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And then there were four in the Western Conference.
Seattle Sounders FC defeated the Colorado Rapids 2-0 at CenturyLink Field on Wednesday to qualify for the Western Conference Semifinals for the fifth consecutive season. Brad Evans put Seattle ahead in the 28th minute before Eddie Johnson doubled the lead in the third minute of second half stoppage time to set up a Cascadia Semifinal match between the Sounders and the Portland Timbers.
The Sounders didn't leave the match unscathed, however, as right back DeAndre Yedlin suffered a sprain right ankle injury that forced him to exit at the half. Yedlin's status may be in doubt for Saturday, but goalkeeper Michael Gspurning will not take part after being shown a straight red by referee Silviu Petrescu for catching a clearance outside the penalty area. Former U.S. international Marcus Hahnemann will serve as the Sounders goalkeeper for the first leg on Saturday at CenturyLink Field.
The second leg will take place on Nov. 7 at JELD-WEN Field.
Only four teams left in the West.
Who you got?
The LA Galaxy's "Quest for Three" straight MLS Cups is the main theme as we head into the MLS Cup playoffs, but as they attempt to do something that has never been done before in MLS, let's look at some of the threepeats from major sports across the world.
Check out this infographic of teams that won consecutive titles across the globe:
Threepeats by the numbers:
*ZERO – The number of threepeats in MLS history.
*ONE—The margin of point victory during the final three titles for FC Barcelona's famed "Dream Team" which won four consecutive La Liga titles from 1990-91 to 1993-94. The last three titles were each won on the last day of the season.
*THREE – The number of NBA Final MVPs won by Shaquille O'Neal during the Los Angeles Lakers threepeat from 2000 to 2002.
*FOUR – The number of threepeats or more titles for Real Madrid, who have pulled off the feat more than any team in a major league across the world. Madrid have won the La Liga title 32 times.
*4-2-4—The formation of the Il Grande Torino side that won five titles in the forties. This was the first time that such an attacking formation had been used in global football. In the midst of their run, however, the bulk of the team was killed in the Superga air disaster.
*SEVEN – The number of World Series titles by New York Yankees managers Casey Stengel and Joe McCarthy, which is a major league baseball record. Both managers led the Yankees to consecutive titles.
* EIGHT –The number of consecutive titles for the Boston Celtics, which is the longest streak in American professional sport history. During the time, the Celtics were led by legendary head coach Red Auerbach and Bill Russell.
*TEN – The number of regular season losses during UCLA Men's Basketball head coach John Wooden's unprecedented seven consecutive NCAA titles between 1964 and 1976. During that span, UCLA lost more than two games only once—coming in 1975 when they lost three games. Wooden won 10 titles in 12 years.
*22—The number of titles won during the era of Liverpool FC from 1974 to 1984. Bob Paisley won two straight league titles from 1982 to 1983 before Joe Fagan completed the triple in 1984 after Paisley stepped down.
*19 – the number of consecutive series victories by New York Islanders as they won four straight Stanley Cup titles in the 1980s. The Islanders would win 16 consecutive playoff series, but moved their record to 19 in 1984 when they fell to the Edmonton Oilers in the Stanley Cup final to fall short of five straight.
*20.9—George Miken's average points per game while leading the Minneapolis Lakers to the NBA's first ever threepeat.
*22 --The number of goals scored by Internazionale's Diego Milito in Inter's 2009-10 season as he sealed the team's third straight Serie A title.
*25—The percentage of Stanley Cup titles won by the Montreal Canadiens since 1914. The Habs won five straight titles from 1956-60 and four in 1976-79.
*33.6—Michael Jordan's points per game during the NBA Finals. Jordan won six NBA titles with two threepeats.
*66—The Number of goals scored by Cristiano Ronaldo during Manchester United's latest three-peat from 2006-07 to 2008-09.
*88—The number of goals scored by Lionel Messi during FC Barcelona's La Liga threepeat from 2008-09 to 2010-11.
*92—The number of appearances for David Beckham as Manchester United completed the club's first ever threepeat in 1998-99 to 2000-01. During that span, Beckham scored four goals for Manchester United.
*126 – The goal difference for Arsenal during their threepeat from 1932-33 to 1934-35. Arsenal's threepeat was the second ever occurrence in The Football League with Huddlesfield Town pulling off the feat from 1923-24 to 1925-26.
*300—The number for amount of bonus money offered by Oakland A's owner Charlie Finley to members of his "Swingin' A's" sides in the 1970s that were the only team not named the New York Yankees to win three straight World Series titles.
We've got the date of the second leg of the Western Conference Semifinal between the LA Galaxy and Real Salt Lake.
RSL announced late on Tuesday that the match will take place on Thursday, November 7 at 6 p.m. PT on ESPN2, giving the teams just three days to prepare between matches.
Heading to Salt Lake City?
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Tuesday Notes: David Beckham still eyeing Miami for MLS expansion franchise, Rennie dismissed by Vancouver
CARSON, Calif. – The clock is ticking ahead of the LA Galaxy's match against Real Salt Lake this weekend, but there was considerable movement in North American soccer on Tuesday.
*Former LA Galaxy midfielder David Beckham has selected Miami as the location that he'd like to exercise his option to become an MLS owner according to the Associated Press. However according the Miami Herald, the move is not set in stone, but is "looking promising."
*LA's opponent in the Western Conference Semifinals Real Salt Lake locked down a new jersey sponsor with Sandy, Utah-based LifeVantage Corp. signing a 10-year, multimillion dollar deal. The LifeVantage logo will be on the front of RSL's kits at the start of the 2014 season.
*Vancouver Whitecaps FC dismissed Martin Rennie as head coach after a 13-12-9 MLS regular season that saw the 'Caps fall short of the postseason while also failing to win the Canadian Championship. In a press conference on Tuesday, club President Bob Lenarduzzi stated that the team is interested in former San Jose Earthquakes head coach Frank Yallop.
CARSON, Calif. – Back from injury and feeling healthy, Robbie Rogers is beginning to progress into a genuine option for LA head coach Bruce Arena, but to get over the hump, he'll need to improve in the final third.
Given a chance to start after Pablo Mastroeni suffered a late injury, Rogers went 78 minutes on the right side of the Galaxy midfield in LA's 1-1 draw with Seattle Sounders FC last Sunday. The start was Rogers' first league start since July 13 and his second appearance in a week after going 45 minutes in LA's 4-0 defeat to El Salvador's Isidro Metapán in CONCACAF Champions League.
As he aims to regain a consistent starting role with the Galaxy, Rogers admitted that it was
"[The game was] important for me because I haven't played a game like that for a long time, so it's important for my growth and just my development," said Rogers, who nearly found the back of the net in the 40th minute when he his shot was saved by goalkeeper Michael Gspurning. "I've been trying to focus on every day just improving a little bit and I haven't played that many games in two or three months, but I think that each game I've gotten a little better.
"I think that it's good time that I'm a little bit more fit and stronger heading into the playoffs."
LA associate head coach Dave Sarachan, who a week earlier heralded Rogers as a potential third attacking option behind work horses Landon Donovan and Robbie Keane, admitted that he did well on the turf at CenturyLink Field.
