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Reuse some of that leftover fabric and craft up these adorable Fabric Wrapped Christmas Trees. When assembled in a group of 3 or 5, these Christmas trees make a lovely centerpiece or a cute way to decorate your mantel. This is an easy craft that will take minutes to create, but will last for several seasons to come!
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I found these heavy cardboard cones at Michael's and just knew I could use them somewhere. I had no idea what I was going to do with them, then it hit me…cover them with fabric, and group them together…won't that be pretty!
I wanted each tree to be a little different, so I gathered three different fabrics. I cut long strips of white fabric and sewed a simple ruffle to wrap around the large cone. I ripped strips of aqua to wrap diagonally around the middle cone, and I ripped thin strips of dropcloth fabric to wrap from top to bottom on the smallest cone.
For each tree, I started by hot glueing fabric at the top and working my way down.
Once I had them all wrapped, I grouped them together on an old silver platter and placed them in the center of my table…aren't they sweet and simple? The perfect addition to my little nook.
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Some clever person used Xtranormal [3] to create a great video addressing climate change denial and correcting common myths held by global warming skeptics. It sounds a lot like a Skeptical Science [4]-inspired project, doesn't it? Whoever did it, our hats are off. Great work.
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The painful and fruitless existence of Smith Electric Vehicles, waster of $32 million in U.S. taxpayer funds, has been extended after yet another near bankruptcy.
The Kansas City electric delivery truck manufacturer, whose actual business negotiates in government grants, tax breaks and other subsidies – rather than a product anyone actually wants to pay for – had announced at the end of September, via its British investor Tanfield Group, that it needed to raise $4.5 million by October 2nd and $10 million by the end of the month. Without the cash infusion, Tanfield said, "the company is likely to be forced to seek protection under US bankruptcy laws or close down its operations."
Despite little news over the past nine months since its last-minute abandonment of an initial public offering that was supposed to raise $76 million in cash, stimulus recipient Smith Electric Vehicles is showing little evidence it can inspire demand for its commercial trucks, like its plug-in car counterparts.
Smith's selling point for its step vans was that, unlike electric automobiles, delivery routes in urban areas did not require a long range between refueling (or, recharging). Frequent stops and short distances alleviated the "range anxiety" that accompanies cars like the Nissan Leaf. Frito-Lay, Coca-Cola and Staples were cited as early adopters of the truck demonstration project, which was launched with the help of $32 million in taxpayer funds.
The failing British electric vehicle company that pretended to become an American one in order to save its U.K. investors has scrapped its planned initial public offering that it hoped would save it in Kansas City.
Smith Electric Vehicles, recipient of $32 million in taxpayer stimulus, had reportedly fantasized it would raise $76 million (down from $125 million) via an IPO by selling roughly 4 ½ million shares at $16 to $18 each. CEO Bryan Hansel bowed to reality Thursday night and rescinded those plans.
Smith Electric Vehicles, which is using $32 million in taxpayer stimulus to practically give away its delivery trucks to corporations like Frito-Lay (owned by PepsiCo), Coca-Cola and Staples, is hemorrhaging money anyway and now is looking to an initial public offering to pay off debts and try to survive.
The Kansas City Star reported last week that Smith cut its production expectations and warning it is running low on cash, citing filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company announced nearly a year ago it would seek $125 million through an IPO, but now says it hopes to raise about $76 million at a stock price of $16 to $18, according to a Kansas City Business Journal report.
Despite a new report out of the United Kingdom that says the future of the business is bleak without government subsidies, a three-year-old unprofitable electric truck company that received $32 million in U.S. taxpayer stimulus plans to raise more money via an initial public offering.
Last week Frito-Lay, the $12 billion snack foods division of PepsiCo, boasted it would add 10 all-electric delivery trucks in Orlando, Fla., as part of its plan to deploy 176 such vehicles in the U.S. and Canada by the end of year.
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Ordered one as a gift for a friend with 15 grandchildren to help her with all those birthdays!! Had to get myself one too! Love it.
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The book was nice to replace a long calendar. It was for a gift.
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A great reminder to mail on time
By Old woman
from Texas
So glad to get the card organizer....I am old and need a reminder to do things on time. I had one when I was married (62 years ago) and so happy to find another.
By beaver beaver
from Rosendale, NY
I received the product but haven't started using it. It will do the job I want it to do: keep track of birthdays, anniversaries, and the like and has pockets where I can put greeting cards when I find them.
Get ready for the year!
By Candace
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With five adult kids and 12 grandkids, I like to stay ahead by buying cards when they are on-sale. It also keeps me from forgetting that I have already purchased a card for one of the birthdaysHaving the card, addresses, labels, and stamps makes it easier to get cards mailed in time.
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Pockets are perfect for storing cards. Made a great gift,especially having all the birthrates prefilled before giving it for Christmas.
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I would recommend it as a beginning tool for the first time you use a card organizer but as you get addicted to using one you will want to buy one that is sturdier. I bought this one for my sister and it was the first one I had ....
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As I find Birthday cards, I put them in the organizer and check it at the beginning of each month. Everything is in one book. Love it.
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When Santa Stops Being Real
When your child starts guessing the truth about St. Nick.
WebMD Feature Every holiday season for the last three years, my nine-year-old son Justin has asked me straight out if there is a Santa Claus. Every time I say no. But every year he still wants to sit on Santa's lap -- the "real" Santa, that is, the one at the mall with the best decorations, not those impostors at the other malls. And he delights at finding a few of Rudolph's stray sleigh bells in the fireplace on Christmas morning.
Even if you haven't actively cultivated your children's acceptance of the Santa Claus myth, chances are good -- thanks to the magic of Christmas TV specials and slick holiday advertising -- that they believe in the man who knows if they've been naughty or nice.
So what happens when a child's logic -- or perhaps a friend -- reveals a few inconsistencies in the jolly old man's story? How do you know when it's time to let your children in on the big secret?
"There's really no one right time to tell kids that there's no Santa Claus," says Glen Elliott, Ph.D. Elliott is an associate professor and the Director of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychology at the University of California, San Francisco. "The important thing is to take your cues from the child, and not try to prolong the fantasy for your own enjoyment when they may be ready to give it up."


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It looks like Season 13 of 'American Idol' is going to be a good one, especially after all of last year's over-the-top drama among the panelists. Keith Urban is the only returning judge in 2014 and he seems to be enjoying himself immensely, since he is having loads of fun in this spot for the new season, kicking off Jan. 15 on Fox.
2013 was a great year for country albums! Women may not have dominated the charts, but they produced some of the best LPs of the year. Ashley Monroe, Kacey Musgraves and Kellie Pickler all recorded projects that made our list of the Top 10 of 2013. Now, it's time for fans to decide who their choice for No. 1 is.
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Two very talented guitar players will take one stage to help honor the Beatles during a 2014 Grammys special event. Keith Urban will join forces with John Mayer to pay tribute to the seven-time Grammy winning group.
