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(Sports Network) - The Brooklyn Nets will begin their tour through the
Sunshine State when they take on the Orlando Magic Friday night.
The Nets will also visit the defending champion Miami Heat in their three-
game road trip and got the trek started with Wednesday's 95-83 victory in
Boston. Joe Johnson scored 18 points and Jerry Stackhouse provided 17 off the
bench for the Nets, who have won four in a row to improve to 10-4.
Brooklyn played without forwards Kris Humphries and Gerald Wallace for most of
the evening after they were involved in a scuffle with a few Celtics players,
most notably Rajon Rondo, who was suspended two games for going after
Humphries for what he thought was a hard foul on Kevin Garnett.
"(We were) mentally tough," said Nets coach Avery Johnson. "Lot of fiber on
our team. And a battle. They battled and they fought hard, literally I guess.
And they just didn't give in. They didn't give in to any adversity tonight. We
had a lot of adversity on the court on the road."
Andray Blatche had 17 points and 13 rebounds in the win. The Nets are tied
with New York atop the Atlantic Division and are 7-1 against the East. A win
Friday would give them the best road start in franchise history since 2007-08
Brooklyn is 9-1 this season when holding the opposition under 100 points.
Center Brook Lopez will miss Friday's game with a sprained right foot.
Orlando will wrap up a five-game homestand Friday night and has lost four of
its last six games. In a 110-89 loss to San Antonio on Wednesday, Arron
Afflalo netted a team-high 16 points and grabbed five boards, while Jameer
Nelson had 14 points for the Magic, who fell to 4-4 at home this season. They
were 21-12 last season as the host.
Manu Ginobili led five Spurs in double figures with a game-high 20 points. San
Antonio led by as many as 25 points during the second half.
"They're a great team. They've been great for years," Nelson said of the
The Magic won the battle on the boards, 46-39, but turned the ball over 17
times, leading to 16 Spurs points.
Following tonight's tilt in central Florida, the Magic will open a five-game
western road trip against the Lakers, Warriors, Jazz, Kings and Suns.
Brooklyn has already beaten the Magic twice this season after losing 10 in a
row in this series. The Nets have still dropped 10 of 12 trips to Orlando.
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text: This year's event June 7-8 in Paxton-Sutherland area. Organizers of the 2013 Cattlemen's Ball have announced that country music superstars Lonestar will be the featured performers during this year's event, scheduled for June 7-8 at the Hanging H Ranch between Paxton and Sutherland. The Cattlemen's Ball is the state's premier fundraiser for the fight against cancer, with 100 percent of the dollars raised staying in Nebraska. The 2013 Cattlemen's Ball is being held on the Hanging H Ranch on U.S. Highway 30 between Paxton and Sutherland and is being co-hosted by the Ralph and Beverly Holzfaster family and the Neal Hansen family. Celebrating their 20th anniversary and reuniting with original lead singer Richie McDonald, Lonestar is known for merging their country roots with strong melodies and rich vocals. Lonestar has amassed RIAA-certified sales in excess of 10 million album units since their national launch in 1995 and achieved 10 #1 country hits including "No News," "Come Crying To Me" and their crossover smash "Amazed" (which was also #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the first record since 1983's "Islands in the Stream" to top both charts). The band's awards include a 1999 ACM Single of The Year for "Amazed" (the song also won the Song of the Year award) and the 2001 CMA Vocal Group of the Year. The Cattlemen's Ball is hosted by a different Nebraska ranch or feedlot every year. Its mission is to raise money for cancer research at the UNMC Eppley Cancer Center, while showcasing rural Nebraska and promoting beef as part of a healthy diet. Since its inception, the Cattlemen's Ball has raised more than $6.3 million. In addition to providing funds to the Eppley Cancer Center, a portion of the funds is also targeted for local healthcare organizations. For information and to purchase tickets online, visit www.cattlemensball.com.

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text: Home History Quote of the Day: Joe Louis on Mistakes The boxing champion on everyone's right to mess up. By: Henry Louis Gates Jr. Posted: July 29 2013 12:17 AM 0 Joe Louis (Wikimedia Commons) Read the quote in its full context here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Get what we're watching delivered to your inbox everyday! Sign up for our daily video newsletter below. Powered by Livefyre 0


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Comeback Falls Short Against Red Raiders
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State (19-23, 4-7 Big 12) trailed Texas Tech (28-21, 2-9 Big 12) heading into the final inning and, although the home team made a valiant effort in scoring three runs in the seventh, the Cyclones could not complete the comeback against the Red Raiders who evened the series with a 6-4 victory on Saturday afternoon. The loss ended Iowa State's perfect record at the new Cyclones Sports Complex as well.
"We can't wait until the seventh inning to start hitting," head coach Stacy Gemeinhardt-Cesler said. "If you take out the first [inning], from the second through the sixth there was a big chunk of at-bats that were not the quality as what we need to be productive."
Down, 6-1, in the seventh, sophomore Lexi Slater led off the frame with a home run, her third of the season, and freshman Brittany Gomez followed with a bunt base hit. Tech third baseman Adriana Perez committed two errors, one fielding and one throwing, on the next play to score Gomez from first and put Maddie Reese on third, cutting the Red Raider lead to 6-3.
After a strikeout of Erica Miller, Tori Torrescano hit a sacrifice fly to score Reese and a Sara Davison single brought the tying run to the play before Aly Cappaert grounded out to first for the final out of the afternoon.
Tech led off the game with three runs in the top of the first on a home run to center field from Katelyn Williams for a 3-0 lead.
Torrescano came through for the Cyclones in the bottom of the first with two outs, hitting a long single to left center field and driving in Reese, who doubled two batters earlier, to cut Tech's lead to 3-1.
Tech threatened to add to its lead in the fourth, loading the bases with one out for Williams, but instead of driving in more runs, Williams grounded to Davison, who, as in Friday's game, tagged the runner going to second and threw to first for the double-play to end the inning.
The Red Raider offense picked up three unearned runs in the sixth, getting one run on a Cyclone error and another on a Williams triple. With the bases loaded and two outs, Gretchen Aucoin worked an RBI-walk from reliever Taylor smith, for Tech's sixth run of the game.
Slater led off the Cyclone's seventh inning rally with a home run and two more runs came around to score but the Red Raiders would hold on for the win.
Cara Custer (13-12) got the win with six innings in relief a day after starting against Iowa State. Custer allowed three runs, one earned, five hits and walked one while striking out six.
Cyclone freshman starter Riley Smith (2-8) took the loss for Iowa State, giving up three runs on two hits and two walks without recording an out before being pulled for Smith on Saturday. Smith was strong, not allowing an earned run on seven hits and five walks. The junior also struck out four.
