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Tribal Cross Tattoo
For 20 years, we have been seeing that tribal crosses tattoos are in fashion. and it is an evergreen design that is not going out of fashion. People Specially guys and musicians are going crazy for it.
The main reason behind this popularity we think lies in their rich cultural heritage. on the other hand While some people choose a design that is trendy at a particular point of time.
Gothic tribal cross tattoos are symbols of Christianity that have taken on a darker side. Gothic cross tattoos are heavy and bold. They are usually done in black or dark colors. The gothic subculture is preoccupied with death and the tattoos that represent it show that preoccupation.
Throughout the designs you will see an expression of pain and anger. Gothic designs can be very disturbing because they are centered around death and darkness. Gothic cross tattoos can have a wide variety of designs. They are only limited by your imagination.
Gothic cross tattoos will usually have some type of symbol representing death involved. You might see a dagger entwined within the cross with a single drop of blood falling off the blade. Barbed wire going around the middle of the cross where the pieces intersect is common.

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During Dr. R.C. Sproul's time in seminary and the early days of his ministry, he saw first hand Abraham Kuyper's observation that biblical criticism has become biblical vandalism. Sadly, we are seeing such vandalism even in our …Read More
Peace, Purity, and Unity in the Church: 2010 Pastors Conference
At Ligonier, we know that the work in the church is crucial to advancing God's work in this world. Godly leaders are on the frontline of ministry. Pastoral responsibilities to clearly and effectively teach the gospel, lead the next generation …Read More
Christless Christianity: 2010 West Coast Conference
Much of what passes for Christianity in our day is really nothing more than self-help jargon and patriotism that has been baptized in a thin veneer of Christian-sounding language. This has led to anemic preaching, large but lifeless churches, and …Read More
Together for the Gospel 2008
Celebrate the glorious gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and its centrality to the task of faithful, biblical pastoring, with Thabiti Anyabwile, Mark Dever, Ligon Duncan, John MacArthur, C.J. Mahaney, Albert Mohler, John Piper, and R.C. Sproul, as …Read More
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Ligonier Ministries' 2006 National Conference, Bought with a Price, discusses God's plan for the church and the congregant's role in it. Dr. Sproul is joined by other Christian scholars, pastors, and leaders, including J. Ligon Duncan III, Sinclair …Read More
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We were so excited when our guide followed up with the White Swan hotel in getting us our Barbie Adoption doll. Every adopting family that stays at the White Swan receives one. But we didn't. So our guide took care of us and told the hotel we would like one if possible and we would pay for the shipping. So we got her this week! She cannot be bought. Although there are two I saw on Ebay being sold for $200. This one is an Eighth Addition.
Emma Dorothy is just blossoming and teething again! A molar has now come through! And it looks like she may have others. It all makes any kind of schedule and napping a bit harder for us all. She has definitely reached that 14 month old stage of getting a little more aggressive in what she wants and doing the whiney noise. She way too cute though and we love her no matter what. Try to give in only a little without her causing too great of damage!
She was going to town on the keyboard and then going back and forth with the cell phone. Oh boy!
The new Spongebob Squarepants bubble bath makes great bubbles and is tear free too. Comes in Dora too, but she picked Spongebob. She loves Spongebob...that's my girl! She loves the intro song when the cartoon comes on...that's her favorite part.
Getting little Emma Dorothy dressed and ready for another day. She's a wiggle worm!
I was really lucky to get these shots. Although, the camera still doesn't capture her personality. But these are the closest...look at that smile!
And she's not only kissing but hugging her stuffed animals, lying her head on some of her books, and also hugging us! It's amazing how she has grown and learned to love.
Okay, so she and the cats share some toys! Whatcha gonna do?! She loves that little mouse. You pull the string and it vibrates and will move across the floor...she just loves that. She's also playing on the 100 Good Wishes Quilt we made for her in her room. So glad we did that for her.
This is priceless. This is how she will hand you something or point to something with her arm up to her face.
She loves to spend time with Daisy and Archie although the feeling is not mutual yet. But they tolerate her well ;) And Daisy is easy if there is food involved...
And Emma Dorothy is ready to GO GO GO
She loves this little remote steering wheel that makes the pictures on the back of the front seat make noises and music. This is one of the gifts from Dennis' company that she got a couple of weeks ago. So loves them. They are so unique.And here we GO GO GO to Gymboree. Missed a couple of weeks because of her runny nasty nose. But all is good and she didn't skip a beat...
She spotted Gymbo and made a B-Line to him!
And gave him a big {HUG}
She just loves him!
We've been showing her how to kick her little Gymbo beachball at home and now all of a sudden at Gymboree, she was doing it all on her own!
Even the big kids have fun at Gymboree!
Well, our shopping cart will never look the same again. Spongebob bubblebath, diapers......little fingers into everything...
...she likes to help you shop ;) She loves Goldfish and spots them right away!
And here's some scrapbooking things. I got to participate with the SIStv event online last weekend and was able to do one challenge. It was called "So You Think You Can Scrap." There were three "dances" you would be assigned to. "Graphic," "Frilly," or "Artsy" I was put in the Frilly Dance/Category. So I used this cute photo of Emma at the White Swan Hotel in China and using all of the rules: lots of flowers, the bigger the better; pastel colors, no bright colors; no printing, only cursive or script writing, and ribbon or lace I had soooo much fun doing this and being able to participate in one thing.
And to my surprise I WON!!! Yes! Jeannie, the facilitator and Fashionista over at SIStv picked my layout and SIStv will be sending me a prize! How cool is that?! And the layout also made the Catwalk over on SIStv. So Emma is already styling!
And finished up our trip to China scrapbook. Got a lot of misc. paperwork and things that I think will be cool to look at later tucked away in the pockets I had made. Sorry for some bad shots. Just in a hurry!
Oh, and this got caught in between the book...had picked the clock up when we had first gotten back from China...at Target I think??? Very cheap. So just added some buttons all the way around it for a little fun!
Well, Emma is waking up from nap.
And finished up our trip to China scrapbook. Got a lot of misc. paperwork and things that I think will be cool to look at later tucked away in the pockets I had made. Sorry for some bad shots. Just in a hurry!
Oh, and this got caught in between the book...had picked the clock up when we had first gotten back from China...at Target I think??? Very cheap. So just added some buttons all the way around it for a little fun!
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The war between Sparta and Athens reaches a brutal and bloody climax in Sicily. Sparta finally emerges as victorious. Now the most powerful city-state in Greece, Sparta is an imperial power. But under the fascinating, flawed King Agesilaus, the dreams of the Spartan utopia come crashing down. By setting out to create a perfect society protected by perfect warriors, Sparta makes an enemy of change. Part 3 of 3 G
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DETROIT - Local 4 has a group of social-media savvy tippers. They're using social media to share shopping secrets this Black Friday. It's an incredible resource for bargain hunters.
Novi's Bree Glenn is a member of the all-female, deal-tweeting group. She says, "Using all the tools available to you and provide for your family, and to have a great Christmas, I think that's well worth it."
For 24 hours on Black Friday, the group will be tweeting information on deals they find throughout the Metro Detroit area.
Sterling Heights-based team member, Jolyn Felten, says, "There's always a thrill in finding a deal, but there's also a thrill in being able to share a deal."
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Jumping into social media helped Inez Parker of Farmington Hills get through a tough time.
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Whether you're looking to save money or find new friends with similar interests, now could be the time to jump into the social media community.
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a torn tricep is the worst injury you can get on your muscle, he has to be done for the year. Justin Smith is a tough guy though but even he is still a human.
I think its in our best interest to root for the 49ers against green bay because we already know Russell Okung can get down and dirty with the other Smith guy.
At this point im not even sure if they can get past the Vikings considering how Adrian Peterson is playing.