The seeds have been sown. After performing a unique version of Bill Withers' 'Ain't No Sunshine' at the 'Grammy Nominations Concert Live!!' on Dec. 6, Keith Urban and Miguel are both extremely keen on working together again, beyond that one-off.
As 2013 draws to a close, it's obvious that it was a good year for country superstar Keith Urban. He reviews the highs of the year in this photo recap, provided exclusively to Taste of Country.
Keith Urban's 'Fuse' album is full of creative risks that fall back on strong songwriting and unique perspective. A song about falling in love in the back of a police car? That's never been done before. In 'Cop Car,' the superstar finds a way to make his narrative relatable to even the most law-abiding romantic.
Being an 'American Idol' judge, country singer, father of two and a devoted husband doesn't leave you with much free time, and Keith Urban admits that even he has a hard time balancing everything.
Even though Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert's 'We Were Us' debuted on the Aussie singer's recent album 'Fuse,' it actually has been years in the making.
On Monday (Nov. 25), Keith Urban teased fans with a photo that suggested he may have clipped his long blonde hair. Up to three inches of what one assumed were his famous locks were spread around a barber's chair. Then, on Tuesday, he revealed his new look.


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Complaint Review: Bank Of America - BofA
Bank Of America - BofAalbany, Oregon United States of America
Bank Of America - BofA do they realy need my money albany, Oregon
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*Consumer Comment: financially irresponsible
*Consumer Comment: This is a joke right...
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My wife and I have been loyal customers of BofA for ten years now, and recently we found out that our bank has been having a feild day with our money. It seems they have been charging us a fee of $8.95 a month for our account. And the truth is they were not to charging us a dime. How did we find this out,our bank rated on themselves. One day I went into our bank to make a deposit to our account, because the bank told us we were overdrawn, when in fact we by all rights were not overdrawn. Why, because when we opened our account, we had a direct deposit account, a my access account. which we were not to be chargied a monthly fee for this account. according to the Albany branch, bank manager. we were not happy to find out that after I reviewed our bank moneystatements for the past ten years, since we opened the my access account.
So I decided to contact the bank who wrote us a letter, telling us that they were going to refund the money they had stole from us, but they would only pay us for the past three years. they sent a check for over three hundred dollars. Well what a surprise, but being money motivated that just would not cover what they think they could get away with. I said no way and reported them to the OCC, for fraud, since they stole ten years of our money I want every dime back. This may be impossible to sum, but whenever our economy is in dier straights, these banks thinks its ok to do what ever it needs to do to make up for their bad, and to use its customers money without the customer to notice is downright criminal. ten years our bank BofA has been charging us. the letter they sent said they would not pay us back for those ten years they stole from us.
So i filed another complaint with the OCC to get back the money they claim they will not pay back.
They never made claim that they would not charge us a fee, according to their rules, with this letter they sent a book of bank rules, that clearly do not state they wont charge a fee. then I began to read these rules they had sent us and right on the cover, i noticed that the book of banking pratices, was not the book we received is not the book we had gotten from the bank back in 2000, this book they sent was published in 2006.
Now who was not peying attention in class this morning, I know I was, but surely they bank was not. If they claim they charge a fee for my access account, then they need to produce the original booklet that came with our account, which should state that a fee, will be charged for a direct deposit account. and this book better show what the book I have from the bank, back in 2000. sometimes these people need a real waqke up and for the bank I thought i could trust, has just ruined it oun reputation, which went fron trusting to sleezy in a minute in a half.
So let them explain to the OCC, why their claim is different from mine, and see who cuts the last seven years they stole from us, oh yes this will include all fees we had been charged for on any overdrafts they made claim we had, within that ten years and any checks that they may have bounced and any fee's they thought they would get away with. then this sleezy no account bank who would not loan my wife a dime to buy a home, can kiss my mother f&^%ing a*s. because my account with this bank shall be cloased and if they want to fight it out then the OCC will have their hands full. and I will get my money one way or anouther, if it means ruining this banks reputation. as if that would matter to them.
This is one of the banksthat begged for the american public to help bail them out and refused to loan us money to build a new home. What a peice of S^&t this bank turned out to be. Well we have had our fair share of their BS. And we will wait and see, if they think they wont have to pay us back.
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AUTHOR: Edgeman - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Saturday, July 24, 2010POSTED: Saturday, July 24, 2010
I doubt that you'll get too far with this but just out of curiosity- why did you never review your statements?
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AUTHOR: coast - (USA)
SUBMITTED: Saturday, July 24, 2010POSTED: Saturday, July 24, 2010
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This is a joke right...
AUTHOR: Robert - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Saturday, July 24, 2010POSTED: Saturday, July 24, 2010
and recently we found out that our bank has been having a feild day with our money. It seems they have been charging us a fee of $8.95 a month for our account....How did we find this out,our bank rated on themselves
This can not be a serious report. You are going to have people believe that you were "smart" enough to keep your monthly statements for the last 10 years. Yet during that time you did not once actually look at them to notice a Monthly Service charge.
Then you are to have us believe that even though this appears to be an active account(you said it shall be closed..not that it is closed) they went through the effort of sending you a check for the past 3 years instead of just putting the money directly into the account.
The OCC is a bridge between Consumers and Banks where you can request assistance and they can often help. But I am sure that this "complaint" gave them a pretty good laugh.
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US Buildings Systems Corporation1182 E Newport Center Drive Deerfield Beach, Fl 33 Deerfield Beach, Florida United States of America
US Buildings Systems Corporation Marc Andrews,, US Buildings Sys Corp of Tempe Arizona 404 W. Broadway Rd. Ste 201, Tempe Arizona 85282 1-800-463-6062 promised I could get a building permit to build over my old slab, be grandfathered in. Did not happen. Deerfield Beach, Florida
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I was made numerous promises - in order to get my cc # - US buidings will not talk to me, will not follow up with any requests - it is like they don't have to, they already have my 3000. I cannot afford a $3000.00 cement slab plus a $6000.00 garage (1/2 now and 1/2 on delivery). I told Kain this also, he would discuss nothing with me. He didn't have to - he had my money. Can you help? Thankyou in advance.
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They also don't like these reports on Ripoff.com so this is very helpful. Don't give up. Keep at them. You can also call your local and state representitives. I'm sure they would love to hear how you have been ripped off. This is a large organization which systematically practices unethical business practices for the purpose of stealing money. I have serious doubts that the buildings exist.
I believe there is a class action lawsuit in Florida and Arizona too. US Buildings - Cavalier Buildings all the same! Good luck to you and don't give up!
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(VAN NUYS, CA) -- Vivid Entertainment Group, the world's leading producer of adult films, today reaffirmed its policy of mandatory condom use and HIV testing for performers in its films. Vivid co-chairman Steven Hirsch criticized recent media reports on the adult entertainment industry for sloppy reporting and one-sided bias.
Mr. Hirsch made his remarks in a statement issued in response to queries about recent negative press reports (notably in the Los Angeles Times Magazine on January 12, 2003 and an ABC News "Prime Time Live" program on January 23, 2003) on safety standards in the adult industry.
