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Roadmap for the Robotic Future
Since the 1980s industrial robots have become commonplace and in recent years robotic vacuums have been cleaning more and more homes. In 2007 there were an estimated 6.5 million robots around the world and that figure is projected to rise to 18 million by 2011. Europe has a quarter of the world market for industrial robots and is taking steps to maintain leadership in the robotic future.
The EU-funded CARE project (Coordination Action for Robotics in Europe), coordinated by Rainer Bischoff and Tim Guhl of KUKA Roboter in Augsburg, Germany, was set up in 2006 to create a Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) to guide the development of robotics. "We wanted to make sure that a lot of different stakeholders were involved," says Guhl. "And we wanted to have an industrially driven agenda—that was very important."
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From a day hike at Mt. Puting Bato, we ended our trip at Canibad. Situated in Barangay Aundanao, Penaplata in Samal Island, Canibad Beach Resort is a hidden getaway, a place wherein the serenity you are looking for is at its best. This is normally where the hikers go after climbing Mt Puting Bato.
We rented a little "kubo" (nipa hut) and spent the night here. We cooked our food. I mean the boys cooked our food and us girls just rested. Hahaha.
The best thing here in Canibad is the sunrise. It will remind you how magical our world is.
The beach is also calm and crystal clear.
It also offers a cliff diving spot wherein anyone with brave souls can jump. Unfortunately, I was not able to try it as I went home early, but my friends did.
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Benjamin Netanyahu's refusal to attend Nelson Mandela's memorial service speaks of Israel's growing isolationism ~ MATTHEW NORMAN, independent.co.uk.
Some will dispute the Israeli prime minister's excuse of 'cost' issues.
Given the inspiring example of the man whose memorial service was attended by almost every leader or deputy leader of the world's more significant powers, it is surely time for Jerry Dammers and the rest of The Special AKA to bury the hatchet. The author of "Free Nelson Mandela" and his bandmates fell out many years ago. But if they would undergo a peace and reconciliation process and reform, you have to imagine that Coventry's finest would wish to rework Dammers's gloriously upbeat protest song in the cause of arguably the most glaring, and certainly the most heart-rending, Soccer City absentee of yesterday.
Well, something must be done to liberate Benjamin Netanyahu – who cancelled his trip…
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After reading this week's articles, I am still not entirely sure I understand genre and process, so I decided to dig a little deeper into that aspect of teaching writing. I came across the article below, and it had the added bonus of connecting to L2 writing, which is something that I want to research more because my practicum involves teaching an L2 writing class.
Johns, A. M. (2011). The future of genre in l2 writing: Fundamental, but contested, instructional decisions.Journal of Second Language Writing, 20(1), 56-68. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1060374310000561
Ann Johns explores Genre-Based Writing Instruction (GBWI) through four topics: naming, genre acquisition ("the direct teaching and student learning of specified text types which are considered by practitioners to be common exemplars of genres" (Johns, 2011) vs. awareness ("examining the relationships among texts, their rhetorical purposes, and the broader contexts in which texts from a genre may appear" (Johns, 2011); the major pedagogical focus of the GBWI curriculum, which in the L2 context can elevate either written text types or rhetorical contexts, and ideology—whether L2 students should be begin critiquing contexts and texts or wait to be assimilated into professional/academic environments. The crux of this article appears to be Johns' efforts to portray a balanced perspective on the four issues in L2 GBWI in both theory and in-class decision-making. It appears is seeking to propose a compromise that juggles the many-faceted needs of the field (like learner confidence, contextual influences on text systems and writer processes).
In naming, the aforementioned compromise uses the theoretical background of English for Specific purposes, which allows room for both flexibility ("because authentic texts tend to be mixed") and the teaching of rhetorical models that are linked to structures (Johns, 2011). In the classroom, Johns suggests that instructors start with named texts in students' languages/backgrounds first to move them to the related discourse-styles in English (2011).
With genre learning versus genre awareness, Johns points to research that shows that fixed essays are problematic for instruction/transfer because they portray the practices involved as too stable (Johns, 2011). Johns then points to the "high road" or "far transfer of learning," meaning that genre awareness will allow students to apply old knowledge to new contexts (Johns, 2011).
Regarding pedagogies, Johns references Flowerdew, who suggested that teaching genre can follow either the linguistic or non-linguistic (New Rhetoric) approaches. Again here Johns appears to seek compromise in the form of curriculum that begin with texts and their structures, particularly among novice students; but then, using some of the suggestions made by the New Rhetoricians….move towards an integration of theories and practices that value analysis of context, complex writing processes, and intertextuality" (Johns, 2011). When applying these approaches, Johns argues that instructors should be neither "accomodationist" nor "assimilationist" toward their L2 students. Instead, students and instructors should consider "how a text from a genre might be structured, how it relates to other texts, where it might appear, what writer processes might be involved," and other contextual elements regarding GBWI, like the "writer's role, the audience and the influence of other texts" (Johns, 2011)
I am not sure I would recommend this article. There were points I found intriguing, and it is certainly full of valuable information, but I am a bit put off by not hearing her opinion. This article is well-researched and truly strives for a balanced exploration of the issues. I feel like I should want to recommend it—I'm not sure why I don't.


