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I've used ONLY ORGANIC INGREDIENTS in every recipe. Every ingredient can be found in an organic form. Organic food is superior in terms of its nutritional value, it's good for the environment and you cannot beat the taste. Also, all the meats are either certified organic or have been raised naturally. There are NO WHITE SUGARS OR WHEAT FLOURS used anywhere in this book.
I grew up in small town Saskatchewan, Canada, in a home where almost EVERY meal was homemade from fresh ingredients. I was blessed with a mother and father who loved food...loved to grow it, prepare it, preserve it, and loved to share it with others. I love to cook and love to eat and neither one is ever a chore for me. I love to prepare and share a meal with my friends and family because it gives me great joy to know that the food I've made is the best it can be. I am a big believer in eating organic, local, whole foods. In fact, in all the recipes here, I have used only organic ingredients. As well, all these recipes are white sugar and wheat flour-free. I've been asked many times for the recipes of dishes I've prepared and I've been encouraged in the past to put all my best recipes into a book, and so, HERE IT IS!
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Published: Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 5:30 a.m.
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Shot clinics set
The SPCA is sponsoring three low-cost pet shot clinics in Flagler County today.
- 10 to 11 a.m. at Ice House Saloon, 810 State Street, Bunnell;
- 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Palm Coast Pet Grooming, 4996 Palm Coast Parkway NW, Palm Coast;
- 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at Wickline Park, 800 S. Daytona Ave. at Flagler Ave., Flagler Beach.
The costs are: Rabies shots, $5; dog 6-in-1 distemper/parvo combo, $10; cat 4-way distemper combo, $10; feline leukemia, $16; bordatella, $12; heartworm testing, $16; and worming, $5. Heartworm prevention and flea control products will be available for purchase. Only cash will be accepted for the shots. For information, call 386-748-8993. Proceeds benefit abandoned animals.
Spay-ghetti Dinner
The Flagler Humane Society is hosting its annual Spay-ghetti Dinner at 5 p.m. Feb. 16 at the VFW hall, 47 N. Old Kings Road North, Palm Coast. A three-course spaghetti dinner, music, dancing, live auction, silent auction and chance drawing are on tap. Tickets are $30 and are available at www.flaglerhumanesociety.org and at the shelter, 1 Shelter Drive, in Palm Coast. For information, call 386-237-7690.
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According to a new study published in the International Journal of Drug Policy, legalization of medical marijuana in various US states has resulted in a notable rise in the potency of cannabis – specifically, higher percentages of THC.
Researchers analyzed 39,157 samples of pot seized by law enforcement in 51 different US jurisdictions over a 20-year span (from 1990 to 2010), and found that potency increased slightly in jurisdictions that legalized medical pot.
However, when specifically examining pot from jurisdictions with dispensaries for medical marijuana, researchers found the potency increased a full percentage point on average.
Rather than attributing this increase to regulations allowing for medical pot cultivation, the study found that higher potency pot is simply more in demand in areas with storefront dispensaries. In other words, the supply of more potent pot is a reaction to the demand for more potent pot.
One of the authors of the study, Eric Sevigny, suggests that in legal recreational states like Colorado, the black market will have to start providing more potent pot if it hopes to compete with retail outlets, despite offering a cheaper, tax-free product.
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This 200 page coffee table book of ringside candid photographs showcases the Papillons that were exhibited at the Papillon Club Of America Southwest Regional Specialty, in Ventura, California, USA in July 2013. All dogs are identified in the book, and winners listed as well. A definite 'must have' for any Papillon breeder/fancier/exhibitor!
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"Padosan" (Hindi: पड़ोसन, Urdu: پڑوسن) is a 1968 Indian Hindi film. Directed by Jyoti Swaroop, and written by Rajendra Krishan.
The music is by R.D. Burman and lyrics by Rajendra Krishan.
Starring Sunil Dutt, Kishore Kumar, Saira Banu and Mehmood.
It is based on a Bengali story "Pasher Bari" by Arun Chowdhury, which was first adapted in Bengali in 1952. It was made in Telugu as Pakkinti Ammayi (1953) starring Anjali Devi, Relangi, and singer A. M. Rajah, and in Tamil as Adutha Veettu Penn (1960) . It was again remade into the Telugu film Pakkinti Ammayi (1981).
Also it was remade in Sri Lanka as "Allapu Gedara" [The Next Door] in 1965. It became one of the most successful Sinhala comedy films ever!!!
Kishore Kumar ( Hindi: किशोर कुमार) (August 4, 1929 October 13, 1987) was Indian film playback singer and actor. Along with Mukesh and Mohammed Rafi, he dominated Indian film playback music from the 1950s to the 1970s. Kumar also achieved notable success as a lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter.
Kishore Kumar was a prolific vocalist and sang in many Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Malayalam and Oriya. He is also widely regarded as the most versatile singer in the history of Indian cinema and a maverick of sorts for lending his voice to songs that did not conform to the norms of the day.
In October 1987, he died following a massive heart attack. He had been married four times and is survived by his two sons Amit Kumar, who made his career in playback singing in Bollywood and Bengali films, and Sumit Kumar.
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1969 Roop tera mastaana Aradhana Sachin Dev Burman Anand Bakshi
1975 Dil aisa kisi ne Amanush Shyamal Mitra Indeevar
1978 Khaike Pan Banaras Wala Don Kalyanji-Anandji Anjaan
1980 Hazaar raahen mudke dekheen Thodisi Bewafaii Khayyam Gulzar
1982 Pag ghunghroo baandh Namak Halaal Bappi Lahiri Anjaan
1983 Hamen aur jeene ki Agar Tum Na Hote Rahul Dev Burman Gulshan Bawra
1984 Manzilen apni jagah Sharaabi Bappi Lahiri Anjaan
1985 Saagar Kinaare Saagar Rahul Dev Burman Javed Akhtar
Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards; * 1971 - Best Male Playback Singer for Aradhana * 1972 - Best Male Playback Singer for Andaz * 1973 - Best Male Playback Singer for Hare Rama Hare Krishna * 1975 - Best Male Playback Singer for Kora Kagaz.............
