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Translation Degree Program Information
Read about translation degree programs. Learn about education prerequisites, course topics, language requirements, career choices, salary trends and employment outlook.
Essential Information
Most translation degree programs are offered at the master's level, but a few colleges and universities offer bachelor's and PhD translation programs. Learning about types of translation, as well as cultural awareness and translation for specific professions, is key in translation training. Graduates at all program levels may find translation-related work.
Bachelor's Degree in Translation
Few postsecondary schools offer bachelor's degrees in translation studies, which prepare students for entry-level work or for further graduate study. Each program offers different languages and students can research which languages are offered at each school. Students learn various translation techniques and cultural information related to the target language.
Prerequisite Education
A high school education or its equivalent is needed for admission into a college or university. Typically, completing college-level foreign language coursework is required for entry into a translation bachelor's degree program.
Course Topics
Students learn different types of translation techniques as well as terminology and linguistics knowledge. Some programs require students to pursue a minor to provide them with expertise in a field where they can use their translation skills. Learning about cultures of people who are native to the language is incorporated into the curriculum. Some typical classes may include:
- Literature
- World civilizations
- Phonetics and diction (of foreign language)
- Translation technologies
- Commercial translation
Popular Career Choices
Translation bachelor's degrees can qualify graduates for translation jobs in various job fields such as law, hospitality and travel, publishing and healthcare. Some job prospects include:
- Translator
- Tour guide
- Book translator
- Interpreter
Master's Degree Programs
While pursing a master's degree in translation, students learn to translate the written word while learning about the cultures of the people who speak the translated languages. Students also learn about the translation needs of various professions and how to provide those skills. Master's degree programs in translation are offered at more public and private colleges, universities and institutes than undergraduate translation programs.
Prerequisite Education
Undergraduate degrees are typically required for entrance into a master's degree program, but schools vary on whether the major must be relevant to translation. However, language proficiency in English and a foreign language is important and sometimes a requirement for gaining admission.
Course Topics
Translation master's degree students participate in classroom instruction where they study translation theory, translating for particular professions and translation techniques. They also participate in research projects and practical training. Some common classes may include:
- Translation theory
- Translation practice
- Cross-cultural communication
- Translation computer application
- Literary translation
- Technical translation
- Legal translation
- Financial translation
Employment Outlook and Salary
According to the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), translator jobs should rise 22% during 2008 and 2018 (www.bls.gov). This faster than average boost is credited to more non-English speakers visiting and moving to the U.S. and expanding global connections. The translators with the best job prospects are those proficient in in-demand languages such as French, Spanish and German; there's also an increasing need for translators proficient in Middle Eastern and Asian languages.
Large metropolitan areas and areas with high immigration populations are where the best job prospects are for translators. Translators with expertise in law, healthcare, localization and sign language should have the most options available. Several factors influence a translator's salary including language, education, certification and employer. The BLS reported that translators earned a mean annual income of $49,790 in May 2010.
Continuing Education
Translators can attain voluntary certification to help validate their expertise to employers and clients. The American Translators Association (ATA) offers several certifications for translating from and into English from another language. Applicants must meet certain education and/or professional experience requirements and pass an exam to receive the certification.
Doctoral Degree in Translation
A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program provides students with the opportunity to pursue research interests within the translational studies field. A few colleges and universities offer PhD translation degree programs. PhD programs prepare students for careers in research or teaching at the university level.
Prerequisite education
A master's degree in a relevant field is required for admission into some PhD programs. Other programs may evaluate applicants on their translation knowledge. Fluency in English and at least one foreign language is required.
Course Topics
Students receive some classroom instruction while earning a PhD in translation, but most of their schooling is spent participating in research projects. Some courses may include:
- Translation practice
- Applied linguistics
- Translation trends
- Terminology
- Translation history
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"Right now, the way we're playing, there's no way we're gonna win hockey games," Julien told Naoko Funayama after the game. "It's unfortunate because we're not talking about a player or two, it's a large group. Somehow we gotta regroup and find a way to get out of this because we're digging a hole deeper and deeper and that's not where we want to be."
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The girls high school tennis season gets started well before a lot of the athletes actually get into the classrooms for the year.
The players on the high school teams in Madison County have been playing competitively for a couple weeks and are doing their best playing against tough competition.
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"I have a wonderful group of fine young ladies coming back and into our tennis program," Clark said. "I have a good solid group of freshmen and some first-year players that have a lot of athletic ability."
He is relying on some savvy veterans to lead the way on the court, they include Leigh Dunkley and Megan Cox.
"Leigh is funny because she is naming all the girls she wants to play against and beat," the coach said. "I asked her how she knows the girls names already and she replied 'I'm Twitter friends with them.' Megan is also funny, when (Megan) plays she is a bundle of nerves and she paces quite a bit; but when the first serve happens she is all business."
The Mid-State League is one of the toughest tennis leagues in the state and the London coach knows that there will surely be tough times this year, but expects his girls to continue to play hard no matter the score.
"This year I spent a lot of time developing player basics," he said. "This year I have a new toy to help develop players. I was given a tennis ball launcher by the family of Colin Dach. The ball launcher has been key in developing a players skills. I can place the ball exactly where I want it to be and teach the players how to react when they get a hit like that.
"As for being in a tough division in the MSL my girls know that they may have some losses, but as long as they play like I know they can I couldn't be happier with them. My ladies are a group that is tougher on themselves than I ever could be. If you watch my girls after a loss some of them are replaying the match in their heads and analyzing their performance. I like watching that and seeing a player have that discipline. My ladies know as long as they give 100 percent on the court there is no shame in a loss."
"My expectations for this season are simple. I expect my girls to go out on the court and have fun. I want them to give their all in every match and walk off the court proud regardless if they win or not. I also expect my girls to keep fighting regardless if they get beat or not."
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The Chief Justice of India RM Lodha extended support to senior advocate Gopal Subramaniam, earlier today, criticising the manner in which the Narendra Modi government targeted the former Solicitor General.
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The government had earlier returned Supreme Court's recommendation of appointing him as judge with the apex court, with a request to reconsider this decision. Lodha criticised the government for segregating Subramanium in the appointment of SC judges.
