text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - MICHAEL ANDEN CONCEPT ART FROM NEW SUPERHERO COMIC 'GODS' Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Gallery/Finished Work View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "MICHAEL ANDEN CONCEPT ART FROM NEW SUPERHERO COMIC 'GODS'" Capojunior memberMember #Joined: 25 Feb 2007Posts: 42Location: London Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 11:45 am Hi there- how's it hanging? This thread features pre-production art for my 13 issue flagship maxi-series Gods, which I am working on for my proposed Cannon Comics line, to debut in my anthology title provisionally titled... The gallery will range from rough thumbnails and detailed sketches to fully coloured sequentials and painted promo pieces. I welcome all comments, crits and suggestions. Obviously, the sequential pages are closest to visualising the final product. The material is arcanepunk meets space-fantasy, and I have just begun beavering on the actual comic book art proper from my script for the entire series, which is itself completed and 'locked'. So it's my pleasure, and hopefully soon yours, that I introduce to you... THE DAY OF DOOM... Gods tells of the sudden manifestation of an immense stratoscraping mountain fortress on the outskirts of Valdor, capital nation of the high-tech medieval world of Aldar. Dubbed the 'Slayers', the planet's deadliest soldiers have already been largely routed from existence by Aldar's military Protectorate, but their rag-tag remains- comprised of teams and individuals of wildly varying moral codes- are now called upon to help face off the Fortress's extradimensional 'Battlelord' legions. The Lordmaster of the incursion is the demi-god Ryzar, long banished to but dim memory by Aldar's all-but extinct violence-shunning Lightlords, but returned to the world by a fifth column of black magicians within the Protectorate. THE IRON REIGN... The deity seeks to complete a long-delayed dark rite that will uproot the living from the physical world, forevering interring all within the steel trap of Ryzar's mind's eye. The eternal desolation facing the soon-to-be figmentary prisoners of Ryzar's awareness is previewed in full to Eldridge Cyger- tearaway teenage son of Slayer Cade Cyger- when he stumbles into the being's off-world lair at the start of the story... an all-binding netherworld where one's every movement, word and thought is as predetermined by the Lordmaster as a shadow by its owner. A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE... The hostage provides Ryzar with an emotional lever against Aldar's most feared warrior. Over others, it wields a more rational defence: within its miles of protective granite, the being's final layer of all concealing-armor registers precisely as the background radiation of the universe... the Black Pillar that is Ryzar's dimensional shell harbours nothing less than the very universe itself. ON THE SIDE OF THE ANGELS? Somehow the Slayers, Protectorate and the last of the Lightlords must overcome their differences and unite to oppose the most terrible predator ever known... Creation itself. First off, some concept sequential concepts here... Hyperion battlecruiser concept (side view) Hyperion color study Forcefield projector station within first layer of mountain fortress interior. Like this one a lot, but it's going to mean I have to step up my game with the design of the mountain fortress exterior... [img][/img]Last edited by Capo on Sun Oct 19, 2014 6:21 am; edited 7 times in total Back to top Capojunior memberMember #Joined: 25 Feb 2007Posts: 42Location: London Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 11:49 am Battlelord 'Straaken'- alien warrior concept Battlelord Straaken is the deposed king of his small, ocean storm-beset homeworld Thoron. Having escaped the planet with Janrak, the last of his otherwise massacred line, he contends with Ryzar that he will do anything to regain his throne and rain vengeance on those who conspired to usurp him. Straaken demonstrates that he walks the talk by acceding to the dark god's request that he devour Janrak alive right there and then. Naturally, like most of Ryzar's devoted legions, Straaken remains far too self-involved to realise the full implication of his master's goal to part all who live from their every last flicker of volition. "Hell's he looking at us like that?" "Ain't me he's looking at... sorry, Dyler- you're on your own!"Last edited by Capo on Thu Sep 18, 2014 7:56 am; edited 2 times in total Back to top Capojunior memberMember #Joined: 25 Feb 2007Posts: 42Location: London Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2014 10:18 am Final design and four prelim roughs for the 'Jackal' tank bikes that will feature in the second part of the Gods British comic book trilogy. These all-terrain attack vehicles feature two elongated, tilting treads that sprout climbing crampons, enabling their riders to storm even the sheer cliffs of the titan enemy mountain 'Ryzar'. "They'll get you where you need to go, alright. What'll be left of you, anyhow." Last edited by Capo on Thu Sep 18, 2014 7:56 am; edited 2 times in total Back to top TzanmemberMember #Joined: 18 Apr 2003Posts: 755Location: Boston MA Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 8:08 am Nice work, I really like your comic style art. Back to top Capojunior memberMember #Joined: 25 Feb 2007Posts: 42Location: London Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 3:20 am Thanks a lot Tzan! Apologies for the lined paper- these were done as sidebars to script notes, prior to figuring they maybe turned out interesting enough for display.Last edited by Capo on Thu Sep 18, 2014 7:59 am; edited 4 times in total Back to top TzanmemberMember #Joined: 18 Apr 2003Posts: 755Location: Boston MA Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 8:17 am A long time ago I wrote on lined paper and did sketches on it. Then as I bought sketch books, I put my written notes and sketches there. But if I wanted to share them it was hard to make copies because the sketch books were a large size. So I finally switched to doing all my notes and sketches on blank 8 1/2" x 11" copier paper held in a clip board. I use a black .5mm Uniball pen. I don't like lines telling me what to do. Back to top Capojunior memberMember #Joined: 25 Feb 2007Posts: 42Location: London Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:00 am Major Cade Cyger character concept (revised from the tan jacket number) "Wait!! You'll wake the dale guardian!" Concept sketch of Sergeant Daniel Foley. "Jonesy!! Two on the pipe- lock it up!!" Concept sketch of Gods druid Halsen Archard 'Yeah? Seems to me this is exactly the right time for one of my lame parlour tricks.' Concept sketches and paintings of battlesuit for Gods antagonist 'Nargun'- an incorporeal demon from the planet Aldar's Dark Age. Interesting note about the lined note paper- most of these babies weren't really whipped up for public consumption or intended to be formal concept art, just side scrawls beside my script notes- but hopefully they're interesting enough for those who are big into pre-production stuff. 'No-one conquers death. Death conquers you.' 'And what's wrong with that?' Medical droid 'Jeeg' whips across roiling battlefields either patching up the greviously wounded or putting them out of their misery, depending on the severity of their messed-upness. The Hypocratic oath doesn't get much of a look-in when half the dying are likely to Turn (into)... ...lifeless, soul-sucking Gaunts. You may know some of them. Master sergeant Vansonn 'Vance' Hillbrandt performs the blunt, heavy-duty frontline wetworks that could be termed as mass personnel demolition. Discovering his own culpability in running security for the horrific false flag operations of his nation's political demagogues, Vance finds himself poised to take his own life, until his protege Kara Flynn evinces he has no business getting off that easy. Some more sketches, apologies for the lined paper- these were done as sidebars to script notes, prior to figuring they maybe turned out interesting enough for display. Cade's battleblade is enriched by sorcery, enabling it to be sawmilled in the direction of incoming debris or enemy artillery, providing a defensive canopy of whizzing metal. Odds n' ends Infirmary med vorg; Cade Cyger's Diamondback Interceptor; Light Council twin-engine Skyraider; Slayer Rayken Shorde (close-up); thumbnail study of Theeldoran Library lobby. Early sketches of Gods' protagonists' main junkbucket, the Starstriker Starstriker in flight - test 'comet tail' effect for dogfights etc Some more early vehicle concepts Top tenth of the twenty-kilometer tall mountain fortress exterior of the great dark god Ryzar. The charge bolts of the summit's towergun have a range far beyond the cannon's already extensive visual range, winning the weapon little popularity with Ryzar's scattered opponents. "Mag bombs ineffective- it's cycling up! Where's our freaking evac? Stiers!! You