text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Coloring of a Monika pinup. Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Gallery/Finished Work View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Coloring of a Monika pinup." SeraphirememberMember #Joined: 21 Sep 2000Posts: 216Location: griswold,ct,usa Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2001 1:52 pm Drawn by Curt P. a.k.a. Manwithnoname. If curious about his art, go the the topcow.com forums, or joemadureira.com forums, and you should be able to find his site on a post by him. Comments? ------------------ The Groove is in the Heart! Seraphire Michael Jon Birkhofer Seraphire's Cafe/Digital Evolution Back to top exmemberMember #Joined: 23 Mar 2000Posts: 887Location: USA Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2001 2:10 pm wow, those are some amazing breasts I like how you colored the leaves, and her suit, and hair,nice Back to top arniemgmemberMember #Joined: 25 Dec 2000Posts: 107Location: Pensacola, FL, USA Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2001 5:35 pm great coloring! nice textures in the trees, leaves, grass, hair, and drapery around her thigh. my only thing i have to say negatively is that it's hard to tell what's going on with her hand. at first it looks like folded loose flesh or something. by lightening the shadow a little you will get around that problem. i have two questions: 1) how long does it take for you to do this? and 2) what resolution do you work with? i mean, are these print quality, or have you grabbed the images off of the internet? ta ta for now. Back to top SeraphirememberMember #Joined: 21 Sep 2000Posts: 216Location: griswold,ct,usa Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2001 1:35 pm The hand was one of the areas I wasn't all too happy about. Good suggestion. I'll try it. I did this as a break from the pages, I've been trying to do. I think it clocked in at about 4 hours. With editing, more like 5 or 6. I redid the hair several times. And even now I'm thinking about trying to fix it. I get all my stuff off of the internet. So sometimes I get it small. This one is full size. Occasionally, I do get one from someone at a decent size, but more often it is like this. The pages I've been posting are at full size too. So I'm losing alot having to color that small. I've been thinking about blowing up the inks, and coloring at a decent size, then shrinking it back down and pasting the unresized inks. But since none of this is really for print, it doesn't really matter right now. ------------------ The Groove is in the Heart! Seraphire Michael Jon Birkhofer Seraphire's Cafe/Digital Evolution Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Gallery/Finished Work All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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Valentine's Day!
Feb 12, 2013
A survey done by American Express says that approximately 4 million people will get engaged on Valentine's Day. What is it about that day? How is it on February 14th you can have a warm feeling come over you despite it being the middle of winter? Regardless of what many people think it is not a holiday created by Hallmark. It's romantic history is linked back to the middle ages and the time of Geoffrey Chaucer. A time of courtship and chivalry.
So why do so many people choose Valentine's Day to get engaged? I was discussing this with someone who said she doesn't understand it? Is it really romantic? When two people are looking to start their lives together any day is a good day to start. There is no question that when done right a date with your loved one can be a magical night and if it happens to be on Valentine's Day, even better. When you plan the evening out, men and woman want everything to be just right. From your attire to the food to evening's activity, the goal is to give your partner a night they will never forget. Well think about, if you are truly going to plan such an evening wouldn't the best topper be ask them to marry you? You were thinking about doing it anyway! Put the cherry on top of that sundae! Add that exclamation point at the end of the sentence that was your evening! The site of joy and surprise is evidence that you made the right decision. Next week we will explore this Valentine's Day phenomenon a little more!
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Sometimes just a glimpse of a beloved (or startling) face is enough to blow your mind. Especially when you didn't expect someone to show up in a book, movie or TV show. What's the surprising cameo in a science fiction or fantasy series that rocked your world the most?
Please include a clip, picture, book cover or other illustration of your chosen cameo. And please mention the name of the character (or person) who showed up, and where he/she appeared. Thanks!
Top image: Peter Capaldi steals the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special with just his eyes.


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Volkswagen Beetle GRC is a bug with bite – Fox News
The Beetle has never been so super.
Volkswagen today unveiled the race car it will be fielding in the Red Bull Global Rallycross (GRC) series later this year.
The all-wheel-drive bug is powered by a turbocharged 1.6-liter four-cylinder engine that pumps out a massive 544 hp, making it 2.5 times as potent as the top street car.
With a racing weight of just 2668 pounds, the Beetle GRC can sprint to 60 mph in a scant 2.1 seconds on tarmac, while its huge wing keeps it stuck to the ground and a suspension designed to deliver 9.1 inches of wheel travel eats up the jumps and bumps of a rallycross course.
The car will be fielded by Andretti Autosport with Top Gear host Tanner Foust and current GRC points leader Scott Speed behind the wheel, but its debut race hasn't been announced. A mockup of the car was first shown at the Chicago Auto Show in Feburary, but the pair has been competing in cars based on the European VW Polo subcompact, which is not sold in the U.S.Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com


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This was a season of disappointment for Chelsea. Since the dawn of the Abramovich era it isn't common for words like "dismal" and "depressing" to become synonymous with the teams exploits. However this year, bar an end of the season resurgence, was a fairly painful one for fans of the West London club. Despite starting the season in blistering form the team quickly faded into mediocrity and from there dropped in to a spell of stagnant ineptitude for months.
Carlo "The Don" Ancelotti, our once highly praised manager, had basically resigned himself to defeat by season's end. Was this slide in form the Italian's fault? In part, yes. Ancelotti's team selection was spotty at times, his ability to motivate the team was questionable, and he had no backup plan. However, personally I believe Carlo's firing was part of a bigger plan being calculated by Abramovich. As I groggily logged on to my Twitter account several weeks back my newsfeed exploded with news of his dismissal. It wasn't too surprising. He'd been on the outs for some time now, but the more I thought about it the more his dismissal and our incessant transfer rumors smacked of change. Not minor changes, but a smaller scale Blue Revolution. It was a sign that Abramovich was ready to give the club a facelift.