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Former Solicitor General of India Gopal Subramanium was invited become one of the judges of the Supreme Court by Chief Justice of India RM Lodha. However, as much as an honour that would seem, it didn't take very long for matters to go downhill, as the Narendra Modi government returned the recommendation with a request to reconsider this decision. It isn't very often that a sitting government takes the liberty to call the Supreme Court's collegium over its decision making, and had the chief justice chosen to reiterate its nomination of Subramanium, constitutionally, the government would have to comply. But that isn't what happened, and in response, Subramanium withdrew his candidature. Read more


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DirecTV Settles Tribune Pay Dispute to End Blackouts
April 5 (Bloomberg) -- DirecTV, the largest U.S. satellite-TV company, reached an agreement to carry Tribune Co. television stations, ending a four-day blackout of 23 local outlets as Major League Baseball's 2012 season gets under way.
The deal will allow DirecTV subscribers in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Washington to watch their teams, Tribune said yesterday in a statement. WGN America, Tribune's national cable channel, is also covered. Terms weren't disclosed.
Tribune had pulled the stations off the air for DirecTV subscribers on April 1. The companies came to terms almost a week after an earlier proposal was rejected by Tribune creditors, according to DirecTV. The Chicago-based newspaper publisher and broadcaster, in bankruptcy since 2008, sought retransmission fees from DirecTV for carrying local stations.
"We're pleased that Tribune and their creditors now recognize that all DirecTV wanted from day one was to pay fair market rates for their channels," Derek Chang, a DirecTV executive vice president, said in a separate statement. "It's unfortunate that Tribune was willing to hold our customers hostage in an attempt to extract excessive rates, but in the end we reached a fair deal."
DirecTV, based in El Segundo, California, rose 0.3 percent to $49.05 at 9:45 a.m. New York time. The shares had advanced 14 percent this year before today.
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The dispute over payments took an unusual turn April 2 when DirecTV filed an FCC complaint against Tribune for negotiating in bad faith. DirecTV accused Tribune of agreeing to terms on March 29 and then rejecting the deal a day later when debt holders including Oaktree Partners, Angelo Gordon & Co., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc. overruled management.
Five million DirecTV households had been blacked out from at least one station, according to DirecTV. The blackout "cries out for an examination in Washington" of retransmission laws that allow content providers to pull their content as leverage for more money, DirecTV said in its statement.
A 1992 U.S. law mandates pay-TV companies must negotiate retransmission fees for local broadcast stations unless the stations choose to give their programming for free in exchange for guaranteed carriage. Pay-TV companies paid $1 billion in retransmission fees to local affiliate broadcast channels in 2010, according to Bloomberg data.
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The Cassini spacecraft heads north for a close flyby of Titan on Dec. 27, 2009 (Dec. 28 Spacecraft Event Time). During this pass, RADAR gets another view of the north polar lakes, providing an opportunity to measure changes in lake size and other lake characteristics. Other instruments utilize this opportunity to sample the high northern atmosphere as well as to look for possible seasonal changes.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb to Announce Results for Fourth Quarter, Full Year 2012 on January 24 Business Wire NEW YORK -- January 4, 2013 Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY) will announce results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2012 on Thursday, January 24, 2013. During a conference call at 10:30 a.m. ET on January 24, company executives will review financial information and will address inquiries from investors and analysts. Investors and the general public are invited to listen to a live webcast of the call at http://investor.bms.com or by dialing 913-981-5581, confirmation code: 8041448. Materials related to the call will be available at the same website prior to the conference call. A replay of the call will be available beginning at 2 p.m. ET on January 24 through midnight ET on February 7, 2013. The replay will also be available through http://investor.bms.com or by dialing 402-280-9013, confirmation code: 8041448. About Bristol-Myers Squibb Bristol-Myers Squibb is a global biopharmaceutical company whose mission is to discover, develop and deliver innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases. For more information, please visit www.bms.com or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/bmsnews. Contact: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Media: Jennifer Fron Mauer, 609-252-6579 email@example.com or Investors: John Elicker, 609-252-4611 firstname.lastname@example.com
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The collaborations that develop for MBFWA are always intriguing, always exciting. And so when MeMeMe Cosmetics announced they would be partnering with up-and-coming label Flowers for a Vagabond, it sent shivers of anticipation down my spine.
Above: Flowers for a Vagabond's Morphed Power Dress featured in Tangent Magazine.
Above: a runway look from 2011.
Designer and founder Toby Maclean has been widely noted as 'one to watch', thanks to his exceptional skill in fabric selection, a talent for deliciously detailed garments and a penchant for dark, moody draping. The 2012 collection is expected to be more thrilling than ever, with the addition of intense detail and brilliant splashes of colour.
Above: The designer posted a sneak peek at their mood board for Fashion Week. The silver fringing alone has me tingling in excitement.
The collaboration with MeMeMe Cosmetics couldn't be more fitting. Both parties are known for their innovation, strong sense of style and edgy aesthetic. The words "intense" "feminine" "creative" "bold" and "powerful" could be used to describe either.
Above: Nardivile for Flowers for a Vagabond.
It's the first foray into Australian Fashion Week for MeMeMe Cosmetics, whose involvement will be led by top Australian Makeup Artist Nicola Burford. "I'm so excited to be working with MeMeMe for the Flowers for a Vagabond MBFWA 2012 collection," she said. "The textures and colour palette available are just perfect for the look I'm creating and it's great to be able to show off MeMeMe's makeup on their first Australian fashion week collaboration."
Above: The designer hinted at what we can expect, saying "Summer 2012/13 is all about the contrasts for us. Bright versus dark, silk fringing versus leather."
So, will MeMeMe's runway looks be feminine and fresh, strong and smoky, edgy and dark, or will they completely rewrite the rule book with something completely left-field? All I know is, their intensely pigmented, beautifully textured, heavenly products will provide a solid basis for whatever makeup looks they choose to send down the runway. And I, for one, will be watching closely, and taking notes.
Above: another sneak peek from the designer, posted yesterday "The racks in the showroom are getting crowded with samples for Tuesday's show!"