Sunday's series finale between the Cyclones and Red Raiders will begin at noon CDT at the Cyclone Sports Complex.


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Enjoy a quiet night at the charming, colonial Hotel Rosario La Paz. Each of our rooms is tastefully decorated with motifs from the Aymara and Quechua cultures. We are dedicated to consistently improving our quality and service. Hotel Rosario La Paz recently underwent a major renovation, including the installation of an elevator for the convenience of our guests.
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• Hair dryer if desired
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• Map of the city of La Paz
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May 25, 2016
Thomasville, GA - Thomasville has hired Leroy Ryals, Jr. as its new head football coach, school superintendent Sabrina Boykins-Everett confirmed on Wednesday. A press conference is set for Friday at 10 a.m. in the high school's cafeteria.
Ryals, Jr. arrives from Clarke Central in Athens, Ga. He replaces Richie Marsh.
The Bulldogs finished 3-7 last season. But Ryals, Jr. brings a winning resume. He went 60-22-1 in seven seasons at Clarke Central.
His start date will be March 1.
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Research scientists constantly look for more effective, safer medications. Sometimes a drug that is effective in treating one condition increases the risk from another condition.
Dr. Bert Little uses a data warehouse and statistical analysis to address the risk posed by cardiovascular medicines.
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In 2010, Dr. Pam Littleton received $694,150 from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to establish the Cubic Academy. Her project team of mathematics, agricultural science, environmental engineering and engineering technology faculty is finding ways to infuse mathematics and science concepts and vocabulary into mathematics courses for pre-service teachers. The project goal is to develop teachers who can demystify mathematics for their students.
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Granite City, IL (KSDK)-- The Granite City Police Department has released the identity of a woman whose body was found early Saturday along the northbound lanes of Illinois Route 3 south of Niedringhaus Ave.
Several passerby motorists found the body of 50 year old Shari L. Watts shortly after 7 a.m. Saturday. Watts lived in the 900 block of East Airline Drive in East Alton, Illinois.
Major Jeff Connor, a spokesperson for the Granite City Police Department, says the accident may have taken place several hours before the discovery. It's believed Watts was last seen Friday night in Brooklyn, seeking a ride home.
The Granite City Police Department is asking anyone who has information about the death to call 618-877-6111, or Crime Stoppers at 866-371-TIPS (8477).
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Shisha has been a part of Muslim culture in some form or another for centuries. Some records show the use of shisha dating back as far as the 14th century. All this time, the tradition has remained more or less the same, with the molasses based tobacco mixture being smoked out of a water pipe, or hookah. However, some reports are starting to indicate that this trend might be changing.
In parts of the Muslim world, young people are supposedly starting to smoke shisha out of electronic vaporizer pens. These portable vaporizer pens use a rechargeable battery to heat up an element which vaporizes the active ingredients in the material without actually combusting the material. This results in a smoother, healthier method of inhaling the active ingredients.
These vaporizer pens have recently become very popular for the use of liquids and other dry herbs, but up until this point, the use of shisha was not reported.
The main advantages of using a vaporizer pen over a hookah, is the obvious health benefits gained by not combusting the material, as well as the portability that is offered by these small, light weight electronic pens.
Legislation is slow to catch up to the rise of these units, as they have become so popular so quickly that law makers are having a hard time keeping up. For the moment, you are allowed to use vaporizer pens anywhere, since there is no legislation that governs the use of them.
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Demopolis police are asking for the public's help in locating a wanted suspect. Brandon Cortez Branch is wanted for two counts of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance. Anyone with information on where Branch can be found is asked to call the Demopolis Police Department at (334) 289-3073.
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Witless Protection
Release Date: February 22, 2008
Running Time: 97 mins.
MPAA Rating: PG 13
Box Office: $4,131,640.00
Genre: Comedy, Crime
During a routine day spent patrolling his small town, sheriff Larry witnesses a beautiful, high-class woman, Madeleine, being held against her will by four mysterious, black-suited men. Recognizing the opportunity to save the day, Larry "kidnaps" her, only to learn that Madeleine is actually a key witness in a high-stakes Chicago crime case and her captors are FBI agents assigned to protect her. Madeleine is furious. But Larry, who rightly suspects the agents are crooked and Madeleine is in danger, forces her on a harebrained trip to Chicago to solve the case himself. Together, the mismatched duo must grapple with angry FBI agents, quack doctors and Chicago high society.
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The parade of cases undermining the first sale exception of copyright law continued this week with an unfortunate ruling from the Second Circuit.
Google announced yesterday that it has finally struck a deal with the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) and it is calling the deal an important step forward in making sure publishers and songwriters benefit from the creative uses musicians and fans make of copyrighted compositions in YouTube videos. Equally important, the deal may reflect an increased willingness on the part of content owners to focus on how to compensate artists rather than lawyers.
Spanish Court Rules That Linking to Potential Copyright Infringing Material Is Not Copyright Infringement
Unfortunately, patent trolls are not a new phenomenon. But, lately we've seen a disturbing new trend: patent trolls targeting app developers. Platforms such as iOS and Android allow small software developers the ability to widely distribute their work, which – for obvious reasons – is good for both developers and consumers. Just as these developers were finding new audiences, the patent trolls decided they wanted a piece of the action and started sending cease-and-desist letters demanding license fees, and in some instances even suing. Often, these developers cannot afford the time and money it takes to fight the trolls, leaving them with a stark choice: pay up or go out of business.
The patent reform legislation that continues to snake its way through Congress makes one thing clear: many in Washington don't like business method patents anymore than we do. (Business method patents cover a merely a "method" or "process," as opposed to something tangible.)
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Wow, cool looking formations, I really like it.
As for rivers just remember that water flows downhill and combines with other rivers to become one on it's way to the sea. It seldom if ever branches and if it does it soon comes back together. There is a link around here on "How to put rivers where they belong". The only thing I noticed and at the level I can zoom in I can't really tell it seems in some areas you have rivers running from one side of the continent to the other and then vice verse which could happen if the land actually slopes in opposite directions. I go by feel on these things but others here really get into the math.
Hubs of activity will be based on ease of transportation in most cases. It sounds like you have Seafarers so I would say your main cities will be coastal with decent harbor areas to keep ships safe from storms and so on. Just remember what people need to live and you should do alright with anything else. (ie, source of fresh water, fertile land, defensible locations when possible).
You don't have to have deserts but it's worth keeping in mind that mountains create their own weather so it's typical to find one side of a range greener than the other. Obviously if there is enough rainfall both sides can be lush. If you have strong winds from the Sea the trees can also be a bit wind battered and that might change the look of the forest from other places.
