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The just-released 2015 Salary Guides from Robert Half show that U.S. starting salaries for professional occupations are projected to increase an average of 3.8 percent next year.
The just-released 2015 Salary Guides from Robert Half show that U.S. starting salaries for professional occupations are projected to increase an average of 3.8 percent next year.
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It's a great feeling when your top candidate is eager about your job offer, isn't it?
But you can't pop open the champagne quite yet: There is still the salary negotiation. Job seekers today are informed, prepared and ready to negotiate, and you should be, too. Here are seven tips to make sure you get what you want out of a salary negotiation.
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Things are going great at your company. The team gets along well and productivity is skyrocketing. Then one morning, a key employee gives her two-week notice, citing salary concerns as her reason for leaving. You conclude that she must have lucked out with an unusually high-paying new job. However, when another team member departs a month later for the same reason, you start to wonder: "Could salaries at our firm be out of line with average salaries?"
One way to find out is to take a look at one of the 2014 Salary Guides from Robert Half, and check out our video on the Salary and Hiring Outlook for a quick look at key trends. The Salary Guides provide data on average salaries in the United States and Canada for professionals in the fields of finance and accounting, technology, administrative, legal and creative. The guides include tools for adjusting compensation for different cities, useful case studies, job descriptions and tips on recruiting the best employees.
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Looking for a new job? Just starting your career or thinking about a second one? Whether you know exactly what field or job you want to pursue or you aren't sure yet, some fantastic career resources are available to help point you in the right direction. Problem is, they're scattered across the Internet like confetti.
To make it easier for you to take advantage of some of the best advice, we've compiled a list of 10 great career resources you can access online:
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Great news! You've offered your top candidate the job, and you anticipate she will accept the offer. But don't draw up the paperwork yet. Once you get a response, put your bargaining hat on and expect to negotiate salary.
Job seekers in top demand may have more than one offer on the table, and with more pay. They're also likely to be armed with salary information and salary negotiation tips from an abundance of online resources. If you want to reach a fair deal, you need to be equally prepared. Here are some salary negotiation tips:
So much work, so little time. Maybe there aren't enough people to get it all done, and it's time to hire. But attracting the best candidates takes time and, well, let's face it, money. If hiring is on your agenda in 2014, then let's talk salary information.
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Community pride
Thanks to the many hours that Ron Distel spent over several years trying to get the moving monument here, and to the many volunteers and donors who helped make it become a reality.
The park was beautiful, and when the wall was put in place, everything looked so serene.
It took many people to make the platform for the wall to sit on and to landscape the area. Many items were donated to make the park beautiful. Window displays carried out the theme. A number of volunteer also helped set up the wall and were there to greet people as they visited the wall. Others donated their time to behind-the-scene duties, then helped take down the wall and clean up the park area afterwards.
The people of Elmore and the surrounding community care about and work together to make great things happen in Elmore.
So many people were thoughtful enough to post pictures of the various activities pertaining to the Moving Wall so that people who could not be there could see what was taking place, and that too was greatly appreciated.
We can be proud of our little community and the many people who give of their time to make the community a better place to live and for others to come and visit.
Thank you to Rudder's Deli and Café, Catawba Island; Bassets Market, Port Clinton; Howell's Orchard, Catawba Island; Bergman's Farms, Port Clinton; Subways of Catawba Island and Oak Harbor; Wal-Mart, Port Clinton; Riverview Industries Inc., Oak Harbor; and Big Lots, Fremont.
Project Lifesaver would like to express our shared gratitude in helping us to educate the Ottawa County Community about Project Lifesaver and its availability to residents of Ottawa County. Project Lifesaver is technology you can rely on and protection you can trust.
For more information regarding Project Lifesaver, and how to financially support the project, schedule a presentation and/or enroll a loved one in the project, contact Horst Herzog, Port Clinton Lions Club, at 419-797-2697 or Carolyne Gilchrist, Port Clinton Lions Club Coordinator at 419-898-0400 ext. 3115.
Project Lifesaver partners with the Port Clinton Lions Club are Magruder Hospital, Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center, UTMC and St. Rita's Life Flight/MobileLife, Ottawa County Sheriff's Office, Ottawa County, Senior Resources, Ottawa County Board of DD and Ottawa County Veterans Office.
If you chose to or retire because of term limits and return to your place of employment, you should lose your benefits of retirement, such as medical, prescription, hospitalization, etc.
These are carried by retirees, many on benefits that are small. We retirees are faced with cost cuts, living on an income that is fixed. I'm not crying, but why should you return to a job just to refill it?
If you want to return to work, great, but not the same job in the same position.
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Of the many Victorian and Edwardian voyages of discovery, the two that became the most amazing stories of human survival against the cruel elements have to be Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition of 1914, and Sir John Franklin's attempt to map the Northwest Passage of 1845-48. But no two heroic voyages have ever had such disparate outcomes. Even though both voyages failed their intended missions, all but one of Shackleton's men survived an island stranding, thanks to careful selection, unparalleled leadership and Shackleton's own almost otherworldly seamanship. And, perhaps, Divine Providence or a series of unimaginably lucky breaks. On the other hand, Franklin's expedition sailed off into oblivion. The entire expedition — 129 officers and men on two well-found and well-preparedships — simply vanished for many years. Gradually, discoveries made it clear that the men had all perished in the long nights of the inhospitable Canadian Arctic winter. (A few may have survived into May).
Sir John was a veteran of high latitude operations, and his two sturdy ships had been rebuilt for Antarctic service (and gave their names to two mighty mountains there — HMS Erebus and HMS Terror). They had originally been built as "bomb ships," vessels which carried a pair of huge mortars for shore bombardment; Terror, the older of the two ships, bombarded Stonington, Connecticut and Fort McHenry at Baltimore in the War of 1812. It was customary for "bomb ships" to be named after fear-inspiring things, including volcanoes and monsters or bad areas from mythology ("Erebus: was a region of Greek Hades). When they were rebuilt for high-latitude exploration, the ships were stripped of their mortars and they sailed first to Antarctica under the command of James Clark Ross of Ross Ice Shelf fame. They were rebuilt again before going to seek the Northwest Passage with Franklin, with steam engines, screw propellers, and iron-reinforced prows fitted for limited ice-breaking. The ships were last reported to have been seen by Inuit natives in early 1847, frozen tight in pack ice.
Beginning with their preparation for Ross's southern journey, these wooden ships got the best of 19th Century Admiralty high-tech (from Cool Antarctica.com):
In preparation for the voyage, the admiralty dockyards doubled the thickness of the ships decks with a layer of waterproof cloth being sandwiched in between the old and new layers. The interiors of the two ships were braced fore and aft with oak beams to resist and absorb shock from ice. The hulls were scraped clean and double planked and finally the keels were sheathed in extra thick copper plate. Triple strength canvas was fitted for the sails.