raisin' dust-off on that comm or making love to it?" Some variations (plus defense screen craft designs) and close ups Towergun studies Concept sequential for orbital battlefleet flotilla (and destroyer brig). Mountain fortress tunnel depot Cephalopod nightmares the Krakenites. Lt Stenguard Pasha. Uncanny sharpshooter, mop-up agent and freight haulier In these trouble economic times you have to be able to diversify. Back to top Capojunior memberMember #Joined: 25 Feb 2007Posts: 42Location: London Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:15 am Conference chamber; arboretum; altar chamber Battlelord Nailen. Treacherous and slippery reptile. Always siding with whoever he thinks is set to become the winning side. To be four-armed is to be forearmed. Rampart battlement GDR Vice Defense Secretary Amber Weststar goes badass Cade Cyger throws a mean right hook- so you gotta slip left. No- your other left. Okay, he'll make it easy for ya- go on- pop one his kidneys. Back to top Capojunior memberMember #Joined: 25 Feb 2007Posts: 42Location: London Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:16 am Early concept sequential- note the cruder digital coloring, inking, speech balloons, anatomy, the way the- in fact, I'll leave you to it. Admiral Tieron of the battlecruiser Hyperion. [/img] Captain Rayken Shorde- good guy, mystery alien swordsman and saboteur Towergun firing chamber; targeting vestibule; personnel conveyor booth Mountain fortress interior: sewer system; reactor waste caverns; mezzanine to ready room Back to top Capojunior memberMember #Joined: 25 Feb 2007Posts: 42Location: London Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:16 am Mountain fortress interior: Interspatial corridor conducers; courtyard; underpass Mountain fortress: various engineering antechambers and tactical bays Mountain fortress interior: power regulator hall Back to top Capojunior memberMember #Joined: 25 Feb 2007Posts: 42Location: London Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:17 am GDR Landstormer Armored Attack Vehicle Janya Cyger- wife of Cade Cyger, has sided with Ryzar's denomination having resigned herself to the certainty of the entity's imminent mastery of all existence. Global Defense Restitution (GDR) Jyrad T-S14 Copperhead Class Interceptor Gurat-Holt NX-115 Hammerhead Gunship (lead interdiction craft Ryzar's Siege armies) Lt Kara Flynn- wielder of the Scythedriver- or at least she will be come her revised uniform (second image) Granger-Orbach G-3S Hummingbird Medical Freighter Back to top Capojunior memberMember #Joined: 25 Feb 2007Posts: 42Location: London Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:18 am Q9-R- TAC (Terrestrial Armoured) Counter-personnel vorg (automaton) Cade Cyger and Nargun (on the same side?) Time-faring Voidernaut Trooper "This is a temporal quarantine zone. You may take your chances wearing these explosivests to go down the line and eliminate your earliest identified ancestors... or await the hour and face the arrival from the coming Dark Age of your final known descendants. We strongly recommend the former." Aldarus Orbis Terrarum- International map of Gods' primary planet Aldar Concept for Theeldor City as seen from cave of Mount Ryzar. Back to top Capojunior memberMember #Joined: 25 Feb 2007Posts: 42Location: London Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:18 am Concept sketch and painting of Gods' Lord of the Dead, Dargoth "It may well be true that death as a fate is nothing to be afraid of. But Death as a person..." Mt Ryzar power chamber "I'm getting the feeling this 'free energy' supply isn't so free." Early concept promo painting Thumbnail sketches of Nargun, Cade Cyger and some Mt Ryzar fortress interiors Gods' protagonists' leader is the Scryer, Elder white witch of the ancient so-called Council of Light. Now relegated to spectral form, her holographic projection rune allows her to command the field of battle from her lieutenants' gunship the Cerebus. "'Thread that crossfire,' she says. Like she's got a body to lose!" - Cerebus Captain Lloyd Raines. Assisting the Scryer is her triune of druidic adepts, the Light Council- borne in their shuttle Lazarus Ryzar's Grand Vizier, Dr Jelial Quaril. "The first rule of psychological warfare is to realise we're all our own worst enemy. Let the enemy to frag themselves up." Close-up of Fortress superstructure Slayers of Valdor, capital nation of the planet Aldar. "It takes more than a whole mess of firepower to hold off a wave of Stormkings- but it helps." Back to top Capojunior memberMember #Joined: 25 Feb 2007Posts: 42Location: London Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:19 am More mechs here. The Battlelords- fanatical disciples of the mountain fortress lord Ryzar - have at their disposal a league of flying and ambulatory attack vehicles with which to rout the almost completely unprepared populations of the planet Aldar and the wider Gods cosmos... "You hear somethin?" Back to top Capojunior memberMember #Joined: 25 Feb 2007Posts: 42Location: London Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:19 am Cade Cyger and Nargun Back to top Capojunior memberMember #Joined: 25 Feb 2007Posts: 42Location: London Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:31 am "On wings of fire seek fleshbound realm, 'tis sight profane face thy gilded glare." Starstriker First Officer Bovasso- Reya Systems GR-1 FRAD Class Navigation Vorg. You just flytipped the spent core into one of the holiest known relics ever, you nork! I coulda squeezed another half parsec outta that!" Theeldor City overlooking Lake Jarede "Barricade's history- we need to fall back to downtown!" "Downtown? Where in hell've you been, Thompson?" Back to top Capojunior memberMember #Joined: 25 Feb 2007Posts: 42Location: London Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:33 am Dargian Leviathan Class SST-12 Battlecruiser. "So much for the face your saved with all your bridge-burning, Tieron!" "Ah- Commander Strathern- Dargians astern! Battlecruiser- and it's with the President!" "Yeah, well 'scuse me if I don't break out the party poppers, Walden." Rangar Pejoran- five-foot Kestarian psionic spy from the Breslen system. "Ghan vok rankri smon dastra" "Let's see if he flies as well as he spills his guts to incursors." "Rang, how 'bout you just sit this one out okay- I got this." Another promo pic Captain Rayken Shorde of the fighting freighter Starstriker. A notorious industrial saboteur-for-hire and freebooter, Shorde nevertheless throws his weight behind the Hold's plight against the incursion of the Dark Gods into his adopted realm. Shorde was condemned to be encased in his battlemask from birth, yet he remains oblivious that his mentor- for not entirely altruistic reasons- recently impanted his false memory that the 'casket' is but a recent and voluntary affectation. Shorde's true identity could spell salvation or damnation for the besiged worlds of the Gods universe. "Oh- uh... Hi, Ray. Didn't, uh- didn't see you there. Guess, uh- guess you need to get going, now that old jalopy of yours's good to hit sky, huh?" "Be a while yet. Your mothers well? Huh? Oh- yeah. Yeah, shes ok. Bit of chest infection, third this year so shes a bit down... plus what with this whole end of the world deal'll n' all-" Good. Good. Back to top Capojunior memberMember #Joined: 25 Feb 2007Posts: 42Location: London Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:41 am Court martialled demolitionist Dannick McQ is nobody's idea of a hero, but nobody could ever accuse him on not following through on an assignment. "I know. But, see, working back from my list, seems there's still this thing hanging over everything since Outpost K. Kind of embarrassing, really- hate to even bring it up, but more than that I hate loose ends. 'Specially when it comes to someone's failure to discharge his duty..." "Fragging hell, Dan- are you serious??" Fundamental to Ryzar's conquest of the universe's oldest surviving planet is the lifeforce-shielded, endless labyrinth of rock encasing the dark god's Command & Control Centre. Every shard-laden turn among its stratosphere-scraping mesas leads to a warren of searing defense mechanisms and spectral sentries with which evolution never intended to burden the world. "You have no cause to hide. We know you want peace. We seek only to bring you that gift." Much of the ubiquitous and seemingly homogeneous debris roaming the cosmos is abundant with bounties of which man knows nothing, but the war machine of Ryzar's Black Legion knows plenty. Ceremonial regalia adorning Mt Ryzar's processional avenue halls. Gaunt processing chamber- from the realm of life, to the Great Beyond. "The inside... is the same as the outside. There's nothing to separate them except our insistence. You understand?" "Uuuuh... no." "I really have been carrying you all these years, haven't I Drayton?" Bax Harriman... reptilian scrap iron dealer- in truth, a sideline to the his sidearm dealing. Since he won't let anyone else test his merchandise, he is very proficient with them- and very lucky... and hence not a lizard you want to cross, especially when you've got an army of undead fascist shocktroopers on your back. Bax is is himself on the run from Arch Deacon Lest Radan's order of psychic monks, who have not taken kindly to a missed shipment of motor-razor mines needed to protect their monumentally valuable cache of Lost War relics. 