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Thread: EOW Round #228: Arachnid's Lair
April 4th, 2014 #1
EOW Round #228: Arachnid's Lair
TOPIC: Arachnid's Lair
suggested by Mooglesarelittle
Stretch your [spidery] legs.
1. Design an environment that adheres to the topic/theme.
2. You must post at least once in this W.I.P. thread to be included in the finals thread for the voting poll.
Deadline: April 18, 2014
Congrats to 0011100111000 for winning EOW #226!! That's three wins in a row for our numerical friend.
Post your final entries in the "FINAL BURNING" thread which I will post a week or so before the due date. If you need more time to get your finals in, let me know and I'll extend the deadline.
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rough sketch after some thumbnails, first time trying E.O.W. , having some fun with this topic. overdid it a bit with the saturation gonna tone it down later if I choose to stay with this composition.
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April 6th, 2014 #3
It's time for me to concentrate on thumbnails. These are the first 6. Other 3 will come focusing on my fav. Crit are welcome.
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April 7th, 2014 #4
Cool topic, been a while since I played around with environments so here's a quick wip/thumb so far...
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April 7th, 2014 #5
Lynx; cool sketches! I like 3 and 5 best
Going for the Arachnid King´s Throne...
Not absolutely sure about the spider though, might change it later.
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I decided to take part in EOW again I hope I'll have enough time to complette this one Here are my thumbs
April 7th, 2014 #7
@Vyse - Thanx =) 3 and 5 are my fav too till now. I like your concept, even if I'd like to see a bit more of that pit, and the rock over the thorne isn't charming as it could be. Pay attention to be clear on midground, at the moment the read is a bit confused for me especially for second row of rocks. There is a kind of pattern repetition (round rock on the mid ground, square rock, round rock on the back ground), so that area is a bit boring. =D Oh, and I forgot to mentionate the throne itself: make it more intersting =). Now wait for mine, than rip me apart =D
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Updated WIP, really stuck atm.
Last edited by AJV01; April 8th, 2014 at 10:49 AM.
April 7th, 2014 #9
Vagabond418: If you're feeling lost try adding a main focal point and work out from that. Right now you have a really epic looking cave but no focal point to draw they eye and tell a story.
After searching for reference images I instantly regretted suggesting this topic. Still I pushed on and bashed together the two attached images.
Thinking on how best to convey my own fear of spiders.
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April 8th, 2014 #10
@Mooglesarelittle - Ah! Nice start! So happy you're in too! Just let's hope 110101010010 will be join us, than we'll have a rad round! I'll be honored to have your crit about my thumbs.
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Cool topic! Mooglesarelittle- I dig both off those sketches really nice mood!
Here's mine 1st attempt:
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April 8th, 2014 #13
Lynx; thanks for the input - is this Throne interesting enough now? IS IT NOW?!?
No? Well, let me make it even more interestinger. Later.
Moogles; good job! Yeah, going through references is good, indeed.... i found this very helpful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhHhXukovMU
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April 8th, 2014 #14
Blindlynx and Moogles you guys are killin it. There is a lot of awesome in this thread, I think I may try and make some time to get in on this one. Man I'd love to see all the wips in here finished off an submitted.
April 8th, 2014 #15
@Vyse: YO MAAAAN =D You gave it a bust! Yep, the throne is kinda capturing eye now... And is so funny too, with the king scratching his head, and that lazy pose! Love this work! And Italian Spiderman its amazing too (I'm italian =D).
@LukasN - I love your spiderweb! Are so personal and stylized, but still so true.
@Flame Unquenchable: ehi! Nice to see you here around again! NOw come the hardest part: to move from a good thumb to a work... And I have just a pinch of spare time for this. Just hope to finish it! I will reach my goal if my pic will come out differnt by any Shelob's lair...
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@FLame - Very hard prospective you choose... Don't give up!
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So been hopping about trying all the challenges out and realized I really like environments a ton, and this particular one feels really interesting. Started on this one and when I get a chance to work on it some more at my PC I will post some more, but for now this is where I am at. It is a touch on the large size to easily read on the screen but I can't seem to resize it appropriately from my iPad. Either way it is coming along I am enjoying the challenge extensively, still a far cry from the quality I have seen so far but I have learned a lot from this so far, just building details and forms as I go at the moment. What resolution is everyone doing their work at out of curiosity?
Going to put some giant spider eyes in the very back of the cave I think. Still thinking it through, but it coming together so fast, really loving building from such random marks.
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April 9th, 2014 #19
I'm scared of spiders, but If I can avoid looking at them and just "hint" at their presence I will give this a shot lol
April 9th, 2014 #20
Started working on my final, too tired to continue tonight, still lots more to do!
Shall give feedback on everyone else's tomorrow when I'm a little more awake
April 10th, 2014 #21
@Lukasn I love your idea!
@Mooglesarelittle Nice climat and lights! Especially the second one!
My first work in EOW. The idea of a lair in a dark and dense forest. Full of traps and corners. I hope you like it!
It's still a lot of work to do! Regards
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April 10th, 2014 #22
Hello people, I'm going to give this a shot.
Progress so far, I kind of wanted to give it a bit of an alien vibe, so I've gone heavy on the egg clutches
I'm pretty much done, just have to tighten everything up and do another detail pass.
April 11th, 2014 #23
OverlordGunnar: This is looking suitably creepy! I think the image appears a little flat, especially the plane in which the spiders sit. It might look quite cool if you push the spider on the right into the foreground.
