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1. Hotel openings and tastings. These are actually quite attendable because if someone has enough money to open a hotel in the first place, they're not going to put out a bucket of coleslaw and some Yoo-Hoo. Hotel bashes tend to be recklessly elaborate and the wait staff is so willing to please they'll practically follow you home to help you digest. (By the second night, though, they're already copping diva attitudes and saying stuff like "In the future, if you want the salad first, you should say so.") Cases in point were the Hudson Hotel's previews, which were so lavish and friendly that one even succumbed to the communal seating, the open kitchen, and the description of seared foie gras layered on macaroni gratin as "comfort food." Actually, I was comforted by the free-ness of it all.
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4. Book parties. Sorry, but someone lecturing to me about the resurgence of free verse in Outer Mongolia does not make me want to dance wildly on a tabletop. And it's not worth lugging home the free 800-page novel about inarticulateness in hopes of later schlepping it to the Strand for a 50-cent rebate. Alas, reading it is out of the question too.
5. Restaurant openings. These are not at all to be confused with hotel openings. In fact, you're invariably groveling for a bread crumb along with a slew of lowlifes and beggarsoh, no, wait, that's a mirror. Hold out for the anniversary bash.
6. Listening parties. You go through three check-in points to finally become privy to the absentee star's overproduced new CD, your own stomach growling, and the shameless networking of secretarial types who only get to meet each other. Go to Borders instead.
7. Models' birthday parties. Models' anything parties are sad, but it's especially tragic to watch them get another year older and more ready for the fashion junk heap. Moreover, they don't even seem to realize that they're celebrating their own built-in obsolescence. At least you'll have no competition for the food.
8. Store openings. These are even worse than restaurant openings, and though you do get a gift bag, how many T-shirts, mango-kiwi body scrubs, and copies of In Style's special makeover edition do you really need? (Tied for eighth place: gallery parties. The only thing worse than bad art is bad art surrounded by celery sticks and failed bohemians handing out business cards.)
9. Nightclub openings. You don't want to see the place with the victimy crowd, especially since you already out-victimed them and went to previews. Better yet would be to hold out until a few weeks into the run, which is when I went to the revived Studio 54 and found it a kicky '70s club filled with people dancing to '80s music in '90s costumes. It's an intergenerational delightand after five drinks, you'll swear you saw Bianca Jagger riding in on a horse!
10. Web site parties. There are about a dozen of these a night and usually the dotcom becomes bankrupt halfway through the party, at which point they start sending the Pringles to the IRS. The misguided eventfor people who stay home for a livingshould be held online, especially since you don't even get a free body scrub!
And finally: 11. After-parties. These have become impossibly trite, even more predictable than the parties themselves. Now they're for dingbats who skipped the main eventthe type who'd raise their afterbirth instead of their child. Stay home with the door bolted shut.
I didn't list movie premieres, generally because they're so erratic you never know if they'll be transcendent revelations or complete spirit-breakers. Men of Honor's premiere may not have brimmed with culinary generosityolives and salsa and figs, oh mybut it was held at that magnificent Hudson Hotel, where somehow the agreeable staff hadn't cracked yet. What's more, with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Robert De Niro starring, I was afraid the movie would be a two-hour tug between "Show me the money!" and "You talkin' to me?" but it wasn't. It had amputee Cuba walking 12 steps in a diving suit to prove he's a hero, the most heart-tugging 12-step program since Robert Downey Jr.'s!
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A sprightly young bird gets up early, the better to get the jump on his neighborhood worm, but he finds his quarry elusive. The worm, for his part, sets off with a flute and jazzes along happily, out-finessing the bird repeatedly. Then a pair of shiftless crows debate the virtues of early rising and decide that no worm is worth it (clearly, these are shiftless "Negro" stereotypes, though the ethnic angle isn't stressed here so much). Finally, a rattlesnake practices some hypnotic moves on both bird and worm before getting tied up in knots.
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The Homeland Security Department continues to add pieces back to its cyber division.
Bobbie Stempfley, the deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, today announced Danny Toler joined the office as the director of Federal Network Resilience.
"Danny has decades of experience building and implementing information technology solutions with substantial successes at the Department of State," Stempfley wrote in an email to staff obtained by Federal News Radio. "We welcome his experience in CS&C as the National Cyber Security Division has undertaken a significant growth in their operational mission requirements with even more responsibilities in enhancing the security of the .gov space."
Toler comes to DHS from the State Department where he was the director of the Information Resource Management's Office of Enterprise Network Management. In that role, among the things Toler helped with was State's implementation of Trusted Internet Connections.
Now at DHS, Toler will "oversee FNS initiatives and help implement new dimensions of continuous diagnostic and mitigation activities in this growing area for DHS and the ".gov," Stempfley said.
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Bombay High Court today restrained Mumbai Police from taking any coercive action against composer-singer Kailash Kher on a bailable warrant issued against him by a Ludhiana Court in Punjab over a song.