This collaboration is sure to create fireworks at fashion week. The flowers For a VagabOnd presentation will be held on Tuesday May 1st at 11am in the new conceptual space The Box.
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In partnership with a number of global producers including DHX Media and FremantleMedia, Netflix is adding five new animated and live-action kids' series.
FremantleMedia Kids & Family Entertainment has signed a string of new licensing deals for the classic Danger Mouse brand, based on the original TV series.
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South Kitsap's LaRose Honored for Whole Child' Philosophy
South Kitsap Superintendent Dave LaRose has been recognized statewide for promoting a philosophy of caring for the whole child within his school district.
LaRose recently received the 2009 "Educating the Whole Child Award" from the Washington State Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. He is in his first year as South Kitsap superintendent.
WSASCD, a professional organization for about 2,200 educators that's been around since 1956, has given the award for the past three years. Two awards — one for the eastern side and one for the western side — are given each year. Executive Director Kathy Clayton said superintendents have received the award in the past, though it's open to anyone at any level of the education system. The eastern Washington winner this year is a special ed teacher, she said.
LaRose was chosen because he has helped lead South Kitsap schools in establishing programs to address children's needs beyond academics. SK schools offer several programs to help students with school preparation, nutrition, health care and mentoring.
Clayton said LaRose was recognized for the "broad spectrum of programs that they're offering in South Kitsap that really meets the needs of kids in many different ways, not just academically. They are making sure that kids are coming to school healthy and safe and making sure they are supported in the school system and beyond."
LaRose said he was honored but a "little embarrassed" by the award.
"It's an acknowledgment of one person," he said, "when there are hundreds of people contributing to this."
LaRose said his "driving belief" as superintendent is that every child can be successful in school if they are helped to overcome barriers to success. Those barriers can be academic, but also social, emotional and medical. As a result, LaRose and others in the South Kitsap community, including churches and service clubs, have partnered on new projects.
Each Friday, 180 backpacks full of food go home with South Kitsap students who might not have enough to eat at home over the weekend. That's increase from the 30 backpacks that went home when the program started last fall.
Plans are underway for a school-based health clinic that would be a partnership with either a hospital or possibly the county, LaRose said. South Kitsap was one of just a few school districts statewide to win a grant to help establish a clinic.
SK school also offer mentoring programs and after-school activities for kids. And the district continues to seek partnerships with community groups, holding its next "Whole Community Whole Child" meeting at 1 p.m. May 13 at First Lutheran Church in Port Orchard. There, LaRose said, faith-based community leaders, medical personnel, counselors, activists and educators will come together to find more ways to help kids.
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Final Score: Utah State 65, Wyoming 54
Logan, UT (SportsNetwork.com) - Jarred Shaw tallied a double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds to lead his Utah State Aggies over the Wyoming Cowboys, 65-54, in a Mountain West Conference bout at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum.
Spencer Butterfield scored 12 points and brought down nine rebounds for Utah State (17-13, 7-11 MWC). Kyle Davis came off the bench to notch a double- double with 11 points and 14 boards, and TeNale Roland contributed 10 points in the win, which was the second in a row for the Aggies that capped off their regular season.
Josh Adams led all scorers in the contest with 21 points for Wyoming (17-13, 8-9), while Nathan Sobey netted 14 points with a team-high nine rebounds. The Cowboys have dropped four consecutive contests.
Wyoming connected on 38.7 percent of its shot attempts in the first half, and hit just 3-of-13 from 3-point range, but still took a 29-26 lead into the intermission. Utah State hit 40 percent of its field goal tries in the frame, but only managed just 1-of-8 from 3-point distance.
The Aggies improved in the second half by shooting 44.8 percent from the floor, and connecting on 10-of-13 from the free-throw line. The Cowboys dropped down to 33.3 percent shooting in the period, hitting just 2-of-11 from deep and 5-of-9 from the charity stripe. Utah State outscored Wyoming in the half, 39-25, to easily erase the first-half Cowboys lead.
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A new UNC study shows just how easily teens can buy e-cigarettes online, in violation of state law.
"It took little effort for them to bypass the age verification practices of the vendors, because there was very little use of rigorous age verification," says Dr. Rebecca Williams. "Only five orders were rejected due to age verification and we had an e- cigarette purchase success rate of 94 percent."
Williams is a researcher at the UNC Lineberger Cancer Center. She recruited a group of teens to purchase e-cigarettes from 98 websites. A law passed in 2013 requires online sellers to verify age using a public records database, but the teens were able to type in false birth dates or lie about their ages.
"While seven of the vendors in the study claimed to use age verification techniques that would potentially comply with North Carolina law, only one of them actually did," says Williams.
The e-cigarette industry is growing rapidly, yet remains largely unregulated. While proponents argue that they offer a healthier alternative to smoking tobacco, Williams says a growing body of research says otherwise.
"More and more research is coming in that shows that e-cigarettes are dangerous and in some ways maybe more dangerous than cigarettes. For example, there was a study that came out recently that showed that e-cigarettes can release five to ten times more formaldehyde than a typical cigarette does."
Most troubling, she says e-cigarette use is on the rise among teens.
"The CDC has reported an annual doubling in the rate of teens reporting using e-cigarettes. Hundreds of thousands of teens annually are using e-cigarettes that never smoked cigarettes before."
Williams calls for federal regulations that mandate age verification at the time of purchase and delivery.
"It's important that we have federal regulations affecting these sales, and specifically, strictly enforced federal regulations, because without that, online e-cigarette vendors have little motivation to decrease their profits by spending the kind of time and money it takes to verify a customer's age and reject underage buyers."
You can read the full study in The Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics.http://chapelboro.com/news/health/unc-study-too-easy-for-teens-to-get-e-cigarettes-online/
Last week's column, Spinal Cord Miracle?, was an inspiring story about how scientific progress enabled a man whose spinal cord had been severed to walk again. This remarkable achievement came as a result of the expenditure of millions of dollars and decades of research. While writing that column, I was struck by the starkly contrasting circumstances of the billions of humans whose health is at serious risk due to lack of access to one of our cheapest and oldest technologies: the toilet.
