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Vanessa Lam: mixed media from Scrapyard Chronicles at Place Des Artes (1120 Brunette Avenue, Coquiltam) until November 7.
Using text, paint, photographs, and found objects, Vanessa Lam's mixed media creations in this collection were inspired by a trip to the scrapyard. Cars, furniture, and other scrapyard junk is painted and then surrounded by lines of poetry and images hidden beneath layers of material, demanding a deeper look from viewers. By conveying otherwise mundane objects in this way, they become more significant. Scrapyard Chronicles will be on display at Place Des Artes until November 7.
Karen Holland: painting from joint exhibition Harbour Art at the TK Gallery at Vancouver Maritime Museum (1905 Ogden Avenue) until Jaunary 3.
The paintings in Vancouver Maritime Museum's Harbour Art show were created this past summer aboard the SS Master, a historic steam engine tugboat. Artists loaded easels and paints aboard the ship to paint for the day, and the results varied: some artists were realistic in their expression, while others created more abstract work. Regardless, most showcase the beauty of Vancouver's relationship with the coast. According to the show's website, most of the pieces were created from scratch, or 'alla prima'. Harbour Art will be at the museum's TK Gallery until January 3.
Richard Frechette: Survivor from his exhibition Body Print at the Pumpjack Pub (1167 Davie Street) for one night only, Friday (October 9).
Richard Frechette's paintings focus on the human body and society's obsession with health, fitness, and pushing one's limits. Using bold colours and hard lines, he conveys the human body in a way that reflects on historical representations of mythologies, emotions, and aspirations. Frechette's work will be on display tonight (October 9) for one night only. He will be conducting a live painting between 9 and 11 p.m. Head down to the Pumpjack Pub (1167 Davie Street) to watch.
Christel Chan: illustration from joint exhibition Robots and Monsters at Ayden Gallery (#2103 88 West Pender Street) until November 1.
In the spirit of all things scary, Ayden Gallery's latest exhibition features the work of more than 30 artists, all centered around the same theme. Paintings, illustrations, photographs, sculptures, and more will be part of this joint exhibition, including work by local graffiti favourite Grominator. Check out Robots & Monsters at Ayden Gallery until November 1.
Kelli Clifton: Gitga'a't Origin Woman from joint exhibition Pushing Boundaries at CityScape Community Art Space (335 Lonsdale Ave, North Vancouver) until November 14.
This exhibition at CityScape Community Arts Space highlights the work of sixteen emerging and professional First Nations artists. This dynamic exhibtion features work that blurs the lines between contemporary and traditional aesthetics and mediums. Within each artist's body of work, themes of home, self, history, culture, and more are explored. Pushing Boundaries will be at CityScape in North Vancouver until November 14.
(CNN) -- The target of NASA's Deep Space 1 mission now has a new name: 9969 Braille, after the inventor of the raised-bump language system that enables sightless people to read.
Astronomer Eleanor Helin, lead discoverer of the asteroid formerly known as 1992 KD, selected the name Braille from hundreds of suggestions submitted to the Planetary Society, a California group that promotes space exploration, in a world-wide competition.
On July 29, Deep Space 1 will encounter asteroid Braille as part of its mission to test revolutionary technologies that could take us farther and faster into the solar system. DS1's primary new technologies are an ion propulsion and autonomous navigation systems.
The asteroid, with a diameter ranging from one to five kilometers, orbits the sun near Mars and Earth.
Kerry Babcock of Port Orange, Florida submitted the winning name. His citation reads: "Louis Braille invented the Braille language so those who could not see could obtain knowledge and explore through the 'written' word.
"Likewise, asteroid Braille provides knowledge about our universe and its origin to the people of Earth, who through Deep Space 1, are also able to explore and discover what previously they could not 'see.'"
Babcock is a software engineer at the Kennedy Space Center.
(CNN) - Spinning faster than any object ever observed in the solar system, an asteroid discovered last year rotates so swiftly that its day ends almost as soon as it begins, a NASA astronomer says.
Steven J. Ostro and an international team of astronomers used a radar telescope in California and optical telescopes in the Czech Republic, Hawaii, Arizona and California to get an image of Asteroid 1998 KY26, where the sun rises or sets every five minutes.
The asteroid, about the diameter of a baseball diamond, is the smallest solar system object ever studied in detail. Ostro's results were published in the latest issue of Science magazine.