Essentially, the squad is still Mourinho's Chelsea; maybe not in terms of style but in terms of personnel. With a few small additions the spine of the team remains the same as it was the day "The Special One" walked out of SW6 for the last time: Terry, Lampard, Mikel, Essien, Drogba etc. If at least half of these transfer rumors are to be believed, Chelsea is attempting to change the face of its squad and bring in some new players to evolve out of the "Mourinho's ghost" phase the squad has been in the past few years. Despite experiments with Scolari's wing back driven offence and Carlo's 4-3-3, our squad has never really developed a new post-Mourinho identity. Our game plan has largely remained the same: get the ball to Drogba. This stratagem worked wonders when the large Ivorian was in form. The goal hauls of his previous seasons and our trophy cabinet are testament to that. However, what do we do when Drogba, as he did this season, hits a rough patch? What is our game plan then? That was Carlo's greatest failure this season. He didn't have one.
It was embarrassingly apparent how lost Chelsea's strike force looked when it got around the box. There were no incisive passing or runs and more importantly no player who could dribble at the defense. That is what made Malouda, and subsequently, our attack so dangerous last season. He had magically learned how to dribble outside from the wing. It made things happen and it kept the defense guessing. We'd finally gained a sense of unpredictability. Sadly that skill seemed to have vanished with his samurai hair cut. This is why we need a player like Neymar. Chelsea have lacked a pacey dribbler since Robben left years ago. It's reached the point where the only game plan was to slay the ball up to Drogba and hope he could create something out of nothing. That tactic is one of the several reasons Torres wasn't effective. He's not the sort of player you boom the ball to in hopes he'll turn and beat his marker with pace. Torres needs to have service that gets the ball on his foot facing the goal. With Drogba aging and with Torres seeming to be the new star of our line-up, it is time for some changes. Were I in the new manager's shoes, most likely those of Guus Hiddink, I'd make it a priority to bring in the aforementioned Neymar and a creative midfielder ala Wesley Sneijder.
Young Sturridge has more than proved himself with his spell at Bolton that he can score in a withdrawn role and Neymar's goal tally also shows that he is more than capable of carrying some of the goal load. More importantly however both Neymar and Sturridge have demonstrated excellent touch and skill on the ball. They posses a sense of creative flair Chelsea has lacked for quite some time and that flair could finally endow us with the air of unpredictability the squad so badly needs. It simply makes sense bringing in a more withdrawn, width focused player. Torres has demonstrated time and time again he functions best as a lone striker who can get the ball at his feet and find gaps to run through. He was average during the World Cup whenever he was called on to partner Villa and he's been average with us whenever he has partnered a like minded target man like Drogba. It simply makes sense to bring in Neymar or at least a player like him. Those three up top could be a feared strike force for years to come.
Equally as important as the players playing off of Torres is the man slotted behind him. Players like Fernando need service. Good service. It's no secret that Benayoun played a big part in his success at Liverpool and certainly had at least a small role in bringing him to Chelsea. If Chelsea are going to build an offense around Torres it needs a player in Benayoun's mold; clever on the ball, quick to find an incisive pass, and creative with his decision making. Unfortunately Benayoun himself struggled with injury all of last season and is getting older. Similarly Lampard is no spring chicken and usually lurks a little further back in the midfield unless he is poaching goals from the top of the box. Essentially what this means is we need to sign a player to sit in the pocket behind our front line. We've been linked to Sneijder for around €35 million and reports are going back and forth about the likelihood of Modric leaving White Hart Lane. While both signings may be a bit of a stretch I take it as a positive that we are at least linked to players in a mold we desperately need.
Summer has only just begun but something tells me it will be an eventful one for fans of Chelsea Football Club. On top of links to Sneijder and Neymar each day seems to bring us closer to signing Belgian wonder-kid Lukaku from Anderlecht. Clearly it would be a signing for the future though. Most likely he'd be given some time to grow under the tutelage of his idol; Didier Drogba while Torres leads the current line. Here's to hoping it's the type of eventful that will see us finally give our beloved Blues a much needed new identity.


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Call for Media: ESA at Farnborough air show, 19–25 July
ESA PR-16 2010: ESA, together with the UK Space Agency, the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and industry, will be exhibiting in a dedicated Space Zone at the Farnborough International Air Show, 19–25 July.
The Space Zone will showcase the importance of space systems and applications in facing global challenges and providing decision-makers with tools to respond to critical challenges such as climate change and global security.
The ESA exhibition allows trade and public visitors alike to discover the many dimensions of space and their role in a rapidly changing world: space for a better understanding of our Earth and the Universe; space as a generator of new technologies and innovation; space for future human endeavour; and space for improving the quality of life and fostering European growth and employment.
The show is open from Monday 19 July to Sunday 25 July, with trade visitor days on 19–23 July and access to the general public on 24–25 July.
A series of high-level events in the Space Zone include a dedicated Space Day conference on Wednesday 21 July and a Futures Day for students and schools on Friday 23 July.
Media registration
Members of the media interested in attending events in the Space Zone must be accredited to attend the air show. Accreditation can be requested via the FIA website.
Main events in the Space Zone
Monday 19 July 11:00–13:00
New funding and support for space entrepreneurs
An opportunity to learn about the support available to entrepreneurs, from funding of new start-up companies based on technologies originally developed for space to aid to businesses that see solutions in adapting space technologies to their own fields. Speakers include Callum Norrie from ESA's Technology Transfer Programme.
Tuesday 20 July 11:15–13:00
Careers advisers and education experts can learn about careers and opportunities in the growing field of space, both in the UK and in Europe. Speakers include Peter Hulsroj, ESA's director responsible for education, and Frank Danesy, head of human resources at one of ESA's largest sites.
Wednesday 21 July 10:45–12:00
Space Day
An opportunity to hear about and discuss the future UK and international vision for space, highlighting the economic success within the sector and its growing importance in our daily lives. Speakers include David Willetts, UK Minister of State for Universities and Science, Mariastella Gelmini, Italian Minister of Education, Universities and Research, Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, and heads of agencies and industry.