DeaDer: This is a really solid start, the lighting and the mood is down, just gotta keep going.
Delofasht: Hard to critique as it's so early but you already have a defined lighting and mood which is ace. Focus on retaining that while you render everything to a final level.
Vyse: I Italian Spiderman. Your piece is looking solid! My main critique would be that the guy in the thrown is quite difficult to make out. Maybe a lit torch or a light ray could help illuminate him?
Yusuf Zmirlin: Really nice colours but the image is desperately calling out for some story elements. Maybe an explorer climbing over the rocks or a spider waiting for prey.
LukasN: These are ace! I really like the second one and it's definitely the most creepy. I would suggest checking out reference of cobwebs and see if you can incorperate some of the lighter transparent webs.
BlindLynx: Hey Lynx your thumbnails show promise but they're quite hard to critique as they're quite abstract but for what it's worth 3,5 and 6 are my favourites
Here's another update from me. Still a lot of extra work needed but it's getting there.
(If it isn't completely obvious, yeah I've been playing a ton of Dark Souls 2 >_>)
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April 11th, 2014 #24
@OverlordGunnar - Yay, I agree with MoogleSare. A big spider on the right, as a "responsoir" could help to get in.
@DeaDer - I like the concept, and the spotlight not on the subject. Even if very painty the work seems solid, just the mangrove tree on the left looks a bit too raw for me.
@MoogleSare - Do u use a brush for the balustrade and than you raster it and put em on transform prospective?
Here is a wip... I worked yesterday night on it, but I was so tired, that today I'm really pissed off with the result. I'm proud of the background nighly mountain... The rest is to trash. So I will soon post another lightday wip I suppose, so don't waste your time with crits on this. =)
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Thanks for the feedback Mooglesarelittle!. I really like your last piece. It's a solid composition with interesting perspective. I feel like it could benefit even more if you darken the lower left corner (especially the railing) and bring up few highlights on top of the web where it meets a "ceiling".
BlindLynx- You did cool thumbnails in the beginning. I like nr:3,2,6 - they've got some interesting things going on there, like perspective, foreground and background elements,interesting shapes. My favorite would be nr.3.
OverlordGunnar- Really good job I feel like u nailed it! Really nice mood, good sense of space, creepiness all over. I agree with what others said about foreground spider. Make it bigger, so it pops in front more. But overall my favorite!
DeaDer- I like the mood of your environment. You just need to add more elements that would suggest off arachnid's living there!
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April 11th, 2014 #26
thanx lukasN 4 crits.
here is my daylight version. in a sunny afternoon I came to visit the aracnoid's king. =)
and this is after another couple hour... could be abandoned
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everyone's wip looks very good!
I'm gonna try anyways.
April 12th, 2014 #28
Thanks for the suggestions guys, I played around with it for a while but felt like the composition was becoming a bit heavy on one side, so I took the idea of making a much bigger spider but put it over the other side. I also made it a much creepier spider
The worst thing about looking for spider images on google, is the inevitable spider 'bite' photos... eeewwwww....
April 12th, 2014 #29
OverlordGunnar: Yeeeeaaaah this is a great improvement! I think some spiders in the distance would look really good and would help to convey the scale of the cave.
BlindLynx: Loving the environment you're building here. I would try adding some foreground rocks to help convey a better sense of depth. Be wary of the edges of your canvas, right now my eye just drifts off the page but with your compositions you need the viewers gaze to remain in the centre. For the hand railings I draw a silhouette of them as a flat 2d object without perspective and then I free transform > distort them into perspective, it's a million times faster than painting them in free hand
Here is my final! Quite happy with how this turned out, especially the egg sacks T_T.
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April 12th, 2014 #30
Thank you guys
@BlindLynx: I think your first WIP, has better lighitng and climat, than the newest.
I worked with my picture, I add some more details, like web or spider's eggs, also what took the longest time compositon. I changed composition, I think for better. Also add character. So here next WIP.
About my scene: This is enter to the spiders liar. In the centre Spider's Guard is showing himself to the guest. Other spiders are hiding around and observing.
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(AP) KALAMAZOO, Mich. -- Alex Carder threw for 143 yards and two touchdowns to lead Western Michigan past Nicholls State 38-7 on Saturday night.
Both of Carder's scoring passes came in the first half along with a pair of touchdown runs by Brian Fields, who finished with 54 yards rushing.
Chika Madu accounted for the only score for the Colonels (1-1) with a 36-yard interception return midway through the second quarter.
The Broncos (1-1) led 28-7 at halftime.
Antoin Scriven increased the lead to 35-7 with a short touchdown dash in the third quarter. John Potter capped it off with a 40-yard field goal in the fourth.
The Broncos' Tevin Drake led the game in rushing with 86 yards.
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Here's The Deal … Western Michigan moved the ball up and down the field against Michigan last week, but it was done in by a few timely big plays from the Wolverine defense and ultimately lost out to the weather, which halted the game a quarter early. While it would've been miraculous to have come back from a 34-10 deficit, with the way the attack was working, the Broncos could've made it interesting. Now comes the layup before starting out the MAC season against Central Michigan. With road games to Illinois and Connecticut to follow, the Broncos need to roll over the next two weeks.
Nicholls State came up with a blowout in its cupcake game, beating Evangel 42-0, and this is the first of two games against FBS teams with Louisiana-Lafayette coming up next. The Colonels run the ball extremely well and have a ton of experience, but they're about to be in for an offensive storm if WMU plays up to its capabilities.