I would rather play a Justin Smithless 49ers than Green bay in the snow for the NFC championship game (Assuming we beat Washington then Atlanta)
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Talk:Diskless system
Diskless_Network_Boot_NBD_Root merge and rewrite
There was a bunch of extraneous stuff that was clogging up the old articles, and most information was duplicated between the two. This is the result of the cleanup effort. That gPXE stuff, for example, deserves its own article in my opinion. Yet-another refactoring/merging of the related PXE article is also planned--the two should be sub-articles of a larger "PXE" article that describes "PXE" in general, with sub-articles describing booting installation media or an arch installation (minimizing duplicated information yet even more). --Buhman (talk) 14:31, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
If DNSmasq is not appropriate for the job, please write a section explaining why this is the case. Since I use dnsmasq, I'd be interested to know why exactly you think it's not appropriate. What definitely is not appropriate, however, is undoing my edits, for which I've gone to pains to explain my reasoning. Giddie (talk) 10:38, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
- No, we don't write sections explaining why sections don't exist. That's just plain stupid. --Buhman (talk) 10:42, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
- We write sections explaining why an obvious choice is actually not a good idea, so others can be informed and avoid the same mistake. (Assuming they agree that it is actually a mistake.) Seriously: this wiki is not here to reflect only your own opinions; it's here so that we can all share our knowledge. It's all about collaboration and compromise, and I'm seeing very little of that from you right now. Giddie (talk) 11:34, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
- dnsmasq is a problem because it's a little unwieldy primarily due to its crazy amount of scope-creep. What was originally just a dns server got way out of hand. If you say things like listen-address=192.168.0.1, that is only applicable for the DNS part, and not, e.g: DHCP. This becomes problematic if say you want your hostapd stuff that also runs isc-dhcp just on wlan0, and then decide you want to PXE boot some stuff off the wired-lan really quick. Nope; have to shut down dhcpd4 to allow dnsmasq to hog all the interfaces and bind wildcard on everything BUT dns. But oh wait, you said port=0? That controls what, just DNS? So DNS is disabled now, and listen-address in this case does absolutely nothing, as well as listen-interface.
- It's just a dirty ugly quick "omfg I want dhcp+tftp NAOW" hack, rather than something that should be considered sane to actually systemctl enable. Lots of features, really crappy defaults, and, most importantly, no way to un-configure those defaults (aside from making a fork that would just end up being a less-good isc bind/tftp/dhcp). And compared to bind it's a lousy DNS server anyway. So why it even exists I don't know.
This article seems to be undergoing an edit war between User:Buhman and User:Giddie, and this is bad for the wiki and its users: I remind both users that the articles of the wiki belong to everybody and can't be treated as personal notebooks. Entering more into the merits of the discussion, I also remind that it's a common policy of the ArchWiki to always explain all the possible ways to achieve a particular result, never hiding anything and always leaving the final choice to the end users; if some methods are working but discouraged for some reasons, they are to be left in the article together with those reasons of discouragement; if some methods are working only under some conditions, these conditions are to be described, possibly adding an appropriate article status template. Different subsections can be created to keep the various methods separate.
Furthermore, I invite to always sign with the full signature in discussion pages (~~~~) and to always thoroughly justify the edits with the edit summary, avoiding expressions like "why the fsck was this even created?" or empty summaries (in particular when undoing edits), since these practices don't help in any way. Finally, please avoid expressions like "NFSv3 sucks", "Kthx", "I couldn't care less about your migration woes; it doesn't belong on the wiki, end of discussion", "That's just plain stupid", ... since this is considered flaming, and flamers are not welcome here, regardless of the effective quality of their edits.
This section is more of a notice than a real discussion, so replies are not expected, please go on with the other discussions peacefully and constructively: once the situation has calmed down, this section can just be deleted.
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Per-host mountpoints (was: Separate /var)
I feel like treating just
/var specially isn't fair. I mean, how would
/etc feel? In all seriousness, I think this needs to be reorganized into something like "per-host special mountpoints". --Buhman (talk) 15:30, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
- That sounds fine to me, if you want to do that. I'm pretty sure that
/varcontains everything that makes a host unique (or that's the intention), and I'm keen for people to think about it, since it's an added complication that can easily be overlooked when planning the cluster. Giddie (talk) 15:39, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
- As I tried to imply somewhat, I still don't think its a good idea to do *all* of var, maybe a few application-specific subdirectories. For example it's actually desirable in a non-diskless scenario like this to put /var/cache/pacman on a NFS share--effectively working like a local repository mirror. Only in this scenario, we get that for free :D --Buhman (talk) 16:41, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
- Yeah, in my setup I share
/var/lib/pacmanbetween all clients, and
/var/cache/pacmanbetween all clients and the host. Some other directories in
/var/cachecould probably be safely shared, but my general stance is to opt-in to sharing certain directories in
/varfor convenience (or storage space), rather than to determine which directories can't safely be shared. I have no problem with providing suggestions for both points of view ("share all of /var except for certain dirs" vs "/var is node-specific except for certain dirs"); it's helpful for readers to have a chance to consider both views and decide what fits their usecase best. Giddie (talk) 09:57, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
- Yeah, in my setup I share
Is installation ISO needed ?
I am trying to merge PXE into this article. While I am quite familiar with PXE, I do not know what exactly need to be done in the Network installation guide. Should I download ISO installation media? Where to put/get installation packages? -- Fengchao (talk) 04:44, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
- PXE talks about booting installation media via PXE, whereas this article talks about creating an installation from an already-installed system. A proper merge will be highly difficult in my opinion, which is why I have not yet attempted it. --Buhman (talk) 08:16, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
- The article titles are currently very non-helpful in determining what the content of each article is, but I'm not confident on how to fix this. For example "Network Installation" could mean both booting installation media via a network, or, as used in this article, creating an installation that happens to exist on network'ed storage media. In all cases, for example, you end up 1) preparing the TFTP root, whether it be a mounted Archiso, or part of a complete installation 2) actually setting up a TFTP and DHCP server, and the only real difference is 3) what exactly is contained on the root filesystem and how it is delivered to the client. I would love to hear ideas on how to reorganize this sanely. --Buhman (talk) 09:38, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
- I think this article should be called something more like "Diskless ArchLinux System", whereas PXE could maybe be called "Network-booting Installation Media"? Giddie (talk) 10:04, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
- Well, the goal is to actually merge the two and just have sub-articles for each topic. Historically, this article was called Diskless_network_boot_NFS_root, but in a never-finished attempt to unify all of the duplicated "how to do thus and such with PXE; let me verbatim copy 90% of one article, and then write about a paragraph of original stuff, and call it a new article" efforts, I renamed it to the more-generic "Network Installation Guide". The idea there was to mimic Installation Guide, with the emphasis that the installation media resides on the network. The problem with that is that *clearly* isn't obvious until I explain it. I think there should also be a article named PXE (for googlers if anything else) if only to redirect to some more-specific article (but optimally the uber-merge that I think would be best). --Buhman (talk) 10:12, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
- What would be really cool is if the reading went something like: the user reads about each of the ways that this could be done, then selects what he wants to see (whatever combinations), and then gets a tailored-to-order article with just the stuff he's interested in. --Buhman (talk) 10:16, 13 December 2012 (UTC)


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Yokomo CGM Front Motor Conversion
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Toe: 0
Kick up: Front 2mm
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In which the unlikely leading man, King Kong star, and part-time satiric rock god explores his latent Messiah complex, recalls the naked family camp he attended as a boy, and explains why everyone should die before 70
"My plumbing is a little off today," Jack Black declares to me almost immediately the rst time I meet him, as though this is most surely information I will need to know. And then he lifts up his shirt and begins kneading his stomach with both hands, sending choppy swells and waves rippling over his belly. It's his new diet, he diagnoses, that has thrown his insides out of alignment. This is its second day. He told a nutritionist about his tendency to get ravenously hungry without warning "I have to eat in the next ten minutes. I don't have time to go to a restaurant. I go to the drivethrough. I can go weeks where I'm just going to the drivethrough every day." It struck him that this may not be the wisest routine. "You saw Super Size Me, right" he says. "That guy was onto something." So Black told this nutritionist that what he really needed was a satchel of food in his car at all times.
We have met for lunch this sunny day on the patio of the Los Angeles Four Seasons Hotel, a venue chosen by Black because he is staying here for a while. He and his girlfriend of many years, comedian and writer Laura Kightlinger, recently split up and the new house he has bought is not yet ready. He arrives at the table carrying a light brown bag. This, it transpires, contains all his food for the day and is delivered to the concierge each morning from a company called Sunfare that specializes in such diets.
Whatever its longterm benets, this regimen presents Black with an immediate problem. He doesn't want to break his diet by ordering off the Four Seasons menu, but he also thinks that it would be awkward or wrong to simply unpack his own food onto the table. This, I am beginning to learn, is very Jack Black a man who sees no embarrassment in the brazen and casual kneading of exposed stomach esh amid the prim and powerful lunchers of Beverly Hills but who would rather not be caught bringing food into the restaurant of a hotel where he is paying hundreds of dollars a night to sleep. Instead, he asks me if I will please have two courses and allow him to order one of them. So that's what happens I eat chicken as he watches over some undisturbed sashimi; then we swap plates and I move on to the sh. Meanwhile—but only whenever the waitress has gone indoors—Black sneaks a spoonful of cucumberanddill salad from the rectangular plastic tub hidden on his lap.
"Do you know what I gured out" he asks. "I was wondering why things are going so good for me now. Guess what It's the year of the cock." Jack Black was born in 1969, the year of the rooster on the Chinese calendar, as is 2005. "Here we are," he says. "It's not going to be good like this until I'm 48."