Approximately 2.6 billion people – that's 37% of us – do not have consistent access to a toilet. About half of that number have to resort to open defecation. This lack of access to sanitation facilities has very serious consequences. Human feces can contain a variety of pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, and parasites, which can cause serious disease and death. For example, every year approximately 1.5 million children per year die from diarrhea stemming from fecal-contaminated water or food, primarily in Africa and Asia.
The most well-known and feared of these diseases is cholera, which is caused by a bacterium called vibrio cholerae. Cholera sickens approximately 500 million people per year and kills more than 100,000. For a healthy adult to become infected with cholera, he or she needs to consume a dose of approximately 100 million vibrio cholerae bacteria. When the bacteria reach the acidic environment of the stomach, the vast majority die. However, some of the bacteria sense the danger and enter a semi-dormant state that helps them to survive and make their way into the intestines.
To continue their journey, the cholera bacteria must now work their way through a layer of mucus which protects the walls of the small intestine. When the cholera bacteria sense that they have become lodged in the mucus, they grow new flagella, hair-like tentacles used for locomotion, which allow them to worm their way through.
Once they make it through the mucus, they discard the flagella and attempt to colonize the lining of the small intestine. In a manner which parallels the process of humans spreading around the globe in the 16th century, this colonization process is a hard-fought war of attrition. In healthy adults, the beneficial bacteria which had been present in the intestine before the invasion will rapidly reproduce to crowd out the invading cholera in a process called competitive exclusion. In a successful competitive exclusion, the cholera will die off and the person will not become ill and will not pass on the disease to others.(1) Children, the elderly, and those already weakened by other illnesses are far less successful in the arena of competitive exclusion.
If cholera is successful in its colonization efforts, it then starts to secrete a toxin which causes irritation and inflammation of the intestinal wall. Inflamed intestinal walls absorb far less water than usual. Thus, the victim ends up with watery diarrhea, the vehicle by which others become infected, and can become severely dehydrated. Severe dehydration can to lead organ failure and, sometimes, death.
I laid out the steps of a cholera infection in order to illustrate how vibrio cholerae, because it has coevolved with humans over the millennia, has developed survival and reproductive strategies which are hyper-specific to its host, us. This hyper-specificity is common to many other pathogens which inhabit our gastrointestinal tracts and which are present in our feces. As a result, the feces of humans represent a far more significant health threat than the excreta of other animals which contain pathogens which are primarily adapted to them.(2) This explains why we avoid using human sewage for fertilizer.
For those of us privileged enough to live here in Chapel Hill, NC, we are protected from deadly pathogens by the sanitization measures employed by our water and sewer company, OWASA.(3) In places such as rural Tanzania, where systems like OWASA's are not practical, a well-designed pit latrine can do the job. Communities which gain access to and adopt use of pit latrines instead of open defecation experience dramatic reductions in disease and death.
Given that we know that digging holes in the ground and putting a small shack on top will save lives at low cost, it's tempting to go out into the world and build a few million latrines. And so we did. But when we did, we learned some important lessons. For example, between 1997 and 2000 the World Health Organization installed 1.6 million outhouses in rural India, home to approximately 600 million people who practiced open defecation. A follow-up survey conducted several years later showed that only 47% of them were still in use.
Results like the outhouse project in India helped to teach the international aid community that they needed to adapt their methods to include more community participation. They found that whether it was a well, a latrine, or any other new system, if they involved the community in its design and construction, the communities would use and maintain their new facilities over the long term. While low-tech projects like building toilets get less media attention than medical marvels like repaired spinal cords, they can help many, many more people. So the next time you consider how to allocate your charity dollars, consider groups which engage in community-based sanitation improvements. You will touch many lives.
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1. In this allegory, the Americas are the small intestine, the Native Americans are the resident beneficial bacteria, and the Europeans are the cholera. When Europeans arrived in the Americas, pathogens such as smallpox and typhoid killed 80 to 90% of the native population, which was the primary driver in allowing their colonization to succeed. So one could say that the competitive exclusive efforts by the Native Americans failed.
2. To be clear, this is not to say that the feces of other animals present no threat to us, as they are the source of such pathogens as salmonella and E-coli. Animal feces such as cow manure can be sanitized prior to being used as fertilizer, through proper composting. If the temperature of the compost pile is >104°F, then the pathogens will either die or be deactivated. (At this point, please let it be known for the record that, with a tremendous show of restraint, I managed to not elaborate on why 104°F is the threshold and how it comes into play in other phenomena.)
3. Next time you see an OWASA employee, remember to say thanks.http://chapelboro.com/columns/common-science/toilet-greatest-public-health-invention-ever/
As the popularity of e-cigarettes continues to grow, public health officials across the country and here at home are calling for more research and stricter regulation on their use.
"We really are in the Wild West of e-cigarettes because it has not been regulated at all by the FDA up to this point," says Melva Fager Okun, Senior Adviser with Prevention Partners, a Chapel Hill-based non-profit focused on healthy workplaces and institutions.
Last week a trio of public health agencies released reports critical of the burgeoning e-cigarette industry. The Centers for Disease Control, World Health Organization and the American Heart Association issued calls for tighter controls on how the products are used, packaged and marketed.
E-cigarettes or personal vaporizers use atomizers to heat a liquid mixture of glycerin, propylene glycol and nicotine that users inhale. Often the mixture is artificially flavored, and Okun says it's these flavors that have public health advocates especially worried.
"If you look at the over 7,000 flavors that these e-cigarettes come in, you can see they are definitely trying to appeal to youth," says Okun. "They are candy flavors, they are cookie flavors and they are alcoholic beverage flavors."
The use of e-cigarettes, called vaping, has skyrocketed in recent years to become a billion dollar industry.
Teens and young adults seem particularly drawn to vaping, as it is often marketed as safer than traditional tobacco. In North Carolina, use of e-cigarettes by teens has risen five-fold in the past two years.
Okun says much of the concern about e-cigarettes stems from evidence that they encourage traditional tobacco use as well. She cites a report from the CDC showing first time vapers were twice as likely to smoke tobacco within the year.
