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Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ: URBN) has been on a tear with holiday sales sending the stock up on high volume on January 10. There's a baker's dozen of reasons why it's near its 52 week high and moribund retailers could take a lesson from their lookbook (the fashion version of a playbook).
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- You rarely hear empathy referred to but from the investor website Urban states,"Our goal is to offer a product assortment and an environment so compelling and distinctive that the customer feels an empathetic connection to the brand and is persuaded to buy." And buy they do with open wallets with those holiday sales netting $666 million up 15% from the year ago period.
- While Urban Outfitters' public image of itself is fun and youthful, Urban Outfitters is quite serious about its workforce unlike too many retailers who just want warm bodies. It has a college recruiting program including a year long merchant leadership training program for wannabe buyers. In this respect it's very much like the Buckle.
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- Irreverancy works. Urban Outfitters is reaching a sophisticated young consumer raised on multimedia and a more jaded and pragmatic worldview that craves a little levity and graphic T shirts that tell everyone exactly what you think.
- Competitors American Eagle and Aeropostale are struggling with product mixes that aren't as fresh as Urban which has their own brands making up 50% of the mix as well as popular brands. The company also collaborates with designers and brings in new product every week to its stores and websites.
- Companies with founder/CEOs have a stronger vision and more commitment. CEO and co-founder Richard Hayne (he founded Urban Outfitters with a fellow Wharton student as an entrepreneurship class assignment) came back to the company a year ago. While he credited the team in a press release about the holiday sales, saying,"I am proud of the teams' execution as they delivered better product with more disciplined inventory management leading to improvement in regular price sales," Hayne should take some credit as the company has moved up 72.31% over 52 weeks.
- At its Analyst Day it said it plans to enter Asia. The Asian market which includes China as the second largest market in the world is yearning to wear plaid, FreePeople jeans, and Vans shoes. This is probably their biggest opportunity. Well executed it would appear in a future SWOT analysis as a strength.
- The company plans for 10-12 new stores a year for North America and four to five for Europe. Europe has been very strong for competitor Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF) helping launch the stock from its summer slump to warp speed. There's no reason to believe Europe won't be as good for Urban, but its growth there is cautious and probably wisely so.
A baker's dozen of strengths and opportunities outshines much fewer weaknesses and threats like:
- No yield. The company has no debt and $362.71 million in cash so a dividend and/or share buybacks should be considered by the board.
- Corporate governance risks are low except they are high for the Board.
- Strong competition from Gap (NYSE: GPS) and Abercrombie & Fitch, both of which have been flying high lately with very good numbers. Gap has a lower P/E at 15.34 and an 1.60% yield. Abercrombie & Fitch has a 36.00 P/E, but its free cash flow growth is good at 41.8%. It has a 1.50% yield and a lower PEG than both Gap and Urban Outfitters at .91.
- Urban Outfitters has a much broader appeal than it's given credit for but Gap trumps them in this regard with clothes for all ages as does Abercrombie & Fitch.
- The irreverant products mentioned before may come back to bite them with protests in the past from Native Americans and the Irish.
- For an established retailer (33 years) it has a large short interest at 7.40%. Initiating a dividend would scare off shorts and entice value investors.
With a current P/E of 31.55 and a forward P/E of 21.34 Urban Outfitters is stretched a little thin value-wise and investors may want to go with a Gap, which was named Yahoo! stock of 2012, or Abercrombie which really improved its Europe numbers. All three are close to 52 week highs and waiting for a pullback is indicated. But don't wait too long for Urban Outfitters as its move into Asia should be a real needle-mover.
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2013 proved to be another goal-drenched year for Cristiano Ronaldo. The Portuguese star helped himself to 34 of them in the 2012/13 Liga season, a haul beaten only by Lionel Messi's 45, and scored a hatful more in Europe and for his national team. Always on top form for Real Madrid and Portugal, the flying forward, who won the FIFA World Player award in 2008, is only gaining in stature with Los Merengues, and it came as no surprise when he extended his contract with the club to 2018 and said he was considering staying put for the rest of his career.
Since winning an unprecedented fourth consecutive FIFA Ballon d'Or the Barcelona ace has showed no sign whatsoever of letting up, topping the La Liga's scoring charts as his side made off with the 2012/13 league title. Messi has been just as prolific on the international front, finishing the South American qualifiers for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ as the second-highest marksman. With a third world finals to look forward to next year, the 26-year-old attacking wizard is bearing downing fast on another record, as he seeks to become the highest goalscorer in the history of the UEFA Champions League.