"I think that he's turned a corner physically," said Sarachan. "We were pleased with the effort that he gave in Seattle. Going forward, there wasn't a lot for him or other players, but as far as the dirty running, tracking back, and defending, he seemed to do well… Now he has to get it going in the attacking third a little more that part needs to get a little cleaner."
Rogers agrees.
"[The Seattle game] was a difficult one, so that's definitely one think I need to do when we're playing at home, on such a big and with the way that we play," said Rogers. "That would be combining a good defensive effort with creating chances [offensively]."
Want Rogers to start on the right side of midfield? Think he'll find a goal in the postseason?
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Kevin Stott to officiate the LA Galaxy's Western Conference Semifinal first leg against Real Salt Lake
CARSON, Calif. – Veteran referee Kevin Stott will serve as the head official for the LA Galaxy's Western Conference Semifinal first leg against Real Salt Lake at StubHub Center on Sunday.
Stott officiated just two games for the Galaxy this season when LA opened the season with a 4-0 victory over the Chicago Fire—calling 27 fouls and awarding a single yellow card to Todd Dunivant in the 75th minute–and LA's 3-0 victory over the San Jose Earthquakes, in which he called 15 fouls and awarded a penalty to Gyasi Zardes that was converted by Robbie Keane.
Meanwhile, Stott served as head official for just a single match for RSL during the 2013 regular season: their scoreless draw with the Portland Timbers at JELD-WEN Field. Stott called 29 fouls and gave two yellow cards, one of which was to RSL midfielder Yordany Álvarez.
A couple of interesting notes about Stott: He was the referee for LA's 2009 MLS Cup penalty kick defeat to Real Salt Lake back in Seattle and he also officiated LA's dramatic 3-1 Western Conference Semifinals second leg victory against San Jose Earthquakes in 2012.
The complete crew is below.
ASST 1: Kermit Quisenberry
ASST 2: Fabio Tovar
4th: Juan Guzman
SEATTLE –Avoiding the Knockout Round was a major objective for the LA Galaxy during the final stretch of the regular season and with that goal accomplished, they plan on taking advantage of the six days to prepare for the first leg of their Western Conference Semifinal against Real Salt Lake on Sunday.
The rest is sorely needed with Landon Donovan (left ankle inflammation), Omar Gonzalez (left hip strain), and Todd Dunivant (right MCL sprain) dealing with injuries while others like A.J. DeLaGarza, Pablo Mastroeni, and Robbie Rogers are still seeking to regain full match sharpness.
"This is huge. Because the effort we put out tonight, it would have been hard to go again on Wednesday," Gonzalez said. "So to get this draw and put us in for a game on the weekend is huge. I know some guys need some treatment, including myself, so we're going to take this week to put in a good effort in practice, get the bodies ready and concentrate toward Salt Lake."
Following the match, Donovan admitted the team will "happily take a week of rest" ahead of a match against a Real Salt Lake that should provide a major test for the Galaxy.
"The beauty with playing them is that both teams try to play and attack, so it should make for a very exciting series," said Donovan "A lot of times in the playoffs, you'll see teams sort of bunker in and be safe, but we know when they come to LA, they like to pllay. It's a big field, they'll try to play, and we always try to play at home. And when we go there [for the second leg], it will be the same.
"It should be an exciting series, and it's going to come down to who makes the most plays."
It's that time of the year, the LA Galaxy have entered the MLS Cup Playoffs looking to defend their title for a third consecutive year.
LA's postseason will begin with a two-leg, aggregate series against Real Salt Lake in the Western Conference Semifinals. With LA set to kick off the 2013 MLS Cup Playoffs on Sunday, I ask the question: just how confident are you about LA's chance to win their third straight MLS Cup?
Vote and leave your comments below...
SEATTLE – Thanks to Robbie Keane's tying goal in the 78th minute, the LA Galaxy's tempers were soothed after Omar Gonzalez's apparent goal in the 42nd minute went uncalled by referee Mark Geiger and assistant referee Greg Barkey.
Following the match, the Galaxy players addressed the non-call that almost sent the team into the Knockout Round.
OMAR GONZALEZ: "The video shows it all. After I scored the goal, I looked at the linesman and he's in terrible position and inside the end line when I think that he should be on the end line to make sure that the goal went in. It was clearly a yard-and-a-half in. It's a bit disappointing that I didn't get the goal, but the fact that we kept on playing well, and playing well, and got over it as quick as possible, shows a lot of character from us. The fact that we were able to come out in the second half and play how we did was huge for us."
ROBBIE KEANE: "I mean, it was so obvious, wasn't it? I was standing right there. That's why I went a bit crazy at the referee, because I was right beside [the play] and I knew the ball was over the line. When something like that happens, it's very frustrating because you're hoping that the linesman can help you out. I don't know whether [Barkey] was in line or not, I'm not too sure, but if he wasn't, it's a big problem. I hope that he wasn't because that's an excuse. It was definitely a goal."
LANDON DONOVAN: "I saw it very clearly. I saw it as clearly as the linesman, so for me it was a no-brainer. I was looking right across, waiting for him to put his flag up and signal goal, but for whatever reason he didn't. I would suggest that goal-line technology would help, but that one didn't even need goal-line technology. It was real obvious. It's unfortunate. We've had a little hard luck with some linesmen this year, but hopefully it gets better in the playoffs."
ROBBIE ROGERS: "It was a goal. I watched the replay and it was a bit ridiculous. It was such an important game too and it was in the 42nd minute, which is a very important part of the game. I don't mean to be too harsh, but it was a really bad call."
SEATTLE – LA Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena's postgame comments following LA's 1-1 draw with Seattle Sounders FC.
The comments are below...
(On the game…)
ARENA: "Competitive game. Pretty even game. It was a good result for us."
(On the missed call on the apparent goal…)
ARENA: "Obviously I don't see it from where I am, but I was told it was about a yard over the line. For some reason, I think we should be able to see that one. We're fortunate to get out of it, not using that as a major sticking point in the game."
(On Robbie Keane's goal…)
ARENA: "It was a big goal. The second half, we played better. The game slowed down a little bit and we got a little more comfortable on the surface. We're pleased with the point."
(On the team's defense…)
ARENA: "They played well tonight. I thought it was Omar's [Gonzalez] best game in a while. Kofi Opare has been really solid for us. He's a good young player. We play two first-year players with Kofi and [Greg] Cochrane so I'm real pleased with those young players. And Gyasi [Zardes] as well, so we got incredible experience tonight for our young kids. I think down the stretch, our veteran players made a difference for us."
(On the tough defending at the end…)
ARENA: "It was a good game in preparation for the playoffs for us. We're pleased with that."
(On Robbie Rogers…)
ARENA: "I thought Robbie held up really well physically. We have to get him a little more comfortable in the attack, but I thought his game was fairly balanced. He certainly did a good job defensively. If we can get a little more out of him in the attack, it will be a positive."
(On facing Salt Lake…)
ARENA: "I don't remember the last time we've seen them. We had a good series with them this year. They're a very talented team. We look forward to the game. It will be a good series."
(On Robbie Keane's play…)
ARENA: "He had a solid game and when he gets that goal, you have to say he had a very good game. Goals are rare in this sport and Robbie seems to get them at the right time. Overall, I thought the last 10 or 15 minutes of the game, he was very influential for us in terms of leadership. He and Landon [Donovan] really stepped up and got the players organized and confident so we could walk off the field with a point."
