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First week of FMP!
My brief consists of creating three Characters and presenting them in a real-time format such as marmoset. Each character will have a limit for tri's, texture sheets and extra props. The amount of time spent on each character will be spread throughout 20 weeks; 5 weeks for each character, and 5 weeks extra for any polishing that needs to be done, or stretch goals.
The first job was to look for some concepts! heading straight over to Artstation, i started looking for some dark and gritty concept work for characters that i feel would be best for me to create; something to keep me motivated along the way. I looked at artists such as Ariel Perez, Brian matyas and Ivan Dedov.
I want to showcase the skills i can show; hard surface, organics, anatomy and clothing folds/creases - things i feel are key to a successful character artist. I decided to chose my first concept from Bogdan Rezunenko, titled "vump". I personally feel this is a good concept suited to my style, and showcases plenty of skills which can be presented nicely in a 3d model - Material definition, folds and creases, hair card alphas etc. Not to mention, the character has a bad-ass weapon.
I started making quick lineart over the concept to try and get a feel of the anatomy behind the clothes. Noting that the character has extremely long legs compared to his torso, small head, tight chest and big forearms. These are the proportions i will try and nail down in the scultping process.
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pre-existing concepts
Week two!
This week i tried getting a base down for the head of my model. I put down the opacity on the zbrush viewer and tried to get the correct proportions and features of the characters face - Making sure the eyes, nose and mouth match up to where they're placed on the concept. I'll be using the concept to show the direction of where i will be taking this character, so i won't be following it 100% to the concept, i will add certain details which i feel would fit better in a 3d format.
Once the head had a good start, i decided to move onto the body, creating the anatomy for the character. I used my Native american character's body as a base mesh; Dynameshing, moving topology and just editing the proportions till it matched the lineart created over the concept. Something that sticks out with this character is the hand-to-head ratio. His hands are large and so are his forearms, but his body seems quite slender; so i made sure to keep his waist tightened along with his muscle definition.
I'm modelling the character in something similar to a T-pose, which i will then rig and pose in the same pose as the concept. I tested this out by using transpose in zbrush. The final character will be a total of 60k tris. 2x2048 texture maps and an extra 2x2047 for the weapon.
Week three!
This week will be focused on detailing out the creases in the leather duster, and adding fine details such as crumples to show material definition. Other aspects to hit this week is to complete the model of the sword, as the detailing in the original concept can be quite hard to make out, i will be following the overall shape, but winging the exact detail.
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Week four!
Polishing up the leather duster and adding general material details. It's time to focus on the smaller parts such as fingers(nails) and skin pours.
front back
Week five!
This week will be focusing on creating the low poly, getting ready to put it into substance painter for texturing. As i want most of the detail staying true to the face on my highpoly, i will be giving it extra tris than usual to get as much geometry as possible. Rather than modeling the whole shape of the duster, i will be re-topologizing the outer layer in topogun, and once in 3dsmax i'll be using the shell modifier to give it an inner layer.
Week six!
Once the retopologizing was out of the way, i sorted out my UVS to how i think would be best appropriate - face & skin, Leathers, Boots, i tried to seperate my texture sheets according mostly to materials. Once my Low poly was created, i threw it into substance painter. I tried experimenting with things that could give vump a little more character - such as blood from his face as he's a vampire... I decided to try and stay as true to the concept as much as i could- and decided not to go with it.
The tricky part for this stage was getting colour variations in the leather. Different lighting in the viewport showed different results; i decided to go for more of a dark brown leather rather than black, to really make the colour variation stand out a little more.
Week seven!
This week was spent finishing things up. This character took a little longer than i thought, but it was down to learning new techniques that would benefit me in the future to be more efficient.
Once i had the character textured, i put the low poly in max along with the Albedo textures for each material. This made a good base for placing my hair alphas without seeing any empty spots to distract me. I baked the hair alphas in Xnormals and used the anistropy slider in marmoset to get natural lighting reflections on the hair. I decided to change the hairstyle from the concept and go for something a little more modern.
The pose and overall character came out pretty much spot on when looked at side by side, i'm happy with the outcome but after receiving crit from the tutors and other peers, i know areas i could improve; with the main thing being symmetry.
Week Eight!
The start of a new character! I decided to go for a concept created by Jason Nguyen (https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Lb2qR) Labelled "fire Mystic". The reason i chose this concept was because it had a clear front and back illustration, along with an awesome colour scheme and mask design!