Frustration reigned for Franck Ribery in 2012 as Bayern Munich finished runners-up in the Bundesliga, German Cup and UEFA Champions League, but the dangerous France winger did not have to wait long to exorcise the memory. Operating at a different level since those disappointments, he helped his side win all three competitions in 2013, adding the UEFA Super Cup for good measure. Moreover, he has also shone brighter for Les Bleus in recent times, becoming a more convincing and decisive performer on the international stage. Reputed for his mesmerising dribbles, precise shooting ability, and explosive acceleration, those qualities could well keep Bayern on top at home and abroad and inspire France to force their way back into the limelight – just as they convinced UEFA to crown him the Best Player in Europe in 2013.


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Western Kid #12 - non-attributed Russ Heath cover
Western Kid v1 #9, 1956 - With dramatic flair, the cover captures one cowboy's dilemma: how to fend off an encroaching gang with a single bullet left. Russ Heath's hero stands in partial darkness, his shadowed areas beautifully textured in fine lines. The main character's two-tone coloration offers a contrast to the gunman outside, while also suggesting the intensity of the scene. Heath's covers would be some of the most memorable of the western genre. This is number 1 of 1 Western Kid issues with Heath art and/or covers. See today's posts or more Heath or Western Kid issues. See also this blog's Russ Heath checklist.
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Indoor Gardens: Bringing Nature In
It's still cold outside, so bring in some nature with a small indoor garden. Seeing greenery indoors adds cheer and reminds you that spring is just around the corner. Succulents, air plants and herbs are easy to grow, and their compactness makes them perfect for mini gardens.
Succulents, air plants and herbs also look wonderful clustered together. Setting your garden on a tray allows you to quickly and conveniently move them to better lighting as the seasons change.
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2. Porcelain Egg Planters, Wheat Grass Kit, Egg Sprouts Set of 2, from Revisions Design $17.00
3. Desert Colors Tiny Hand Painted Terracotta Planter, from Shop Hoop LA $22.50
4. 3 drop porcelain and leather planter - medium size, from Farrah Sit $150.00
5. Succulent Planter, ONE Air Plant Holder, Tillandsia Holder, Concrete Vase, Candle Holder, Flower Pot, from Deerwood Creek Gifts $10.00
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I must agree. The plant may start well in such a small container but will eventually need to be transferred to something larger. Plus with the small size you would have long wait times between harvests. All that aside perhaps something simpler like decorative grass could achieve the same euphoric results, though you may not want to eat it :)
^^^ in regards to indoor herb growing ^^^
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On June 17, 2014, Sr. Fellow Lawrence McQuillan spoke at an event for supporters of the Independent Institute. Dr. McQuillan spoke about Californias state pension system, a topic he writes about frequently, including in his forthcoming book California Dreamin: Resolving the Public Pension Crisis.
First he defines the types of pension programs for state employees, he outlined how funding for the programs is not sustainable for the promises made to pension recipients. The state admits to an unfunded liability of $140 billion, but McQuillan says that is actually an underestimate. According to most economists, the true amount of the unfunded liability is $430 billion.
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It'll Be a Cold Day in H*ll
Two weeks ago Dennis Prager noted that the ratio of cold-related to heat-related deaths in the UK in any given year is 10:1, or 20,000 versus 2,000. I haven't been able to track down Mr. Prager's original source, but he piqued my curiosity. If it's true in Britain, might it be true elsewhere? It appears that it is, as this heavily footnoted NIH document makes plain [emphases mine].
Mortality in Britain is lowest when the mean daily temperature is 17-18°C. The number of heat related deaths per year, obtained as the number of excess deaths on days hotter than this, has averaged around 800 in recent years. Most of those deaths are of people over 70 years of age, and most occur in the first day or two of a period of high temperature...Based on this, Prager's ratio may even have been conservative. The estimate for annual cold-related deaths in the UK is 20,000... versus 800 for heat. Fifteen to one. And that excludes deaths due to influenza and other seasonal illnesses that--despite what all of our mothers told us--aren't statistically correlated with climatic conditions.
According to some predictions heat related mortality will increase drastically as global warming develops, but recent evidence is relatively reassuring. Heat related mortality is similar in hot and cold parts of western Europe and in hot and cold parts of the United States. This implies that the populations of hot regions have adjusted by physiological or other means to their hotter summers. In Britain annual heat related deaths are in any case far fewer than cold related deaths, so that the initial effect of increased temperatures all year round, [even] before such adjustment, would be to reduce net annual mortality.
