text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - A huge anatomy exercise Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Work in Progress View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "A huge anatomy exercise" Kjetil NystuenmemberMember #Joined: 19 Jun 2000Posts: 197Location: Norway Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2001 1:04 pm Hi everybody, I was taking a look in some old drawers, and found this. This was a task at the graphic design school I went to, back in 1995/96. The reason it's unfinished was the amount of time we had. There were simply not enough time to do it all properly. Most students didn't cared much about drawing from life anyway since it was a graphic design school.... Also, sorry if the scans are a bit lame, but scanning A1 formats is pure hell...... The reason why I post this is because it is a VERY good exercise in anatomy. I'm really not sure where this post fit in the best, but I'm posting it here at the work in progress section. Eventhough I'll never touch these drawings with a pencil ever again. This is what you need: 1. A live model. That the model is nude is essential. 2. A very good book about anatomy 3. Even more books about anatomy. 4. A skeleton. You should have all this lying around in your drawers... Explaining the steps. First we were drawing the model. This is where we spent 75% of all the time. Our teacher was very strict on that we should get the proportions as good as possible. The errors you do on this step will cause you a lot of problems on the next drawings. I'm sorry to say that mine isn't the best example... The next step is to slice the model. This forces you to think about the space your eyes don't see, but still is nescessary to have good knowledge about if you want to make believable drawings of humans. We were looking at our model from different angles making sketches. This is actually very clever to do already in the first step. Many times you are drawing, you focus on what it looks like from your point of view and forgets about what is actually happening. Why is the arm sticking out like that etc... I had an old german anatomy book that showed a human sliced every 5th or 10th centimeter. I have forgot it's name, I should check that out first thing in the morning. It's a great book. Step three is to place the skeleton inside your pose. This can be rather difficult since it's usually hanging straight down. (Imagine 20 students twisting and turning the bones all the time....) I never had the time to finish it, I'm very sorry about it. I would like to do a thing like this once again with 10 times more time. If your first drawing is unaccurate, you should have MAJOR problems on this step. Here is a close-up The final step is to draw the muscles. (It's a good thing to use a well fit model and not a complete fatso...) You should consider your skeleton. The best thing is to trace up the skeleton on your drawing, so you can get the muscle attachements right. Remember what the muscle's purpose is, to keep the skeleton up and make it moving. If your biceps had been attached only to your upper arm, it wouldn't work at all. Also remember that whenever there's a muscle pullling your arms up, there's always one on the other side pulling it down. You need GOOD books about anatomy to get this right, or a medical study... I am sorry to say that I didn't complete this one either I'm sorry to say that I wasn't able to finish this one either, but I used a time consuming technique. I'm pretty pleased with how the arm came out though.. More details... My main mistake on this exercise was to focus on the details too soon. I should have traced it all up before I ever started rendering out details. But believe me, I really didn' use much time on this, and I'm really sorry about it. Well, hope you took your time reading this. Maybe someone has any use for it. Good luck. -Kjetil Back to top ZosomemberMember #Joined: 23 Dec 2000Posts: 132Location: Stuttgart, Germany Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2001 1:14 pm Thanks for posting this man. I can use all the anatomy reference I can get. This is definitely going to be an exercise that I attempt. Back to top toast!memberMember #Joined: 29 Sep 2000Posts: 442Location: France Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2001 2:03 pm hi kjetil thanks for posting ; it seems to look so hard man ! i think the fact that this exercice has been developped in a school environment is important ; getting anatomy basics is really hard when you go for a self teaching way; i mean , when you don t have any feedback it s easy to develop very bad habits.. Do you have a good book in mind ? It s hard to find a good one with a good compromise between theory and good sketchs . I would like to know if someone has a good method to learn basics when you dont have time to have some drawing classes . (practise is good but without any feedback it is very slow ) Back to top Kjetil NystuenmemberMember #Joined: 19 Jun 2000Posts: 197Location: Norway Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2001 2:30 pm Zoso: It's nice that you find this useful. Toast: You have a very good point abount how this exercise has developed in a school enviroment. It has matured over several years, and my teachers have seen the exercise perfomed by many students and seen many models. I mentioned a German anatomy book. Hopefully I'll have the title tomorrov. I'll post it here. If you don't have the time to go to classes, then books must be the best answer I guess.. Maybe you have some friends or family that can pose for you? Models with clothes has it's mission too, along with giving you a sense of the proportions, it's also very useful to see how the clothes are draped onto a model. Back to top toast!memberMember #Joined: 29 Sep 2000Posts: 442Location: France Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2001 3:05 pm actually, i ve started to watch tv and draw every character i saw ; this gives a good way to learn movement and overall shapes but very hard to learn muscle structure and the way elements are attached also, the way character appear on the screen are often on the same position it s fun to do thought Back to top Lukaijunior memberMember #Joined: 17 Nov 2000Posts: 5 Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2001 5:44 pm ALLRIGHT! I'm of the few who decided to enter into Med. Illustration, so it's great to see this kind of stuff up here. Looks like it's a cool exercise as well. I don't think I'm ever going to stop learning about drawing the human figure so the more exercises the better! Thanks! Back to top JoachimmemberMember #Joined: 18 Jan 2000Posts: 1332Location: Norway Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2001 12:48 am awesome exercise Kjetil. And, very well pulled off as well. ------------------ www.JoachimArt.com Back to top Kjetil NystuenmemberMember #Joined: 19 Jun 2000Posts: 197Location: Norway Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2001 1:47 am Oh, the forum is up again... Lukai, if you like it, and you're in to medical illustration, then I guess I must have done something right. Thanks a lot. Hi Joachim. Actually I'm a bit confused, I get very little feedback on this one. Only three guys have replied. I think that's a bit strange, because this forum is full of questions about anatomy, so I thought people would have had a lot of opinions. But it looks like most of the members likes drawings of various superheros/superbabes more. Well, up it goes again. Someone around here must have an interest in drawing anatomy? Thanks Joachim for giving me feedback.. Maybe it's in the wrong forum...? Back to top SlicermemberMember #Joined: 03 Mar 2000Posts: 187Location: Sala, Sweden Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2001 6:18 am Well I for one, is really trying to get a hand on how to get the body proportions right. But since I dont have anyone who wants to stand model for me I just have to rely on photos. I also have another problem. I have difficulties on drawing big. Its hard to get down the proportions right when drawing big. And the anatomy books, well, they are not in my hands yet but I think ill order some books soon. I need them =) Back to top ZaphodmemberMember #Joined: 26 Jan 2000Posts: 81Location: Sweden, Göteborg, Partille, Sävedalen :p Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2001 6:29 am Thankyou! I've had a good anatomy book for a while now. But I've never been sure how to utilize it the best way. Sitting down and just copying all the drawings proved to be both tedious and boring. But now I have something to start from. The book wich holds over 1200 detailed drawings of human and animals and the drawings is really good. It's written by some András Suzyoghy guy. I could give you the ISBN, but I have a Swedish version of the book, so it won't do you any good. It's called (directly translated form the swedish title, so it might be wrong): Anatomical drawing school. Anyways, I scanned a few pictures of a head from that book a wile ago. If you want to see you can look here http://hem.passagen.se/zappod/zaph/head.jpg I'm planning to attend some life drawing soon classes soon. But coming along with the book (that weights some kilos and hosts 600 pages) seems pretty clumsy. Do you think that it will work just as good if I take the drawings and do all the muscels and stuff back home? Or should I have the model before myself when I do this too? /magnus Back to top NexmemberMember #Joined: 25 Mar 2000Posts: 2086Location: Austria Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2001 6:42 am hah, I have a book from the same guy and its great. its from (ilus.) András Szunyoghy with Text from Dr. György Fehér. (both are hungarian) the book is called "Human Anatomy of the artist".. uhm wait [edit] "Human Anatomy FOR the Artist" of course[/edit] has 496 pages and goes into detail. muscle names, bones, function, movement, connection points.. all in there. if you see it around take a look, its really a great book. If anyone is interrested but cant find it, I could scan some examples. [This message has been edited by Nex (edited January 20, 2001).] Back to top Kjetil NystuenmemberMember #Joined: 19 Jun 2000Posts: 197Location: Norway Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2001 10:07 am Hi Slicer. Most people have problems when they start drawing big. It's very important to step back and look very often. Also it's important to get the proportions right from the beginning. I've completely forgot to look up the title on the anatomy book I used on this exercise, I'll have to do that. But the book Zaphod has scanned from looks very good. Zaphod, I think I looked at that book in a bookstore last week. It is good. I almost bought it. I think I'll go back and do so. And yes, I think to do the drawings first and the muscles at home is very clever. In that way you'll get a lot out of the classes, not just forgetting about the drawings when you come home. When you start filling in muscles you'll get a totally different understanding of your drawings. Of course, if you have the oppurtunity of having a model of your own, nothing is better. But both ways will work good I think. Good luck! Nex, thanks for the tip! 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Lafourche Parish's Fourchon Beach suffered severe erosion during Isaac, washing sand off the beach and exposing the shore down to its clay foundation, said Archie Chaisson III, the parish's coastal zone manager.
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BP Gulf Coast Restoration Organization President Mike Utsler announced the proposal at a news conference in New Orleans last week, saying repeated tropical storms and hurricanes have buried oil deeper beneath the surface.
Louisiana beaches have been regularly plagued with tar balls washing up from large mats of oil left buried in the shore since the 2010 BP spill. As oil washed in during the spill, it mixed with sand, becoming heavier and eventually buried by storm surf.
Six tar mats were uncovered on Elmer's Island after Hurricane Isaac. Oil was also reported on Grand Isle, Grand Terre and Fourchon Beach, and in Bay Jimmy.
Garret Graves, chairman of the state's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, voiced concerns about the deep cleaning and categorized it as too little, too late.
Last year, the U.S. Coast Guard announced the Gulf Coast would shift to a Shoreline Cleanup Completion Plan, which would lay out the process for determining how formerly oiled areas can be declared clean.
Federal officials and all Gulf states signed onto the plan except Louisiana. State officials said it leaves Louisiana's vulnerable beaches and marshes open to continued oiling and doesn't hold BP accountable for long-term monitoring and cleanup of oiled shores.
"For well over a year the state has been pushing BP to remove this oil. It was obvious it was there," Graves said. "Their refusal to take proactive steps to remove the oil has put us in this predicament now."
He added that BP was trying to remove portions of Elmer's Island beach from active cleanup shortly before Hurricane Isaac uncovered oil.
Graves said the state is concerned because the "intrusive, mechanical approach" to cleaning oil from beaches will dig up too much of the beach on already vulnerable shoreline. Without compacted beach sand, shores will be more exposed to erosion. The process will also impact microorganisms that live in the sand.
"When you dig up and expose those organisms to sunlight and the elements, you end up killing and changing these ecosystems," Graves said.
Graves said BP's request was a "blanket deep-cleaning proposal across south Louisiana," a request the state finds "too blunt and intrusive."
Lafourche Parish President Charlotte Randolph said that the cleaning process wasn't ideal, but it might be a necessary evil to get remaining oil off of Lafourche's beaches.
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The Wisner Donation Trust, which owns 9.5 miles of Fourchon Beach, has been battling BP over erosion it said the company's contractors caused during the cleanup process, even without using the more invasive deep cleaning. Cathy Norman, manager of the Wisner Trust, said the group has objected each time the company has proposed deep cleaning the beach and will do so again.
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The state still hopes BP will agree to provide long-term monitoring of Louisiana's beaches after the spill.
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I felt I was so put together last night, came home from work, worked out, fed Baby KMW, was making dinner with some wine in hand and was ready to pat myself in the back when I realized I absolutely forgot to put a vegetable on the table...FAIL! I gave myself the excuse that I was supposed to travel to Boston this week for work (which didn't happen because of the snowstorm Juno), and I know Mr. KMW is not eating fresh veggies when I'm out of town. I'm pretty sure his thought is, who needs fresh veggies when you can eat Spam? Then I thought maybe I should pat myself on the back, I was supposed to travel for work, grocery shopped accordingly and we were not eating Spam for dinner!
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When I think of the Kardashian sisters, I don't think of things that make sense. I think of a world of people who are famous for being famous, who get a reality show by accomplishing the feat of being a Kardashian.
In this crazy world, I guess it's no great leap to think that a video game company will grant its customers a 60% discount on a soccer game... only after encouraging them to vote on which of two virtual medieval Kardashian sisters looks hotter.
Before you answer, study up! Atop this post you can see three real-life Kardashians. Kourtney's on the right. Khloe is in the middle. Kim, who may have been too cool for this stunt, is on the left.
Got it? And now the video game versions...
I understand that you might be confused. I defy you to tell me which Kardashian we're seeing in the shot to the left here.
And which one is this?
One of these is Kourtney Kardashian, as rendered in The Sims Medieval.
The other is Khloe Kardashian.
This whole thing is being orchestrated by game publisher EA, which makes the Sims game and the FIFA soccer game that is eligible for a discount (EA didn't make the Kardashians). The game company doesn't even seem to care who wins the vote, since they'll activate the discount as soon as cumulative 1000 people simply "like" the Facebook page where the images appear. So the vote doesn't matter. Of course not! You can't even tell them apart. Old people in Florida had an easier time in 2000 distinguishing Pat Buchanan from Al Gore.
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Answers to commonly asked questions:
What's Waving Wednesday?
It's a simple concept! It's Wednesday and you're riding a bicycle. You see someone else on a bicycle. You wave to them. They wave to you.
Does it cost anything to particiapte in Waving Wednesday?
Waving Wednesday only costs about 3 calories per wave.
If I wave on Wednesdays, can I still wave on other days?
Waving to promote cameraderie among cyclists is always encouraged.
What qualifies as a wave?
A wave 'counts' when you move your hand back and forth at least 3 times. Nodding or saluting do not count-those salutations can find their own darn days.
Do I really have to do this?
Yes, you have to.
The Committee for Environmental Responsibility and The Center for Peace and Global Citizenship is sponsoring a "Go By Bike" workshop series, encouraging community members to bike more. For more information contact email@example.com or www.haverford.edu/staff/gobybike/