"These observations are a breakthrough for asteroid science and a milestone in our exploration of the small bodies of the solar system," Ostro said. "Enormous numbers of objects this small are thought to exist very close to Earth, but this is the first time we've been able to study one in detail.
"Ironically, this asteroid is smaller than the radar instruments we used to observe it," he said.
The asteroid, a water-rich mini-planet, completes a revolution every 10.7 minutes, compared to 24 hours on Earth and at least several hours for the some 1,000 asteroids studied so far.
The asteroid also contains about a million gallons of water, enough to fill two or three Olympic-sized swimming pools, Ostro said. Scientists have long looked at asteroids, the moon and other objects as a potential source of water, which can be converted into rocket fuel.
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Keenan and Connors-Driftmier both admitted they had crossed illegally, but they think it is unfair that Thompson was not held accountable for his role in the collision.
Minutes before the collision, Thompson had been driving eastbound on Lakeway Drive when he saw two cars headed in the opposite direction. His radar indicated one car was going 33 mph in a 25 mph zone, according to Washington State Patrol investigation reports obtained by The Bellingham Herald through a public records request.
Thompson flipped a U-turn and tried to catch up to the car. The report, written by Washington State Patrol Detective Craig Cardinal, who conducted the investigation, said the car Thompson was chasing took the ramp to southbound I-5 approximately eight seconds before Thompson reached the intersection. The light showed a green arrow for a left turn to the on-ramp, the report said, and Thompson struck the two people as he turned.
Thompson told other troopers he was going 15-20 mph when he hit the pedestrians. No report from the troopers mentioned any further investigation of the patrol car’s speed.
Seconds after the collision, Thompson stopped the car and activated his emergency lights. According to Thompson’s own written report, Connors-Driftmier rocked back and forth on the pavement and complained of neck pain in the moments after the collision. Keenan had an abrasion on her head. Paramedics arrived and determined both had no serious injuries. Paramedics and troopers offered to take them to the hospital, but both refused.
Several troopers watched the dash cam video taken from the patrol car. One trooper wrote in his report that Thompson had a solid green light. Thompson told investigators he had a green arrow.
The Washington State Patrol has not yet released the dash cam video of the incident.
Connors-Driftmier and Keenan believed Thompson was trying to make the light before it turned yellow. Keenan said there was no green arrow for Thompson, but instead a solid green light that was about to turn yellow, which she said is why she thought it was safe to walk. She also said he used a turn signal, and his patrol car’s flashing police lights were off.
Keenan said she later went to the hospital for her injuries —torn knee ligaments — and has ongoing knee issues. She had to take a week off work, without pay, and then had to move back in with her dad because she couldn’t afford rent.
Connors-Driftmier said he went to the hospital the day after he was hit because of concerns about his neck. They told him nothing was broken and that he should take ibuprofen for soreness.
Both pedestrians were interviewed at the scene by Detective Cardinal an hour after they were hit. According to a transcript of those interviews, Cardinal asked multiple questions about their alcohol consumption, details about where they were hit, and if they crossed during a “do not walk” signal. Both pedestrians told Cardinal they thought Thompson was going fast. Keenan said she thought Thompson was speeding up before the car hit her. Connors-Driftmier, who admitted he was drunk, told Cardinal he never saw a turn signal.
“Now the car that struck you then, were the headlights on?” Cardinal asked that night.
“Yeah but I didn’t see a turn signal or anything,” Connors-Driftmier said.
No written report mentions whether or not Thompson used a turn signal.
Multiple officers said they smelled a “strong odor of intoxicants” on both individuals, so they administered voluntary breath tests to the two pedestrians after interviews. Connors-Driftmier’s blood alcohol content was measured at 0.176, more than double the legal limit for driving. Keenan’s was 0.025, well below that limit.
Mark Francis, Washington State Patrol spokesman, said the intoxication of pedestrians is relevant in a case like this because it allows troopers to be thorough in their investigation.
Nowhere did any trooper’s report mention Thompson undergoing a breath or blood test.
As to the trooper not facing any discipline, Francis assured that any driver would go without consequences in the same situation, whether they were in law enforcement or not.
“There is not an expectation for him to see clearly with that weather and with that level of darkness,” Francis said.
And, on top of that, a $112 ticket.
