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Carolina Panthers coach Ron Rivera has a simple directive for his players starting on day one: "Be a man."
Rivera has certainly earned his "man card." He was the son of an Army officer and played linebacker for Mike Ditka on the 1985 Chicago Bears as part of Buddy Ryan's ferocious "46" defense. He returned to the Super Bowl with the Bears as defensive coordinator in February 2007 and has been coaching the Panthers since 2011.
Rivera's definition of "manhood" goes far beyond toughness on the football field. As a husband and father, he has a keen sense of priorities.
"The greatest gift you can give children is to love and respect their mother," Rivera told Playbook, citing a similar quote from the late John Wooden. Rivera spoke to Playbook after he and CBS sportscaster James Brown led a seminar in Charlotte, N.C., sponsored by A Call to Men designed to teach high school coaches how they can help prevent domestic violence by helping players grow into men who are responsible citizens


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"MEMPHIS" headed to Memphis
OXFORD TOWN – Called "The biggest hit on Broadway" by WOR Radio, the 2010 Tony Award-winning Best Musical "MEMPHIS" is headed to the Orpheum Theatre in Memphis. Page 16 in this week's issue of Oxford Town has photos and information about the much anticipated hit Broadway musical playing just an easy hour's drive from Oxford. Check it out. (October 13, 2011, Page 16)


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Eggs by Design
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Eating Eggs Again
Understanding Nature's Design
Learning About Cage-free, Range-free, and Organic Eggs
- Cage-free eggs are from birds that are maintained on the floor of a poultry house or barn, but are not allowed to roam free outdoors. Due to poor weather and climate, they may not have any access at all to outside areas.
- Free-range eggs are typically from birds allowed to go outdoors in the day and are housed inside at night for protection.
- Organic eggs are from hens fed rations formulated from ingredients free of herbicides, fungicides, pesticides, and commercial fertilizers. Higher production costs and lower volume of eggs per farm drives the price of organic eggs higher than that of the standard egg.
Getting the Scoop on Designer Eggs
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American Egg Board http://www.aeb.org
Egg Nutrition Center http://www.enc-online.org
Alberta Egg Producers http://www.eggs.ab.ca
Get Cracking http://www.eggs.ca
Egg facts and fun. American Egg Board website. Available at: http://www.incredibleegg.org/egg-facts/eggcyclopedia/p/production. Accessed October 8, 2013.
Egg industry fact sheets. American Egg Board website. Available at: http://www.aeb.org/egg-industry/industry-facts/egg-industry-facts-sheet. Accessed October 8, 2013.
Egg nutrition facts. American Egg Board website. Available at: http://www.aeb.org/retailers/egg-nutrition-facts. Accessed October 8, 2013.
Eggs are now naturally lower in cholesterol. American Egg Board website. Available at: http://www.aebassets.org/news/pr/feb-2011-cracking-cholesterol/. Published February 8, 2011. Accessed October 8, 2013.
Health-saving ingredient substitutions. Fremont Area Medical Center website. Available at: http://www.famc.org/body.cfm?id=555696. Accessed October 8, 2013.
How do I follow a healthy diet? American Heart Association website. Available at: http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/GettingHealthy/How-Do-I-Follow-a-Healthy-Diet%5FUCM%5F308999%5FArticle.jsp. Updated February 8, 2013. . Accessed October 8, 2013.
Hu FB, Stampfer MJ, Rimm EB, et al. A prospective study of egg consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease in men and women. JAMA. 1999;28:1387-1394.
Omega-3 extra large eggs. Organic Valley website. Available at: http://www.organicvalley.coop/?id=147. Accessed October 8, 2013.
United States Department of Agriculture and United States Department of Health and Human Services. Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010. 7th Edition, Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, December 2010.
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gregkavarnos wrote:Now how delusive exactly are you to believe that smoking marijuana has any place whatsoever in Buddhist practice? If you can find ONE reference in Sutta, Sutra, Shastra or Tantra for the positive aspects of the use of marijuana in Buddhist meditation practice I will take up pot smoking again. ONE REFERENCE.Ganja Sutta
Thus have I heard,
Once the Blessed One was sitting around with a few monks getting baked and he said:
"Guys...Puff, puff, puff... Cough, cough-cough, cough-cough-cough-cough, splutter, COUGH! Whoa, that one really hit the spot! Guys, I was thinking... puff, puff, yeah... hmmmm... I was thinking that... Whoa, yeah... ... ... What was I saying?"
To which Sariputra answered: "Yo, Buddha man, you gonna hang onto that joint all day or what? Pass it on bro, pass it on!"
To which the Blessed One replied:
"Yo, chill Sari man... puff, puff-puff, puff-puff-puff, splutter, cough-cough, cough..."
And all those gathered felt a great attraction to the Dharma and took refuge in the Buddha, his crew and the ganja until it was their turn to toke.
