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Microsoft has sent out invitations to an event for Sept. 30, the same date that's been rumored to be when the company will publicly reveal Windows 9.
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The current CEO of Microsoft is Steven Ballmer. Bill Gates stands as the corporation's chairman. Microsoft's long list of businesses and company divisions include Xbox 360, Zune Music and Video, Office, Exchange, MSN portals, Skype, So.Cl and much more.
Microsoft has sent out invitations to an event for Sept. 30, the same date that's been rumored to be when the company will publicly reveal Windows 9.
Microsoft probably won't deter die-hard Minecrafters from playing, but many think this purchase is pretty blockheaded.
Microsoft has bought the company behind Minecraft, a massively popular computer game that has created its own subculture within the larger gaming community.
A report from tech site Neowin claims Microsoft is planning games for your PC's web browser.
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TOLUCA, Mexico— Authorities in the state that surrounds Mexico City are vowing to step up security patrols after dismembered bodies began turning up there this month.
The governor of Mexico State says he won't allow the area to become an arena for drug gang battles.
Gov. Eruviel Avila says he has ordered police checkpoints on roads leading to Toluca, the state capital located just west of Mexico City.
Mayors in of suburbs on the outskirts of Mexico City on Friday called for army patrols in the area.
On Thursday, Mexico's top security official said a dispute between drug gangs was responsible for the dismemberment killings, at least 16 of which have occurred since mid-January.
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BANGKOK — Behind the pink braces, pony tail and sweet smile lies a fierce, competitive athlete. It's this side of Ratchanok Inthanon that powers a smash that can send the shuttlecock piercing the air at more than 124 mph.
The Thai teenager last week became the youngest badminton world champion in history, and the first Thai player to win a world title.
It's the latest in a line of badminton firsts for Ratchanok, who has been playing the sport for almost as long as she can remember.
Born in Thailand's poor northeast in 1995, Ratchanok — known among Thais as "May" — spent her early years next to furnaces in a confectionary factory in Bangkok's western outskirts where her parents worked.
After school, she would run around the factory while her parents were busy scooping golden-color traditional Thai desserts from gigantic brass pans. To divert her attention from the boiling syrup and to keep her safe from cooking hazards, Kamala Thongkorn — the factory owner who was also her godmother — introduced Ratchanok to badminton at the age of 5.
Ratchanok studied the basics of the game for months before she got to hold the racket, and then had to wait for older kids to finish their daily practice before she could go on the court.
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Violence in Iraq, including shelling in a militant-held city and an attack targeting Shiite pilgrims, has killed more than 30 people in 24 hours, officials said today.
The bloodshed comes as officials count ballots from the April 30 general election, the first since US troops withdrew in late 2011, and amid a protracted surge in nationwide unrest that has sparked fears of a return to the sectarian killing sprees of 2006-2007.
In Fallujah, just a short drive west of Baghdad, shelling in southern areas of the city killed 11 people and wounded four, Doctor Ahmed Shami said.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the bombardment, which began last evening and continued today.
In a sign of both the reach of anti-government militants and the weakness of security forces, all of Fallujah and shifting parts of Anbar provincial capital Ramadi, farther west, have been out of government control since early January.
The crisis in the desert province of Anbar, which shares a long border with conflict-hit Syria, erupted in late December when security forces dismantled Iraq's main Sunni Arab anti-government protest camp just outside Ramadi.
Militants subsequently seized parts of Ramadi and all of Fallujah, the first time anti-government forces have exercised such open control in major cities since the peak of the deadly violence that followed the US-led invasion of 2003.
North of Baghdad, a bombing and shooting targeted a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims last evening, killing 11 people and wounded 21, police and a doctor said.
The pilgrims were returning from Samarra when a roadside bomb exploded on the outskirts of the town of Balad and gunmen opened fire on the bus.
The worshippers had been participating in commemorations marking the death of Imam Ali al-Hadi, the 10th of 12 imams who are key to the Shiite Muslim faith.
His body lies in a venerated shrine in Samarra that also houses his son Hassan al-Askari, the 11th imam.
Funerals for the victims were held today in southern Maysan province. Also last evening, police found the bodies of eight family members shot dead inside their home in a predominantly Sunni area southeast of Baghdad.
And today, a shooting in Baghdad and a magnetic "sticky bomb" on a vehicle west of the capital killed two people, while a suicide bombing in the northern city of Mosul left one soldier dead, officials said.


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By Wendy Langhans
I saw reasons for hope at this week's City Council meeting – 243 reasons, to be precise. That's the number of acres of open space that were purchased near Hwy 14 and Agua Dulce Road. (See map for details).
