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JENKINS: Our best shot to stop insane suicide missions
So what will it take to spur the supes to action?
I hope one smart observer is dead wrong.
"I believe that only the occurrence in our county of a major incident involving an untreated and seriously mentally ill person will arouse the public consciousness to a degree to force our supervisors to implement Laura's Law," writes Eric Revere, retiring member of the San Diego County Mental Health Board.
My hope — my civic prayer — is that 20 tiny coffins in Connecticut will do some serious arousing.
Over the long run, Laura's Law could spare us from the harrowing heartbreak caused by the dangerously mentally ill, up to half of whom suffer from "anosognosia," a $10 word for lack of insight into one's own affliction.
We can do this. We can invest as much in somebody's child on the brink of madness as we do in the full-blown criminally psychotic, whom we routinely warehouse in prisons, or the developmentally disabled, whom we place in group homes.
Well-meaning but outmoded scruples about civil rights have left the mentally ill and their families to fend largely for themselves until, too often, the loved one dies young, often taking others with them in a twisted grand finale.
"Dying with their rights on," sighs Carla Jacobs, board member of the national Treatment Advocacy Center and passionate advocate for Laura's Law.
So here's an early New Year's resolution.
Every time you see one of the five supervisors — every time you communicate with one — ask him or her to explain why Laura's Law is not the law of the county.
If you get a bunch of evasive B.S. about hospital beds, budgets, litigation or individual rights, ask the question again with this introductory phrase: "In light of Sandy Hook ..."
Keep asking until a resolution is passed to give families the best weapon we have against psychotic suicides, the thunder strokes that stop parents' hearts.
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FedEx Reliability Zone: Clay Kings
Career Clay-Court Records
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Combining insights from clay-court greats with revealing statistics from the FedEx Reliability Index, we explore the key ingredients for success during the European clay swing, which is arguably the most demanding – and important – period of the ATP World Tour season.
Thomas Muster, who's big-ripping, dual-winged baseline aggression was the forerunner of today's clay-court game, says simply, "Playing on clay, in my mind, was the greatest test in tennis."
And there's no greater test on clay than the European clay-court swing. With three ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournaments - the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, the Internazionali BNL d'Italia, the Mutua Madrid Open - and Roland Garros as the highlights, this stretch can determine a player's success or failure for the whole year.
Gustavo Kuerten, a three-time titlist in Paris, who compiled a 181-78 record on clay courts including 14 titles, told ATPWorldTour.com, "In my opinion the heart has a direct link with the clay. You have to get involved and practice for hours."
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Clay-court greats Rafael Nadal, Bjorn Borg, Kuerten and Muster all know about the perils that await players who aren't physically and mentally prepared. Each mastered the surface and earned the nickname "King of Clay" for their red dirt heroics.
Six-time Roland Garros champion Borg, who regularly trained with his coach Lennart Bergelin at the Monte-Carlo Country Club, told ATPWorldTour.com, "When you are physically tired, you soon become mentally tired, and then you start to have trouble concentrating. When you're tired you're less patient during rallies, you take risks and in the long run that always means losing matches.
"I trained a lot to be fitter than my rivals and ready for my matches. But the game has changed a lot since I played and now more guys are capable of winning and are stronger on multiple surfaces."
Kuerten agrees with Borg. "Nowadays the major part of being a tennis player is getting regular results on all kinds of courts.
"The reasons for the diversity of players are physical conditioning, differences in speed of how hard the balls are hit and the variance of strategy. The same tennis players have been standing out on all kinds of court and therefore tennis has levelled off in recent years."
Over the past four years, Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Andy Murray have largely held the top four positions in the South African Airways ATP Rankings. But one player has been pre-eminent on clay courts.
The 24-year-old Nadal has captured five Roland Garros titles in six years. Since 2005 he has compiled a 177-6 match record - 2005, 50-2; 2006, 26-0; 2007, 31-1; 2008, 24-1; 2009, 23-2; 2010, 22-0 - and his last clay-court loss came to Robin Soderling in the last 16 at 2009 Roland Garros.
In ATP history, since 1973, Nadal leads the FedEx Reliability Index for career clay-court matches with a 204-16 mark and 29 titles (.927 per cent). Borg is second overall with a 245-39 record and 30 titles (.863), followed by Ivan Lendl with a 329-75 record and 29 titles (.814).
Muster, the 1995 Roland Garros winner, has no doubts about why Nadal heads the current generation of players on red dirt. "Nadal has dominated because he has every shot in the book and because of the way he plays the angles," Muster told ATPWorldTour.com. "To win on clay, you have to have fantastic endurance, be powerful and flexible, a complete player. I always thought you needed to be physically fit and have ever shot. Nadal has that.
"If you win the first set on clay, it is mentally hard for anyone to come back. We see this so often with Nadal. If he wins the first set, then the match is as good as done. If I lost the first set, it didn't matter, because I was always physically fit. If you are strong, then mentally you are fresh."
Carlos Moya, who like Nadal, lives in Mallorca, and once mentored the current World No. 1, told ATPWorldTour.com, "It is hard to name just one thing [why Nadal is ahead of his rivals on clay] but it is a mix of many different things. The effects he puts on the ball, how hard he hits, his mentality and of course his fitness level."