Condom use has been mandatory at Vivid since August 1, 1998. Vivid also requires all performers in its features to go to the Adult Industry Medical Health Foundation (AIM) to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases, at which time they are informed about health insurance benefits and other safety programs available to them through Aim. In addition, Vivid considers its performers to be employees while working for Vivid and extends Workmen's Compensation coverage to them.
Mr. Hirsch also noted that his company recently licensed a line of Vivid Condoms that will soon be sold throughout the country.
Following is the statement by Steven Hirsch, co-chairman of Vivid Entertainment Group:
"There have been recent press reports on the adult industry that I consider sloppy and biased because they have tarred the entire adult industry with a single brush, even though companies such as ours act responsibly on issues regarding our employees' welfare. We are absolutists when it comes to mandatory condom usage by male performers in our films. There are no exceptions to our rule, just as there are no exceptions to our insistence that all performers be tested for HIV and other diseases within 30 days of making a movie for us. If testing became a matter of law we would be in full compliance. We have never had a case of HIV on a Vivid production. We have never had a complaint about the working conditions on our sets, which have been visited by literally hundreds of reporters and media crews. For many years we have put a message at the beginning of each of our movies urging viewers to follow the U.S. Surgeon General's safe sex recommendations.
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Tuesday, 17th June, 2003, 08:31 PM #1
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Episode 1: "Pilot"
Birmingham, Alabama, USA. May 2003.
The biggest current local news story is the SEC investigation into the financial dealings of giant corporation South-Medical, and its philanthropist founder, Dick Scorse. The company has just laid of over a hundred people in recent weeks as its stock price fell. The weather is hot and rainy, with frequent storms.
(Due to our in-game use of real-world people & locations, some names have been changed for public release. The world is a more dangerous version of our own. )
The campaign would best be described as a dark & deadly action-thriller-horror-mystery: somewhere between X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Kolchak the Night Stalker; with bits of Friday the 13th (the series), Dusk 'til Dawn, The Matrix, Big Trouble in Little China, and Men in Black thrown in. Or another way to say it is: like an X-Files episode written by Stephen King and directed by John Woo.
- P.I. Willie Lamar - Down-on-his-luck private eye with an attitude. Currently his shotgun and car are pawned to pay bills, forcing him to rely on his grandmother to give him rides. (Charismatic)
- Brother Guyzell Cooper - Southern preacher with a cable-access TV show. Drives a pickup truck with a gun rack. (Charismatic)
- Joe Empire 38-year-old comic book shop owner / conspiracy theorist. Lives in a little apartment above his store. (Tough)
- Crystal Little Wing Lassiter - Native American college archaeology grad student (Smart)
- Taylor Chu - Bad-tempered Korean librarian, part-time grad student (NPC) (Smart)
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Tuesday, 17th June, 2003, 08:33 PM #2
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Each of the players was given a prologue hand-out. What follows are the actual handouts delivered at the table, which is why they are written in second person. I tried to convert them to third or first person for publication, but they seemed to lose something in the transfer. So here they are, unedited.
Tuesday, 17th June, 2003, 08:34 PM #3
P.I. Willie Lamar
P.I. Willie Lamar
You hate the rain.
Okay, you hate the rain, and you hate Sunday nights.
Okay, fine, you hate rain, you hate Sunday nights, and you hate Councilman Jim Slate.
It would be bad enough, stooping to these little, petty, is-my-husband-cheating-on-me jobs, where you spend nine days hiding in the bushes like a peeping tom, if you could at least go around on your own time, and stake the guy out proper. Instead, it's Sunday, and the bus don't run on Sunday. Which means you have to get Gramms to come out and drop your broke ass off here in Vestavia, so you can spend three hours in the bushes with your disposable camera and try to get a shot of this guy getting some action with his secretary between his weekend city council meeting and returning home to Jane and the kids.
Then the rain hits.
So now, just to recap, you are sitting outside the Vestavia City Hall, in the rain, in the dark, in the bushes, soaking wet, with a disposable camera, and your gun digging into your hip. You sit there for one hour, then two. You really need to bring a radio on these stake-outs. Your mind wanders. You re-play an entire season of New York Undercover in your head. You remember some dream you had last night. A nightmare, now that you remember it. You were at the funeral for your grandfather. You walked up to the casket, and put two dimes on his eyelids. Then he started growling.
The councilman guy finally comes out, and what does he do? Hops straight into his car and drives off. The secretary doesn't even come out for another five minutes, and when she does, she drives off in the other direction.
Fine. Cool. Stupid white people want to spy on each other, that's fine. Let 'em, as long as they pay the bill. Now you can at least go home and get dried off. And man, that rain is really coming down now.
You can't just walk into the civic center and use the phone to call Gramms. You want to, but you tell yourself that you will at least be professional, even on these stupid adultery cases. And besides, a soaking wet black man walking into the city hall at night while carrying a gun might not be too welcome.
So you walk a couple of blocks north up Highway 31. You make it into the Ruby Tuesday's and use the phone. Gramms answers.
Sorry, the storm is blowing too hard. She can't drive in this weather. Best wait it out a bit until the storm lets up. You don't want Gramms driving off the road, do you?
No, Gramms, that's fine. I understand. No, you're right. I'll just wait here at the bar-
You're not calling from a bar, are you?
No, Gramms, it's not a bar. Well, okay, it is a bar, but it's not a bar-bar. It's a Ruby Tues-No, ma'am, I was not going to --- No ma'am No, ma'am I have not been drinking . No, I was just calling from here Yes, ma'am...
You close your eyes and lean your rain-soaked forehead against the wall, still listening to her. You can also hear the little kid bartender, in his red-and-white golf shirt and colorful flair buttons on his apron, snickering at you from across the room. You wonder in the back of your mind if this would qualify for a "black rage" defense in court.
Yes ma'am, you saw a library across the street. Yes, the one she saw on the way over. Yes, you can wait out the storm there. Yes, it would do you some good to spend some time reading from the Good Book. Yes, ma'am. You will call her back when the storm dies down.
Fine. Fine. Fine. You slam the handset back on the receiver, and march back towards the door. You stop suddenly, just even with the pip-squeak bartender. You level your best cold gaze at him. "Something funny, mother*^$*#*?"
His eyes get bigger than silver dollars, and actually does one of those big gulps, like you see in movies. You fight the urge to grin, as you head back into the rain.
Ah well, what the hell, maybe the library has a good book on police techniques. Or at least the latest issue of Guns and Ammo.
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Tuesday, 17th June, 2003, 08:38 PM #4
Joe Empire
Joe Empire
The newsletter is going to be late this month. You were up last night working on your special exposé (about how the Canadian government is using SARS as a cover-up to explain shutting down Toronto, when their real purpose is far more sinister ) when you saw that the Sci-Fi Channel was showing "Pitch Black", and then right after that was "Alien". You decided that Sigourney Weaver could beat Vin Diesel, as long as she could somehow see in the dark, and you also decided that whenever space combat becomes a reality, that you will get serious about exercising, so you can join the Space Marines.
