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How Steven Spielberg's Cinematographer Got These Eleven Shots
From Lincoln to A.I. to Schindler's List.
Few men know Steven Spielberg as well as Janusz Kaminski. The Oscar winning, Polish-born cinematographer has shot all of Spielberg's films since 1993, and their latest collaboration, Lincoln, is in theaters now. (Our David Edelstein reviews it here.) What better time, then, to talk to Kaminski about how he managed to create some of the most interesting shots and sequences in Spielberg's modern ouevre? Here are eleven striking images and moments from films like Lincoln, A.I., and Schindler's List, followed by commentary from the cinematographer himself.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Kaminski has a particular affinity for this shot, where Haley Joel Osment's child robot imprints on his mother for the first time in a room suffused with tremendous backlighting, one of the cinematographer's visual trademarks. (There's plenty of light streaming through windows in Lincoln, too.) "You get criticism for that kind of lighting and you get prizes for that kind of lighting," laughs Kaminski. "Some people say, 'Enough of this, move on,' but I like it! Light is life, and for me, the presence of light is essential." Still, there is a purpose to all that white light, beyond simply engineering a dramatic look. "I love backlight not just for the sake of glamorizing [the subject], but because the direction of the light can represent storytelling," says Kaminski. "I don't do backlights and then also add key lights and all these things — if I do backlight, I want to see that backlight. That's my style, and that's the way we've done it in every single movie."
Schindler's List
Kaminski won an Oscar for this Holocaust drama, his very first feature film with Spielberg. Impressed by Kaminski's work on the Diane Keaton-directed Wildflower, Spielberg hired him to shoot a backdoor pilot he was producing for ABC called Class of 1861, about West Point cadets torn apart by the Civil War (which failed to earn a pickup, despite a now-starry cast that included Clive Owen and Laura Linney). Soon after, Kaminski got the call for Schindler's List. "They told me it was low-budget, but to me, it was huge-budget," laughs Kaminski. "It was $22 million, but in Poland, that was a lot of money!" Kaminski shot most of the film on black-and-white emulsion, save for the sequences featuring the little girl with the red dress, which were shot in color emulsion and then painstakingly desaturated in a process called rotoscoping, which Kaminski describes as "an old version of CGI, except each frame was done by hand."
Saving Private Ryan
Kaminski spent plenty of prep time figuring out just how he would shoot the vicious opening battle sequence of Saving Private Ryan: "I was experimenting with different things: frame rate, shutter degree, various degrees of color desaturation, various lenses, shooting in 12 frames and then printing it to 24. You keep trying out these different techniques until you see something that you can emotionally respond to. At first it was very crude: I would just shake the camera." Still, notes Kaminski, "All the tests are pointless if you have a director who gets scared, who cannot comprehend the visuals. This was all done to the negative, there's no going back. Once it's shot, it's done, and if you don't like it, you have to reshoot it."
Minority Report
In a four-star review of Spielberg's 2002 sci-fi film, Roger Ebert spent a paragraph praising this "virtuoso shot" of Tom Cruise and Samantha Morton, calling it an image "that's powerful and yet bafflingly simple." "That's nice of Roger," says Kaminski. "It's just a gorgeous shot of two lost people. I used a bluish side light, which to some degree glamorized them, but also made them very lonely and alienated from the rest of the scene. You work in metaphors through lights and composition, and the worst thing for me is to see a movie that doesn't have that. You see a cinematographer's work and there are no visual metaphors, or they are so afraid to create a style that it just becomes this nothing." Kaminski washed the film in moody blues and grays as an homage to film noir, noting, "It's a big palette, the movie screen. I dare to compare myself to painters, but I just have a bigger canvas to adapt to. If you don't like my painting, don't see the movie, you know?"
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Kaminski didn't shoot the first Jurassic Park film, and he says he was under no pressure to replicate its look for the sequel. "The money was already made on the first one, so people were more relaxed," laughs the cinematographer. "It is a scary movie, so we could go slightly more darker, more like a genre movie, closer to horror almost." But not too dark: Kaminski credits Dennis Muren at special effects house Industrial Light and Magic for allowing him to backlight dinosaurs, as he did during this complicated safari sequence full of lens flares: "He encouraged me to shoot against the sun or to introduce the dinosaurs as a silhouette or moving against a bright light. Prior to that, it was hard to achieve because things were still at a very infantile stage of CGI work." In fact, Kaminski notes that "The Lost World was a very big departure for me because I'd never done a CGI movie before — not that it's an all-CGI movie, but it had 150 or 200 CGI shots, which then was humongous. Now, it's just a normal movie."
War of the Worlds
This long shot where Cruise and his children flee in their car is meant to resemble one single take, but it was actually three different elements stitched together digitally, says Kaminski. First, the filmmakers blocked off a Long Island freeway and shot the exteriors using a motorcyclist as the guide for Cruise's car, then they shot plates for the outside of the car by attaching cameras to it on all sides. Finally, Spielberg and Kaminski filmed the actors in the car on a soundstage, repeating the same camera moves from the previous two shots. "ILM brilliantly married all those elements and created this really wonderful thing," says Kaminski. "Luckily, when we did the first plates, there was no sunlight. If it hadn't been a slightly overcast day, if we'd had direct sunlight and camera shadows, this would have been much harder."