Good luck!
great stoner stereotype. quite humorous.
i haven't read every sutta, sutra, shastra & tantra. have you ?
so i couldn't say for sure there is nothing in there about marijuana in particular.
and even if there were, didn't the buddha kind of imply that we should all make up our own minds about alot of these kinds of things?


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Specian, Landrigan and Boswell Named to Conference Carolinas All-Academic Team
April 4, 2014
High Point, NC- Conference Carolinas is proud to announce the 2014 Men's Volleyball Academic All-Conference award winners. Pfeiffer's David Specian, Kyle Landrigan and Buck Boswell were all named to the All-Academic team.
League member institutions stress the role of "Academics and Athletics Working Together" and each sport's Academic All-Conference award winners exemplify this continued league-wide commitment.
The 2014 Conference Carolinas Men's Volleyball Academic All-Conference representatives have been awarded to the following junior and senior student-athletes with a cumulative grade point average of 3.25 or higher on a 4.0 scale in all work completed at their member institution that have played in a conference sponsored sport. The GPA is calculated based on the student-athletes cumulative average through the previous semester and each student-athlete must have attended their member institution for at least one academic year.
Each year the Academic All-Conference Team is released while closing out each regular season before starting the tournament championships. The Conference Carolinas 2014 Men's Volleyball championships will hold six qualifying tournament teams. All matches will be hosted by the highest seeded teams throughout with quarterfinal matches starting Wednesday, April 9th. Winners of quarterfinal games advance to the semifinals on Saturday, April 12th where the top two seeds received quarterfinal byes. The championship culminates in the final Saturday, April 16th.
For more details and all the information throughout the spring championship season, stayed linked to the Spring Championships Central page for updated results.
Men's Volleyball Academic All-Conference Team
Randall Malpass, Barton
Brennan O'Connor, Barton
Nolan Albrecht, Belmont Abbey
Jeremiah Funk, King
Matthew Harpenau, Lees-McRae
John Lucas, Lees-McRae
Kevin Morrison, Lees-McRae
Efrain Negron, Lees-McRae
Christina Mineo, Limestone
Eric Zaun, Limestone
Victor Leal, Mount Olive
Bastian Steppin, Mount Olive
David Specian, Pfeiffer
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TomTom introduces Speak & Go with the TomTom Via 130
May 03 2012
TomTom introduces Speak & Go with the TomTom Via 130
~ Speak & Go helps drivers keep their focus on the road ~
London, 3 May 2012 – TomTom has today released the TomTom Via 130, featuring a new Speak & Go function. Drivers can control the device with just the sound of their voice, as well as making hands-free calls, which helps keep hands on the wheel and focus on the road.
Speak & Go recognises over 1,000 commands and their synonyms, so drivers can talk naturally and input addresses with ease. Plus, the TomTom Via 130 takes safe and simple driving one step further, with hands-free calling via Bluetooth® enabling drivers to make and answer calls safely in the car.
"The new Speak & Go feature helps increase focus and concentration by allowing users to keep their hands on the wheel," says Corinne Vigreux, Managing Director of TomTom. "Just say an address, a Point of Interest or simply 'take me home', and TomTom plans your route straight away. Interacting with your navigation device has never been easier; it slots perfectly into your everyday drive."
The Via 130 is pioneering TomTom's lifetime free daily map changes. Updates are based on reports from TomTom's Map Share community of 21 million, and help drivers to deal with frequent road changes such as new speed limits and blocked roads. A Map Share service has previously been available to certain customers using maps which are less than 12 months old, but it will now be offered to cover the lifetime of a device.
Also launched today was the TomTom Via 135, which has all of the same features and functionalities as the Via 130, but a larger screen size. The TomTom Via 130 has a 4.3" screen, and the TomTom Via 135 has a 5" screen.
Pricing and availability
The TomTom Via 130 (with a 4.3" screen) is now available for purchase, priced at £129 for the UK/Republic of Ireland map and £149 for European maps. The TomTom Via 135 has all of the same features on a 5" screen, and is priced £149 for the UK/Republic of Ireland map.
Notes for editors
The TomTom Via 130 and 135 have the same functionalities, but different screen sizes. The TomTom Via 130 has a 4.3" screen, and the Via 135 has a 5" screen.
New to the TomTom Via 130 and 135:
- • Speak & Go
Other features of the TomTom Via 130 and 135 include:
- • Hands-free calling via Bluetooth
- • Advanced lane guidance
- • Improved IQ Routes
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America's National Wildlife Refuges are some of the absolute best places in the country for wildlife. They offer unparalleled opportunities to see birds, elk, deer and bears in their most natural habitats.
Why Refuges Matter
An overwhelming majority of citizens across the political spectrum agree that these treasures are worthy of their time, money and even tax dollars, according to a recent poll&n
As a national park visitor, you could soon face any number of harrowing realities if national parks continue to be underfunded, according to a report by the National Parks Conservation Association Made in America
America's National Wildlife Refuges encompass more than 150 million acres of plant and animal habitat in over 500 refuges.
