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Guest blog by ASPCA President and CEO Matthew Bershadker
When I separate those two words—"thanks" and "giving"—I can't help but think of all the animals we love, rescue and fight for, and the appreciation we owe them.
Pet owners are often portrayed as rescuers, with their newly-freed animals seen as rescued. But that exchange of generosity and appreciation goes both ways. We give to animals because what we get in return is immeasurable. We also owe them our thanks because, frankly, we've failed them in many ways, some horrifically.
Animals make us feel alive; they make us feel needed. They give us trust and affection without hesitation. They deliver complete loyalty and unconditional love, and respond to us with affection even when we sometimes fail them.
These are priceless things.
Just ask Staff Sgt. Jesse Knott, whose cat Koshka got him through the darkest days of his tour in Afghanistan, especially when a suicide bomber killed two close friends. Koshka gave Knott a reason to live. When he returned home to Oregon, Knott arranged for the cat to join him there. Just last week, Koshka was named "Cat of the Year" at our annual ASPCA Humane Awards Luncheon, and rightfully so.
Also consider our "Dog of the Year," a pit bull puppy from Georgia named Xena who was found so abused and neglected that no one expected her to survive. Xena miraculously rebounded and was adopted by the Hickey family, including eight-year-old Jonny, who suffers from Autism. Before Xena came into his life, Jonny rarely communicated with others, and only found comfort in solitary activities. But Jonny forged a miraculous connection with Xena that brought out his personality, and reconnected him to the outside world. The Hickeys could not be more thankful.
The Henry Bergh Award, named after our founder, was given to Colorado's National Mill Dog Rescue founder Theresa Strader, who's dedicated her life to saving breeding dogs destined for death in puppy mills. Kept in deplorable conditions, these dogs' sole purpose is to pump out sellable pups; when the mothers can't continue, they're typically killed. Strader's operation has rescued and placed over 8,000 puppy mill survivors since 2007, but it's Strader who sounds thankful. Animals gave her life meaning and purpose.
Could there be bigger gifts than these?
This Thanksgiving, remember there's no limit on the amount of thanks you can give. And chances are, there's someone in your home—maybe looking longingly at the platters of hot turkey (or tofurkey) on your table or just warming a corner of your bed—who deserves all of it and more.
Happy Thanksgiving from the ASPCA.
I give thanks every day to my cats. I say, "thank you for coming into my life" and "I love you" because they have brightened my days in miraculous ways. They are my pride and joy. All animal lovers know what I'm talking about! When I adopted them at the shelter, each had already been adopted out to other people and been promptly returned. The senior cat was biting and the somewhat younger cat was pathologically shy and scared, having been separated from her sibling with whom she was bonded. It took a lot of time and patience and my unceasing love for them. It helped that they bonded with each other! Well, you should see them now! I thank those people who brought them back to the shelter, because now they are with me -- beautiful and radiant cats. Thank you, my pussycats. I love you. I give thanks for you.
You know I am grateful for my 3 rescued furbabies -- and for YOU, Matt Bershadker!
Happy Thanksgiving!
I give thanks to my dog who is really anoyying at times (doesn't let you sleep) but is adorable to have around.


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Nice hotel, but tight parking decksPosted Sep 27, 2011
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This isn't really a hotel, but a time share building.Posted Jul 18, 2007
There wasn't daily maid service, but there was a washer and dryer in the room as well as a full kitchen. It was convenient to everything. Broadway at the Beach is at the same major crossroad just a couple of miles away as well as Nascar Speedpark. The hotel is on Ocean Blvd, just at the northern end. They have a pool, which was on the same floor we were on (the 6th) which was very convenient. We have small children and it was nice not to have to use the elevator to go to the pool. The elevators were VERY slow though. Sometimes we waited 5 or 10 minutes. We tried to park on level 5 so that we could easily take the stairs one flight and not have to mess with the elevator. There is convenient public beach access right across the street, so you can easily walk with no problem at all. We did only get a one bedroom and should have gotten 2 because the pull out couch was very uncomfortable. So, if you need 2 beds, I would recommend getting 2 bedrooms. Overall the stay was good and I think we would stay there again, just with more real beds. They do try to make you listen to one of those time share talks, but don't pressure you. We were able to get out of it with little argument.
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Some friends and myself stayed here for spring break. Our room was on the top floor. Overall quality of our 3-bedroom villa was exceptional. The parking spaces were a little skinny for a fullsize car, but it wasn't anything a little maneuvering couldn't take care of. Earlier in the day it was possible to park in the main garage. Later in the evening, it was almost guaranteed the main garage would be full. The second parking garage is located directly behind the hotel, easily located, plenty of parking. My biggest complaint about the trip was the elevators. One of them got locked at our floor; we hopped in and pushed a floor number, the doors closed, 5 seconds later they opened on the same floor. In order to get the elevator to move, we had to go down one floor and call it from there. Overall, I was very impressed with the location and quality of the Carolina Grande.
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Eta (uppercase Η, lowercase η; Ήτα) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 8. Letters that arose from Eta include the Latin H and the Cyrillic letter И.
In Modern Greek the letter, pronounced [ˈita], represents a close front unrounded vowel, /i/. In Classical Greek, it represented a long open-mid front unrounded vowel, /ɛː/.
In the Ionic dialect, however, the sound /h/ disappeared by the sixth century BC, and the letter was re-used to represent the long vowel /ɛː/ instead. In 403 BC, Athens took over the Ionian spelling system and with it the vocalic use of H (even though it still also had the /h/ sound itself at that time). This later became the standard orthography in all of Greece.
Other regional variants of the Greek alphabet (epichoric alphabets), in dialects that still preserved the sound /h/, employed various glyph shapes for consonantal Heta side by side with the new vocalic Eta for some time. One of them was a tack-like shape, looking like the left half of an H. This system was first used in the southern Italian colonies of Heracleia and Tarentum. When Greek orthography was codified by grammarians in the Hellenistic era, they used a diacritic symbol derived from this half-H shape to signal the presence of /h/, and added as its counterpart a reverse-shaped diacritic to denote absence of /h/. These symbols were the origin of the rough breathing and smooth breathing diacritics that became part of classical Greek orthography.
