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by Dennis Clark
What materials are used in this drawing?
What paper is used? Medium thickness smooth cartridge paper
What pencils were used? Graphite, 2H, B, 3B, and 6B
What eraser was used? Soft White Plastic
This was a quick sketch, as it were, to keep myself busy during a gap in a pencil Portrait Seminar I conducted recently. While the students were concentrating on the project and keeping themselves busy I made good use of the intervals of spare time. Below is the photograph I worked from :
Transfering to Paper
I used the grid method to enlarge the lion to the correct size. I always do my drawing on a separate paper the same size as the final drawing. I then transfer the drawing onto the final paper. This way I don't have to erase any construction or grid lines afterwards.
I always draw and/or paint the eyes first before I really do anything else on the subject. Even if the eyes need a touch-up later I MUST be satisfied that the eyes show the character and mood of the subject. It is of no use if the subject is beautifully rendered and the eyes are "dead" . If I cannot get the eyes to look the way I want it to be I will scrap the drawing and begin a new one.
Initial Shapes
I suggest you start with the eyes and then progress to the nose area and then the mouth area. This is the most important area of the drawing. These must match up and dove-tail into each other and form a unit . These must depict the proportions and character of the subject. It must be a recognisable semblance. Spend as much time as necessary in this area before moving on.
Next start to define some of the other distinctive shapes like the ears.
Some basic shading is added to give moulding to the face, don ' t overdo it at this stage. The mane is also started to give shape to the face.
TIP: Leave the very darks until the very last.
Lower Mane
Because this area will be very dark, notice the rough shading in before completing this area.
Upper Mane
Define the mane with fast flowing strokes. Be careful and do not cover up the areas that indicate the highlights of the hairs.
Forehead & Nose
The eye area with extra shading applied. Notice the sensitive light shading and the directions of the strokes to indicate the slopes and different planes of the face surface.
The two dots indicate the max length I want the whiskers to be. With a very sharp craft knife cut a very thin slit (opening) at a slight curve. This thin slit is placed over the areas where I want the whiskers to be. We call this an erasing shield.
Now carefully and gently, with an eraser, erase along the length of the slit enough to clean a strip on the drawing. Don' t erase across the slit. If you do you will tear the erasing shield. In order to give this white stripe volume on the drawing, carefully, with a sharp pencil, underline the white strip to give it a shadow line. With this same shield you can even erase out shorter whiskers.
Completing the Drawing
Next shade in the body of the lion to complete this drawing.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
Don't forget to post a pic of your lion on the FORUM, we love to see how your art is improving.
by Nolan Clark
What colours are used in this painting ?
Ultramarine Blue
Raw Umber
Brilliant Orange
Cadmium Yellow
Medium Used : Oil on Canvas
When looking for inspiration for this painting I had no idea what I even wanted to paint.
I then started flipping through some of my reference books and came across this stunning photo of some woods in the Knysna district of the Cape Province. It seemed as if there could be a forgotten path running through the trees (I have shown this with the red arrow). I decided that I would capitalize on my 'discovery' and change the picture to have a prominent path leading the viewers eye through the scene.
The tutorial painting was painted on a 9″ x 12″ canvas so if you are going to use a different canvas, you will have to adjust the brush sizes to suit the canvas.
Blocking in
No drawing work is needed for this painting. We do however need to do some planning ahead to ensure that we retain the light areas in the painting. Mix up a dark green using equal amounts of French Ultramarine, Raw Umber and Viridian. Mix enough as this will form the basis of most of the colours to follow.
Block in the dark areas of the painting as shown above with this colour. You will see that the paint has a different texture on the left to that on the right hand side. We want to get the texture on the left as this gives us a leafy effect from the outset. To obtain this effect, simply stab the areas you blocked in with the brush, (I used a no. 6 flat bristle throughout this painting), holding the brush at right angles to the canvas. This takes out all the brush stroke marks and 'leaves' a leafy appearance.
Distant Trees
We can now start to add some light into the painting. Take Titanium White and a little of the dark green mixture into it. This will give you a distant green. Roughly scub in the area where the path goes over the horizon, leaving some of the middle section (in between) open for even lighter colours.
Scrub in a few odd shapes to the left and right of the path as shown. It doesn't really matter where and what shape, we are going to use those odd shapes to build up a bushy texture. Bushes and trees grow in all sorts of odd shapes so whatever shape you end up with will always be correct. Don't think about the shapes and positions beforehand, just quickly scrub them in.
Now we can add in some light shining through the break in the trees caused by the path. Take Titanium White, add a little Cadmium Yellow and a very tiny amount of the dark green mix. Not too much yellow or green into the white, we want to ensure that the colour appears 'washed out' to create the impression of distance. Scrub in this colour in the gap in the path, adding a few small dabs here and there around the area you just scrubbed in. These few dabs give the impression of light shining through the trees surrounding the path.
Note the two small areas to the right of the path where I have left the canvas showing. I have done this on purpose as we want to have a small break in the trees where some intense sunlight can shine through, eventually lighting the middle ground.
We can now roughly scrub in the distant path using the yellow mixture we used last. Scrub this in fast and furiously, don't try and be too careful here. We want to purposely overrun into the dark green on either side of the path. This causes a streaky effect and makes the path look uneven. Start at the top and work your way down to about two thirds of the path, leaving the bottom third.