Prager is at the very least stating the consensus of the medical community: all other things being equal, extremes of cold (deep, sudden and/or prolonged) kill more people than extremes of heat. It is true both short and long term, e.g., when we look at the expansion or retreat of human populations over centuries and millennia. (In those longer-term cases food scarcity issues come into play in addition to the increases in storminess and general weather volatility associated with colder climatic periods). The NIH piece continues [emphases mine]
Analysis of actual changes in heat related mortality during global warming since 1971 is even more reassuring. Despite rises in mean summer temperatures of at least 1°C in southeast England and North Carolina heat related mortality has not risen in southeast England and has virtually disappeared in North Carolina. The latter represents something more than adaptation as it could prevent the mortality rising with higher temperatures but could not make it fall. The likely explanation is the increase in air conditioning (from 57% to 72% between 1978 and 1997) that has occurred in households in that region of the United States and is in turn attributable to increasing prosperity.Those are increases in prosperity that Gore's $553 trillion in proposed spending on global warming would bring to a halt and probably roll back. Unfortunately, after laying out these facts, the article goes off into non-sequitor never-never land saying, in essence, that just because there isn't any evidence of a problem (and in fact is strong evidence against it being a problem) doesn't mean we ought not to do something about it.
It's hard for me to figure out what isn't obvious about this. If deaths from cause X are ten times those from cause Y and we reduce deaths from X by 10% while increasing deaths from Y by 10% there are fewer deaths overall. A lot fewer. In fact, if one follows this simple algebra, then a general rise in average temperature would be expected to reduce overall deaths from temperature extremes of any kind whereas a general decrease in average temperature would increase deaths.
Sure the curves may be non-linear as we get to extremes, but even the pessimists agree: we're not going there. The earth has been hotter. Under those conditions, humans thrived and expanded. Sure there are probably local, temporary exceptions. But it's hard to overcome a 15:1 ratio with anecdotal evidence. (Doncha remember that day last August when uncle Bert had a coronary trying to put in his window air conditioner?)
A scan of the literature, even the global-warming-friendly stuff, seems to indicate that at worst, death rates from heat are only slightly less than those from cold. The case is still clear.
Let's make this more even concrete. You are Al Gore. (Sorry. This will be quick.) You're standing in a big lecture hall, filled with 1,000 people. Let's make it even more fun and pretend that it's the Oscars--all those anorexic actresses shivering in skimpy dresses make it even more realistic. In front of you on the podium is a thermostat. You know that if you turn it up by (say) five degrees, one person will die. If you decide to turn it down by an equal amount however, 10-15 people will die. What do you do? Well, if you're Al Gore, it's obvious: you turn it down. Why? Because half the audience is cheering wildly for you to do so.
The whole scenario is reminiscent of those psychology of authority experiments they did in the 1950s where subjects went ahead and 'electrocuted' an actor subject in the other room on the authority of a scientist telling them it would be OK.
This is a variant of the inability of policy-makers and the general public to make rational trade-offs based on actual morbidity and mortality statistics in unrelated categories. I.e., in a rational world where the goal was to prevent death, much of the sturm and drang over gun control would be directed at swimming pools. (They kill far more people each year than do guns). In this case it ought to be easier because average warming means less cooling. (My young niece got this one well before she went to pre-school.)
But we do not live in a rational world. When a scientific hypothesis is believed to be true based on the number of Oscars it garners, we have up and moved to Wonderland. Off with her head!
I ask again: What is the moral case for halting a trend likely to reduce death and famine?


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Hello! This'll be my first post here on CA, although I've been lurking for a while. Since there's no "Introduction" thread, I figured I'd just jump in and start a sketchbook. I've been drawing seriously (studying anatomy books and such) for about 3 years, although I'm pretty bad about committing time to it. I bought a Wacom after my first week checking this site out. These are the first three 'real' things I did on it.
This was the first serious drawing I attempted with the tablet. I have a couple hundred little animal cards with a picture on the front and facts on the back from when I was a kid. This is a tuatara and yeah, they're supposed to have scaly skin, but I got kind of lazy after his eye and ridges so he looks sort of amphibious.
I did this a couple days later. Used the cards for reference again. This is a European smooth snake. I tried to get more precise details which just kind of made it look pixelly and sharpened. Also, his color was killing me. It's still not right. I've used almost exclusively mechanical pencils before, so colors aren't one of my strengths.