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two influential U.S. senators have asked the Interior Department to examine whether coal companies are dodging hundreds of millions of dollars in royalty payments on lucrative sales to Asia, citing a Reuters investigation into the matter.
The lawmakers who lead the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee want officials to find out whether miners are short-changing taxpayers when they tap the coal-rich Powder River Basin in eastern Montana and Wyoming.
The basin is mainly federal land and so taxpayers are due a share of those sales.
Any wrongdoing by the mining companies must be found out and punished, the lawmakers said in their letter, which was sent on Friday.
"If any violations of the law have occurred, companies should be required to cure any gap in royalty payments and, if misconduct has occurred, civil penalties should be levied," reads the joint letter from Democratic Senator Ron Wyden, the incoming committee chairman, and the panel's leading Republican, Senator Lisa Murkowski.
A spokesman for the Interior Department said that officials aimed to answer the senators' questions and tighten controls on coal royalties.
"The Department is committed to collecting every dollar due per provisions of existing law," said Patrick Etchart, a spokesman for the Office of Natural Resources Revenue within the Interior Department.
Powder River Basin coal, which supplies about 40 percent of U.S. demand, has typically gone to feed domestic power plants, and policymakers never considered Asian sales when they conceived royalty rules, Reuters reported in October.
The coal policies meant to keep domestic power cheap and abundant are now padding the bottom lines of companies like Arch Coal Inc, Peabody Energy Corp and Cloud Peak Energy Corp at the expense of taxpayers, Reuters reported last month.
The companies did not reply to a request for comment.
The senators cited Reuters reporting when they warned that coal miners may be selling to sister companies at artificially low prices to dodge royalty payouts.
Congress' investigative arm, the Government Accountability Office, has for months been examining the federal coal program. The Department of the Interior also has an open investigation.
"This is so obvious it shouldn't need to be said: Coal companies need to be paying taxpayers all of the money they are owed," Wyden said in a statement. "If regulators, or decades-old laws, are not doing enough to protect the public interest, our committee intends to find out, and to fix it."
Murkowski, a supporter of free energy trade, said she expects officials to protect taxpayers' stake in sales from federal land.
"Energy exports can create jobs, generate revenue, and improve our balance of trade," Murkowski said in a statement. "As we seek to maximize these benefits, we must be certain that coal exporters are following the rules."
The lawmakers noted that 118 million tons of coal have been exported from Western states since 2001. They urged officials to audit those years and look for abuses.
In afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Cloud Peak Energy was up 0.5 percent at $19.40 per share, Arch Coal was up 3.1 percent at $7.56 and Peabody Energy was up 0.6 percent at $26.79.
While the industry says it is acting aboveboard, outside lawyers point to a natural gas precedent that they say indicates the issue is far from settled.
In the late 1970s, Marathon Oil Corp used a similar accounting system for royalties on natural gas that was produced in Alaska but sold to Japan.
A federal court eventually told Marathon to pay out royalties based on the overseas value. Officials fined Marathon $10 million.
Peter Appel, a former Justice Department attorney, said the case shows that officials expect taxpayers to get a taste of the true gains on exported fuel but that the matter should remain a civil, not a criminal, case.
"This seems to fall pretty squarely in the civil arena," said Appel, who prosecuted cases for the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division and teaches at the University of Georgia School of Law.
Reporting by Patrick Rucker; Editing by Andrea Ricci, Phil Berlowitz and M.D. Golan