(On being undefeated in the black kits…)
ARENA: "I mean whatever. I'm not quite sure it's the uniforms. You put 11 bad players in that kit and I don't think you're going to win too many games."
(On how this game propels them into the playoffs…)
ARENA: "We'll only know once we're done with the season. We've had a good run since August. We've done a good job and we'll hopefully be healthy by the weekend when we play. We'll be in a good position to be competitive and hopefully win the first series."
(On how the team is physically…)
ARENA: "We had a few scrapes [tonight], but for the most part I think we held up OK."


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Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Nurse, Marylou Butler, R.N., Awarded Norman Knight Clinical Practice Excellence Award
Contact: Public Affairs
Boston (June 6, 2008) — Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary nurse Marylou Butler, R.N., a resident of Billerica, Mass., was recently awarded the Norman Knight Clinical Practice Excellence Award.
Butler has been an employee at Mass. Eye and Ear for 39 years has been a clinical leader in the Emergency Department for the past three years. In her current position, she coordinates the clinical aspects of the emergency department and oversees the day-to-day tasks of nurses and nurse assistants. Before joining Mass. Eye and Ear, she received her nursing diploma from the Malden Hospital School of Nursing. She is currently working on her master's degree in management at Cambridge College.
The Norman Knight Clinical Practice Excellence Award was established in honor of long-time Mass. Eye and Ear friend Norman Knight. Two awards were established in his name to recognize achievements by nurses in two critical areas- clinical practice and leadership. Among his contributions is the Norman Knight Hyperbaric Medicine Center, the only hospital-based center in the Boston area that provides hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

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Good news. As I discovered beautyencounter some months ago, I couldn't beleive it. Some Annick Goutal fragrances -63 % !!! I did not buy anything, because I didn't know if this online-store is ok. Now I can order some Goutal's Thanks.
I bought 16 bottles of EDT from them last week
I'm in Denmark, Europe, they are - I believe - in California, USA.
They are cheaper than Fragrancenet.com, but don't offer the same discounts always and shipping to Denmark is double that of Fragrancenet - BUT I received the stuff quite fast (8 days) and everything was TOP NOTCH !
They had protected the bottles very nicely - firstly they shipped it as I suggested to them, in one big box, secondly they protected that big box very well by placing it into an even larger big box - so outsides bumps would not effect and destroy the precious EDT bottles inside the parcel.
Secondly everything came sealed and in small airtight bags inside the box for extra protection.
I can only recommend this shop to everyone in Europe !!
I will definitely buy my next 16-18 bottles of EDT at Beautyencounter next month.
Hope to get the 15% discount I got last time, but as I say they don't offer the same discount day in day out, as fragrancenet does.
Claus The Danish Viking
Good news. As I discovered beautyencounter some months ago, I couldn't beleive it. Some Annick Goutal fragrances -63 % !!! I did not buy anything, because I didn't know if this online-store is ok. Now I can order some Goutal's Thanks.
Claus The Danish Viking
Had been a fume frag head in my late teens in the 80's and continued into the early 90's. Had maybe 30-35 bottles at that time, mostly after shaves.
Then gave them away to my father and brother and decided to only have 3-4 EDT bottles in rotation from 95-2011.
Then I found a passion for DE Shaving in August and bought a dozen high end shavecreams and then found Penhaligon, Aqua di Parma and Truefitt scents in online shops - and then by accident found a clone of my old favourite, Davidoff Classic - called Arran Bay Citrus. Wrote a post about it in here, and then my old interest for frags came back, and even stronger - and I've bought 60 bottles og EDT 100-125-200 ml the last 2 months.
Will buy another 20 bottles and then start to add 8-10 niche frags from Creed, Lutens, Malle and Penhaligon and then hit the breaks and maybe buy 4-5 frags every 5-6 months from then on
Claus The Danish Viking
Luckyscent is good but nothing outstanding. Just a few samples here and there.
Accessoriesforfragrances.com send you a bunch of extra stuff like different size funnels, tubs, syringes and so on.
I actually ordered from the stuff they included as freebies.
I just had a great experience with Beauty Encounter while ordering my Washington Square. Fast service and packed well.
***For sale:
Iris Pallida 50ml
Ungaro I 75ml
and more! - http://www.basenotes.net/threads/301...n-Man-and-more
Thank You. This kind of info is always so welcome!
Beauty Encounter is a great discounter with a great selection and good prices. I have bought from them numerous times and will still buy if they have what I want.
Lately, however, they have been shipping boxed fragrances in bubble envelopes. The result is a dented and smashed cardboard box. This does not seem to happen with orders of more than two fragrances, as they are obliged to mail in a sturdy cardboard box.
So far, www.parfum1.com has always shipped ordered fragrances, even one box, in cardboard boxes. The staff at parfum1 are more accessible by phone than those at Beauty Encounter.
"No elegance is possible without it...perfume is a part of you." Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
Claus The Danish Viking
After reading reviews of online retailers, I placed an order with Fragrancenet for Creed Original Vetiver. Four days later and the bottle still had not shipped, so I cancelled my order and placed it with Beauty Encounter.
Glad I did - legit bottle, great packaging and fast, free shipping. 2.5 oz for $112.50.
The bottle was packaged in a box with nearly three-layers of big bubble wrap. They added shrink-wrap to the Creed box, which threw me off at first, but it is definitely a real (probably "gray" market) bottle. It is a 2009 batch; the lot # was not filed off the bottle as others have experienced. Overall, it took four business days from order to receipt of the bottle. Much faster than Fragrancenet. Highly recommended.
If you are considering ordering Creed online, I think Beauty Encounter is a great spot. One way to ease your nerves is to compare your box and bottle to the pictures in these threads: Badger & Blade: Real GIT & Basenotes: Fake GIT
Also, the first two sprays smelled off to me, but after squirting a few down the sink, the smell is the same as my Neiman's sample. I've read others have experienced the same thing with Creed and other fragrances, so don't evaluate the authenticity on the first spray!
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I have gotten many fragrances from them with out any problems.
Never used them. Thanks for the tip.
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They have good service, but we wary. Sometimes they list items "in stock" but are actually out of the item.
They also have the annoying habit of sending fragrances in their boxes but in a padded bubble mailer instead of a cardboard box.
Overall, I am happier with Fragrancenet as they always ship in cardboard boxes.
"No elegance is possible without it...perfume is a part of you." Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
they ship fast and package well. just dont expect to get replies to your emails.
to bad they dont ship USPS to Canada
I ordered Creed MI from them last year and the serial number was filed off the glass. When I pulled the bottle out of the box, I got glass dust on my fingers which pissed me off, so I sent it back to them. They wanted to charge me a high percentage restocking fee to return the product, but I called and raised hell so they waived the fee, which I was happy about. I just wasn't going to accept a new bottle with scratched up glass and glass dust all over it.
I placed an order with them just yesterday for something. Some of the items in their stocklist are difficult to come by - and their priority postage to my remote country, though inherently rather steep at 40 USD, is better than I've seen elsewhere. So I'm pleased to see this thread this morning.
