View this post on Instagram Now that The Force Awakens has hit theatre of operations , the moving picture ’s director of photography , Dan Mindel has been post some dandy behind the view images from the movie to his Instagram provender . Here ’s a selection of what he ’s posted in the last twosome of solar day : you may see more on hisInstagram provender . [ InstagramviaStarWarsNewsNet ]...

From the mid-1950s to the late 1990s, David Parker Ray kidnapped dozens of women in New Mexico — and brutalized them in his “Toy Box” torture chamber. Joe Raedle / Getty ImagesThe infamous “ Toy Box Killer , ” David Parker Ray , pictured in court in 1999 . On March 19 , 1999 , 22 - year - quondam Cynthia Vigil was fleece in a parking lot in Albuquerque , New Mexico , when a serviceman claiming to be an undercover bull told her she was under arrest for solicitation of sex work and put her in the back of his car ....

An animation studio can drop days rendering a scenery that features water , smoke and other substances that affect light ( and its computer simulation ) in complex ways . Now , a team lead by Disney Research Zürich has develop a computational algorithm that can reduce rendering time for such scenes by a gene of up to 1,000 . animator call substances like smoke , fog , piddle , mist , and dust“participating media,”due to their inclination to deflect or spread light as it move around the aloofness separating its source from the camera ( the shafts of light visible in the upper right hand recession of the Monsters University screenshot featured above are a good example of how we perceive illumination in the presence of participating media ....

When I imagine surly structure workers like my uncle drag puppet and concrete and porta potties around , motortruck loaded up with schnazzy gadgetry is not what I picture . But that ’s exactly what Ford ( and Microsoft ! ) see . Their “ Work Solutions ” concept is n’t even entirely bullshit , either . The characteristic I worker consider clotheshorse would find really utile is Tool Link , an RFID - based prick tracker system — add tags to your tools , and the seam image scanner lets you know if something is missing ....

It ’s a move that makes a certain amount of sentience . Right now , the digital food rescue marketplace is in a “ consolidate or perish ” province . Even as people around the world have been stuck at home — and missing their favorite restaurant — booming sales have n’t been enough to compensate for the equallybooming operation costs . The trans - Atlantic deal between Grubhub and Just Eat does n’t just produce thelargestdigital intellectual nourishment delivery operator outside of China , but also gives each company a bit of a cushion from these economic ill — not to remark a collective70 million dinersspread across the globe ....

“ What ’s The Frequency , Kenneth?”Written by Bill Berry , Mike Mills , Peter Buck and Michael Stipe ( 1993)Performed by R.E.M. The Music It make sense that R.E.M. , a band whose language are often cabalistic and indecipherable , would get hold inspiration for a song in the mysterious circumstances surrounding a strong-arm attack on newsman Dan Rather . “ It was the premier unresolved American surrealist human action of the twentieth century , ” Isaac M....

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When you purchase through link on our site , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it bring . It ’s hard not to be move by the brilliant flock of whales as they lift their massive frames from the sea and then precipitate back into the waves with a mighty splash . But all that spatter is just a fraction ofa whale ’s journeying , which is effective for more than just show ....

There was something off about some of the bears . They did n’t go there . Researchers had gone to Bulgaria to study one of the last large populations of brown bear in Europe . While it ’s nearly extinct in Western Europe , the specie hangs on in the Orient , but biologists did n’t make love much about how many there were , where they exist , or how the bear were all connect ....

The Pentagon , the US Department of Defense ball of fire in Virginia , was the world ’s great government agency building for over eight decades – but not anymore . That title has of late been yanked away by the Surat Diamond Bourse , a impertinently open rhombus trading floor in western India . TheSurat Diamond Bourseconsists of nine towers , each with 15 floors , connected by a primal prickle ....

For all of you stick in the centre of this rotten April showerama , wondering , like Creedence before you , “ Who ’ll contain the pelting ? ” here ’s a partial response . That is , here are 10 umbrella we have covered over the past year or so . Surprisingly , not all of them are lightsaber - themed . 1.A projector in an umbrella , so you could clash with even more hoi polloi than usual...

When political Sturm und Drang is happening thousands of miles from home , it can feel hard to do it how to help survivors of war and upheaval . But as refugee arrive in the U.S. seem for a better life , there are ways you may make a lasting impact within your own residential area . 1. STAY EDUCATED. When you coalesce in forever changing political bounds , military tactics , and foreign societal norm , it can be difficult understand ( and keep up with ) what ’s operate on abroad ....

So we used to have these thing called landlines , which were phones that you did n’t take with you everywhere and that you really used to lecture to mass . Some of them did n’t even look like phones . Here are some of our favorite incognito gewgaw French telephone of yore . Warning : will cause utmost nostalgia . Garfield: Hates Mondays, loves lasagna and *69. simulacrum credit : Amazon...