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I stumbled across a sure-fire system for improving my mental health, not to mention my outlook on life during these hard times.
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Emily Jones is a retired journalist who edits a website for bouncing baby boomers facing retirement. She welcomes comments at www.deludeddiva.con [2].
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Don Gaetz, president of the Florida Senate, said he isn't aware of any effort to divert RESTORE Act funds from Okaloosa County because of the TDC scandal.
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Under the RESTORE Act, which Congress approved last year, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas will receive 80 percent of all the fines levied against BP for its role in the oil spill.
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jigglywiggly - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkWhy are all ultrabook makers idiots?
Really all you have to do to make them sell like hotcakes is:
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Seriously, if they had this then they'd be great. Reply
tzhu07 - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkAlso, get rid of the fucking stickers to the left of the trackpad. Reply
Samus - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkThe stickers are out of control these days. Please bring the AOL desktop icon back instead. Reply
GotThumbs - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkWhile I don't like the stickers either....Toshiba most likely gets discounts for adding those stickers. I'm Certain INTEL marketing department would have a problem if the stickers were not displayed. Intel is ALL about marketing its brand and does a very good job of it.
Any low-tech consumer is dazzled by these stickers and assume the system is a good purchase. General consumers are mostly dumb and buy primarily on visual information instead of factual research. How else could Apple charge the prices it does for its computers and its crazy upgrade prices. If consumers checked how much 8 gigs of memory cost on NewEgg (40.00) ...they'd tell Apple to go screw themselves and then purchase the memory to install themselves.
General consumers are typically lazy....they are PROGRAMMED to want things NOW and screw the cost or lack of real features. I don't think Toshiba is marketing to AnandTech users. I believe they are marketing to Apple fashionistias, Because their price point is less than Apple and they are most likely targeting those buyers who want something like an Apple airbook, but for less and with windows OS. Most of those users only check email and FaceBook.
Regarding stickers......Simple solution is to remove the stickers after your purchase. Reply
Guspaz - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - link"Regarding stickers......Simple solution is to remove the stickers after your purchase."
Easier said than done. I tried removing one sticker from my Toshiba Portege r700, but it was practically burned on. No amount of scratching with my fingernails gets it off, water doesn't help, it's like a hard plastic film that just won't come off. A heatgun is probably required, and I don't have one. Reply
tzhu07 - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkTrue. Any time I have to Google how to remove something, I know that the original intention was for it not to be removed. Reply
Ushio01 - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkUse WD40 just a little bit sprayed on a paper towl and gently rubbed over the stickers removes them easily. Reply
GotThumbs - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkThey don't make it easy, but it's not impossible if it really bothers you.
I know the GOOP adhesive remover is really good for getting the adhesive off once you remove the sticker. I've heard that cooking oil as well as well. I'd think twice before using anything that containes a chemical, but you can try WD-40 (suggested by Ushio01) at your own risk.
You may want to try using a straight razor blade on the edge of the sticker to start the lifting process. Fingernails are just not thin enough. Patience is the key to accomplishing the removal without scaring your product.
Best wishes. Reply
KineticHummus - Thursday, November 17, 2011 - linkI have the toshiba portege r835, the stickers came off NO problem. and ive heard its the same chassis too Reply
nubie - Thursday, November 17, 2011 - linkGoo-gone is available at the "dollar tree" store locally. The hardware store has much larger bottles for under $4.
There is also a felt tip pen version, which would probably be perfect for the laptop stickers.
I didn't know about this product for years, but it will soften sticky things like magic. Reply
r3loaded - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkAmen to that. I also find it difficult to understand why it's so hard for them to put an IPS screen on them either. Practically every tablet that wants to be taken seriously has such a screen, yet it's a rarity outside of Lenovo/HP's top-end models. They shouldn't moan about cost either - it's a premium product, it deserves premium components and hence should have a premium price (which I and many others are ready to pay for).
Tablets have 1280x800 IPS screens in a 10-inch form factor. We shouldn't have to put up with 1366x768 TN in a premium 13-inch ultra portable in 2011/2012. Reply
solipsism - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkIPS costs more money and users more power. On a 7" or 10" display that isn't too bad, especially when you powering it off ARM, but consider a proper notebook with a 13", 15," or 17" IPS panel. Thing gets a lot tricker.
This will eventually change just as HiDPI resolutions on notebooks will eventually change, but that time just isn't hear yet. You can look at Apple's limited product line for examples: iPHone and iPad are iPS, iMacs and Cinema Displays are IPS, notebooks are all TN. Reply
Penti - Thursday, November 17, 2011 - link15" HP's with IPS-panels uses panels specced to 15W for example. You can't really use something that aren't manufactured. Reply
Narrlok - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkASUS UX31 Zenbook
1600*900 on 13.3"
- check
Super good contrast and good brightness
- super high brightness like the MBA according to Anand's review of the UX21, contrast suffers though
Offer matte and glossy
- nope, no other alternatives either currently :( Sony does offer Vaios with a matte 13.1" screen with a 1600*900 resolution Reply
medi01 - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - link16:9 and 16:10 screens suck badly. Bring good old 4:3 back and I'm sold. Reply
tzhu07 - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkAre you 65 years old or something? Reply
HMTK - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkNo, he probably wants to do other things than watch movies. Like... work. Reply
JoeMcJoe - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkExactly.