In the typographic conventions of modern epigraphy, the archaic consonantal Heta (Ͱ, ͱ) in ancient inscriptions is usually rendered by means of a lowercase Latin letter h. Sometimes, symbols directly representing the old half-H glyph shape are also used. The Unicode standard of computer encoding, as of 2007, is expected to introduce code points designed for this usage in its version 5.1. Like other archaic letters, they come in a lowercase and uppercase variant (U+0370 and U+0371), to cater for the needs of modern typography.
During the time of post-classical Koiné Greek, the /ɛː/ sound represented by Eta was raised and merged with several other formerly distinct vowels. Thus in Modern Greek, Eta is pronounced [ˈita] and represents the sound /i/ (a close front unrounded vowel). It shares this function with several other letters (ι, υ) and digraphs (ει, οι), which are all pronounced alike (ioticism).
Eta was also borrowed with the sound value of [i] into the Cyrillic alphabet, where it gave rise to the Cyrillic letter И.
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Allan R. Millett: Historian to Receive 2008 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement
The Pritzker Military Library Literature Award recognizes a living author for a body of work that has profoundly enriched the public understanding of American military history. The recipient's contributions may be academic, non-fiction, fiction, or a combination of any of the three, and his or her work should embody the values of the Pritzker Military Library. A national panel of historians, writers and individuals related to the study of American history and heritage -- including the first recipient of the award James M. McPherson -- reviewed nominations and definitive works submitted by publishers, agents, book sellers and other professional literary organizations. The finalist recommendation was unanimously endorsed by the executive council of the Foundation established to oversee the award process.
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India has moved one step ahead of some of Israel's best friends by declaring "neutrality" between Israel and Palestine and refraining from criticising Israel for its massive attack on the Gaza strip. Even the United States has deplored Israeli actions against Palestinians, even though it considers Hamas a terrorist organisation. The US has also been demanding withdrawal of Israel to the 1967 borders and cessation of settlements in Palestinian territory. As a humanitarian gesture, President Obama has announced a financial package of $ 47m to Gaza in the middle of the war.
The statement of external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj that "there is absolutely no change in India's policy towards Palestine" will not convince anyone after the Government went to the extent of accepting even a paralysis of the Parliament to avoid a debate on this issue. India had gradually moderated its criticism over the years, but never refrained from expressing grave concern over Israeli actions in Palestinian territories. For India to remain silent on this occasion when the casualties are mounting is extraordinary indeed.
If the Modi Government is signaling that India is now moving from moral politik to realpolitik, there is nothing illegitimate about it. If it has received advice either from Israel or the United States that it is India's Palestine policy, which is hindering the full fruition of cooperation with them and our priority is to secure their involvement in India's growth, the Government should admit a shift and abide by it. It has to be followed up by a change in our voting pattern in the United Nations by either abstaining on or voting against the numerous resolutions on Palestine that we have traditionally supported, though without co-sponsoring them in recent years. Such a step will dramatically reduce the percentage of resolutions on which we vote differently from the United States and eliminate a major grievance that the US Congress has against India. If that is not the intention of the Government, the drama in the Rajya Sabha was an empty gesture.
As the Minister pointed out, India's foreign policy has never been based on religion. It is also true that we have not received much in return for the principled position we have taken on Palestine. Having opposed the partition of Palestine in the United Nations, we were simply insisting that the two nations, created by the United Nations be established, recognised and enabled to live within their legitimate boundaries. We have condemned Israeli expansionism and disproportionate use of force as part of that broad policy. India was never considered "neutral" on this issue and we have led the non-aligned movement in its demand for a Palestinian state.
Our position on Palestine had never stood in the way of our maintaining good relations with Israel. Long before establishing diplomatic relations with Israel, we have maintained high-level contacts with it, and Israel had never demanded that blossoming of its relations with India be held hostage to our Palestine policy. Cooperation with Israel had existed in areas ranging from agriculture and irrigation to anti-terrorism.
Morarji Desai had revealed that Moshe Dayan had visited India during his time. Even at the height of the cold war, when we spoke harshly about Israel in the Security Council, Israel did not retaliate against us.
When the non-aligned movement threatened to expel Egypt on account of the Camp David Accords in 1979, India's firm position in Havana that the peace process must be encouraged earned the eternal gratitude of Israel and its allies. The Arab Group was displeased with the Indian position in Havana. What Israel cares for is such timely support and it can take in its stride critical remarks or resolutions on what they know are unacceptable to India. Israel accepts condemnation of violence even by the US as long as the latter vetoes action-oriented Security Council resolutions. A declaratory statement without any hostile action such as suspension of arms imports would not have made any difference to India-Israel relations.
Discussion on foreign policy is rare in Parliament as there is supposedly a consensus on most issues and a debate is considered superfluous except in critical situations. When the Government was informed of the desire for a debate, it could have readily agreed to it and a debate would have revealed the differing perceptions in India. Radical suggestions like cessation of arms imports from Israel would not have passed muster. The Government could also have introduced the new nuances it favoured without being accused of changing its position. Having signed up the BRICS declaration on Palestine, Prime Minister Modi could have allowed a similar statement to be issued by the Parliament.
In other words, if the intention of the Government was only to maintain good relations with Israel and fully support the Palestinian cause, the drama in the Rajya Sabha could have been avoided. But it appeared that there would be a shift towards the western alliance, essentially to remove the "remnants of the non-aligned mindset" for which we were criticised during our tenure in the UN Security Council. The position of the Government has also caused speculation that Israel was involved in facilitating the release of Indian nurses and others from Iraq. A deeper motivation could be a gradual dilution of our established positions to remove the western objections to India becoming a permanent member of the UN Security Council. Israel has been a catalyst in the improvement of India-US relations in the past through the Jewish lobby in Washington. With Prime Minister Modi's visit to Washington on the cards, energising the Jewish lobby would be of advantage. Only the coming months will reveal the nature of the realpolitik that the Government will pursue in return for tangible benefits for the twin objectives of economic development and enhanced security.
Continuity in foreign policy is the message that the new Government of India has been conveying so far. No surprise is the surprise in its diplomacy. But given the fact that decisiveness and determined pursuit of well-defined objectives is also an attribute of the Modi Government, there could be something more than meets the eye in the neutrality between Israel and Palestine it has just declared.