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The senior left fielder from Orem, Utah, is hitting .357 on the year and leads the Sun Devils in home runs (18) and runs scored (51). His 57 RBI ties for the team lead.
The seventh-ranked Sun Devils open home Pac-10 against the second-ranked Cardinal this weekend. Game times are 7 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
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Harborne Schooldays
The Don Wright Collection includes photographs of Harborne's schools.
Pictured here is a group from Vicarage School in around 1890.
This carefully posed photograph is of St Peters School, again from around 1890.
This photograph is from Harborne Board School's Diamond Jubilee year of 1897.
The photograph was donated by Miss G.Wright.
A football team from Station Road School, pictured in 1939.
The photograph was donated by Mrs D. Sadler.
This team photograph is of Station Road F.C. in November 1950.
Standing: Mr F. Coopey, Unknown, Hudson, Court, T. Booker, R. Atcliffe, B. Buttery, M. Draper
Seated: Mr J. Abel, Jeffrey Hayes, I. Bulger, J. Thomason, D. Beasley, J. Bastock, Mr Stanton (headmaster)
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Prostitution in Panama, Sep/Oct 1998
Number 24, September/October 1998
Prostitution in Panama
by Ileana Golcher
The social causes of prostitution and the marginalization of the women who do this work require the attention of the community in order to guarantee these women their basic rights. "My work day begins at seven in the evening. I work in a well-known brothel in Rio Abajo. On the 'good days,' I see from ten to twelve clients. Each one pays me between ten and fifteen dollars, of which i pay three for the right to a room, another three if the client was referred to me by a taxi driver or someone else who works in the brothel. At times I have to have two and even three drinks or beers with the client, because that gets me a ten percent bonus. I feel like I'm turning into an alcoholic, because of the amount of liquor I drink daily. One of the greatest risks is when I leave work, between two and three in the morning, and I have to take a taxi home. I have been attacked, robbed, and the victim of attempted rape." These statements were made by Carmen González, a young woman who has practiced legal prostitution for five years.
A profession without statistics
According to a 1990 study by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, there are few statistics relating to this occupation, although the number of women working in prostitution has increased notably due to the worsening economic crisis beginning in 1980. At the same time, the typical age has decreased, even to the point of including girls in this activity. According to the same source, one of the international centers of prostitution is in Latin America, whose countries have high levels of unemployment, which combine with the presence of foreign military bases and a significant presence of tourists with disproportionate acquisitive power.
The new faces of prostitution
1994 statistics from the Panamanian Fiscal General and the Panamanian Institute of Tourism indicate that there are approximately 400 salons, clubs, cantinas, massage parlors, and discoteques officially registered in Panama City. This number excludes secret clandestine sites or places with two business identities. In addition, there are around 974 motels and other businesses that rent rooms, all of which represent potential workplaces for prostitutes. One network of high-level prostitution works in many area hotels, with employees that offer prostitution services mainly to tourists, according to the special interests of the clients. This chain is amplified by taxi drivers who have a direct connection to women who work as prostitutes occasionally or on weekends, charging daily rates of from fifty to two hundred dollars or more. Research indicates that in some brothels, the managers maintain up-to-date computerized databases which allow the client to see the face and general information of a virtually limitless number of women. According to paramedics from the city's health centers, most prostitutes are from Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and Panama.
Not only for money
Historically the problem of prostitution as a social phenomenon has often been explained as the result of the lack of sufficient income. However, a recent study by the Panamanian nurse Magali Díaz Aguirre points to social and psychological indicators for prostitution. The study found the following: • the typical age of prostitutes ranges from 18 to 29 years • 40.3% of those interviewed live in poor neighborhoods; none work from their homes • 44.7% of those interviewed had attended high school; however, 62.3% had not completed their studies • 'family disorganization' is a risk factor associated with the practice of prostutition; the study demonstrated that women who had only one parent, had poor communication, or were subject to constant conflicts at home had a much higher probability of entering prostitution than those with a stable family life • women who raise their children alone or with members of an extended family are 24 times more likely to enter into prostitution.
What do they think?
A series of prostitutes interviewed stated that their work was very difficult, particularly because a vast majority of them accept the conditions of their clients, who usually reject the use of condoms. In terms of protection at night, the women said they are beaten, insulted, and physically harassed by the majority of police. "They treat us like strange animals," said young Colombian women. "Our children are ashamed of us. Everyone rejects us, marginalizes us, mistreats us physically and verbally, they see us as undesirable parasites, without taking into account the fact that there is a large sector of society that lives off of us." "No one stops to think about the sacrifices required to tolerate bad-smelling, drunk, violent, and depraved men... it is money earned with too much sacrifice," explained the prostitutes attended in the health center of Santa Ana, and "with the great risk that we get a venereal disease or AIDS." Interviewed about their family lives, responses indicated the desire that their children get a profession and not learn about their double lives. According to them, they send more than fifty percent of their monthly earnings to their countries of origin or to the interior of the country.
A profession without organization
Just like domestic employees, prostitutes in Panama have not achieved any level of organization, in order to defend their [rights and] aspirations. Mexico is one of the few countries in Latin America with a chapter of the United Women and Men in Sex Work Union. Feminine arguments in favor of the right to organize relate to the necesity to protect themselves collectively from official abuses, and from employers that contract them verbally without the right to any type of social security, the need for better work conditions, among the reasons most often cited.