I started by scultping the mask, hair and the hood. This was just to get a rough estimate of how things are going to be in proportion ( how low his head will be in compared to the hood, as it's very low down in the concept ) Once this was pretty much set in place, i moved onto experimenting with different horns the character could possibly have, rather than the ones displayed in the concept. I didn't want to deviate too far from the concept as i'd be fixing some bodily proportions; i figured that might be enough.
Once i had this down, i moved on to sculpting the torso armor, and the shoulder piece. I gave it simple vertical lines to get a simple wood effect on each piece. I also quickly used fill colours with poly paint to see how the colours would work on the character while in sculpt.
Week Nine!
This week was spent finishing up most of the character and polishing things through. Once i had the character finished from the concept, i noticed it was a little empty. I added straps around the body that i thought would fit the character well. This was to attach things that wasn't attached in the concept such as the shoulder piece. I added buckles, but was stuck as to how to design the boots as it's not really clear in the concept. I decided to put a place holder there from my Vump character until i designed a new boot.
Week 10!
I finished the low poly this week, designing the boot went pretty smooth; i decided to go for something very eastern inspired, staying true to the concept. Week 10 was spent making the low poly for my character, This was done in topogun. I managed to hit my ideal tris, aiming for 55k. The overall goal is 60, so i have a few extra tris to spend on the magical daggers i plan on making for presentation purposes in marmoset. I kept everything relatively quads rather than using too many tris; this is because i wanted a cleaner layout when unwrapping, which came out to be rather successful.
Week 11!
After retopologizing and unwrapping, i moved into substance painter. The bake came out pretty much perfect, not many errors; only when it comes to my AO, which i would export and fix up manually by creating new ones from my normals in photoshop. I stayed true to the colours in the concept, but tried experimenting with other materials; seeing if a gold armor and leather straps look would work well. I liked the outcome but preferred the initial colour scheme.
Week 12!
I posed the model in a position i thought would fit the magical daggers, and then exported it from zbrush to marmoset. I set up lighting mainly to focus more on the blue glows, i then made some smoke alphas in 3dsmax and photoshop to go alongside the daggers, and took renders using the marmoset render tool. I took these into photoshop for post-production to enhance the smoke effects, and to fix some colours.
Week 13!
After looking at some concepts on artstation, i went for a cyborg samurai type character from the artist Deepfry. I spent this week trying to get the body proportions spot on for this character, especially the upper body as the lower half is more mechanic. I spent most of this time trying to get face correct. Trying to make it so the ethnicity of the character is clear, without being offensive by exaggerating anything was the main goal.
Week 14!
Things are coming together! I decided i wanted this character to be made with and without the bomber jacket, so i went ahead and sculpted the mechanics of the arm to how i thought it would work best. I also got placeholder pants and bandages sculpted in there too as i spent quite a lot of time on the arm and skin details such as pores.
To see how well the character would look when being textured, i polypainted some skin tones in to try and get a look of how it'll feel when being presented, which i thought came out quite well.
Week 15!
First time attempting shoes and the panels for them, was a weird experience! I spoke to shane, discussing how to go about actually getting a good base sculpted, weather to stay in zbrush or start box modeling in 3dsmax. The decision was to use zmodeler and get the base shape in, and use dynamic sub division to keep a rough shape. As the high tops in the concept are a little unclear, i used the brand Supra as reference, specifically the Supra skytop, chad muska.
I also went a little bit more in-depth with the poly paint, and decided to sharpen up some areas of the body and tattoos.
Week 16!
This week sort of ran in with week 15, during mid week 15 and the whole of 16, i spent learning marvelous designer and how to export the meshes properly, as normals can get all kind's of flipped over in the marvelous process. It's pretty much impossible to find any decent marvelous designer patterns for clothing online, so i just looked at the seams of a bomber jacket in my wardrobe and followed it. It was a pain to get out of marvelous and import in zbrush, because you have to add your own thickness while keeping the different polygroups on the mesh ( cuffs etc ).
Week 17!
I started to add more accessories to the character, introducing a second blade that would be sheathed that is carried from the back but leans towards his side. I went more in-depth on the arm and made the hand fully mech, adding joins similar to the elbows and knees at each knuckle etc.
I also started to sculpt over the bomber jacket, adding in seam details and just more creases over all, to get a more worn-feeling jacket. I also added padding on the inside, so when presented i'll be able to show two visibly different materials on the jacket, alongside the planned dragon embroidery. I also went more in detail on the shorts and mechanics.
Week 18!