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We pick up right where we left off: at the dinner table, post-F-bomb. And it is tense, y'all. Brandi and Kim leave the table, and Lisa stays behind, defending Brandi as the other Housewives gasp at her lack of couth. Blah.
When she and Kyle get back to the table, Brandi apologizes for swearing, but refuses to say she's sorry for telling Adrienne to shut up. Then she drops the news about her book deal, which pisses off Taylor, as predicted.
When Taylor released her tell-all, a short six months after her husband died, Brandi was the first one to criticize her. Now, Brandi's writing a book about her divorce, and Taylor calls bull.
Is it just my Brandi Bias, or is Taylor reaching here? Sure, they're both profiting off of their ended marriages, but the difference is that Taylor's husband died. Their marital issues aside, it's a little cold to even seemingly profit off of his death.
The potential Brandi/Taylor standoff is ruined by Adrienne, who butts in, saying that she's got a book deal, too. About what, Adrienne? Either way, no one really cares, and they leave Adrienne hanging when she calls for a toast. That awkward sip she took when no one bothered to raise a glass? Golden.
The next day, Lisa pulls Brandi to the side, telling her that she'd given Adrienne and the rest of the she-devils unnecessary ammo in their war against her. Of course, she was right in telling Adrienne to shut up -- she really needed to -- but Brandi opened the catty floodgates when she put coarse language into play. If she doesn't learn how to lob instead of spike, she'll always be on the wrong end of a fight with these women.
Tension effectively swept under the rug, the ladies go back to spa-ing it up in O'jai. Lisa and Yolanda seem to have made a non-verbal agreement to make the rest of the trip as light-hearted as possible. They start go-kart racing, and they even get in a towel-throwing fight in the steam room. Kyle got it right when she said the women were like "monkeys in a cage." And Kyle's chimp shriek? ROTFLLMBO!
And then came the liquor. The Housewives downed a few gallons of wine and then started doing drunken gymnastics in the hotel room. Of course, most of them wore dresses -- with thongs underneath -- so butt cheeks were flashed when they did back flips. Classy.
Yolanda and Kim retired early. Kim, because she's sober, and Yolanda because she decided to be boring today. Remember how upset she got at sloppy drunk Taylor during her dinner party? Yeah, that's Yolanda's thing: she despises drunk women. Plus, she needs to get up for her morning run to keep her tummy looking as tight as ever. If she doesn't stop being so judgmental, she's well on her way to becoming season three's outcast.
Plus, she missed out on the arm wrestling, which starts with Brandi and Taylor. Is Taylor sure about this? Brandi's arms are pretty cut. There's some writhing on the floor and wrestling, and I really want someone to swing a punch. Or at least pull a little hair. Aww, poo poo! The women on the bed read my mind, and told them to break it up. For the record, Brandi won.
Next up, Adrienne and Brandi. Adrienne, who "grew up with all brothers" feels that it comes natural, but Lisa's right -- Brandi's out for blood. Adrienne's doing the floppy-armed cheating thing, which obvs rubbed Brandi the wrong way. In her confessional she suggested that "That's how you cheat" is Adrienne's motto.
It's all very Babysitter's Club Movie -- I don't know what this says about me, but it's also incredibly boring. It's nice that everyone's playing nice, even after they've been imbibing, but this is not what we watch reality TV for. Give me some tension! Some pettiness! Some wildly inappropriate displays of squandered wealth!
On the way back, they were having pleasant convo, until Kyle decides to bring up Brandi's F-bomb. Well played, Kyle.
Of course, Adrienne tries to back-pedal away from her past bullying, saying she wasn't trying to draw attention to Kim's crying to mock her. She was just genuinely curious as to what was wrong with Kimmy Poo. Whatever.
Fortunately, Brandi isn't buying it. Adrienne announced that Kim was crying four times! Adrienne claims she said it twice, and without any ill intent, but Brandi is set on making sure she doesn't let this get swept aside with all of the other sticky situations the Housewives try to ignore.
Turns out, Brandi was most upset because she felt like Adrienne's announcement that Kim was crying was an attempt to make Brandi look like she was bothering Kim. Which makes perfect sense, actually. Brandi's being branded the show bully/troublemaker right now, and Adrienne, lover of drama and dissension, would get off on adding something else to Brandi's list of misdeeds.
Honestly, I'm sick of Adrienne causing problems and then scurrying away from them when things get rough. Don't start none, won't be none.
Brandi, tired of watching Adrienne squirm, shuts the conversation down because she thinks it's best they discuss it in private. Then, Lisa steps in to play peacemaker in her cute, little fedora. And she's right: Bottled up anger is not a friend to these women.
But Kyle's the real ish-starter in the back of that limo. She probably brought up the day-old mini-spat because she was bored on their ride back from O'jai, but as usual, she pretends that she butted in out of "concern" ... because Brandi and Adrienne were such great friends before. Got it!
It's understandable, though. Kyle's storyline has been pretty bland, as of late. Gotta earn her keep somehow.
Next week: Ken's going in for a hip replacement, and Lisa is more than a little worried. Kim discusses her fears of relapse.
Kim snitches to Adrienne and Paul that Brandi gossiped about the Maloofs. Oooh! Tough Paul is back! The words "defamatory," "slammed" and "sued" were used.
Wait ... did Paul just decide to confront Brandi? Did he just call her a ... Oh! Can't wait until next week!


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Reviewed by Eleanor H. (age 9)
I liked this book because I enjoy getting really terrified. Another reason I loved this book is because the book has no pictures but describes things very well. My favorite part is when Greg and his friend find a way to solve the problem that they accidently made with the evil camera. Also I think the characters are very smart because they solved a very bad problem they made with the evil camera. This reminds me of when I color a picture wrong with marker and I can't erase it. Also this book reminds me of the book, All That's Left is a Rotten Ghost, also by R.L. Stine. Both of the books are part of the Goosebumps Series. This book is my favorite!
I highly recommend this book for 3rd and 4th graders because it has some tricky words. You might want to read this book because it's a scary mystery. If you like frightening mysteries you should definitely read this book. This book has 115 pages in it.


