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While thinking about column burial (see that thread) and other forms of "well-urned rest", I thought of this one and turned up 25 ghits:
"'They have strange burial rites,' he remarked as Daniel regarded a page with an engraving of a mummy and a priest sealing the inner organs in a canopy jar."
http://www.pepesplace.co.uk/PastLivesCh … gDebts.htm
A lot of references seem to be narratives of video game solutions:
"Finding first the two Guardians Keys later on you'll find two more a Hand a Canopy Jar and a Vraeus is the main goal here."
'Canopic' is derived from Canopus, a bright star in the consellation Argo, while 'canopy' appears to go back to a Greek word referring to an Egyptian couch with mosquito netting – so there are some Egyptian connections.
Tunisia, which stood in for Obi-Wan Kenobi's desert planet Tatooine, is in North Africa but not actually adjacent to Egypt.
But perhaps this person was thinking of him.
Fanfic: " One of the masked men walks over to an alter with a kenobic jar and brings it over to the table."
Perhaps since the Egyptians put vital organs inside them, they are canonic jars. Or maybe because they are cylindrical like cannons.
Lesson plan: "Then they removed the organs and placed them individually in canonic jars. These needed to be preserved for the afterlife.(Pass around a homemade version of a canonic jar)."
Q&A Board: "Instead they took very special pains to wrap up the heart and put it back into the corpse – or put it in a canonic jar for safe keeping."
Larrybob, congratulations are in order, you've just been canonized Eggcornista. The tree house is up here, way up in the canopy. Come on up, we're having grey-matter canapés.
An it was interesting to note that in Egypt, the heart was considered the most important organ for this revelation knowledge, the brain was basically sucked up and thrown into a canape jar or discarded.
http://cosmossiete.blogspot.ca/2011/04/ … heart.html
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July 19th, 2005 #1
Magicgoo's Goo ::: Updated 11/2009 ::: See Page 4 ::: Added SP
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Hey, There's some pretty good stuff in here. Especially nearing the end. I'm not sure what you want... the robot at the bottom is nicely done. Any more male drawings? You said you needed help in those areas.
J. Christopher Schmidt
Comic Book Artist / Illustrator
July 19th, 2005 #3
July 19th, 2005 #4
good clean inks, you definently put a lot of thought into each figure that you make. Do some anatomy and face studies and you're art will benefit. I'll make sure to check back.
July 24th, 2005 #5
July 24th, 2005 #6
Hey hey you have some interesting stuff. The last girl's right arm looks too short, because of the angle of the shoulder and where the middle of the arm comes just under her breast. The way she holds her sword it seems as though it should be at an angle and not quite as strait on as it is. The cloth hanging down from her pelvis is at a good angle but the frilly cloth appears flat. The gun in her left hand is not bad but check out the reference section under Photography in the forums there is a nice selection of gun references (ill say this to everyone, guns have anatomy too ) The chick with the staff is rather nice no critical eye at first or second glance. Enjoy your stay at concept art.
"A failure will not appear till a unit has passed final inspection."
murphy's law
July 25th, 2005 #7
Actually, I just think the last chicks head is a little too big. Hope you post more soon!
J. Christopher Schmidt
Comic Book Artist / Illustrator
July 28th, 2005 #8
Hello again
ArtisticSchmidt I made her a tiny Asian girl, so her head would naturally appear to be larger. I'm 5'0", and my head looks kinda big I swear it was intentional!!
sly's hand Yup. I suck at guns and will check that reference section out.
Wait'll you see this sucky gun. It's not a raygun, it's a gaygun! Hahah, get it? Er. Um. Nevermind. I'll head to the reference section. Now...
And, here's a chick I might paint to complement my other chick painting I just did here.
July 28th, 2005 #9
Interesting concepts, but I'd definitely recommend studying the basics and foundation before the design work, since the foundation will give you the best...foundation from which to present your ideas.
If there are hundreds of thousands of dollars riding on it, believe me firm understanding of the basics and ability to render are huge assets, since you are basically presenting to non-art type investors who want to see something virtually tanglible before they proceed.
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Hey there, you have some really cool designs. Your proportions and anatomy are pretty good (I can atleast tell you've studied them somewhat!) Just keep working on them. If everything had better construction and better draughtmanship, your designs would really be the shit!