This is the week everything crash and burned for my FMP! Turns out, the character i had been working on and finished scultping for upwards of 6 weeks, was corrupted. Goodbye kenzo!! i might return to you in the future! The backup file was so far back i figured i'd just make something new and have fun with it ( being there was only 2 weeks left! I decided to look at inspiration from Heroes of the storm, they have some great characters and skins in there. My biggest inspiration was Thrall and Zul'jin's elemental skins, so i went for a rocky/lava type character, and thought the roman god Vulcan fitted the description.
Everything was a little rushed, and lots of places could be improved but the sculpt took the entire week to finish, keeping in mind i knew it'd be relatively low-poly compared to the rest of my characters.
Week 19!
Carrying straight on from the previous week, i went straight into topogun and did a test bake, making my own metal/lava smart substance material. I got the exact effect i wanted to create, and went ahead and finished the low poly without any breaks during this week. I kept most of the topology in quads so unwrapping and sorting out my UV's went quick and smoothly. I was happy with the result, especially knowing theres only 1 week left till the end!
I reached my goal of 35k tris, using only 31k. This means somewhere down the line, something could have been given more topology, and my thoughs about this is that it could probably have been the weapon!
Week 20!
This was the finishing week of my FMP!
Having gone through the devastating loss of my beloved Kenzo character, i threw my low poly of Vulcan into marmoset and instantly started playing with the emissive sliders and setting up different lighting elements. I wanted to stay true to the god of the forge and fire's nature, so i posed him holding his great hammer in a powerful stance. I got some nice renders to showcase the crack details.
Though there could be major improvements, i'm happy with the outcome, especially as it was such short notice for this character. I definitely feel like the making of Vulcan was the most educating, i learned a lot more and feel as though i became much more efficient being pushed to my limits, and only had 2-3 weeks to get a brand new character, without concept finished to a standard that is presentable.


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Camilla Lookalike
By Jane Mosse, Oct 29 2019 5:38PM
It's been a long, long time coming but it's been well worth the wait. The Bollywood movie that the Royal lookalikes were involved in is proving a great success. Housefull 4 is going down a storm since its timely release for Diwali. You can watch the trailer here.
The plot (if you can call it that) is about reincarnation and involves three couples who are engaged to be married. However, it seems that they were already engaged in a previous life but have now ended up with the wrong partner. It's a bit of a pantomime but great fun.
A well-choreographed lead-in with introductions to the songs has proved a clever teaser with fans joining in the fun. Akshay Kumar (Bollywood's answer to George Clooney and one of the highest paid actors in the world) set up the Bala challenge (a little akin to the internet dance sensation 'gangnam style' way back in 2012). If you want a giggle then here's a compilation of Kumar fans strutting their stuff!
As you can see from the trailer there was a cast of thousands and the film majors on some amazing dance routines. We took part in the shoot at Blenheim Palace which you can see briefly in the trailer. We even managed to learn some Hindi! The fact that the six stars of the show are all talented dancers puts this particular film in a league of its own. I've yet to see the movie as it isn't showing where I live but hope it won't be too long before I get the chance. Who knows, maybe Hollywood will be calling when they see my Oscar-winning performance with Charles!
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By Jane Mosse, Aug 5 2018 11:53AM
Under the normal course of events I'm usually sworn to secrecy if I've been involved with anything that hasn't yet gone public. However, our latest Royal venture seems to have been broadcast across the globe, even though it isn't due for release until October 25th 2019! (Yes, it's a long time to wait!) It seems to have been covered by most publications in India!
My lovely lookey-likey Royal family (now with Harry and Meghan on board) were booked to take part in a shoot for a new Bollywood movie being filmed at Blenheim Palace. This is the fourth in a series of comedies entitled Housefull, so Housefull4 is being eagerly anticipated by all the Bollywood fans. It was an honour to be working under the direction of Farah Khan who is celebrated for her role as both Director and choreographer.
I've never paid too much attention to Bollywood, other than watching the occasional clip, so being thrust into the all-singing, all-dancing machine was quite an amazing experience. Blenheim was buzzing with dancers and extremely loud music filled the courtyard, much to the amazement of the visitors who thought that they'd come for a quiet day out at one of England's greatest stately homes! Needless to say they were thrilled to discover that the Queen was strutting her stuff on the grand staircase! Shot on one of the hottest days of the English summer we were all wilting in the heat, especially Wills and Harry in their uniforms.
So, a couple of memories of the day, including a line-up with the beautiful Pooja Hegde, star of Bollywood.