16:9 display ratios even on desktop monitors aren't the best for working on. Reply
tzhu07 - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkOh really? I think my 2560 X 1440 desktop monitor suits me just fine for poductivity work. But then again, once you get up to the 2560 spec, 1440 or 1600 is plenty. Reply
MrSpadge - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkMy 1920x1200 IPS at work is also very nice for work. And with enough vertical space you can actually start to use the horizontal space by not running everything full screen.
MrS Reply
inighthawki - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkDepends on the kind of work. I do a lot of programming, and as a result, tiling two coding windows side by side in visual studio works wonderfully on a widescreen display, but not so much on a full screen display. Reply
uhuznaa - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkI would really like to see some statistics how old people are who buy such things and how their eyesight is. 1600x900 on 13.3" with no way to adjust the OS to it means that everything you want to read and click on the screen becomes that small that working with it for many hours a day becomes a strain. Yeah, you can cram more content and toolbars and icons onto the screen, but this comes with a price.
I know more than enough "normal" users who think that such many pixels are even too much to be comfortable on 19" desktop displays and run them with non-native resolutions just to get comfortable UI sizes. Especially since they just have no need for 1600 horizontal pixels since they run everything full-screen anyway. Reply
retrospooty - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - link"1600x900 on 13.3" with no way to adjust the OS to it means that everything you want to read and click on the screen becomes that small"
Win7 click start>control panel>display and set it from 100 to 125 or even 150% if you are really blind. Reply
SoundsGood - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - link>> Win7 click start>control panel>display and set it from 100 to 125 or even 150% if you are really blind.
That's fine if you *only* use the laptop's screen. But not so great for those of us that often use an external monitor. It means always switching back and forth between 125 DPI and 100 DPI... which is NOT fun. Reply
Filiprino - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkIt's a non-issue. Sony has the Vaio Z with 1080p on it's 13 inch screen. That's a real problem.
But 1600x900 on 13 inches it's not a problem. I've got a 15,6 inch laptop with full hd screen and it's really nice. Not only because you can have more things being displayed, but also for things that were traditionally huge now they aren't.
And of course, more resolution benefits productivity. Reply
peterfares - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkSony's screen is wonderful. I used the Vaio Z with a 1080p screen at the Microsoft store. The DPI was set to 150% so everything appeared the normal size for a 13" computer, but everything was SO CLEAR. It was awesome. I really want one, but they're very expensive! Reply
MrSpadge - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkFor me 1366x768 is borderline uncomfortable on 11.6". So I guess I wouldn't want more than 1400x900 at 13.3".
MrS Reply
peterfares - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkYou can increase the DPI setting which makes everything bigger but sharper than a standard resolution display. Reply
peterfares - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkWindows 7 has great scaling capabilities. The whole OS has higher resolution graphics for when you increase the DPI setting. Third party support is not quite there yet, but things just get blown up to make them bigger. Not that annoying when the DPI is high enough. Reply
piroroadkill - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkI'm going to go further than this: They need to offer it in 16:10, not 16:9 as you suggest is OK.
How about 1680x1050, laptop makers :3
Look at the retarded huge bezel below and above the screen. This is getting out of hand. 16:9 is a terrible ratio for computing, but because the screens are getting spat out cheaply, this is what we get. Reply
retrospooty - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - link"How about 1680x1050, laptop makers :3"
Yup, my old 15 inch Lenovo T500 w/ 1680x1050 was perfect.
Sadly, the highest sellers now are these cheap 1366x768 ones, so they keep pushing it. Laptop makers wont stop unless sales drive it. Right now they are selling to the dull masses and it's not about to change.
At least the ASUS Ultrabook has a 1600x900 option. Pretty good for a 13 incher. Reply
gorash - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkIt's an ultrabook, they'd have to make it at a certain price point (under $1000). Reply
name99 - Thursday, November 17, 2011 - link"Why are all ultrabook makers idiots?"
The answer is simple --- but PC heads don't want to hear it.
As long as buyers AND sellers insist on selling by specs, they are in a commodity market. A market where the device sold is the one that hits the lowest price. These devices are sold by
- has USB3 --- check
- has ethernet port --- check
- can (in theory) expand to more than 4GiB of RAM --- check.
There's nowhere on that checklist for --- feel of the construction, quality of the keyboard, quality of the screen, delight of the user experience. No place for anything that is not a yes/no answer.
As long as the PC world buys devices by checkbox criteria, vendors will sell devices by checkbox criteria --- it's as simple as that. If you want out of that world, I'm sorry, but your choice, today is simple --- you buy Apple and you accept the choices Apple makes. You may find your checkbox ethos upset --- what do you mean, no USB3 and no VGA port? You may whine that the price is "too high" for all the checkbox items you are getting --- ignoring the cost and the value of the non-checkbox items you are getting.
But really, that's the breaks. You cannot expect differently from any other vendor, because that's not the way the economics works. And pretty much none of them have the credibility to insist that: "no, trust us, sure our new product costs 30% more than the competition, when compared by specs, but it really is worth the extra money". Sony certainly can't make such an argument credibly these days. The only possibility I can think of is that maybe Lenovo could.
But, look at the comments in previous Anand reviews. If Lenovo introduced a really well made ultrabook, selling at Apple prices, I guarantee you MOST of the reviews would be along the lines of: "this is bullshit --- I can get exactly the same features from Toshiba for $300 cheaper. Lenovo screws over the public once again". Reply
Visual - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkNow all I want is for someone to take this thing, give it a better quality display with adequate resolution, nice multitouch layer with active digitizer, make it convertible to tablet mode, with a few programmable buttons on the bezel, and I would be willing to pay double this price.