Anyhow, the point is, you got distracted and didn't get to finish the newsletter. Then you got tired and passed out in front of the TV, under a protective layer of Cheetos.
You had a freaky dream last night. You were at the shop, working late. There was no one there, and you had decided to close up for the night. Then, in walks a kid, and he points behind the counter at one of your older, more expensive comics on display on the wall. You look at where he is pointing. "Magic Agent #1". Asking price, five dollars.
You ask the kid for the cash, and he digs in his pocket. He pulls out a handful of silver dollars, and then counts out five of them onto the counter. You ring up the purchase, and he disappears out the door. Then, you look closer at the silver dollars that he gave you, and you realize that they're not dollars. They're some kind of trick coins. Then you woke up.
You went to work today (Sunday), and it was the usual crowd: teenagers, gamers, skaters. Although you promised yourself you wouldn't, you got sucked into a marathon of Magic The Gathering with a couple of your regular customers.
One of your regulars, John Wiggs, invited you and a couple of the other guys from the shop over to his mom's place to watch his DVD of "Lord of the Rings" tonight. He offers to give you a ride to his mom's apartment, somewhere in Hoover. You can close the shop at six, he'll pick you up, and you can both get a six-pack and some Taco Bell, and be over there well before it starts.
It wasn't until you were locking up for the night that you remembered your dream. Getting curious, you went behind the counter to the "Magic Agent #1". You really do have that comic on the wall. You pull it down. The actual price you have listed is twenty-five dollars. (This is not one of your more expensive comics, you realize, despite what your dream told you.) You realize you've never read this comic. You just pulled its price from the Overstreet Guide and put it up on the wall. What the heck, you have a couple of minutes.
You read the comic. It was published in the early 60's. It's about a government agent named John Force, who has this magic coin that grants him a variety of powers. You nearly drop the comic book on the floor when you see the coin. It is exactly like the one in your dream.
You sit there for a minute, and decide you must have read this comic before. That's how you remembered what the coin looked like. Yeah, you had to have read it before.
Anyhow, it's getting late, and now it is raining outside. Actually, it's pouring. Looks like a bad storm coming in. You put the comic away as you see headlights out front. Wiggs arrives and you rush out into the rain to his car. You drive out down Highway 31 and the rain is coming down in sheets now. You can not even see fifty feet in front of the car.
Then Wiggs gets a call on his cell phone. He pulls over into the parking lot of the Vestavia Library and answers it. It's Teresa, his whiny on-again, off-again girlfriend from Tuscaloosa. You sigh and roll your eyes while he talks to her for a minute. He seems to be agreeing to something that he doesn't want to do. Then he hangs up, and turns to you.
He says she's locked herself out of her apartment and she wants him to bring his key to her. He asks if you want to make a quick trip to Tuscaloosa. In the rain. No, scratch that, in a freakin' thunderstorm. This is what you get for hanging out with comic-book store kids.
Apparently you accidentally say something here about his girlfriend that offends him, and then he's yelling and getting all whiny. You tell him to just drop you off back home and he can go on to T-Town. He huffs and says he's not gonna go back out of his way to drop you off, so you can either go with him to Tuscaloosa or you can get out and call a cab.
You look over at the library. There are lights on inside, and several cars out front. You hop out of the car and run inside.
There really is a comic book called Magic Agent. It really is from the 1960s, and it really is about a spy with a magic coin.
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Tuesday, 17th June, 2003, 08:42 PM #5
Crystal "Little Wing" Lassiter
Crystal "Little Wing" Lassiter
You worked a closing shift last night. Late and exhausting. The Kudu may have closed at two since it was a Saturday night, but it was another half-hour until all of the regulars had filed out the door, and you were still cleaning up behind the bar until 4:30 this morning. Then you had to take a shower when you got home. The smell of stale beer and cigarettes was just a little too much. You didn't finally collapse into bed until the sky was already lightening up a little outside.
You expected to sleep like a log, and for the most part you did. When you finally did wake up (just in time for a late lunch), you vaguely remember a bad dream.
You were a little kid. You were traveling through a little western town called Anaconda, on vacation with your family. Only it wasn't a modern town. It was like one of those tourist spots built on the main highway, made to look like an Old West boom town. Then your dad stopped the car in the middle of the road and you had to get out.
The people in the town were all smiling, but you knew they were killers. They were dressed up in their cowboy outfits. You even remember they had name tags, like theme park characters. The town mayor came over and said they had to kill you and your whole family, because they were cowboys and you were Indians. It was all very matter-of-fact, like they didn't want to do it, but it was their job. Your dad seemed very understanding, and he sat down on the ground so they could shoot him, as a woman dressed like a showgirl came over and began handing out guns.
You started arguing but no one would listen. You told them it was stupid and it didn't make any sense, and you wanted your dad to stop helping them. It seemed to trouble them that you didn't want to get killed.
Then an old man was there. He wore a black cowboy hat. You can't remember his face, because he was standing in front of the sun. He didn't say anything. But the crowd seemed relieved that he was there. You remember the mayor saying something like, "Well, there you go. He'll settle this "
And the old man in the cowboy hat reached into his belt and pulled out a big silver dollar. He flipped it into the air and just then you woke up.
Rain is drizzling down lightly outside. The weatherman predicts storms tonight. Possibility of tornado activity..
You made a sandwich for lunch, and tried to do some reading for class. You have a paper due on Choctaw Oral Histories in Mississippi, and you can't find the books you need. The university library is severely lacking on the subject, and unfortunately for you, oral histories written in the original Choctaw are not a big seller at Barnes & Noble or Books-a-million. Your anthropology professor, Dr. Running Bear, would be helpful for guidance, except that he has been pulled into Moundville this whole week to help with the investigation of new tips from that whole pottery robbery fiasco.
You spend the early afternoon reading some of your other books at home, and then call around to the libraries in town. You've decided you can do without the oral histories for a while, if you can get hold of some back issues of Anthropological Quarterly. After calling the main downtown branch, you try the Southside branch and the one in Mountain Brook. No luck. Finally, Vestavia Hills says yes. They have a full collection, and they are open until ten, even on a Sunday.
The rain has stopped for now, thought it is still threatening to storm. Well, you can risk it. It's less than six miles to the library from here, and you needed to work out today anyway. It's hilly, but you could do it in half an hour if you push yourself. You pack up your backpack, put on your rain parka over your leather, and hop onto your Trek. The rain starts up again when you are about a mile from the library. You race the last few minutes, and coast into the library parking lot, just as the rain really starts coming down. You figure you can finish studying here anyway, and worst case scenario you can leave the bike here and call a cab. You tell yourself again that this week you will save your tips to put a down payment on a car, as you lock the Trek up to a post outside.
By now, the rain is really pouring. The library is deserted except for you and one young librarian. She seems surprised to see anyone here on a rainy Sunday night, especially someone who rode in on a bike. She directs you to the periodical archives and a free table, and you set to work.
