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May 5th, 2009 #14
Been a huge fan of your work since you first posted; Fantastic images, you should be very proud.
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the texture and tones in the first piece are really well rendered. great close ups
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my god awesome stuff. 5 stars mos def.
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nice work Friend!
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May 11th, 2009 #20
that first one is great, majestic and disturbing at the same!
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amazing stuff! Are they digital or traditional?
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Brillianty texture work. Do you use alot texture brushes or combine with texture reference overlays?
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you always manage to get that lovely, slightly sickly translucent quality to your skin and flesh tones, its very iconic of your style and i love it
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Excellent work!! Like to look at at over and over
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Bike Concept WIP
This is a concept I'm working on for my portfolio. The problem is, I'm a bit stumped about how to handle some of the details. For example;
-What should I do for the background? Leave it white, or make a lightly patterned backround?
-Should I just resort to realistic lighting? I was going to just leave it painted somewhat realistically, but I gave some areas of the body a set light source for shadows to fall from for a more photorealistic look. Which direction should I go in. I do intend on making the gold piping more realistic though.
-I'm not really looking to change the design of the bike, it's just I'm not really sure what mood I want the image to be in. Should it be dramatic, or more flatly colored?
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I`m kind of confused which side is which... Maybe you should ask a couple of other questions firs like what time period/world is the bike from
(is it some shiny sci-fi, or post apocalyptic or contemporary, some wierd fantasy etc) or, who`s going to ride it (is it a sportsbike, a cruiser, offroad)
then do some research and base your design on that... then worry about rendering and backgrounds. If i had to answer your questions
i`d go with a plain white background maybe add a rectangle filled with gray and render it as realistic as i can, not too dramatic and not too dull :]
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ITS a Mc donalds bike!"!!!
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Thanks for the input! And I take the part about not being able to tell which side is the front as a compliment. That tells me if you saw this and had trouble understanding the shape, it's probably something you've never seen before, or at least too often. I would rather have someone confused about my design than for them to simply say that it looks good. If at least one person looks at the bike and scratches their head, that design is a keeper!
Ha ha! I ran through all the things it could be construted as in my head, but McDonald's I missed. (I figured someone would call it a ketchup and mustard bike or an Iron Man bike).
I think what gives it that look right now is the gold pieces that look more plastic. As soon as I give them their proper sheen, I think the appearance will change a lot.
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He needs a Shrink.Incidental Paranoia is his problem.He's too absorbed with minute incidents........Murphy's Law is an absolute suspect.He waits on it,when it happens, he comes unglued.When things go more »
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Bobby,you need a Shrink.He'll adjust the head.Hate to think this keeps goin this way.....when in the pen,warming up,is he not finding the plate? You don't think they'd send him in not knowing where th more »
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Comedy of errors.There in a funk,they'll be ok.The last two games should have been won,stupid errors and negative thinking are plagueing them.The bats will come around,May is here,things are and will more »
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Time to trade Scutaro.Jed has to play.Bring up Iglesias for defensive purposes.Even in unlikely circumstances,Jed is the one for SS and Jose needs the confidence of the Big Leagues. more »
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If he could only catch!.....Actually,my take on it is Marco has to go.Jed has to play and SS is the position.Marco is not the answer.Bring Iggy up from Pawtucket for defensive purposes.Jed is 27 and h more »
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Not only has the ban altered the campaign dialogue, it has also changed the fundraising model. Back in Dec. 2011, Brown had $13 million on hand to Warren's $6 million. Since then, Warren has demonstrated notable fundraising prowess. She outraised Brown in the second quarter of this year with $8.6 million to Brown's $5 million and is inching ever closer to Brown in cash on hand--Warren has $13.5 million while Brown possesses $15.5 million. Brown is no longer heads and shoulders above Warren in campaign cash, and some say the Warren campaign has the trusty pact to partially thank for that.
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DRISCOLL -- Former mayor Ted Ozuna and city commission candidate Richard Falkenberg are contesting the results of the May 12 municipal election, alleging violations of the state's Election Code.