"I see it as a tremendous threat to the good progress that we had been making, and my great concern especially is that youth, who might not have even thought of picking up a cigarette, are now thinking about picking up e-cigarettes."
The trend has gained ground locally as well. Okun says she's seen an increase in retail shops selling vaporizers in Chapel Hill and Carrboro.
"I can hardly think of small shopping malls that now don't have a designated tobacco and vapor product shop. I am very concerned."
The federal Food and Drug Administration is considering extending its regulatory authority to include e-cigarettes. If that happens, the products will be subject to many of the same restrictions as traditional cigarettes.
In the meantime, organizations like schools, hospitals and businesses are trying to figure out how to regulate the use of e-cigarettes on their premises.
"In hospitals and patient rooms cigarettes have been long gone. Now people are pulling out e-cigarettes and staff is very confused," says Okun. "It's taking their time and effort now to address something they haven't thought about in years, and they're not sure what to do."
Prevention Partners is hosting a free educational webinar on the topic of e-cigarettes on September 10. You can find out more here.http://chapelboro.com/news/health/use-rises-public-health-officials-push-e-cigarette-controls/
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – North Carolina's public health director has resigned, 18 months after her appointment.
The secretary of the state's Department of Health and Human Services announced she accepted Dr. Laura Gerald's resignation Tuesday, effective immediately. Secretary Aldona Wos gave no reason for the resignation.
Gerald had two titles as state health director and director of the agency's division of public health. Former Governor Beverly Perdue appointed her in January 2012, when the agency merged its division of public health and office of rural health and community care.
Wos informed division employees Tuesday evening.
Wos says Danny Staley will temporarily serve as the division's acting director. His title has been deputy director.
Robin Cummings, director of the agency's office of rural health and community care, will temporarily serve as acting state health director.http://chapelboro.com/news/health/ap-ncs-public-health-director-resigns/
CHAPEL HILL- UNC's academic year is over, but a pair of Tar Heel graduate students working toward a master's degree in public health are still hard at work—and they're preparing to join an effort to combat blindness around the globe.
One of the students, Casey McCormick of Charlotte, says she and fellow grad student Michael Wilson will be flying to Hanoi, Vietnam to work with a program known as Helen Keller International.
"We're basically taking an already existing program that they've developed in a different province of Vietnam and moving it to an urban setting in Hanoi," she says. "Then we're kind of pairing that with a nutrition program because when you don't eat properly, that has a big effect on your eyesight, and they've seen that with the younger generations in Vietnam."
While in Hanoi, McCormick and Wilson will be helping to implement a program known as the ChildSight initiative into Hanoi's schools. The program will provide free eye exams and glasses to needy children in Hanoi. The Western Asia-Pacific Region, including Vietnam, has the highest rate of far-sightedness in the world, with about 62 million cases.
McCormick says she decided to go on the trip because of its relevance to her chosen line of work.
"I've never experienced or been anywhere near Southeast Asia or taken any sort of classes about that region or culture, and I didn't think it was appropriate to go forth with a global health degree without experiencing all parts of the globe," she says.
And McCormick says having Wilson on the trip with her will make the trip even more of a learning experience.
"It's definitely going to allow us to be more confident in the work we're doing because we'll have someone next to us who knows what we're talking about and was in the same classes with us," she says. "So, we'll be able to bounce ideas off each other."
McCormick and Wilson plan to leave for Vietnam on June 2.http://chapelboro.com/news/unc/unc-graduate-students-combat-worldwide-blindness/


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SAN'A, Yemen Security forces killed two suspected al-Qaida militants in clashes outside the Yemeni capital on Monday, officials said, as the French and Czech embassies closed their doors to the public, joining their U.S. and British counterparts, in response to threats of attack by the terror group's offshoot here.
The clashes took place in a region northeast of the capital where last month the government carried out intensified raids against an al-Qaida cell it said was plotting attacks against foreign interests, possibly including embassies. In that Dec. 17 raid, officials said four would-be suicide bombers were killed.
The U.S. and British embassies closed on Sunday after what U.S. officials said were signs of al-Qaida was planning an attack in San'a, possibly against the diplomatic missions.
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More Western embassies took steps of their own in the face of the threats, though they stopped short of completely shutting down. The French and Czech embassies were closed to the public, their governments said, warning citizens to avoid travel to the country. Spain's embassy in San'a restricted access to the public, and the German Foreign Ministry said that at its embassy "the number of visitors was restricted due to increased security measures."
In Monday's clashes, security forces attacked a group of al-Qaida militants including Nazeeh al-Hanaq, a senior figure on Yemen's most wanted list, as they moved through the mountainous area of Arhab on Monday, security officials said.
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The officials said Monday's raid was not connected to the threats that prompted the embassy closures.
Yemen has carried out a string of raids on al-Qaida hideouts in the past month, part of an intensified effort - backed by the United States - to stamp out the terror group's growing presence in this impoverished, fragmented nation at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.
President Barack Obama says al-Qaida's offshoot in Yemen was behind the failed attempt to bomb a U.S. airliner heading to Detroit on Christmas. The United States and Britain have dramatically ramped up counterterrorism aid to San'a, including helping train and fund special units to combat the group.
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CORPUS CHRISTI - Our newsroom's first word that Joe Cotten's Barbecue was on fire came from the Austin American-Statesman — an unnerving, humbling way for competitive journalists to find out about a breaking story. The first thoughts that popped into Metro Editor Bro Krift's head were: How did they know? and Why didn't we already know?
A Statesman reporter just happened to be eating at Cotten's when the fire started, is how. The call from the Statesman was a non-required professional courtesy, one of many acts of kindness we were to receive from several sources in the telling of this story. The Statesman of course was interested in the story but this wasn't the Statesman's backyard. Letting us know wasn't anti-competitive. It actually was good journalism because it helped make sure the story got out by unleashing our news staff.
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In the next couple of days, even us native-born South Texans were in for an education about Cotten's role in local history. I had been wholly unaware that the offshore oil industry's first contracts were believed to have been written on butcher paper at Cotten's.
Cotten's was a story with many collaborators, starting with the Statesman and going way beyond our staff. State Rep. Connie Scott sent us the first photo we posted of the fire — the one I saw on Bro's screen.
