up is Wacker Drive – a street that has been featured in such films as The Blues Brothers and that other movie about big cars that change. The most iconic scene however is the big chase scene in The Dark Knight where Batman squares off against The Joker's semi. Nothing cooler than driving around Gotham at night.
Indiana – A League Of Their Own
If you find yourself in Huntingburg Indiana you'll want to head on over to 203 S. Cherry Street and play a game of catch at League Stadium, home of the Dubois County Bombers as well as the Rockford Peaches, the team featured in A League Of Their Own.
There's really no better place to play a game of baseball, right?
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Iowa – Field Of Dreams
Right. This place. Of course it's still there. Just go check it out in Dyersville – it's open daily.
Here's something funny – for a while the field-turned-tourist attraction was actually owned by two different farmers. You see, Al owned left and center field and Don owned the house, bleachers, and infield. The best part is that not only did two different people own it, but they were also competing for the attraction. There were two gift shops, two access roads, and they closed at two different times. Sounds like a whole different type of film.
Kansas – Mars Attacks
I'm not going to lie, not much has been shot in Kansas – also there's like four Tim Burton films on this list, and I have no idea why. The man appears to like filming things in small towns in states where films aren't normally shot.
Anyway – Burns, Kansas is the town. Remember that scene at the beginning where all the cows go boom? That's Burns – it was also the site of the Donut Shop that gets exploded.
Kentucky – Stripes
When people think of Fort Knox they think of all that sweet, sweet gold. When people think of Fort Knox in terms on cinema they no doubt think of the movie Goldfinger and that plan to explode all that sweet, sweet gold. It's weird to think that this base was also the base in the Bill Murray film Stripes.
It wasn't just the base stuff either, as many of the scenes were shot around the area – including the scene where Bill stops his cab on the bridge, which was on that George Roger's Clark Memorial Bridge in Louisville. Also, the sequence in Czechoslovakia was at the old Jim Beam distillery in Clermont.
Louisiana – A Streetcar Named Desire
No kidding, the streetcar still actually exists. Number 922 of the Perley A. Thomas cars in New Orleans, the specific streetcar used for the film, was restored with 34 others and is still operational today. People actually hazily commute to work on this thing, only to get wicked tight and slosh home on it as well. Is that not weird? Imagine your daily routine involving a piece of movie memorabilia this old. It would be like taking Rosebud home every day from work.
Maine – Pet Sematary
Wow. What are the odds that a Stephen King movie was shot in Maine, right?
The town, which I believe is supposed to be around Ludlow, was actually depicted by Bangor, as well as the town of Hancock. The Creed home can be found in Hancock at 303 Point Road where there is apparently a very ironic 'Children at Play' sign right across the street. The non-burial ground cemetery can be found in Bangor.
As for the other one… the one that starts with an 'S' – I have no idea, and if I did you could bet I'd be out there burying a turtle just to see what an evil turtle would be like.
Maryland – Blair Witch Project
Turns out that the good people of Burkittsville don't really take kindly to a bunch of dicks dressed in black walking around their forest look for coffin rocks and drawing little stick figures everywhere – especially when the movie that inspired this was actually shot in neighboring areas and not the town itself. The Black Hills Forest is actually Seneca Creek State Park 25 miles away, the house at the end is the Griggs House in Patapsco State Park, and then all the little places such as the Motel and store were also shot in other towns.
Poor Burkittsville – at least Salam actually did something terrible to deserve all the goths running around on Halloween.
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Wits stays shut as #FeesMustFall protests continueEd Stoddard
Wits University in Jo'burg will remain closed on Monday as student protests continue - despite a promise by President Jacob Zuma that fees won't rise.
Bomb-sniffing elephants trained in South AfricaEd Stoddard
Elephants in South Africa are being trained to sniff our explosives, poachers and landmines in what is called the art of "bio-detection".
Turning Africa's Big 5 into hard cashEd Stoddard
Lifting ivory and rhino horn trade bans could translate to an economic turnaround for Africa, where the black market for animal products is thriving.
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Three years of labour upheaval and a political push for safety and better wages have set in motion a drive to mechanise platinum mines.
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SA government believes 300 South Africans were visiting the Lagos church, but it was not clear how many were on the spot when the tragedy struck.
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On the eastern arm of the platinum belt, a battle for supremacy is brewing between Amcu and the National Union of Mineworkers.