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By Jane Mosse, May 20 2018 7:56PM
Well, the proverbial number 9 bus came along last week. No demand for Charles and Camilla and then suddenly everyone wants us. A good time generally for the Royal lookalikes with the wedding of Harry and Meghan on the horizon.
The best thing to come out of all of that was a stint on The Lorraine Show the day before the Royal Wedding. A great opportunity to meet up with some of my lookey-likey friends and to meet some new faces.
A very early start (alarm set for 5am) saw us arrive at the old BBC studios for 6.45. A little too early for me and it left me wondering how these folk do the early morning tv shows five days a week, especially in the winter.
Having been asked to arrive in typical royal day-wear the thrust of the show was to undergo a make-over by Mark who is the fashion consultant on the show. The results? Well, see for yourself! I just LOVED that hat!
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By Jane Mosse, Jan 26 2018 4:47PM
Long time no hear from me I know. It's been a quiet few months for the lookalikes. However, a wedding and a new baby should change all that!
So, the moment you've all been waiting for (and me too!) Tuesday 30th January, 8.30 pm on Sky One, tune in to Harry Hill's Tea Time for a giggle and me winning my first BAFTA.
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By Jane Mosse, Jul 8 2017 11:05AM
Well, that was exciting! A trip to the Sky TV studios, working with a brilliant production team and one of comedy's big names. And yes, one's lips are still sealed for the time being, even though one is busting to tell you all!
Reassuring to be greeted by the hair and make-up department who wondered if I really WAS Camilla! Lovely.
Strange to be working with folk that you normally only see on the telly and actually making physical contact with them (not too physical you understand!)
Good too to see some huge smiles on the faces of the production team when we'd finished. Move over Tracey Ullman...
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It's parent confession time: Have you ever sneaked veggies like zucchini or carrots into a bread recipe or black beans into brownies to expand your little ones' palates?
At Joy, we love to think outside the box when it comes to family-friendly recipes that incorporate ice cream cones and other unexpected foods and flavors. Today, we're bringing your kiddos a treat they likely haven't had before.
Enter ube ice cream.
Ube is a sweet purple Japanese yam that food bloggers and adventurous eaters around the world use to transform their dishes into a purple hue that's straight out of a dream. These concoctions — with their cool, surreal colors — aren't just highly Instagrammable; they taste amazing too. We've heard the flavor described as a blend of pistachio and vanilla, or white chocolate, but we'd like you and your little taste-testers to be the judges of that.
You can take your kiddos on a trip to your local Asian market to find frozen grated ube to whip into a made-from-scratch ube ice cream. For simplicity's sake (life's busy, right?) we opted to use an ube extract instead, giving us the same gorgeous look and sweet, creamy flavor. Find the extract through popular spice companies, through your local Asian market, or online.
Use the opportunity to educate your young ones about new foods, different cultures, and how unexpected items like yams can turn into great desserts. Whatever you do, enjoy the dreamy purple ice cream with your favorite Joy Cone and turn the little moment into a lasting memory.
What You'll Need:
- 1 14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 teaspoon ube flavoring
- 2 cups heavy cream
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What To Do:
- In a large bowl, combine sweetened condensed milk with ube flavoring.
- In a second large bowl, whip two cups of heavy cream until stiff peaks form. Add ⅓ of whipped cream into ube mixture until incorporated, then fold in the leftover whipped cream.
- Transfer the mixture to a 4 ½ x 8 ½-inch loaf pan. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and freeze until firm, at least 12 hours.
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More specifically: You may be taking them for too many days, if new UK data ends up mirroring what's happening in the states. A study published in BMJ suggests that prescribed antibiotics in the United Kingdom are often taken for longer than the recommended guidelines, which can lead to antibiotic resistance (superbugs!) as well as worse stomach pain and diarrhea.
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i posted a shout of this on my community blog shift perspective but have to drop another line for the project. mel chin in founded this project as a reaction and response to a city and its people left behind. check out the details here. and visit the site fundred.org(password paydirt). i spent some time in new orleans post katrina to work mel and the paydirt krew and it is shocking to see politics affect human life. can we make a difference? yes we can. yes we can.
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Valle Galera explores representations of gender to question the stereotypes and notions of masculinity and femininity. In this exhibition, addresses fashion photography by creating images of women with which she alters the cannons of the medium.
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In 1862, Henry Littlejohn was appointed to the newly created position of Medical Officer of Health (MOH) for Edinburgh. Three years later, he published a Report on the Sanitary Condition of Scotland's capital city, then home to more than 170,000 people.