They ships had sail power only for the Antarctic expedition, but were fitted out with single screw propellers powered by 20hp engines for the Northwest Passage voyage.
Many expeditions were dispatched in search of Sir John and his men, but they found only scattered artifacts, and not many of those. Some crewmen were found on King William's Land (seen below in a scan by Philip V. Allingham at Victorian Web) — rather than pull their boats toward the water, freedom, and possible rescue, they'd gone inexplicably inland.
For over 100 years the Arctic kept its secrets. Then, in the 1980s, three crewmen were found, carefully buried six feet deep on Beechey Island. The bodies were perfectly preserved in permafrost, which allowed them to be examined in the interests of science. Discovery: their bones had staggering levels of lead, reinforcing the suspicion that what had killed the explorers was not just the inhospitable conditions in the Far North, but also the use of then-novel canned food — in cans held together with toxic lead solder. A can found intact from one of the attempted rescue operations showed toxic levels of lead in the soup and in the can itself. (More recent research argues that the lead in the deceased's bodies might have come from pre-expeditionary ingestion, for example from living in a city with lead water pipes, common in the 19th Century).
Meanwhile, the expeditions which hadn't found Sir John had done something worthwhile that might not have been done for many scores of years — mapped the Canadian Arctic. In the end, the Northwest Passage that Franklin sought proved to be a will-o-the-wisp; while exploring ships can occasionally get through in summer, it will never work as an economical trading route.
This left the final mysteries of the Franklin expedition as the last resting places of its leader, his men, and his ships. With the expedition capturing the imagination of many explorers and playing an important role in the folklore of both the Royal Navy (their worst peacetime disaster) and the nation of Canada, there was no lack of modern explorers.
Canadian PM Steven Harper wanted any discoveries to come from a Canadian expedition as a matter of Canadian pride, and his government has sponsored several attempts to find Franklin or his ships. This week they announced proudly that one of the ships — which one is still unknown — was found, resting in shallow water. Here's a sonar image:
A remote operated vehicle (ROV) returned images and video of the vessel in close-up, showing that the hull has been ravaged by marine life and a brisk tide or current. A few artifacts, including two small signal cannon, are visible in the imagery.
As the ships were abandoned by the crews, the issues that come with respecting sea graves probably don't enter into the exploration plans here — and exploration plans are definitely being made. For one thing, while the wreck appears certain to have been one of the expedition's ships, the specific identity of the wreck (Erebus or Terror) is not confirmed; for another, the second ship remains unlocated. And finally, the ships are likely to contain a great deal of information about the expedition and about the vessels themselves. (For example, no clear plan of Erebus or Terror survives, although supposedly enough is known of their differing steam installations to make it clear which one is which, under examination).
Harper, whose government has supported the Franklin search, is well pleased, and scientists are excited about a return to the site — possibly in force next year, but some divers will go down before this season ends.
As early as Saturday, Parks Canada's underwater archaeologists will descend to the wreck, which lies in 11 metres of water, bringing high-definition video equipment to document their exploration.
The search team is prepared for the possibility it may find human remains, a development that would change how it explores the centuries-old vessel. Inuit accounts from the 19th century mention spotting the body of a white man in a ship adrift near O'Reilly Island.
"We are going to approach it as a site that may be a burial," Marc-Andre Bernier, chief of the underwater archeology team at Parks Canada, told reporters Wednesday.
Canada has promised the UK that, if remains are found, they won't be disturbed except inasmuch as necessary. Britain has given up any claim to artifacts from the expedition, except for a reputed stash of gold, and any "artifacts deemed important to the RN." Hey, at the rate they're going, they may need those cannon.
In a touch of irony, the ship was only found because the intended search area was closed to the searchers — by pack ice, the very killer of Franklin and his men.
Antarctica Fact File. Erebus and Terror, the Antarctic Expedition 1839-1843, James Clark Ross. Cool Antarctica, n.d. Note that this contains at least two glaring errors, "Terror saw service in 1812 in the Crimea," Right year, wrong war. And "20 hp engines" when Bourne, a more credible source, says 30. Despite that, some good technical data on the ships on their previous voyage of exploration.
Antarctica Fact File. Erebus and Terror, Ships of the Antarctic Explorers. John Franklin, Northwest Passage. Cool Antarctica, n.d.
Bourne, John. A treatise on the screw propeller: with various suggestions of improvement. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852. (This is the source of the ship-engine table above).
Cassidy, Kathryn. The Franklin Expedition: 1845-1849. Victorian Web: 27 March 2002. A general overview.
Chase, Steven. Long-lost Franklin ship found in Arctic, solving 169-year-old mystery. The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 9 Sep 2014. Reveals and discusses the find.
Chase, Steven. Fate of Franklin's ship and gold will be decided by 1997 Canada-U.K. deal. The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 10 Sep 2014. Exploration plans.
McGoohan, Ken. The Franklin discovery's not about what, but where. The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 10 Sep 2014. Author of books on polar exploration discusses what the location of the find means, in terms of revising the known history of the expedition (which he considers long-settled, in its fundamentals).
Spears, Tom. Franklin expedition discovery solves one of Canada's great mysteries. Sasakatoon, Sask.: The Star-Phoenix, 11 Sep 2014. (This story was used in writing the post. It was inadvertently left off the original Sources list).
Uncredited. The 2014 Search for the Lost Franklin Expedition. Parks Canada, 2014. This is the source of the sidescan sonar images.


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Poly(tetramethylene terephthalate) compositions containing at least 2.5% by weight of the composition of a finely divided metal borate stable under the normal processing conditions for the polyester.
1. A thermoplastic polyester composition comprising poly(tetramethylene terephthalate) and at least 2.5% by weight of the total composition of at least one finely divided metal borate that is stable under the normal processing conditions of the polyester.
2. A composition according to claim 1 which includes from 2-70% by weight of reinforcing agent.
3. A composition according to claim 2 in which the reinforcing agent is selected from at least one of glass fibre, acicular dawsonite, acicular calcium metasilicate, asbestos fibre and mica.
4. A composition according to claim 1 which includes fire retardant additives in admixture with, or copolymerised in, the polyester.
5. A composition according to claim 4 containing at least sufficient copolymerised or admixed fire retardant materials to give the composition a flame retardancy rating of 94VO and at least sufficient metal borate to prevent the composition dripping when tested according to the Vertical Burning Test of Underwriters Laboratories Test UL94 using test samples 1.5 mm or less in thickness.