'Hold' sharpshooter Stengaard Pasha can thread a bullet through the eye of a needle a mile off in a hurricane... but has still to sight a decent barber. The Scryer, chief druidess of the Lightlord Council and leader of the Hold resistance against the millennium-gestating- and now full blown- Great Incursion into our dimension. "You've lost it Scryer- it's force that'll win this war- not whatever peacenik hocus-pocus you've been cooking in your little hidey-hole while the world's burning!" "A lot going on in there, isn't there, Major Cyger?" The Incursion makes no bones about targeting and trapping fleeing civilians to boost the numbers of its Gaunt legions. Ryzar's Tomb Palace The Door of Dementia GDR (Global Defence Restitution) nuclear drill boring attempt to infiltrate the Mountain fortress from below. Those who 'successfully' resist being Turned by the Gaunts are swiftly deposited into the deeper pockets of Mount Ryzar's catacombs, where a possibly worse fate awaits them... Back to top Capojunior memberMember #Joined: 25 Feb 2007Posts: 42Location: London Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:45 am Lt Kara Flynn's overtures of diplomacy are blocked at every turn by the forces conspiring to return Ryzar to the world. Once the being is rendered manifest, she becomes less conflicted about taking up arms against them... but secretly using Cade Cyger's son as a decoy in order to conscript old- and soon evidently suspect- allies, soon begins to eat at her. "I know feel bad about the kid, Kar, but you do know the saying 'an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.'" "Well maybe thatll slow up everyone tearing strips off each other for five seconds." Overlord Nargun's battleblade Hailstormer is rather more open than other 'charged' weapons about where it draws its power from. Rager on the hunt Sequential inks Ryzar's Sphinxes - fifty-foot tall walking bunker busters - are themselves able shrug off all but the most concerted aerial bombardment. Dogfights in Battlespace.. Loosening up sketches Mountain Fortress - recessed meridian staging city "Two inbound on the south wall, Lord Nargun. " "Then they're running out of ideas." Wraith Queen. Ryzar, ancientmost of the Elder gods, has been long in bed with forces steeped deeper yet in darkest prehistory.... a pact whose nature the being should have perhaps scrutinized more closely before undertaking a war dependent on their unquestioning obedience. "Heed them raise their peaceful hand.... now I take my knife... fill the night with scare..." Some of you may have noticed a bit of a horror vibe from a few of the images, but I figure the Mundar yaks are- unintentionally- the most disconcerting of this thread's menagerie of characters. Rayken Shorde head studies. "Cyger- I need you to put that... fruit... down." "Ray, I'm starting to think I'll never remember when I last ate. These things may look like they came out the back end of a bullrat but they smell like the best thing to come off a tree since frikkin' Eden." "'That's 'cause they are from Eden. Specifically, Lorn- first rock ever lumbered with the snot smears that ended up as you and me. Well you, anyway. Yam down one those things and inside a minute you'll curl up so bad, death by gut shot'll seem like the best Christmas you ever had." "Figures- feels like I followed the scent here all the way from the ravine. Looks like whoever owns this boat's hauling enough to honeytrap half a planet- "Well it's sure not for his own amusement. This spread doesn't exactly scream Evil Genius. Am I boring you?" "'Rad counter's going AWOL that direction- buck gets ten whatever was stored at far end of this hold lately's what the guy took as payment." "Cyger, I assumed that oak leaf didn't come out of a cracker. You... do know what AWOL means, right?" "Mm? Uh, yeah. Sure. Sure..." "Nothin' like a good shoot, huh, sarge?" "Shuddup, Nichols!" GDR (Global Defense Restitution) Shocktrooper The Global Defense Restitution governing the planet Aldar fail to get the ragtag pockets superhuman Slayers on message over plans to tackle the Great Incursion. With swathes of the population already scoured or Turned by the enemy, the claims of the 'battlefield'-suited renegades that the enemy's defenses include an all-destroying, impassable failsafe go unheard. Not to be outdone, the GDR troops dig up a slew of old heavy plant long consigned to history for a reason. Busted-down Grenadier Sgt Vance Hillbrandt fancies himself as the venerable leader-in-all-but-name of infantryman Major Cade Cyger's rowdy band of Slayers, and something of a surrogate father to the man himself. While he's not exactly deluded, both the Lightlord High Priestess known as the Scryer and Defence Vice Secretary Amber Weststar soon prove themselves higher up the chain of command. Conversely, Cyger possessed only the most threadbare handle on his own work-life balance to begin with. When the enemy take his own son hostage at the commencement of the invasion, he soon becomes anything but anyone's blue-eye boy. "Hellre you all still skulkin around for? Hustle!" Though spared the rigours of physical combat and free to ruminate in her garden temples within the Fortress, Battlelord Commander Cyviah bears the responsibility of warding off the telepathic 'attacks' (ie negotiation entreaties to her Lordmaster Ryzar) from the Scryer. "No, seriously, Kate- Fenn may be Captain frikkin' Cro-mag but his baby is just too frickin' cute- I'm probably gonna have to have it for dinner." Unsuprisingly Aldar's populations take exception to Mt Fortress's Gaunt troopers Turning to them to beef up their already considerable numbers. However the sight of one training an 'Iron Crucix' on you from the rafters can work wonders to convince of the upside of conscription. Some early FX-test sequentials, undialogued. All a little testosterADD, but didn't turn out as far off from the kaleidoscopic grandeur I was aiming for as I expected. Vale Kraths stalk the dustbowls between the happy foothills of Mount Fortress, delivering dimension-exiling stings aplenty to lost stragglers and beaten path naysayers. Mount Fortress - Shield Projector Gate Rayken Shorde - alternate costume design GDR Infiltration Trooper Rayken Shorde on jusk beast Aldaran civilian evacuation transport Salvaged sidearms - Valdoran urban resistance Hyperion reconnaissance shuttles Scryer's Hawkwing escorts, comprised of fugitive Slayer pilots Shandaran Behemoth Mine dwellers' security vorg Another sequential art test... Starstriker - augmented design. Another sequential Rayken Shorde clocks an admirer. Siege Legion Lancer Destroyer Various vessels So there's a a guy in this story who gets turned into a cyborg for not pulling his weight. If you ask me it's win win, but he kinda has a problem with it. Dude's name is Wrench, formerly Science Director Garrett of the Black Lamp supersoldier project. Rayken Shorde pursued (pencils for opening panel of 'Gods') Cade Cyger's battleblade is part of him. And now he's gonna make it part of you. The dude's selfless like that. 'Uhhh... hey, Arch- mind getting your ass over here? I got absolutely no idea what the hell this is." Odds n' ends part 2 Slayer Brig Holden wields a P-10 Sinesco Tribune Chargebow. His favouring of HEAP (High Explosive Armour Piercing) arrows compensates somewhat for his less than legendary aim. His more than legendary reputation with the ladies presumably enables him to sleeps nights, however... or not, as it were. Fortress Core Shaft "Just promise me you're not gonna wig out over the heights this time, Cade- I got a lot riding on this raid." "Anything you ever not got a lot riding on? Just pass me the freakin' chute, already." Back to top Capojunior memberMember #Joined: 25 Feb 2007Posts: 42Location: London Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 5:37 am Central Theeldor City Highway Gyratory Clockwise from left: Sanctum Guard Battlelord; Fortress Commander Falhurth; GDR Lance Corporal Tigson GDR Tremor Tank GDR Landstormer GDR Raid Rover GDR Raid Ranger GDR Drop Harrier GDR Crag Crawler Back to top Capojunior memberMember #Joined: 25 Feb 2007Posts: 42Location: London Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 8:29 am Siege CS-9 Overlander "Like hell she makes two-fifty on a ninety grade! One-eighty tops when I ditch my gunner! Fraudulent activities, Falhurth! I'm reporting you to industrial standards!" "Red indicator blinking at you? Top right of the dash?" "What 'red'- well, yeah. What about it?" "Got the mother in park, mister." 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"We will see these effects cascade over the next week," she said.