Kuerten believes Nadal's dominance has not helped but hindered the development of other clay court talent. "It has not benefited, I think exactly the opposite. His dominance has so astonished [everyone] that it has meant that all tennis players have stagnated on a level lower than him."
"Spain has always had so many good clay-court players," says Borg. "They grow up on clay and develop their games as kids, so it is no wonder that Nadal feels at home on the surface."
One such player, World No. 4 Murray, who trained in Barcelona during his teenage years, but is more comfortable these days on hard-courts, admitted at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters this week, that he always take a bit of time to get used to the surface.
"Because I don't play a lot on clay, it always takes me a bit of time to get used to it: the sliding, which shots to hit at the right time," said the Scot. "Shot selection on clay is definitely different to the other surfaces." His thoughts may mirror the majority of players on the ATP World Tour.
While some perfect their balance and top-spin ground strokes for the clay-court grind, Nadal is far too professional to admit to having one eye already on Roland Garros.
"It's impossible to have the control of this [my form]," said Nadal at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters. "If you are playing well now, I try my best every week. I don't know how to be at perfect condition for Roland Garros. I try to be at my 100 per cent in every place that I play."
Kuerten, who retired in 2008, openly admits to longing for his trip to Paris in late May. "Always, always. When the European circuit started, every week I felt a private desire and this increased the anxiety to go to Roland Garros."
Muster, who is third-placed in ATP history behind Guillermo Vilas and Manuel Orantes for most clay-court match wins (422-126 overall record), said, "I always focused on Roland Garros as I moved through the European clay swing. I wanted to make sure that I was not over tired, so sometimes I would skip tournaments in between, to stay physically strong.
"When I played you had to earn every point at every tournament, now with the courts and the balls slowing the game down, it is different. I wanted to play as well as I could at every tournament, get wins under my belt and build my confidence ahead of Roland Garros."
In 2010, Nadal became the first player to win the three ATP World Tour Masters 1000 clay-court and Roland Garros titles. But Muster believes Djokovic - unbeaten so far this season - has a shot at challenging Nadal's dominance on clay
"Nadal is the clear favourite to win again at Roland Garros," says Muster, "but Djokovic could challenge him. He can play well on clay and his unbeaten run of matches will have helped him confidence."
Kuerten also provides words of encouragement for 2009 Roland Garros champion Federer, who recently dropped to No. 3 in the South African Airways 2011 ATP Rankings, on how he can improve on clay courts.
"It's admirable to watch Roger playing in any kind of court, it's wonderful," said Kuerten. "But he needs to improve his resistance level and also take his game to a higher level to gain more power. Nadal knows how to do it, [as] he always plays with power and can raise his level quickly."
Will Djokovic, Federer or another player break the tradition of Nadal's dominance of European courts? Moya is in no doubt. "I think Rafa will dominate the clay season, he might lose a match on his way to Paris, but I think once there, under normal circumstances, nobody can beat him [over the] best of five sets." Over the next 10 weeks we'll find out.
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Savage Opress was once a common Nightbrother whose fighting prowess impressed Asajj Ventress. Transformed into a monstrous warrior by Mother Talzin, Opress became Count Dooku's new assassin and secret Sith apprentice. His loyalty, however, remained to Talzin. The Nightsisters leader gave Savage a new quest: to find his brother, Darth Maul, who had somehow survived his apparent death and was living in exile in the Outer Rim.
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A deadly, agile Sith Lord trained by the evil Darth Sidious, Darth Maul was a formidable warrior and scheming mastermind. He wielded an intimidating double-bladed lightsaber and fought with a menacing ferocity. Though he fell in battle against Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Zabrak from Dathomir would prove to be much harder to destroy than originally believed.
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An assassin trained in the ways of the dark side by Count Dooku, Asajj Ventress yearned to be considered a true Sith, but such status wasn't allowed under the Sith's Rule of Two. Ventress fought with twin red-bladed lightsabers, and clashed with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker many times. But her destiny would not lie with the Sith…
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Mother Talzin, the spiritual guide of Dathomir's Nightsisters during the Clone Wars, held enormous power on her homeworld and wielded the strange magicks of the Nightsisters. She sold the services of the Nightsisters to the galaxy's wealthy and powerful, but wasn't above backstabbing any clients who treated her clan with disrespect. She sought revenge against Count Dooku and his master, Darth Sidious. Dooku had betrayed the Nightsister Asajj Ventress, but his crimes paled in comparison with Sidious's. Long before the Clone Wars, Sidious had promised to make Talzin his right hand, only to renege on his promise and steal her son, Darth Maul, to train as his apprentice.
The Nightsisters are a coven of witches that lived on the mysterious world of Dathomir. The sisters ruled unchallenged, gifted with the power to wield dark magicks. The men of Dathomir, the Nightbrothers, lived apart from the witches, but were subservient to their whims. Despite their power, the Nightsisters avoided the conflict of the Republic and Sith, content to pursue their own matters. The Jedi gave them a wide berth, for they remain focused on matters on Dathomir. Count Dooku has had dealings with them in the past, and turned to them when he was in need of a new apprentice. Their betrayal of Dooku earned the Nightsisters a powerful enemy, and he ordered a massive attack by his droid forces in retribution.