It kind of looks like I'm smirking arrogently or something, doesn't it? I swear I'm not. Uhm, I didn't use a reference for this, but I did 2 or 3 pencil SPs in the preceding week, so I just did it at the same angle I did those. I couldn't get my lips to look right, and the whole thing has kind of a cartoon feel, although I'm not sure why. Maybe it's just the hard outline I used on the edges?
So! That's my introduction. Nice to meet those of you who stop by. Please critique, nitpick, or tear me down, as the situation warrants. I hope I can prove as worthwhile a member of this wonderful site as it deserves.
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Quickish big hand studies, small hand freehands, and a page full o' junk.
some cool stuff here try working on some new stuff, such as the guy with the gas mask make a full body edpiction of him it would be pretty damn cool to see good job
very nice start, would love to see more.
Thanks for the kind words rmore and Ev. I was messing around with body designs for gas mask dude, but they were all more SWAT(...ty?) than I wanted. Looked like a storm trooper if he worked for the NSA or something. Probably didn't help that I was referencing SS soldiers, holsters, utility belts, and kevlar vests.
Anyway, this is a Hellboy pic! It sometimes seems like some kind of requirement to do one Hellboy pic, but no more! It's not really a 'sketch' because I think I spent almost 5 hours on it overall the past few days. But 3/4 of that was trying to get his damn horns to curl correctly. I think the closer one is supposed to be more of a straight line, but I COULD NOT make that look like it was curving with shading. So I eventually just bent it back a bit and hoped it doesn't look like it's at too wonky an angle.
Some crappy building sketches from a nearby church and La-Z-Boy. I really need to work on buildings and environmental stuff. Gonna force myself to suck it up and post some, no matter how bad they are, in the next week.
Figure practice from the picture used in FredFlickstone's tutorial. My mechanical pencil seems to have trouble laying in dark shades. I forget what the hardness of my current lead is... Actually, I don't even know if it's better to have harder or softer lead for darker lines. Used yellow 2h pencils for too many years.
Anyway, also this zebra. (I think putting it in thumbnail form will make it the thumbnail for the thread? Right?)(Edit: Turns out it's not a thumbnail. I have no idea why.)(Edit Edit: After editing, it showed up as a thumbnail, so now I'm just very confused. Whatever.)
Zebra's from a full-page pic in an old "Ranger Rick" of mine I found. Took about 3 hours, I think. About 1 for the base sketch, making sure I got all the stripes in the right place, although I was doing it while cruising the site, so it may have been less. I stayed away from pure white and black for his stripes, as I've heard people say you should do. I wonder if perhaps that rule applies quite as much to zebras? The blacks don't look too light though. I got lazy about making his fur look furrier.
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For pencils the lead goes 8h -> 2h, H, F, HB, B, 2B -> 8b .. hardest to softest.. the harder it is the lighter a mark it makes, softer is darker. Get your hands on something that can make dark marks.. I personally use an HB but it can be a little hard to make a black with it sometimes. Try them all out and use whatever you're comfortable with. Your thread is off to a good start though keep em coming!
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Nice work on the zebra head if you go edit the first post (and click on advance), use the image manager to upload the image and save changes. That will set the image to be the thread thumbnail.
I personally like using a b or 2b lead, it is light enough for sketching and can put in reasonably dark marks.
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Welcome to the group! I like your digital stuff, you're handling colors pretty well! You're a fan of Hellboy too eh? My fave comic Keep posting!
Good digital stuff and welcome to the group.
I did this last night after doodling for an hour or so. I'm going to work on it more, although I'm not sure where to take it. I just kinda like the attitude, or something. Figure I'll post it in stages, editing this post each time.
Side note: I've been uploading all my stuff as JPEGs because it seemed the hip thing to do, but is there any benefit to this? GIFs are so much smaller and I don't see any difference in quality.
Second side note: Jska, you use mechanical pencils. Do you know where to get a variety of lead hardnesses? The only place I've found anything besides HB is Staples, and all they had was 2B, 2H, and colored (red) lead. It also turns out they were all .5 and my pencils are .7, so they just fall out anyway.
My posts are so disorderly...
Hey Frumious!