Why Nicholls State Might Win: 49 lettermen return to a team that struggled last year, but came on strong at the end to win two straight. The ground game has the weapons to cross up the Bronco defensive front, using it quirky attack to use several different runners and get several players involved throughout. The Colonels ran for 326 yards last week with quarterback Laquintin Caston running for 137 yards and two touchdowns, while also completing 5-of-13 passes for 39 yards and a score. There's a chance the Broncos are kept on their heels and NSU controls the clock on the ground to keep Alex Carder and company off the field.
Why Western Michigan Might Win: The offense is in midseason form. The Broncos couldn't handle the well-timed Michigan blitzes, but everything else worked for three quarters with Carder dinking and dunking the offense down the field. The Wolverines came up with two defensive scores to turn the game around, but the Broncos held their own. Offensive balance against the Colonels won't be a problem, and unlike last week, Carder won't be getting tagged on a regular basis. NSU has an okay pass rush, but it's not stellar.
What To Watch Out For: It might not seem sexy, but for a team that relies so heavily on field position, Nicholls State needs to win the field position battle. Cory Kemps had a great first game, averaging 48 yards per kick putting two inside the 20, while the return game was excellent. Bobby Felder returned two kicks for 89 yards, and he needs to break a few big plays to match the production from the WMU offense. The Broncos have a strong punter of their own in Ben Armer, who was only needed twice against Michigan, but he came through averaging 46.5 yards per try with one put inside the 20.
While Alex Carder became the focus of the Michigan game, it was Jordan White who was the star. The receiver who received a sixth year of eligibility caught 12 passes for 119 yards and picked apart the Michigan secondary. Carder and White should be able to hook up at least ten times as the Broncos use the midrange pass almost like an extension of the running game.
What Will Happen: NSU will come up with 250 yards on the ground and will control the clock for stretches, but it won't be nearly enough. The Western Michigan offense will get hot early and will put away the game without a problem. Just like last week against Michigan, this game will be over after three quarters.
CFN Prediction: Western Michigan 45 … Nicholls State 20
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LILBURN — Lilburn police are looking for the man who robbed a bank there Monday afternoon, the fourth such crime at the location since the start of 2011.
According to Capt. Thomas Bardugon, a black male entered the Wells Fargo located at 5505 Lawrenceville Highway at about 3:45 p.m. Monday, passing a teller and threatening note and receiving an unknown amount of cash.
"Once he received the cash, he ran out the bank door," Bardugon said. "The suspect fled in an unknown make (and) model beige four-door sedan."
The unidentified suspect is described as 5-foot-10 to six feet tall, with dark skin, a slim build, slender face and no facial hair. He wore no glasses and had no visible scars or tattoos, Bardugon said.
Surveillance photos of the suspect were also released. Anyone with information on the suspect should contact Det. B. Ross at 770-635-2182.
Monday's crime was the fourth robbery in less than three years at the same bank.
— On Jan. 28, 2011, police believe Tawander Simmons, 35, checked her son and two of his friends out of DeKalb County's Stephenson High School. They all then drove to the bank on Lawrenceville Highway, using at least one handgun to commit the robbery.
The group ultimately crashed its getaway vehicle near Interstate 285 in DeKalb, thanks to information providing by a witness who followed them. All four were arrested; court records show Simmons has since pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
— On Nov. 4, 2011, an unidentified suspect — described as a large-framed, dark-skinned black male between 30 and 40 years old and about 6 feet tall — robbed the bank with a note. As he fled, a red dye pack successfully exploded, but the man was not caught. He remains on the lam.
— On Aug. 6, 2012, a man wearing a fake black beard and fedora held up the Wells Fargo. The suspect police later identified as Marquis Lamar Conner fled on foot and escaped, but was arrested just over two months later. He remains in jail and is awaiting trial, Bardugon said.
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Amauri was delighted to net five goals on his Juventus debut in their 7-1 friendly victory over Serie C2 Mezzocorona.
"I have to thank my teammates who gave me the chances in front of goal," the former Palermo man said. "I linked up very well with the lads and we are already on the same wavelength and on the right track.
"I am happy to start like that because these goals can help morale. I just hope to continue like this."
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War of the dons
Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino would have been proud. A dark alley on a moonlit night. A secluded apartment block, Charan Court, at an upmarket diplomatic enclave in the Soi 26, Sukhumvit area in Bangkok. It's past dinner time, 9.30 p.m. on Thursday, September 14, to be precise.
Eight gunmen owing allegiance to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, togged in jet black suits and patent leathers, arrive at the gate, two of them, Thai nationals, carrying a huge cake provide cultural colour and a facade for the others. The Thai security guard barely lets them in only to be knocked out of his senses.
The gunmen rush upstairs and ring the bell. A couple and a child are watching TV in the living room. They peer through, the cake-bearing Thais lure the doors open. The next minute, the gunmen enter the four bedroom apartment whip out their 9 mm pistols and open fire.
First to fall is Rohit Verma or Michael D'Souza, as he was known in Bangkok. His wife Sangeeta rushes in to save him and takes a bullet. Horrorstruck, maid Kamala slinks to the kitchen door.