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Cowboy Coaching Staff Announces Wrestling Team Awards
Team honors five seniors and team leaders
UW Wrestlers Enjoy Successful Day In Kearney
Cowboys place 17 in top six
2012-13: Wrestling as a redshirt, Hanson compiled a mark of 5-8 at heavyweight. He saw action in four open tournaments, winning two matches in both the Cowboy and the UNK Holiday Inn Opens. Hanson accrued four wins by fall, including one of the team's fastest pins, coming in just 1 minute, 20 seconds.
He was recognized by the UW coaching staff at the year-end banquet for keeping a GPA above 3.0 for the season.
High School: Despite wrestling for just a few years, Hanson was immediately successful at the sport. He won two state titles in his junior and senior seasons at Lander Valley High. Hanson was so dominant he earned the Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award for the state of Wyoming. The national award is named in honor of the late Olympic and world champion Dave Schultz. Each award recipient is evaluated on excellence in wrestling, scholastic achievement, citizenship and community service. Hanson excelled in the classroom, as well, earning Academic All-State honors as a junior and senior. He also was a talented football player, earning All-Conference and All-State honors as a lineman.
Personal: Hanson was born in Lander, Wyo., and he is the son of Andrew and Nancy Hanson. He has one sibling, Jason. He has not decided on a major at UW.
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December 28th, 2013 #1
According to Tolstoy the purpose of art and the reason people look at art is because they are seeking communion. They are
reaching out to one another from their solitude. Using art we can communicate more effectively, in a way more primal than
is possible by using words. That's because thoughts aren't words, our natural form of thinking is pictures(representations
of experiences). We can understand each other via pictures, because our primal experience is similar, theoretically we are
all individuals with a body living in a world.
Going to be working from the Natural way to draw, and whatever else I feel like, and giving my thoughts as I go. I won't
be following the schedule exactly but I will do all the exercises, I did them a long time ago in the same fashion but
didn't understand the exercises back then.
Contour Drawing
First exercise is Contour Drawing.
Two questions: 1. What is drawing? 2. What is contour drawing?
1. Drawing is thinking. Drawing is rendered thought. Drawing is the communication of this thinking by way of
primal-symbols. The style that any artist draws in is essentially their way of looking at things, a selection(abstraction)
from their totality of experience that is then composed into an expressive unity by way of a "magical synthesis" effected by
the imagination. This composition is rendered on a surface by manipulating that surface, primarily by graphic: shapes,
colors, gradations... the graphics are all that gets transferred in mass production, or on a screen.
2. When we draw we draw something. It is the conviction, the belief in this something that gives the drawing power, a belief
that the drawing is the thing.
The idea being expressed in contour drawing, for the most part, is the relationship of contact between the surfaces of two
things, or you could say that the extremities of the forms define the forms(but form doesn't take into account substance.
The line is two extremities touching each other over a span of time.
This is a great exercise to start with because the act of touching the surface of the pencil to the surface of the paper
and leaving a mark is in exact correspondence with the observation of surfaces contacting each other in nature. Solid things
that don't touch each other touch the air, or water, or the sense of surface in our imagination.
Another important point is that it is an introduction to geometry, you're feeling out the geometry of the page and dividing it up or proportioning it with you're line. I believe this aspect is underplayed in the book, but a counter argument is that beginner's don't really need to be told about it.
Surfaces in contact reveal the proportions of the forms they contain. I looked at the page when I felt like it here, I take
his advice to not look at all as an exaggeration to make a point.
What's interesting to me is that the very first exercise puts an emphasis on the time factor in drawing, trying
to leave out time tends to fuck with peoples heads and kills drawings, it leads to dead lifeless forms since
life is change/motion.
The major flaw in The Natural Way to Draw, and I'm going by a 7 or 8 year old memory here, is that so little
emphasis is placed on the surface of the paper, which is where the marks and graphics take place, simple fact:
no graphics - no graphic art. Also to say something like "Students should think only of the experience and not
of making pictures" is stupid because to experience anything is to at least begin to make a picture of it,
but I suppose it could be interpreted to mean "don't get side tracked by technicalities".
Another big flaw is that these exercises, which are arbitrary in many ways, can seem to be the basis of good drawing, when in fact they were chosen only for their convenience of communicating some idea Niccolaides thought was important.
The next exercise is Gesture drawing.
Gesture drawing is essentially a case of "work from the general to the specific". The gesture is the feeling or sensation
caused by the relationship of all the things you are observing. Imagine a cop with a gun in their holster, now imagine a
mugger with a gun pointed at you, different relationships different sensations. A gesture drawing is the communication
of that sensation by drawing the relationships of the things. All drawing is gesture drawing since it all deals with
feelings and relationships, details in a finished drawing could be called micro gestures or something.
The other meaning of gesture is sign, basically the symbols that we compose.
In a sentence: "gesture is the index of the action", R. G. Hatton.
This leads to the consideration of the dramatic value of the action, why the character does what they do and what they're trying to gain by it, basically cause and effect, change. This is another issue the book doesn't really handle too well.
Sketches that accompany post, not necessarily natural way to draw exercises:
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"Beliefs are rules for action"
"Knowledge is proven in action."
"It's use is it's meaning."
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I really like the movement in these sketches and the looseness of the lines as well. =] from what I've noticed on your previous sketchbook you've improved a lot your linework! well done, keep it up
Hello! I really want to be a good artist... Being a girl who can draw some mediocre things just won't do anymore.
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zerosete: Thanks.