The ruling was given by a Bench comprising Justices VM Kanade and PD Kode, which was hearing a petition filed by Kher seeking to quash the complaint against him.
Granting Kher interim relief, the Judges issued notices to the Maharashtra Government and Narinder Makkar, the complainant and a resident of Ludhiana.
The matter was posted for further hearing on August 4.
If Ludhiana Police came here to execute the warrant, they would have to take help of their Mumbai counterpart as they do not have jurisdiction here, said the petition.
Additional Public Prosecutor Poornima Kantharia argued that the complaint was filed in Ludhiana and hence the singer would have to approach the High Court of the relevant state (Punjab) to annul the complaint.
Makkar had filed a complaint in a Ludhiana Court alleging that a 2007 song "Babam Bam" sung by Kher had hurt his religious sentiments and hence criminal proceeding should be initiated against him.
According to the complaint, Kher had rendered the song, part of an album, in praise of Lord Shiva. It features a skimpily dressed girl and some "vulgar" scenes. Makkar said this had hurt his religious sentiments.
Kher's advocate Ashok Saraogi argued that the song was rendered in 2007 and the complaint was filed only recently for gaining cheap publicity. Also, the singer has never received any summons or notice from the Ludhiana Court.
The Mumbai-based singer learnt about the bailable warrant from a newspaper and approached the High Court for relief, the lawyer submitted.
Sarogi argued that all the acts pertaining to the song took place in Mumbai and not in Ludhiana. Hence, the Bombay HC alone had the jurisdiction to quash the complaint


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Kerry trip starts with tough Syrian, Afghan issues
WASHINGTON Secretary of State John Kerry began an overseas trip Friday plunging into two thorny foreign policy problems: unrelenting bloodshed in Syria and efforts to talk to the Taliban and find a political resolution to the war in Afghanistan.
Midway through his two-week trip to at least seven countries, Kerry also will try to make progress on an elusive peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians and will visit India, the world's biggest democracy and a rising power often viewed as a counterweight to China. He ends his trip attending a Southeast Asia security conference in Brunei.
Kerry lands Saturday in Doha, Qatar, where representatives of 11 nations in the so-called Friends of Syria group will discuss how to coordinate military and other aid to rebels trying to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad and "change the balance" on the ground, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Friday.
Earlier this month, President Barack Obama announced that in addition to nonlethal aid, the United States would begin sending arms and ammunition to the rebels, who are engaged in a tough fight against Assad's better-equipped air and ground forces. That announcement came after Assad's military dealt the rebels serious setbacks and a U.S. intelligence assessment claimed the regime had used chemical weapons - a "red line" for the Obama administration.
On Thursday, Kerry went to Capitol Hill to brief members of Congress on the two-year civil war that has claimed an estimated 93,000 lives. The meeting in Doha also aims to gain momentum for starting peace talks in Geneva to end the crisis.
Obama's deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, said that as long as there's a conflict, there remains a need to find a framework for a dialogue because ultimately the Syrian opposition and some parts of the government are going to have to find a political solution. Geneva is the only framework that exists right now.
"We are trying to find a way for the Russians to play some type of constructive role and to stay engaged in the process," Rhodes said, referring to Moscow's continued support of Assad's government.
Kerry arrives in Qatar ahead of planned U.S. talks with representatives of the Taliban at a new political office they opened this week in Doha. The secretary himself was not expected to meet with the Taliban, but other U.S. officials are to sit down with members of the militant group in coming days. The discussions would be the first U.S.-Taliban talks in nearly 1 1/2 years.
The way the Taliban unveiled their new political office, however, angered Afghan President Hamid Karzai. At a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday, the Taliban hoisted their flag and a banner emblazoned with "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan." That was the name the Taliban used when they were in power more than a decade ago and made it appear that the office was an embassy and rival to the Afghan government.
The U.S. said it was disappointed with the rollout, which the administration believes was a Taliban game of one-upmanship. In response, Karzai halted negotiations with the U.S. on a bilateral security agreement governing America's future military footprint in his country and said he would not send members of his peace council to Doha to talk with Taliban representatives. Kerry called Karzai twice this week to allay his concerns.