Tuesday, 17th June, 2003, 08:44 PM #6
Brother Guyzell Cooper
Brother Guyzell Cooper
You didn't sleep well last night. You had a bad dream.
You were in church on Sunday. You were taking up the collection like you always do. You were passing the offering basket around, but nobody was putting anything in. Everybody was just looking at you, with these cold dead eyes. You continued anyway, passing the basket. You were halfway down the aisle when you noticed something else was wrong. Everyone was silent...
The church was full, but there were no children, and no one was talking, or singing, or even moving, except to turn and stare at you, in eerie silence. And still, no one put anything into the offering basket. Then you got to the last pew, and no one had put anything in, but when you started to set the basket down, there was a single silver dollar in the bottom of the basket.
You took the dollar out of the basket, and walked back to the pulpit. The congregation said nothing. No one moved. They just stared at you, with those cold dead eyes.
You flipped the silver coin over in your hand. It was wrong. Where it should have said the year, it said 42:28.
Then you woke up.
You ate a big breakfast this morning. Bacon and eggs, and two waffles. You always prefer to eat a big breakfast on Sunday mornings. At the breakfast table, you read yesterday's mail. You gleefully picked up a package from Columbia House. Your new DVD of The Song of Bernadette had arrived. You looked forward to watching it tonight.
The services went well this morning and you had a good crowd, despite the rain. You gave a good sermon, and the congregation was really following you. After services, you had the standard classes for children, and then the seniors' luncheon, and then the teen encounter group in the afternoon. By then the rain was pouring outside, and a storm was coming in hard.
At last, you made it to dinner time. The ladies' choir had invited you along to dinner, but you politely refused citing exhaustion. You were finally able to put your feet up, eat some re-heated casserole, and watch your new DVD of The Song of Bernadette while the storm blew outside. And what happened? Your new DVD wouldn't play. You fiddled with it for an hour, and the thing wouldn't play. The new disc looked scratched.
You sighed heavily, and looked outside. The storm had slacked up some. If you hurried, you could make it to that little video store in the Galleria and get a replacement copy before they closed.
Driving in the rain, you make it to the Galleria just after the stores close. Grumbling, you say a prayer for patience, sigh heavily and get back out onto Highway 31. The traffic on the interstate is stuck behind a wreck, and the storm is really picking up.
You cut north into Vestavia, where the highway is deserted, but the rain is coming down in sheets. You reluctantly look for a place to pull over and wait it out. Up on your left, between flashes of lightning and passes of the windshield wipers, you see a library, and it looks open.
You find yourself inside the library, shaking rain off your jacket, and looking apologetically at the weary librarian. Up ahead you see a shelf of Bibles, and a table.
That's when you remembered the dream again.
It looked to you like a chapter and verse.
There are only 6 books in the Bible with that many chapters: Genesis, Job, Psalms, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. You start from Ezekiel and work back. But each time, chapter 42 does not have enough verses. There is no verse 28. Finally, you come to the last option.
Genesis 42:28
"My silver has been returned," he said to his brothers. "Here it is in my sack." Their hearts sank and they turned to each other trembling and said, "What is this that God has done to us?"
Tuesday, 17th June, 2003, 09:53 PM #7
Session 1 (5/07/2003)
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Brother Cooper tried to maintain some semblance of dignity as he barreled through the glass double-doors of the library, momentarily wrecking the sanctum of silence within the place. The storm and wind followed him in, and his long coat and white Stetson dripped rain into a quickly-growing puddle beneath his feet.
The library was old, that was to be sure. The place smelled of wood polish, dust, and just plain old age. The outer walls were strong brick, and thick enough to stop a cannon. The tables and bookcases were dark-stained wood. The lighting was dim and yellow and clearly antique, from fixtures maybe from the twenties, or even earlier. And no sign of modernization. No colorful banners, no computer kiosk, no buzzing fluorescent lights.
The only furnishing to provide even a hint of décor was an antique wooden globe set into the floor before him, perhaps five feet in diameter, and encircled by red velvet ropes. To the right of the globe was a display table. The Topic-Of-The-Month was coin collecting. Half a dozen books on coins and coin-collecting were on display on the table.
Between two bookcases, he caught a glimpse of a young Native American woman in a black leather jacket, hunched over a table in the back of the library, thumbing through a magazine. To his right, the checkout desk was occupied by a twenty-something Asian woman, chewing on her lip and glancing at him through narrowed eyes. At once she looked both nervous and unfriendly. A small nameplate on her desk read Taylor Chu.
I apologize for the mess, maam. Seems theres quite a bit of a storm blowing up.
Taylor just frowned further, and returned her gaze to her book.
Thunder crashed outside.
I say, my names Guyzell Cooper. My parish calls me Brother Co--
SHHHH Taylor shushed him angrily.
I apologize. I was just going to ask where your Bibles were. You know the Good Book says --
SHHHH Taylor shushed him vehemently this time, and silently pointed him forward.
The Bibles were in the reference section, directly behind the globe. Brother Coopers boots squelched wetly with each step as he crossed over to the books. Selecting the King James, he sat down at the closest table and began to read.
The doors swung open again, and rain scouted ahead in as the wind invaded. A large figure loomed at the door. A black male, easily six feet tall, in a dark coat and hat.
Taylor looked even more nervous than before.
The stranger stood silently for a moment and then calmly lit a cigarette.
You dont smoke in here! Taylor hissed.
Baby, Ive been in the rain for hours. I just want to have one smoke---
You dont smoke in here! she shrieked again. You get the cigarette out of here! This is a library!
Baby, now come on. Dont be like that. My names Willie Lamar, baby, and Ive had a bad day, and---
You get the smoke out of here now or I call a cop! The librarian moved towards the other end of her desk towards a phone. You can not smoke in here!
Willie grimaced wearily, and leaned back against the door. The door creaked open a few inches, and rain began to pour in again. He shoved the cigarette out into the rain. After a moment, he pulled the arm back in, took another puff, and shoved the cigarette back out the door again.
Thunder crashed again.
You stop smoking in here! Taylor picked up the receiver threateningly.
Baby, Im not smoking in here. Do you see a cigarette in--- Willie was cut off as he regained his balance. The door he was leaning against swung open rapidly, and a huge tub of a person stumbled into the room.
The new arrival was a thirty-something male, easily a hundred pounds overweight, wearing a black trench-coat and hefting a backpack. Rain plastered his thinning hair to his face, and he absentmindedly shrugged his shoulders to re-adjust the weight of the backpack as he stood between Willie and Taylor, near the display table. Turning to Taylor, he asked, Do you have any books on coin collecting?
Taylor stared at him for a moment in silence. Willie took another puff of his cigarette. Several emotions quickly chased across her face, but she eventually settled on a mixture of disbelief and exasperation. She silently, violently pointed behind him.
The fat man turned to the display table and began pulling books up into a stack under one arm.
Taylor began angrily, hey fat boy, those are books on display--
Yeah, I got it, he mumbled, his back still to her. He stopped with the half-dozen books under his arm and headed to one of the tables in a corner near a window to read.