To complete the trees in the background, add a small amount of Brilliant Orange into a Titanium White to give a low intense orange. Now add the tiniest amount of French Ultramarine to this mix at a time until you get a very light brown. Thin this brown mix down to the consistency of ink. Using your painting knife, 'draw' in the distant trees. Be careful not to make them too big otherwise they will appear closer than we want them, loosing the distance.
Scrub in some Raw Umber into the foreground path in the same manner as you did the distant path. Start at the bottom of the canvas and work your way up rapidly. When the Raw Umber meets the light colour of the path, press lighter and leave increasing gaps between your brush strokes. This creates an optical blending effect while at the same time still giving the path a rough look. With a little practice, this is easier to do than it seems.
We can now add some more sun onto the path. Use a dry clean brush and Cadmium Yellow straight out of the tube. Gently run the brush that has been loaded with the yellow over the path. Don't apply any pressure and use the full length of the bristles instead of the tips. The paint is the only part of the brush to touch the canvas. You will see that the paint comes off in irregular patches and streaks creating the effect of individual leaves on the ground. Only highlight the lefthand side of the path as the sun is shining from the right in this painting. Also don't highlight into the Raw Umber as you will loose your distance.
Foreground Foliage
Using Titanium White, Cadmium Yellow and a little of the dark green mix, mix a yellow green that is darker than that used for the distant break in the trees. Add some highlights around the irregular patches you scrubbed in during the second step. Remember that the sun is shining from the middle right of the painting so the highlights on the lefthand side of the path must be to the right of the patches scrubbed in earlier. Don't highlight the patches on the righthand side of the path as they don't get much sun. Add these highlights using only the corner of the bristles. Pick up lots of paint and use a light dabbing motion. Build the highlights up into many irregular patches instead of trying to paint each individual leaf. Trying to paint each individual leaf will result in a spotted look. Leaves are very lonely creatures and like to live together in groups of different sizes, with only a few loners here and there.
To bring the ground foliage over the path we use some of the dark green mix. Dab from inside the foliage toward the centre of the path. Dab this growth in, in irregular horizontal strips. Broader, dark strips near the bottom of the canvas and shorter, thinner and lighter farther back.
Foreground Trees
All the foliage we have been painting would make no sense if we didn't have trees or branches to anchor them to. We are going to paint in the tree trunks and branches using the painting knife as this will give us a nice rough effect.
Mix up a very dark brown by adding French Ultramarine to Raw Umber. Thin this colour down to the consistency of ink. Scrape some paint onto the knife as though you were smearing butter. Draw in the trees using a dabbing motion with the side of the knife to create a bark look. Note how I have let the trees 'dissappear' into the foliage at the top and the bottom. You may hardly even see this paint when you stand back as it is so dark against the dark foliage, but it gives you the shape so that you can add the highlights.
Add a little white to this dark tree mix, then a little orange to brighten it. Thin as before. In the middle of each trunk and branch dab in this colour. Make sure to get a rough effect otherwise it will look as though someone ironed your trees to get all the wrinkles out.
You can now highlight the trunks and branches. Add more white and orange to the tree's middle colour, thin and dab in the highlights. Remember where the sun is coming from otherwise your highlights will be on the wrong side of the branch. The brightest point on an object is ALWAYS the point closest to the light.
The tree on the right hand side of the path is not highlighted with this colour. I have mixed another, inbetween the middle and highlight colour to ensure that the light always shines brighter on the left hand side of the path.
Let's complete the foliage now. We could have done it earlier, but we rather do it now so that we can 'sink' the tree trunks and branches 'into' the foliage. Mix a Sap Green using equal amounts of Viridian and Raw Umber, if you have Sap Green in a tube, use that. Add some of the Sap Green into Cadmium Yellow until you get a medium dark Olive Green. This colour is the middle colour for the foliage.
For the foliage on the left hand side of the path, build up the areas on the dark side of the highlights using this colour and the brush in exactly the same way you did the highlights.
On the right hand side of the path, build up some foliage using the same colour. This side doesn't get any bright highlights though as it is in shadow. To complete these leaves and bushes, sparingly highlight them with the colour used for the gap in the path as shown below.
We can now add the sky shining through the trees. Add a little French Ultramarine to Titanium White. Carefully block in the open canvas where the sky should be. Dab a few patches of light around these areas for smaller holes. The light will now be shining through the trees, but will still look as though it is in front of the trees. To push it back we use some of the dark green mix and dab some leaves in front of the light. Highlight these leaves as shown below.
To make the path look rough we need to add some leaves lying on the ground. Use your dark green mix to dab in patches of leaves. Remember that leaves are lonely and don't like to live alone. Bigger patches at the bottom of the canvas and smaller patches as you move into the picture. Only add these leaves onto the Raw Umber sections of the path. Highlight here and there using the yellow we used for the gap in the path.
Complete this painting by adding an extra bush overlapping the path on the bottom left of the canvas. This bush 'sinks' the leaves in the path into the picture.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, please don't forget to post a picture of your completed painting on the forum. We like to see how you are progressing.
by Nolan Clark
What colours are used in this painting ?
