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Installation Work
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Caryl St. Ama
Picasso's Dilemma
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist as one grows up." Pablo Picasso
Fight for Art!!! Picasso's Dilemma is a public video art installation created by Alex Kritselis and Joey Forsyte featuring 60 artists from first grade to museum grade, fighting for art in 5 venues across Pasadena, California. Opened June 25, 2011 at the Armory Center for the Arts
Each artist was to make a 1minute self-portrait, the resulting self portrait on glass was then exhibited at the Armory Center for the Arts and sold to help fund arts education in Pasadena, California. The videos were projected on the windows of the Armory facing the outside.
River Alchemy, Moes Up River, fabric installation, Los Angeles river, 2002
River Alchemy was a site specific event with temporary installations and performances along the Los Angeles river. I used the fabric shapes, Michael and I began calling "moes" with their twisted and knotted forms spilling out of a storm drain that had the face of a cat. I relished the feedback from viewers that thought the "moes" were falling out of the mouth and those that thought the drain-beast was trying to gobble them up. For me, the shapes, writhing and animal-like were bursting open and free, heading in and out of the river. As large and galumphing as the shapes were, they carried a message to the delicate river from those of us Up River.
Without Alarm II: Public and Private Security, Moes in Stir, fabric installation, former Los Angeles Jail, Lincoln Heights, 1998
This piece was a collaboration between Caryl St. Ama and Michael Coomes.
The Arroyo Arts Collective took over the former Los Angeles jail in Lincoln Heights with more than 100 artists involved in transforming cells, corridors and holding tanks into disturbing urban art. The show was about crime and punishment, the loss and the reclamation of hope. The dim lighting in the decaying space sets the viewer up to be emotionally stalked and blurs the boundaries of the inmate doing time and the victim. The real questions become "How free are we?" and "Can art redeem us?"
Safari; Far Bazzar at the Old Zoo, Chrysalis Praecox, fabric installation, former Los Angeles Zoo, Los Angeles, 1997
We took over the abandoned lion's den for this installation – we imagined all the life that was once held in that cage. It provided us with an amazing power as we worked with the fabric pieces, twisting them around and through the bars,then tumbling towards the ground in chaotic rhythms. The shapes we called "moes" seemed to provide a shelter and at once were born here in the abandoned zoo installation.
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Sid Meier's Colonization is a strategy game themed on the European colonization of the New World, starting from the Discovery of America in 1492. The player has time until 1850 to reach independence.
Year: 1994 Genre: Strategy Updated: 2020-07-31Tags: 4x aga business simulation historical battle history management north america south america turn-based
Sid Meier's Civilization II
Civilization II, or simply Civ2, is the second chapter of the most famous turn-based strategy video game ever created: Sid Meier's Civilization. The game's objective is to "Build an empire to stand the test of time".
Year: 1996 Genre: Strategy Updated: 2020-10-23Tags: 4x history management turn-based
StarCraft is one of the most influential real-time-strategy games ever created and one of the most important video games of all time. It was developed by Blizzard Entertainment, and it was initially released in 1998 for Windows.
Year: 1998 Genre: Strategy Updated: 2020-01-14Tags: aliens freeware real-time rts science fiction
Dune II: The Battle For Arrakis
Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty (a.k.a. Dune II: Battle for Arrakis) is the second entry in the Dune series and it's one of the most influential video games of all time. It w...
Year: 1992 Genre: Strategy Updated: 2020-12-02Tags: movies real-time rts science fiction war
UFO: Enemy Unknown
X-COM: UFO Defense (UFO: Enemy Unknown in Europe) is a science fiction strategy game developed by Mythos Games and published by MicroProse Software (Geoff Crammond's former company) and released for Amiga and DOS in 1994.
Year: 1994 Genre: Strategy Updated: 2020-12-03Tags: aga aliens rpg elements science fiction squad management tactical-rpg turn-based
Sid Meier's Civilization is a turn-based "4X"-type strategy video game created by Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley for MicroProse in 1991. The game's objective is to "Build an empire to stand the test of time".