Count Dooku
Count Dooku was a menacing Sith Lord and central figure in the Clone Wars. Once a Jedi -- trained by Yoda -- he became disillusioned with the Jedi Order and thirsted for greater power. Dooku voluntarily left the light side behind and became Darth Sidious' dark side disciple, taking the secret name Darth Tyranus and leading the Separatist army.
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This course will build the foundation for all of the finance courses to follow. Specifically, there are four goals for each student to obtain: develop a fundamental knowledge of asset pricing theory under perfect capital markets, develop key analytic tools and modeling skills, develop basic academic writing skills, and gain exposure to state-of-the-art research.
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February 20th, 2009 #301Registered User
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awesome improvement! always great to see hard work pays off - the bargue piece is stunning! keep sharing!
Hide this ad by registering as a memberFebruary 20th, 2009 #302
wow very nice sketchbook and very nice studies keep it up...=D
my sketchbook http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...28#post2112028
February 20th, 2009 #303
Hi there,
haven't been to your SB in a while You're making a LOT of progress, I wish I had that will to improve so quickly. Good luck with everything!
here's my DA account. S
and here's my sketchbook! check me out if you like concepts of soldiers and warriors of all sorts.
February 20th, 2009 #304
February 21st, 2009 #305
andeepbarot, thank you
Teundeboer, thanks a lot you can interpret the picture any way you like. as for her expression, I think one would have to manage a halfway controlled face expression in order to be able to play the flute. she couldn't really do that while crying.
hummel1dane, thanks! haha, that's interesting, you got in without showing art? XD i guess we'll meet soon! what's your name and where are you from? a warning, however: i'm almost deaf and thus quite awkward to talk to in real life, but don't let that scare you! :]
the studentsville forum looks really interesting. i don't even have my own room (i'm renting an apartment with another student) but it's been working really well so far.
spaztastic, thank you
doncam, thanks
Diego, muchas gracias!
Josef, vielen Dank!
nOKa, thank you
Merlkir, thanks a lot
Mischeviouslittleelf, not really, haha?! XD
New life drawing. 2 week pose in pencil on canson paper as always. the next one will be in charcoal. OMG I'm so looking forward to that!
More sketches after old master paintings
February 22nd, 2009 #306
Hey Maidith!
My name is Hans I'm from Denmark.
Your improvement is so amazing - so fast!!! Your last 2weeks drawing looks great.
Yes I got in without showing any pictures of drawings, but I did write in the application that I was at a drawing school for some time. So maybe Lynne knew the school and thought it was OK, or I was lucky and they forgot to ask for artworks, or maybe they just don't give a damn if you got the cash!!!
(I think the latter...)
Btw do you know how many students are at the school in total? And do you know how fast it is possibly to finish the 3 year program?
Is it true that you advance independently of the group you start in.
I visited the school a few weeks ago and Martinho told me you could finish faster than 3 years if you work really hard - Is that realistically? Or are they just saying that to make you work harder?!
I look forward to meet you
February 22nd, 2009 #307
Hi maidith the last 2 week pose is great, wish i could start them aswell ;_;
but i think i've still got a long way to go :d. Anyway do you remember after how much time you started the 2 weeks drawing?
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your rendering skill is verrrry impressive!
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February 22nd, 2009 #309
Awesome drawings maidith. Keep up the good work.
Just a little question, i know the tuition is €9000 each year but how much do you spent on living and eating cost ?
February 22nd, 2009 #310
Hans - Denmark? that's pretty cool, in my group there are 2 people from Denmark as well. I wonder why I haven't met any Germans at that school yet! The only German speakers I met there were from Switzerland XD (Dorian and Heinz). Perhaps there are fewer Germans interested in learning to draw.
So maybe Lynne knew the school and thought it was OK, or I was lucky and they forgot to ask for artworks, or maybe they just don't give a damn if you got the cash!!!
I'm wondering how many new applicants they get every year. Gotta ask Martinho about that...
Btw do you know how many students are at the school in total?
Is it true that you advance independently of the group you start in.
I visited the school a few weeks ago and Martinho told me you could finish faster than 3 years if you work really hard - Is that realistically? Or are they just saying that to make you work harder?!
G@m, grazie mille
Anyway do you remember after how much time you started the 2 weeks drawing?
Alex, danke! ... wait, I know your sketchbook, it's really awesome! More sketches (and penis) please! The collab you did with Hannes also rocks, you guys should seriously consider making more of those.
Sky Eagle, thank you
how much do you spent on living and eating cost ?
Each month I get 250 "salary" from my parents, about 150-180 I spend on food. Most people get along with less for food (100-120), but I like exotic stuff, lots of fresh fruit, and expensive cakes and sweet, so yeah, food is my luxury. XD The other money I spend on art supplies, and sometimes household stuff. Most personal items like shampoo, deo, soap, etc. I simply "steal" from home every 3 months, they're cheaper in Germany anyways. However, I rarely go out for parties or travel, if ever. I don't have the money for it, and don't want to cut back on food.