Three yearsofthecock ago, he came into the world as Thomas Black, though he was nicknamed Jack from the beginning. His parents, Thomas and Judith, were satellite engineers at TRW, though he's not sure whether they came together through work or through their shared hobby. "They were both avid folk dancers," he notes, "so they may have met folk dancing." As for their work on communications satellites, he says, "I never really knew what the hell they were doing. I always imagined there's a lot of mathematical equations on chalkboards and stuff." When I ask whether they were really working on spy satellites, he offers that they probably did. "But they had a very volatile relationship, and they would sometimes ght at the office," he remembers. "And one time they had a big ght in the parking lot, and they both lost their government clearances to work on secret projects. If there's any instability, I guess that's all it takes."
His mother, who is eight years older than his father and would later work on the Hubble telescope, already had three children; Jack is their only child together. Their jobs were lucrative enough for him to grow up in a sevenbedroom house in Hermosa Beach, California, where his bedroom had blackandwhite monster wallpaper Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, the Phantom of the Opera. He had asked for it, but it still scared him sometimes.
Black remembers various indications of the man he would become. When he listened to his favorite Dr. Seuss album, he would imagine himself onstage making all the noises, an audience marveling at the way he could make one sound come out of his nostril, another out of his armpit, and so on. "People were just blown away by Wonderboy," he says, recalling how it was in his head. He thinks his desire to be noticed was hardwired. "They'll probably be able to nd it in the DNA someday 'Oh! This is the needforattention gene!' " Another time, his grandfather tried to teach him chess while his parents were folk dancing. Black didn't really understand the game, but he did know how to make faces as though he really knew what was going on and was pondering deeply over every nudged pawn. "People were impressed—'Look how he's thinking! Wow. Maybe he's a genius or something,' " he says. "And that was very satisfying to me, that feeling of being special."
"I just quit smoking today," he explains on that rst day we meet, "so I may at some point get irrationally angry with you." He has quit before. The longest he has managed to stay smokefree as an adult was a year, eventually faltering in New Zealand. "I had a bit of a lost weekend while we were doing King Kong," he says. "Look, overall I'm very responsible on set. I'm not one of those dudes who come drunk to the set. But there was a lost weekend where I had a little extra time off and I did some ecstasy and I went on a kind of crazy rampage and I started smoking. Me and another member of the cast, who will remain nameless, just running around, dancing around, drinking and ecstasizing, smoking like a chimney. And then it was over. I was fully back."
In King Kong, he will appear as the lmmaker Carl Denham, journeying to a mysterious island, unaware of the giant ape that dwells there. "There's so much riding on it," he says, and chuckles at this. "It's unfathomable what would happen if it was a big oparoo." It is the rst role he has ever accepted without reading the script, and though he has previously been in lms that were not comedies, this is almost certainly the least comedic character he has ever played. "I got to do some stuff I haven't done before," he says. "The movie is ominous and creepy and sometimes beautiful, and it's a cool change of pace for me."
He says he was very aware of the precedent set by the last group of actors to enter Peter Jackson's kingdom, the Lord of the Rings cohort. "There was a lot of pressure in my mind to bond," he says, "because I had read so much about all the hobbits and Viggo doing all kinds of extreme things together. It just sounded like they were all having the times of their lives and"—he slips into the kind of semisatirical, melodramatic voice he employs as onehalf of his music duo, Tenacious D—"making friendships that would last a lifetime and giving each other power hugs that meant the world to each other… I was like, What if we don't"
In a way, they didn't. They got on and shared adventures away from the set, but they were there for seven or eight months, not the better part of two years. Black also thinks the darkness of the movie played its part. "It wasn't a lovefest with all the actors in this movie, because the movie had some real fucking dark things to it. Maybe it wasn't supposed to be that kind of summercamp vibe."
Black beckons me into the passenger seat of his SUV, then points out how unwise I am to be there. "You're sitting in my bag's place," he says. "I'm getting really mad at you." We pass a sign advertising baby back ribs that he complains is "fucking with my brain…because I love ribs, and I guarantee there's no ribs in my satchel of health."
He is due in the studio later this afternoon to record songs for the movie Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, but he has places he'd like to go rst—to the comic store for the latest issue of Daniel Clowes's Eightball and to a record shop. He has been trying to make a mix CD, but the songs he's downloaded from Apple's music store won't burn, so he needs to buy the songs again on CD. "I'm really pissed off," he explains, "because I just started going out with this girl—I obsessively compulse over things, and she's the center of my obsessivecompulsive energy vortex of pain right now. I can't stop thinking about her, and I wanted to burn her a CD of songs to win her heart." His chosen heartwinners include Stevie Wonder, Radiohead, Neil Young, Nick Drake, and PJ Harvey. "It's fucking making me so mad. The technology is fucking me. All I know is that I'm not going to fucking win the heart of the fair maiden because of fucking iTunes…"
Tenacious D are recording at the Hollywood Hills home studio of John King, one of the Dust Brothers. Both King and Kyle Gass, Black's partner in Tenacious D, have also started on the Sunfare fooddelivery system, and so while they will soon move on to pressing issues of competing guitar riffs, clicktrack speeds, and the funniness of specic couplets, the early moments of today's recording session are taken up with a keen debate over the varying merits of Atkins and the Zone.
There are probably plenty of Jack Black fans for whom Tenacious D, with their partcomic, partoversincere, ridiculous heavymetal tropes, remains a baffling side project. But it is crystal clear to Black that Tenacious D has been the catalyst for many of the good things that have happened to him. It was only through their live shows and their 1999 series on HBO that he got to unleash himself. "That's my voice," he explains. "That's the energy I wanted to bring to other roles in the future." And it led directly to the offer of the role as an obnoxious recordstore worker in High Fidelity, the part that kickstarted his recent ascent.
Tenacious D have hovered in the background ever since, playing concerts, releasing an album and a compilation DVD, but in their master plan they have always been stuttering toward a Tenacious D lm. To Black, it seems as though making this movie is important not only as the culmination of the Tenacious D adventure but also as the fulllment of a bargain with himself to stay true to what has brought him here. This, in its typically twisted way, is also very Jack Black that within his universe, the way for him to keep it real is to honor his commitment to the ctional Tenacious D—"two slightly overweight, slightly toooldtoberocker guys that think they are the greatest band on earth." Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny will tell the story of how the duo met, got their name, and set off on their quest to be the greatest band on earth. Satan, Meat Loaf, and Ronnie James Dio are all somehow involved. "Even if it sucks," he says, "it will be my stinky sucky poo."
Right now they have a couple more weeks to nish writing the songs that will be heard in the lm. Once dietary discussions have been suspended and they have been joined by the movie's director, Liam Lynch, they turn to a song to be called "Master Exploder." Gass says to Black, "I don't know if it was authorized, but we went into the riffernator yesterday," and plays back an angular System of a Down–esque guitar riff that he and a guitarist called Shreddy have been working on.
Gass has been laboring away on his guitar idea for maybe an hour when Black steps in and runs through some very different, Whostyle riffing on his acoustic guitar that he, King, and Lynch all seem to concur is preferable to Gass's. Black plays it a few times in the sound booth, and King starts editing together small phrases from various takes. A while later, they notice that Gass is no longer there, and there is some speculation about whether he may have left because his riff has been superseded. Black says that he's probably just gone for food or smokes or something.
Gass returns an hour or so later. It's not immediately clear whether he is annoyed, though when King mentions that he now drinks coffee when he is hungry to stave off the pangs, Gass's response is perhaps slightly suggestive.
"You could suck Jack's dick and taste his cum," Gass proposes.
"I would not like that taste," deects King.
No matter. Gass has a further notion. "Maybe you could crawl up his butt and taste his shit," he says, and moves toward the door. "Works for Liam."
Jack Black's parents are both Jewish—his mother by birth, his father by conversion—and until he was 13 he had to go to Hebrew school three times a week, something he considered a "sucky thing" because it was like extra school and he hated school. After his Bar Mitzvah, he was considered a man and allowed to make his own decisions on such matters; he decided to leave the synagogue behind. It was also around the age of 13 that Black started hanging out with the heavymetal kids in Culver City, the ones into Sabbath who hung out by the park. He started smoking—cigarettes, then pot—and drinking beer and skateboarding and wearing a annel shirt and his baseball cap backward. When a police car came down the street, they would all run; the police weren't after them, but it was fun to pretend that they were.
His teenage waywardness was curbed when a friend stole Black's mother's credit card to get them cocaine money and also, unbeknownst to Black, to go on a shopping spree. Black was sent to Poseidon, a school for troubled youngsters with only about thirty students, where he rediscovered his interest in acting.