TP Sreenivasan is a former ambassador and an eminent educationist


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PORTLAND-- Cooler temperatures over the weekend helped firefighters contain the dozen large fires burning across Oregon.
But the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center said Monday that more lightning with the potential to start more wildfires is in the forecast for northern central Oregon.
The largest wildfire burning in Oregon, the Buzzard Complex 45 miles northeast of Burns, reached almost 396,000 acres early Monday morning, roughly four times the area of the Portland city limits.
The fire was started by lightning July 14 and has been growing since then. The perimeter was about 75 percent contained by 8 a.m. Monday morning, according to the Bureau of Land Development.
The fire closed Highway 78 last week. The highway has been reopened, but heavy equipment remains on the roadway and drivers were urged to leave their lights on and use caution in the area. A temporary flight restriction was in place over the complex.
Scattered thunderstorms will be a mixed blessing this week, as rain may help with the existing fires, but lightning will be a concern outside of the complex, according to incident managers. Strong winds expected by mid-week could also challenge fire crews.
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The Pine Creek Complex, near John Day, reached 129,000 acres Sunday night. The largest fire of the complex, the Pine Creek Fire, was nearly 30,000 acres and only 15 percent contained.
A fire complex on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, made up of the Shaniko Butte Fire, Logging Unit Fire and Bear Butte 2 Fire, was 50 percent contained at 42,500 acres Sunday night.
On Sunday, fire managers lifted the rafting closure on the Deschutes River near the complex.
The Waterman Complex on Ochoco National Forest land reached nearly 12,000 acres by Monday morning. Nearly 900 people were helping to fight the fire, which was last reported at 60 percent containment.
Residents of 37 homes near the community of Mitchell were allowed to return home after the danger from the Waterman Complex fires eased. But U.S. Highway 26 remained closed Monday at the Ochoco Summit east of Prineville.
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Crews were also battling the Bridge 99 Complex in the Deschutes National Forest, which had grown to 5,310 acres by Monday morning and was only 20 percent contained.
Near Prineville, the Ochoco Complex was burning more than 6,300 acres by Monday morning. Percentage of containment was not available, but crews expected full containment within a week.
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The Sunflower Fire was burning 5,900 acres in the Umatilla National Forest Monday morning. Crews reported 35 percent containment.
The largest fire complex in Washington, the Carlton Complex, was only 2 percent contained Monday morning and was burning an are four times the size of Seattle.
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Let's Blame SpeculatorsWritten by Walter Williams
Here's a non-rocket science question: If you expect a reduced harvest of wheat, corn, rice or any other commodity some time in the future, what would be the wise thing to do about your consumption today? I bet that the average person would answer: Consume less now so that more will be available in the future.
I am opposed to U.S. involvement in the war in Libya. I feel confident that the vast majority of Americans, if they once again understood the moral and political fundamentals upon which this nation was founded, would oppose this war as well.
Fed Up with the Fed?Written by Thomas Sowell
When people in Washington start creating fancy new phrases, instead of using plain English, you know they are doing something they don't want us to understand.
Osama bin Laden Won, Even in DeathWritten by Bob Confer
Osama bin Laden is dead.
It's unknown, though, if he ever existed, at least in the narrative by which we "knew" him. Oh, he was a real live human being, but whether he was actually the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks or the figurehead in charge of al-Qaeda is debatable. Some wonder if he was just a creation of our federal government — a well-crafted piece of propaganda, a person to hate, a target if you will — allowing the United States to invade foreign lands in search of supposed terrorists and weapons of mass destruction while at the same time motivating Americans to exchange liberty for security.
Who Won the War on Poverty?Written by Sam Blumenfeld
The Johnson administration's War on Poverty was a very expensive exercise in futility, for the simple reason that poverty can never be permanently eliminated by giving wealth away. It might be eliminated temporarily by giving every individual in America $100,000 and an investment counselor to help him or her assemble a decent portfolio of common stocks. But some of these people would wind up squandering every last dime of their federal "inheritance" and revert to poverty in short order.


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Out on the move, the scorching summer heat could drain the last ounce of energy out of our system. Copious intake of fluids and fresh fruits are advised mainly for those who are on the road when the sun is at its peak. Ideally, they can carry water, juice or some cut fruits, but always in a hurry to catch up with work, it is not in their of priorities.
Like every summer, on-road refreshment stalls selling juices and cut fruits have sprouted throughout the city.
A boon to motorists and pedestrians this season, it is short-term business for pavement sellers.
The stretch on Mahalingapuram near Pushpa Nagar in Nungambakkam has a variety of pavement shops selling muskmelon, watermelon, mangos, grapes and other fruits.
Kumari, a seller here says, business is good as motorist stopover to enjoy a slice of watermelons or muskmelons. "Now it is muskmelons and mangos that are available in abundance with watermelon fading into the background."
Call centre employee Kiran Kumar terms the stretch as a 'quencher.' "I stop here for a fruit juice every working day before heading to my office in Adyar.
A glass of juice feels good and doesn't burn a hole in my wallet," the youngster jovially adds.
Pavement shops
These temporary pavement shops selling fruits this summer are stationed in roads were the traffic movement is often free flowing. "We already have enough trouble handling the police personnel on patrol and beyond that if our customers are the slightest cause for a traffic bottleneck we are finished, avers a fruit juice-seller in Mylapore.
For Rajesh Chand, a wholesale dealer from NSC Bose Road, the pavement near Anna Salai is a sure stop every afternoon. "I head to Besant Nagar for business purposes every working day and I return through beach road.Sathukudijuice sold near Anna Square is something to die for these hot days," says Chand who claims it to be fresh and rejuvenating.
Vehicles selling sugarcane and lemon juices mostly confined to roads near beaches have also cropped up in many parts of the city. Stretches in Valluvar Kottam and Spur Tank Road always have thirsty motorist and pedestrians thronging to juice sellers. "I used to do business on the beach; now I have temporally moved here to cash in on the demand," adds a sugarcane juice seller on Spur Tank Road.
Thaneer pandals
Last but not the least are thethanneer pandals(water sheds) setup by various political parties at some parts of the city. The mud pot under thatched roofs with the best quencher for the summer – water, is the poor man's delight.