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The other day I overheard an interesting conversation between a girl and her friend at the coffeeshop. Let's call the two girls Emily and Anne. Here's a paraphrasing of the conversation.
Emily: So I just moved in with my boyfriend and I feel like I am always nagging him to do the things that he should be doing anyways
Anne: Like what?
Emily: Like taking out the trash or cleaning the dishes. He just leaves them.
Anne: That's horrible.
Emily: I know. But then when he does take out the trash I feel like completely overwhelmed. Like he did this amazing thing. But he should have been doing it anyways, you know?
Anne: I did notice he is kind of a slacker
Emily: I just feel like he's not really present or there in our relationship. He doesn't do the things he should be doing and I feel like it's my fault. Like maybe he doesn't know how important they are to me. But I hate telling him to do them. I just want him to do them.
Anne: Is everything else in your relationship okay?
She then went off to briefly discuss other ways in which her significant other was not really present or aware in their relationship. They got up and left, but I sat there thinking about it for a long time. In how many relationships that you've been in have you experienced this?
I started to think about behavior reinforcement. When Emily praised her boyfriend for doing something that he should have been doing already, she may have been saying "thank you for doing this fabulous act, I am thankful for you going above and beyond" when really her reaction meant "I am happy that you are contributing because I am not used to seeing it happen."
The baseline of behavior in a relationship should not be bare minimum. Simply going through the actions of being a partner (offering support, helping out, doing ones fair share) should not be rewarded as something extra. This can happen in any relationship, between any gender, between any number of people, between a relationship that is romantic in nature or not.
This doesn't mean that we can't appreciate our partners for what they do. There is a difference between appreciating and praising. I appreciate that my partner helps me do the dishes after I cook. I appreciate that he helps take out the trash and tidy the apartment. I appreciate that he listens to me when I am sad. I appreciate that I know that I can call him to come for me when I need him. These, I feel, are basic functions of a healthy relationship.
"Always give more than you take."
Emily found herself nagging her significant other to do things he should already be doing. How did Emily and her boyfriend get to that place in their relationship? I don't know the details. Maybe that's how it always was, or that's where it went after they began living together. There are a lot of ways in which that kind of behavior can start (on either, or both sides of the relationship) and there are a lot of reasons why it might persist.
Talking to your partner about expectations is extremely important. Don't make the assumption that you're on the same page. Be honest with your partner about what kinds of things you expect in a relationship. Some people require very little "relationship maintenance" and don't necessarily need their partner there to help provide emotional support. Some people don't split up chores or other tasks. Because all relationships are different it's important to acknowledge those differences but it's also important to not let your relationship just slide into whatever is comfortable for the other person.
Never feel like you have to hassle your partner to be a human being. Never feel like you have to hassle your partner to be there for you, to care for you, to offer their part in the relationship. If you begin to feel that way, or if you feel that the balance is off and your partner is doing more work than you, there is always time to correct the path and figure out how to make things better for each other.
Sometimes it can be as simple as "I didn't know what I was doing wrong!" and sometimes it can be a much harder to hear "We're just not compatible."


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brody went bowling for the first time last saturday, for a birthday party for a little friend from school.
there were bumpers and ramps for the littles
he had such a great time,
once he figured out how it all worked.
waiting for his turn was especially difficult with so much excitement
there was pizza & cupcakes & black lights. little boy heaven. he had such a fun time, and were so happy carson included us in his birthday adventure.
anyone interested in joining us for a bowling adventure? might be a fun way to pass the time during these upcoming cold winter weekends!


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George Lucas spoke about the didactic role of cinema and about his own work being presented through the "moral megaphone" of the film industry. A considerable body of scholarship on the six-part Star Wars series argues (unconvincingly) that the franchise promoted neo-conservatism in American culture from the late 1970s onward. But there is much in Lucas' grand space opera to suggest something more ideologically complex is going on. Engaging with Critical and Deconstructive theories this book challenges the view of the saga as an unambiguously violent text exemplifying reactionary politics, and discusses the films' identity politics with regard to race and gender.
Read the unedited Preface here.
Bringing critical attention to a particular set of science fiction and fantasy films–Larry and Andy Wachowski's The Matrix, George Lucas' Star Wars saga, and Joss Whedon's Avengers–this book utilizes a wide-ranging set of critical tools to illuminate their political ideologies, while also examining any resistant and complicating turns or byways the films may provide. What they all have in common ideologically is that they–or at least the genres they belong to–tend to be regarded as belonging to politically conservative frames of sociocultural reference. With the Star Wars saga, however, this idea is shown to be superficial and weak.
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Road Safety Problems and Challenges in Africa
Recently, I visited Africa and had the opportunity to observe first hand and discuss with African transportation professionals the gravity of the road safety problems facing the continent. Although it has only about 4% of the world's registered motor vehicles, Africa experiences the highest rate of road traffic fatalities. For instance, Ethiopia has alarmingly high numbers of road traffic deaths and injuries. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2015 with a total of 478,837 registered vehicles, Ethiopia had 23,837 reported annual road fatalities. That is more than 25 people per 100,000 people who are killed annually due to road crashes. In Kenya, more than 3,000 people are killed on Kenyan roads annually. More than 29 people for every 100,000 people are killed in road crashes every year. Other African countries are facing similar problems and the incidence of traffic crashes has been increasing steadily in many of these countries.