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Coordinates: 31°34′55″N 120°15′58″E / 31.581863°N 120.266143°E
Jichang Garden (Chinese: 寄畅园) is located inside Xihui Park, east side of Hui Shan, east side of western suburban of Wuxi, Jiangsu province, China. It's close to Huishan Temple. Jichang Garden is a famed Chinese classical garden in South China, and it was claimed as a national protected location of historical and cultural relics on 13 January 1988. Xiequ Garden (谐趣园) inside the Summer Palace and Guo Ran Da Gong (廓然大公) (or, Double-Crane House 双鹤斋) in Yuanming Yuan in Beijing both imitated Jichang Garden.
Jichang Yuan is also called "Qin Yuan"(秦园). The site used to be two monasteries, called "Nan Yin"(南隐) and "Ou Yu"(沤寓). During Zhengde years (1506–1521) of Ming Dynasty, former director of Nanjing military department, Qin Jin(秦金), purchased monastery "Ou Yu" of Huishan Temple. Qin was a metropolitan graduate in Hongzhi 6th year and also the descendant of Qin Guan, a famous lyricist in Northern Song Dynasty. He expanded it on the basis of old monastery, upraising hills, excavating ponds, planting flowers and trees, building houses, and transforming it to a garden. He named it "Feng Gu Xing Wo"(凤谷行窝), or literally, "Peripatetic Nest of Phoenix Valley". A lot of ancient plants grew in the garden, and there lied a hummock in hind part. This hummock was uplifted in Zhengtong 10th year(1445) by governor of Jiangnan Zhou Cheng(周忱) in order to alter the geomancy of Huishan Temple. As the garden was founded, Qin Jin wrote a poem "Move to reside in the famed mountain at late age, build an eccentric nest for myself. Winding creeks run around lonesome stones, colossal pine trees foster greenish vines. Gliding birds were seen on the hilltop, few passengers were spotted in the secluded lane. Have a dream in melodious sounds of springs, what a fortune to listen to the fairy jingle. "(名山投老住,卜筑有行窝。曲涧盘幽石,长松育碧萝。峰高看鸟渡,径僻少人过。清梦泉声里,何缘听玉珂。) After the death of Qin Jin, the garden was inherited by his family nephew Qin Han and his son, the treasurer of Jiangxi, Qin Liang. In summer of Jiajing 39th year (1560), Qin Han himself built another garden at the hillside of Huishan, also called "Feng Gu Shan Zhuang"(凤谷山庄), or "Villa of Phoenix Valley".
After the death of Qin Liang, the garden was owned by his nephew, right vice director of court of censors and governor of Huguang, Qin Yao. Qin Yao was a member of Donglin party. In Wanli 19th year(1591), Qin Yao was deprived of positions because his master, Zhang Juzheng was indicted. He returned to Wuxi in a gloomy mood thus resorted to the picturesque garden to buoy himself up. He borrowed a verse from Wang Xizhi, "Resort to the supremacy of mountains and waters to attain the pleasure."(寄畅山水荫), and changed the name to Jichang Yuan(寄畅园). In Wanli's years, there are 20 noted scenic spots in the garden, and Qin Yao bestowed poems on each of them.
In the end of Shunzhi and beginning of Kangxi years of Qing Dynasty, Qin Yao's great grandson Qin Dezao(秦德藻) renovated the garden. He invited the famed garden designer Zhang Lian (张涟, 字南垣) and his nephew Zhang Shi (张轼) to devotedly plan the reconstruction, rearranged hills and waters and dredged springs and piled rockeries. As a result, the sceneries became even more arresting. Emperors Kangxi and Qianlong each came to South China six times in their lifetime, and Jichang Garden was the sine qua non site to stop by every time. This is the heyday of the garden. In the early Yongzheng's years during the intermitted period, however, Qin Dezao's first grandson, Qin Daoran, was implicated into the conflicts of authorities and imprisoned. Consequently, the garden was confiscated and its southwestern corner area was excised to build women's chastity shrine(贞节祠) of Wuxi County. In Qianlong's 1st year, Qin Daoran's 3rd son, Qin Huitian won a third place in palace test, and was recruited to the South Study Room(南书房) of the emperor. The next year, he made an appeal for his father, and Daoran was released and the garden returned. The richest descendant in Qin's family, Qin Dezao's grandson, offspring of his second wife, Qin Ruixi donated silver 3,000 liang. The aged garden was renovated according to the original plan, and the donor's commitment was applauded.
