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Jabba the Hutt of 'Star Wars' fame may be a ruthless gangster and crime lord feared in the Outer Rim, but he's somehow less menacing when done up in fondant icing. Still, we don't like the way this Jabba cupcake is looking at us. Eat at your own peril.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Unions at Spanish airline Iberia on Monday called off a six-day strike in December to avoid disrupting holiday travel while warning that protests over massive job cuts might follow later.
The strikes, planned largely for the week before Christmas, threatened to damage Spain's image and the finances of the loss-making airline. Rivals would have also been hit by the absence of Iberia baggage handlers at many Spanish airports.
Unions failed to reach any agreement with Iberia over a major restructuring of the company at the latest round of talks on Monday, opening the door for strikes at another time.
"We've decided to call off the strike because of the dates and because we don't want to harm passengers when Iberia bears an exclusive responsibility," a spokesman for USO (Union Sindical Obrera) trade union told Reuters.
"Until January, depending on whether disagreements persist, we will study new actions."
Iberia, along with British Airways, is part of International Airlines Group (IAG) (ICAG.L), which said in November it would axe about 4,500 jobs or a quarter of Iberia's workforce, and cut capacity to try and the airline more competitive.
Last week Iberia said it was dropping routes to cities such as Athens, Cairo and Havana next year.
The strikes were set for December 14 and the five days from December 17 to 21, a key period for holiday travel.
The Iberia strikes followed a pattern of industrial action across Spain this year, with some accelerating in recent weeks, including in other tourism-related areas.
Workers at Spanish luxury hotels, known as Paradores de Turismo and often housed in historic castles and palaces, on Friday started a two-day strike to protest against job cuts and threatened closure at the state-run chain.
Hospital workers in the Madrid region, meanwhile, have begun their third week of protests against the privatization of state clinics.
Reporting by Carlos Ruano; Writing by Julien Toyer and Sarah White; Editing by David Cowell

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I recently read an article about one of the most remarkable deep holes ever created. Fifty years ago, the Soviet Union began a project to drill the deepest hole ever achieved. The goal of the Kola Superdeep Borehole project was to penetrate the Earth's upper crust and sample the area where the crust and mantle intermingle. After years of careful planning for the best methods and location, drilling began in 1962. Although (after decades of work) extreme temperatures eventually led to abandonment of the ultimate goal, the project was not a complete failure. To get as deep as possible, new methods of drilling were developed, and as the project progressed, many secrets were uncovered about what lies beneath the Earth's surface. It's really quite interesting what can be found in a hole about 9 inches wide and more than 7.5 miles deep.
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Integrating a modern shopping center with a 19th century building is a great idea. It is exactly what the guys at the Melbourne Central shopping center (Australia) have done! It makes it very different to the numerous shopping malls in and around Dubai where unfortunately history is not part of the game... One exception where at least they tried, is the Ibn Batutta shopping mall at the West part of Dubai.
On the North side of the Melbourne CBD (Central Business District) one can find the Lead and Shot factory tower. It is a 50m brick tower (completed in 1890) which has been used to make 6 tons of lead shots (i.e. bullets) per week until 1961. The building was saved from demolition in 1973 and was incorporated in the large Melbourne Central complex underneath a 84m high conical glass roof, in 1991. The bullets were made by dropping small lumps of molten lead form the top of the building. By the time they reached the bottom, they had cooled and solidified into shot pellets. Individual shots were then checked for size and roundness and were remelted and dropped if not passed by quality control.
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March 15 is a miraculous day in China where counterfeit and shoddy products emerge in endlessly. It seems that only on this day everyone in the country will concern and celebrate the new tiny breakthrough in cracking down on counterfeit goods.
As an independent journalist resident in China for more than 12 years, I have witnessed and heard countless stories of counterfeit goods as well as the producers and sellers. The Chinese government has made efforts in this aspect, however those who are cunning and capricious in seeking profit could always challenge our imagination by their "innovation".
Let's see a rather ironic example about counterfeiting. There is an unknown presswork but of great reputation, Yearbook of Who's Who of China (ISSN: ISSN1008-1771), in which more than 1,000 Chinese celebrities from political leaders to prisoners have been included without any difference as long as they are well-known. Generally speaking, people are included mainly because they are famous. But in some cases, the competent department of this presswork: Chinese Academy of Agricultural Mechanization Sciences, an organization specializes in studying tractor and farmland spray system, may also include some "queue jumpers" in an undetectable way.
For instance, Richard Lu (Junhong Lu), a 57-year-old man who acted in low comedies and later worked as the host of a small Chinese radio in Australia, initiatively promised to subscribe 1,500 copies of Yearbook of Who's Who of China 2014 the bid price of which was CNY300, and then the editorial department included him into the book after many celebrities readily. In order to obtain a more compellent ranking, Richard Lu subscribed extra 1,000 books. Therefore, his name and introduction was put before the famous film director Ang Lee, who was the first ethnic Chinese that won the title of best director in three worldwide film award ceremonies: Academy Award, British Academy Film Awards and Golden Globe Award, respectively.
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The bill amount of the books purchased by Richard Lu who became famous worldwide from an unknown overnight was up to CNY 750,000 (109,000 USD), an enormous figure for mainland Chinese but negligible to overseas ethnic Chinese. The actual payer of these 25,000 copies of Yearbook of Who's Who of China 2014 was Australia Oriental Media Buddhist Charity Association with its account established in St George Bank. This is a capital raising organization collecting charity fund from many well-wishers, the legal person of which is exactly Richard Lu. But what's most worth further consideration is that, the payee only actually received CNY 250,000 for payment of books. Perhaps only God knows where the remaining CNY500,000 goes to.
What we have seen is a research institution specialized in developing agricultural implements, a list of celebrities that could be willfully adjusted, an old man who acted in low comedies and also worked as the radio host, a charity organization in which fund could be casually embezzled, a large amount of money that disappeared without a trace, a dye-in-the-wood counterfeit industry chain, and an unpresentable way of money laundering.
Jun Hong Lu is the Chairman and Director of Australia Oriental Media Buddhist Charity Association.
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Hi this is Wendy from Sewing in the Wendy City. I'm thrilled to bring you my second Moda Bake Shop recipe! This time I got to work with Momo's Just Wing It! collection, which is fabulously beautiful.
I call this quilt my "Squaredy Cat" quilt because it uses giant squares to make a large quilt and goes together very easily and quickly. If' you've always been a "Scaredy Cat" about a bed-sized quilt, then "Squaredy Cat" is a good pattern for you!
1 layer cake in Just Wing It by MoMo
2 Jelly Rolls in Just Wing It by MoMo
1 yard of a coordinating print for binding
5 1/2 yards of a coordinating print for backing
From the layer cake, pull out the following:
18 squares that will be the centers of our blocks
4 squares that will be the corner posts on the piano key border (trim to 8″ square)
9 squares that will be subcut into 2.5″ x 10″ strips (yielding 36 10″ strips)
3 squares that will be subcut into 2.5″ x 8″ strips (yielding 12 8″ strips)
The rest of the layer cake can be pieced into the backing
The rest of the layer cake can be pieced into the backing
From the 2 jelly rolls, you will need the following:
8 solidish strips to be the inner border. I used the blue toned ones.
36 strips, each cut into: one 18-inch strip, a 14-inch strip, and an 8-inch strip
Another 36 strips, each cut into: one 14-inch strip, and three 8-inch strips
When you finish cutting you will have:
36 10-inch strips
72 14-inch strips
36 18-inch strips
156 8-inch strips
It may be helpful to find a ziploc or a basket for each size of strips.
Now, time to sew! It is very, very helpful to chain piece these. If you do this, it will go pretty quickly.
To each of your 18 center squares, add the following:
10-inch strips to each side,
14-inch strips to the top and bottom,
another set of 14-inch strips to the left and right
And finally, 18-inch strips to the top and bottom.
At this point, your blocks will be approximately 18 inches square. Press them well, and take them to your cutting mat.