Are all those things actually costing the manufacturer more than that? Or why else is noone doing that?
Add in a better GPU option without massively increasing weight (battery drain won't matter if it can switch back to the IGP, but the cooling should be adequate) and I'd be the happiest person in the world. Reply
solnyshok - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkScreen flex is so extreme, that me Toshiba have developed 2 cracks (one on left, one right side) in the inner plastic frame around the lcd panel. From the forums, I know that many owners have faced this problem, even those that handle device very carefully.
Important consequence of this is, that despite low weight, Toshiba has almost killed portability of this device - I am afraid to just put it into my backpack or leave it in a luggage. The only way to handle it is to have a well protected bag and keep it on yourself at all times.
Lastly, did you check this Toshiba, or any other ultrabooks, if they use throttling to prevent overheating? My R630 came with i450m (2.4GHz, turbo to 2.6), but only after couple of months I learned with the help of ThrottleStop, that whole thing is throttled to 50% of performane at all times. Removed it for AC profile, thing is twice faster now and still doesn't overheat. Reply
e-kirill - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkSSD here is crap also Reply
Filiprino - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkI won't buy a shitty 768p screen. Reply
solnyshok - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkand the screen is awful on R630 (guess it is the same). C'mon Toshiba, I will not be buying another one of the R series with such awful screen and flimsy shell. Reply
ibtar - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkThere must be some kind of running joke between OEMs about how cheap they can go on these garbage TN panels they throw in these "ultra" books and other laptops until consumers actually start to care (they won't).
Just give me an IPS panel. I don't care if it's glossy or matte, just give me something that has decent contrast and doesn't gamma shift all over the damn place. Is that so much to ask? Reply
jackpro - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkThe screen resolution needs to be higher. I am sick of scrolling web pages. Please get a clue. Thats why tablets are growing market share, web pages are easier to read duh! Are we not in the web age??? Reply
Meegulthwarp - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - link1st page, 3rd paragraph. Is Turbo Boosy the drunk abusive cousin of Turbo Boost? Cuz I rather quite like the name. Reply
ciparis - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - link+1 Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkThat's what I get for editing in the engine. Though I'm not sure how I hit the "y" instead of "t" given I have a split keyboard. Probably being bad and typing with one hand or something. Reply
Neptunian - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - link192:1 contrast ratio and 40% of AdobeRGB ? Even my 12 year old eizo has better display quality.
Also I don't get their obsession with the hideous sticker spammed all over the keyboard. Why is it only Apple that gets it? Reply
gorash - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkThey probably get paid some money to put stickers on there. Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkApple doesn't do co-branding, ever. If you buy a Mac, it's all about Apple and you don't need to know whether it has an Intel or Motorola CPU, an ATI or NVIDIA GPU, or any other details. You also shouldn't know whether the SSD is a decent quality Samsung a much slower and lower quality Toshiba. And for all of that, you get to pay a price premium.
At least Apple knows how to select a good quality LCD and build everything well, but again, that's part of the price premium. The interesting thing is that Intel defines a price to qualify as an ultrabook, and everyone cuts corners to get there and thus kills the screen quality. And in this instance, build quality as well. Reply
Kougar - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkI am definitely sure "Turbo Boosy" exacerbates the issue!
Not a bad ultrabook (if one can get past that cheap display), but I like the battery life on the Zenbook UX31 better. I'd can't stress enough that I'm willing to have a heavier machine if it meant more battery capacity... one criteria most ultrabooks aren't meeting. Regular laptops which have the room, or in some cases the battery capacity just fail to meet any of the criteria an ultrabook excels in.
Notebook vendors are still swinging and missing that niche market... Reply
frozentundra123456 - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkHonestly, I would prefer the dm1z at half the price. Saw it in best buy a long time ago, but it appears to have disappeared off the shelves.
And it seems there is a dearth of netbook size devices using the E350, which seems an ideal chip for a small portable. At least in retail stores around here, what I see is Atom netbooks and E350 15.6 in laptops. Seems a mismatch for both. Why would anyone want atom over the E350 in a netbook, and if I am going to get a 15.6 in "full size" laptop, I either want Llano for the graphics and decent CPU performance, or an Intel i3 or i5 for better CPU performance. Reply
MrSpadge - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkGo for the Thinkpad X121e instead. With TPFanControl it's nicely quiet and the only negative point is the horrible touchpad (can't really click with it). Otherwise it's almost perfect for such a small machine (can't expect a good screen at that price point).
MrS Reply
86waterpumper - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkSince some think that 1600 is too large a resolution for 13 inch, and alot seem to agree that what most of them have now is pretty lame, why can't more of these ultrabooks have the same screen as the mackbook air, which has a 1440 x 900 resolution? Reply
SoundsGood - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - link>> why can't more of these ultrabooks have the same screen as the mackbook air, which has a 1440 x 900 resolution?
I totally agree. That would be a great option. Reply
peterfares - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkPeople who say the resolution is too large don't realize that Windows has the ability to scale. Just adjust the DPI to make everything bigger. When you increase the resolution and the DPI, things remain the same physical size but are made up of more pixels making them very clear. I used Sony's 1080p 13" Vaio Z at the Microsoft store with 150% scaling, and it looked amazing! Reply
solipsism - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - link"I could be completely blind and out of my depth here, but I just don't see the market an ultrabook serves"
A recent report put the MBAs, only in 11" and 13" sizes, at 28% of all Mac notebook shipments. This is a category the average consumer cares about. Unfortunately for the non-Apple OEMS there customers expect a sweet spot about $300 less than the least expensive MBA. That's the problem when you spend years racing to the bottom, not one trusts when your products even if they are quality.