July 28th, 2005 #11
I like your stuff a lot, ursula! Your work has a great style too it - mostly goth, but somehow cheery at the same time.... wow, never mind - don't ask where i got that idea... i guess cuz it's early in the morn or something? anyway - you're style! yes! that's right - it's great, and it makes me jealous of you, which in turn makes me want to draw, which (hopefully) will make me better - so keep up the good work, so i can keep getting better! lol!
have fun!
Creation is an act of divinity. We are all gods of our own worlds.
August 6th, 2005 #12
May 18th, 2006 #13
May 18 2006 Update
Hello, all. I always forget to scan my sketches just because there are so many. Here are several from January until now. I still have another series to scan, but I'll get around to it another day.
From a Victoria's Secret catalog pose, here's a chick who's angry because she has a short leg and whips herself.
Before getting my wisdom teeth out, I felt like this:
I was scared while in the waiting room to get my teeth out, so I sketched this guy again:
My dogs:
She looks good with a goatee for some reason:
The obligatory girl-with-a-mullet,-eyepatch,-headband,-pit-stains,-lightning-tat,-guns,-and-walking-away-from-an-explosion-pic:
May 18th, 2006 #14
Great update, 'specially the last two.
Good job on weight and balance. The lovely sway of the hips really makes them seem grounded, believable.
and the third to last page reminds me of davi. i dont know why
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May 20th, 2006 #15
Thanks, groove. Yeah, I'm having fun with swingin' hips these days. Finally starting to have fun with hips & legs and lower body.
Gonna throw my other stuff from some other thread I did in here too, just so it's all in one space. These are sorta recent, but not as recent. Or maybe they are. I dunno. Some of ya may have seen them, too.
June 11th, 2006 #16
Update 6-11-06
Skully done today with pencils in 2 or 3 hours maybe. It's on weird paper I got from my dad. Circa brand, 12.75" x 19", 80 lbs. See the close up for the extreme texture I was fighting. Blah.
It sucks.
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i love the texture- it makes the subject more interesting.
don't fight with it, work with it.
June 12th, 2006 #18
i've seen some of your finished stuff and it looks really good.But most of these sketches look kinda old, so we need hyper new ones to crit you properly.Anyway, the female anatomy looks great, but you need to try n draw some real animal muscle groups n bones to get the fantasy creatures look "right".And about the male aatomy...well, use ref and anatomy books, most of them mostly concentrate on male anatomy
Maybe some sketches could use a bit less "hairy lines" if you know what i mean.Aw god i feel "evil" to crit you, so i'll go drawing instead
June 12th, 2006 #19
Hahahha, "Art Vandelay!" "Vandelay Industries!! Say Vandelay Industries!"
OK, sorry, I'm a Seinfeld fan. Anyhow, I thought about not fighting the texture, but I t was difficult because it was sooooo wide. Each stripe in the paper is like half a millimeter.
Anyhow, TheGnoll, don't feel "evil" critting me. I need it! Yeah, I'm very bad with muscles especially on males and creatures, so I'm working on it, I swear!
I'll try to update with some newer sketches.
Someone said I needed to do more life cast drawings so I'm gonna find all kinds of interesting stuff around my house to draw since I don't have any casts yet.
Thanks again for the advice.
June 12th, 2006 #20
I don't remember this s/b... Improvements by the bucketload! Try some males too...Crap I need to practice some Females!
June 12th, 2006 #21
I'm really liking that skull... and the rest, too (although some of your girlies should lay off the hairspray )
We've gotta keep this place alive while everyone is off having fun...
June 12th, 2006 #22
Captain Skinny is looking pretty darn flash. His far goggle may be a tad larger than his near, but the different textures of the materials are nicely done. Also, non of the upper teeth look to be overlaying any of the lower (usually, when the molars are together, the upper incisors will be in front of the lower, though your skull may vary).
So, I've been by here several times and it's obvious you can draw what you see. What I'd like you to try is drawing something from ref, then drawing it again without the ref. It will really tell you what you're observing and what you're just seeing. It really picked me up out of a rut a few years ago (which I've comfortably settled back into).
Flip off the desert for me.
June 12th, 2006 #23
That skull with the aviator's cap is pretty rad, goo. The paper gives it a shitload of interesting texture that I'm fucking SURE was a bitch to work with, though. Nice book.