6. A composition according to claim 5 in which the metal borate concentration is sufficient to give a Comparative Tracking Index rating as measured by the KC method of DIN 53480 (1972) of at least 350 volts.
7. A composition according to claim 1 in which the metal borate is a zinc borate of formula
2ZnO.3B2 O3.xH2 O
where x is between 3.3 and 3.7.
8. A composition according to claim 7 in which the concentration of zinc borate is between 2.5% and 40% by weight of the total composition.
9. A composition according to claim 1 in which the intrinsic viscosity of the polyester is at least 0.75 measured as a 1% by weight solution in ortho-chlorophenol.
10. The composition of claim 1, wherein said metal borate is a hydrated borate.
11. A composition according to claim 2, in which the metal borate is a zinc borate of formula
2ZnO.3B2 O3.xH2 O
where x is between 3.3 and 3.7.
12. The composition according to claim 4, in which the metal borate is a zinc borate of formula
2ZnO.3B2 O3.xH2 O
where x is between 3.3 and 3.7.
This invention relates to polyester compositions and in particular to poly(tetramethylene terephthalate) compositions containing additives for enhancing the electrical performance of the polyester.
Poly(tetramethylene terephthalate) is of growing importance as a moulding powder, particularly in applications where its excellent electrical properties can be utilised. For some electrical applications, however, the mouldings must be able to withstand very severe conditions and it is necessary to uprate the electrical properties of the polyester. It is particularly important for some applications that polyester mouldings should have a high degree of resistance to carbonisation when directly exposed to an electrical discharge or when subjected to excessive leakage current across the surface due to the presence of surface contaminants. Materials which have a high degree of resistance to visible electrical discharges are said to have good arc resistance. Those materials which resist carbonisation due to leakage current in the presence of surface contaminants are said to have good track resistance.
Many additives have been suggested for conferring such carbonisation resistance on polymers but many of these are either unsuitable for compounding with poly(tetramethylene terephthalate) under melt conditions because of volatilisation of by-products or give only a moderate arc or track resistance.
Compositions containing poly(tetramethylene terephthalate) have now been developed which show excellent arc and track resistance and can readily be prepared by the normal compounding methods.
Accordingly there are provided poly(tetramethylene terephthalate) compositions comprising poly(tetramethylene terephthalate) and at least 2.5% by weight of the total compositions of at least one finely-divided metal borate that is stable under the normal processing conditions for the polyester.
By "poly(tetramethylene terephthalate)" is meant a linear polymer containing at least 80 mole % of units derived from terephthalic acid and 1,4-butanediol. The remaining constituents of the polymer, if any, may be derived from other aromatic dicarboxylic acids such as isophthalic acid and 1,2-bis-(4-carboxyphenoxy) ethane and dihydric alcohols containing from 2 to 10 carbon atoms such as ethylene glycol. The constituents other than terephthalic acid and 1,4-butane diol may be halogenated materials in order that a measure of fire retardancy may be introduced into the polyester. Preferred halogenated materials are ethoxylated tetrabromo bisphenol A and dibromomethyl terephthalate. Polyesters having modified melt flow characteristics may be prepared by the inclusion of a minor amount of components having a functionality of at least 3, such as tri- and tetra-carboxylic acids and polyols having at least 3 hydroxyl groups such as pentaerythritol. When present, these may be included in an amount sufficient to give rise to a branched material but insufficient to give rise to cross-linked polymers which are not readily processable under melt conditions.
The poly(tetramethylene terephthalate) used to make up the composition should be a polymer of high molecular weight, preferably having an intrinsic viscosity (measured as a 1% by weight solution in o-chlorophenol) of at least 0.75.
The metal borates for use in the invention must be stable under the processing conditions normally used for the polyester, that is, no substantial amount of material should volatilise when the compositions are processed either during compounding of the ingredients by the manufacturer or during fabrication or shaped articles from the compositions. The physical nature of the borates should be such that they are capable of being intimately dispersed in the polyester. Hydrated borates are preferred because they show superior resistance to carbonisation in the compositions of the invention. The hydrated borates must not, of course, lose a substantial amount of water during processing. The higher hydrates of zinc borate for example 2ZnO.3B2 O3. 7H2 O and 2ZnO.3B2 O3.9 H2 O lose water below the procesing temperatures of the polyesters used in the invention and are therefore unsuitable because they are difficult to blend with the polyamides and would present problems during melt fabrication of the compositions into shaped articles. The preferred metal borate is zinc borate of the from 2ZnO.3B2 O3.xH2 O, where x is between 3.3 and 3.7. The preparation of such compounds is described in British Pat. specification No. 1,184,967. The preferred hydrated zinc borate is of formula 2ZnO.3B2 O3 .3.5H2 O and is stable to volatilisation up to 260� C or more.
The concentration of borate employed to obtain a useful effect should be at least 2.5% by weight of the total composition. For some applications 5 or 10% is sufficient to give a noticeable improvement in electrical performance but where high arc resistance values are required it may be necessary to use from 20 to 40% by weight of borate. Quantities in excess of 40% by weight of the total composition may be employed but at these higher concentrations, however, the other physical properties may be reduced below a level which is acceptable for a particular end-use of the moulding.
Particularly useful compositions are obtained when a reinforcing agent, such as glass fibre, acicular dawsonite, acicular calcium metasilicate asbestos fibre and mica, is included in the composition. These may be included at a concentration of 2 to 70% preferably 10 to 50% by weight of the total composition. In addition, the electrical application envisaged may require that the moulding is self-extinguishing and in these circumstances fire-retardant materials may be included in the compositions if the polyester itself does not contain sufficient copolymerised fire retardant materials to give the required level of fire retardancy. The presence of fire retardants either in the admixture of copolymerised form generally improves the arc resistance of the compositions. Preferred fire retardants are the brominated organic materials optionally used together with an antimony compound, particularly antimony trioxide. The compositions of the invention containing sufficient fire retardants to render the mouldings self-extinguishing have the additional advantage that they are generally found not to drip in the standard fire-retardancy tests such as the Underwriters Laboratories Test UL94 using a sample thickness of 1.5mm or less. Other additives may be included provided they do not have a deleterious effect on the arc resistance of the compositions.
The compositions of the invention find uses in many electrical applications requiring a high resistance to arcing and tracking, such as distributor caps.