A new national survey reveals that sportsmen and sportswomen think protecting public lands, getting kids outdoors and dealing with climate change are just as important as energy production and gun rights.
While the name may not induce shivers of excitement, don't underestimate the amount of fun and rewards to be had on National Public Lands Day, coming this Saturday, Sept. 29.
National Wilderness Month marks a time for considering what wilderness means to us as individuals and as a nation. Ironically, this Wilderness Month comes during one of the most anti-wilderness Congresses in modern history.
This is also a time in which we are experiencing a decrease in connection to our natural heritage -- a loss of grand proportions.
Rest assured that fall can be an excellent season for camping. Our fall camping checklist will help you prepare for exploring wilderness in the cooler months.
Planning a dedicated stargazing trip in wilderness can be fulfilling in its own right – not to mention a unique way to get into wilderness.
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Since the verdict in the Michael Dunn case was announced, I have been greatly disturbed by the indelible silence of educators like myself, many of whom teach Black boys like Jordan Davis. As I struggle with my own anger, pain and grief over the verdict, I am confused, disappointed and saddened by the collective silence of my colleagues – most of whom are White. To be certain, about eight of my online colleagues have spoken out, and for them, I feel grateful and blessed. But…what about the 100-some-odd others of them?
Why the lack of response? What explains the need for extended reflection? They're quick and read to go the full 12 rounds on any other issue – except, it seems, when they're called out to stand up for kids who don't look like them.
I want to believe that perhaps they are still in shock over the verdict. Or, maybe they're still trying to process their own thoughts and feelings about the matter. Or, maybe they're afraid of saying "the wrong thing." Or, perhaps, they simply DON'T CARE.
Which amazes me, really. These are the same teachers who would go to jail to picket against school closings, or the takeover of their local public school by a charter school corporation, or to save their union. These are the same teachers who tweet way past my bedtime, on all things classroom.
Perhaps they simply DON'T CARE.
I want believe that the last reason isn't the case. I want to believe that the murder of a Black boy in Florida matters to them in the same way that the murders of White children in Newtown did. Speaking of which, these same, White colleagues posted endless tweets, Facebook updates, and blog entries about the tragedy in Newtown. To be certain, what occurred in Newtown was a tragedy. A horrendous, ugly, senseless tragedy. So is the murder of Jordan Davis. He, too, was a child, like those in Newtown.
And then, I am reminded of my place of employ: the predominately-White, so-far-to-the-left-that-people-are-hitting-themselves school, where the mantra is changing one's world and the world around them, and students are encouraged to be strong self-advocates, i.e. student voice in progressive-speak. All of the aforementioned stands in direct contradiction to what I will encounter on Tuesday morning. The silence there will be deadening, and all in the name of the hipster social justice they claim to uphold. I am not looking forward to returning to school on Tuesday; the same deadening silence I am experiencing on my Twitter feed, and on my Facebook timeline, I will have to experience at my place of employ in real time.
Despite everything, I will need to have something to say to the kids, to my students. Although I need to have a message for all of my students, I feel obligated to not let my Black and Brown students down, and especially the Black boys. As a Black teacher, I feel I need to have the right words. Especially for them.
So, we come back around to the colleagues who have had nothing to say. Unless they are devoid of a heart and feelings and intelligence, they can, in fact, come up with something meaningful to say. If they can evangelize about teaching, and picket for ed reform, they can do both for Jordan Davis. After all, they will be looking him in the face on Tuesday morning.


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Thread: Ninas Sketchbook
January 21st, 2013 #61
hey!! :]
hooray congrats on reaching the third page lol XD
nice studies ...love that cloud painting.... your skills in painting are getting better
the torso studies are a bit rough but nevertheless keep up your persistence
the sitting fat guy looks quite believable.
id suggest you to add a bit more shadows to the torso at the bottom centre of the page and the torso at the top right with the open arms as they look shadow less which makes them look flat on paper . i hope it helps
good job on the hands studies they look good to me and i cant really give you any suggestion on those coz i myself need to learn to draw hands properly XD
keep up the good work
and i'll be waiting for more updates!!
oh and a good day to you miss
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January 21st, 2013 #62
Congrats on your third page too!
I can definitely see you're improving from each update so know you're on the right track
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January 23rd, 2013 #63
Xcarbon Big thanks for the help! I will do. Thanks again for helping me. I can sometimes be abit blind when it comes to my own practise and wow about your update! Fucking awesome!!!
MeteorCat Thanks alot!
Time to sleep. Did a quickie before bed.
