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The Case of the Missing iPad
by Paul C. Clark
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November 21, 2012
High Point
City Councilmember Mike Pugh to go out fighting somebody over something and he is fighting
High Point
City Manager Strib Boynton over the ownership of an Apple iPad the city issued Pugh earlier this year.
Pugh, who represents Ward 3, was defeated in November by former
High Point
Mayor Judy Mendenhall, who will replace him when the new City Council is sworn in on Dec. 3, 2012.
Pugh's tenure on the council has been marked by fights with Boynton, the voting majority held together for years by Mayor Becky Smothers, individual councilmembers and just about anyone else within swinging distance. No one can accuse Pugh of not being pugnacious.
Mendenhall trounced Pugh, getting 56 percent of the vote, to Pugh's 44 percent. You might think that would pretty much end the matter, and that Pugh would go gently into that good night. But only if you didn't know Pugh.
Any councilmember has to pick and choose his battles and Pugh has chosen an odd one for his last stand as a councilmember on his quirky principles.
After years in a technological wilderness, the City of
High Point
this year issued city councilmembers with iPads as Boynton wrote, in an email to councilmembers this week, "for the purpose of conducting City business as City Council Members."
City-owned iPads were issued to Councilmembers Bernita Sims, Foster Douglas, Britt Moore, Latimer Alexander and Pugh. Mayor Becky Smothers, and Councilmembers Chris Whitley, A.B Henley and Jim Corey bought their own iPads.
At the time, councilmembers were given the choice, if they left the City Council, to either turn the city iPads back in or to pay a depreciated cost for them $300, as of November. Pugh chose to do neither.
Pugh called The Rhino Times World Headquarters this week spitting mad, saying he shouldn't have to return his iPad. Pugh and his arch-enemy on the City Council, Alexander, are the only two councilmembers with city-owned iPads leaving the City Council on Dec. 3. Sims was elected mayor, Douglas was reelected to the Ward 2 seat and Moore was reelected to one of the at-large seats.
According to Boynton, $300 was taken out of Alexander's and Pugh's last paycheck as payment for the iPads. Alexander said he is happy with the situation. Pugh, to put it mildly, said he isn't.
Pugh has a tall stack of reasons why he doesn't think he should have to pay for the iPad. They include:
1) Pugh is still a councilmember until Dec. 3, so charging him for the iPad was premature.
2) Pugh, unlike Alexander, Sims and some other councilmembers, hasn't taken city health insurance, saving the city some thousands of dollars.
3) Pugh said he hasn't charged the city for travel expenses for the last two years he didn't feel right doing so, he said, given the bad economy. Pugh said rejecting those benefits should offset the cost of the iPad.
4) This one has Pugh more peeved than the others combined. Pugh said that that the city took the $300 out of his paycheck without his permission. Pugh said he contacted the office of North Carolina Commissioner of Labor Cherie Berry, which backed up his contention that doing so is not kosher. "It's illegal," Pugh said.
In a Nov. 14, 2012 email to the entire City Council, Boynton notified the councilmembers of the Great iPad Debate and gave another reason for Pugh not returning the iPad one that Pugh mentioned but didn't list as one of his major arguments.
"Mike Pugh has said that he does not intend to return the City-owned iPad at the end of his term as it contains personal information on it that cannot be erased, and that he also does not intend to pay the City for it," Boynton wrote. "Each of you know we cannot give City-owned property away just because someone may want us to. As a result of his statements to not return nor pay for the City-owned iPad, the $300.00 cost has been deducted from his pay."
Personal information on an iPad can be erased and it is possible to separate city and private information on an iPad and back up the private information, although Apple Inc., as it tends to do to anyone trying to escape the Apple ecosystem, doesn't make it easy. But Alexander has the same situation, and doesn't seem worried about it.
According to Boynton, the five councilmembers who accepted city-owned iPads signed an agreement acknowledging the iPads were public property for public, not private, use, and that by accepting them, they agreed to return them at the end of their term unless they paid for them.
Boynton's email triggered an email storm among the other councilmembers. And, although the outgoing City Council still had important issues to handle before the new council was sworn in, the topic on all the councilmembers minds for the Monday, Nov. 19 Finance Committee and City Council meetings was Pugh's $300 iPad.