He had already acted a little bit when he was 13, with some success. He was cast in a commercial for the video game Pitfall. Black had told God that if he could be on TV and be seen by his friends, he would require nothing further in his life. But when God came through, Black decided he wanted more and reneged on the deal. Another ad followed, for Smurfberry Crunch, and a part in the TV series The Fall Guy, with Lee Majors. He was also cast in a play called Inside Eddie Binstock being directed by a young actor named Tim Robbins. But three weeks into the sixweek run, Black quit. "I was sick of it," he remembers. "It was too hard… It was getting in the way of my videogame time."
At Poseidon, and at Crossroads, the artsfriendly school he later moved on to, his passion was rekindled. He got into UCLA to study theater, eventually dropping out because he had become obsessed with the Los Angeles–based troupe the Actors' Gang, which was cofounded by Tim Robbins. He pestered them until they let him become involved, though for some time he steered clear of their leader, in case he held Black's earlier desertion against him.
When Robbins began work on his rst movie as a director, the political satire Bob Roberts, Black auditioned and was cast as one of Roberts's young, fevered acolytes. In the director's commentary on the DVD, Robbins praises Black's opening moments on the screen "Jack, the guy in the middle…really has a fervor in his eyes that I nd so compelling and frightening. It's kind of this strange, sexual Nazi kind of weirdness…the psychopathic eyes of the truly devoted."
A good description. "I was just sort of playing myself," Black points out. "The reality of the situation was I was dying to have that part. I was dying for Tim Robbins to fucking accept me into his world and make me a mini–Tim Robbins. And the part was just me dying to be accepted into Bob Roberts's world and be a mini–Bob Roberts, so…"
His performance was fairly brief but memorable, and perhaps he could be excused for thinking that he was a movie star. He even went to the movie's premiere, at the Cannes Film Festival—he wasn't invited, exactly, but his father now lived in Cannes, so he gured it made sense—and while he was there he got to go to a party hosted by Robert Altman in the hills above town. "Just a showbiz creamdream delu," he says. "I smoked a joint with Altman and some other fucking dudes. It doesn't get much more stony glamorous. I remember thinking, This is the beginning. And then…nothing."
He would do plenty of acting in the '90s without a single part as good as the one in Bob Roberts. At least in Robbins's second movie as a director, Dead Man Walking, in which Black was Sean Penn's brother, he had the satisfaction of loving the movie and got a chance to study the movie's star closeup. "Sean Penn was a fucking freak," he says. "He was just very reckless. And intimidating. I was a little scared of him. You just didn't know what he was going to do next. He would burst into spontaneous psychobabble poetry and the whole room would go silent and uncomfortable, and no one would know what to say next 'cause there was a lunatic raving poetry. Not a fun hang. It was literally, 'Holy crap, this guy's off the deep end.' But then when he was oncamera, it was like, 'Holy crap. This guy is on another planet—he's on planet Fucking Great Super Acting.' "
Things became easier after High Fidelity, though there were stumbles. He describes Saving Silverman, not unreasonably, as "a little turd." "I just got impatient, didn't want to wait around for someone else to give me a great part," he recalls. On paper, Shallow Hal seemed just the kind of opportunity one would wait around for. "The Farrelly brothers, Gwyneth Paltrow," he summarizes, "you've got to give it a shot." But it was a hollow, dishonest mess, and Black felt like a puppet whose input wasn't required or desired. Orange County was also a mess, but a more likable one. It was written by Black's neighbor at the time, Mike White, who, ironically, was set to play the part of the stoner brother who sits around the house in his underwear, until the producers offered it to Black.
It was the friendship between Black and White that led to School of Rock. "The reason I wrote School of Rock," White says, "was I really liked him personally, and I really believed in him as an actor, but all the scripts that were being sent to him were very much like the fratty guy who gets drunk and falls down. I think originally they were trying to put him in a John Belushi or even Chris Farley kind of littlebittubby, very sophomoric comedy thing… And in my opinion, there's such a bigger charm to him." School of Rock allowed that charm to come through; perhaps for the rst time on lm, his annoyingly hyperactive dorky mallmetal persona was tempered with the calm enthusiasm, unshowy intelligence, and guarded glimmers of kindness he betrays in the esh. Black had entertained people before and become a big movie star, but it was only in the wake of School of Rock that he rst seemed beloved.
His greatest fear going into the movie was of all the children. Black started to perform when he was that age, and whenever he is surrounded by children he ashes back to being a kid and to what he would think then Fuck, what if they don't nd me entertaining… They're not going to like me… He worries that the children will see through him, spot him as the fake he sometimes fears he is.
"I don't know," Black tells me, trying to explain this. "Sometimes I don't feel like I'm human. Like I'm a robot. Like I don't really have feelings or something. Sometimes I feel that." He elaborates a little further "Maybe I'm afraid to feel feelings. As an actor, you have to go through all the range of emotions. And certain emotions I can tap into real easy—joy, anger, fear. But sadness is the one that I shut down. There's a mental block that doesn't allow me to get sad."
In a 2004 readers' poll in Jane magazine, Jack Black was the writein winner in the "boy you are strangely attracted to" category. It's not hard to see why he has that appeal, though I wonder whether the kind of teenage girl who voted for him might have a somewhat incomplete knowledge of his canon and full conversational compass. Perhaps some voters might have been deterred, for instance, by Liam Lynch's three guilefully gross Tenacious D shorts. In the rst, Black gives Gass a blow job for money in a parking lot before they recognize each other. In the second, they collect their semen in a large vase and sell it on the street as a health tonic. In the third, Kyle gives birth to Black's baby from his butt. Or by Black's truly remarkable dancenumber cameo in the 2002 movie Run Ronnie Run, where, performing what is clearly intended as a fake outtake from Mary Poppins, he shimmies impressively while singing in a bad Cockney accent a song of domestic advice whose refrain is Give her a kick in the cunt. Or, indeed, by freeform reallife dialogue such as the following, sparked by Black's mention of the bowelloosening qualities of the fruit he has been eating as part of this new diet.
BLACK You can't overestimate the importance of a good bowel movement. It's one of the big ones.
ME Most people don't like to see any pleasure in it.
BLACK Those people are like some fucking puritanical religious fucks. Nothing feels quite as great as an awesome movement. I mean, it's right up there with a great orgasm.
ME I don't think many women would agree with that.
BLACK I think maybe it's a guy thing. Maybe the women don't care about taking shits as much. I don't know whether this is true, but I remember hearing something about how… [he suddenly stops] I don't want to talk about this anymore. I don't like where we're going.
ME I don't think I brought it up.
BLACK [deciding to continue] Well, you know, some women like anal sex. Is that true I've never met one. But supposedly some women love having anal sex. And I want to know, do they love it because the guy's loving it and they love him loving it, or do they love it because they like the feeling of a penis in their asshole
ME Well, lots of guys like it, too.
BLACK Yeah. But maybe there are more pleasure sensors in a guy's asshole. Because it's very close to the prostate. Whereas the woman, there's no prostate, there's no reason why the anal penetration would translate to sexual pleasure…
ME But when you're feeling sexy, there's many parts of your body that start transmitting pleasure…
BLACK [nods] So, like, I suppose the ultimate in pleasure would be eating a delicious sandwich while shitting and having sex.
Jack Black leans over and tries a little of my grasshopper quiche—"a little like eggplant," he judges—and cuts me a corner of his pork chop. It is now October, and we are in Oaxaca, Mexico. Somewhat disconcertingly, the real Black now has a real mustache. He has also just come from wrestling practice. Both of these are related to the role he starts lming in two days, as a novitiate priest who moonlights as a luchador, a Mexican wrestler, to help the orphans. The movie, Nacho Libre, is being directed by Napoleon Dynamite auteur Jared Hess and has been written by Hess, his wife, Jerusha, and Mike White. Black and White have now formed a production company—called, naturally, Black & White—and this is its rst movie.
Black is also carrying a slight shoulder injury from the Tenacious D movie shoot. "I was punching Kyle when he was in a big tenfoot penis outt," he explains. Both Black and Gass acknowledge the brief spat I witnessed at the recording studio and offer their own explanations. "Oh shit, I was just kind of hurt at the time that I wasn't sort of getting a fair shake on my thing," Gass tells me. "There's always a power struggle in any relationship," Black reects. "And with comedy duos, there's always going to be some friction."
After lunch we sit by the hotel pool in the courtyard of a converted sixteenthcentury Mexican convent while Black covers himself in SPF 30 suntan lotion, pushing up each leg of his blue swimming trunks so he can massage it in right up to his groin. He covers himself in layer after layer. "I have a little OCD," he apologizes. "If I do something, I feel like it has to be done all the way… I like a nice round number. I like clean lines. Things that are closed and done. I like to knock on a door three times. If someone knocks on a door four times, I don't like it. I like three or ve. I have weird things about concerts. If we perform, I can't invite anyone. I can't call, because in my mind I'm saying, 'It's going to be good enough that you should come down and see me because I'm going to be good tonight,' and that's a jinr. So I don't invite anyone, and people consequently get mad at me."