During that ordeal, I requested for them to at least give me a nice discount coupon code or something for my troubles, no luck.
Overall, their shipping & customer service isn't so great, but their fragrances & prices are pretty good. My Himalaya lasts me over 10 hours.
I got my mouchoir de monsieur from there. Legit site.
I just got Bond's Harrod's Oud (sans crystals) for a great price! They get some great items and sell at a fantastic price, but beware, sometimes those hard to get items, like what I bought sell out quickly.
I have made four orders with this outfit and have nothing but praise.
Some Favorites
1. Amouage Epic man
2. Dior Leather Oud
3. Perris Monte Carlo Oud Imperial Black
4. Le Labo Patchouli 24
5. Amouage Opus VII
6. Byredo Bullion
7. Masque Milano Russian Tea
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Are they able to declare a lower value and mark as a gift when shipping? Because here in Brazil we have astronomical high taxes when the package arrives if the sender don´t help us. The fee is from 60-100% of total value, including shipping costs.
never had any problems with them
Want to trade - Chanel Platinum Egoiste for Dior Eau Sauvage...
Love Beauty Encounter's packaging of the order - always arrives safe and secure and appears to be done with attention.
(Some other discounters are less careful and the contents suffer as a result. Some NEVER reply to emails, though I have received a good number of magazines from one of them as a result of a complaint. Like the Details mag the best so far! )
interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. - Susan Sontag
I'm also a big fan of Beauty Encounter. (just placed a $200 order with them last night). They have a really good selection of some hard to find limited editions and discontinued designer scents & flankers. Also, they have a large number of samples & mini's, & testers as well. And generally, their prices are near the best.
I've had good luck with all of my orders from BE so far, and even though they are farther away from me (on the west coast), they are my favorite online dealer (at least for designer fragrances).
Highly recommended and if you live on the westcoast it will get to you even faster.
Beauty encounter is my go to for online shopping. Great selection without a problem
In general they are very nice to work with, yet a caveat - over the years I have had to return a bottle here or there for various reasons; the last one being the Bois du Portugal was ten years old. But I digress - each time they held off refunding my credit card until I called inquirying as to why my credit card had not yet been refunded - only then do they do it. Kind of shady.
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I've had good and bad experiences with them. Their customer service can be dreadful. They have not returned emails or took several calls to refund my money on an order they cancelled. I've had other problems I won't go into here. I haven't had any issues with fragrancenet or parfum1. They also tend to be cheaper.
I had an infuriating experience with them that turned me off big time. Too tiresome for complete details, but it involved the wrong item being shipped twice. The second time I just kept the frag they sent, since it was of higher dollar value than the one I actually ordered. It came in handy as a birthday gift, to someone who loved it, so no loss to me. But my eagerness to deal with them was permanently cooled.
My experiences have always been good with fragrancex.com, and never have I gotten a defaced serial number. That's where I order MI and other Creeds from, when they're in stock.
Current Top Five:
1. Creed Green Irish Tweed
2. Tom Ford Neroli Portofino
3. Hermes Concentre d'Orange Verte
4. Bond No. 9 New Haarlem
5. Creed Original Vetiver
Beauty Encounter and Parfums1 are my two go-to's.
Beauty Encounter is really good one.I bought three fragrances,very very fast...Highly recommended too...
I just got some M.I from Beautyencounter. My box is also shrink wrapped, and the lot # on the box might indicate it's old juice. EMB 77477A is what's on the box, the LOT# on the bottle has been ground off.
The atomizer does have the white ring around it and the box seems to be of the right quality as well as the card and creed history.. but I'm still a bit concerned this may be old?
I have been a member of Basenotes for sometime and like most we read and to a certain extent follow recommendations based on what we read. In the case of Beauty Encounter I have read they are highly recommended. On this basis I ordered a product from them on Sunday 25 November 2012 and paid immediately via Papal. Received the usual notification form Paypal which I will I will paste showing the transaction complete and the money being available for them to take. Two days later I see the item as being unpaid on EBAY. I call Beauty Encounter and left two messages. I emailed them twice showing them my Papal notification and requesting some action.. To date no one has contacted me or replied to my email,but this morning I get a notification from Ebay that I have an Unpaid item case. I called Ebay and they advised I should call Beauty encounter back once again and if I do not receive any action form them Ebay would remove the Unpaid Item case.
The reason I make this public is the fact that this community has to be careful about what is written in praise of vendors. It is quite possible these said same vendors are praising themselves.
If I am breaching any rules by posting the following information please remove. My thought is I just need to provide the proof of the ineptitude of this Outfit.
Nov 25, 2012 00:40:41 PST
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Subtotal $39.90 USD
Total $39.90 USD
Payment $39.90 USD
Business Name:
Beauty Encounter
[email protected]
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Nov 25, 2012
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For those who may answer before you do, know this..It can never be a case of my account not having enough money if you know what I mean...So this cannot be the reason.. This Outfit is the worst. Now return calls or answered E-mails.
Try calling them directly again at 888-617-2488.
I am not affiliated with Beauty Encounter. I've ordered from them approx. 12 times and I've never had a problem. I've only used a credit card, not Pay Pal.
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Called this morning for the 5th time as instructed by Ebay..No one mans any phone and another message was left. If they are away on vacation a message should be left saying so. At no time can you get someone answering a phone 24 hrs a day.
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Called this morning for the 5th time as instructed by Ebay..No one mans any phone and another message was left. If they are away on vacation a message should be left saying so. At no time can you get someone answering a phone 24 hrs a day.
I can understand your frustration. It is very possible there was a glitch with Paypal transmitting the payment information to BE. I had that happen with me a couple of months ago after placing an order with Beautyhabit. Paypal did not transmit the payment to them.
Have you tried contacting Paypal?
In regards to contacting them, have you tried 888.617.2488? Keep in mind, they are a West Coast company, and their hours of operation are 8AM - 5PM PST.
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She told me for some reason that happens sometimes, it's a glitch with Paypal. I paid again and no problem (I don't remember if I canceled that paypal order or what...but I never did get charged twice whatever I did.)
Before they were called beautyencounter.com, they were perfumebay.com:
In future, I'll avoid using them on eBay, and stick to their online store.
I now need to report on where I have reached with Beauty Encounter. I used the number given by Palm Beach and was able to reach a live person..the situation is as follows. Beauty encounter has been paid and have shipped off the article. they provided me with a tracking number. The information as I have provided here is correct and accurate. My query of why have I not been answered via e-mails or phone were met with let's deal with one thing at a time. Further they see no order on my behalf via their Ebay store so are at a loss as to why it reflects unpaid. They confirm my order was made online at their store and not Ebay. I vouchsafe to say there is a problem here. Poor communication and the number that appears as their contact number is not answered,another forum members gives me a live number...Some things need to be changed and explanations given.
I can't help but wonder if someone in there is running a scam with a fake ebay store and your info? It's possible...maybe i'm being cynical.
Not to give you a hard time, but think about it. You ordered over the biggest shopping weekend of the year, they are probably inundated with e-mails from people, including yourself.
Bottom line, they got your order, and shipped your order in a timely manner.
The rest, is up to you if you want to do business with them again or not based on the past couple of days, but judge them better when it is not so wildly crazy with Black Friday through Cyber Monday.