Cut vertically and horizontally to make four 9-inch blocks.
You will have 72 of these 9-inch blocks.
Layout the blocks in pairs like so… and pin them. Make sure you have the squares lined up… in the top right on the left and the bottom right corner on the right. I suggest pinning them all and then chain piecing all 36 pairs.
Aren't they pretty all lined up like that?
Next, sew the pairs of blocks into rows of 4 blocks, alternating the square placement each time.
Then put 2 groups of 4 together so that you have 8 blocks. You will have 9 identical rows of 8 blocks each.
Find the 8 jelly roll strips you reserved for the inner border and sew them together end-to-end.
Add the inner border onto your quilt center.
Find the giant pile of 8-inch strips you cut earlier, and sew them together to make a piano key border.
So that I didn't have to deal with a very long border at one time, I split my strips into approximately 4 strips and pieced them together as I needed to to add to the quilt.
I used corner posts on mine.
First, add the piano key border to the short sides of your top. Then we do some careful measuring. Put an 8-inch square onto one end of a piano key strip. Then carefully lay it out, marking where you get to the other end where the other corner post will be.
Trim the piano key border 1/4″ past the inner border, then sew on the other corner post. Pin carefully so that your points line up.
I love a pieced quilt back!
Here's the backing fabric. Isn't it beautiful! I used 5 yards of the backing fabric, but it was close! So I'm suggesting 5 1/2 in the pattern.
I had several leftover layer cake squares and I pieced them into the back with my leftover jelly roll pieces.
I took my leftovers and arranged them to be as large as the quilt top. There are many ways to do this, but here's mine:
I used the dark blue as my binding fabric, and it worked well. I think one of the solids would also be lovely.
To make your binding, cut 9 strips that are 2.5″ by the width of the fabric.
Quilt and bind as desired.
A beautiful oversized-full sized quilt, measuring approximately 87″ x 96″.
I'm so pleased with the way it turned out.
And pieced backs are so much fun!
Here's a full shot….
And I made this cute butterfly pillow with my leftover scraps.
For the pattern and more information on making the pillow, please visit my blog, Sewing in the Wendy City, for the full tutorial.
Thanks so much for reading.
Blessings to you–
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Facility Name: Hangar Athletic Xchange
Location: Los Angeles
Opened: November 2008
Square Footage: 70,000 square feet
In a Former Life: An airplane hangar
Cost of Renovation: About $3 million
Fun Fact: The 40,000 square feet of hardwood flooring in the club came from the 2008 regional finals of the NCAA tournament. The club is the largest portable floor facility in the country and the second largest in the world.
Jeff Herdman, a former professional basketball player, scoured the Los Angeles area for six years for the perfect location for his health club. One day, he stumbled across a 50-year-old airport hangar in a Los Angeles community airport. The 70,000-square-foot building had been vacant for a few years and was in disrepair, but he looked past the ceiling leaks and holes in the walls.
"When I walked in the building, I knew it was meant to be," says Herdman, the club's CEO.
The airport hangar offered a large open space with room for six full basketball courts. When Herdman and his business partner, Steve Burnett, took over the building, they spent nearly a year gutting and repairing it. They redid the landscaping, painted the exterior of the corrugated steel building and repaired the holes in the roof. Although they retained the major structural beams and one of the two hangar doors, they invested in new windows, a new ventilation system and three industrial-size 24-foot fans.
Other club owners may have shied away from such an ambitious project, but Herdman and Burnett took it on for three reasons — the size of the building, the location and the amount of acreage. The club is located at the corner of major highways, is parallel to the Hawthorne Airport runway and is a stone's throw from Los Angeles International airport.
"Everything was here and fell into place once we found it," Herdman says. "The land prices around here are very high, and land is just not available in the Los Angeles area."
Close to $3 million later, the Hangar Athletic Xchange recently held its grand opening with almost 1,000 members in pre-sales. Herdman anticipates a return on investment in three to five years. In addition to serving as a health club, the facility also is a high-end training center with a volleyball and basketball academy and sports performance training.
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text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Shading Faces Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Shading Faces" tanismemberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 1999Posts: 207Location: Bergamo, Italy Posted: Tue Oct 26, 1999 1:56 pm I just wanted to ask Dhabih and everyone else reading this board how they do the shading of a face. I am actually concentrating on the use of the dodge/burn tool but I happen to make a real mess with it. it usually turns out that while using that tool I get uneven shadings with strokes darker than others even if I didn't move the pen away from the tablet. I think that maybe I'm giving too many strokes all at once and with a too small brush, but I'm unsure. How do you do that sort of things ? (I hope I've been clear enough since English isn't my native language..) ------------------ C'ya! Valerio Santinelli a.k.a. TANiS firstname.lastname@example.com Back to top ShrimpishGuestMember # Posted: Tue Oct 26, 1999 2:41 pm That's a pretty tricky question, but here's a tip: Make sure that the pressure on your dodge/burn is not higher than 20%, and always use feathered brushes for the beginning. Uh... Try that. Back to top AffectedmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 1854Location: Helsinki, Finland Posted: Tue Oct 26, 1999 9:44 pm If you get uneven shading, you might want to pick up the airbrush and smooth it out. Using dodge/burn alone can be pretty tricky. Back to top DhabihAdministratorMember #Joined: 13 Sep 1999Posts: 532Location: Kirkland, WA, U.S.A. Posted: Wed Oct 27, 1999 12:08 am I'm not really sure the problem you are having. If you're still having trouble maybe you can post the image here and then we can give our feedback. -dhab Back to top tanismemberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 1999Posts: 207Location: Bergamo, Italy Posted: Wed Oct 27, 1999 2:41 am Ok.. I'll follow your suggestion and post a sketch ASAP so you can better help me. Thanks in advance everybody! ------------------ C'ya! Valerio Santinelli a.k.a. TANiS firstname.lastname@example.com Back to top e s k i ljunior memberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 8Location: Norway Posted: Wed Oct 27, 1999 5:43 am I understand his problem. I got the same problem myself. What do you mean feathered brushes? And how do you smooth out with the airbrush?? Another problem: Colors are giving me a hard time! If I for example want to draw something brown, I color the thing brown. But when I start to use the burn/dodge tool, everything seems to turn red. Wouldn't it have been alot easier if we could choose which color it should become? Maybe we can, maybe I just haven't discovered it yet.. =) ------------------ -eskil http://cpx.nu firstname.lastname@example.com Back to top ShrimpishGuestMember # Posted: Wed Oct 27, 1999 6:49 am Feathered brushes are the ones that don't have sharp edges. I never use airbrush when I shade a face, unless I mess up and I have to clean up. And as far as the colors, you have to try to dodge it first before you use, and make sure it goes straight to white. I think that's one thing about PS. The dodge tool is not as powerful as it can be. If you dodge a dark-blue, it has to go through pink before it goes to white. That's why you have to try it ahead of time. Back to top ShrimpishGuestMember # Posted: Wed Oct 27, 1999 6:50 am See my page at http://bluebrush.com and check out the faces. Back to top SPike.CoMmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 194Location: Helsingborg, Sweden Posted: Wed Oct 27, 1999 12:10 pm As far as I can tell, it's easier to paint with a feathered brush with a *LOW* opacity value (25% is sufficient): You'll then have the option to paint multiple times the shade or hilight you wan't. It's easier to make gradient on faces this way. Dodge / Burn is an easy way, but you have very little control over the color. By the way. Use a mirror, a lamp and your face... you'll then know how you should place all the shadows and hilights. That was my 2 cents and piece of mind... Cheers! ------------------ Mikael Piotrowski aka. SPike.CoM ------------------------ Natural and digital artist ------------------------ Homepage: http://bounce.to/spike E-mail: email@example.com ------------------------ Back to top Anthony JmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 412Location: Oakville Posted: Wed Oct 27, 1999 7:21 pm I find shading in Lhamas to test out techniques prove to be useful. What