Boynton wrote that Pugh's iPad would be discussed at the Finance Committee meeting. Given that Pugh has argued for firing Boynton since he has been on the City Council, it's hard to imagine that Boynton didn't get a kick out of hitting "send" on his email, to which he attached Pugh's iPad-issuing agreement.
Smothers, however, said the councilmembers were issued the iPads under the same terms that city employees are issued computers.
"I don't think Strib is being vindictive," Smothers said. "Mike challenged the authority of the city manager to enforce the policy and Strib rightfully said, 'OK, let's see what the council determines is the right and just thing to do.'"
On Nov. 14, Alexander emailed the other councilmembers that he considers the iPad issue simple, and unconnected to the health insurance or travel expense reimbursement issues. Pugh has for years attacked Alexander for voting against providing councilmembers with city health insurance, yet accepting it after the other councilmembers approved it.
Alexander wrote that he has done much traveling to perform his duties as a councilmember and that he rarely charged the city for it.
"There is no understanding that unused travel can be used for anything other than approved and appropriate travel and if that does not occur then the money is simply replenished," Alexander wrote. "I do not believe that I or any other member is entitled to use these funds for any purpose other than travel directly related to City Council business. I don't believe this is a winning argument at Council or in the public's eye. I believe that the public trust us to act responsibly with their money and trust and to violate a signed agreement to return or repay will not play well."
On Nov. 16, Henley, who did not run for reelection and will be replaced as Ward 4 councilmember by Jay Wagner on Dec. 3, emailed the other councilmembers, "I'm unclear on where Mike's going with this as well."
Henley wrote, "With comparable ambiguity is why the City Manager would propose as a fallback, giving outgoing council members their IPads with the value added to their W-2 and why our city has a high dollar contract attorney administering clerical functions already provided for by policy per Latimer with no oversight or supervision per the Manager's earlier email explanation."
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The "high dollar contract attorney" Henley referred to among the "pers" is former
High Point
City Attorney Fred Baggett, who is still working for the city on a contract basis.
Smothers threw in her two cents later the same day.
"It is my understanding the direction Fred gave in regard to the deduction is consistent with City policy applied to all employees who use City property, such as IPads," she wrote. "Other than a disappointing outcome on Nov. 6, I cannot understand Mike's behavior in this matter."
The same day, Alexander emailed the other councilmembers that he authorized Boynton's secretary, Cindy Duncan-Smith, Boynton's executive assistant, to deduct the $300 for the iPad from Alexander's November paycheck.
"The written agreement stated that you would either return in good order or issue a check or payroll deduct," Alexander wrote. "I spoke with Cindy Smith about this several weeks ago and she suggested that the payroll process would be the easiest and she needed something in writing from me to authorize."
Pugh, of course, said he signed nothing in writing to authorize such a deduction from his paycheck.
Smothers, contacted on Sunday, Nov. 18, said that Pugh's position on the iPad "kind of defies any logic" and that she was sorry to see him take it. Pugh and Smothers have clashed at times, but Smother said she respects Pugh. She said, "He truly believes that he was an ambassador to his ward and those he thought were underserved."
At Monday's Finance Committee meeting, City Attorney JoAnne Carlyle confirmed that withdrawing the money from Pugh's last paycheck without permission wasn't legal.
Sims asked whether taking the $300 from Pugh's check was OK.
Carlyle said, "No, it was not." She said the $300 would be given back to Pugh and that Baggett had apologized to Pugh.
After the meeting, Pugh provided a copy of the agreement he signed when he accepted the iPad. It clearly says that Pugh can keep the iPad until his service to the city is over translated into plain English, until Dec. 3.
Pugh had left the room by the time the issue came up at the Finance Committee meeting, but Douglas defended him on the grounds that someone had jumped the gun.
"I think all of this went prematurely," Douglas said. "Of course, if you debit someone's account, that is going to immediately get them hostile.
Carlyle told Pugh at the end of the City Council meeting later that he would get his $300 back. By that time, Pugh wanted more to punish Boynton's administration.
"I'll take $600," Pugh said. "And attorney's fees."