By the way, the phone number was listed on their website under Customer Care . . Order Inquiry. You were calling their order line.
Customer Service is not the best at this outfit for sure.
I have had similar horror stories from Beauty Encounter. Never again!
beauty encounter is a super site i like http://www.fragrancepanda.com and amcosmetics.com too
Recently I ordered Dior Homme Parfum from BE. What arrived appeared to be either tampered with or a "second'. The box was pieced together from parts, and the bottle had been previously sprayed. I called the phone number on my order receipt during their business hours. A live person answered right away, and she immediately issued an RMA number. She offered to exchange for another, and wrote a note in my file to inspect before shipping due to the "used" status of the first bottle. They shipped out the replacement before they got the first one back, and it arrived very quickly.
Unfortunately, the second bottle I got had the same problems as the first, so I followed the same procedure and was able to return the 2nd bottle for a refund.
In the past, items I received from BE were authentic, new and didn't have dicey packaging. This is the first time I've had to request a replacement/refund, and so far I'm pretty happy with how smoothly it has gone.
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How strange that it would have happened twice with the same item. Good that they were quick to give you the refund.
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Yeah uh F1, ALMS, Continental, V8 Super, etc ... definitely like those on SPEED, wondering where they would end up in the whole shake up?
Yeah uh F1, ALMS, Continental, V8 Super, etc ... definitely like those on SPEED, wondering where they would end up in the whole shake up?
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I stopped watching SPEED when it became NASCARTV. Used to love it, back when they showed other types of racing.
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Regardless this sucks...I agree SPEED because nothing short of the NASCAR channel, BUT....I watch quite a bit on Speed.
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If Fox creates some huge bullsh_t channel with non-motorsports programs, and asshat pundits with overdone graphics and nonsense, f_ck them.
My only hope is that this happens, and someone else steps up and steals all of their motorsports programs and builds a decent channel.
Speed lost me with the NASCAR stuff.
Speed in South America was awesome with rally, F1, and touring car racing.
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I don't know about everyone else here, but with the following programs:
-Forumula 1
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my DVR is full between what is mostly programming from SPEED and maybe two or three other channels. There is not even a single NASCAR event on there and I have at least 2 hours of motor racing viewing every weeknight.
Sad to see if Speed goes away, but, if Speed/FOX 1 becomes a free channel and still has all the programming, then that's only a good thing.
Yeah, it's not cheap, but you get to see the races live and can watch every race since 1992. Plus exclusive interviews and onboard footage and all the good stuff. It's the best way to watch MotoGP bar none. In fact, it's the best way to watch any sport IMO. No commercials anywhere in site, just nonstop action.
I don't understand why people are saying the Speed only has Nascar stuff. My DVR is chalked full of non-Nascar racing from Speed. I'm still trying to catch up from some of the mid-August races from Grand Am and Continental. I think I may have some WRC in there too.
Speed is essentially 1/2 Nascar and 1/2 other race series and I'm fine with that.
Hopefully it's replacement channel won't phase out racing coverage and auto-related shows. It would be nice to see them keep things basic but it'll probably end up being super loud and flashy and drive away the viewers who just want to watch coverage of races without all the nonsense.
Velocity gives me the good stuff. Speed has been in the sh!tter since ASSCAR picked them up. Anything worth seeing is always relegated to odd hours when the employed can't watch, so screw 'em.
BTW- Fifth Gear airs on Velocity tonight at 10pm EST. Which is better than ANYTHING on Speed. And better than TG imo as well.
I'm sure Velocity will get the Rally stuff and Le Mans Speed will stop showing.
It's funny people saying how they're bummed that they'll miss the ALMS on SPEED despite the fact it hasn't aired on that channel in 2 years.
Speed suuuuuuucks! But Velocity shows nothing but that blasted Mecum auction and Carini and Wheeler Dealers reruns day and night. Fifth Gear now will be the only thing keeping me watching.
Is there a new season of "Chasing Classic Cars" coming or is he all done?
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Another Speed viewer only for MotoGP and other motorcycle roadracing. As long as that stays I don't care what else they show.
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If any motor show, regardless of its network affiliation, that is supposedly aimed at an audience interested in motor sports goes to the macho or just plain stupid guy reality show toilet searching for an audience or starts wasting everyone's time with endless banter by boring talking heads doing what amounts to infomercials I change sports and go 'surfing'. If I can't find the remote quick enough to mute or switch channels I start yelling - SHUT THE F... UP! So many of these shows make the vehicle a prop rather than the star .
I'll occasionally watch some of the auction shows [when completely bored] but with the sound off so I needn't listen to the hamster brain commentators or the 'floor rats' trying to intimidate the bidders to spend more foolishly .
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WINSTON-SALEM – The court-rushing students having dispersed and the questions from reporters winding down, C.J. Harris, between dabs of his bloody left eye, revealed where his next stop would be Tuesday night after leaving Joel Coliseum.
The "upper quad" on Wake Forest's campus, technically known as Hearn Plaza.
Tradition here dictates that the lawn and trees gets streamed with toilet paper after significant victories.
And for the Demon Deacons, starving to continue climbing and leave the bottom of the Atlantic Coast Conference behind, their 86-84 edging of 18th-ranked North Carolina State certainly qualified as meaningful enough to roll the quad.
"I've got the toilet paper in the locker room right now," said Harris, the team's only scholarship senior, adding that he already had borrowed some from a nearby restroom. "I'm going straight there."
With Devin Thomas authoring a relentless masterpiece seemingly out of nowhere – the freshman forward supplied 25 points, 14 rebounds, four blocked shots, four assists and three steals, all Wake Forest highs – the Demon Deacons knocked off a nationally ranked opponent for the first time in nearly three seasons.
Travis McKie, along with Harris one of only two Wake Forest veterans, added 16 points.
But this night belonged to Thomas and the Demon Deacons' freshmen, Codi Miller-McIntyre, Arnaud Adala Moto, Tyler Cavanaugh and Madison Jones, who delivered 40 of the team's 51 second-half points, in overcoming what was a 16-point deficit late in the first half.
"There were a lot of moments and we finished with a beautiful moment," Wake Forest coach Jeff Bzdelik said.
After the Demon Deacons denied N.C. State at the end – and avoided frittering away their own 10-points lead in the game's final, frenetic four minutes – McKie, a junior, likened what he was experiencing to one of college basketball's trademark institutions.
"What's the thing with the NCAA Tournament? One Shining Moment?" he said. "This is definitely mine right here. I'll remember this always.
"It's something that I'll never forget for the rest of my life. Man, my two years here, a lot of losing, a lot of misery, a lot of depression. We're definitely going to enjoy this one. I've been waiting for it."
Miller-McIntyre pumped in 13 of his 15 points in the second half. Moto and Cavanaugh combined for 14 second-half points.
Thomas, his confidence visibly growing with every bucket in the post and rebound in traffic, said Bzdelik challenged the Demon Deacons at halftime.
By the 8:25 mark of the second half, their response had materialized in the form of 30 second-half points from freshman – out of the team's 35 by that juncture – and this building rocking again like bygone nights.
"At halftime, Coach was telling us how they were laughing at us in the huddle," Thomas said. "So we took that personal and we hit them in the mouth."