The assailants' eyes dart around the house but the prey they actually seek is nowhere to be seen. Pushing the Verma couple aside they scour the apartment for him. Suddenly in the dark they see the silhouette of a figure jumping off a bedroom balcony into a garden below. Blind volley of shots follow the figure. But this wasn't Pulp Fiction. The prey escapes with one bullet in his abdomen and another in his right thigh.
Click here to EnlargeEven as other residents of the quiet Sukhumvit area wake up, the man stays put until he hears the failed gunmen leave. Going back to the house, he finds Verma dead and the wife injured. He moves to the bedroom and picks up the phone and dials. On the other end his close aide Guru Satam hears a rasping voice whispers, "Mi Rajan boltoi."
In the next few minutes Chhota Rajan makes three more calls. The last to the Thai Police. Minutes later, a posse arrives and takes charge. Rajan is wheeled into the Samitivej Hospital's ICU for emergency surgery. Within hours, the shots echo 2,923 km away in Delhi where officials at the Home Ministry discuss the ramifications even as officers of the Crime Branch scramble numbers to verify the news.
The following evening, 3,004 km from Bangkok the issue crops up again at a dinner meeting on Friday at Matoshri in Bandra, suburban Mumbai, between Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray and Union Law Minister Arun Jaitley.
Base: Karachi, Pakistan Wanted in: 17 cases
Absconding from India since 1991, he ran the show from Dubai till 1993. After the Mumbai serial blasts, he moved to Pakistan. Activities range from construction, narcotics and gold smuggling, extortion to gun-running. Also helps recruit ISI operatives for India.
Base: Karachi, Pakistan Wanted in: 30 cases
Controls Mumbai. Is said to have planned the attack on Rajan. Absconding since 1998, he shuttles between Pakistan, Nepal, Malaysia and Australia.
Base: South Africa Wanted in: 34 cases
The man behind extortion threats to filmstars and the murder of Gulshan Kumar. Fled India in 1996 and now operates from Africa.
FAZLU: Coordinates the activities of the D Company in India from Dubai.
KAYUB: Dubai-based key henchman of Dawood.
ALI BUDESH: Based in Bahrain, he specialises in extortion. Works with Abu Salem.
By Monday, Rajan was declared out of danger and the Thai Police had arrested four suspects. Of them, Mohammed Saleem, 33, and Sher Khan, 36, who admitted to being the shooters in the attack were caught at the Robinson departmental store in Bang Rak while Mohammed Yusuf, 45, was arrested as he tried to evade the police on Sukhumvit Soi 5.
Their Thai accomplice, Chavalit a.k.a. Rafiq Aroonkiat, 51, was picked up from a flat in Intamara Soi. Four others involved in the attack fled to Malaysia by a Singapore Airlines flight the same night.
But the legacy of the shoot-out continues to dog the script. A script that was written over six years back when Rajan walked out after the serial blasts in Mumbai masterminded by Dawood.
Since then the Rajan vs Dawood battle has become a sideshow, albeit a bloody one, of the proxy war being waged between India and Pakistan.
As R.H. Mendonca, now DG (ACB) Maharashtra Police and former commissioner, Mumbai, puts it, "It is no longer a battle between criminal gangs. It is much larger and there is a clear involvement of elements from outside the country inimical to national interest."
The immediate provocation for the attack was the busting of a fake US dollar currency racket run by Dawood's aides by the Interpol and a US agency in December 1999. It led to the arrest of two of Dawood's influential agents in Thailand. Next Rajan's people exposed Akbar Sha, a key associate of Dawood. Sha, a Pakistani drug trafficker, was killed in a police encounter.
Since December Dawood's men have been tracking Rajan's movements with information dredged out of Mumbai's underworld. Rajan has subsequently been spotted among other places in Melbourne, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok.
But the decision to pin him down in Bangkok came after men belonging to the Chhota Shakeel faction found that Verma had set up shop along with a Thai national dealing in ceramics in downtown Bangkok. On August 31, the first batch of operatives arrived from Karachi with clear instructions: bring Rajan to Karachi or eliminate him.
CHHOTA RAJAN a.k.a. RAJENDRA SADASHIV NIKHALJE
Base: Malaysia, Australia Wanted in: 20 cases
Once a close aide of Dawood, now his biggest enemy. Helped Dawood establish his underworld empire but broke away after the Mumbai blasts. By going after the blasts accused, Rajan has positioned himself as a "Hindu don" and has established links with Indian agencies.
GURUNATH a.k.a. GURU NARHARI SATAM
Base: Malaysia, Mumbai
A trusted aide of Rajan, the first man whom the don called after the attack. Gurunath is known for his quicksilver temper and organisational skills.
One of the flashiest aides of Rajan, Verma specialised in networking and managing moolah transfers. He was killed in the September 14 attack.
Base: India and Nepal
O.P. Singh is known for his careful planning and methodical approach. Also has indepth knowledge of the underworld networks.
Saleem, who came in the first batch with three others, used local help to comb Bangkok. Within days, Verma, known for his rather flashy lifestyle, was spotted and his residence located.
Now four more shooters arrived from Karachi. On September 11, the team of 10 (four Pakistanis, four Indians and two Thais) hired an apartment at Amree Court adjacent to Charan Court where Verma had rented a flat under the assumed name of Michael D'Souza.
The conspirators even found a flat that overlooked the front gate of Charan Court enabling them to keep a close watch on their quarry. Apparently, they waited a couple of days for the right opportunity before striking.
And when they did strike, the fierce attack in which close to 100 rounds were fired, stunned even the Thai police.