Unfortunately, post election many thanneer pandals in the city have disappeared.
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The Hollywood Re- porter: How did you come to be involved in "A Mighty Heart"?
Michael Winterbottom: About three years ago, Dede got a copy of the book to me. She got in touch and said she wanted to do it. The project was originally at Warner Bros. before Paramount Vantage got it in turnaround, and last year (Paramount Vantage president) John (Lesher), who used to be my agent, got in touch and we began prepping it.
THR: You shot "The Road to Guantanamo" in Pakistan. Did that experience influence your desire to shoot this project?
Winterbottom: We'd just finished "Road" in Pakistan and we had been in Pakistan for a while, so it wasn't that great timing, to be frank. I didn't really want to go back straight away. But I really enjoyed the book, and (Mariane's) portrait of what it was like as an outsider in Pakistan was similar to my experience as a filmmaker there. The book is also about a time and a place that I felt I knew reasonably well.
THR: The film stars Angelina Jolie. Is there a difference working with a big star?
Winterbottom: It makes it easier to get the money to make a film that comes with such a brilliant piece of casting. Normally, the way we (with Andrew Eaton, Winterbottom's producing partner) work is we develop projects ourselves. But for this, it came with Angelina already on board and they asked if I wanted to make it. We did interiors in India rather than Pakistan because of security concerns for Angelina because of her international profile. The nature and sensitivity of the story meant we had to go to India instead of Karachi for those interiors. Getting visas for our Pakistani cast to go to India to do the picture was very difficult as India and Pakistan have not always seen eye to eye.
THR: When the project was announced, a tempest in a teacup raged around Jolie's casting because she plays the author who is mixed race. Was that a challenge for you as filmmaker?
Winterbottom: The first time I met Angelina, she was already on board and wanted to do it. Angelina and Mariane are friends and are very similar in many ways. It was very easy from my point of view to cast because of that relationship. Mariane has a Cuban mum and her dad was Dutch and her grandfather was Chinese, I think. It would be impossible to find an actress of that ethnic mix anyway, and Jolie is a great actress.
THR: Your films often deal with big sociopolitical situations. Is this something that as a filmmaker you find engaging?
Winterbottom: I guess so. I think, in this case, the book is a very personal explanation of what it was like to be in Pakistan at a time in such a difficult situation, but it also manages to give a sense of what it is like to be an outsider in that culture and intimates broader issues. It's about the jihad, police, the military there and Western agencies and how they interact with one another. (The book) gives you a real sense of what it is like.
THR: Was "Mighty Heart" the biggest budget you've had to play with, and how does that make a difference?
Winterbottom: The budget was about the same as (2001 release) "The Claim," which was the biggest budget I ever worked with. I said at the time (of "Claim") that the budget wasn't enough to make the film we wanted to make. But this was different because much of the story centers around Mariane, and five weeks of the shoot was in one house. We had enough money in this case as it was a straightforward and intimate shoot.
THR: What is it like making a movie for Paramount? Did they let you do your thing?
Winterbottom: The whole thing has been good and relatively straightforward and painless. Partly that's because they came to us and John used to be my agent. Everyone had roughly the same film in mind, and both Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are friends with Mariane.
THR: You have such an eclectic filmography behind you. What is the driving force behind what you choose to direct?
Winterbottom: Whatever I think is going to be interesting over at least a year. Films take at least a year to make, and it has to be something that will engage me for that length of time.
THR: You've been nominated for a Palme d'Or three times — for "24 Hour Party People," "Wonderland" and "Welcome to Sarajevo." Does recognition by the Festival de Cannes help to get your films made?
Winterbottom: Normally, as a British independent filmmaker, there is a big advantage being chosen for Cannes because of the profile you get in the media. In this case, the attention probably won't be that hard to get what with Brad and Angelina associated with it. From my point of view, I'm looking forward to showing it and seeing it in front of a real audience.
THR: You have an Out of Competition slot. Does that take the pressure off a bit?
Winterbottom: I've been In Competition and never won anything. Cannes is such a fun festival, and for me it's about trying to take as many people down to the festival who worked on the film as possible and celebrate the film. It's a good place to have a party.
THR: Are there other movies you are hoping to catch during this year's 60th festival?
Winterbottom: There are loads of films that would be great to see. But I'm only down there for a couple of days, and my experience of Cannes is that, if you have a film there, you never get a chance to see other films because you are so busy doing press and meeting people. One film I am really interested in seeing is "Control," the film about Ian Curtis.
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i've moved the CG toward front this time to see if it would reduce the sway, which it didn't. We stopped and moved some things around, and it still didn't change! I've also switched from pulling it on a long bed ford to a hummer, same reaction.
After a few calls around to the trailer dealers, they seem to think the tires are the next probable option.
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Chafetz loses reelection in Birmingham
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Originally printed 11/13/03 (Issue 1146 - Between The Lines News)
BIRMINGHAM - Seth Chafetz, the first openly gay mayor in Birmingham came in fifth place out of nine candidates in a bid for four seats on the Birmingham City Commission Nov. 4. Chafetz served on the City Commission for the past four years, with the last year serving as mayor. The mayor of Birmingham is selected from the City Commission rather than being elected by the city at large.
Chafetz said that he was disappointed and also surprised by the election results. Prior to the election he had felt confident he would be reelected. Pride PAC and the Birmingham Mirror endorsed him.
Part of the problem, he said, was lack of support from Birmingham's LGBT community. "Actually I lost some support in the gay community, which was very interesting," he said. "When I ran the first time the gay community was 100% behind me, really put me over the top nicely the first time. This time half the gay community was pushing for me and half the community was pushing for a group of more development-based candidates."
Chafetz said he was hurt by the lack of support. "Some of these people were people I've been friends with for over 20 years, so it was really disappointing," he said.
Sean Drate of Pride PAC said he was unaware that the LGBT community in Birmingham was not unified behind Chafetz. "I'm surprised," he said. Pride PAC gave Seth their strongest endorsement.
Drate believes that Chafetz was defeated because of the controversy surrounding development in Birmingham, specifically around the size of homes.
"Pride PAC is really upset that he didn't win," said Drate. "We really wanted him to win because he was doing a great job and is a good representative of our community. He stood up for what he thought was right and that's important. We like to support people who stand up for what they believe in and not just what they think will be popular. That's the only way we as a minority can get anything."