The net result of the Finance Committee meeting was that the councilmembers agreed that Pugh should get the $300 back, but that he still owed the city the iPad or $300.
Whether or not the city gets either will be seen on Dec. 3. Councilmember A.B. Henley said that people who don't return borrowed items get pursued by collection agencies raising the entertaining spectre of
High Point
trying to collect $300 from Pugh. Douglas has owed the city thousands of dollars from a civil judgment for years and the city has been unable to collect the money.
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Page 8 in Rhino print edition "Pugh Forgets" spells our town in a nutshell.
Davis is capable, informed and honest; all attributes that really steams our secretive and sneaky city council.
Common sense and the common good of the citizens here will never trump petty politics, and Mendenhall, Smothers, and Sims all rode the same dumb train of vote buying favoritism , on our dime, back into office.
Woe is us.
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To the dismay of several residents, Akron city engineers may remove the traffic light at West Bath and Akron Peninsula Road this winter.
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OMG, the graphic is gonna look like that with that insane combat... sign me up.... I want to be that Legolas person!!!!
Cool trailer, but I honestly don't know why they bother when I'm sure it will play just like any other graphical MUD. The idea of 3 faction PVP stirs a little bit of the DAOC in my loins though.
If gw2 is any indication, adding 3-faction pvp might not be an automatic win. It highly depends on how everything else falls into place. I'm giving them a shot, though. I'm a sucker for beta testing mmos.
I don't care for solo CRPGs going MMO and subsequently failing like all the others have failed and taking an enjoyable series down when it crashes and burns.
1. I don't think I could play this anyway, since my computer is incapable of handling Skyrim (and can barely handle Oblivion). 2. I would not mind this game if it plays exactly like the console games, just with more people running around. As long as the addition of more people doesn't wreck my ability to explore and "eye-taste" the world around me, I don't care.
I still don't understand why this game was made, and the trailer answered nothing. It was really weirdly paced and I guess 3 sided pvp was what they were trying to showcase, but there is a clearer way to illustrate this. The sad thing is, I'll still end up playing the goddamn thing because that is what I do.
Personally, I'm excited by the idea of an MMO that uses something other than the stupid "button bar of skills" way of doing things. Maybe it'll fail. But I'm interested to see how it goes.
Are you two blind? Did you look at the combat in the gameplay video on page 2? We allow MMOs to rake in money due to players not being able to stop themselves from trying to get to the end of the treadmill. It's rewarding the shittiest games on the planet. Knock it off.
Yeah. What I heard was "you left click to attack and right click to block." Frankly, that sounds better to me than the standard array of "Here are 20 skills on a button bar with cooldowns." That's my entire point. All the stuff about the endgame, raids, guilds, etc, sounds like standard MMO bullshit that I'm not really interested in. My only point is that if you asked me "Do you want standard MMO combat or the sort of thing you did in Skyrim(*)" the latter sounds about 8731591385731289573819253985173509813579.34 times better to me. And I don't know who the "we" is in your post. (*) That being said, I think the constant refrain of "Oh, this is JUST LIKE ELDER SCROLLS" is a bit of methinks the lady doth protest too much, because the gameplay video certainly looks like the game was made by Samey McSameSame.
You can have left click to attack, right click to block and still have skill button bar, look at Tera. I think using Elder scroll as an example of good melee combat is is somewhat of a bad example..should use like mount and blade or Chivalry. Anyways, if it's combat you want there are already MMOs out there with those style of combat, like dragon nest.
Finally got into the beta with a rating (really?) of excellent. I'm sure that means nothing, but we'll see.
Yeah but this isn't even that. It definitely looks like the combat is nowhere near as tactically deep as Skyrim. It doesn't help that Skyrim's 3rd person is an atrocity and this MMO is going to be in that perspective. It looks awkward. It also doesn't look like weapon swinging directions matter, and that shield-blocking is just a changing state of your character's vulnerability rather than the pretty solid blocking of first-person Skyrim. I also can't imagine why they have players in that video doing bunny-hopping slash attacks. They look corny as hell, and I'm guessing they're doing it because they're really, really bored of how long they've been recording themselves playing this game.