As Colonel Manthan Apaivongs, superintendent of Thanglore police station and main investigation officer, said, "It seems the gang war in the Indian subcontinent has extended to Bangkok. We have never seen such a case of vengeance and retaliation. It is more than mere business or gang rivalry."
The meticulous planning suggests the very forces that organised the blasts of 1993 backed Dawood's attempt in Bangkok. Ergo, if there were people concerned in Delhi and Mumbai it had little to do with the oft quoted "Hindu Don vs Muslim Don" factor. Partly the worry would be the emergence of a unipolar underworld.
|Arun Gawli: Onetime Dawood friend, Gawli ran a booming extortion racket in Mumbai and is alleged to have planned the killing of several businessmen. Externed from Mumbai, Gawli lives near Pune.
Amar Naik: Specialised in extortion and was responsible for the killing of industrialist Sunit Khatau in 1994. Naik was killed in a police encounter in 1996.
Ashwin Naik: Brother of Amar Naik, he took over his operations and sought to avenge his killing. Now in jail facing trial.
Subhash Singh Thakur: Once a planner and shooter for the D Company, he now runs an extortion racket. In jail for his role in the J.J. Hospital shootout.
Shyam Kishore Garikapatti: Introduced the concept of outsourcing to the underworld. Was involved in the Rakesh Roshan shootout and is currently in jail.
But there is a bigger worry. Ever since the serial bomb blasts there has been little doubt that Dawood is working closely with the ISI. Dawood's network is being utilised by the ISI to recruit people and to foment trouble in India.
Strategically, as of now, it is only Rajan who is in a position to challenge him. Indeed, the biggest blow to the ISI in recent years, the elimination of Nepalese MP Mirza Dilshad Beg, is seen as the handiwork of Rajan's network. So were at least eight unsuccessful attempts on Dawood's life.
The theory that Rajan is being treated with kid gloves by the Indian authorities to neutralise Dawood is not entirely baseless.
Three months back - in July - the Australian police tipped off the Mumbai Police of the presence of Rajan in Melbourne. Although a red corner notice has been with the Interpol since 1994, the Mumbai Police still sent 17 open warrants for his arrest.
Chhagan Bhujbal, deputy chief minister in charge of home, confirms that the papers were indeed sent "to CBI in Delhi which is the nodal agency dealing with the Interpol". But the arrest never took place. Even the recent shoot-out and Rajan's hospitalisation present an opportunity.
The Thai Police revealed that Rajan had more than one passport. While he was staying in Bangkok as Vijay Ramakrishna Kadam, he had passports in his own name, Rajendra Sadashiv Nikhalje, another in the name of Lipendra Ailib from Lucknow. All it would take is for the Indian mission to notify the local authorities that he is a wanted man.
Whether it does or not is in the realm of the possible. But the fact is the murder attempt has actually generated a sort of latent sympathy for Rajan in middle-class Mumbai. As a senior police officer points out, "It is perhaps unfortunate but there is a feeling among some youth and even business people that a Hindu don is required."
What the officer doesn't say is that in the perverted logic of the criminal universe, if Dawood's gang uses jehad to cloak its activities, Rajan too now has acquired a "nationalistic hue". In Mumbai, Verma's mother claimed her son was "a deshbhakt.
For the moment Rajan has been shifted out of Samitivej Hospital to a safe house - but it's Mumbai that is worried about its safety. Over the past few years through the tenure of Mendonca and now Police Commissioner M.N. Singh, the police has used a clear strategy to take on the underworld: "Target the shooters and the persons who supply arms."
The strategy has paid off. In fact, after the killing of Amar Naik in 1996, most mafia figures have left India. But this peace seems fragile now. There is apprehension that Rajan's gang will retaliate and will do so without losing time.
Indeed, in Bangkok, Rajan's aide Santosh Shetty asserts, "They have broken the rules of not targeting women and children. We won't be sitting quiet for sure.
The Mumbai Police though is unruffled D. Sivanandhan, joint commissioner in charge of the Crime Branch, dismisses the possibility of an escalation in gang wars. "I don't believe there is anything for the people to fear. But we are clear. If they come on the streets, they will not be spared." Bhujbal agrees. "To start with we have no sympathy for either group. If they are targeting each other nobody should lose any sleep. But if it comes on the streets nobody will be spared."
Given the track record of the police in containing the underworld after the troubled, extortion-ridden months of September and October 1997, the confident words should afford some comfort to the people of Mumbai.
"For how long?" is thus the new poser. After all the script is far from over. As with Pulp Fiction, the shoot-out could be just the end of another chapter. Somewhere between Karachi and Bangkok, the next episode is being scripted for sure.
|1974: Dawood, son of a Konkani Muslim police constable, commits his first crime. Small fry. Haji Mastan, Karim Lala and Varadaraja Mudaliar rule supreme.
1984: Post-Emergency war of Dawood and Pathans. Dawood has Samad Khan, Lala's nephew, shot. Rama Naik and Bada Rajan (Chhota's guru) killed as well.
1988: Varadaraja has retired, other rivals dead. Dawood is top don. Rules over Rs 1,500 cr empire. Arun Gawli sole challenger.
1989: Dawood tries to semi-legitimise empire by investing in South Africa and west Asia through BCCI. Bank later collapses.
1991: Targeted by the Mumbai Police, Dawood has fled to Dubai. Assisted by Chhota Rajan and Anna Shetty he maintains a great social profile. Flourishes.