June 12th, 2006 #24
Just did this one with no ref. It's a family portrait. ^_^ My husband's gonna kill me for effing up his nose. Should've used a ref for the gun (as usual), and his arm is all wonky. I think he's less chunky and I'm more chunky, too.
Maybe, I'll do this backwards of your suggestion dogfood: Without ref first, then take ref pic, redraw it, and see how badly I was off
Thanks for all the great and helpful feedback, guys.
I'm making mental notes:
- draw from ref then draw by memory
- more males
- more male anatomy
- less "hairy lines" (i don't know what that means)
Onto drawing more stuff!.....
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nice! I like your monster concepts, very imaginative
Maybe you should study some more anatomy though, your human forms are a bit smooth, or rubber-like, learning more about anatomy and how to define it should help!
Hairy lines means going over a line over and over again, making it scruffy and messy, so just work on getting cleaner lines
keep it up, that last one is pretty funny
June 15th, 2006 #26
wow... i just love your fashion sense :3 i hope to see more of your work
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June 22nd, 2006 #28
Update June 22 2006
This is a logo design I just did. I can't sleep for some reason.
I think I'll just redo my site around this logo instead how I was going to do it. I don't like the font yet, though.
Here's the logo in the splash page.
Anyhow, let me know what you think. I'm gonna go try to sleep again....
EDIT: Holy shit. This is my 1,001 post. I'm an addict.
June 22nd, 2006 #29
I love the new logo, much better.You've got some fun stuff in your site, enjoyed the flash animations and the one where you can change clothes to the dude and the gal.
The family portrait looks good, now your husband has some original clothes
I'd just rework on your arms, and give the whole scene some ground shadows just to bring them to the ground.And btw, you're still in time to erase and rwork on the gun
...now those are two hyper cool dogs.
June 22nd, 2006 #30
hey Ursula,
I think these are Good crits.
* draw from ref then draw by memory
* more males
* more male anatomy
* less "hairy lines" (i don't know what that means)
I think you could work more on Anatomy period, male, and female. What you are lacking is Form and mass. How the body is made up of different shapes.
The Less 'hairy Lines' or 'Line Quality' is fucking hard to understand. I had one instructor harping on me the whole semester about line Quality , yet he never explained it to me, but somehow I understood with time what the hell he was saying. I think I woke up one morning and 'DING' I understood.
What Archipelago said was good advice. More of a direct line, one time application type thing. The line quality comes in when you use thinner lines for the boney parts of the body, and thicker softer lines for the fatty parts of the body. Some people don't even draw the line when light is shining on a part of the body. This is Getting all fancy pansy, but to some extent it is very useful to describe something in a simple and subtle way through line.
When you start drawing direct, your drawings will look like total crap, and you will feel like you have no control, this is normal. you just need to practice and get comfortable with it.
Also another good Practice is.. if you want to do Characters, but you are still working it out, and want to make lots of changes. Get some traceing paper and start a rough sketch of your gesture, then once you think that is correct and good with flow and what not, put another traceing paper over it. Start working out the anatomy and proportions ( this will also help you to learn more about anatomy) then after you are satisfied with the anatomy, start drawing the charcter with clothes on( this will also help you with how cloths over lap, and fold over the body) This can be your final stage, or if you feel like you totally botched it, start over with a fresh new peice of traceing paper for that last stage( For the Final drawing I use Vellum traceing paper. It has a nice surface and is fun to draw on, also it erases very well) On the last Stage you are pretty much set with gesture, anatomy/proportions, and cloth. You can pretty much reallly pay attention to your line quality, and direct drawing. This exercise really helped when I was in school. It seems tedious, but if you are doing a character you are really into it is much more fun then doing boreing anatomy studies.
I hope that was helpfull, sorry for such a long post.
ps. A great book to check out is 'Drawing People, how to Portray the clothe figure' By Barabara Bradley
She was my teacher, the one who gave me the traceing paper assignments.
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James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart (February 6, 1833 – May 12, 1864) was an American soldier from Virginia and a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War. He was known to his friends as "Jeb". Stuart was a cavalry commander known for his mastery of reconnaissance and the use of cavalry in support of offensive operations. While he cultivated a cavalier image (red-lined gray cape, yellow sash, hat cocked to the side with a peacock feather, red flower in his lapel, often sporting cologne), his serious work made him the eyes and ears of Robert E. Lee's army and inspired Southern morale.