The testing procedure used to evaluate the arc resistance of mouldings formed from the compositions is the Performance Standard described in Vol. L page 187(2) dated Aug. 27, 1963 of the Chrysler Corporation Performance Standards. This employs high-voltage low-current conditions in a dry atmosphere. In this test a distributor (Lucas type D/1506/1) is driven by an electric motor at 1350 r.p.m. so that the contact breaker of the distributor delivers a pulsed voltage which is fed to a Lucas Sports ignition coil (Type SA 12). A low-voltage power supply delivers 14 V when the contact is open, dropping to about 8 V when the equipment is running. The high-tension output produced in the coil is about 15 kV and is fed via a suppressed carbon lead to a male high-tension contact. A "Variac" feeding the low-voltage power supply is used to control the current in the system to 3.0 � 0.1 mA. The test sample is in the form of the cylindrical chimney of a distributor cap, the male high-tension probe being a sliding fit within the chimney. The arc resistance of the chimney is tested by striking an arc using the apparatus described between the male high-tension contact and an earth probe contacting the chimney 1.25 cm from the end of the chimney into which the male electrode is inserted and exerting a load of 196 g on the chimney. The contact end of the earth probe is conical in shape, the cone having an included angle of 30�. Failure is detected by observing the time at which the visible arcing is replaced by a glowing track. Simultaneously, the noise created by the arc ceases.
To assess the performance under low-voltage high-current moist conditions the test of British Standard 3781:1964 is used. This test measures the Comparative Tracking Index (CTI) which indicates the voltage at which it takes 50 drops of electrolyte to cause failure by the formation of electrically conducting tracks. The tracking resistance of compositions may also be assessed by the method of DIN specification 53480/1972 using the KC method described therein.
The invention is further illustrated by the following Examples of which Examples 1 and 2 are for comparison purposes only.
In this example the arc resistance and Comparative Tracking Index (CTI) of poly(tetramethylene terephthalate) of intrinsic viscosity 0.95 (measured as a 1% solution in o-chlorophenol) and containing glass-fibre and fire-retardant additives were assessed according to the Chrysler Arc Test and British Standard 3781:1964. The compositions and the results obtained are recorded below. The compositions were obtained by compounding in a vented screw extruder at 240� C. The percentages quoted are by weight of the total composition.
__________________________________________________________________________Additives Chrysler Decabromo- Arc Test CTIGlass diphenyl Antimony Time to CTI DIN TensileFibre Ether Oxide Failure BS3781: 53480 MN/m2(%) (%) (%) (sec) 1964 (KC) Strength__________________________________________________________________________20 8 5 131 9230 7 4 90 190 230 13230 10 5 276__________________________________________________________________________
These results indicate that although the glass content of the composition does not have a significant effect on the arc resistance the fire retardant additives do.
The compositions listed in the table below were compounded as in Example 1 to test the effect in poly (tetramethylene terephthalate) of some of the additives previously suggested for improving the arc resistance of polymers. The poly(tetramethylene terephthalate) used was the same material as used in Example 1.
__________________________________________________________________________Additives (%) Arc Test CTI Decabromo- Arc Resistant Time to CTI DIN Tensile diphenyl Antimony Additive Failure BS3781 53480 StrengthGlass Ether Oxide (%) (sec) 1964 (KC) MN/m2__________________________________________________________________________20 7 4 20 Acicular 314 250 Calcium Matasilicate20 7 4 20 "Mistron Super 540 Frost" talc*20 7 4 20 "Norwegian Micro- 344 91 Talc IT"20 7 4 20 Al2 O3 3H20** 720 230 8220 7 4 20 "Mica W160"*** 45020 7 4 20 "Mica MTS1000"**** 33020 7 4 20 Stearate coated 6 90 CaCO3 ('Winnofil' S)*****20 7 4 20 Al2 O3.3H2 O + 9 200 79 5Fe2 O310 7 4 10 Al2 O3 320 (anhydrous)__________________________________________________________________________ *"Mistron Super Frost" talc was obtained from the Sierra Talc Company. - "Norwegian Micro-Talc IT" was obtained from Norwegian Talc of Bergen. **The Al2 O3 3H2 O used was obtained as Omya H-BM2 from Plastichem Limited. ***Mica W160 was obtained from Norwegian Talc of Bergen. ****Mica MTS1000 was obtained from Mineral and Technical Services Limited. *****`Winnofil` S was obtained from Imperial Chemical Industries Limited, Mond Division.
These results show that by comparison with Example 1 a variety of materials can be used to effect some improvement in arc resistance. Hydrated alumina is exceptionally good, but in practice it has been found that this material is difficult to compound into molton poly(tetramethylene terephthalate) becuase water of hydration is lost at processing temperatures resulting in the production of a porous lace that is difficult to haul off from the extruder even with efficient venting. Such a product would be unacceptable to the fabricator.
Hydrated zinc borate 2ZnO.3B2 O3 .3.5H2 O (obtained from Borax Consolidated Limited) was compounded into the poly(tetramethylene terephthalate) used in Example 1 together with glass-fibre and fire-retardant additives using a vented screw extruder at 240� C. The compositions produced are listed below together with the results obtained from moulded samples.
__________________________________________________________________________Additives (90) Arc Test CTI Decabromo- Hydrated Time to CTI DIN Tensile diphenyl Antimony Zinc failure BS3781: 53480 StrengthGlass Ether Oxide borate (sec) 1964 (KC) MN/m2__________________________________________________________________________10 7 4 20 960 6110 7 4 30 925 5420 7 4 20 1113 >260 350 81__________________________________________________________________________
These results exhibit an exceptional improvement over the compositions of Example 2 in arc resistance and Comparative Tracking Index. In addition the fire-retardancy of the composition containing 20% glass was tested according to the Vertical Burning Test of Underwriters Laboratories UL94 test. On a sample thickness of 1.5mm the composition has a rating of 94 V-O and did not drip.
The procedure of Example 3 was followed except in that glass was omitted from the compositions. The compositions and the results obtained are listed below.
______________________________________Additives (%) Arc TestDecabromo- Hydrated Time to Tensilediphenyl Antimony Zinc Failure StrengthEther Oxide Borate Others (secs) (MN/m2)______________________________________7 4 40 -- 740 507 4 20 20 Mica 621 53 MTS 1000______________________________________
These results indicate that exceptionally good levels of arc resistance can be obtained in the absence of glass.
A series of compositions containing poly(tetramethylene terephthalate), 30% by weight of glass fibre, 7% by weight of decabromodiphenyl ether and 4% by weight of antimony oxide and varying concentrations of the zinc borate used in Example 3 were compounded under the conditions used in Example 1. The compositions were moulded into test pieces and the results obtained are recorded below.