Friday 23 July
Futures Day
A day of activities across the air show for students and school classes to inspire them towards careers in aerospace. Come and meet ESA astronaut Jean-François Clervoy and learn firsthand how to keep fit and healthy, in space and on Earth.
For further information please contact:
ESA Media Relations Office
Communication Department
Tel: + 33 1 53 69 72 99
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Press Release: U.C. Berkeley Chancellor Issues Statement on Armored Vehicle Proposal
The statement below, regarding plans for the joint acquisition of an armored emergency rescue vehicle, was issued today (Thursday, July 5) by UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, in coordination with the mayors of Berkeley and Albany:
The University of California Police Department, in collaboration with the Berkeley and Albany city police departments, recently pursued a grant for an armored emergency rescue vehicle. Law enforcement's interest in obtaining a vehicle that would protect officers during situations involving oncoming gunfire (or to rescue victims during such situations) — such as occurred at Oikos University in Oakland a few months ago — is understandable.
However, the planned acquisition of the vehicle recently came to the attention of campus and city officials. Campus administrators evaluated the proposal and concluded that such a military-style vehicle is not the best choice for a university setting. UC Berkeley officials are in the process of canceling the order for the vehicle. Officials in Berkeley and Albany agree with the University's decision. -more-


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PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Blizzards blocked roads, stranded villages, disrupted power supplies and temporarily shut down an airport in the Balkans on Tuesday, the fourth straight day of tough winter weather in the region of southeastern Europe.
In one of the worst-hit areas, snowdrifts and avalanches blocked roads in hilly northern Montenegro, where about a meter (3 feet) of snow fell overnight, officials said.
Across the border in southwestern Serbia, heavy snowfall blocked roads to more than a dozen villages, with some left without electricity and schools being closed for the rest of the week, officials said.
"We have got heavy machinery out and we are doing all we can," said emergency official Samir Bakic. "The wind is making the effort more difficult."
At least nine deaths across the region have been blamed on the snow and deep freeze, with temperatures as low as minus-15 Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit).
Elsewhere in Serbia, where snow began to fall Saturday, officials said road crews were still struggling to clear even the central squares of some cities. Authorities banned heavy trucks from Serbia's roads, saying they want to prevent them from skidding and blocking passages.
Predrag Maric, Serbia's top emergency official, apologized Tuesday for failing to clear roads over the weekend, when hundreds of people were stranded in buses and cars.
To the south, in Kosovo, heavy snow blocked villages in the west, toward the border with Albania, where classes in local schools were suspended. Traffic was snarled elsewhere too, authorities in Kosovo said.
The milder climates of Montenegro's capital, Podgorica, and the nation's Adriatic coast usually escape tough winter weather, but snow is blanketing Podgorica, too, and closed its airport for much of the day Tuesday.
In Bosnia, some areas were left without electricity. And in Croatia, doctors warned the elderly and sick to stay indoors as hospitals reported dozens of cases of broken limbs from falls on the ice and snow.
Jovana Gec contributed to this report from Serbia, and Aida Cerkez from Bosnia.


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This is an excerpt from Fitness Professional's Handbook, Sixth Edition by Edward Howley and Dixie Thompson.
Methods for Assessing Body Composition
Numerous techniques have been used to estimate body composition. None of the methods currently used actually measure %BF; the only way to truly measure the volume of fat in the body would be to dissect and chemically analyze tissues in the body. The techniques routinely used to estimate %BF are based on the relationship between %BF and other factors that can be accurately measured, such as skinfold thicknesses or underwater weight. Because of the predictable relationship between the measured value and body composition, %BF can be estimated through these indirect methods.
Each of the techniques described in the following sections has advantages and disadvantages. Knowing these characteristics will help you decide wisely when choosing the method for body composition assessment. A comparison of important considerations can be found in table 8.2. For fitness professionals, ease of measurement, relative accuracy, and cost are the primary considerations when choosing a technique. In other situations (for research or clinical applications), the accuracy of the measurement may outweigh other considerations.
Anthropometric Methods: Body Mass Index
A widely used clinical assessment of the appropriateness of a person's weight is the body mass index (BMI), or Quetelet index. This value is calculated by dividing the weight in kilograms by height in meters squared.
BMI is a quick and easy method for determining if body weight is appropriate for body height. Table 8.3 lists the adult BMI categories. In the past, height–weight charts were used for this purpose, but BMI is currently the accepted method for interpreting the height–weight relationship. BMI does not differentiate between fat and fat-free weight, which is problematic when testing athletic individuals with a large lean mass. For example, a football linebacker who is 6 ft 2 in. (1.9 m) and weighs 220 lb (100 kg) is considered overweight according to BMI standards (BMI = 28.3 kg · m−2), when in fact he may have a very low %BF. On the other hand, an inactive person with a similar height and weight is probably carrying excess adipose tissue.
Even with its limitations, for most adults there is a clear correlation between elevated BMI and negative health consequences (26). The recommended BMI range is 18.5 to 24.9 kg · m−2. Overweight is classified as a BMI of 25 to 29.9 kg · m−2, and a BMI of 30 kg · m−2 or higher is considered obese (1, 26). In screening situations where estimating body fat is impossible or impractical, BMI can be useful for providing feedback to people about the appropriateness of their body weight. It is important to note that BMI standards for children are age and sex specific (28, 29). Children at the 95th percentile or greater for their age and sex are considered obese. Consult the CDC growth charts for BMI standards for children (29).
Girth Measurements
Several girth measurements (body and limb circumferences) are used to either estimate body composition or describe body proportions. Girth measurements provide quick and reliable information. They are sometimes used in equations to predict body composition and may also be used to track changes in body shape and size during weight loss. The major disadvantage is that they provide little information about the fat and fat-free components of the body. For example, a bodybuilder's thigh can have a larger circumference yet less fat than that of an individual who is obese. A list of several commonly measured girths follows; refer to the Anthropometric Standardization Reference Manual (22) for additional circumference sites.