Looking south along Agua Dulce Canyon
Why is this purchase a hopeful sign? I can think of three reasons:
1. Ecologically, it strengthens the wildlife linkage between the San Gabriel Mountains and the Castaic ranges. Two weeks ago, I wrote that our about how our valley functions ecologically as "Wildlife Roundabout". Here's where these 243 acres sits on the "Wildlife Roundabout" icon.
Here's where the new Open Space is located on the "Wildlife Roundabout"
The property is located in Agua Dulce Canyon and includes a portion of riparian (riverside) habitat. Specifically it strengthens the corridor habitat, because it is located adjacent to previously acquired open space.
Looking west towards the new Open Space purchase
Nearby, we find animal tracks
2. It uses the principle of financial leverage. About half the purchase prices is covered by a grant from the Rivers and Mountains Conservancy.
3. It was done in a way that honored our human connections with one other. George Rodda, the man who owned the property, spoke at the the City Council meeting. He thanked the Council and the city staff, specifically Barbara Blankenship, for their help. He mentioned he had received other, more lucreative, offers for the land but had chose to sell it to the City because (my paraphrase), "It was an opportunity to benefit generations yet unborn."
Mr. Rodda spoke truly. "Nothing worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime. Therefore we must be saved by hope." (Reinhold Niebuhr)
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Thread: The Bone Doctors Life Lessons
August 22nd, 2008 #1
The Bone Doctors Life LessonsThese are a few
of the scraps
from weekly
sessions with
life models
that survived
the trash and
other means of
Some are demos
from imagination
and other are
quick sketches
from life.
Let me know
if these are
helpful and I
will post more
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August 22nd, 2008 #2
Indeed, they are helpful. Thank You Very Much!
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August 22nd, 2008 #3
o yeah helpful as HELL scares ppl !
I wish I can join some of ur workshops but sadly I'm outside the US.
and keep them coming, such a pleasurable info-entertainment !
August 22nd, 2008 #4
More Classroom DemosHere Are A
Few More
I Picked Up
Off The Floor.
I You Want
To See Them
I Shoot Em'
And Post Em'.
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August 22nd, 2008 #5
yes mentler they are definetely helpful..since you know so much about the construction of the figure..
does your female bodies are that way or do you idealize?? hehe..also i would love to see more male bodies...where the anatomy is more obvious than females
my new site, is crazy stuff but is my own space, I can say whatever!! hehe:
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September 14th, 2008 #6
Life Lessons Cont.Here is a study
done from life
in my Tuesday
head sessions
I will post these
here as well as
the figures
September 14th, 2008 #7
thanks for sharing Mentler, these are really helfull for someone who cant access art school or life drawing with a teacher.
September 19th, 2008 #8
I notice you draw a 'cross-hair' type thing on some of your full body studies. Does this help you with body proportions?
September 24th, 2008 #9
Life Lessons UpdateA Couple of
More From
The Tuesday
Faces & Features
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Thanks Mr.mentler, Life Lessons helpful of course
October 22nd, 2008 #11
Portrait DemoHere Are
A Couple
Of New
Class Demos
I Try To
Starting With
Materials And
Methods And
To Avoid
Becoming A
Victim Of Any
One Procedure
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October 22nd, 2008 #12
These post are very helpful!
October 22nd, 2008 #13
I don't want to sound rude or anything, I just want to point out that I see some issues with perspective and proportion in your works. While it's up to you to change (and emphasize) certain parts of the body by playing with proportions there are rules which are not to be broken. Take the last portrait for example. The sitter's left eye sits too low to be drawn in correct perspective. Also the anatomy of the hand seems wrong. Lastly it is clearly visible that you changed the proportions of the face quite a lot, it would be interesting to see you try to really nail the proportions and the likeness of the sitter. You could also mind your values a bit more, since they don't seem to follow a working system at the moment. Again, I don't want to sound rude, just some thoughts. Hope it helps.
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Rules Are For Fools"SAA Rules are you kidding?
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I think the poster has a point. I admire you Dr. Bones. A hell of a lot, actually. But your free-for-all attitude contradicts your love of factual anatomy. How do you reconcile opposite outlooks? How can one be flippant about facts and love them all the same? I have docked as much time studying the figure. But for me, there is an end game: making the model look as articulate, clear and beautiful as possible. I want to stress, clear, above all. I look sometimes at the work you post here and wonder what your direction is. If not didactic, then? Again, the study, your dedication is absolutely brilliant. But when you are not striving for clarity, what are you looking to present? (PS. The no rules thing is very Duchamp and has been over, at least in the art trenches, for many decades. We are all striving for purpose instead. This is why I ask. )
October 23rd, 2008 #16
Funny ava mentler! looks like model goes not very far from apes!