Taylor turned back to Willie, who flicked the remainder of his cigarette out into the parking lot. With a wink and a grunt of satisfaction, he let the door close completely and headed over to the skimpy selection on the magazine rack.
Thunder crashed again outside, and suddenly, the lights went out. A heartbeat passed as everyone waited in silence. Then, the loud sound of glass breaking pierce the silence, and Taylor screamed.
Dim emergency lights flickered into life above the shattered front doors. Four rain-soaked thugs dressed in ragged clothing stood in the puddle of broken glass, panting and grinning wild-eyed grins that betrayed souls bent on destruction. The one in front reached into the back of his belt and drew a long Bowie knife...
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Wednesday, 18th June, 2003, 03:30 PM #9
Session 1 (5/07/2003) Combat
Brother Cooper stood up rapidly for a man of his size, and his hands came up in a calming gesture, Son, hello there Now I dont know whats going on here, son, but I dont think you should be waving around that knife--
The thug with the knife grinned wider and took a few steps towards the preacher. Behind him, the other three remained in place, but each drew a similar knife. The blades all were clean, and gleamed like wicked candles in the flickering emergency lights.
Willie reached into his jacket, and in a flash he was holding a pistol. FREEZE MOTHER*$%#%&! DROP THE #^%&ING KNIFE!
The display was enough to shake a war veteran, but the thug didnt even pause. As he lunged forward, Brother Cooper saw it in his eyes. A glazed-over look that spoke volumes. The thugs were not in their right minds, and would not listen to reason or be intimidated.
In a flurry of knives and screams, combat began. The thugs were everywhere, knives flashing in the low light, grunting and giggling in a fury as they leaped over tables and into the room.
Willie fired, and a thug collapsed bleeding onto the carpet. Another lunged forward to replace him, and Willie caught a knife blade across his side. Blood flowed from the gash, and he staggered back.
Brother Cooper reached into his jacket and drew out an odd-looking appliance. Pointing it at the thug closest to him, he squeezed a trigger. The Tazer fired wildly at his target and missed completely. A scorched smell of ozone permeated the room. The preacher looked crestfallen, and backed up into the stacks, but not fast enough. The thug in front of him stabbed viciously and the preacher took a deep knife wound into his belly.
Another thug leaped over the front desk and slashed at Taylor. Clutching her handbag, she dove under the desk divider, and came up on the other side, a revolver in her hand. Blood flowed from a shallow knife wound on her arm.
The fat man with the coin-collecting books staggered up from his table in the back. His backpack was open at his side, spilling out a dice bag and a few small lead miniatures, but he ignored those and instead began furiously stuffing the library books into the pack. A thug was suddenly on top of him, slashing wildly. The fat gamer dodged wildly from side to side, the book bag swinging and deflecting the knife, as he reached in deeper into the bag. As the thug came up to tackle him, an explosion sounded from the bottom of the bag. A tiny bullet hole appeared in the bottom of the sack, and the thug staggered backwards bleeding.
Willie was falling back, and losing the battle. He felt dizzy and the gun was shaking in his grip. He fired again and again at his next target, but the gun was shaking in his hands, and he could not hit anything. Beside him, Taylor was stumbling backwards as well, trying to keep a bookcase between her and her attacker, but she emptied her gun and still could not hit anything.
Wasting no time, the fat man took a few unsure steps, and crashed through the front window of the library, out into the rain-soaked parking lot. Brother Cooper staggered past his closest opponent and followed through the front doors, towards his truck, and his gun rack. From the corner of his eye, he saw another thug running into the library as he exited. The preacher felt nauseous and he clutched his bleeding stomach as he moved.
The rain was pouring down outside, as Brother Cooper fumbled with his blood-and-rain-soaked keys and opened the passenger door to his pickup. As he reached for his shotgun from the rack, the fat man was suddenly at the driver side door. Brother reached in and flipped open the door lock.
Lets get out of here! the fat man yelled as he jumped into the drivers seat, tossing a well-worn backpack into the floorboard.
Who in the blazes are you? Brother Cooper asked, as he flicked off the safety and positioned a shell into the chamber.
Im Joe! the fat man yelled, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. Lets go! he whined again as he reached for the keys.
Brother Cooper pulled the keys back from his grip, and tucked them into his pocket. Gunfire rattled repeatedly from inside. Theres people in trouble inside, Joe. Im afraid I cant leave yet.
Well give me the KEYS! Joe screamed, as Brother Cooper ignored him and staggered back towards the library doors.
The scene inside had changed, and not for the better. As Brother Coopers boots crunched on the broken glass of the double doors, he saw a thug lunge at Willie, and bury a six-inch Bowie blade hilt-deep into the black mans thigh. Blood fountained up over the scene, and Willies eyes rolled back. He cursed, Son of a and collapsed on the floor.
Taylor was still pulling the trigger on her revolver, but there was only a defenseless click-click-click as the chamber rolled empty. She screamed as a thug dove for her, and she ran between the bookshelves. Brother Cooper fired his shotgun at the thug, and paper exploded as the shell missed and buried pellets into a bookshelf.
The thug leader who had buried in his knife into Willie stood over him, drew out the knife, and reared his arm back to deliver a death blow. Brother turned, unable to move fast enough, watching as the knife descended. Suddenly, from the shadows, the forgotten Native girl in the black leather jacket was there, leaping onto a table and screaming a tribal war cry. Her only weapon was a backpack loaded with books, which she slung like a hammer into the back of the thugs head. With a sickeningly wet sound, the impromptu weapon connected, and the thug collapsed on top of Willie.
Brother looked at the shotgun in his hands, and then down at the wounded man in front of him. He started to hand the gun to the Native girl, when she leapt forward again. One of the thugs on the floor had started to get back up and pick up his knife. Again, the girls weighted backpack bounced of a skull, and the enemy collapsed.
Suddenly Taylor was running around the corner of a bookshelf, the thug hot on her heels. Brother Cooper reacted instinctively, and yelled to her, Catch! and threw the shotgun to her. As the thug rounded the corner after her, the librarian caught the shotgun, spun, and fired. At the same moment, Joe appeared in the front door and also fired his pistol. The bullet and shell hit the thug simultaneously, and the last of the strange assailants collapsed in a bloody heap on the floor.
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Wednesday, 18th June, 2003, 07:16 PM #10
Session 1 (5/07/2003)
Session 1 (5/07/2003) Post-Combat
Brother Cooper was dizzy, and his stomach was a maelstrom of pain. Call 911 please he choked out, as he knelt down beside Willie. Blood has soaked his pants and the wound on his thigh was jagged, deep, and ugly.
I already tried, my cell isnt working, the Native American girl answered, as she unslung her jacket and began ripping her shirt sleeve into makeshift bandages. The preacher rolled up his jacket and pressed it to his own wounds while also trying to help her.