Also, the news sources, instead of having to be ferreted out, made themselves more readily available than we normally would have a right to expect. Robstown Police Chief Johnny Brown answered our phone call in his car on the way to the scene. Those were circumstances that could excuse a decision to call back later.
Former Congressman Solomon Ortiz and his brother, County Commissioner Oscar Ortiz, who have had (and most likely will have) many occasions to be unhappy with the Caller-Times, were talkative and informative about their hometown's iconic establishment. Their personal experiences there — and even the gossip they've heard about what went on there when they weren't there — are now of elevated importance to local history because of both their and Cotten's place in it.
They, like Scott, were quick to share with us. The contributions of others, such as the Statesman, the Ortizes and Scott, to this story was a lesson to us that the stories we publish aren't ours alone — or even ours primarily — just because we're the ones doing the publishing.
We need to be reminded every once in a while how inter-dependent we all are — especially us here at the Caller-Times. The Cotten's story was no scoop. But we got it out quickly and more completely because it wasn't. No one in or outside our newsroom could claim it as their own but lots of people owned a piece of it.
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The Cotten's experience leaves me feeling humble and grateful. And hungry. Please, Cotten's, rebuild quickly.
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This will really speak to a generation…in the broadest way possible!
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Four people were killed after a bomb went off on a poultry farm in Egypt's Fayoum governorate, according to a security source.
A statement issued by the Fayoum Security Directorate after the bomb went off yesterday stated that the farm is owned by Ahmed Arafa, a regional Muslim Brotherhood leader in Fayoum, and was being used as a bomb-making factory. Bomb squad experts are now working on defusing another 40 bombs at the site of the explosion.
At the same time, Muslim Brotherhood supporters started their marches and protests for the second day as a response to the call of the National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL) to protest against the government on the anniversary of former President Mohamed Morsi's ousting.


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Surjeet Singh, who was released from a Pakistani jail after 31 years, on Thursday said Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh is fine and hoped that he is freed soon.
69-year-old Surjeet Singh, who was released from Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail this morning, said he used to meet Sarabjit (49) on a weekly basis in the same prison.
"He is not facing any problems there. He is fine. I used to him on a weekly basis in the prison," Mr. Surjeet Singh told reporters here. "I hope he is released soon," he said.
Mr. Surjeet's release from prison came after reports emerged on Tuesday that Pakistan was to free Sarabjit Singh. But later, Pakistan clarified that authorities had actually ordered the release of Surjeet and not Sarabjit.
Surjeet served a life term following his arrest on charges of spying in the 1980s in Pakistan. He was given the death sentence under the Pakistan Army Act in 1985. The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1989 by then President Ghulam Ishaq Khan.
Sarabjit was convicted and sentenced to death for alleged involvement in a string of bomb attacks that killed 14 people in Punjab in 1990.
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Controversial corporate lobbyist Deepak Talwar, who was named in one of the CBI preliminary enquiries registered in Nira Radia tapes case, has visited the official residence of agency chief Ranjit Sinha at least 63 times in the last 15 months.
Talwar, known for brokering telecom and aviation deals, has made 29 visits to 2, Janpath between May 2013 and December 2013, when the CBI was investigating the Nira Radia tapes, on directions from the Supreme Court. The visitors entry register maintained at 2, Janpath, accessed by dna, reveals that in 2014 till August, Talwar made 34 visits to the CBI director's residence .
Talwar mostly visited 2, Janpath in a car, DL-8C-AB-1499, registered in the name of Deepak Talwar Consultants, 4-D White House, 10 Bhagwan Das Road, New Delhi.
The latest visits Talwar has made to 2, Janpath was last month on August 2 and August 9. The duration of Talwar's meetings ranged from 10 minutes to 35 minutes and sometimes he visited the residence of the CBI chief twice in a single day.
The CBI had named Deepak Talwar, along with Radia and former civil aviation secretary Madhavan Nambiar, in one of its PE's probing the working of touts and middlemen and kickbacks in the aviation sector. Talwar's closeness to former aviation minister Praful Patel, seemingly helped him transform into a big player in the duty free circuit.
According to the daily entry register, Talwar has also made visits in cars DL-3F-AV-0027, HR-26-BL-4622, HR-26-AV-4322, HR-26-BG-0216, HR-26-HB-3436 apart from others. The names of Deepak Talwar has been mentioned in the entry dairy as Talwarji, Deepak Talwar, Talvar, Deepak Talwar1 in both English and Hindi.
In 2010, investigating agencies found that Talwar was instrumental in getting all the clearances for telecom company Telecordia from various agencies and departments despite objections on the grounds of security. MNP Interconnection Telecom Solutions India Pvt Ltd — a joint venture between Telecordia and India's Deepak Talwar Consultants Pvt Ltd (74-26% share value) — is one of only two companies that had been licenced to implement Mobile Number Portability.
Deepak Talwar Associates Consultants Private Ltd has several other companies like IDFS Tradings Private Ltd, with services like in-flight retail, warehousing and logistics, airline amenities and airport duty-free shops.
IDFS has a joint venture with Aer Rianta for duty-free shopping in the new terminal at Delhi International Airport. Talwar's company also has a joint venture with SSP, the international group that operates restaurants, bars, cafes, food courts and convenience stores in airports, rail stations, leisure venues and onboard trains across Europe, Asia Pacific and North America.
SSP Catering India Pvt Ltd won food & beverage concessions at the Delhi International Airport and operations commenced in June 2008 at Hyderabad and in T3 in Delhi.
Talwar is believed to have come into prominence in early 1990s, when he allegedly used his closeness to top bureaucrat AN Varma to facilitate FDI approvals.


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Danny Williams, current British heavyweight champion and the most likely Briton to win a heavyweight world title since Lennox Lewis, gets into the ring on Friday, July 18 to defend his prestigious Lonsdale belt against Essex man John McDermott at Goresbrook Leisure Centre in Dagenham, England..
Williams, 39-6 (31), is the favorite of the bookies and knows that a good performance could see him sharing the ring with WBC champion Samuel Peter before the end of this year, but William's likable opponent, John McDermott, 25-3 (16), has something to say about this.