______________________________________Zinc borate CTIConcentration DIN 53480 UL94(%) (KC) (1.5mm thick test piece)______________________________________ 0 230 94VO : dripped5 260 94VO : did not drip10 290 94VO : did not drip______________________________________
The results show that an appreciable improvement in CTI value is obtained with 5% zinc borate and that the burning performance of the composition is exceptionally good.
Compositions containing 49% by weight of the polyester used in Example 3 together with 20% by weight of glass fibre, 20% by weight of the zinc borate used in Example 3, 7% by weight of decabromodiphenyl ether and 4% by weight of antimony trioxide were compounded at 240� C in a vented screw extruder. The composition was found to have a CTI value of 360 volts as measured by the KC method of DIN 53480 (1972) and a 94VO rating as assessed by the Vertical Burning Test of the UL94 test using a test sample 1.5 mm thick. The composition was also non dripping in the UL94 test.
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Colton House Rental Photos and Description
5 BR, 2 B, 16 acres waterfront, sleeps 17- 19, hot tub, motorboat, kayaks, canoe
Ultimate privacy in this new, luxurious 2,800 sq' log home on 16 acres of wilderness waterfront on a section of Raquette River which has been dammed to create a pristine lake excellent for swimming or fishing for pike, bass, walleye. Includes pontoon boat w/ Mercury motor, free boat gas, canoe, 2 kayaks, dock, 8-person, jetted, lit hot tub at the water's edge. Regulation-size, lit sand volleyball court, private pond, bon-fire pit, Adirondack chairs and lounge chairs. Snowshoes provided in winter, snowmobile trails nearby. Fully equipped kitchen w/ new (2010) refrig and new ceramic top stove , dining room, living room w/ 2-story cathedral ceiling, leather furniture, stone fireplace (wood provided). Upstairs den/TV room. Just added--a 2 car garage has just been renovated, pine-paneled, and made into a game building with bar size pool table, shuffleboard table, ping pong table, electronic soft tip dart game--a great addition to an already fabulous recreational paradise! Sleeps 17, 1 king, 3 queens, 3 doubles, 1 single, 1 futon, 2 full baths, washer/dryer; 4 mi. to Higley Flow State Park; 25 min. to SLU & Clarkson U; 1 hour to ski mountains.
Two story grand room with a cathedral ceiling, leather sofas, an oriental rug, and a stone fireplace, satellite TV and DVD. The dining room has a solid cherry hand-made table which seats 12. The fully-equipped kitchen includes modern appliances, a Kitchen-Aide mixer, and ample place settings for large groups. Telephone w/ free unlimited local and long-distance service.
Two downstairs bedrooms share a bathroom with a washer and dryer. The 2nd floor has a second bath, shared by one bedroom that has 1 queen and another bedroom that has a queen and a single bed. The 3rd floor has a loft with 3 double beds, skylights. Also there is an attached porch with waterfront and sunset views. There is a large fire pit surrounded by new Adirondack chairs and lounge chairs. It's just four miles to Higley Flow State Park -- with its acres of woods, trails, and swimming at a sandy beach. It's 25 minutes to St. Lawrence University, Clarkson College, Sunny Canton, and Sunny Potsdam; and, as such, the Raquette River Lodge would be an excellent place for visiting families or college conferences.
It's just one hour to Lake Placid, site of two winter Olympics, and home of Whiteface Mountain ski slopes. And it's just 1.5 hours to Ottawa, Canada's capital -- where one can skate on the canals or visit Parliament buildings, museums, and cultural events.
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Donna & John Clark purchased this house in 2005
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* The prom episode of ''TinyToonAdventures'' has several: the way Buster asks Babs to the prom and how incredibly happy it makes her, the two of them bringing Montana Max to the prom to cheer up Elmyra after he stood her up, Dizzy Devil's incredibly hot date Mitzi asserting she likes Dizzy because he's a "kind, sensitive, caring person," and Bugs saving his mentee Buster from being extremely embarrassed by his poor choice in dance moves.
** Also Hamton's attempt to ask Fifi to the prom. He tries to break the ice by saying that some guys are shy asking out girls that they like. He then asks Fifi for input, only to scoff at how proms and dates are "sexist" and "outdated." Hamton says it's too bad she feels that way, because he was going to ask her to go with him. As he sadly walks away, Fifi (literally) lightning bolts toward Hamton, wraps her tail around him and kisses him, admitting to him that she thought no one would ask her.
* "Thirteensomething" is probably the sweetest romantic episode for Buster and Babs:
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-->'''Babs:''' Yeah, but my better half is nothing without your half.
-->'''Buster:''' Did you really mean all that stuff about your better half?
-->'''Babs:''' Lemme show ya. ''(cue makeout)''
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** Just before Buster and Babs go to appeal before Congress, they stop in at the Lincoln Memorial. Babs reads off a quote from the Gettysburg Address, when Buster admits that it doesn't apply to toons and that they were a "lost cause." What follows can be considered the greatest motivational moment of Western Animation.
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* The Tiny Toons Christmas Special: Buster Bunny finds out that he really was important to the show, and he gets teleported back. After having this confirmed by Babs, he literally leaps off the film in joy, and gives Babs a super hug.
* The endings to "Armoa Amore" and "Love Stinks" Even if Furball and Calamity couldn't stand being around Fifi thanks to her smell, it's sweet how they both made sure she'd have someone new to chase so she wouldn't be left heartbroken.
* Who can forget "Fields of Honey"? Not only does Babs bring Honey's reputation back to life, but in doing so, Honey's youth is restored and she's reunited with Bosko after so many years. Considering the fate of the actual Bosko cartoon, it's HeartwarmingInHindsight.
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There are a lot of people making a lot of assumptions on this horse's training ;) You don't know. So just continue from nothing.
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Start the horse over, as if he were a greenie. Because...
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I LOVE Rambos, but IMO the Amigos are JUST as good for MUCH less price. Just stay away from the Rhinos!
I'm a fan of Wugs, but I also really love the regular Amigos. I have two old, sway-backed horses that are really hard to fit, and wugs and Amigos work the best for me.
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I did ^ just this year. Helped a lot!
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We did this this year. Sold the 5-horse featherlite and the camping trailer and consolidated to a 4-horse Classic LQ. I got to take it to 3 shows and stayed in it twice with the kiddos. LOVE IT.
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PS Tut of the Day: Unbind Destructive ActionsI guess I'll start a series of real easy Tutorials that I never see people do. Sure, there are hundreds of thousands of eye tutorials floating around Youtube and DeviantArt, and just as many tutorials for creating clouds and starfields and grass. But these tutorials are the more obscure "never thought of that" kind of thing that I discovered just recently after a good decade of using Photoshop.