you do... LOL ok, I want to continue, but this joke is too damn stupid =D *ABORT THE MISSION* http://anthonys.8m.com ------------------ "you must feel the force in order to use it Obi-Wan..." Back to top FunfetusmemberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 1999Posts: 343Location: West Covina, CA Posted: Thu Oct 28, 1999 1:19 pm In Painter, I shade faces (and everything else) by first painting solid colors. Like on a face, I'll have a base color, then I'll paint in a couple of shades of solid highlights and shadows. Then I use a few different tools to blend them together and smooth them out. This could probably be adapted to Photoshop with the smudge and blur tools. ------------------ Funfetus iCE VGA Division http://fetus.ice.org Back to top tanismemberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 1999Posts: 207Location: Bergamo, Italy Posted: Thu Oct 28, 1999 1:35 pm I finally managed to find 10 minutes to draw this sketch.. if you pay attention, you can notice that it seems that there's a kind of bump coming out of the image where there are highlights and that's what I don't really want to happen.. And another thing.. what about sharpening contour lines ? I usually smudge the outlines, but then I find it difficult to bring them back to a more "solid" look. Please bear patience with me.. I'm just a newbie in here.. Here it is.. http://www.mediacom.it/~tanis/gfx/sketch1.jpg ------------------ C'ya! Valerio Santinelli a.k.a. TANiS firstname.lastname@example.com Back to top FunfetusmemberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 1999Posts: 343Location: West Covina, CA Posted: Thu Oct 28, 1999 1:45 pm Those "bumps" are really just because your highlights are in the wrong places, and they're indicating forms that shouldn't be there. You need to visualize the head (and anything else you draw) as a collection of geometric shapes, and simply put the highlights and shadows on the correct sides of those shapes. ------------------ Funfetus iCE VGA Division http://fetus.ice.org Back to top tanismemberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 1999Posts: 207Location: Bergamo, Italy Posted: Thu Oct 28, 1999 1:57 pm I think I'll go with a good mirror So it's just a matter of wrong highlights.. I thought it could also be because of too much light on a single spot, could it sum up too? Thanks man! ------------------ C'ya! Valerio Santinelli a.k.a. TANiS firstname.lastname@example.com Back to top AffectedmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 1854Location: Helsinki, Finland Posted: Thu Oct 28, 1999 2:38 pm That, too. You should only apply the highlights when you've got most of the shading done, especially when working with dodge/burn. If you overdo the highlights, they'll start 'bleeding'. You may also get uneven shading, if you use only the dodge/burn to shade an area, and you need to fiddle with it quite a bit before gettin git right. Try smoothing the section you're working on with the airbrush, if that happens. Overall, I'd recommend doing the basic shading with the airbrush, and the highlights and the dark shadows with dodge/burn. The airbrush is more forgiving, since it doesn't accumulate. And don't try to get it all just right from the beginning, it's much faster to draw a rough sketch with the airbrush, as funfetus suggested, with solid colours, and start improving on that, once you've got the basic parts down. ------------------ Affected http://affected.cjb.net [This message has been edited by Affected (edited October 28, 1999).] Back to top Galaxyjunior memberMember #Joined: 27 Oct 1999Posts: 7 Posted: Thu Oct 28, 1999 2:39 pm I know you got an answer you are looking for, but if you still can't get it, you may want to select the outline of the face using the magic wand (I assume you are using Photoshop), and then mess with the lighting effects. Also, selecting the face and then darkening it sometimes works for me, then lightening the face (sort of a back-wards working) manualy, depending on the angle you are trying to lighten. ------------------ ~Galaxy~ firstname.lastname@example.com ~The Chosen~ Back to top ariochjunior memberMember #Joined: 01 Nov 1999Posts: 16 Posted: Mon Nov 01, 1999 4:36 pm I use the airbrush for skin tones and never use the dodge/burn tool. Except maybe as an after thought when the image is complete and I want to mess around with it a bit to see if it can enhance the over all mood. But basically I dont use it because I cant control it with the accuracy that I desire (maybe I just need to play with it some more). Anyhow I use the airbrush to do my skin work. I lay down a base color and then go over it with a highlight color and a shadow color. Then to fine tune it and get a smooth transistion between the basic extremes I just keep laying down colors that are in between the two that Im trying to merge. I do this all in individual layers so if I dont like something I've done in one layer I just delete it. After I get like 10 or so Ill merge them into one and keep moving forward in the same manner. In addition I use the Gaussian Blur on each layer that I lay to get it to blend together with the previous layer. If you want to see an example you can go to http://members.home.net/arioch/pm.htm Back to top FunfetusmemberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 1999Posts: 343Location: West Covina, CA Posted: Mon Nov 01, 1999 10:03 pm Does anyone else find that using dodge/burn, especially on skin tones, tends to REALLY oversaturate the colors? ------------------ Funfetus iCE VGA Division http://www.funhousedigital.com Back to top immimemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 629Location: vancouver Posted: Mon Nov 01, 1999 10:18 pm yeah, i think its easy to saturate your pic using the dodge tool especially. I think the main problem is having the setting too high. when i use it, i usually have it set to around 10-15%, and this tends to solve the problem. Back to top DhabihAdministratorMember #Joined: 13 Sep 1999Posts: 532Location: Kirkland, WA, U.S.A. Posted: Wed Nov 03, 1999 11:07 pm When i find that the transition between shades isnt as smooth as i want, i take a big soft brush and set my smudge to around 7% and kinda smudge a couple pixels back and forth until it starts to smooth out. -dhab Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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Back to back work days are set at Little Creek Park.
Work times are 8 a.m. to noon on Thursday, May 30, and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, May 31. Volunteers from Lowe's Hero Program will lead the way, and need other local citizens to join in the effort. For more information, see the May 23 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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July 25th, 1980, fell on a Friday. Day 207 of 1980. Decade: 1980s.
39 years, 10 months and 13 days have passed since July 25th, 1980.
Events that occurred on July 25th, 1980:
Songs that were on top of the music singles charts in the USA and the United Kingdom on July 25th, 1980:
Trending news stories and fads that were prevalent throughout this time period. These are news stories and events that would have been in the media on July 25th, 1980.
During this time, the Atlanta murders of 1979 - 1981 were taking place. At least 28 children and young adults are murdered before Wayne Williams is eventually caught and convicted of murder.
The Iran hostage crisis was ongoing during this period. Between the 4th of November, 1979 and the 20th of January, 1981, 52 American diplomats and citizens were held hostage in Iran. The hostages were taken into captivity after a group of Iranian college students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran.
"Sailing" by Christopher Cross would go on to win a Grammy for 1980's Song of the Year.
U.S. President Ronald Reagan was named as the Time Person of the Year in 1980.
"Ordinary People" won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1980.
Movies released in 1980 included The Empire Strikes Back, 9 to 5, Friday the 13th, Stir Crazy, Airplane!, Any Which Way You Can, Caddyshack, Private Benjamin, Coal Miner's Daughter, Smokey and the Bandit II, The Blue Lagoon, The Blues Brothers, The Shining and The Fog.
The early 80s saw a minimalist approach to fashion, with some trends carrying over from the late 1970s. Sweaters, fur-lined puffer jackets, tunics, ripped jeans, leotards, velour tracksuits, tube tops, knee-length skirts, high-waisted pants and embroidered jeans were all popular during this period. The colors during the early 1980s were subdued, quiet and basic. Varying shades of brown, tan, and orange were in fashion.
Popular music artists in 1980 included Blondie, Pink Floyd, Billy Joel, Olivia Newton-John, Michael Jackson, Captain & Tennille, Queen, Paul McCartney and Lipps Inc.
Throughout the summer of 1980, the United States suffered a heat wave. The heat wave, which affected the Midwest and the Southern Plains, claimed the lives of over 1,700 people.
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Boxing legend Mike Tyson allegedly hit a photographer at Los Angeles International Airport and was booked and released on $20,000 bail on suspicion of misdemeanor battery Wednesday, police said.