Road traffic deaths and injuries are serious global problems. Recognizing the gravity of road safety problems worldwide, in 2010 the UN General Assembly proclaimed the period from 2011-2020 as the Decade of Action for Road Safety, with a goal of reducing the forecasted level of road traffic fatalities around the world by increasing activities conducted at the national, regional, and global levels. In 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted the historic Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which include an ambitious target of 50% reduction in road traffic deaths and injuries by 2020. These actions by the UN General Assembly were taken as a result of the growing recognition of the enormous problems associated with road traffic accidents. Road traffic crashes remain a major public health problem and a leading cause of death and injury globally with nearly 1.3 million people killed and between 20 and 50 million people injured annually. Over 90% of the fatalities and injuries are in low- and middle-income countries. According to a 2015 report by the World Health Organization (WHO), road traffic injuries are the top cause of death among people aged 15-29 years. Road traffic injuries can also present major negative consequences on a country's economy. The UN estimates that "global losses due to road traffic injuries total $58 billion and cost governments between 1 and 3% of their gross national product. In some low- and middle income countries, the loss is more than the total amount of development assistance that they receive." (UN Website- Department of Publications, 2009)
Many of the African countries are recognizing the seriousness of the problem and are facing the challenge of developing strategies and plans to counteract the problem and help meet UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In order to address the problem each country has to gain better understanding of the various factors contributing to the problem including technical, institutional, legal, policy and other related issues.
I want to encourage graduate students enrolled in Morgan's transportation program, especially students from developing countries, to consider pursuing research on different aspects of road safety problems and issues. Morgan faculty members can also collaborate with African transportation professionals and educators by conducting research and educational programs that will contribute toward the alleviation of the crisis. These kinds of activities will provide excellent opportunity to foster mutually beneficial partnerships with African universities and to further expand Morgan's international program by taking advantage of the University's well-developed capabilities and track record in transportation education and research.
Dr. Moges Ayele recently retired from the Federal Highway Administration where he was the Director of the National Highway Institute (NHI). Before joining FHWA, Dr. Ayele was a professor and founding Director of Morgan's Transportation Center and the graduate program in transportation. He is currently serving as a member of the Advisory Committee of the NTC.


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text: 2013 is shaping up to be an exciting year for all of us but one of the most exciting bits for any furniture or design lover is the news that Vitsœ are to begin producing legendary German designer Dieter Rams furniture collection. While Vitsœ have been producing a number of Rams' designs since 1959, particularly the 606 Universal Shelving System, 620 Chair and 621 Side Table, this will be an extensive and exclusive collection showcasing a great deal more of Rams' work. In Rams' own words, "Vitsœ's disciplined business practices and manufacturing intelligence are in true alignment with the values of my design. This makes Vitsoe the ideal partner to present my products worldwide and it is for this reason that I have given Vitsœ the licence to sell not only 606 Universal Shelving System but my complete portfolio of furniture designs in Germany and throughout the world. Vitsœ's growing international presence and continued commitment to the constant improvement of my products ensure that my furniture is in the best hands for the years ahead." It will be exciting to follow this project and see what emerges from the mind of Rams and the excellent production standards of Vistœ.


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Sunday, August 01, 2010
Teenagers and mephedrone
In Britain mephedrone has recently been made illegal
This is common practice in Britain that any substance giving pleasure to the young or other citizens will be banned
The reasons given are usually about its alleged health and safety dangers
The truth being less to do with these than pandering to the brain dead portion of the electorate for whom an endless so called 'war on drugs' is the answer to teenage drug use
Hard to believe that these failed policies have been pursued for more than fifty years without any result other than making drug pushers rich and criminalising a goodly number of the young
How little the young are understood by many
A simple statement can be made about teenagers anywhere on the planet - "teenagers experiment"
Such a simple observation
How else should they learn about the world and themselves?
And yet "shock, horror" teenagers use drugs
The crude sensationalism of many newspapers and media about teenage goings on is the really sad story
Year after year we have sensational stories, trite media articles in the tabloid press who never tire of lurid stories about the young
Year after year politicians play to this gallery
Sick little people
Locking up teenagers for smoking a joint or taking mephedrone
DNA taken on file for life
Sometimes you wonder how low politicians will go to pander to the uninformed brainwashed population
But then again there is no need to wonder politicians will go as low as it takes to keep themselves in power
Teenagers meanwhile will do what teenagers do
They will every generation experiment with whatever is around them
Meanwhile the legal drugs such as cigarettes and alcohol, which make many millions in tax for governments, kill many tens of thousands of people directly and indirectly each year
And yet Mephedrone which is said to have caused two deaths, subsequently admitted not to be true was hastily made illegal with little or no examination of its true properties
Notice it was election time
And once again the British government brushes aside the advice of its own drug advisory council and glaring common sense, chooses to make yet more young people criminals
As one advisor on quitting the government advisory body said
"There's not been proper consideration given to the broader justice and political aspects of making a drug Class B and criminalising maybe tens of thousands of young people," he said.
"I'm not surprised that people think it's all been done for political reasons rather than scientific or health reasons."