It was years ago that Apple had more than 90% of the $1000 and up market so these companies need to make less expensive machines or rebrand themselves to show they are a premium company. They can start by removing crap like Intel Inside, MS Windows, Dell and HP stickers off their machines. Reply
Torrijos - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkWhile this review is dandy, it would be nice to run the benchmarks on the MacBook Air running Windows, to have a baseline.
Also, while more ports are always cool I kind of disagree with the disinterest towards Thunderbolt technology. Living with a laptop as a main computer, connecting the multitude of cables at home to dock it to external displays and storage unit gets old pretty quickly so the vision of a single cable connecting a TB display (with keyboard and mouse on the USBs) and a fast mass storage unit chained seems like a dream (but I'll be still waiting for USB3 on the display before I make a jump).
It's a usage model that no other brand offers right now. Reply
peterfares - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkHave you heard of docks? They aren't yet available on Ultrabook models I don't believe, but they're even better than Thunderbolt. You just place your computer on the dock, you don't even have to line up and insert the thunderbolt and power cords. Reply
Jamezrp - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - link4th paragraph from the bottom, end of the second sentence. Not a big deal...I laughed because it sounds like a cheesy, corny cute name to give Intel's Turbo Boost. Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkJust a typo from the editor; actually, Dustin called it "turbo core" so I tried to fix it and apparently hit the wrong key for the "t". Not sure which is worse, though. :p Reply
fpink3 - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkD Sklavos says: "I don't think the keyboard is a lost cause, but it definitely needs to be revised. Layout is fine, just fix the overall size and quality. The chassis has room for both."
"Just fix the ..quality"? Who is D Sklavos talking to? Let me know how the keyboard will perform if I bought the product. Reply
Death666Angel - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - linkGreat review as always, but I was wondering if you could make comparison photos of products where size is a big feature. Stick a coke cola can or a DVD case next to it and then photograph. It would make it easier to judge the size. :-) Reply
EthanW - Thursday, November 17, 2011 - linkIs it just me, or does this look scarily similar to the Portege R200?
As seen here:
Good to see they had the sense to stick with proper trackpad buttons. :D Reply
Henk Poley - Friday, November 18, 2011 - linkShouldn't that read silver, instead of sliver? The typo is made several times. Reply
dszc - Friday, November 18, 2011 - linkFor me, the ultrabook concept is a bulls-eye!
EXACTLY what I need.
I need to get real work done when I travel. And I must travel more than I want to.
The Zenbook looks almost perfect. But it has that stupid Asus "keyboard" and an inadequate glossy panel TN display. Give me a real display and keyboard and I'll glady pay an extra $100-200.
This new Toshiba Z835 completely misses the mark and the concept. It is just a glorified netbook. Nothing "ULTRA" about it. Same problem with the Macbook Air. At least Asus with their Zenbook is on the right track.
I'm a photographer and am always processing RAW files in Lightroom and Photoshop. That takes horsepower. The i7 and SSD in the Zenbook have it. The laptop needs to be small enough to easily add to carry-on when flying, and it needs to fit on a airline fold-down tray. Probably 13". It needs enough battery life to last cross-country. And maybe a spare battery for trans-Atlantic.
With the Zenbook, whenver I have 5-10 minutes I could just pop it out and finish another picture (project/spreadsheet/fill-in-the-blank). With my current Asus G51 beast, with its ~10lb+ travel weight, by the time I find an electrical outlet, get it plugged in and booted up, my 10 minutes is gone and I have done no work.
For storage, a small 2.5" external USB3 makes the most sense. All my data and files stay on there and I can just plug that into my desktop or anyone else's computer when not traveling.
This ultrabook concept is perfect for me. Until it came along, I had no hope. Now, all of a sudden, The Zenbook and Lenovo's high-powered entry are very close! Reply
Sunburn74 - Sunday, November 20, 2011 - linkAnand is a real screen junkie. It makes his articles incredibly hard to interprete. Whilst he writes off laptops that haveTN panels with 1366x788 resolutions and are glossy, I personally have used said laptops and don't care or eve notice the screen. I dont work outdoors. I don't spend all my time looking at my windows icons. I don't game on my laptop. I watch the occasional movie on it and do so in crowded environments where I am always distracted by the time, the people, when the bus/train will come, etc. I am a completely normal person with completely normal usage patterns and to me the ultrabooks are highly appealing.
I have never cared about the screen as long as its reasonably functional. I very feel people who buy macs also really don't care either (the imac is IPS, the mac air is TN and no one cares). Reply
Sternreisender - Sunday, December 11, 2011 - linkI picked the Z835 up at BB at the end of November. My last laptop died a few weeks before and I had just come into the required monies so I was chomping at the bit. My requirements were SSD, backlit keyboard, ultrabook.
I could have waited for the Folio13 but honestly, I've been happy. Main usage is web browsing/movie watching. I wanted portability. It feels fragile, sure, but I'm willing to accept that. Been very happy with battery life.
I understand there are many sacrifices others don't want to make, but just wanted to throw that out there. :) Reply
shorty lickens - Friday, June 22, 2012 - linkIts 699 at Best Buy this week, which makes it an easier pill to swallow. Of course I bet a lot of folks are waiting for the next generation which has better stats and a more reasonable price. Reply


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July 6th, 2006 #1
:: 3 sexy chiks (tutorial, step by step colouring/lighting )
This is the ref i used so faar, as i will need other ref i will post it here as well.