I thought an introduction to naturalistic and impressionistic drawing for the absolute beginner
would be useful. Naturalism is the recording of the facts of appearances. Impressionism is the expression
of the sensations caused by the effects of light. I wrote this several years ago, it's been edited down a
This is a method of drawing that involves organizing light and dark shapes, and then more or less
blending those shapes into each other in order to achieve an illusion of the appearance of reality.
Here's a crop of a picture I took from characterdesigns.com. Notice that the image is composed of surface
areas of different value. Look at the image as a flat surface. The image consists of indeterminate
fluctuations in value(lightness or darkness), however some fluctuations are close enough together that they
can be considered the same value. It would be possible to do this image in just black and white, on a scale
where 1 is white and black is 10, consider everything from values 5.4999 and lower as white, and values 5.5
and higher as black.
So I traced over the orignal picture, and started grouping value areas into shapes as I saw best. There
is no right way to do this, since all shape boundaries are indefinite to various degrees, so you choose the
value shapes based on your preference, going by what looks right. I was basically thinking "well this area
is just mostly light gray, this area is mostly dark gray, this area is mostly darker gray." Also notice that
the boundary lines I used are just approximations, I didn't get the boundary perfect because I wasn't interested
in that, look at how I made the jaw-neck-trap-shouder-forearm basically just a curved line. I ignore the wobbles
in the line, like I ignore the wobbles/fluctuations in the values.
Then I filled in the shapes with an approximate flat value. The shapes have definite boundaries all
around, like pieces of a puzzle. To put it another way: all the "edges" are "hard".
Then I look at picture and find the places where the boundaries of shapes are less definite, I look for
"soft" "edges". The way the various shapes blend into one another is what gives the visual effect of form,
little fluctuations of value is what gives the effect of real complex form. The more minute you make the
fluctuations in value, the more you lose your shapes, you give up the design element of shape and so you
give up that element's expressiveness.
The main reason to turn "areas of value fluctuation" into shape is in order to be able to use them as
pictorial elements, we can adjust those shapes into ones that give more of the impression of what we feel.
We can make a shape more angular, more curved, we can make them droop, we can move them around, and it's
the relationship of these various shapes that strike the viewer subconsciously. This is just one style of
A lot of beginner's think that if you can draw/render naturalistically then you can do anything else, but
that's false because naturalistic rendering only looks at minute fluctuations in value which is only one aspect
of visual phenomena. In order to draw in any style you have to be aware of the visual cues that style uses,
whether it strikes the sense of space, sense of shape, sense of movement, sense of balance, sense of pattern
and rhythm, etc., and the subtle impressions those things evoke in the mind.Sketchbook
"Beliefs are rules for action"
"Knowledge is proven in action."
"It's use is it's meaning."
January 7th, 2014 #4We need light to see. Light is the key factor in making something look real. Light reveals
and darkness conceals, therefore if we look at a white page it looks empty because it's filled
with light, we reason that if something is there then it should be lit up. If we look at a dark
area any number of things could be there that we can't see, hidden in the darkness, therefore
darkness is more suggestive than light.
What we see looks like colorful substances revealed by light or covered by darkness, this is why
it's surprising when we learn as kids that an apple looks red because it is not red - it reflects
back the light it doesn't absorb. Your ability to describe form in your drawings rests entirely
on your ability to imagine it, because you can't light up what isn't there.
Beginners tend not to look at the whole image, tend to ignore complementary shapes ("negative
shapes"), and tend to see the page as flat and not filled with spatial potentiality. The cause of
the last one has a lot to do with the whiteness of the page, like I said darkness is more suggestive
than light.I think this situation can be remedied by doing some silhouettes on black paper.
Three facts to note. The picture plane has, and all shape have: a surface, sides (extremities,
boundaries...), and corners. Every mark made within the picture plane is related to the sides
and corners.
Here I made a squiggle and related one of it's corners to the corners of the picture plane. It makes
a triangle.
If I go all the way around the picture plane I get four triangles. You can think of your pencil as
tied to strings tied to all the corners. Relating marks to these corners increases accuracy, but most
importantly relates the marks to the picture plane and therefore every other mark in the picture plane.
The sides/boundaries of these shapes should also be related to the plane. A side can be thought of
as turned in relation to the sides of the picture plane.
A picture from quickposes.
Relating the corners.
Relating the sides.
Some more random sketches.
"Beliefs are rules for action"
"Knowledge is proven in action."
"It's use is it's meaning."
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Good to see you drawing.
1. Drawing is thinking. Drawing is rendered thought. Drawing is the communication of this thinking by way of primal-symbols.
Thus, drawing is graphic decision-making, (and is not necessarily to do with rendering as it is commonly understood, as making indicative marks.) The graphic decisions made give evidence of the predicating thoughts.
Decisiveness is a key issue in learning to make art. Everything must be decided. The more one appreciates the degree to which good art is suffused with decision, the less room there is to hide one's weaknesses. And one gives up all hope of such things as "lucky brushstrokes" or smears. Belief, indeed, is the watchword. Whatever it takes for the artist to believe is the proper method of making art.
The geometric relationship between the elements of a composition and the frame should be a very low priority among your concerns, imo. There are million different varieties of composition and they all harmonize with or oppose/defy the frame in their own way and for their own compositional reasons.
The relationships to be concerned with are the ones between the elements. If these relationships are telling, placing them in the frame is a simple matter easily done with a quick eyeballing.At least Icarus tried!