Chafetz founded the Birmingham Yacht Club, a social organization for gay people and their friends for the greater Birmingham area. He also points out that Birmingham was the first city in the state to have sexual orientation in their city ordinance. "The gay community forgets how significant that is for our city and how important these issues are," he said.
Chafetz maintains that he has always been outspoken about human rights for LGBT people. "Until gay people get human rights like everybody else, nothing else really matters," he said.
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The issues surrounding this campaign were issues of development and taxes, although he said that the tax issue was merely a scare tactic. He believes Birmingham's current fiscal state is proof that the city is not in danger financially. "We've brought the operating millage down for the past two years, which is amazing in this economy," he said.
Development issues also played a role in his last campaign.
"Land and development issues are always big," he said. "Everyone has a different vision of how to continue to develop the city. I have a very balanced view of development." He said he believes development has been brought down to manageable levels in the city.
"We had a group of residents that ran together as a slate and really tried to scare people into thinking that development would not continue in this city unless new people were elected," he said.
Now that the election is over Chafetz said he will concentrate on his full time job as a coach of competitive figure skating. In October he traveled with students to Japan and the Czech Republic. "It's nice that I can devote my full energy and attention to that because I'm going to need that," he said. "And I'm hoping to get my leaves raked before the first snowfall. And I look forward to catching up with friends I haven't had time to see."
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Crocodile Sophism
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Posted 12 July 2007 - 11:31 PM
If the mother says "you will eat him, and she is right, she will get him back." If she is wrong she at least ensures that the croc will not eat the child. So then she can get him back. yo yo
No Big guy, if the mom says "you will eat him" and she is right then it will be too late for the poor sucker cause he will be eaten and that's the only way that the mom can be right with her statement.
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Firstly, as Cyr|s pointed out the croc only asks the mother to guess what he will do, as apposed to guess correctly. Therefore what ever the mother guesses the child will be fine...
she only needs to guess his fate to save him.
However, if you don't guess his fate I'll eat him.
But even if the croc was asking her to guess correctly, she should just say that he will eat the child. He says that if she doesn't guess the fate of her child (correctly) he will eat him. So, although she can never be right, per se, the croc will be unable to eat the child because if he does then the mother was correct and so he must return the child. But even if the crocodile was planning to, say, tickle the child the mothers guess is therefore incorrect but this then means the croc eats the child making the mothers guess correct. So, with this statement she can't be incorrect and so the child will never get eaten...
This made sense when I wrote I hope it makes sense to read aswell.
TIM x
p.s. there is a reason this crocodile is slim... he's not as clever as he thinks...
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Posted 20 July 2007 - 09:34 AM
What statement shall the mother make to save her child?
First, let's ask: has the croc already decided what he'll do?
[1] Yes. [this is suggested by "if you don't guess his fate ..."]
The answer in this case is: Nothing the mother says can
affect whether the child is eaten or returned. It's a fallacy
to suggest there are Mother's words that will force the return
of her baby. Its fate is sealed; not open to negotiation.
Not a satisfying result for the puzzle solver or the mother.
Poor baby.
[2] No. [this is suggested by "If you guess [correctly] ... then I will ..."]
In this case, what the croc will do is determined by the
response of the mother. And the task is to construct a
reply which will logically bind the croc to return the child.
The best solution is reply that he will choose, and his choice
will be either to eat or to return. This is a clever approach
because it seems to cover all the bases and force the baby's
But by assuring the baby's return, the mother seals its fate:
The croc merely says, "sorry, but you're wrong. I'll prove
you're wrong by eating the baby, and thus fulfill my word which is ...
[read carefully]:
If you don't guess his fate I'll eat him.
[Only because] she secured his return by her clever answer,
she wrongly guessed its fate.
The croc had dinner that night.
Another unsatisfactory result.
Personally, I like the strategy mentioned above of threatening
the croc with unbelievably heinous consequences if the baby is
not returned.
Always appeal to enlightened self interest.
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Vidi vici veni.
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Posted 03 August 2007 - 10:02 AM
but does the mother sure if the crocodile will give the baby back? well, the crocodile might say that she`s wrong..so the crocodile can eat the child..
so, all she must do is not to answer the crocodile..and w8 4 a perfect time to took her child from the crocodile..
hehe..was it funny?
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2008 Iceland earthquake
|May 29, 2008
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The 2008 Iceland earthquake was a doublet earthquake that struck on May 29, 2008 at 15:46 UTC in southwestern Iceland.[1] The recorded magnitudes of the two main quakes were 5.9 Mw and 5.8 Mw, respectively, giving a composite magnitude of 6.1Mw.[1] There were no human fatalities, but 30 injuries were reported and a number of sheep were killed.[2] The epicenter of the earthquake was between the towns of Hveragerði and Selfoss, about 45 kilometers (28 mi) east-southeast of the capital, Reykjavík. It was the strongest earthquake to hit Iceland since the summer of 2000.[3]
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Iceland straddles the mid-Atlantic ridge where the Eurasian and North-American tectonic plates move away from each other. Volcanic activity is common along such divergent boundaries but strong earthquakes are rare. In Iceland the ridge is somewhat off-set, creating two transform faults where plates move horizontally along each other. One is in the north of the country and one in the south; the strongest Icelandic earthquakes happen along those transform faults. The 29 May quake is classified by geologists as typical Suðurlandsskjálftar (literally: Southern Iceland quakes), which happen on the southern fault.
Unlike the quakes in the summer of 2000, the 29 May quake happened in the most densely populated part of the South Iceland district. The population of the affected area is about 12,000 and it includes the towns of Selfoss and Hveragerði as well as Eyrarbakki, Stokkseyri and Þorlákshöfn. Many farms were also affected.
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- ^ a b c Decriem, J.; Árnadóttir, T.; Hooper, A.; Geirsson, H.; Sigmundsson, F.; Keiding, M.; Ófeigsson, B. G.; Hreinsdóttir, S.; Einarsson, P.; LaFemina, P.; Bennett, R. A. (2010). "The 2008 May 29 earthquake doublet in SW Iceland". Geophysical Journal International (Oxford University Press) 181 (2): 1128–1146. doi:10.1111/j.1365-246x.2010.04565.x.