WHR is a frequently used clinical application of girth measurements. This value is often used to reflect the degree of abdominal, or android-type, obesity. A WHR greater than 0.95 for young men or 0.86 for young women is associated with elevated health risks, while for men and women 60 to 69 yr old, a WHR of >1.03 and >0.9, respectively, is linked with disease risk (30).
Waist circumference (WC) alone can also provide valuable information about disease risk (13, 17, 26). A WC of greater than 102 cm (40 in.) in men or 88 cm (35 in.) in women significantly increases the risk of obesity-related disease (1). ACSM now uses BMI and WC as the techniques for classifying obesity for risk stratification (1).
When assessing girths, use the following procedures to standardize the measurements:
Skinfold Measurements
Measuring skinfold thickness is one of the most frequently performed tests to estimate %BF. This quick, noninvasive, inexpensive method can provide a fairly accurate assessment of %BF. The value obtained by skinfold measurement is typically within 3.5% of the value measured with underwater weighing (30). Skinfold measurement is based on the assumption that, as a person gains adipose tissue, the increase in skinfold thickness is proportional to the additional fat weight.
Because of the widespread use of skinfold measurement, fitness professionals should master the skills involved. Accurately assessing skinfold thickness requires the correct performance of several steps: locating the skinfold site, pinching the skinfold away from the underlying tissue, measuring with the caliper, and choosing the proper equation. The following sections address each of these concerns.
Locating the Skinfold Site
It is critical to accurately determine the site of the skinfold measurement. To increase the accuracy of the measurement, especially for the inexperienced technician, the site should be located and then marked with a washable marker. This helps ensure that the calipers are placed in the correct position each time the skinfold is measured. All skinfold measurements should be taken on the right side of the body unless otherwise specified. Refer to table 8.4 and figure 8.1 for some of the most commonly used measurement sites. For a more complete description of determining skinfold sites, refer to the Anthropometric Standardization Reference Manual (22). Measuring skinfolds immediately after exercise should be avoided because exercise can shift fluid volume, leading to inaccurate results.
Pinching the Skinfold
Once the correct location for the skinfold measurement is determined, the tester gently but firmly pinches and lifts the skinfold away from the underlying muscle in order to measure it. The following are guidelines for measuring skinfolds correctly:
1. Place the fingers perpendicular to the skinfold approximately 1 cm from the site to be measured.
2. Gently yet firmly pinch the skinfold between the thumb and the first two fingers and lift away from the underlying tissues. Place the jaws of the caliper perpendicular to the skinfold at the measurement site. The jaws of the caliper should be halfway between the bottom and top of the fold. Maintain the pinch while taking the measurement.
3. Read the measurement on the caliper 1 to 2 sec after the jaws contact the skin.
4. Wait at least 15 sec before taking a subsequent measurement. To allow time for the fold to return to normal, take one measurement at each site and then repeat measurements. If the second measurement varies by more than 1 to 2 mm, repeat the measurement a third time.
Measuring the skinfolds of individuals who are obese can be difficult, if not impossible. If the jaws of the caliper will not open wide enough to measure the skinfold, use an alternative method for assessing body composition. Girth measurements for predicting %BF (33, 34) along with BMI, WC, and WHR may be used instead.
Measuring With the Caliper
Skinfold thickness is measured with a skinfold caliper. The numerous commercially available calipers vary in price and accuracy. Lange and Harpenden calipers are the ones most often used in research settings because of their precision and reliability; however, other calipers may also be used effectively (2). Obviously, if the calipers do not measure skinfolds accurately, they will compromise the estimate of body fat. Measure with calipers that closely match those used in the development of the equation you are using.
Choosing the Proper Equation
Most skinfold equations were developed using underwater weighing as the criterion method and actually are designed to estimate body density. To develop skinfold equations, the body density of many people was measured (typically using hydrostatic weighing), and these values were compared with skinfold thickness through a statistical method called regression analysis. This statistical technique results in the development of an equation that reflects the relationship between skinfolds and body density. Inserting a client's skinfold measurements (and sometimes other information such as age) into these equations produces an estimate of the client's body density. Body density then is converted to %BF by using a two-compartment model equation such as the Siri equation, described later in this chapter.
Both generalized and population-specific skinfold equations have been developed (15, 30). Generalized equations estimate body composition in groups of people who vary greatly in age, body composition, and fitness. An advantage of these equations is that they can be used to estimate body composition in most people; however, the equations lose accuracy when testing individuals who are dissimilar to those used to develop the equations. These equations are also less accurate for people at either end of the fatness continuum.
Population-specific equations predict body composition in a particular subgroup of the population, such as female runners. The advantage of using population-specific equations is that they tend to have higher accuracy when testing people who fit the physical profile of those in the subgroup of interest.
Because sex influences the areas where fat is stored, separate skinfold equations for men and women have been developed. The Jackson and Pollock (14) equations for men and the Jackson, Pollock, and Ward (16) equations for women are generalized equations that are used widely. Note that the client's age is used in these equations. This is because the relationship between total body fat and subcutaneous fat changes with age; as a person ages, proportionally less fat is stored subcutaneously. Equations from these authors that require three or seven skinfold sites are listed in the sidebar Equations for Estimating Body Density From Skinfold Thicknesses. In addition, tables 8.5 and 8.6 provide quick references for estimating body fatness from skinfold thicknesses for men and women. To use these tables, total the sum of your client's skinfolds (chest, abdominal, and thigh sites for men; triceps, suprailiac, and thigh sites for women) and locate the corresponding value in the far left column. Then, locate the client's age in the top row. The intersection of the row and column is the client's estimated %BF.