Cadmium Yellow
Prussian Blue
Cadmium Orange
Light Red
Crimson Alizarin
Medium Used : Watercolor on 300gsm (140lb) Card
What brushes are used in this painting ?
#2 Rigger, #8 Synthetic flat or toothbrush.
Other equipment used in this painting ?
300gsm (140lb) Card, Marking Pen, Craft Knife, Hair Dryer.
For this painting I want to do something different, so I have decided to use a splatter technique.
To demonstrate the effectiveness of this technique we are going to use a 'difficult' subject – a face. Since Mr Mandela is probably South Africa's most famous person we will use him as our subject.
The preparation for this painting takes longer than the actual painting itself does, so take your time as the end result will only be as good as the preparation. As we can't control our splatter we need a way to mask off the sections that we don't want to splatter.
To do this we need to split Mr Mandela's face into different colors. I used an image editing program like Corel Photo Paint to do this for me, but you can also do it by hand. I will explain the process used in Corel Photo Paint next. If you would like to do it by hand, then click on the split image above to open a printable version.
Computer Separation (Skip if doing by hand)
Note : If you don't have an image editing program, then there are online ones like SUMO Paint that you can use for free as well)
Open the photo in Corel Photo Paint and posterize it [Image-Transform-Posterize]. You can now adjust the level until the best effect is achieved. I have used a level of 2 for this picture. Our picture is now in three distinct colors. Use the Color Mask effect [Mask-Color Mask] to select one color at a time. Copy each color and paste it as a new document [Edit-Paste-As New Document]. We now have three new files, one for each color. Print these three files out on 300gsm card. They will become our templates.
Hand Separation (Skip if doing on the Computer)
Print out three of the images that have been pre-split for you, all the same size.
When trying another picture, just look for individual colors or, as in our example, changes in the tone of the same color. These will be your clue as to where to split the image.
The color templates are drawn / printed onto 300gsm card (the same thickness as used for a business card). Use a craft knife to trim the templates out of the card. Above is what the red printout looks like.
When cutting your templates out you will need to do a little planning to see where your bridges must be. Bridges are used to ensure that all pieces stay connected to the main bulk of the card. An example is shown above. Below are my final templates.
Our biggest problem is to ensure that, when you put the templates onto the original, they are in exactly the correct position. To do this take a piece of tracing paper and print the posterized image on it (with all three colors). Draw a block around your picture, extending the lines to form a cross at each corner. Place the tracing paper onto each template, ensuring that they line up exactly. Using a pin transfer the position of your crosses. Do the same on your final painting. Draw in the blocks on your templates and very lightly on the final painting. You can now cut out the cross on each template. You can see how the template is aligned with the final painting in the photo above.
We have basically divided Mr Mandela's face up into three sections – dark, medium and light. Choose three harmonious colors, ensuring that they have a good tonal range, i.e., good contrast between light and middle as well as between middle and dark. In this example I am going to use the colors the computer gave me, but look at the end of this tutorial for a "blue" Mandela.
The colors I have mixed are –
Dark – Prussian Blue with Crimson Alizarin
Middle – Light Red with Cadmium Orange
Light – Cadmium Yellow with Orange
Put one template down ensuring it is perfectly aligned. Using a toothbrush or your #8 bristle, splatter the color all over the gaps in the template. The toothbrush will give smaller, more concentrated, splatter while the brush will give larger, less controlled splatter. Use whichever gives you the best effect. Always double check the position of the template before you start, tape the final and template cards down if necessary. Also ensure that the template is not upside down or wrong way around.
When you are happy that the splatter is even, carefully lift up the template by pressing down on one of the sides to form a hinge. Lift up the template from the opposite side. Be careful that the paint that is lying on the template doesn't drip off onto your final painting.
You can now dry your final painting and the template with a hair dryer.
Repeat the process with the next two templates. Your painting should look something like this :
We can already see that it is Mr Mandela, but the painting lacks definition. Add this in by hand. Use your rigger brush to paint your own dots in strategic places. I have added dots on the hairline, mouth, left ear, nose and under the chin.
Here is my finished painting :
by Nolan Clark
Have you ever wanted to do some drawing in pastel, but you have never known what to buy or where to start? Well fear no more and read on…
Pastels are a wonderful medium to work in as you get bright, brilliant colors and an easy flowing feel to your drawings. The speed with which you can draw is also an excellent plus as you can make quick, yet detailed, drawing when outdoors. You then not only have a dimensional drawing of the scene to work from back at home, but you also have a reasonably accurate color reference to work from.
Let's first take a look at the average bag of tricks a pastel artist uses.
As you can see there are quite a few items, but they are all small. Popping everything, except the paper, into a small box is no problem. Starting from the top left we have the following items
A = Cloth for cleaning up
B = Fixative spray to fix the drawing when needed
C = Sponge for special effects
D = Toilet Paper for special effects
E = Set of Soft Pastels
F = Set of Hard Pastels
G = Sand Paper for textured / layered drawings
H = Bread for erasing mistakes
I = Surgical Gloves to protect sensitive skin
J = Charcoal Sticks for preliminary drawing
K = Soft Eraser for special effects
L = Ear buds for blending small areas
M = Craft Knife for special effects and trimming paper to size
N = Pastel Stick Holder
O = Pastel Paper (Smooth)
P = Pastel Paper (Rough)
Q = Brushes for blending and special effects
Most of these items can be bought from your local art supplier, the gloves from your chemist (drug store), the rest should be lying around the house already.