Sick little people politicians
Sick media too who refuse to support a more logical and reasonable approach to drugs while beating up on teenage experimentation
One day, one day maybe sense will intrude on this stupid behaviour
Don't hold your breath though
In Britain the government drug policy has failed and yet there is little serious consideration of other proven approaches which have been adopted elsewhere
Sad story made sadder when you consider that Britain has the worst drug problem in Europe
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[Comment] Chemoimmunotherapy as a new standard of care for Burkitt leukaemia/lymphoma
Treatments targeting either specific transcripts (eg, breakpoint cluster region protein-Abelson murine leukaemia viral oncogene homologue 1 tyrosine kinase oncoprotein [BCR-ABL1] targeted by tyrosine kinase inhibitors)1 or leukaemic cell surface antigens (eg, CD20 monoclonal antibodies [mAbs])2 could be major breakthroughs in the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Rituximab is a chimeric human–mouse mAb against CD20, with efficacy in several lymphoid malignancies. Assessment of the addition of rituximab to chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia has been based on positive data in high-grade non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which has shown that addition of rituximab to CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone or prednisolone) chemotherapy (R-CHOP) improves overall survival by at least 20%.


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Doctors can breathe a sigh of relief as a Medicare pay cut of nearly 30 percent is narrowly averted — at least temporarily. On New Year's Day, Congress approved a "fiscal cliff" bill that includes a one-year delay of the scheduled Medicare pay cut — to the tune of 26.5 percent — due to the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula.
The bill also includes a two-month delay of an additional 2 percent cut to Medicare pay due to across-the-board spending cuts scheduled as a result of Congress' failure to reach a budget deficit deal in 2011, according to Medscape.
Medical organizations, consultants, and physicians expressed tempered enthusiasm regarding the SGR delay.
While the AMA praised Congress for avoiding the massive pay cut, it criticized its continued failure to identify a permanent SGR fix.
" … Congress' work is not complete; it has simply delayed this massive, unsustainable cut for one year," AMA president and psychiatrist Jeremy A. Lazarus said in a statement. "Over the next months, it must act to eliminate this ongoing problem once and for all."
Lazarus went on to say that the "last-minute action" to delay the SGR cut is a "clear example of how the Medicare program is increasingly unreliable for physicians and patients."
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bI have worked in a multinational company and we use adwords for our advertising activity and we using USD as the main payment currency, We are about to launch our services in a new country which has issue in using USD ($) as a payment currency and we will release the services for this country on a Sub-Domain so we can't either create a new account for the same domain and also we can't use the same currency as it must be the local currency for the new country market.
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Hi @Hossam M,
You'll find a cogwheel in the upper right corner of your AdWords account. Click on it and select Help where you'll see contact info for approaching the AdWords Team. I suggest you turn to them directly. In special situations like yours you are usually granted permission for a second, third etc AdWords account.


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Carl's Jr. turns up the heat on breakfast with two ways to savor spicy Mexican chorizo. The new Made from Scratch Chorizo, Egg & Cheese Biscuit and Chorizo, Egg & Cheese Burrito are now offered at participating Carl's Jr. restaurants.
The Made from Scratch Chorizo, Egg & Cheese Biscuit features chorizo and egg topped with pepper-Jack cheese and served inside a freshly baked Made from Scratch Buttermilk Biscuit. For those who prefer their breakfast in burrito form, the Chorizo, Egg & Cheese Burrito features chorizo, scrambled eggs, shredded Jack and cheddar cheeses, Hash Round nuggets, and freshly prepared pico de gallo salsa, wrapped together in a flour tortilla.
"Since Carl's Jr. had its start in Southern California, our guests' tastes have been strongly influenced by Mexican food, seasoning and spices over the years," says Brad Haley, chief marketing officer for Carl's Jr. "So, it made perfect sense for us to use a classic Mexican chorizo sausage in our new breakfast biscuit and burrito. To make our Made from Scratch Chorizo, Egg & Cheese Biscuit, we crumble fresh chorizo into egg and cook them together, then add a slice of spicy pepper-Jack cheese for some extra heat and serve it all inside one of our signature Made from Scratch Buttermilk Biscuits that we prepare by hand and bake fresh inside our restaurants every morning. For fans of breakfast burritos, we roll up the spicy chorizo with scrambled eggs and Hash Round nuggets along with shredded cheese and freshly prepared pico de gallo salsa. Either way you go, the spicy seasoning in the chorizo adds a ton of flavor in every bite."
The new Made from Scratch Chorizo, Egg & Cheese Biscuit is available for $2.29, the Burrito for $3.49, and each may be ordered in a combo meal with Hash Rounds and choice of drink for $3.79 and $4.99, respectively.
"With summer officially here, we're also bringing back one of our most popular dessert creations ever, the OREO Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich," Haley says. "Carl's Jr. is one of the only hamburger chains to bring in hard-packed tubs of premium vanilla ice cream to make our Hand-Scooped Shakes & Malts, so we're uniquely able to offer ice cream sandwiches made by hand, too. Our OREO Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich features a scoop of premium vanilla ice cream placed between two large OREO cookie wafers. The pairing of chocolaty OREO cookies and creamy vanilla ice cream makes a yummy snack or dessert all summer long."