To answer your question, probably through DickBlick.com. I work with them - we have a pretty good variety of lead that comes from Pentel. I think you can probably go to Pentel directly even for a fuller line - sometimes its hard to find anything softer than a 2b (it would probably break), but I think you can atleast get up to a 6H is hardness! /supplynerd
Last pic is good, I would have liked to see some lighter line weights on her soft frame. Maybe this is what you were going for. What the hell is she doing though haha - that's all I can think about when I look at it
hmm I never see anything other than hb for .7 mechanical pencils, if you using lead that thick, try using lead holders. You can get leads in all grades from various brands. And they got little sharpeners that can get it to a really good point.
Reply with no art. Woot! Her outlines are only so hard because she was a loose sketchy thing at first. Part of the work later would either be thinning them down or eliminating them entirely. As for what she's doing? Fingerpainting with menstrual blood! Isn't is obvious? Maybe I'll expand the bottom right to show what she's writing/drawing (I currently have no idea what it might be). I was curious about any C+C on the light at this point. I haven't been experimenting much with colored light, but the orange/blue on this I thought actually looked okay.
Looking online for stuff = genius. It never occurs to me to do it until someone else suggests it. As for lead holders, I have no idea what they are. Heh.
Also, thanks for the kind words guys. Seriously though, crit something. There's gotta be something wrong with something. I can take it!
lead holders are similar to mechanical pencils except the thickness of the lead is about the same as those found in regular writing pencils. The advantages is that it can produces more line variety and easier to change the lead than with mechanical pencils. (though having multiple mechanical pencils can eliminate the second advantage). I actually use both, the lead holders for broad loose sketches and rendering while the mechanical pencils are used for the fine details/rendering.
I think her face looks a bit manish and I learnt what lead holder should get one of them.
The manliness of her face is sort of intentional. Whenever I draw tough or bitchy girls, I tend to make them mannish in either face/body/or behavior just because I don't like girls always appearing so 'typically' feminine. I might change her face when I get to it though. It'll depend on what she's painting and what kinda background I throw in.
The update on bloody man girl is pretty straightforward. I tightened up her outline some, and darkened the shadows, although I need some darker shadows for outlines (hard to tell with the black outline on). Wasn't sure it was worth even posting this update, but whatever.
Thanks for the tips on leads and such. Haven't checked out any supply sites yet though.
What I DID do was go into New York yesterday and while I was there I picked up a watercolor pen from Kinonukiya for $6, having heard about them on the New York local artist group thread. Messed around with it some today using old watercolors (haven't touched them in about 12 years now, I think). The maroon/brown/mountain looking thing in the last pic is supposed to be an iris, which are purple. But blue+red did not equal purple for me. It was fun anyway though! Will definitely be doing more watercolor experimentation.
watercolor is such a hard medium to control ... well actually, any medium what has to do with color is hard for me anyhow, waiting to see those experiments
Am i the only one who uses drawing pencils? j/k... pretty good for watercolor doodles... I myself have never been good at controlling them. my car paintng was the best i ever did and that took like a month. good to see you expanding and experimenting.
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Hey Frumious! Watercolors are coming along. A thing you might want to consider - to *control* your water colors (just a tad) - do your line work, then wet a specific shape out of that linework. If you add watercolor pigment to this saturated section, the pigment will only spread as far as the border. (I hope that makes sense!) You can do a lot of different gradations in little areas with a bit more control this way. Also, don't forget - because watercolors are a transparent medium, they are meant to work in layers. Build up subtle layers of color and see how that works for you... all in all, its never a bad thing to just mess around
i saw the girl you drew i see what you mean, you mean like butch dike lesbo types, yeah the face does work
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Uhm.. Some small cartoony pen stuff I did at Denny's that I gave a quick-like coloring in photoshop. I don't do stuff like it often but I thought they were cute. My original intention was to watercolor them, but I ended up liking the pictures too much to want to risk 'ruining' them. The empty space in both of them was originally overflowing with pictographic word bubbles, but I edited those out.
Naked dude. I censored him, since I'm not sure what the policy is on nudity warnings in thread names and I didn't want lots of people seeing a warning, expecting females, then leaving me lots of nasty comments!
Finally, not sure that "butch dike lesbo" was what I was going for with her, but close enough I guess. I gave her a setting and have decided I'm going to finish it; even if it takes till next Christmas. I keep calling it 'the birthing spell' in my head, so whatever. Basically, she's summoned a demon to insert it's soul into her infant daughter so that she too can become a witch. Yeah, it's still really really really rough. But I figured base concept would be a good time to get crits. Uhm, this is it at 8% of original size, which is why the purple brush strokes look so bad. My computer really can't handle a 10500 pixel wide image! I'll probably copy and paste out portions to work on them, then insert them back in or something.