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Mining firms faced the logistical challenge of contacting 70 000 miners around the country when they decided to sidestep Amcu in wage negotiations.
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The ongoing strike in the platinum belt is having a detrimental effect on the pockets of not only miners, but the community at large.
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Attackers have gunned down a former NUM official at Lonmin, stoking political and industrial tensions on South Africa's volatile platinum belt.
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The mining union's change of tactics governing wage talks has suggested that last year's bloody mine violence at Marikana may be avoided this year.


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Framestore Provides VFX for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows opens on 16th December 2011 in the USA and the UK. The sequel to 2009's box office smash, Sherlock Holmes, the film sees Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law reprising their roles as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, with Guy Ritchie once more at the helm. Produced, like the first film, by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey and Dan Lin, Shadows also sees the return of cinematographer Philippe Rousselot and Visual Effects Supervisor Chas Jarrett. Framestore, too, were delighted to rejoin the crew for a second foray into Victorian mystery and mayhem.
Shadows sees our latest incarnation of Holmes matching lethal wits with his most famous literary nemesis, Professor James Moriarty (Jared Harris). When an eminent surgeon is found dead in an auction room, Holmes deduces that he has been the victim of a murder that is only one piece of a larger and much more ominous puzzle. Holmes then encounters Sim (Noomi Rapace), a Gypsy fortune teller, whose life he saves and who reluctantly agrees to help him. The investigation becomes ever more dangerous as it leads Holmes, Watson and Sim across the continent, from England to France to Germany and finally to Switzerland. But Moriarty always seems to be one step ahead as he spins a web of death and destruction - all part of a greater plan that, if he succeeds, will change the course of history…
Framestore created nearly 550 shots for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, including the film's climactic encounter at the Reichenbach Falls and a thrilling battle on a speeding train, as well as numerous elaborate environmental shots and set extension work, a scene taking place inside a gun, and some ingenious, near-subliminal puffs of breath.
Shooting took place from September 2010 to January 2011, with the majority of first unit material captured on location around the UK and at Elstree and Leavesden Studios. Supervising the shoots for Framestore were Visual Effects Supervisor Sirio Quintavalle, Compositing Supervisor Kyle McCulloch and CG Supervisor Ben White.
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Rain of TerabytesAt Shadows's gripping climax, Holmes and Moriarty meet in a fortress high in the Swiss Alps, built above the source of the colossal Reichenbach Falls. They play chess and then – as so often happens – turn to fisticuffs. Holmes realizes that the only way to definitively best his nemesis is to seize and pull him over the balcony into the waterfall below, even at the price of near-certain death. In a classic piece of Ritchie theatre, the camera is placed midway down the falls, descending and pointing upwards, as the two figures locked together plummet towards it. They are moving faster than the camera, though, and it pans as they pass it. We switch to ultra-slow motion as we watch Holmes and Moriarty's heads in close-up, inches apart and with very different expressions, before the film speed picks up again and we watch them plunging and separating as they continue their fatal descent. It is 29 seconds of virtuoso film-making, the sort that Guy Ritchie has made his own. But such visual audacity places the highest demands on a Visual Effects team, and Framestore are honoured that Ritchie and Jarrett trusted them to bring it all together.
VFX Supervisor Chas Jarrett's initial hope was that the sequence could be constructed purely through the use of real waterfall elements. Both Quintavalle and McCulloch travelled far and wide as part of the quest for the perfect falls. They both dangled perilously out of helicopters (Quintavalle in Switzerland, McCulloch in Norway), clutching their trusty Canon EOS 5D cameras as they captured plates and footage. In the end, no real waterfall proved up to the sequence's demands: for a start, it would have had to be over a kilometer tall, a waterfall so high it was finally only possible to encounter it inside the Soho offices of Framestore.
The actors – Robert Downey Jr. and Jared Harris – were filmed for the sequence using a technique that is becoming increasingly popular with VFX teams. They were attached through harnesses to two gigantic KUKA robot arms. More commonly used for making cars and the like, these powerful arms can be programmed to move – to puppeteer, almost – the actors through space. Whilst offering great benefits in terms of precision positioning and performance capture from the actors, this technique does have its downside. "There was an enormous quantity of clean-up work to be done before the actors were ready to be placed in the shots," says McCulloch, "We had an eight-strong paint and roto team putting in long hours for many weeks to remove all traces of the harnesses and the arms, as well as patching up various bits of the outfits with CG elements." This action was shot on a Phantom HD Gold camera, which can go up to 1000fps, though 432fps proved the ideal speed for the central slo-mo section.