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Larry Kissell
|Larry Kissell
|U.S. House, North Carolina, District 8
|In office
|January 3, 2009-Present
|Term ends
|January 3, 2013
|Years in position
|Base salary
|Elections and appointments
|Last election
|November 2, 2010
|First elected
|November 4, 2008
|Next general
|November 6, 2012
|Term limits
|Wake Forest University
|Date of birth
|January 31, 1951
|Place of birth
|Pinehurst, North Carolina
|Businessman, Teacher
|Office website
|Campaign website
- 1 Biography
- 2 Career
- 3 Committee assignments
- 4 Issues
- 5 Elections
- 6 Campaign donors
- 7 Recent news
- 8 Personal
- 9 External links
- 10 References
According to a March 2012 article in Roll Call, Kissell is one of the top 10 most vulnerable incumbents.[3]
Based on an analysis of bill sponsorship by GovTrack, Kissell is a "centrist Democrat".[4]
Kissell was born in Pinehurst, North Carolina. He earned his B.A. from Wake Forest University in 1973.[5]
After earning his degree, Kissell worked for 27 years in textiles. In 2001, Kissell began a new career as a high school civics teacher in East Montgomery, North Carolina.[6]
Committee assignments
U.S. House
Kissell serves on the following committees:[7]
- Agriculture Committee
- Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management
- Subcommittee on Rural Development, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture
- Armed Services Committee
- Subcommittee on Readiness
- Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces
Political positions
Specific Votes
Percentage voting with party
November 2011
Larry Kissell voted with the Democratic Party 76.3% of the time, which ranked 175th among the 192 House Democratic members as of January 2012.[8]
Sponsored legislation
Kissell is running in the 2012 election for the U.S. House, representing North Carolina's 8th District. Kissell won the nomination on the Democratic ticket after defeated Marcus Williams in the primary.[1] He faces Richard Hudson (R) in the general election on November 6, 2012.
The Washington Post listed the House of Representatives elections in North Carolina in 2012 as one of the states that could determine whether Democrats retake the House or Republicans will hold its majority in 2013.[9] North Carolina was rated 8th on the list.[9]
On November 2, 2010, Kissell was re-elected to the United States House for a second term. He defeated Harold Johnson (R), Thomas Hill (Libertarian), and the write-in candidates.[10]
Campaign donors
As of April 18, 2012, Kissell had raised $720,662 during the 2012 election cycle and spent $297,679, leaving him with $432,817 cash on hand. Three of Kissell's top contributors have been the American Association for Justice, American Crystal Sugar and American Veterinary Medical Association. They all gave $10,000 each.[11]
Throughout his career, Kissell has raised $301,400 from Leadership PACs, $207,700 from public sector unions, and $186,197 from law firms.[12]
2010U.S. House in 2010 for a second term. His campaign committee raised a total of $1,104,141 and spent $1,105,922.[13]
|U.S. House, North Carolina, 2010 - Larry Kissell Campaign Contributions
|Total Raised
|Total Spent
|Total Raised by General Election Opponent
|Total Spent by General Election Opponent
|Top contributors to Larry Kissell's campaign committee
|Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
|American Crystal Sugar
|American Federation of Teachers
|American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees
|American Postal Workers Union
|Top 5 industries that contributed to campaign committee
|Leadership PACs
|Public Sector Unions
|Candidate Committees
|Industrial Unions
|Health Professionals
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Kissell is married to his wife, Tina, and they have two daughters: Jenny and Aspen.[14]
External links
- Congressman Larry Kissell official U.S. House site
- Congressman Larry Kissell official campaign site
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 North Carolina State Board of Elections "Primary Election Results" Accessed May 9, 2012.
- ↑ Coshocton Tribune "GOP candidates Hudson, Keadle face runoff," May 8, 2012
- ↑ Roll Call "Top 10 Vulnerable: Targets on Their Backs," March 16, 2012
- ↑ Gov Track "Kissell" Accessed May 22, 2012
- ↑ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress "KISSELL, Larry, (1951 - )"
- ↑ Congressman Larry Kissell, Representing the 8th District of North Carolina "Biography"
- ↑ Congressman Larry Kissell, Representing the 8th District of North Carolina "Biography"
- ↑ OpenCongress, "Voting With Party," accessed July 2014
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Washington Post "The 10 states that will determine control of the House in 2012" Accessed April 25, 2012
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2010"
- ↑ opensecrets.org "Larry Kissell" Accessed May 5, 2012
- ↑ opensecrets.org Accessed May 5, 2012
- ↑ Open Secrets "Larry Kissell 2010 Election Data," Accessed January 4, 2012
- ↑ Congressman Larry Kissell, Representing the 8th District of North Carolina "Biography"
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Port of Churchill
The Port of Churchill in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada is a port on Hudson Bay, part of the Arctic Ocean. It was originally owned by the Government of Canada but was sold in 1997 to the American company OmniTRAX to run privately.
The port has four deep-sea berths capable of handling Panamax-size vessels for the loading and unloading of grain, bulk commodities, general cargo, and tanker vessels.[1][2] The port is connected to the Hudson Bay Railway, a subsidiary of OmniTRAX. Further connections are made with the Canadian National Railway system. It is the only port of its size and scope in Canada that does not connect directly to the country's road system; all goods shipped overland to and from the port have to go by rail.
Port operations[edit]
The port is iced in for much of the year and is accessible only between late July and early November.[1] For example, in 2010 the shipping season was July 28 to Nov. 2.[3] Shallow waters also restrict its development as an ocean port. Despite these restrictions the port remains useful for shipping grain and other bulk cargos because shipping by rail costs several times as much, per ton, as shipping by sea.