"It's almost over-the-top to some degree, right?" admits Kaminski of the scene that's quite literally the climax of Spielberg's fact-based thriller: A sex scene featuring Eric Bana that's intercut with the murder of Israeli Olympic athletes as he orgasms. "It's not a delicate little scene," Kaminski says. "It is what it is, and [Spielberg] wanted to take this chance because it reflected the movie: his anger, his primal fear, his primal desire to be alive." Aside from a few R-rated moments in Schindler's List, Kaminski has shot no other sex scenes for Spielberg, but he said the lovemaking was vital here: "To be with a woman allows you to be who you are, and [Bana's orgasm] reflects the state of Israel and how sometimes it feels like it wants to scream and yell. That's how I understood the scene, at least."
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
"No sex in that one!" laughs Kaminski. Of this striking shot — which ends the film's notorious "nuke the fridge" sequence — the cinematographer said, "That's ILM, baby. ILM did all that. They do magic. We put a lot of dust into the air, but everything else was ILM." And though Kaminski broke with tradition when shooting the Jurassic Park sequel, here he hoped to emulate the cinematographer behind the first three Indy movies. "I was trying to match the visual aesthetic of Douglas Slocombe and sometimes I succeeded, and sometimes I didn't," Kaminski says. "The technologies and film emulsions are a little bit different now — they don't make them like they used to. But I didn't want to reinvent the wheel, because this trilogy is a part of film history."
Catch Me If You Can
"I've always felt that the movie was like champagne coming out of the bottle, with bubbles and warmth," says Kaminski of Spielberg's Leonardo DiCaprio crime caper. "It's probably the most colorful movie that I've done with Steven, but it was very hard work, because we did this movie in 46 days. And with a period movie, you have to be careful, because if you even point the camera ten degrees to the right, you might get modern ugliness [in the frame]." Case in point: the shot above, which looks deceptively simple. "It's lit really seriously, and I have huge lights right in front of the actors because otherwise they would just be silhouetted against the sky. It's lit, man! But that's what gives you that glossy feeling, because you've got that beautiful front light with a backlight behind them, and Leo looks very jovial and the girls are beautiful." Kaminski says he found his inspiration for the shot in old Life Magazine photoshoots that glamorized 1960's airline pilots: "The pilots were the stars, and there was a fantasy that goes with not just flying across the world but potentially having sexual intercourse with women around the world! They were gigolos, you know?"
War Horse
This image from the final scene, shot against the saturated red sky, may call to mind historical epics like Gone With the Wind, but Kaminski says the resemblance is unconscious. "I didn't even know there was an image similar to that [in Gone With the Wind]!" he protests. "It just felt right, that this boy coming back from his journey as a man deserves to be treated in a very heroic way, and the composition reflected that." Not that it was an easy shot to achieve naturally: "There were a lot of filters," Kaminski says. "Silhouette filters, orange filters, graduate filters … we staged the scene during the last two hours of the day, and we shot it for two days, but the sky had no red in it, and if I didn't light the actors, I would not be able to close the aperture and you would never see those clouds. So you start bringing huge lights and lighting people frontally to get a little separation from the sky. It was a complicated shot that many people appreciated."
Why do Kaminski and Spielberg hold back on showing you Daniel Day-Lewis's Abraham Lincoln during the first scene in their biopic? "He's talking to the troops who see him as an icon, so we wanted to frame the first image in an iconic way," explains Kaminski. "In order to obtain the mystery in him, I didn't put too much light into his eyes." Still, in later scenes — like one where Lincoln calmly entertains his son in the White House while a divided Congress votes on the 13th Amendment — Kaminski sought to play against that iconic image: "You always have to think, 'What does this represent? What's happening outside the scene?' Well, he's waiting for the votes to come through, and even if you're a moron who doesn't know history, you know that the amendment was passed because the hopefulness and the light quality of that image would tell you that the amendment is going to pass." The result is an angelic but natural shot of Lincoln bathed in light. "I wanted to create a very intimate image of this man on the most important day of his life: He's still a father, and he's still allocating time to be with his family and his son," says Kaminski. "So there were situations where I was trying not to be iconic, but very few. You are making a movie about Lincoln: He's an icon, so the photography and the composition needs to reflect that." Adds the cinematographer, "You can't really show the man taking a dump, you know?"


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From top to bottom: Goths dance at a club in East Village that does not have a cabaret license; couple in Goth, Ian Dutton and Shea Hovey; and another couple of Goths.
Goth to dance! Dark dancers say cabaret law sucks life from scene
By Ellen Keohane
Dressed in fishnet stockings and a vinyl bustier, a woman shimmied on a go-go platform in an East Village club on a recent Saturday night. Below her, 30 or so people mostly dressed in black swung their arms, and stomped their combat boot-clad feet to the music. A bleached-blond-and-pink-haired man moved his arms in rhythm with the music; the glow sticks in his hands creating streaks of light in the dark club.
Because of New Yorks cabaret laws, its really difficult to find places to dance, said 30-year-old Brian Stillman, the head of a nonprofit, all-volunteer group that organizes monthly Goth/industrial dance nights in Manhattan.
The group has been organizing dances for close to seven years. During that time, theyve bounced from club to club, and night to night, depending on what space they can get. At one point, they went six months without finding a place, Stillman said. The club that currently hosts this groups monthly dance, does not have a cabaret license, and is therefore not identified in this article.
Between 200 to 500 people show up for the monthly events, Stillman said. Although there is no dress code, most people who attend the dance nights, as Saturday nights crowd demonstrated, dress up in vinyl, velvet and leather primarily in black and red.