Cell phones dont work in the library, Taylor answered matter-of-factly, as she staggered over to the front desk and set the shotgun down onto the copier. Her shoulder was bleeding, but it didnt appear life-threatening. From under the desk, she produced a small first-aid kit, and dropped it onto the floor next to Willie. She shrugged one shoulder in an I dont know how to use this gesture, and picked up the office phone behind her desk. She dialed three digits.
Willie was coming around on the floor, his eyes rolling around drunkenly and his breath shallow. The Native girl opened up the first aid kit and set to work trying to stop his bleeding. She spoke in soothing tones, Hello, can you hear me? Did you say your name is Willie? Willie, can you hear me? My names Crystal. Willie, can you hear me? Can you say my name? Can you say Crystal? Can you hear me?
Taylor was on the phone giving an address. She covered the mouthpiece for a moment, An ambulance and the police are on the way.
Instantly Willie grabbed Crystals wrist and whispered groggily, Police no my gun! hide hide my gun
Then Joe was there by his side. Sounds like you got the right idea, man, and he tucked Willies pistol into his backpack. Spinning on his heel in the broken glass, he headed out into the rain as the others looked on for a moment in protest. Be right back. Nobody mention this! and he was gone.
A siren sounded in the distance. Brother Cooper risked a look at his stomach. He was losing a lot of blood.
Crystal motioned Taylor over, and had her put pressure on Willies leg wound. With her blood-soaked hands free for a moment, and the police on the way, she looked over at the bodies of their attackers. Perhaps unsure if they might regain consciousness soon, or be possessed of other weapons, she crawled over to the closest thug and dug into his pockets.
Tires squealed on the pavement outside. Brother Cooper thought he saw paramedics arriving. He whispered a quick Thank you, Father as he lost consciousness.


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- Brainstorming and refining a character concept
- Installing custom brushes
- Optimizing tablet settings
- Posing the ZSpheres in ZBrush
- Sculpting muscles and midsize shapes
- Working with DynaMesh
- Using GoZ between ZBrush and Maya
- Creating topology for animation
- Sculpting fine detail
- Cleaning up a mesh in Maya
- Creating the UV layout
- Lighting and shading
- Painting texture maps
- Posing with Transpose tools in ZBrush
- Batch rendering a turntable animation
Skill Level Intermediate
In addition to sculpting ZBrush is also a great tool for painting. It works through a technology called polypainting in which vertices are colored when painted. The more vertices you have in a model, the finer detail you can paint. In this chapter we will be painting everything by hand. While it's true that you can paint by projecting photographs like we did in Chapter 7 with the pedestal, I find that painting most things from scratch allows me to do some unique things that you can't find in photos.
Before I start painting I do want to study photographs of real animals so that I can get a sense of the types of colors and patterns that will feel natural. There's often a relationship between the anatomy and the coloration. For example, in this photo notice how the scales and plates are one color pattern and the gaps between them are different color pattern. There might be one color on the creature's underbelly and a different color down the back. These kinds of variations bring both a natural feel and visual interest to a creature.
So let's start painting. The first thing you'll want to do is make sure that you're on a white material. So if you've got red wax or any other colored material on your object, go to SkinShade04. This one usually works really well. You'll also want to make sure you're on your highest subdivision level. So let's make sure we've got the right SubTool selected. We want the dew hopper here. Now let's go down to the Geometry palette, and just go ahead and slide the subdivision level all the way up to the highest.
Now we want to fill the whole thing with a starting color. I am going to pick a tan color. It doesn't really matter so much as it's going to be painted over eventually with other colors. Now we just want to fill the model with this color. So go up to Color and click Fill Object. Now we're ready to start painting with other colors. I find it best to approach painting in the same way that I sculpt, starting with big broad areas of color and then slowly getting more and more refined.
If I were to start with fine detailed strokes, and then it turns out that I wanted the base color to be a little bit different, it would be very hard to change. So let's figure out what color we want to use in combination with this tan color. I think the leathery skin on the underbelly and legs might work well with this tan color, but I want the bony plates to be something a little different. Let's get a kind of a dark red and now we need to paint with color. So I am going to go up and change RGB, turn that on so we're painting with color, and turn off the Zadd so that we're not sculpting.
I also want to paint symmetrically. So I am going to hit X to turn on Symmetry. Let's just zoom in a little bit here. So now you can just start painting. Now I just want to get a broad variation right now, kind of a gradient from this red color to a tan color. So I am not going to get really specific at all. I just want to establish a basic gradient. This is a good time to experiment with different color combinations. Maybe I want a little bit more green, maybe on the legs.
So I could just try that out and see how that looks, and if you don't like it, you don't even have to undo, you can just still pick a different color, and just paint over, and see what works out. I am going to zoom out for a better look. Really, I am just playing around, just giving myself lots of options. Maybe I want to put that to a more blue color and just see what you get. I am going to hit Space and shrink my brush size a little bit.
Maybe you could try out some weird patterns or designs on this as well. So really it's up to you at this stage. Try things out, experiment, have fun with it. Now, let's get into some tips and tricks. You can use masking to paint only on the bumps or only in the space between bumps. This is a great way to use the existing anatomy to make painting even easier. Let me zoom in a little bit and explain. So you could come in here, and shrink your brush size down, and try to paint only exactly right in-between cracks.
So you could try to paint in here and spend all this time doing that, but that would be very tedious. So I am going to show you a faster way to do this. Let's go to the Masking palette and I am going to click Mask By Cavity, and it might take a few seconds to do this. So what this has done is it's masked off anything that's in a crack or a crevice. Now if you invert this mask, you can come in and get a larger brush and just paint directly into all these cracks and crevices.
If you want to change the color of the bumps in-between the cracks, you can just invert again, and let's try a different color here, yellowish color maybe, and paint on there. Now if we clear the mask and zoom out, we can see the effect that we have. There are a few places where we could use spotlight to project texture from photos. The issue with that is that so much of the color of the creature is dependent on the specific details of the sculpted anatomy; it would be very hard to find photos that would complement the sculpted details exactly.
So in a photograph with lizard scales for example, the scales would not very likely line up with the sculpted scales on the creature. However, on the places like the bony plates this might work out. So let's give it a try. I've got this photo of a seashell and I am going to try to project it with spotlight onto the bony plates. Let's see how it works. Let's go to Texture menu and Import, and let's get that seashell reference. Let's go back up to the Texture menu, make the seashell active, and actually what we want to do is zoom in on the parts of the dew hopper that we're going to paint on.
So let's just zoom in really close on one of these bony plates. I want to look around for a better view. That should work for now. Now, open your Texture menu, make sure the seashell is active and click on this button right here to add it to spotlight. I want to make this thing go away. So I am going to hit Comma and now let's position the seashell so that it's right on top of where we want to project through. So we can rotate it, we can scale it, we can move it around by clicking inside of this area right here, and let's lower the opacity so we can see the model more clearly through it.