By the end, with Harris applying ice to his blood-filled eye, the result of a wayward Wolfpack finger, Wake Forest was scratching to hold onto what had been an 82-72 lead with less than four minutes remaining.
C.J. Leslie, neutralized for long stretches by foul trouble, went up high to score over Thomas inside, bringing the Wolfpack within 83-81 with 1:48 left.
Later, with N.C. State trailing by one with 29.9 seconds left, Leslie missed a pair of free throws. Then Scott Wood missed an open 3-pointer seconds later after another one of Richard Howell's rebounds.
Wake Forest led 84-82 when the final 10 seconds became a flurry of physicality down low. Leslie missed underneath when he appeared to absorb a foul that wasn't called. Rodney Purvis ended up floating up a follow shot with about eight seconds left that didn't fall either.
The exchange left Leslie angrily punching the air in the direction of official Ted Valentine on the baseline.
"Can't get a better shot. You just can't get one," N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried said, referring to Leslie's potentially tying attempt inside. "Calvin inside, there was a lot of contact in there. … But we had enough chances."
Purvis scored 18. Howell, before fouling out, collected 13 points and 16 rebounds. T.J. Warren chipped in 14 points. Leslie and Lorenzo Brown had 13 points apiece.
Early on, this felt like an N.C. State blowout in the making. The Wolfpack, getting out in transition and converting a bevy of opportunities, raced to a 47-35 halftime lead.
"You could feel the energy in the coliseum changing, picking up," Thomas said. "That helped us out a lot."


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History and film professor Michael Goldberg in his office at the University of Washington Bothell, where he has taught since 1993. He is currently on partial medical leave, teaching one history class this quarter.
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The kidney Michael Goldberg received in a transplant 18 years ago is failing. He doesn't know his place on the waiting list.
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Elizabeth de Forest attempts to insert the needle into Goldberg's fistula to start a dialysis session in their bedroom. Blood is drawn from his body through his arm, then cleaned and streamed back in.
His bedroom is his dialysis center. Most people with kidney failure go to a clinic three times a week for the blood-cleansing treatment, but Goldberg, 54, does it at home — five nights a week, five hours a night.
Setting up takes about 40 minutes and ranges from checking the flow rate to making sure he'll have creature comforts for the next three hours of captivity.
"Hopefully the Wi-Fi is working, both for me to do work and to get Netflix," said Goldberg, who teaches history and film at the University of Washington Bothell.
He takes a seat on the bed and plops his left arm onto a cushion. His wife, Elizabeth de Forest, comes in wearing a lab coat and latex gloves. It's hit or miss when she tries to insert a needle into her husband's fistula, a passage where a vein has been connected directly to an artery. The vein is about as thick as a piece of licorice — strong enough to draw blood from night after night.
De Forest removes the scab from the night before and tries to get the needle into the vein. No luck.
"You're basically trying to open a little flap, a little hole, with a blunt needle," Goldberg said. "Sometimes it takes a few times."
Several minutes later, the needle is in, but blood has burst from his fistula. His white T-shirt is now deep red and soaked.
He's unshaken.
"Stuff happens," he said. "You just keep rolling with it."
Studies have shown that home dialysis can reduce stress on the heart and improve survival rates. Still, 90 percent of dialysis patients prefer to have the process done by professionals. Things aren't this messy at a center.
Things aren't this cozy, either. Goldberg loves having his wife and two sons, Asher and Jonah, around to support him. There's a flat screen TV in the bedroom, with boxes of DVDs on one side and boxes of syringes on the other. Right now they're making their way through seven seasons of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
"It can be stressful at times but, you know, usually we're used to it," said Asher, 14.
"It's not just him on the machine," said Jonah, 12. "It's sort of like all of us."
Goldberg's calm demeanor comes from experience. He's been dealing with medical issues for 40 years.
This isn't his first trip down the organ trail: his failing kidney is a transplant from nearly two decades ago.
It all started at 15, when he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, a disorder in which the pancreas stops producing insulin, a hormone that converts sugar into energy. Blood sugar levels rise, causing excessive thirst and urination, as well as potential organ damage down the line.
Looking back, he wishes he'd taken better care of his body after the diagnosis.
"I was probably not in good control for three or four years," he said. "It was a combination of I was a semi-alienated 15-year-old and I had ADD."
A 2.0 senior year GPA didn't stop him from enrolling at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he found a good doctor and started to regulate his condition. But in 1986, while in graduate school at Yale, he was diagnosed with kidney disease.
Undeterred by his ailing organs, he earned a Ph.D. with a dissertation that would become a book, "An Army of Women: Gender and Politics in Gilded Age Kansas."
He married de Forest and took a professor position at UW Bothell in 1993. Months later, a routine workup revealed a kink in his heart, necessitating a single bypass surgery that knocked out his failing kidneys for good.
"I had to go on dialysis suddenly," he said. "There were a lot of complications, and it was tough."
Back then he received his treatments at the Seattle and Lake Washington locations of Northwest Kidney Centers, a nonprofit that pioneered the process of doing dialysis outside of a hospital setting.
Kidneys purify the blood by removing waste and disposing of it in urine. When they fail, dialysis artificially fills their role. Blood is drawn from the body, typically through a fistula in the arm, then cleaned and streamed back in.
In addition to needing a new kidney, doctors told Goldberg he needed a new pancreas. He was put on the waiting list for a pancreas-kidney transplant in 1995. Just nine months later, he received the organs from a cadaver donor — a recently deceased teenager whose parents wanted their son's organs to live on.
Three days out of UW Medical Center — a mask on his face and only 10 percent of his immune system working — Goldberg was back in the classroom.
"This is part of my crazy history of my medical condition and my teaching," he said. "I'm a pretty devoted teacher."
The new kidney fit right in for 17 years, which is outstanding for a cadaver donation. But the powerful medication that organ recipients must take can eventually be toxic to the donated organs.
"Most kidneys fail not because your body rejects them," Goldberg said. "It's because you've been scarring the kidney through the immunosuppressant drug."
Since he received both a kidney and a pancreas, he was on a high dose of the drug for many years. He later convinced his doctors to lower his intake, but the damage had been done. In the fall of 2011, the lab results came in: the pancreas was in good shape, but Goldberg needed another kidney.
His health spiraled downward. Goldberg went back to Northwest Kidney Centers, but this time it was for training rather than treatment. He and de Forest learned how to do home dialysis and set up shop in their bedroom in August 2012.
"If you can read a recipe, you can do dialysis," said Connie Anderson, vice president of Clinical Services at Northwest Kidney Centers. "All the procedures are written out. The supplies you need, these are the ingredients. This is what you do: step one, step two, step three, step four."
Seventeen percent of patients at the Northwest Kidney Centers do home dialysis, which is nearly twice the national average.
"Those that dialyze at home are going to feel so much better," Anderson said. "Dialysis doesn't become the center of your life. Your life goes on, and your dialysis becomes secondary to all the other things you can do."
Goldberg's kidney hasn't completely shut down yet, and there's no telling when it will. It doesn't filter toxins, so he needs dialysis for that, but it still passes liquid, allowing him to use the bathroom like everybody else.
"Otherwise it's all gotta come out of here," he said, pointing to the machine.