Good to have some kind of story behind your work the idea sounds or to familiar, why not a dead former president giving her his soul to run the white house again. Naked dude is well done bar his fingers look to small.
EKU, I wasn't really going for a super-creative idea in the first place, (although I didn't think it was THAT hackneyed). Didn't you see the design of the demon? Creativity isn't something I'm markedly good at. Maybe you're right and I'm shooting too low though. I'll try to think of something more unusual next time.
Anyway, a skull and a SP. I blew out my eye because I couldn't make it match the other one. So I said 'screw this!' and made it a bloody hole. My upper lip is too pronounced. Zoomed out it looks kind of like a chimp's.
This stuff looks freaking awesome. Ears are a little tiny, though. Especially on the Hellboy pic, which looked really creepy wit' 'dem teeny little ears.
I usually draw the ears from the eyebrow to the upper-lip. Like, that space between the upper lip and the nose, where mustaches usually are. I don't remember the technical name (if any) for it. You get what I mean. XD
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Your digital work is getting better each and every time you post. I wanna see some more watercolor studies.
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The ear thing: Thank you. I actually hadn't noticed that at all. I guess I thought Hellboy's ear was foreshortened or something. I might have a tendency to draw ears small because I've been told my ears are slightly small. I think it's just that my head is rather large (I usually need special hats), but whatever. I'll remember that eyebrow to nose rule. Hadn't seen it before. Anyway, I keep meaning to practice more with watercolors, but I'm so afraid of new mediums. I go for what's comfortable and pick up a pencil instead...
Which is why I have this sketch of an awesome lady from the paper! I saw her over someone else's shoulder and demanded they give me the page when they were done! It's not the greatest likeness, but still worth posting, I guess. Now with scanned in reference too! Isn't she cool? I invite you all to draw her! It is so. much. god. damn. fun.
Sorry for the gigantic post for 1 (3?) drawings.
Intrigued by this week's chow, I decided I'd doodle a mermaid with the intention of watercoloring it. Inspired by some watercolorish mermaid stuff Mignola did, and part of the Thief of Always, a cool children's (sort of) book by Clive Barker. It came out alright, I guess. I fudged her body colors badly, and I liked her head more a couple layers of paint okay. I like the goldfish, although he's less saturated than I was trying for.
That one weird looking lady I have a picture of a guy that has that whole excentric thing going on have I'll have to find, definitely something I would draw. The drawing of her doing that hand thing is the best on and the mermaid is looking good the right breast on your mermaid could go to come up a bit so it more inline with the left one.
Frumious! That lady is freaking SCARY! I kinda want to draw her too... and transform her into witch. Those wrinkles and hair are intense hehehe.
Nice work though - do you have the book "The Art of Hellboy"? If you don't I suggest you pick it up, some of his gouache pieces are fan-fucking-tastic. I'm a total fangirl for Mignola though, can't go wrong there
Good work! Like the sp, even with the bloody hole. Usually eyes DON'T exactly match though, so don't get too torn up about it
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Urban Legends & Historic Lore of Washington, D.C.
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- Did you know the Old Stone House on M Street in Georgetown was George Washington's surveying headquarters in 1791?
- Were you aware that the city is built on a swamp?
- What do the hoofs mean on equestrian statues around the city?
- Have you heard that while Abraham Lincoln was touring Fort Stevens in 1864, a young Oliver Wendell Holmes ordered the President to duck down in very unflattering terms?
We've all heard variations on these stories.
Just one question: are they true?
D.C. tour guide and author Robert S. Pohl delves into these tales of historic lore and many others in his new book Urban Legends & Historic Lore of Washington, D.C. Pohl takes readers around hometown and official D.C. as he debunks the myths and lore surrounding the buildings, people, sports teams, and monuments of the city. There is even one section devoted to the area of Virginia located right across the Potomac.
Although the myths about D.C. make for great storytelling, the truth behind the myths is just as fascinating. In each case, Pohl opens with the legend, explains how it came to be and how much is factual, or not, about it. Each of these tales is concisely told, and the book reads quickly. Most of these I had read about; a few were new to me. Having read the book, I better understand the story behind Washington, D. C. legends and lore.
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This gigapan is of Daniel Downey(HI Apiary Specialist) and Rob Snyder(PSU) performing the National Honey Bee Survey in an apiary in Na'alehu, Hawai'i 12.8.2010.