Introducing a 1996 translation of Alain Corbin's now seminal work on the history of scent, The Foul and the Fragrant, Roy Porter lamented that 'today's history comes deodorized'.(1) As Jonathan Reinarz shows in this historical synthesis of recent work on the history of smell, Porter's complaint has since been enthusiastically answered.
Alcohol policy never ceases to be controversial.
I could say this is a story of two halves but I can't bear football, so I won't. Instead I will say that this book is both a narrative about the polio virus (particularly in America), its long history and the drive to treat and prevent it and it is a rich unfolding of the complex and messy tale of medical research.
In 1919, Douglas C. McMurtrie, Director of the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men, remarked that, 'beyond reaches of history, the disabled man has been a castaway of society'.
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Brit Conquers Space - With Helium Balloon
A space enthusiast has taken spectacular images of the Earth's surface from space - using a standard digital camera taped to a helium balloon.
Live Ammo Removed From Soldier's Head
A US military doctor has removed a live round of ammunition from the head of an Afghan soldier in an unusual and harrowing operation.
Exclusive: NHS targets and secrecy are hurting patients, doctor warns
Consultant warned that patients were being lied to by hospital officials. But health managers responded with false accusations about his competence. Clearing his name cost him dear
Doctor 'exploited vulnerable MS patients'
A doctor who exploited a group of "vulnerable" multiple sclerosis patients used stem cells that were not designed for human use, a fitness to practise panel found.
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Thome Holds Back Tears
While Visiting Hall Of Fame
By PARKER FISH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
"Sorry I'm at a loss for words," said 2018 Hall of Fame inductee Jim Thome as he addressed the media. "I'm just really enjoying all of this." Thome was at the Hall of Fame for his orientation ahead of his induction to the Hall on July, 29. As he walked through the hallowed plaque gallery, Thome held back tears as he observed the plaques of the players honored before him.
"To just share this moment with everyone here is just an honor," said Thome. The 22-year MLB veteran hit 612 home runs over the course of his career, earning him an 8th place spot on the all time home run list. When asked about his induction speech, Thome said he's already begun working on it. "I'm in the process of jotting things down and putting them together right now."
Thome joins Vladimir Guerrero, Chipper Jones, Trevor Hoffman, Jack Morris, and Alan Trammell to make up the 2018 Hall of Fame induction class, and will officially be inducted on July, 29, 2018.


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A former city councillor in Hamilton, Ont., is accusing municipal staff of covering up the fact that the former leader of a neo-Nazi group has been working in the city's information technology department for the past decade.
Matthew Green was the city's first black councillor, representing Hamilton's impoverished inner-city Ward 3 for a single term, and is planning to run for the NDP in the next federal election.
In an emailed statement to The CJN, Green said he was "disgusted" to learn a hate-monger "has infiltrated the City of Hamilton's IT department and with it had back end access to all my political and by extension personal online information."
Green's anger was ignited by the recent revelation that Marc Lemire, an acknowledged white supremacist and former leader of the Heritage Front, a virulent neo-Nazi organization, has been working for a decade as a senior IT analyst for the city, a position that gives him access to sensitive online information about city employees and activities. News of the discovery was first reported by the online news site Vice.
Green complained that during his time on council, he was often provided with sensitive and confidential information by city staff and residents about their experiences with racism in the city. Allowing someone with ties to white supremacist and racist groups "complete and undetectable access" to that information amounts to a breach of public trust, he said.
Even more disturbing, he added, is that it appears as though city staff tried to cover up Lemire's employment by removing him from organizational charts, the telephone and email directories and IT staff reports.
"I find it unfathomable that the most senior city staff, the city's HR department and all the way up to the city manager did not know about (the) employment and perceived threat of Marc Lemire," Green wrote. "Based on my observations of these types of internal corporate crises, the chain of command would have been briefed in detail about this individual and the great lengths to which some within the corporation must have gone to keep him from the public eye. The reputational risk would have been far too high to not know."
During his four years on city council, Green said he and his family "were subjected to two very serious instances of criminal harassment and death threats leading to criminal charges, as well as numerous other online threats and harassment," experiences he said should have merited a personal briefing by city staff about Lemire's employment.
"So having never been made aware of Marc Lemire's employment and senior placement as an IT analyst, I feel betrayed by our former city manager … the various directors and senior staff who must have all been in the know and yet wilfully kept this potential threat from me," he said.