I regularly earn a bit extra cash with commissions, but I put it all in a savings account, for somewhen in the future.
A bit of life drawing from school:
2nd line drawing copy after Bargue:
Master copies yaaaaay!
February 24th, 2009 #311
The way you do the draperies is just amazing! And your use of white is brilliant!
Are you a fan of Bouguereau? Who are your idols?
Yes I met the two other danes very briefly, they seem nice! Denmark is a very small country, but I think it is easier to come up with the money. That goes for the other scandinavian countries as well. But with that being said there are many who paint and draw in Denmark.
I was one year at a danish drawing school in Viborg (north Jutland) they have a half year course in classical drawing - intended as a preparation for the Bachelor in Character animation. It was nice (classical, renaisance style - with a russian instructor!) but most people didn't so much care for the classical they just wanted to be good enough to be accepted in the Animation program. I think most danes who draw dream of this cartoon program rather than to become a classical artist.
All right, thank you btw for creating this sketchbook - it is very important, I think, to see the progress of a student studying the place you want to go yourself.
See you in Florence!
March 1st, 2009 #312
Thank you Hans
I'm not really a Bouguereau fan, I dislike his subject matter but his technique and skill are frickin awesome.
My favorite painters (traditional) are William Turner, Waterhouse, Rembrandt, Delacroix, Bonheur and some more, depending on my mood...XD
A little digital painting for practice purposes... Didn't like it enough to finish it.
Some more copies...
March 1st, 2009 #313
i know you hate that painting, but do you have a process for it saved?
i think the skintones are just great.
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March 2nd, 2009 #314
Sounds like we might have a bit similar taste..
I like Bouguereau though, but I do miss a bit of "darkness" in his paintings.
And I'm totally mad about Leonardo - Especially his drawings of inclined female heads and his sketches of grotesque heads and horses.
Yes Rembrandt was an amazing painter. His etchings are genious as well. I can't get his etching of Adam and Eve out of my mind.
You say you like Turner, do you also like Frederic Edwin
March 2nd, 2009 #315
OOOH these laters studies are mouth watering. MORE MORE MORE!
March 18th, 2009 #316
hp, thank you There are no progress steps saved, sorry!
Hans, have you seen the new website of AAA? It's now offical that prior drawing experience doesn't matter (which makes sense, the program is really difficult and intense BUT with time everyone can do it)
I like Church's work very much too!
By the way if you know any folks who want to attend AAA from September 2009 - I'm looking for a new roommate from end of September.
Elf, thank you! Here's more!
Two unfinished digital paintings (PS, wacom tablet). I gave up, like so often, because if they don't look "right" from the beginning I feel it's a waste of time finishing them, and I start a new one. XD
Watercolor studies after Rossetti, and another drapery study
some stuff purely from imagination
March 18th, 2009 #317
Woah, just thought about if you had some new stuff to show, and here it is!
Great new sketches. The colours of the girl one post ago are amazing! You get better and better. I also like the nouveau art style piece in your latest post, it looks very mature in some way.
Watch your anatomy though. You still tend to follow old habits, although I think you're much better than that right now. Great progress anyways!
Nothing in this world that's worth having comes easy
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March 25th, 2009 #318
Wow beautiful faces, nice work!!
Yes I've seen their new page, nice to see some more student work.
I'm starting to get a bit excited I think it will be awesome to study at the school!
April 2nd, 2009 #319
Nele, thank you! I'm following your sketchbook here... great stuff!
Hans, thank you! Yep, I was really really excited too all the time before I first came to AAA!
Update time!!!
A new digital painting - my original character Saphatino.
And my very first 100% charcoal figure drawing done at Angel Academy of Art! (His name is Ernesto by the way). I didn't know his shoulder looked off, until several people on the intarwebs pointed it out to me Dx In fact, it looked exactly this way IRL. This is proof that nature can look weird.
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April 2nd, 2009 #320
WOW your works are impressive! I wish I had time and money to go to art school. Can you give me a bit of advice on how to manage colors? I have a lot of trouble with managing my colors in my works. Thanks!!!
April 5th, 2009 #321
rosethornCGart, thank you!
Managing colors is just a matter of practice... I manage colors totally differently in every painting, and about 80-90% I use colors how they "feel" right, but that "feeling" for color is something you can acquire - you don't have to be born with it!
You can see here one of my old works from 2005: http://maidith.deviantart.com/art/Et...s-Nos-15522804
And one from 2002: http://maidith.deviantart.com/art/Oo...work-103118907
My colors really sucked back then! XD
To quote Linda Bergkvist:
"Usually, there will be one colour that sets the theme for the image - this is the 'general' mood...often influenced by the main character of the image. Say, I have Indeoque, who is one of the main 'leaders' of a powerful group in my Furiae world... his dominant colour is the pale blue of ice. If I paint a picture with Indeoque in it, it's highly likely that his personality will have something to do with the theme - and thus also likely that the picture will be prominently blue. If his brother Hajieelkhe shows up in the image, the blue will be mixed with bursts of green and we'll have a colour scheme that will remind you of Northern Lights, perhaps: blue, green, with tones of purple and lilac perhaps, and bursts of crimson because there's a lot of emotion there, lurking under the surface.