Now your computer can simulate the movement of light through fog in a way that will easily fool the untrained eye. Using new "photon mapping" algorithms that map how light would bounce off water particles in the air (i.e. fog), UC San Diego computer scientists can now whip up a quick, realistic fog world for a videogame or movie without a lot of expensive computer power. Compare the photon mapped image above, with what the same amount of computing power would have produced without the algorithm, below.
Much of the richness in images created with photon mapping algorithms comes from precise accounting for the amount of light is in a scene and where that light is. Photon mapping algorithms provide a way to follow the light around the scene, as it bounces off various objects and lands on other objects. Photon mapping can also determine how light will interact with fog, smoke or other "participating media" that absorb, reflect and scatter some portion of the light - a task that has been traditionally quite computationally costly to perform because it requires sampling the light at many locations in order to make sure that nearly all the light is accounted for.
"Instead of computing the light at thousands of discrete points along the ray between the camera and the object, which is the conventional approach, we compute the lighting along the whole length of the ray all at once," said [computer science researcher Wojciech] Jarosz.
Another remake of classic horror flick The Fog, please! Only this time I want it in space!
A suspect in the gory 2016 slaughter of Hofstra grad Joseph Comunale on Monday coolly recounted his brutal role in the slaying, as the victim's heartbroken dad wept.
At a pretrial suppression hearing in Manhattan Supreme Court, Lawrence Dilione, 29, detailed, without emotion, the savage events at co-defendant James Rackover's E. 59th St. apartment early Nov. 13, 2016, when the accused killers cleaned up and then dumped Comunale's battered body in Oceanport, N.J.
Dilione, wearing a tight-fitting white T-shirt and khakis, admitted knocking the victim out cold, saying he felt "disrespected" by Comunale's comment during a debate about cigarettes and cocaine.
"I got up and I hit him. I hit him again two times, three max," Dilione said on cross-examination by prosecutor Antoinette Carter. "I picked him up and I slammed him to the ground which rendered him unconscious."
But he insisted — as he has in previous statements to cops — that it was a crazed Rackover who fatally beat, choked and stabbed 26-year-old Comunale.
"This is what you get for f--king with my boy," Rackover allegedly said before pummeling the unconscious victim, Dilione testified.
As Dilione's gruesome account unfolded, Comunale's tearful father, Pat, fought to keep his composure.
Dilione was the last witness at the hearing to determine the admissibility of statements both he and Rackover allegedly made to cops when they were arrested.
Earlier in the day, an NYPD chief admitted planting an undercover cop in a jail cell with Rackover to find out more information about the then-missing Comunale. Dilione's attorney argues it was part of a pattern of instances where cops questioned the suspects without their lawyers present.
In his testimony, Dilione claimed Rackover "started to hit" Comunale when he was already out cold, insisting he told his pal to stop — and that Rackover briefly paused until he "came back and started the assault again, this time a little more viciously."
Rackover, the "surrogate son" of prominent jeweler Jeffrey Rackover, was "kicking, punching, slamming his head into the ground, which caused problems for Joey because he was having trouble breathing," Dilione testified.
He also expressed concern they'd "go to jail for a long time for what we just did," Dilione testified.
"I've got to get rid of him. I've got to kill him," Rackover said, Dilione testifed.
"He began to strangle him ... My mind was going crazy."
Rackover, 26, ordered Dilione and Max Gemma, 30, who is charged with taking part in the cleanup after the slaying, to strip down, Dilione testified.
"My pair of jeans was used in strangling Joseph Comunale … I turned around and then I saw a knife being pulled out of Joey's head," Dilione testified.
"At this time I told Max he was going to have to leave."
Dilione described how Rackover then tried to dismember Comunale in the bathtub but failed to get the blade through his shoulder.
"Motherf--ker!" Rackover allegedly said, Dilione testified.
Gemma left the apartment while Dilione and Rackover went about concealing evidence and wrapping up Comunale's body in sheets so they could remove him from the fourth-floor apartment near Sutton Place, Dilione testified.
"I pushed the body out the window," he testified.
They packed him in the trunk of the older Rackover's 2015 Mercedes and drove it to Oceanport, N.J., where Comunale was burned and left in a shallow grave.
Rackover's lawyer suggested on cross-examination the police told Dilione he'd get a break if he blamed his buddy.