Stuart established a reputation as an audacious cavalry commander and on two occasions (during the Peninsula Campaign and the Maryland Campaign) circumnavigated the Union Army of the Potomac, bringing fame to himself and embarrassment to the North. Arguably his most famous campaign, Gettysburg, was marred by his separation from Lee's army for an extended period, leaving Lee unaware of Union troop movements and contributing to Lee's defeat at the Battle of Gettysburg. Historians have failed to agree on whether this was the fault of Stuart or of bad luck and Lee's less than explicit orders. The Gettysburg Campaign was also one in which he fared poorly in two of the most significant cavalry battles of the war—Brandy Station and the third day at Gettysburg.
During the 1864 Overland Campaign, Union Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan's cavalry launched an offensive to defeat Stuart, who was soon killed at the Battle of Yellow Tavern.
Also in 1855, Stuart met Flora Cooke, the daughter of the commander of the 2nd U.S. Dragoon regiment, Lt. Col. Philip St. George Cooke. They became engaged in September, less than two months after meeting. Stuart humorously wrote of his rapid courtship in Latin, "Veni, Vidi, Victus sum" (I came, I saw, I was conquered). Although a gala wedding was planned for Fort Riley, Kansas, the death of Stuart's father on September 20 caused a change of plans and the marriage on November 14 was small and limited to family witnesses.
Stuart's leadership ability was soon recognized. He was a veteran of Indian conflicts and Bleeding Kansas. Stuart was wounded in July 1857, while fighting on the frontier against Native Americans. In 1859, Stuart carried the orders for Colonel Robert E. Lee to proceed to Harpers Ferry to crush John Brown's raid on the U.S. Arsenal there. During the siege, Stuart volunteered to be Lee's aide-de-camp, and read the ultimatum to Brown before the final assault.
He was promoted to the rank of captain on April 22, 1861, but resigned from the U.S. Army on May 14, 1861, to join the Confederate States Army, following the secession of Virginia. Upon learning that his father-in-law, Col. Cooke, would remain in the U.S. Army during the coming war, Stuart wrote to his brother-in-law (future Confederate Brig. Gen. John Rogers Cooke), "He will regret it but once, and that will be continuously.
Stuart established a public reputation for conducting daring reconnaissance raids in the enemy's rear. Twice he slipped around Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's army, once in the Peninsula Campaign and once after the Battle of Antietam. While these exploits were not militarily significant, they improved Southern morale.
Early in the Northern Virginia Campaign, Stuart was promoted to major general on July 25, 1862, and his command was upgraded to the Cavalry Division. He was nearly captured and lost his signature plumed hat and cloak to pursuing Federals during a raid in August, but in a raid at Catlett's Station the following day, managed to overrun Union army commander Maj. Gen. John Pope's headquarters and not only captured Pope's full uniform, but also intercepted orders that provided Lee with much valuable intelligence. At the end of 1862, Stuart led a raid north of the Rappahannock River, inflicting some 230 casualties while losing only 27 of his own men.
In December 1862, during the Battle of Fredericksburg, Stuart and his cavalry—most notably his horse artillery under Major John Pelham—protected Lt. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's flank at Hamilton's Crossing. Before the battle, Stuart gave Jackson a fine, well dressed Confederate coat, trimmed with gold lace, which he thought gave Jackson more of a general's appearance.
In May 1863, at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Stuart was appointed by Lee to take command of the Second Corps for a few days after Jackson had been wounded and did as well commanding infantry as he did cavalry. When Stonewall died from complications of pneumonia after his wounding, he was dressed in his old blue army coat, for the gray one Stuart had given him was bloodied and torn during amputation.