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October 23rd, 2008 #17
Funny ava mentler! looks like model goes not very far from apes!
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October 23rd, 2008 #18
What the rules are entirely depends upon what game you're playing.
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October 23rd, 2008 #19
Point CounterpointGraydon
Your Point is
Well Made
and Well Taken
I as You
Can Tell
am a Firm
Believer in
Skill Sets an
the Ability to
be Able to
Express Oneself
in Whatever
Manner Seems
Appropriate to
That Individual
I Really Don't
Feel That Gaining
the Skill Levels
Necessary Follows
the Same Path
for Everyone
As Far as
"Art For Art's Sake"
or ''l'art pour l'art''
is Concerned
I Don't Really
Believe that Art
has to Serve a
Moral or Didactic
Function to
Qualify as Art
There is for
me Two Factors
at Work
The Mystery
Of The Universe
And The Mystery
Of Being
This Translates to
Outer and Inner
When I am Dead,
Let it be Said of Me:
"He Belonged to no
School, no Church,
to no Institution,
to no Academy,
least of all to any
Regime except the
Regime of Liberty."
_ Gustave Courbet
Do I think that
Art Education
for the Past
several decades
has been pretty
lame? LOL
I think however
that most "Ateliers"
provide a very narrow
approach to the
problem and in
many cases take
the student down
a path from which
there is only one
There seems to
be this myth that
emotion and
expression will
magically appear
at some later date
after you have
stayed the course
I have many students
who have stayed far
to long on this program.
A couple that remember
you from Lack's
In teaching, we neglect to
sponsor passion as a discipline.
The only discipline we teach is
that of the deadly diagram
supposedly to be fertilized later
by personal experience.
Later is to late."
_Rico Lebrun
Expression and
emotion, which
are obviously
part of the same
thing, have to
be encouraged
as well as the
technical and
procedural aspects
of what we do
I could go into
Classicists vs.
but of course
that serves no
The fact remains
that most,
if not all artist's
of merit have had
a good deal of
each running
through their veins
I appreciate your
comments and
will temper my
views to not dampen
the enthusiasm of
the disciples of
one can believe
strongly in one's
approach without
having to think
that everything
else is wrong
I try to teach in
a manner that
leaves a little
room to venture
off the path but
then I try to help
them find there
way back
I also try to break
down stylistic
prejudices that
get in the way of
appreciating art
Thanks again for
your comments
it was great over
coffee this morning
All the best and
keep creating
Another very
good point
My concern is
with advocating that
there is a
"Right" way
to create art
and disparage
everything that
does not conform
to their way of
Here is another
quick demo
from my Tuesday
portrait sessions
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woohhaaaa thats awesomee
may i ask what u use to color your pieces?
looks stunning !
October 31st, 2008 #21
Portrait DemoHere is
the latest
little head
demo from
SoFA's Tuesday
afternoon group
It terms of color
I use a variety of
materials and
try not to get
into to much
of a procedure mode
This last one was
done primarily with
a Payne's Gray nu-pastel
I try to have a variety
of material available
and often mix dry
and wet media
I just try to
get into the
drawing and
not over think it
I aim more for
attitude and
expression than I do
accuracy or realism
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For me, professing a successful approach does not mean that one dismisses everything else. That is, its not a false dichotomy. One can be correct, partially wrong or really wrong.
I find emotion, however, impossible to teach. I think perception is a better lesson. I think that practice allows the student to become very sensitive to nature and to her own outlook. The end game can be polished, painterly or a combination.
The worse thing a student can do, in my opinion, is imitate the style of his master without reason. He should in fact understand the why behind what he is doing. Likely, those who go to ateliers are impressed by the results. I am.
Is there a common look to many? Sure. I can tell who studied with whom.
But I see this as just the beginning. These artists are young and have yet to evolve into distinct personalities. Some may never. (This is no different from modernism. Art for London to LA looks very similar today) It's just what level do we want to common denominator to be?
The only antidote I know is to stick to the facts. This is all I think one can teach. I greatly appreciate your effectors, Dr. Bones, and I am often in awe of your dedication. Where we differ is on the one issue of clarity. For your own work, no problem. You know your stuff inside and out. For students, however, I would ask them to be as clear and complete as possible. When you don't model a hand, no big deal; you'll do it tomorrow. When they don't, it betrays a lack of understanding.
As for expression comprises, this is the domain of philosophy. Me, my level ends at my armchair. Do I believe Hegel or Plato, Kant or Hume? Is truth in the overarching or the specific? Ruskin certainly thought the latter; Raphael the former. For me, self expression is a tautology. And I am not overly concerned with being modern. What ever I do I was born in the 20th century and will die in the 21st. I will either be perceived as in style or not, whatever the time, looking forward or back, after I am gone.