So, first up.
Let's say that you're rattling along one of your paintings, and a cursory glance at the keyboard arrangement shows that a lot of common shortcut keys are cluttered right next to eachother. Ctrl+S will save the file. Ctrl+A selects the whole image. Ctrl+E merges layers. Ctrl+D clears the current selection. Those are all actions that are nice and tidy right next to eachother on the keyboard.
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Five Tips to Starting FreelancingSo, you're tired of being unemployed. You've been stuck at home for the umpteenth month in a row, a new season of The Legend of Korra is still a year off, and your government support checks (should you be lucky to still be getting them) won't even come close to affording you a bus ticket to Everfree Northwest. Your evaluation of life is the same dissertation of tedium and monotony as Helen Keller's review of Chinese Democracy.
You know, pretty much on par with every other review of Chinese Democracy.
But know what? If you can't find a job, you'll make a job! Screw finding work, and screw the employers who keep dismissing your applications for being "over qualified" like that Bachelors of Science in Graphic Design is as detrimental to your character as being a registered felon. Screw them and that stupid help wanted sign at Quiznos. Now you're freelancing, baby.
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A good friend of mine called me up, saying that she and her friend were going to a monthly get-together in Orange County where a bunch of furries throw a party open to everyone. Furries...not really my thing. My experience within the furry community is limited to the occasional commission I get, but when it comes to conversing and interacting with furries, I'm a bit inexperienced.
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Attend life drawing classes over the summer. Blegh.
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Let's be honest here. We all want to become better artists, like, right frickin' now. We don't even want to have to suffer through hour-long tutorials of some pompous snooty hack bloviating over the intricate methods of drawing eyes on YouTube. We want progress, we want improvement, and we want it on our desk in ten minutes ago!
Fine, fine, I hear ya'. While these aren't going to make an instant Leonardo da Vinci out of you, these might get you up to...ehh...Basquiat caliber. Sure, I've made tutorials, but those are more about setting up Photoshop for the sake of coloring an image, and not so much building yourself artistically. Those are more technical lessons. Artistically
Some more tips to FreelancingJust over a year ago, I compiled a small list of things you need to get started as a Freelance artist.
Let's accelerate a little bit, and assume that now you're in the business and have a pretty good groove going. While the core principles are still paramount to anything else, here are some quick one-shot tidbits of information that will assuredly save your bacon.
Back up everything, including the backups.
When working digitally, it's so easy to accidentally delete something off your hard drive and be unable to get it back. I've done this a few times myself. Even had entire hard drives fail on me. But it has been a very, very long time since the last time I had to redo an image from the start. Sure, I've had crashes that put me back an hour, I've merged layers together in a manner that ruins my work flow and makes the file unusable. But fixing these issues isn't nearly as painful
A response to getting Scammed.What Happened:
It has been a while, but about a month ago, I was scammed by a rather comical fellow who got two artworks out of me and a couple others for free. His approach was quite simple: Have somebody do a single small portion of an image's creation, then leapfrog it to another guy to also do a small portion. The images were, in all honesty, very simple affairs; just easy single-character compositions of a World of Warcraft character that didn't have a whole lot of detail to her.
It started off with one guy doing a quick sketch of her, then another guy doing a quick inking, and then while those two were chasing on his heels demanding payment, he managed to sneak it off to me for colors before the other two caught on they were scammed and called him out.
Thus, when the news broke, it was on me. I had just finished my portion, and luckily for the scammer, he was sent the completed high resolution files just a couple hours before I discovered that I too wasn'
1 Point Footer-Hogger Giveaway!In an effort to show how dumb giveaway journals are, here's a 1 point giveaway to all interested.
+Fav this journal to enter into a raffle for a whopping 1 point, proving that you CAN buy yourself some free exposure on deviantArt with almost zero effort!
Hah, take THAT all you legitimate showcases, features, and contest announcements! We're all riding the easy train to Arbitrary Pageviews Junction!
Woo woo!
But in all seriousness, knock it off people. We have real news happening all the time on this site. At least disguise your raffle with the guise of something important.
If all the footer becomes is "free points," it becomes pointless.
I'm Really Wishing My Fellow Republicans Would...I'm really wishing my fellow Republicans would just get off the whole Gay Marriage thing.
Background time! Yes, those of you who have known me on dA for several years know that I am quite the conservative when it comes to politics; half of which stems from the beliefs in personal and economic responsibility, the other half being that it's more fun to troll liberals. As far back as 2001 I've been a staunch defender of prominent conservative issues; lowering taxes to stimulate bigger business growth, cutting the administrative redundancies from education budgets, and believing that America is way more awesome than it really is (but I won't let reality hamper the fun in thinking so). In high school, I called in to conservative talk radio shows, wrote Emails just giving my point of view on political issues to prominent GOP-centric publications, and in my years dwelling within deviantArt's own politics forum I developed quite a name as being pretty well-root
I have gone on record...
Quick rant.
Time and time again,
I have gone on record saying that
the first mistake somebody makes
in pursuing privacy on the Internet...
...Is thinking they can achieve
privacy on the Internet.
Every website you visit.
Every purchase you make.
Every bank transaction.
Every search.
It is all tracked.
That's how the Internet works.
In order for information to be processed
and stuff to be presented to you,
it needs to be given to an external source.
Where it is then indexed.
Now that tweet you just sent out,
that Facebook update,
that Email you send drunkenly to your ex...
...It's permanently etched
on the hard drive in a data bank
whose location you don't even know.
People are now wildly surprised after
the NSA has been found to be tracking
all this "private" information.
But there is one flaw with this outrage.
The belief that the information was
"private" in the first place...
...Is a fallacy.
It might have not been accessible to
the public, the website's users, or
through o
Manga/Anime Digital Gallery FeatureWelcome to Digital Manga/Anime! This is an article that will be highlighting each section of the digital art subcategory within Manga/Anime with a little about each category and then some wonderful features for you to enjoy!
Firstly, what is "digital art"? It is artwork created via the use of digital media such as on a computer with a tablet or mouse. There are 6 digital art subcategories within the Manga/Anime gallery:
Digital M/A: DrawingsDigital M/A: PaintingsDigital M/A: OekakiDigital M/A: Manga Digital M/A: Vector Digital M/A: 3D
Manga/Anime > Digital Media > Drawings
So, what is the 'Drawings' category all about? Digital drawings are, basically, drawings that have been done with digital media (i.e., on a computer). The variety within the category is huge, simply because there are so many ways to draw and/or colour digitally and it is the most popular of the
Please Think Before you Write Ok, so just throwing this out there, perhaps this will be an unpopular view, but I don't think I'm being unreasonable.