For a limited time, guests can receive a free OREO Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich with the purchase of a Big Chicken Fillet Sandwich Combo at participating restaurants. The ice cream treat may also be ordered separately for $1.49.
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In my previous tutorial I've shown a great, fast way to paint truckloads of Skaven Clan rats and still have them look great. I recently started adding some Plague Monks to my army, so I wanted to show you my paint scheme. Keep reading if you want a fast way to paint good looking Plague Monks!
The goal
Like the Skaven Clanrats 'batch paint' workflow, I wanted to use a similar simple approach for the Plague Monks: get them looking great and tabletop ready in 5 fast steps.
The only difference is that we will spend a little bit more time on detailing the Plague Monks than we did on the Clan Rats. Since the Plague Monks are more 'elite' you don't need to paint as many models you can afford to spend a little bit more time on them and still finish a lot of them fast. So note that the models in this guide are not aimed to be painted up to my (or your) highest standards, the goal is to finish good looking models fast so you can start gaming with them.
Colors & Painting Steps
When you want to speed up your painting you start by limiting your colors. The less different colors and steps of painting, the faster you can go. It sounds like an open door but its a pitfall many fall into including myself. Its just so tempting to keep adding more detail and variations to your mini's. Limit yourself and be thankful later 🙂
For the Plague Monks I wanted to have a really old, moldy color for the robes, and different from the standard Games Workshop paint scheme. I decided on green robes. In addition I chose to make the rat bodies gray to suggest that they are older forces within the army.
90% of the Plague Monk models are the clothing, so I focussed on creating an easy, good looking workflow for that. The faces, and small parts of the bodies were of less concern to me. I ended up settling on the following 3 colors for the base of the paint job:
Main Colors:
- Sybarite Green
- Straken Green
- Ushabti Bone
Remaining colors used are:
- Dryad Bark and Graveyard Earth for bases
- Codex Gray (rat body, feet, face, tail)
- Agrax Earthshade wash (for rat body, feet, face, tail and metal weapons)
- Space Wolves Gray to highlight rat body, feet, face, tail
- a Metal color to drybrush swords
Note 1: Please do everything in the exact order I described. Some things may seem not logical but it is so that you don't have to go back later on with a color you already used earlier. It is small optimizations like these that will save you a lot of time. Efficiency baby!
Note 2: I am an ass. Some photo's don't show the sequenced steps 100% correctly and I forgot to take a photo of painting the weapons and adding the wash. I did not have the opportunity to take new pictures in the same lighting conditions so I left it this way. If you follow the instructions in the text you should end up having the same end results.
Step 1: Paint Base & Clothing
After having your model assembled, based and primed black, start by over brushing the base with Dryad Bark. When dried, overbrush again lightly with Graveyard Earth for a highlight. If you use different colors for your bases simply substitute my colors with yours. A tip here is to also touch the Plague Monk's feet with the base colors. Some of them have some bandages around their feet, and because I don't want to touch on these individually (takes too much time) we touch them with the brown of the base, making it look like their all 'muddied up'. Cheap trick ftw!
Next overbrush the entire model (except the base) with Sybarite Green. Because this is a layer paint, it does not give a very good coverage on the black primer. In this case this is exactly what you want, as you'll find out in a minute. Cover the entire model quickly and repeat this for about 5 Plague Monks. By the time you are done they've all dried and look very crappy. Overbrush again with Sybarite Green, now the second time it will start to give a good coverage, acting as a "highlight" color over your first see-through layer. Boom, there you go: with just 1 color you already have some depth and detail going.
What you want to do here, is touch on primarily the raised areas with your second coat, not touching the recesses or insides of arms, undersides of body etcetera. By leaving enough of the bad covering first layer visible, you create a nice highlight with the second pass. I found that starting the second pass on the head and neck/cape worked best, because you loose the most paint there, going more subtle on the other parts. You will find out after a few models what looks good and then you can step-repeat it for more of your Plague Monks.
If you accidentally touch the rat body, face and even some parts of your base: Don't worry. You will go back in a next step to finish the rat bodies neatly, and the bases don't suffer from having a hint of green here and there. Remember you want to go quick in these steps.
Finish off this step by adding Straken Green to parts of the clothing. This will give the clothing a fantastic layered depth of colors, with a cold hue in the recesses and a more full rich color on the raised areas.
You will notice the clothing takes the majority of the time. This is ok because on these models its about 90% of the miniature. Do the above for about 5 to 10 models before moving on.
Step 2: Paint the Body parts & Weapons
The next step is again a quick and easy one. Paint the rat head, body, arms, hands, feet and tail in a flat coat of Codex Gray (or a similar gray). This will boring yes, which we will fix in the next step. Don't forget to paint the ears and eyelids that poke through the hoodies gray too. They really make the model look good later on.
Also during this step drybrush the black primed weapons with a metal color of choice. This does not show in the pictures until the final photo. Sorry 🙂
Step 3: Highlight the Clothing & Paint nails/skulls
So far your model will not look super good, as is usually the case when you are still working on it. I personally find models look very bad right until the final step where I finish up and clean the base. Until that time it is best to not judge your work yet. Have faith 🙂
That said your next step is to add the final highlight on the clothing. Use 100% Ushabti Bone, thin it down a little bit so it flows easily from a fine detail brush. Now edge highlight the clothing and focus on the edges of the hoodies, sleeves and robes. This step will take some time, but it really sets your models apart in quality. So in my opinion this is really worth it.