If you are using Photoshop the easiest way to upload a large image is to save as.. <.jpg> and lower the quality which does a pretty good job of keeping your details while shrinking the file size. Once you are inside of that 4.7mb limit go for it. I know I would like to be able to zoom in on this a tad more.
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text: I am trying to plan a DIY Idaho public land hunt for this fall. I am currently deployed and have and have limited research capabilities on the ship. I am not looking for all the answers just hopeing for a hand full of areas to narrow my search and get me started. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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Falcons fans can find a large selection of apparel and souvenirs at Globall Sports locations in Sugarloaf Mills and Northlake Malls.
Atlanta Falcons themed items are still full price but the Sugarloaf location has most other NFL clothing at 40 percent off original prices. Globall Sports also promises if the Falcons win the NFC Championship, they will stock Super Bowl shirts beginning Monday, January 21st.
Both Target and Kohl's have winter clearance sales going on with clothing at up to 80 percent off original prices. Many parents take advantage of the sales to buy kids' clothing for next fall and winter. Kohl's sale even includes some spring and summer clothing and swimwear for children at 60 percent off retail.
Target's semi annual toy clearance is also underway in most locations. Look at the end caps in the toy aisles for items marked down 70 percent off retail. Some seasonal toys may be down to 90 percent off.
This is a also a good week to stock up on Postage Stamps because stamp prices are going from 45 cents to 46 cents on January 27th.
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Back to Work in 2008
Our offices officially reopened Wednesday and the focus is clearly on the 2008 season. First on the agenda – as many of you who read this blog regularly can probably guess – is the 2008 Royals FanFest!
The two-day event is pretty much consuming our lives, but luckily many of our players are helping to make our first FanFest as great as possible. Today, we confirmed (and announced!) that Billy Butler and Alex Gordon will both be attending the event, joining other current and former Royals for player autograph and photo sessions as well as a variety of baseball panels. Also included in today's announcement was the news of some great Royals from the past that will be making appearances at FanFest – Royals Hall of Famers Dennis Leonard, John Mayberry and Frank White, along with former Royals Mike Boddicker, Brian McRae, Greg Pryor, Jamie Quirk, Kevin Seitzer and John Wathan.
Their official day-of schedules are being ironed out, but we will keep you posted on our event schedule.
Other FanFest news….
TICKETS: Beginning today, fans can purchase Royals FanFest tickets by phone at (816) 504-4040. You can still get your tickets online at royals.com/fanfest as well as at the Overland Park Convention Center on the days of the event.
SWEEPSTAKES: Don't forget to enter the online sweepstakes for an opportunity to meet Manager Trey Hillman at FanFest. It can also be found at royals.com/fanfest and ends Wednesday, Jan. 9.
WEB SITE: Speaking of royals.com/fanfest …check it out! We have been modifying it daily, updating and adding player and event information as it develop. Let us know what you think.
Expect more player announcements in the next couple of weeks as well as detailed information on the 2008 Royals Caravan, which kicks off Wednesday, Jan. 16.
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Finding peace
Q&A | Executive, whistleblower, thief: Mark Whitacre's three lives will soon be displayed in theaters nationwide, but the new, fourth life-turning to Christ-is the most important
"Finding peace" Continued...
In 1983, at age 25, Mark Whitacre earned a Ph.D. in Nutritional Biochemistry from Cornell University. At age 32 he became president of the fastest-growing division within Archer Daniels Midland, one of the largest conglomerates in America. At age 40 he entered prison and became a Christian there. At age 49, in December 2006, he left prison.
Whitacre is best known publicly for his whistleblower role in the 1990s ADM price-fixing case, which ended with a $100 million fine for the company and prison for some top officials. ADM's 2005 annual report also lists a $400 million payment to settle a class action suit. But Whitacre, while secretly taping price-fixing discussions, was also stealing $9 million from ADM.
His saga of corruption and mania will receive new attention over the next several weeks as The Informant!, a movie starring Matt Damon as Mark Whitacre, hits theaters around the country. (See "Unfaithful telling," Sept. 18, 2009.) The film is a dark comedy that does not deal with Whitacre's conversion to Christ-and that's a remarkable story of how hard time created receptivity to God's good news. Whitacre told me that had he avoided prison or received only the six-month sentence that could have been his at one point, he would have remained merely a nominal churchgoer who worshipped financial success.
Here's an edited transcript of our interview:
Q: Why did you join ADM in 1989? I was hyper-ambitious and almost over-compulsive. Career was everything to me. ADM made me the youngest divisional president in the history of that company.
Q: ADM turns corn into ethanol and hundreds of food products, right? If you go to the grocery store today you'll have a difficult time buying food that doesn't have something from ADM in it.
Q: You learned soon that the company was involved in price-fixing. Yes, but not in my division, at first.
Q: Why is price-fixing a problem? You think that sales people are out there competing, one company against another, but in reality upper management is making deals with competitors in order to drive the prices up. You're ripping off from consumers billions of dollars a year.
Q: Free markets work well because they're based on competition, and this was a way to eliminate competition. Exactly. It's deception, and it takes away the free market.
Q: Your personal venture into deception began in 1991 when you responded to one of those scamming letters from Nigeria. There wasn't even email then, it was by fax, and it was new. They made all these promises that we would make $20 million, $30 million, $50 million. Being hyper-ambitious, over-compulsive, I invested, along with a couple other vice presidents under me.
Q: When you lost $200,000, how did you respond? I wrote a check to myself from ADM.
Q: You submitted phony invoices? That's correct.
Q: As a divisional president you had check-writing authority. Yeah. I knew about the price-fixing which was a billion-dollar crime, so I sure wasn't worried about the company turning me in for a $200,000 crime.
Q: By 1992 your division was involved in the price-fixing, but you were having trouble with a big manufacturing plant and made up a story about sabotage. How could our competition be sabotaging our plant? We had all these price-fixing deals going on. They were our friends.
The FBI came to check out the sabotage claim. My wife Ginger asked, "Why are you so nervous about the FBI? Just tell them what's going on and it shouldn't be a big deal." And for the first time I told her, "There are things going on in the company that I've never told you about."
Q: When you told Ginger about the price-fixing, how did she respond? She said, "Gosh, that's wrong. That's ripping off every consumer out there." She put her foot down and said, "I'm going to tell the FBI what's going on."
The FBI agent came to our house. My wife stayed really close by to see if I was going to tell them everything. She said that if I didn't tell them, she was going to. I went along with what I was coached to say. The FBI agent was ready to leave the house. She stopped him and said there was a lot more to say than what I was telling them.