In Qianlong 11th year, the family gathered and concluded that "rather being maintained primarily for leisure, the garden should erect a family shrine in order for it to last for ever."(惟是园亭究属游观之地,必须建立家祠,始可永垂不朽). Therefore, the "Jiashu Hall"(嘉树堂) in the garden was converted to "Double Filial Affection Shrine"(双孝祠), and Jichang Garden became the property of family shrine, thus also called "Filial Garden"(孝园). In Xinwei year (1751), Qianlong visited South China for the first time, and designated Jichang Garden as a resting site. He was very impressed by the beauty of the garden, and brought a painting of it back to Beijing. He ordered to build a "Huishan Garden" on northeast side of Longevity Hill in Qingyi Yuan. It is now the "Xiequ Yuan" in the Summer Palace. During Xianfeng and Tongzhi years, most buildings in the garden were ruined in the war, and it was renovated to very little extent later. In 1952, the descendants of Qin's family donated this private garden to the government, and it was protectively refurbished since then. The original chastity shrine was incorporated back into the garden and now became a group of small pavilions called "Bingli Hall"(秉礼堂). Other buildings, such as "Jiu Long Tu Shi", "Jiashu Tang", "Mei Pavilion", and "Ling Fan House", were also rebuilt.
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One woman is in the hospital, and her boyfriend is facing charges of attempted murder, officials with the Crawford County Sheriff's Department say.
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The final countdown is a dozen days away, but the polling gaps between President Barrack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney are tapering.
Romney, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts, has eradicated Obama's 16-point edge with the female voter, according to a new Associated Press-Gfk poll. The president, on the other hand, has narrowed his lead with male voters.
In September, women preferred Obama over Romney on economic issues by a 56 to 40 percent margin. With 12 days until the election, Romney has shortened the gap with a nine point jump, leading 49 percent to 45 percent.
Also in the last month, Obama has lost ground with the female voter as the candidate who best understands the nation's problems, losing eight points while Romney gained seven percentage points.
The survey found Romney is now favored by 47 percent of likely voters; Obama by only 45 percent. By the same token, the prospect of an Obama re-election has dipped by five points; from 55 percent to 50.
"I'm ready for a change," Monica Jensen, 55, told Yahoo! News. "I want to see the economy go in a different direction."
Jensen, an independent from Mobile, Ala, said she voted for the president four years ago, but decided to give Romney the nod because of the economy.
While other voters are sticking with the president, David Bierwirth, who owns an autograph sales business in Las Vegas, said Romney has his vote because of the state of the economy.
"I want people back to work," he told Yahoo News, "because then they will buy my products."
The Associated Press-GfK poll was conducted Oct. 19-23 by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications. It was conducted via phone interviews with 1,186 adults nationwide, including 839 likely voters. Results for the full sample have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points; for likely voters it is 4.2 points.


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BrandMAX: VCCP's Charles Vallance tackles 'fuzzy atmospherics'
By John Reynolds, marketingmagazine.co.uk, Thursday, 22 September 2011 11:51AM
"Fuzzy atmospherics" is one of the key ingredients to a successful campaign, according to Charles Vallance, founding partner of ad agency VCCP.
Vallance, speaking on the topic of integration at Haymarket's BrandMaAX conference in London yesterday (21 September), said that creative agencies should be minded to create the right "fuzzy" atmosphere so creative people could flourish.
As examples, he said creative environments should "not have a hierarchy" and agencies should foster an atmosphere "where everyone can speak up".
Like all talented people, creatives needed special attention, Vallance argued.
He admitted "talented peopled are seldom cooperative, while cooperative people are seldom talented", but stressed the key to success was "talented people cooperating".