"People are writing me off, saying I am just here to make up the numbers," said McDermott. "But this is my opportunity to prove that I can fight and I do have the heart, determination and skill to go to a new level. I've worked hard and sparred many rounds for this fight.
"Although I respect Danny Williams, I'm in the ring to beat him. If I have to outbox him, I will. If I have to outpunch him, I'll do that too. July 18 will be my moment of truth."
Also on the bill will be young Belfast heavyweight, 6 foot 7 inch tall Scott Belshaw. The 23 year old has relocated to Chislehurst and changed his entire training team since losing to Daniel Peret, 13-16 (4), this past March but will get the opportunity to avenge that defeat when he meets Peret in Dagenham on July 18.
Belshaw, 8-1 (7), spent 10 days in a Portuguese training camp, employing new conditioning coach Carl Kemp, who is working alongside Belshaw's new boxing trainer, Brian Lawrence.
Lawrence has told promoter Frank Maloney not to expect too much at the moment but in the next two or three years, Belshaw can become a threat in the heavyweight division.
"People forget what Brian Lawrence has done," said Maloney. "But he's worked with former European super middleweight champion James Cook MBE, former WBO heavyweight champion Henry Akinwande, current British bantamweight champ and man of the moment, Ian Napa, not to mention the revitalized Anthony Small.
"Lawrence is probably one of the best trainers to emerge in Britain over the last few years and has never been given the credit he deserves; but I'll make sure that he does if he can turn Belshaw into a champion."
Frank Maloney Promotions presents "Collision Course", the British heavyweight title fight between Danny Williams and John McDermott with full undercard on Friday, July 18, 2008 at the Goresbrook Leisure Center in Dagenham, England.
Tickets are priced at £85 and £45 and are available by logging onto www.frankmaloney.com or by calling the Box Office at 0871 226 1508.
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February 9th, 2008 #1
clayman101's sketchbook... update June 12
I'll post more as I get it cleaned up and scanned in. But to start, here's one of the most successful Spideys I ever drew. It's a little old, I wouldn't approach it the same way now (the figure's right arm is so wrong), but I still like it. More to come.
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Hide this ad by registering as a memberFebruary 9th, 2008 #2
Am I doing this right? I think so...
I'm not sure yet how to add to a thread, so I'm trying it this way first, by replying to my own thread. This is a character I drew up for a project. I'll post some of the concepts I worked up before I settled on this design later. If you're wondering why I didn't draw the legs, I knew the character would not be shown below the hips.
This is the "Bug Driver" as I think of her, in her development phases. You can see how I used notes from different ideas to come up with her. The colour, and the framed layout were both done quickly. I intend to do a proper design sheet eventually.
Last edited by clayman101; March 6th, 2008 at 01:22 AM. Reason: New Picture
February 9th, 2008 #3
Just press "Edit" in the lover right corner of your post, then go "advanced", then "manage attachments". Here you can add and remove images.
Your images look very nice, but do you maybe draw them a little small? Would like to see the images a little larger. Linework looks good, but would be nice to see the more clear detail a bigger image would give. Keep it up!
Please take the time to give me some constructive criticism in my Sketchbook
February 10th, 2008 #4
Thanks for the tip. I don't draw small at all, this size just seemed appropriate to post at. When I had a 1000 x pixel ratio, they appeared huge on my screen, wouldn't even fit. They both appear at about 6" x 5" on my screen, I'm curious if it shows that size on yours. I'll be checking your book post haste.
February 10th, 2008 #5
hey welcome to CA sketchbooks!
if you want to update, you did it right you just have to reply to your own thread
editing is if you want to change a particular thread, for example the first one to change your title to like a different date to show you updated that day
nice comic book style, few things in the first spidey bother me but you already noticed that stuff
keep updating!
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nice clean tight linework I also like your experimentation with design in the rough sketches.
My sketchbook is here
February 10th, 2008 #7
thanks for the comment
Your new colorpost looks good. Her left shoulderplate though, does not look quite right.
To add a link o your sb you have to go to "User CP" in the above menu, go to "Edit Signature" and write a little something like; "this is my sketchbook, please comment", then put a link in a word or the sentence by highlighting it, and then press the globe with a link on it in the above menu. Add the link to your sb-thread and presto.
good luck sir
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February 10th, 2008 #8
Busted. Good eye. Her entire left arm isn't the original. She used to have a staff that she held with her arm out, then up, gripping the staff. For what she was being used for, there wasn't enough space for the entire picture. So, to get her into her space, I had to get rid of the staff and change the arm to a tighter pose. I could never quite get the new arm to look natural. I should post the original sketch to show the pose.
Last edited by clayman101; February 23rd, 2008 at 03:02 AM.
February 18th, 2008 #9
some more characters...
These three characters were created at the same time as the 'bug driver'.
February 18th, 2008 #10
Here's some more...
More characters that came into being for one reason or other.
February 18th, 2008 #11
Welcome to CA! Good start. Some varied line thickness might make your linework pop a bit more. Dig the Spidey. Keep it up!
Watch out for Piranhas
February 18th, 2008 #12
great stuff man - agree with Piranha Clan on the linework. Great characters though!
February 18th, 2008 #13
great characters man,dig the spidey too.keep em up and you know - anatomy studies is the key
February 21st, 2008 #14
mo' characters
So here's the thing: This beastie is going to be turned into a 3D model, and I'm in the design phase. Imagine an enormous planet with enormous lifeforms. This particular bit of fauna is a parasite colony writ large, and mean. With the colony of worms, there is the main body which can be thought of as the spine, and the offspring, which act as the muscles. Each major muscle is just a smaller form of the main worm. The support structure is made of secretions from the worms, which hardens into incredibly durable material.
This parasite has to be fast and tough, charging its potential host at top speed in order to drive the main worm into a new host. If successful, the offspring will remain outside to die, while the main body feeds on its new host, growing larger. When it exits it's latest host, it will be larger, able to create more spawn, making more complex 'parasite delivery systems' possible. Eventually, one of the discarded daughters will be large enough to survive on its own, keeping the cycle alive.