January 24th, 2013 #64
thats a quickie??
that would take me hours ...specially because its color and not just black and white values
i like those small details on the orange [specular highlights]
and the reflective surface of shaker and the reflection its getting off of the orange its so cool
also i like how youve improved on the contrast ratio this one has a believable amount of lights and darks good job
keep up the good work :]
January 29th, 2013 #65
Xcarbon well I consider that to be a quickie since I know I can spend more time with it but I just lost excitement for that. was around or a little under an hour
Thank you its hard but really fun to learn. Thanks alot, who knows were we both are at in the end of this year. Im looking forward to it for sure, both for me and you
This is a WIP, dont know how long time, have just been sitting with it shorter periods of time over some days because I have just been so exhuasted from my work lately. Took whatever I could find at home
January 30th, 2013 #66
NICE... love the contrast in this one
u paint better metals than me [but then again im just a noob at actually PAINTING]
but i love that metallic surface reflecting everything in front of it!!
the table seems a bit rough though
good work and KEEP 'EM COMING
January 30th, 2013 #67
Wow some really top-notch studies in here! Personally love the girl in red and environment studies
Keep it up, you're doing great!
I'll be here with the Daggers for the rest of my art journey.
Keep pushing people, let us be great together-!
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February 9th, 2013 #68
Xcarbon Sorry for my abscense. Been working some and just been so smashed after work. Thank you for your feedback, u are totally right, the table is really rough got tired of it. But metal is tricky for me and you are not a noob Just a person who keeps develop your skill. that is far from being a noob imho
smrrfette Thank you Really appreciate it!
some shitty effort this week. but anyway a small update.
February 9th, 2013 #69
That still life is looking lovely so far, great color relationships and reflections! I really liked the traditional media stuff you posted early on too, I would love to see more of that if you still do that. Anyway, keep up the good work!
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February 13th, 2013 #70
ClockworkLives Thank you! Not a bad feedback at all, Ive just been leaning towards the digital medium and photoshop because I feel like I need to learn alot about handling the program. But working more with traditional should help me alot too Thank you!
hands from a mirror.
February 13th, 2013 #71
thanks for saying nice things lol
i like those gestures!! specially the smexy one in the middle right to be honest i think if you do these everyday you will see improvement very quickly [i think you will start to see improvement in just 3 or 4 days thats how good they look to me]
but remember you have to keep up the pace!!
and i know it is hard to do... specially after work......[most of the sketches/gestures i do are done at work whenever i find free time coz i know once i reach home i dont know what mood will i be in ]
and nice work on the painting .... i think one thing that is missing is a bit of atmospheric fog in the distance [i hope this makes sense] you see the castle/buildings far away look like they are behind some fog but the water just below them looks very saturated i hope this helps below is the image what i could do in 30 seconds......now if you used a reference maybe the fog might have not been in the reference but its just my opinion that without the fog the feeling of distance is lost.
hope it helps :]
February 13th, 2013 #72
oh nice work on the hands ..... apparently when i was replying to the previous posts you posted something new lol
those look good maybe i should try the mirror myself !!
February 13th, 2013 #73
I need to do some studies of hands. no critiques here otherwise, keep on drawing and making mistakes. nobody ever got good at something by learning it "properly" expect the pitfalls and strive to be better.
Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Nobody made good art by coloring in between the lines.
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February 14th, 2013 #74
Hey Nina thanks for stopping by my sketchbook. I think you are doing really well also especially as you are feeling so tired after work. I know that feeling myself and it isn't easy to draw or paint. I think you have done a really good job on the saucepan with the reflection of the onion and garlic. Your digital paintings are really improving.
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February 19th, 2013 #75
Xcarbon Thank you for your great feedback! Looks like I have a problem with atmosphere ^^ but thanks for reminding me of it. The paintover is gorgeous and I cant really understand how u improved that picture with just 30 sec High five and thank you!
Thanks for the encuragement, I do need to do gestures practise and Ill jump at it cant say thank you enough for the help! Thank you thank you thank you ^^
U motivates me alot and I hope I can repay that
Yes if you have access to a mirror, do it I did some hands from photos but in my opinion, doing it from your own hand rocks and made hand practise even more fun
AoenPhoenix Thank you! Ill do that and good luck on the hands If I can motivate a fellow CA member to do something, Im really happy.
MarianRowling Thanks for stopping by mine too I struggled with the saucepan and onions but in the end I really enjoyed it.
Thank you and keep painting yourself
some update, its rough but was fun doing,
February 20th, 2013 #76
hey im happy to help :].......all i did was take a soft round brush with opacity jitter and run it across the horizon line then erase the whiteness in front of the trees = 30 seconds!! High five back XD
im liking the new painting the mood is well done gives out the feeling of cold yet hot temperatures..... this reminds me of skeletor's base from He-man.
good work!! dont really have much to critique ........the mountains in the back look good...they have feeling that they are far away.
keep up the good work.....and hey post your self portrait lol
February 21st, 2013 #77
Oh! He-man! my brothers and I used to watch that cartoon and they also had some toys like skeletors castle. I remember ditching barbie to He-man because I loved the cartoons so much
Didnt have that in mind at all when I painted except that I wanted to mix cool with very hot temperature colors
Just gotta link this for some nostalgia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO1ChfM94yQ
I have dont a self portrait before in black and white on page one Post 14, the first portrait But I tried some colors and meh, not happy and Im not so sure if its alike. but ah well here it is.