Where are the bee hives???? These bees were unloaded off of a truck the day before this Gigapan was taken. The bees were transported here on that truck from North Dakota. We set the Gigapan up on the side of a hill and then drove down to the bees to work. You can tell what time of day it was because of the he...
a rare shot of Nathan Rice of the USDA Beltsville, MD Bee Research Lab recording notes rather then working the hives. Congratulations Nathan, it feels good to sit on that cooler doesn't it? Since we started working in the upper left hand corner of the panorama, the camera caught us just as we were going into our fi...
Field work is major part of what our research lab does here at Penn State University. I have been helping to conduct honey bee disease and pest surveys for four years under the supervision of Dennis vanEngelsdorp. Most of our field work is run in conjunction with the USDA Bee Research Lab in Beltsville, MD. A ma...
This is a shot from an apiary further up the San Jaoquin Valley where the edges of the valley's start to meet the bases of the mountains. We wanted this to be a 360 but the sun was low in the sky and we knew we didn't have time for the 654 picture panorama we were hoping for... Oh well, hit ok, and go work some h...
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Avios introduces new strapline one year after relaunch
Avios has introduced a new strapline as part of a campaign to educate consumers on how they can collect and redeem reward points a year after its controversial rebrand from AirMiles.
The campaign uses the strapline 'Buy, Collect, Fly' alongside the 'Anything can fly' line introduced a year ago. Ads use the same creative as its original launch campaign, depicting a series of everyday objects such as washing machines, shopping baskets and barbecues taking flight.
Activity launched on 29 December 2012 and will run until the end of February 2013.The loyalty firm behind the UK rewards programme for British Airways Executive Club and Iberia Plus, has also launched a microsite that features a destination collection calculator to show consumers how their everyday spending can be turned into rewards such as flights and holidays.
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I can't help it, I have to say it, every time I see this advert it makes me think of pollution - in particular air pollution, have you seen the exhaust fumes coming from that washing machine? It looks like an advert for remote control fly tipping. Sorry Avios, for me the campaign message is 'pollute, collect, buy' - Sorry to bash it, the advert is creative no doubt about it, it just doesn't sit right with me, it highlights the negative bi-product of air travel.
Suggest Avios rebrand - collecting points only for the those who don't want a family holiday with the children. Sorry Avios, but with two children in education it is impossible to book a family holiday or flights on your website for out of term time, there are no return flights on reasonable dates or in most cases no flights at all. Suggest anyone with children shouldn't waste their time collecting Avios points you can't use them unless you want to be prosecuted by local authority for taking your child out of school. Such a shame. Sorry Avios, great idea, I was so sold on it, but its not for all of us is it.
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The Rangers returned to the ice after a day off on Tuesday in preparation for the second round matchup with the Boston Bruins that begins Thursday night at the TD Bank Garden.
Marc Staal, Ryane Clowe and Darroll Powe did not take part in the practice and not update on their conditions was given. Three members of the team's "taxi squad" — forwards Kris Newbury, Michael Haley as well as goalie Cam Talbot — also skated with the team.
Not surprisingly, the Rangers are prepping for what should be a physical series with the Bruins, who posses players like Milan Lucic, Johnny Boychuk and Zdeno Chara.
"You can feel him from quite a distance," Brad Richards said jokinly of Zdeno Chara. He said after last series against the Capitals and Alex Ovechkin — who finished with 13 hits alone in Game 7 — the Rangers are ready for another tough matchup. "Our guys are used to that," he added.
Defenseman Dan Girardi said the Bruins thrive on attacking the net, which the Rangers can defend against by keeping Boston to the perimeter.
"They're going to do their best to get in front of [Henrik Lundqvist] and get pucks to the net," he said after practice. "We've just got to be strong along the walls, make sure they can't get to the front and just be strong. We can't let them push us around in front of the net. We have to make sure we're big for Hankie in front and let him see the shots."
While the Bruins may not posses a player like the Rangers saw last series in Ovechkin, the Bruins do have one of the most balanced lineups in the NHL with four lines capable of doing damage on the scoreboard.
"I feel like they have a lot more skill throughout their lineup, and size," defenseman Ryan McDonagh said. "All good skating forwards. I think they don't rely necessarily on one line to carry them at times. A different night, one line steps up, different players stepping up. You can't fall asleep no matter who is out there.
"They play four lines, they roll them pretty good," added Dan Girardi." It's going to create a challenge for us when they have four good lines going."