Q: Under pressure from Ginger, you confessed. I met for another four hours with the agent and told him everything that was going on in the company. I became the highest-level executive to turn whistleblower in U.S. history. It was because of my wife doing the right thing.
Q: What was it like to wear a wire? I would meet with the FBI at 6 a.m. They would shave my chest and hook microphones up on my chest-also a backpack mike, one in my briefcase, one in my notebook.
Q: Meanwhile, you're embezzling more. I started worrying about a financial blanket for my family if I lost my job. That's when it became in the millions.
Q: While all this is happening you're going to church every Sunday. My family went to the Methodist church. I considered myself a Christian. People saw our 13,000-square-foot house, our 8-car garage full of cars. People would say, the Whitacres are behind these iron gates, they've got horse stables, they've got everything. We really had nothing-or at least I didn't.
Q: You had a triple life: loyal employee, secret agent, embezzler. That's correct. Building this company during the day, but at night I'm meeting the FBI agents two or three times a week at midnight. I'm giving them all these tapes and I'm making tapes every day, tearing the company down.
Q: Psychological pressure. I would come home and my wife would say, "Who'd you work for today? ADM or the FBI?" I started working for myself. I was into seven-figure compensation, and that's a lot for a young man coming in at 32, seven years out of grad school. I got carried away with that.
Q: And ADM had something on you. As soon as the company learned that I was an informant they told the FBI that I was also embezzling on the side.
Q: Your lawyer made a strong case for you to get a minimal sentence. Right. He argued that my crime was a $9 million crime but I resolved a billion-dollar crime with the tapes that I made. He thought there was a good chance that I would get about a six-month sentence in the end.
Q: You didn't take that deal. In the state of mind that I was, I just couldn't even accept it if he offered me probation. With the education and the drive that I had, to be a felon-I just couldn't accept that in my mind or in my heart at that time. So I fired that attorney.
Q: Is that because you were justifying yourself? I never looked at it as embezzlement during that time. I had a sense of entitlement. I wore a wire in Hong Kong, in Paris, in Mexico City. I'd have to run from the meeting in Paris, meet the FBI agents at the embassy, give them the tapes, and run back to the meeting to have a dinner meeting with the competitors.
Q: Ego? I looked at it as paying myself. I am solving a billion-dollar crime for the FBI. They are going to get hundreds of millions of dollars in fines paid to them, what's $9 million?
Q: Do you think other executives justify themselves similarly? Enron, WorldCom, most of those people are good people in their community, but you get this sense of entitlement. You don't look at it as a shareholder's company. You don't look at it as a public company. You look at it as your company. I looked at ADM as my company. I can pay myself what I want. It's my company. I will be the next president.
Q: So in 1998 you received a sentence that would keep you in prison until at least 2006. I started thinking, "How am I ever going to get through?" I did not want to live. I did not want to put my family through it. I tried to kill myself.
Q: Your thinking changed in Atlanta. I was being transferred through this Atlanta holdover that was 23-hours-a-day lockdown. They put your meals through the door, that type of thing, three times a day. One prisoner had 30 years, another almost life. Everyone was let out for an hour a day in what I called a dog cage, this crowded fenced-in area.
Q: Dangerous place, and you didn't want to go. They took the hour break. I did not. I was reading the Bible, reading in Psalms, and that's when I started really relying on God, as compared to going to church on Sunday and saying I'm a Christian. I got on my knees and said, "God, for someone in prison for almost a decade, the divorce rate is over 99 percent. They don't survive as a family six months in prison, let alone a decade. Would I even have any employment after nine years in prison, a convicted felon?"
Q: Bleak. That's when I decided that I could not handle it on my own. That's when I began relying on God. After I did that there was so much peace and contentment that came in my life. Our whole family started getting better. Prior to that I was getting bitter. The only difference between those two words is the letter "I."
Q: So you survived. We not only survived, we thrived. Our marriage relationship grew. Our children got stronger. All of those things I worried about. . . . The food companies that sued ADM for the pricefixing won hundreds of millions of dollars in settlement. They helped put my kids through college. They helped my wife get her degree and become a teacher.
Q: And a job for you. I got out of prison on Dec. 21, 2006. I started on the 22nd as an executive of Cypress Systems, a California biotechnology company in the same field that I have worked in most of my life. It was a great thing that only God could do. To get that kind of position in the field that you studied for is not the norm.
Q: Your company helps Brazilian street children through Hope Unlimited. There are millions of street children in Brazil. They want a second chance in life. I got a second chance. God forgave me, and then my family forgave me, and the FBI forgave me and became supportive. I want these kids also to find redemption.
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So the time is now: Where can we point to as the real areas of progress in the fight against cancer?
Cancer's high political profile and the commitment of the scientific community have produced real gains against cancer incidence and related mortality. US cancer death rates among men have decreased by more than one-fifth since 1990, largely due to advances in the treatment of lung, prostate, and colorectal cancers. Mortality among females has also dropped, but less rapidly, with the major gains concentrated in cancers of the breast and colon.The key issue confronting researchers is that the overall record in fighting cancer remains mixed. Less progress has been made in saving or extending lives for cancers of the ovaries, liver, pancreas, and esophagus, whose incidence is increasing. Most clinical trials for new treatments still tend to demonstrate only marginal (two to three months) improvements in disease-free survival and/or overall survival rates. These two are the benchmark indicators of successful science that are attracting more scrutiny from the FDA in registering cancer medicines for clinical use.
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A continuing trend in the treatment of cancer is disabling tumor growth through toxic, undifferentiated interventions such as chemotherapy (antineoplastics).
Cancer therapies of the 20th century were largely a product of serendipity. In the 1940s during World War II came the discovery of alkylating agents (agents that damage DNA). Unrelated research found that US naval personnel exposed to nitrogen mustard gas evidenced major bone marrow suppression upon autopsy. It was hypothesized that this agent "targeted" certain types of cells whose nature it was to rapidly divide, and that this could potentially be useful to suppress malignant cells. Mechlorethamine thus became the first chemical agent to be approved by the FDA, in 1949.
Using a more rational method, Sidney Farber, known as the father of modern chemotherapy, studied the effects of folic acid on leukemic cell growth. Finding that folic acid stimulated these cancerous cells, he administered anti-folates to children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and was able to induce remissions. His report on the findings in The New England Journal of Medicine was criticized; however, nearly a decade later, in 1956, administration of methotrexate led to the first cure of a metastatic cancer, choriocarcinoma.