Unsurprisingly, the water itself was the biggest headache. Ben White was Framestore's CG Supervisor for the project. "Several factors made this water more difficult than usual," he says, "Waterfalls do not lend themselves brilliantly to fluid simulation software, which is at its best on rivers and seas – things with a surface. Also, the fact that it was such a long waterfall meant that we were dealing with colossal amounts of data, because we had to have pre-roll for the entire kilometre, and when you factor in the time-warp down to almost 500fps in the middle of the shot, and the fact that the camera is pointing straight up into the descending water, making it simply hard to see - all this meant we had our work cut out. In the end we broke up the water into several segments rather than trying to do it in one piece, with each segment being made of multiple layers to achieve the complexity we needed. We had a team working in Naiad, on the water coming down from above, and we had another team working in Houdini providing a different element for the lower part of the waterfall where it blends in to the live action elements. We also added CG and live action elements of water vapour and mist being pulled away from the surface which helped to give a special relationship to the falling actors in this huge space. The live action elements were most successfully used when we're looking straight down at the end, because essentially the camera's locked off, so the photographed element worked well there."
Another water element proved more readily susceptible to technological augmentation. As the protagonists pass the camera in close-up, Jarrett and Ritchie wanted to see water droplets in motion around their heads. The compositing team found that the latest version of Nuke (released just in time to help out) gave them a set of tools that helped them sidestep a 3D solution. "We found some photos of live action water droplets from reference libraries," recalls Quintavalle, "And we put them onto cards – lots of droplets arranged in motion and distributed as we wanted. It was a temporary measure at first, while we waited for the 'proper' particles to get rendered. Then as it went along we thought, 'Could we make them move a bit as well, add a bit of warping? Could we have a bit of refraction as you're looking through them? Can we get the time-warp working properly?' and each time the answer was yes. The drops just kept getting better within Nuke until we realised that we actually had the shot we needed."
Half of Framestore's 30-strong Shadows compositing team worked on this one sequence. It was one of the first to be started in October 2010, and among the last to be finished. It was a labour of love, blood, sweat, tears and 28 terabytes of data caches, and the team are justly proud of the finished result.
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Trained AssassinsThe other key sequence that Framestore created for Shadows takes place on a train speeding through nighttime countryside. A band of assassins, disguised as British soldiers, has boarded the train and plan on dispatching Holmes and Watson in a tornado of gunfire. Needless to say, our heroes are up to the challenge and explosively foil their adversaries.
Save for one (studio shot) carriage, the entire train and environments through which it passes were created by Framestore. For interior work, there was a lot of green screen insertion of backgrounds as well as complementary reflections in the windows. As the fight develops, Holmes and Watson climb out onto the side of the train, so extensive digital environments were required. Many background plates were shot on panorama-cam and put in by compositing, but the entire foreground of the shot had sometimes to be digital, so White's team created plants, bushes and scrub.
Other work by the CG team featured in the sequence includes a characteristically Ritchie journey through the inside of a gun which is pointing at Holmes as it is fired. We see the pin striking the percussion cap of the bullet and we then see the bullet fly past the camera 'inside' the barrel as it flies towards the end (which Holmes has sensibly spiked and which then blows up in the face of his would be assassin). "We pre-vizzed and conceived the shot working with Chas," says White, "There is a lot of very subtle work in it – lots of attention to detail in terms of shading and texturing, as well as some lovely depth-of-field work put on by the compositing team." White is also particularly pleased with the steam his team created for the train. "Steam is quite a challenge if you're going to get the authentic roiling, dynamic, very voluminous looking stuff. We had a couple of guys working together – simulating in Houdini and then rendering it in fRibGen, our in-house rendering interface, and using a lot of proper volumetric shading written by the shading department. It was also an ideal chance to use FMote – a proprietary node based particle processing tool which allows FX artists to manipulate particle data prior to rendering "
The sequence featured dozens of digital set extension shots, which were accomplished by the 2.5D team using a combination of techniques, sometimes starting off in the CG department with some rough lighting passes, and then going to the DMP (Digital matte Painting) team for their magic, and sometimes without CG input, using a combination of in-house tools in Maya and Nuke. A relatively straight forward touch added by the comp team was the illusion of motion as the train rattles along. Choreographed to reflect the intensity of the action inside, the post-added motion impressed Ritchie enormously with the veracity it brought to the sequence.