Oh, I think it's going to fail. I've said it numerous times in this thread and even on the podcast. That doesn't mean I won't play it at some point. I play pretty much any mmo that comes out. It's an sickness I need to be cured of.
This interview with Matt Firor is kind of interesting. It seems they've taken a hard right into making the gameplay feel more like skyrim. I don't know how much I buy into that, but that just makes me want in the beta more so I can find out for myself.
Literally the only new piece of info in there, and it's tiny and probably doesn't mean what you want it to, is: I am dubious. I mean, sure, it makes sense that you could put the camera in first-person and approximate ES combat that way, but retooling their entire damn combat system since I saw it? I am dubious.
Huh, if you asked me "Do you want Skyrim combat or combat from....", I'll take my chances on whatever game you were about to say before you have a chance to finish the sentence.
Combat from...Pool of Radiance! I remember micro-managing a huge fight with a group of kobolds in that game, long long ago.
That is not a silly idea. Mechwarrior tactics will have turn based combat. I also like the idea of an MMO where your "character" is actually a squad, and as you progress playing turn based battles you can recruit more members / different specialist roles better kit, special active / passive abilities for the whole squad etc. Something attached to the WH40K licence for even more fun, or even "JA2 online"
Hah, the gameplay looks hilariously bad on all levels, as expected. The first trailer sure looked nice though.
I really want to love this game (because I know I'm not going to be able to prevent myself from buying it) but man ... that looks completely soulless.
Eh, you're watching the first 20 minutes after the tutorial of someone trying to learn the game with no commentary. I played it at the event last month or whenever that was and liked it quite a lot actually. But yes, Paul, from everything I know about your taste in games you'll probably hate it like you'd probably hate pretty much all MMOs.
It's not the gameplay part that I'm referring to as 'soulless' - although there's nothing going on that makes me forget GW2. It's the blah visual design, the barely noticable UC, the inventory interface that is pretty much a copy of SkyUI and the animations that are, at best, adequate. It's supposed to be Hammerfell - a place like Sinbad's Baghdad. Instead, it could be any of a dozen EQ clones that available right now on Massively. And yes, I know it's a beta but they've been working on this for *years*. Adam, I'm glad to hear you had fun with your hands on experience. I really do hope they pull it together.
This looks like a worse GW2 being released a year or two later and with a subscription. Unless people love the setting so much that single-handedly overrides all other concerns, this looks a bit floppish to me. SWTOR has a better setting and it went F2P in less than a year after hemorrhaging subs.
You know me well, I do dislike MMOs. I did like the first trailer they showed of this, with all those beautiful environments - almost thought about trying this out. I did enjoy exploring Skyrim, Morrowind and Cyrodiil, after all. But seeings this bland and generic MMO gameplay cured me of that. Although things might still improve, hopefully.


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Businesses Devastated Under City's Stance on Bikers By Staff Writer - Published May 18, 2009. With the 2009 Harley Rally over, Myrtle Beach Mayor, John Rhodes says that the city's ordinances did exactly what they were designed to do. But while the Mayor celebrates, many business owners along the Grand Strand are in an uproar. Read the Entire Article
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While we're told that the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce says the number of businesses for and against is about 50/50, Discover Myrtle Beach has had a hard time finding businesses that are in favor of the city's plan to eliminate bikers.
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Of all responses, 99% of Hotels/Motels & other Businesses responded in favor of the bikers, including the City of North Myrtle Beach and the North Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce. Just 1% was in favor of being "family friendly 52 weeks out of the year instead of just 50 weeks."
It is worth mentioning that not all businesses we contacted responded to our question, so no conclusion can be made toward any business not appearing on our list.
Want more information on Myrtle Beach Bike Week? Discuss it on our Forum / Message Board! Read posts from other visitors or post your own message. View it Here!
Some responses we received made their case to tell bikers about their support:
"We would definitely like for people to know that we are a biker friendly hotel! We offer free onsite bike and trailer parking and we also set up a bike wash station to keep those HOGS looking good." - Stephanie White, Sales Coordinator, Fairfield Inn Broadway at the Beach.