Vallance – whose agency created the high-profile Comparethemarket meerkat campaign among others – is a firm believer in ensuring there is seamless interaction and no animosity between the various stakeholders in a campaign.
He said issues such as "does the media agency get on with the creative agency" and "do the wider teams know each other's names" were central to the success of a campaign.
Vallance claimed: "The majority of campaigns leave rabble," pointing specifically to the fact that the various parties – be it ad agency, media agency, PR agency or digital agency – were not integrated.
In his view, brands that had shown unity in their advertising since the 1990s included Dyson, Orange and Easyjet.
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Hey, a while ago I posted a prototype for a game I'm doing, and literally nobody made a comment, so I'm guessing nobody's that interested. But here's an update anyway.
I'm tits-deep in job work on other stuff, so I only get to work on this sporadically, which is why it's taking so long to get anywhere.
I'll sum up what the game is first.
I like shooters, but I hate bullet-hells. That is to say that I like going fast, I like bursting spaceships, and I like giant space-egyptian heads- but I don't like when all that stuff gets boiled down into a slowly opening spiral of purple dots. So I wanna make a scrolling shooter where you can hit guys hard, like a beat-em-up. I want a load of tactile, really physical feeling things like grabbing enemies, catching missiles in mid-air, stealing a guy's shield out of his hand and throwing it back at him etc. Then I want the enemy behavoirs to live up to that, like enemies that circle around you and punch you and have strange interesting abilities.
Read more about the design philosophy behind the game here.
The final game will hopefully be made in Unity and be a strong, capable, functional package; but I'm prototyping it in Flash first becuase that's what I'm good at.
You can play this prototype if you go back in time a month.
Here's some more enemies I've come up with since:
This is the point I figured out how to do THIS:
Enemies that interact with each other. These little pistol ships (which you can grab, and hold as an outward-facing weapon) will swarm around an electric storm ball if one is onscreen. The storm ball will electrocute you and drain health if you get close, so they do it for protection. Also it makes their shots more concentrated around one spot, which means getting hit will FUCK YOU UP!!
The snake guy is an extension of that idea, as it's actually 30+ enemies that will seek out, and hold onto, each other's butts. The idea for this one's evolved since I made this video, he know splits into seperate snakes with seperate heads that chase you. Don't use an explosive weapon like a mine, cos it'll just unclip ALL PIECES and you'll have 30 heads chasing you, and will probably die.
These enemies hold shields, which means they're invincible unless they're attacking. You can see in the video that you can brute-force through the shield, and also steal it off him to wear for yourself. Or throw. Their AI is coded to stand infront of smaller enemies, protecting them and soaking up bullets.
Gonna keep going...
So far there's 10 enemies and a buttload of weapons, all of which you can check out on my Youtube channel. That's a great number for a web game, but I wanna get this to the point where I can sell it for $5 to $10. This is crappo programmer art, btw, it's not gonna look like this. I can DO THAT, but I've not pitched it to Alex, my producer, yet. I wanna have a SOLID SOLID SOLID outline of what the game is before I dive in head-first, cos otherwise it'll seem thin and messy like my last game. Also I'll have to find someone who can code in C# or C++, because Flash will piss everyone off. Hopefully coding this all myself first will let people feel confident that we're not just some idiot jerks.
I'm doing concept art, and I'll be doing more to just communicate what atmosphere I'm thinking of. I want it to be all wild, colourful, impactful Gainax bullshit (which is why there's so much fucking camera shake). Also I want it to be MAD FUNKY and pink as all fuck. You play as a bear riding a mech by accident, kind of... KIND OF!! It's a goofy plot.
Anyway this post is getting really long and is all disjointed. As usual, my GiantBomb posts are an amalgamation of posts I've made on other sites, because I don't wanna spam these forums every week and I don't think anyone here's really that interested in my games anyway. So if you're super interested in how this is getting made, then hit up this kind of rush or read the post on tinyBuild.com.
The main thing is that I'm in pre-production for a chunky impactful shooter, enemies do cool things, it's all pink and lasery, and that's more or less what's up.