February 21st, 2013 #78
You should be bolder and messier with your brushstrokes, 'cause it will makes spotting shapes and forms easier, then you can ease them/go over with lower opacity/pressure. It will also give you better color variations.
I also like that you already have a nice sense of lighting, and i adore that it's very bright, but not overexposed. I think your sense of lighting will help you loads when you getting into extreme photorealism, if that's somewhere you want to go with your style. Also, umm, if you have Cs5 try using the mixer brushes on dry and wet, they really help with getting textured but smooth rends-and they are like oils so its nice.
Btw, you look cute!
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Liking those still lifes earlier this page! See how you have so strong contrasts and sense of lighting early on, even though the shapes are not polished yet. That's what makes them look good, since the value and light is generally correct. You should aim for similar effect in your environments too, just pick a light source and light your objects, be it palm trees or mountains, like you would light an apple on a table. And paint it the same way, boldly. Like suggested above, you should aim to have more variation in your color - in reality there's a tremendous color variety everywhere. Learning to simplify that in a way that is not chaotic but still realistic should be your goal. Anyway, good luck, keep painting!
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February 21st, 2013 #80
LoudLikeNature said pretty much all ... lol
oh and nice to see you
ahhh i see..... i did saw post 14 but i didnt read the text at that time .... so i tought it was a study of some random person ..sorry
i dont know how much of the painting looks like the real you....but the face looks quite believable. so be proud of it!! :]
February 23rd, 2013 #81
what they mentioned above ^ , fortsatt jobba hort
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February 23rd, 2013 #82
love your still lifes. they're making you level up so fast!
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March 6th, 2013 #83
Your work has gotten a notch better since you've worked the contrast more.
Great job with those last envos and the still life wip from post 66 is really good!
I'd like to see that one finished.
Good luck with your studies,
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March 6th, 2013 #84
Hi Nina, I love your life studies it's so great to see another girl in the sketchbook section! Keep up the great work
March 8th, 2013 #85
First off, wow I gotta thank you all for the nice feedback you all have given to me. really big
Have been inactive the last week or over that since I had some sickness and lots of other issues came in the way. So big thank you all, cheered me up alot.
LoudLikeNature Thank you! You are absolutly right and I do have some problems with it, I dont want to go into extreme photorealism even tho I think thoose who do that are incredible amazing. Yeah I have cs5 havent tried thoose but will play with thoose abit Thank you alot
R-K Thank you, I do have loads to learn about values and edges but Im trying to make it as simple as I can even tho most of the time I screw things off and make it more complicated than it should ^^
Thank you for that tip on lightning. I appreciate it alot.
Xcarbon Dont be sorry about that I missed a few things too in your SB and u cant really keep track of all posts Thank you you be proud of yourself too. looking back at the newest post u made. f-cking awesome
snatti Thanks for the push I will
MattGamer Still lifes are fun sometimes and sometimes they are less fun but thank you
BlackDelphin Thank you, its hard to notice difference in your own work so thank you for mentioning the contrast. I had loads of fun and I hope to improve even more, the still life I dont think will be finished im affraid. I had to take the items away because there wasnt enough space for me to keep them on the place. When I did post I had in mind that I should go back to it but time ran out and I had to rearrange abit. But it was fun and I bet I can make more still lifes
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Gestures from reference
Some still life
Something for fun, abit warcrafty ^^
March 8th, 2013 #86
A pity that still won't be retouches, but like you said, there will be more!
That new still life that you posted, the base of the bowl seems a bit small, and
a bit to far towards the left. Also, the horizon line near the package is fuzzy.
Perhaps concentrate more on the basic refines, try to keep them tidy looking.
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March 11th, 2013 #87
i like those gestures.... i like the way you're making those lines .. the curve lines and the straight ones .. your line look much more confident!!
and the still life is *as always* awesome!! do you always set them up in your home??
those dragons look cool ...abit loose but still awesome!!
if dragons intrest you then you should watch this
"Paint a pair of dragons with Ubisoft's Remko Troost"
the way he paint dragons is freaking fantastic.... he makes everything from scratch ... makes his own textures, brushes and also setting the flow of the brush to direction to create awesome horns
keep up the good work!!
i wanna se some more awesome dragons
March 17th, 2013 #88
some pretty cool color studies you did there, and also your landscapes are getting better.
keep up the good process.
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Try it! im looking forward to see what you can do with them mixer brushes!