Tyson and the unnamed photographer made a citizen's arrest on each other and both want to press charges for misdemeanor battery, police said. Police are checking whether there was any surveillance video of the incident.
At 4: 30 p.m. former heavyweight boxing champion Tyson got into a beef with a paparazzo at the United Airlines counter inside Terminal 7, police told the Los Angeles City News Service. There were conflicting reports from witnesses about the fight.
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The paparazzo told police that the former heavyweight boxing champion struck him once, airport police spokesman Sgt. Jim Holcomb said. The photographer fell to the ground and was treated for a cut to his forehead at a hospital.
Tyson's spokeswoman Tammy Brook said the boxer was traveling with his wife and 10-month-old child Wednesday afternoon when he was attacked by an overly aggressive paparazzo. The 43-year-old acted in self-defense to protect his child, she said.
"There's a lot of different versions to this story and that's all going to come out later," Holcomb said. "Some witness statements support Tyson's version, others support the photographer's."
Paparazzi often camp out at Los Angeles' largest airport to get shots of celebrities in transit.
"I've heard people were following him into the men's room and trying to take his picture there," said Tyson's defense attorney, David Chesnoff. "My advice to him is going to be to vigorously press charges against what everyone agrees are ridiculously aggressive photographers."
Tyson was cooperative as he waited in a holding cell at the airport police station, Holcomb said. The photographer will also be booked once he is released from the hospital, police said.
Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion ever in 1986 when he won his title as a 20-year-old. But his life since then has been marred by accusations of domestic violence, rape and cocaine use.
Tyson was convicted of rape in Indiana in 1992 and served three years in prison. He was disqualified from a 1997 heavyweight title fight when he bit off part of Evander Holyfield's right ear, and in 1999 he pleaded no contest to misdemeanor assault charges in Maryland. The pair recently reconciled on "Oprah."
In 2003, Tyson filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. He served 24 hours in an Arizona jail in 2007 after pleading guilty to cocaine possession and driving under the influence.
More recently, his 4-year-old daughter, Exodus, died after being strangled by a treadmill cord earlier this year.


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The Olympians was an idea for a short we have had since late 2011. The idea came from a book that Karl (@karlmaddix) was reading at the time Ilium which sees the Gods of Olympus set in a very different time and place. As the Olympics was fast approaching we thought it might be really interesting to have the Greek Gods duking it out in modern London and thus The Olympians was born.
We live, work and play in London so we wanted to capture some of the paradoxical vibes you get with this wonderful city like classic historical architecture such as Tower bridge clashing with modern architecture like the Shard. We went through many iterations of the storyboards until we had a sequence that we felt represented parts of London we are very fond with but kept up the pace and flow of the action as much as possible . We also wanted to highlight key Olympic events like the triple jump over Tower bridge, shot put from Hades throwing the meteor, hurdles once again from Hades on the train track and finally the javelin from Zeus which morphs into a pole vault for Olympia in the last sequence.
Here we have a version of the winged boots gifted by Hermes. But we had to cut it as Hermes imbalanced the story. Would have been cool though! 🙂
And lastly, some early concept art of Poseidon. As he is one of the main Gods we wanted to feature him in the Thames. But we couldn't really find a good fit in the story without disrupting the pacing, so sadly he had to be cut 🙁 . We love Poseidon, he rocks!
Our original inspiration for the look and feel came from Constructivism and the Vorticists. After some research we soon feel in love with the incredible illustrations by Zaha Hadid . Her drawings pretty much captured the urban, fractual, low poly style we were looking for.
The character design was a bit more fluid and drew from inspirations such as Aeon flux and the animated short from the Animatrix "World Record". With our heroine, we wanted a lithe, almost panther like character, with a long and muscular frame.
Olympia herself is based on real life demi-goddess and gold medallist Jessica Ennis, but given how amazingly well Team GB's Women did during the Games, we dedicate the film to them as a whole.
With Hades we wanted an "anti-Olympic" character. We began with the version (above) which was inspired by the Demon Aku from Samurai Jack (which we are big fans off). But as we went through various iterations of his character he began to turn into someone who's ideas and actions subvert the positive, athletic aspect of the games. With that we made him obese, ugly and damn right nasty. Him being fat and puffy fitted nicely with thunder clouds, so we combined them both. The thunder and lightning was used to communicate when he gets angry or upset in the story.
Developing the style in 3D was quite a challenge and took many iterations before we were happy with it. We love the fractual, low poly style that has become quite popular as it feels very raw, like the first stages of a sculpt. What this imposes is a strict appreciation for shape and form so we had to make damn sure our characters and architecture felt good and animated smoothly.
When you apply the low poly fractual effect to organic things like water and smoke, you start to get some really interesting effects happening. For example, our puddle splash shot.
Smoke was also a major challenge. We used DPIT Effex in Cinema4D which has an effect called mesher. This essentially creates a mesh from particles. By cranking down the quality and effecting the particles with forces like wind and gravity we were able to get the effect we wanted.
And lastly, here is a step by step breakdown of one of the shots.
One of decisions we made early on was for the story to happen in daylight. We have seen some great low-poly 3D shorts set at night to create shape and lighting contrast. By setting it at dawn, we could explore the lovely pinks and oranges offset against cool glass and concrete in the city along with it feeling almost dreamlike, the gods fighting over London in an ethereal dimension. This led to a lot of work with the lighting and rendering, using Cinema4D and Vray along with heavy post in Aftereffects to get the right look and feel.
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Bengals unable to stop Cleveland comeback
Two touchdowns in 10 seconds, fumble seals Cincinnati's fate
The Bengals ran into a desperate team. If they're not careful, they may become one themselves.
Outplayed in the second half by a Cleveland team that hadn't won in nearly a year, Cincinnati made costly turnovers and lost its second straight, 34-24 to the Browns on Sunday.
Andy Dalton threw three touchdown passes but also three interceptions, including one that was returned 19 yards for a TD by Browns cornerback Sheldon Brown in the fourth quarter.
"We did a lot of very good things, but you turn the ball over and you are going to lose," Bengals coach Marvin Lewis said. "We need to play nasty. We are almost too nice. We need more of a killer instinct. We were not good enough in all three phases."
Cincinnati led 14-7 at halftime, but for the second week in a row, the Bengals (3-3) couldn't close the deal and the Browns snapped an 11-game losing streak that dated to November.
"We're just not clicking," said wide receiver A.J. Green, who caught two TD passes. "We're not putting all the pieces together. We're a winning football team. That means some guy is not doing their job."
The Bengals had 215 total yards at halftime, but they didn't really get rolling on offense in the second half until it was too late.
Cincinnati had its chances, but a dropped ball here, special teams break downs and an inability to run the ball against a Cleveland defense that gave up 243 rushing yards last week doomed the Bengals, who will host the Pittsburgh Steelers next week and play their next three at home.
Dalton finished 31 of 46 for 381 yards with three TDs and three interceptions.
"We feel like we gave two games away," said Dalton, referring to last week's loss to Miami. "I wouldn't say we're too nice. We just have to find that edge."
Lewis went further, saying the Bengals don't know how to put an opponent away.
"We have got to play nastier. We need to play tougher," Lewis said. "We need to have more of a killer instinct."
It's the second time the Browns have ended their franchise record losing streak against the Bengals. When Cleveland last lost 11 in a row, the Browns stopped their slide with a win at home over Cincinnati in 1975.
"It was fun to see guys jumping around and happy," said Browns kicker Phil Dawson, who has been with Cleveland since 1999. "They never had that feeling before and it was great to see."
Rookie Brandon Weeden threw two touchdown passes on his 29th birthday and cornerback Joe Haden sparked Cleveland's defense with his return from a suspension to lead the Browns (1-5).
"A big weight was lifted off our shoulders," said Haden, who intercepted a pass by Dalton in third quarter to set up a field goal. "It felt like we won the Super Bowl. We just didn't give up."