- ^ a b c "Magnitude 6.3 - ICELAND REGION". United States Geological Survey. 2008-05-29. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
- ^ "Strong earthquake rocks Iceland". BBC News. 2008-05-29. Retrieved 2008-05-29.
Further reading[edit]
- Vogfjord, K. S., et al. "Fault interaction in the South Iceland Seismic Zone: The May 2008, M6. 3 earthquake". EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. Vol. 11. 2009.
- Brandsdottir, Bryndis, et al. "The May 29th 2008 earthquake aftershock sequence within the South Iceland Seismic Zone: Fault locations and source parameters of aftershocks." Jökull 60 (2010): 1-22.
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Reuben McBride initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in 1850 without his family. Further research is needed to determine the exact company he traveled with. Proof that he traveled to Utah in 1850 is found in the 1850 Utah Census. Reuben helped with the 1850 census, and his name appears on pages of the census, even though he failed to enter his own name into the census. His obituary also mentions his travel to Utah in 1850.
In 1852, Reuben again traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with the Isaac Bullock Company, this time with his wife, Mary Ann Anderson, and children Helen Venera, Harriet Eliza, Reuben Augustus, Mary Louisa, Hyrum Roy, Emma Gerutia, John Newton, and Laura Abigail.
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I have been trying to tune my SQL Server and I noticed a few database settings for statistics. I also read the previous tip on automatic statistics updates. Could you please describe the Auto Create Statistics Async option? How is this configured and when should I use it and when should I avoid using it?
The AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS_ASYNC option affects how automatic statistics updates are applied to your SQL Server database. This option is set database by database and the default setting for this option is disabled.
When this option is enabled, the Query Optimizer will not wait for the update of statistics, but will run the query first and update the outdated statistics afterwards. Your query will execute with the current statistics and a background process will start to update the statistics in a separate thread. It should be noted that the Query Optimizer may choose a suboptimal query plan if statistics are outdated when the query compiles. When this background operation is complete, the new query requests will use the new updated statistics.
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We can first check the settings for all of our databases using this query.
SELECT name, is_auto_update_stats_on, is_auto_update_stats_async_on FROM sys.databases
You will receive results in a format like the screenshot below. A value of 1 is enabled and 0 is disabled.
Note: to use AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS_ASYNC, the AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS needs to be enabled as well.
You can use this command to enable Auto Update Statistics Async:
ALTER DATABASE YourDBName
You can use this command to enable Auto Update Statistics:
ALTER DATABASE YourDBName
It depends on the specifics of your installation, on the table sizes and number of indexes, the frequency of data change, the queries run, etc...
Generally, the AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS_ASYNC may be a recommended option for online transaction processing (OLTP) environments and it is less beneficial for data warehouse systems.
You should weigh the pros and cons of this option before changing your current settings. The benefits and disadvantages can be unpredictable if your server mixes OLTP and data warehousing functions. Also, I recommend always running tests before you change something on your production environment.
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Feb 21, 2012It's worth a look, both for the fun it delivers and also to see how closely it comes to mimicking the genre conventions.
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Feb 8, 2012A lovely art style complements solid if derivative gameplay - worth a look if you're after the new Jetpack Joyride.
Mar 7, 2012Blot is a simple clone of Jetpack Joyride, but the latter is definitely more fun and engaging, thanks to the object-based gameplay.
Feb 1, 2012Blot blows most of its competition out of the water with style alone. It's delightful, plain and simple, and when given the choice between equally solid games, I'll take the one that delights me any day.
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CRY1 and CRY2 have different effects on PER2-BMAL1 interaction. (A) HER911 cells were co-transfected with pFR-luc, pCMV-lacZ, pSCT1-Per2-VP16, pSCT1-Gal4-Bmal1 and the indicated doses of pSTC-TK-Cry1/2 with or without addition of 0.3 μg pSCT1-Clock. For each experiment (n = 3), values obtained for cells transfected with pSCT1-Clock but without pSTC-TK-Cry were set to 1. (B), (C) and (D) HER911 cells were co-transfected with pSCT1-Per2-VP16, pSCT1-Gal4-Bmal1, pEGFP-N3 and 0.001, 0.01, 0.1 or 1 μg pSTC-TK-Cry1/2 (B) or 0.1 μg pSTC-TK-Cry1/2 with and without addition of 0.3 μg pSCT1-Clock (C, D). The amount of PER2-VP16, GAL4-BMAL1 and GFP was determined by Western blotting of total lysates (B, C) or nuclear and cytoplasmic fractions (D). Antibodies against CREB and HSP90 were used to verify correct cell fractionation. PER2-VP16 and GAL4-BMAL1 were normalized to GFP to correct for transfection efficiency. For both proteins, values obtained for cells transfected with pSCT1-Per2-VP16, pSCT1-Gal4-Bmal1 and pEGFP-N3 only were set to 1 for each experiment (n = 4 for B and D, n = 5 for C). Blots are representative results from one experiment.
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Schumacher returns for highly anticipated F1 fight
Virgin and Lotus, which has drivers Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen for its Malaysian-backed return after 16 years, are the only two new teams that tested. Hispania Racing Team, formerly Campos Meta, will go to Bahrain with rookie pair Bruno Senna - nephew of three-time champion Ayrton Senna - and Indian driver Karun Chandhok.
USF1 will not be competing after governing body FIA rejected its bid to start racing after the start of the season.
Former Ferrari team principal Jean Todt has replaced Max Mosley as president of FIA, the sport's governing body. Mosley, who headed the governing body since 1993, made headlines for his power struggles with the teams and a sex scandal nearly two years ago.
Montreal will host the Canadian GP again after it was removed from last year's calendar, while a Korean GP will make it 19 races if the track is ready to go by its scheduled Oct. 24 date.
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June 1st, 2012 #1
idea generating for art without MDD
I have a slight problem, which is that I'm soon going to be trying to get rid of what's unofficially known as compulsive fantasy or maladaptive daydreaming disorder (not in the dsm yet), and that is always how I got ideas for art/filmmaking/whatever, and it's great that creativity is easy for me, but not so great when I start running/pacing without realizing and injuring myself/scaring others, talking out loud 'to myself' and crying or laughing involuntarily whenever a character does, etc etc. There have also been many lost days where I've done nothing but pace and daydream, and that is not going to work if I decide to become a professional artist.