Breath of LifeAnother subtle touch that pleased Ritchie and producer Joel Silver hugely was and effect that is all too easy to get wrong – the addition of tiny puffs of condensation caused by characters as they speak and breathe in an ostensibly cold environment. The Swiss Alps castle scenes were all shot in a studio, so to convey the atmosphere of a freezing Alpine night, the Framestore team came up with an ingenious solution. "We developed a reference system using real filmed footage from a cold room," explains Quintavalle, "We found different types of 'puff' representing different syllables, and then used the audio soundtrack to trigger the appropriate puff. It's a nice hybrid of real elements with an automated approach and was very controllable and quick. A couple of our artists turned out to be intuitively good at this, and they ended up doing 100 or so shots of breath enhancement. You'll barely register it when you see it, but that's really the point – it's only good if you don't notice it."
Other important touches by the Framestore team included environmental recreations for establishing shots of Charing Cross station, Paris, and the environs around a gentleman's club wherein Holmes faces another acrobatic (ie heavily wire-removed) assassin. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows currently enjoys an astonishing 98% 'want to see' rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and seems set fair to garner another hefty share of this holiday season's box office. We can but hope that the eminent detective survives to fight another Christmas…
Warner Bros. Pictures Presents in asscociation with Village Roadshow Pictures, a Silver Pictures Production, in association with Wigram Production, a Guy Rithcie FIlm
DIRECTOR Guy RitchiePRODUCERS Joel SIlver, Lional Wigram, Susan Downey & Dan Lin
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Framestore is an Oscar-winning visual effects company and the UK's leading authority on stereoscopic 3D. Framestore uses innovative talent and technology to create hi-end images for every platform. In addition to working for Hollywood studios, advertisers, ad agencies, production and gaming companies, Framestore also generates its own paid-for content: eg – VFX in Your Pocket and Polar Peril.


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David D. Arnold Speaks at Lowy Institute
May 18, 2011
"Even places that have been experiencing fairly steady and robust growth during the time of global economic recession are not immune to the popular pressures and demands for accountable, transparent, and responsive governance," said Asia Foundation President David D. Arnold at the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney last week. Listen to his Lowy speech and Q&A and recent interviews on Radio Australia and ABC Australia.
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The Trouble With Indie Rock
It's not just race. It's class.
New Yorker pop critic Sasha Frere-Jones has often indicated boredom and annoyance with a lot of the critically acclaimed, music-blog, and/or NPR-approved "indie rock" of this decade. This week, in an article, a couple of blog entries, and a podcast, he tries to articulate why. His answer? It's not black enough; it lacks "swing, some empty space and palpable bass frequencies"; it doesn't participate lustily in the grand (and problematic) tradition of musical "miscegenation" that's given American music, especially rock 'n' roll, its kick.
To give bite to the accusation, Frere-Jones names a few names, beginning with the Arcade Fire and adding Wilco, the Fiery Furnaces, the Decemberists, the Shins, Sufjan Stevens, Grizzly Bear, Panda Bear, and Devendra Banhart, plus indie-heroes past, Pavement. He contrasts them with the likes of the Clash, Elvis, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Public Image Ltd., Bob Dylan, the Minutemen, Nirvana, and even Grand Funk Railroad as examples of willful, gleeful, racial-sound-barrier-breaching white rockers of yore.
As indicated in his pre-emptive blog post, the piece is a provocation, as is Frere-Jones's M.O., and that is welcome at a time when musical discussion revolves numbingly around which digital-distribution method can be most effectively "monetized." (Current champ: Radiohead.) But many commentators have pointed out his article's basic problems of consistency and accuracy: Frere-Jones' story is that the rise of Pavement as role models and Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg as rivals in the 1990s marked a quick indie retreat from bluesiness and danceability. Yet the conscious and iconoclastic excision of blues-rock from "underground" rock goes back to the '70s and '80s origins of American punk and especially hardcore, from which indie complicatedly evolved.
While it's possible to cherry-pick exceptions ever since, Frere-Jones does so selectively, overlooking the likes of Royal Trux or the Afghan Whigs in the 1990s, or more recently, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Spoon, Battles and the dance-punks LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip, and Junior Senior, almost all of whom appear on his own best-of-the-year list in progress. Last March, in direct contradiction to what he says in this week's New Yorker essay, Frere-Jones wrote in an LCD Soundsystem review: "About five years ago, indie rockers began to rediscover the pleasures of rhythm." Where are those indie rockers now? Vanished, because they would mess with his thesis. He isn't really talking about all of indie rock, but a folkier subset that's hardly trying to be rock at all. But to say so would be less dramatic.