So I want to position the seashell so it's right over the bony plate here, pretty good. So let's click-and-drag on the Spotlight Radius right here. This is going to give us a preview of the size of the brush. Now when you're ready, just hit Z to go into Paint Mode. So now you can just start painting. You brush right through the photograph onto the model. When you're done, you can hit Z to go back into Spotlight, and you could either reposition this photo to start painting on a different place or when you're done for good, you could just hit the X here.
Let's zoom out and see what this looks like. So you see there are some situations where you'd want to use photo sourced textures. However, I would still want to do some painting to help integrate this with the rest of the textures. From here on out, there's not really any trick to it. It's just a matter of working from general colors to fine details. Go ahead and paint various SubTools as well. Just be careful to use Symmetry when necessary and then turn it off when you're close to the center line. This part of the process really depends more on your artistic eye for color and painting than any techniques or tools.


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DANIEL BROWNPosition:Centre backGoals this season:0DOB:24 April 1977
Dan joined Harmen from Premier Division Camden Park in order to join up with his old SPEC team-mates. A thinking man's player, Dan uses his head to play the game it should be played. He is good in the air and has an excellent ability to read the game. His calm presence is an invaluable asset to the club both on and off the pitch. Assistant manager in 2004/5, Dan has stepped down to concentrate on his playing career. Previous Clubs: SPEC, Oakhill, Camden Honours: AJY Div 3 Runners up 1989 (SPEC) Maccabi Premier League Winners 1997/98(Oakhill) Peter Morrison Runners up 1997/98 (Oakhill) Maccabi Div 1 Runners up 1999/00 (Camden Park)


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Welcome to the 67th season of the Sutton & District Table Tennis League, having completed my first year as your chairman, it has been very interesting to see what goes on and the amount of work that is entailed in running a successful table tennis league and I believe our league is successful. Your thanks are due to the committee in particular Julie for not only running Division 4 but the arduous and time consuming task of organising the many trophies we present on an annual basis. Alan runs Division 1, 2 and 3 as well as the annual tournament whilst Warren and Steve ran the cup competitions. Frank Ho ensures the league finances are kept in good order recognised in the award this year of the Ken Mantell Trophy.
The hard work these people put in ensures you have a table tennis league to play in.
The season did have two sad losses to the league, Ray Ellis my predecessor sadly died in March and also Barrie King, auditor and former committee member, who passed away in January both will be greatly missed. Michelle McGovern kindly undertook the task of auditing the Leagues accounts.
I mentioned last year some concerns the committee had, in particular the obtaining of ETTA numbers, this problem was much improved however another problem has caused the league secretaries additional work, it would appear, particularly from the top divisions, correct completion of result cards and submitting in time in order that Julie and Alan can formulate league positions and averages which we enjoy receiving weekly (if you don't receive these let Julie or Alan have your email address). When results are late or incomplete it means everyone has incomplete results. There is no excuse for the degree of poor result submitting and must be improved for the coming season.
Your committee has also commenced a phased programme of trophy replacement or renovation. One of the Trophies renovated was the Frank Priest Trophy which we considered especially important as he was the leagues founder. The other two renovated trophies have been renamed in honour of Ray Ellis and Barrie King.
It has been confirmed that from July 1st plastic balls must be used for all matches.
Finally congratulations to all winners of the leagues and cup competitions and closed championships. I hope you all enjoy the coming season.
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"I wish all my dreams are realised soon and that includes setting up a world class weightlifting academy in the city which would be my first preference if I am allotted the site," Malleswari said. She recalled that after her Olympics medal there was an offer for a site in this regard but she could not pursue the matter since she was busy with the preparations for the 2004 Athens Olympics.
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The accident occurred just after 8 a.m. near 450 Shapleigh Road in West Lebanon.
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"It was reported that the operator was traveling east on Shapleigh Road when the vehicle left the side of the road, striking the telephone and snapping it in half. The vehicle continued into the woods and struck several small trees. Fortunately the operator was wearing his seat belt and only received minor injuries." Assistant Chief Jason Cole added.
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Here's my set-up:
I just installed WordPress 3.3.1 on a new GreenGeeks-hosted account, inside a subdirectory at freeish.net/msp/.
Here's what I think one of the big issues is:
Wordpress somehow thinks that it's installed at the root level, not within /msp/. This is evidenced by the fact that the /wp-admin/options-permalink.php page shows its example permalinks like this:
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This isn't at all what I want either. What I'm looking for is: http://freeish.net/msp/sample-post/.
Here's what happens in various situations:
1) When permalinks are set to "Default":
The front page at freeish.net/msp/ shows up correctly, but internal links to posts or pages are created at the root level of the domain (e.g., freeish.net/?p=34) and simply redirect to the index at freeish.net, not to any WordPress page at all.
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The front page at freeish.net/msp/ shows up incorrectly, with a "Not Found" error where the first post should be. All links to posts and pages (e.g. on the "Post Archive" calendar) lead to 404 errors.
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The front page at freeish.net/msp/ shows up incorrectly, as in #2 above. Internal links to posts are still created at the root level (e.g., http://freeish.net/under-construction-update-9-april-2012/ or http://freeish.net/contact/), but these "pretty permalinks" do work, as you'll see if you click on them.
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I've tried using the "Custom Structure" option on the /wp-admin/ permalink settings page to force the structure to be "/msp/%postname%/" -- but this just results in the same 404 errors as attempt #2 above. Ugh.
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Palazzo Farnese
The member of the Farnese family who commissioned the Palazzo Farnese went on to become Pope Paul III not long after, so the building got even more palatial soon after it was done. The Farnese family were well-known sculpture collectors - parts of their collection make up Naples' archaeological museum and Capodimonte Museum today.
Although the Palazzo Farnese is the French embassy in Italy, there are tours available - which is good, given the art that remains in the palace, including frescoes on walls and ceilings. Even if you don't go inside, you can see some of Michelangelo's handiwork on the facade. The Renaissance master is responsible for, among other things, the central window that served as a focal point and something of a stage for Pope Paul III when he stood on the balcony.
Tours & Tickets
Rome Super Saver: Skip-the-Line Crypts and Catacombs plus Ghost and Mystery Walking Tour
Discover Rome's ghostly sights and hidden delights with this Super Saver that combines two quirky tours at one discounted price. In the afternoon, set off on a ... Read more
Location: Rome, Italy
Duration: 8 hours (approx.)
Ghost and Mystery Walking Tour of Rome
Explore the heart of Italy's ancient capital and hear tales of myth and legend on this 1.5-hour ghost and mystery walking tour of Rome. When the sun sets, a ... Read more
Location: Rome, Italy
Duration: 90 minutes (approx.)
Evening Food Walking Tour in Rome
Make the most of your Roman evenings with a walking tour combined with excellent food tastings. Food in Rome, while unquestionably delicious, can be a daunting ... Read more
Location: Rome, Italy
Duration: 3 hours (approx.)
Rome Photography Walking Tour: Learn How to Take Professional Photos
English-speaking photographers have in-depth local knowledge, a passion for their city and for the art of photography. The photographers are carefully selected ... Read more
Location: Rome, Italy
Duration: 3 hours (approx.)