Year: 1991 Genre: Strategy Updated: 2020-12-02Tags: 4x business simulation history management top-down turn-based
The Settlers is a medieval city building simulation game by Blue Byte Software, first released in 1993 for Commodore Amiga and in 1994 for MS-DOS. In America, it was published as Serf City: Life Is Feudal.
Year: 1994 Genre: Strategy Updated: 2020-12-02Tags: amiga original game business simulation city building management multiplayer real-time
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Command & Conquer: Red Alert is a real-time strategy game created by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin in 1996 for MS-DOS and Windows 95. It was later ported to PlayStation.
Year: 1996 Genre: Strategy Updated: 2020-12-01Tags: europe real-time rts science fiction war
Archon: The Light and the Dark
Archon: The Light and the Dark is a 1983 video game developed by Free Fall Associates and published by Electronic Arts. The concept is similar to chess, but with real-time fights between pieces to decide the winner.
Year: 1985 Genre: Strategy Updated: 2019-07-17Tags: 2 players board game chess variants fantasy multiplayer real-time turn-based versus war
Carrier Command
Carrier Command is a vehicle simulation and a real-time strategy game developed by Realtime Games in 1988 for the Atari ST, then later ported to several other platforms including A...
Year: 1988 Genre: Strategy Updated: 2019-08-22Tags: atari st naval real-time science fiction transport watercraft
Warcraft II: Tides Of Darkness
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness is the sequel to the first real time strategy game created by Blizzard, Warcraft: Orcs & Humans. This second chapter of the fantasy RTS was developed...
Year: 1995 Genre: Strategy Updated: 2020-12-02Tags: fantasy real-time rts steampunk war
Age of Empires is a historical real-time strategy game created by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft in 1997 for Windows. It's one of the most popular video games franchises ever created.
Year: 1997 Genre: Strategy Updated: 2019-10-24Tags: classical antiquity history isometric management real-time rts war
Powermonger: World War I Edition
Powermonger: World War I Edition is a data-disk/expansion of the classic Powermonger by Bullfrog. It was released in 1991 for the Amiga and Atari ST. As you can imagine, the expansion brings Powermonger into World War I.
Year: 1991 Genre: Strategy Updated: 2020-07-22Tags: 3d isometric real-time war ww1
King's Bounty
King's Bounty is a turn-based strategy game developed and published by New World Computing. The title was released in 1990 for MS-DOS, C64, and Apple II, while the Amiga, Genesis, and Macintosh versions arrived in 1991.
Year: 1991 Genre: Strategy Updated: 2020-08-15Tags: adventure-rpg fantasy rpg elements top-down turn-based

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Josh Prenot's Impressive Double Highlights First Night at TYR Pro Swim Series Mesa
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It is warm outside so it means summer season and long course season is officially underway as the first night of finals from the 2018 TYR Pro Swim Series at Mesa kicked off on Thursday night in Arizona.
Josh Prenot and Chase Kalisz had solid in-season swims and Allison Schmitt came back to racing as the first meet of the summer provided some good early racing.
400 IM
200 Back
200 Breast
Mixed 4×50 Medley Relay
Women's 400 IM
WR: 4:26.36, Katinka Hosszu (2016)
AR: 4:31.12, Katie Hoff (2008)
US: 4:31.07, Katinka Hosszu (2015)
The women's 400 IM field in Mesa was noticeably bare without the presence of some of the premiere 400 IM'ers in the country like Stanford's Ella Eastin and Brooke Forde. Without the Stanford women, it is the perfect opportunity for swimmers to step up and get their name heard.
Vietnam's Vien Nguyen took advantage of that with a victory in the 400 IM on Thursday night at the Mesa Pro Swim Series in Arizona. Nguyen swam a 4:44.68 to win the final ahead of Duke's Connie Dean (4:46.63). Dean used a solid back half but it was not enough to catch Nguyen who led from start to finish.