Since 1926, it has been illegal to dance in a drinking and/or eating establishment in New York City that doesnt have a cabaret license. Currently, there are only 273 legally operating clubs with cabaret licenses in all five boroughs, according to the citys Department of Consumer Affairs.
It seems like an archaic law, said Aric Bakshy, as he leaned against the clubs bar. Bakshy, a 28-year-old emergency-room doctor from Chicago, said he was shocked to learn about New Yorks cabaret laws when he moved here two months ago.
The city selectively enforces the law when necessary, said James Habacker, owner of the Lower East Sides Slipper Room, a burlesque club and cocktail lounge that was padlocked for illegal dancing in 2002. The city later allowed the Slipper Room to reopen, but only after Habacker lost close to $6,000 in business and shelled out $4,000 in lawyers fees. Everyone admits its absurd not to be able to dance in New York City, Habacker said. But the city doesnt want to take the law off the books because its a powerful tool they can use to shut down dangerous places, he said.
But the law may soon change. On June 23, a group of plaintiffs representing an array of dance genres filed a lawsuit against the city claiming that cabaret laws deprive them of the right of free expression. The plaintiffs include Meredith Stead, a professional dancer and dance teacher; John Festa, a West Coast swing dancer; Byron Cox, a house music dancer; Gotham West Coast Swing Club, a nonprofit corporation that promotes swing dancing; and Ian Dutton, a member of the Goth/industrial music community.
Their next court date is scheduled for Sept. 2, when the city will offer its initial response to the lawsuit. [The city] will probably move to dismiss. Meantime, they say they are considering changing the law, said Paul Chevigny, a New York University law professor. Chevigny is representing the plaintiffs along with Norman Siegel, former New York Civil Liberties Union executive director and a candidate for public advocate, and Steven Hyman of McLaughlin and Stern.
Cabaret laws limit the number of nightclub spaces in the city and those places that have licenses tend to cater to people with a lot of money, said Dutton, a 35-year-old airplane pilot for Continental Express, who frequently attends the monthly Goth/industrial dances with his wife Shea Hovey, 29.
Many clubs are hesitant to host Goth-themed nights due to the possibility of low turnouts and modest alcohol sales. Its a specific scene, so when we take over a night normal patrons tend not to show, said Stillman, who wore a Ministry T-shirt.
Goths also have a reputation for not drinking, which is ridiculous, added Mary Hawkins, a 27-year-old animator. Indeed, most of the people at the club had a drink in hand.
When first exploring the possibility of a lawsuit, Chevigny and others involved reached out to the dance community, Chevigny said. Dutton, who is also a public member of Community Board 2, was one of the ones who responded. We went to one of the dances and were impressed with the appearances of people and the dancing. We wanted the suit to be representative, and Goth seems to fit, Chevigny said.
Listening to bands and dancing are the two greatest driving forces of what is Goth, said Voltaire, a 38-year-old musician and author of the book What is Goth? So to go to a club and not being able to dance is taking half of the experience out of the night.
A lot of people associate Goth with Marilyn Manson, which many Goths object to, Voltaire says in his book. While Manson does dress according to Goth aesthetics black clothing, white face, black lipstick many feel he is too commercial to be Goth.
Goth music can be folk or gypsy, sounding, ethereal, electronic, industrial, instrumental or acoustic it covers so much, said Hovey, who works for Projekt, a Goth record label based in New York. Its kind of like an obscenity, you know it when you hear it, she said.
Theres a very wide range of Goth styles. Its hard to say what is and isnt Goth, Dutton said. Black seems to be a common theme.
In his book, Voltaire attempts to not-so-seriously break down the Goth aesthetic into various categories, including, but not limited to Romantigoths, who are attracted to Victorian-era, old-world styles; Deathrockers, who tend to dress more punk; CyberGoths, who wear more futuristic clothing and generally have facial piercings; and Vampyres, who wear custom-made fangs and capes.
You get gawked at a lot, said Dutton. Its hard to be different. When people are curious and interested, its a positive thing, but sometimes it turns into finger-pointing, he said. The scene seems more accepted in Europe particularly in Germany, which hosts Treffen, the Worlds largest annual festival for dark culture, in Leipzig.
In New York, the Goth community is pretty small. Everyone knows everybody, said Dutton. Its rare that people marry outside of the scene, Dutton said, then laughed. That makes us sound like a cult.
Its become a family for me, said Angel Butts, 31, who has been part of the Goth scene in New York since moving here 15 years ago. Butts, who is working on her Ph.D. in sociology at Rutgers University, is getting married this September to the Goth/industrial groups resident D.J., Trevor George.
While there are other Goth dance nights in Manhattan, like Albion on Saturday nights at Downtime, many attract a younger crowd or are not as friendly, said Dutton. And there are also a variety of Goth clubs in New Jersey which does not require a cabaret license. Yet, even the prospect of cabaret law-free clubs isnt enough to draw Gotham Goths across the Hudson.
I live in New York, why would I want to go to Jersey? said Hovey.
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Phew. They both made it.
I, like many MLS fans, have had the upcoming Columbus Crew - Los Angeles Galaxy match circled on the schedule for at least a month now. They were both undefeated—one loudly so, the other quietly—and on a collision course for a May 29 tilt at Crew Stadium.
Problem was, no one knew if both sides would remain undefeated. They were both set to lose players to the US team, plus there are injuries, suspensions, and the simple inevitability of a team's falling eventually.
But they pulled it off. And now, in the immortal words of Michael Buffer, "Let's get ready to rumble."
