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f | \ een high school movies have been
setting the tone for how “the best
m. years of your life” are supposed to
operate for quite a while now.
You can take your pick of the movies
that have filled our adolescent years (“A
Cinderella Story,” “Pretty In Pink,” “10
Things I Hate About You,” “The Break
fast Club,” “Grease,” “She’s All That,”
“Easy A,” “Mean Girls,” “Six
teen Candles”), and it’s still dif
ficult to overlook the fact that
each had at least some influence
in preparing us for what high
school would be like — and
maybe raising our expectations
a little too high.
These movies taught us that
high school social order was
black and white — there were
the jocks, the nerds, the popular
kids, the losers, the goths, the
musicians, the stoners — and
that the people in these groups were easy
to recognize. However, once 9th grade
rolled around, it turned out things were
not so simple.
Enter “The Duff,” a movie about a high
school girl, Bianca (Mae Whitman), who
is informed by her childhood guy friend
Wesley (Robbie Amell) th at she is the
“Designated Ugly Fat Friend” and embarks
on a mission, with the help of Wesley, to
un-duff herself.
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to make the “Back to the Future” skate
board and other technologies like self-driving
google cars made their silver screen debut de
cades ago.
Additionally, a large part of engineering
has gone into addressing film production
challenges over the last century, such as the
‘Dolly cam’ in 1907 and the ‘Steady cam’ in
1976.
From Chroma key compositing — bet
ter known as the ‘GreenScreen’ technology
— in the 1930’s to today’s outdoor motion
capture technology, these scientific advance
ments have not only helped bring a story
teller’s imagination to life but also gone on to
develop tech gadgets for the general public,
such as the “Color Predictor,” an iTune app
that helps filmmakers predict the interaction
of lights, camera and a photographed object.
Any discussion on the technological as
pects of the movie making business is incom
plete without talking about CGI — bread and
butter for many of the blockbuster studio
movies today.
“At the beginning there were maybe four
or five directors who really pursued this
emerging trend of computer graphics,” said
Ergun Akleman, a professor at the depart
ment of visualization at A&M, whose students
have gone on to work for companies such
as PIXAR or startup digital rendering busi
nesses like Splutterfish. “These people own
CG companies that generate the visual effects
you see in their films. George Lucas, Peter
Jackson, James Cameron, they have pushed
this industry to a new level. ”
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Iran's global Jihad seizes new ground, fortified by an
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. Iran is by far the world’s most aggressive perpetrator
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capability. The U.S. pulled out of Lebanon in 1983 after
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facilitating the rise of Shiite Hizbollah terrorists. When
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“Of course we bypass the sanctions,
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Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani
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who just violently took control of former U.S. ally
Yemen, are also on Iran’s payroll. While the U.S. has
designated Iran a state sponsor of terrorism and
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recent investigations indicate that Iran has already
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nuclear supply networks. Iran’s President Hassan
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and we take pride in it.” No wonder a majority of the
U.S. Congress urgently supports harsh new sanctions
on Iran unless it immediately agrees to give up
weapons-grade nuclear enrichment and ballistic
missile programs. President Obama, however,
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Since sanctions brought the Iranians to the table, sanctions are the most powerful, peaceful means for convincing
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