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March may be widely known as a time to watch basketball and enjoy the spring weather, but to us it means two things: green and beer. It is a time to hang with friends, drink a cold brew, and celebrate the great country of Ireland. I-rish it was St. Patrick's Day already! Here are a few food/drink ideas to make this year:
Try out a new dish in the coming week,
we will provide you with a sneak peak.
Spread that holiday cheer,
here is an idea to enhance your beer.
Beer-Battered Onion Rings
Shamrock shakes are definitely sweet,
but this alcoholic spike makes for a nice treat.
Serve this refreshing green shake,
it can even be a substitute for cookies or cake.
Shamrock Shake All Grown Up
Doctor Seuss had it right from the start,
eggs are even better when they look the part.
A little bit of food coloring is all you need,
and green eggs as an appetizer will take the lead.
St. Patrick's Day Deviled Eggs
At the end of every rainbow is a pot of gold,
once you try these cupcakes you will definitely be sold.
This fun shape is easy to make,
and everyone loves a lad who can bake.
St. Patrick's Day Green Velvet Cupcake Shamrocks
You may need something substantial before you drink,
so go ahead and check out this link.
Irish stew is an authentic meal,
and trust us the hype is real.
Irish Stew
This recipe may seem difficult at first glance,
but this Irish soda bread is so easy you'll do a dance.
You probably have these ingredients so there's no need to go to the store.
Once you try it, you'll want to keep eating more!
Irish Soda Bread
This dessert may not be as Irish as all of the rest,
but we think it is one of the best.
You may need another little leprechaun helping you.
We recommend washing this down with a cold brew.
Key Lime Cheesecake Squares
Irish coffee is a great way to start the day.
It will keep you up so you don't waste away.
This extra kick is just the boost you're looking for,
so grab a glass and give your friends a pour.
Original Irish Coffee


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Get all three of our new release at Sing Sing Records.
Sing 032 :: THE LEOPARDS - 'Kansas City Slickers' LP
By 1977, the year of Kansas City Slickers? release, most bands had happily ensconced themselves in one niche or another--one was either Punk or Power Pop or New Wave or ---- (fill in the trend of your choice), but The Leopards fell into no such handy category. Kansas City Slickers was unique for its time--certainly no other record of its day sounds remotely like it--and remains so today.
Back then its uniqueness baffled critics who, in the few places where the album was actually reviewed, did little more than point to the album?s Kinks influence. While the influence of The Kinks, The Beach Boys, The Easybeats and other Sixties groups is indeed evident on the album, such a superficial assessment does not begin to do justice to the cornucopia of sound on Kansas City Slickers. Herein rock n? roll meets ragtime, old Hollywood musicals and other forms of early 20th Century American music, a delightfully original melange you will not taste elsewhere.
Recorded and mixed at Moon Studios--ie, the basement of Dennis Pash?s parents? house on Maggie Lane in Kansas City, Kansas--the production and muscianship reaches a level of sophistication not often associated with basement recordings. Even so, protected by lack of technology from slick by-the-rote machinations of the professional studio, Kansas City Slickers retains its basement charm.
When Dennis Pash and Kevin Sanders first decided to release privately pressed records as The Leopards in 1975 it was quite a revolutionary strategy, the DIY ethos of punk still a few years in the future. The world would simply have to catch up at some point in time. Judging by the appreciative audience Kansas City Slickers has grown over the years--this despite its exceeding rarity (only 1,000 copies of the album were pressed)--that time may very well be now. (James Marinovich)
Release Country: USA
Release Year: 1977 / Reissue Date: 08.11
Original Label: Moon Records
Sing 031 :: BRAD LONG - 'Love Me Again' b/w 'Come To Me'
In and out of unrecorded regional combos since the late 1960's, Logansport, IN music store owner Brad Long issued this, his lone single, on his own Music Stand label in the summer of 1977. Featuring a warm, lo-fi basement pop sound with stylistic roots firmly grounded in the mid 60's, both 'Come to Me' and 'Love me Again' evoke a hazy mood reminiscent of early Twilley. Also included with the release were a series of press releases, a section of which listed Long's heroes as Roger McGuinn, Paul Revere and the Raiders and Joe Meek. Greeted with positive reviews in the pages of ( Ballroom) Blitz and NY Rocker, Long later contributed a cover of the Rolling Stone's 'Tell Me' to the first VOXX ' Battle of the Garages' compilation. (Collin Makamson)
Release Country: USA
Release Year: 1977 / Reissue Date: 08.11
Original Label: No Label, Self-Released.
Sing 030 :: THE ONION DOLLS - 'The Kids' b/w 'Hot Love'
The Onion Dolls, a four piece punk band from Belgium managed to release this lone 45 before changing their name to Crossfire and fully embracing the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal movement that was sweeping Europe in the early 1980's. Both tracks on this 45 are unsuppressed killers with shredding guitar lines giving up more than a hint of the NWOBHM influenced sound that was to come. Originally released in 1980 on the TWINKLE label in an edition of 1000 copies with a truly great picture sleeve this highly sought after single is one of Belgiums greatest Punk Rock gems.
Release Country: Belgium
Release Year: 1979 / Reissue Date: 08.11
Original Label: Twinkle
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This is exactly what us chicken little bears have been saying for several years. THIS WILL NOT END WELL. Over-priced housing puts the whole system in peril. Banks, Provincial, Local and National Governments.
The myth of the rock solid Canadian financial sector and our economic miracle has been exposed to be: the luck of being resource rich and pumping housing by drawing in future demand, dropping rates to zero, transferring the risk to the tax-payer and lax lending. The result.. well we are about to experience that and it gives me no pleasure to say that many of us saw this coming.
S&P: Outlook Negative on BNS, LB, NA, RY & TDJuly 27th, 2012
it has revised its outlooks on seven Canadian financial institution ratings to negative from stable. The financial institutions are:
At the same time, Standard & Poor's affirmed its ratings on all seven banks.
- The Bank of Nova Scotia
- Central 1 Credit Union
- Home Capital Group Inc.
- Laurentian Bank of Canada
- National Bank of Canada
- Royal Bank of Canada
- Toronto-Dominion Bank
The outlook revisions are linked to our evolving views of economic risk and industry risk for banks operating in Canada. A prolonged run-up in housing prices and consumer indebtedness in Canada is in our view contributing to growing imbalances and Canada's vulnerability to the generally weak global economy, applying negative pressure on economic risk for banks. Growing pressure on banks' risk appetites and profitability arising from competition for loan and deposit market share could also lead to a deterioration in our view of industry risk.
The negative outlook recognizes the potential for deterioration of Canadian banks' financial performance and capitalization generally, associated with consumer debt burdens proving excessive in an unfavorable economic scenario, or due to competitive pressures amplified by the shift to a consumer deleveraging phase.
Over the past decade, Canadian consumer credit market debt (including residential mortgage loans and consumer credit) has risen to more than 150% from 110% of disposable income, and relative to GDP, consumer debt has increased to more than 90% from about 70%. Over the same period, Canadian house prices have approximately doubled, with compounded real growth in housing prices estimated to be about 5% per year.
Bank risk profiles have benefited from Canadian banks' underwriting practices, stable performance metrics for banks' credit portfolios, and the sharing of mortgage risk between the banks, the borrowers (extensively based on full recourse to the consumer), and the providers of mortgage insurance, notably the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (AAA/Stable/A-1+). In our view, Canadian banks' risk tolerances and risk management capabilities are generally strong and attuned to risks inherent in the Canadian consumer and housing sectors. Even so, we believe there is currently growing potential for deterioration of Canadian bank credit profiles associated with scenarios incorporating consumer sector stress.
Systemic factors are incorporated in Standard & Poor's rating methodology primarily through its Banking Industry Country Risk Assessment, or BICRA. The BICRA framework takes into account economic and institutional risk factors present in the environment in which banks operate. Canada's BICRA is currently set at '1′ (lowest risk) on a 1 to 10 scale. The BICRA component of the analysis is intended to highlight emergent systemic risks that may not be fully apparent when viewing the sector at the level of individual banks


text: In a segment taped the day before the Oscars for Today, Octavia Spencer talked to Al Roker about losing weight: "I love my body… I'm not trying to be a thin mint," she clarified. "I want to be a thick, chocolate mint." Mmm. Sounds good. Note to Girl Scouts: Get on that. She also told Al: "I'm going to get my boobs stapled to my shoulders so by the time I'm 70, they will drop to where they need to be." Well! Okay then. Also, much like certain editors around here, Octavia prefers Wacoal bras. Man, we would love to drink champagne with this lady.