After a while, he announces that his eyes are burning from the suntan lotion and he needs to swim. He walks in the shallow end and sinks under the water. He moves gracefully, swimming half the length of the pool until he is underneath his girlfriend, Tanya. In one motion, he rises for air and lifts her out of the water. Tanya is the woman he was making the mix CD for back in April. She plays cello in indierock bands and is one of the three daughters of the famous jazz bassist Charlie Haden.
She was at the Crossroads School with Black. "I had a crush on her," he tells me. "We weren't, like, close buddies. She was too pretty, and I was scared to talk to her." They bumped into each other last April, at Frank Black's fortiethbirthday party, where Tenacious D had been asked to perform. "And Tanya was there, and as usual, it was like it always was. I got really nervous, and I talked to her…and it's been great. I'm really crazy about her."
That evening there is a preshoot party for the Nacho Libre cast and crew on the grounds of the Hotel Victoria, on a hilltop overlooking the city. A band plays Santana songs, then moretraditional Mexican dancing music, and the rst two people on the dance oor are Black and Tanya, not whooping it up but slowly moving together, facetoface, Black stepping up to his responsibility as the lm's center by being out there, but still, nonetheless, stealing a private moment in its midst.
When Black was 10, his parents split up. Messily. Both his parents had erce tempers, but it was his mother's that most scared him. "When they fought, she would get so mad. One time she punched a hole through the bedroom door. I'd be terried and run away down the hall. We had a livein housekeeper I would run to. She had a son born at the same time as me, Juan, and I'd go and hide with them."
Before his parents' relationship nally burst apart, it went through other stages. These were the '70s.
BLACK We were going to this thing called Family Synergy, where you would go into this camp. Everybody nude. Groovy. Synergizing with all these families, so that we'd be all, like, one big cult family. I don't know what the hell it was.
ME And you'd all run around naked
BLACK Yeah. And my parents met this other woman who ended up coming and living with us.
ME In a threeofthemtogether kind of way
BLACK Yeah. In the same bed. They were trying to make it work. Whatever. It was a meltdown.
The other woman left before they nally split. His father moved a mile away, living with a new girlfriend. "I remember my mom was so fucking jealous and mad that she came over and starting beating her up, the new girlfriend," Black says.
As he relates all this history, it seems, in parts, so extraordinary and unexpected and he describes it so matteroffactly that when Black explains that the next fault line was caused by him having the hots for his father's girlfriend, I wonder aloud whether he might be making any of this up.
"No, no, no," he assures me. He pauses and perhaps considers how all this may sound. "Yeah, they're going to be bummed when they read this stuff. I'm not going to tell them. But, whatever. It happened. It's not a big deal. They're all past it now. They're both remarried."
He says that he never explicitly declared his feelings for his father's girlfriend, though he did pilfer some naked pictures his father had taken. "But she ended up leaving. I think, partly," he suggests, "because she knew that I was crazy for her and was not into the weird unhealthiness of it." He reconsiders. "She never said anything, and my dad never said anything. You know, I just projected that, probably."
Still, he agrees that some key parts of the way he is now were probably d in place over those years. He tells me that when he was young he used to sometimes wonder "I probably shouldn't say this…" whether he was the Messiah. The Chosen One. It was that feeling that he was special.
"I had that," he says, "but I also had the opposite, the insecure feeling, like maybe I wasn't as good as everybody else, maybe I wasn't as smart, because I daydreamed a lot, maybe I couldn't focus my attention very well… I think it's especially common with people who grew up with parents that divorced and didn't love each other. Because if you're growing up and then you have two sides of yourself, your mother's and your father's, that don't like each other and break up, then there's two sides of yourself that don't like yourself. This side of yourself doesn't like that side of yourself, and there's a constant disharmony that comes from that. And so you've got this one part of you that says, 'Yeah, I'm fucking special, I could be the most special thing ever,' and then another part of you that says, 'Yeah, you're especially fucking shit—I don't like me, nobody else does, either; you're the worst of everybody.' Either way you're special, though, I guess—the worst or the best."
Black says that he is most like his mother in his temper and in the way he doesn't like to see injuries. "Even if it's, like, on skateboard videos at the end. It hurts me in my testicles. They ascend. Even in comedies—the hook in the mouth that Ben got in There's Something About Mary, I hate that. It's not funny." He says that he has his father's daydreaminess "My dad likes to take a good hike; so do I. He likes pork chops and corn. And so do I. He likes the universe and the cosmos and thinking about innity. So do I. And he doesn't believe in an afterlife. And neither do I. At least I don't think he does—maybe he's changed his mind."
Black often used to say in interviews that he would never have children—he worried about feeling trapped and anchored to home and having his selsh time eaten away—but when I mention this, he says he has changed his mind. "I don't want to go anywhere anyway," he says. "I like to be at home. And I like love."
Mike White tells me that Black's reaction to all this success is simply to be pleased "And because of that, it's more of a gravy situation than a starving hunger to conquer more worlds. Sometimes I feel he'll, like, do a couple more movies and just call it a day. I do think there's a part of him that's, if it's not fun anymore, if he's feeling like it's not cool anymore or whatever, I just don't think he's going to force anything." His friend and School of Rock costar Sarah Silverman says, "He's this combination of dude and genius, you know. A lot of comics and performers, everything they do is trying to prove that they're smart, and that's just not part of his agenda." Black says he wants to die on the eve of his seventieth birthday because he has never seen anyone in their seventies enjoying themselves. He enjoys Scrabble on the Internet, has loved video games since the days of Space Invaders, and likes to play a single game until he has conquered it completely. "I feel like life is kind of boring and needs to be lled with entertaining things," he says. "I like to entertain and be entertained."
His favored numbers are 3, 5, 13, and 23, and on the rare occasions he plays roulette, he always bets on black. He was relieved that there was no requirement in New Zealand for the cast to get matching King Kong tattoos, as he has never been tattooed and thinks that a tattoo is one more thing that would make him feel trapped. Though he has decided that if he were to brand himself permanently, he would be prepared to consider one thing THIS TOO SHALL PASS.
Chris Heath is a GQ correspondent.


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PTStitcher is one of the core applications of Panorama tools, together with PTOptimizer and the Panorama Tools Plugins.
For stitching panoramas you most probably wont get in contact with PTStitcher frequently, since the scripting is moe or less completely done by the GUIs PTMac, PTGui, PTAssembler, hugin and some tools like PanoCube.
However, there are several occasions where you might need to write or at least understand the scripts or call PTStitcher directly (for some batch tasks f.e.).
The PTStitcher source code was never published, hence there are no changes possible to certain functions. But since a considerable part of it's functionality is in pano12 library, PTStitcher benefits from every update of this core library.
You can take PTStitcher from any of the panotools distribution on one of the Mirrors. In order to use new functionality you need a recent copy of pano12 library.
There is a freeware replacement for PTStitcher called nona in the hugin project which has much (but not all) of the PTStitcher features.
PTStitcher is script driven. The scripts are in pure text format and can be edited with any text or programming editor (on windows notepad will do).
They are processed on a line by line basis. Each line starts with a special character (case sensitive) that indicates the meaning of the rest of the line. All other first in line characters are ignored and considered comments.
- The original PTStitcher Readme file contains basic information.
- The updated original example script with lots of comments is found at Jim Watter's page
- Ben Kreunen has an excellent list about the parameters of the p- o- and m-line and some example scripts.
- Frequently asked questions about PTStitcher including solutions to common problems are found at the inofficial Panorama Tools FAQ.
- On the wiki there are some techniques described that use PTStitcher:
Calling from the command line
PTStitcher can be called from the command line (this is what all GUIs do, too).
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One thing about me is that I'm cheap. No, not cheap. Frugal. No, careful with my money. No, no, careful with God's money. Yeah, that's it.
I've been this way for as long as I can remember. When I was a kid, I would get hand-me-downs from my older cousin who bought brand name clothes. I always enjoyed getting her Gap and Banana Republic outfits because I figured I wouldn't be able to afford such fancy items. Then when I started shopping on my own, I realized you can get super cheap stuff just about anywhere with a clearance section. And a monster was born.
To this day nothing thrills me like an amazing deal. Having a child gave me a whole new industry in which to stretch my bargain-hunting skills. And there are some amazing deals to be had.
These are some of my favorite deal hunting spots but beware: If you're not ok with hand-me-down baby items, this list is not for you. And if you think that 30% off at Gymboree is a great deal, then we have different definitions of a great deal.