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March 21st, 2013 #90
Wow Nina! post #86 is off the hook! All the 3 images are really great. I particularly love the little figure drawings, what a great way to learn anatomy and posing!
I think maybe you should develop on the dragon heads you sketched out, I would love to see a fully rendered one!


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So, where are the buyouts? Have they gone away, or have they moved under the radar?
As recently as a year ago, more than a dozen agencies were offering $25,000 (before deductions) to thousands of workers to take regular or early retirement.
The payments — subject to federal, state and local taxes and other deductions — were first authorized in the mid-1990s when the Clinton administration decided to trim the federal payroll by more than a quarter million jobs. Many of the functions continued, but were farmed out to private contractors.
Buyouts were reduced to a trickle for years, but they were revived in 2011 as agency budgets tightened. Defense, the largest federal agency, led the way in buyouts over the past couple of years. Air Force had two separate rounds of buyouts.
More than a dozen non-DoD operations also offered their people cash- to-go, either via regular or early retirement.
The U.S. Postal Service offered its own version of buyouts. Most were less than the $25,000 payments offered by other agencies and some were spread over two years.
In June of last year The Washington Post reported that the Office of Personnel Management, the government's central HR operation, would offer buyouts to up to 300 buyouts to its employees. OPM led the federal downsizing drive during the Clinton administration. Some workers at OPM say they've heard rumblings of another round of buyouts as early as January of next year.
"We keep hearing rumors of buyout ... but without any confirmation," a federal HR official said earlier this week. "It's almost like [the situation] with the SES bonuses, as if [the administration] doesn't want to talk about it."
Before this year's furloughs (for which employees did not get paid) and the shutdown (where people were paid, anyhow) there was considerable speculation about buyouts in the 2014 fiscal year. That started Oct. 1. Many assumed that with agency budgets still up in the air, and phase two of sequestration kicking in, buyouts would be the solution. The payments are most cost-effective to agencies early in the fiscal year. If they can get a highly- compensated worker off the roles early in the year, they are ahead.
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Bears win boys and girls titles, Lakewood boys place second and MP girls place third
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Marysville-Pilchuck's Austin Joyner (center) races to a win in the boys 100 meter dash Saturday afternoon.
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Lakewood's Andrew Stich (left) competes in the boys 110 meter hurdles at the 11th annual Tomahawk Classic on Saturday. Stich won the race in 16.17 seconds at Marysville Pilchuck High School.
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The Marysville-Pilchuck girls 4x100 meter relay team fumbles their final baton exchange between Mackenzie Nolte (center) and Lacey McLean (right) allowing Tahoma to catch them and win.
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The Marysville-Pilchuck 4x100 meter relay team is way ahead as they enter the final transition zone.
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Anchor runner for the Oak Harbor 4x800 meter relay team Ashley Everett crosses the line in front of Tahoma for first place.
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The Bears won the boys and girls titles at the 11th annual Tomahawk Classic Saturday afternoon at Marysville Pilchuck High School, with the boys' team score almost doubling second-place Lakewood and the girls holding off charges from Issaquah and Marysville Pilchuck.
It was a race for second place in the boys events, with Lakewood (88 points) finishing ahead of Issaquah (73.5). Tahoma finished the meet, which featured a heavy wind throughout, with 153 points.
"We didn't aim for it at all," said Lakewood head coach Jeff Sowards of the Cougars' second-place finish. "We came here with some specific events that we wanted to get some things done in. We didn't have kids in certain events that we normally would. So yeah, we're real pleased with the kids."
Lakewood, a 2A school, led off the meet with a win in the 3,200-meter relay, and followed that with a victory by Andrew Stich in the 110 hurdles.
Tahoma's Riley Campbell got the Bears' first win in the 1,600, but the Cougars remained close to Tahoma for the first half of the meet. Stich (41.30) and teammate Ryan Whitehead (42.84) finished second and third in 300 meter hurdles to help the Cougars temporarily overtake Tahoma 62-61 through 10 events.
The Bears reclaimed the lead with two top-five finishers in the next two events, the 800 run and javelin throw.
"I know they announced us in the lead a couple of times, but we didn't have horses enough to run with them at the end," Sowards said.
Tahoma all but clinched the victory with a top-three sweep in the discus throw. Lakewood's Tristan Nelson was fourth with a throw of 135 feet, 11 inches.
Sowards said the meet provides good competition, and allows teams to try different strategies in some events, like the distance races.
It's also a good place to ease athletes back from injuries.
One of those was Lakewood's Justin Peterson, who was in his first competition since injuring his hamstring in the Cougars' home meet against Archbishop Murphy on March 21. Peterson, last year's state champion in the triple jump, won the high jump event with a leap of six feet.
"It was nice to have Justin Peterson back in the high jump," Sowards said. " ... He's not quite at full throttle yet, but he had a pretty severe hamstring pull and it's nice to see him back."