Or not. Truth is, the Galaxy and Crew aren't MLS' version of the Sharks and Jets. There's no real animosity between the clubs, no history of hard-bitten losses, mid-game melees, or wars of words. Other than the fact that both are undefeated, this game wouldn't mean more than any other.
But both are undefeated. And when you consider the amount of firepower both sides were missing this week, for both of them to hold serve—actually, to get three wins on the road among the two of them—is a testament to their strength and only goes to show that this game does mean more than any other, at least so far this season. This is a prelude to what could become one of the great season-long duels of all time.
First, LA. They went into Dallas on Thursday to face a team that seemed finally to have found their rhythm. FCD were unbeaten in four, including two tough 1-0 wins. They had conceded only two goals over that four-game stretch.
Problem is, LA had conceded only two goals over the entire season. Once Mike Magee had the Galaxy a goal to the good in just 17 minutes, their defense took over, and when the final whistle blew, LA had notched their eighth shutout in 10 games this season. (They tacked another one on in Sunday's friendly against Boca Juniors.)
The Crew, on the other hand, let their attack run riot on Thursday in a 3-1 win over New York. Well, maybe not run riot, but at least rule the day. Even without Guillermo Barros Schelotto, they played one of the more intelligent tactical matches we've seen so far—structured at the back, selective in their counterattack moments, ruthless in the finish.
Then, just three days later, they let their defense get the job done, pulling off a second brilliant win on the road, topping the energetic Kansas City Wizards, 1-0. It was KC's first home league loss this season, and the Crew were polished and professional, getting another fine performance from Eddie Gaven and a refreshing one from new signing Emilio Renteria.
There were debates last week about which side is more awesome, LA or Columbus. Most observers went with LA. Some, including me, went with Columbus. (A few wackos picked Real Salt Lake, which caused the rest of us to throw our hands in the air.) We made our arguments, presented our defenses, and pontificated on this that and the other thing.
Now, as we always knew, they can settle it on the field. I'm just glad they both will enter this match unbeaten. Because that's how real, juicy rumbles must start—with something at stake.
SIDE NOTE: The rumor is that the US team will announce their 23-man World Cup roster sometime midweek. At that point, a US spokesman told me, any players not on the squad will be released back to their clubs.
That means C-Bus's Chad Marshall and Robbie Rogers and LA's Edson Buddle, bubble players all, could be available on Saturday.


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March 27, 2013
The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) applauded regulations proposed by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that would make permanent a pilot program to authorize filers of certain information returns to truncate an individual payee's nine digit identifying number on specified paper payee statements.
"We believe that the proposed regulations are a necessary step in beginning to address the alarming growth in tax-related identity theft cases," Jeffrey A. Porter, CPA, chair of the AICPA Tax Executive Committee, wrote in a February 20, 2013 letter.
"The regulations' objectives are consistent with taxpayers' and practitioners' concerns and questions about the continuing need to receive paper documents that provide a taxpayer's full Social Security number (SSN)," Porter said.
Porter noted that the AICPA urged the IRS to make the pilot program permanent in a July 18, 2011 comment letter and that the 2011 letter requested extension of the truncation program to permit the use of truncated SSNs on all types of tax forms and returns provided to a client, employee or other recipient.
Because there may be statutory or other limits placed upon the IRS's ability to expand the truncation initiative, Porter said the AICPA urges "the Administration to consult with Congress for enactment of legislation to extend the use of truncated SSNs to all types of tax forms and returns provided to a client, employee or other recipient. The need for this expansive legislation is supported by the growing concern over identity theft in general and the growth in the number of cases being handled by the IRS."
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RALEIGH, NC (AP) — With little more than two weeks remaining in her term, North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue submitted her state budget proposal for the next fiscal year.
Perdue's proposed 2013-14 budget details more than $21 billion in proposed state spending, including a 1 percent pay increase for all teachers and state employees and additional funding for education programs. The outgoing Democrat's budget stands next to no chance of being adopted by the GOP-controlled state legislature, but Perdue said she was required by state law to submit one before leaving office.
A spokesman for Republican governor-elect Pat McCrory, who takes office early next month, said the incoming administration will review Perdue's recommendations before submitting his own budget to the legislature. The new fiscal year begins July 1.
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Cannonball Read IV: Book #32/52
Published: 2011
Pages: 194
Genre: Young Adult/Dystopian/Zombie
***May contain spoilers to previous books in the series**
In the sequel to Hollowland, we fast forward six months from where the previous novel ended. Remy has spent the last six months being prodded and tested by doctors due to her immunity to the zombie virus. She gets a chance to escape when the building is breached by a zombie hoard and heads out in search of her brother, yet again.
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I didn't watch the Oscars. I wasn't in the mood to see the creator of Family Guy's take on 2012's best films. Not that I'm above crude humor. I wish I was, but I've come to believe laughing at poop jokes becomes involuntary in the presence of the Y chromosome. It's something I live with… in moderation.
My reason for not watching was simple. If a night is to be a celebration of the craft of filmmaking, it should be hosted by someone who has demonstrated even the slightest understanding of that craft. MacFarlane is not that person. Someone's who's greatest contribution to the public discourse is sneaking Urban Dictionary references into a second rate, sophomoric cartoon series isn't someone I want to spend an evening in my living room.
Now post-Oscars I learn I missed a real treat. I missed the validation of sexism as viable form of entertainment. Imagine if we replaced every sexist joke or skit with a racist joke or skit. MacFarlane's career would be over.