Clearance Sections - If you go shopping on a regular basis and have no trouble walking out of a store without purchasing anything, it's totally worth it to regularly check out the clearance sections in your favorite stores. Every so often you'll run across some crazy mark downs. Like an additional 50% off the already super marked down clearance items. But there will be lots of shopping trips with no good deals, so if you can't leave a store without buying something, it's not going to work.
Goodwill/Resale Stores - These are fun if you don't need anything specific and want to just look around. Goodwill is so hit or miss, but I enjoy going there and I can usually find a book or toy or something worthwhile. Here in the Chicagoland area we are blessed with children's resale stores, Once Upon A Child. They're dangerous.
Garage/Rummage Sales - Summertime around these parts offers tons of garage sales each weekend. It's nice and easy to peruse the ads on Craigslist and find ones that specifically list children's items. Rummage sales are even more fun since they're usually larger and stuff goes half price on the last day. I can't stress enough the joy of half price day.
Craigslist - I know the media says that everyone on Craigslist is a serial killer, but I've done quite well on it. I've found a number of great items at reasonable prices and even some free stuff that people just needed to get rid of! It's always worth a look if you need something specific.
Garbage Picking - This is the grandaddy of cheapness. And likely the line that many will not cross. But before you judge me, let me explain how classy my garbage picking is. In the Chicago 'burbs many of the towns have an amnesty garbage day each year--residents are welcome to put just about anything on the curb without having to pay extra. In some of the more wealthy suburbs, this has become a serious event. And yes, I participate with excitement each year. I've found car seats, bumbos, books, toys, and a barely used wooden kitchen set, complete with pots and pans. And since they're from impressively rich people, I figure they're probably not diseased or anything.
What are you favorite bargain-hunting spots?
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The first casting news for Dexter: Season 7 has been revealed, as TVLine.com has learned Ray Stevenson will have a major recurring role.
Dexter: Big Change Up to Formula in Season 7?
Stevenson's best known TV work was in Rome, where he played Titus Pullo, and he has since gone on to play a couple of different Marvel Comics characters – including the title role in The Punisher: War Zone and Volstagg in Thor, the latter of which he's expected to reprise in the Thor sequel.
On Dexter, Stevenson will play what TVline describes as "a high-ranking member of an Eastern European crime ring who arrives in Miami determined to learn who killed one of his associates." It's not clear yet if he will be the season's main villain or not. Either way, he's totally ending up on Dexter's table though, right?
Stevenson will be seen this summer as Firefly in G.I. Joe: Retaliation.


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I was talking on the phone with a dear friend, and boy was she mad! She was so angry that her voice had a hard edge to it, her breathing was rapid, and my chest felt tight just listening to her speak. Her emotion was so immediate, so current, so fresh. The incident at the root of the rage? It happened 24 years ago.
Here's the thing about anger. It is like a fire that makes us hot. When we tell the story of what someone did to us that made us so angry, we are feeding the fire, adding more and more dry kindling to encourage the blaze.


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Saturday, 10 December 2011
From the IFB archives (2): the marshwalloidea
I think this was the first sketch. I was experimenting with a new type of felt-tipped pin that was promised to behave as a brush. It did, largely, and that is why this sketch has such strong black strokes. The paper came for a stack used for polygraphic recordings, which is why it has yellow vertical lines on it. As you can see, the sketch shows an animal with a mane of hair standing in water. It has a somewhat bland expression on its face; perhaps it is wondering what it is doing there. The sketch does not show any underlying pencil lines but was done directly with the pen, which probably explains why the perspective isn't any good. Just look at the lower portion of its jaws: it is almost as if it is twisted to the right compared to the upper part of the head of the animal.
I did the same animal again later, this time with a pencil sketch overlaid with a version in blue ballpoint pen. The perspective works better here. The ballpoint pen version shows a smooth neck head shield protruding form the back of the animal's head. I must still have liked the brush-like pen, as I proceeded to go over it once more, this time with the thicker black strokes. The animal is still standing in water and still looks a bit daft, but seems to have a stronger personality than its predecessor. The complex shape of the head was the result of a conscious effort to avoid a typical mammalian head.
It may be difficult to see what is going on here. These are sketches in which I was searching for a pleasing composition. The theme is an animal standing in water, the surface of which is covered with lily-like leaves. The shadows show that the sun is behind the animal, so its shadow projects well before it. The sketch on the lower right is better in this respect, but looking back now I should have emphasized the diagonal nature of the composition.
This one shows the same idea, but the sun is now straight overhead. The lily-like thingies on the water surface are still there, but a new feature are the shadows of 'birds' flying overhead. Some of those are cast on the back of the animal itself. I wonder whether I would have succeeded with this approach: as the birds themselves would not be shown, would anyone be able to work out that those shadows were cast by four winged birds? 'Bird' is used here analogous to 'fish' in the Furahan context. For biological lay people, animal in water are 'fish', and for those people animals that fly are 'birds'. I know better, so do you, but that's how people are.
Obviously, I must have felt that the composition could be improved by just focusing on the head of the animal, as I not only went over the main lines there with a pen, but also divided that section of the sketch into 16 rectangles, a step that helps to redraw a composition in another format. That choice was chosen for the painting.
And here is the 'marshwallow' again in finished form. In this incarnation it looks irritated. I could easily have omitted all indications that we as humans read as emotional clues, and I probably should have. After all, it is not exactly likely that alien animals would convey emotions in a way that we can read. I probably liked it better this way...
Later, I thought about painting a herd of these marshwallows in the middle ground, being stared at by a predator in the foreground. For that I needed to think about a colour pattern. Here are two possible ones. The top one is very mammalian, but the second one is not. The shape of the limbs illustrates what happens if I do not pay a great deal of attention: they turn into mammalian legs. The hind ones especially go against the basic design of large hexapods, in whom the anatomy of the hind legs is -except for the feet- a mirror image of the front pair. In both, there are shoulder blades that are only loosely attached to the bulk of the body. The middle pair has a bone and joint connection to the corporal skeleton. For more on leg design, see previous entries in this blog: here and here.
Why have just one species of wallow? Indeed, shouldn't there be a group of related species, the 'walloidea'? I thought as much, and here are some. As you can see, there is a 'Protovolvulus species' at the right, in which males and females look the same. The one at the top is a male marshwallow, here called 'Disjecta membra', which means 'with strewn limbs'. The limbs that phrase refers to are not its own, but those of animals dumb enough to bother a marshwallow. In time, the name 'Disjecta membra' was replaced by 'Volvulus elongatus'. Some wallow species tend towards gigantism together with elaborations of the neck shields. Any resemblance with Ceratopsia is not coincidental at all. I have no idea why I came up with the name 'Disjecta pandorae', but to avoid any confusion I would like to stress that this sketch predates the film 'Avatar' by at least 25 years. 'Polyonyx vivax' seems to be the most elaborately coiffed wallow species. By the way, the gender symbols indicate that this how the genders look in the major portion of an animal's life. In most species, sex changes as a function of size and social importance, and 'indicator features' such as spikes on the neck shield change along with sex. It's complicated, I know...
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- Evan Black said...
I've hesitated to post here because my initial comment has always been something that I hate: I keep wanting to point out that I prefer the original sketches over the final design; I just feel like the furry ruff around the head and neck has more aesthetic personality than the finlike spikes on the neck shield. I don't like comments like these because they imply that the commenter feels the right to impose some sort of influence on the artistic (or physiological) decision. I hope you take no offense at my comment, but I couldn't resist beginning with it.
That said, I'm always impressed by your skill with capturing a candid moment of the painting's subject. The images you've shared online never feel like posed, contrived renders of Furahan biology, but rather hastily grabbed moments of creatures going about their own interests. You really breathe life into your work.
In the marshwallow's entry on the website you talk about its mild nature, broken only occasionally by territorial bites and kicks intended to scare more than do real damage. Yet in this blog post you allude to the idea that these creatures strew limbs about them when crossed. Was this idea abandoned in favor of the more placid temperament (thus prompting the name change you talked about) or is there a species/genus of marshwalloid with marked aggression?
- 17 December 2011 at 10:05
- mike said...
In the last drawing it seems the upwards-facing tooth-like structures are part of an independent jaw. Is this a remnant of the four-jaw system of the fish?
- 17 December 2011 at 22:05
- Spugpow said...
Thanks for posting this; I find the process of developing these creatures fascinating.
I actually agree with Evan about the initial design--though I'm pleased to see you reappropriated the fur ruff for the Woolly-haired shuffler :) . The final rendering is great anyway.
A question: wouldn't stalk-eyes be more appropriate for an animal that has to peer above the surface of the water?
- 18 December 2011 at 02:02
- Sigmund Nastrazzurro said...
Evan: don't worry about commenting. There is of course a line between well-intended criticisms and snobbish or condescending comments, but yours never were of the latter variety. In fact, you nailed one of the things that I like least of my own work, and that is a tendency to work on it until spontaneity is lost. I often wonder why a sketch was lively while the finished product turns out much less so.