As Lee and Union Maj. Gen. George G. Meade marched toward each other at Gettysburg, Lee ordered Stuart to screen the Confederate army as it moved down the Shenandoah Valley and to maintain contact with the lead element, Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell's Second Corps, as it advanced in the direction of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Stuart once again attempted to circle the Union army and eventually found himself well to the east of Ewell, out of contact with the Union army, and out of communications with Lee. Lee's orders gave Stuart much latitude, and both generals share the blame for the long absence of Stuart's cavalry, as well as for the failure to assign a more active role to the cavalry left with the army. Stuart and his three best brigades were absent from the army during the crucial phase of the approach to Gettysburg and the first two days of battle. Lee's army was left blinded in enemy territory without detailed knowledge of the terrain, roads, or their opponent's strength and positions. This lack of knowledge was a significant reason that the Battle of Gettysburg started on July 1, 1863, before Lee could fully concentrate his army as planned.
Stuart arrived at Gettysburg late on the second day of the battle—bringing with him a caravan of captured Union supply wagons—and received a rare rebuke from Lee. (No one witnessed the private meeting between Lee and Stuart, but reports circulated at headquarters that Lee's greeting was "abrupt and frosty." Colonel Edward Porter Alexander wrote, "Although Lee said only, 'Well, General, you are here at last,' his manner implied rebuke, and it was so understood by Stuart.) On the final day of the battle, Stuart was ordered to get into the enemy's rear and disrupt their line of communications at the same time Pickett's Charge was being conducted against Cemetery Ridge, but his attack on East Cavalry Field was repulsed by Union cavalry under Brig. Gens. David McM. Gregg and George Armstrong Custer.
Although Stuart was not reprimanded or disciplined in any official way for his role in the Gettysburg campaign, it is noteworthy that his appointment to corps command on September 9, 1863, did not carry with it a promotion to lieutenant general. Historian Edward Bonekemper notes that since all other corps commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia carried this rank, Lee's decision to keep Stuart at major general rank, while at the same time promoting his subordinates Wade Hampton and Fitzhugh Lee to major generals, could be considered an implied rebuke.
A statue of General J.E.B. Stuart by sculptor Frederick Moynihan was dedicated on Richmond's famed Monument Avenue at Stuart Circle in 1907. Like General Stonewall Jackson, his equestrian statue faces north, indicating that he died in the War. In 1884 the town of Taylorsville, Virginia, was renamed Stuart. The U.S. Army named two models of World War II tanks, the M3 and M5, the Stuart tank in its old adversary's honor. High schools in Falls Church, Virginia (J.E.B. Stuart High School) and Jacksonville, Florida, are named for him.
In December 2006, a personal Confederate battle flag, sewn by Flora Stuart, was sold at auction for a world-record price for any Confederate flag, for $956,000 (including buyer's premium). The 34-inch by 34-inch flag was hand-sewn for Stuart by Flora in 1862 and Stuart carried it into some of his most famous battles. However, in December of that year it fell from a tent front into a campfire and was damaged. Stuart returned it to his wife with a letter describing the accident and telling of his despondency over the banner's damage. The flag remained with the Stuart family until 1969 when it was given to Stuart Hall, Staunton, Virginia, by a granddaughter of the Confederate general. Flora Cooke Stuart was headmistress of the Virginia Female Institute in Staunton, which was renamed "Stuart Hall" in her honor in 1907. The school quietly sold the flag and letter to a private collector in 2000. In 2006, the flag and letter, which had been displayed in a single frame in the Stuart Hall front parlor, sold separately at auction.
Stuart's birthplace, Laurel Hill, located in Patrick County, Virginia, was purchased by the J.E.B. Stuart Birthplace Preservation Trust, Inc., in 1992 to preserve and interpret it.
In the long running comic book G.I. Combat, featuring "The Haunted Tank", published by DC Comics from the 1960s through the late 1980s, the ghost of General Stuart guided a tank crew (first a Stuart, later a Sherman) commanded by his namesake "Lt. Jeb Stuart".
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Several alternate histories, describing scenarios where the Confederacy won the Civil War, gave extensive roles to Jeb Stuart's alternative lives. He is a prominent character in Robert Skimin's Gray Victory and Harry Turtledove's Timeline-191 series.
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Nathan Wolanek, 10, (left) runs the ball behind his blocker during a Granite Falls Tigers youth football practice on Wednesday evening.
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Nathan Wolanek, 10, leads the Granite Falls Tigers youth football team in a cheer at practice on Wednesday evening. Wolanek, who has high-functioning autism, was allowed to score in the last play of the Tigers game last week.