Marysville Pilchuck's Austin Joyner beat out Graham-Kapowsin's Kevin Dudley by three hundredths of a second in the 100 dash and Deion Stell finished first in the 200 for the host team, which finished with 58 points, good enough for a fifth-place tie with Squalicum. The Tomahawks also got a victory in the 400 relay finishing in 44.06 seconds.
Stanwood (39) finished eighth, led by its long-jump champion Trevor Shaw, who went a distance of 20 feet. Mountlake Terrace (34.5) finished right behind the Spartans, fueled by a pair of individual champions. Blake Fernandez won the triple jump and Beau Kennedy took the title in the javelin toss. Kennedy's throw of 171 feet, 3.5 inches was 16 feet farther than the next highest throw.
The Tahoma girls finished ahead of Issaquah and Marysville Pilchuck, which finished third. The Tomahawk girls had one individual champion, Lacey McLean, who won the 300 hurdles event in 48.37 seconds.
Marysville Pilchuck's Amanda Klep finished four hundredths of a second behind Gabrielle Gevers of Issaquah (13.20) in the 100 dash. Gevers also finished just ahead of Klep in the 200.
"(Klep) competes like gangbusters all the time," Marysville Pilchuck head coach Randy Davis said. "She had great races against really fast sprinters today. She kind of gets a lot of her strength from the fact that her teammates support her and cheer her on. And she does the same for them."
Davis was very happy with his team's performance, both on the boys and girls sides. He knew his team might be a little tired going in -- they have competed in four meets in the last 10 days -- but Davis said his team rallied to put on good performances all over their home field.
"Overall, completely (pleased)," Davis said. "They competed well. I can't remember a disappointing performance. That's how I look at it. Where the points fall, the points fall."
King's (76), the only 1A team at the meet, finished three points behind the Tomahawks. The Knights got wins from Karly Hibbard in the shot put and their 800 relay team. Kacey Kemper got second in 1,600 and 800, where Cascade Conference rival Ariel Jensen of Lakewood edged her out by one-hundredth of a second in the closest race of the day.
"The time wasn't nearly as indicative of what shape she was in today. With the wind as strong as it was, the strategy changed," Sowards said. "Instead of going for a time that we had planned, we just went to see if she could win the thing."
Snohomish and Oak Harbor finished fifth and sixth, respectively. The Panthers got a win in the high jump by Kellianna Cavin while Oak Harbor got victories from Alex Laiblin in the 3,200 and the Wildcats' 3,200 relay team of Lauren Vagt, Hayley Lundstrom, Marisa Sligh and Ashley Everett.
Along with Jensen, Skylar Cannon won an event for the Cougars, with a throw of 117 feet, 11 inches in the javelin. Lakewood finished eighth with 33 points.
The Tomahawk Classic is an annual track and field event held at Marysville Pilchuck High School and boasts 12 teams from around the state from the 1A classification all the way up to 4A competing together.
Davis said that performing at home definitely motivates his players to perform at a higher level. And while Davis says he enjoys putting on the Classic, he's also happy when the final event is completed.
"It's exhaustingly fun, let's put it that way," Davis said. "You worry, because track and field has so many little nuances to it, and so many little details. You really rely on people stepping up to help volunteer. For years now, our parents have stepped up. It's really kind of fun because it's a community-type thing.
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We never get used to it. No matter how many cases of cruelty our team investigates, the brutality of it still hits us hard in the heart. This case was no exception. In mid-July our Humane Law Enforcement department received a call from an eyewitness who saw a father and son beating their cat to death with a stick. We jumped into action.
Quickly finding the deceased cat in a garbage bag on the side of the road, our Agents subsequently obtained a search warrant for the home. A search uncovered a broken stick encrusted with cat fibers and blood in the attic. Jean Rog Murat, 60, and his son, Robenson Murat, 29, were arrested and taken into custody.
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A death is a death , why only two years? If there were stricter laws governing animal abuse maybe less trash would harm them.
Amen .. We need much more stricker laws .. how could thay harm a cat like that.. for what ??
Exactly what I was going to say. We need tougher laws against animal abuse......Federal & State laws........some states seem to take this subject lightly! If these law makers would only realize how much pain is inflicted on these animals,& put themselves in the animals place, maybe they would do something about it. They feel pain just like we do. There is NO excuse for anyone to harm any animal let alone a little cat!
They deserve to be in prison. This is heartbreaking.
Couldn't agree more, until there are tougher penalties abusers will continue to mock the law with their violent and inhumane ways against animals
These 2 jerks need to be locked up !!
In my opinion, if they are capable of doing this to a defenseless animal, what's to stop them from trying to harm other people? They deserve much more than the maximum two years they're facing.
I agree. People who are sick to beat a poor cat to death will end up inflicting this violence towards people. It's a known fact. Why doesn't the law take that into consideration. History of serial killers had been known to doing the same. 2 years sentencing isn't enough!