Northwestern's Greek native Ilektra Lebl (4:49.68) finished in third well ahead of the rest of the field.
Samantha Tadder (4:58.35), Samantha Shelton (4:58.43), Kate McCarville (4:59.25), McKenna Meyer (5:02.03) and Kate McBratney (5:06.29) also competed in the A-final.
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Men's 400 IM
WR: 4:03.84, Michael Phelps, USA (2008)
AR: 4:03.84, Michael Phelps, USA (2008)
US: 4:05.25, Michael Phelps, USA (2008)
2017 World Championship gold medalist Chase Kalisz swam a solid 4:14.08 on Thursday night at the TYR Pro Swim Series at Mesa as he won comfortably ahead of fellow 2016 Olympian Josh Prenot 4:08 earlier this year(4:19.56). Kalisz is usually known as a solid in-season swimmer as he was a in Atlanta.
Prenot was second ahead of Louisville's Daniel Sos (4:22.98) and Pitchfork's Jarod Arroyo (4:23.75). Prenot was a 400 IM'er in his days at Cal, but has since disappeared from the event after he scratched out of the final at the 2016 Olympic Trials to focus on other events. Prenot could challenge for a spot on the Pan Pac roster this summer if he applies himself for the event.
Carlos Claverie (4:26.57), Nguyen Son (4:34.51), Tarna Tuitama (4:34.73) and Daniel Kober (4:35.06) also swam in the A-final.
Last month at the NCAA Championships, Sweden native Louise Hansson joined Louisville grad Kelsi Dahlia as the only other swimmer to break 50 seconds in the 100 SCY fly. The two met for the first time in a matchup of all-time greats as Dahlia got the upper hand on Thursday night at the TYR Mesa Pro Swim Series with a 58.09 over Hansson's 58.62.
Hansson led at the 50 but could not hold off Dahlia's closing speed.
New Team Elite member Hellen Moffitt finished in third at 58.78 ahead of Louisville's Mallory Comerford (59.34).
Aliena Schmidtke (1:00.17), Isabella Paez (1:00.80), Sarah Gibson (1:00.84) and Ruby Martin (1:01.18) also swam in the A-final.
Men's 100 Fly
Team Elite veteran Tim Phillips, who is now 27 years of age, won the 100 fly final over 18-year-old Michael Andrew with a 52.88 on Thursday night at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Mesa. Phillips ran down Andrew who placed second at 52.93 as Andrew had the early lead at the 50.
Phillips swam at the World Championships last summer where he finished ninth in the semi-finals. Phillips is one of the oldest swimmers on the national team yet to make an Olympic team. He could be the next David Plummer in that regard.
Phillips and Andrew were well ahead of third place Pace Clark (53.60), who also swam at the World Championships in the 200 fly.
Kaan Ayar (53.63), Gianluca Urlando (54.14), Camden Murphy (54.23), Nikola Miljenic (54.38) and Zach Harting (54.46) also swam in the A-final.
Women's 200 Back
Georgia post grad swimmer Olivia Smoliga is more known as a sprinter, but on Thursday night at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Mesa, Arizona, she won the 200 back final with a solid time of 2:10.94. Smoliga last swam the 200 back in any course three years ago in a duel meet against Georgia Tech. Her time tonight would have placed her fifth at last summer's World Championship Trials.
Smoliga finished ahead of fellow Georgia teammate Hali Flickinger who finished second in an unconventional event as well (2:12.34). Flickinger had a strong last 50 ahead of third place Sonnele Oeztuerk (2:12.37) from Auburn.
Katharine Berkoff (2:13.22), Callie Dickinson (2:16.88), Audrey Reimer (2:17.48), Keaton Blovad (2:18.04) and Maddie Hess (2:18.73) also swam in the championship final.
2016 Olympic Champion Ryan Murphy out-dueled longtime teammate Jacob Pebley in Mesa in the 200 back final on Thursday night. Murphy used a solid back half to swim away from Pebley as Murphy swam a 1:56.51 to Pebley's 1:58.30. Those two Cal swimmers were the only ones under two minutes in the final as Arizona State's Zachary Poti was third at 2:02.35.