I think I pretty much pick all of the colours at the same time: I settle on a colour scheme and a palette (sometimes painting the palette out before I start the actual painting) and then adapt everything accordingly. I think it's a little risky to be 'matching' colours (as in, matching the background to the skin, or the skin to the clothes, etc), and it's always better to have a general colour scheme and let everything move along with that flow :]"
"I'm not entirely sure if there's any way to study something in particular to learn skin tones -- except for people. My best tip to you would be to take photos of one person, a friend preferably, in a lot of different settings. You can do it like a fun day of fun photos - go all over the place, from morning with morning sunlight until the evening. Even snap pictures at night time if you can. Keep the subject's face at the same angle. Then shrink all these photos to a smaller, thumbnail size and set them up next to each other. If there's a better way to get a quick crash course in how skin tones are affected by different environments, I honestly don't know. After you've done this, do very, very quick referenced skin tone shots of each and every little photo (meaning, don't paint a portrait, just try to imitate the skin tones), and try to get a feel for it.
Reference is worthless unless you first understand how the things that you're painting actually 'work'. For training, I'd suggest using reference every second picture you paint, and paint every second picture entirely from your imagination. Best would be to try to catch a couple of life drawing classes while you're at it. It's easier to get a feel for the shapes that way :] "
New work!
This is Vannozza, one of the characters from my novel. Reference used from lockstock.deviantart.com .
Speedpainting portrait & experiment with "painterly" style and color...
April 8th, 2009 #322
Wow nice work! You are getting very soft, especially in the draperies - I totally like it! And artistically there is a nice feeling/atmosphere
Guess who's in Florence by the way
See you soon!
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April 13th, 2009 #323
Hans, thank you I arrived in Florence yesterday evening. Guess we'll meet at school tomorrow. (if I can recognize you XD)
new painting!
(yep it's a boy )
Darn, I need to improve.
Background textures (licensed for commercial use) are from an ImagineFX DVD.
Tool: Wacom tablet and Photoshop as always.
April 14th, 2009 #324
hey u have good jobss ilove this page http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...2&postcount=84 and i love your drawingsss
keep your jobs
April 14th, 2009 #325
Oh wow, I like every piece in here. From the sketches to the master copies. I REALLY like your drapery studies. Thanks for posting them up
April 17th, 2009 #326
Whadup, it's mau, the guy that was hanging out with Hans this morning.
I won't give you a technical comment since my skills are not that good and you probably have plenty of informative feedback from the academy guys already.. (i realize that this will probably tell you more about my stylistical preferences rather than your technical abilities).
My favorite pick from this page are this
for the strong colors and the lovely design of the flowers/background, for what is worth the figure looks pretty solid to me and i can definitely see the influence of gesture drawings in the way you approached it, i think it looks pretty right and it's an engaging image that may be worth some time spent on
and this
I think the pose is eye-catching and really admire your palette selection for those skin tones, nice green/blue shades (and the pink is not "too obvious"), it's bit reminiscent of linda bergkvist, isn'it? I'm not into that kind of stuff but i can sort of see what you're aiming for, pretty good.
(I think there may be something funky goin' on with that left arm/wrist foreshortening but you probably know already)
I also picked this picture because of its darkness, just a matter or taste really but i think you try could adding a very subtle bit of "grittiness" to your images, see what it happens (i know hans will strongly disagree with me here )...if you hadn't written it, I would have thought that you were a bouguereau fan!
Oh, i think I saw a portrait of Susan, am I crazy?
Well, i think that's it... See ya!
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April 17th, 2009 #327
i know u say u dont like it but the one on the right in post 317 is one of my fav on the page id love to see it finished! amazing work
April 26th, 2009 #328
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Lostlimeturtle: thank you!
Mau, thanks a lot! Hehe, there's really a portrait of Susan =)
Actually, I learn a lot from Bouguereau, even though I'm not a fan, I admire his technique and skill.
Your sketchbook rocks, by the way. Ci vediamo!
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Here's the first part of a skintone painting tutorial I made about a week ago. Someday I'll kick myself in the butt to finish the 2nd and 3rd part also.
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This is a piece that was written a few years back but never posted to Gonzo Times. In an effort to put out an archive of writings I am also going to try and release some unreleased works as well.
We are looking to form a new society within the shell of the old. This means educating, organizing and producing. This means that the revolution we are seeking must be built through free cooperation, production and built not through the destruction of war. The thing is that we are forming within the shell. A baby bird forms within a shell and has that one moment where it's beak pierces the shell and breaks through. The revolution will have that one moment the piercing and shattering of the shell. If the bird in the shell is premature it will struggle and quite possibly die. We must nourish it, raise it up to be strong enough so that it will be able to break through that shell, grow strong and eventually soar.


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Conrad Smith has recovered from an eye injury and is likely to start in the centres against Argentina.
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SPOKANE -- A lot of people don t know that there is a blood bank for dogs in Spokane.