What are pastels ?
Pastels are made of pure pigment held together with a binder. You get three types of pastels – Hard, Soft and Oil. The difference between the three is only the binder, the pigment stays the same. With Soft pastels a water based binder is used to hold the pigment together. Hard pastels also have a water based binder, but more binder is added making them harder than soft pastels. Oil pastels have an oil based binder. This tutorial will only deal with Hard and Soft pastels as they are used together. Oil pastels will be shown in another lesson. Hard pastels are used for preliminary blocking in, Soft pastels are used for detail work.
You can tell the difference between the three by looking at them and by feeling them. Soft pastels feels and looks like regular black board chalk – soft with a round shape. Hard pastels are shaped square and are pretty hard and shiny. Oil pastels feel more like children's wax crayons and are also shaped round.
How to choose a set of pastels.
There are many different sets of pastels available on the market, deciding which to choose is really quite easy. Pastels don't really like to be blended as the colors lose their vibrancy. You would then generally buy the biggest set you can afford, with the most amount of colors, to minimize the amount of blending you need to do.
Another point to look out for is the colors that have been grouped together in the various sets. Some sets have been put together with colors that would be used in a landscape, some are grouped for portraits, others for seascapes, some are general colors, etc. Buy a set with a color grouping to suit your subject taste.
What paper to choose.
Pastels need a surface to grip onto, regular writing paper is too smooth to draw on. The roughness of the paper is called the paper's 'tooth'. Always use paper that has been manufactured for pastel work as you are then sure that the oil content and pH (acidity) of the paper is correct. Pastel papers are manufactured in different ways to give varying degrees of tooth and texture. Some are embossed, others have used less refined pulp which gives each paper it's own distinctive feel. The more tooth the paper has, the more you can layer and rework your drawings. One of the few papers which is not manufactured for pastel work, but lets you build up many layers, that I can recommend is regular sand paper. Experiment with papers which have varying tooth and textures until you find the ones you like best.
Although there aren't really any dangers in using pastels, the powder of the pastels dries out the skin and the texture of the paper can be rough on your skin. If you use surgical gloves when working with pastels, you won't have this problem and you have the added bonus of your hands staying clean too. Do, however, avoid inhaling the pastel dust as this can be dangerous.
Great, we have our pastels and everything else we need, now we can start to look at some techniques we use in creating our masterpieces.
Shading is probably the most basic technique we will be using. There are a few ways to achieve our blending. You can lay down the colors you want to blend next to each other, then use you hands to blend them together, or you can use a soft hair brush too. The problem with blending in this way is that the colors seem to lose their vibrancy when you rub over them. There are two things we can do to overcome this. The first is to blend the colors with your hands or brush, then gently rub over them with the original colors to leave a thin vibrant layer on top of the blended colors. This works pretty well, but there is a better way.
Let's say we want to blend from left to right. Lay in the first color, e.g., left hand side by using the length of the pastel stick. Start from the left and work your way right. Block in to past the area where the two colors will merge. Now start with the other color, from right to left. When you get to the area where the two colors will merge, press lighter and lighter until the stick isn't touching the paper anymore. You may have to repeat the blending of the second color once or twice, cleaning the pastel on the cloth after each pass. You now have a perfect blending with bright vibrant colors throughout.
Here is a practical example of blending :
Cross hatching
Cross hatching is a striking method of optically blending colors together, yet many artists battle with this technique. The idea is that you lay down lines of color in different directions. The colors will then blend together when you stand back. The problem is that artists don't know which direction to let the lines run in. This is actually easy to work out and only takes a drawing or two to get the hang of it.
Take a look at the picture above. Here you can see that the lines follow the curve of the apple from top to bottom and left to right. Each surface has two natural directions that it runs in. In the light green lines you can see how these line's angles gradually change as they move from straight in the center to the same curve as the outside of the apple. The same happens with the dark green lines – they change from a tight circle around the top of the apple to a bigger circle around the outside. Practice 'seeing' these lines when you look at objects and you will soon enjoy drawing cross hatched drawings
To shade using cross hatching, you simply reduce to number of lines of the one color and increase the amount of lines of the other color.
Here is the completed apple :
Gee what a funny word! It is actually a pretty handy technique to learn though, especially when working with natural objects and scenes like landscapes. Anybody can scumble, all you do is scribble in a random fashion on the paper. In the picture above you can see how I have scumbled three colors next to each other, overlapping each other to form a shading. The big trick with scumbling is to scribble in such a way that you don't form a visible pattern.
Here is a palm tree scene drawn on location using only the scumbling technique.
Often you would like to add some fine detail to your drawings. One way to do this is to trim the stick using your knife so that you get a sharp point. Another way is to use the knife and scratch in some fine detail. You can even do entire drawings using only scratching. Below is an example of scratching where I have laid down two contrasting colors and scratched out the image. The amazing thing about this technique is that the bottom color shines through and not the paper color as one would expect. This means that you need to lay down the color you want to show through before the main drawing is done.