Key Point
Skinfold measurements are a quick and relatively accurate method for estimating %BF; however, care must be taken in making these measurements if the values are to be reliable. Girth measurements, particularly WHR and WC, can be useful in assessing risk of obesity-related disease, and BMI is useful for classifying individuals into overweight and obese categories. The recommended BMI range is 18.5 to 24.9 kg · m−2.
The density of an object is defined as the ratio of its weight to its volume (Density = weight ÷ volume). Two common procedures that estimate body composition based on densitometry are hydrostatic weighing and air displacement plethysmography. The foundation of these techniques is that various types of tissues in the body have different and consistent densities. Fat tissue has a density far less than either muscle or bone. Each of these techniques results in the assessment of total body volume and subsequently the calculation of body density.
Once the body density is calculated, it must be converted into %BF. To make this conversion, a two-compartment model is used. In a two-compartment model, all body tissues are classified as either fat or fat free. One of the most commonly used equations for this procedure is the Siri (32) equation: %BF = (495 ÷ Db) − 450. In this model, the fat-free portion of the body is composed of all tissues except lipids and is assumed to have a density of 1.1 kg · L−1. Fat is assumed to have a density of 0.9 kg · L−1. It has been suggested that the inherent error (caused by variations in hydration or bone density) of this method is 2% to 2.8% in young Caucasian adults (20).
Fat density is fairly consistent among individuals; however, there are situations in which the density of the fat-free body is different from the assumed 1.1 kg · L−1. For example, if a person's bone density is different from the standard used by Siri, then the assumption that the fat-free body density equals 1.1 kg · L−1 becomes invalid. This is the case for African Americans, who typically have a higher bone density than their Caucasian counterparts, and Schutte and colleagues (31) proposed that a different equation be used to calculate %BF for African American men. Many equations have been proposed to convert body density into %BF. Some of these are listed in table 8.7. For more equations and information on converting body density into %BF, see ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription (1) and Heyward and Wagner (12). Researchers sometimes use techniques more advanced than two-compartment models. Although these techniques are currently impractical for nonresearch settings, they are briefly described in the sidebar Body Composition Techniques in Research Settings: Multicompartment Models.
Hydrostatic Weighing
Hydrostatic (underwater) weighing is one of the most common means for estimating body composition in research settings and is often used as the criterion method for assessing %BF. A criterion method provides the standard against which other methodologies are compared. In this procedure, the participant is submerged in a tank of warm water and then exhales fully while technicians record the body mass (figure 8.2). The body mass while submerged and the body mass on land are used to calculate %BF.
Hydrostatic weighing is based on Archimedes' principle, which states that a submerged object is buoyed up by a force equal to the volume of water it displaces.
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The great artist, the passionate learner, the hubristic engineer. In the world of accomplishment, each of us comes to terms with our own lack of greatness in
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our own lack of greatness in different ways. Some of us… um, where was I? Some of us see our lives as a struggle against our demons, causing us to procrastinate and take time on things that are not truly important. Others have convinced themselves of their comfort with their place in society, happy to be working on a fun project with fun people, quietly dying of not making a real difference.
Oh did you see that #occupywallst had bigger attendance today than ever before? I think it's a pretty cool movement, even though they don't really have a message. No, I mean maybe I'll go someday soon, but I'm just interested to see how it develops.
So, yeah, as I was saying. One does not need to be a creative type to be a slave to our modern emptiness. The search for real love, life fulfillment, or a family to devote yourself to. There is always something standing between your life as it is and the life of your dreams. Even those great people we idolize are living in this disparity; the life they want being something other than the life of greatness we perceive. It is the only way we have motivation to grow.
However, I do not mean to dismiss it. There are traps. For years at a time we may find ourselves piddling away our time on something that is not important — a time we could be using for growing. It reminds me of a youtube video I saw. sec. It was something about a
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Right, youtube. What was I looking up? Ugh, that's frustrating. Oh well.
What I'm saying is that we never reach the potential we set for ourselves, but we can still become great. There are ways to refocus our energy not on distracting ourselves from realizing our shortcomings, but on achieving pieces of the ever-changing life goals. Just because you can't reach it doesn't mean you can't move nearer. But it does require us to step back for a moment and see, is this one of those piddling times? Are we truly, deeply satisfied with our progress along our path right now? Or are we hiding, in a world where


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|Lessons for California and the U.S. from movie "How Cuba survived Peak Oil"
|by Alice Friedemann
|02 June 2006
After seeing the film The Power of Community: How Cuba survived Peak Oil at a San Francisco Oil Awareness meeting in May, I thought about how those lessons might apply to California Agriculture. California grows about one-third of the U.S. food supply.
Much of what follows is based on the excellent Oxfam analysis of the complexities involved in Cuba and its food production reforms.