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February 10th, 2014 #6]kev ferrara: Good stuff. My main motivation with that picture plane post was to give a way to get beginners
looking at the all over pattern of shapes, a continuation of that naturalistic "painting" post. I think evocative abstract
shapes, representing interesting ideas, are the number one cause of interesting drawings and paintings, without those shapes
an artist might as well be a writer or filmmaker.
edit: I think that all my favorite artists are making use of the total picture plane in a way that artists that I don't care
about aren't. The way they have these story telling units arranged entering the page, moving around within it, and exiting
is a lot different than the others. Their graphics are related to each other and the page in a way not found in the multitude
of average fantasy artists who depend mostly on the excitement of the props and things of their scenes for their effect,
mostly blood, battles and babes.
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Mass and Modelled drawing
I consider the mass drawing exercise to be the equivalent of the "bridge of asses"/"bridge of fools" in euclidean geometry.
It's easy to fake contour drawing and just trace the appearance, it's easy to fake gesture drawing and produce meaningless
scribbles or flowing lines. The mass exercise is a direct consequence of what is learned from the contour exercise, the
contour excercise is actually a disguised and simplified version of the modelling exercise.
What you were doing in contour drawing is essentially the same thing that a kid does when they draw a turkey by tracing
their hand. The pencil is parallel against the surface it is touching. This resistence to a surface gives rise to the concept
of a mass. This is an example of what could be called a synthetic experience: what you see + what you touch combine to give
a new feeling which you can't get by just seeing or just touching. I believe this type of phenomenon is the crux of art.
This exercise is an introduction to the idea of depth. Depth is something which is not seen, but rather it is alluded to by
changing appearances, depth is allusion. In "Meditations on Quixote", and everyone should read Don Quixote, Ortega y Gassett
uses the analogy of walking through a forest to describe depth. He say that you never actually see the forest, instead what
happens is that you see the fronts of a bunch of trees, and as you go deeper into the forest you get this idea in your mind
that there are trees behind you, and that there are trees yet to be seen in front... the trees that you see allude to the
other trees which you have see and the others that you will see.
A mass is revealed and made known by relating it against another mass. The primary masses are your body and the earth.
EDIT: Mass is added to a drawing by rendering. The working of the page with the medium, as in the instructions, is rendering without the illusion of light.
A mass drawing is a pure invention because it cannot be traced off of a visual appearance.
In this exercise we have another case of the technique being in direct correspondence with the observation and idea that
is being rendered. The color of the substance of the medium(crayon) corresponds with the color of the substance of the model
which is red in the case of people, although this step is ignored in the early exercises it is introduced in the watercolor
exercise. The resistence you feel from the drag of the crayon building up on the page corresponds with pushing through the
density and heaviness of the substance of the model. The darkness that builds up on the page is the sign that illustrates
the hidden(alluded) mass.
This core of mass hidden beneath the appearance revealed by light is the "motivation of the form", it's what makes a wheel
roll and a knife(inclined plane) cut. Without this conception of mass backing the renderings of form the drawing will be stiff.
Modelled drawing. The contours drawn in a contour drawing are foreshortened surfaces, caused by imaginatively touching the
side of the pencil against the surface of the model. In modelled drawing the crayon is turned on it's side and pressed against
the more or less un-foreshortened surface. The correspondence here is between whether the crayon is held
perpendicular to the surface of the paper or parallel, in relation to imaginatively touching the surface of the model.
Weight is a relationship between masses, something is heavy only if it is heavier than something else. The fundamental
expression of weight is between an object and the ground. Do drawings of things on the ground, hanging, being thrown into the
air, falling, and suspended in that moment between rising and falling. Also get a bucket of water, move it around and get a
feel for the momentum of the water, also make "contour" drawings of moving from the air through the water. Buy a set of
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Vertical and horizontal cross-contours are supposed to be placed grid like, the sensation of depth gets encoded by the pressure
of the pen or whatever, and not by visual linear perspective. Eventually the verticals are used as the "moldings" that catch the
light, and the horizontals relate the volumes of the forms to the ground plane. The idea with the pen exercise is that it's the
first time you have to look at the page in order to make sure the ink is flowing. The idea is that you are loading up your pen
with substance and transferring it to the paper, this corresponds with taking an observation and transferring it to the paper,
this phenomenon is more obvious in the water color exercise, basically you are symbolically loading the brush with your observation
and bringing it to the paper.
Details give meaning to the abstractions.
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That's about it for my natural way to draw commentary. The later chapters on anatomy, light, folds, and design
are mediocre for the most part. There is no real emphasis on manipulating the surface in an abstract way. Almost
all of it is done directly from life, there are no imaginatively adventurous exercises. It can be interpreted
that he is denying the validity of painting based (almost)purely on visual sensations like impressionism, or on
painting based on the emotional qualities of paint itself.
The last really useful chapter is "the sustained study", which is the culmination of the early chapters. I think
that it's here that the meaning of gesture as the combined effect of all the elements expressively related
becomes clear. It could be called the general statement of the all over relationship of the elements, hell it
could be called composition before all the details are added in.
The gist of the book is: Believing in the substance and subject of the picture determines the design and composition.
The picture should have an animistic quality.
All the exercises, except for gesture, were dealing with simple sensations, and the resulting drawings were simple
expressions: merely expressing something's physical qualities. The type of thinking that you do determines the form
of the picture.
All sensation is animistic because there is always some emotion that goes along with it. All physical forms have
emotional qualities, whether occurring in art or nature it is physical emotion. The most obvious natural example of
this, for straight men, is beautiful women. We don't say that her parts cause us to feel the sensation of beauty, we
say that she is beautiful, that the quality of beauty is in her as opposed to just in our mind.
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I think evocative abstract shapes, representing interesting ideas, are the number one cause of interesting drawings and paintings, without those shapes an artist might as well be a writer or filmmaker.