Here is a tree done in this way :
Here you can see how I have scratched in the birds and some grass in a section of one of my drawings. In this drawing I didn't lay down a special color at the bottom first so you have the dark paper showing through making the birds appear darker.
Stippling is not as fancy as it sounds, but the effects are great. Dot the pastel down onto the paper as though you are making a full stop. This gives you rocks and leaves, etc.
Here is a thumbnail landscape with the rocks added with stippling. See if you can recognize any other techniques we have discussed.
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What more can we do BUT nag you to support local (young) artists? Besides give you everything you need get there? Just stop saying 'one day' and GO GO GO – you've got until the 13th December to catch Wim Botha's first solo Gallery exhibition in Johannesburg…. for this debut, Wim Botha will present a new sculptural installation, large and small individual drawings and recent large-scale prints.
The works are primarily concerned with the passage of time from a relativistic perspective. It makes reference to both inverted and non-chronological time and the resultant relativity of a personal point of view…The installation makes use of visual elements that have their origin in the languages of art history and historical visual culture and are presented in a semi-structured constellation that seems to suggest a non-linear timeline.
Using as original source motif the standard illustrated depiction of time as a sequence of events consecutively arranged in a linear model, the work adapts and perverts this format in three-dimensional space – turning back on itself, this sequence with its various elements suggests a type of system, a volatile organism with high entropic possibility.
The main structure of this constellation is formed by hexagonal mirror-sided vitrines, that, as a variation of the typical display cabinet, seems to be turned inside out, putting the surrounding elements as well as its larger surroundings on display.
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Childabuse Essay, Research Paper
Child Abuse: No Laughing Matter
Child abuse affects the lives of millions of children every year in this country. The children often suffer horrific injuries from the beatings. Some children, even tiny babies, may even die. Abuse often leads to future behavioral problems, ranging from mild to very serious. Also, an abused child is more likely to grow up to be an abuser. These are some of the reasons why child abuse is no laughing matter. In fact, it is one of the saddest and most tragic problem s of today s society.
According to the American Humane Association, there are some 2.2 million cases of child abuse reported every year. The majority of cases are committed against children between the ages of three and eight (Dolan 14). These children are too young to know better and too small to fight back. Abusers hit the children with objects such as belts, straps, electrical cords, baseball bats, and, of course, hands and fists. They burn, bite, scratch, cut, punch, kick, slap, and, in other ways, threaten the child s well being. Many of these children will require medical attention for their injuries. It is difficult to get an accurate account of how many cases of child abuse there actually are. Many cases go unreported because abusers often disguise injuries as accidents.
Child abuse that results in death is more common than most people would like to believe. The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect estimates that approximately 2,000 children die each year because of child abuse that is five children every day. Children under the age of four account for more that + of the fatalities (Mufson and Kranz 3). As ironic as it might sound, perhaps these children are really the lucky ones. At least they will not have to suffer through years of abuse. Unfortunately, most abused children are victims of their own mother or father. The very person that gave them life, and is supposed to protect that life, is the one that is now taking that life away.
It is easy to recognize the physical effects of child abuse the bruises, scratches, cuts, burns, broken bones, and black eyes. What are not as obvious are the long loasting negative emotional effects. An abused child often feels guilt because he feels like he must have done something wrong to cause someone to treat them this way. Abusers are very good at making their victims feel guilty. An abuser will often blame the child by saying things like you make me do this and it s for your own good. A child will believe them because, all too often, the abuser is someone that the child is supposed to be able to trust. The child feels shame because he cannot do anything to stop the abuse. He is afraid to tell someone because he feels no one will believe him. He is afraid people will see him as weird or different. Probably, most of all, he is afraid of more, and more violent beatings if the abuser finds out. These negative emotions may lead to future behavioral problems for the child. He may display a poor self-image, and inability to depend on , love, or trust others, aggressive behaviors, or problems in school. In addition, more serious, self-destructive habits of drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders, depression, or even suicide may occur.
Abuse can damage a child for life. Sometimes, he will survive only to take the pain that he has suffered out on someone else. Unfortunately, this often means his own child. Why would an abused child grow up to be an abuser? Shouldn t he, of all people, realize the pain he is putting his own child through? The answer to this seems simple. Abuse is all he knows. He had poor preparation for his role as a parent. He doesn t know what a loving parent is. He never learned to be gentle, kind, and patient. He learned to be violent when things go wrong. His parents deprived him of love and warmth. As a parent, he now looks to his own child to provide the things that were missing form his childhood. When the child isn t able to provide these things, he lashes out against the child, just as his parents lashed put against him.
Society must not take the issue of child abuse lightly. It is a tragic problem that is not going to go away on its own. Someone has to do something to help these children, and to help their children. Someone must stop abusers, and potential abusers, before they hurt another innocent child. If the vicious, endless cycle of abuse can be broken, this country will be one step closer to seeing an end to child abuse.
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Feb 6 2008 in Uncategorized by Phil Rosenberg
Check out my podcast, Ugly Job Hunting Truths…And What you can do about them. Chris Russell, author of Secrets of the Job Hunt (a Career Advice Social Network), interviewed me for his podcast today.
Chris asked me some insightful questions. I hope my answers can shed some light on experiences job seekers face today.