Also while you are at it. use the Ushabti Bone to quickly paint the teeth & nails on the feet. Some models also have some skulls and Skaven triangle thingies, you can paint these with the bone color as well, wish all will receive a brown wash in the next step. Note that in the pictures I forgot the teeth.
Step 4: Wash Body parts & Weapons
You have now finished the main paint work on 5 to 10 models. Wash the swords and body parts with Agrax Earthshade, or a similar "Devlan Mud-ish" wash. Set the models aside to dry, which unfortunately taking some time with washes. If you have no patience like me, this is the moment where you pull out your wife's hairdryer 🙂 The reason I wash the weapons with brown also is to make them look older and crappy, which fits better than shiny new weapons on a Skaven Army.
Step 5: Highlight Body parts & Finish base
The last step to finish your model is highlighting the gray body parts. Because of the brown wash your gray body parts will have dried darker than the original Codex Gray coat. This is great because now you can use Codex Gray again to 'highlight'. Go ahead and add some highlights to the snout, tail, hands, eyelids and ears with Codex Gray. Finally do it again using a 50/50 mix of Codex Gray and Space Wolves gray to touch the snout, hands, tail, eyelids and ears again. This final highlight should really make your models 'pop'. I even used 100% Space Wolves Gray for an even bigger contrast, this is taste so use what you like best.
Finish of the model by glueing static grass or flock onto the base how you normally do for your army and paint the edge of the base in a color of choice. And you are done!
Using these steps you should be able to create some awesome looking Plague Monks in a short time. They do take a little bit longer than the Clan Rats batch paint, but offset by the smaller amount of models needed they still finish fast.
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If your celebrity crush showed up on your doorstep..
By sylviekitty
United States
February 4, 2007 7:41am CST
Let's say you are married or have a bf/gf.. but your favorite model, actor, rocker, etc showed up on your doorstep, with a bottle of wine and some flowers, and said they wanted YOU.. what would you do?? (Oh.. and let's say your other half wasn't home). Ok. I have a seriously bad crush on some guys from my favorite band, Def Leppard. And I've already written a story or two about this vary scenario. So if this actually happened, well.. I think my marriage would be in big trouble! HAHAHA!
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@rainbow (6763)
4 Feb 07
Well if Johny Depp in full Captain Jack regalia turned up on my doorstep once I could breath again I don't think I'd worry about Shrek too much, even if he was in lol. Of course some of the men I fancy are definately untouchable, Van Diesal and Wesley Sn ipes are just to big and muscley to cope with I think I'd be a little bit frightened. I could probably cope with Colin Farrell or Jon Bon Jovi no problems.
• United States
4 Feb 07
Does Johnny need to be doing the accent? Or does it matter? :P
@gloria777 (1678)
• India
8 Feb 07
Can't say now. That depends on the current chemical reaction in my body. Anyway it will be really interesting.
• United States
9 Feb 07
I hear that if he shows up all hot and sweaty, you're more likely to jump his bones. Assuming you're into guys :D
• United States
9 Feb 07
LOL I should add that I read that in an article today.. I think it was on Yahoo. that women (who are into men, anyway) seem to be more aroused when a man is sweaty.. something about the scent of male sweat. LOL
• United States
7 Feb 07
welcoming them for fun and drinks would be nice :)


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2 Mommies and a Baby
Monday, July 17, 2006
morning sickness 101
Acupuncture = Lois has done twice and feel good for 24 hours after both times. Maybe need to do this every day for the next 7 months.
Motion sickness bracelets = unsure about result. Lois hasn't worn them for a prolonged period of time since it is uncomfortable. I figure my nagging her about wearing it isn't helping.
Eat small meals all day = Lois doesn't want to eat anything. All day or ever. Nothing.
Eat crackers, bread or major carb products = see entry dated July 13
Sour candies, preggie pops, etc. = Lois is not a big sour candy fan, like the lemon, lime and orange flavors that everything seems to come in. She has been working on a bag of regular Lifesavers, but I think that's more for her sweet tooth than for curing any morning sickness.
Vitamin B6 and Unisom = We did get some B6 and I think it has helped a little, but some websites recommend a maximum of 100 mg/day and the prenatals pretty much cover that. As for the Unisom part of it, we haven't tried it. Sleep is not a problem. If Lois took Unisom right now, she would become Mrs. Rip Van Winkle.
Pepcid AC = I have read that this can work for heartburn but also reflux. Apparently, if you are throwing up and are not hungry afterwards, chew on a Pepcid AC tablet and it will open whatever needs opening up, allowing you to put food into your belly risk-free. We have not tried this yet. I am a little skeptical.
Rolaids = for the heartburn. At the beginning of the morning sickness period, we were in Southern California and had several meals of Mexican food. Lois was fine with eating it, only heartburn persisted, surprise, surprise. Rolaids, in Lois own words, "suck," and don't do a damn thing. That, of course, is only one person's observations.