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Also, shape cannot exist without being placed, so location is a necessary quality of form any shape must possess along with a distinct value. And each side of the shape has a direction or orientation, so such vector qualities are also a necessary aspect of form. And the shape is of some size relative to the picture plane, so scale is another form issue to be taken into consideration. And each side of the shape, as well as its totality will have some gesture, melodic, curved, straight or otherwise, which must manifest at the same time.
So you see, no quality of form can be manifested without also manifesting quite a few other qualities of form. So you cannot say shape is the "number one" cause of interesting visual art because it simply would not exist without other simultaneous causes. All form is synthesized with other form. All form arrives as a unity of disparate symbolic information. And this is just what makes it too complicated for the linearity of intellection to deal with. Which is why art requires of the artist the free play of soulful intuition; the integrative faculty of the imagination.
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Tying a grasshopper or cricket with splayed legs and wings askew sounds messy, but it will look more realistic on the water and catch more fish.
In August and September, Montana's most famous rivers—the Yellowstone, Madison, Gallatin, Big Hole, and Bitterroot—become grasshopper factories. That abundance is also true for many rivers in Idaho, southern British Colombia, and Alberta. The same phenomenon occurs, to varying degrees, throughout North America. Late summer is also the time of year when many of these rivers yield up some of their largest trout.
This isn't news to anyone fortunate enough to be on these rivers during grasshopper time. Anglers have known about the importance of hoppers for ages. Unfortunately, many of the hopper patterns offered in fly shops differ little from the flies we had decades ago. Sure, there are some new foam patterns, but many are little more than retreads of the original Chernobyl Ant. Those new flies catch fish but so do the old deer-hair grasshopper patterns. Given all the new fly-tying materials on the market, can we create patterns that more closely imitate grasshoppers?It's Alive!
Sometimes almost anything matching the size of a real grasshopper will catch fish, which explains the success of the Chernobyl Hopper and similar flies that really don't imitate the live bug. When the fish are being stupid and easy, those attractor patterns work fine. Other times, when anglers have been pounding the water with a variety of hopper imitations, the fish can become more selective. Sometimes a good deer-hair pattern such as Dave's Hopper brings success, but other times the extra movement created by rubber legs is essential to stimulate a strike. During tough periods—and they are more frequent than the easy times—you'll catch more trout fishing with a more lifelike imitation.
The order Orthoptera includes grasshoppers and crickets. Orthoptera means "straight wing;" the name comes from the front overwings, which are long, leathery, narrow, and protect the membranous underwings. Both insects have segmented bodies and six legs, including the long, powerful rear legs that are designed for jumping. They also have large flat-sided heads with large compound eyes and long antennae. Grasshoppers and crickets can damage crops and are considered pests (think of locusts), but anglers consider them friends.
There are several important differences between grasshoppers and crickets. A cricket usually has longer antennae; they are often as long as or longer than its body. A cricket has noticeable cerci, which are rear tail-like projections. A grasshopper's long front wings extend to or past the end of its body; a cricket's overwing is shorter and covers perhaps two-thirds of the body. Finally, a grasshopper's body is long, narrow, and triangular; its body is broad at the belly and tapers toward the top. A cricket, on the other hand, tends to have a shorter, stubbier, more rectangular body. With those differences in mind, we'll talk about grasshoppers for the rest of this article, but most of our observations also pertain to crickets.Size Does Make a Difference
Size and silhouette, more than the color of the body or wing, are the key factors determining the success of any grasshopper pattern. To create a proper silhouette, your grasshopper should have a bulbous head with eyes, a segmented underbody, movable legs, and long, straight wings. The belly on a hopper is always flat and light colored. White and cream are my most successful underbelly colors. Depending on the overall shading of the hopper, I may use a white underbelly tinted light green or white tinted light tan along the edges, but I always keep the belly lighter than the color of the rest of the bug.
Using the correct size of fly is the most important factor leading to consistent fishing success. The size of the natural insects varies from place to place and changes throughout the summer. You should carry many sizes of grasshopper imitations, from three-quarter inch to more than two inches long, and examine the real insects on the streambank to determine which fly to use. My fly box contains grasshopper imitations in six sizes and five color variations, and I make my final selection when I get to the river. Once, on the Yellowstone, I was having meager success casting hoppers to the banks, and a guide suggested I try a two-inch-long pattern. The change made all the difference and I caught several large fish. Last year, on British Columbia's Elk River, I observed one-inch-long naturals along the banks, selected a matching fly, and enjoyed excellent fishing.
The legs are the next most important factor in creating a good grasshopper. A leaf or twig that drops onto the water doesn't have moving parts, but an insect does. If it moves, twitches, and wiggles, a fish will think that your fly is alive, and nothing I know creates the appearance of life better than rubber legs.
The Missouri River below Holter Dam, near Craig, Montana, is big, broad, and brawling, and is lined with pastures and grasslands. One of my favorite summer pastimes is to float this section of river in my pontoon boat and bang hoppers against the banks. Several years ago, I had a day when many fish moved from the cutbacks to inspect my deer-hair grasshopper, but most refused my offering. That night I added rubber legs to the pattern, and the next day I caught more fish; some of the strikes were quite aggressive. The rubber legs were only a small addition, but they made a very big difference.SPLAT!
We all know what a grasshopper or cricket looks like sitting on a limb or blade of grass. Many of us have studied them up close and personal. But this is observing the bug at rest. What about after it splats on the water?
Nobody dislikes casting in the wind more than I do. However, when fishing a stream with a grassy undercut bank or a deep run near the bank, I can become slightly giddy when a strong breeze develops on a sunny August afternoon. That is when grasshoppers are most likely to blow over the river and fall on the water. The sound of grasshoppers crashing onto the surface often stirs the largest bank-hugging lunkers into action. When designing grasshopper and cricket imitations, it is important to think about what the hapless naturals look like lying helpless on the water.