Hollywood's not much better than society at large in its treatment of women, but I've always taken pride in the role women have been allowed to play in my original craft, editing. Granted, it was only because early 20th century filmmakers thought of editing as a small step up from clerical work. By the time they realized editing was a specialized craft, women had established themselves.
Articles in the New Yorker…
The Academy is supposedly a trade group, and yet it devoted its opening number to degrading a good part of its membership.
…and Salon put a proper spin on MacFarlane's shameful performance.
Four of the films MacFarlane crooned about featured nudity during or immediately following violent depictions of rape and sexual assault, stripped of their context and played for laughs.
So what did I do Sunday night? I watched Raging Bull, edited by Thelma Shoonmaker. I wish I could say it was purposefully symbolic, but it was just a coincidence.


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ROKR W5 is clearly yet another addition to Motorola's huge range of cookie-cutter clamshell phones. It's around the twentieth incarnation of the RAZR as far as we can tell.It is very smart to look and dimensions only 99 x 46 x 17.5 mm. The total weight of 107g makes the phone very light. It has two display, the internal one is TFT 256K colors and external one is CSTN 65K colors display. Basically this phone is focused on the music features and allows the users to save their music and videos by using the 20 MB internal memory or 2GB microSD card slot. And the music player supports MP3 and AAC+ format sound. The Camera is not so powerful because it is only 1.3 MP and can give output up to 1280 x 1024 pixels photo. The Bluetooth v1.2 with A2DP and EDGE Class 10 are present but there have no HSCSD and WLAN. The rest of the features include SMS, EMS, MMS, WAP 2.0, Java MIDP 2.0, Voice memo, Organizer and Calculator. The Li-Ion 880 mAh Standard battery can satisfy the users by providing 340 h stand by and 7 h talk time.


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|Tas Seasonal Rainfall Outlook: probabilities for November 2006 to January 2007, issued 26th October 2006
50:50 chances for above average seasonal rainfall in Tasmania
The latest seasonal rainfall outlook for Tasmania issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, shows a neutral pattern of odds for exceeding the median rainfall over the late spring to mid-summer period (November-January).
The pattern of seasonal rainfall odds across Australia is a result of higher than average temperatures in both the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The warm Pacific biases the climate towards drier than average across eastern and northern Australia, but the warm Indian Ocean promotes wetter than average conditions across the tropics and in western WA.
The chances of exceeding the median rainfall for the November to January period, are generally very close to 50% over Tasmania. So in years with ocean patterns like the current, about five November to January periods out of ten are expected to be drier than average across the State, with about five out of ten being wetter.
Outlook confidence is related to how consistently the Pacific and Indian Oceans affect Australian rainfall. During the November to January period, history shows this effect to be moderately consistent across much of Tasmania (see background information).
The Southern Oscillation Index (SOI), negative for the fifth straight month, rose from −16 in August to −5 in September. The approximate SOI for the 30 days ending 23rd October was −14.
The current El Niño conditions, of which the low SOI is but one indicator, are very likely to persist for the rest of 2006, which would qualify it as an official El Niño event. For routine updates and comprehensive discussion on the latest data relating to El Niño, together with details on what the phenomenon is and how it has affected Australia in the past, please see the ENSO Wrap-Up.
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|More information on this outlook is available from 9.00am to 5.00pm (EST) Monday to Friday by contacting the Climate and Consultancy section in the Bureau's Hobart Office: (03) 6221 2043.
THE NEXT ISSUE OF THE SEASONAL OUTLOOK IS EXPECTED BY 23rd NOVEMBER 2006
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Jett, who has been ETSU's most consistent hitter over the last three years, posted a .337 batting average (59-175) in 2009. The Talbott,
"Katy has been the most consistent player I have ever coached," said head coach Andrea Mangrum, who is entering her fifth season at ETSU. "She is the type of player that you want up when the game is on the line, because you know she will leave it all on the field. I am proud of her accomplishments on and off the field, because I know she has worked hard to achieve them. She is a great role model for young athletes and she has proven that you can be successful by doing things the right way."
Lipscomb's senior infielder Kellie Sirus was named Preseason Player of the Year, while
ETSU, who raced out of the gates to notch its best start in program history a year ago, will look to use the eighth-place selection as motivation.
"We realize that earning respect in our league is a challenge due to the RPI ratings our sport receives every year," commented Mangrum. "However, we allow it to motivate us to be at the top of our league. Our senior class is determined to leave their mark and make history this season. We will continue to focus on the things we have control of which is our attitude and effort. We will keep working hard and believing in our goals for this season."
The Lady Bucs received 45 votes and were picked to finish above Stetson,
Overall, Lipscomb was picked above reigning regular season and tournament champion Campbell for first. The Lady Bisons received five of the 11 first-place votes and edged out the Lady Camels (six first-place selections) by five votes - 111 to 106. Mercer (91 votes),
The ETSU softball team kicks off its 2010 season on Saturday, Feb. 13 when the Lady Bucs face BIG EAST foe
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Psychology professor says unions battling at the bargaining table enhances American workplace
Challenges to labor organizations are energizing workers to fight for unions, according to a Kansas State University researcher.
All workers have benefited from labor organizations, which have transformed the American workplace, said Clive Fullagar, a psychology professor who has researched the psychological aspects of unions and the collective bargaining process in the United States and South Africa. He has studied why workers join and leave unions and attitudes toward organized labor, strike behavior, work-related stress and leadership behavior in unions.
"Even if a union is not present in the workplace, the very threat of a union is a motivating factor to get management to listen to the needs of workers," he said. "The mere presence of unions forces nonunionized companies to introduce competitive benefits so they can attract workers from the same labor pool."