1992: The Babri Masjid demolition divides the Mumbai underworld along religious lines. Riots in Mumbai. Dawood is under community pressure to "act".
1993: Dawood executes bomb blasts in Mumbai. Rajan charges Dawood with communalism and leaves him. The war begins. Rajan vows to kill bomb blast guilty. Goes after them.Today, of the 17 murder charges he faces, 12 are of bomb blast conspirators.
1995: Rajan men Sanjay Raggad, Diwakar Churi and Jukar killed in Nepal. Rajan retaliates by killing Shabbir of the D Company. Rajan flees Dubai for Kuala Lumpur after Dawood tells Sawtya Sawant to kill him. Later Sawant is killed, angering Dawood.
1999: Gangland alliances change. Abu Salem leaves Dubai and goes solo. Working out of Africa, he retains contact with Dawood.
2000: Dawood sends killers to Bangkok to get Rajan after trying to split his rival's gang. Rajan escapes yet again. The war of the dons continues.
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"Running is life," the popular T-shirt reads. And like people do in life, runners go through stages. This isn't an original observation, rather one I heard from longtime runner Freddy Queen as we once cruised through a Saturday 10-miler with our training group. But I think of it often as I see runners pass by, guessing what stage they're at and whether they'll make it to the next.
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The pictured Sears "Fully-Automatic" charger is not a 3-Stage unit. It''s a fast charger that throttles back to a "trickle charge". There are some different strategies for sensing the voltage at which to throttle back. I''m not certain which this unit uses - but I would NOT recommend leaving this charger permanently connected (there are a number of imortant reasons) !!!
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What's interesting is Djokovic and Murray are aging better than Federer did.
I've always thought Federer's physical decline in 2007 onward was more noticeable than it should have been at his age, and this is reinforcing that belief. Djokovic and Murray are moving as well as they ever have...while Federer in 2007 was already a little more sluggish than before. And in 2008, it was night and day.
Unless Djokovic/Murray age rapidly in the next year or so, they're going to be better players at 26-30 than Federer was at the same age, which is bizarre.
People thinking Federer's a better player now than in his prime just make me laugh. I mean, really? Do you think if today's Federer entered the scene back then, the commentators would be ooing and ahing all over the place, as if they'd seen the Messiah of tennis?
"Wow! OK, so he can't hit a running forehand to save his life, he's below average for a Top 10 player in the return game, he gets overpowered by the big hitters and frustrated by defensive players, and there are numerous guys quicker and who hit bigger than him...but he might be the greatest player ever?"
All you have to do is take one look at his shot selection now and realize the guy's just not the same player. "Open court? Nah, I'll just hit it right back at him and let him pass me instead."
I'm not even particularly entertained by Federer matches anymore. He looks so stiff. There's no fluidity at all to his game anymore. He's a smart server with solid enough ground strokes to bother most.
We don't know that yet, and I would lean towards saying no anyway. Djokovic and Murray's primes started 2 years later than Federer's did age wise, and after Fed turned 26 he has since won 6 slams. There's absolutely nothing suggesting to me yet that Djokovic and Murray are aging better than Federer did, and I doubt there will be with their styles of play.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – If you look west from Germany these
days you'll see America stifling a yawn at the World Cup.
Despite a doubling of TV ratings for the first-round
matches this month, before the U.S. squad failed miserably,
soccer still ranks below televised poker tournaments in a land
where baseball, basketball and American football rule.
To put it in context, ABC-TV's average rating of 2.5 for
the first eight matches it aired represents barely 8 million
viewers in a nation of just under 300 million. Only 3.9 million
Americans watched the 2002 World Cup final, out of 1.1 billion
By comparison, nearly 91 million viewers watched this
year's Super Bowl, the glitzy climax to the season for
America's home-grown form of football. Nearly 39 million
watched the Academy Awards, Hollywood's big night, in March and
36 million tuned in for last month's finale of "American Idol,"
a TV talent show.
And on ABC's sports cable network, ESPN, which presumably
attracts more serious sports fans, the World Cup has had even
fewer viewers, averaging around 1.75 million on channels that
reach 91 million homes.
No surprise then, that a poll by the Global Market Insite
market research service found only 11 percent of Americans
surveyed were "definitely" interested in the World Cup,
compared with 45 percent of respondents world-wide.
"Despite an estimated combined $420 million invested in
official partnerships by U.S.-based corporations to gain
worldwide visibility, the facts don't lie: the U.S. lags
significantly behind other countries when it comes to being
passionate about 'the beautiful game' of soccer," GMI said.
The poll revealed that 56 percent of Americans did not even
know that the 2006 World Cup was taking place in Germany.
Soccer just isn't part of the culture in a country that
often prides itself on sporting isolationism.
Millions of kids may play the game in America. But unlike
the spontaneity of soccer on Rio or Cape Town beaches, or in
the alleys of Berlin and Bologna, you don't see kids kicking a
ball around on the streets of Philadelphia or Memphis.
American opinion is still shaped by a handful of sports
commentators who can barely hide their hostility. Yet, even as
the U.S. team was competing in its fifth consecutive finals,
two long-time opponents of soccer appeared to soften.
First, it was Frank Deford, a Sports Illustrated columnist,
who delights in provoking soccer fans with outrageous jibes.
In a National Public Radio commentary, he actually praised
the passion of the world's fans, and called soccer players
"rock stars of sweat."
But the transformation was fleeting, as he still thinks
soccer is not for Americans.