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In July 1988, TAPR and AMSAT entered into the Joint DSP Program, in order to fund the development of an eventual DSP unit for amateur usage. As of the 1993 Dayton Hamvention, the direction of development was focused on a modular, standalone DSP system proposed by Bob Stricklin, N5BRG, in Dallas, Texas. The Stricklin KISS design, later renamed DSP-93, offered many of the things that the initial design goals of the project had specified. Fifteen months after the decision was made to proceed with the DSP-93 development, TAPR and AMSAT were proud to announce that orders for kits would be taking place July 15th through August 31st for the first 150 units. The DSP-93 was supplied as a complete kit (including box and power supply).
DSP-93 DesignThe DSP-93 is designed to provide radio amateurs the wonderful capabilities of Digital Signal Processing in a stand-alone low-cost design. Not just limited to one mode, the DSP-93 can support data, audio, and video modes with the proper software.
DSP-93 has been designed in a modular fashion with two four-layer boards utilizing an interconnecting bus structure. The basic system includes a DSP engine board and a radio/computer interface board. The DSP Engine, bottom board, contains the TMS320C25 DSP, 32K by 16 bits of program and data memory - upgradable to 64K, the clock circuitry (40Mhz) and some programmable array logic for system I/O. The Radio/Computer Interface Board, top board, contains two eight pin female mini-DIN connectors for radio interfacing. Incoming radio signals pass through a voltage divider to establish the initial levels, then through an eight channel multiplex chip. The multiplex chip then feeds the single A/D input with either of the radio inputs or one of the six auxiliary inputs. The Texas Instruments TLC32044 Analog I/O chip is used, which samples and updates at a rate of up to 45K operations per second and includes aliasing filters. This board also communicates to your computer at speeds up to 19.2K baud using a serial connection.
Basic Software SuiteThe initial offering of the DSP-93 will contain the following software: 1200 baud AFSK, 300 baud AFSK, 1200 PSK, 9600 FSK terrestrial, 9600 FSK full-duplex for satellite operations, and various audio filters. These have been developed, tested, and have been in use during alpha/beta-testing. Software currently under test, which may or may not be released with the first batch of kits include: APT, Digital Oscilloscope, SSTV, and HF modes. User interface software for DOS and Windows is also under development and testing.
Code DevelopmentA low cost shareware assembler is available for code development. To develop code for this board, you must have good reference material. You can find numerous books on DSP algorithms and developing DSP code. The manufacturer's data sheets and books for the complex chips will also be good reference material. All the details needed to write DSP code will be supplied with the kits.
Project TeamMuch of the development and current success of the DSP-93 project can be contributed to the designers, developers, and testers.
- Designer: Bob Stricklin, N5BRG.
- Project Managers: Bob Stricklin, N5BRG and Greg Jones, WD5IVD.
- Joint DSP Project Officers: Robert Diersing, N5AHD (AMSAT) and Greg Jones, WD5IVD (TAPR).
- The Alpha-Team:
Bob Stricklin, N5BRG, Frank Perkins, WB5IPM, Jon Bloom, KE3Z, Lon Cecil, WB5PKJ, Tom McDermott, N5EG, Robert Diersing, N5AHD, UoSAT/Doug Loughmiller, K05I/G0SYX, John Conner, WD0FHG, Greg Jones, WD5IVD, and Bill Reed, WD0ETZ.
- The Beta-Team:
- Jack Davis, WA4EJR, Paul Beckmann, WA0RSE, Scott Zehr, K9GKC, Ron Parsons, W5RKN, Jim Tittsler, 7J1AJH/AI8A, Michael Zingman, N4IRR, Stan Salek, KD6CVL, Mark Hammond, KC4EBR, Marcel Losekoot, Bill Beech, NJ7P, Gould Smith, WA4SXM, Roy Welch, W0SL, Greg Ratcliff, Brian Straup, NQ9Q, Doug Howard, KG5OA, and Robert Greenfield, VE3DSC.
Useful DSP Web Sites
DSP-93 Video ClipsThe following video clips are taken from video taped by Frank Perkins, WB5IPM. Frank is a prime developer of DSP-93 code. These can be run on either Mac or PC.
RTTY (HotHF modem) during a fade, very impressive! (QuickTime, 894K, 23secs)
300 baud HF Packet (QuickTime, 1Meg, 32secs)
AMTOR HF Decode (QuickTime, 936K, 31secs)
KO-23 pass using WISP (96% - 99% indicated) (QuickTime, 780K, 22secs)
PacSat Pass using PSK (QuickTime, 1Meg, 35secs)
9600FSK Satellite Pass (QuickTime, 852K, 18secs)
Picture of Roy Welch, W0SL, Mike Zingman, N4IRR, and Bob Stricklin, N5BRG at 1994 AMSAT meeting in Orlando showing off the TAPR/AMSAT DSP-93
Picture of Assembled TAPR/AMSAT DSP-93
(out of cabinet during testing before final assembly)
Robert Diersing, N5AHD
TAPR/AMSAT DSP-93 in its case
(on top of a HF radio decoding RTTY)
Bob Stricklin, N5BRG
TAPR/AMSAT DSP-93 Integration Diagram
TAPR/AMSAT DSP-93 Block Diagram
Bob Stricklin, N5BRG
Creator and Designer of the TAPR/AMSAT DSP-93
Documentation and Software
View current software list for TAPR/AMSAT DSP-93 unit
Go to TAPR DSP Software Area
Download DSP-93 Assembly Manual (pdf, 411K)
Download DSP-93 Operations Manual (pdf, 129K)
Download DSP-93 Interface (Windows) Manual (pdf, 242K)
Download DSP-93 Interface (Mac) Manual (pdf, 209K)
Download DSP-93 Program Developers Guide (pdf, 284K)