Murphy's time was just off of Mitch Larkin's gold medal winning time in the 200 back at the Commonwealth Games as Larkin won that final last week with a 1:56.10. Murphy would have been second in that final in the Gold Coast as Australia's Bradley Woodward won the silver at 1:56.57.
Joey Reilman (2:04.13), Nicolas Albiero (2:04.23), Isaac Stump (2:04.26), Kevin Kalember (2:06.58) and Yeziel Morales (2:06.65) also swam in the A-final.
Women's 200 Breast
UMBC Athletics has more than just men's basketball as former Retrievers student athlete Emily Escobedo won the 200 breast on Thursday night at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Mesa with a 2:26.80. Escobedo held consistent splits as she won ahead of Micah Sumrall (2:27.09) and Mesa native and 2012 Olympian Breeja Larson (2:27.77).
Those three were well ahead of the rest of the field as it was Stanford commit Zoe Bartel in fourth place at 2:31.55.
Manuela Mendolicchio (2:32.01), Angela Mavrantza (2:32.62), Morgan Friesen (2:34.45) and Peyton Kondis (2:36.24) also swam in the A-final.
Men's 200 Breast
The TYR Pro Swim Series moves quickly and doubles are not easy, no matter how much time you get in between events. Cal postgrad swimmer Josh Prenot showed off his endurance tonight with a 2:11.30 in the 200 breast final after he swam the 400 IM earlier in the night. Prenot won ahead of a very stacked field including 2017 World Championship finalist Nic Fink (2:12.73) and Louisville senior Carlos Claverie (2:12.78).
Early leader Kevin Cordes fell off pace after being in the race early. Cordes fell to fourth at the finish with a 2:13.14, but he isn't known as an in-season swimmer.
Cody Miller (2:14.11), AJ Pouch (2:14.96), Michael Andrew (2:18.96) and Andrew Wilson (2:19.15) also swam in the A-final.
Women's 200 Free
It was a heavily anticipated race as 2012 Olympic Champion Allison Schmitt was making her return to swimming tonight at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Mesa. Schmitt had an impressive swim in her first meet back as she was second to World Championship finalist Leah Smith in the 200 free final. Smith won the final with a 1:59.12 and Schmitt was second at 1:59.57, just ahead of Melanie Margalis (1:59.58).
Smith was sixth in the 200 free in Budapest so this is a very impressive early swim for Schmitt, who has not swum a race at a big meet since she won gold in the 4×200 free relay in Rio in 2016.
Hali Flickinger (2:00.75), Cierra Runge (2:01.21), Leonie Kullmann (2:01.24), Mallory Comerford (2:02.72) and Margo Geer (2:04.12) also swam in the A-final.
Men's 200 Free
Marwan El Kamash surged to a 200 free win on Thursday night with a 26.97 last 50 split as he out-touched Zane Grothe with a 1:49.05 to Grothe's 1:49.07. El Kamash, Grothe and third place finisher Patrick Callan (1:49.85) were the only three swimmers in the field who came home under 28 seconds. Callan is a future Michigan Wolverine as his 200 free time will be a welcomed addition to Ann Arbor in the fall.
Fynn Minuth (1:52.14), Zach Harting (1:52.14), Rafael Davila (1:52.64), Michael Chadwick (1:53.18) and Matias Koski (1:54.40) also swam in the A-final.
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High-reliability flex circuits are excellent choices for small, lightweight designs with complex, high-density circuitry. Significantly thinner and lighter than traditional circuit boards, flex circuits make any product lighter, which contributes to improved patient mobility and comfort and, in many cases, cost savings.
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Those package designs may also include "rigid flex" circuits.
These circuits include both rigid and flexible substrates laminated together in a single structure. For example, there may be a section of the device with several electronic components — resistors, capacitors, connectors, processors — that is rigid, but a flexible electrical "tail" leads from the rigid section, eliminating the need for an interface connector.
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