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A Pawpaw Germination Experiment
I remember being flabbergasted the first time I heard about the pawpaw fruit. I'd lived my whole life in North America and had no idea about the existence of something called an "Indiana Banana"—apparently, it was growing quite prolifically on my continent.
The pawaw (Asimina triloba) is the largest edible fruit native to North America. It turns out, I never had the chance to taste one in Canada because they weren't hardy to my zone, they don't transport well, and they don't keep well either. Pawpaws are unusually high in protein for a fruit. They're custard-like, and taste like something between a mango, banana. and cantaloupe—too musky or fragrant for some but highly sought-after by others.
My fascination with this tree—though nurtured without a taste-test and over a great distance once I moved to Europe—led to my creating a seed distribution and research endeavor, simply called the Paw Paw Project. I partnered with Kentucky State University's Pawpaw Program and managed to get free seeds distributed to thousands of people around the world.
Most gardeners have popped a squat once or twice in the garden, especially when going indoors was otherwise impractical.
Unbeknownst to many, however, this action enriches the soil with both macro- and micro-nutrients.
Vermont's Rich Earth Institute recently made news with a pilot project to divert urine from the septic system to agricultural use, joining Germany, China, Sweden and many developing nations in experimenting with urine diversion and re-using human waste for practical and productive ends. This movement is broadly called "ecological sanitation."
Planting Mistletoe
Mistletoe isn't just one plant, rather a collection of hundreds of species of hemiparasitic plants—those that parasitize for water and nutrients but can still photosynthesize—in the Santalaceae, Misodendraceae and Loranthaceae families. Bundles of these odd tree-dwelling shrubs have long been a staple Christmas decoration, marking a spot for a kiss. However, the tradition of hanging mistletoe in the house around the time of the winter solstice goes back at least as far as Iron Age druidic customs on the British Isles, and the enduring association of mistletoe with midwinter has followed Europeans around the globe.
Cultivate Good Fungus In Your Soil
The structures analogous to roots in the fungal world are called hyphae, which form a network called mycelium. The interactions between plants and fungi are both expansive and poorly understood, but as ecological and agro-ecological scholarship interrogates these complex life webs, it becomes more and more apparent that cultivating with fungi in mind also benefits plant life.
Studies have shown that trees in a forest ecology use mycelial networks like an Internet to send chemical signals to one another about predation or environmental conditions, as well as to share nutrients. Insects, like bees, sip water from fungal mycelium to upregulate their immune response, giving them extra armour against colony collapse pathogens and pesticides. Around 90 percent of known plant species have some sort of specialised fungal symbiont intertwining with their roots, in an arrangement collectively referred to as a mycorrhizal association.
In the garden, fungal associations can be carefully cultivated with a little bit of knowledge and a lot of experimentation.
7 Tips To Plan For Pollinators
Pollinator decline is one of the most pressing global environmental issues facing our food system. It's common to hear about honeybees (Apis mellifera) and issues like colony collapse disorder, but the decline of pollinators in general—including 20,000 other species of bee and creatures like beetles, wasps, butterflies, bats, moths and even monkeys—doesn't make the headlines, despite the fact it's been happening at least since the beginning of the 20th century.
Nitrogen Nurses
Most people—even non-gardeners—have a vague idea about the process of nitrogen-fixation. This knowledge usually stems from hearing about planting clover to rejuvenate the soil in between rotations of crops. Clover is a classic "green manure" that acts against soil depletion, but it is merely one of many plants that can remediate worn-out earth.
Most—but not all—of these nitrogen-restorative plants are legumes, meaning they're in the Fabaceae (pea) family. The nitrogen fixation they exhibit is a process whereby bacteria (called rhizobia) exist in a symbiotic relationship with the plant. The bacteria live in nodules on the plant's roots and convert atmospheric nitrogen into a form that is bioavailable.
Although these symbioses primarily exist on the roots of members of the aforementioned Fabaceae family, there are plants like alders (Alnus spp.), sea buckthorns (Hippophae spp.) and gunneras (Gunnera spp.) that also have symbioses with bacteria or cyanobacteria.
Eco-Smart Christmas Trees
In Canada and the United States, about 45 million trees are cut down at the beginning of the Christmas season, only to spend a few weeks dying in someone's living room. Many of those trees are cut from native pine and spruce stands, instead of being farmed.
In more progressive cities, these trees are recycled by being made into chip mulch or compost once kicked to the curb, but this is a stop-gap solution that doesn't get to the root of the problem inherent in logging for seasonal decor. Such an enormous seasonal destruction of habitat—and waste of timber—constitutes an environmental disaster, the wastefulness of which is rarely mentioned in all the consumption-driven coziness of the season.
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Trees, vines, and shrubs are focal points in any garden, but most backyard orchardists aren't blessed with enough acreage to match their ambitions. It's a constant fight to cram all those spectacular specimens spotted in the nursery into increasingly crowded plots, and to do it beautifully. The only solution to this conundrum is to efficiently use the only space remaining: Get ready to go vertical—and sculptural!
While art forms like topiary and bonsai are established ways of making living sculptures of ornamentals, there is also a world of possibilities in making fruiting plants into Axel Erlandson-esque works of art. It's the perfect marriage of form and function.