But I'm not sure how to approach the creative process for art in a normal way, what's a normal way of using the imagination? Are there any books that could be recommended? And as MDers tend to be into art, are there any on here, and could you tell me how you dealt with it, and I'm also a little scared that when I start corrective measures whether I'll lose the ability to think creatively at all, please reassure me that this is not case.
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Is this MDD a real thing or just your fun code? And my advice is worry less about others, right ways, etc. Do whatever you do and make it work. If you need to buckle down and do some studies, great...do that when it feels right...if you need to swim naked in pools of azure dream, embrace the fact that you can.
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June 1st, 2012 #3
Trust me you won't feel so passionate when they're not your ideas. Some might even make you little mad at the stupidity of what your client wants verses what they should want.
June 1st, 2012 #4
Nah, it's not something I've made up, you can read studies done on it if you want, or browse the various support groups online. If anything, it's a little embarrassing to admit to having. Although I can see how it can be seen as attention seeking
That would be great, I'm definitely following through the need to buckle down and do studies and not comparing myself too much with others, but for the daydreaming it's not something I want to do or should be doing anymore, it's not just normal daydreaming and just because there's a lot of creativity doesn't mean that the ideas are any good most of them are terrible. But really, I just want to know how I should approach coming up with ideas, and any books/tutorials on this subject, and as a sidenote anything MD specific
That's interesting Shorinji, never thought of that, how do you pitch things to clients who have it wrong, or do you not risk losing your job and just do what they want? I guess it would depend on the kind of client?
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Whether that's the approach you should take with your client depends on the temperament of the client. If you have a brilliant idea that falls outside the original prompt, and your client is open to artist input, then you can show them a mockup of both ways. They may end up picking your version or incorporating some of the ideas of both.
As for your MDD, it sounds like it could be an incredibly useful "superpower" to have for an artist, if you learned to harness it effectively. It reminds me of the Hulk in some ways, or Michael J. Fox's recurring character on Scrubs - an incredibly gifted surgeon who is that good because his OCD made it so he literally couldn't stop studying. In both cases, their greatest strength is also their greatest weakness. I guess I'd encourage you to cautiously embrace it.
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Hah, that's a little depressing, although I'm guessing there are better jobs that make it worthwhile, the higher the status you have as an artist, the more you get to work with better people, and there's always personal work anyway, so I'm not too put off
I know of one person who advocates this approach, Dorothea Brande, a writer from the early 20th century, she wrote a lot about 'the artistic coma' (a bit of pseudoscience, but relates to modern ideas of hypnotic kinesthetic movements that goes along with MDD, like running/pacing, or throwing a ball into the air again and again), music as a trigger for this (this is definitely true in my case) and not letting the imagination get in the way of working on skill and the technical side of writing:
"...the quiescent period, since every writer alive occupies himself in some quiet idiosyncratic way in that interlude, it is seldom noticed that these occupations have a kind of common denominator. Horseback riding; knitting; shuffling and dealing cards; walking; whittling; you see they have a common denominator - of three figures, one might say. All these occupations are rhythmical, monotonous, and wordless. That is our key." "In other words, every Author, in some way in which he has come on by luck or long search, puts himself into a very light state of hypnosis". She also talks about a woman who "found that her stories fell into line best when she was at work on the kitchen floor, scrubbing", and that "she convinced herself completely that she would be unable to write again till she got back to the rhythmical monotony of the scrubbing brush"
And from the section, 'wordless daydreams': "Most persons who are attracted by the idea of fiction at all are, or were in childhood, great dreamers. At almost any moment they can catch themselves, at some level, deep in reverie. Occasionally this reverie takes the form of recasting one's life, day by day or moment by moment, into a form somewhat nearer to the heart's desire: reconstructing conversations and arguments so that we come out with colors flying and epigrams falling around us like sparks, or imagining ourselves back in a simpler and happier period. Or adventure is coming toward us around the next corner, and we have already made up our minds as to the form it will take. All those naive and satisfying dreams of which we are the unashamed heroes or heroines are the very stuff of fiction, almost the MATERIA PRIMA of fiction. A little sophistication, a little experience, we realize that we are not going to be allowed to carry off the honors in real life without a struggle; there are too many contenders for the role of leading lady or leading man. So, learning discretion and guile, we cast the matter a little differently; we objectify the ideal self that has caused us so much pleasure and write about him in the third person. And hundreds of our fellows, engaged secretly in just such daydreaming as our own, see themselves in our fictional characters and fall to reading when fatigue or disenchantment robs them of their ability to see themselves under any glamorous guise. The little Brontes, with their kingdom of Gonda-land, the infant Alcotts, young Robert Browning, and HG Wells all led an intensive dream-life which carried over into their maturity and took another form; and there are hundreds of authors who could tell the same stories of their youth. But there are probably thousands more who never grow up as writers. They are too self-conscious, too humble, or too solidly set in the habit of daydreaming idly. After all, we begin our storytelling, usually, long before we are able to print simple words with infinite labor. It is little wonder that the glib unconscious should balk at the drudgery of committing its stories to writing."
June 1st, 2012 #8
I'll read that a bit later...but would like to address some misconceptions. You eventually learn that it doesn't matter what the client wants, you do your best to deliver your best. Yeah, it can make you shake your head, bitch it out with friends, etc. but in the end it doesn't make much difference, you just need to find pleaure in whatever it is.
There are some real misconceptions about concept art...probably needs a new thread to discuss them. But for starters you can't have any ego. Save your ego for personal work you do for yourself. Concept art is a brutal crucible if you let your ego be involved. By its very nature most of your work will never be seen, it won't be executed to your satisfaction, and everyone who can will pee on it. It's just part of the occupation.
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Being an artist and being an illustrator (and a concept artist is a kind of illustrator) are two different skill sets. Being an artist is solitary, being an illustrator is social. Just because you can make the prettiest pictures in the world doesn't mean you have what it takes to work collaboratively with people.