Fewer checks and balances will hold employers accountable if labor unions like those under fire across the country in states like Wisconsin are weakened, Fullagar said.
"All benefits that we take for granted in the workplace, like vacation and sick leave, have been negotiated, at one time or another, by a labor union," he said. "They haven't come about because of a benevolent and altruistic management, but because labor organizations have fought for them."
American workers typically join unions for job security, Fullagar said.
"The whole collective bargaining process is based upon the premise that there's always going to be conflict between workers and management when it comes to important issues like wages," he said. "Workers want some sort of representation to voice their needs and perspective, which are often counter to management's position."
Some workers no longer think union dues are worthwhile, Fullagar said. Labor unions represented 6.9 percent of employees in companies in 2010, down from 7.2 percent in 2009, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. In the public sector, however, 39 percent of state and local workers are members of unions.
"Those who leave labor organizations have a sense that they are no longer being instrumental to achieving what we often take for granted in a job," Fullagar said. "They believe labor organizations to a certain extent have fulfilled their role because they're not necessary to fight for many of the issues unions have traditionally battled for."
However, recent challenges to unions have reignited workers to stand up for labor organizations, he said.
"People are becoming mobilized and are thinking more about what unions do," Fullagar said. "American unions are reaching the tipping point, and workers are finding out what is worth fighting for, which sometimes happens on the brink of losing something you take for granted."
Interest in labor organizations has fallen in recent memory because of negative depictions in the news media, he said. Unions are often in the public eye in times of conflict.
"The public has believed that unions are defunct because of corruption, but that's not typical of labor organizations at all," he said. "After looking at cases by the National Labor Relations Board, I found the number of cases brought against unions for corruption were minuscule in comparison to the number of cases brought against corporate America for disenfranchising workers."
Workers in South Africa joined unions not for safety, but for basic human rights, said Fullagar, who was once a professor at the University of Witwatersrand.
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Screen Snaper is an simple application for Screen capture and snapshot. The application use exported function from library SnaperHelper.dll compatible with VC, VB, Delphi and other languages that can use DLL.
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100% cotton
We designed the Antua collection to be an allrounder. Knitted in Portugal with 100% cotton, this sophisticated design features a textural, weighty finish in a cool, soft fibre: idea for all rooms, in all decors, all year round. We selected block-coloured shades that will pair well with our other seasonal collections, but which will naturally work with a range of colour palettes.
The Antua Blanket is neatly finished with a plaited border and is available in a generous 140 x 200 cm size, or an extra large 200 x 260 cm, ideal for use as a bedspread (or over multiple shoulders on cold nights).
This collection is made according to the following industry certification standards:
A beautiful example of the return to traditional crafting techniques, the Antua combines a neat, tight knit with an elegant, contemporary design: a stylish way to bring time-proven crafting into the modern home. The cotton used for this collection was the highest quality we could find, and its thick, weighty finish means it's sure to last for seasons to come.
Material: 100% cotton
Construction: Knitted
Fabric density (weight per m²): 640g
140 x 200 cm - 1.7 kg
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Design: Block-coloured blanket with tight knitted design
Colour: Powder pink
Made with love in: Braga, Portugal
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The elevated Central Artery
The elevated Central Artery
Undated photo: An aerial view, looking north, of Boston before construction of the Central Artery. The present day Pine Street Inn building can be seen in the lower middle. Originally that building was Fire Department Headquarters until 1951. The building featured a tall drill tower that was used for training fire department recruits.
Feb. 7, 1950: The Warren Bridge carried a branch of the aerial highway that eliminated a bottleneck at that point. It was estimated that about 13,000 motor vehicles that had entered Boston by way of the Mystic River Bridge and the Warren or Charles River bridges would use the artery by choice.
May 23, 1952: A 96-foot, 200-ton span of 17 girders collapsed into Sullivan Square — two minutes after two MTA buses loaded with passengers had passed under the 40-foot high structure. The overpass was designed to carry traffic from Mystic Avenue and Broadway, Somerville, over Sullivan Square to Rutherford Avenue in Charlestown and connect with the Boston Central Artery and Mystic River Bridge.
Jan. 1, 1953: This mass of concrete arches was built to hold up the high level roadway that led to Somerville.
April 8, 1953: Demolition began in the North End in the first few months of 1953 and workers began driving the concrete piles that supported the steel columns that would hold up the elevated roadway. This published graphic showed the pedestrian route to navigate parallel to Hanover Street, which was closed to traffic and pedestrians.
May 17, 1954: As the demolition teams cleared the way for Boston's Central Artery, they uncovered a new Boston. Buildings walled in by often taller structures stood out clearly. Every building of major historical importance was saved. Here the view is looking south toward the Harbor Building on Atlantic Avenue (left background). In foreground are three reinforced concrete piers for the future elevated, six-lane expressway.
June 25, 1959: Crowds gathered at Kneeland Street for the official opening of the downtown segment of the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway and the Southeast Expressway. Governor Foster Furcolo opened the new highway at exercises on the Central Artery near the tunnel entrance. The long-awaited access to the South Shore opened eight months ahead of schedule. Special equipment and machinery were used during the winter months to cope with elements that may have otherwise delayed construction.