"Given Marc Lemire's ties to violent white supremacist organizations, I feel that both my family and I were placed in a serious undue risk of harm. At the very least I would have expected and rightly deserved a private and confidential briefing from our city manager and the director of human resources as was typically the case with instances of HR matters relating to identifiable individuals of potential public interest."
The entire incident, Green added, "leads me to the fear that there may be other white supremacists who have infiltrated other aspects of our local government and associated services. With the sudden emergence of the white nationalist figure Paul Fromm, it begs the question of whether or not there is far more reaching organization of far-right white supremacists in the Hamilton area."
Fromm, who has supported Holocaust deniers Ernst Zundel and Monika and Alfred Schaefer, and who once shared a stage with former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke, ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Hamilton in the last municipal election. He also worked with Lemire on a campaign that blamed immigrants for an Ebola scare in the city.
Green said he is "considering all legal avenues of investigation," to determine if his digital files were improperly accessed, or whether there were any breaches of privacy legislation.
City staff have promised a "thorough" investigation of the Lemire revelation.
In an emailed statement, city human resources director Lora Fontana said that, "While we cannot comment on personnel matters, we can say that we do take allegations of inappropriate behaviour or possible misconduct very seriously, and we want to assure our staff and the public that we are conducting a thorough investigation into this matter.
"It is important that we take a measured approach to the investigation to ensure we gain a deeper understanding of the situation, determine the facts and remain respectful of all concerns and parties throughout the process.
"In the event that the investigation substantiates a policy violation, appropriate action will be taken."
In its initial report, Vice said Lemire was hired around 2005 and described him as "best known for running hate-filled websites and fighting a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal complaint over a racist and homophobic blog post hosted on one of his sites." He was also credited with creating one of the world's first online message boards for white supremacists. The 44-year-old is also the founder of Freedomsite.org, which, until recently, hosted articles focused on minorities and immigration.
In emails to the Hamilton Spectator and CHCH TV, Lemire denied he was a leader of the Heritage Front, adding that he hasn't been involved in "any politics for many years" and is "completely out of the political spectrum." He also described himself as "a well-regarded IT professional" who has "always conducted" himself "with the highest integrity."
Lemire has never been convicted of a hate crime.


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Ubuntu Cards – A Short History
Q&A with Ryan McCormick
What inspired you to create Ubuntu Cards in 2011?
Both Chris Ortiz and I love the "I Spy Books" – I'd say that was a primary catalyst of inspiration for Ubuntu. By using random objects in combination with fun activities, we wanted to invite people to connect, right "Out of the box," so to speak. It's in the use of random objects that we open the door to conversations and give space for interpretation. We started the deck with 16 random object cards, and then it morphed into 52 cards, and finally we settled on 54 (since a regular card deck has 2 jokers). We don't have any jokers in the deck, but the deck is stacked with 3 objects that don't have an image home card. Do you know which objects they are?
Do the random objects on the cards have unique backstories?
Each card has a story to tell. Two of cards are hand drawn and have a lot a meaning to both Chris and me. I find it both cool and symbolic that the flower and shark
were drawn by kids, for a game that is played by kids and adults around the world. Chris' daughter drew the flower and my daughter drew the shark, in case you were wondering. Beyond that, here's some backstory on some of the images on Ubuntu cards:
The Whisk – Once in a while we think of clever names for funny looking objects. Whisk… now that's funny.
The Marble – My daughter has forever been a collector of small rocks, shells, pinecone, and other such treasures. She discovered this marble years ago and has always kept it tucked away with lots of other shiny rocks. I've always been amazed at how precious it seems to her. When I hold it, I see an old glass marble. I wonder what she sees?
The Calculator – Old technology standing strong in the junk drawer.
The Glass Fish – The glass fish is made from recycled glass collected in the clean-up of New Orleans after Katrina.
The Army Man – This brave soldier was mine from childhood. He's part of a small band of green army men in which he was the leader.
The Sponge – How many sponges do you use in a year?
The Glove – Works best in pairs.
The Ant – Ants are tiny little Hercules in their world. Not so much in ours…
Can you share a memorable conversation you had with Ubuntu?