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By Harrison and Malena Gereau
On Sunday morning, me, my mom and my sister were walking to the car to go to church. Mom stopped us as we approached the car and low and behold a bear had gotten into our car. It looked as if the bear climbed into the car through the window. There were paw prints all over the car door. My sister said that she thought the bear had a cub, because there were small and big paw prints.
Last week, we lost our cat named Bitty Boo. We think the bear had something to do with that. She just wandered into the woods and has not come back yet.
That same morning after the bear got into the car, we figured out that he or she had bit into the new can of sunscreen and it squirted all over the inside and outside of the car. He or she also bit into the tip of our mother's car seat. One other thing that the bear almost demolished was a whole container of baby wipes! Those things were all that were inside the car that night.
It was very fun to tell friends about the creature, but we sure hope he's gone away.
Of course, being the opportunists they are, bears will most likely always step on the toes of humans now and again.
Such was the case last weekend when my kids, Harrison and Malena, discovered that a bear had climbed into the family car while it sat in the driveway of their Schroon Lake home.
The only real casualty was a tube of sunscreen and container of baby wipes the bear took a hankering to — but I'll let my kids tell you the full story. Their version is attached to this column.
Great job on the story, by the way, guys. I think we should call the bear "sunscreen." (I can picture them giggling on the couch at that one.)
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Everyone involved in Alpha Project is focused on creating new features for Battlefield 2 and add new immersive and innovative ideas to force the best...
Hello battlefield fellows! For everyone who dont know me, i am around the battlefield scene since it began. Everything started with the legendary battlefield 1942 tobruk singleplayer demo, after i got the game and the battlecraft 42 editor was released i started to like doing maps for this game. Years passed and while i have not been realy impressed by the second installment of the battlefield franchise called battlefield vietnam i came back to the moddingscene with battlefield 2 where i propably did the most maps and skins so far. At this time i am hoping to see a true successor to the old battlefield franchise that keep me continue my affectation to please you all with maps and skins! If you have any question regarding mapping overall, texture creation, skinning or anything else graphic related just let me know and i do the best to help you out! Best regards JONES
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Group for anyone who models, textures, animates, codes, maps, etc., for the Battlefield series by EA/DICE.
Welcome to Battlefield Singleplayer. The Source for Battlefield AI!
A private group of BF2 modders who have contributed content to my personal mod, Heat of Battle.
JONES™, your works blow my mind, i have graphic skill but your i way better than mine. Keep it up bro, you are truly talented man!
lol ur comment ****** me off a little bit cuz u said that before me. :D
hahaha thanks :D well im doing this already a long, long time i gotta say ;)
Well, if you want have something looks good (texture, model, whatever) u need spend some time with this. I spend with my last work more than two weeks. Now im doing multicam camouflage for seals, painful work. I will show my work in progress here and on BFSP forum when i will have something enough good to show, regards bro :)
I meant to say, if you want something what look good. Sorry for my poor english. :)
JONES™, your mod is EPIC !!!
karma spam for everyone !!!
Karma spam, Me! Me!!
JONES™, your are COOL!!
Yo jones,i can't see the red dot or holo sight :( on pa 0.2
Fixed it! My crosshair was 100% transparent :D
Hi, Jones! Can we make friends
What are rhe most important things to you when making a map?
i can't find any servers for alpha project
You most likely have your server filters in the wrong way. Make sure you only check the server filter that says "same mod" then you will find probably just 2 or 3 servers.
did that still no servers
You do have version 1.5 patch for Battlefield 2 right?
yes i think i do steam should have the game up to date


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Heading to Spain for the first time in later September or October. Wondering if the beaches are still swimmable at that time and any recommendations for a place to spend a couple of beach days. Will probably stay in Spain 3 weeks and hope to cover Andalucia and Barcelona at a minimum. Thanks for your input.


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The Plains Area Council for Office Professionals (PACOP) is a group of volunteers selected by the Area Director to serve as advisors on a three-year rotating schedule.
The mission of the Plains Area Council for Office Professionals (PACOP) is to serve the Area Director in an advisory capacity on initiatives that impact office professionals across the Area.