Right now, just a handful of dogs are feeding the supply for the entire Inland Northwest.
On Saturday, several dogs started the process to become donors.
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|YMCA of the Suncoast Announces Community Coalition to Fight Rising Rates of Obesity and Chronic Diseases
YMCA of the Suncoast Announces Community Coalition to Fight Rising Rates of Obesity and Chronic Diseases
(September 20, 2005) Clearwater, FL – As a part of the national initiative "Activate America: Pioneering Healthier Communities," the YMCA of the Suncoast will announce it is partnering with Pinellas County, the City of Clearwater, and other organizations to promote healthy living among area residents at a news conference on Tuesday, September 27, 2005, at 5 p.m. at the Clearwater Branch YMCA (1005 South Highland Avenue, Clearwater, FL 33756). In addition, a representative from the JCPenney Company will present the YMCA of the Suncoast with a $25,000 check to help research and develop programs related to Activate America. This donation is part of a $2.5 million national grant from the JCPenney Afterschool Fund, which helps power kids to their full potential.
Activate America is a community-based movement designed to mobilize local leaders to respond to the public health challenge of rising rates of chronic disease, including obesity. By serving as a connector to these different corporate, government and not-for-profit groups, the YMCA of the Suncoast is bringing together a cohesive response to some of the serious health risks facing many in our nearby population.
In order to address the complex growing epidemic of obesity and chronic disease, and to reduce barriers and increase support for healthy living, a 10-person community team comprised of local officials and YMCA of the Suncoast staff members has been established with the goal of improving the physical, social, emotional and spiritual health of local residents. The community team will attend a national conference in Washington, D.C., (November 30 - December 2) to learn the best strategies for implementing Activate America into the local community and driving meaningful change.
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"By uniting forces with all sectors of the community, we will lead a charge to break the cycle of inactivity, poor nutrition and other culprits that exact a severe toll on our society," said G. Scott Goyer, President and CEO, YMCA of the Suncoast. "We look forward to helping local citizens develop a better understanding of healthy living while reducing the impact chronic diseases have on our economy, productivity, health-care and collective self-esteem," Goyer said.
As one of only 34 YMCAs chosen by YMCA of the USA, the YMCA of the Suncoast has already begun to initiate Activate America. One program underway at the Clearwater Branch YMCA is "KidShapers," a weight management and fitness program for families. Developed by and presented in partnership with All Children's Hospital, "KidShapers" is designed to help children ages three and older adopt and maintain a healthy weight and body size, and to be more active and fit.
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Our Brother Alephs and Sister B'nai B'rith Girls,
We hope that wherever you are this summer, you're doing well, you're having a great time and you're looking forward to the year ahead with as much excitement as we are today. BBYO's summer programs across North America, Central America, Europe and Israel are winding down and the new school year's approaching. It's almost time to kick off our fall semester, and we couldn't be more ready to share and connect with you.
Last year yielded incredible milestones for our Movement. We chartered dozens of chapters, AZA and BBG grew across North America and BBYO embraced teens in more countries and we united at our largest International Convention in our Order's history. As momentum builds, AZA and BBG are poised for even greater successes as we approach our 90th and 70th anniversary years.
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We encourage you to share these opportunities with as many of our members as possible. As a Members' Movement, any Aleph or BBG with interest, experience and talent in these areas should be encouraged to apply. There will be many ways to contribute to our Order's growing achievements; stay tuned for additional ways in the coming months. As always, if you have ideas, we want to hear what you have to say!
If you have any questions about any of the information provided here, please be in touch with us. We want to make sure you have everything you need to apply. Good luck and we look forward to reviewing where you want the Movement to head!
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The 88th Grand Board of the Aleph Zadik Aleph and the 68th International Board of the B'nai B'rith Girls are proud to present to you their final thoughts, thanks and wishes for the future of our international Movement as they complete their year of service. The Order thanks them for their commitment and dedication, and celebrates the many thousands of Alephs and BBGs around the world that partnered with them on their work over the past year. Honor their legacy by inviting more Jewish teens into our community. AZA and BBG are incredibly close to our year-end membership goals; we can achieve their vision by going the distance now and set up our next year for even more success.
In August 2013, these Life Ceremony Publication pages will transition to the new AZA and BBG Movement Hub that will be launching later this summer.
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Elkhart Lake, Wis. (June 15, 2013) – The first four races of this weekend's WeatherTech Chicago Region June Sprints are in the books from Road America on Saturday, part of the SCCA Northern Conference Majors Tour schedule.
Following qualifying for all eight of the weekend's run groups in the morning at the historic 14-turn, 4-mile road course, the afternoon of racing got off to a blazing start.
Spec Miata opened their 13-lap race with a train of seven cars sneaking away from the 48-car field early. Polesitter Danny Steyn's No. 39 ADEPT Studios/ROSSINI/OPM Mazda Miata led the first three laps, with Jim Drago's No. 2 East Street Racing Miata and Craig Berry swapping the lead through the next few laps.