Sure, a few years back I was in a classroom and a student asked me about the compact disk card. They wondered why the disk looked so strange. The look on my face was strange too, since I couldn't immediately pinpoint the card to which they were referring. Finally, I realized the student was referring to the vinyl LP, the old analog sound storage medium! In some ways the cards capture the popular culture of the time. As it turns out, the LP staged a comeback, and now students might recognize an LP. Ironically, they may not know what a CD is, though! This conversation brings up an important feature of Ubuntu. We all see things differently, and we all use labels to make sense of our world. Sometimes things fit into neat categories and sometimes they fit into multiple categories. Ubuntu cards can help create an awareness of how hard it is to label things, and how sometimes labels can get in the way. To draw a parallel, a student may have their feelings hurt in the classroom, and they may be misunderstood in their actions. Ubuntu cards won't directly solve this issue, but we hope the cards encourage divergent thinking and allow space for powerful learning experiences. It's my hope that the learning that occurs through playing Ubuntu, can then transcend the classroom and the workplace. That would be awesome!
Any last remarks to add?
Ubuntu cards start conversations, expand perceptions, and lead to new discoveries about people, teams, and objects, for that matter. I hope Ubuntu cards motivate people to play, laugh and connect more.


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To other cities trying to piggyback on the city's success with MoonPie Over Mobile, Councilman Fred Richardson quoted this year's headlining act for the event, saying "You're Never Gonna Get It."
His quip from Thursday's press conference comes from the female R&B group En Vogue's 1992 hit "My Lovin (You're Never Gonna Get It.)" Richardson said cities such as Nashville and Pensacola won't be able to duplicate MoonPie Over Mobile's eight years of New Year's Eve success.
"Cities are dropping … everything from the sky trying to catch Mobile," Richardson said. "Other than New York, no other city's event is broadcast throughout their time zone."In addition to the music, the event will include a laser light show, fireworks, a carnival-style second line and the cutting of the world's largest MoonPie from the Chattanooga Bakery, Events Mobile President Carol Hunter said. The event this year will also feature large projection screens on the main stage allowing college football fans the opportunity to watch the College Football Playoff from the event site.
"We don't want anyone to miss the action," Hunter said. "We'll be broadcasting the games from the stage."
Richardson said the "jumbotrons" should encourage more people to participate.
"We don't anyone to stay home to watch the game," he said.
Also, screens will be used to "televise" the En Vogue concert to attendees on Royal and St. Francis streets, who may not have a direct line of sight, Richardson said.
The event's main stage is sponsored by Austal USA, Hunter said. Although a representative from Austal could not attend the announcement, Communications Director Craig Savage wrote in a statement the company was excited to present the headliner.
"We are proud, on behalf of our 4,000 local employees at Austal, to again sponsor the main stage and bring great talent such as En Vogue to Mobile to celebrate the New Year," he wrote.
Other sponsored included Retirement Systems of Alabama, the city and Mobile County. In addition to in-kind services, the city also gave Events Mobile a $125,000 performance contract for the MoonPie drop and other events throughout the year, Hunter said. The county pitched in $25,000 for marketing.
Included in the $125,000 from the city is about $15,000 for a fireworks display, Richardson said. While in the past, the city has looked to public-private partnerships, most notably with Dean McCrary Auto Group, to help defray the cost of the fireworks show. Richardson cited the cancellation of BayFest as the reason the council pitched in more this year.
"The city council saw value in this," he said. "We're losing too much. We didn't want to lose anymore."
Richardson defended the cost, mentioning other events the city supported included more than $1 million for the GoDaddy.com Bowl and $100,000 for Riverside Ice at Cooper Riverside Park.
The New Year's Eve festivities last year drew 50,000 to 60,000 visitors downtown and benefitted hotels in the city and county, Hunter said, citing a survey produced by the Mobile Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau.
While the Events Mobile Committee has never stated an attendance goal for the New Year's Eve event, Hunter said a continued impact on hotels countywide would be a good mark.
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SAN JOSE (KCBS) – City crews in San Jose started the process of clearing out a homeless encampment near Happy Hollow Zoo on Monday morning, a process that is expected to take most of the week.
Among the items crews hauled out of the encampment near Senter and Story roads was a big screen TV, along with a generator.
"We've been working with homeless residents that have been living here the past few months and we've been trying to provide them with housing options and solutions," said Ray Bramson, Homeless Encampment Project Manager for the City of San Jose. "Now we're here to remove the debris and trash and help people move out of this site."
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In 2010, after hiring a full-time staff member interested in serving overseas, Push The Rock began exploring an opportunity for expansion of its ministry into southern Zambia by sending three short-term soccer teams(2011-2013) to the rural, hospital community of Macha. Partnered with plenty of prayer, relationship building, and fundraising, these teams helped lay the groundwork for our Zambian branch to officially open in September, 2013.