Farber's work was important for other reasons. Scientific questions over his counterintuitive approach exemplify the intensity of debate among cancer specialists that continues to this day. In a field where access to a hypothesized "right" treatment can mean the difference between life and death, ethical concerns are equally as important as scientific judgment. Risk is a calculation that will always be factored in the basic bottom line of drug discovery—how long, and at what cost, can we commercialize a treatment so that its benefits reach patients? Balancing this equation is hardest in those with cancer.
As more chemotherapy agents came to market, combination chemotherapy was investigated and created a major breakthrough in cancer therapy. Administering multiple drugs with varying mechanisms of action makes it more difficult for the tumor to develop resistance. In addition, combining agents with individual efficacy and differing toxicity profiles may produce a synergistic effect and allow greater tolerability of the drug.
This in turn prompted changes in the approach used by investigators for drug therapy in the conduct of clinical trials and subsequently in clinical practice. For example, to prove single-agent activity, a logical trial would compare Drug A versus Placebo. If significant improvement is seen, then Drug A could be compared against the combination of Drug A + B. The following step is typically Drug A + B versus A + C. As demonstrated, the process became more complex, often with more than one study required.


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|Swimmers compete at Valley Invitational
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
By far the smallest team competing against nine other schools, HHS swimmers swam hard, with many setting new personal records at the Valley Viking Invitational Saturday, Dec. 1.
There were 75 competitors in the 50-yd. freestyle alone.
Coach Luke Thomas said several of the Holyoke girls were surprised at how fast they were able to swim in the first meet of the season.
Several new swimmers, including Jentry Andersen, Ashley Humphreys and Anastasia Conklin, were swimming in their very first meet. Thomas said they were all nervous, but exceeded their own expectations.
"It was a great way to start the season, and they will only get better as the season continues," said Thomas.
Dragon swimmer Ashley Humphreys competes in breaststroke competition at the Valley Viking Invitational Saturday, Dec. 1.
In individual events, freshman Dani Brandt finished 9th in the 100-yd. butterfly, setting a new personal record from her summer swimming.
Senior LaKyla Moore placed 10th in the 100-yd. butterfly and 10th in the 200 freestyle. Freshman Lori McWilliams set a new personal record in the 50-yd. freestyle.
Brandt, McWilliams, Moore and Jayden Durbin teamed up to place 7th out of 24 in the 200-yd. freestyle relay. The same quartet placed 11th out of 27 in the medley relay.
The HHS team is scheduled to swim at the league relays in Greeley Thursday, Dec. 6 and will meet Eaton at Valley Tuesday, Dec. 11.
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Although Belmont County's industrial park is filled to capacity, thanks to the influx of companies linked to the oil and gas boom in the county, there is still room for expansion and one business......
Maybe Gloria Delbrugge can help them get that multimillion dollar plant trying to open in North Wheeling. No? Well they do clean up the water used in the gas fields and whats that, they want to ship things on the river. You are kidding? Go fish the river and watch what goes up and down the river and become upset that they may be north of the Warwood water works. But then so is every other industry from here to north of Pittsburgh. Does Henny Penny know that Pittsburgh and Weirton are up there and could spill something that would be harmful. Get those business out of WV, get them over to the Ohio side and we can rest knowing that we will be safe...hey wait..that would still be on the river. Oh well, at least we would not have the tax base and jobs. Henny Penny will protect us from prosperity. Besides its fun to sing in the park with the out of town protestors in leather hats and body odor. Get business out of Wheeling, lets just make baskets and grow corn.
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This past weekend a young man from mobile Alabama made a stop in meridian to show off his singing and writing abilities.
Singer/songwriter Wes Loper of Mobile, Ala., played a mini concert at Meridian's Rhythm and Brews as part of tour dates in the southeast.
Loper says his passion and love of the music has opened up a lot of doors just by hooking up with longtime Meridian radio personality and promoter Ken Rainey.
"I love country music. I've been listening to it and living it my whole life," said Loper. "I like a lot of different kinds of music and I've played a lot of different kinds of music, learned my instrument and learned my craft. But I've settled back in the roots of what comes natural to me, which is country."
Loper said he loves to tell stories with his music and his dream is to achieve success in Nashville.
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WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- Every time you turn around, you hear lots of talk about averting the fiscal cliff, but what about just diving right over it?
Senator Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington state is being referred to as one of the biggest proponents of cliff-diving. Her press person explained the Democrat would prefer to reach a balanced deal - that calls on"the wealthy to pay their fair share" rather than agree to a deal that "throws middle class families under the bus" before midnight on New Year's Eve, but if not, she'd hold out.
Add to Murray, Representative Peter DeFazio of Oregon Representative Peter Welch of Vermont, also Democrats. But other people say this will only do one thing.
"You're talking about a $500 billion overnight tax increase-- that's enough to create a recession," said Dr. Peter Morici, an economist and professor at the University of Maryland.
Here's what he thinks will happen: "I think that there will be some marginal compromise with some tax increases on the wealthy and some spending cuts kick the can to the next president....Mr. Obama is ducking his responsibility as a second term president by bequeathing to the next president an unworkable budget situation if he gets his way."


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Tim Belcher talks about his Kansas City days, the 1988 World Series with the Dodgers and Zack Greinke
Tim Belcher, a Royal from 1996 to 1998, is now the pitching coach of the Cleveland Indians. Around the Horn caught up with the two-time Royals Pitcher of the Year (1996 and 1997) before Wednesday's game at Kauffman Stadium.
ATH: What do you remember about your time in Kansas City?
Belcher: I enjoyed my time here. There was never a time that I didn't enjoy coming to this ballpark. I like what they've done with it. The changes are nice and fan-friendly. I enjoyed living here, it's an easy town to travel in and out of…overall, Kansas City had a lot of positives.
ATH: Is this the first time you've been here since the renovations?
Belcher: Yeah. I think the last time I was here was in 2000 with the Angels.
ATH: Did you have a favorite area of Kansas City?
Belcher: We lived out in Leawood. It was a great area, they were just building up the Sprint complex when we lived here. I haven't been back to see it for several years, it would be interesting to see how it developed.
ATH: 1988 was your second year in the Majors. You started Game One of the World Series for the Dodgers against the Oakland Athletics. Some might remember that Jose Canseco hit a grand slam off of you, but more remember the Kirk Gibson home run off of Dennis Eckersley to win the game. Where were you when that happened?
Belcher: I was in the clubhouse when Gibson hit the home run. It was probably one of the worst games I ever pitched on one of the biggest stages I ever pitched on. But it also was the most enjoyable game I've ever been a part of because of the way it ended.
ATH: A few days later, on your birthday, you're pitching in Game Four…you picked up the win over Dave Stewart in Oakland.