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I am not sure
that emotion
can be taught
or even nurtured,
but I am sure
that it can be
suppressed and
You point out
that many young
painters have not
developed their individual personalities
"These artists are young and
have yet to evolve into
distinct personalities.
Some may never."
I feel that in some cases
these people are simply
viewed as Collateral Damage
I see distinct schools
within the Atelier
movement and find it
pretty easy to spot the
Lackey's, Sethite's and
Nerdster's but I think the
layman probably can't
tell one from the other
As for teaching Perception
I am in total agreement
if you are including
all the senses and
not just observation
in a visual sense
We know things
are round because
we have walked
around them and
felt them and we
should therefore
not have to rely
on how they appear
from observation
in order to create
the illusion of a
spherical form
I read an article
in American Artist
Drawing recently
by Jon deMartin
that really points
up a different in
approach which I
think puts one
on one path or
the other
Here is the web address
if you wish to read the
whole article but I
have included the part
which I think illustrates
the point where
viewpoints may differ
Quoting deMartin
"First establish the height of the cube by making horizontal marks at the top and bottom. Lightly draw in the outside shape relating to the height, then estimate the cubes width. Focus on four points: the top, bottom, left, and right extremities that contain the outside shape. Compare them to one another using horizontal and vertical lines. Keep estimating the outside shape before drawing the interior planes. The same principle would apply for drawing a head; you wouldnt start drawing the features before the outside shape. The danger of drawing the parts before the whole is that it decreases the odds of getting the main proportions accurate.
Now add the interior planes to better visualize the wholethe outside shapein relation to the partsthe interior planes. Keep the early stages as simple as possible so its easier to make corrections. Revise the drawing where needed. Addressing the simple visual appearance of the subject before considering the interior parts is a principle that you can apply to any kind of drawingalways think of the whole first and then the parts. If the cubes outside shape looks correct and the interior planes appear to fit, youre ready for the next step."
This approach assumes
that getting the outside
shape exact/accurate
will create the correct
form once the interior
lines are added
The emphasis here
is obviously on shape
and line and not form.
We are relying on the
outline as our guide
This of course requires
duplication of the
objects outline which
naturally requires an object
Of course it is possible
to get great results
from this method
but it always depends
on the model and the
This is where I part
ways with drawing
from observation
in its purest sense
I believe that the
draughtsman has
to think in terms of
masses and not shapes
I think we have to
look past the lines to see;
planes meeting planes;
colors meeting colors;
values meeting values;
basic geometric form units
and there orientation and
rotation in space
My approach to the cube would first be to see it as a Mass
I would then find the point where the front planes
meet and establish the height line.
Next I would find the width or front plane.
Then the depth plane.
(the depth plane always has the most acute angle)
Lastly I would add the top or bottom
plane as the case may be.
I am always thinking in terms of mass i.e.
three dimensions (the HWD or Height, Width and Depth)
If you think shape you
end up with a shape
and conversely if you
think form you end up
with form
The bottom line is that
working from life and
observing nature should
be given a great deal of
attention, especially in the
beginning of ones training,
but until one can draw the
figure in any position from
imagination they don't have
all the skill sets necessary to...
"evolve into distinct personalities"
The obvious problem is
that the education
available for artist's is
lacking in general and
every little bit helps
The never ending discussion
Book 7
Chapter 51
Page 77
Paragraph 9
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Thanks Mentler for these post and discussion on art.
I thought I would add a few quotes from Leonardo:
(excerpt from Artist On Art)
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Don't Be A MirrorI love what Leo is saying here.
Lack says in
his little book that
Leo says to draw
from nature.
This is the quote from
Leo that is often used
to connect him with
the sight-size tradition
"When you draw from nature, stand three times as far away as the object you are drawing." -Leonardo da Vinci
Of course he
did not understand
at all what is
being said here.
Leo merely gives us
an equation for getting
the subject in approximate
scale with the work at hand.
He in no way indicates
that this is a procedure
to be followed for every
part of the process.
One only has to look at
the rest of his notes to
understand that he would
never have worked in that
Another thing Lack
advocated was to
not working alone without
supervision which of
course goes to Leo's
comment about not
following one master
and not trying to copy
any artist.
What Leo says
is pretty clear.
He says study
science first.
Learn about what
you wish to draw
or paint.
"Then follow with
practice based on that science."
Draw what you know you see
not what you think you see.
And don't try to imitate another
artist because you will never
be more than a dim reflection.