Grasshoppers have four wings. When they are at rest, we see only the top wings, but when the insects are shot down by the wind, the underwings often become dislodged and visible. Those wings are often bright yellow, red, orange, or black, colors not normally depicted in the tan, brown, and green of the body or top wing. According to my research, most hoppers are predominately shades of tan tinted with yellow, gold, or green, and my most successful imitation has a bright yellow body with a white belly and a brightly colored underwing.
Camouflage is essential to a grasshopper's survival. A grasshopper, unlike a cricket, is typically mottled in color, and an imitation tied in a single color is not very realistic looking. I use at least two and usually three colors of foam, and add a mottled wing material to create the multicolored appearance of the natural. You can also use permanent markers to add spots, stripes, chevrons, and other bits of color.
How you tie on the rear legs is also important. We usually see grasshoppers with their rear knee joints bent up and tight against their bodies. When these insects fall on the water, however, their rear legs splay out in a frog-kick position. A fly tied with wings askew and splayed legs sounds messy, but it looks more lifelike on the water than a tidier imitation.
I have tied grasshoppers on all types of hooks. A pattern tied with a lot of the hook hanging below the fly has a better chance of landing upright on the water. However, using too heavy a hook reduces the fly's ability to float. I sometimes want a grasshopper to float as an indicator for a heavily weighted nymph plus maybe even another fly, sort of a "hopper, dropper, Copper" rig.
It is vital to have some realistic grasshopper and cricket patterns in your fly box for those times when it's tough to seduce large summer trout; using a Dave's Hopper isn't always good enough. Examine the natural insects along the shore, think about what they look like after they've landed on the water, and then try to tie some "real" hopper and cricket patterns.
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I figured now would be a good time to add a blog as I haven't posted in a while and because a lot has been going on with me recently. As you all know, I was banded in August of 2010, and have lost approximately 70-75 lbs. I am 24 years old, am a grad student, and I am pretty happy with how life has been since being banded. A few months ago, I hit a plateau where I basically fluctuated between 142-147 on any given day. Being a broad person, and someone who couldn't get any more fills (as I'm pretty tight to begin with), I decided that this was my actual goal (instead of the goal of 130), and that I was ready to move on to the next step.
Every once in a while at the NYU support groups for Lap-Band Patients, they have a plastic surgeon come in and speak about cosmetic body contouring following bariatric surgery. I have always considered it, but it wasn't really until earlier this year that I decided that it was time. When I think of plastic surgery, the first thing that pops into my head is boob and nose jobs...I never thought of it as kind of an art form. I met with two plastic surgeons in NYC, both of whom specialize in doing cosmetic reconstructive surgery on bariatric surgery patients. It is important to go to a plastic surgeon like this, if you are banded and want plastic surgery, as they know the anatomy of the band and can reposition the port as necessary.
The first surgeon's initial consultation came and went, and I left the appointment really nervous and not convinced that this was what I wanted. I had one of those vibes that the surgeon and I were not a good match, so I decided I would do more research on doctors. For the next few months, I asked around my lap-band surgeon's office and got the name of another plastic surgeon, Dr. Thomas Sterry. I went to see him about 2 months ago. He was wonderful in every way. For my initial consultation, he sat with my mom and I for almost 2 hours, going over as much as he could about anything you could think of. As I babysit for elementary aged school kids, and I knew they would be on break for the holidays, I decided that I would schedule a date then and there...Dec.21.2012.
Those two months flew by and last Friday, I had a tummy tuck, an arm lift and liposuction of the flanks (love handles). I had spoken to lots of people who had procedures like this, both bariatric patients and not, to get as much advice as possible. The surgery was performed at a surgical center in NYC, where I was the only patient, so my family had a nice place to wait while I was in surgery. I went in around 10am (about 30 minutes late), went over all the information on the paperwork to make sure it was correct, and then the surgeon came in to mark me. Unfortunately I did not take any pictures of him doing this, but basically he used different colored sharpies to mark where he was going to make incisions, or lipo, etc. I was then taken to the OR, where the nurse and the surgeon stayed right by my side until I was asleep.
7 hours later, I was awake and in the recovery chair. I have very little recollection of the hours following that as I was so filled with pain medications. I luckily did not have to stay the night, so I got home, walked very carefully upstairs, and went straight to the recliner (which has become our recovery chair). I was upstairs in that recliner up until yesterday when I had my first follow up appointment. For the surgery, I had two drains inserted into my abdomen, which the surgeon took out yesterday. I am feeling pretty good for being a week out of surgery although, it is still kind of hard to do a lot of things as my arms and abdomen are sore.
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(BlackDoctor.org) — Every parent hopes to have a complication-free pregnancy and to give birth to a healthy baby after a full 40 weeks. Unfortunately, premature births – that is, any births before 37 completed weeks of gestation – are too common within the African-American community. While prematurity is a problem for American women of all ethnicities, African Americans have the highest chance of delivering a baby prematurely. About 100,000 Black babies are born too early each year, representing nearly 20% of all preterm births in the U.S.
Why Are African-American Babies More Likely to be Premature?
Unfortunately, science has yet to explain all of the reasons for preterm labor, or why prematurity is more prevalent among African Americans. Even if a woman takes every possible precaution, she can still have a premature baby. There are, however, some known risk factors for premature birth, some of which are common among African-American women.
High blood pressure and diabetes – both risk factors for prematurity – are significant health problems among African-American women. These are often brought on by being overweight and having high cholesterol levels. In addition, studies show that smoking during pregnancy often leads to premature labor. Approximately 25% of Black women in the U.S. do not receive early prenatal care within the first trimester of pregnancy. This may contribute to increased prematurity rates among African-American women.