In the years that have followed, we are blessed to see God's amazing provisions here in Macha! We have a fully functioning recreation center, complete with toilets, a storage room, and an office. Now, each week we have the opportunity to work with a couple hundred children who come to learn,to be loved and to have a great time. In addition to daily after school programs and football training sessions, we have a 'play program' where our staff visit children who are admitted in the local hospital. With monthly prison outreach opportunities and the building of our very own sports complex, we continue to try to maximize our impact in this community.
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Disney's Contemporary Resort was never on my radar for Disney Resorts that I wanted to stay at. Honestly, it was probably at the bottom. However, we got a great Travel Agent rate this past summer so we decided to go for it! Find out what the Lau's thought of Disney's Contemporary Resort Bay Lake Tower and why we found it hard to stop comparing it to the last Deluxe we stayed at!
We were finally staying at a Disney Monorail Resort!
When I thought of staying at a resort that was on the monorail, I never thought I'd choose the Contemporary Resort. For starters, the theme is just not my cup of tea. It doesn't feel very "Disney" outside of the main area of the resort. However, it is typically the most affordable Deluxe resort on the monorail, so we decided to give it a try. I loved seeing all of the monorails going in and out of the main building – and more often then not I'd yell out "MONORAIL SHOT!" I couldn't help myself!
Disney's Contemporary Resort Bay Lake Tower is actually a DVC property!
We actually stayed in Disney's Contemporary Bay Lake Tower. This is the big tower that sits near Bay Lake (go figure). We were in a Deluxe Studio – Lake View room. These rooms had 1 queen bed and a double-sized sleeper sofa. What I also liked about the room (as compared to a standard resort room) was that it had a kitchenette with small fridge, microwave, and coffee maker. But the best part of the room was the balcony with the beautiful view of the lake! Sitting out there in the morning and watching the sun come up on the glistening water was the best way to start my day!
Not much to do in the Bay Lake Tower… all of the fun is in the Main Tower.
The one thing that is a little disappointing about staying in the Bay Lake Tower is that there isn't much to do in the building. All of the shops are in the Main Tower. The Main Tower is just a quick walk away, so it really isn't a big deal, but it was HOT and sometimes I didn't want to walk over there at all! Or should I say, I didn't want to leave the Main Tower because I wanted to stay where all the fun was at!
I've heard some of the best restaurants are here… but we didn't get to try them!
There are numerous restaurants, bars, & lounges at Disney's Contemporary Resort. The California Grill & The Wave are both highly rated Disney restaurants, but sadly we didn't get to try either. We did grab a bite to eat at the quick service Contempo Cafe and it was surprisingly delicious! All three of us ordered something different and we were all happy with our choices. That's rare for the Lau's!
Of course if you are looking for character dining then look no further then Chef Mickey's. This classic Breakfast or Dinner with the fab 5 will be sure to satisfy your character dining experience (but the food isn't all that great). We haven't been since our first trip in 2013, however I do believe it's still just typical buffet food.
I hate to say it, but I think the worst pool award might go to Disney's Contemporary Resort.
I hate being negative about Disney, because truly it is magical no matter what… but both pools were disappointing. Probably because we had last stayed at Disney's Beach Club where the pool was AMAZING. We went for a quick swim at the Bay Lake Tower pool and it was nothing special. Ashtyn said that the slide was decent though and he went on that a couple of times. We took a walk over to check out the pool and splash pad area at the Main Tower, but that didn't really look any better. Luckily we didn't really have a lot of time to spend at the pool anyway, so it didn't really matter. Ashtyn actually enjoyed the outside games in the pool area better! They had ping pong, connect 4, and a large chess board.
There's lots to do on the lake – for an extra price!
There are a ton of recreation options on Bay Lake for an extra charge that my husband would LOVE to do! You can rent boats, do fishing excursions, and there is even a special Pirates & Pals Fireworks Voyage!
Watching Happily Ever After from the top of Bay Lake Tower was the BEST part!
If you are staying in a Bay Lake Tower room you have access to the observation deck on the 16th floor of Bay Lake Tower. We were lucky enough to be staying on the 16th floor anyway – and it was just a short walk down the hall from our room. From this observation deck you get a beautiful view of Magic Kingdom (specifically Cinderella's Castle & Space Mountain). This makes it a prime spot to enjoy the night time fireworks – and they even pump in the music! You really can't see the castle projections, but the fireworks and music was beautiful. And it was also kinda nice to enjoy it without people all over the place. This was definitely my favorite part of the whole stay there!
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