Montario Hardesty, filling in for injured rookie Trent Richardson, scored on a 1-yard plunge as the Browns outscored the Bengals in the second half 27-10.
It was the first win in nine tries against an AFC North opponent for second-year Browns coach Pat Shurmur. The victory also closed Randy Lerner's tenure as Cleveland's majority owner. His sale to Haslam for $1 billion is expected to be approved by the league's owners on Tuesday.
The Browns hadn't been able to put together a complete game under Shurmur. There were still some major flaws, but one of the NFL's youngest teams did some growing up and took some of the pressure off Shurmur, who needed a win to impress Haslam, the truck-stop magnate and a former minority owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
With the Browns leading 27-17 after Weeden's 3-yard TD pass to Benjamin Watson, Brown stepped in front of Brandon Tate, picked the ball off and ran it all the way back as Cleveland fans rocked Browns Stadium as it hadn't been in years.
Weeden went 17 of 29 for 231 yards and found rookie Josh Gordon for a 71-yard TD in the second quarter. Hardesty's 1-yard TD dive on the first play of the fourth quarter gave the Browns, who trailed 14-7 at halftime, their first lead at 20-14.
Hardesty was in for Richardson, who took a helmet to the side early in the game. He finished with just 37 yards on 14 carries.
The Bengals made it 20-17 on Mike Nugent's 44-yard field goal with 11:11 left.
After throwing the pick to Brown, Dalton connected with Green for a 57-yard with 5:21 left. Cincinnati got the ball back and was driving again when Dalton was sacked and stripped by Emmanuel Stephens. Browns rookie Billy Winn recovered it and rumbled 35 yards into Cincinnati territory, sending Cleveland fans into delirium.
"Make better football plays," Lewis said. "That's what we need. I don't think it matter who we play. It just matters what we do. It's about us."


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|Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lu Kang's Regular Press Conference on September 27, 2017
At the invitation of Foreign Minister Wang Yi, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will pay a visit to China on September 30. During his visit, the two sides will exchange views on China-US relations, President Trump's state visit to China at the invitation of President Xi Jinping this year and major international and regional issues.
Q: When it comes to the DPRK, US President Trump said yesterday that the military option is not preferred, but if the US does have to use the military option, it would be devastating. What is China's comment on this?
A: We have taken similar questions many times recently. The Chinese side is committed to realizing the goal of the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and upholding the international non-proliferation regime. Meanwhile, we also dedicate ourselves to safeguarding the peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula and peacefully resolving the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue through dialogue and consultation. We always believe that military means should not be an option to resolve the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue because force will in no way settle disputes, but will only bring greater suffering, unbearable to all relevant parties. Yesterday, I also said on this occasion that it will even bring misfortune to regional countries.
We hope that all relevant parties can avoid the words and actions that could escalate the tensions and make the situation even worse.
Q: Recent days have witnessed quite frequent official contacts between China and the United States. US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross has just wrapped up his visit to China this week. Just now you also mentioned that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will pay a visit to China this week. In addition, we have also noted that the first round of China-US Social and People-to-People Dialogue will be held in Washington D.C. this week. What does such frequent exchange of visits mean?
A: It is not surprising that China and the United States maintain such frequent contacts within this week. This actually demonstrates that China and the United States, as two major countries, have normal and sound bilateral relations.
Since the successful meeting between the heads of the two states in Mar-a-Lago and their meeting in Hamburg, Germany, communication and exchanges at the top and other levels between the two countries have been frequent. We believe that this is conducive to the steady growth of China-US relations. Currently, both the bilateral relations and bilateral cooperation have been growing in depth and breadth, which not only has delivered tangible benefits to the two countries and two peoples but also meets the shared aspirations of the international community.
The Chinese side stands ready to maintain the sound momentum of bilateral exchanges and cooperation with the United States on the basis of what we have achieved, make joint efforts with the United States to ensure that President Trump's state visit to China at the invitation of President Xi Jinping this year will reap positive outcomes and inject greater impetus into the sound, steady and sustained development of China-US relations.
Q: It is reported that Russia hopes that the United Nations could dispatch peacekeeping force to some regions of Ukraine. What is China's position on this?
A: Presently, the UN Security Council is deliberating on the relevant draft resolution proposed by Russia. The Chinese side supports all the proposals that can contribute to the political settlement of the crisis in Ukraine.
Q: Can you give us more details about US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's visit to China? Which leaders from the Chinese side will meet with him?
A: China and the United States are maintaining communication on the detailed arrangements of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's visit to China. As far as I know, State Councilor Yang Jiechi will meet with him and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will hold talks with him. We will release the further information about this visit in a timely manner.
Q: According to media reports, while attending the commemorative activities for the 10th anniversary of the release of the October 4 Inter-Korean Joint Declaration, the ROK President Moon Jae-in said that many contents in the Declaration are still relevant today, including resuming the military talks at an early date and easing the tense situation on the Korean Peninsula. If the DPRK stops developing nuclear and missile programs, the door will always remain open for dialogue and the ROK will join hands with the international community to help with the development of the DPRK. On the same day, the spokesperson of the ROK Foreign Ministry said that the US and the ROK have explicitly stated that they stay committed to peacefully realizing the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. The US has confirmed many times that the diplomatic means is the No.1 option to resolve the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue. What is China's comment on this?
A: We have taken note of the relevant report. The current situation on the Korean Peninsula is already highly complex and sensitive. Against this backdrop, we encourage all the positive signals to call for the commitment to peacefully resolving the Korean peninsula issue through dialogue and consultation. This accords with China's consistent position. We believe that this also meets the shared aspirations and common expectations of the international community. Actually, the September 19 Joint Statement has established the consensus on realizing the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, improving relations with each other, promoting economic cooperation and providing assistance for the development of the DPRK and jointly upholding the peace and stability of Northeast Asia. We hope that all relevant parties can work for the shared goal and jointly play a constructive role in advancing the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and peacefully resolving the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue.
Q: Yesterday, the DPRK Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho arrived in Beijing. Did the Chinese side make some special arrangements to meet with him?
A: I believe that Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho made a stopover in Beijing. I have not heard of the information mentioned by you just now.
Q: China is financing a lot of economic projects in the Rahkine State, including the investment in the pipeline and the special economic zone. The Rahkine State now is affected by ethnic violence. Is China concerned about its investment there?
A: Regarding the current situation in the Rahkine State of Myanmar, China's position is quite clear-cut and we have stated it many times.
You mentioned China's investment in Myanmar and some projects including the infrastructure which are being constructed under the joint efforts of China and Myanmar. We have said many times that these projects are based on the friendly consultations between China and Myanmar and they are conducive to local development and the livelihood of the local people and serve the common interests of the two sides. We are convinced that China and Myanmar will make concerted efforts to advance these projects so as to deliver more benefits to the two peoples.
Q: Yesterday, the High Council of Iraq's Kurdistan Region for independence referendum announced that according to preliminary statistics, the turnout of the referendum is 78% and over 80% of the voters support the independence of the Kurdistan Region. The final result will be released soon. What is your comment on this?
A: The Chinese side has noted the responses of regional countries and the international community to the independence referendum held in Iraq's Kurdistan Region. I would like to reiterate that China always advocates safeguarding the sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of Iraq and calls upon all relevant parties to properly resolve their differences through dialogue and consultation and jointly uphold the peace and stability of Iraq and the region at large.


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Who's the undecided voter? It may be the 'Walmart mom'5 min read . Updated: 03 Oct 2012, 07:22 PM IST
The 'undecideds' make up roughly 6% of the electorate and could determine the outcome of a close election
The 'undecideds' make up roughly 6% of the electorate and could determine the outcome of a close election
New York: Meet the undecided voter.
Sometimes seen as the great prize of US electoral politics, this elusive citizen is more likely to be female, white, lacking a college education and earning less than $25,000, according Reuters/Ipsos polling data accumulated over the course of 2012.