The port is a compulsory pilotage area.[4] Pilotage is provided by the Great Lakes Pilotage Authority which despite its name is also responsible for pilotage on the Hudson Bay coast of the provinces of Ontario and Manitoba.[5] Pilotage charges between July 20 and October 31 follow a published schedule; outside these dates charges are based on cost recovery.[6]
Typically, the port is used for outgoing shipments of grain, usually from the Canadian Wheat Board.[7] Since 2007 port activity has diversified and increased in line with growth in Arctic mining operations in Nunavut and an expansion in supply ship reloading.[8] In September 2007 the port handled its first domestic export trade, shipping 12,500 tonnes of wheat to Halifax aboard the Arctic supply ship Kathryn Spirit.[8] On October 18, 2007 the port received its first import trade in seven years and the first ever from Russia, a shipment of fertilizer purchased by Farmers of North America. The shipment is supposed to be the beginning of an Arctic Bridge that would link Churchill with the Russian port of Murmansk.[1]
The port is almost entirely reliant on grain from the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) for its viability. Wheat accounts for 90 per cent of all traffic through the port. According to a November 6, 2008 press release, the CWB shipped 424,000 tons of western Canadian wheat through the port of Churchill during the 2008 shipping season. The first wheat left port on August 8, and the last of 15 freighters left on October 20.[9] Exporting Prairie wheat through Churchill saves Canadian farmers money on transportation in terms of rail-freight costs and avoiding Saint Lawrence Seaway charges. The CWB encourages shipments through the use of its Churchill Storage Program which pays farmers to retain grain on-farm for later movement through the port. Because the Churchill shipping season begins before the new wheat crop is harvested each summer, the Storage Program ensures adequate volumes of grain are available for export by bringing in grain saved from the year before.
The port of Churchill exported 710,000 tonnes (700,000 long tons; 780,000 short tons) of grain in 1977, 621,000 tonnes in 2007, and 529,000 tonnes in 2009.[10] This fell to 432,434 tonnes (425,604 long tons; 476,677 short tons) in 2012, slightly below the ten-year moving average of 450,000.[11]
Alternatives to grain[edit]
The government of Manitoba has proposed that the Port of Churchill could serve as the North American terminus of an Arctic Bridge shipping service to Murmansk in Northern Russia. Containers from inland China and central Asia would be transported to Murmansk by Russian railways, shipped to Churchill then transported south by rail to major destinations in North America avoiding existing transport bottlenecks.[12]
- ^ a b c Friesen, Joe (2007-10-18). "Russian ship crosses 'Arctic bridge' to Manitoba". The Globe and Mail (CTVglobemedia Publishing). Retrieved 2008-09-05.
- ^ "Churchill Port and Railway Owners Push to Ship Million Tonnes in 2008". Marketwire (Marketwire Inc.). 2007-11-05. Retrieved 2008-09-05.
- ^ http://www.omnitrax.com/media-center/news/10-11-03/final-ship-of-season-departs-churchill.aspx
- ^ port of churchill: port operations
- ^ Great Lakes Pilotage Authority - About GLPA
- ^ Great Lakes Pilotage Tariff Regulations (SOR/84-253), SCHEDULE III: PILOTAGE CHARGES FOR THE PORT OF CHURCHILL, MANITOBA
- ^ Winnipeg Free Press
- ^ a b "Churchill port makes 1st domestic grain shipment". CBC News Canada (CBC). 2007-09-19. Retrieved 2008-09-05.
- ^ http://www.cwb.ca/public/en/newsroom/releases/2008/110608.jsp
- ^ "Wheat exports big in Churchill". Winnipeg Free Press. 30 October 2009. Retrieved 2010-03-20.
- ^ http://www.fcc-fac.ca/newsletters/en/express/articles/20121221_e.asp#story_3
- ^ "2010-11-01". 2010-12-13. Retrieved 2010-12-13.
External links[edit]
- Official Port of Churchill site
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A member of the Magsaysay clan has come up with a winning ice cream
Just when I thought I've tried all the best ice creams in town, along comes a delicious surprise of the artisanal variety. Dense, creamy and tantalizingly rich, it's the kind of ice cream aficionados would patiently stand hours in line for, or something they'd make for themselves, if they had the time and the wherewithal.
Simply called Carmen's Best, the ice cream is personally made by Paco Magsaysay, son of former Senator Jun Magsaysay and grandson of the late, much-loved President Ramon Magsaysay. One is almost tempted to say it's ice cream with a pedigree, but even more important than the name behind it is the dedication that spurred its making.
Admitting to being OC (obsessive compulsive), Paco says he first started making the ice cream at home to maximize the milk and cream that come from his father's dairy farm in Bay, Laguna, where 230 cows each produce an average of 10-12 liters of milk. While cheese has been one of the farm's by-products, ice cream, they decided, would be an even better alternative, not the least because Paco himself loves ice cream.
"I got a small machine just for making ice cream at home," he recalls. "When my first ice cream turned out to be very good, I realized I could do something more with it."