Nov. 4, 1959: A complete closed circuit television and paging system was installed in the tunnel, which linked the Central Artery and the Southeast Expressway. The TV system consisted of eight television pick-up cameras in each tube of the tunnel which were then connected to the television monitors in the control building. Charles Sperrazza monitored the system here for any motorist needing aid or other type of mechanical trouble. He could also call out instructions to motorists by means of a public address system. This was of special value in case of a bad accident or fire in which which panic and confusion could be a factor.
June 10, 1964: After more than eight years of construction, the Central Artery and the Southeast Expressway were joined together on June 25, 1959, when both expressways finally opened to traffic. During its first day of operation, some 60,000 vehicles used the new six-lane Central Artery. The first traffic jam was recorded only three months after completion.


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The Anai Golf And Mountain Resort in West Sumatra
The Anai Golf and Mountain Resort is set in beautiful green and natural surrounds. Located in West Sumatra, a region renowned for its natural beauty and forested mountains, it is the beauty of the location that makes this resort and golf course truly unique.
While the natural beauty here is magnificent, golf is really the main attraction here though. Designed by Thomson, Wolveridge and Perret in 1996 the resorts golf course was specifically planned to conserve the natural surrounds as much as possible. The length of this eighteen-hole course spans 5,552 meters. While you are challenging yourself on the 72 par course, you can enjoy beautiful panoramic views of Mount Tandikat, Mount Merapi and Mount Singgalang.
The temperature here is hot making it the perfect setting to don your newly-bought hat. Don't worry about the heat too much though because once your game is over, the clubhouse is equipped with a swimming pool and a bar for a refreshing dip and drink.
Villas at this resort are equipped with a dining room, kitchen, terrace and television.
The main attraction here is golf, and with an expert designed course set in a beautiful location, a holiday here will be heaven for any golf enthusiast.
The Anai golf course and resort is located only one hours drive from Padang, the capital city of West Sumatra. Depending on your departure point, you can go to Padang from Medan or Batam. If you are coming from Jakarta, you can take a direct flight to Padang and use a taxi service from the airport to go straight to this resort.
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Hearts break downtown as fate fells someone beloved
He is an institution in downtown Buffalo.
He hawks his plastic threaded boondoggles for a couple of bucks.
He helps the pushcart hot dog vendors, getting change for them at banks and ice to chill their pop.
And he loves a hug and kiss from the opposite sex and is sometimes playfully known as "the kissing bandit."
But now Marc Weinfeld is at death's doorstep, after suffering a massive brain injury when he was struck by a car while trying to cross Oak Street on Monday morning during rush hour.
An autistic savant with a gift for numbers, Weinfeld is on life support in Erie County Medical Center. His sister, Marcia Weinfeld Goode, a concert violinist, is flying in today with her husband, Grammy Award-winning classical pianist Richard Goode, who was on tour in New Mexico.
"I'm just heartbroken. He's a sweetheart. I can't believe it," his sister and only sibling said of Weinfeld. "I've spoken with the hospital, and they are very pessimistic. I'm going to see what they have to say."
As word spread Tuesday that the "John Doe" hit by the car at 7:30 a.m. Monday near the Clinton Street intersection of Oak was, in fact, one of downtown's most familiar faces for the last three decades, there was shock, and there were tears, especially among those he helped.
Each morning, Weinfeld rode the bus in from Elma to be of service and earn a modest living.
"I keep looking down the street for him," said hot dog vendor Mark McCarthy, his voice cracking and eyes filling with tears at West Eagle and Franklin streets. "Every morning at 7:45 a.m., Marc met me at the warehouse on Broadway and Elm Street and helped push my cart over here. I was looking for him all day Monday."
Accident Investigation Unit Officers Martin H. Forero and Keith S. LaFalce were investigating the accident; they noted that the woman who struck Weinfeld pulled over and cooperated. But the eyeglasses that Weinfeld normally wore, authorities said, could not be found at the accident scene, despite an extensive search.
Though 58, Weinfeld has a childlike aura and could often be heard saying, "I'm a good boy! I'm a good boy!"
But if he behaved perhaps a bit rambunctiously, he would be quick to say, "Don't tell Cathy!" referring to Cathy Dzierzanowski and her husband, Tom, of Elma, who became his full-time caretakers in late 2004, when his aging mother, Naomi, became too ill to care for him.
Weinfeld's sales pitch for his boondoggles almost always ended in a sale. Spotting an unsuspecting pedestrian, he would quicken his tall frame and slightly tilted-forward gait and call out, "Excuse me, mister, can you help me out?" and display one of his plaited plastic boondoggles.
Many downtown workers were familiar with the drill and happy to help him make a sale. And the hot dog vendors and restaurant owners he ran errands for rewarded him for his services – not only in cash but in giving him a sense of purpose and dignity.
Though autistic, Weinfeld is very social, according to his sister. "He was a very big personality. He knew so many people. He loved meeting people," she said.
And he was "somewhat of a calendrical savant," said Weinfeld Goode, of New York City, explaining that her brother could perform mathematical calculations involving calendar dates.
McCarthy said, "Marc could tell you the day of your birthday 20 years from now, and he never forgot your birthday or your name."
During the lunch hour Tuesday over at Taki's Restaurant on Court Street, co-owner Danice Kyriakopoulos began weeping, saying she had feared that the unidentified pedestrian who had been struck was Weinfeld because he had failed to show up Monday to run errands.
Dzierzanowski said she first met Weinfeld some 28 years ago in a drugstore at West Chippewa Street and Delaware Avenue.