The "undecideds" make up roughly 6% of the electorate, with a slightly higher concentration in an Upper Midwest region including Ohio and Wisconsin, swing states that could determine the outcome of a close election.
Even though such voters are expensive to win over and perhaps less likely to make it to the polls, they continue to capture the attention of campaigns and political analysts for their potential to tilt the result in a tight race.
After a long campaign season, the undecideds have also earned scorn from some pundits and humourists, incredulous that anyone could remain uncertain after months of campaign advertising and media coverage. "Low-information voter" is one of the more polite names attached to this group.
"This year at the debates we should skip that thing where the undecideds dial in their reaction to every little moment," remarked television host Bill Maher, "and instead hook up the dial to their foreheads to see if there is any measurable brain activity."
Not All That Sure
Calling the satire unfair, Romney pollster Neil Newhouse refers to the demographic tendencies found in the Reuters/Ipsos poll as "Walmart moms." Fifty-four percent of undecided voters are women.
"Overwhelmingly they are concerned with their family budgets, not the national budget," Newhouse said. "They are concerned about putting food on the table or gas in the tank. They haven't tuned into the campaign yet because they are struggling with their daily lives. They are living one paycheck away from going off the financial cliff."
Among poll respondents who answered 10 on a 1-to-10 scale of their intention to vote, the undecided group was more likely to chose "none," "other," "don't know" or "refuse to answer" on a broad range of questions about the presidential candidates and national political issues.
On questions about the budget deficit, same-sex marriage, healthcare and immigration, this same subset was twice as likely as all likely voters to answer "unsure" when asked about their personal views.
More of them believe the country is on the wrong track - 75%, compared to 60% - and they are much more likely to respond "neither" when asked whether Obama or Romney is the more eloquent, presidential, or likeable candidate.
"I just don't feel like either of them are trustworthy," said Helen Krueger, 54, an undecided voter and mother of seven from Grants Pass, Oregon, who voted for John McCain in 2008. "I normally make up my mind and know who I'm going to vote for. This time I need to do more research."
Obama, she said, has done a "lousy job." Romney? "I don't think we should be taxing the medium class and low class and letting the rich get by without having to pay (taxes), and that's what I feel he wants."
Krueger said she receives three or four automated phone calls a week from the Romney campaign. She listened the first time. Now she just hangs up.
Lynette Povsha, 39, another undecided voter from Missoula, Montana, has been out of work three years and is ignoring her medical bills. She said neither candidate offers her any hope.
"The economy keeps getting worse. My electricity's been off for months. I don't qualify for (public assistance). I'm a white woman at 40 with no kids," said Povsha, who voted for McCain in 2008 and has yet to be contacted by the campaigns this year. "I don't see what either of these presidential wannabes can do for me. I might put Mickey Mouse down for president."
DeEntre Thompson, 38, a school bus driver from Columbus, Ohio, said he doubted either Obama or Romney could win his vote. He said he voted for Bill Clinton twice, George W. Bush twice, and "reluctantly" for McCain in 2008.
"With the two clowns that are running, I say 'undecided´ because I don't have a third option," Thompson said, lamenting the lack of a strong third-party candidate. "If one of them showed up at my door and paid all my bills, he could sway me. Anything short of that, no."
Worth The Effort?
Experts debate whether it is more cost-effective to court undecided voters or spend the time and money getting loyal supporters to the polls.
"What's most important in this race is which party is most able to motivate its base," said Andrew Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. Still, "it could be worthwhile for the campaigns to go after (undecided voters) because in several states it's a very close race, and it could be decided by one or two percentage points."
When Ipsos looked at current undecided respondents who voted in the 2008 presidential race, the undecideds were slightly more concentrated in a region the Census Bureau defines as the East North Central, comprised of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. Nationally, 76% were white compared to 72% for all likely voters.
The Romney campaign is making a special effort to woo the undecideds in swing states with phone calls, direct mail, email and one-on-one contact, Newhouse said.
"They sound like voters who are up for grabs. These are encouraging demographics for us," he said, even though Romney's overall standing among women in the Reuters/Ipsos poll is 33%.
The Obama campaign has an extensive ground organization that emphasizes neighbour-to-neighbour contact with undecided voters.
That kind of personalized contact is the most effective way to mobilize the undecideds, said Diana Owen, a political science professor at Georgetown University, but it is also expensive.
"That being said," Owen said, "it's never good to write off a sizeable constituency. As we saw in 2000, it takes very few votes to switch the outcome of an election."
The poll has surveyed nearly 100,000 voters since 1 January. This article cited data from August and September, representing a pool of more than 17,000 likely voters, and distinctions made about undecided likely voters versus all likely voters were based on a difference of at least three percentage points. Reuters
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Something odd happened for members of the U.S. Olympic tennis team at the Rio Summer Olympics Thursday:
They were successful.
Madison Keys is into the women's semifinals, Steve Johnson is into the men's quarterfinals and the pairing of Venus Williams and teammate Rajeev Ram came back from a set down to defeat Kiki Bertens and Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (3), 10-8.
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Keys, a 21-year-old first time Olympian who is seeded No. 7, beat Daria Katsanika of Russia 6-3, 6-1 in 53 minutes Thursday, thanks in large part to a 30-4 edge in winners. One more victory, and Keys will be assured of going home with a medal.
Johnson, seeded No. 12, had a similarly easy time of it against Evgeny Donskoy of Russia, winning 6-1, 6-1. The wins came a day after rain delayed all tennis matches.
Keys and Johnson are the last two Americans in singles play at the tennis. The other six lost early, including Venus Williams in the first round, and Serena Williams in the third.
Venus Williams, the four-time gold medalist, was not originally expected to enter the event but lost in the first round in both singles and doubles, teaming with sister Serena. She entered the draw after her two early exits, which came while she was battling a virus. The 36-year-old was still coughing Thursday but didn't want to talk about her health.
"What can you do except come back and play again?" Williams said.
Rafael Nadal, a 2008 Beijing Olympics gold medalist, beat 15th-seeded Gilles Simon of France 7-6 (5), 6-3 to make the quarterfinals. Nadal and Marc Lopez assured themselves of earning a gold or silver for Spain by reaching the men's doubles final with a 7-6 (1), 7-6 (4) victory over Daniel Nestor and Vasek Pospisil of Canada on Thursday.
Nadal and Lopez will face Florin Mergea and Horia Tecau of Romania in the gold medal match. Mergea and Tecau beat Steve Johnson and Jack Sock of the U.S. 6-3, 7-5 on Thursday.
Nestor and Pospisil play Johnson and Sock for the bronze. Pospisil and Sock won the 2014 Wimbledon doubles title together.
Nadal did pull out of mixed doubles at the Olympics before playing his first-round match.
The International Tennis Federation announced Nadal's withdrawal Thursday, when he was supposed to make his debut in that event for Spain at the Rio de Janeiro Games with Garbine Muguruza.
Their match against Lucie Hradecka and Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic had been scheduled to be Nadal's third contest of the day.
The Olympics are Nadal's first competition in 2½ months. He had been sidelined with an injured left wrist.
The 2012 London Games champion, Andy Murray, considered an overwhelming favorite to win the Rio de Janeiro tennis tournament after No. 1 Novak Djokovic's early exit, reached the quarterfinals Thursday by beating Fabio Fognini of Italy 6-1, 2-6, 6-3.
Murray trailed 3-0 in the final set before turning things around on an afternoon so windy that courtside signage repeatedly got blown over.
The result stretched Murray's winning streak to 15 matches, including a second Wimbledon championship last month for a third Grand Slam title overall.
Murray, the No. 2 seed from Britain, kept alive his bid for an unprecedented second consecutive Olympic singles gold medal.
Both Murray and Nadal are attempting to become the first tennis player to win two singles gold medals.


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Sturmey-Archer produces bicycle gear hubs and motorcycle gearboxes, as well as built-in engines.
Sturmey-Archer was established in Nottingham in 1902, when Sir Frank Bowden met teacher Henry Sturmey and engineer James Archer.