Leo knew that the mind
was an important part
of the game and that
merely trying to mirror
nature without understanding
it was or little use in terms
on learning to draw or paint.
To that end Leo certainly
would not have been a
advocate of sight-size
which leads the student
into precisely into all of
the dangers Leo warns us
to avoid.
I also think that sight-size
has severe limitations and
should be taught in moderation
if at all.
That pretty much leaves
one with comparative
measurement which
is harder to teach and
takes longer to learn
to offers far more
flexibility in the end.
Of all the great paintings hanging
in the museums of the world few if
any were done using
the sight-size method.
The exception might be
William M. Paxton
(who may well have invented the method
who taught the method to
R.H. Ives Gammell who in
turn taught to Lack et al.
Paxton is not exactly a house
hold name in the world
of art and we really don't
know if he used the method
for his own work or only
as a method of teaching
This is an excellent article
on the pro's and con's
of the sight-size method
This discussion is really not
what this thread was intended
for but it is probably valuable
for students to understand the
limitations that certain approaches
have and the effect they may
have on their success as an artist
or their ability to accomplish
what they wish to accomplish.
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November 2nd, 2008 #26
Thanks for the wonderful inspiring images. Demo's like these where you can trace the artist's thought through the scaffolding are immensely valuable as well as quite beautiful. Anatomy and perspective I can pick up from a book; from work like you've posted here I learn how creatively and expressively the rules can be applied, or not. To paraphrase Nathan Goldstein; "UTILIZE anatomy, don't EULOGIZE it!"
"Three's so little room for error."--Elwell
November 2nd, 2008 #27
Most insightful discussion. I definitely found it valuable.
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What one needs in instruction are the tools to obviate future mannerisms. I don't think that Jon deMartin is advocating strictly a visual approach, but visual accuracy, achieved by relating extremities, is a skill needed by representational artists. On the other hand, to be naive about structure is a hindrance. This is why I advise students to sculpt.
However, I am not talking about either one, but rather clarity. I imagine that one can loosely base ones drawing on the model and still be articulate. I mean where does the femur end and the tibia begin? If this is understood, it can be presented correctly, without obfuscation. When one is a student, I think its vital to be precise.
Its interesting to quote past artists. But can we really know what they mean centuries later? after translation? It seems to me that its rather like quoting from the Bible and divining what Jesus really meant. At some point, its faith and we take our own stance. Whether or not Leonardo used sight-size has no bearing on its merits. It either works or not, or is beneficial to some degree. I see no evidence that sight-size is a hindrance.
Is it complete? Absolutely not. But neither is an entirely conceptual approach. Both reason and observation are essential to drawing and painting well.
(Dr. Bones, do you not have a regular keyboard? I think you have your font setting on Moses or Shakespeare. )
November 2nd, 2008 #29
ObviateI acknowledged that
accuracy and observation
are an important part
of the education of
the draughtsman.
When you start talking
about obviating i.e.
eliminating personal
mannerisms you are
treading on hallowed
!tread lightly!
Famous Mannerist artists, sculptors and architects include:
Allori, Alessandro
Ammanati, Bartolommeo
Anguissola, Lucia
Anguissola, Sofonisba
Arcimboldo, Giuseppe
Bandinelli, Baccio
Bassano, Leandro
Beccafumi, Domenico
Bernini, Pietro
Gheyn, Jacques de
Giulio Romano (Giulio di Pietro de'Gianuzzi)
Il Cerano (Giovanni Battista Crespi)
Il Nosadella (Giovanni Francesco Bezzi)
Il Pordenone (Giovanni Antonio de Sacchis)
Leyden, Lucas van
Ligorio, Pirro
Machietti, Girolamo (di Francesco di Mariotto)
Maderno, Stefano
Bronzino, Agnolo di Cosimo
Buonarroti, Michelangelo
Cambiaso, Luca
Cranach, Lucas the Elder
Carneo, Antonio
Cattaneo, Danese
Cellini, Benvenuto
Cesari, Giuseppe (Cavaliere d'Arpino)
Daniele da Volterra (Daniele Ricciarelli)
Danti, Vincenzo
dell'Abbate, Niccolò
El Greco
Scipione (il Gaetano)
Rosso Fiorentino
Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci)
Primaticcio, Francesco
Salviati, Francesco
San Friano, Maso da (Tommaso Manzuoli)
Sansovino, Jacopo
Sarto, Andrea del
Savoldo, Giovanni Girolamo
Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)
Tosini, Michele (Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio)
Tribolo, Niccolo
Vasari, Giorgio
Veronese, Paolo Caliari
Vittoria, Alessandro
Zuccaro, Federico
Zuccaro, Taddeo
Mariani, Camillo
Massys, Quentin
Mastelletta (Giovanni Andrea Donducci)
Mochi, Francesco
Moroni, Giovanni Battista
Palladio, Andrea
Palma Giovane
Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Mazzola)
Parodi, Filippo
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)
Pino, Marco (Marco da Siena)
Polidoro da Caravaggio (Polidoro Caldara)
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio)
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All of your threads are great, but this one is exceptional. It is good to hear you discussing theory as well as practise, and I admire your stance. I also tend to agree with you. Please keep posting your floor scraps, and please keep talking in your Moses/Shakespeaean font. I'm throwing you 5 bones on this thread.