Belcher: Yep, on my 27th birthday. I don't remember a lot about that game. I pitched well but I remember more of the Game One home run and Game Five. Orel (Hershiser) pitched a complete game in Game Five and when the last out was made, we all ran on the field.
ATH: Speaking of Orel Hershiser, he set a Major League record that year with 59.0 consecutive scoreless innings. Zack Greinke had a stretch in late 2008 and early 2009 where he didn't allow a run. What are your impressions of Zack?
Belcher: I love watching him pitch. I think he's a great pitcher. He's obviously got really good stuff but I like his approach to pitching. I did a lot of advance scouting in our division the last few years and I had the chance to see him quite a bit. I admired him from afar. When things get tougher in the late innings, he throws harder and uses more fastballs. He pitches harder in and harder up, which I really like. It's kind of a unique mentality in today's game for guys to pitch like that. He just rears back and the tougher things get, the harder he throws. He's pretty good. He had a special year last year.
ATH: You talked about being an advanced scout. What else did you do as a special assistant to the general manager?
Belcher: I did a little bit of everything. I was on the field for Spring Training, mostly in big league camp, then I'd go around to our minor league affiliates from High-A up. I spent more time with the Double-A and Triple-A teams. I'd spend time in Cleveland and go to the Winter Meetings with the front office. I did some special assignment scouting for trades and also worked with our fall league and instructional league teams. It was a great way to gain experience.
ATH: What was it about this opportunity that enticed you (being the pitching coach)? While the other job involved quite a bit of travel, it seems that this schedule would be a little more stringent.
Belcher: Yeah my schedule is different now than in my previous job. It's a lot more time away from home. When Mark (Shapiro, Cleveland's General Manager) asked me to consider this job, I thought about the travel, but it's like any job, you just listen to your body. After I met Manny (Acta, Cleveland's new manager) and we talked about the makeup of the coaching staff, the stomach started churning a little bit. I started getting excited about the opportunity and decided to do it.
ATH: You grew up about halfway between Cincinnati and Cleveland?
Belcher: Closer to Cleveland. That's what made it easier to make the leap. I've had other opportunities and inquiries to become a pitching coach. This is a lot easier geographically for my family. I'm literally an hour-and-a-half from Cleveland. It's a little too far to drive every day, but I keep an apartment in Cleveland and get home on off days.
ATH: Were you an Indians fan growing up?
Belcher: Nope…Reds…they had the Big Red Machine. I was a teenager. The Indians weren't quite as good at the time, so I was more of a Reds fan.
(Sandy Alomar, Jr., first base coach, also in the room, interjects with a comment.)
Belcher: (Laughing) Yeah, they weren't good until Sandy was there.
ATH: Talk about the staff you're working with this year.
Belcher: It's a great staff, great makeup. I've really enjoyed working for Manny…he's young, energetic, a positive guy. We've put together a staff that has experience, guys like Tim Tolman (bench coach) and Steve Smith (third base coach), guys with long-standing relationships with Cleveland like Sandy. He was a popular player there. Scott Radinsky (bullpen coach), Jon Nunnally (hitting coach and former Royals teammate) and Ruben Niebla (staff assistant) all coached in our minor league system. David Wallace (staff assistant) came through our minor league system as a player. It has been an easy transition for me.


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Discussion: manipulate a sketch digitally or not?
Posted 15 August 2012 - 06:40 PM
This may get some heckles raised. I sincerly hope not.
Manipulate digitally or not?
I find to maniplate a sketch on the computer would misrepresent what I've laid down in a sketch. If I'm asking people to comment on my work, I would rather that the bare bones be examined, otherwise any comments would be misconstruded, and I really don't gain feedback on where I can improve. I am writing only about pencil and paper sketches. Digital sketches I'm writing about a little further down the page.
I am not talking about adding colour, say, to a solar sketch. I see the point in that. Though it would be nice to also see the original too as the master sketch is what gives the best insight and "how-to" window.
It is more about manipulating contrast if it isn't in the sketch in the first place. Altering shading, nebulosity, sharpening stars, darkening blacks, whitening whites. Anything that isn't actually on the sketch.
I can see the need for some manipulation on a scanned image. Scanners are a poor tool to upload a sketch with. The light source is too harsh and creates too much glare off the page.
For this reason I photograph my sketches. I control the light source, and all I then do is take half a dozen photos with a fixed aperture and only change the exposure. It is then just a matter of selecting the photo I feel best represents the sketch.
I struggle to make comments on some postings as I don't know what I'm looking at.
It might be that the materials at hand are not upto the task, and a little help is needed. A little tweek in technique is required. Conditions wheren't condusive to a better result. Any reason. I don't know, which is why I'm asking.
Please do not be offened. I want to just get some insight into our niche aspect of astronomy, and maybe see how to even encourage more people to take up sketching in its many forms.
Digital sketches too are important. An experience I had with some children who had significant mobility difficulties showed me that a digital sketch would be their only way to participate, and with the original image coming off a monitor too.
Why do you prefer to 'sketch' on the computer?
Posted 15 August 2012 - 08:00 PM
When I first started I tried to make the stars round and sharper with editing software. I really didn't like the results. So I figured I would just have to get better at sketching and the details would take care of themselves. (Still working on that.)
Now the only thing I use the software for is inverting and maybe erasing finger prints and small mistakes. I prefer the raw natural look over the heavy processing. Color is fine though.
Posted 15 August 2012 - 09:07 PM
First I have to say that I deeply admire those who can sketch and produce a wonderful work without or with minimal precessing on the computer. Some of my sketches were presented with minimal software post-processing. But others were extensively processed.
My humble point of view is that a sketch must first please the sketcher him or herself. When I sketch at the telescope I always take great care to sketch as accurately as possible. But I always keep a pictural memory of the observation even days after the observation. This pictural memory is, for me as important as the «draft» sketch.
To my point of view, sketch post-processing (even heavy one), is no better or worst than the extensive processing needed to produce photographs of DSO like galaxies or nebulae.
For this reason, I allow myself to improve the sketch to better represent what I saw, which I do not consider as an alteration of the observation session.
I always keep both the original sketch and the print copy of the processed sketch in my files side by side for reference.
This matter of discussion is delicate as it is a matter of individual taste and the goal everyone sets for themselves.
I guess this boils down to the question:
What is the goal behind sketching?
Posted 15 August 2012 - 09:31 PM
I still prefer not much processing though.
As long as the individual likes the end result.
Posted 15 August 2012 - 09:36 PM
Your question remember me a very recent post I did here about 'Do the sketches are too exagerated' do you remember ? Like Jean said, photographs are superb realisation and I really like looking at them. But they don't represent what we see in the eyepiece. To me sketches are more valuable because of the natural view they offer. But we have to be consistent to make the sketch as real as possible and processing too much the sketch make it false like a photograph.