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Software developers share resources online to speed systems to the warfighter.
It looks like the military services might be cracking the code on a seemingly impossible goal: to build critical technology systems faster, cheaper and better. The key ingredient is a repository of reusable code that Defense Department software developers and contractors can share online.
Forge.mil is an innovative program at the Defense Information Systems Agency that features an open, collaborative online environment that is accessible on the military's secure networks. Launched in February 2009, the website already has attracted 7,000 registered users who have shared resources and expertise on 400 military projects. More than 2,000 software releases have been posted to the site-including integration modules for common access cards and the public key infrastructure-which have resulted in nearly 40,000 downloads.
The most active Forge.mil project is the integration backbone for the Distributed Common Ground System, which will provide military forces around the world with access to time-sensitive intelligence information. Developers also are using Forge.mil's software to work on applications in such areas as command and control, human resources management, defense business modernization, and solid waste management.
"We are really excited by the continued growth of Forge.mil," says Robert Vietmeyer, the project's program manager. "In the end, it's really the war-fighters who benefit from the improved capabilities delivered using Forge.mil, the reduction in IT development costs and the accelerated delivery time."
Forge.mil has proved so successful at speeding up the military's software development cycle and reducing overhead costs that the General Services Administration is considering a similar project for civilian agencies, dubbed Forge.gov.
Peter Gallagher, a partner at Unisys Federal Systems, predicts GSA will adopt Forge.mil's open-source approach to software development. It would allow agencies to draw on computing resources and reusable software components as needed in the cloud, or an Internet-based network, instead of building them internally from scratch. "The reuse goal and objective is inevitable . . . so if you don't go down that path you're putting your business at risk from our perspective, and you are not serving your customers as optimally as you could," Gallagher says. "The government is going to end up reusing software through a fine-grained cloud service like Forge.gov because ultimately it's more effective."
With Forge.mil, DISA is providing a resource like that used by the world's leading Internet-based software development communities behind the Linux operating system, the Apache Web server and the Firefox Web browser.
"Back in the late 1990s, IT management thought open source was valuable because it's free, but that wasn't the point," says Mike Kochanik, vice president and general manager of CollabNet Federal, which is the cloud-based software that powers Forge.mil. "The real genius is how they were working together, scattered across the planet, without any organizational mandate."
Forge.mil provides an open source approach to writing special-purpose military code. "Before Forge.mil, DoD developers had almost no ability to find other developers working on similar challenges, to share lessons learned, and to collaborate on shared solutions," Vietmeyer says.
Radical Change
Defense has tried to encourage software reuse in the past, through such initiatives as the Ada programming language. But these efforts failed because software libraries were difficult to use and didn't provide source code. Forge.mil incorporates a library of reusable components directly into its development tools, while also providing access to source code and the ability to modify it.
"Forge.mil provides the core tools that a developer uses daily . . . along with the ability to easily discover and collaborate with other DoD developers working on different projects and programs," Vietmeyer says. "This is a radical change from our past program management and software development practices." These core tools track the versions of software that developers are working on as well as bugs that they discover.
The approach is changing the military's relationship with its contractors. Project managers using Forge.mil have access to the code their contractors are developing and can closely monitor progress through an online dashboard.
"We are upsetting the apple cart on the balance of power between the government and its contractors," Kochanik says. "We're changing the way DoD acquires software by protecting the investment the DoD makes and reducing the cost. This is acquisition reform in a meaningful way."
Forge.mil also is changing how contractors work with one another because it requires them to share code. "The typical systems integrator doesn't want to share his special sauce with someone else," Gallagher says. "But once you're being paid by the government to create assets for the government . . . you should be sharing that asset with others in the government without additional cost to them."
Unisys demonstrated its commitment to open-source software development in November 2010, when it introduced its Application Modernization Center of Excellence in St. Louis, which will employ 300 developers using CollabNet tools. At the center, Unisys Federal Systems developers will create software applications for its federal customers. The Agriculture Department's Rural Development Agency, for example, recently contracted with the company to modernize its applications and provide computing services.
"It's hard to understand how challenging a change it's going to be," Gallagher says. "We're not going to be doing a five-year fixed price contract to give [the agency] this software feature. Instead, we're going to collaborate with the government and that's going to give them a good value if they have a good partner."
According to Gallagher, software reuse is so important that federal contracting officers should evaluate bidders on this criteria just as they do past performance. "If you can't get reuse on the work you are undertaking, you should get a mark against you," he says. "If the government was measuring and evaluating reuse in its programs, that would drive the market to a more open approach."
The Touch of a Button
Software reuse speeds development, saves money and produces better code because more developers have vetted the components.
"If you have 25 developers working on building a piece of software, that's going to cost you $500,000 a year," Kochanik says. "They're going to consume two to three servers per developer. That's 50 to 75 servers. You'll need one full-time person to manage the server farm. It'll cost you $1,000 a year just for the electricity. To get [Federal Information Security Management Act] compliance in your lab will be another $168,000 a year."
In contrast, using Forge.mil would cost about one-tenth of that amount because developers rely on virtual servers and shared software tools.
"We provide a cloud environment with a start new project button. You have a project workspace within 20 minutes that's ready to code," Kochanik says. "The big savings come from the industrialization of the project startup process, the cobbling together of the tools, and running them as a managed cloud service." Additional savings come from increased productivity because users can build software faster from reusable components. "We can't easily measure it . . . but there's a time-to-market savings," he adds.
DISA will add social networking tools to Forge.mil in the first quarter of 2011 that will provide additional ways for military developers to communicate with each other and work together on software modules. But even with these new functions, the program's biggest hurdle is the culture change of openness for the services and their contractors.
"Being open is not a natural thing for most people," Kochanik says. "Then you're going to have the security people saying that it can't be secure if it's open. But the truth is, it's more secure. Data is encrypted at rest, in flight and on laptops. Every single transaction is logged. We use two-factor authentication."
Intellectual property is another concern. Contractors generally maintain the rights to the software they develop, and grant agencies permission to use it. DISA wants to share some of the code it pays contractors to develop with public open source communities such as Apache.org.
Most of the software developed on Forge.mil is open only to other Defense developers and restricted to use on official projects. But Vietmeyer says DISA could benefit from throwing the process open to innovative citizens active in open source communities. This is an issue that is being tackled by CENDI, an interagency working group of senior federal managers that recently published a paper on copyright issues affecting the U.S. government and its use of open source software. "The next step will be to figure out how to leverage Forge.mil to support software transition to the public, open communities and enable greater participation in DoD development efforts," he says.
Carolyn Duffy Marsan is a high-tech business reporter based in Indianapolis who has covered the federal IT market since 1987.
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I was wondering if anyone remembers what Christmas is about?
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I was wondering if anyone remembers what Christmas is about?
I really don�t want to get into the religious parts but it comes down to this: Even if you are an atheist or some other religion, Christmas was from the beginning derived from Christ. You can call it Xmas or any other name, but it would not exist except for this birth. It has been adapted for many things over the years to include Santa Claus for the children and giving.
Now to the point: It appears Kmart executives might be smart business folks in some respects, but they can still be pretty dense when it comes to common sense. If you are going to have a Joe Boxer underwear commercial, don�t do it to an old Christmas song and in such a vulgar way � especially at a time when children are watching for what new toys may be coming out for the season. This commercial is garbage.
I believe this is also one of the corporations that intend to open at 6 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day. Their employees can�t fix dinner or be with the family.
This is all being done to beat the competition in bad economic times. Sadly, employees need the work to pay the bills that keep the lights on � shame on these corporations for putting them in this position.
Once again, sadly, it will probably work out for the corporations because people will support these sales. I think in the end they will fail as companies because of no morality or ethics. Then no one will have jobs. It may take a while but their future is being written by greed.
I could go on and talk about why the Affordable Care Act will fail because of lies and deceit, but that letter is longer than allowed in this column.