The article also tends troublingly to reduce "black music" to rhythm and sexuality, and to elide the differences between, say, funk, soul, disco, folk-blues, Caribbean, and African influences in white rock. While he justifiably frames the issue as an American one, at least half of Frere-Jones' lauded precedents are British, a context in which appropriating black American music has vastly different connotations. His lead example, the Arcade Fire, is likewise un-American, hailing from Montreal (one of its leaders, Régine Chassagne, has family roots in Haiti). The piece also switches at its convenience between mainstream rock history and the "underground" genealogy of indie, while never balancing the scales by addressing current hit-making rockers like Fall Out Boy or the White Stripes, who remain heavier on groove.
One could go on playing "gotcha" at the expense of Frere-Jones' intended thrust, which mainly indicates that this piece needed another draft or two. This is odd, because "indie whiteness" is a subject he's been banging on about in many forums for several years. (Frere-Jones is also a sometime white-indie-rocker himself.) His consistent mistake seems to be to talk about musical issues as if they were nearly autonomous from larger social dynamics. It's the blind spot of a genuine music lover, but it grants music culture too much power and assigns it too much blame.
For instance, the separation of racial influences in American music arguably begins with the 1970s demise of Top 40 radio, which coincided with the Black Power movement and the withering of the integrationist ideals of the civil rights era. Frere-Jones nods in this direction when he talks about "political correctness," but he reduces the issue to an "academic" critique rather than a vast shift in racial relations and, more importantly, expectations. The brands of "authenticity" that both punk and hip-hop came to demand, which tended to discourage the cross-pollination and "miscegenation" of musical forms, are in keeping with the identity politics that became dominant in the 1980s as well as the de facto resegregation of black and white communities that began in the Reagan era. This is the counternarrative to the cultural-level "social progress" that Frere-Jones rightly points out, in which explicit racism has retreated and black entertainers have come to dominate the mainstream.
It's not just because Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre were such great artists that white people were afraid to imitate them—they're no better than John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Muddy Waters, and dozens of others whom white artists have happily mimicked in the past. Rather it's that this kind of "theft" became a capital cultural crime, and not just in the academy (how many '90s indie rockers knew by heart the verses in "Fight the Power," where Public Enemy calls Elvis a "straight-up racist, simple and plain"?). If gangsta rap marked a break, it was because hip-hop became coded to reflect the retrenchment of the "Two Americas" and the resultant combative, near-separatist mood among African-Americans. It was deliberately made less assimilable, a development reinforced by the marketplace when white suburban kids turned out to love its more extremist voice.
You could argue that it's always incumbent on the artists to come back swinging by presenting an alternative vision. Some have tried—unfortunately, often in the form of jam bands and rock-rap groups—but the diminished street-level faith in an integrationist future means there's not as much optimism about integrationist music. What's more, racial lines in the United States no longer divide primarily into black and white. When "miscegenation" does happen in music now, it's likely to be more multicultural than in Frere-Jones' formula, as in rainbow-coalition bands such as Antibalas and Ozomatli.


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On Friday room 14 went on a trip to two places, the SPCA and the soap shop (I love soap). First we went to the SPCA, where a staff member (Karen) gave us a small tour of the place. She said they would have around 102 animals at the SPCA when the place was full.
The yr8s went off to measure the walls, doors, rooms and more, because they are going to make their own scale model of an SPCA/animal rescue centre on minecraft. So while the yr8's were off measuring the place the yr 5's and 6's went into the cat companion area where they cuddled and brushed the cats. Cat companion is a way that volunteers can take care of the cats so the cats stay healthy.
When we had to leave we were all still excited because we were off to the soap shop to learn about how they make soap. The soaps were amazing and looked very creative and hard to make. We met the owners of the shop and the man who decided to start a soap shop. They don't use any animal fats in their soaps. To be a soapmaker you need to be good at maths, art and chemistry.
Everyone was allowed to walk around the shop and look at the soaps, sniffing them and sometimes picking them up and looking at them. Then we had a tour of how they made the soaps. On the shelf there was heaps of smells and colours stacked up together. After that he showed us the first step of how to make a soap and explained to us the rest of the steps. When we headed back to the main part of the shop he gave us a FREE soap.