It's nice adding contrast to make it looking better but they have look what seen in the eyepiece at a dark site. Fuzzy objects must remain fuzzy too on the paper even if they are looking boring. At least they looks like the real thing. Some object are really boring but nice to look at.
And if peoples prefer altering sketches for the look, no problem with me and I will like them anyway, except they fell in the photographs category and are not representing what we see in the eyepiece.
Posted 15 August 2012 - 10:23 PM
Good discussion.
Without the actual sketch in front of you, all actions to any sketch are digitally manipulations of that original.
If you photograph a sketch the lighting can be artificial, direct sunlight, indirect sunlight, camera filtered for indoors or outdoors. The camera has settings for shutter speed, f stops, brightness, contrast, sharpness and so on. All of these change the sketch from what it is in the original conditional to a collection of pixels that represent that original, and yes it has been modified. Scanning usually creates greater modifications.
I prefer the camera to the scanner but I admit to using both ways to copy the original. Scanning is quicker for me. I do minor modifications to brightness and contrast to match the digital image as close as possible to the original.
I actually enjoy looking at digital sketching and astrophotographs. I know how hard they are to generate and admire the effort that goes into creating them.
Sketching is more my cup of tea and I hope to explore all the different ways to generate hard copies in different medias before I get too old to do this.
The sketch is merely a representation of what the observer sees and that is limited by the eye and telescope optics and brain processing.
There are many additional variables here.
Viva la differences,
Posted 15 August 2012 - 10:34 PM
You have some very beautiful sketches in your gallery. Bravo my friend. All I can say, you are a moon's observer !
Posted 15 August 2012 - 11:44 PM
I actually enjoy looking at digital sketching and astrophotographs. I know how hard they are to generate and admire the effort that goes into creating them.
Sketching is more my cup of tea and I hope to explore all the different ways to generate hard copies in different medias before I get too old to do this.
Frank, you've given words to the sentiments I've failed to find expression for. My experience with computers is limited to forums, really. My brother in-law worked on Happy Feet, and many more projects. I particularly feel inadequate speaking with him about graphics, or even my calculator.
I guess my original question was not phrased too well. I'm looking to see how much manipulation you do. I'm not wanting to pass opinion. I don't really comment of CGI stuff as I don't know anything about it. I would not know where to start offering comment.
It is subjective, which is why no one person's version of a sketch, image or photo is completely "correct", nor is it false.
Posted 16 August 2012 - 12:44 AM
Alex, I have a sense that you were sketching much as today before the days of internet astronomy.
If it was not for the internet and sites like this one I likely would not sketch. Through the late 50's until 2006, I was perfectly happy making written log entries and crude sketches during the night. I knew and admired the fine drawings I had seen by British and other astromomers over the centuries but felt no urge to sketch much at the eyepiece until recent years.
I remember one person saying he sketched because he had to.
I now know what that means.
I wrote this here in a post back in 2008.
As the sunset begins those of us who sketch the nighttime sky are drawn out to our favorite targets for a view of the glory. Why do we sketch the stars, galaxies, nebulae, planets, moon and in the daytime the sun? We do it because it is a most creative outlet for our interest in astronomy. It is a proactive way to improve our visual observational enjoyment. As a result of sketching we create for ourselves a more critical observers eye and take deeper, longer looks at the multitude of visible targets in this universe we all share.
Astrophotography is another avenue often pursued by the amateur observer but with sketching there is an attempt to duplicate the view at the eyepiece which is not the same as a captured photographic image. The differences are all well and good with many amateurs enjoying one or the other or both.
With a sketch we have a visual hand drawn record which can be used to supplement a written log. It can bring us right back to a specific observation in the years ahead. We also have many choices of media to record what we see, including traditional types and electronic as well. Sketching is fun and challenging and we don't need any special skills to get started.
If you feel as I do, you take great pleasure in seeing the many sketches posted here and elsewhere by astronomers from around the world sitting or standing at the eyepiece of an instrument or even without one recording the beauty they see in the nighttime sky.
...additional comment to the above.
" The only thing I would add is..after one gains some experience and confidence, it's as natural to draw an observation as it is to log it with words." Michael Rosolina [Special Ed]
PS Alex, I think it is difficult to make suggestions to a sketcher unless you understand what that specific sketcher is trying to accomplish. IMHO
Posted 16 August 2012 - 01:04 AM
For me it is aboout faithfully representing what I have seen, and I can only do that with pencils and brushes, and not digital media. I find I can only truly capture the subtlety of deep sky objects with the slightest kiss of a pastel-powdered brush, the mottling of stars with the gentle touch of a pencil tip whittled down to just the right shape. In my mind the soft glows in my eye is something to be handled with care, so delicate and at times fleeting that my concentrating hand's steadiness is the only thing I trust to faithfully ghost it from my vision to the paper on my clipboard. That is where the magic finishes for me - right there on the page, done and dusted.
I remember scanning in one of my first sketches and being horrified at how different it looked from the original. All the delicate detail - the real essence of the sketch - had gone. I manipulated the image to get it back and only got more and more frustrated that it was getting further and further away from what I had drawn. In the end my wife found me balanced over the end of a table, one hand raised to block sunlight, the other angling a camera at a sketch. This is the only way I have found that I can share my work - by photographing it - and I am still trying to find the best spot in the house and lighting.
So for me, it's all about the pencils and pastels and what I have done at the eyepiece, shivering in the dark, balancing a clipboard on my knee. For others more talented in such things the digital format breathes new things into their work. The great thing is we all get to show others how something looks to us, the visual observer, and that's crucially important, because it is something a photograph can rarely do.
Posted 16 August 2012 - 02:11 AM
To get to the meat of your question I'll share what I do, and it varies. Having learned the Mellish method from you I take several, three to six pictures of a sketch. Sometimes I play with the lighting in the room,, sometimes on the camera to get the shot I want. When I upload the picture I sometimes leave it totally alone, sometimes I adjust the contrast or levels to darken the background to either match the original or what my notes recall at the eyepiece. Whether I adjust the light while taking the picture or adjust the contrast or levels the effect is the same, a manipulation of my sketch to make it look more like the original. My problem is I haven't found that balance where my sketches online match the originals. I always seem to prefer the original.
I've also used GIMP to make digital sketches because it was easier for a time, and that word, time, is why I stopped. I'd do a rough sketch in the field and re-creat it in my office on the computer. I realized it was too much a duplication of effort. The Mellish method freed that from me. Now it is sketch at the eyepiece, take my picture, adjust, publish. Hope that helps.