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Coach Carl Cary talks to Nathan Wolanek, 10, during a Granite Falls Tigers youth football practice on Wednesday evening.
On the field, two of the three Granite Falls youth football teams have gone winless in their age divisions. The remaining team has a win, but is at the bottom of the standings.
Off the field, allegations that a coach misused nearly $10,000 of the association's money has led to a police investigation.
When a former parent volunteer was asked to look into the association's finances, he discovered unpaid bills, lapsed insurance coverage and paperwork for nonprofit status had not been filed. For a time, it appeared games would have to be forfeited before volunteers scrambled to clean up the mess.
There was mistrust. Parents bickered. Coaches winced. Youngsters wondered what was wrong.
"It was almost like dominoes," said Stacey McBride, who had two boys playing in the league. "Every day, it seemed like, 'Uh, oh. Uh, oh. Uh, oh.'"
A small town can feel like an extended family -- sometimes dysfunctional, but often resilient.
A gesture Saturday involving a 10-year-old boy with autism helped heal a season of discontent. So, too, did a spaghetti feed fundraiser the following night.
The game was nearly over Saturday when Coach Carl Cary called Nathan Wolanek to his side.
Nathan has a high-functioning form of autism. It often takes him longer than his peers to process information, such as finding his place on the field or getting into the right stance. He's usually the last player to get into the game, typically for a few snaps on the defensive line.
Nathan's mom, April Wolanek, watched from afar as Nathan started jumping up and down and hugging his coach on the sunny afternoon.
Her husband, Mike, was closer to the action. He called her on his cellphone.
Nathan was going to get to go in on offense, he explained.
"He's going to be carrying the ball," he said.
"My first thought was, 'What are they thinking?'" April said
The Marysville team had a stout defense. She couldn't help thinking that the Granite Falls starting running back seemed to be taking a beating.
She watched as the coach and another player on the sidelines worked with Nathan on taking a handoff, tucking the ball securely into his arms and running.
Nathan -- an orange No. 74 on the back of his black jersey -- jogged onto the field. He scanned the sidelines until he locked eyes with his mother and waved his arm above his head.
When Nathan's play was called in the game's waning moments, it was as though the Red Sea parted. He was not touched on his journey to the end zone. He was overjoyed then and well into the night, still awake and reliving the moment well past his bedtime.
"I found my block and I ran 50 yards," Nathan said afterward. "All my team was excited."
April Wolanek and others around her couldn't hold back their tears.
"Coaches and parents alike had to take a few minutes to gather themselves because what they observed was pure unadulterated joy," she said.
They weren't the only ones.
Across the field, Tiffany Hackworth was taking photos for the Marysville team. Her husband was helping to coach. Their son, Joseph, was on the Marysville team. Another son, Kenny, 14, also was at the game.
When Nathan made his run, Tiffany couldn't help but think of Kenny, whose autism is so profound that playing football, like so many other activities most people take for granted, is not an option. The compassion behind Nathan's run hit close to home.
"It was extremely emotional to watch," Tiffany Hackworth said. "I can't imagine the joy and excitement that not only Nathan must have felt but also his parents."
As April Wolanek understands it, the play was the idea of one of the referees who was intrigued by Nathan. The boy was chosen as one of four team captains that day. He met with the ref before the game.
Wolanek's explanation of the chain of events went something like this: "A referee spoke to a coach, a coach spoke to a parent, a coach spoke to another coach and (asked him to) go and talk with coaches on the other team, and a plan was set in motion to bless a child. No one on that field could have been aware of the impact of what was transpiring on the field."
Going into the game, the association's off-the-field troubles weighed heavily on Coach Cary.
On Saturday, Nathan -- who Cary described as "just one of those kids who is happy to be there" -- reminded his coach that the joy of a game can take many forms.
"It was exactly what my heart needed at exactly the right time," he said. "It was the highlight of my career, both playing and coaching."
Nathan's run didn't mend everything. The Granite Falls Police Department has received a complaint about the missing money and is investigating, acting Police Chief Don Lauer said Tuesday.
There also are bills to pay and paperwork to complete.
Andy Johnson, a volunteer, has seen people stepping forward to help.
"The reason we are all doing this is we care about kids having something to do," Johnson said. "We all care about the program."