As for the marshwallow mellowing with maturity, that might be an expression of the same phenomenon. As I work on a design some of the roughness is smoothed over. But in truth I did not think about in in much detail. Only now the thought came to me that Protovolvulus might engage in really nasty fights, with torn lips and real damage being done. In contrast, mating fights in Polyonyx vivax, the one with the most impressive head gear, might involve a lot of posing and strutting. But a Polyonax can and will still take a parson (a predatory species) apart if it ventures too close.
Mike: No, not really. in many hexapod lineages the lateral jaws evolved into tongues (well, tongue analogues, as they have bones in them). The bumps/teeth in the lover jaws are part of those jaws.
Spugpow: that is a good point, and raised eyes would indeed be very suitable for such a purpose. When I decided to equip hexapods with compound eyes I realised that such eyes do not necessarily have to be on stalks. I admit that in quite a few cases I added the stalks to increase the alien aspect of an animal. It does help to provide vision in all directions though...
- 18 December 2011 at 11:33
- Sigmund Nastrazzurro said...
I forgot to point this out regarding the stalked eyes; have a look at the first two rough sketches, and you will see that there is a kind of groove behind each eye. that was there to allow the eye to be swivelled back for protection. It's a common feature in hexapods.
- 18 December 2011 at 11:56


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Two French sisters stand out as interesting examples of the relationship of women painters to the male-dominated art community of their time. Edma and Berthe Morisot both were talented amateurs who admired the Barbizon painters of the mid-1800s and who later studied for a number of years under Jean-Batiste-Camille Corot during the 1860s. The sisters exhibited legitimate talent, displaying in five Salon shows during the latter half of the decade. In 1869 Edma got married and followed traditional custom. She gave up her art for her family. About the same time, Berthe met Edouard Manet and fell under his influence. She also met his brother, Eugene, and fell under his influence as well. She married him.
Unlike her sister however, Berthe refused to abandon painting in favour of domestic chores. Her family could well afford to pay someone else to fulfil that obligation. Instead, to her brother-in-law's dismay, she allied herself with the Impressionists and showed regularly in their scandalous little exhibits. As an Impressionist, her work became more painterly, her style looser, yet her technique remained delicate. Like her friend and the other token female Impressionist, Mary Cassatt, she painted from a female point of view, her subject matter tending toward women in domestic scenes, her palette much lighter and more pastel than those of her male counterparts. And nearly a hundred years ahead of her time, her thinking was quite that of the modern-day feminist. She is quoted by Higonnet: "I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal, and that's all I would have asked, for I know I'm worth as much as they."
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Volvo Golf Champions January 18 2012
An exciting mix in the field of new stars and seasoned campaigners are this week preparing to line up in the second edition of the €2million Volvo Golf Champions at its new home, the Links at Fancourt, in South Africa. A €350,000 winner's cheque will secured them a place in The European Tour's 'tournament of champions'. The 2011 Major Champions Darren Clarke and Charl Schwartzel lead the field and are joined by other major winners, including Ernie Els and Retief Goosen. Els commented; "Obviously I love playing in South Africa and have won five of my European Tour titles there. I have great memories of playing at the Links at Fancourt, both in professional events and when on holiday there, and I'm looking forward to trying to win The European Tour's first true 'tournament of champions". "South African golf is in great shape at the moment, which is apparent by the number of South Africans in the field. Dr. Hasso Plattner's vision in creating The Links at Fancourt will provide the perfect stage to showcase the wonderful golf opportunities offered in South Africa." Of the seasoned campaigners, two Ryder Cup captains are teeing up for this event. José María Olazábal and Colin Montgomerie will bring their enormous experience into the arena. By contrast in the experience on display, will be two of the more exciting youngtsers to grace the links in recent years. The new talents in European golf with 18 year old Italian Matteo Manassero and Englishman Tom Lewis 21, will be keen to compete against the old school players. The Volvo Golf Champions is an exclusive, limited field event with no halfway cut, open only to European Tour players who have won an event on the previous year's European Tour International Schedule. Joining them are the winners of the first two events of the 2012 season, the Africa Open and the Joburg Open. Other entries include current Tour Members, under the age of 50, with more than ten European Tour victories. Three time major winner Ernie Els struggled on the greens last year which then affected his ability to have fun on the course, he bemoaned this loss saying, "I've kind of lost my sense of humor, you know. When you don't putt well your sense of humor doesn't work very well. I'd like to get my sense of humor back. My work ethic and determination, especially this year, is better than ever because I had such a dismal season last year." "I would like to really turn things around this year and see if I can win some tournaments again.'' He needs to turn things around because he doesn't qualify automatically for the Masters in April. "I know where I stand and I know what I need to do. I have a couple of months to rectify that. I don't want to be asking for an invite there.'' Padraig Harrington also a three-time major winner, now ranked 89th in the world also finds himself in a similar position. He understands though that you can not win every year, talking about his two British Open titles and a PGA Championship victory. "I certainly had a peak year in 2007 and another peak in 2008. It's impossible to always have peak years. It doesn't worry me in the greater scheme of things, because I know you can't win them every year. You have to sit there and be patient and wait for your turn, and like 2007 and 2008, they all come at once.'' ALLAN HENRY / US PRESSWIRE


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Months ago, rumors started swirling that Shake Shack, a popular fast-food eatery that started as a food cart in New York's Madison Square Park, would be opening a Chicago location.
This month, the company has made it official with an announcement that it is planning its first Illinois location at 66 E. Ohio St., which is part of the Shops at North Bridge complex.
The restaurant is slated to open in late 2014, according to Greg Waters, senior manager of marketing and communications for Shake Shack.
Details have not yet been released about the Chicago location's menu, but we're keeping our fingers crossed that it's similar to the original. Here are 5 reasons we're excited for the arrival of Shake Shack in Chicago.
1. The burgers. "They serve the best fast-food burger that I've ever had. Everything tastes like it's been grilled in butter," said Elite Truong, an intern for RedEye's sibling site Metromix.
2. The cheesiness. "Shake Shack knows that you already want a cheeseburger, so cheesy options dominate the burger menu," Truong said. "Who orders burgers without cheese?"
3. The custard. There are only a few custard shops in town -- Scooter's, Lickity Split -- and as far as we're concerned, more is more. Shake Shack uses its frozen custard to make shakes, floats and concretes (custard with toppings and mix-ins). Creative concrete options at other locations include Jelly's Last Donut made with vanilla custard, strawberry preserves, cinnamon sugar and doughnuts from NYC's Doughnut Plant. Maybe there's an opportunity to pair up with a local doughnut shop here for something similar? Here's hoping ...
4. The vegetarian options. Here's a thought: Just because vegetarians don't eat meat doesn't mean they always want to eat a super-healthy quinoa/black bean/kale burger. Shake Shack delivers with a veggie burger that's seriously indulgent: A deep-fried cheese-stuffed portabella mushroom.
5. The fries. There are simply not enough burger joints in Chicago selling crinkle-cut fries. Shake Shack's will be a welcome addition.
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Electrical Waste
There are approximately 2500 computers across the University and many of them can be sat idle for long periods of time. To try and reduce the electrical waste associated with this, we have a new 'OFF' policy where computers in labs that are left idle and not logged in for 30 minutes are automatically shut down.
Power consumption
With the amount of IT equipment we have across the University, the power consumption can be very high. To try and reduce this we now recommend that all new computers purchased are "Intel Core 2 duo processors" as these machines cut the average power consumption in half while offering a 40% higher performance rate.
Recyclable materials and their disposal
We aim to ensure that everything we purchase, from paper to printer cartridges, is the most environmentally friendly available.
Going paperless
The excessive and unnecessary use of paper is a major environment issue. Here in IT Services we have tried to cut down our use of paper in a number of ways:
IT Services News - we have reduced the number of paper copies of the newsletter by 80% and print on recycled paper. An email version is also available as well as a PDF format.
Administrative systems - IT Services is aiming towards creating a 'paperless office' with the implementation of computer based replacements for many of the administrative tasks across the University including My Aston Portal (MAP) for staff and students, Agresso online requisitioning tool and CELCAT timetabling.
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May 18, 2011
Wabash matched nationally-ranked and two-time regional champion Shenandoah hit for hit in Wednesday's first round of the NCAA Division III Baseball South Regional. The Little Giants could not collect a key hit in their NCAA tournament debut, falling 4-0 to Shenandoah.
The Little Giants faced two-time USA South Conference Pitcher of the Year Greg Van Sickler, totaling nine hits against the senior righthander. Wabash loaded the bases with two outs in the first inning and had runners on first and second with two away in the second, but were unable to plate a run.