"Yes!!! We definitely welcome bikers at our properties." - Hope Robbins, Marketing Director, Booe Realty
"We definitely are biker friendly and support all tourism, regardless of how they arrive to our "TOURIST CITY". - Marta D'Arcangelis, Comedy Cabana
"Express Watersports in Murrells Inlet is biker friendly as I would say the district as a whole." - Express Watersports
"We support the bike weeks and would love the bikers to stop by." Matt Harper, Sales Manager, Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville
In a mass email to visitors by the North Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce Convention & Visitors Bureau, the message was clear stating:
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Christopher Hitchens was a leading thinker who believed in evidence and reason rather than myth and the improbable. Educated at Oxford he became an American citizen before he died from cancer in 2011 at the young age of 61. His passing was a tremendous loss to our culture and those who believe in rationality and not fantasy. Some of his important books are, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything and The Portable Atheist. Christopher may be seen on YouTube where there are numerous vide …
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I want a group of like minded people who can have fun together and who don't rely on faith. Atheists in the Texas LGBT community can be hard to find, but I know we're out there. Let's build a community where we can be ourselves.
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The Humanists of Fort Worth is a Humanist organization for non-theists, freethinkers, and agnostics in the greater Cowtown area. The Humanists of Fort Worth was granted a chapter chartered by the American Humanist Association (AHA) on June 3, 1999. Humanism is a progressive philosophy of life that, without supernaturalism, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfullment that aspire to the greater good of humanity. We meet on the second Wednesday of the mon …
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Learn At Home Friends, LAHF, is a group of fun laid back families who have chosen to teach our little ones ourselves! This is a member driven group specifically designed for 3-10 year olds but younger and older siblings are always welcome. Let's get together and make a fun supportive group of children for our little ones and parents for ourselves. Come L.A.H.F with us!
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NEW ORLEANS -- Jarrett Jack denied having any extra incentive in his return to New Orleans, though he sure played down the stretch like he did.
Traded from the Hornets to the Warriors last July to clear cap space, he tied a career high with 12 assists and scored seven of his 25 points in the final minute. Klay Thompson added a season-high 29 points, and Golden State beat New Orleans 116-112 on Saturday night.
"People tend to say that you play with a chip on our shoulder when you play against your old team," Jack said. "I play with a chip on my shoulder all the time. Nothing has ever been given to me in this league. Every night I try to go out and prove myself no matter if I am playing against the Hornets, the Lakers or the Bobcats."
Then again, he did notice one difference.
"When I was on the way here my Ipod played, even though I had it on a shuffle, a James Brown song, 'The Big Payback,"' he said. "That was kind of weird."
The Warriors trailed 110-108 in a topsy-turvy game when Jack hit two free throws with 52 seconds left to tie the score. He converted a tough floater in the lane to give Golden State a 112-110 lead, and he finished off the Hornets with three free throws.
New Orleans struggled on its final possessions. Eric Gordon missed an open shot that would have broken a 110-all tie. Jason Smith was called for an illegal screen when they trailed 112-110. Greivis Vasquez, Jack's replacement as the starting point guard, missed a 3-point shot that would have tied the score at 113.
Jack averaged a career-high 15.6 points and 6.3 assists for rebuilding New Orleans last season, but the Hornets took Duke's Austin Rivers in the first round of the NBA draft. Soon after, they traded Jack in a three-way deal.
Coming off the bench for the Warriors, he averaged 12.1 points and 5.2 assists and more than doubled both totals on Saturday night.
"He was special," Warriors coach Mark Jackson said. "He was awfully good. Obviously there was something extra coming back and playing against former teammates. He made big plays for us."
Thompson scored 24 points in the first half as the Warriors led by as much as 16. Stephen Curry, returning after missing two games with a right ankle sprain, had 17 of his 20 points in the second half.
Gordon scored 23 points for the Hornets, who lost despite shooting a season-high 57 per cent. Rookie Anthony Davis added 20 points and 12 rebounds, but he missed five of seven free throws, including two pivotal ones in the final two minutes. Vasquez added 15 assists.
"Put that on me," Davis said. "I should not be missing free throws like that. With that, we're not going to win."