That something included researching into ice cream making as well as experimenting with new flavors, even asking his kids, Jaime, Mikey and Carmen, to act as "guinea pigs" by being the taste testers. The first flavors he cranked out were vanilla, strawberry and chocolate, the basic flavors of most ice cream brands.
Far from being pedestrian, however, these familiar flavors are made only with high-end ingredients. To make vanilla ice cream, for instance, Paco uses Tahitian vanilla. For the strawberry, only fresh strawberries from the Baguio farm of artist BenCab will do. And as for the chocolate ice cream, he uses only the finest Swiss chocolate. The use of jams and pastes are anathema to him, says Paco, because those would be incongruous with the fresh milk and cream that constitute the base of his ice cream.
After mastering the fundamentals, he then tried making more exciting, even nontraditional, flavors. With inspiration from his travels as well as from his kids, he now has a contingent that includes Spanish turon, Pecorino cheese, coffee almond and salted caramel. A bestseller is malted milk, which he makes with Horlicks candies. "It reminds people of the Horlicks they used to eat when they were kids," Paco says. His own favorite, he says, is Tahitian vanilla while his kids simply love cookie dough and malted milk, and his dad favors coffee and butter pecan.
At a luncheon hosted by Paco's aunt, PR practitioner Mila Magsaysay-Valenzuela, I had the chance to try some of the flavors myself. Just as Paco said, the malted milk tasted like a richer version of a long-ago childhood favorite, the Horlicks tablet candies which I remember eating straight from the bottle. On the other hand, the chocolate and strawberry ice creams were both very lush, smooth and hearty, with a fullness of flavor that connotes trueness and integrity; you know instantly that what you're eating is the real deal. While tasting homemade, they also had a certain finesse, like an ingénue who has been through Swiss finishing school.
The ultimate ice cream for me, however, was the rocky road, which was devastating in its goodness. Aside from being velvety and luxuriously rich in chocolate, it was lavished with pecan nuts and marshmallows, which added texture and variety to every bite. (To be fair to the other flavors, rocky road has been my favorite since third grade.)
Because of limited production, Carmen's Best is available only through phone orders (at P350/pint for basic flavors and P380/pint for premium flavors), while the fresh milk, under the brand name Holly's, is sold at Salcedo market in Makati on Saturdays. Part of the proceeds goes to PGH Medical Foundation, of which Paco is a trustee.
Not surprisingly, the number of customers, many of them name-droppables and pillars of society, keep increasing. They order the ice cream not just for their own consumption but also to give as gifts and to serve during social gatherings. Sometimes the guests like the ice cream so much that they soon become customers themselves. And while Paco doesn't scrimp on ingredients, he says he can also customize the ice cream, adding more nuts or using less, more chocolate or using less, if the customer so specifies. Which makes Paco somewhat of a contemporary version of the ice cream man.
A word of warning, however. Once you've tried Carmen's Best, you won't be so easily content with other ice creams. It's like eating of the tree of knowledge; suddenly you realize you now know fully well what you only once half-knew. So maybe there have been some excellent ice creams in your past. But this time, someone just made something great even better.
To order Carmen's Best Ice Cream, call 8931459 or 0916-6235956. Pickup points are in Makati (150 Valero St., Salcedo Village) and Alabang.
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Thread: Starting my journey - TODAY ;)
January 14th, 2013 #1
Starting my journey - TODAY ;)
Hi Folks,
i am 28, male, from northern Germany
I have tried to improve my painting and drawing for a few month now. But i am still pretty bad
I will try to improve with your help and encouragement. Here are a few of my works
In the next weeks i will try to improve through painting still-lives.
I am planing on painting one per day
So long.
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good luck man, i believe i have seen you on /ic/?
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January 14th, 2013 #4
I am a little frustrated. I think nuts are a little too higher topic for me ;(
January 14th, 2013 #5
Thanks for stopping by my Sketchbook! I appreciate it! And you're right, I need to do some still lives! I've been thinking about doing a banana...
Are they almonds? Your nuts? Because that's what they look like! Just try really hard to draw what you see. And take it slow.
Ich spreche keine deutch... I think I wrote that right... I, however, do not speak German... But, I translated what you said, and I THINK I understood it for the most part... But sometimes the translators do not work very well and I want to make sure I understand what you said! lol.
January 14th, 2013 #6
yes these are almonds
you dont speak German. i think i was misled by your locationinfo. i just wrote that i would like to get in closer contact with fellow artists about my skill level
thanks for your comment i will try to keep it slow, and draw more with my Eyes, as i said these nuts are just out of my league right now too many details where One might get lost
January 14th, 2013 #7
Well yay!! They look like almonds! That's something to be proud about!