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Being born early disrupts normal organ development. For example, the lungs of the premature baby are not as capable of absorbing oxygen and they collapse more because they do not have enough of a type of cell that makes important substances that allow for the lung to stay open. This puts premature babies at increased risk for respiratory complications. Preemies are also born without all the virus-fighting antibodies they need and get from their mother while in the womb. This means they have an immature immune system and are more prone to infections such as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a widespread seasonal virus that is very common during the fall and winter months.


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Compared to the Olympus C-50Z and Canon S50
For the comparison we were lucky enough to have three compact five megapixel digital cameras in the studio at the same time. All of these cameras are based around a 1/1.8" (7.2 x 5.3 mm) size five megapixel CCD sensor (although we can't confirm if it's the exact same sensor from the same manufacturer). The Optio 550 has a five times optical zoom lens, the Olympus C-50 Zoom and Canon S50 both with three times optical zoom lenses.
Studio scene comparison
- Pentax Optio 550: Aperture Priority, ISO 64, Default Image
Manual preset white balance, Exposure Compensation: +0.3 EV
- Olympus C-50 Zoom: Aperture Priority, ISO 80
Automatic preset white balance, Exposure Compensation: +0.3 EV
- Canon PowerShot S50: Aperture Priority, ISO 50, Default Image
Manual preset white balance, Exposure Compensation: +0.0 EV
Each square crop is a 200% magnification of a 80 x 80 portion of the image.
|Pentax Optio 550
|Olympus C-50 Zoom
|Canon PowerShot S50
|ISO 64, 1/4 sec, F5.0
|ISO 80, 1/4 sec, F4.8
|ISO 50, 1/5 sec, F5.0
The Optio 550 performed quite well, noise levels were higher than the Canon PowerShot S50, but lower than the Olympus C-50 Zoom.. Resolution, the ability to resolve detail, was at least as good as the PowerShot S50 (better in places) and certainly better than the C-50 Zoom. Color balance was good, the manual white balance absolutely spot on. No noticeable demosaic artifacts, although sharpening halos were more visible than the PowerShot S50. Overall a good performance by the Optio 550, more standing its ground with the more expensive offering from Canon.
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Browsers aside, Net Applications shows that Windows 7 gained more than 13% during 2010, closing the year out with 20.87% of the operating system market. That's one in five computers, mind you. Windows XP is slowly losing footing, falling some 10% to 56.72% during the year. Meanwhile, Vista dropped more than 5% to 12.11%. Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.5 collectively represent 4.51% (1.45 and 3.05%) as of December.


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Fighting for Darfur Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide
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Rebecca Hamilton is a special correspondent for The Washington Post in Sudan with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and a fellow at the New America Foundation. In 2007 she was selected as a Global Young Leader on genocide Prevention for spearheading the campaign for Harvard University to divest from companies doing business with Sudan and working with internally displaced populations in Sudan. She worked for the prosecution at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, including work on their historic Darfur cases. Currently a resident of New York, Hamilton is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School, as a former Open Society fellow.
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|Before the Outcry
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A delivery room ruling in the state of New Jersey has shocked a lot of fathers. Women in New Jersey are allowed to ban fathers from the delivery room, People reported March 12.
Superior Court Judge Sohail Mohammed cited a woman's right to privacy while giving birth and should choose who will be with them during labor and delivery.
Mohammed wrote this in regards to the delivery room ruling on Monday:
"Any interest a father has before the child's birth is subordinate to the mother's interests. Even when there is no doubt that a father has shown deep and proper concern and interest in the growth and development of the fetus, the mother is the one who must carry it to term.
"Any mother is under immense physical and psychological pain during labor. The order the father seeks would invade her sphere of privacy and force the mother to provide details of her medical condition to a person she does not desire to share that information with."
This case came about when Rebecca DeLuccia went into labor and delivered a girl last year. Her former fiance wanted to be there for his daughter's birth, but DeLuccia refused him.
Steven Plotnick's attorney said he wanted to bond with their child when she was born, but DeLuccia blocked him from being present during the birth. DeLuccia's attorney confirmed that her client allowed Plotnick to visit their daughter later.
Men opposed to the judge's decision feel that the mother of their children are given too much control over how close they can bond with them. There are many ways of looking at this.
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This was in a very small town just up route 66 from me, about 15 miles.
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This was in a very small town just up route 66 from me, about 15 miles.
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Good for the home owner.
If he had been unarmed this whole event would have turned out different.
Congrats to the home owner...:congrats::congrats:...but he needs some range time.:yup:
Locklear looks like a 'meth-head'.OMO
Personally I think tagging a get away car with a few holes is a good thing in some cases. Background, location, occupants and down range must all be taken into consideration of course. But, what you want to bet they find this pickup because of it's bullet holes in the glass?
Not to mention the un-nerving effect it has on the Bad Guys Mental State.
Unfortunately, sometimes the BG's are so stupid, they bring their infant children along for the heist. So its getting a lot more complicated than just popping some holes in the vehicles letting the BGs know they made a bad choice of victims.
We need to establish some rules with the bad guys about their profession since the victims are no longer rolling over for them.
For example, here in Texas, BG's are fair game until they are off the property. Shooting them in the back is a very real possibility.
And, we will open up on them with every firearm we have, even if it's only a 22.
those suspects looke like a couple of real winners.
Glad everything turned out ok for him this time............but there is something to be said about not taking pop shots off at fleeing felons and there vehicle unless you want some quality time on the wrong side of Johnny Law.
These guys need to consider a career change.
Good for the home owner.
It's a shame to go to jail while the BG's go free. Who's going to protect the home now?


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