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As a child, Orelan Johnson of England, Ark., was kept busy on his family farm hoeing cotton. Harsh as it was, that childhood labor didn't deter Johnson from seeking and realizing his dream of becoming a farmer.
A farmer for 44 years, he now raises crops on 3,800 acres, including 3,200 acres of rented land and 600 acres of land he owns. His crops include cotton on 434 acres, corn on 800 acres, wheat on 493 acres, rice on 1,431 acres and soybeans on 586 acres.
As a result of his success as a row crop farmer, Johnson has been selected as the 2009 Arkansas winner of the Swisher Sweets/Sunbelt Expo Southeastern Farmer of the Year award. Johnson now joins nine other state winners from the Southeast as finalists for the award.
The overall winner will be announced on Oct. 20 at the Sunbelt Ag Expo farm show in Moultrie, Ga.
Johnson comes from a long line of farmers. His father and grandfather farmed land he still farms.
He graduated from the University of Arkansas at Monticello with a degree in agriculture and business, and worked off the farm for a time. "I wanted to quit college," he recalls, "but my dad talked me out of quitting, and I've gained an appreciation for the value of education."
In 1965, he returned to farm with his father. In 1967, he rented his first 160 acres. In the early 1970s, his younger brother who had farmed with them died in a car accident. Johnson's father retired from farming shortly after that. "So I bought my dad's equipment and started to expand the farm," he recalls. "If my brother hadn't died, he and I would still be farming together."
By 1978, Johnson was able to buy his grandfather's 169-acre farm.
He irrigates rice, cotton, corn and soybeans and produces excellent per acre yields — 1,250 pounds for cotton, 200 bushels for corn, 185 bushels for rice, 65 bushels for soybeans and 75 bushels for nonirrigated wheat.
Most of his cotton is marketed through the Staplcotn cooperative.
For wheat and corn, he books about 65 percent of his projected production prior to harvesting. The balance is hedged by buying July puts for wheat and September puts for corn.
He books about 40 percent of his anticipated rice production with Producers Rice Mill in Stuttgart, Ark., and the rest is entered into their seasonal pool.
He also books about 50 percent of his anticipated soybean production prior to harvesting and the balanced is hedged.
He has priced some of his 2009 crops at excellent per bushel prices, $9 for wheat, $13 for soybeans and $6.50 for corn.
His grain bins hold 450,000 bushels and enable him to spread out his marketing. He built bins to hold 200,000 bushels last year, and this year he's adding storage for another 100,000 bushels.
Johnson has about 200 acres in woodlands, and has used conservation incentive programs to plant more trees.
Switching from conventional tillage to no-till planting was one of his biggest challenges. "I was pushed into no-till farming," he recalls. He met with John Bradley, then leader at the University of Tennessee research center in Milan, Tenn., who convinced him to no-till a 20-acre field. "At first, it was hard because the old school of thought was that you had the work the land, and work it, work it, work it," he recalls.
"In time, we overcame the fear, and we now use no-till planting every chance we get. We now make two trips over the field compared to 15 trips when we used conventional tillage, and we have reduced soil erosion and made our land more productive."
He even plants no-till rice in fields where ruts are not a problem. He uses a large air drill to plant his rice. He was one of the first farmers in his area to use tracked tractors on rice land rather than those with wheels.
"We level rice land to a zero grade, and that allows for continuous rice production," he says. "It also allows us to better manage red rice weed problems."
Neighboring farmers closely watch Johnson. He recently bought an Australian-made harrow to manage straw and ruts in rice fields. "We got this tool in the fall, and since then, a neighbor has bought two of them," says Johnson.
One of his best investments was buying earthmoving equipment and a laser instrument to level land. "In 1980, I used my laser and dirt pan to fix a problem area on land our family farmed," he notes. "We fixed it in half a day. A neighbor then asked me to level his land, and when we finished, he handed me a check for my work. This is how our sideline earthmoving business started."
This business, Laser Level, Inc., is now a major contributor to overall farm profits.
Earlier this year, he built a reservoir. He relies on current and retired USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service employees for design work. He currently uses eight tractors with pans, one bulldozer and three track hoes in this business. "I turn business away," he says. "Our earthmoving business has not been hurt by the downturn in the economy."
He uses his equipment to level land, build reservoirs and fishponds, install tailwater recovery systems and prepare building sites. "Anything you can do with a dirt pan, dozer or track hoe is a possibility," he says.
Cole Plafcan, vice president and branch manager of AgHeritage Farm Credit Services in Lonoke, Ark., nominated Johnson for the Farmer of the Year award.
Andy Guffey, a staff member with Arkansas Farm Bureau, is the award's state coordinator. "The Johnsons run a quality operation, the best row crop farm I've ever seen," says Guffey. "Orelan was an early user of no-tillage and laser-leveling, and he's a leader who helps other farmers."
Johnson is a 32nd degree Mason and is a member of England's Masonic Lodge and First Baptist Church. He is active in Farm Bureau and sits on the boards of a local cotton gin and Scott Products. He has generously donated his time and equipment to local parks, schools, cemeteries and churches, and to remove storm debris for neighbors.
Woodworking is his hobby, and he has donated dozens of handmade toy boxes to the children of family and friends.
In 2001, his farm was named a Monsanto Center of Excellence to showcase conservation tillage. He has provided land for University of Arkansas test plot studies, and he won a statewide cotton award for conservation tillage in 2004.
His wife, Tena, has been a 30-year Sunday school teacher at First Baptist Church, and has worked on presidential election campaigns for Bill Clinton and Wesley Clark. She also lobbied on behalf of the Grown and Made in the USA cotton program and for a statefunded educational program for three- and four-year-olds.
The Johnsons have two grown children.
Their son, Wade, has worked on the farm since he was a child. He farms on his own and still works with his dad as a part owner and manager of the farming operation. Johnson and his son meet daily and share decision-making.
The Johnsons have a daughter, Angela, who has an accounting degree, keeps books for the farm and is a licensed teacher.
The Johnsons have five grandchildren who enjoy the family's swimming pool and fishing in a pond on the farm with their grandpa.
As Arkansas state winner, Johnson will receive a $2,500 cash award and an expense-paid trip to the Sunbelt Expo from Swisher International of Jacksonville, Fla., a jacket and a $200 gift certificate from the Williamson-Dickie Company, and a $500 gift certificate from Southern States.
He is now eligible for the $15,000 that will go to the overall winner. Other prizes for the overall winner include the use of a Massey Ferguson tractor for a year from Massey Ferguson North America, a custom-made Canvasback gun safe from Misty Morn Safe Co., and another $500 gift certificate from the Southern States cooperative. Also, Williamson-Dickie will provide another jacket, a $500 gift certificate and $500 in cash to the overall winner.
Swisher International, through its Swisher Sweets cigar brand, and the Sunbelt Expo are sponsoring the Southeastern Farmer of the Year award for the 20th consecutive year. Swisher has contributed some $764,000 in cash awards and other honors to southeastern farmers since the award was initiated in 1990.
Johnson is the third state winner from Arkansas. The award was opened to Arkansas farmers for competition during 2007, and the state winner that year was Michael G. Simon of Conway. Last year's Arkansas winner, Brian Kirksey of Amity, was selected as the overall winner of the Swisher Sweets/Sunbelt Expo Southeastern Farmer of the Year award.
Judges for this year include Elwyn Deal, a retired Clemson University Extension leader from Anderson, S.C.; James Lee Adams, a farmer from Camilla, Ga., and the overall winner of the award in 2000; and Jim Bone, manager of field development for DuPont Crop Protection from Valdosta, Ga.


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Caterpillar plans to offer a line of tillage tools for use with its track tractors. Although Krause will manufacture them, the new implements will be Cat's signature yellow and will be sold through the company's U.S. and Canadian dealer networks. The products include a family of disk rippers, in-line rippers and seedbed finishing tools and should be available by fall 2001.
The company reports that it made this move to expand opportunities for its dealers and to build on the advantages of its tractor equipment.


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The seven-year agriculture boom, driven by record-high commodity prices and tight supplies, is expected to peak this and then come to an end as high costs come to fruition, the government projected on Monday.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said farm income would reach a record $127.6 billion this year, up 15 percent, thanks to high market prices and crop insurance payments that will offset losses from the worst drought in more than 50 years.
The USDA said farm income would fall by one-third next year, to $96.9 billion, because corn, wheat and soybeans — the most widely grown crops — will have dramatically lower prices with bumper crops expected this fall.