"I don't mean to scare, I mean to inform. If you're traveling, get to the airport earlier than you otherwise would. There's only so much we can do with personnel," Napolitano said. "And please, don't yell at the customs officers or the TSA officers. They're not responsible for sequester."
Napolitano said she expects wait times to double in some cases, if the cuts continue for the next several months.
"There's very little we can do to mitigate it because the procedures we use to clear passengers and cargo, they're responsible I think for the fact that we have a very safe aviation system and we have a very good land migration system where we know who's coming into the country," she said.
"So, we're not going to cut back on those security needs so the end result is fewer people doing the same thing means lines are going to get longer."
The TSA said a hiring freeze will take effect in April. That will result in an additional 1,000 screener vacancies by Memorial Day weekend and up to 2,600 vacancies by September 30, the end of the fiscal year. The TSA has approximately 50,000 screeners.
"With TSA staffing levels decreasing over time, we expect that during busy travel periods wait times exceeding 30-40 minutes could double at nearly all of the largest airports," the TSA said in a statement.
"In addition, passengers who schedule their travel outside of peak flight schedules and plan to arrive close to their scheduled flight time may see their wait times reach 30 minutes or more," the TSA said.
The Federal Aviation Administration said on Monday that there were "no immediate impacts" from spending cuts. But it has predicted flight delays when it begins furloughs -- one third of whom are air traffic controllers.


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Sign The Jamboree Shirtstevejb68 on August 12, 2013 in collections, Jamboree, Memorabilia
When Troops 1417 and 1418 from the Central Minnesota Council attended the Boy Scouts of America National Jamboree in 2001 we traveled to Virginia and back by chartered bus. Each troop had it own bus, but the busses stayed together. As the scoutmaster of Troop 1417 I enjoyed the three day journey to Virginia because it gave the troop's members a chance to get to know each other a little better before we arrived at Fort A.P. Hill for the big event.
On the way back home, after the Jambo was over, the air conditioner on our bus broke down. Even with the windows and the roof vents open it did not take long for the temperature to rise in the vehicle. It also did not take long for the Boy Scouts to remove their Jamboree tee shirts as they tried to remain cool. Luckily, the air conditioning was restored for the day day of traveling.
Those Jamboree tee shirts became more meaningful during our last night on the road as we returned home. Someone, I do not remember who, came up with the idea to sign each others shirts, like students do with their yearbooks. The cleaner one of each person's two tee shirts were laid out over a few tables at the place we were staying. Boy Scouts and the adult leaders moved from shirt to shirt singing their names with a permanent marker. Nearly everyone participated.
I thought it was an excellent idea. That signed shirt had now become a more interesting souvenir of the Jamboree, and a signed one to boot. My shirt immediately became a permanent part of my Jamboree collection once I arrived home. After it was washed, of course.
It would be fun to contact some of those former Scouts to discover if they still have those signed shirts. Did they pack them in a tote with other Jamboree memorabilia, or did they wear them until they became so thin they had to be thrown out? Maybe those young men do not even know were their tee shirts are any longer. After all,that was twelve years ago. Many have been to college during that time and a lot of them are now married with families of their own.


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This guide is for educational purposes only. Use it at your own risk. The procedures described in this guide require advanced knowledge of electronics and very precise soldering. These modifications will certainly void the warranty of the motherboard and the components installed and can permanently damage them. You have been warned.
This guide was possible because of the many people that previously contributed various BP6 modifications. Some of them are (listed in alphabetical order):
Derek "The DareDevil"
Radek Strebl
What I did was collect all the available articles and datasheets, analyze them, mod an existing BP6 board and compile this guide.
About The Guide:
This is the second part of the guide. I've decided to release it first because it's the most interesting one. The first part of the guide is BP6 board stabilization and will be released soon. You can use the excellent Yoichiro mod if your board voltage stabilization suffers ( http://geta.yoh-tech.com/eng_top.htm ) until my own guide is released (it is based almost entirely on Yoichiro's mod). There will be a second release of this guide that will include more detailed info and pictures. I've decided not to put any pictures of the sockets of my BP6 board since it is a real mess there - I tried much more modifications than described here and there are a lot of connections and soldering that are not really needed.
Some Important Tips:
Use a good soldering iron, providing about 50W of power. I used a cheap soldering iron and managed to break a few motherboard traces and it was a real nightmare to detect and restore. If possible, ground the soldering iron to the motherboard ground (the metal part of the RS232 or printer connectors will do). Remove all the components from the motherboard (CPUs, RAM, cards etc) before soldering. Remove the CMOS battery before soldering. Use a vacuum pump if possible when unsoldering. Try not to apply to much heat when soldering/unsoldering or you will burn the motherboard layers. The best way to remove a socket pin is to disassemble the socket (carefully with a small screwdriver, try not to apply to much force or you will brake the plastic) and melt the solder from the opposite side and the push the pin with the soldering iron a little. It will show a bit from the other side and you will be able to catch it with some tool and pull it out while continuing melting the solder from the opposite side. Always check the connections you make. I did by accident solder two or more pins together because they are to close and I didn't notice until I tried to boot the board. Believe me, the dead motherboard is a very unpleasant thing to see. After I removed the excess solder everything was okay.
Good Luck!
The Theory and the Modifications:
PPGA and FC-PGA processors have identical physical characteristics (number of pins and physical dimensions) but that doesn't mean a FC-PGA processor will work with a motherboard that only supports PPGA processors. The reason is that FC-PGA CPUs have a number of new signals and the fact that Intel changed the positions of some of the old pins to make sure that a FC-PGA processor will not run if inserted in a PPGA only board. Another problem for running a Coppermine processor in a PPGA board is the power requirements of this CPU. The Coppermine requires voltages about 1.6-1.75V to operate normally and most PPGA boards are only capable of providing 2V or more which is a bit high for the Pentium III core with its maximum core voltage of 2.1V and will require some pretty serious cooling. Fortunately, the BP6 does not have this limitation and can provide the needed voltages.