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E-Commerce's Tween Years
It's no longer the cute little tyke from '95 and '96, with those adorable Web sites selling dog food from around the world, which its corporate parents dutifully placed on their boardroom freezer door.
But it's also not yet like the mature, stable economic tools, like its big brother IP and Grandpa Catalogue and Grandma Bricken Mortar. Just like its toddler stage in the mid-90s, it's once again time for experimentation. Most experiments will be the most important thing in the world…for about a week, and will then be as quickly forgotten as the dirty dinner dishes.
Although Daddy Berners-Lee technically created the WWW in 1989—with the first working system deployed in 1990—it wasn't until 1993 when Uncle Andreesen made Web browsers graphical that consumers and most business executives even discovered the Internet, let alone the very young Web.
And in 1994, the year we declare little EC was born, is when Mosaic left the NCSA university environment and became a true business tool.
Today, our 11-year-old Mean Tween Sellin' Machine is trying to find itself.
For example, some of the guys behind MySimon.com are now running become.com, and they have decided that the Web needs a search engine that only searches reviews.
At one level, this concept is an intriguing one in the sense that people often want to find Web content that is about a certain topic, not merely mentioning the name of the topic. By all rights, this idea should be owned by About.com, but they have a fairly cool Web site already.
Journalistically, though, Become.com's site doesn't deliver on the true potential of the idea. When consumers say that they want to find reviews and in-depth comparative stories on a given topic, they actually mean they want to find credible, authoritative content on that topic. That's been the secret behind Consumer Reports for years.
Out there on the Web, there are tons of insightful and credible reviews on almost any topic imaginable. Regrettably, there are an even greater number of bogus "reviews" out there, either advertising copy meant to fool people into thinking it's an independent review … or true reviews done by reviewers who are not making fair or legitimate comparisons.
I risk being swamped with nasty e-mail for saying this, but I wouldn't trust a review by a true Mac bigot if the review was comparing a Mac and a Windows machine. But I would gleefully pay attention to that same reviewer if he/she was comparing two new Macs.
Alas, the typical consumer has no idea who the reviewer is, who the publication is nor who should be believed. A Web site of consumer product reviews would be a fabulous idea if there were an editorial component that asked hard questions and stood behind the legitimacy of reviews it offered on its pages.
There's no need to review every product out there, but simply letting software select reviews to link to is an idea that needs to be tweaked.
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The F-35 program executive officer is "moderately confident" that the stealthy fighter's prime contractor can deliver two iterations of software crucial to ending the development program on time, allowing for an F-35B operational debut as soon as 2015.
The so-called 2B and 3I software packages are expected for delivery in 2015 and 2016, respectively, USAF Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan told the Senate Armed Services Committee's airland panel April 24.
If provided on schedule, the U.S. Marine Corps plans to declare its first squadron operationally capable in 2015 with that 2B package, which has limited electronic warfare and weapons capability but provides a significant improvement over the AV-8B that the single-engine fighter will replace.
The 3I increment includes 2B capability but adds some hardware deemed necessary for international release of the capability for allies.
A bigger question, however, is whether Lockheed Martin will be able to deliver the 3F package, which includes significantly expanded weapons and electronic warfare abilities, as expected by the end of development in 2017. "There is some risk there," Bogdan said.
Once the 2B package has about six months of flight testing complete and a critical design review for the Block III F-35 is wrapped up by summer's end, Bogdan says he will have a better idea of whether that critical 3F software package will be on track for delivery in 2017.
The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin have invested in improving the pace of software work on the program after earlier problems. Bogdan says those efforts are paying off. The basic coding is nearly complete, but there is "still a ways to go" in integrating the various pieces of the software, he says.
Of $337 million in remaining incentive fees for Lockheed Martin in the F-35 development through 2017, $237 million is tied to the company delivering the aircraft on time and within the remaining funds available to the program at the end of development, Bogdan says. "If [they] don't meet that criteria, [they] will not earn a penny of that," he says.
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates sidelined $614 million of available award fees in 2010 for the program owing to his disappointment over dismal progress at the time. Of that amount, $190 million was removed altogether for eligibility for Lockheed Martin.
Another $100 million up for grabs in development is divided as follows: $40 million for delivery of 2B software; $25 million for delivery of 3I software and $35M for delivery of 3F software.
Of $101 million up for grabs since Gates set aside the money, Lockheed has earned only $34 million based on incentive milestones, Bogdan said.


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Am I mom enough to breastfeed a grown boy on the cover of a national magazine? No. I am mom enough to give him cause for therapy, but not THAT mom enough.
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- AYME to be literally shat on this morning, clean up baby, her clothes, the floor, and forget about yourself until later?
- AYME to pee standing up to avoid the pee on the toilet seat while your son stands in front of you with his pants down because he doesn't want to pick them up until you do?
- AYME to use one hand to block your daughter from crawling between her brother's legs while he's bent, ass up, and you're hunched over wiping his bum?
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Blair is great.; a subtle writer and a very open-minded man, with a wide education in the occult. I love his books, especially IJYNX, which actually begins with a quote from a letter Grant sent him after Blair had him read his book--assuming you haven't read it and didn't know that. And if you have, what'd ya think?milkBoxx wrote:Funny you bring up BMB! I actually met him about two months ago, and spoke with him for quite awhile.
He's a really nice guy!
Iamus wrote:Looks to me like BMB might suffer from this vocabulary problem as well. The back cover of Ijynx alone contains the phrases: "ritually-machined hyperdimensions of consciousness", " the alchemical entelechy of the dead" as well as "anti-apotropaic".
Iamus wrote:Knowing her connection with Grant, I was a bit nevervous when I first picked up Nema's Maat Magick, but found it refreshingly clear and down to earth.
I wonder if Nema wasn't primed by Grant's writings to see Liber Pennae Penumbra as announcing the the dual current/AEon. Ignoring her interpretation, it seems to me that the work is a vision of a coming AEon, but one that's is firmly rooted in the perspective of the current AEon. That would make it not totally disimilar from the the Apocalypse of John under the view that that work is actually a vision of the AEon of Horus, but seen from an Osirian perspective. Obviously Pennae Penumbra doesn't see the AEon of Maat as armageddon; similarly there's no anti-Horus parallel to the way the Beast was seen as the anti-Christ.Duo Columpnas wrote:Agreed, a very solid feminine take on Thelema, regardless of the whole "Aeon of Maat" deal. Nema remains one of my favorite Thelemites to interact with.
I was never sure how far to take the analogy the HOGD officers, but after a little research (some of it on these boards) it looks quite profitable. Thanks.Jim Eshelman wrote:Don't forget that, as Horus is the Hierophant of the present aeon, Maat is its Hiereus.
Iamus wrote:Would you have a kind of waxing in power or influence where a god starts off in the Hegemon position and begins to exert some kind of influence over the planet and then in the next AEon this increases as the god assumes the offce of Hiereus, and then finally coming to dominance when they become Hierophant?
If that's right, then does the fact that Maat assumed the role of Hiereus in 1904 explain why a number of magicians (Jones, Grant, Nema, etc.) have felt that there is a Maatian "current" (I've never liked that term for some reason) running beneath the dominant one of Horus?
It's really interesting to think that this "discovery" of the dual current is really just something that should have been obvious from examination of the HOGD officer structure.
Jim Eshelman wrote: Crowley understood it.
gmugmble wrote:Jim Eshelman wrote: Crowley understood it.
Based on what, may I ask?
Jim Eshelman wrote:Don't forget that, as Horus is the Hierophant of the present aeon, Maat is its Hiereus
Dar Es Allrah wrote:And even though I remained a solo practitioner I would still recommend it as a read because there's a lot of sophisticated symbolism that a group can convey that an individual can't - so I used to animate these rituals in my head. Worth doing if you can't join a temple - and makes the issues above rather obvious as well.
Uni_Verse wrote:DO NOT READ THROUGH IT AS IF IT WERE A BOOK.
Angel of Death wrote:Is that magic eight ball on your desk??? What is this supposed to be a picture of/for?
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