I'd just like to mention publicly, that I, as well as artists in general, are not art vending machines.
You don't type suggestions in, and then have a slot where artwork comes out for free .
Important to Note: I am not addressing any individual in particular. If you think this is about *you* specifically ( whoever you are)- don't. This about the private notes I get, with alarming volume, where people feel they can simply request artwork from me for free. I get a *lot* of these. Which prompted me to post something about it. I usually just ignore them, or, if I feel particularly polite that day, I send them a note back saying I don't do requests.
But they never stop o_O. And it's not that I mind suggestions in comments under artwork, such as: "Oh, I hope one day you will paint _________." or, "
SOPA, Internet, Censorship, and Youhttp://spyed.deviantart.com/journal/Regarding-SOPA-amp-deviantART-269431917 $spyed's journal entry regarding this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act - Wikipedia
This is a informative article, outside of the normal DLD activities, to bring awareness to a pair of bills currently under much discussion and debate. These bills are called called SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIP (Protect IP), presented to the House of Representatives and the senate (respectively) in the United States. Later in this article, we will also discuss how these bills have a world wide significance. At the end of the article are several links to the actual bill, news articles, and forum/journals related to this topic. Our aim here is to give to a brief overview, and to answer some questions concerning this debate.
SOPA itself is an attempt to stop online piracy both domestic and foreign by the United States Gov't. It employs a variety of tactics in order to achieve this, including scannin
Online shop open!
Sorry if you came to this through my text being a link. dAs acting strangely, I've sent a bug report about it
The point of this journal was to let people know I'm currently selling prints through my online shop: http://destinyblue.storenvy.com/
Flash Appreciation RantIt's almost difficult to remember but when I was in college (in the early 2000's) Flash wasn't really a "thing" the way it is now. At the time, flash was primarily used as a cheap form of animation for web content. Used primarily for grosstastic sick viral things like "frog in a blender." In my college, Flash was highly despised. All my professors hated it and felt it "cheapened" real hand-drawn animation. And their hatred passed on to us students. We all despised Flash too. We kept seeing Flash popping up in mainstream animation circles and we laughed and joked about how shitty it was and how we'd never be caught dead using it.
Then the whole world changed before our eyes. Flash has become one of THE most used animation programs for cartoons on television these days. It's friggin' EVERYWHERE. The likelyhood of a new 2D animated TV show being made without Flash (or a Flash based program) is highly unlikely these days.
I really wish that I could go back and slap my co
G.M.I. Calling aspiring Manga Artists/Writers/Fans
Calling all aspiring Manga and Webcomic Artists, Writers and Fans!!
The Global Manga Initiative is throwing open its doors and looking to grant completely free, quality exposure, networking and promotion to passionate Manga-creatives from all over the world!! We're looking to connect and feature some of the greatest rising talents from around the world WITHOUT forcing them to sacrifice their creative or publishing rights in the process.
Your Work. Your Way.
We are the Global Manga Initiative, a collective enterprise of Artists, Writers and other talent who dedicate our lives to our creative ambitions.
We make Manga. Manga from around the world, specifically. It is our goal to give rising-creators from every corner of the globe a shot to convey their work and show us what they define as Manga. We offer
Announcing The First Lit-Visual Alliance CONTEST!Announcing the first contest for the
What is the Alliance, you ask?
The Alliance is a project group intended to encourage visual and literary artists to work together. I've felt for some time that the dA Literature Community can at times be somewhat insular - to its detriment. We in the Lit Community are also sometimes prone to griping about the lack of exposure our work receives when compared to that of visual artists.
So. In the spirit of thorns brilliant Complaint Challenge I would try to do something about that. And so :iconlit-visual-alliance: was born.
As often as I hear literary artists complaining about lack of exposure, I hear visual artists complaining of a lack of inspiration and motivation to create art. And that, I must say, is simply nonsense. There is a massive amount of inspiration to be found on dA - and it's called th
Six Word Story Contest - 7 3 Month Subs to be won!...and the winners are announced here!
A type of Flash Fiction, six word stories are (very) short stories with an exact word count: six words. SixWordStories is the place where, alongside quality, quantity really does matter. Though these stories are so brief in length, they can be as profound, if not more, than the prose and poetry you see and read every day, partly because six word stories can tell us so much and yet contain so little.
As a Group, we encourage writers to explore their boundaries with prompts, collaborations and more, but we accept anyone and everyone too! Whether you are a digital artist, photographer, or something else entirely, if you can string six words together into a story, this is the place to be!
So getting to the point of this article, we are kickstarting this year with a six word story contest! We have some awesome prizes and hopefully enough freedom for you to enjoy yourselves too! Please support the contest and
Popular results for Browse Something for Everyone
The deviantART community is incredibly deep and diverse. Every day, amazing art is produced that appeals to all tastes. Our goal in sharing and exposing the deviations in deviantART's Popular section is to showcase this depth and diversity as convincingly and fairly as we can.
Fair Exposure
DeviantART's algorithm for Popular browse results is known as Fair Exposure. The goal is to maximize the display of the most popular deviations in a variety of topics (styles/genres/art forms). Fair Exposure increases the probability that someone will see something that they personally like in Popular results. In short, with Fair Exposure, the community is exposed to a varied cross-section of deviantART. It uses an algorithm that is "fair" in nature -- meaning not biased toward any topic, yet still based on popularity.
Why is Fair Exposure n
How to become a better colorist?Hey guys and girls. Today something especially for you. Some useful tips from coloring artist.
Some of you asked me about tutorial. I really wanted to write one but they are so time consuming.
So let's start.
1. Make good flats at the start. Use polygonal lasso tool in Photoshop and then Paint bucket tool, it's the most accurate method. Filling areas with brushes is wrong, believe me. You will swear to gods and scream out loud trying to later fill all these tiny holes you didn't notice white painting flats with brush.
Of course don't stick to this advice too much. If you have a bunch of tiny elements it's obvious that it's better to color them with hard brush than to use lasso, especially the polygonal one
My way of doing flats is to make every particular color/character on a separate layer. For example, having two girls, sky and clouds in the picture, I make 3 groups: background, girl1, girl2. Then in each group I make layers for: sky, clouds, skin, hair, shirt, jeans... etc. May look
How to become a better colorist? Part 2Hey hey,
Another bunch of hopefully useful advices. I will probably collect it all, make some nice pics and share it as a tut, but don't have a clue when. Probably on my vacation in August.
Wait, I was supposed to get some rest then Oh, well.