I think I am going to add a link in my signature to my Facebook! But you can add me there, https://www.facebook.com/a1rose
January 15th, 2013 #8
Just some sketches of simple shapes. Trying to improve a little further
January 16th, 2013 #9
Didnt feel like doing a still today. So thats what came to my mind
January 16th, 2013 #10
Nice job! I would say that you might want to start with the basics such as anatomy studies if you haven't done them already?
I'm also trying to learn how to paint and draw during my non-office hours. I found quick anatomy studies from http://www.posemaniacs.com/ really helped my to warm up and start "seeing shapes and formes as they really are, not how I think they are in my head" (if that makes any sense?).
Draw a few 90 sec poses every day and soon you will get better at shape and form in all your objects You can do it!
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January 16th, 2013 #11
Lil update - i think its better a little
Nextra - thanks for your reply indeed i already did some studies until somebody told me its better to start with stills, because from "live" you will learn shapes better. I seriously dont know whats the "better" way. I think i will try to vary a little more
January 16th, 2013 #12
Hey there, thanks for stopping by my sketchbook, I thought I'd return the favour
Don't worry too much about whether your work is "bad" or not, just keep working! We all have to start somewhere, just keep going and you'll improve there isn't a correct way of doing things, so if you want to do some stills, do them! If you want to work on anatomy or anything like that, that's fine too. I like your last landscape post, I love how you added highlights to the tops of the silhouettes, it really brings them out.
I noticed what you said about the nuts being a lot of detail for you right now, if thats how you feel just focus on shapes until you've got them down and can draw things easily from life, then tackle it again. It'll be interesting how it turns out the second time you try drawing them! Obviously I'm far from expert myself, so I'm trying to follow this advice too!
I think the best thing to do is just keep drawing and doing what you're doing Keep up the good work!
January 17th, 2013 #13
Did some 30sec figures today. Its realy realy fun
January 18th, 2013 #14
Lil too less time today ;/
January 19th, 2013 #15
Looking at my sketches today i see that i realy lack proportional drawings so ill just try to practice more a little
January 19th, 2013 #16
Hey w0rmy. Check out the book "Figure Drawing for All Its worth" by Andrew Loomis. It has helped so many people with their figure drawing, myself included. I think you would greatly benefit from taking a look at it.
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January 19th, 2013 #18
It's good that you can see what you need to work on and are trying to improve on that, some people can't do that you'll get better with practice!
January 19th, 2013 #19
Hey w0rmy, thanks for stopping by my sketchbook. I am digging your stuff and can't wait to see how you progress as an artist. Good luck =]
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January 20th, 2013 #20
Looking good, but watch out on those torsos, there are a few that are out of proportion in your last 5 min sketches.
January 20th, 2013 #21
Hi! I wanted to ask, on your sketches like the 5 min pictures, it looks like you're doing those digitally. Are you starting with a rough under-sketch in order to build up the figure and then doing the final lines over that or are you just diving right in and going for your final lines? I ask because I've found that doing some sort of under-sketch helps me build up the figure so I can get the mass and the proportions and helps me out when I do the final lines. I look forward to seeing your posts!
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January 20th, 2013 #22
Thanks for all replies
January 21st, 2013 #23
Thought to myself yesterday "lets have something more "finished"" so i started something, trying to get all the techniques i learned to one picture
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Be sure to focus on trying to understand the various forms in the image and how they interact with the light, don't just copy the reference or you'll learn less.
Doin' good work so far, keep it up!
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January 22nd, 2013 #26
I see in the one that you're trying to come up with a final. The colors are really nice so far. However, notice that you are trying to "straighten" her out. Her back is much more angled, along with her torso (tummy area). If you fix that up you may be a bit more pleased with the outcome .
January 22nd, 2013 #27
Thanks for your comment and like always - looking at pictures with a little difference i see many many flaws in anatomie and colouring I will just keep practicing.
I think i will get me a real sketchbook to draw with pencils on my drives from and to work i have around 1 hour on the rail and plenty of models
Thanks for all the encouragement and comments in my thread
January 22nd, 2013 #28
i tried to focus on the light in this one - trying to give it a little 3d kinda look just with colour
tomorrow i will study an apple trying to apply this
January 23rd, 2013 #29
The figure is looking good so far it's great that you're testing out your knowledge so far! One thing that helps me think clearer when drawing the figure is finding where the weight is shifted in the body. Basically, you look for where the weight is put in the body and how it's positioned because of that.
In your image I can see a line running from her neck and straight down through the leg that's hidden by the leg she's bending in front - she's putting all her weight onto that leg so her body moves in accordance with that. It helped me think about how to approach drawing the figure and what the body does. Sorry if my explanation isn't of any help, I think Bridgman talks about it in his books or any good anatomy book should! It may not help you, but it's a suggestion!