Here is the the final sketch/linework.(i did clean it a bit) I did many version till i was halfway happy, so this is it for now. There is no need for clean linework because you will not see any in the final Image.
I want the final Image look more classic, so i will try to make soft lighting (sunlight + fire or candle light) Backround will be the brightest part, i will paint it later. The BG light will cast a bright light on the characters, i will do it in the last step. For now i will make only the ambient light, i will make it very basic with not many reflections or any refractions or transfluency effects. Not all Object will affect eachother by casting a shadow, this i will later.
First i cover the linework with a dark green layer, i paint from dark to bright and want some green tone in the shadows. i also make roung outlines with a more darker green tone, this will help me to separate the objects easier. I make the linework transparent so i don't forget to paint the dark spaces. As i will work out the details i will delete the line work more and more.
I Start with the girl in the middle as i like her ass, so bear with it. I choose a dark brown tone and add more brighter colour step by step. The importance is to pick different colour values to make the skil look more natural. (this you don't see here very well as i am still on the dark regions.
After i got bored with her ass i moved on to her face. I do not paint all body parts at the same time, that is not good but i get bored otherwise. you should try to avoid it, try to paint all connected bodyparts with the colour you are using before moving on to a brigher value, bacause you may end up with many different values and that will look like the parts don't fit together.
Using the colourpicker i do the colourin job on the face now, as you see i moved on much farther with the face instead of using the skin tones on the rest of her body or on the hands. That is because i plan to use her face as colourreference for the rest of the body, this way i may save lot's of work in a bad case. Bad case would be if i would dislike one of the colous and would have to change it everywhere.
As you can see i used different tones in the brighter values, this makes the skin look more natural.
!!! However this is NOT the final colouring for the face, this is just the ambient light. As soon as i finish the ambient light on all obejcts i will tone them down again, make them darker, then add other lightsources and work out details.
Also note that i do never use black for colouring, later when i will darken the ambien light the image will have black values in the darkest regions.
(the bright highlight on her nose and eyes is not part of the ambient light, but i couln not resist... I will remove it later again)
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This somehow reminds me of Austin Powers .
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July 6th, 2006 #3
Damn that 3e ref is to sexy man!
Great job on the face!
Cant wait untill i see it finished.
cheeeeeeers R3M
July 6th, 2006 #4
"After i got bored with her ass i moved on to her face."
Usually tends to be the other way around, don't it?
Great thread, another bookmarked.
July 6th, 2006 #5
Wow this is awesome, I cant wait to see the finnish, keep posting your progress I like to see how it comes together, Id like to learn to paint stuff like this. Are you using photoshop? custom brushes or just the default hard edge brush?
Nice work so far.
July 6th, 2006 #6
^^;; scratches her head.. i dont see how you used any references :3
where is it :3
but the picture is looking lovely though
July 6th, 2006 #7
thanks very much
it's always a pleasure to see your work and a wip is great
can you give us a pic of your colour palet (if you use one)?
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July 6th, 2006 #8
this is fantastic work. please keep posting your progress, great explanations as well. - JAG
July 6th, 2006 #9
great line work... absolutely amazing detail on the face. it's going together very nicely
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50^ Ollicial • ttlewspapei • Village of Fteepoft • - FreepofI School District • . Baldwin - Sctiool District ifclWiQi-^' r-iALTubiKAKV ^Waferfrohf \..-^ PulWut teadei^ij This Issue :^ 1^ Q^^;*-::^^.^*'.^*^*:.'«•',. \ FREEPORT. NE\V YdRK. SlstYEAR, No. 24 . OCTOBER 3,1985 FREErORT UEUoniAL LIBRARY « MERRICK. ROAD " " FREEPQRT H Y i u go 29 PRICE 25* PER COPY 'Gloria^ Punch Blocked locally Hurricane Na Match For Court Orders Freeporters Uhfazed Baldwin Fire Deparfmenf i^^y^ Primary As Most Lights Stay On BALDWIN r Starting eariy in the week of Septembier 23,-as the National Weather Bureau.tracked Hurridme Gloria on her northward path, the Baldwin Fire Siepartment began to prepare for wHat was being billed as "the storm<j the cetUuty." V Thursday morning, Gloria made'lis turn and headed up the east coast and landfall was predicted to be Friday morning, September . 27, with Long- Island her new potential target.' ' Baldwin Fire Department Chief Robert Leigh called a' meeting for Thursday evening,-at 7 pro. The meeting was attended, by all the department's, chief officers, the Fire District Supervisor and his staff.. Plans were formulated' to include a storm watch to continue until all danger was passed, notification to.all store: owners. to tape all plate . glass windows, opening of a shelter (o house evacuees, and to alert and later evacuate residents that would be effected by the then predicted tidal surge of 8-lS-feeL. Further plans were also formulated by the. Fire Department to set up a fleet of s n ^ boats to remove residents trapped in flooded areas. .Crews were formed to cut up trees and to open up streets for emergency operations ani^.' emergency vehicles. Ez-Caplains Joseph Argenzio, Thomas' Gruber > and Rodnqr- Cools, assisted by the Baldwin- Junior, Fire Department, were given the task of opening and operaUng a shelter at the Senior High-School. Ex-Chief Robert Noble's assignment was to as- ' semble boats and devise a plan to remove residents trapped in high water. The captains of the seven fire companies were. instructed to contact all their ' members and ascertjun who would be available for stand-by duty, who. had a boat or chainsaw, etc. All oSicets worked late into the night. The Baldwin Fire Department's storm watch .continued throughout Thursday i^ghl, with a meeting planned-for 4 am Friday. -, ' . ' : . TMs early morning - meeting was also attended-by Robert Noble, General -Supervisor, of Sanitation District