Stay away from greasy, fried or fatty foods = I'm sorry, but we are in the "whatever she can eat or is willing to eat" stage of the pregnancy. About 1 out of 20 ideas for meals that I toss out to Lois are acceptable to her to consider. Recently, foods that she has been willing to eat and that have stayed down include: chicken nuggets, Dutchess chicken sandwich, chicken parm grinder, tacos/enchiladas, etc. If it's breaded and fried or covered in cheese, it's working for now.
Cucumbers = I can't remember where I read it, but one woman said that sucking on cucumbers soaked in water helped the nausea. We tried this once in vacation and everyone thought I was nuts. I point out that it eased Lois' nausea, but I can't say it was a popular plan.
Ginger = This, we have not tried yet. I will be going to the store tonight to find ginger snaps, or ginger root supplements, whatever. (I'll probably pick up some Pepcid AC while I'm there as well). Can't say Lois is the biggest fan of ginger, but it might be getting to that stage of "it might work, try it." Plus, we are running out of foods that she liked pre-pregnancy that she won't eat now, so might as well try something that she previously didn't like, maybe now she'll love it??!?
Liquids, tea, etc./no coffee = She hasn't been doing coffee lately, which is good. And she has been doing some peach tea now and then, but I think that hasn't been a huge success either. About the only two things that work right now are water and ginger ale. Right now, I'm wondering why I don't own any stock in Schweppes.
Gatorade = some nausea could be an electrolyte imbalance problem?!?! Plus, plain water gets boring to pregnant women, so many like watered down Gatorade. This, we have yet to try. (Maybe I'll buy some tonight when I get ginger stuff and Pepcid AC)
Products = there are things such as "Morning Sickness Magic" and other products that sound promising, but I haven't tried them. One motion sickness band was $80 (I am borrowing one from a co-worker). There's CDs that are supposed to help through Sound Relief. Again, I am skeptical. Before we go crazy trying the $50-$100 ideas, we will try the $2 ideas.
Smoking a Doobie = one article actually referenced medical marijuana and its ability to ease severe morning sickness. I'm not kidding, here's actually an article on it!. Don't worry, friends and family, we will not be trying this one.
I think we have heard everything…
"Don't lie down right after eating."
"Don't drink fluids during meals."
If anyone has any suggestions that we haven't tried, feel free to share. Maybe this list will give those suffering from morning sickness some ideas, I don't know.
4 Comments:
- Angele said...
Hey Lois can't smoke the doobie but you could try it and see if that helps. I'm sure that's what the doctors meant.
- said...
Buy some ginger tea. Brew it and try different ways of drinking it. Try to mix it with the gingerale so it tastes good. Or add honey and ice. Try it hot if Lois likes that. Try the ginger!
- Stacey said...
Protein. If you can eat protein your stomach stays "full" longer and prevents the feeling from coming. At least that's what I found. Some people also recommend trying chicken broth.
I hope you find something that works!!!!
- said...
you make me laugh!
try the ginger stuff- my mom swears by it.
Love ya,


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Tomorrow is my Ex's birthday. This doesn't mean much to me now except my birthday is two weeks later. I was born on the sixteenth of March while she was born on the fourth. My biggest problem with this whole situation is that it seems I will never be able to forget her birthday. Hell, I don't even remember my mum's birthday. I mean…like WTF. What kind of guy remembers his Ex birthday but forgets his mum's.
Trust me, I don't want to remember my Ex's birthday either…not after all the pain, but I can't help it. It's not funny. Every year, I am thinking about my upcoming birthday, and bam! just like that…her birthday crosses my mind like a crazy naked lady on a scooter running a red light.
Regardless, there is one thing I cannot I deny. She is a proficient artist herself hence the reason she decided to get involved in cinematography. You know what…she doesn't deserve anymore attention than I have already given her, but since she has crossed my mind once again, we might as well make her the subject of this post.


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Pen Name: Watsuki Nobuhiro (和月 伸宏)
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
Date of Birth: 26 May 1970
Horoscope: Gemini
Responsible for the creation of Rurouni Kenshin – one of the most popular and classic manga of all time – Watsuki Nobuhiro's path towards manga artist started long before he was even known. He started drawing manga by following his older brother when he was still a young boy, and continued even after his brother stopped.
In middle school, he practiced kendo although he eventually quit due to frustration with his own performance. He still drew manga, and continued to do so through high school where he won the Pop Step Award for his work, Podmark.
He had been influenced by other manga artists such as Tezuka Osamu (Astro Boy) and Fujiko Fujio (Doraemon). He worked as an assistant for Takeshi Obata (Hikaru no Go) and went on to have other assistants who grew to become well-known, such as Oda Eiichiro (One Piece) and Takei Hiroyuki (Shaman King). In 1992, Watsuki sent in a 31-page prelude entitled 'Rurouni: The Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story' which was later on published into the popular series we all know.