"America is one of the few countries that escaped being
infected by the soccer pandemic," Deford went on. There is more
interest this month in the professional basketball and hockey
playoffs in America, "the only country where soccer is not
important," he said.
Another apparent convert was Jack Kemp, the former NFL
quarterback and Republican presidential candidate, who once
called soccer "socialistic and collectivist" during a speech in
Yet he acknowledged in a posting on his Web site this week
that seven or eight of his 16 grandchildren play soccer.
"Watching our USA soccer team tie the Italian team last
week and on Sunday watching the athleticism of the Brazilian
team, I'm hereby publicly acknowledging that soccer can be
interesting to watch," said Kemp.
Unfortunately, he couldn't resist a late hit.
"I love soccer, but it's still boring," he added.
If a nation's newspapers reflect its thinking, then USA
Today has America's attitude to soccer nailed down.
"That Americans have a love-hate relationship with soccer
is indisputable," columnist William Mattox Jr. wrote last week.
"We love to play the game, or at least to have our children
play it. But we hate to watch it.
The newspaper ran letters echoing his comments.
"If America hadn't been founded by the pilgrims leaving …
to seek freedom of religion, a few hundred years later America
would have been founded by the pilgrims seeking freedom from
soccer," wrote Rollie Robinson of Portland, Oregon.


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2012: Spent the entire 2012 regular season on the reserve/injured list due to a foot injury suffered late in the preseason.
COLLEGE: Played four years at Fort Valley State and earned first-team Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference honors as a senior…Invited to the National College Elite Kicking Camp…Ranked as No. 5 punter in Division II after senior year…As a senior, punted 60 times for 2,582 yards (43.0 avg.)…Booted an 80-yard punt at the HBCU All-Star Bowl Game…Placed 21 punts inside the 20-yard line…Had nine touchbacks…Ranked 13th in the nation in net punting yardage…Had 16 punts travel 50 or more yards…As a junior, punted 54 times for 2,144 yards (39.7 avg.)…Had a season-long 64-yard punt…Placed 17 punts inside the opponent 20-yard line…Ranked as the No. 4 punter in Division II…Averaged 39 yards per punt as a sophomore…Finished freshman season with a 41-yard punting average.
PERSONAL: Born in Macon, Ga., and attended Rutland High School in his hometown…Began playing football as a wide receiver his sophomore year of high school…Did not punt until junior year of high school…One of the Raiders' most active community participants, took part in numerous events throughout 2013, including the Alameda County Food Bank, Toys for Tots and Holiday Shopping.
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Philadelphia/New York UNDER 7
Chicago Bears
Phillies/Mets Under
This game should have a real playoff atmosphere to it. Not only is it a Sunday Night ESPN game in September but these two divisional rivals are neck and neck in the standings. Depending on the results of the first game, the Mets will either be one or three games ahead. These "playoff-like" games often feature great pitching and I expect that to be the case for this evening's all-southpaw clash. Santana continues to be one of the best in the game and he always seems to fare well in the second half. In 10 starts since the All Star break, he's gone 4-0 while recording a stellar 2.47 ERA. Note that Santana's last five starts have averaged less than six combined runs each with the UNDER going 4-1. Looking back further and we find that Santana is a very impressive 49-11 with a 2.46 ERA in 84 post-All Star Break starts since 2003. Note that Santana has allowed three earned runs or less all five times that he faced the Phillies, recording a 2.97 ERA overall. Hamels is no slouch either though. Indeed, like Santana, he's capable of being dominant. Like Santana, he's also been red hot recently. In fact, he's 3-0 with a terrific 1.23 ERA in his last four starts and he's allowed two earned runs or less in six straight starts. Last time out he blanked the Nationals for 7 1/3 innings, en route to a 4-0 Philadelphia victory. He's allowed three earned runs or less in four of his five starts vs. the Mets (3.27 ERA), allowing four in the other game. Entering today, the UNDER is 10-5 the last 15 times that the Mets hosted the Phillies, including a 3-0 final in the opener. Look for another well-pitched affair. *NL Total of the Week
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IND -9.5 vs CHI
In Week 1, I see no reason to overthink things. In my opinion, the Colts are one of the three best teams in the NFL and the Bears are one of the three worst. All the Colts have to do is win by 10. I like my odds. The Colts treat preseason like a glorified practice. They spend all summer preparing for their opening day opponent, that's why they normally play so well in Week 1 after looking like garbage for most of the preseason.
Now, there is a concern that Peyton Manning may be rusty. I don't buy into that for two main reasons. One, I've seen this guy practice up close and personal. Trust me, he could shut his eyes and hit Wayne, Clark and Harrison on a rope. Those guys are so in sync it's scary. The second reason I'm not concerned about Manning is because the Bears defense isn't what it once was. The Colts will be able to run the ball just as well as throw it. We saw that a couple of years ago in the Super Bowl when these two teams met. Plus, the Bears and Colts run the same defense, so Manning sees it all the time in practice. Not good news if you are a Bears fan .