ffly and: . arrangements were made to send out all sanitation tru^s as eariy as possible to &ee employees, ihany of whom are also volunteer firefighters from Baldwin, Roosevelt, and South Heinpsteaid. . It became apparent at that tinie that there would be little or no outsideiielp available to Baldwin during'the storm and that the burden and responsibility of the safety and protection of the town would fall solely on the shoulders, of the Baldwin Fire Department. By S am, three additional dispatchers went on duty in the Baldwin Fire Department Alarm Bureau. Department • Chief Mechanic Dom Famularo double-checked all fire apparatus and emergency generators for full readiness. . A t 6 am, Baldwin School (Cent, on Page 5> r^a-i-iiir- •j^'i^^^Hit rif'.l&lSS^ateaEwi STORM DAMAGE. This house on Baldwin Avenue is Just one of the Baldwin homes to experience heavy damage from th; high winds of Hurricane Glcria. (Photoby Baldwin Fire Depl.) MINEOLA - Registered * Republicans in the 67th Election District of the 18tli Assembly - District in Freeport will have yet another opportunity to go to the. polls in a primary election to be held in the near future. The results of the September 10, village-wide Republipan primary were ruled invalid this week after Georgia Once, who had tied for second place in that election, brought an action against the results. State Supreme Court Justice Stanley Harwood in his decision - Wednesday, October 2;also ruled that there would have to be a re- _vole^ . .. — ., According - to ' Justice Haf- • wood's decision, "20 of the 119 voters in that GOP primary itere registered Democrats 'and thus ineligible. The results .were so close (Edward ' Monroe, .56; . Jerome Lewis, 53; Georgia Grice,- 53; and Archie Chisholm, SI) that the meligible' votes could have substantially inade a difference and there is no way. to determine.how they actually cast their ballots. During the court hearing,' it was jioted- that among the 20 • registered Democrats who had (Cont. on Page 15 Arrests Signal Crackdown On Prostitution, FREEPORT - Sii women-were arrested on charges of prostitution late Saturday nig^t September 28, and early Simday morning,'in the central part of the Village of Freeport. The arrests were the beginning of a crackdown ordered by Mayor Dorothy Storm after a simHar -move by the Village of Hempstead apparently resulted in driving the prostitutes into Freeport. The arrests were made by Officer John Kilbride, both whom were off-duty at the time. Mayor Storm had authorized over-time pay to any officer who makes a prostitution arrest after being approached while in their own car and in civilian clothes. The arrests . look place at Church Street and Sunrise Highway; Guy Lombardo and Sunrise Highway; and in the rear of the apartment building at UO Brook- (Conl.onPagelS) FREEPORT - As Hurricane Gloria bore down pn the Village last Friday, September 27, Freeport was ready. Residents could be seen at local stores, stocking up on batteries and candles, milk, bread, beet-' and potato chips. It was hard to find a "D" battery or a flashlight and lines at stores Thursday night and early Friday morning were long. ' Windows were taped or boarded up and welcoming messages to placed on stand-by in antici- Glona were scrawled on the pation of the storm. Firemen boards. On the Freeport Recreation Center's bubble, an unidenti- , fied wit had scrawled the message, "Please Return to the Village of FreeporL" - Evacuation sites had been selected and, as the winds roared and the waters surged higher, more than 900 residents jsought shelter at Dodd Junior. High School, the primary site; Freeport High and ^other l.ocal schools;:, Uie Nation'al Guard Armory on Babylon Turnpike; the. Salvation Army Community Center; the FreepOTt Recreation. Center; Village Court; Our Holy Redeemer Chiuch; and Lydia E. Hall Hospital, where the sick, infirmed and aged were offered beds, food and even television. Village employees, volunteers aind .Mayor Dorothy Storm sought and secured food donations for the' evacuation sites from the A & P, Grand Union, Key Food, Gouz, Glass Oven Bakery, Dunkin ' Donuts and Jason's Deli. Between 7:30 am and 8 pm Friday, Freeport's volunteer firefighters- responded, to 51 calls for help, -the majority of which involved problems relating to downed and/or damaged electrical wires. No serious injuries were reported &om the fire calls. The extraordinarily busy day -for the FreeportTire I>epartment began at "7^30 am when* it was manned each firehouse 'and units were dispatched on a district- by-district basis. At abo.ut 8:30 am, the calk began to come in and they'were from'all over the village, mainly for - wires burning on roofs, electrical .sparks ^ m basement panels and trees uprooting wires. Included in the 51 calls wdre two fires, resulting in moderate damage, gne on Rutland Roid, the other''o'n' Harding -Place." • . Both invoI\-ed electric panels in basements and «-ire storm caused. In between fire calls, the department performed a number of evacuations, which became more and more frequent as the storm surge tides moved in after 11 am. Several calls in the south section of the Village resulted in "old fashioned foot- response." Deep flood waters prevented fire- - men from reaching calls with - their apparatus, so the men hiked two or three blocks on foot, through several feet of water, with fire extinguishers on their backs. Fortunately, none of those fires were extensive. The stand-by was discontinued'' ' at 7:30 pm, but the department continuni to respond t^tseveral calls during the evening. <-• The department's four-chie& extend their thanks to the many - dedicated firemen p who gave up (Com, on Page 16) WADIMG DOWN THE STREET as the eye ct Hurricane Gloria tp asse over nearby, residents of South Freeport are knee-deep in water in the middle of Guy Loml>ardo Avenue. At some parts of the street, the water was waist-deep, cars were flooded aljove their seats and garages, tjasements and playrooms were water-logged. (Photo byjhe Klarikaitis Family)
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'Gloria^ Punch Blocked locally
Hurricane Na Match For Court Orders Freeporters Uhfazed
Baldwin Fire Deparfmenf i^^y^ Primary As Most Lights Stay On
BALDWIN r Starting eariy in the week of Septembier 23,-as the
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Penn retires, says he never should have come back
Penn lost his fight with Frankie Edgar tonight, and was stopped by strikes in the third round, the first time in a fight in the light weight division or lower.