I started reading the pile of datasheets and design guides on Intel's website at http://developer.intel.com/ and soon spotted the following differences between the PPGA Celeron and PIII Coppermine / Celeron II processors:
AD36, AB36, Z36 - respectively Vcmos_1.5, Vcmos, Vcmos_2.5 voltages. According to Intel, AD36 has to be connected with the Vtt CPU termination voltage regulator which is 1.5V, Vcmos_2.5 must connect to the 2.5V onboard voltage regulator. The processor itself wires Vcmos either to Vcmos_1.5 or Vcmos_2.5 depending on its type - Celeron PPGA 0.25 micron processors require 2.5V CMOS logic termination voltage and Pentium III and Celeron II 0.18 micron processors require 1.5V. I measured the resistance between pins AB36 and AD36 on the Coppermines and they were indeed internally connected which means we don't need any modifications here. Unfortunately this is not correct. Without connecting Z36 to AB36 (2.5V for Vcmos) the processors won't boot. This is probably due to the design of the BP6 board and I still have no explanation why this happens. There are two groups of CMOS signals - the first voltage of the first one depends on the Vcmos signal, the other one has 2.5V fixed CMOS pull-up. For example, A20M#, FLUSH#, IGNNE#, INIT#, LINT0/INTR, LINT1/NMI, PREQ#, SLP#, SMI#, STPCLK#, FERR#, IERR#, THERMTRIP# and PICD[1:0] are 1.5V tolerant for the FC-PGA and 2.5V tolerant for the PPGA and PWRGOOD, BCLK, PICCLK are always 2.5V tolerant and do not depend on the CPU type. Probably Abit wired both groups to 2.5V because the board was not intended to run a CPU that needs 1.5V CMOS pull-up (i.e. the Coppermine). It will be interesting to try to put 2V here since this will put two signal groups in a more reasonable voltage limits and see if this will improve overclocking. Note that before connecting Z36 and AB36, AB36 pin must be removed from the CPU socket or the Vtt 1.5V and 2.5V regulators will be shorted and the board wouldn't be very happy with it.
(Remove AB36 Socket Pin And Connect AB36 To Z36 On Both Sockets)
(Vcmos_1.5 And Vcmos_2.5 Max Ratings)
AG1 - EDGCTRL pin. According to Intel "The EDGCTRL input adjusts the edge rate of AGTL+ output buffers for previous processors and should be pulled up to Vcc core with a 51 ohm 5% resistor. The signal is not used by the Pentium III processor. This pin is required for backwards compatibility. If backwards compatibility is not required, this pin may be left connected to Vcc". So what I did was connect to Vcc core (pin AF2) with a 51 ohm 5% resistor. I was however unable to boot probably because the BP6 already has these resistors (have to check this) so I removed the resistors. No modification necessary here.
(According to Intel AG1 must connect to AF2 with a 51 ohm 5% resistor for backwards processor compatibility. Don't do this on the BP6, the picture is given for reference only)
AH4, X4 - RESET# and RESET2# pins. X4 is defined as RESET# for a PPGA processor and as RESET2# for a FC-PGA processor. AH4 is respectively marked as Reserved on the PPGA and RESET# on the FC-PGA. This is a well known issue, Intel changed the position of the RESET# signal on the Coppermine to ensure it won't reset if inserted in a PPGA only board. The modification that needs to be done is connect AH4 and X4. I've also pulled up AH4 to Vtt using a 150 ohm 1% resistor on both sockets but this is not really needed although this should be done according to Intel.
(Connect AH4 to X4 on Both Sockets)
AM2 - This is another pin that is used by Intel to disable the Coppermine if used in a PPGA only socket. It is grounded on the PPGA and the FC-PGA needs high voltage here (it is marked as Reserved although). What needs to be done here is unsolder/remove the socket pin on both sockets.
(Remove AM2 on Both Sockets)
AN15 - This pin is the BR1# signal on the Celeron. Intel denies the Celeron core is SMP capable so this pin is marked as Reserved in all datasheets. The BR1# signal is used to select the agent in a symmetric multiprocessor system. The corresponding pin on the Coppermine should be X2 according to Intel and is only validated for steppings above or equal to cB0. The position for this signal for stepping below cB0 is N33 according to various reports found on the Internet. At first I though that the AN15 signal must be connected to one of this two pins according to the CPU stepping. However, this is not true. The BR1# pin is actually N33. What needs to be done here is - remove the AN15 socket pin on both sockets in order to break the connection between AN15 processor pin and the motherboard. Connect AN15 motherboard trace to N33 motherboard trace on both sockets to wire the Coppermine BR1# signal.
(Connect AN15 to N33 on Both Sockets)
E27 - SLEWCTRL. The SLEWCTRL input signal provides AGTL+ termination control. The Pentium III processor samples this input to sense the presence of motherboard AGTL+ termination. Intel says to pull down using a 110 ohm 1% tolerance resistor. I did this on both sockets. However, the board will run perfectly without these resistors, and therefore this modification is not needed.
(Connect E27 to F32 using a 110 ohm 1% Tolerance Resistor on Both Sockets)
G35 - This pin is marked as Reserved on the PPGA and must be connected to Vtt regulator on FC-PGA processors. It is used to provide the level of voltage terminating signal Vtt. Connect G35 to G37 (Vtt).
(Connect G35 to G37 on Both Sockets)
S35 - RTTCTRL. This signal is used to control the value of the processor on-die termination resistance and provides AGTL+ termination control. The Pentium III processor samples this input to sense the presence of motherboard AGTL+ termination. According to Intel, this pin must be pulled down to ground using a 68 ohm 1% tolerance resistor for dual processor systems. However I found out that resistors with this value introduce a lot of lockups and instability. The values I suggest are either 330 ohm or leave unconnected. If this pin is not connected, a single FC-PGA Coppermine is able to run rock stable at 124MHz FSB. It only reaches 110MHz FSB if a 68 ohm resistor is used. My dual Coppermines run very stable with 330 ohm resistors. However this is an area that needs more investigation. I suspect RTTCTRL and SLEWCTRL are the pins that need more modifications in order to run dual PIIIs at speeds above or equal to 124MHz FSB. The other possible values for RTTCTRL pull down are 62, 110, 150 ohm. I tried them all - 330 ohm or no connect are the best so far.
(Connect S35 to P32 using a 330 ohm Resistor on Both Sockets)
(Typical RTTCTRL Values)
Y33 - CLKREF, input reference voltage. When using single-ended clocking mode, the BCLK#/CLKREF signal on the processor servers as a reference voltage to the clock input. To provide a steady reference voltage, a filter circuit (a capacitor) must be implemented and attached to this pin.
(CLKREF Implementation)
On the bp6, this pin is grounded since this signal is not used by the Celeron PPGA processor. However, for the Pentium III processor, the voltage reference must be attached or the processors will not be able to sync properly. I've seen a lot of posts on the Internet about the CLKREF implementation on various socket adapters. For example, there was a poorly designed S370 to Slot1 adapter that didn't implement the CLKREF circuit and 133MHz CPUs were only able to work stable at 100MHz FSB and below. I'm pretty sure the voltage circuit is needed for dual CPUs to work stable above 100MHz FSB. The reference voltage is not needed for a FC-PGA Celeron however. What has to be done here is break the connection of the socket pin with ground and implement the voltage divider using two 110 ohm 1% tolerance resistors and a 4.7uF capacitor. Breaking the ground connection is tricky since it is connected to the internal motherboard ground plane (the bp6 has four planes, the two inner are mainly ground and voltage islands as recommended by Intel). First, the socket pin must be carefully unsoldered and then the motherboard hole must be drilled to completely remove the ground connection and make some space for the insulation and the wire that will be soldered here. After the hole is drilled, solder a short wire to the pin, insulate it and reinsert it back in the socket. I used some glue to hold it there. Then you can safely implement the voltage circuit. Use Z36 as the 2.5V source.