January 23rd, 2013 #30
Tried drawing an apple - i am a little disapointed
I will study more spheres and cylinders tomorrow. Its worthless to post this "apple" here P
@Spirit - Thanks for your feedback ofcourse its usefull!!! Great hint, ill try to focus more in this in my next gestures and studies


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In Excel 2010 Power Shortcuts, Excel expert Dennis Taylor shares tips and shortcuts to vastly increase efficiency and get the full power out of Excel 2010. There are tips for working with the Ribbon and Quick Access toolbar, navigating workbooks and selecting cells, rapid data entry and editing, working with formulas, formatting data, working with charts, sorting data, and much more. Exercise files accompany the course.
If you wanted to make a presentation based on the data we see on the screen here, you might well consider showing less information than what we are currently seeing. This is a bit of overwhelming to absorb when projected on the screen. One of the things you might consider doing manually would be to hide the column with the data for the months. Now I'll start off the process, but suggest there is a better way to do this using Outlining. I am dragging across columns B, C, D, using the Ctrl key, drag across the F, G, H, and then J, K, L, Ctrl is still held down, N, O, P. There we go, and then what? Right-click and Hide, and that will be a good starting point, a lot less clutter.
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There are also formulas for example, in row 7. This is adding the two cells above it. There are some formulas right here doing the same kind of thing. This formula subtracts the two, but there is pattern that exists here. Without rigging the example, and this is not rigged in any way, if we simply click in here, and then on the Data tab, let's go to the choice under Outline called Group and choose Auto Outline. Now all we need to have done here is is to have the active cell within the data, as it is here on cell H5, any one there, just click Auto Outline. So what happens? A bunch of funny symbols on the screen, some numbers on the left.
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And so, with these buttons here, and the numbers on the left-hand side, we can expand and collapse this information much more readily than going through a command cycle. And also if you are making a presentation here, you might want to double-click on the tab at the top of the screen, or possibly even on the View tab Show Full Screen, meaning we don't see anything at the top of the screen other than the data and the symbols. Again, your call on how this might be displayed, but another angle here too. If the presentation for much of the timeframe is not going to be discussing the detail and you don't need to see those symbols all the time, simply press Ctrl+8.
It hides the symbols. So much of your discussion might be with the screen looking some thing like this. Now if a discussion does break out, and someone says, "well you know, last year our second quarter numbers are a little bit problematical, what's the detail behind second quarter? What's you prediction for that?" If we press Ctrl+8, the symbols and layers come back again and I am going to click the plus right here above second quarter, and we see the detail for the second quarter. So maybe we have a discussion about that for a while, and if we no longer to see that detail, well then we will click the minus here to hide it.
So with this Outlining capability, you have got much more possibility of a dynamic presentation, and you can easily collapse and expand the display without going into long command sequences that are of no interest to many people in your audience. At some point here of course, maybe the presentation is over, by pressing Escape, you bring back the menu and by double-clicking one of the tabs you bring back the Ribbon. If somewhere in this process, you say, "well, okay, we are done with the presentation," or "I don't need to use this for the moment," we go back to the Data tab, choose Ungroup, and simply Clear Outline, and you will also want to do that if you want to make design changes to your layout.
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In Brooklyn, Developers Can't Find People Who Qualify for Affordable Housing
Thursday, August 07, 2014
Is Brooklyn so gentrified that there aren't even people to fill affordable housing? Barika Williams, policy director at Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development (ANHD), talks about the state of affordable housing and the report that there aren't enough local residents who qualify for some Brooklyn units.
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I was force to move out of ny because the rent is so hi I'm alone I have one sister thats msrried that lived in bklyn. My mother died in 2011, I'm depressed and living ina state not by choice but was forced out of ny due to genificstion I gree up in bklyn I need someone to help me with afforable housing I have no family but my sister I'm 600 somrthing miles from her things always work for the lying people never
for me. Can someone help in brooklyn I lived in clinton hill all my life.....thank you
I gotta say Brian, between this and the Malcolm X anti-gun advocate last week, you are really only presenting one side of the story in your pieces lately. You have to get some developers or PBA reps on the air. Or at least try and tell your audience they wouldn't come on. I your show, but lately it's been way too left-wing (and I identify as a left-leaning centrist, so I usually agree to some extent with your guests, but I don't want your show to turn into a liberal platform).
That being said, I am fully in favor of state-subsidized affordable housing and income integration, but the notion of the $70k earner being unable to afford her own place is laughable. There are plenty of studios is "non-hip" parts of Brooklyn that would not put her over 30% of income to rent. And not to mention the teacher who wants her own place in Manhattan! Please!
I also take issue with the 30% rule of thumb that ANHD and other housing advocates seem to think is a good way to measure "rent burden." 30% of income is much different for someone making $25,000 a year than a six-figure earner. Simply a useless comparison. But your guest is right - HUD's AMI is equally unhelpful because it encompasses much too large a jurisdiction.
Anyway, love the show and hope to see you balance it out more, thanks.