Fighting to stay healthy is a full-time job. Goldberg spends about 25 hours a week on home dialysis and can have up to 10 medical appointments a month. He's on partial paid leave from UW Bothell, down to teaching only one class per quarter.
Work isn't the only thing he's had to cut back on. He's part of UDubB Jammin', a band made up of faculty and staff, but it's difficult to find time to jam.
"I mostly play guitar," Goldberg said. "I got a mean one-handed keyboard. I used to play piano, but I lost it. Play harmonica, some blues harp."
His sons are musicians, too.
"The younger one plays drums and the older one plays viola and piano," he said. "They both sing. It's fun to play stuff with them, but I don't get much chance."
Instead, the father-son bonding happens in front of the TV, watching actress Sarah Michelle Gellar slay vampires.
Goldberg can relate to all the blood sucking.
The organ waitlist looks a lot different now than it did in 1995. What once took six to nine months can now take up to five years depending on blood type. For Goldberg, whose blood type is A, it's two to three years.
According to the United Network for Organ Sharing, there are more than 119,000 people who need an organ, and about 18 of them die waiting each day. Kidneys are the most sought after. Skyrocketing rates of obesity and diabetes mean more people need them, while modern vehicular safety laws have reduced cadaver donations from car crashes.
Goldberg doesn't even know his place on the list.
"One of the problems is the list changes all the time," he said. "There are different priorities: health, immediate need versus long-term survival, perfect matches."
A perfect match refers to a patient matching an organ in six categories that predict transplant success, in which case the patient may skip ahead in line.
In America, people choose whether to be donors when they get their driver's licenses. This is known as an "opt-in" system. As of 2012, about 43 percent of adults had opted in, but that doesn't necessarily mean their organs will be donated when they die.
"Ideally, I think if a person signs up as a donor on their driver's license, then that should be legally binding," Goldberg said. "But there are places where doctors will go with the family's wishes, or even in some cases don't want to deal with it."
The alternative to the waiting list is finding a living donor. Often family members or loved ones volunteer to help out. Goldberg found out the first time around that his close family members have positive crossmatches, meaning his antibodies will reject their blood cells.
He had a donor lined up last spring, a friend whose kids attend school with his, but it fell through. Doctors discovered a rare condition in her kidney that meant she wasn't a candidate.
Donating a kidney traditionally required the removal of a rib. Now there's a less invasive laparoscopic procedure with improved success rates and recovery time. Research shows giving a kidney doesn't affect long-term health or lifespan.
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GAFFNEY, S.C. - A 4-1 halftime lead was erased for good with Jackson Decker's overtime goal as #5 Limestone College avoided the upset bid by Pfeiffer University with an 8-7 win on Saturday afternoon. The Conference Carolinas victory scared the Saints to 12-1 overall, 5-0 in league play while the Falcons fall to 10-5, 4-1.
After Randy Waugh's goal 1:14 into the first quarter, Pfeiffer would reel off the next four over the next 28:46 for their three-goal lead at the break. Cole Sheen started and finished the first half streak while Robert Hope and Kory Lutes sandwiched goals in-between.
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August 7th, 2007 #31
I really like the Cow 088 concept!
As for your cgs like http://share.digicomm.be/creatureconcept_3.png in your first post, try to avoid having plain default gradient backgrounds. Having brush strokes here and there at least makes it look less blatantly digital
Great stuff so far, keep us updated!
Hide this ad by registering as a memberAugust 11th, 2007 #32
tnx for the comments and glad you like them
my latest painting +- 2,5 hours
August 11th, 2007 #33
hehe so funny the last one ... hope to c more man ...
August 13th, 2007 #34
the basic idea was to recreate my first wacom drawing i did a year ago
August 16th, 2007 #35
sketched with a picture as reference
August 23rd, 2007 #36
an attempt at drawing Dave Chappelle
August 25th, 2007 #37
Hahaha that last dude looks abit like kay Styles Really nice works here...I loooooove the beerglass monster hahaha...made me laugh :>
Crewl that u are attending at the chows when i find some free time i WILL join in!
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September 29th, 2007 #38
tnx for your comment and glad you like it ^^
here are some 1point perspective environment thumbnails i am making for a school exercise, I'm really practicing on making my environments look interesting.
October 10th, 2007 #39
some drawings i made during breaks between classes
October 25th, 2007 #40
try to do some *really* big drawings.. get rid of some of the symbols you tend to use (hands, eyes).. symbols are nice to use in say comic strip style stuff, but they can only get you so far.. they don't work in any given situation, you know what i mean?
mind the proportions of the bunny girl too, i think her legs are a bit too short
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October 25th, 2007 #41
I hope to see some more environments
Keep up the good work and gl
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October 25th, 2007 #42
tnx for the comments
and hyver i do understand what your saying, I'm going to try to put more realism in my handdrawn drawings.
here is a painting im working on at the moment and i still have some more environment studies i made for school that i will scan and post tomorrow.
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October 26th, 2007 #43
an update, i'm having trouble with the nose but this is the best result i have untill now
and here are 2 interior sketches i had to make for school
November 13th, 2007 #44
Yet another school exercise, Design a tower like the Tower of Babel.
So i desided to go with the concept of atlantis and wrote this little story as a background story for my tower
Atlantis home of the Atlantians, one of the greatest empires the world has ever known.
The Atlantians were the chosen ones among mankind; they were gifted with knowledge to create superior technology and the strength to fight whoever wanted to take their divine existence.
The Atlantians were godlike and the decided there king should be equal to the gods and live among them, so they started building a tower so great that there king could watch over his people like the gods do over the world.
Zeus and the other gods were not so keen on the idea of a man living amongst them and started hating the Atlantians for wanting even more then the gods already gave them. On the day of completion of the tower when the king could get his first gimps of the gods Hades created a hole in the ocean, sucking entire Atlantis and his tower to the depths of the underworld leaving only the royal palace above water to remind the king that he was no more than a human and he never will be.
November 20th, 2007 #45
November 24th, 2007 #46
my latest schoolexercise
design a racingbike and render it using photoshop
November 26th, 2007 #47
November 30th, 2007 #48
some doodles in photoshop
Last edited by polydrawer; November 30th, 2007 at 04:40 PM.
November 30th, 2007 #49
tried to make some different ship design, although i have some ships inside my head made by other artists, i try to create my own designs
critics would be very appreciated on this one
December 7th, 2007 #50
here some more vehicle designs for school based on the image above, next up i have to pick one and make blueprints of it
and a wip of my COW entry
December 8th, 2007 #51
December 11th, 2007 #52
Nice progress
Hi Leslie,
Nice to see you make progress like this!
The newly designed hoovercraft and your last painting are great!
Keep up the good work!