A spaghetti feed fundraiser at the Granite Falls Eagles Club on Sunday raised more than $3,700. That equates to more than $1 a head for every man, woman and child living within Granite Falls city limits.
The initial goal is to raise $10,000, but more will be needed to get the youth football association back on solid financial ground.
There also is an online fundraiser underway at https://99pledges.com/fund/granitefalls. Volunteers got more good news when ShareVision LASIK and Eyecare agreed to provide matching money.
Along the way, hope has been salvaged.
"Some may say that this has been the worst season on record for Granite Falls youth football," April Wolanek said. "I challenge that belief. This may have been one of the most-losing seasons when it comes to ball games, but when viewed through life skills and caring for others, what I observed and experienced on Saturday was one of the most beautiful experiences of my life."
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Commemorative Boeing belt buckles sit along side an iconic Beatles photo at an estate sale April 19 in Everett.
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Bob Husak (right), a record collector, and Lauren Takores search through records and photos at an estate sale in Everett on April 19. Collectors lined up outside before 8 a.m. for the sale, which included an extensive collection of books, records, World War II and aviation memorabilia.
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Sorting through a box of postcards, Brenda Treser remarked, "the postcards are going to be in order at my estate sale."
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At the Everett sale, Treser found several postcards and an album from the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle.
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Marty Fredrickson attends estate sales to pick up items for Odyssey Coins & Collectibles in Everett. The shop specializes in military collectibles. He sees a lot of the same people, those interested in military items, at estate sales around the Puget Sound area.
Fredrickson thinks it would be wrong to make assumptions about the kind of person an individual was based on his or her estate sale. Looking through the Everett man's belongings, "I wish I could have met him," Fredrickson said.
The second part of the estate sale takes place May 3. For more information, go to fossappraisal.com.
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PORTLAND, Ore. - The Gonzaga University women's basketball team rebounded from a tough loss at Saint Mary's College last Thursday with an impressive 82-51 West Coast Conference win at the University of Portland Monday at the Chiles Center. The victory improved the Bulldogs league record to 3-1 and they are now 13-5 overall. The Pilots dropped to 5-12 overall and 0-4 in the WCC.
It was a 3-pointer by sophomore Keani Albanez that gave Gonzaga the momentum it needed midway through the first half to turn a close game into double-figure lead. Albanez drained her 3-pointer at the 11:12 mark to halt the Pilots 9-2 run - which had gotten the home team within one point of the tying the game - and start a 13-2 spurt to push the Bulldog edge to 28-16 with 3:24 left in the opening 24 minutes. Five different players scored in the all-important run, including senior Taelor Karr who had two free throws to cap off the run.
Gonzaga kept its lead above double-figures for the remainder of the first half and Karr's runner in the paint with time expiring gave the Zags their 34-20 halftime advantage.
As a team, the Bulldogs shot 46.4 percent from the field, sinking 13-of-28 field goals. It was a drastic difference from the 29.4 percent (10-of-34) it shot last Thursday in its loss to Saint Mary's College. They were however subpar at the free throw line, sinking only 5-of-11 and turned the ball over an uncharacteristic 10 times.
Portland was held to 29.6 percent shooting in the first half, hitting 8-of-27.
Junior Haiden Palmer led the charge for Gonzaga with a first-half high 11 points. She also had two assists and two steals.
It was Karr that stepped up impressively in the second half. When Portland's Kari Luttinen converted a four-point play - after hitting a 3-pointer and the free throw after getting fouled - to cut GU's lead to 11 at 39-28 Karr followed with a 3-pointer of her own - the first of three in four Gonzaga possessions - to push the Zags lead to 20 points at 50-30 with 14:05 to play in the game. The only other player to score in the Bulldogs 11-0 run was junior Stephanie Golden with a lay-in.
A subsequent 14-4 run by Gonzaga had the visiting team up 28 points at 66-38 with 9:01 left in the game. Junior Jazmine Redmon started things off with a layup - the first of six players to score for the Bulldogs. The run was ended with a bucket by freshman Chelsea Waters.
Gonzaga continued to roll and grabbed its largest lead of the game - 34 points at 82-48 - on sophomore Maiki Viela's second 3-pointer of the game with 1:39 to play.