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I have never eaten potent edibles. I have 7 grams of some dank. Wondering which would get me higher....
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I have never eaten potent edibles. I have 7 grams of some dank. Wondering which would get me higher. I am leaning more towards the brownies. Any simple recipes for brownies?
Whether or not brownies are a better option, really depends solely on how well you process your canna. If you just toss ground bud into a pan of brownies for instance, unless you have a very low tolerance, you'll be a bit disappointed compared to a firecracker.
But if you make oil, decarb first, and do a decent job, you can have multiple, stronger doses, from the same material it takes to make only a single mediocre firecracker dose.
A quality oil is going to provide better results, versus a firecracker... for instance, consider making both, using the same exact amount of time and heat. Which will be more efficient? The lower-quality oil diluted in peanut solids...or a pure oil of your choice, that can even facilitate the exact type of absorption you need?
The oil contained in peanut butter is your edible solvent in a firecracker... but there's much less of it compared to pure oil (obviously), and it's very diluted, limiting the contact made with the herb. A pure oil source, in any given amount of time, will provide better results.
The quality of the oil you choose specifically dictates how well your potency is absorbed, and even where in your body it's absorbed! Even pure peanut oil is not a very good solvent or 'vehicle' for cannabis glandular material. It has very little saturated fat, and it's comprised mainly of long-chain triglycerides, which facilitate lymphatic absorption.
With peanut oil, you miss out on the conversion that takes place in the liver, that turns D9THC, into the more powerful 11-OH-THC.
Coconut oil, and to a lesser extent butter, are better options for breaking down cannabis glandular material, and due to their medium/short-chain triglyceride content they will be absorbed via the portal vein and liver, to achieve conversion.
Anyways, that's probably a lot more than you wanted to hear!
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Granted, a lee shore will always be a problem. Neither drogues or sea anchors are really appropriate if you are in a lee shore situation IMHO. Both are really designed for if you are caught out in the open ocean by a storm. If you were close enough that it could become a lee shore situation, you should of either headed in and secured safe haven in a good harbor or headed out to sea to give yourself sufficient room. Failure to do either is poor seamanship IMHO.
One thing about Parachute style sea anchors, is that the shock loading that they can generate is exceptionally high, and most boats do not have sufficient hardware to take such loads for an extended period of time.
Also, parachute-type anchors, if deployed with too much or too little scope, will often be collapsed by the wave action, and may not re-deploy properly.
A JSD generates far lower shock loads, as the cones are gradually brought into use as the forces on the drogue line increase and the light straightens out. A parachute type anchor fills all at once.... with a correspondingly large shock load transmitted to the boat.
Finally, the components of a Jordan Series Drogue are generally subjected to far lower stresses individually, than are the components of the parachute-type sea anchors and drogues. This greatly reduces the chance of the components failing. The redundancy of the Jordan Series Drogue's design also makes any individual cone far less significant in what portion of the drogue's capabilities it contributes... with a parachute type anchor... everything is concentrated in the one parachute—effectively all your eggs are in a single basket.
Also, many storms do not necessarily move in the same direction as the winds they contain.... this is particularly true of storms that can last for days. Generally, only short duration storms, like summer thunder squall lines will move in the same direction as the winds that generate them. In most short duration storms, other tactics are usually sufficient to weather them.
Look at all the really major storms, like that of the 1979 Fastnet race or the 1998 Sydney-Hobart race... both were essentially revolving storms, similar in nature to a cyclonic or TRS type storm, in fact, if not in origin. Most multi-day survival situations will involve a storm that has a cyclonic or revolving component to it.
Often, moving in the direction of the wind is better than just sitting there, since the kinetic energy dispersed against your boat is far lower. For instance, if the waves are moving at 15 knots... and you aren't moving you've got significantly more energy than if you are running at 3 knots with them. Given the same size wave striking the boat, you would have 225 units of force vs. 144 units of force... or only 64% of the energy being spent against your boat.
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Passos's father was very fond of music and he started all his six children on an instrument. Passos's perfect pitch capabilities led her to begin playing the piano at the age of 3.