What difference does it make if they might possibly do it to a human? It's enough that they did it to an animal. The whole "they need to be stopped before they do it to a person" argument is stupid and beside the point.


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25 Years Ago: Van Halen's 'OU812′ Album Released
Changing lead singers midstream tends to have an adverse effect on most rock bands, but after original vocalist David Lee Roth left Van Halen in 1985, the group topped the charts with their next album, 1986′s '5150.' Two years later, they released their eighth LP, 'OU812′ — and the hits kept right on coming.
With '5150,' the questions on most fans' minds were how well new singer Sammy Hagar would fit in with the group and how his presence would affect the pop shift the band had started pursuing toward the end of Roth's tenure. By the time 'OU812′ arrived on May 24, 1988 — with a title that seems to take a shot at their former lead singer — fans knew what they were getting with Hagar-era Van Halen. The only real mystery was whether they'd be able to sustain their momentum — a riddle they solved with the release of the album's first single, the Top 5 pop hit (and rock-radio chart-topper) 'When It's Love.'
While that track was one of the era's many synth-padded power ballads, the album made room for more than keyboards, offering an expansive mix of sounds that included moody rockers ('Mine All Mine'), uptempo numbers ('A.F.U. [Naturally Wired]'), radio-friendly pop anthems ('Feels So Good'), a bluesy acoustic tune ('Finish What Ya Started') and even a Little Feat cover ('A Apolitical Blues'). And although they ran the risk of alienating some fans by straying so far afield from their classic sound, the sales were nothing but encouraging: 'OU812′ followed '5150′ to the top of the Billboard charts, going quadruple platinum and spinning off four Top 40 pop hits along the way.
Firmly reestablished as one of the biggest rock bands on the planet, Van Halen closed out the '80s on a high note — and when they returned with 'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' in 1991, they picked up right where they left off, debuting at No. 1 with a triple-platinum record that contained no fewer than seven hit pop and/or rock-radio hits. For a while, it looked like there was no stopping them — and although they'd eventually be derailed by Hagar's departure in 1996 (followed by a whole bunch of other stuff), 'OU812′ still stands as one of the group's most successful records, not to mention one of the decade's smoother blends of heavy rock and light pop sheen.


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Tucked among the Elon University men's basketball team's trek through non-league games is this week's annual early-season dip into the Southern Conference waters.
The Phoenix plays at Georgia Southern tonight and then plays host to College of Charleston on Saturday night — two opportunities for Elon to gauge its progress and iron out its issues before the league schedule cranks up in full force after New Year's.
And if conference games the week following Thanksgiving seem bizarre, well, you're not alone.
But this has become a function of the league's 18-game slate, which Elon, with a lineup that features four experienced juniors, has grown accustomed to.
"It's weird but it's not weird," forward Ryley Beaumont said. "You get these two games, you get a great feel of where a couple teams are at in the conference, where you're at yourself, and then you go back to the drawing board.
"It is a good little peek to where you're at."
Even though Elon has encountered a variety of challenging environments this month in road games at Butler, South Carolina and Virginia Military Institute, Beaumont expects a raised intensity level tonight, because, as he said, "it's always personal" in the Southern Conference.
Elon coach Matt Matheny noticed an extra thickness when he pulled out the scouting file on Georgia Southern, as compared to the other six opponents the Phoenix has faced this season.
"The biggest difference in this game and other November games is we know them and they know us," Matheny said. "So the preparation is different. The notes that you review and the film that you watch is not only film from this year, but it's film from last year."
Elon defeated Georgia Southern 65-58 in March in the Southern Conference Tournament quarterfinals before falling to eventual champion Davidson the next night.
Eric Ferguson, a 6-foot-7 high-flyer who emerged as one of the league's top players last season, again leads Georgia Southern in scoring (13.6 points per game) and rebounding (7.4 per game) through five games this season.
Matheny wants Elon to tighten down defensively tonight.
He said defense helped carry the Phoenix to recent victories against Florida Atlantic (62-59 in overtime) and South Carolina (65-53), but, despite VMI's fast-paced, high-volume approach, Elon lacked certain defensive elements in Saturday's 90-81 loss.
Elon's 2 of 17 shooting from 3-point range didn't help Saturday, either.
"We've had an up-and-down week," Matheny said. "Boy, we had a tremendous win (at South Carolina) and then we had a tough loss (at VMI). We've just got to keep moving forward."
-- Elon junior Lucas Troutman was named Player of the Week in the Southern Conference on Tuesday. The 6-10 forward averaged 16.5 points and 7.0 rebounds while supplying a total of six steals in the Phoenix's last two games.
Troutman also has climbed to third place on Elon's all-time blocked shots list with 110 for his career.
Who: Elon (4-2) at Georgia Southern (2-3)
When: 7 tonight
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