AA33, AA35, AN21, E23, S33, S37, U35, U37 - These Vtt pins must be left unconnected (NC) for backwards compatibility with Celeron processors (CPUID 066xh). For designs which do not support the Celeron processors (CPUID 066xh), and for compatibility with future processors, these Vtt pins should be connected to the Vtt plane. For dual processor designs, these pins must be connected to Vtt. I tried connecting all these pins to the Vtt regulator. The only effect was higher stress on the LM338 Vtt regulator - it became about 10 degrees C hotter. Since this mod didn't introduce any stability improvements I removed the connections. My advice is to leave these pins not connected.
(Pins That Must Be Connected To Vtt. Leave Unconnected Or Connect To Vtt If You Want)
Some Interesting Reading:
1. Intel Pentium III Processor with 512KB L2 Cache Dual Processor Platform Design Guide
- http://developer.intel.com/design/penti ... 249658.htm
2. Intel Pentium III Processor with 512KB L2 Cache Dual Processor Platform Design Guide Update
- http://developer.intel.com/design/penti ... 298647.htm
3. Intel Celeron Processor up to 1.10 GHz Datasheet
- http://developer.intel.com/design/celer ... 243658.htm
4. Intel Pentium III Processor for the PGA370 Socket at 500 MHz to 1.13 GHz
- http://developer.intel.com/design/penti ... 245264.htm
5. Intel 440BX AGPset / PGA370 Scalable Performance Board Design Guide
- http://developer.intel.com/design/intar ... 273296.htm
6. Intel 440BX AGPset Design Guide
- http://developer.intel.com/design/chips ... CG+devside&
7. Intel 440BX AGPset Design Guide Update
- http://developer.intel.com/design/chips ... CG+devside&
8. Intel 440BX AGPset Design Guide Update
- http://developer.intel.com/design/chips ... CG+devside&
9. PGA370 Processor Bus Terminator Design Guidelines
- http://developer.intel.com/design/penti ... 248693.htm
10. VRM 8.4 DC-DC Converter Design Guidelines
- http://developer.intel.com/design/penti ... 35_006.htm
11. VRM 8.5 DC-DC Converter Design Guidelines
- http://developer.intel.com/design/penti ... 249659.htm
12. How to solder
- http://www.aaroncake.net/electronics/solder.htm


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Watching a parent's health decline with age is among the most stressful life events for any son or daughter.
But working together as a family to find and hire a professional caregiver can alleviate some of that stress and strain. It can also create new bonds between family members. Drawing on each other for support, expertise and input is vital in creating a care plan for an aging parent.
Delaying these conversations, or worse, not involving all family members early on can lead to hurt feelings, damaged relationships and a delay in getting the most comprehensive care for Mom or Dad.
The crucial first step is to assemble the whole family, including those who may be difficult or in denial. For more information on building consensus within your family for a home care strategy, click here.
There is often a role for everyone. Here are a few ways that each family member can get involved.
The responsibility of becoming the primary family caregiver when Mom or Dad gets sick tends to fall on daughters. If the responsibility has fallen on a sister, make sure she wants to continue this role. If she doesn't, the family can work together to investigate home care options and hire a professional caregiver.
With frank and honest conversation, another sibling or even an adult grandchild - who may have more time with less personal demands in his or her life - may want to take more of a role organizing the research to give the primary family caregiver a needed break.
But at least one family member should take the lead to ensure that family members continue coming together to discuss options and keep the family on track.
Most siblings have the expertise or specialized skills that can be activated as the family begins its journey to find a professional caregiver.
Who researches as part of their job? Who is the most critical thinker among the siblings? Is there an accountant or a bookkeeper in the group? Is there a doctor or a nurse? How about a lawyer?
Delineate the tasks ahead and find the sibling with the natural expertise in that area. The work will be more thorough and will get done faster, meaning your parent gets the best care possible. The following are potential roles:
Don't be afraid to lean on your aunts and uncles.
Enlist them to help, if they are willing and able, to share possible triggers for your mom or dad. They also may be able to offer recommendations for professional caregivers that either they or their friends have used in the past. Look for negative feedback as well as positive feedback.
They also may be the trusted voice that helps convince your parent of the best professional care options as you move closer to a decision.
Often overlooked in such discussions and decision making, grandchildren - young and adult - can offer unique perspectives. They know their grandparents like few others and often can be more candid. Grandchildren are also excellent at research through social media and can help validate home care providers.
Take them along to visit possible providers. They may be bolder when asking questions and not afraid to offend anyone. Remember they also want the very best for grandma or grandpa. They also may see things you don't.
Family friends will likely know Mom or Dad very well and, if willing, may be able to provide input into the best (or worst) type of caregiver for your parent. They may recognize that Dad is just plain stubborn and will be able to give thoughts on the kind of professional caregiver who can handle him or, better yet, get him to do what needs to be done.
They may know intimate details about your parent that you don't and can offer perspectives you may overlook or simply not know about.
Don't forget to reach out to your friends as well for expertise in needed areas that your siblings or others don't have.
Perhaps the most important thing to remember is that you are not in this alone. There are roles for every family member in this vital decision. And for more information on why it's better to act sooner than later when retaining a professional caregiver, click here.
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Please help me answer these. I am practising for an exam and am not sure of the answers for these questions.
A cell is placed into a solution that has the same osmolarity. However, one
of the ions in the solution is able to move across the membrane (the cell
does not contain this ion). After a period of time, the solution into which
the cell was placed would become: (1 mark)
a) hyperosmotic
b) hypotonic
c) isotonic
d) hypertonic
e) iso-osmotic
Is it iso-osmotic?
Which of the following molecules is least likely to cross the plasma
membrane? (1 mark)
a) Steroids
b) Fatty acid
c) Oxygen
d) Disaccharide <<<< This one because it's so large?
e) Water
The use of probenacid, an organic acid-based drug, in the treatment of gout takes
advantage of which of the following properties to achieve its effects?
a. Competition
b. Specificity
c. Passive diffusion along a concentration gradient <<<< This one?
d. Saturation
e. Fick's Law.
Also, is Extracellular fluid?
a) dilute salt soltn surrounding cell
b)another name for interstitial fluid
Analysis of the cells in the intestine reveal that they are permeable to water,
whereas some cells in the kidney tubule are not permeable to water at all. Can you
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each other?
Is this about channel proteins and amount of lipid?
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Supporters of the initiative argue it will help the state's economy. A member of Gov. Granholm's Green Energy Task Force recently said about the initiative, "There's [sic] billions of dollars in investments that are going to come into this type of program here."[19]
While some new investment in the state is likely to result due to the mandate, other investment will be delayed or fully cancelled due to the higher expected electricity costs. The requirement of more renewable energy will lead to investment in renewable energy facilities, but the statement above does not consider the economy as a whole. Manufacturing plants and other companies which utilize large amounts of electricity will see the potential for large utility increases, as well as the uncertainty surrounding an ever-changing regulatory environment, as negatives. This would dynamically alter the total new investment in the state. In this study, we quantify the negative as well as the positive effects of the RES programs.
Since renewable energy generally costs more than conventional energy, many have voiced concerns about higher electricity rates. A wide variety of cost estimates exist for renewable electricity sources. The EIA provides estimates for the cost of conventional and renewable electricity generating technologies. However, the EIA's assumptions are optimistic regarding the cost and capacity of renewable electricity generating sources to produce reliable energy.
We reviewed other academic literature and found that in most cases the EIA's cost projections are at the low end of the range of estimates, while the EIA's capacity factor for wind tends to be at the high end of the range. The EIA does not take into account the actual experience of existing renewable electricity power plants in Michigan. Therefore we provide three estimates of the cost of Michigan's RES mandate — low, medium and high — using different cost and capacity factor estimates for electricity-generating technologies from the academic literature. See the Appendix for details.