Junior pitcher Andrew Swart (pictured) pitched eight innings for the Little Giants. He scattered 10 hits with no walks while striking out five. Defense hurt Wabash in key innings, however, and the Hornets took advantage each time.
Keaton Neeb scored the first run of the game after reaching on an infield single and advancing to second on a throwing error. Mike Minch brought Neeb home with a two-out single down the right field line to put Shenandoah in front.
The Hornets (35-5) loaded the bases in the seventh inning thanks to a single, a Wabash error on a sacrifice bunt, and a catcher's interference play. A hit batsman by Swart brought the second run of the game home before Van Sickler helped his cause with a two-run double down the left field line.
Wabash rallied in the ninth with a leadoff single by Brian Lares and a two-out walk by Chris Deig, but again could not find a two-hit to plate a run.
Deig, Lares, Tanner Coggins, and David Seibel each had two hits for Wabash. Seibel had the only extra-base hit of the game for the Little Giants with a two-out double in the fourth. Montana Timmons added the ninth hit for Wabash.
The Little Giants (21-21) face number-one seed and nationally-ranked Christopher Newport on Thursday at noon (CDT). The Captains lost 11-1 in game one of the Regional against sixth-seeded Webster.


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Dancers on Wheels
by Janeen R. Adil
Annie had her first dance lesson when she was 9 years old and in third grade. The students watched her come in, and even the grownups looked at her. She heard people whisper, "That girl can't dance. She can't even walk."
Annie knew they were wrong, and so did her teacher. They knew that dancing, just like painting or playing music, comes from the heart. Annie didn't need to move her feet — she could dance by moving her strong arms and body. Her wheelchair would become part of the dance.
Every week, Annie went to her dance lesson with Miss Karen. First Annie warmed up her muscles by stretching up and down and side to side. Then her teacher put on some music. When the music was fast, Annie loved to twirl, spinning her wheelchair in circles. When the music was slow, Annie moved her arms like a graceful swan.
Annie practiced for months to get ready for a dance show. She picked out her own music and costume. When the big night finally came, Annie was nervous but excited, too. When it was her turn, she gave Miss Karen a happy smile and thought proudly, "I am a dancer!" Then Annie wheeled out onto the stage and began to dance.
Kitty Lunn is someone who understands Annie's experience. She was 8 when she decided to be a dancer. by the time she was 15, Kitty was dancing with the New Orleans Civic Ballet. She studied with famous teachers and danced in widely-known ballets such as Swan Lake and The Nutcracker. When she was older, Kitty moved to New York City, where she worked as an actress and a dancer. She was getting ready to perform in her first Broadway show when her life changed forever.
While hurrying to rehearsal, Kitty slipped on some ice. She fell down a flight of stairs and broke her back. The accident left her a paraplegic (pa-ruh-PLEE-jik). This means she can move her arms and body but not her legs. It also means that Kitty now uses a wheelchair to get around.
At first, Kitty thought her life as a dancer was over. Then she learned something important. "The dancer inside me," she says, "didn't know or care that I was using a wheelchair. She just wanted to keep dancing." So Kitty found a way to continue doing what she loved.
In 1994, Kitty Lunn started Infinity Dance Theater. Its members are dancers with and without disabilities. They use movements from ballet, modern dance, and jazz. Like some of the other dancers, Kitty uses a special lightweight wheelchair.
When the 1996 Olympics were held in Atlanta, Georgia, Kitty was there. She performed a dance called "Inside My Body There Is a Dancer." This title is a good description of what Kitty believes.
The Infinity dancers perform all over the world. They also help dance teachers learn to work with students who have disabilities.
There are many other dance companies that include both wheelchair and standing dancers. Each of them would agree with Kitty's advice when she says, "Listen to the dancer in your heart." There's always a way to dance!
- How do you think the development of the muscles in Annie's legs changed after her accident? Why?
[anno: The muscles became weak and small because she could no longer use them.]
- Think about your favorite physical activity or sport. Which muscle groups are you developing when you participate in this activity or sport? To figure out which muscle groups you use, look in your textbook at the picture of the girl walking her dog, or look at an encyclopedia illustration of the body's major muscle groups. Now imagine that you want to convince a friend to participate in your activity or sport. Write a short paragraph describing the muscular benefits of your activity or sport. Try to convince your friend to participate!
[anno: Answers will vary. Students should identify the activity or sport and correctly identify some of the major muscle groups used in that activity or sport.]


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Imagine my surprise when I got home to see that Teaberry is low and in the wintergreen family. Definitely not a 6 foot shrub. It turns out this is a Highbush Blueberry and can grow up to 15 feet. That is a lot of blueberries! Our cultivated blueberries are derived from this shrub.
I have wild Blueberries up here on the mountain, but they are at best knee high. I wonder if they will grow up to be this?


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Robert T. 'Bob' Bouchard
Patrick H. Forrest
Robert T. 'Bob' Bouchard
Robert T. "Bob" Bouchard, 68 of Livonia, formerly of Trout Lake, passed away Sunday, Sept. 23 at St Mary's Mercy Hospital in Livonia. He was born Nov. 9, 1943 in Newberry to Clarence and Viveka (Taube) Bouchard.
He graduated from Newberry High School and attended one year of college, then joined the U.S. Army during the Vietnam era. He served in Germany as a 1st Lt/Ord C. Motor Officer with the 2nd Battalion 333rd Artillery U.S. Forces. He came home and was a tool and die maker for 15 years.
In 1984 he bought the Toby's Buchhorn in Trout Lake and owned it until 2012 when he moved to Livonia because of health issues. He was an avid sports fan, especially University of Michigan football and sports of all kinds.
He was a member of St. Ignace Golf and Country Club and bowled at Gateway Lanes. He loved his springer spaniel dogs and pets of any kind. He was a member of the Newberry American Legion Post No. 74, Newberry VFW, and a life member of Newberry Elks Club. He was an Elder of the Sault Tribe Chippewa Indians. He was very proud of his military time and always flew an American flag along with a maize and blue University of Michigan flag.
On Nov. 27, 1982 he married Elsie Roberts, and she survives with with son Daniel Kneeves of South Lyon and daughters Marian (David) Ross of Livonia, Christine (John) Lacy of South Lyon, Kimberly Vallier of Macomb; brothers Patrick (Joan) Riordan of Drummond Island, William (Beth) Riordan of Munising, and Gary Bouchard of Chesterton, Ind.; sisters Barbara Bouchard of Trout Lake, Maricarol (Mick) Wartella of Sun Prairie, Wis., and Nancy (Dan) Aho of Elburn, Ill.; 11 grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews along with a host of friends who will miss him greatly. He was preceded in death by his parents and stepfather Dan Riordan.
Friends may call at Dodson Funeral Home in St. Ignace on Thursday, Sept. 27 from 10 a.m. until services at 2 p.m. with Rev. Erik Allsgaard officiating. Military rites will be at Lakeview Cemetery in Trout Lake where he will be laid to rest. Memorials may be directed to the Jacobetti Home for Veterans with envelopes available from Dodson Funeral Home, who handled arrangements. Pallbearers will be Cliff, Gerry, and Bob Vallier, John Lacy, Rob Wartella and Keith McGowan.
Patrick H. Forrest
Patrick H. Forrest of Sault Ste. Marie passed away Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012 at the Hospice House of EUP. He was born Oct. 22, 1943 in Sault Ste. Marie.
Patrick served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam era. He worked at the Kewadin Casino for many years. Patrick enjoyed cooking and loved his family very much especially his grandchildren. He was also a big Boston Bruins fan.
He is survived by his family, friends and loved ones.
Graveside services will be held 2:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28, 2012 at Oaklawn Chapel Gardens.
Donations in Patrick's memory may be made to Clark Bailey Newhouse Funeral Home.


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An Aug. 17 wedding is being planned by Megan Hesidence and Tyler Eroh, both of Worthington.
The bride-to-be is the daughter of Carol and Ray Herrock of Butler and Rick Hesidence of Butler. Parents of the prospective bridegroom are Jeff and Joyce Eroh of Kittanning.
The bride-elect is a 2004 graduate of Butler High School and received a bachelor's in elementary and special education in 2008 from Clarion University.
She is a special-education teacher at Knoch Middle School.
Her fiance graduated in 2002 from Kittanning High School and in 2006 from Butler County Community College with a degree in computer networking.
He provides computer networking support for the True Value Company.


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Hi, Rajeev. I live in Enfield area and i play at indoor court in Windsor for this winter. Do you want to play?
We can always hit out. It has been a while since i played as well but looking forward to some tennis. Next weekend i am not free but how about sometime on sunday in a week after that.
I am located in windsor, ct and rated 3.5, and was wondering about your location and skill level. If interested may be we can hit out during weekend.
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