"He asked me for a kiss. He settled for me buying a boondoggle instead," said Dzierzanowski, who at the time ran a nearby jewelry shop. "He started running errands for me and one day I gave him a Statue of Liberty key chain and told him to memorize the inscription, 'Give me your tired, your poor …' His mother called me to thank me that someone took an interest in Marc. He memorized all of it."
As his parents grew older, the Dzierzanowskis agreed to provide them with respite, first one day a month, then one weekend a month, until finally, about nine years ago, Weinfeld moved in full time.
"What can you say?" Cathy Dzierzanowski said of the accident. "He's not only a legend downtown, but no matter where we went, someone knew Marc."
Richard G. Berger, Weinfeld's attorney and the former law partner of his father, described Marc as "a dear friend … known by every judge and police officer, almost everyone" in the downtown area.
In fact, police kept a caring eye on Weinfeld, whose simple ways offered a lesson to others.
"We all felt protective of him. He reminded me to keep life very simple," said Central District Police Chief Brian K. Patterson. "He has a spirit that is very generous."
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The first project proposed for the town's Ephesus Fordham redevelopment district is a 90-foot-tall building with 266 apartments, 15,600 square feet of retail space and an attached parking deck.
Developer East West Partners wants to build its "Village Plaza Apartments" on the long-vacant Plaza Theater site at 211 S. Elliott Road. The 305,000-square-foot building would offer one- and two-bedroom apartments priced at market rates. For details, see bit.ly/1pJ7uX7.
Developer Lee Perry said the name of the project – a joint venture with Trammell Crow Residential, a Texas-based multifamily real estate company – soon will change.
The project is the first that could be approved by the town manager, instead of the Town Council, under the new form-based code zoning that streamlines the development process by specifying how buildings should look and fit their surroundings.
At 95 percent residential, the project is expected to set the pace for other property owners in the 180-acre district who might redevelop their strip malls and parking lots. The town's goal for the district is to fund needed traffic and stormwater improvements, while increasing the commercial tax base.
East West Partners is not proposing any affordable housing for residents making 80 percent or less of the area's median income (AMI). The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development defines 80 percent of AMI in Chapel Hill as a two-person household earning $42,050 a year.
The project's ground-floor restaurant and commercial space, lined with trees, tables and chairs, would face Elliott Road and Whole Foods. It would be slightly larger, for comparison, than the 13,000-square-foot Trader Joe's at Shops at Eastgate.
The developer also plans more than 35,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor space, including a private pool and bocce court. Project documents state neighbors Whole Foods and Village Plaza could share 463 ground-level and parking deck spaces. There also will be 78 bike spots.
East West Partners agreed earlier this summer to pay for the construction of a new street connecting Elliott Road – at the former Red, Hot & Blue restaurant – with its parking deck and another road between Booker Creek and the Village Plaza shops. The creekside road would end across from the Burger King on Elliott Road.
Other pedestrian options include new bike lanes, eight-foot sidewalks and relocated greenway links, which count as half of the developer's required payment to the town for recreation space.
McAdams Co. construction consultants estimate developing the largely paved lot will only add 1,260 square feet of impervious surface, responsible for stormwater runoff. The developer plans a wetlands retention area and an underground sand filter to hold and slowly filter pollutants from the water.
The Town Council approved new zoning and development approval rules for the district in May. The rules authorize the town manager to approve development projects that meet the district's new form-based code, a checklist of building heights, placement, landscaping and other details.
Although the council could review the first few projects submitted under the form-based code, Town Manager Roger Stancil must approve projects that meet the qualifications within 45 days of ensuring the application is complete. The town's Community Design Commission will review projects – on an advisory basis – for design elements, colors and other ways new buildings fit into their environment.
The project needs a form-based code permit and certificate of appropriateness to move ahead.
The commission's meeting are open to the public. Village Plaza Apartments is scheduled for the commission's Sept. 23 meeting.


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The popularity of television shows such as "CSI" has increased the public's awareness of DNA as a crime-solving tool. Currently, most police departments in the United States—as a matter of policy and practice—collect DNA evidence only in violent crimes, such as homicide and sexual assault. This, in part, is based on the belief that it is too expensive to collect biological evidence (and perform DNA analysis) in high-volume crimes, such as property crime.
The facts that form the foundation of this belief, however, are changing. The cost of performing DNA analysis is decreasing. The amount of data in state and national DNA databases is increasing, and many DNA databases are now including the DNA profiles of all convicted (violent and nonviolent) felons. Based on information in these databases—and other research on criminal careers—researchers have found that many property offenders do not "specialize," that is, they do not limit their activities to crimes against property and may commit other offenses, including violent crimes and drug deals.
For example, a Florida study revealed that 52 percent of that state's DNA database "hits" against murder and sexual assault cases matched individuals who were originally placed in the database for burglary convictions. A hit occurs when a database search of a DNA profile from biological evidence matches a profile in the database, thus identifying a suspect.
Learn more from the NIJ Journal article
"DNA Analysis for 'Minor' Crimes: A Major Benefit for Law Enforcement. "
Criminal justice experts have long known that property crime offenders have high recidivism rates; the types of crimes they perpetrate—including the level of violence used—can escalate; and property crime cases frequently go unsolved. The Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates the average (mean) property loss from a household burglary in 2005 was approximately $1,500. Burglars are often high-rate offenders and the total cost from their crimes may be many times this amount. Therefore, arresting burglars using DNA as part of the criminal investigation—burglars who otherwise would not be caught and brought to justice—has the potential to prevent future property and other crimes.
Go to The DNA Field Experiment: Testing Cost Effectiveness of Collecting DNA in Property Crimes
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