When she was 11, she heard João Gilberto's Orfeu do Carnaval, which changed her life. Passos abandoned the study of piano and decided to be a singer. She began listening to Gilberto compulsively, and learned the violão from listening to Gilberto's records. Her other vocal influences were Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Etta James, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Shirley Horn (who has declared herself to be a fan), Cole Porter, and George Gershwin. However, Rosa's main influences remain João Gilberto and Dorival Caymmi.
In 1968 Passos performed on Salvador-based TV show, Poder Joven. In 1969 she began to participate in music festivals. In 1972, she entered her song "Mutilados" in the Globo Network's Festival Universitário, under a pseudonym and won the first place.
Because she couldn't find any interest in the media for her delicate, swinging, truthful style, she continued to play and compose at home, attending college in the meantime.
In 1978, while living in Brasília, she recorded her debut album, Recriação. The album consisted of compositions that she wrote with the poet Fernando de Oliveira. Eight years later she recorded Amorosa, an explicit tribute to her idol João Gilberto's composition of the same name. In 1994 she recorded Curare, with hits by Antônio Carlos Jobim ("Fotografia," "Dindi," "A Felicidade," "Só Danço Samba," "O Nosso Amor"), Johnny Alf ("Ilusão à Toa"), Carlos Lyra/Vinicius de Moraes ("Coisa Mais Linda"), Ary Barroso, Djavan, and others.
In 1996 she recorded Pano pra Manga, for Velas, using mostly her own compositions, along with some classic hits by Jobim, Chico Buarque, and Ary Barroso.
For label Lumiar, she recorded an album dedicated to Ary Barroso, in the label series Letra e Música. In the next year, she recorded, again for Lumiar, the album, Rosa Passos Canta Antonio Carlos Jobim: 40 Anos de Bossa Nova with 14 Jobim classics.
In 1999 she was accompanied by Paquito d'Rivera on a European jazz tour. In 2000 she released Morada do Samba (Lumiar), resuming her writing work. The album brought eight of her compositions, together with "Beiral" (Djavan), "Lá Vem a Baiana" (Dorival Caymmi), "Calmaria" (Walmir Palma), "Saudade da Bahia" (Dorival Caymmi), and "Retiro" (Paulinho da Viola). For the year 2000, she booked a tour through ten European countries, one show in the U.S. and a tour through Japan.
Never resting, Passos continues to make records, including 2003's Entre Amigos/Among Friends with bassist Ron Carter, a 2004 re-release of her pivotal Amorosa on Sony Classical, and 2006's Rosa on Telarc.
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* BellyDancer: Anna.
* BerserkButton : Wren, when [[spoiler: he sees Lawler wearing a watch looted from the body of his dead friend.]]
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** Lampshaded at one point:
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** Anna glomps them.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: In a moment when he's caught off guard, Lawler seems to look [[http://www.wncomic.com/archive_comments.php?strip_id=181&dsq=25344253#comment-25344253 directly at the audience]] in shock. Since he's also the resident [[PsychoForHire crazy]], for him to be breaking the fourth wall seems pretty acceptable.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Shole's watch.]]
* CrypticConversation: Winter talks at Wren this way. Wren rarely understands.
* DialogueReversal: "But I realize now that you don't need to be alive for that."
* FanService: Anna's belly-dancing scene, and Anna and Wren's Christmas backgrounds.
* FreakinessShame: Wren has a long, fluffy, white tail, but in this society, anything that marks one as a mutant is a killing offense.
* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: Wren's superlative fighting skills probably came in part from the engineering done by GECOW. His tail and superior balance definitely did. Lohaun says they were attempting to make human weapons.
* HostileTerraforming: The comic had this happen in the backstory. The aliens who [[ApocalypseHow killed off everyone on Earth's surface]] then attempted to terraform the planet to suit them, resulting in a clouds of toxic Murk that roam the surface.
* HotScientist: Lohaun.
* HumansAreSpecial: {{Subverted}}. The aliens came to Earth because there is something special about our DNA, and they apparently wanted to create god-like beings from it. Sadly, this specialness wasn't even close to enough to stand a chance against them when they resisted the invasion.
* InfantImmortality: {{Averted}}. The flashback showing the destruction of Earth shows the death of a child of about 5 or 6.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Wren is implied to have it.
* LeParkour: Wren is apparently a practitioner, at least of the Parkour Tic-Tac.
* MentorMascot: Winter, maybe. His cryptic comments are only sometimes helpful to date.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Lohaun isn't evil, per se, but she has no problem continuing the alien's genetic experiments to create human weapons to fight them.
* MsFanservice: Anna's belly-dancing scene.