Berry's No. 29 Berry Marble and Granite/East Street Racing Miata opened up a full second lead on lap 9, but on lap 10 the No. 41 Advanced Autosports Miata of Voytek Burdzy took the lead under braking in Turn Five.
Berry and Burdzy stayed on the point, with Burdzy in the lead, until Berry moved to the front as they crossed the stripe with one to go. They were quickly joined by the second pack, with Steyn reclaiming the lead through Turn Six in a pack of five that also included Erik Stearns' No. 97 East Street Racing Miata and Chris Halderman's No. 72 Complete Dent Repair/X-Factorracing.com Miata.
Suprisingly, however, Justin Elder's No. 19 Elder-Jones General Contractor Miata was the first car to the checkered flag. The leaders came together in Turn 12, scattering all five cars off track with just two corners to go. Stearns and Haldeman finished on the podium, with Berry falling to sixth, Burdzy to ninth, and Steyn not rejoining and finishing 40th, a lap down.
A crash blocked the track near the kink to bring out a full course caution in the C Sports Racing, D Sports Racing, Formula 1000 and Sports 2000 group on the third lap, and while under yellow an engine blew and oiled down the track from turns six through 10. The field was brought to pit lane for a lengthy red flag for cleanup.
Back in action, Sheboygan Fall's Jason Miller got the jump on Lee Alexander's No. 40 Factory 48 Motorsports/APE Raceparts Stohr WF-Zero on the restart, and then pulled his No. 0 Kohler/Millenium WynnFurst away for a home C Sports Racing win.
Lawrence Loshak, a Grafton, Wis. resident, held off Steve Ott in the closing laps to win Formula 1000 in the No. 2 JDR/ETE Reman/Moon Super Cycle JDR F1000.
In the same group, hometown driver Bart Wolf, who lives in Elkhart Lake, fell behind Michael Bautz on the restart and trailed until the final lap. Bautz' No. 42 Hoosier/Julios Polishing Crib Lola T90 suffered misfortune on the final lap, elevating the No. 28 Goodyear/Lake Street Carbir CS2.8 of Wolf to the popular win.
It took Doug Peterson three laps to get his No. 87 3Dimensional.com Chevrolet Corvette clear of Cliff Ebben's No. 36 McMahon Group/Stumpf Ford/Lamers Racing Ford Mustang, and from there it was smooth sailing to the GT-1 win.
Rob Warkocki stole the GT-3 win by closing his No. 78 TRO Manufacturing/Goodyear/Mazda Mazda RX-7 within a couple of seconds of leader Mike Cyphert with one to go, and then inheriting the win after Cyphert's No. 76 Toyota Motorsports/TRD/RedLine/Hoosier Toyota Celica spun and hit the wall.
The day ended with a very deep Spec Racer Ford field of 45 cars battling in a lead pack eight deep for 13 laps. Five drivers – John Greene, Scott Rettich, Keith Verges, Denny Stripling and Jeff Beck - officially led laps in the race as the field raced nose-to-tail around Road America.
With one lap of the four-mile circuit to go, Rettich's No. 17 Alliance Autosport/Springboro Car Wash machine, the No. 1 Reid Johnson Racing SRF of Jim Gray, and the No. 41 Lightspeed Motorsports SRF of Denny Stripling had separated just enough from the pack to decide the battle themselves.
Unlike the Spec Miata battle earlier in the day, the three did make it to the finish. Gray moved in front of Rettich in Turn Five, but Rettich reclaimed the lead by six and led coming out of the final corner.
That's not always a guarantee of victory at Road America, as the draft up the hill to the checkered flag has determined a number of races in the track's 58 seasons. Rettich held on, however, crossing the stripe just 0.079-second in front of Gray and just 0.377-second in front of Stripling as the three jockeyed for the final position.
The remaining four race groups will run on Sunday morning, beginning at 8:00 a.m. at Road America. In the afternoon, the four race groups from Saturday will run a second bonus race of the weekend.
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Elkhart Lake, Wis. - Provisional race winners from Saturday's SCCA Northern Conference Majors Tour races at the WeatherTech Chicago Region June Sprints at Road America. Drivers are listed by Class: name, hometown, and car.
C Sports Racing: Jason Miller, Sheboygan Falls, Wis., WynnFurst
D Sports Racing: David Locke, Lafayette, Ind., Stohr WF-1/Suzuki
Formula 1000: Lawrence Loshak, Grafton, Wis., JDR F1000
GT-1: Doug Peterson, Rochester Hills, Mich., Chevrolet Corvette
GT-2: Trent Hindman, Asbury Park, N.J., Porsche 911 GT3
GT-3: Rob Warkocki, Frankfort, Ill., Mazda RX-7
Spec Miata: Justin Elder, Lakeville, Minn., Mazda Miata
Spec Racer Ford: Scott Rettich, Camden, Ohio, Spec Racer Ford
Sports 2000: Bart Wolf, Elkhart Lake, Wis., Carbir CS2.8/Ford
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But when Washington State quarterback Connor Halliday's fourth-and-five pass from Auburn's 27-yard line sailed out of bounds with just over two minutes remaining, the outcome was sealed.
The Tigers (1-0) had done just enough to hold on for a 31-24 victory to make Gus Malzahn's debut as head coach a successful one.