(see http://www.oxfamamerica.org/newsandpublications/publications/research_reports/art1164.html/?searchterm=cuba Just as Robert Hirsch of SAIC advised the U.S. Dept. of Energy that we ought to prepare for peak oil at least a decade ahead of time, so too should social values and our economic structure be altered well ahead of peak. Social Factors Before 1959, the United States owned 40% of Cuba's sugar production, 90% of the utilities, oil refineries and mines, and some of the banks. The Cuban revolution powerfully motivated people to overcome United States domination and become self-sufficient. People were willing to make large personal sacrifices for the public good. The energy crisis took place within this social framework. As times get harder in the United States on the down-slope of Hubbert's curve, our Lotto-driven, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" society will need to be convinced to work for the greater good. Dmitri Orlov's three-part "Post-Soviet lessons" (fromthewilderness.com) describes the problems our culture has that will make this difficult for us. There's some hope -- 29% of Americans are volunteers. A campaign to get the other 71% volunteering would be a good start for preparing society for what lies ahead, plus keep people busy as their jobs disappear. Economic structure The disparity of wealth in America is likely to lead to a lot of social unrest as times get harder. Adjustment to peak oil would go more smoothly if wealth were more fairly distributed, but the only way this could possibly happen is to institute the reforms suggested in Joel Bakan's book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power. Land Reform In Cuba before 1959, eight percent of the farmers owned 70% of the land. The revolution redistributed the land to the farmers. California is, and always has been, a state with very large farms. It is unlikely the land will be redistributed here. [Voluntarily, anyway - ed.] California's past and present is most likely its future: brutal exploitation of labor (Richard Street "Beasts of the Field"). Also, California has the largest and most elaborate water distribution and irrigation system in the world, and these large waterworks function best in a centralized and highly controlled manner, which also does not lend itself well to land redistribution. Percent of population doing Agricultural work As energy declines, we can allocate more and more scarce energy to agriculture, but at some point a proportional number of people and animals must go back to the land to make up for the lost energy - ultimately 90% of us. Cuba was fortunate to already have at least 15% of their population living rurally (the CIA fact book says 21% are agricultural workers now). Although the Oxfam report and movie don't say anything about this, I imagine that this meant a much larger percent of urban dwellers had some connection to the land and potential food aid from their relatives who worked on farms than the average Californian has. But less than one percent of our population are agricultural workers -- 834,000 according to www.bls.gov -- and that number is expected to drop. Cuban Agricultural Research and Extension Cuba had already started sustainable agriculture programs and research many years before the crisis hit. This allowed them to quickly get information to farmers and city dwellers and train them to grow food organically. A campaign to breed oxen and train young farmers in how to use them was quickly put in place. The United States started spending a large amount of money on agricultural research starting in the 1850's, and the bills that started agricultural colleges and the department of agriculture state quite clearly that this money is to be used to aid the small farmer. But that intention was corrupted almost from the first day by larger farmers quickly taking advantage of the research at nearby colleges. Nearly 100% of college and USDA funding now goes towards industrializing and mechanizing agriculture. (Jim Hightower, Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times). Californians need to allocate far more resources to the University of California SAREP (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program), which has a skeleton staff of ten people and almost no funding for research. They have a good statement of what sustainable agriculture is at www.sarep.ucdavis.edu. . Climate & Water Cuba's temperature ranges between 68 and 81 degrees F, and they get almost 50 inches of rain per year, over the entire year. That allows them to grow crops year round. California is cursed with a Mediterranean climate, where theres no rain during the height of the growing season. This is gotten around with elaborate irrigation systems, and in the warmest part of the state it's possible to grow crops year round. The USA devotes about seven percent of its energy to provide water services. See www.iags.org. In California, the water table has dropped significantly, requiring energy to pump water beyond what windmills can provide. As energy declines, that will impact water availability and decrease crop production. California is also likely to have severe water shortages in the future. There is already competition between agriculture and the 36 million residents of the state for water. Worse yet, all global warming models for California show significant water problems from drought, early snow melt and disappearing glaciers (reservoirs in the sky) and extreme flooding, which will greatly reduce the amount of food that can be grown here. Urban Food and Agriculture Our most fertile land, the peat soils in the delta region, can not be saved from hydrostatic forces, earthquakes, severe floods, and rising sea levels, no matter how much money is spent (Thad Bettner www.lib.berkeley.edu/ ). This is bad news for the Bay Area; our best hopes for food in an energy crisis would be to have food shipped from the Delta to the greater bay area. In 2000 food purchases took up 66% of the average Cuban salary, because the food rations did not cover all of the food people needed. High prices were partly due to a shortage of trucks to haul produce from the country to the city - the few people who had trucks charged vendors and consumers a lot of money and paid the farmer very little. The Cubans got around this problem by donating trucks and fuel to the agricultural cooperatives to eliminate middlemen. We should plan ahead of time how to eliminate the middle man here as well. Given our capitalistic system, and the current lions share of profit going to middlemen rather than farmers, Im not confident this will happen. Cuban urban dwellers can receive up to one-third of an acre for a personal lot in the periphery of the major cities. Doing the same for Bay Area residents would mean most of us would need to commute 30 to 100 miles to reach our little plot of land since we are so densely and massively urbanized. I have other issues with growing food in the Oakland urban environment as well: www.energyskeptic.com (See the Oakland Depletion Protocol document in section #3.) Conclusion Just as Cuba had a sudden energy crisis, so too are we likely to have many crises from energy shocks in the future from wars, hurricanes, terrorism, revolutions, and potential five to eight percent world-wide oil depletion rates. There will also be hiccups in global trade delivery of oil and LNG. We can get more efficient and sacrifice resources to agriculture, water services, and the trucking industry, but as geological depletion relentlessly continues, as global warming and extreme weather greatly reduce agricultural production, and as the ten high plains states above the Ogallala reservoir run out of water or the energy to pump it up from hundreds of feet down, we will face a food crisis. We would be better prepared for that if we started programs now to get large numbers of people to go back to the land. There is no way we can continue to have just one percent of the population providing half of the food for the other 99%. (we import the other half: Larry Rohter. Dec 12, 2004. South America Seeks to Fill the World's Table. New York Times). We should plan an orderly retreat. This would be done by relentlessly cutting back on our energy use more than the depletion rate so that we stay under the energy curve. Universities would shift from industrial and mechanical agricultural research to providing sustainable agriculture outreach to small farms and collectives. However unpleasant this sounds, the alternatives are chaos, starvation, Rwandan-style lowering of the population, the complete loss of Democracy to fascist leaders who will step in to try to regain stability, and the potential invasion of our country by other nations taking advantage of our weakness. * * * * * Alice Friedemann lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
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I have added all my convention photos into ACS with tags to the cosplayer where known. I have noticed that a number of my photos have then been added to ACP accounts with no credit or link back to ACS.
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WILLS POINT — The John Tyler Lady Lions pointed toward the postseason as the time to peak, and they enter the playoffs doing just that with a six-game winning streak.
JT (22-11) meets Red Oak (25-9) in a Class 4A bi-district basketball playoff game tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Wills Point High School gym.
The Lady Lions finished second in District 16-4A, and defeated district champion and No. 18 Lindale during a hot stretch to end the regular season.