Believe me, there are plenty of people who live in Community Board 2 who qualify for these affordable units. I am one of them. The problem lies in how these developers calculate income. While they claim that income is determined by your circumstances at the time of the interview, my personal experience shows anything but. Last year, my income was $10,000 more than this year and yet when I interviewed for 388 Bridge St (another development in Comm. Board 2) the interviewer used the higher income from the previous year. Even when I appealed and provided medical paperwork explaining the condition which necessitated my reducing my work schedule, the determination was that I was still over income. Their thinking is if you made 36K before, you can make it again and they will always go with the higher income even if your present circumstances prove you are no longer at that income level. Often times, the person who sent you the disqualification letter in the first place is the same person who is evaluating your appeal so the determination outcome of the appeal will be the same. These lotteries will often get upwards of 50,000 applications for a handful of affordable units and the evaluators want to process them as expeditiously as possible even if that means rejecting eligible folks. In my experience, it's not uncommon for there to be a $5,000-$10,000 discrepancy between what I actually make and the developer's calculations of my income is and therein lies the problem.
I applied to 66 Rockwell Place for which I had community board preference. When I got the letter to come in for the interview I ignored it because at the time, I was over income. Several months later when the developers failed to fill their community board preference slots for 50% of the affordable units, they sent out a second request to the community. However, because I had applied once before I was prohibited from applying again even though this time, I was income eligible. These are just two of the many reasons why eligible people don't get in. In my case, I have stable employment, excellent credit and don't make a lot of money. There are plenty of others who are in my shoes. A more just and accurate method for computing income eligibility based on present circumstances needs to be put in place for these programs to accomplish what they were meant to accomplish which is providing affordable units to working adults who don't make a lot of money.
The magic word may be guarantor. If the helicopter kids couldn't use a parents income and could only rent on their own salary oh boy would studios and one bedroom apartment rents fall.
When rent is based on what the world market is willing to pay for a spot in our fair city (or it's environs) all hope is gone. We are about to become a huge hotel with residents staying only a few years at most to sew their wild oats and move on.
What a shame for us all and how shameful for our politicians to be so indebted to developers.
Part of the problem is how the developer determines applicants' income. The developers rely on your past two tax returns, so if your income has gone down dramatically since you last filed a tax return (as has happened to many people in this economy), good luck convincing them of that.
My domestic partner and I put an application into the lottery for a 1-BR in the Atlantic Terrace low-to-moderate-income units. At the time I sent in the application, we qualified for the moderate income units. By the time our application came up in the lottery, my partner was unemployed and I had left my law firm job for a much lower-paid job for a non-profit with an annual income of $43K, which (at the time) was supporting both of us.
The developer notified us that we were rejected because our income was TOO HIGH for the unit. However, they never informed us in any of their communications exactly what the income band was for that particular unit.
AirBnB is the new "affordable housing"!!
How much can we tolerate?!
The Toll Bro's Pierhouse® development at Brooklyn Bridge Park has apartments that START at $2M…TWO MILLION!!!
Meanwhile there's a fantastic new recreation pier with covered basketball courts and roller rink etc…
It's VERY CLEAR that Bloomberg installed this facility as subterfuge to distract from his greedy gentrification buddies reorienting the socio-economic mix. This rec pier is the bone thrown to the 99% who can no longer afford to live in their own neighborhood any more.
We're suppose to feel better as we're ALL priced out of our homes!!
...START at $TWO MILLION$!!!
SICK Sh•t!!
@Tom, well said. There are tons of families living in 1brs because LL's are pricing their 2+brs for room mates that need guarantors to pay their rent. There is a disconnect between housing needs of native New Yorkers and the "market".
Of course many Brooklyn residents are shut out --Affordable housing is a sham: It is a covenant construct that politicians use as a way to give developers what they want, with a few extra floors on top, it's the developers' way of getting more of what they want -- land use and height, and even banks use it to fulfill terms in a settlement: recently Citibank, restitution penalty included affordable housing.
OK, it's Muslim on Muslim, but besides that it's true, please don't click away!
change the laws!
Are we still talking about Crooklyn? =)
Define affordable. These developers are obviously not in ENY, Brownsville or Cypress Hill. Stop fooling the public into thinking msrket rate is the norm. Stop building up and make neighborhoods and homes like Nehemiah at Spring Creek
10-15 years too late to find this population
The question "Is Brooklyn so gentrified that there aren't even people to fill affordable housing?" is awkwardly phrased.
it certainly seems to be that, in a specific community district (where locals get preference) like Community Board 2, it is difficult to find people who qualify (including credit check) for low-income units, in part because many of the current low-income residents are in rent-stabilized or public housing units and wouldn't want to leave.
See this DNAinfo article as well: http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140804/downtown-brooklyn/developers-struggle-fill-546-a-month-apartments-downtown-brooklyn
However, when "affordable housing"--as in 300 of the 600 units in the next two Atlantic Yards towers--means units for households at 165% of Area Median Income (meaning $141,735 for a family of four), you can bet more people will qualify.
Norman Oder
Atlantic Yards Report
More here: http://bkbureau.org/2014/07/03/behind-atlantic-yards-housing-deal-some-big-shifts/
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