In his post-fight interview with Jon Anik, Penn mentioned White's comments and said that agreed. In essence, Penn is now retired from professional MMA.
Penn also want as far to say that he should have never returned to MMA after this last loss. In his pre-fight interviews Penn said he wanted to see if he could compete at an elite level still and the outcome of tonight's fight was the unfortunate answer he was looking for.
Dana White to B.J. Penn: 'What more do you want? You have nothing left to prove'
"B.J. Penn was our jiu-jitsu coach before we even bought the UFC, so I've known this guy forever," White said. "He's one of two people who have won two titles in two different weight classes. He built the 155-pound division. He's a legend, he helped build the UFC, and the list goes on and on of what B.J. Penn has done. I've said this a million times.
"He's got a beautiful wife. He's got beautiful kids. He's got a great family. He owns a UFC-B.J. Penn Gym in Hawaii. What more do you want, B.J.? You have nothing left to prove. Fighting is a young man's sport."
After retirement, B.J. Penn reflects on his best UFC accomplishment
"This is the end," he said at the event's post-fight press conference at Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay Events Center. "I'm thinking to myself, 'Why did you step back into the octagon after the beating that Rory MacDonald gave you?'
"And the reason is I really needed to find out. If I didn't make this night happen for myself, I would have always wondered and went back and forth and begged Dana to let me back in. I guess I needed some closure."
For Penn, the realization came in the middle of his fight with Edgar as things started to go badly wrong, which was almost from the outset of a possible five-rounder. Edgar, who beat Penn in a pair of 2010 bouts to seize and hold the UFC lightweight belt, was faster, more accurate, and more devastating at every turn.
Moments before referee Herb Dean saw enough and waved off the bout, Penn took a series of elbows that opened him up and necessitated a visit afterward to the doctor.
"When the blood started going in my eyes and everything and the fight started getting real tough, I realized it takes a high, high energy level to compete with the top people in the world," he said. "You can have every technique figured out, you can have this and that and all your theories ready to go, and at the end of the line is you need a high energy to compete against these guys.
"They're very hungry, they want to be the best. I can sit here a thousand times and say the sport passed me by, but there's just such quality people in the UFC at the moment.
"You look at somebody like Frankie Edgar, and you think, 'That little guy,' but these guys, they want it," he added later. "And even if you're sitting there and you think you've got something figured out, or you're going to surprise somebody with (something), first thing you've got to do is have more heart than these guys. That's what all these people have a lot more (of). You can't see that looking at them; you can only see it by feeling it."
Penn joked with a reporter that his best moment in the fight was "walking out, probably."
A beating at the hands of Rory MacDonald at the end of 2012 prompted Penn to walk away from the sport. But it also caused him to question whether the performance was the result of a bad night on the job or a signal that it was time to hang up his gloves.
He convinced UFC President Dana White to give him another shot and signed on to coach "The Ultimate Fighter 19″ opposite Edgar, who didn't hesitate to give Penn a third fight despite two previous victories over the fighter.
"The biggest regret would be if I didn't get in the ring tonight," Penn said. "I'd always kick myself in the butt and complain to (UFC President)Dana (White) and complain to everybody, 'Man, I could have done it again.' Now I know for sure that I can't."
Penn retires with a 16-10-2 record and leaves a legacy as a fighter who never shied away from impossible goals, among them to win titles in three weight divisions. As he leaves it, "The Prodigy" remains one of only two UFC fighters in history to own belts in two divisions, at lightweight and welterweight.
He is a shoo-in for the UFC Hall of Fame. UFC President Dana White lauded the fighter as someone who helped build the UFC.
White and Penn once wound up in court in 2004 when the fighter decided to pursue bigger purses overseas after taking the promotion's welterweight title from then-champ Matt Hughes, but the two moved past their rift and shared a positive, if challenging, relationship in Penn's latter career.
Some of Penn's greatest heights and lows came as the result of rivalries with a trio of UFC stars: Hughes, Georges St-Pierre and Frankie Edgar.
"My best moment in the UFC, I guess now that I look back, it's the two belts in the two weight classes," Penn said. "I really wanted to see if I could make it three, but you're talking about the best guys in the world.
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Top Gear drives the Citroen DS3 cabrio
Has taking a tin-opener to the DS3 ruined TG's 2010 Car of the Year?
Posted: 28 Jan 2013
Soon after the Citroen DS3 poked its walrus-horned LEDs into the world in 2010, it clambered over a stack of supercars to become Top Gear Magazine's Car of the Year. Now here's the cabrio. Hmmm. Many little convertibles are heavy, cramped of back seat, mean of boot and, most of all, tragically wobbly.
So it's fair to say the very best thing about this one is that it doesn't muck up the DS3.