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Needing a spark, a "Star" provided it. Robenson Therezie — pushed into the starting lineup in the place of starter Justin Garrett — came up with an interception on the Cougars' ensuing drive, helping the Tigers set up shop at the Washington State 24-yard line.
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Therefore let no man talk to me of other expedients: Of taxing our absentees at five shillings a pound: Of using neither clothes, nor household furniture, except what is of our own growth and manufacture: Of utterly rejecting the materials and instruments that promote foreign luxury: Of curing the expensiveness of pride, vanity, idleness, and gaming in our women: Of introducing a vein of parsimony, prudence and temperance: Of learning to love our country, wherein we differ even from Laplanders, and the inhabitants of Topinamboo: Of quitting our animosities and factions, nor acting any longer like the Jews, who were murdering one another at the very moment their city was taken: Of being a little cautious not to sell our country and consciences for nothing: Of teaching landlords to have at least one degree of mercy towards their tenants. Lastly, of putting a spirit of honesty, industry, and skill into our shop-keepers, who, if a resolution could now be taken to buy only our native goods, would immediately unite to cheat and exact upon us in the price, the measure, and the goodness, nor could ever yet be brought to make one fair proposal of just dealing, though often and earnestly invited to it.
Therefore I repeat, let no man talk to me of these and the like expedients, 'till he hath at least some glympse of hope, that there will ever be some hearty and sincere attempt to put them into practice.
A Modest Proposal also targets the calculating way people perceived the poor in designing their projects. The pamphlet targets reformers who "regard people as commodities". In the piece, Swift adopts the "technique of a political arithmetician" to show the utter ridiculousness of trying to prove any proposal with dispassionate statistics.
Critics differ about Swift's intentions in using this faux-mathematical philosophy. Edmund Wilson argues that statistically "the logic of the 'Modest proposal' can be compared with Marx's defense of crime in which he argues that crime takes care of the superfluous population". Wittkowsky counters that Swift's satiric use of statistical analysis is an effort to enhance his satire that "springs from a spirit of bitter mockery, not from the delight in calculations for their own sake".
Swift has his proposer further degrade the Irish by using language ordinarily reserved for animals. Lewis argues that the speaker uses "the vocabulary of animal husbandry to describe the Irish. Once the children have been commoditized, Swift's rhetoric can easily turn "people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound".
Swift uses the proposer's serious tone to highlight the absurdity of his proposal. In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift's time. The contrast between the "careful control against the almost inconceivable perversion of his scheme" and "the ridiculousness of the proposal" create a situation in which the reader has "to consider just what perverted values and assumptions would allow such a diligent, thoughtful, and conventional man to propose so perverse a plan".
While Swift's proposal is therefore obviously not a serious economic projection, George Wittkowsky, author of "Swift's Modest Proposal: The Biography of an Early Georgian Pamphlet," argues that it is nevertheless important to understand the economics of Swift's time in order to fully understand the piece. Wittowsky argues that not enough critics have taken the time to directly focus on the economics of Swift's historical situation within which A Modest Proposal was written. He states that "if one regards the Modest Proposal simply as a criticism of condition, about all one can say is that conditions were bad and that Swift's irony brilliantly underscored this fact". According to Wittkowsky that has been the understanding most critics have settled with over the years of reading Swift's proposal. On the other hand, Wittkowsky states that it is beneficial for the reader to be familiar with the economics of mercantilism and the theories of labor in 18th century England in order to fully understand the background of A Modest Proposal. He explains that with the start of a new industrial age in the 18th century it was believed that "people are the riches of the nation", and there was a general faith in an economy which paid its workers low wages—high wages meant workers would work less. Furthermore, "in the mercantilist view no child was too young to go into industry". Wittkowsky reminds us that it is important to remember that in the "Age of Swift" the "somewhat more humane attitudes of an earlier day had all but disappeared and the laborer had come to be regarded as a commodity". We can better understand Swift's satirical cannibalistic proposal when we take into account this idea in his time of the human being as a number or commodity.
It has been emulated many times as well. In his book A Modest Proposal (1984), evangelical author Frank Schaeffer emulated Swift's work in social conservative polemic against abortion and euthanasia in a future dystopia that advocated recycling of aborted embryos and fetuses, as well as some disabled infants with compound intellectual, physical and physiological difficulties. (Such Baby Doe Rules cases were then a major concern of the pro-life movement of the early 1980s, which viewed selective treatment of those infants as disability discrimination.)
In Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, which contains hundreds of private letters written by Thompson over the years, contains a letter in which he uses A Modest Proposal's satire technique against the Vietnam War. Thompson writes a letter to a local Aspen newspaper informing them that, on Christmas Eve, he was going to use napalm to burn a number of dogs and hopefully any humans they find. This letter protests the burning of Vietnamese people occurring overseas.
The show Sealab 2021 references A Modest Proposal by the character of Jodene Sparks. It was suggested as recommended reading when Debbie wanted a child.
A Modest Proposal is the name of The University of Texas at Dallas' Alternative Student Newspaper, the monthly opinion paper of the University.