One could justify the higher electricity costs if the environmental benefits — in terms of reduced greenhouse gases and other emissions — outweighed the costs. However, it is unclear that the use of renewable energy resources — especially wind and solar — significantly reduce GHG emissions. Due to their intermittency, wind and solar require significant backup power sources that are cycled up and down to accommodate the variability in the production of wind and solar power. A 2010 study by Bentek Energy LLC found that wind power actually increases pollution and greenhouse gas emissions due to cycling of coal plant capacity during fluctuations in wind power generation.[20] Thus there appear to be few benefits to implementing RES policies based on heavy uses of wind.
Governments enact RES policies because most sources of renewable electricity generation are less efficient and thus more costly than conventional sources of generation. The RES policy forces utilities to buy electricity from renewable sources and thus guarantees a market for them. These higher costs are passed on to electricity consumers, including residential, commercial and industrial customers.[*]
Increases in electricity costs are not unlike taxes in that they are known to have a profound negative effect on the economy. Prosperity and economic growth are dependent upon access to reliable and affordable energy. Since electricity is an essential commodity, consumers will have limited opportunity to avoid these costs. For the poorest members of society, these energy taxes will compete directly with essential purchases in the household budget, such as food, transportation and shelter.
As noted above, the proposed initiative contains a 1 percent cap on electricity rate increases due to the move to renewable energy. In this study, we set aside this cap in order to provide an apples-to-apples comparison between a baseline case, a 10 percent RES case and the proposed 25 percent RES by 2025.
[*] As noted earlier, for the purposes of determining the economic impact of the existing and proposed renewable energy standards if they were met in full, we have set aside the cost caps in both standards. We will return to the cost caps below in our discussion of the results from the model.


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Biogenesis: Nelson Cruz, Jhonny Peralta among 12 players suspended for 50 games
Major League Baseball on Monday suspended 12 players for 50 games apiece as a result of the involvement with the now-closed Biogenesis anti-aging clinic in Miami.
The following players have all agreed to serve their suspensions without appealing:
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Nelson Cruz, Texas Rangers; Jhonny Peralta, Detroit Tigers; Jesus Montero, Seattle Mariners; Francisco Cervelli, Yankees; Everth Cabrera, San Diego Padres; Jordany Valdepsin, New York Mets; Antonio Bastardo, Philadelphia Phillies; Sergio Escalona, Houston Astros; and minor leaguers Fernando Martinez of the Yankees, Fautino de los Santos of the Padres, Cesar Puello of the Mets and free agent Jordan Norberto.
Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez was suspended through the end of the 2014 regular season.
There are only two players on the list whose absence will have an impact on the playoff race (not counting Cervelli, the Yankees catcher who has been on the disabled list since April): Cruz and Peralta.
In Texas, the Rangers have to fight for a playoff spot without their primary source of power. Cruz leads the team with 27 homers and 76 RBIs, and he's second on the team with an .841 OPS. The Rangers have played 112 games this season—they're 62-50, 2.5 games behind the A's in the American LeaguWest and just a half-game behind the Indians in the battle for the second wild-card spot—so this 50-game suspension means Cruz is done for the regular season.
The slugger would be eligible to play playoff baseball, if the Rangers qualify and if they decide to take him back. Remember, Melky Cabrera would have been eligible to return to the Giants for the postseason last year after his lengthy suspension, but they opted to move forward without their leading hitter (and, of course, they won the World Series).
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This suspension will not sit well with Texas. Cruz could have appealed the decision and been eligible to play during that process, which could have extended for a significant amount of time and been a boost to the Rangers' playoff chances. But, he's a free agent after season, and any appeal would have delayed the suspension and, if upheld, spilled over into 2014. That, obviously, would have hurt his chances of maximizing his next contract.
It's going to be painted as a self-over-team choice by Cruz, and it leaves the Rangers in an unenviable position. It's the same dilemma for Peralta, who is a free agent after this season, too. The Tigers are three games up in the AL Central standings, but they're in a much better situation because general manager Dave Dombrowski pulled off the most forward-thinking move for any buyer of the non-waiver trade deadline when he landed Jose Iglesias in a three-team deal that sent Avisail Garcia to the White Sox.
The Tigers' long-time GM traded for Iglesias, a versatile, slick-fielding infielder who had been manning third base for the Red Sox. He's an ideal replacement for Peralta at shortstop, which most consider his natural (and highest-value) position. Peralta is a decent defensive third baseman—as his .991 fielding percentage (which is third among qualified players in MLB) shows, he's very capable on grounders hit within his range, and his arm is fine. But his range leaves much to be desired—among players with at least 500 innings at the position this season, he's 11th in UZR (ultimate zone rating) and 12th in DRS (defensive runs saved), which are both advanced defensive metrics.
This lack of range is heightened because of his partner on the left side of the Tigers' infield, third baseman Miguel Cabrera. Now, let's be clear. Since Prince Fielder arrived to play first base and Cabrera shifted across the infield, he has proven to be a much better defensive third baseman than most anyone outside of the Tigers' clubhouse expected. But, much like Peralta, he's working with a limited range. And, his current nagging abdominal injury will even further limit his ability to get to grounders.
Iglesias will provide a big boost defensively, a value that can't be underestimated.
Don't be fooled by the .330 batting average Iglesias produced with the Red Sox this year; the Tigers would likely be thrilled if he hits .250 the rest of the way. There's nothing in Iglesias' track record (he hit .257 in his 294 minor-league games) to suggest he'll come even remotely close to sustaining that lofty average with Boston.
And, that's OK with the Tigers.
If any team in baseball is capable of substituting an offense-first shortstop like Peralta (.305/.361/.461, 11 homers, 54 RBI) with a defensive-minded one like Iglesias, it's the Tigers, who lead baseball with an average of 5.11 runs per game. Plus, both Peralta and second baseman Omar Infante are free agents after this season, and the Tigers don't really have anyone ready to step into full-time roles at those positions. By landing Iglesias now, Dombrowski addressed an immediate need and shaved a bit off his offseason to-do list.


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In order to join Arcade Web, you simply just have to provide your personal details. Once a member, you can have the access to all their games and have the chance to earn tokens by participating on the activities in the website and playing in tournaments. Tokens won can be redeemed in the rewards center for prizes.
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The only requirement that Arcade Web asks before you could play their games and win their prizes is that you have to have an advertising supported program download to play. The bad thing about this kind adware-based gaming websites is that it has the potential to create potentially dangerous computer issues. Some of these programs may even be considered malware because of their infectious properties and may put the security and privacy of your computer at risk.
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"Two days ago, a close colleague of mine was on the line from Greenwich, Connecticut to discuss my upcoming book when the conversation turned to these new Russia sanctions. My colleague related a story from Capital Hill and an insider who explained the vote on the sanctions law. The gist of this insider's revelation was that the overwhelming "yes vote" in Congress indicated one powerful player behind the curtain – America's pro-Israel lobby AIPAC.
When I heard AIPAC stood behind, my mind immediately reverted to images and sound bites of Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Their mutual gratification society handshakes, the syrupy sweetness of the Israeli's recollections on young Trump – and then I thought on the Saudi arms deal and the wider frame of the Arab Spring. Sorry to consolidate so many facets here, but if Trump and all of Washington has acquiesced totally to the will of AIPAC, then America is all done. Looking again at Russia's Medvedev:
"Trump's administration has demonstrated total impotence by surrendering its executive authority to Congress in the most humiliating way."
The point of this new sanctions law is revealed simply. If AIPAC controls the Unites States Congress, and if the President of the United States has surrendered his executive authority to that body, then the Israeli lobby controls the Government of the United States – lock stock and barrel. In other words, a foreign sovereign nation and ideology rules America – and it rules it with impunity.""'Disappointed' AIPAC targets Gillibrand for removing her name from boycott bill".