Posted 17 August 2012 - 02:54 AM
I use the Mellish technique as a method to improve my observing skills, I feel the slow and deliberate style makes me a better astronomer and to me this is far more important than how 'artistic' my completed sketch may look.
For me sketching what I see is far more important than sketching what I want to see.
Posted 19 August 2012 - 09:44 AM
I am a 'digital' person when it comes to deep-sky sketching. My personal goal of the whole process is to represent the field of view of the eyepiece in such a way that someone else can imagine what to expect to see. I start with a rough field sketch and I redraw it completely (digitally) at my desk.
I do enjoy looking at everyone else's sketches, be it crayon, pastel, chalk or digital. It's all a matter of taste.
Clear skies,
Posted 20 August 2012 - 09:12 AM
Posted 22 August 2012 - 06:32 AM
Hi folks,
This may get some heckles raised. I sincerly hope not.
Manipulate digitally or not?
Hi Alex,
I understand your point, but I still see a couple of reasons why one would want to digitally manipulate a drawing.
1. If one is not an awesome draughtsman (as you are, if I well remember your drawings), but just an average guy with no artistic talents (as I am unfortunately), then it might be a matter of restoring the faithfulness of a sketch to the subject.
Scratches and dirt that were difficult to correct at night, paper that got impregnated with humidity making it hard to use the rubber, a detail that your hand could just not represent as it looked in your eyes. Digital can help you with that.
I agree that if you do it right at the eyepiece, there's no reason to fix it.
2. But then, if you want to scan your drawing most scanners - in my experience at least - will do a lousy job, especially for b/w. You had better photograph the sketch as you suggest, but I can never get the right brightness/contrast/color balance; not to speak of the distortions introduced by the lens. So, tweaking the image digitally with the original under your eyes is a good practice IMHO.
As you can see, for me it's about restoring the faithfulness to the original, rather than modify it.
After all, a very huge problem for past astronomers willing to publish their drawings (Mars, the Orion Nebula, M51 etc.) was to preserve the appearance of the originals through the printing process - and it proved to be a daunting challenge. Plenty of literature on that. Digital makes things immensely easier.
Just my 2 cents.
Posted 12 September 2012 - 02:11 AM
Posted 12 September 2012 - 12:36 PM
Why do you prefer to 'sketch' on the computer?
Let's be honest - astronomical sketching is one of the least computerized fields of human endeavor. There seems to be only one reason for that. Art skills of any kind are difficult to acquire, but digital tools were not taught in art schools where most of us went when we went there. There is no other reason. Digital tools are more powerful, they are easier, they are eminently suitable to represent what an observer sees through the eyepiece. And the result is invariably viewed on a computer anyway - why make everything dirty with the graphite and blenders just to get there
Posted 12 September 2012 - 02:23 PM
Posted 13 September 2012 - 12:43 PM
Personal choices of media are made and the response of the artist or viewers of the resulting work is the arbiter.
Criticism can be technical or subjective but it seems pointless if not fruitless to criticize a tool new or old. The tool will perish or flourish on it's own merit.
Art is innovation.
Posted 24 September 2012 - 01:39 PM
This is an interesting discussion so I thought I would add my 2 cents.
With regards to sketching although I began observing with the unaided eye in the late 1950's I did not make my first astronomical sketch until after I bought my first 60mm refractor in 1973.
During my first telescopic observation of Jupiter with the 60mm I wanted to record the detail so I grabbed a piece of paper and sketched what I saw (which was only a few belts).
On subsequent observations I made more sketches, and so without realizing it I had started to train my eye to see more detail. Over time this allowed me to see more detail on Jupiter with the 60mm, including belts, zones, a shadow transit, and even the Great Red Spot, although I could not quite make out the red color.
With regards to manipulating a sketch digitally I think sketching is an art form so people will approach it from their own perspective, which is fine.
For me, I enjoy being out under the night sky and sketching, and am reminded of a comment that a fellow sketcher once remarked, "To sketch is to see", and I agree.
Here is a link to some of my sketches:
Clear Skies,
Eric Jamison
Posted 24 September 2012 - 04:36 PM
Seriously though, to me, it is about the event itself. Sketching is such a direct link between the observer and the sky. A record if you will of my experience at the eyepiece. Even if the record is not very good.
Posted 24 September 2012 - 10:22 PM
Posted 24 September 2012 - 10:32 PM
I say if you're just touching it up to make it look better, or even just coloring stars then that's fine in my book. Adding color to nebula or galaxies makes it become more than just a sketch at the eyepiece; more like artwork, and less like a visual sketch.
Posted 25 September 2012 - 12:52 AM
Interesting topic, lot to get caught up on. But, initially I tend to agree the artist should use his medium to accurately display what he saw. Artists can certainly can and should do that. I am not an artist capable of the slightest whisk of a pastel nor even accurately sketching the phase of Mars. But, I can see mare and take notes.
For me, the problem I run into is wanting to share what took many minutes of patients and a moment of superb seeing to tease out. And I do not want to make it that hard for you to see it. So, that might require making the contrast or the color a bit more bold and easier to display in a digital media format. I could not imagine someone "patiently observing" a sketch waiting for some faint detail to spring forth. Chances are, it will not...you're not at the eyepiece viewing the real thing in variable seeing.
I use computer media because I do not have a scanner, it allows me to get the sketch up as soon as it's done. Like many others, I do work off a pencil sketch with plenty of notes. For example, over 30 minutes, I might notice a soft festoon that is not always visible. And I want to share that view. Should I share the times it was not, or sketch it? So, it get's sketched and noted then added to the final. And, in some sense, sketches are composites of an observation done over time, really not unlike an image. "To sketch is to see," indeed. It's a line I hope not to cross...often.
Another problem is (for digital, and for me) is getting the colors just exactly right in terms of softness and accurately portrayed. One can imagine with billions of colors to choose from, that can be a daunting task. "Na, a tad more brownish...eh, yea, that seems pretty close." But, it't generally the best I can do in the medium of choice.
As long as the artist is true to the subject observed, a little bolder color or contrast does not change the observation. It makes it easier to share it, especially since it is all digitized anyway and someone's monitor settings might not accurately display it. I learned this lesson when a scanned sketch was too light for some viewers, so it had to be darkened, er, enhanced to share it.
Sketching is such a direct link between the observer and the sky. A record if you will of my experience at the eyepiece.
Exactly, that's the wonderful experience we share with others! "Jupiter is just awesome, man, I saw oval BA!" (I have not yet, or I would have sketched it and probably represented it so you can too. )
Posted 27 September 2012 - 11:47 AM
He observe thousands of object with a 12" and now use a 20" for those computer drawings.


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