All 14 players saw action for the Bulldogs with all but two players scoring a point. Karr led all scorers with 20 points, 16 coming in the second half. Palmer chipped in 13 points, along with four assists, three steals and five rebounds. Albanez came off the bench to chip in 10 points.
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Edmonds' Ann Begert (right) and her two children, 22-year-old Etienne Begert (left) and 19-year-old Manon Begert (center) pose at the summit of Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro, elevation 19,340 feet, the highest point in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain in the world.
But the years passed, and then came marriage, children and a career as a family practice physician. More years passed, and Begert began to realize she was running out of somedays.
"I knew I needed to do it soon or I'd be too old," Begert said with a smile, so she prepared this year to embark on one of the world's most arduous hikes. Undaunted by her age, the 56-year-old Begert made plans to climb 19,340-foot Mount Kilimanjaro in the African nation of Tanzania, a grueling trek covering six days and some 13,400 vertical feet on the way up and the same coming down.
"It's just something I've always wanted to do," explained Begert, who lives in Edmonds. "I have no idea why. But even in high school, I just always had it in the back of my head that I was going to do it someday.
It became "sort of a quest," she said. "It was something to achieve, but it's also something you can do without any mountain climbing skills because it's just hiking. You have to adjust to the altitude, but other than that it's just long, hard days of hiking."
Joining her on the climb were her 22-year-old son Etienne and her 19-year-old daughter Manon. Husband Steve Begert, also a physician, had surgeries to replace both hips in recent years and did not make the climb, but later joined the family for the remainder of an African adventure vacation.
Using the Internet, Ann Begert did her research and then booked the trip through Good Earth Tours and Safaris, which leads guided expeditions to various African destinations, including Mount Kilimanjaro. The Begerts flew to Tanzania in mid-June, checked in at the Machame Gate on June 17 and started up the mountain the next day.
Good Earth provided the family with two Tanzanian porters, who carried the food and camping supplies. Each morning the porters would prepare a hot breakfast and then break camp as the Begerts headed up the trail. The porters would soon go hustling past and continue on ahead to set up the next camp and prepare the food, which included afternoon tea and later a hot supper.
Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, with the long daily hikes and altitude gains, was "the hardest thing I've ever done," Ann Begert said. "You're always tired and (at times) you feel like you can't keep going.
"You have to be fit, but it also requires some mental fortitude because you just have to keep going when you don't feel like it."
The final leg to the summit began in the late darkness of June 21. The Begerts were wakened at 11 p.m., started off at midnight, and hiked for several hours in virtual blackness. They had no sense of where they were and, more importantly, how far they were from the top.
"You're just walking, walking, walking, and you think it's never going to end," she said.
As the sun finally rose, they could see they were near the summit. But Mount Kilimanjaro has one last trick to play on weary climbers. There is a sign at the crater rim, signifying their arrival at Stella Point, which is well over 18,000 feet. But the true summit is Uhuru Peak, some 45 minutes and 600 feet of altitude away.
They trudged on and finally reach the top, where grimaces of pain gave way to grins of triumph.
"It was great," Ann Begert said. "I was really happy that we made it to the top. I was sort of emotional. I'm not sure my kids felt like that ... but I know they were really happy that we'd made it, too."
After taking several pictures, the Begerts and their porters left the summit and started down. They had one last night on the trail before arriving back at the bottom on the sixth day.
Steve Begert hooked up with his family that same day and they set off on the rest of their African trip. They spent eight days on an African safari, where they saw lions, elephants, cheetahs, gazelles, giraffes, leopards and many more animals.
Then they headed into neighboring Rwanda to see the mountain gorillas once studied by famed zoologist Dian Fossey. For Steve Begert, that trip was particularly meaningful since he had spent time with Fossey (who was murdered in 1985; the case has never been solved) during a visit she made to the University of Washington years ago.
"(The guides) were kind of impressed that I'd actually met her," he said.
The entire journey lasted three weeks and it was, Ann Begert said, "a really great, great trip. Everything about it was really perfect."
When she lets others know about her climb, "most people are shocked," she said. "And most of my patients are quite shocked. But I also think they're all pretty impressed."
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Redshirt junior Mark MacDonald was the top Miami individual on Saturday, finishing in a tie for 22nd at five-over par. He shot a round of 76 in the morning and concluded the day with a round of one-over par 73 in the afternoon.
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