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June 1st, 2012 #10"maladaptive daydreaming disorder"
and just because there's a lot of creativity doesn't mean that the ideas are any good
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Ideas are interesting things...they're actually far cheaper than a dime a dozen...in fact, they're relatively worthless. It is only through execution that they come to life and have any value or existence.
I'm pretty sure I have the same thing I guess lapprenti...the MDD thing...we just never had names for stuff like that and thought it was a good thing. And believe me, if someone ever told me I had maladaptive anything they'd wake up later on the floor.
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June 1st, 2012 #12
an average idea can become something amazing. Harry Potter. Really break it down. The story is actually very very simplistic. Not much of it breaks the mold at all. They have a few interesting concepts you don't hear 'often' but it's fairly average in terms of what goes on.
She just knows how to really spin a story.
Same with most stories and comics I read nowadays.
Everythings been done, but the things that come out on top just are done well.
Works the same with art I see as well. It doesn't have to break the mold to be amazing.
In fact most don't.
There are the rare occasions where I see something and it's an "Oh wow that's just really cool. Never heard of something like that really". But it still has to be executed well enough.
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I used to, but writing to me, at least when it's in my hands, seems like a blunt instrument for expressing ideas, since mine are a bit like movies with dialogue and music that is in sync with the action, as well as the angle and position and movement of the 'camera' being a part of the mood and the story telling, they're inextricably linked. So I think art is more suited for that. Most of the time I can't MD without music, not properly anyway
But I do write down small snippets to remind me of daydreams in case I forget
Reading, well the problem with that is that your ideas after reading fiction or watching a movie are pretty derivative, and therefore useless. It's best to go straight to the source that the writers used themselves, nature, non-fiction, real life experiences, feelings etc. But I guess it's alright to sometimes use fiction for creativity, I tried it with Dante's Divine Comedy, a sort of mashup of that with countless other inputs. They stew together for a while, I add/modify/remove parts and from all the fragments of scenes, concepts and dialogue you can form a story
Hehe, bit harsh. I doubt that it would be seen as a good thing, talking to yourself, crying/laughing for no reason, making strange facial expressions and pacing/rocking/whatever for hours, you'd usually be branded as nuts and looked down upon, what era and place are you from? You probably just mean a good healthy amount of daydreaming and thinking
The way I see originality is that it depends on two things, primary sources like reality among other things, and your own personal take on things. Since everybody is different, everybody will come up with different ideas and respond to things differently. There may be similarities, but there will also be nuanced differences, and that's originality
There hasn't been much talk of precision concerning illustration, or any other form of conveying ideas, emotions, concepts etc. According to L. Strong, a writer, poetry requires the same accuracy as science does, essentially because no two people are the same, we have different worldviews, my anger isn't exactly like your anger etc, as well as the fact that feelings and other complex things are very hard to lay down and describe accurately all the subtleties. If you communicate ideas properly and accurately then your illustration will be an objective success, in my opinion
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writing is nice, but I prever making storyboards myself.
but anyway, if you are going to be doing client work, PLEASE DONT think of the human relation parts as something that you'll just wing when you're 'good enough'. its an intricate part of doing assignments. anyway, most jobs I've had I got not because I was such a great artist, but because people knew they could debend on me to deliver (on time even). of course, maybe I just suck :p
well, asf or daydreaming, I kind of think of it as a hobby. never had any use for it in client work. so my advise to you is, just use the usual creative thumbs stuff if you get any room for creativety. but dont count on it. daydream when you're out on walks. write it down or whatever if you feel the need. but keep it seperate from client work. clients will give you ideas that you have to make your own so you can love them and make something of it. if you try and put your own ideas in, your clients will either not like it, or they will take your idea and turn it into their own. which you will not like.
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Hmm, just how much of an initial idea is given by the client? Extremely descriptive or just vague? I'm under the impression that it's essentially something relatively loose (unless it's spider man or something) and you have to do most of the character design, environment design, mechanics of how the world works etc, and bring to the table many different possibilities which they will choose out of and ask you to refine. Is that how it works? I don't mind them taking ideas, but...isn't that the whole point? It seems like you're meant to come up with ideas within the framework that they give you, and they use them. I mean, ideas that I like very much I can just keep for personal work


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Expression of Drug-Metabolizing Enzymes in the Pancreas of Hamster, Mouse, and Rat, Responding Differently to the Pancreatic Carcinogenicity of BOPUlrich A.B.a,b · Standop J.a,c · Schmied B.M.a,b · Schneider M.B.a,d · Lawson T.A.e · Pour P.M.a,f
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Background/Methods: N-nitroso-bis(2-oxopropyl)amine (BOP) induces pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in Syrian golden hamsters, but not in rats or mice. To examine whether this difference is due to the diversity in the presence and distribution of enzymes involved in the metabolism of BOP, the cellular expression of nine cytochrome P-450 isozymes (CYP1A1, CYP1A2, CYP2B6, CYP2C8,9,19, CYP2D1, CYP2E1, CYP3A1, CYP3A2, and CYP3A4) and of three glutathione S-transferase isozymes (GST-π, GST-α, and GST-µ) was investigated in the pancreas of hamsters, rats, and mice by immunohistochemistry. Results: We found a wide species variation in the presence and cellular localization of the enzymes and a lack of several enzymes, including GST-α in islets, CYP2B6, CYP2C8,9,19, CYP3A1 in acinar cells, and CYP3A4 in ductal cells, in the rat as compared with hamster and mouse. Conclusion: Although the results could not clarify the reasons for the species differences in the pancreatic carcinogenicity of BOP, the presence of most of the cytochrome P-450 isozymes in pancreatic islets of all three species highlights the important role of the islets in drug metabolism.
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This large lake ('Plattensee' in German) in Western Hungary, has an area of 596 km2, a length of 70 km and an average depth of 3.30 m. It was created by the interaction of several forces of nature. Its basin was formed by wind, alluvial deposits and volcanic activity after the basin developed in a tectonic rift.
The average annual precipitation on Lake Balaton and the surrounding area is 600–700 mm. In the driest year there was 450 mm and in the wettest one, 1100 mm. The shallow water follows rapidly the changes in air temperature. Thus Lake Balaton is pleasantly warm during the summer and freezes early in the winter. Owing to high water temperatures during the summer and frequent winds, there is substantial evaporation, amounting to an annual rate of 870–920 mm.
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