"Cross-examination quickly revealed just how self-serving the finger-pointing was," Robert Caliendo, one of Rackover's attorneys said after the hearing.
Dilione's lawyer, Michael Pappa, meanwhile suggested his client had nothing to hide.
"Larry Dilione took the witness stand. He was placed under oath. He told the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth for better or for worse," Pappa said.
The Grammy days of rap being relegated to genre-specific categories is history.
Atlanta’s Migos arrived in a couple of high-profile rap categories – best rap performance (“Bad and Boujee”) and best rap album (“Culture”).
Also garnering notice was the inescapable hit of the summer, “Despacito,” which placed Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber in the record and song of the year categories, and the important suicide prevention anthem, “1-800-273-8255” from Logic, Alessia Cara and Khalid, which earned its writers song of the year notice.
The 60th annual Grammy Awards, which will air live from New York on Jan. 28 on CBS, will spotlight a male-dominated year of nominees, including Bruno Mars (with six, including album and record of the year for “24K Magic”); Stone Mountain native Donald Glover, nominated as his rap alter ego Childish Gambino (with five, including album of the year for “Awaken, My Love!” and record of the year for “Redbone”); Khalid (five, including best new artist); and Chicago producer No I.D. (five).
Of the primary vote-getters, only upstart New Jersey R&B singer SZA represented with multiple nominations (five) among female artists.
The “Love Galore” singer will vie for best new artist against Alessia Cara, Khalid, Atlanta-based Lil Uzi Vert and Julia Michaels, as well as best urban contemporary album with Atlanta's 6lack, Childish Gambino, Khalid and The Weeknd.
The eligibility period for the 2017 awards was Oct. 1, 2016-Sept. 30, 2017, which eliminated Taylor Swift’s newly arrived “Reputation” from contention this cycle. Still, the mega-selling singer was expected to garner attention for earlier-released single “Look What You Made Me Do,” or her songwriting work on Little Big Town’s “Better Man,” which earned the band a nod for best country duo/group performance, an artist award.
Swift is nominated for co-writing “I Don't Wanna Live Forever” from “Fifty Shades Darker” with Jack Antonoff in best song written for visual media.
For a complete list of nominees, visit www.grammy.com.
The fertile Georgia music industry spawned its usual crop of nominees, with homegrown talent represented in more than two dozen categories.
Of them, the most bittersweet is a pair of posthumous nominations for Allman Brothers Band legend Gregg Allman, whose final album, “Southern Blood,” is up for best Americana album and the heartbreaking song, “My Only True Friend,” co-written with longtime band leader Scott Sharrard , for best American roots song.
Death did not prevent nominations for other artists, including Leonard Cohen (“You Want it Darker” for best rock performance and “Steer Your Way” for best American roots performance); Chris Cornell (“The Promise” for best rock performance), Glen Campbell (“Arkansas Farmboy” for best American roots performance); and Carrie Fisher (“The Princess Diarist” for best spoken word album).
Other Georgia-rooted artists notching some acclaim include Atlanta’s Mastodon, the Zac Brown Band and Christian music mainstays Casting Crowns.
Mastodon is up for a pair of Grammys.
Best rap performance - Big Sean, "Bounce Back"
Best Americana album - Brent Cobb, "Shine on Rainy Day"
Oct. 26 - A look inside Nestle Digital Acceleration Team, where social media engagement is used to defend its brand image.
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It's a battle over bones.
The Archdioceses of New York and Peoria, Illinois have gone public with their battle over the body of famed Catholic televangelist Archbishop Fulton Sheen, who is currently on the road to sainthood.
Sheen has been buried inside the crypt beneath the high altar of St. Patrick's Cathedral since his death in 1979. But Peoria wants to exhume him and bring the body to Illinois to collect relics, such as hair or other remains.
However, Cardinal Timothy Dolan is refusing to give up New York's claim to Sheen.
Peoria's Bishop Daniel Jenky isn't pleased with pushback from New York, announcing with "immense sadness" that Sheen's sainthood push has been halted "for the foreseeable future."
The coffin of Archbishop Sheen stands by altar where four cardinals and 48 bishops join Mass.
"Bishop Jenky was personally assured on several occasions by the Archdiocese of New York that the transfer of the body would take place at the appropriate time," the Diocese of Peoria said in a statement on Wednesday, lamenting over "New York's change of mind."