Urban Farm Hack: Herb Spirals
An herb spiral is a compact, low-maintenance raised bed garden that works with what are called microclimates, small areas of cultivation that provide uniquely suitable conditions for carefully selected plants.
"Herbs" in the sense I'm referring to them comprise a culinary—not botanical—category. These are fragrant plants that have historically been used to season food, often containing essential oils with strong flavors and antimicrobial properties.
Urban Farm Hack: Binding Up Brambles
Keep your blackberries, raspberries and other rambling brambles neat and tidy with this trellising trick.
Plant A Meadow
In ecological terms, a meadow is a biome nearly devoid of woody plants, favoring grasses and herbaceous plants instead. These sunny spaces are vital yet diminishing habitats, often traded in urban areas for monocultures of lawn grass.
Meadows and grasslands have an evolutionary relationship with grazing animals and human activities. Far from being pure, untouched biomes, the life of a meadow is contingent upon the removal—via grazing and browsing or clearing—of tall woody plants that would shade out the lower-growing life. Along with large herbivores, we humans have helped create an ecological niche that nourishes pollinators and provides habitat for an array of other creatures, especially birds and small mammals.
Urban Farm Hack: Stock Up On Scions
The New Year is the perfect time to start thinking about and planning next year's garden, and if you're planning on trying your hand at grafting next spring and summer, winter is the season to be tracking down scion wood for desirable cultivars.
Scion wood is basically a dormant limb from a tree that is used to propagate the same tree's genetics on a new rootstock. These pieces are usually as thick as a pencil and about 6 inches long. The wood should come from a healthy, disease-free tree, and also from a cultivar that performs well in your bioregion.
Urban Farm Hack: Pruning out Fire Blight
Winter is the perfect time to think about pruning trees and shrubs, especially those that have been hit with disease during the growing season.
A common bacterial disease of pome fruits—including pears quince, apples, hawthorns and serviceberries—is fire blight. The bacterial pathogen—Erwinia amylovara—makes both branch and foliage look as if they have been burned, and young trees or new growth are especially vulnerable to infection and severe damage. Older trees can live with the disease but with reduced productivity.
Urban Farm Hack: Grow An Urban Orchard From Leftovers
I've often found myself staring down at a half-germinated seed in my apple, contemplating the potential contained in such a small kernel. Each and every one is a potential tree, but up until a few years ago in my garden, most of them ended up in the compost.
I started planting many of the seeds of from commercial fruit a few years ago, when looking to furnish my forest garden with a diversity of productive trees. What better place to start finding unique trees than inside of fruit already eaten and enjoyed?
Planting the seeds of commercial fruit is like playing the lottery: Because single cultivars of orchard trees need to be pollinated by another cultivar, each potential seedling will grow into a totally unique tree, with a new kind of fruit that incorporates the genetics of both parents.
9 Beautiful Edible Landscape Plants
Because I work mostly with trees and shrubs, I take inspiration primarily from the Edenic "food forest" concept in permaculture. However, in terms of vegetable gardening, I've learned much from emulating the French potager-style ornamental kitchen garden. In essence: I try to make food production look beautiful.
This means choosing the fruiting trees and shrubs with the most exuberant and unique blossoms, and the vegetables with the most interesting foliage and harvests. It also means training plants into aesthetically pleasing forms: Sometimes this can come at the cost of production, but compromise between these values is constant when working in a limited space.
This approach has benefits beyond the aesthetic: My garden is always buzzing with a diversity of pollinators and beneficial insects. It's become a sort of agro-ecological habitat space, rather than a tilled field with rows of crops.


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Car GPS tracker TK-206 has the built-in GPS/GSM antenna that ideal for car tracking,it support SOS call, Microphone for listen-in, relay for power cut off /on function. Easy for installation for car and simple to operate.
OBD GPS tracker TK-110 is used on car / vehicle tracking, connect to OBD of car for charging, support web real-time tracking, Google map locating and phone app tracking. Also it support main power cut alert,movement alert, Vibration alert etc.
VT-321 is the GPS tracker built-in 3G GSM module, locate and track by 3G network, support 850/900/1900/2100 MHz. Ideal for motorcycle tracking, car tracking or vehicle tracking. Also it supports option function like RFID, fuel monitoring, accident alarm etc.
Car GPS tracker VT-330 supports base car GPS tracking function, like SOS,relay etc, more importance is that it supports dual SIM card slot, then people can use 2 SIM cards together on one tracker for tracking across different GSM area.


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Hi I have installed successfully the CCA and UII. Now I am learning how to create Workflows and make functionality there.
I was trying to Search a Contact and when the contact is opened, it opens a window in the agent Desktop with the information of the contact. Then, there is a workflow that permits create a new Case for the contact.
I created the Hosted Application for Case with the next information:
Name: case
Hosted Application Type: Web Hosted Application
Dependent on Workflow: YES
Adapter: Use Automation Adapter (HAT)
URL: about:blank
And I modified the Default UII Action like this:
URL: http://localhost:5555/CRMR2FULL/cs/cases/edit.aspx
Query String: _CreateFromType=2&_CreateFromId=%7b%CustomerID%7d#
I was looking for the correct URL so I use Ctrl+N to get the URL of the New Case(with the Customer ID) Window, and normally in CRM the URL is this:
The customer ID of the example's contact is C9B62B11-7D6A-DF11-8B9B-00155D018007
But when I open the Agent Desktop , search a contact and then Run the workflow that creates the case, an error appears:
APPLICATION_HOST_ERR_ON_APP_INIT: Failed to initialize the hosted application Case.