Ok, so:
Don't be afraid of experimenting! Use overlay and multiply layers over the one you're working on, with different colors to see how it affects the look of your coloring. Use even dodge and burn sometimes, with different ranges (Highlights, Midtones, Shadows etc), but don't overuse it and don't use it as a main tool of your shading. Rather to highlight some element (works well with metal parts) or to add contrast. Use photo filters. Use adjustment layers. Photoshop is a powerful tool! You can be surprised of the result you wouldn't think of on your own. If you're afraid of spoiling your precious drawing, duplicate layers before experimenting or make a snapshot (the icon in the middle on the bottom of History window in PS. Saves a current
Fast and easy way to create a reference sheet...Just the other day, I discovered a super quick and easy way to create reference sheets for digital painting. So, instead of having a ton of documents open all at once, slowing down your Photoshop, or spending a half hour to create your own sheet, you can use Picasa to create one for you in just seconds.
Below is a video I made to show you how. There are some other tips in there as well, so take a look if you're interested!
Take care!
a moment to talk about art and copying styleswell maybe i'll sound elitest, but ive always been a fan of the idea; draw how you draw, dont look too closely at others work and dont worry too much about finding your "style". it comes on its own but if you're looking at others work too closely to learn you're only learning somebody elses path in the road of art and not your own
I did look at others work to get inspired as i started out, but mostly i looked at photographs while i worked, not art. i was given a bit of advice like 8 years ago, and ive always held it pretty high up on things to remember, and i share it often.
when you're learning how to draw/paint, you should look at LIFE. figure study classes if you can, photos if you cannot. in other words, paint a river by sitting next to it, not by looking at another artists painting of it.
EDIT: yes there is something to learn and digest with looking at others works. but when you start your own art, put down theirs!
learning how to draw by looking at other peoples work ends in s
A day at DreamWorksDisney World needs to change their slogan, because I think DreamWorks is the most magical place on earth.
I have returned from my weekday vacation way out in California. It was a great time going there for the first time. But I don't think I could have ever been prepared for what Dreamworks had for me that Wednesday. It was the greatest day of my life.
The original plans for the day seemed like it would only be about an hour or two, but more and more things kept getting added on to the day. The total event lasted 5 hours!!!
Upon parking in their garage and walking out into their beautiful campus, I was greeted by Angela Lepito, a Production Manager, and Sheri Conn, the Dragon franchise manager.
I was also greeting and followed the whole day by David Joyner, who guided me to each person I met. This guy is seriously awesome, he's been with DreamWorks for 17 years!
A nearby film crew of 3 interns came over to do a quick interview. They followed me through most of the day as well. I w
Give me a break (into comics...)Pro comic writer :iconzubby: Jim Zub has a blog where he's written a few entries on how to break into the comics industry. Well worth a read IMO!
The links -->
Part 1 - How do I break in? --> http://www.jimzub.com/?p=1725
Part 2 - Find an artist --> http://www.jimzub.com/?p=1767
Part 3 - Comic Writing --> http://www.jimzub.com/?p=1068
Part 4 - The Pitch --> http://www.jimzub.com/?p=1511
Part 5 - Pitch Critique --> http://www.jimzub.com/?p=1882
Part 6 - Comic Q&A --> http://www.jimzub.com/?p=1813
Part 7 - The Realities of Creator-owned Comics --> http://www.jimzub.com/?p=1953
In addition he links to Charles Soule's blog articles about Freelance work and Contracts called "Agree to Agree"
Here's the links -->
Part 1 --> http://charlessoule.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/agree-to-agree-part-one/
Part 2 --> http://charlessoule.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/agree-to-agree-part-2/
Part 3 --> http://charlessoule.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/agree-to-agree-part-three/
Part 4 --> http://charlessoule.word
small thoughti used to try and get cover work at zenescope. in fact the first time i got one, i did it all in photoshop and worked it to death....
well, about a week later i was asked to color the same cover by a different artist. ouch yeah? i was so totally bad ass and better than mine though, of that there was no doubt. so i did it, and it remained one of my favorite covers id painted digitally for a very long time.
now, for long while after that i would do something sketchy and fix it in photoshop. i never paid much attention to my lines, because i could just fix it up in photoshop, be it line quality or anatomy.
then i decided to start paying attention to my lines, so actually try to make something i could keep the lines on.
and you guys have all seen, just in this one year what has happened as a result.
my point here is yes, there can be some great convenient speed saving shortcuts in digital art, but if you find your progress slowing, consider putting photoshop down for awhile.
eventually, yo
MLP #'s 301 and 302: The Crystal EmpireAirs: NOVEMBER 10th!! (according to this: http://family-room.ew.com/2012/10/18/my-little-pony-season-3-premiere/)
And for those who were curious it DOES look like the whole thing is airing at once. Wonder why Hasbro hates cliffhangers so much. LoL
Directed By: Jayson Thiessen & James Wootie Wooton
Part One Storyboarded By: Tom Sales & Johnny Castuciano
Part Two Storyboarded By: Raven Molisee & Nicole Wang
Official Synopsises:
"A magical empire has suddenly appeared in the arctic north of Equestria, and PRINCESS CELESTIA needs TWILIGHT SPARKLE and her friends to find a way to protect it. While her friends try to keep the Crystal Ponies occupied at the Crystal Faire, TWILIGHT SPARKLE searches for the hidden Crystal Heart that is the key to keeping their empire safe from harm!"
"Legend of Korra" Series Review:...............................woah.
Well; that was rather good, wasn't it?
Splendid art, voice acting and a compelling narrative on par with any live-action, prime-time series.
The resolution at the end, though, felt a little rushed. While I'm glad there was one, it had an air of finality about it, as though it's uncertain a second season will ever transpire.
If there isn't one; it'll be a crime, given all the work that went into crafting Korra's world.
Colorists: Having Difficulty Finding A Skintone?This happens to me all the time.
I'm starting out an image, and for the life of me, I just cannot determine what color I should use for the skintone. I wish I had a crystal ball that would show me thirty minutes into the future so I can see just how a character will look after applying all the necessary shading, anatomical detailing, and highlights based upon the base color I use. A lot of times, it'll appear too faint, too desaturated, or on the flip side, way too bold and gleaming like a bronzed deity caked in a thick lathering of walrus grease.
Which is delicious, by the way.
FORTUNATELY! The folks at The Humanae Tumblr seemed to have a crystal ball of their own. Not so much one that shows the final product of my work, but one that certainly told them of my many incredibly frustrating endeavors into spending a good chunk of time shading a character's skin only to realize the base tone was absolute g
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