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December 11th, 2007 #53
I really like the demon head avatar, and the last two ships (bottom middle, bottom right)
nice work
December 12th, 2007 #54
tnx guys glad you like them ^^
here are the blueprints i made for the bottom right hovercraft
next up a 3/4 view of this ship, Front and back
December 12th, 2007 #55
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December 12th, 2007 #56
first of, thanks for visiting my sketchbook, mate, and second, well ... there isn't much for me to say except that I like what you're doing - you're one of the better artist in DAE and I hope to see a lot more of ya hanging on the walls of classroom 207 :p
Cya and perhaps 'till we meet in real life :p
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December 13th, 2007 #57
hey tnx for the comment
i hope to see some work of mine on that wall to, i'll try to do that with my vehicle we have to design this vacation
here's an update on my portrait
December 14th, 2007 #58
and whoho my 100th post
December 14th, 2007 #59
whiiiiii congratz! :-)
i like it!
check out my animated movies: (flv's @ http://dresse.free.fr) and my sketchbook: http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=110980
December 21st, 2007 #60
my examination assignment is to design a podracer (see star wars episode 1)
i'm making a bunch of thumbnails in allot of different styles so i don't get stuck at the first idea i like.
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That was a nice gesture by Ray- hopefully for New Orleans sake Shinnridge has learned from the many mistakes made here and will do their best to run a first class organazation in New Orleans.
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FACTS & STATS: Site: Boone Pickens Stadium (60,218) -- Stillwater, Oklahoma. Television: FSN. Home Record: UL 1-0, OSU 1-0. Away Record: UL 1-0, OSU 0-1. Neutral Record: UL 0-0, OSU 0-0. Conference Record: UL 1-0, OSU 0-0. Series Record: Oklahoma State leads, 7-0.
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Oklahoma State rolled to an 84-0 win over FCS school Savannah State in its opener two weekends ago, but the team followed that up with an ugly 59-38 setback at Arizona last Saturday. During his weekly press conference, head coach Mike Gundy said he took it as a positive that his players were down from the loss, and that he expects the team to work hard throughout the week and come out with a much better showing. This contest kicks off a key stretch that will see the Cowboys play four of their next five at home.
Louisiana went on the road and beat Troy, 37-24, to hand the Trojans their first loss in a home opener in more than two decades. Although the Ragin' Cajuns are 2-0, they have seen their starting running back and their starting quarterback both succumb to injuries in each of the first two games.
OSU has won all seven previous meetings in the series with UL.
Cowboys freshman quarterback Wes Lunt has had some ups and downs through his first two games. He completed all 11 of his pass attempts against Savannah State, then last week he completed 37-of-60 throws for 436 yards and four touchdowns. However, he was also intercepted three times, including one on a tipped pass on OSU's final drive. All four of his touchdown passes went to Tracy Moore, who finished with 106 yards on eight catches.
Joseph Randle paced the ground attack with 123 yards on 23 carries. The Cowboys lost despite posting 636 yards of total offense, and through two weeks they lead the nation with an average of 659 yards per outing.
After jumping out to an early 14-0 lead, Oklahoma State surrendered 30 straight points and committed penalty after penalty. The defense had no answer for Arizona's Ka'Deem Carey, who ran for 126 yards and helped seal the outcome with a pair of fourth-quarter touchdown runs. He scored four touchdowns in all, while the Wildcats rolled up 32 first downs and 501 yards of total offense. Arizona scored on all eight of its trips to the red zone, including five touchdowns.
Senior linebacker Alex Elkins led the way for OSU with a game-high 15 tackles in the loss. The Cowboy defense must now prepare for a UL offense that plays two quarterbacks, both of whom like to pull the ball down and run.
UL running back Montrel Carter suffered a season-ending knee injury in a 40-0 win over Lamar in the opener. His injury paved the way for Alonzo Harris to return to the starting lineup, and Harris came through with 137 rushing yards and a touchdown against Troy. Quarterback Terrance Broadway also took advantage of an injury as he replaced starter Blaine Gautier in the first quarter after Gautier left the game with a rib injury. Broadway completed 10- of-16 passes for 143 yards and a TD, and he also rushed for 43 yards on eight carries. Gautier is considered probable for Saturday's game, although Broadway certainly showed he can get the job done when given the chance.
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7 billion people in the world, clogging the planet and pushing every other life form off. Starvation? I repeat - 7 BILLION PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. Most of whom are poor, live in filth and cannot or do not make the world better in any way. Can't even make their own lives better. And yet they keep having more and more.
And by the way, YOU are a PERFECT argument for why there should ALWAYS be abortion available.
Sorry - I'm for the animals - EVERY TIME. Thanks to morons like you.
I won't go as far as saying you are the exception to my stance on abortion, but your pops probably should have wrapped it up! And your skewed view on humanity, placing animals on a pedestal over humankind, reveals how idiotic you really are- I would would argue further, but you probably wouldn't understand logic.
If this is a debate, no name-calling, please. Just because you have a different, maybe COMPLETELY different view from the other person, that's not a legitimate reason to call someone a moron or say they are a reason that abortion should be available. It's called being objective. Ever heard of it?
Why don't you take your Catholic child raping, idol worshipping views to your local priest and STFU. This is an animal abuse site, not a I wish I had the real Jesus in my life website. You heinous Idol worshipper. Silly woman laden with sin.
Um, what did you even just say? Not even looking at the substance of most of the posts on this site, but purely the lack of punctuation- the lack of ability to formulate a valid argument- reveals how idiotic the majority of you are.
I agree that children should not be murdered, but WHY CAN'T WE SAVE BOTH? God told us to take care of our live stock. I think God would approve of us caring for his animal creation as well as his human. WE CAN DO BOTH WHICH IS WHY THERE IS A WEBSITE AND PLACE FOR EACH CATEGORY. It's okay to get people to stop killing babies. IT'S NOT OKAY to judge people because they love animals too. Doesn't mean they (ME and others like me) don't love ALL OF GOD'S CREATIONS.
I didn't bring up God, but since you did- God clearly says that humans are superior to animals (Gen. 1:26-28; Psalm 8:4-8) and humans are more valuable to God than animals (Matt. 10:29-31; 12:11,12; 6:26; 15:26). Humans are more intelligent than animals (Job 35:10,11; Psalms 73:22; Hosea 7:11; Psalms 32:9) and humans were made in the image of God (Gen. 1:26-28; 5:1; 9:2-6; James 3:9) which is not said of animals. There are many other verses and areas I could mention, but the most important proof of all is that Jesus died to save mankind - human beings, not animals (Titus 2:11,12; 3:3-7; 1 Timothy 2:4-6; Isaiah 53:5,8; Romans 5:6-9,12,18,19). I'm not saying that we shouldn't take care of animals, but they should be remotely close to our main priority. And with all the issues humankind is suffering through right now, the last of our worries should be a duck in a subway.


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The rubber section of an automatic transmission cooler line may develop a fluid leak . In some cases the leaking section of hose can be replaced. In others, the complete cooler line must be replaced to correct this concern.
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2008 Estate Riserva
Silver Medal Winner At 2012 SF Chronicle Int'l Wine Competition!
2 In Stock
Wine Specs
Vintage 2008
Varietal Sangiovese/Cabernet Sauvignon Blend
Appellation Paso Robles
Vineyard Designation Carly's Estate vineyard
Harvest Date September 2008
Acid .70
pH 3.48
Aging 40 months
Fermentation Wild yeast
Bottling Date February 2011
Wine Profile
Tasting Notes Old world complexity abounds on the palate. Delicious flavors tickle the mouth in waves of rich red fruit, leather, and earth. The spice nuances are there too. Bone dry with complex tannins make this red very ageable. It should continue to improve with time in the bottle.