We have an AFC powerhouse opening up their new stadium against an NFC weakling. I see the Colts winning this game by at least 17 points. ***2 UNIT PLAY***
Re: Sunday Service Plays
CHI 10.5 vs IND 2* WAGER **
Bodog is using 10.5 and I know a few more shops who are there as well...So I
went ahead and bought the 1/2 point to take this to +11...The Consensus at
this time is still 10, so for grading purposes, I went ahead and posted the
bet without buying the hook...And I suggest you wait until as close to
kick-off time as you possibly can to get the best number...VR
IND / CHI Over 43.0 2* TOTAL
Again, just like with the side...I suggest waiting until as close to
kick-off as possible because 43 is such a "key number" in the NFL,
that being able to get even 42.5, will increase the probabilities of cashing...I
would also be willing to lay the 10 cents and drop it all the way to 42, if
the opportunity presents itself...because then, the chances of cashing an
Over increase even more...VR
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mvbski wrote:
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Philadelphia -7.5 vs St. Louis
Double Plays
Cincinnati -1.5 vs Baltimore
Dallas -5.5 vs Cleveland
San Francisco/Arizona Under 42
Jacksonville/Tennessee Under 36.5
Single Plays
Tennessee +3 vs Jacksonville
Indianapolis -9.5 vs Chicago
Carolina +9 vs San Diego
Buffalo -1 vs Seattle
Dallas/Cleveland Under 49
Buffalo/Seattle Over 38.5
Detroit/Atlanta Under 41
This guy is on the radio here in my market. Never thought he would have a week like this as he has always been right at .500....I could have paid my electric, cable AND water bill all from this week..could have, should have....etc...just don't see many weeks like this.
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June 18
1947 - Cincinnati's Ewell Blackwell tossed a 6-0 no-hitter against the Boston Braves.
1950 - In the nightcap of a doubleheader, the Cleveland Indians scored 14 runs in the first inning for an American League record as they trounced the Philadelphia A's 21-2.
1953 - At Fenway Park, Dick Gernert's home run highlighted the 17-run, 14-hit seventh inning as the Boston Red Sox beat the Detroit Tigers 23-3. Gene Stephens collected three hits and Sammy White scored three runs in the big inning. Tom Umphlett also reached base three times in the inning.
1960 - The San Francisco Giants fired Bill Rigney and selected Tom Sheehan as manager. At 66 years, 2 months and 18 days, Sheehan was the oldest man to debut as a manager of a major league team.
1967 - Houston Astro Don Wilson tossed the first of his two career no-hitters by blanking the Atlanta Braves 2-0, facing 30 batters and striking out 15.
1975 - Fred Lynn batted in 10 runs with three homers, a triple and a single for the Boston Red Sox in a 15-1 victory over the Detroit Tigers. Lynn's 16 total bases tied an AL record.
1986 - California's Don Sutton pitched a three-hitter for his 300th career victory as the Angels beat the Texas Rangers 5-1. The 41-year-old right-hander became the 19th pitcher in baseball history to win 300 games.
2002 - Luis Castillo tied Rogers Hornsby's 80-year-old record for the longest hitting streak by a second baseman, beating out a dribbler to the pitcher in the sixth inning to make it 33 games in a row, in a 2-1 Florida win over Cleveland.
2005 - Atlanta's Julio Franco, 46, hit two homers in a game for the first time since Sept. 12, 1996, becoming the second-oldest player to homer in major league history. Jack Quinn was a week shy of his 47th birthday when he homered in 1930.
2007 - Chone Figgins went 6-for-6 and drove in the game-winning run in the ninth inning to lift the Los Angeles Angels over Houston 10-9.
2009 - The Washington Nationals beat the New York Yankees 3-0 after the start of the game was delayed for 5 1/2 hours by rain. Scheduled to start at 1:05 p.m., the game did not begin until 6:31 p.m. Craig Stammen pitched 6 1-3 innings to earn his first major league victory in the first game without a homer at the new Yankee Stadium.
2011 - Johnny Damon hit his 500th double as Tampa Bay beat Florida 7-4. Damon, with an opposite-field bloop double to left in the first, became the 11th player all-time to have 500 doubles, 100 triples, 200 homers, and 2,500 hits.
2011 - Connor Harrell hit the first College World Series home run in the new TD Ameritrade Park to break a sixth-inning tie and first-time qualifier Vanderbilt defeated North Carolina 7-3.
2012 - R.A. Dickey became the first major league pitcher in 24 years to throw consecutive one-hitters and Ike Davis hit a grand slam in the New York Mets' 5-0 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. The previous pitcher to throw consecutive one-hitters was Dave Stieb for Toronto in September 1988.
2012 - Aaron Hill hit a solo homer in the seventh inning to become the fifth Arizona player to hit for the cycle, lifting the Diamondbacks to a 7-1 win over the Seattle Mariners.
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Last year, Gideons International [8] distributed more than 84 million printed copies of the Bible around the world to students, hospitals, members of the military and, of course, hotels, where they are a ubiquitous sight in bedside tables.
Starting this month, however, the InterContinental Hotels Group is modernizing that mission at one of its hotels, replacing the paper tomes with electronic versions of the Bible [9] loaded on Kindle e-readers. Each of the 148 rooms at the chain's Hotel Indigo in Newcastle, England [10], will be outfitted with a Kindle Touch with Wi-Fi. Guests can use the e-ink devices to catch up on scripture, as well as purchase and read any other books available in the Amazon Kindle store.
Apparently the Gideons are supportive of the hotel group's move toward electronic versions of Holy Writ. (And if a guest is so taken with the Kindle that they take it with them when they check out, the hotel will charge the guest's credit card for the Kindle.)
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[5] http://sojo.net/donate
[6] http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/04/tech/gaming-gadgets/hotel-bible-kindle/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
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