We went to the little icecream shop that was connected to the soap shop that they also owned; Helen bought us an icecream each and the yr8's got a turn at scooping the icecream for the rest of us.
Thankyou Ruth Thomas for being an amazing helper on the trip so that we could go... she was a really BIG help.
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Safely back from the holidays, we have been working on tessellations and tiling, exploring shapes. We have begun poetry for the poetry cafe. We have several pieces of work to focus on. These include Cultures and civilizations, the body, history of mathematics, timelines, speeches for the bridging ceremony (leavers only) and community projects. We care about issues in our community and our community projects help us to act on that and make a difference. Please check out our blogs in the coming weeks and leave comments to encourage us to share. Thank you.
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Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa.
Ko Kurahaupo toku waka
Ko Taranaki toku maunga
Ko Pungareeree toku awa
Ko Kaimiromiro toku marae
Ko Taranaki, ko Ngati Ruanui oku iwi
Ko Helen toku ingoa
Ko Amy, ko Anna, Ko Liam, ko Abbie toku tamariki
No Turanganui-a-kiwa ahau
Ko Rotorua toku kainga
No reira, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa.
I feel it is only fitting to greet you with my pepeha as the students are learning theirs for their speeches. Please encourage them to practise at home and learn it of by heart, along with their speeches.
Our visit to the museum to see Canterbury Quakes was worthwhile and a little reflective. Also topical considering Wellington and Seddon's numerous shakes and our own last night! We've had swimming, food technology challenges (including cupcake wars), CRT circle paintings and of course our core work to get through. We are working on getting photos up as soon as possible but in the meantime, check out what students have been writing and encourage your student to share their work with you through our blog.
We had a great Read and Feed today in our 'tent' and thank you for supporting us in this. Students read silently from just after 9 until 10:30. They went outside to push play for ten minutes then came in for strategy games for half an hour. They returned to silent reading, until 12:30. After lunch they did buddy reading and silent reading or writing or finishing. I was really impressed!
I personally found out two things today when I inadvertently (at least on my part) got roped into the staff versus coaches and students netball game - with no subs. I do still get asthma and I really need to practise goal shooting - I don't know who stuck me in goal attack position! I did get a number of opportunities but in my defence, I'm an ex hockey player, runner, athletic champ, swimming champ and gymnast - YES, really (I know!) and ok at soccer, sometimes, but netball was never my thing. All credit to the students and coaches who took us on and won. The score was 4-1.
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So Micah Hyde is Charles Woodson
They're really drinking that Micah Hyde Kool Aid over there at 1265. Yesterday, Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy compared Hyde to Charles Woodson.
"Micah Hyde, from day one, I've said before in here, back to the rookie minicamp, I think he's about as natural of a returner as far as handling the football that I've seen coming out of college," McCarthy said. "Charles Woodson is probably one of the best players that I've been around as far as handling the football [on] punts. Just very natural to him, and Micah is similar in that way. So he just needs more opportunities."
Alright, so he wasn't comparing Hyde to Woodson as a defender, but Woodson was at one time one of the best punt returners in the game.
So far this season, Hyde is averaging just over 10 yards per punt return, which is pretty solid. He has a long of 23. So what does he think about being compared to Woodson?
Not much.
"I don't see myself as that; I'm not even compared to anything like that," Hyde said. "I'm just back there trying to catch the ball and make sure that A-Rod can go out there and throw touchdowns after that. That's it."
What we will give Hyde is that he's an improvement over Jeremy Ross. If only he could return kicks.
Monty McMahon is one of the founders of Total Packers. He is probably the most famous graduate of UW-Oshkosh next to Jim Gantner.
Due to Slocum, the guys blocking have no idea what they're doing. House might be the worst special teams player I've ever seen. We don't need our punt returner to run laterally for 5 seconds in an effort to make some spectacular return. The goal for Hyde should be 1) not turn the ball over 2) not make a dumb mistake where the offense is pinned deep 3) to run north and south and pick up easy yards.
Hyde does seem to be one of the best, most fundamentally sound tacklers in the secondary — and that warrants comparison to Woodson.
Let's face it, there have been many times when CBs have butt-pinched and rib-tickled an opponent to the sidelines, after a long gain.
I don't want a headhunter.
I don't want a penalty.
I don't want some highlight-reel, concussion-inducing hit.
I just want the guy wrapped up and put on the ground.