The Warriors, who had lost five of six after a 22-10 start, won despite the absence of centre David Lee, who missed his first game of the season after spraining his left ankle on Friday against San Antonio. The Hornets lost for only the second time in eight games after a 7-25 start.
It was the most points they have scored in a loss in coach Monty Williams' three-year tenure.
"We lost our identity tonight," Williams said. "We gave up 116 points to a team that is undermanned. We didn't knock down a free throw and we turned the ball over 17 times. You don't deserve to win."
Golden State cooled off after a blistering first half when it hit 61.4 per cent of its shots, but it made just enough plays down the stretch to rally from a seven-point, fourth-quarter deficit.
The Warriors shot only 33 per cent in the second half at the end of back-to-back road trip, and the Hornets appeared in control after going up 102-95 with a 9-2 spurt. But Thompson hit a 3 -- his only basket of the second half -- to make the score 107-104, and after the Hornets went back ahead 110-108, Jack took over.
"We made mistakes, but we didn't quit," Jackson said. "We didn't hang our heads, even when things weren't going our way. It was a big-time victory."
Trailing since the late stages of the first quarter, the Hornets took the lead with a 13-2 run near the end of the third quarter. Davis dunked and Vasquez hit a 3-pointer to put them ahead 82-81. Anderson sank a 3 in between two baskets from Rivers to make the score 89-83.
Thompson hit his first seven shots in in the first half before Davis blocked his attempt with 4:21 left in the second quarter. Thompson responded with two more 3-pointers and a driving layup to put the Warriors ahead 67-57 at the break.
Thompson was 10 of 13 overall and 4 of 4 from 3-point range in the first half, making up for Curry's slow start. Curry started 1 of 5, but when he hit his first shot 11 seconds into the second quarter, the Warriors already led 36-27. They stretched that advantage to 60-44 on Thompson's third 3.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
"Intricate" - for Illustration Friday - win this original sketch!
Here is my latest submission for www.illustrationfriday.com
The topic this week is "Intricate".
Whew! This week's topic threw me for a loop. I really had a mental workout coming up with something for this one. I made a solid effort to craft a strong solution which cleverly illustrated the concept of intricate versus simply creating a complex drawing and giving it the title of intricate. This was tough for me because I challenged myself to accomplish this task with a simple image. Creating a simple image that illustrates the concept of intricate - now that's a mind bender and also the reason it took me so long to post this week!
Alas, here it is and I think it worked out pretty nicely. Now, here comes the fun part...
Above I have posted the diagram which I modified (for aesthetic reasons) to use in the illustration on the chalkboard. I will mail this original signed sketch to the first person who can tell me what this diagram is for! Once you post a comment with the answer, click here to find my email address on my main profile page and send me a follow up email so we can correspond about the particulars of mailing the sketch. I'll post an update in the comments section once someone has won so until then...have at it!
I have also posted the original sketch so that you can see what your grand prize looks like. I'm so excited! I really hope someone solves this - have fun!
Arianna (my sister) you're disqualified because you're a smarty pants and I know this is probably easy for you!
Diana Evans has won the original sketch today (March 11th), less than 24 hours after the contest began. Wow! Congratulations, Diana!
You can find her entry/answer in the comments section. Also, here's a link to her blog and website.
Thanks for checking this out!
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23 comments:
- Vanessa Brantley Newton said...
OOh this is super cool Man!!! I love it! It's smart, brilliant even! Great work!
- March 10, 2009 at 11:05 PM
- Vanessa Brantley Newton said...
You are so very welcome my friend. My husband is getting prepared for a trip and we are busy trying to get him out the door. Plus I have a ton of work to do and wanted to post something before friday. I don't know if I will get a chance to post anything for IF this week so I'm trying to get the jump on things. Have a great week my friend!
- March 10, 2009 at 11:32 PM
- Candace Trew Camling said...
I really love the original sketch of einstein! Its so fluid and well done with the line weights.
- March 10, 2009 at 11:36 PM
- siib said...
Great job! This little einstein is very cute, and although I would like to win the prize, the equation is very intricate for me.
- March 11, 2009 at 1:44 AM
- Asja said...
awesome! i love both the finished illustration and the drawing! great work!