Instead of hacking away the whole upper body, they inserted a kind of roll-top desk effect - an enormo-sunroof, as per the Fiat 500C. The side structures are fixed, keeping the car stiff. Any remaining strength lost to the absent roof is compensated for by new metal where the hatch has a bendy parcel shelf. And the conversion adds just 25kg.
So it's not floppy and it's not heavy. It still drives like a DS3. And with the roof in place, it's barely noisier than the hatch either. Because the canvas doesn't park in the boot or the sides of the car, the hatchback's three-person rear seat is intact, and nearly all the boot space too. So it's a far more useful daily driver than a Mini convertible, Peugeot 207CC or the little 500C.
It also looks like a DS3. The shark's fin side pillar, the apparently floating roof; they keep their identity.
The canvas motors back in a few seconds, especially if you let it stop with the rear windscreen in place. You can drop that glass and let the canvas go all the way back to the tip of the boot lid, but this just obliterates your rear vision and frankly makes the car look a bit silly. You can open and close it anywhere up to 75mph, so if you spot a rain squall on a motorway you don't have to take to the hard shoulder or get drenched all the way to the next junction.
At speed with the roof back, there's impressively little turbulence. Mind you I wouldn't want to go too far in the back seat without a stoutly fixed beanie.
OK, so there aren't many of the drawbacks of a full convertible. Are there the advantages? Of course not.
It's simply not very open. The windscreen top rail is fat, the side rails emphatically more so. Still, with the windows down, there's a cheeriness to the whole thing, as you feel you've at least acknowledged any appearance of the sun.
OK, let's briefly remind ourselves about the DS3. I'm driving the 155bhp turbo petrol, and it's affectingly vivacious. The engine never has much of a struggle, going willingly on with the job as soon as you tickle the accelerator.
Into big sweeping bends the steering is almost over-eager: it can feel a mite small-car twitchy and unprogressive just off-centre. But get onto the sort of tighter roads where you can enjoy the car's small size, and you find the thing's wonderfully engaging, agile and full of steering feel as you lean on it. The handling is happily slithery too. Even so, the ride is nicely unflappable.
The cabrio is about £2500 more than the corresponding hatch. If the choice was between an engine upgrade and a canvas roof, we'd go for the engine any time. But if you've arrived at the top engine already and still have the spare £2500 (the 155 turbo DSport Cabrio is £19,600 all-in) then go for it. Nothing's spoiled.
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Tony Black wrote:
Have people executed or freed and pardoned.
Exactly! He's always been like a shadowy political figure up till now. He's started to kill openly on page, especially in Raising Steam. In Night Watch, he doesn't kill someone with a sword and only openly dispatches Carcer's company. By the start of Raising Steam, Drumknott is smiling rather disturbingly and opening the door to let him like a cat to murder people! In Night Watch, he only stopped to not spray up against things like a cat. He's also a dog person.
Meanwhile, in RS he's not in Ankh-Morpork, and therefore has no power to change local laws (although I wished he had, for the better). He's in Uberwald, and should be setting a better example to Lady Margolotta, who rescued Vimes once and appears more moral, especially with her pardoning Vampires Reform political movement - the Black Ribboners.


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Josh Thomson Ignores the Little Dogs Barking, Locks His Sights on Benson Henderson | MMAWeekly.com
Following several years of inconsistent scheduling and sporadic results, Josh Thomson finally made his return to the Octagon by squaring off with Nate Diaz at UFC on Fox 7 in April 2013.
Thomson spent much of the past eight or nine years fighting for Strikeforce, but found it difficult to fight consistently due to scheduling and injuries. He managed an eight-fight winning streak at one point, but went 3-3 in his six most recent fights prior to his UFC return, leading many to believe his best days were behind him.
Such assessments were likely shadowed by the dimmer lights he had been fighting under.
Many wrote Thomson off before he ever set foot back in the Octagon, but the one-time UFC title contender wasted no time putting a stamp on his return, embracing the return of the white-hot spotlight. He did something no other fighter has ever done: he knocked Nate Diaz out.
Once he did that, other fighters came out of the woodwork wanting to fight him.
Donald Cerrone, who was instead booked to fight Rafael dos Anjos, was one such fighter; Diego Sanchez was another.
Thomson will fight anyone they put in front of him with one caveat. Whoever they put in front of him has to lead Thomson to his end game: UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson.
Theres nothing personal between Thomson and Henderson. Like most other fighters, Thomson just wants to fight for the title and believes a match-up with Henderson would be spectacular.Do you think the lion turned around every time a little dog barked? No, Thomson responded when asked about all the fighters calling him out.
Im focused on one guy. Im focused on Benson, thats it. I dont really care about anybody else.
I told the UFC before I came over (from Strikeforce), whoever you guys want me to fight so I can line up to fight Benson, thats who I want to fight.
Thats not to say that Thomson is at all sure about how hed go about beating Henderson, as he thinks they are both complete mixed martial artists with few holes in their respective games.I think you could potentially see something like the Gil (Melendez) and Thomson thing again, Thomson said about fighting Henderson, referring to the trilogy of bouts he had with his fellow former Strikeforce champion. Stylistically, I think we match up well.
I like the way he fights, but I think I can beat him.
Benson Henderson is currently slated to face TJ Grant in the UFC 164 main event on Aug. 31 in Milwaukee. Thomson, meanwhile, awaits his next assignment.Theres nothing I can take away from him, said Thomson. Hes that step that I am. Were well rounded at everything, were not great at anything, were just good at all of them, and it makes for great fights.