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AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- Akron investigators say they identified a homicide suspect using facial recognition software made available to police last summer through Ohio's law enforcement information-sharing system.
A spokeswoman for Ohio's attorney general tells the Akron Beacon Journal (http://bit.ly/LXW8Nz ) she's not aware of other homicide cases that were closed because of the facial recognition software.
Akron police say they used the Ohio Law Enforcement Gateway database to help identify a photograph obtained during the investigation of a Monday robbery and shooting death. The database includes driver's license photos.
The 37-year-old man identified as a potential match to the photo was arrested after follow-up interviews. He is one of three suspects in the case.
Critics call the facial recognition technology intrusive. A state panel studying access to the information-sharing system recommended stricter access requirements.
Information from: Akron Beacon Journal, http://www.ohio.com


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Everyday people foods and common backyard plants can be toxic to your family pet. Watch out for these potentially deadly items at holidays and year-round.
Potentially Poisonous Foods
Certain foods can be potentially poisonous to pets, and while the risks are present year-round, they are especially high around holidays. Do you have leftover Easter basket candy? Halloween treats still hanging around? Thanksgiving and Christmas goodies left over from holiday celebrations? Keep these foods away from your beloved cats and dogs:
Potentially Poisonous Plants
Many varieties of plants can cause illness and possible death of your dog or cat. Exercise caution when bringing plants into the house. In addition, supervise pets when they are outside, so that they do not ingest any plants or seeds that may cause harm. Keep animals away from these types of foliage, commonly found in Florida. Seek immediate medical attention for your pet if you suspect he or she has bitten, licked or eaten any part of these plants, including plant's seeds or roots.


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CHICAGO — It could be July before the industry knows the true financial state of Bally Total Fitness, but the company's $800 million debt, the continued postponement of financial statements and an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) show a company in trouble, some experts say.
Last month, Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp. announced it would be July 2005 before the company would release audited and restated financial statements for the first quarter 2000 through the first quarter 2004. All of this signals that the problems the company hinted at before are bigger than originally stated, said Rick Caro of Management Vision.
"Between the SEC investigation and delays in reporting, you had to assume something like this was afoot," said Caro. "For them to go back this far, it will take some time. There's no question the accounting was not consistent with proper accounting…They still have huge debt and the business clearly is in danger."
Because of the restatements, financial statements and other communications related to the periods in question should no longer be relied upon, said Bally. In addition, until the completion of the multi-year audits of the periods in question, Bally will be releasing unaudited operating and cash flow data on a quarterly basis.
The fact that Bally is not reporting its financials can create pressure from creditors to pay off their debts, said Caro. Bally has two interest-bearing notes on which it must make substantial quarterly coupon payments, a November 15th report from Banc of America Securities' analyst Gary Cooper stated. The report noted concerns about Bally's ability to meet its debt obligations in the future and suggested that restructuring would be best for the company. Bally has announced it is seeking consents to waivers of defaults from holders of its two senior notes.
Bally is in a bit of a fix with its $800 million debt. The company does not generate a lot of free cash flow, said Cooper's report, which also noted that Bally's capital expenditures have exceeded its operations cash flow in the past few years. Reviewing Bally's risk factors, Cooper noted, "With an inferior customer offering and leveraged balance sheet, we believe Bally Total Fitness has no real growth prospects."
The report went on to state "unless Bally sells its portfolio of receivables, we believe the company may have difficulty meeting its debt and interest payments in the future."
In a conference call with investors and analysts in November, Paul Toback, CEO of Bally, said that the company has been approached by several parties to purchase portions of the company, but none of the offers has been serious enough to take to the board. However, he said that the company is open to strategic divestitures, particularly if those divestitures will help the company focus on its core business of running clubs.
Toback told investors that the plan the management team laid out to improve the company is working, but "it takes time."
Bally's restatements relate to how the company recognized membership initiation fees during the periods in question and how the company recognized, prior to the second quarter of 2003, recoveries of unpaid dues on inactive member contracts.
The company will also be revising its method of accounting for revenues in 2003 and the first quarter of 2004. The Audit Committee also determined that the company's allowance for doubtful accounts was inadequate for years prior to 2003.
In addition, Bally expects to restate prior periods to record a liability related to repayment obligations of approximately $22 million due in 2015 or later on membership contracts sold by a subsidiary before Bally acquired it in the late 1980s.
More accounting issues could come to light before year end when Bally's Audit Committee is expected to complete its investigation.


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As for the Clone Commanders? Softgoods kamas and super articulation combined with removable helmets would be pretty nice. But they're lower on my priority list. Ultimately, I'd rather get some never before made characters, or some of the varying looks for Palpatine.
#10 The Yavin Base Rebel Guy in the headset who had a few lines (Hey, I tried to find his name...)
Am I correct in guessing that the wishlist results are going to be presented to Hasbro at Celebration 6?
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Student/Faculty Summer Research Awards
The Faculty/Student Summer Collaborative Research Awards provide recipients the opportunity to work directly with a faculty member on a research project at Saint Mary's for 6 weeks (or the equivalent).
Up to three awards ($3,300 each) will be granted annually. Each award will include a $1,500 student research award, $600 housing allowance, $450 for materials and supplies and a $750 faculty stipend. These awards will support a variety of collaborative activity that may include (but not be limited to) research leading to co-authoring of a paper or co-presenting at a conference; co-production of translations, co-writing, directing, or adapting artistic works or co-curating art exhibitions. ELIGIBILITY - An applicant must:
- be a full-time undergraduate student at Saint Mary's College
- be planning to be a full-time student at Saint Mary's in the fall semester
- be majoring in a liberal arts or business field
- be a sophomore or junior in good standing
- have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher (including major courses), at the end of Jan Term
- obtain the support of a faculty member willing to advise and to collaborate on the project
APPLICATION and SELECTION PROCEDURE
- A complete application includes the application form, signed by the applicant and advisor, with the descriptive essay (see Application) and advisor's letter of recommendation attached.
- Deadline for submission is April 1.
- Selection will be made by the Faculty Development Committee.
- Selection will be based on a) excellence of academic record and qualifications relevant to the specific project, such as courses taken and aptitude for research; b) quality of application statements; and c) recommendation of faculty advisor.
- Awards will be announced by April 22.
- A payment schedule will be included in the letter of notification.
View Application: http://gaellearn.stmarys-ca.edu/course/view.php?id=20612
- Within thirty days of the completion of the project, recipients must submit online at the above link a report, written in collaboration with and signed by their advisor, describing the outcomes of the project. No further awards will be made until this report has been received.
- Recipients of grants should be willing to participate in campus activities explaining their project and the use of grant money (e.g., classroom reporting, campus-wide panel on student research and development, article in the Collegian, student research and development newsletter).
- Any resulting publication or award should include acknowledgement of the grant.


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The Breast Surgery division is comprised of expert surgeons working together with a multidisciplinary team of specialists as part of the . This team meets on a weekly basis to review all patient cases, ensuring that the most comprehensive knowledge and experience is dedicated to each individual.
Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center - A Project of Women's Guild
Our surgeons use state-of-the-art technology and instrumentation to provide the best surgical treatment options for breast cancer and in addition to their clinical work, surgeons lecture both nationally and locally on topics involving the care and management of breast cancer patients. Our division members also teach at local surgical programs and are recognized by the American Cancer Society for physician achievement.


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Rich Ilczyszyn is Founder and Chief Market Strategist of iiTrader, a leading Chicago-based trading firm. A veteran of the futures and options markets, Rich has more than 15 years of experience trading on behalf of clients, as well as his own account. Rich ran one of the largest retail and institutional commodities desks while at Lind-Waldock where he focused on the energy, agriculture and precious metals sectors. He was also a member at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), a licensed floor broker and a proprietary trader at Shatkin, Arbor Co. In the DOW futures pit.
Rich's career in the markets began as a supervisor on the institutional treasury bond arbitrage desk at the CBOT, where he was responsible for executing up to $1 billion in notional value per day. His commentary and analysis is frequently cited by financial media, including The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters and Yahoo Finance!, among others. Rich is a CNBC contributor and has been part of "Futures Now" since its launch. His firm, iiTrader offers a high-touch, flat-price alternative to large traditional brokerages.