Facilitate and enhance the office support profession through cultivation of talents, strengths, and potential to ensure that the Plains Area has highly skilled and informed office professionals working in partnership with management through teamwork, networking, and mentoring to meet the needs of the Area.
The Plains Area Council for Officer Professionals was established in April 2015 after the reorganization of the ARS Area Offices. Linda Parnell, NACOP Senior Chair participated in the founding meeting. Following the meeting, Amber Whittaker, Acting Senior Chair, rotated off the Council. The PACOP membership includes six voting members, two NACOP Technical Advisors, and two Ex-Officio members from the Area Director's Office. All individuals were appointed by the Area Director.
For more information click here to access the Council's Charter.
The current members were instated at the PACOP Annual Meeting, held in Fort Collins, CO during April 2015. Individual names will link you to their respective biographies.
A list server was created to facilitate communications with the PA Council members. You may communicate directly to all members by emailing them at PACOP.
Olga Lee
Federal Service: 28 yrs ARS Service: 26 yrs
Federal Service: 10 yrs ARS Service: 4 yrs
Barbra began her Federal career in 1991 with the United States Army, where she served five years in both Germany and Washington, D.C. She came to work for ARS in 2011 as a part-time Office Automation Clerk for the Agricultural Systems Research Unit (ASRU) in Fort Collins, Colorado. In 2012, she took a full-time position with the Centers for Disease Control. In 2013, she returned to ARS when a Program Support Assistant position became available in the ASRU. She has been an active participant with the Combined Federal Campaign and Feds Feed Families campaigns. For the past year, she has been assisting the Plains Area Director's Office due to vacancies in the Office.
Federal Service: 1 yr ARS Service: 1 yr
Barbara HodgesSecretary to the Laboratory DirectorCropping Systems Research LaboratoryLubbock, TX
Federal Service: 18 yrs ARS Service: 18 yrs
Barbara's career with ARS began in 1996 at the Cropping Systems Research Laboratory in Lubbock, Texas. She was selected as the Laboratory Director's secretary and currently still holds that position. She attended South Plains College in Levelland, Texas. She has served on the Southern Plains Area ACOP council and also on the NACOP. Currently she serves as chair of the PACOP. She is happy to be serving on the newly established council and looks forward to interacting with other Office Professionals in the Plains Area.
Diona AustillProgram Support AssistantLivestock and Range Research LaboratoryMiles City, MT
Federal Service: 26 yrs ARS Service: 26 yrs
Diona Austill began her career with ARS at the Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory in October 1989 when she was transferred over from a Montana Agriculture Experiment Station position she had started in May 1988 at Fort Keogh. Her first position was as a Clerk/Typist but within a year took the Research Leader Secretary position. In 2005, she was promoted to a Program Support Assistant. In 2004, she finished her BS in Information Technology with an emphasis on web programming through the University of Phoenix online. This is Diona's second term on the council. During her first term, Diona was the webmaster and then the NACOP representative where she became the Senior Co-Chair. Planning and gaining approval for a NACOP Training Workshop was a major accomplishment during her term. She is glad to be back serving the area's office professionals!
Sherri BrownProgram Support AssistantKnipling-Bushland U.S. Livestock Insects Research LaboratoryKerrville, TX
Federal Service: 11 yrs ARS Service: 5 yrs
Sherri began her Federal career as a part-time clerk typist with Fort Lyon Veterans Administration Hospital in Colorado from 1977-1978. The next 12 years of her career path was in administrative roles in private industry, including administrative assistant to the Vice-President of Engineering at NEOPLAN (an international transit bus manufacturer), and administrative assistant to the Director of Dealer Services at Harley-Davidson's corporate offices in Milwaukee, WI. Sherri joined the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in Dallas, Texas, as a legal technician in 1990. An out-of-state move sent her back into private industry in 1995 only to return to Texas in 1998 working for 7 years as a legal secretary at The Edwards Law Firm, L.L.P., in Corpus Christi, and another 5 years as paralegal for Co-Counsel of Barron & Adler, L.L.P., in San Antonio and Austin. On June 21, 2010, Sherri joined USDA-ARS's Knipling-Bushland U.S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory in Kerrville as Program Support Assistant to the Laboratory Director of the Tick & Biting Fly Unit located in Kerrville and Edinburg, and the Screwworm Research Unit located in Kerrville with an international laboratory in Panama. Sherri is serving as Junior Chair to the Plains Area Council for Office Professionals.