Red Oak tied for second in District 15-4A, but lost a district playoff with defending state champion Mansfield Summit to receive the third seed. Red Oak split two regular season meetings with Summit before losing the district playoff, 47-44.
The Lady Lions showed a flair for the dramatic the previous three weeks, beating Lindale and Whitehouse on buzzer-beaters. JT enters the playoffs as district runner-up for the third straight year. JT handed the eventual district champion its lone setback in league play each of the three seasons
"You always want to be playing your best now," JT head coach Mike Smith said. "We played some sloppy games during the season. That last loss against Whitehouse woke us up. The kids became more determined. They've done a great job in practice doing some things that's made it better."
A pair of four-year varsity players, 5-4 senior guard Tiaka Lee and 5-6 senior guard Quaneshia Johnson, lead the Lady Lions. Four of the Lady Lions' top performers played on last year's team that defeated Texas High in bi-district before losing in the area round. Key returnees include Lee (14.0 points, 3.7 assists, 2.5 steals per game), Johnson (10.2 points, 4.4 rebounds, 2.0 steals per game) and 5-7 senior forward Nola Jackson (5.3 points, 5.7 rebounds per game).
"Those seniors are outstanding ladies," Smith said. "They've done a lot for the program."
Key underclassmen contribute for the Lady Lions as well: 5-9 sophomore forward Amia Wickware (10.1 points, 7.5 rebounds, 2.8 steals, 1.4 blocks per game), 5-7 freshman wing Ashtyn Beal (7.1 points, 4.3 rebounds, 2.9 steals, 1.0 blocks per game) and sophomore guard Tameal Jones (9.2 points, 3.2 steals per game).
Statistically, JT holds the edge on offense and Red Oak on defense. JT averages 58.5 points and allows 51.8. Red Oak counters by scoring 49.6 points and yielding 35.8 points per game.
Red Oak held 20 opponents to 40 points or below. Red Oak looks to the trio of 5-6 senior guard Diamond Lockhart (14.0 ppg), 5-11 sophomore forward Chelsea Warren (8.9 ppg) and 5-2 senior guard Taylor McCollough (8.3 points) for buckets.
The teams share a common opponent in Winnsboro. Red Oak topped Winnsboro 46-39 in a defensive struggle in December. JT beat Winnsboro 63-59 in a faster-paced non-district game also in December.
Eight of nine players, including junior post Kayla Webb and sophomore post Donisiha Rouege, recorded points in JT's 56-33 win over Corsicana in the regular season finale. JT assisted on 11 of 24 field goals, with reserve guard Key-Ana Tatum one of three players, along with Jones and Lee, to finish with two helpers.
"You have to know each one of your teammates," Lee said. "We know everyone is on the team for a reason. We're going to all make mistakes, but when it comes down to it, and we need something, we work together to get what we want, which is a win."
LIONS' TALES: The winner between JT and Red Oak moves on to the area round later in the week to face McKinney North, a 78-26 winner over Pine Tree Monday. Other bi-district matchups between Districts 15 and 16 feature Lindale against Waxahachie, Mansfield Summit defeated Jacksonville (45-31), and No. 17 Arlington Seguin versus Nacogdoches.


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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) During his time as the retired coach of the Kansas State Wildcats, Bill Snyder conceptualized a plan for success in football and life.
When he was again the football coach of the Kansas State Wildcats, Snyder returned with his philosophy firmed up into a thesis of sorts, calling it ``16 Goals for Success.''
Commitment. Unselfishness. Toughness. Enthusiasm. Leadership. Responsibility.
Snyder's 16 goals aren't much different than what football coaches across the country have preached, in one form or another, since the game started. It's just that he organized them into a manifesto along the lines of UCLA coach John Wooden's Leadership Pyramid.
``It's been a process over a long period of time,'' Snyder said. ``Really, if you were to look at them, you would see they're intrinsic values that you would teach your children and everybody in this room would teach their children. It's common sense more than anything else.''
Snyder's 16 goals are at the core of Kansas State's success, the driving force behind the seventh-ranked Wildcats' run to one of the most anticipated bowl games this season, against No. 5 Oregon in the Fiesta Bowl on Thursday night at University of Phoenix Stadium.
Snyder's plan also is an apt way to describe the coach who followed the Manhattan Miracle with a second program resurrection, a 73-year-old who can still connect with players young enough to be his grandchildren, a man who has shaped the lives of so many.
Goal No. 4: Improve. Snyder orchestrated one of the greatest turnarounds in college football history, turning a program widely considered the worst in the country into a national-title contender, an about-face known as the Manhattan Miracle.
Before Snyder took over as coach in 1989, the Wildcats had not won a game the previous two seasons and had gone winless eight times since 1946.
Kansas State won its first bowl in the program's history in Snyder's fifth season and was a top-10 team two years later. The Wildcats went to 11 straight bowl games from 1993-03 under Snyder and were essentially a fumble away from playing for a national championship in 1999, when they finished 11-1.
Kansas State won 135 games in Snyder's 17 seasons before he retired in 2005.
When the Wildcats again fell on hard times, he came back and did it again.
``He'll go down in history as one of the greatest college football coaches this game has ever seen,'' Oregon coach Chip Kelly said. ``He is a model for how to run your program.''
No. 6: Self-discipline. Every football coach is detail-oriented. Few do it like Snyder.
The stories about Snyder's attention to detail are legendary, from the time he reportedly went ballistic about the type of butter served to his players during a meal to allegedly complaining about his team having to sit on the sunny side of a plane during a road trip.
As another yarn goes, Snyder once tried to have himself hypnotized so he could cut his sleep to a one-hour trance. He was told it doesn't work that way.
Believe those or not, Snyder is most certainly a stickler for the little things.
This is a coach who doesn't just script plays and practices, he does it with staff meetings and has his assistants do the same with their position meetings.
He's been known to eat one meal a day - at the very end - and sleep three to four hours a night.