And the Case Hosted Application is a white window.
So I read that the '%' in '%customerID' is a hint to UII that the next string is a Context Key. So I saw that the Query String has other two '%' in the Query, so it can be the problem.. Or if the %customerID gets the ID between '{ }', also could trouble the
If you know how... Can you help me to ignore the '{ }' or to solve this problem please. Thank you very much :)
I got the solution:
The URL of the Default Action should be:
URL: http://localhost:5555/CRMR2FULL/cs/cases/edit.aspx
Query String: _CreateFromType=2&_CreateFromId=%CustomerID
And with this, the desired window is showed with the Customer Selected :)
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This year's EMOOCs conference will take place at the University of Graz located at Universitätsplatz 3, 8010 Graz, Austria.
The University of Graz, which was founded in 1585, is Austria's second oldest university and one of the largest in the country. Many excellent scientists, amongst them six Nobel laureates, have taught and researched there.
With 32,500 students and 4,000 employees the University of Graz contributes significantly to the vibrating life of the Styrian capital. Its location in Europe encourages a lively scientific, economic and cultural exchange with South-East Europe, from which not only the city benefits, but also its educational institutions.
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Welcome to WOBC's Host/DJ application. In order to better understand how your show will fit into WOBC's programming, here's a little background about the station. WOBC programming philosophy is informed by the freeform radio format and the community radio model.
In the freeform format, the DJ has full control over the content of their show (within FCC regulations of course). This is the opposite of the corporate radio model in which DJs are required to play a narrow selection of material to increase listenership and sell commercial time. In the absence of commercial pressures, seldom heard opinions and music find airtime on freeform stations like this one.
Radio stations that use the community radio model are governed, operated, and driven by the communities they serve. Recognizing that our listenership extends beyond the campus of Oberlin College, the community we serve includes Oberlin residents and the residents of Lorain County within our broadcast range. It is our goal that our programming reflects the diversity of opinions, musical tastes, and cultural backgrounds of our listenership. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to submit an application and no previous experience is necessary.
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Recipe: Alewife & Cucumber Crackers
I happened upon some Lake Michigan alewife, so I ate some.
Near Lake Michigan, happening upon alewife usually mean the rotting mess of mass alewife die-offs. Like this:
Or these. This is not how I happened upon mine, luckily. No, mine emerged from from the water alive and skipping.
These alewife reminded me of nothing so much as sardines. They are, in fact, both members of the Clupeidae family along with other old-man favorites like herring. Harking back to the first time I tried sardines while sailing with my grandfather, I thought it appropriate to just go with some crackers. Like the hard-tack of the salty-sea-dogs of yore, but classed up a bit.
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Discussion in 'Rugby League Forum' started by Alco_m, Jun 9, 2007.
Why is he not in origin? He has 2 be one of the most talented and exciting players i've ever seen.
Because the media love Harmichael. Bennet had his influence to get him in and QLD just don't drop anyone unless you've had a couple of shockers in a row.
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Whether or not you have an affinity for the notion of an independent nation in the Pacific Northwest, (commonly known as Cascadia) you have to admit this map is pretty darn cool:
Created by Reddit user Nihht at Imaginary Maps, it's an especially clever way to visualize the Pacific Northwest bio-region, connecting everything from San Francisco to the Aleutian Islands. The unusual angle helps to clear your mind of existing visual bias (most striking is how small northern California, reaching all the way to Salt Lake City, is in comparison to lands further north). It's also interesting to note that based on these borders, the hypothetical country would have a population of 27 million, putting it ahead of Australia, but behind Ghana, and very close to the population of Afghanistan. In terms of area, it would be the world's sixth largest nation, larger than India but smaller than Australia.
It reminds me of one of my favorite photos published by NASA, a view of the Pacific Northwest from space, also taken from a surprising angle:
Obviously, the photo was taken in summer, since there's not a cloud in sight. The Salish Sea– comprised of the Strait of Georgia, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and Puget Sound–is prominent in the lower left. The long expanse of the Cascades and Coast Mountains is gorgeous, clearly dividing the wet western slope from the arid lands to the east. It's easy to pick out the famous volcanoes of the Northwest, as well as the glaciated peaks of the Olympics and North Cascades. And don't forget the broad green expanse of the Willamette Valley, where all those delicious pinot noirs come from.


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Schools are an integral part of every community, and provide a critical function in educating our young people so that they can grow into confident, informed and engaged citizens; able to respond to the challenges that the future will bring.
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The Schoolgen community, by the end of 2016, comprised 92 "Schoolgen Lead Schools" with photovoltaic arrays of between 2 and 30 kilowatts of power generation capacity. Each kilowatt of capacity can be expected to generate about 1250 kilowatt-hours of electrical energy per year.
Data is continually collected from each installation and made available on the Schoolgen website for educational use.
Schools are supported by two dedicated energy educators as part of a shared agreement to integrate renewable energy and energy efficiency into the schools educational program.