Hop Step Award by Shueisha
Podmark (submitted to Shueisha)
北陸幽霊小話 /Hokuriku Yuurei Kobanashi (Hop Step Award Selection vol. 6, 1991)
戦国の三日月 / Sengoku no Mikazuki / Crescent Moon in the Warring States (Weekly Shonen Jump and collected into Volume 6 of Rurouni Kenshin)
るろうに -明治剣客浪漫譚 / Rurouni: The Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story (Weekly Shonen Jump and collected into Volume 1 & 3 of Rurouni Kenshin)
るろうに剣心 /Rurouni Kenshin (Weekly Shonen Jump, 1994)
剣心華伝 – 春に桜 / Kenshin Kaden – Haru ni Sakura (Rurouni Kenshin guidebook with full-colour short-story, Shueisha, 1999)
弥彦の逆刃刀 / Yahiko no Sakabato / Yahiko's Reversed-Edge Sword (Rurouni Kenshin Volume 22 Special Edition, Japanese ver., 1999)
メテオ ストライク / Meteor Strike (Weekly Shonen Jump, 1997)
Gun Blaze West (Weekly Shonen Jump, 2001)
武装錬金 / Busou Renkin (Weekly Shonen Jump, 2003)
エンバーミング – Dead Body and Bride / Embalming – Dead Body and Bride ( 2005
エンバーミング -DEAD BODY and LOVER- / Embalming II – Dead Body and Lover- (Jump – The Revolution 2006)
エンバーミング- THE ANOTHER TALE OF FRANKENSTEIN- /Embalming – The Another Tale of Frankestein- (Jump SQ, 2007)
Okay, so we're into September now and as usual I haven't been able to keep up with my posts schedule with everything that's been going on in my life.
Anyway! Watsuki Nobuhiro. Honestly speaking, he holds a very special place in the history of my anime and manga life. Rurouni Kenshin was the first manga series that my brothers and I finished collecting, and it was one of the earliest anime I've ever watched – it was before I learned of the differentiation between anime and American cartoons. I suppose what makes it even more special is that it was about something historical, and it was an adult's story, yet as a kid my brothers and I were completely into it. Even now, our Rurouni Kenshin manga is still being read to the point where it's kinda falling apart.
So besides the sentimentality on my part, I chose Watsuki Nobuhiro as our Mangaka of (last) month because Rurouni Kenshin seems to be coming up with pretty much a lot of stuff this year. With a live-action movie coming up some time next year (here are some pics) and a two-part OVA series with the first premiering in Japanese theatres this December, I'm pretty sure a lot of fans are getting really pumped up to reminisce the old days.
Chungky's helping me out for the rest of the post (including the pics) so credits to my lovely partner for that since I really have no time SOB! However, for any of you Rurouni Kenshin fans out there I implore you to leave some comments and we can all just have a lovely chit-chat about one of the awesomest manga (and its sub-series') to hit the shelves (…when I have time). We could even talk about Busou Renkin but I kinda forgot what happened…
Yes, it is I, Chungky. I've gathered a few snippets off some interviews with Watsuki Nobuhiro around the web. Here are a selection of questions and links to the sites I got them from, credits to them!:
Kenshin Hiden interview translation by Viz Media:
Shueisha: Did you decide from a very young age to become a manga artist?
Watsuki: Yes, I started drawing from the influence of my older brother. When it comes to works that have given me influence, they're titles like Fujiko F. Fujio's Doraemon and Pa-Man, Adachi Mitsuru's Touch, Katsura Masakazu's Wing Man, Narita Minako's Alien Street and Cypher, Obata Takeshi's works, Togashi Yoshihiro's Yu Yu Hakusho. Roughly speaking, that's about it. My favorite artist is Obata Takeshi and my favorite manga is Tezuka Osamu's Black Jack. I started drawing in frames divided on a notebook during the early part of elementary school, and I actually started drawing manga in ink in the second year of junior high. I probably completed a piece when I was in the first year of high school.
Shueisha: Which American comics do you like?
Watsuki: I like X-men the most. That's what got me reading American comics. Recently, I've started to think that Spider-Man is entertaining too. I basically like the ones released by Marvel.
Kenshin Kadan(guidebook) interview:
Q: How did you feel when you eventually finished Rurouni Kenshin?
A: In retrospect? *laughs* I hope to start on a new project using what I have learned. I've analyzed Rurouni Kenshin's strong suits and weak points, and I want to improve the good and minimize the bad in my future work.
Q: What is it about your completed work that you feel you should have given more thought to?
A: The most important element in being an artist is developing your own creative sense and your own unique style. Even though it's fine to be inspired by a particular event or subject in your own life, you need to keep the source of your inspiration from being the focus. You need to create a mature piece of work, something the reader can identify with and feel strongly about.
Manga artists, assistant commentaries:
Eichiro Oda – About Watsuki sensei
Watsuki sensei is my teacher and friend/ally at the same time. A long time ago, when I was looking for a job as a mangaka assistant, the topic of Rurouni Kenshin arrived. Because I loved the story of it, I went and applied.
Hiroyuki Takei – About Watsuki sensei
I was introduced to the job as Watsuki sensei's assistant around 4-5 years ago, when I first won the Tezuka award. (Tezuka award = some manga field big award held by the original author of doraemon). I remember my first impression of Watsuki sensei being "a person who's not very easy to get close to." He was a person who would stab my arm with his long hair (which reached his waist) whenever he turns to talk with me. Just like a bestseller would look like.
This concludes our August's manga-ka of the month post. Thanks for viewing this post! Not sure whether arawr would add anything extra here later, but here's to Watsuki Nobuhiro's works, past, present and the future!!!