The Rangers went 2-1 against the Bruins this season, but the two teams haven't met since Feb. 12 in Boston. Since then, the Rangers have added players like Derick Brassard, Derek Dorsett and John Moore, while the Bruins have added former Ranger Jaromir Jagr.
"It was quite a while ago," Richards said of the two teams' last meeting, but that it doesn't change the preparation for the series. "That team's been the same type of team for three or four years now. There hasn't been much change there. We've seen Boston since they won the cup that year ... There's not going to be a lot of surprises."
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Given the risks and patient concerns associated with K-wire fixation, these authors discuss the use of emerging hammertoe implants, absorbable pins and cannulated screws, and share a couple of illuminating case studies.
Hammertoe correction is one of the most frequently performed procedures for foot and ankle surgeons. Hammertoe digital deformity is characterized by an extension deformity at the metatarsophalangeal joint (MPJ) and a flexion deformity at the proximal interphalangeal joint.1,2
Digital deformity typically is associated with pain in the forefoot, difficulty fitting shoes and an unacceptable cosmetic appearance for the affected patients.2,3 Forefoot pain is typically attributed to hyperkeratotic skin lesions, callosities or ulcerations about the MPJ, the proximal interphalangeal joint and distal interphalangeal joints as well as nail deformities secondary to the curling of the digits.4 Loss of purchase of the digit overloads the MPJ as well as the surrounding digits, ultimately changing the gait pattern. This often advances other forefoot etiologies.
Treatment options are often guided by the patient's discomfort as well as the reducibility of the affected digit. Conservative management of a fixed hammertoe includes shoe gear modification with a high and wide toe box, toe sleeves, a foam cushioning device, orthotics or offloading pads such as a metatarsal bar. However, if conservative management fails to alleviate symptoms, then surgical correction is warranted.
Surgical approaches for hammertoe correction are based on the surgeon's preferred approach. We prefer the transverse elliptical incision over the proximal interphalangeal joint. One would perform a DuVries condylectomy on the head of the proximal phalanx. Using a rongeur, remove the cartilage of the base of the middle phalanx. Following this, the surgeon would implant the hardware under standard protocol.
K-Wires: A Fading Gold Standard For Hammertoe Repair?
K-wires have been the gold standard for hammertoe digital repair. Kirschner originally introduced K-wires to orthopedics in 1909, utilizing surgical grade stainless steel for the fixation of fractures. Taylor was the first surgeon to introduce K-wires for fixation of hammertoe repairs in 1940.5 Today, the most commonly used sizes for K-wire fixation in the foot and ankle are 0.9 mm (0.035 inch) to 1.6 mm (0.062 inch). The introduction of K-wire fixation for hammertoe correction was initially popular to help prevent flail toe, which is the most common complication secondary to excessive bone resection.1
Although K-wires are simplistic to use as fixation, they carry inherent risks such as pin tract infections, migration and breakage.3 Zingas and colleagues noted a 2.5 percent failure rate when they utilized 1.1 mm (0.045 inch) K-wire for fixation of the lesser digit hammertoe deformity.6 Reese and co-workers reported a rate of pin tract infections of as much as 18 percent in digital arthrodesis procedures with K-wire fixation.7 In a study by Caterini and colleagues, the average incidence of nonunion following proximal interphalangeal joint arthrodesis and fixation via intramedullary K-wire was about 20 percent.8
The biggest concerns our patients have about externally protruding K-wires are the anxiety with the removal of the K-wire in the office as well as accidental "trauma" within their home.
I read your article and I just don't see the complications you are talking about. I have never had an infection using a K-wire in the toe. Implants have a much higher failure rate (positioning, failure, prolonged swelling, etc).
Performing many hammertoe corrections a year with K-wires (in for 3 weeks), I have to suggest that maybe your pre-op discussions and post-operative care don't have patient buy-in or compliance.Reply to this comment »
I agree with Dr. Nalli. I rarely have an issue with pin tract infection or patient anxiety. My biggest concern with any of these implantable devices is that they don't address the dorsal contracture at the MPJ, and thus I have seen too many "floating toes." I never have that problem when I use K-wires. Out of curiosity, for those surgeons who do use them, what are surgeons doing to prevent floating toes? Skin plasty's?Reply to this comment »
Great article.Reply to this comment »
I agree with Dr. Scantlin concerning the need to adequately address the deformity at the MTP joint. The various PIPJ implant devices do a good job of holding the joint in alignment but do so in rigid alignment. Fusion of the PIPJ yields a straight toe but one that is often painful in shoegear.Reply to this comment »


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