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Sri Lanka's leading ethnic Tamil party on Monday picked a retired judge critical of the government as its chief candidate for the first elections to be held in the north of the country since a civil war ended four years ago.
The Tamil National Alliance said in a statement it has named retired Supreme Court Judge C.V. Wigneswaran to run for chief minister in the Tamil-majority northern province, once the theatre of a fierce separatist war between government soldiers and ethnic Tamil rebels.
Wigneswaran has been an outspoken critic of the government over alleged human rights violations and anti-democratic moves, and is respected by both minority Tamils and majority Sinhalese.
His selection, despite having no previous political experience and ahead of a senior rival, signals the party's intention to form a strong provincial government to withstand moves by the central government to dilute powers devolved to the provinces.
Sri Lanka's government plans to withdraw land and police powers given to the provinces, saying that could lead to separatism.
The civil war ended in 2009 when government forces defeated the rebels who had battled for a quarter century to create an independent Tamil state. Since then, the government has been under intense international pressure to keep its promise to politically empower the Tamils by strengthening powers of the provinces.
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KRAIN is the premier Listing Brokerage for Mixed-Use Developments and hotels. HERE is why:
Value Proposition: Valuation with Justification
KRAIN is one of the few brokerages that has the ability to assist in establishing a realistic list price based on justifiable data and projections. For our sellers raw land, on the front end of a commercial listing, KRAIN is able to advise on the highest and best use of a property, project build and infrastructure costs, and develop pro formas for potential investors based on market needs and trends. Once these projections are established, KRAIN can then provide their sellers with a market value and clear objectives moving forward with the marketing of their commercial property. With solid and justified pro formas, KRAIN can then begin to market the property to potential investors. As such, KRAIN has a deeper understanding of the property and the value it holds, allowing it to market the property in the best way possible.
For potential hotel sites, and similar to its valuation model for the mixed-use resort development, KRAIN can analyze a site and create a pro forma based on site potential, key count and demand. KRAIN can even adjust the build cost based on certain hotel brands' quality criteria. With this evaluation, KRAIN can market a hotel site within a planned development and attract the right hotel brand for that specific development.
For existing hotels, KRAIN can give an evaluation based on the value of existing real estate in today's market, the value of existing structures or their replacement costs, the potential for growth and/or expansion, the review of profit and loss statements, the business's good faith value, and the value of fixtures, furniture, and inventory. KRAIN creates custom pro formas and marketing pieces for each hotel that it markets.
Value Proposition: Marketing
KRAIN is the only company in Costa Rica that has global real estate marketing affiliations that encompass commercial, residential, and luxury real estate. Our combined network of agents is unsurpassed; KRAIN's marketing reach extends to 132 countries and 18 languages. We market our commercial listings to our entire affiliate network, as well as through direct marketing campaigns to all agents in Costa Rica, and to top U.S. agents in specific markets that consistently invest in Costa Rica. Furthermore, the KRAIN Chicago office, which has been in operation for over a decade, is a well known and trusted brand in the midwest region and serves as a substantial lead source. KRAIN's recent partnership with NAI Global has only further strengthened KRAIN's marketing network, and has secured KRAIN's dominance as the marketing leader of commercial property throughout Costa Rica.
Value Proposition: Investors
KRAIN attracts the largest share of investors seeking commercial property in Guanacaste. This is true for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, KRAIN's marketing reach for commercial property is unsurpassed. Second, KRAIN's Chicago office gives stability and confidence to clients that are already familiar with the brand. Third, investors rely on KRAIN's professional work product when conducting their preliminary search for commercial property. From KRAIN's initial feasibility and market analysis, to its ability to act as a liaison to the best legal, engineering, and architectural firms throughout Costa Rica, KRAIN is the brokerage that investors rely upon to compare investment and development opportunities.
Finally, investors prefer working with KRAIN because it is the only company in Guanacaste with a large and highly trained sales force in place to handle all residential resale and commercial leasing needs of a project once developed. Investors feel comfortable working with KRAIN because they know that KRAIN will be there every step of the way—from the purchase of a project, to the resale of individual homes, to management of commercial and residential leases. KRAIN's focused resale strategy and ability to market residential resales to 132 countries gives our investors the confidence that they will achieve the highest and best return on their investment.
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When I think of nuclear power, two images come to mind: the scheming Mr Burns of the Simpsons and the tragedy of Chernobyl. Both of these images were born from an era long ago (yes, 1989 is after-all, 20 years ago)! Often nuclear power is thought of a thing of the past, born out of the days of the Cold War. Then why is it that I am hearing so much about it these days? From the President's State of the Union to mainstream media, it seems to be everywhere. People are turning back to nuclear power in the midst of the impending oil crisis and the knowledge that we need a new way to approach energy in this country and throughout the world.
The world's first nuclear power plant used to supply electricity opened in 1956 in the UK. Since then, power plants have been built throughout the entire world and were at their heights in the 1980's. However, the accidents of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl have cast a shadow on the energy source, and nuclear power, once the darling of the country has been stunted. The idea of supplying the world's electricity through nuclear power has been quietly put on a shelf, that is until recent years. Currently, 15% of the world's electricity is supplied by nuclear power. However, we may see this trend change in upcoming years.
Many nuclear supporters, such as France, have begun touting it as a feasible answer to the oil crisis and some have gone as far as labeling it renewable energy. Supporters of nuclear being a renewable energy point to the fact it produces little or no greenhouse gases. And that current Uranium stocks (how nuclear power is created) are enough to last , at current rates, 2000-2500 years.
Calling Nuclear Power a renewable energy has sparked some huge protests among the environmental community. Most notably, nuclear power is created by Uranium, which must be extracted from the Earth through destructive mining techniques. Also, there is the problem of nuclear waste, which is incredibly dangerous. Although, nuclear power may not produce greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, it still produces waste that must be placed somewhere. Where are they going to put all this waste? For decades they have been burying it in containers, hoping thousands of years will reduce its radioactivity, however, if an earthquake or war breaks out containers could spill into the soil and water supply. This waste is terribly harmful to humans and the environment, one just has to look to Chernobyl for an example or that three eyed fish from the Simpsons.
Speaking of Chernobyl, it is clear nuclear power can be dangerous. Although meltdowns are very rare, if one were to occur, it could be horrific and harmful to the environment. The land and water surrounding Chernobyl is still feeling the effects of the meltdown in 1986. As mentioned these incidents are a rarity, however the nuclear power industry must spend costly amounts on safety within the plants to be certain these will not occur.
It seems likely that many nuclear power supporters and industry are looking to promote it as a renewable source to benefit from the tax cuts and subsidiaries that are awarded to true renewable energy sources. You can just see Mr Burns putting those bony fingers together and hissing "Excellent." So far, even with the President backing it, nuclear power has not been included in the definition of renewable energy. For instance, the International Renewable Energy Agency has yet to include it. And nuclear power has seen an even greater backlash here in the States. Vermont's Senate recently voted not to renew the state's Nuclear Power Plant contract another 20 years. Without a contract, the plant is likely to close in 2012.
Labeling nuclear power as renewable seems like a far stretch to me and to most of the environmental community. Instead of focusing time and energy on labeling an incredibly expensive and waste emitting source, it would be in our best interest to focus on real renewable sources. This includes wind, solar, and even geo-thermal. We need to be funding and devoting new technologies to these renewable sources instead of wasting our time on a debatable source of energy. We must figure out a way to produce more energy at cheaper rates through sources such as sun and wind. It is time we become focused and actually forge a sustainable energy plan to ween ourselves off this nasty oil addiction, and nuclear power just isn't the answer. Ask the victims of Chernobyl or that three eyed fish, if you don't believe me.
-Gina Williams