Kansas State's schemes aren't fancy or overly complicated, but they are predicated on players knowing and fulfilling their assignments.
Same thing off the field. The players are required to go to class, stay out of trouble, be prepared for games.
Details are everything under Snyder.
``I felt like I was a disciplined guy coming in, definitely feel like I was very well-mannered,'' Kansas State senior defensive back Nigel Malone said. ``But it's a different animal up here. I tell you, it's different.''
No. 10: Never give up. When Snyder came out of retirement in 2008 to become Kansas State's coach again, the move was met with skepticism.
He was 69, had gone 9-13 the final two seasons of his previous stint in the Little Apple and had been out of the game for three years.
The concerns were that the game had passed him by, that he wouldn't be able to relate to recruits or adjust to changes in the Big 12, which became spread-crazy in the short time he had been gone.
Snyder also was inheriting a team that wasn't exactly in the best of shape after three years under coach Ron Prince, the culture of losing permeating the team again and the roster thin on talent.
Snyder never let any of that bother him. He dug back in, stuck to his proven method, made tweaks where he needed to.
Kansas State won six games the first season after his return.
The Wildcats won seven the next season and went to the Pinstripe Bowl.
Last season, 10 wins and the Cotton Bowl.
This season, the Wildcats were front-runners for a national title before losing to Baylor on Nov. 17 and are a victory away from the first 12-win season in school history.
``I think this season has been particularly gratifying for him,'' said Del Miller, Kansas State's quarterbacks coach and co-offensive coordinator. ``It's such a special group of young people we're working with right now. They have done a tremendous job of buying into the Bill Snyder way. It's certainly a proven way of winning.''
No. 16: Responsibility. Snyder's name is on the stadium at Kansas State. Same thing with the highway that leads into Manhattan off Interstate 70.
That alone could have been enough to lure the old coach back after the program regressed during his retirement.
But Kansas State football is bigger than one man - even one whose name is on the stadium.
To the east, Kansans have the University of Kansas to root for.
Out west, there's nothing but plains and small towns, the next major college in Boulder, Colo., more than seven hours from Manhattan.
Kansas State is not only a team for a small college town, it is, in a sense, a team for most of a state.
Fans come from all over to watch the Wildcats and Snyder understands the relationship, tells his players that they owe their best effort to the hard-working people who come and spend their money to watch them play.
That's part of the reason he harps on the details, on doing things right.
Responsibility is not just the last of Snyder's 16 goals.
It's the cornerstone.
``It represents those things that you would want young people to be responsive to, which we believe helps provide opportunities for success in all facets of their life,'' Snyder said. ``Certainly, if that's true, it would help create success on the football field, as well.''
The rest of Snyder's 16 Goals: Commitment, Unselfishness, Unity, Be tough, Great effort, Enthusiasm, Eliminate mistakes, Don't accept losing, No self-limitations, Expect to win, Consistency, Leadership.
They are the basis for Snyder's philosophy in football and life - and the way he lives his.


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- "We're gonna make this shit happen. I don't mess around, you know?"
- ―The blackmailer.
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Events of GTA IV
- McReary: "So there's a guy trying to blackmail me."
- Niko: "Who?"
- McReary: "I don't know. Thinks he's getting paid, though. The guy's smart. He arranged to do an exchange with McReary by the Humboldt River off Silicon Street. Said to call him from the viewpoint there."
- —Francis McReary discusses his situation with Niko Bellic.[src]
The blackmailer is hired by Tom Goldberg, a lawyer from Goldberg, Ligner & Shyster, to take humiliating photos of LCPD Deputy Police Commissioner Francis McReary and blackmail him into losing his job.
The blackmailer arranges to do an exchange with McReary by the Humboldt River off Silicon Street in Algonquin. McReary, in return, hires Niko Bellic to find the blackmailer and reclaim the photos. Niko lures out the blackmailer by calling him and find a man who speaking in the phone.
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I need to understand some of the theory of smooth four manifolds. Eventually I might be interested in learning about Donaldson theory. For the moment I am mainly interested in question such as: if you have a compact, connected, simply-connected four manifold, in how many different ways can I embed a smooth, compact 2-surface in it? A prototype question would be: how many different smooth embeddings of S^2 in the connected sum of CP^2 can I have? I would also like to learn how to calculate self-intersection numbers of 2-surfaces embedded in 4-manifolds.
I have some knowledge of differential geometry and general topology and, at a much lower level, of algebraic topology but my background is in theoretical physics. To give an idea, I feel at home with books like Nakahara "Geometry topology and physics" or "Gravitation" by Misner, Thorne and Wheeler, I like and can follow the more mathematical Naber "Topology, geometry and gauge fields", I find more challenging a book like Bott, Tu "Differential forms in algebraic topology", but I have not worked through it yet (I am more familiar with de Rham theory than anything else in algebraic topology) but e.g. Hatcher "Algebraic Topology" is really though for me.
Given my background, what route would you recommend to learn enough material to allow me to calculate things like those I have pointed out above? I do not want to do research in this area, but be familiar enough with it so that I can use it-see the questions I have raised above for an example of what I mean.


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I was trying to view some content via Gilad Bracha but it wasn't easy enough to do and I can't be bothered with it.
Monday, April 06, 2009
So it begins. Took the boys climbing today, of sorts. I thought Callum was ready for it; Connor less so, but organisational issues being how they are, I had the big two while Al was off with the little one.
The venue was Brant Fell. I'd gone there the previous day and done pretty much everything apart from the traverse and a fingery eliminate at about Font 7b (similar to Perfect Day direct at Gardoms, but smaller holds. Failed with a bad split tip, same as the last time I tried Perfect Day! I think that's related to Callum's steroid cream thinning my finger-tip skin). Callum was pretty happy, romped up 3 short things. Connor, not so happy. He tied on, but then didn't like it so bailed. He then tried to solo stuff instead. That boy!
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