- March 11, 2009 at 6:22 AM
- Bella Sinclair said...
Well, I'd say you definitely accomplished what you set out to do -- seemingly simple illustration that just screams intricate. Fantastic! Well done, but honestly, listening to how you set up the challenge for yourself was stressful. :D I'm too mentally worn to figure out the equation!
- March 11, 2009 at 6:30 AM
- Michelle Henninger said...
Got to love Einstein! Brilliance is so cool! Great illo.
- March 11, 2009 at 7:14 AM
- Amy C said...
great to see your process from the sketch to the final piece, Einstein is such a perfect fit for this weeks theme. I think math and workings can look really beautiful even though I am rubbish at math, thats probably why I like gridded paper.
I like his wrinkly eyes that how I feel this morning! - March 11, 2009 at 7:42 AM
- Jack Foster said...
Hey Nathanael, thanks fr stopping by. I love your little Einstein dude! Great work. The original sketch is as cool as the finished work! Love the concept. Why didn't I think of that? :)
- March 11, 2009 at 9:03 AM
- MiKa Art said...
Wow, I wish I could win! But I bet someone must have won the prize already - it is wonderful to see work process!!
- March 11, 2009 at 9:22 AM
- Fadas & C.ª said...
The character is really great! And his expression tells everything!
- March 11, 2009 at 9:50 AM
- Diana Evans said...
Hi Nathanael....oh what fun!! I just stepped back into my favorite class...but I have not really used any of my Physics stuff for years....so here is my try at what the chart is all about....
It has to to with Quantum mechanics in physics. It has to do with the number of states at each energy level that are available to be occupied. A high density of states at a specific energy level means that there are many states available for occupation. For example a density of state of zero means no states occuped at that energy leve.
The Fermi energy refers to the energy of the highest occupied quantum state in a system of fermions at absolute zero temperature. (just so you know absolute zero means 0 kelvin which is something like minus 275 celcius or something like that.
Have a wonderful day and what fun!!!
Diana - March 11, 2009 at 10:43 AM
- Nathanael Lark said...
Holy smokes Diana, you did it! Congratulations! I'll contact you via email to arrange mailing the original sketch. Thanks for giving it a shot. - March 11, 2009 at 11:28 AM
- Diana Evans said...
oh man!!! how cool is that....I knew that loving Physics would pay off sooner or later....how wonderful!!!!
I am off to check my e-mail!!!
Hurray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - March 11, 2009 at 11:38 AM
- FRANK M HANSEN said...
Nice work. This definitely gets the points across.
I really like your Blog post about the poetry reading too. - March 11, 2009 at 12:09 PM
- ruthie said...
Love your interpretation! ps my fave ur Miles Davis illustration!!
- March 11, 2009 at 3:15 PM
- flathumbs said...
Absolutely Brilliant! Good character layout.
- March 11, 2009 at 4:02 PM
- Jim Rowland Creations said...
Great little caracature mate! A very elegant solution to this weeks challenge!
- March 12, 2009 at 2:21 AM
- laurandros said...
That's such a cute drawing! haha... I like seeing everything that was put into the process.
- March 12, 2009 at 6:32 AM
- get zapped said...
Excellent work and creation around this prompt. You captured Einstein so well.
- March 12, 2009 at 9:40 AM
- Andy McNally said...
Wonderful characters and art on your site. This entry for Illustration Friday is awesome. I enjoy seeing the original sketch and finished drawing. Thank you for sharing.
- March 12, 2009 at 11:47 AM
- littlemissmachete said...
Love your characters!!! This could be my all-time favorite Einstein!
Fantastic! - March 12, 2009 at 4:40 PM
- Sara said...
I love your idea! It is very creative!! fun Character!
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CyberKnife radiosurgical rhizotomy for the treatment of atypical trigeminal nerve pain.
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Patients with atypical trigeminal neuralgia (TN) have unilateral pain in the trigeminal distribution that is dull, aching, or burning in nature and is constant or nearly constant. Studies of most radiosurgical and surgical series have shown lower response rates in patients with atypical TN. This study represents the first report of the treatment of atypical TN with frameless CyberKnife stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS).


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