This particular beastie, however, has been domesticated into a high speed battle/racing breed.
I'd like to hear your opinions on what kind of direction I should go with the head. Keep in mind, it has to be able to pierce its enormous host at top speed with its skull plate. Personally, I'm happy with the body and head of the image on the page with the three heads. The head on the left looks too dragony, and the one on the right doesn't seem appropriate. The middle head is a different version of the smaller sketch, and has potential. So what do you guys think? If you sketch up an idea, feel free to post it.
Thanks, all!
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February 21st, 2008 #15
They look mean! I love the 'action shot' with the rider, Keep it up
February 23rd, 2008 #16
design update
Okay, so here's a little more of the bug beastie.
It was suggested to me that I do a shot of the worm without it's colony, and I thought that was a good idea. This is a shot of a younger worm (basically a big, muscular, smart tapeworm), which would just barely be big enough to make the sketched version of the colony (see above).
Also, I want to paint an action shot of the rider, so here's a preliminary sketch. The beastie she's on would be one of the largest that they ride.
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Hrmm... very interesting character and creature designs. you also stated in you reply in my sketchbook that you were into some 3D art?
February 23rd, 2008 #18
Yes, 3D stuff. The bug driver is being built already, and the bug will hit the pipeline in about two weeks. As soon as I get some wireframe images of the model, I'll post them.
February 27th, 2008 #19
hey man, cool designs. I think you're developing a cool style too. Just keep loose and free the mind and keep crankin out ideas!!! Looking forward to seeing the bug guy in 3D! That Witch Queen stood out to me particularly. Simple design but cool hair and a great pose and attitude. Also really like the quick sketch of the younger worm with the standing rough character beside it.
BTW, in answer to your question in my SB, I used to draw on paper with ink. usually a Pitt pen or a Sumi brush. But I have been experimenting with Painter and Photoshop alot and finally got a pen I like in Painter that simulates a Sumi brush or really flexible crowquill in a way that works real well for me. So in the last few weeks Ive been exclusively digital and as i do it more Im loving it. Once you start getting used to is it's so much quicker and spontaneous.
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Just noticed your sketchbook, interesting ideas!
Couple things i'd like to mention about your work (especially those lines). I honestly believe you have lots of potential as a growing artist. Your characterization seems to be your strong point. Good ethics when giving characters attitude and personality, as seen in this image. One thing I would like to advise when you start putting your strokes down, try to keep as "thin lined" as possible. Heavy strokes can make your artwork appear gritty and blocky if not applied appropriately. For instance, using a variety of line widths to distinguish between texture or parts is good principle on how to make your character work easier to read. It also makes the overall image appear cleaner then thick lines would.
Beyond studying life and anatomy, keep practicing!
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February 27th, 2008 #21
Thanks to feeesh and Coinpurse for their kind words.
As far as linework goes, I am currently (and much to my chagrin) only using a graphic marker to ink things, so the linework that I used to get with a crowquill just isn't possible. I try to get line attenuation as much as I can, and I try to keep lineweights distinct by giving them different weights for different reasons (a heavier outline than inner details, for example), but, like Coinpurse says, that can give a blocky appearance if it isn't handled well.
Crits and compliments are always welcome.
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February 27th, 2008 #23
you're lines are dope, nice and clean, but there deffinatly needs more variation in line widths, alot of detail is lost because of this.
I really like your way of showing all the process shots, but, (another but ) the border is really distracting, i think getting rid of the drop shadow and using a less obtrusive color may help you out.
keep it up, looking great.
Do not, ever, under any circumstances, not have fun.
February 27th, 2008 #24
Wow, I'm really getting killed on my lineweights. Problem is, I agree with everybody.
I guess that means I'm going to have to break out the crowquill and ink again. Messy and inconvenient, but I asked for opinions, so I will listen.
Thanks, all.
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I know the lineweight feeling. People really jump on that, don't they? (Correctly)
Think the beastie riders are fantastic, good concepts. They really seem... solid, if that's the word I'm looking for. Well grounded. Those "brush pen" things seem a bit less messy to me than the actual quill & ink. Uh, you can get them here Kuretake-Sumi-Brush-Pen. I only got one recently, so I'm still experimenting, but they're pretty convenient. Keep up the design work man, waiting to see more!
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hey clayman, the comment you left on my SB means alot to me man. Greatly appreciate you stopping by and giving your thoughts. I want to improve, so much. My new SB will show more growth, i'll let you know when I start it. Keep it upp!
April 21st, 2008 #27
Once more, unto the breach...
So, here are some more characters that got a quick colour treatment. The two dudes are a team and the two ladies are a team. Unfortunatley I painted them on a monitor that had some really messed up colour values, leaving them all kind of washed out and off kilter. Bummer.
April 21st, 2008 #28
So much Awsome in one thread
Love it
April 21st, 2008 #29
really enjoy the pumpkin head hero.
i think your inking could use some refinement. Look at other inking artists (not just comic book artists) and see how they handle different line weights and hatching styles. Right now your inking seems very... confused and thin. As if you were looking at what other comic book artists do and are mimicing just the lines, but not the width or direction the lines should be showing.
June 12th, 2008 #30
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A study of the Devonian Gardens in downtown Calgary, an indoor garden space.


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I am posting this for my partner, who has severe emetophobia. Details inside. [more inside]
help me move on.
How can I psychologically process being mugged, and move on? [more inside]
Trying to finally get over distrust of women--Stood up.
I am tremendously distrustful of women. My therapist has encouraged me to try again. I got stood up. I'm not sure what to do. [more inside]
just please don't tell me to calm down
Do I have to choose between thin+unhappy and fat+unhappy? [more inside]
Scared of Living?
I'm not sure what to call this but there's something off with me and I don't know what it is. I've always had a hard time with my social relationships. [more inside]
Who does the Lufthansa "Relaxation Program"?
FearOfFlyingFilter: Do you fly Lufthansa? Do you listen to their "Relaxation Program" on the in-flight radio? Do you have any idea who does the guided imagery on it? Or, have any other great suggestions for calming things I could listen to at 30,000 feet? [more inside]
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