Trudy PinkertonProgram Support AssistantCrop Germplasm Research UnitSouthern Plains Agricultural Research CenterCollege Station, TX
Federal Service: 13 yrs ARS Service: 9 yrs
Trudy Pinkerton started her career as a Secretary (OA) with ARS on February 19, 2006. She currently serves as the Program Support Assistant for the Crop Germplasm Research Unit at the Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center in College Station, TX. The Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center is composed of four research units. The Crop Germplasm Research Unit is comprised of seven CRIS's; five of which fall under NP301. Before coming to work for ARS, Trudy graduated with a B.S. degree in Rangeland Ecology and Management from Texas A&M University. She worked for a soil testing laboratory after graduation and then started her federal career with USDA's Farm Service Agency in 1998. She also worked for USDA's Rural Development. While at ARS, she has worked with two Research Leaders and assisted the Unit to meet routine deadlines while the leadership position was vacant. Her current duties include travel, T&A's, ARIS, ARMPS, IAS, personnel, and other responsibilities as needed (this has included helping with the cotton harvest ahead of an approaching hurricane). Trudy has completed over 10 years of federal service and presently serves as one of the Plains Area Representatives for the National Advisory Council for Office Professionals.
Andrea GriffithProgram Support AssistantGrassland, Soil, and Water Research UnitTemple, TX
Federal Service: 26 yrs ARS Service: 22 yrs
Andrea began her government career with the Department of Army at the Headquarters United States European Command in Stuttgart, Germany in 1989 as Secretary to the Host Nation Support Division Branch Leader. In 1993, she was selected as Secretary to the Research Leader to the Cotton Pathology Research Unit in College Station, TX. In 1998, she transferred to the Grassland, Soil and Water Research Laboratory in Temple, TX as Program Support Assistant to the Research Leader. Currently she serves as Recorder of the PACOP.


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Even expensive drugs can be cost-effective if they keep the MDR/ XDR disease from spreading. Moreover, up-front payments and guarantees could bring prices down.
• Drugs that are prequalified by WHO or stringent regional regulatory authorities should not have to go through an extended period of regulatory review within individual countries. Regional regulatory agreements can avoid the need for repeated validations by agencies in each country.
• Adequate funding needs to be applied for training in how to run supply chains, assess and assure quality, and comply with regulations; such training would be useful not only for TB drugs but for other drugs as well.
• Improved organization and leadership are needed to strengthen the supply of drugs for DR TB. Public–private partnerships could be a way to make expertise in the private sector available to the public sector.
Bloom also observed that successful community-based care of MDR TB patients, such as that implemented in South Africa and elsewhere, is very promising and could be generalized to many other countries.
Panelists also addressed the need for improved global awareness and visibility of the problem of DR TB. Millennium Development Goal 6 calls for combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and "other diseases." As Bloom said of TB, "When a disease which is this fatal and this threatening to the world is termed an 'other' disease … we have done a poor job of getting the message through."
Information about DR TB needs to be simplified so that political leaders and members of the public can understand and act on it, said Bloom. As an example, he proposed a "marketing" strategy, proclaiming, "With the appropriate funds, leadership, and organization, we can save X number of lives every year and prevent Y number of lives from being infected with drug-resistant TB."
Gao made a similar point in his remarks, noting that better treatment will require greater societal involvement, which in turn will require that MDR TB be acknowledged as a serious disease. TB and MDR TB are as much a social as a medical problem. "Without society paying attention to MDR TB, we cannot solve this problem," he said. In that respect, countries could learn from the response to the HIV epidemic, whereby recognition of the magnitude of the problem led to a greater response than has been the case with DR TB.