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PICKERINGTON, Ohio -- The Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona has reversed an unwritten policy and is now allowing street-legal motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) on certain roads, the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) reports.
After being alerted by AMA member Keith Dishong that street-legal motorcycles were barred from three public access roads while trucks and other street-legal vehicles were allowed, AMA Western States Representative Nick Haris and Brian Hawthorne of the BlueRibbon Coalition contacted officials at the refuge, which is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Haris noted that the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge Comprehensive Conservation Plan allows street-legal vehicles to use three access roads, so there was no reason to bar street-legal motorcycles and ATVs from those routes.
After investigating, refuge officials agreed.
The officials announced on May 18 that street-legal motorcycles and ATVs are now allowed on three public access roads: the El Camino del Diablo, Christmas Pass and Charlie Bell roads, which are outside designated Wilderness areas. No other roads or trails in the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge are open to motorized use.
"This action does not open the refuge to unrestricted off-road vehicle activity," refuge officials said in a news release. "Only the three public access roads already open to 4x4 vehicles are open to street-legal motorcycles and ATVs. These vehicles must abide by the same rules and restrictions as all other vehicles that access the refuge.
"Furthermore, permits for accessing these roads are required," the officials said. "To reduce impact of large caravans, an additional special use permit is required for a party size of five or more vehicles traveling together or traveling in smaller groups but part of a larger organized event. This applies to all vehicles, including motorcycles and ATVs."
Street-legal motorcycles and ATVs must run a mast displaying an orange flag at least 8 feet above the ground.
As part of ongoing efforts to recover endangered Sonoran pronghorn, seasonal road closures are in effect at the refuge through July 15.
Haris praised the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for reversing its policy that barred street-legal motorcycles and ATVs, and urged all appreciative motorcyclists and ATV riders to send notes of thanks to: Manager Sid Slone, Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge,1611 North Second Ave, Ajo, AZ 85321 or send an email to email@example.com.
"Land managers at the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge were responsive to our inquiries, and forthright in evaluating their existing policy banning street legal motorcycles and ATVs," Haris said. "Motorcyclists everywhere can appreciate their efforts."
The 1,000-square-mile Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge shares a 56-mile border with Sonora, Mexico. Almost all of the refuge is designated as Wilderness, which bars motorized recreation. The refuge features rugged mountain ranges, sand dunes and hardened lava flows.
About the American Motorcyclist Association
Since 1924, the AMA has protected the future of motorcycling and promoted the motorcycle lifestyle. AMA members come from all walks of life, and they navigate many different routes on their journey to the same destination: freedom on two wheels. As the world's largest motorcycling rights organization, the AMA advocates for motorcyclists' interests in the halls of local, state and federal government, the committees of international governing organizations, and the court of public opinion. Through member clubs, promoters and partners, the AMA sanctions more motorsports competition and motorcycle recreational events than any other organization in the world. AMA members receive money-saving discounts from dozens of well-known suppliers of motorcycle services, gear and apparel, bike rental, transport, hotel stays and more. Through its support of the Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum, the AMA preserves the heritage of motorcycling for future generations. For more information, please visit AmericanMotorcyclist.com.


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The race to claim stakes in the melting Arctic is heating up. That's because a quarter of the world's energy reserves are at play Standing 12,000 feet high and stretching more than 1,000 miles, the Lomonosov Ridge very well might be the most important mountain range most people have never heard of. Submerged beneath sea ice and the frigid Arctic waters, the geological peculiarity sits just a few hundred miles from the North Pole, and according to the U.S. Geological Survey the Lomonosov Ridge and areas surrounding it could hold a quarter of the world's remaining fossil fuel reserves—90 billion barrels of oil and more than 1.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas worth an estimated $17.2 trillion.
In early August, Russia reasserted its claim to the North Pole and surrounding region that includes part of the Lomonosov Ridge, portions of which are also variously claimed by Denmark and Canada. That amounts to over 463,000 square miles of Arctic sea shelf extending more than 350 nautical miles from the shore. It submitted a bid for these vast territories to the United Nations. This latest push by Russia to expand its claim on the Arctic has not unfolded in a vacuum. Record seasonal losses of Arctic sea ice increasingly open up new navigable sea lanes while also threatening ecosystems there. Potentially vast oil and gas reserves have grown increasingly accessible, luring both governments and energy companies into Arctic waters.
And as tensions between Russia and the West approach Cold War intensity, a massive military buildup along Russia's Arctic coastline underscores the geostrategic value of a region that's become a 21st-century hotbed of high-tech espionage and military competition.


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After the Thanksgiving Day feasts and the annual post-Turkey Day shopping sprees, what we have today are the mound of leftovers.
Hopefully, we have a few tasty ones.
THUMBS UP to the future. In this case, it�s embodied, literally, by a pair of TRU-D SmartUVC disinfecting robots deployed at Alamance Regional Medical Center as part of a study on the effectiveness of ultraviolet light in removing pathogens from medical facilities. The robots emit a strong UV light that destroys the ability of bacteria and viruses to spread by damaging their DNA. They are used in rooms from which patients with certain pathogens are placed under contact precautions. Cleaning is also done with bleach or an ammonia solution. It is hoped these little robots can increase sanitary conditions. Beam these germs outta here, Scotty.
THUMBS UP to the number of years the miniature train tunnel at Burlington�s City Park has withstood the ravages of time without appreciable expense. The 75-foot wood-tin tunnel is getting some renovation work for next spring�s opening. According to Recreation and Parks director Tony Laws, the tin roof on the tunnel has been in place for more than 50 years by his estimation. The city is putting a new cover over the tunnel and fixing up some of the rotted framework constructed in the late 50s or early 60s. Gives evidence to the old saying, �They just aren�t building things like that anymore.�
THUMBS UP to a recent report that the number of teen pregnancies declined in Alamance County last year, according to the North Carolina State Center of Health Statistics. There were 218 teen pregnancies last year among girls 15 to 19 in this county, compared with 253 during 2010. The Teen Outreach Program is being cited as a reason for the decline, offering a life skills program that helps teens make better decisions.
THUMBS UP to folks like Amy Chinnici who works with young people who have special needs. A Special Education major, she is in her 14th year of teaching. She was recognized in October for her work at Southern Middle with an Excellence in Education Award from the Alamance County Mayors� Committee for Persons with Disabilities. Her ultimate goal is to help make the students independent so they can do as much for themselves as possible during life.
THUMBS UP to news that the city of Burlington has hired a new director of planning and economic development to succeed Bob Harkrader, who retires after 25 years as director and 31 years of service to the city. Amy L. Nelson will take over the position on Nov. 28. She comes from Whiteville, where she served as director of planning. Nelson has 14 years of experience in urban planning, having worked in Southport, Greensboro and Sanford. With the city�s growth over the past few decades, she�ll have her hands full.
THUMBS UP to the stewardship of George and Jerri Nall, who brought the Holt-Green estate from a shambles to a showplace. The couple had a dream to renovate, repair and present the historic Glencoe home to the public and with their own funds and a lot of hard work, accomplished that feat. They have turned the home, also known as the �mill owner�s home� to many people familiar with the textile village, over to Elon University for its use. Many thanks to the Nalls. They will continue to work with the Textile Heritage Museum and with many other community projects. We are proud to call them neighbors.
And we knew on Thanksgiving Day we would leave out a few organizations when we offered editorial appreciation to the many in our community who offer so much to us all. But we had one rather glaring omission: Our public libraries. We were reminded that libraries are the great equalizers in our society, providing access to computers, music and books. Libraries help those looking for work, or those seeking knowledge. The library introduces children to the joy of the written word and adults to new authors. The library makes us all more literate and more informed.
For all of that and much more, we offer our libraries a big THUMBS UP.