* OhCrap: Lawler's face when [[spoiler: he accidentally hits Wren's BerserkButton. An especially powerful moment considering it's [[AxCrazy Lawler]] that's being scared shitless.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: Wren parents are never mentioned. This could be because he doesn't know who they are, they don't even know they are parents (see GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke), or he didn't have biological parents at all.
* PettingZooPeople: Wren has a fluffy white tail as a result of the genetic manipulation done to him. If this has any connection to the identical tail found on Winter, it has yet to be revealed.
* PsychoForHire: Lawler, who is flat out nuts, a sociopath, and probably sadistic. Only his loyalty to Hebe keeps him in check.
* PsychopathicManchild: Lawler, to a degree.
** [[http://www.wncomic.com/archive_comments.php?strip_id=132 "Would you like some paper?" "Nope."]]
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Lawler gets, well, thrown across the room- er... rooftop. Possibly by [[spoiler: telekinesis, or some kind of forcefield - but still technically by Wren's hands.]]
* RecurringDreams: Wren has recurring dreams during which he visits with Winter.
* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler: Irshen]] in Book One.
* SlasherSmile: Lawler's primary expression. The second being a PsychoticSmirk.
* SuperSoldier: It's heavily hinted that Wren might be this. He manages to [[http://www.wncomic.com/archive_comments.php?strip_id=152 fight off several armed guards]] despite suffering from starvation, dehydration, exhaustion and murk poisoning. [[http://www.wncomic.com/archive_comments.php?strip_id=175 In another fight]] a character remarks "You must be running on fumes, if you were at 100%, even 50% I'd be toast already."
* TalkingInYourDreams: It's implied that Winter may be real and that the dreams are how he communicates with Wren.
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We compile our source code using XLC compiler with 64 bit options on AIX 6.1.
Which debugger is most suitable for visually debugging the source code in a GUI?
GDB does not load symbols if the executable compiled in XLC is for 64 bit.
IDEBUG is not installed by default. We are not able to find a link from where it can be downloaded.
XDBX is known to be old and not maintained.
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5 replies Latest Post - 2013-07-29T14:51:23Z by GarlandJoseph
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Updated on 2013-01-15T12:28:45Z at 2013-01-15T12:28:45Z by SystemAdmin
Dwayne_M 10000005FD27 PostsACCEPTED ANSWER
Re: What is the most suitable debugger?2013-01-12T14:47:35Z in response to SystemAdminThe IBM Debugger for AIX (idebug) is included as part of the XL C for AIX and XL C/C++ for AIX products. Look for the filesets whose names begin with "ibmdebugger", which will be in the same directory as all of the other compiler filesets. If one installs all of the filesets included with the product, it will also be installed.
Note that in recent years there is no longer an "idebug" command on AIX, which would start the debugger UI on the AIX system. Now the IBM Debugger for AIX UI is installed on a Windows System which remotely connects to the debugger components installed on the AIX system to debug programs.
You may also want to explore IBM Rational Developer for Power Systems Software, http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/products/rdp/ , which is a full-featured Eclipse-based IDE which runs on Windows or Linux and connects remotely to your AIX system for editing, debugging, invoking compiles, profiling the performance of your application etc. You can also view a of YouTube videos discussing the product at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA9ECA062065557D6
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Re: What is the most suitable debugger?2013-01-12T15:18:05Z in response to SystemAdminI have installed a trial version of XLC. I can see the service installed in unix at /usr/bin/irmtdbgc.
How do I obtain a trial version of the Windows client?
Dwayne_M 10000005FD27 PostsACCEPTED ANSWER
Re: What is the most suitable debugger?2013-01-12T19:25:53Z in response to SystemAdminThe trial version of the Windows client is included as part of the trial version of IBM XL C/C++ for AIX, V12.1 which you downloaded.
After downloading xlcpp.18.104.22.168.aix.eval.tar.Z and uncompressing and untarring it, the file IBMdebugger/windows/idebug.install_7.1.1.zip will contain the Windows UI. Move this file to your Windows system and unzip it. This will create a idebug.install_7.1.1 directory in which you will find an install.exe, which when run, will install the IBM Debugger for AIX Windows UI onto your system.
You may also want to watch our IBM Debugger for AIX quick start videos at http://ibm.co/X2hirC for info on using the debugger.
Dwayne Moore
IBM Compilers Product Management
Re: What is the most suitable debugger?2013-01-15T12:28:45Z in response to SystemAdminThe client-server debugger works like a charm.
GarlandJoseph 2700060BSP13 PostsACCEPTED ANSWER
Re: What is the most suitable debugger?2013-07-29T14:51:23Z in response to SystemAdmin
Sweet...it is magical!.